#i used to avoid using the main tag bc i thought people wouldn't like them but it seems that is not the case...

[lunarlicorice]

shiny new icons!!! the saturation has increased tenfold. [puts up a sign that says "ask me about their motifs & symbolism"]

old ones from last may (they look so baby?)

[onychespherein]

Sooooooo…

you say you want questions about this new AU…?

well here ya go!

(also you don’t need to answer all at once, take it at your own pace)

who’s the castor and who’s the pollux

do they just replace Gemini?

what happenes to cannon Gemini?

how do they all meet lunar and solar

Do the celestials and Astrals just swap roles? Are their names different from the cannon?

will you make comics/fanfics about it?

do sun and moon merge? If so, what are they when combined

how would this work, bc lunar only exists because of eclipse making them to suppres moon?

(I have more, lmk if you want them)

hi before we start i just wanted to say i love you. you're my favourite person rn i hope you know ❤️❤️❤️ i want any questions you might have!! i might not answer all of them because spoilers dfjfhfh but i welcome all of them anyway <3

so for the sake of simplicity (and to avoid spoilers!!) moon's castor and sun's pollux in the sense they're two halves of a whole, with moon being the more cold/clinical one and sun the upbeat/emotional one. brain vs heart etc

i wouldn't say they replace gemini, exactly? i mean, the lore is very much different— i'm basically overhauling the entire system to suit my needs, with the example of wither storm not being a natural thing every universe ends in but a disease the creator manufactured specifically for his Evil Plans™ and sun & moon's backstory is very much tied to it. i don't think that's how it goes in the show, i mean i am several months behind so idk really but from what i remember the wither storm was supposed to be this natural thing that happened anyway but could be sped up via use of the newton star/star power? at least i'm pretty sure that's how it went

also yes the creator IS an astral in this au too :)

the astrals are all animatronics! they take the place of the celestial family in the sense that all crazy shit that happens is centered mostly around them instead — except for the lunar blowing up thing, but it's one of them that blows him up instead of eclipse. they're not daycare attendants though, i actually made a new attraction in the pizzaplex specifically of them. it's basically a bit like this super large space themed jungle gym with zero-gravity tech.

castor and pollux take the role of sun and moon, with them initially being the main (and only) animatronic in there and sharing a body — they had been known as gemini at the time but changed their names after separating. i admit i don't have their lore as thought out as the celestial fam xhrjdh but it's ok because solar (from whose pov i'm writing most of the fics) has no idea what's going with them either!!

lunar & solar are the daycare attendants fazbear had commissioned in this universe instead of sun and moon, so they've been in the pizzaplex since the start — no eclipse needed for lunar to be a thing. the kill code moon had isn't really a thing either, at least not where they are concerned; they've always been two separate people. kill code the person is an astral tho!!

so lunar died and came back with star power, catching attention of the astrals much like in canon. and like i said sun and moon are as gemini here but it's eclipse instead who was then sent to "take care" of him aka the threat assessment turned training etc (they hate each other SO MUCH), some others (including sun & moon and earth!!) tagged along after earth (the planet) became a place of interest to them because of lunar's existence. and obviously since solar is lunar's brother they decided to bother him too— after stalking him for a while (moon) and deciding he was interesting enough to warrant a conversation (sun). and then because these two (three, technically) hang out around them so much, they meet the rest of the astrals at some point too.

the names are the same, or at least i can't think of one that's different right now, and yes sun and moon merge! i don't wanna say what cuz it's a ✨secret✨ but it's not a two minds one body type of thing

i am writing fics about this au tho i don't know when i'll post them. most of them are oneshots focused on sun & moon bonding w/ solar and there's one about eclipse torturing i mean training lunar haha,, also multichapter with eclipse's backstory too

i don't know about comics, i never really drew one before but i'll def post more art!! i've seen people doing stuff like "ask this and that character from au" and i wanna do that too but we'll see how it goes lol

[mcytwebweaving]

hello web! hope you're doing well :D just out of curiosity, how do you collect material for your web weaves? what's your creative process like? big fan of your work <3

Omg thank you so much!!! I'm doing okay, have been very busy with some stuff tho (so sorry for the lack of original content 😅). I will get back into it soon tho, already have some stuff in the making!

I have already answered asks about where exactly do I get all the materials I use from, so I won't elaborate on that part, but here is my normal process: (it's under Read More bc the post turned out longer that I expected haha)

• Starting point is either me getting a request, or my brain going "haha remember that quote/image you saw on tumblr 2 weeks ago? would it be fucked up or what to connect it with a character you like?" (btw in that case I almost never end up using the original quote/image that gave me inspiration for some reason)

• Then I outline some key words about the web weaving I am going to make. I usually go for very abstract and broad concepts, so I can encounter some more interesting stuff. Around that stage I also visualize what exact media I would like to use. Basically, when I go into the "search for the stuff to use" part, I already have a pretty clear understanding of what I will be going for

• And then I go through the websites, Tumblr tags and online archives looking for stuff. I start by searching for stuff relating to my key words, then based on what u find, I can change things up. Actually, about 90% of the time, my website turn out really different from how I imagined them to be at first, just because I encounter some interesting things that I like more. For example, my first knifetrick web weaving wasn't supposed to be centered around the theme of hands at all - the thing I started with was that quote about Jackie laughing like a seagull or something, and I never ended up using it. But even if I throw all of my plans in the window, I wouldn't say that visualisation and coming up with concepts is meaningless work - if you have a direction to move in, you won't be overwhelmed with options.

If I see something that I can't use for a certain theme/character, but I think may be useful for something else, I save it too, so it makes the work a bit easier in future. To avoid all those different things cluttering in my Downloads, I keep separate folders for each web I am working on/could potentially do.

This is definitely the longest part of my work process, partly because despite the 10 image limit per post Tumblr has, I usually save much more stuff to use for each web weaving.

• Compiling/formatting this all in a post and giving credit is the last thing I do. Since I have an excess of material, I have to think what I will keep. My main priorities are 1) matching the theme and 2) keeping a consistent look. With quotes/song lyrics I sometimes can copy paste them into a google doc and play around with fonts, text and background colors. Then I think of positioning it all, which is more important than you may think. In my dsmp!tommyinnit web the colors in both the text and images go from warm orange/yellow hues to grey (it's more obvious with pictures tbh), as a way to symbolize a feeling of desperation and loneliness settling in. I don't even know how many people notice stuff like that, but it's important to me, so I do it. Last thing is putting down the credits (Don't forget your credits, kids!!). Usually it's formatted like [title of the media], [authors name], and images get links to sources :].

That's pretty much it! One web takes me around 4 hours to finish, so it's a pretty long process, and I put a lot of thoughts behind it all :] Sorry it's so long, I am actually glad I had an opportunity to share a little step by step! :D

[prncples]

i used to write so recklessly openly on my main blogs as a sort of self-taught journaling exercise, one where i really clung to the feeling that my posts were simultaneously accessible and yet unseen? like, the kinds of posts i know ppl wouldn't usually respond to and that i made with such frequency that i felt it was important to my comfort that no one much was reading them but that they were there bc i had written them and said them out loud in my way of talking out loud

it was like feeling i had things to say and no one specific i wanted to say them to, not out of avoiding people but because sometimes thoughts are just my brain never stopping and it doesn't usually feel like a necessity to seek out a social connection to release it. but i'd also just feel that need to just say something and i loved to let myself act on it and at the time, i knew i'd come to cringe now about it, but at the time, it just made sense in the moment and i knew i'd also like to have that!

and now that i periodically come back to browse my feed and save dozens of things to drafts for the next burst of energy i get to queue things up, i really enjoy getting to read the short little posts people write up for themselves on their blogs... perhaps i am a silly little internet voyeur, but i do think my favorite experience is when i find a point where someone writes short frequent posts, like, 3 to 6 lines long on average and abt 50% of the blog is just their own days or thoughts or problems or venting and then the other 50% is lovely content that also reflects them in it a little

now i wonder, are the feelings i get over reading the words and records of those absolute strangers at all related to whatever does happen or has happened with these posts? :o i remember when iris used to be the sole interaction on so many of those, or the comfort of the blank notes section...!

i think i write continuing with that feeling, which was how it was back in high school and never felt like it shifted significantly, even though i am godawful at interacting again :'^)

i've been quite decent at keeping up a very barebones but relatively consistent written journal for the last 2 and a half years, which has actually been very fun :] but i'm starting to fall off the wagon again and i think it's bc i want to delve back into these posts, which i honestly don't really encounter equivalents of in the wild!! which is why i guess i'm thinking abt them again! i see lots of short posts semi-frequent update types, but what about the long and aimless 6 paragraph addressed to no one talking about nothing kind of post? maybe i'd have to look harder, but i just don't think i will for now is all 0:

i will probably try to come up with a tag, bc i have always enjoyed the option to archive the thoughts i'm going through, but a part of me also anxiously relies on this feeling that i could create a marker that other ppl could mute too, even though i also feel like i couldn't imagine posting without the read more squiggly at the top. that's the soft barrier, but back when the read more used to break when posting, i just wanted to believe in people choosing to have those text post tags muted for their own sanity