#Concordia Ex Machina

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sleep for ark!

Sometimes you don’t really mind how difficult it is for you to stay asleep. 

It’s routine for you, at this point, to wake up early in the day, either naturally or from a daymare. You’re just not good at sleeping for longer than what is essentially an overgrown nap. Usually you get up and do something before you’re tired enough to go back to bed, but this time, you wouldn’t dare even move-- you’d risk waking up your matesprit asleep in your arms. 

It’s rare to see her peacefully asleep like this at all. She’s a workaholic just like you, obviously apparent from how no place of hers really seems truly free of her work. Her bedroom, which should be somewhere to rest and relax and get away from it all, is actually closer to yet another workspace. At least half of the space is dedicated to a worktable and a wall full of tools, plans, this, that, all sorts of things, and the more extensive projects that you know will be some of his best work one day. 

You like the corkboard, though. It’s well-loved, covered in pictures. Maybe you should get something like that. 

Your mind continues to wander as you wait to drift back asleep, gaze flicking from stray glints of light on metal from between the boards on the window-- that’s kind of weird, but you haven’t bothered to ask, nor do you plan to-- to your beloved. She fits so well cuddled up to you, huh? Right between your horns. You don’t even have to worry about her scratching something on them. 

You recall him saying once that holding him was like trying to cuddle a microwave with all the metal. One of those jokes where the line between ‘joking for fun’ and ‘joking to cope’ gets a little too blurry. You disagree, though.

If anything, you’re more comfortable here with her held close than you could ever be alone.

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¥ for concordia ex machina<3

Looks: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 Personality: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 Attraction: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 Would they date them: yes | no

God he loves Shay so much. He's still not sure how he made a complete fool of himself upon meeting her and then somehow managed to charm her enough to net such a delightful person <3

Favorite thing about them: You make him choose? Mean to Ark? Hatink him making him rank his love's best traits??? I think it's probably how her sense of humor brightens his mood like 99% of the time though.

Least favorite thing about them: The only reason personality is a 9 is cuz I think Ark can tell that there's something Off sometimes, but it never comes up. It's Comply Cated.

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Hey ark! Have you had the chance to see Shay recently?

"Of course. I do my best to visit on my lunch breaks since it makes both of our nights just a little better. And since she can't actually come visit me at work, aha..."

"I do my best to find time for date nights too though. Those are just... A bit more scarce."

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happy fathers day ark :) i hope you and ur daughter had a good day!

"Hey! Late again, but thanks. We had a great day yesterday, yeah! Coco helped me make dinner and everything since I had Shay over for the morning. Said she wanted it to be 'extra perfect.'"

"Y'know, she's taken startlingly well to him. I was expecting her to be more apprehensive at have another parental figure around, but I guess since most kids don't have parents like she does, having another gives her double the bragging points... or something."

"I'm definitely not complaining though. Seeing them all getting along is both a relief and just delightful."

"Anyways. We spent the rest of the evening watching movies-- it's been ages since I've been around for long enough to have a real movie night with Coco, come to think of it-- but she almost picked a horror movie since she knows they're my favorite. Ended up chickening out."

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ive decided that im only gonna attack fantrollers on af if it’s ship art

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born to think about my ships playing death pool forced to go to stupid cocktail party

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YOU JUST HAD ART OF MINE THAT FAR BACK AT THE READY?

/tagged/concordia ex machina 😎

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1, 2, 6, 8, 12, and 22!

im doing urs first. just for fun

my god holy moly this got so long readmore time

1. Show your most recent wip

pspspspps [waves the prospect of ship art in front of you] if you do artfight i'll draw concordia ex machina next

2. 5 favourites of your own work?

FIVE? i don't draw that much!!! hold on i'll go browse

In no particular order! Veylin's bust painting is my fav ive done of any of those, i'm still rlly proud of nohope and planhz's sprites, i reaaaaaally love how i did the color and overlays on that abby headshot, and the dogy is an artfight attack from last year that is everything i love about my older lineless art style!!!

6. Which artists inspire you right now?

Alright buckle up folks this is a longer one

So I'm gonna answer this in two parts basically. The first part is artists that inspired me to start drawing what I like, especially fantrolls-- so a lot of my friends really!! Wanting to be in this community is what made me start actually doing art as something I was passionate about!!!!! The second part is actually twitter artists that inspired me to actually renovate my art style, try new things, and actually grow as an artist in ways that I really just never did here before.

I know I'm gonna forget a lot of people but the ones that come to mind right away for people who had an Impact on me back in the day are !!U!! gabriel 8bit-mau5, newt indig0trolls, my friend max who's no longer in the community, my friend lumiet who doesn't even do fantrolls but is really cool, and god a lot of old blogs whos muns are just gone now..................... wistful sigh :(

BUUUUUT as for artists who made me want to actually grow again in my. Wait hold on

[sets out a sign that says CRINGE WARNING -- I LIKED DSMP IN LATE 2020-EARLY TO MID 2021]

Okay now that that's out of the way! Some of the artists who made me actually want to learn and change and GROW again are giraffeleggos, mielzy_png, and WolfyTheWitch on twt :3 Mielzy especially is an art streamer who has a huge focus on being introspective and taking criticism and wanting to grow and always be improving in a direction they want. Hella cool to see someone be like, never satisfied in a "i love art and drawing so i want to grow and do it as well as i can as a respect for the craft" type of way. I don't think any of these guys except for Wolfy are actually into dsmp anymore but when I got into their content they were all dsmp fanartists so.

Okay this is really long actually so I'll quit there. Wait no actually here's a list of a handful of folks whose art inspires me to keep learning nowadays (also mostly all my friends)-- nero ramgodd, roe roetrolls, dami ask-the-troll-boys, greg lordtonic, and an extra special shoutout to chase sasster for making me want to write again. I just wanna do the cool art stuff like my really awesome friends so bad yall

8. What do you like most about your own work?

Hrmmmmmmmmmmm okay this one is tough bc both I wanna say "nothing bc I have a lot of strengths" and "nothing bc there's always room for me to grow and improve so even my best strengths aren't as good as they could and will eventually be"

But like. I really like how I paint actually

12. Show your favourite drawing from this year

FROM THIS YEAR.... ok let's comb thru my art tag

Oh wait easy simple. The whole fuckin aliquid ex nihilo comic. That took me so goddamn long but it was a labor of love and I desperately want to do more 1-page song comics like that but unfortunately they take me like 2 weeks if I do full lineart and that shit sucks

There are a lot of things I want to redo on it that are also things I redid in the process of making this comic but as is the nature of being so used to drawing sprites I forget how to draw people in actual poses and also interacting with things. I still think overall just because also of how funky I got with the coloring, framing, the fact that this is the first comic ive ever planned and fully completed ever, etc. that this one's my fav thing I've drawn in 2022 thus far

22. When is your prime time to work on your art?

Nighttime and also whenever I'm medicated LMAO I can NEVER focus on drawing if I'm off my meds idk how I did it before

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three ships at the front of your brain lets go. order them from fluffiest, to most likely to rip apart an enemy together

well 3 ships. they are ordered by when i thought of them

concordia ex machina

ad quod damnum

hostis negotii

theyre all ark's ships. i wonder why

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mun q's 13, 14, 19

13. Who are five of your favorite characters? (In the rp community or otherwise)

I'm gonna answer this one as many times as I get sent them because I have literally countless faves.

Shay my beloved @8bit-mau5

Veylin my darling dearest @roetrolls

Thanat my favoritest grampa @sasster

Kiseku my little scrunkly @ask-the-troll-boys

Lekthi my. Pathetic little man? @quiescent-trolls

14. What are five of your favorite ships? (In the rp community or otherwise)

This was actually very challenging just bc I forget all the ships that exist that aren't mine so easily. So a handful are mine but if i spent longer on this than I already have I'd be able to come up with a few more

Concordia Ex Machina <33333 Ark and Shay are so tender I die

And of course Ad Quod Damnum is up there too. I love both of Ark's girlboyfriends literally so much

Mors Cara is also so special to me. Tender old men

I'm a big fucked up fan as well :amlookingaway:

Obviously Flashback <3 I think that whole arc is what really pulled me back into the FTC to be honest-- having a big and very engaging plot to watch unfold was SO fun even as an outside observer of it all.

19. Have you received anon hate? If so, how do you deal with it?

Nope! I have never done anything wrong in my entire life ^__^ /s

mun questions

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GF: ark, be honest

GF: would you still love me if i were a worm

GF: would you poke holes in the jar of a lid for me. would you care for me

SH: yeah why

SH: id get you a nice terrarium

SH: n make sure you have plenty of plant matter to eat

SH: worm stuff

SH: you know how in grubtube videos they like

SH: put ice on top so it melts and makes the soil nice n moist and cool

SH: id do that

SH: you know

SH: worm stuff

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oh that seems fun!!! i hope u have a lovely day tmr ark :]

"Alright, I'm a little late on this one. But in my defense, I had a very busy day."

"Everything went according to plan. I had a couple meetings in the evening and some other things to tie up, but by the time lunch rolled around I was perfectly free to pick up food for me and Shay and just not go back to the office."

"The rest of the night... Well."

"I don't think I need to go into detail."

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hi ark i was wondering how your day is going!!!

"Surprisingly well, actually! Minimal interruptions and I just finished up final drafts for two different projects. Very productive! And very satisfying to finally finish off two big things in one night too."

"I can probably get away with only working a half day tomorrow, so I might just... Get lunch for me and Shay and see if she'll just let me loiter around for the rest of the day."

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fuck Yeah ark Get It,

"Get out of my private life, fuck."

You're just shy. You appreciate the sentiment, just don't show it well; and honestly, you're still not sure if he's actually into you or just taking a good opportunity. You're anxious like that.

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QUICK AK name 3 of ur fave things about ur matesprit- presuming yall sealed the deal already

"Uhhhh--! Top three? Just three? I can't do that quickly, there's so many things about her I adore."

"Fuck."

"But I do love how she's so cuddly when she's comfortable. The rare times we get to just relax at home, there's a high chance he'll fall asleep in my arms, all wrapped up in blankets. It's adorable."

"And how sometimes he just says the most nonsensical shit at complete random and I can't help but laugh. Catches me by surprise every single time and the resulting 'what???' moment just makes me giggle."

"Aaaand... Top three of three... I love love love when she gets excited about something she's passionate about. Like, I'm two inches away from taking home some of the cool half-functional alien artifacts in the Fleet lab I have to visit twice a week solely because I think she'd have the time of her life taking them apart... And the things I already have I don't want tampered with."

"And, you know, everything else. But you said I could only pick three."