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History major | Draws stuff sometimes | Dark Interval co-lead | She/Her

Portal 2 box with a fancy lenticular print on the cover, and next to it a 1998 shovelware cd with content for Quake 2 and 3, Unreal and Half-Life.
a view of a rocky mountain topped with a stone building with giant rusty pipes snaking towards its base with strange growths and spikes. The top of the building glows, and the sky is stormy with colors of sickly green and grey with reddish streaks
closeup of a white echinopsis flower
pencil sketches of different variations of a wide tower with spikes
a specimen of haworthia springbokvlakensis
white cat with black face marks looking a bit stupid
sketches of three bullsquids, one sleeping almost completely flattened, another sitting on its tail and third lying on its back
Video of a long-haired cat with white fur and black spots lying on a bed, purring and kneading air
Forum post stating: "Woah, now. The Gunman chapter has been a running joke between David and I (most effective with his British accent) ever since it was put on the chopping block. He wanted it gone from the beginning and I agreed with him. The negativity in this thead is a little startling, especially considering that David and I have spent countless late nights for the past couple months trying to make this book a homerun for hardcore fans. Anyway, people are getting pretty worked up about this without need. All decisions for the book were based on external feedback. Sections that were boring (HL mac, HL PS2 were trimmed while adding much more content on what people thought was cool). David has been great and has continued to contribute to the project and work with me, the whole time. There was no fallout and he is still a key member of the book team. He was fine with wanting to concentrate on "making of" elements and was happy with the decision. Any content that was cool from the earliest drafts of the book was brought forward and remains. Things like the source code leak and release dates are more appropriate for other venues (eg Gamespot). This is a "behind the scenes, making of" coffee table book with a lot of art, not a novel. Everyone who has seen the early drafts of the book and has seen the final product has said to us that it is a lot better. The whole process had one thing in mind: what you, the fans, would find most interesting. I'm not interested in conspiracies, only making this book something you all would get into. What we think the book should be is meaningless: the only thing that means anything is how those independent, outside potential readers rate it. Based on feedback we've gotten from outside the company, I am confident you guys will enjoy it. The final book is *much* better than the early drafts. I hope that clears things up."
A photo of a short-haired kurilian bobtail, of red and white color, sitting on a desk with half his butt hanging in the air, lit by sun, eyes half-closed
digital portrait of a woman with messy black hair in a ponytail. She is rolling her eyes at something to the side
Poster for a movie titled "Invasion from Dimension X" in bright yellow letters. There is a brown alien with four purple eyes in the top left corner, looking over figures of an angry bearded man in a yellow suit, awkwardly shooting a revolver at nothing in particular, and a busty brunette wooman peeking from behind his shoulder. There is a row of mysterious glass tubes seen behind them.
Poster for a movie "Terror of the Hyperons" with an orbital view of Earth as background. There is a blonde woman with a displeased expression, wearing shimmering violet clothes and pointing a sci-fi blaster at something off-screen. Next to her is a man with a grey beard, wearing a blue hat and an orange survival suit, poiting a tiny welding torch in the same direction. The two figures are framed by icebergs, and above them are looming three figures of alien warriors.
Family portrait. On the left is a smiling older man with jet-black hair wearing a green beret, a red sweater and a brown coat thrown on his shoulders. In the center is a young smiling woman, with mixed black and asian features, wearing an old leather jacket and holding a small vividly green alien creature in her arms. On the right is a tall black woman with long wavy hair held by a headband. She is wearing a beige coat, a white top and a black skirt.
digital painting of a giant green human-mantis hybrid with one cyborg arm gun, charging up a blue energy shot. It stands in a dark blue corridor with pools of blood and glowing green goo.
a digital painting of splintered islands floating among greenish nebulas
Early screenshot of My Little Pony: Friendship Gardens (1998). A 2d pony with blue body and yellow mane stands against a 3d render backdrop, depicting flat green hills with rather blobby apple trees and an evening sky with some clouds. A post box and a wooden fence visible on the left.
Multiple views of a gun turret, in yellow and grey colors. There is a miniature of an untextured version in the corner.
Full-height portrait of smiling princess Guinevere with waist-long loose blue hair, wearing a pointy golden tiara, a slim two-tone pale pink dress with a golden belt, and yellow shoes
Quote: "lot of the stuff in there is pretty standard, some of it doesn’t even work (there was a bit where they were bragging about how their design drew the player eye to something, and it was then that I realized I had always been looking another direction when I came upon the scene they were so proud of)…"
Digitally-colored pencil portrait of Frankie from Knights of Guinevere, lying on her back all messed up and slightly bloodied, bathed in orange light of fire. A miniature original screenshot is in the top left corner.
two renders of a dirty-beige tent with a contrasting blue botton
A collage of five images featuring crude colorful figures and faces
screenshot of a houndeye running in front of a snow-covered cottage
Screenshot of a Half-Life 2 mod, Attempt to Survive, depicting dark crumbled ruins of a trainstation in orange sunlit fog
digital portrait of detective Kim Kitsuragi from Disco Elysium with a cigarette in his mouth
Portrait of Anni-Elin Lund from the book "Sacred and Terrible Air". The girl is wearing a white t-shirt and a blue skirt, her loose blonde hair is hanging in the air, she is staring into distance with mydriatic pupils, where tiny red sparks can be seen. She is surrounded by stars. The stars are linked by stitched-up bloody cuts, and the entire image has a layer of bruises and grime.
a page filled with various pencil sketches of seals
Vincent from The Black Hole (1979)
Cutout from Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, Issue 46, July 2001. "Half-Life 2 Shaping Up: I hear from a number of sources that Half-Life 2 is going to be a mission-based affair rather than a sequential story-you jump into any mission you like, and there will be a bunch of different characters you can play. Sounds like it takes the best ideas from all the side stories and add-ons and runs with them. I hear that the game is being designed from the ground up as a console title. It won't be a PC game shoehorned into console clothing this time. The story certainly sounds very interesting - apparently the aliens from the first Half-Life are actually the guys" (the ones you've been killing.. The REAL bad guys are the ones that turn up in the sequel. The origi- nal aliens were apparently being big girlie wusses and looking for somewhere to hide. Poor babies. It seems they wanted to take refuge on Earth and in order to check the place out, decided they' "test" humans to see if they'd make good allies or not. So all that running around and killing stuff in the first game was just to prove how macho you are. Expect to see the first Half-Life soon (as we revealed in our exclusive preview last month) and the sequel in a year or so. Excited? I am. If you want to hang out and talk Half-Life smack with people, make sure you check out www.planethalflife.com"
A section of sales poential section saying "Interestingly enough, in the last week of August, Half-Life was featured on the "Newlywed Game." The question was: "Which game would you say is your husband's love-making style?"
screenshot of doctor Breen knee-deep in toxic goo, looking directly at us with blank face expression
three pencil sketches of vortigaunt aliens from half-life game series. One is dressed in pants, boots, sweater and leather jacket. Another is wearing a shawl, moccassin-like shoes and a cap. Third one is wearing a variety of slug-like creatures sticking to its skin
knee-high portrait of a dark-skinned woman in a brown leather jacket, green pants. She has goggles and a patterned red bandana. She is holding a weapon, and there is a small neon green alien on her shoulder, staring at the viewer
photo of a lanyard with a print of assorted windows xp applications
pencil sketches of haworthias (comptoniana, limifolia, truncata x maughanii, springbokvlakensis, cooperi, truncata), crassula, corpuscularia lehmannii
renders of HEV suit from Half-Life 2 with helmet
Drawing of a giant pale-yellow alien, with body like a termite queen, vestigal beetle wings, four large and spiky legs with webbing, and a large warty head with spiky jaws
pencil drawing of a man wearing a bandana and holding an abstraction of a sniper rifle
portrait of a pale middle-aged man wearing heavy camouflaged armor and a small headset on his ear. Background is abstract blue, colors of the image are cold. Man has a scar running down the right side of his shaved head. Below that scar, there are two thin wires plugged near his right eye. His eyebrows are also shaved, his eyes have black sclera and yellowish iris. He is grinning.
pencil sketch of a biomechanic humanoid alien, waist-up. Its left arm is raised, showing the hand
Screenshot of 2017 refinery. Plain geometry with the same concrete texture and three dead houndeyes.
a cell-shaded illustration of a young woman standing against an abstract blue background. she has brown hair in a bun with chopsticks and is wearing bulky armour of bright orange color.
overpainted early screenshot of the bridge area, with orange devbrushes visible
Screenshot of an email with Marc Laidlaw offering a magazine subscription to the first five people who completed "Underneath the Oversea" audiobook, which he took off youtube by the way.
Panorama showing a city through time, right side of the image has dark red skies and ruined buildings, left side has sunny blue skies and intact buildngs.
various angles of a large piece of faintly glowing alien machinery made from dark metal
various angles of a green-colored alien scanner
Gordon, I am in prison.