Cemetery Of Doves

It's always pleasing to notice small details in people's words that don't seem relevant at the first glance but your personal knowledge reveal interesting info about them.

Like, I'm reading a fanfic, and the characters come to an unusually cold place. It says "it's so, so cold, and it's not even snowing yet". I immediately went AH HUH! The author has probably never seen snow in their life! They don't know it's actually much warmer when the snow falls!

Or stuff like saying it's cold in the middle of July. Holding a flower bouquet upside down. Using dd/mm instead of mm/dd date format. Finding out things about people that they didn't intend to share, feels like I'm being a spy a little bit...

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JUMPING AROUND GNAWING GNAWING 💥💥💥💥💥

*Inhales* PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ @oblique-lane TF2 FANFIC ITS SO GOOD PLEEEEAAAAAAASE

But this piece is inspired by their AMAZING tf2 story called "Anomaly Diversion." It has themes and references to Emesis Blue, so concept of clones, respawn, etc.

I absolutely LOVE how their story is going so far and highly recommend it! you can find their fanfic here on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50959474/chapters/128744074?view_adult=true

Keep up the good work Lane! Can't wait to see what you do with the story next!! >:D also please go follow them on here as well!! They also post awesome art!!

Scout and the strange dream door

I can't believe Anomi just straight up ripped off Badwatervideos2009 with the living ragdolls and even scout entering the white door smhh couldn't even come up with anything original nyeah. shaking my head.

also THERE'S 70 PEOPLE ON THE DISCORD VC SHUTT THE FUCK UPPP

02/25/2025: Okay uh after the recent Discord finds... This scene feels VERY differently now, holy shit, Eida you sick bastard....

Returning to The Womb

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Thank you SFM, with you I'm able to cheat with everything...

I'm gonna nnnyyyeeeehhhmhmhhmh😢😢😢🥀🥀🥀💥💥💥💥🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂 strangle him.

Simple BLU Scout fanart

Anomaly Diversion by @oblique-lane

hiya, i really liked the pyro piece ya made !! I was wondering, how'd you get the glowing effect on the beam coming outta their head?

Easy ;)

Additions by @merlin-s-tea-fortress

And @well-seasoned

In tf2 we take respawn as a given, just as an in-universe mechanism, no big deal.

But imagine... How actually painful and scary it is to die. Even if consciously you know that you will return, the fear of death is instinctive, your body will always roar and fight for it's life. Experiencing the closeness of death is a great trauma. It's exhausting and it's imprinted on your subconscious.

Now, imagine that you die an average of 10 times every day. You reap the trauma of death, you get up, you immediately go into the fight and don't think about it, and then it goes on and on again. You don't even have room to process the pain. You keep putting it off for later, but then when is that?

I wonder if mercenaries have nights when they just let themselves weep out their lings from all that accumulated pain. Even if logically they know there is no danger - the instinct for self-preservation hurts VERY badly. The trauma is primal.

They're all definitely not healthy there in that kind of system.