#OPERATION: DOGTEETH

[microraptorreactor]

any sftbt content to consume? or just general stuff, I wanna see some rambling (dogteeth perhaps?? that looks interesting!!)

SftBT is on hiatus for now, it'll get another long work if I feel like there's anything left for me to say after Fraud releases. But there's a handful of smaller projects tied to the series I've been working on sporadically! One day they might get posted, who knows. Here they are in order of how long ago I started them!

'Resignation Letter', this is a one-shot about Kaine and Shrike. This one would need some pretty major rewrites, as almost the whole thing got re-used in 18: Shrike. I'm not against returning to it though, Shrike and Kaine's dynamic is a pretty fun thing that I never got to explore a whole lot in Handle With Care. Fun fact: 'Resignation Letter' was the original introduction to Kaine! He wasn't going to show up in the story until about (the point that would become) chapter 14.

'Cleanup Duty' is another one-shot that somehow morphed into Electric Sleep. It's about all three viscera units meeting up in 7-S. How is V2 there? Plot magic! The three get to bounce off each other for awhile. My favorite part is when Mirage makes Shrike apologize to Cerecelle for being a big meanie. It's also got V2 teasing V1 because it got '''replaced''' with Beeper. And Nightjar is mentioned! Here's a snipit of Nightjar lore from the work:

3. 'Quiet at World's End' is a work of some medium about Koda looking for V2. I'm really starting to think it would be better as a comic or illustrated work then the text-only version it has now. It's got the currently-unintroduced character Mori, and Mirage's handler, Sawyr. In my brain there's some very strong weird visuals going on, hence the potential medium change. There's a whole lot of Koda angst, a little bit of Mirage angst, and Earthmover weirdness!

4. 'Death of Our Mother-Beast' is a Sleet-centric comic focusing on Sleet right after the death of Caladrius! It's mostly about its time as a scavenger-bot forman. It's not a very happy comic, there's a heavy focus on Sleet and Julyen Ryker. There's a whole lot of mental breakdowns in the simulation. Sleet bites Ryker a couple times. Big focus on the upkeep of robots as well.

As for Dogteeth: sososo much robot weirdness, but mostly memory-related this time. It's not borderline zenofiction like SftBT is, as Pyre, Laika, and Dog are all quite distinctly human. The themes are pretty similar to SftBT though, so if you liked the Hell Protocol, Kernel segments, or the Earthmovers, there's probably something fun for you in there! If you can get through buckets of Destiny lore. But hey, Pyre is like, super fucking weird I could never write a normal robot. She's got fire magic AND the weirdest inferiority complex!

There is romance in this one though. Nothing major, and it's mostly between side characters (excluding the crush Pyre is mentioned to have at a couple points) but heads-up to that.

Just realized, there is totally Zenofiction in Dogteeth, just not with the robots. One of the important characters is Krevyr, an Eliksni (basically a spider-alien-thing) child. He's really important to making a bunch of things happen. Along with his sister, Ryges, who is a WILD character and I cannot wait to introduce her.

[floodnetworks]

You probably get this a lot but following you in VERY early dogteeth era vs seeing you reblog lots of very inspiring posts abt healing and being willing to take up space now always makes me feel a little better . i love seeing you on my dash i wish you well :] i'm sorry if this is strange FJNJN

wahhhh thank u SOOO much this is SO KIND! i love hearing from people who have followed me for a long time 😭😭 yeah i was such a fucked up little 16 year old when i first started that comic im Really Glad to have gotten to such a better place in over the years! its always an uphill battle but im immensely grateful to not be in that endlessly dark place anymore. hang on im like gonna cry thinking abt it. wish i could show high school era ezra how much i savor every moment of my life now & value myself so dearly & believe in building my future <33 obvs i still struggle All The Time and suffer frequently but the framework i'm operating in is completely different, i want to get better & am putting in the work instead of just being miserable and hopeless which is all i knew how to do back then. thank u!! wishing you well too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!