i am very sorry about the rick astley video. it kept telling me to use an embed url even though i didn't think i needed one, and that was the first thing that came to mind. i am ashame

I don't know about the rest of TF2chan, but my personal issue with the so-called "animesque" style is that a very homogenous, watered down version of some artsyles common to anime is adopted as a supposed way to shortcut learning how to draw, except as you have probably found out already, it ingrains some pretty horrible habits that are very hard to unlearn.

Since you actively want to improve your style and seem willing to take a few slings and arrows along with concrit, I would say go for it and post your art. I for one would be more than happy to nitpick you to death (out of a genuine desire to see you grow into your own style, whatever that turns out to be).

>>1370
>>1371

i didn't expect to get replied to... you guys are so nice! and funny, mawaru!

i don't have much of my art on this computer but i'll get a-postin'. it means a lot to me that you guys would be willing to help me learn how to get better. i may never be picasso, but improving on a thing i love to do always makes me happy. i hope i make new friends here!

tf2 is my passion.

I would say probably the roleplay section. I've seen one here done in gmod a long time ago and it was a bit all over the place if I remembered correctly. If it was in the fanfiction section, it'd be a shame the board's not set up where each chapter someone does is a new page. That way, it'd be easier to click on links to choose your path. I guess it would depend on what the mods would think would be best.

A CYOA would be fun if executed properly!

>>1361
Same!

so idk if this is still a thing but i would love to participate in a secret santa if there is gonna be one? i have a lot of questions, most arent actually relevant to what i am going to do. but like can you ask for tf2 ocs in the secret santa, or is it just canons? if people are writing instead of drawing is there a separate thing for writers or is it all bunched together like. idk why i ask but i gotta know. i just wanna know what to expect in terms of the request of others and then what i should request myself ... yeah!! yeah

>>1289
In the past it's all been together, but you can say what you're willing to fill and what you'd like to receive. Like, last year, I gifted someone a piece of writing, but I received a piece of art from someone. Personally, I always give them three prompts for adult fic, three prompts for genfic, three prompts for adult art, and three prompts for genart, and then the gifter can pick whichever of them they're comfortable with, and I still get to be surprised. I don't believe everyone does this, though, but it's not a bad idea.

I don't know the rules on OCs, though. I'm not sure if they're strictly allowed. Usually it's just canon characters, but rules change from year to year, so who knows, with this one?

And as to taking the reigns on it, I'd love to but I can't. My grandmother's in the hospital this year, and things aren't looking great, so I'd never know if I'd have to drop everything and go to a funeral. If it weren't for that, I'd take it up in an instance, and I still plan to be a participant; just not an organizer.

>>1292

Excellent! I can't wait to get this going! I'll be working on my 3 prompts within the next 24hrs. I don't expect a big turn out this year being how quiet the chan's gotten but hopefully still as enjoyable! Whither small or big, this is one of the best community projects I always want to be a part of for TF2Chan!

I miss the times when the site was more active because the format of the fanfic archive makes it a thousand times easier to find fic than it is when you're on LOOK AT THIS FUCKING HIPSTR and have to wade through personal posts and memes. The quality standards for what fic gets posted here makes it easy to find something you can enjoy reading, but I think it also scares people off from posting. Most fanfic writers aren't super serious about improving and are intimidated by criticism. (I know I would have trouble dealing with unsolicited crit on a fanfic no matter how nicely you worded it, which is why I'm a lurker.)

On the other hand, now that the site is dead, people who _do_ want critique are going to go someplace more active in search of feedback. It's a vicious cycle.

And uh, the wordfilters don't exactly make the place welcoming to newbies (or people who haven't been here in a while).

>>1275
Just describing the reasoning I've seen.

'The Lurker's Guide to TF2 Chan' exists. It's a by-author index of the entire TF2 Chan afanfic section. I tried to post a link, but it's on over on t_mb1r, and the link gets auto-destroyed by this site's editing/word-replace system.

>>1258
A wikia, maybe? I dunno, seems an odd thing to have a wikia for, but it was just the first thing that came to mind.

>>1258

What about a giant googledoc spreadsheet? You can make those, right? I feel like I made one when I stage managed did A Christmas Carol.

Because then you could have everything sorted by title, author, character A, character B, etc., rating, additional tags.

Also, I read some of the things the quoted artist has said in context, and I think you guys misrepresented her. That artist is not against critique - she(?) is against FANDOM BASHING (ie where people get upset that Medic is as flaming gay as he is in their headcanon), which is very unfortunate and inexcusable, but KIND OF HAPPENS EVERYWHERE. IN EVERY FANDOM.

Tf2Chan I think is very accepting about different headcanons because we realize Valve let a lot of things open on purpose. It's the reason why CatBounty (one of the most popular and talented fanfic writers we have to offer) can write RED Spy as being in a loving, romantic relationship with BLU Scootma, and I can write him as using her only for sex and information on her son, and we BOTH ARE ACCEPTED.

I mean, we're not a fan of dumb heavy because it's kind of CANON that he's not an idiot, but that's really about as far as it goes. And even then, everything is fair game for lulz.

I just. Your argument makes no sense. We're all for GOOD WRITING whether it adheres to popular fanons or not how could you compare our valuing honest, constructive feedback (as a general rule) as being childish fandom-bashing I can't.

Bring back /workshop/, but bring it back as a board where you can get critique on any artwork you do, not just TF2. The only reason I've stopped posting my artwork is because I took a sabbatical from TF2 artwork.

I love getting crit, even if it makes me feel like I'm never going to improve sometimes.

>>1245
Maybe. It'd give me an excuse to namefag, at any rate.

>>1124
mancraft has been updated

mancraft's subscription also ends in 2 days

Could I perhaps be whitelisted? Username is dead_litebulb.

>>1126
i have some bad news...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5anLPw0Efmo

RIP good buddy ( ._.)7

DICKS EVERYWHERE

I'm not sure if there is some kind of bug or if I'm just supremely unlucky, but lately it seems that when I try to play on the Mantrain, whenever my team would win everyone would lose connection. Not trying to sound like I'm whining or anything, it's just even after the group announcement that it was fixed, it just happened. Just thought I should let you know it's still crashing.

Just wanted to stop in and say I had a lot of fun with the reunion party event tonight. It was enjoyable, and I hope to see and attend more in the future.

The Mantrain has been moved to Chicago, a neutral server that'll provide fairer ping to our friends on the West coast, compared to the New York server that it was hosted on. Pings will be fair all-round for both West and East coast players, and for Canadian players (averaging 50).

New server address: 68.232.181.77:27015

The server has also been updated with more fun maps to play on. Just simply RTV to play them!

cp_standin_rc1
pl_borneo_rc3
pl_waste_rc3

As always, I am always open to suggestions. Just send me a message on Steam or reply to this thread.

>>850
Hum... So let's see what we have.
A tutorial thread (posing/editing), a source thread, a texture and modeling tutorial too I guess...
We could have some kind of project too, as a rp done with gmod? That would be interesting, I've done it before on tumblr and it was fun because it was interactive and challenging~
Also, a critique thread, maybe?
There's not much else to say I think... hum.

>>862
Sounds good then. If you're all waiting for a verdict here, I would suggest getting the threads you want started properly, and if any issues arise then I'll try to get it taken care of. All that I'm actually waiting for in terms of official stuff from Kumori is whether or not I can delete the shittiest quality stuff off /gmod/.

>>864
Alright, I'll try to start a couple threads then.