#what's a light source

[summerroseart]

Woag Paradise Lost AU Chaotix be upon ye!! 🎉

I was busy working on the pieces for the big bang, but they're finished and posted! So I'm able to work more on these other things now :3

These guys have been like 99% done for around 3 months but I didn't feel like rendering. So instead I attempted cell shading :p

Little fun facts!

- I wanted some more differences between Vanilla and Cream, so Cream's fur is lighter and her hair is wavier. Vanilla is meant to have have vanilla extract vibes.

This AU takes place a few years down the road, so Cream and Charmie are 11 years old. Yes I do ship vectilla 💖 they're a blended family now.

- Roles in the detective agency have Vector as the Head Detective, and the rest of them are kinda secondary investigators. Espio usually works as a PI, but writes poetry as a side hustle– he and Cream also like to do a lot of the book research, and Vanilla typically keeps the records and schedules, and also runs the Cafe portion with Mighty and Ray (I unfortunately don't have designs for them). She does get brought out if they need someone more intimidating than Vector though.

- Cream is a bit more tomboyish, and looks up to Vector a lot. She wants to take over the Detective Agency when he retires, so she often shadows him and puts a lot of effort into learning proper investigative techniques. The adults insist on utilizing the Buddy System, so she typically drags Charmie along on her more dangerous adventures. (He doesn't always appreciate this, for some reason).

- Charmy thought it was awesome when Vector had a TV show, and now wants to work in film and production, even though the show's producers typically blew him off as an annoying kid, at the time. After Vector the Detector fell through, Charmie started filming their investigations for a social media series. The quality is still somewhat lacking, but he's improving steadily. (Vanilla and Espio usually help with editing, to make sure more sensitive things are depicted/censored with care).

- Cheese's design is loosely based off the unused Chao designs from Boom, mixed with how I think they would evolve over time to look more like Cream, with a hero type evolution. They usually tag along on Cream and Charmie's adventures.

- I forgot to draw Chocola, but rest they spent most of their time at Chaotix HQ with Vanilla.

- Espio is trans to me! However given that he's a reptile, he never had boobs, so no need for top surgery. T gave him horns, but they're smaller than most Jackson Chameleons' are at his age :)

- Amy and Cream both used to help out at the Café, but wanted more adventure. Amy had a fascination with archeology, and left to study under Cliff, before staying on Bygone to fight Eggman. Mighty and Ray eventually took over in the Café, wanting to ensure Vanilla had support there.

[slothmonth]

I agree that "in Germany your boss legally has to provide you with work while you're at your job" is a bit funny considering the German stereotype. But I am really annoyed at people who act like this is some horrible hypercapitalist thing on that post about pushing people out of their jobs by just not giving them anything to do. When really it's very basic worker protection (within the context of German emplyment law.) Because under most circumstances you can't just be fired from your job. Your employer has to provide a reason for firing you if they want to get rid of you. You also have a right to specifially the work you were hired to do.

So your boss having to give you appropriate work makes illegal any of the following:

a) Making you clean toilets instead of (or in addition to) the clearly defined office job you agreed to do

b) Not giving you work and then firing you for not doing your work

c) Waiting for you to crack under the intense boredom of having to stay on one place with absolutely nothing to do for eight hours a day while your coworkers are roped into it to shun you (or hate you because for some reason you're the only one who doesn't have to do any work) until you quit "voluntarily"

or d) waiting for you to crack under the aformentioned pressure until you do what the people in the notes said they'd do, like watching movies or doing a second job instead which is something you then can be reprimanded and fired for

[hinamie]

sidelong

[stimnkbot]

chromia takes her job very seriously

[velichorus-k]

Your god is smiling up at you :)

[carrotsofthepirabbean]

Well I haven't stopped thinking about my fossil hunters AU. So there.

[mlobsters]

jared padalecki and jensen ackles minneapolis con 2025 - main panel

supernatural in 150 words or less

+bonus

[shakespearesdaughters]

[kradogsrats]

a heart of cinder cannot burn, a heart in ashes cannot break

so that trailer was super rude amirite

[silksongeveryday]

Silksong might be coming out sooner than we think.

[fudgelling-away]

Don't panic, he's not attacking! He's saving your butt.

What is he looking at? Maybe you were just about to fall off a ladder or *insert something that makes sense*

Let me know how you freaked him out so much. Or better yet, draw what was going on a second ago!

In any case, you owe him a new coffee, that's for sure.

[sigsams]

had an idea about a geno variant being this super old knowledgeable reclused hermit that outcodes go to in search of advice for some reason and came up with this

alt ver below cut

original geno belongs to loverofpiggies

[hinkepink]

Wolf in Shepherd's Clothing

[crescentfool]

yosuke hanamura but with six different lighting treatments!

[nyabr0]

something something and they lived happily ever after

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Explanations for the Robespierre sibling feud compilation

Version given by Augustin in 1794 — Charlotte is abusing her brothers’ ”spotless reputation” by spreading calumnies painting them as ”bad brothers,” and threatens to ”take a scandalous step in order to compromise us.” Her goal with this is to ”lay down the law on us.” Augustin also implies Charlotte is meeting with suspect people, such as ”a certain Saint-Félix” (a several times arrested ”hébertist”), and tells Maximilien to meet with Guillodon La Saudraie (Augustin’s mistress according to the memoirs of Charles Nodier) who ”would give you certain information on all the masks that it is interesting to know in these circumstances.” He himself has reached the conclusion their sister ”does not have a single drop of blood that resembles ours,” and declares her to be ”our greatest enemy” and ”a woman who causes our common despair.” He therefore tells Maximilien they must send Charlotte off to Arras in order to ”take her away from us.” Source: undated letter from Augustin to Maximilien, usually traced to May 1794, cited in Correspondance de Maximilien et Augustin Robespierre (1926), p. 293.

Version given by Charlotte in 1794 — Maximilien ”detested her because she had the courage of letting him know the danger he ran by being sourrunded so badly,” as she, everytime she had met him, ”had taken the opportunity to let him know that the men around him were trying to deceive him.” Charlotte says she understood that the Duplay family had taken up the case to lose her older brother, and that this motivated her to move out of their house. But both her two brothers and Madame Duplay had also asked her to leave, and on top of that the latter had ”reproached her for seeing counter-revolutionaires, among them Guffroy, representative of the people.” Charlotte also affirms that she had almost fallen the victim of the Revolutionary Tribunal, to which she knows Maximilien, in the public spirit, ”passed for having appointed people to.” Source: interrogation of Charlotte held July 31 1794, cited in Charlotte Robespierre et ses mémoires (1910) by Hector Fleischmann, p. 85-86.

Version given by Armand Joseph Guffroy in 1795 — Maximilien and Augustin kicked Charlotte out of their house ”because she did not think like they did, because she came to see my wife and because she visited citizens who were sincere friends of justice and truth.” Maximilien even reproached her for these visits by saying she was frequenting ”a conspirator.” When Joseph Le Bon, the representative on mission in Arras, briefly returned to Paris in May 1794, he took Charlotte back with him when he set out for the north once again. This was partly to prove her wrong about charges of cruelty she had directed against him, and partly because her brothers wanted to ”get rid of her” (unknown if he by this means to say ”kill her” or just ”get her out of their sight”). Source: Les secrets de Joseph Lebon et de ses complices, deuxième censure républicaine(1795), undated Committee of General Security decree written by Guffroy in the spring of 1795, cited in Charlotte Robespierre et Guffroy (1910) by Hector Fleischmann.

Version given by Maurice André Gaillard somewhere before 1844 — by the spring of 1794, Charlotte says the Duplays have ”destroyed me entirely in [Maximilien’s] mind, today he hates the sister who served as his mother.” Despite living in the same house as her older brother, she no longer has the power to approach him, and advices Gaillard to not even speak to him about her. Charlotte seemingly shows despair over her brother’s role in ”the terror,” saying that, even though she still loves him tenderly, she’s ”no longer able to bear the pain and the shame of seeing my brother devote his name to general execration” and therefore ”ardently desire his death as well as mine.” She is nevertheless certain Maximilien’s ”excesses” are only the consequence of ”the domination under which he groans,” and she hopes Augustin will be able to help her get him to move away from the Duplays, who ”obsess over him and lead him to the scaffold.” Gaillard writes Maximilien for his part had ”devoted mortal hatred” to Charlotte ”since the trip she had made to Arras to collect evidence of the massacres carried out by Joseph Lebon.” Source: La Révolution, la Terreur, le Directoire 1791-1799: d’après les mémoires de Gaillard (1908) page 263-266.

Version given by Charlotte in 1834 — in the fall of 1793, Augustin and Jean François Ricord travel to the army of Italy to serve as representatives on mission. For company, Augustin brings Charlotte while Ricord takes his wife Marguerite. After a while of traveling for town to town the group settles in Nice for a longer period of time. Augustin and Jean François inspects the armies while Charlotte and Marguerite make shirts for the soldiers during the day and go for horseback rides in the evenings. The rides do however cause ”several journals paid by the aristocracy” back in Paris to state the two women are acting like princesses, and Maximilien writes a letter to let his siblings know (I have unfortunately been able to find neither the journals nor the letter). Augustin therefore vetoes future horseback rides, and Charlotte promises to abstain from them. Shortly thereafter, when Jean-François and Augustin are away, Marguerite suggests going on yet another ride to Charlotte, who hesitantly agrees, sad to be disobeying her brother but somewhat assured by the fact Marguerite will have to take full responsibility for the ride since it was her idea. But when Augustin a few days later reproaches Charlotte for breaking the rule and Charlotte does call on Marguerite to testify, the latter lies and says it was Charlotte who came up with it and took her with her against her will. Charlotte gets so stupefied by this statement she is unable to retort it, but Augustin, chooses to believe it, much to his sister’s despair — ”My brother knew I was incapable of lying. Why then did he not want to believe me?” After this incident, Augustin stops speaking to Charlotte and starts keeping a certain coldness towards her, a coldness which grows day by day since Marguerite ”didn’t cease to speak ill of me to my brother and invent thousands of lies to make me lose his friendship.” Charlotte cries over Augustin’s behaviour when alone, but hides her pain from her brother and chooses not to ask him for an explanation for why he’s treating her like he is either, since he’s so burdened by work.

A bit later, Marguerite suggests to Charlotte they should go to Grasse together to see a friend of hers, something which Charlotte agrees to. But just after they’ve arrived, Marguerite comes forward with a letter that she says is from Augustin, and that he’s telling Charlotte to return to Paris as soon as possible. Charlotte, without reading the letter, obeys. But Marguerite had in fact forged the letter, wanting Charlotte out of the way so she can seduce her brother. She and her friend Madame Gesnel now go on to slander Charlotte even more to Augustin, telling him that the reason she had so abruptly left for Paris was because she didn’t care about him, and that Charlotte had caluminated the reputation of both him and Marguerite. So when Augustin in December 1783 comes back to Paris for a short stay, he is ”outraged” against his sister, refusing to even put his foot in the same house as her, lodging instead with his colleage Record. He leaves for the army without seeing his sister even once, but does make their break known to Maximilien, and although he never speaks to Charlotte about it, she can see that he too is unhappy with her (he does however never seem to get more involved in the conflict than this). When Augustin returns from the army for the second time, in the summer of 1794, he is still ”fleeing my [Charlotte’s] presence” and ”telling anyone who would listen that I am unworthy of him, that I conducted myself badly with him, that I no longer deserve his esteem.” The two never manage to make up before his death.

Charlotte writes the reason she never asked either brother for why they were treating her like they did was partly grounded in her ”pure conscience” and feeling that she should’t have to, and partly in the fact she saw them both overwhelmed with work and didn’t want to bother them with her problems. Charlotte does however claim it wasn’t until after thermidor she discovered what had actually caused her brothers’ change in attitude towards her. How exactly she did is unknown (did Madame Ricord herself come forward and tell her about her intrigues? 🤔). Source: Mémoires de Charlotte Robespierre sur ses deux frères (1835), p. 109-116, 125-126.

@henriette-robespierre here you see what you missed out on! Still regret dying young?