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Greetings FGS! Considering your background and interests, I have a few questions for you. What sort of music do you like, if any? What is your favorite mineral? Have you ever gotten to see your namesake?

P.S your name is awesome, green flashes are super cool

FGS: Hello! I'm happy to answer your questions.

FGS: Firstly, I'll tell you about my favorite mineral. It may seem like a boring answer, but I am rather fond of quartz! My facility is located in a desert basin south of the Equatorial Highlands, and there is an abundance of it in the surrounding area. Quartz is a very versatile material, and the former citizens of my city utilized it in creative ways for both industry and the arts. I find the myriad of uses for such a common material very inspiring.

FGS: Which brings me to your next question! When my city was still populated, I enjoyed studying the arts and culture of my citizens, including the evolution of musical trends.

FGS: One particular musical instrument became quite popular among my citizens. It was comprised of concentric bowls made of quartz, which produced tones when moving one's fingers across the bowls' edges. The instrument, which was unique to my city, was viewed both as a symbol of the city's artistic scene as well as its prowess in the field of manufacturing. I'll attach a sample of the music it produced; the sound is quite unique.

(Slight volume warning for the video, some of the tones are rather high-pitched)

[Video description: A person playing a glass armonica, an instrument made of concentric glass bowls mounted on a rotating spindle. It produces high-pitched, ethereal tones.]

FGS: And finally, I have indeed seen the phenomenon I was named after! I have a clear view of the horizon to my west, so I can easily watch the sunset. The Green Flash requires very specific atmospheric conditions in order to occur, so it is quite rare as a result. However, being an iterator means I have certainly been around long enough to catch sight of it many times! Each time I have witnessed it is just as beautiful as the first.

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god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything

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The Steven Universe fandom might be “cringe” and “bad” but imagine a fandom so bad that a bunch of fandom members had ran a scheme to say “if you pay us money, your blorbo will know you’re valid” and the fandom permanently split over a 95 paragraph callout post of these people.

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(the pages are quite long and tumblr likes to compress the quality- i would recommend and encourage reading on comicfury to avoid this!)

ewww phrases your goop is out. eugch

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My thoughts about why the ancients are so big in the window is they're on a walkway somewhere above the window that's making the shadows appear bigger. The shadows have that fuzzy look of a shadow being cast from far away.

Though I think it can also be how Spinning Top viewed the other ancients. A figurative and literal interpretation can both exist at the same time.

Made these immediately after finishing the first ending, but I wanted to wait until more people caught up to that point before I posted it. Haha

It's a good thing I waited - at this point there's been a lot of people saying the shadows in the shop aren't the best indicator of height. Even within the region itself, giant ancients (or tiny everything else) doesn't make sense - the shelves and masks in the shop, the path to the void baths, etc. A friend (and others like skybristle) suggested that the scaling could be so off because Spinning Top (the echo's) memories of being a child skewed the perspective somehow.

I wasn't sure, because AU doesn't change for Watcher after Spinning Top has passed on, but given the rot can't spread to Ancient Urban (or Terrace or Daemon), it's possible that place really is not as physical as it seems? In any case, that would keep things open-ended without taking away from the powerful impression of the scene.

The scale was extremely cool, but if taken literally, I feel like it kind of detracts from the grandiosity of other regions. The wall to these ancients would be a rock climbing route... And the average region a stroll around the block... (at least if we take the space we see slugcat traverse literally, anyways)... waist-height subterranean cargo trains, haha, um...

Still - iterator puppets being literal hand (or finger. they're so small) puppets is a pretty novel concept. This size ancient could crush a scavenger or a lizard underfoot without really thinking about it. Vultures are turkey-sized and Rain Deer are spindly rabbits. Sky Whales aren't even as long as those ancients are tall.

Here's a height estimate to make sense within the shop:

Watcher (and Spinning Top) sized up to match the toy art:

This is how big I've been headcanoning them. (To be clear, I'm not pushing this size as "correct" - it's just what I've been working with.) They can actually fit in the subterranean train carts this way:

I think this is the tallest they can get to reasonably fit through the void bath path. (With my headcanon size as well)

Echo comparisons for fun. Not all echoes are the same size, but Spinning Top is smaller than the rest. (And also none of these make sense with any the proposed sizes if they're taken literally, lol)

And a few more I snagged while I was working on second ending stuff (Stormy Coast, Torrential Railways, Shattered Terrace):

Yeah you get the point.

I was really excited and emotional when I first realized what was going on, standing under the light of that manhole. I had joked about Watcher going back in time to meet ancients, back when I was guessing what the campaign could be about, but I didn't think it would actually happen. And I really like a lot of the new stuff for them, in terms of background pieces and mentions from Spinning Top.

Cool reveal - now I've got brain worms! I'm thinking about them more and more...

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First cat video ever? 1899, colorized & speed corrected.

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i feel compelled to come into your askbox and bother you. so im here now. hi. pokes you. repeatedly.

hiiii lol

have uhhhh. my new kenku character im working on. shes unnamed rn but shes a barbarian and very strong and big and gruff and has a body count

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I don't think that's how it's supposed to work

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I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

(save the images to zoom in on the pics)

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Sound on 🐱😊

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