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Hayden Gough
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An illustrator with a passion for games. #art #artist
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Hopping on a trend like I'm at one health and the trend is a deviously placed spike trap.
White text on a black background that reads, "post this on your profile and let your followers associate you with a fictional character that you remind them of"
November 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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This Von Ryan's Leaper turned out real nice.
A Von Ryan's Leaper from the Tyranids faction in Warhammer 40,000, painted with turqoise skin and a dark blue-gray chitin plating, and bright orange eyes. It looks like a hybrid between a praying mantid and a velociraptor. It stands on a black, lilac, and violet dirt base with maroon-like grass tufts. The same Von Ryan's Leaper, from behind, showing the shading on the skin and chittin. The same Von Ryan's Leaper from another angle. The same Von Ryan's Leaper from another angle.
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Finished Date Everything last night, here are my tierlists. Penelope best girl.

Its such a dumb silly game.
A tierlist showing every character from "Date Everything", a visual novel with datable furniture. This list covers the endings for each character. Top 5: Penelope, Maggie, Sam, Zoey, Connie Love Endings: Eiryn, Arma, Baeu, Hero-Hime, Ben-Hwa, Betty, Gaia, Farya, Prissy, Bobby, Diane, Chairemeigh, Dolly, Skylar, Monique, Lucinda, Keyes, Mac, Kopi, Miranda, Lady Memoria, Tydus, Rainey, River, Dasha, Sofia, Shelley, Willi WALL: Wallace Friend Ending: Abel, Amir, Artt, Barry, Bev, Bodhi, Cabarizzio, Dishy, Dirke, Cam, Jacques, Celia, Sassy Chap, Daemon, Freddy, Curt, Rod, Vaugh, Doug, Luke, Dorian, Daisuke, Duncan, Dante, The Hanks, Teddy, Drysdale, Florence, Steffan, Stepford, Stella, Sinclaire, Reggie, Timothy, Fantina, Windolyn, Harper, Winnifred, Hector, Hoover, Telly. Parker, I,Ronaldini, Johnny Splash, Koa, Keith, Kristof, Lux, Mateo, Phoenicia, Lyric, Mickey, XXXSHADOWLORD420XXX, Rongomaiwhenua, Scandalabra Candied: Holly, Nightmare, Eddie/ Volt, Rebel, Textbox-Chan Hate Ending: Bathsheba, Chance, Friar Errol, Jon Loo, Jerry, Tina, Tony, Washford, Mitchel Another Date Everything tierlist, this time for personal tastes. I need you, Carnally: Penelope, Maggie, Sam, Zoey, Connie, Maggie I wanna date you and more: Shelley, River, Skylar, Ben-Hwa, Holly, Textbox-Chan, Hero-Hime, Bev, Dolly, Lady Memoria, Bobby Good friends: Monique, Keyes, Lucinda, Sofia, Willi, Nightmare, Artt, Betty, Mac, Beau, Arma, Dasha, Eiryn, Kurt, Rod, Prissy, Gaia, Dorian, Diana, Kopi, Farya, Chairemeigh, Dante, Abel, Freddy We're cool, just not for me: Wallace, Rainey, Amir, Barry, Bodhi, Dirke, Celia, Florence, Sassy Chap, Daemon, Tydus, Vaugn, Luke, Daisuke, Duncan, Tyrel,Reggie, Fantina, Windolyn, Winniefred, Hector, Hoove, Johnny Splash, Koa, Kristof, Mateo, Phoenica, XXXSHADOWLORD420XXX Lyric, Mickey, The Hanks, Teddy, Steffan, Stepford, Stella, Sinclaire, Mitcehl, Rongomaiwhenua You are awful but I need one night: Harper Please leave me alone: Rebel, Eddie, Volt, Scandalabra, Chance, Cabrizzio, Drysdale, Timmy, I,Ronaldini, Parker, Telly, Dishy, Jacques 1-800-GO-FUCK-YOURSELF: Bathsheba, Friar Errol, Jean Loo, Jerry, Tina, Tont, Washford, Keith, Lux, Doug, Cam
October 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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I hate that I'm so easy to activate sometimes.

What do you *mean* calling it "Doki Doki Literature Club meets Silent Hill" is enough to make me interested, even when the trailer has nothing in common with the former? I'm mad at how easily I'm swayed.

Anyways, Fractured Blooms is on my wishlist. :/
The cover art for "Fracturee Blooms," an upcoming horror game produced by Serenitt Forge. The art features a close up of an anime girl with red hair and blue eyes. The title is cracked, and put over a dark red flower, both covering her mouth. The background is a garden on bright red flowers and tomatoes receding into dark.
June 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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I made a new batch of Magic: the Gathering tokens, this time for Final Fantasy! Here are a few of my favorites!
A group shot of all 15 different arts for my Final Fantasy themed tokens. A 2/2 Knight token, featuring a knight holding soldier over its shoulder. It features a yellow-to-orange gradient. A 3/3 Robot Warrior token, featuring a pilot in the seat in a bipedal mech. It is enveloped a cyan-to-navy-to-brown gradient. A black and white emblem for Sephiroth, featuring Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel.
June 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Soon.... 👀
An Emblem for the Sepiroth, One-Winged Angel Magic the Gather x Final Fantasy collab. It features Sephiroth, with his top half more humanoid and his bottom half as two pairs of angelic wings. It features two of the equations featured in the Super Nova attack animation.
June 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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If you see this, post your green art!

I could have sworn I had more than that...
A very green artwork featuring a Necron warrior from Warhammer 40k emerging from a portal. It is a robot skeleton holding a massive, double barreled laser gun. The teleportation effects are square and float like bits of data. This features an archer standing solemnly in the woods. He wears a green cloak and tightly grips a bow and arrow. The woods behind him a foggy and nondescript. A blue mocking bird perched on a brown branch. The rendering is a mix of loose and controlled, refined and messy. The forestry behind the birt is a blur of greens. A copy token for Magic: the Gathering, featuring a woman with goggles repeated all over the image. Each image of her is slightly different, with different coloring, transparencies, etc. distinguishing them. Three are specifically "damaged" and "incorrectly printed." The entire image is reminiscent of a more colorful "Marilyn Diptych" by Andy Warhol. Some of the portraits in this are green.
March 18, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Mystery Booster 2 was a very fun draft. Lots of nonsense.
A mostly-Greem-Black draft deck from the Magic: the Gathering set "Mystery Booster 2." Notable cards include whote-bordered Once Upon a Time, playtest card TL:DR, Oath of Nissa, Pernicious Deed multiple black kill spells, a few colorless mana rocks than make mana of any color, and the MVP, white-bordered Comet, Stellar Pup.
February 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Oh my god, the Speed Demon is such a fun card. I don't know where to put it.
A photo of a Prerelease Promo "The Speed Demon" from Magic: the Gathering Aetherdrift. It is a 3BB Legendary Flying Trample Demon with "Start your Engines!" and "At the beginning of your end step, you draw X cards and lose X life, where X is your speed."
February 8, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Racing in just in time for #Aetherdrift Prerelease, my Punk-Art Token collection is ready!
A messy spread of the tokens in the token pack. The tokens are rendered in a cut and paste magazine collage style. The tokens are: Colorless 1/1 Pilot with "Can crew vehicles and saddle mounts as though its power was 2 greater." White 1/1 Cat with Lifelink Black 2/2 Zombie Red 4/4 Dinosaur Dragon with Flying Red 1/1 Goblin Green 3/3 Elephant Green 1/1 Insect Colorless Artifact 1/1 Servo Colorless Artifact 1/1 Thopter with Flying Colorless Artifact Treasure Colorless Artifact 3/2 Vehicle with Crew 1 Colorless Chandra, Spark Hunter Emblem that reads "Whenever an artifact enters, this emblem deals 3 damage to any target." Colorless Copy Token "Start your Engines!" Helper card A stack of 13 Token packs.
February 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Oh, we're cooking alright.
A copy token for Magic: the Gathering. It features different "prints" of Chandra's face repeated in varrying shades of blue, red, yellow, and green. Two in particular are "dirtied" and "poorly printed." This token is an homage to the various versions of the Marliyn Dyptich orignally by Andy Warhol.
February 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I believe I have reached a new peak. I like how my token projects have forced me out of my comfort zone.
#mtg #aetherdrift
A punk-art style 4/4 Dinosaur Dragon token for Magic: the Gathering. It features a t-rex with wings roaring at the viewer, "pasted" on a newspaper colage. Its sick.
January 29, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Straight up guzzling that #Aetherdrift sauce. #mtg
A punk-art Zombie token for Magic: the Gathering. A black and white drawing of a mummy reaching out with his right hand and holding a khopesh with his left has been "cut" and "pasted" to a collage of fake newspaper clippings.
January 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Getting lost in the sauce for Aetherdrift.
A fanmade Pilot token for Magic: the Gathering. It uses a punk, collage aesthetic, with "newspaper" clippings as the background. The pilot itself is helmeted and facing forward. It reads "This token saddles mounts and crews vehicles as though its power was two greater," and has 1 power and 1 toughness.
January 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Went 2-1, but this deck was sick as hell.
A picture of a Magic: the Gathering Innistrad Rrmastered draft deck. The decklist: 2x Silent Departute 1x Eaten Alive 1x Tragic Slip 1x Infernal Grasp 2x Gisa's Bidding 1x Lantern Bearer // Lantern's Lift 1x Ecstatic Awakener // Awoken Demon 3x Butcher Ghoul 1x Siege Zombie 1x Ghoulish Procession 2x Bladestitched Skaab 1x Reckless Scholar 1x Archgoul of Thraben 1x Morbid Opportunist 1x Drunau Corpse Trawler 1x Haunted Dead 1x Jace, Unraveler of Secrets 1x Morkrut Banshee 7x Island 10x Swamp
January 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I have another batch of tokens; this time for Innistrad Remastered!
A photo of my token packs on a clear glass display counter. The backs are blue, and are labeled "Gothic Horror Token Collection" ane "Contains 20 illustrated double-sided tokens." Through the glass, you can see various boxes and cases of dice. Another angle of the token packs. You can see the rest of the cash register kiosk. A pile showcasing all 28 different tokens in the collection. There is a lot, so buckle up: White 1/1 Human, featuring a peasant holding a rake. White 1/1 Human Soldier, featuring a soldier holding a spear and shield. White 1/1 Spirit with flying, featuring a transparent ghost lady. Blue 1/1 Human Wizard, featuring a mage with bug arms. Black 5/5 Demon with Flying, featuring a horned demon in the sky. Black 1/1 Wolf with Deathtouch, featuring a wolf with glowing eyes. Black 1/1 Vampire, featuring a dracula-like figure. Black 2/2 Vampore with Flying, featuring a goth lady above a roof. Black x/x Zombie, featuring a dimly-lit silhouette in front of a glass holding other zombies. Black 2/2 Zombie, featuring a zombie waltzing forward, sword in hand. Black 2/2 Zombie with Decayed, featuring a zombie clutching a sword lodged in its head. Red 1/1 Human, featuring an overlypleasant peasant with signs of eldrazi mutation. Red x/x Elemental with trample, featuring a skeleton made of lightning. Green 1/1 Insect, featuring a rhino beetle with some Eldrazi mutation on the horn. Green 1/2 Spider with reach, featuring a spider on a brick wall. Green 2/2 Wolf, featuring a wolf lit against the sunrise. White and Black 1/1 Human Cleric, featuring a cloaked figure Green and White 1/1 Human Soldier with Training, featuring a soldier holding a sword defiantly. Colorless 3/2 Eldrazi Horror, featuring a writhing mass of tentacles. Colorless Artifact Clue, featuring an eldrazi-fied sword on cobblestone. Colorless Artifact Blood, featuring a wine glass of blood. And 5 colorless emblems featuring simplified portraits of Jace, Wrenn, Tamiyo, Chandra, and Arlinn. I am tired of typing.
January 20, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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It's #PorfolioDay, so here's a mix of old an new work. I am an illustrator currently working on a series of tokens to sell at my Local Game Store! I like spooky subjects.
My digital painting of The Spectre from indie game Slay the Princess. She is a blue, ghostly princess rendered in a painterly style, waving to the player with a skeletal grin. This is an older drawing Monika from indie game Doki Doki Literature Club. Here, she sits at a desk, holding her hands together in front of her face as she leans forward. Her left, our right eye is evil and red, compared to her other, normal.anime eye. The art style is much rougher, with lots of sratchy lines. A yet unreleased artwork of a lightning skeleton pointing a beam of lightning off-campus. It is an Elemental token for Magic: the Gathering. It is an X / X with Trample and "This creature's power and toughness are each equal to thr number of instant and sorceries in your graveyard plus the number of cards you own with flashback in exile." An older piece of a bedsheet ghost wrapping around a gravestone reading "RIP." The piece is in orange and black, with the ghost in white. It is very scratchy.
January 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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The "Dr Manhatten 'It is 1985'" meme format, in which two panels one top and one panel on bottom feature the titular Dr. Manhatten, a blue Superman analogue, isolated on Mars as he contemplates the repitition of his life. In this editted meme, the first panel is labeled: "It is winter 2018. I am 18 years old. I am playing a new indie horror-romance visual novel." The panel has a promo image of Doki Doki Literature club editted in. The second panel is labeled: "It is winter 2024. I am 24 years old. I am playing a new indie horror-romance visual novel." It has promo art of Slay the Princess editted in. The bottom and final panel is labeled: "It is winter 2025. I am 25 years old. I am playing a new indie horror-romance visual novel." It has the promo image of MiSide editted in.
January 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Lol. Lmao, even
A look outside a clear, glass door. There is a massive pile of snow blocking the way.
January 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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SNOW
A picture of the snowy rooftops outside my window. The silhouettes of skyscrapers jut out of the fog in the back.
January 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Committing some WRETCHED alchemy tonight. I'll be taking notes. Wish me luck!
A wide shot of various loquids being mixed into alcohol for New Years Eve. From left to right, back row: 1. Hershey's chocolate syrup 2. Captain Morgan Sliced Apple rum 3. Smirnov Kissed Caramel vodka 4. Dough Ball Cookie Dough whiskey 5. Deep Eddy vodka 6. Boylan Bottling Co Vanilla Creme soda From left to right, front row: 1. Smuckers Caramel topping 2. Maker's Mark whiskey shot 3. Absolute Vodka shot 4. Jim Bean Apple shot 5. Southern Comfort Black whiskey shot 6. Seagrams Dark Honey whiskey shot 7. Crown Royal whiskey shot. I will not be drinking all of this tonight. That would be stupid. And dumb.
January 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays!
A small ornament featuring a cat in a Christmas present bag. He is wearing a typical Sanat hat, which stands tall at a 60° angle to the left. The bag is red with a white dot pattern.
December 25, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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Here is my #artvsartist2024 ! Happy to participate this year!
A 3 by 3 grid of images, featuring 8 illustrations surrounding my profile picture in the center. Top row: a painterly, glowing, yellow woman. It is a ghost, walking in a dark forest. The shadows are translucent to portray the tree branches behind her; The Nightmare from Slay the Princess, a thin woman clutching a big pink teddy bear in her arms. She wears a cracked, porcelain mask as her hair flows in stagnant air; an painterly illustration of a hand making a peace sign. It is just a test. Middle: a Black 2/2 Horror Creature token for Magic: the Gathering. It is a grotesque, zombie-esque figure grinning at the audience. It is "viewed" as a chunky, old-school device with the creature displayed on a grainy, purple scanlined screen; a picture of me, smirking slightly. I have brown hair, a freckled face, and big, chunky glasses; my drawing of The Spectre as described on my profile, a blue ghost girl waving at the viewer. Bottom: a 1/1 human soldier token for Magic: the Gathering. It is a gothic-ly dressed human holding a spear in front of a stone wall; a painterly rendering of The Cage from Slay the Princess as described on my profile. It is a red-dressed woman holding a birdcage with her severed head held inside; finally, a shard token for Magic: the Gathering. It is similar to the horror token, rendered with similar scanlines. It features a "shard" of a greek-inspired plains.
December 19, 2024 at 4:15 AM
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I present a 1/1 Human Soldier token.
A fanmade 1/1 White Human Soldier Token for Magic: the Gathering. It uses muted yellows, tans, and browns to portray a human male in gothic attire in a painterly art style. He weilds a spear and wooden shield. He stands in front of a cobblestone wall.
December 13, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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I didn't know Vivi had hair, but good for Vivi, I guess.
The Final Fantasy IX character Vivi. He is a small wizard, with a pure black face and yellow circle eyes. His large, tan witchy hat has an orange band. He wears a baby blue jacket, teal-and-white striped pants, and brown shoes. He holds a wood staff. He has the rough shape of mini-Mario.
December 11, 2024 at 3:14 PM