Haecceity

hello, bzp. and a warm hug to you, bzp. This is going to be a fairly personal post. I've taken down all the other posts here for a variety of reasons, some haven't aged well and don't reflect how I currently feel on subjects, whereas a lot of it was me just being a silly teen. You may not remember me. I was never the most active person here, especially outside of my little circle of friends (mostly centered around CeeCee). I was probably most active in completely off-topic forum games, to be honest. For a while most of my actual chatting migrated to Skype, before kinda losing the thread of people I was close to when Discord became the platform of choice. I've just been missing this site a lot, not just nostalgically, but for what it was. A little microcosm of forum culture mixed with an audience ranging from tweens to adults... all tiptoeing around language and content restrictions, weathering the trends and drama of the internet at large within a fansite for a children's toy line. I'm a late joiner in terms of a lot of the real old guard, just one of those kids who lurked from around '08-09 to finally making a profile in '12 after G1s end. -where I proceeded to do what a lot of silly kids do, post a bunch of nonsense and then rapidly attempt to seem older and more mature than I was, haha. Lots of comment begging (in retrospect, something I'm pretty ashamed of) and attempts at being provocative that were filled with angst. I'm still an angsty little ball of gloom and doom, but I think it's been tempered with a desire to just be a lot less acrid about everything. A few years back, I reached out to a few people affected by that contrarianism to just apologize. I pushed boundaries sometimes in ways that were really not appreciative of the space that I had or the people within it. Recently I thought back on how important BZP and especially certain people on it were for the development of my art style, heck, even my views on some things to an extent. I already threw up a comment thanking probably the biggest influence on me actually continuing to make art (Taka Nuvia, thank you again!) I wanted to make this post as a way of thanking those who may still be around (and maybe even remember this silly little ball of edge) for the hours of influence this place had on me. This post is for you. Thank you.

saw you were still active occasionally, so popping in just to say thank you for (over a decade ago now, haha) being one of the few people who supported my (at the time pretty crude and angsty) art! The time you took back in 2012(???) to post a detailed review for what was basically a bunch of messy doodling is something I think about from time to time, and really meant a lot. Especially from someone whose art I looked up to (and still do, your stuff is fantastic!) Thank you for that and thanks for those interactions at a time when I was kind of a mess. that really helped me out and continued to give me motivation to do art. 13 years and one BFA later, I'm not sure I've really progressed that much- but the support you and others here offered is what really made me pursue making things.

Shot 2 No Flash Once a protector, now a malevolent beast that attacks all that come near it. I always loved the concept of a figure meant to protect and guide others replaced with one who does the opposite- hence this massive build of a G2 Ultimate Dume, using the Tower of Toa Kiril. I ran out of pieces for the legs, so pardon the gorilla arms!

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Contest entry for The Legend Continues. Click Me!

I love how soft the strokes are! The volume you got with your brushwork is really great and detailed, with some great metallic textures!

That's some hyperbole, there. I'm pretty sure stone breaks and cleaves just fine.

Ah, the esteemed work of postmodern art known as the "Skull Trumpet" of Memes. Its deconstruction of dooting is phenomenal.

Imma f A diminutive of the female given name Immacolata. robit impf (dialect) to do The mouth, eyes, and nose are based on the proportions and measures set out by the Marquardt Beauty Mask's angles, but modified a bit to fit with my own ratios.

Is Harold Reese a person of interest, or is that where the quote is from? They're both italicized, so it's hard to tell.

A dish of flattened rice (poha in hindi) served with turon! Delicious!

Stone endures until hit with a sledgehammer or rock saw, until stressed on a cleavage point, or until it is eroded by the tireless actions of time. I can't say it doesn't break.

Night of The Hunter! A great film with a lot of excellent atmospheric shots, intense contrast, and well-crafted cinematography in general.

As we all know, the most important adjective in the English language is "Snazzy"! All other descriptors bow before its sheer might. They are useless against its vast cosmic power. All will perish on the day of Snazzying. There will be no survivors.

Takanuva wishing Soran would stop wishing Takanuva would call him Soran and just give up already. ...While standin' in some cherry blossoms or sumthin'.