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What.

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A moth checking you out

They're quite curious of you.

Oh gosh...

There's more of them.

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everyone say happy birthday to the birthday girl! it's his quinceañera today!!! (he is not Mexican and also he is 64 years old)

gonna spoil some basic info shit under the cut cause i get cripplingly autistic over this gd cooling gel mattress creature and im a sucker for headcanons... might post more later when my brain isn't leaking out of my ears /aheemheem

mr grumpy was born the youngest of a litter of 7 on march 5th, 1960 at 1:33AM. the rest of his siblings are cringe OCs minus his eldest sibling, mr grumble, who was born March 4th, 1960 at 10:17PM/22:17.

he was born in a rural territory in north conway, new hampshire to a french canadian father and a chilean mother.

he's technically trilingual but finds his chilean and french canadian sides "humiliating", as his first language is english.

he is autistic and wasn't properly diagnosed until he had already earned geezer status (this is a hill i am willing to die on, there's canon "proof", at least in the 2008 show)

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This, or he gets wounded in the most graphic and visually upsetting way possible, and he just shrugs and tells the camera in a silly manner, "I guess that's just how the cookie crumbles!" and canned laughter follows soon after

mr men show thats rereleased with a tv-mature rating. its utterly the exact same except mr. bump's new catchphrase is "fucking shit" every time he gets mortally wounded.

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AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LET'S FUCKING GO GAMERS!!!!!!1!1!1!1!1!1!!1

I have not much to say but I am unironically so fucking proud of this crossover, and I'm glad that @fascinatedhelix was willing to plunge into this and turn our little headcanons into their own fully fleshed world!!!

(There are others that have helped out in this project, I'll tag them too once they give me permission)

Decided to make a little introductory post to a very particular crossover AU (for ABZU, The Pathless, Journey (2012), and Sky: Children of the Light, to be specific) that @abhorrenttheorizer and I have made art for over on Discord. As there's a lot of ground to cover, I'm putting it under a read-more for courtesy.

Introduction

Welcome to Earth! Specifically, thousands if not millions of years in the future, after at least one cataclysm has claimed the lives of every human on the planet. But not to worry!

A little before the end of humanity arrived, two bird-like gods arrived on Earth, settling in the eastern and western hemispheres to establish their own followings.

Off to the East, we have the goddess affectionately nicknamed "Megabird," who landed on a mountain and began constructing her own unique ecosystem centering on light and flight, creating the Rythulians as her worshippers. (AT's more in charge of this portion; he's got a lot of interesting ideas about the "slugbirbs" as we like to call them.)

To the West, we have the goddess known to her own people as Mother Eagle. First, she got to work producing five eggs, which would hatch into their own unique gods and goddesses: Cernos, Sauro, Nimue, Basilla, and Kumo.

Basilla, the shark goddess*, was the one who crafted the people who would become their worshippers, taking remnants of humans and mixing them with seals and sharks to create the Basillan species (my specialty, based on my personal headcanons for the TGS games).

*(based on the Great White from ABZU being referenced in The Pathless and the mysterious stele that got edited out in an update)

The original Basillan kinda looked like this (these being the "humanoid" forms of the Tall Ones, Basilla included).

However, they wouldn't stay united for very long. Differences in religious views and lifestyle got heated, and eventually the mortals banished Basilla and her followers from their island home, with the Basillan cult setting up shop in an underwater territory a ways away from the Eagle's Island. Over time, the more land-focused followers of the Mother Eagle and the remaining four Tall Ones became the Vokara subspecies, and the more aquatic followers of Basilla alone became the Nanshen.

Here's a really old drawing of the differences!

(Did I forget to mention this AU has been in the works since 2021? Man my art's changed since then.)

Anyways, average Nanshen guy on the left, average Vokara guy on the right.

The Nanshen are more suited towards an aquatic lifestyle, with wider gill slits, darker skin due to heightened sun exposure, shorter and more compact body type, a flatter nose more suited for passing water to the gills, and longer barbels on the ears to allow for greater olfactory sensation underwater. (They're based off of the murals in the ABZU game, as well as probably unintentional environmental storytelling with how unnavigable the map would be without a lot of diving underwater; it only made sense to me that the lost civilization was probably amphibious.)

The Vokara have lived mostly in the mountains for generations, so they're more suited for terrestrial life, with a broader chest, smaller gills to focus on breathing air, lighter skin due to weather conditions providing less light, a more opened up nasal passage for ease of breathing, and smaller barbels due to less of a need for underwater sensory measures. (They're more based on the Hunter's appearance in The Pathless, given that she is way too gray to be a human. I know it's probably just to make her aracial like what they did in Homestuck, but I'm running with it damn it!)

(Anyways, here's a nicer comparison drawing from a little while later. Behold the specbio lesbian wedding!)

Fun Bits I Forgot to Organize

Tusks

Adult Basillans grow tusks like boars (based on the Godslayer's ascended model having these wicked tusks among his rows of fangs). They only really develop towards the latter portion of adolescence, around one's late teens to early 20s, and are regarded for the males as the sign that one has become a proper adult.

Of course, the downside is that these things are continuously growing and have to be trimmed every now and then in order to avoid poking oneself in the eye or scratching people with it.

The Vokara are especially finicky about covering their mouths for... not quite modesty reasons so much as baring one's scary teeth at another person is considered rude and aggressive. The Nanshen, living far more amphibiously and thus not really comfortable with more cloth than is comfortable underwater, don't care about that as much, though if you grimace at somebody they might kick you in the shins.

Barbels

A general rule I keep when designing out-of-water clothing for these guys is to cover the ears. In universe, it's because their barbels are very sensitive to differences in temperature and UV radiation out of the water, so it's deeply uncomfortable to have them uncovered for these guys. Out of universe, it's because The Hunter did something like this in her game, in addition to the ABZU people also covering most of their heads but not their chests for some reason (so probably not quite a modesty thing), and I decided to make up a silly specbio reason for it.

For some examples, here's a spread of different Nanshen city states and their different fashions:

History

The games are still canon here! But there's a little more to it.

The Nanshen had always been travellers, more keen to explore and establish their own territories far and wide. But after those dwelling in the Crown began messing with the Abzu, the life energy of the ocean itself, the ecosystem around the capitol collapsed and the population fled the area. Their former empire collapsed, and in its place, a number of different city states off the shore of their various old territories were established in its place.

Some time before, or maybe simultaneous to that, the Vokara had their own little collapse in the form of the Godslayer's rebellion. Many had read the writing on the wall and fled the Isle before he successfully slayed the gods and took control of the whole Island, leading to a number of villages and kingdoms being formed on the nearby continent, which would eventually spawn the Last Hunter, who would defeat the Godslayer.

There's more to it, but I think I'm approaching Tumblr's picture limit, and I've got more, sillier pictures from the AU. I'll add those later!

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Entire image is spoiled, a while back I wanted to make some more doodles similar to this one but I wasn't pleased with it and it lacked the same weight and balance that my first one had so it stayed in my Procreate septic tank till 2024 to be posted.

Also I got incredibly silly so uhhh consider this image as a warning:

Transcript:

"big ass sasaj lol xd"

"(GETS REALLY FLUFFY WHEN ANGRY)"

"(YouTube Kids)"

"2 BODY PILLOWS"

"I WEAR THESE BETTER THAN YOU, BITCH."

"(YES, THIS HURTS HIM)"

"HEARD YOU BOZOS HAD FREE COFFEE."

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@fascinatedhelix @milliesmusings314

Urgently important image

me: oh my sauce is missing sometjing. help

garlic:

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Oh absolutely @milliesmusings314 :- 0

The arts and science/math are so intertwined. It's a little off topic but it's possible to explain geometrical structures by use of knitting/crocheting in specific ways. Definitely something interesting for projects!!

So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.

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seals make all sorts of incredible noises, obsessed with this guy

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spoiled for being too silly

regardless of the background, if he's a homestuck character AND he's a man, he's a femboy.

which includes lord english (butch femboy)

i have seen way too much woobie seme uke 4chords 2011 - 2014 degeneracy to ever think otherwise again.

hey besties. i have. a question. an inquiry.

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(Preemptive /lh /nmnsnpa /j /pos)

Speaking as an American that consumes a shit ton of British media, while I do understand the implications that "skid" probably isn't the most tasteful nickname for sky kids, there are two things to consider:

1. Sky kids are chaotic little shits in general. No species that:

Willingly and enthusiastically sets themselves on fire

Runs around Hell barefoot dressed in their Sunday best with friends

Talks to dead people, casually, as if it's an everyday occurrence (it is to them)

Seeks incomprehensible divine entities for the sole purpose of fashion deals

Gets healthier from consuming the souls of other dead children

should be called anything with more dignity than "little shit".

2. When I think of the term "skid mark" I tend to think less about fecal staining and more about this

Which is fairly accurate to standard skykid behavior. Reckless. With abandon. Nothing to lose because you just respawn anyway. Probably evidence of dozens of casualties if they actually occupied our world.

My point is that sometimes what is seen as an ill-deserved name can be occasionally right on the money.

Sky kids as a whole commit too many crimes against the natural order to earn a name with any other meaning. They are, purely and at their core, little shit stains left on the fabric of reality.

I love the Sky cotl community, but there is one thing that really grinds my gears about it, and that is it's nickname for Sky Kids: Skids.

Like you know what I'm taking about, and I know what you're talking about, but you know who doesn't know? The general British public.

In the UK a "skid" is slang for a poo stain. "A skid mark", even. Yeah... Saying "Look at my little Skid!" doesn't seem soo cool now, does it? I just... I can't get on board with this one moths. I really can't. It's awful. You will NEVER catch me calling my moth a "Skid", I literally cannot do it. Embarrassing.

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ive been considering maybe making an Alt account/extra account for other stuff but considering 98% of my tumblr activity is just blocking people? and i have accumulated hundreds of those at this point? idek man

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A commission for @uniquevocashark! Loved the Victorian detailwork I got to do with this one.

Commissions are open! Also, here's my Ko-fi ☕.

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Rythulian Headcanons #1

Though Rythulians are born with adult bodies, they’re as clueless as any newborn as to how the world works. So, before the war, older/more experienced Rythulians would head out to known “glyph falls” in order educate any newcomers on at least the basics of their society. It helped that newcomers instinctively imprinted on the first person they saw and would followed them around like ducklings.

Typically, the new Rythulians would stay with their mentor for at least a few months to maybe a couple of years. It was highly unusual for mentors and pupils to stay together any longer than that as mentors needed more room to educate the next batch of clueless newcomers.

Usually, a mentor would wind up with 1-3 pupils at a time but as with the poor guy above sometimes they’d get more than they bargain for lol

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Been a while since I TGSquid-ded

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Can I please see some Mr. Bump mirabils?

Ask and ye shall receive (sorry for the extremely late response again kjefcniejvfn)

He as well as the other round Bois are some of my favorites to draw because they are so hamsterlike this way

Spoilers for a very old/outdated mirabump design of mine + dumb sketch

(not overly different but the nose is too close to the tip of his snout, plus these things don't have whiskers on their upper lip like mammals do, their whiskers are on their brows, chins, and their cheeks. Plus he has a tail here, can't let him have that privilege)

And also.... this (bump is like 43 as of 2023 btw, at least in my hcs)