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Now for the harder question. Would you help... HIM?

A grievously injured robot impaled by many gold-limned weapons crawls on the floor toward the viewer, illuminated by an ominous pillar of red light. His razor sharp claws scratch at the floors and wrap around Adra's leg, tearing their stockings to reveal bright blue circuitry.

August 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM

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HAD to~

Adra leans over Crit, who lies with his head in their lap, his hand wrapped around one of their legs. Their hands gently hold his helm while they press a kiss to his broken faceplate, moths and wisps floating about them and nestling on them. The drawing is referenced heavily from the image in the quoted post.

August 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM

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Offers you THEM

An illustration of Ratio, dressed in full white and sporting white cybernetic prosthetics, and Valence, a large angular robot in a gunmetal black. Ratio is perched upon Valence's arm while they both take cover from the rain under her oversized jacket.

August 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM

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moth do beeg stremch

A screenshot of art in progress for my pngtuber robot moth.

September 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM

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A singing firefly and their not-at-all cursed cogwork bodyguard.

Adra and Criticality as Hollow Knight bugs. Adra is a firefly perched on Criticality's arm. Crit has many shadowy tendrils emerging from his bug frame.

September 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM

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He is not asking.

Criticality stands ominously over Adra, backlit with red and holding out a plastic bag with various takeout containers inside. In a dark glitching speech bubble, he says, "EAT." We see Adra's back in the foreground as they sweat nervously.

September 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM

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Falling asleep to the sound of distressed bakers on tv

Crit sits on the floor with Adra and Scrambled Eggs asleep on his lap while a baking show plays on a television off-screen.

September 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM

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What am I to do with you?

A sketch where Book looms over Cheats, propping up his chin with one finger. Cheats is bound, his arms tied behind his back.

September 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM

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💖we're workin on a lil game! (we meaning myself and lyn) it's called machine sympathy and we're hoping for a short little narrative experience where you fix up an extremely fucked up robot (Crit) and are perhaps just a teensy bit haunted by him :'>

a mockup of a start screen for Machine Sympathy. Cheats is writing the game name in spraypaint on a corporate billboard that reads SACER MEDICAL

Cheats leans in an open doorway. A dialog box over it reads:

CHEATS: Hey... You know I hate doing this to you. I just... don't have anyone else I can go to.

An outfit board for Adra(they/them), who you will be playing as!

A picture of Crit crawling toward the viewer (Adra) on the floor, his claws wrapped tightly around their calf. Illuminated from behind by a bold red light, he is brutally wounded and riddled with weapons.

September 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM

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Artists! Writers! Quote with your queer characters!

Newsflash: It's all of them.

Cheats looking flustered as he looks at a Switch 2 Instruction Manual.

Criticality grievously wounded on the floor, wires and structure exposed. He grabs onto Adra's leg, tearing their stockings.

Book, looking like the sour asshole that he is.

Tal holding a half-eaten mooncake and a baozi, with other various treats floating in front of them. Meridian looms behind them, who is also queer, but he is not mine and belongs to Lyn!!!

September 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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Felt like drawing a soft little kiss...

An illustration of Adra (they/them) giving Criticality (he/him) a little kiss on his jaw.

October 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM

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Anyway that's enough about all that. I'd rather talk about how cute it is that Cheats gets flustered lookin at console diagrams.

Cheats (he/him), a robot with an orange helmet is blushing as he looks at an instruction manual for the Switch 2.

Cheats: Oh my goodness.

Adra (they/them) pops up next to him, causing him to crumple the manual and jump, the fur of his coat standing on end.

Adra: "Whatcha lookin' at?"
Cheats (glitched): FUCK

October 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM

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Happy Halloween! 🎃🦇🕯️

An illustration of Cheats as a scarecrow with a jack-o-lantern head, Adra as a witch, Scrambled Eggs as herself, and Crit as a mummy for Halloween. In the bottom left it says 'Happy Halloween!' in handwritten text.

October 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM

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I've been wanting to use my warforged design for Cheats for Cheats' helmet in XIV, so I finally drew it. Behold him also cleaned up and dressed nicely for a change! Adra probably tied his tie.