#tos ask

[towerofsouls]

Is there a specific theme in order to make a tos char (I want to make my oc in the tos au just don't know what I need in order to make one) /genq

Heres a sort of guide on how i make them:

1) I choose a character for them to be paired with and design them together. All canon characters, including the 3 new toons, have pairs, but i dont mind if you wanna ignore that and pair your oc with a canon character X]

2) Their subject determines what clothes they'll have, so i choose that next. I have no idea how to explain picking the subjects.. really the only thing is that technology has to be involved somehow. i do a LOT of boots and gloves and vests :P

(also!! Dandy and astro are the only ones with capes and stars on their outfits, thats for lore purposes, but if you wanna make your oc special go wild hehe. Generally speaking the rest of the toons dont have those and theyre more plain)

3) uuhh another thing is how i pick colors: every character has white, purple, black, brown, and gold. Black is a bit more optional (always a darker brown or purple btw, never pure black or gray)

Purples can range from nearly blue to almost magenta, and i try not to make my yellows and brows too warm.

sprout is literally the ONLY CASE so far of me adding another color to the palette because i couldnt make him purple like the rest of them [SOUNDS OF AGONY] but i still pushed his skin into the orange zone to fit the palette better. also his leaves arent even green theyre the same yellow used for cosmos glasses and their gold accents GVDKFBFK

again like. This is all just me describing my thought process, dont feel pressured to try and make yours perfect or anything X] Simply putting down info in case people want to go for accuracy but dont feel like you HAVE to

[yuttikkele]

hey gamers I’ve started watching star trek does anyone else see the romantic tension between captain kirk and mr. spock

[etherealspacejelly]

Jelly, buddy as someone who knows next to nothing about Star Trek, please tell me what’s happening

ok so spock/kirk is like. the oldest ship ever, okay? they invented slash fiction. these guys pioneered fandom as we know it today

in the last movies they made with those original characters, they were separated into like. alternate universes. okay. these guys were never gonna see each other again and it was very sad and tragic and the fans were kinda sad about it but it is what it is.

then. they made a short film. right. like 8 minutes long. of kirk reuniting with spock. on spocks deathbed. and kirk holds his hand, and they look off into the sunset together.

they got to be reunited. they got to be together in the end. they got their romantic ending i swear to god im losing it.

if it helps. imagine if in 50 years time, they released an 8 minute video of old man dean winchester going to the empty and saving castiel and then they sat on the hood of the impala holding hands and watching the sun set. thats what its like. you see how insane that is??? do you get it???

[possumtion]

Drawing the road trip/beach episode we never got

Part 2

[dustykneed]

survival is an act of rebellion. jim loves you SO MUCH. i hope this finds all of us who need it today. please stay alive so we can make it out together. sending so much love and strength

[buglvr24]

today i asked a trekkie coworker if he shipped spock and kirk. when he said no i asked why and he replied: “i think spock can do better”

[bj-cuntycunt]

I just realized that the pin Sulu wears in Mirror Mirror is the same thingy T'Pring wears on a ring in Amok Time.

They were really reusing stuff in that set, good for them.

[forecast0ctopus]

horseification beam GO

[windwenn]

My ipad is just full of spock sketches rn

[dykespirk]

10/10 funniest Spock moment is when he accidentally tells everyone he went blind bc he forgot he has an extra set of eyelids.

he ACTUALLY thought that HE, himself, was permanently blinded before going, 20 minutes later, “OH FUCK! I can see again”

normally that’s something Spock would do just to fuck with everyone but this time he also had his ass handed to him because he couldn’t remember HIS OWN NUMBER OF EYELIDS

best Vulcan ever. I know Starfleet is still telling stories about him to this day

[starberry-cupcake]

there are tons of amazing moments in a piece of the action but this whole married banter about driving really got me

bonus: jim's sensing bones and spock are upset and he isn't gonna let it go

[towerofsouls]

Hi!! my name is almond/rodger and i use he/him!

this blog is a more organized place for me to put anything related to my au, tower of souls :] (not a roleplay blog, btw.)

feel free to ask anything about the AU! I won't be talking about spoilers yet, so i won't be talking very much about Dandy or Astro, but the main storyline will be revealed soon. Ill most likely answer any questions about any other characters.

Send anything tower of souls related here or to my main blog, @walnutcookie, either works X]

pfp and header made by @cheeseinthesea

tag guide:

#tos art - "canon" TOS art, aka anything drawn by me

#tos ref - canon designs for all of the toons

#tos info - posts containing information about the au itself

#tos ask - asks sent relating to tos lore or characters

#tos fanart - any fanart im either tagged in or is sent to me through asks

#tos oc - any oc posts that im either tagged in or are sent to me through asks

#tos shitpost - silly, un-serious stuff i post

#tos behind the scenes - Extra info about the au

#almond ask - asks not tos related

Characters mentioned in posts will have their names tagged as well if youd like to filter for those (ex: "#dandy" or "#astro")

Triggers will be tagged as "#[trigger]" and "tw [trigger]". This blog includes dark subjects such as death and may feature cartoon gore!

Note that i am a minor, and uncomfortable with suggestive/suicidal topics. Please don't send me asks relating to these things.

Q&A:

Q: "What's the lore?"

A: the full lore hasn't been revealed yet - the entire story is written out, but i'm still in the process of writing it down in a cohesive manner. Any information/lore can be found in the #tos info tag.

Q: "Can I help?"

A: sorry, this is a hobby/personal project of mine, and for this AU, i would rather work on it by myself. feel free to make your own spinoff aus or ocs and such though if you have your own ideas!! :]

Q: "Can I make fanart/writing?"

A: absolutely, go wild! id love to see anything involving the tos au, so do whatever youd like with it, make your own spinoff au even, just credit me please! tell me if you do so i can comment and share it!!! My only request is that you dont make suggestive/nsfw art with them ^^'

Also wanted to mention that im fine with people redesigning/making headcanon designs the characters ive already designed X]

Q: "Can I make my OCs in the au?"

A: hell yeah!! please tell me id LOVE to see it!!!!! go wild be creative!! you dont even have to make them accurate i dont mind

Q: "Are any ships canon?"

A: nope, most of the relationships are intentionally left vague, so feel free to interpret them as platonic/familial/romantic/however youd like! (i am NOT okay with proships though, which means no goob x scraps, ginger x cosmo, or any ships involving toodles and pebble. you will be blocked instantly.)

Q: "Why is it called Tower of Souls?"

A: aha... funny thing about that, i changed the lore a bunch after finally figuring out a name for the au. the toons' souls were meant to be linked in the old lore, but as of now they dont even have souls... whoops!!! its become known as the tower of souls au though so i feel like itd be hard to change it. i mean its still a tower theres just no souls in it

[comicaurora]

So uhh. If you feel like talking about it. As someone who lives in the US, how are you being kind to yourself on this upsetting morning <3

Checked in with my loved ones first and foremost.

It's interesting. The vibe I've been getting from my circle is very different from 2016. Much less… dread and horror at a realignment of the understanding of what can and can't happen here, now, in this place and day and age. More "fuck, guys. again? whatever. enjoy your consequences, maybe you'll manage to learn something this time."

Frustration and anger is not the most positive feeling, or even the most fair one to express, but it is a protective one. It hurts a lot less than most alternatives.

And it's quite a shift. It was earthshattering back then. How could this have been allowed to happen? Why couldn't it be stopped? Why couldn't we stop it? Why couldn't I stop it? Why couldn't everyone see what this meant? Why couldn't I make them understand? Did they really not care? What did that mean about humanity as a whole? Were we so thoughtless? How could anyone be trusted?

It seems… much less earthshattering to see it happen twice. Disappointing, sure. Frustrating. But nowhere near as devastating as the first time I saw it unfold. We already knew it could happen. I've already had time to digest the implications. Now I'm just freshly disappointed.

It also feels less indicative of Crushing Truths Of Reality this time. We've seen shit get bad. We've also seen shit get better from here! We know both outcomes are possible, even inevitable. We know hoping for a better future is always worthwhile. This isn't the apocalypse. It's an unremarkably bad turn of events brought on by unremarkably self-centered well-documented human impulses. It's utterly mundane in its unpleasantness. It doesn't need to be dignified with despair.

A democratic election, no matter the outcome or the side we're on, makes us all acutely aware of how outnumbered we are by people whose worldviews and priorities are demonstrably incomprehensible to us. And the first time you get outnumbered, it's a shock. Defeat is haunting. It didn't matter how badly you wanted it; by the very function of democracy, you do not have the power to override greater numbers. (insert electoral college caveat here)

The second time through, I find myself focusing on a different facet that has dramatically reduced the amount of spiralling I'm doing. I don't expect this to work for everyone, but for me specifically, it helped to crystallize a few thoughts:

You don't have the power to control anyone else. You don't. You can't share your worldview and your revelations with them. You can't make them think or understand anything. You can lay it all out for them, but you can't make them listen, and you can't make it click. A mentor can't make their student learn a lesson; that's why teaching is so complicated and hard. An active choice must be made by the person to enable themselves to understand, and they must put the pieces together in their own mind before it makes sense to them, and the pieces must have been presented in a way that makes sense to them in the first place. Lead a horse to water, can't make them drink.

These elections highlight a disconnect in what different groups of people care about; and no matter how clearly you explain yourself or how passionately you perform, caring cannot be forced on someone. Understanding and connection cannot be forced. You cannot make anything or anyone matter to someone. They have to choose to see how it matters in order to internalize it. If they choose not to, that is not your failing. You couldn't have made them do it by just Explaining Better. They are not your responsibility. They make their own choices. You can't reach inside their head and connect the dots for them.

I'm a storyteller. I make stories and put them out into the world. I hope people get something good out of them, but I have no control over what that something is. I want people to be thoughtful and kind and compassionate and hopeful and see themselves reflected in stranges, no matter their differences. I can craft stories that I hope encourage this. But that is the extent of my ability and the extent of my responsibility. I control no-one's actions but my own, and so while I am not having the best day, I am at least content that I am doing what I can, and I am not shattering myself against impossibilities trying to control the things I can't.

Sometimes, people make decisions that I think are really bad. I can't make that not happen. All I can do is try to make decisions that will result in things I think are good. Today, that means checking in on people, and not assigning too much dramatic narrative weight to an ultimately mundane set of unremarkable bad decisions outside of my control. We'll take life as it comes and help each other out when and how we can. Everything else is out of our hands.

[emilinqa]

some spirks

[trek-tracks]

And you can see how happy their faces are about it

[sad-trekkie-life]

My fellow Trekkie (who’s in her late 40 I must add) has pointed out that the fact that Kirk was so convinced that it was Spock who’s massaging his back in Shore Leave means that Spock actually gives Kirk massages pretty often. I think I need to share her wisdom here.