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This is my brother’s DCA AU, Honk I’m on a StarRail!

My brother isn’t into DCA or fan fiction in general, but I talk to him about the DCA a lot. I told him about the unique-ness of this fandom, that there seems to be an AU for everything. He listed off a bunch of things he thought would be odd or specific and I was able to name a bunch of stories based off of the prompts he came up with. Then, he hit me with:

“Is there a Thomas the Tank engine AU?”

I thought about it for a while, and I hadn’t seen one.

So he made this image in like 2 minutes:

We joked about it some and I told him he needed to give his AU a name. We went back and forth a bit because the DCA AU names always seemed so official to me, so it was important that he got his AU name right. He threw out "Honk I’m on a StarRail" and I lost it. I think I laughed for a solid 2 minutes. He argued that it was stupid but I thought it was perfect!

I thought the idea had ended there but once I went to bed he started working on official image for his AU. He sent this 3 hours later:

The rest of this post is the process and general things that happened while he was working on this image.

He used font that resembles the Honkai StarRail font, then edited it to be closer to the official thing:

For reference this is the logo:

He made his own Eclipse OC!

Then he started on Sun and Moon. He made a simple train model to get the proportions and angle right:

The whole time he is sending me updates and I'm filling him in on lore and what he should add.

Credit for image I sent him: https://www.tumblr.com/piowasthere/760517135721168896/wtf-is-suns-eye-color

He even came up with the Y/N's nickname when I was having a bad day.

We of course had to add moons hat

We almost forgot about the ribbons, but we got there in the end. They were hard to place because...train.

Overall, 10/10 experience! I'm glad I get to show other people his hard work.

If anyone wants to ask questions I'll open my ask box. He is also willing to talk about the process, but that all will still go through this account, so ask away!

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people will hear you talk about struggling with mental illness and say “you can do anything if you just put your mind to it”. brother what part of the body does the mental illness happen in. what do you think is the problem

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thinking about the time they sent me a seven year old autistic patient to investigate if he was suffering abuse because in every psychological test he kept drawing awful monsters

and I start the consultation already miserable as fuck and I give the kid some pen and paper so I can maybe communicate and see what's on his mind

and then I go WAIT A GODDAMN SECOND I KNOW THOSE MONSTERS

turns out the kid just had a special interest in Five Nights at Freddy's

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We all know Furbies lay Orbeez eggs that Worms on a String hatch from, but did you know that when a Furby escapes captivity it will revert back to its feral long worm form in less than a year

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What, the forest-dwelling entities with imperfect human mimicry who insinuate themselves into groups of hikers? Yeah, we had one of those. Clocked it immediately, of course. Honestly it kind of fell in that so-inept-it's-kind-of-charming range. We just played along until it'd had it's fill of marshmallows and shambled back into the treeline. We might have been violating some kind of killjoy wildlife contact best practices but what the hell, can't plan around every little thing. Why, what happened to you guys

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so bc i am a Gross Dude my friends i and sometimes rate our burps and my coworker (who is a teen girl) burped in front of me once and i instinctively rated it

so now every time she burps she looks to me hopefully for a rating and bc she has delicate little baby burps i now have to create an entirely new Burp Rating System unique to her bc i rate anything below a 5 and she looks at me like this

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King

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straight men have beauty standards for men that are completely different than the beauty standards women and gay men have for men and then they get mad when they conform to the beauty standards other podcast bros set for them and women still don’t find them attractive

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finally finished this little man after 2 years of art block lol! I lov u leaf dragon my childe

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