Wow There's More

was searching stuff about saddam hussein on youtube and noticed that many videos are styled similar to the true crime videos my lady (and feminine presenting) friends enjoy.

f/m date idea: watching videos about war criminals together

thank you everyone for posting your beautiful arts. tumblr has become not only the source of beautiful mgs fanart but also one of the reasons i practiced drawing more or less consistently. my skill improved (now i can draw without eraser and even can do faces sometimes, kinda) but also it unironically raised my quality of life in general. i hope you're spending holidays the way you like and hope to see more from you all in the future.

it is very flawed but it's been 4 hours, i think i won't do any better and will just redraw everything piece by piece endlessly :')

first draft below, provided by posting shitty drawings policy

guysguysguys hear me out

doesnt this look a little like...Liquid Snake'!??!

another low effort johnny bravo x kid named peace redraw

metal gear sketches @ultraeyepiss drew on my envelope (the meme is there to censor the mailing info). the left guy is "his impression of naked snake according to my descriptions", lol. looks more impressive irl but i wanted to share anyway :3

i like the 5 minute ones the most

this one was supposed to be better but i give up. might retry later, he doesn't even look angry enough(9

my favourite mgsv fan service moment, worthy of beating the final boss

Calling my gf “girlfriend” in the same cadence Solid Snake would say “colonel” is so fun

the boss herself craved "to make the world one again" which is not necessarily peace tbh, since the "being one" earlier in question is an alliance towards common enemy and she didn't shy away from nuking a place. but i agree that he's confused, trying to figure out stuff at least, ending up sometimes doing the thing his rivals did (you might be amused by portable ops antagonist if you play it).

i like that many things don't happen suddenly in metal gear games plot and am inclined to think there was no vital turning point for big boss and he was moving towards what he became steadily since mgs3. another thing i like about mgs is how war inevitably changes characters for worse (some disagree tho) - snake went from being a cheerful mischievous fella to a bit grumpy but still discussing che guevara with miller and calling support while wearing silly camo on missions, to the point when a smile looks unnatural and even uncanny on him. but there's no distinct event that caused that - it's a consequence of his war lifestyle which guarantees him one harsh event/decision after another, wearing him out and numbing his cheerful nature, despite that nature being probably the thing that set him on the path of becoming big boss in the first place. and miller going from a success culture, charming playful slut to the angry guy wearing gajillion clothing layers and refusing prosthetics and ability to return to field work, to hopefully a still angry but somewhat independent and happily (in my dreams lol) married with a kid guy, to divorced and assassinated without a chance to even see the man behind it bc he would be lucky to end up dying some other way. huey from being pushed around and having no self respect to learning to stand up for himself, calling out diamond dogs on treating things differently than they might be, but then killing himself anyway due to child abuse in his family or his wife "cheating" on him or news about death of big boss (i don't believe it's a coincidence). anyway i have only experienced war as a civilian and far from front lines but exaggerated individual glory and mystic/sci-fi stuff aside, i think big boss is pretty normal given his assumed initial views and the experience he'd been through that formed him further.

tbh no one in mgs is morally ok and i think one doesn't get to be a warlord and also ethically good and kind, but i wouldn't be surprised if the canon implied reason for big boss being vilified that much in mgs world mass culture is cia backed to justify destroying the only nuclear power left or smth and is not a direct consequence of his wrongdoings. in mg2 his former enemies tell solid snake that big boss is a good man, which can be just the cult stuff ofc but could as well be their genuine informed opinion.

p.s. also i doubt venom snake would be a great dad tbh, he looked at a child soldier and called him a natural lol

Venom's arc explained in a picture from the player's perspective

Playing MGSV:TPP you have 2 choices:

You can be good or bad. You can kill, destroy, use and do everything in your power to be the worst person alive. You can be kind, you can save animals, kids, soldiers, grow a family and be a respectable man.

There's actually no choice. There's no two-tracks. The ending is the same. History will see you as a villain. You are a villain. You are, currently, the perfect depiction of the most wanted and most evil man alive, according to the world.

You have no lever. You cannot stop this from happening. Either close your eyes or watch, the ending will be the same. Your life will end in misery. The only relief? Boss will pat your shoulder and let you die with a false sense of accomplishment. Congrats. That's the panthom pain everybody talks about.

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2nd digital line of action. hopefully tomorrow will bother roommate to show me how to shade. drawing lines is still hard and slower than pencil or pen, but i like to think it's a bit better than the previous one. tried shading the long one with lines but failed and ctrl+z'd it. overall rather satisfied