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Traded paper for paper last night!

I got a free Vice Quadrant poster cause it was the display one so it was a little damaged

And I gave Lacey a painted paper boat!

She was happy I included “all of her children” (the video games) on the boat :D

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Steam Powered Giraffe Portland show was great! But boy am I tired now

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these guys in a relationship, call that poly and the equinox band

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Dreamt I was studying a textbook for finals (I can't escape it even in my sleep 😔) and one of the questions in the book was "explain how Turn Back the Clock and Go Spine Go are two parts of the same persona Rabbit has created" and it's too early for me to answer that question and decide if it's deep or dream nonsense

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Some final touch ups before the show, but Rabbit is ready to go!

See you tonight Phoenix, AZ!

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Before trip to Phoenix and after. Time to rest up for tomorrow's show.

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Rusty Timeline:3

saw others doing this and knew I also had to make one!!

this isn't just rusty it also has some of my walter worker characters!!

1920-Loki joins the walter manor as a walter worker

1935-Loki leaves the Walter manor to persue her own project Loki then begins work on her own personal robot

1940-Loki finishes work on her robot who she endearingly refers to as her son

1942-due to an extreme over exposure to blue matter from over the years Lokis health has begun to diminish significantly

1943-Lokis health has reached a significant low and she is unsure how much longer she has

1944-following the unfortunate passing of Loki, her helper Sigyn shuts the project down fearful of following the same fate as Loki. Rusty is deactivated and locked away inside of Lokis old lab

1960-Rusty is reactivated alone and confused in a now abandoned lab slowly making his way outside

1961-Rusty confused and unsure of whats been happening waits outside in a forest after wandering around for awhile

Rusty waits for someone to come back and look for him

2016-While waiting around another robot stumbles upon the now rusted robot who then teaches him how to sing and play the acoustic guitar

2017- the other robot leaves Rusty leaving him on his own again

2018-Rusty now wanders around playing old western music in exchange for a place to stay for the night

(Loki and rusty)

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I was today's days old when I noticed that spg album names are all based on the number of the album

Album One, The 2¢ Show, MK III, The Vice Quadrant, Quintessential, 1896, The Seventh

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Timeline for Sparky the robot!

She technically borrows lore from two other steampunk bands so shoutout to you Mechanisms and The Cog is Dead fans

1650 BCE- A pirate airship flies out of a red portal and crashes in Egypt. The pilot, a woman who is not from this time, nor was she from the dimension the ship sailed in from crawls out of the wreckage. Sunset Val was the captain and she went down with the ship, but she did not die. Not yet. She follows a red glow to a cave, past the blue and green crystals to a deeper chamber where she finally died.

1895 CE- a vampire scientist from space named Doctor Carmilla finds the bones that have been exposed to Red Matter for so long and, still in the cave, attempts to build a mechanical body around the skeleton and powered by the red matter energy in her bones, but didn’t have the technique figured out completely yet. The prototype’s clockwork heart was crafted well, and its mechanical lungs worked just as planned. But the power to its central processor was not strong enough, so while its chassis and skeleton could repair itself, it could barely think, and it took a long time to move

1897- tremors from giant clockwork elephants and a very big steam powered giraffe cause a cave in to the section of the cave the prototype resides in. Doctor Carmilla escapes but the automaton is trapped inside

1924 April 24th- while looking for a new matter type to experiment with, Peter Walter II finds the prototype left in the cave and brings it home to fix it up and repurpose her for a babysitter for his son, Mark Ray Walter, but avoids completely deleting her original programming through the use of a code switch. In one mode, M mode, she retains her original chaotic space pirate programming, and in the other, W, she retains her memories and opinions of people, but has the objective of taking care of the Walter children and manor and a more motherly personality

1935- While in M mode, Sparky almost kills someone. It is covered up and the family decides to keep her in W mode for a while, fitting her with a cover for it so it doesn’t accidentally get flipped

1941- knowing that Sparky doesn’t like being left behind in the manor while her siblings are fighting WW II, the Walters send Sparky to a local summer camp to be a councilor

1942- A version of Sparky from the future arrives because she didn’t want to miss Peter Walter IV’s fifth birthday. She stays for a bit longer and has some strange and tragic stories from space but doesn’t talk much about how she encountered those stories as she wants to avoid “spoilers”

1947- Future Sparky leaves and present Sparky comes back from the Summer camps and various other teaching/babysitting jobs

1983- Sparky is upgraded to the QWERTY operating system along with the other robots

1986- Peter Walter VI is born and Sparky, still partially blaming her future self for the death of Peter Walter IV becomes protective of the child and doesn’t tell him her space stories that she heard secondhand from one of the people who met her future self

1996- Peter Walter VI is taken out of school because of bullying and homeschooled with the help of Sparky, Annie, Wanda, and anyone else who has the time and knows a thing or two. Sparky’s educational protocols are updated with up to date academic content from 1-12th grade, and an algorithm for continuous self updating as standard curriculum for the state of California changes

2006- Peter Walter VI wants to find out who originally created Sparky and lets her go in M mode for the first time in a while to try and figure it out. The clues- mainly a programmer’s signature deep in her code and the stories her future self told lead to Doctor Carmilla and her band of mechanically enhanced space pirates

2010- Sparky finds the band in London and starts a plan to alternate between spending time with the Mechanisms and with the Walter family. Sometimes due to time travel she will stay with the Mechanisms for 2,000 years and then come back 2 years before she left but she does her best to figure it out

2023- Sparky arrives back at Walter Manor and catches up with the robots and people about everything she’s missed. The robots prank her by convincing her there was another robot that got built while she was gone named Ralph

2024- Sparky attends the May 31st show to support her siblings. She brings a lollipop and three hand made and painted paper boats

Sparky attends the Skeleton Hoedown show with a friendly paint eating robot, and does up her faceplate nice and spooky for the occasion

2025- Sparky befriends a Becile Industries cyborg scientist and a very fast green matter robot…

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Y’all are doing this wrong my fanbot’s voice claim is me*

*statement made for humor purposes only there is not actually a way to “do this” wrong and doing voice claims is completely valid

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based on a real conversation with my mother

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everyone look at this bit from the mk iii lyric book i think about it all the time

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How are your holidays going? Good? Good, so are mine yes yes, here are some sketches i made + my first attempt at drawing Hatchworth

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MY FANBOT IS COMPLETED!!!!!!!!

this is the dial!!! they can't actually perform with the band because the panel keeping their blue matter Clock just won't go back on no matter how hard the walter workers try to repair them. so, they've been assigned Rehearsal Metronome. that's ok, it doesn't seem to bother them much. if it does, they haven't said anything. though nobody's asked, either.

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Oh, Mr. Hamilton, what have you done? Look at this terrible trend You've begun! You make me sick, you contemptible dog, I blame you for the death of the cog!

The death of the cog (The Cog Is Dead)

This art was drawn based on the song.

In general, yes, I love this old song, even though it's about 10 years old on YouTube. It's so bright and emotional, as if the song was taken from a Steampunk musical! And I just love it. Therefore, under the impression of the song, I decided to draw this art. Of course, this is not a Steampunk style, because I don't know how to play this style, and the most that comes from it are dolls with clocks on their faces, but in my defense I can say that this is my personal interpretation of the plot in the song. An old puppeteer accordion player sits in the park with dolls and sings about the good old days with mechanical clocks, which cannot be returned now with the advent of digital ones.

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STEAM POWERED GIRAFFE :: the steam rises from you and me.

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look I’m sure your girlfriend’s great but mine. Well. I never thought I’d friend the stars, oh, no. But thanks to her now I’ll always know the speed of light