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a messy comic on cosmic dreaming

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i made this for my carpentry course. the outfit designed is based off mi'kmaq fashion and double curve motif

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a painting of a better tomorrow

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guardian style sprites

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god tier designs

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HOW TO SMELL AN ENTIRE APPLE: A SHORT STORY

Inspired by this post by @thatnordicguy and @anphivenas

Step #0 - Input the molecular formula for apple scent into the chemosynthesizer. Check against standard atmospheric regulations.

Step #1 - Inhale from the olfactory vent.

Step #2 - Step away in dissatisfaction, shake your head, put your hands on your hips. Purse your lips a little bit. Document discrepancy against memory file.

Step #3 - Ask Arto why he thinks real apples smell different. Listen to him talk about dirt while he mops, even though hydroponics hasn't used soil in sixty years.

Step #4 - Adjust temperature to match hydroponic bay specifications. Modify humidity levels to Earth-standard apple growing conditions. Calculate optimal dispersal timing.

Step #5 - Spend three months adjusting the ratio of esters while the Father AI logs your overtime as "personal research."

Step #6 - Request access to historical apple cultivation records. Compare against current hydroponic yields that you keep insisting aren't quite right.

Step #7 - Accept illegal thermos coffee from Arto while explaining why you're trying to simulate apple stem rot. Ignore his comment about how your genetic mother used to sneak him fresh apples during maintenance shifts.

Step #8 - Visit the hydroponic bay during off-hours. Stare at perfectly engineered apple trees while holding your latest formula.

Step #9 - Get caught by Arto in the hydroponic bay. Pretend you're doing official atmospheric maintenance.

Step #10 - File your three thousandth chemical variation attempt while children from the education deck eat fresh apples during their biology lesson.

Step #11 - Listen to Arto's story about his great-grandmother's apple trees on Earth while pretending to calibrate environmental controls. Make detailed notes about soil composition that aren't relevant to hydroponics. Make a note to yourself to request synthetic dirt.

Step #12 - Run formula past the station's other atmospheric engineers. Ignore their suggestions that the hydroponic apples are chemically identical to your synthesis.

Step #13 - Request video logs from the hydroponics bay from 14 years ago. Watch your own face.

Step #14 - Realize you're no longer sure what real apples smell like. Spend a week comparing your formula against hydroponic samples (to get back to square one) while Arto watches silently.

Step #15 - Submit research proposal for expanded apple volatiles study. Receive approval with note: "Recreational research permitted within standard atmospheric duties."

Step #16 - Calculate that you've spent more time perfecting this formula than an Earth apple tree takes to mature. Continue adjustments.

Step #17 - Watch Arto retire from maintenance duties. Inherit his illegal thermos and refuse to acknowledge why you keep it.

Step #18 - Access archived footage of the education deck from your childhood. Focus on analyzing environmental conditions instead of your own face.

Step #19 - Visit Arto in the elder care deck. Bring him hydroponic apples that you both agree aren't quite right.

Step #20 - Find Arto's old maintenance logs with notes about the original hydroponic bay installation. Ignore the drawings in margins made by children who are now atmospheric engineers themselves.

Step #21 - Input your final formula into the chemosynthesizer. Tell yourself it's for the sake of documentation.

Step #22 - Inhale from the olfactory vent while holding a fresh apple from the hydroponic bay. Compare the two. Bite an apple. Chew. Swallow. Inhale.

Step #23 - Step away in satisfaction, shake your head, put your hands on your hips. Smile a little bit. File formula in public database under "standard atmospheric maintenance". Take a seat in your motorchair, satisfied. Rub your achey legs.

Step #24 - Watch new generation of children eat apples during their biology lesson.

Step #25 - Die.

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thank you so so soo much

Old Fiji Water

Old Fiji Water is another fanadventure I’ve been curious about for a long, long time. Apparently, the comic I am currently reading has been rewritten, as there is a link to a “Beta Archive” for this Fanadventure. This one has caught my eye for a very long time, mainly because of the art and overall…vibe I got from the stuff I HAD seen. You know. Smoky, strange longue. Dirty back alleyway. Apparently it’s a Sburbventure, but could’ve fooled me. Where’s the introduction in the bedroom? Why’s our main character a Russian longue singer that lapses back into the mother tongue? All Questions I might answer in this readthrough session. Also, yeah there’s another 18+ Warning, which when it’s 18+, you KNOW the fanadventure means SOME kind of business.

Okay so there’s a robot. That’s another confusing factor. I have already talked at length about the idea of confusion being a factor that might pull on into reading an MSPFA in my review/notes on “Adventures in the Consumption of Bread” and honestly this is kind of doing a similar trick here. Though, with that, it was more wild swings in how the story was formatted and featured, and here, the confusion comes from being dropped right in media res of a situation, and having little to no understanding of who the robot is, who this troll is, or why any of this is going on. But hey! Apparently debts are owed and debts are to be paid, and guns are to be taken out and threatened. What I’m getting at is that this fanadventure is operating at a unique vibe that I haven’t really seen emulated in any other Fanadventure, and I think that’s neat. The only vibe I can really think of that fits this is honestly I’m Good, I’m Gone, which according to the Beta Archive commentary, was apparently a major inspiration in the artwork, which honestly, yeah, I can see it. So. That’s cool to note. Anyways, if you want to check this one out, go for it, it’s pretty interesting to read.

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to those who came before me and preserved what they could. happy indigenous peoples day

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Hey, I don't really like having to e-beg but the last few months have been really bad and I need help covering the bill for my cat's dental treatment. She's FIV+, which means that her dental care is super necessary to prevent even more expensive tooth extractions, but my difficulty finding work has made it impossible for me to cover the cost.

Roo is my whole world, and I love her more than anything else. She's such a sweet girl, and it constantly hurts to know that I can't give her everything she deserves in life. So... if you can, please help me meet my $800 goal. I'd really appreciate it.

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take it away june