#mainly bc i actually Have Art There

[papanowo]

i think dan should get to be a little weird too. as a treat

[princema-k]

THE LIVING MUSEUM: CHAPTER 1

(interactive puzzle at the bottom!)

As luck would have it, the detective had a case that had just been given to her by the Chief Constable Barton (talk about a high order!) I watched as she leafed through the folders on her desk before slipping out a small stack of papers and bringing them over to me. Clearing her throat, Detective Layton ran over the details…

“At approximately 2:00pm, a fire alarm in the Natural History Museum sounded. Around 5 minutes later, visitors in the museum reported that they witnessed several exhibits, and I quote, ‘come to life before their eyes.’ There were visitors who told officials that the suits of armour on display had started to move and raise their weapons, visitors who reported that paintings on the walls started to melt and blink, and visitors who said that the dinosaur skeleton exhibits had opened their mouths and moved their heads. But the most damning of all seemed to be the Tyrannosaurus rex exhibit, who not just moved but assumed a lunging stance with its full body, as well as somehow roared.”

“Right, that’s odd. And?”

“Well, since the officials were only able to question the visitors outside of the museum due to everyone having been evacuated because of the fire alarm, naturally they went inside to check the exhibits themselves.”

“And they found…?”

“Nothing. They did a whole sweep of the area, but they found nothing out of place. All exhibits were in their normal places, the paintings were just fine, and everything was untouched.”

“Wow…”

“I assume the reason that Barton held onto what information they had on it and handed it to me was due to the witnesses. Despite the fact that the Yard found no obvious signs of tampering, everyone swears up and down the walls that the museum had seemingly come to life at that moment.”

“...That is a proper mystery. And these files are all we have on the matter?”

“Well, in a sense, yes. These are all the files we have,” Detective Layton muses as she taps the bottom of the stack on the coffee table. Then, getting up, she drops the stack back in their folder. “...Which is why I was thinking of heading over to the museum myself to do a bit of personal investigation.”

“As expected of the great Professor Layton,” I say cheekily as I stand and follow her to the front door, grabbing my jacket off the hanger in the process. The detective sighs lightly as she places her hat on her head, pulling the brim over her eyes in mock disappointment. “Please, Ms. Altava. It's just Detective.”

Now lifting the brim, she smiles brightly as she grabs her umbrella.

“So, Ms. Altava… let’s go investigate this living museum with our own two eyes, shall we?”

And with that, our adventure into the peculiar museum begi-

“Ah, but before that, I have here the directions to the museum written for me by Barton, and it seems to be a puzzle of some sort. As you’re now my assistant, why don’t you give it a shot? Think of it as a warm-up of things to come.”

…Right. She’s Layton’s daughter, after all. How could I have forgotten? …And are we sure they're not really related by blood…?

PUZZLE 1: Where's The Museum?

Take your time and think about the answer, or Flora (and the puzzle master) will be very disappointed in you...!

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J (Need a hint?: 1 | 2 | 3)

(thanks to @justkillingthyme for beta reading, and several mutuals for puzzle testing!)

[wuntrum]

all paint is beautiful and amazing. but there really is somethin about oil paint...

[poliffwoog]

school scribblies: goober edition

[biblically-accurate-dca]

super disorganized sketch page because i do what i want

[adhdtsukasa]

prosekai au where everything is absolutely the same except niigo, instead of being a music circle, is a fanfiction writing-ish group. kanade is a writer, mafuyu is her beta reader, ena makes fancomics based on kanade's fanworks and mizuki makes trailers for upcoming fics. and basically that's it. niigo lore but everything revolves around them being wattpad ao3 users

[solaestial]

dragon age AU chris and russell 💪

more AU concepts from a while back that i've finally touched up enough to post!! chris' outfit is just a mix of the da2 warrior and rogue grey warden armors, but russell's i designed more properly, based on the datv crow armor aesthetics (the mask shape is pretty much just the corvid calling mask in the game tho)

anyway. i realise there's probably like. zero overlap between the fandoms other than me, but it's a franchise and universe very dear to me, so ofc i couldn't help it still ehe.... sorry for all the lore stuff that's unexplained for anyone unfamiliar 😭 got a little on my twt here tho

for the townspeople: leaning towards human for tabasa?? gardenia for sure a human noble. dogma a chantry priest, with cody similarly associated. kantera a dalish elf who left his clan, mireille as an elven servant, and yumi a city guard 🫡

bonus little comic doodle from way back with russell and raymond:

[claitea]

i was working on something else and out of nowhere i thought about zero, got Really annoyed about his outfit which i've always disliked, and couldnt work on the first thing without doing this alteration first. pay no attention to the top right side nothing is there its just infi

[telesodalite]

Still thinking about hcs while cleaning out my notes, and like, this one sorta goes as both a hc and a random design choice I've kept, (tho I haven't posted or saved any of the related doodles :/) but in considering how much Fulcrum's k-class reformatting changed him, I really like the idea of it throwing off his original proportions some

Like, k-classers generally all appear fairly similar build-wise.

There's a blueprint that's being followed there, and those that are being reformatted are going to have to fit it.

(Unless there's multiple blueprints, different size classes of k-cons, and Fulcrum was just caught somewhere in the middle zone size and payload-wise?)

So some mechs are going to have to be broken down to fit into this new shell, either by getting stretched out or pulled inwards to be ultimately crammed into shape.

Cybertronians of course come in all shapes and sizes, and they don't always align with humanoid-esque proportions, obviously, but I like to think the k-class reformatting offered an awkward and impractical in-between of all types.

Of course Fulcrum fit into that general humanoid-shaped category before the refit, regardless of whatever his alt-mode kibble or lack thereof would have added. But he's just the standard non-combat levels of lightly armored, average height, though a little lanky already, but generally sort of boringly, humanoidly, practically proportioned.

Then comes the refit.

To make more space for the bulk of his built-to-shatter shell, arms and legs are broken, hastily extended, and loosely jammed back in place, leaving them slightly too long, hinged a little too low and off balance, and uncomfortably loose in their sockets.

Everything but the barest essentials of his core and inner-framework are gutted to make space for the payload. Leaving his balance entirely off-kilter, with long hollowed out limbs built solely to surround the heavy core with an armored casing, that aren't at all altered with any natural movement or livability in mind.

Basically this fine specimen-

-just, a lot more refined and detailed.

Training would've essentially amounted past propaganda and how best to die, to mainly just learning how to sit, stand, and walk just enough to get to the jumping point with this new, disproportioned, and too awkwardly long, (or too short depending on the mech), k-class frame.

And like, this all doesn't stray too far from what we see of his initial design on Clemency. Him just sorta being long and awkward and scuffed to hell. But I like to think that awkward build doesn't change much after Spinister, assumedly, rebuilt his frame after Clemency.

The k-class alterations are bone deep, so to speak. To change them back at this point would require an even more strenuous and invasive refit than the first one, and safe to say Fulcrum obviously wouldn't be too terribly keen on that, even if they could afford it.

So all Spinister can really do reframing-wise, is just kinda sculpt and refine it all around his reformatted structure to turn it into less of a cage-like shell and more of an actual body.

Like bulking up plating in more natural places for balance, along with adding more breathable seams and flexible angles for better movement, while of course making sure to tighten those loose joints as best he can. Though he still has to account for the longer limbs and now empty core, so it's definitely not the same weight and balance of Fulcrum's original build. But, it is far more livable than what Styx had left him with.

I don't have much else to say on it, besides how him getting used to his frame being taller and longer is definitely an interesting nugget to roll around mentally outside of design inspo, and its one of my fav hcs to see mentioned in art, fics, or posts. (along with him having chronic pain bcs of the weird shitty joints)

Little things like him taking a few months to figure out how sit comfortably with new longer legs- folding them against himself awkwardly, or streching out in odd positions -much to the other Scav's amusement, or learning to keep himself from catching his arms and bulky shoulder plating constantly on things, which is also funny to everyone, until he knocks something over while they're trying to hide, then it's less funny.

Idk, there's tons of angst potential surrounding his reformat of course, but in canon he's all mostly vibes, so idk, it's funny to think of how he'd try his best to take his weird, gangly frame in stride outside of moments of despair. He's doing his best to make the nigh praying mantis levels of ~long~ and ~scrawny~ work ok

[teddybearty]

I have a suggestion! E-Girl Celestia Ludenberg!

E-Ludenberg 🖤💔

[luna-loveboop]

I set Ekle and Knight as my wallpaper :)

My horsies doodle is from this post🔗

:)

[chalkodareal]

sometimes a girl cooks up a self indulgent katamari comic just because he can... lovely. please dont ask me if im drawing the roboking bc i cant draw the flesh and blood king because i CAN. haha. sweats. iswear.

[hellisntreal]

My go at a type of scrive spinster-y being— a scribe. There's a lot of bird angels who work with language in the universe of fallen london, huh?

If you squeeze him, he lets out a squeak like a toy hammer.

[moodycarcass]

round 2 with trying to redesign this girl i think we r finally getting somewhere

[silusvesuius]

this tree from my new drawing looking goated afffffff 👑👑

[funkinmadnesss]

waddles into here with wide gleaming eyes. Can we get more info on the whole Kindred and Mysterio arc/Demon Mysterio arc as well as B-side......... AND of course some beckmason angst..... you can be as thorough as possible!!!

I'm unsure how long this will be but safe to say it's going under a cut bc you've given me the permission to go feral MSMDHSKS

(future rufio- B-side section is taking significantly longer to write out because it's alot more than the Demon Mysterio arc so I'm just breaking this into two parts. I'll reblog with B-Side stuff. Eventually MDMDHDK)

4819:

Going points like my friend did bc it's just easier to organize my many thoughts like that 👍

Harry Osborn/Kindred:

-Some info on Harry first and foremost so there's insight on why Kindred is the way he is

-Obbligatory look he has a playlist

- Harry had always a disappointment to Norman, between the friends he chose to make and the way he acted, it was becoming increasingly clear to him Harry was never going to be 'worthy' of the family company (not that Harry wanted it anyways.)

-That led to Norman deciding there was at least one way his 'unless' son could otherwise be useful

-Harry was the first and last person to have the Globulin Green tested on him, as despite the successful results, the side effects with human dna were unpredictable enough Norman opted to make the Goblins from scratch.

-The globulin green has terrible effects on his brain, and in a flurry of events Kindred can no longer remember for the life of him, He ended up dying in an explosion. His death was heavily covered up and any connection between Harry and his Goblin form was buried along with him.

-Waking up in hell, Harry was Spiteful, Furious, and wanted nothing more than to kill his father for what he did to him. Those emotions are what lead him to the demon who gave him powers (i have yet to fully figure that out but 👍)

Demon Arc:

-Due to how his powers work, Kindred himself can't stay in the overworld for too long but his lackeys can so coming across Mysterio was a diamond in the rough in a way. An Alien who could be genuinely powerful if he simply dropped his facade as a human? That along with the demon powers he'd receive from Kindred would make him unstoppable in his eyes.

-Mysterio is essentially a demonic hitman here MSNDJSK Kindred promised Mysterio his life back if he managed to kill Norman. Beck was clearly hesitant because well... That's what the Sinister six was after in the first place. And they never succeeded. So what would be different this time around? Kindred did eventually manage to convince him though.

-Kindred did allow a small grace period when he was first brought back, as he knew Beck would be insufferable if he didn't.

-First thing Beck did when he was brought back was find Mason. He absolutely scared the living FUCK out of his husband but it's okay. Beck's okay. That was all that mattered to the both of them in that moment.

-When they eventually got to work though, Kindred saw the rest of the sinister six as nothing more than dead weight, Forcing Mysterio to work alone. He wasn't allowed to explain any of it either.

-Multiple times Mason had tried getting any form of answers from Beck. Like why he looked the way he did, How he even came back in the first place. Why he was acting so weird. Everytime Beck would brush him off, reassure his husband everything would be fine. That he'd explain everything one day. Just not. Right. Now.

BeckMason Angst:

-Rubs my little hands together.

-It started when Kindred's plans and requests grew more. Ruthless. Mysterio clearly wasn't the best person, He was a villain after all. But he still had a moral code he followed. And his main thing was never killing anybody innocent. He was hesitant on killing in the first place but if it came down to it, he was willing to for those who deserved it.

-So When Kindred tells him to kill an innocent bystander, Beck starts to worry they're going too far.

-And when Mysterio ends up accidentally killing said Bystander, He knows they've gone to far.

-The two end up getting into a fight, Beck claiming he won't hurt anyone else. He craved a normal life with Mason more than anything in the whole world but not at the price of innocent people.

-Kindred wouldn't find any better option than Mysterio. He couldn't let him slip from his hands, not when any form of vengeance against his father was so close.

-It's all because of his silly morals. Those friends of his who make him question who he should be loyal to.

-So he does what he thinks will most benefit him. He locks away his memories. He didn't need Quentin Beck, He only needed Mysterio.

-So Imagine your husband has been acting weird ever since he came back from the dead, clearly keeping secrets and no matter what you do, You can't get him to open up to you.

-And then one day he just doesn't come home again. With Beck having been kidnapped twice (there was an incident before the one mentioned last post aswell) Mason immediately assumes the worse. Him and the Sin six search for him and only find him after a rather destructive attack on Oscorp.

-They manage to drag Beck away before he can hurt anyone else but when They ask him what the hell he's doing, they're met with a blank stare. He doesn't know these people.

-Mason is certain it was just a cruel joke at first. Beck didn't make jokes like this but it had to be.

-But with each Question and answer, not a single hint of recognition in his eyes, It became all too clear to Mason.

-Alot of my details get a littleeee muddy here, Alot of the moments here are art-based instead of fully fleshed lore

-The next handful of months was sort of just a blur as the Sinister six tried to get Beck to remember quite literally anything while also keeping him from hurting both himself and innocent people.

-Mysterio didn't think much of it for a while, Too busy trying to accomplish his tasks given by Kindred... But, There was always something so unnerving with how Mason looked at him. How could someone he doesn't even know look at him with... Sadness? Admiration? Desperation? What was he not possibly remembering to deserve such a look?

-Mysterio eventually hunts Mason down on his own downtime and... Talks to him. He's unsure why he's even doing this but he needs answers while not being attacked.

-Every single sentence exchanged with Mason just felt... Right. He couldn't understand it. They met a few times after that, Mason continuing to recount their years sent together, hoping for it to spark anything in Mysterio's mind but to no avail.

-He hates it. He hates the way Mason looks at him and he hates the fact he can't do the same. All these memories are way too thorough to all be a lie but how can he not remember? Years just... Gone.

-Honestly this whole part of the lore is VERY Flight of the Crows by Jhariah (it's actually on my Mysterio playlist <3)

-I still haven't exactly figured out the end of the arc, But he does eventually get his memories back And Kindred lets him go. I will be unstoppable when I figure that out