#I hyperfixated on this project so hard

[unexpectedstormy]

@akchimp75 you sent me an ask a week or two ago asking about my steampunk story and I saved it until I had plenty of time to write about it and tonight I wrote up this whole big post but when I saved it to my drafts, tumblr ate it instead. So here is the rewritten version of it. (Ehehehe I hope you're ready cuz it's infodump time.)

My eldritch steampunk story is called Tenth Generation. Once upon a time on a recently terraformed planet called Arona, there lived in a steampunk civilization, a diverse people of many different species (humans, pixies, cyborgs, anthropomorphs, human-animal chimeras, etc.) and many different genders and sexualities.

There are three main story arcs to the series (of books or graphic novels):

Arona fighting for independence from the organization responsible for terraforming, colonizing, and protecting the planet and exploiting it's resources to supply a distant space war

The main characters seeking the jobs they want

Everyone trying to solve the mystery of why there's a bunch of eldritch beasts running around the dark corners of the city when no eldritch beasts were brought over on the colony ships...

The main characters are:

Tempest Shields: a 15 year old roguish genderfluid (defaults to girl) who is nonverbal autistic. She dreams of becoming an airship engineer or pilot but it isn't feasible at this time due to her disability.

Timothy Shields: an 18 year old human-canary chimera who has a burning interest in religion and the occult. His desire is to become a cleric or an exorcist. He and Tempest grew up together on the streets and in an orphanage and adopted each other as siblings.

Timber of the Skies: (age undecided) Tempest's biological sister. They were separated from each other when they were young and have led very different lives. Timber is an airship pirate and her goal is to become the Pirate Queen of the Skies. Timber isn't in the story in the beginning but comes in later; one of the main story arcs is about Timber and Tempest restoring their sibling relationship. She doesn't have autism but she does have some kind of behavioural issue.

Some side characters include:

Detective Rory Poofypants (actual last name undecided). A fully transitioned transmasc detective in the city of Stormcairn. He is investigating the strange eldritch beast sightings and the bizarre stories of hysterical people who claim that they were temporarily transported to a dark realm, the home of the monsters. Rory also ends up frequently wrangling Tempest back to their home or tutor as they get into mischief around the city.

Kestrel Wothen: the young adult enby who is fabulous and extra and loves all things shiny and colorful. They spend all their money to buy an old mansion which (once the gang puts the resident ghosts to rest) serves as the home base of the crew as they investigate the eldritch mystery of the city.

Zakiyah Lee: a rich and beautiful aroace young adult. She's as sharp as a whip and fascinated by all things dark. By day, she's a student at the university, and by night, an amateur detective. Slowed only by her dysautonomia, she eventually leads the revolution against the Exploration World and (spoilers) eventually becomes Queen of the World. (Her cat's name is Bastet and there's more to her than it seems.)

Unnamed Pixie girl (possibly not a girl) age 14. She is a street urchin and becomes good friends with Tempest and helps her get into mischief. She has alopecia and sometimes chooses to wear a headscarf and other times doesn't wear any sort of head covering. Her wings get stolen by an eldritch beast, but Timothy rescues the wings and returns them to her.

Tempest's unhinged tutor. She lost her last tutoring gig because her pupil got eaten by a tiger (no fault of her own). She is middle aged and actually has red hair but the picrew didn't have a red hair option. Is mainly concerned (at least initially) with helping Tempest learn to communicate better through a combo of sign language and AAC.

And last but not least, Dominic. He's a 12 or 13 year old boy and he's got magic hands. He's a child prodigy and the only known wielder of backwards magic AKA eldritch magic. A rich benefactor (not in this list) sponsors him and supplies his every need on the condition that he continues to practice and grow his magical ability so that it can be monetized. Dominic becomes good friends with Tempest and Pixie girl. His older brother is Kestrel's boyfriend.

[fishyartist]

Ui idea tests, thrown together bc im eepy. Was planning on doing more but I spent all my days energy on the second one oops

[jacketlovingfox]

Some Madness Combat дерьмо because it's my current hyperfixation as we speak ☕

[mctreeleth]

It has been a lovely evening of building a complicated spreadsheet to help score a silly little game I set up for my co-workers. This is what being 35 is all about.

[oscill4te]

I havent watched a single episode of CT this month, to my shaky knowledge... what a shame...

[suddenrundown]

considering faking my death to get out of this project. would still like to get a passing grade for it.

[karamazovanon]

Since your story about talking to strangers about dosto at a party while drunk inspired me, I want to say that this exact same thing happened to me,i ended up basically begging a guy to read one of his books (wont say which one). I spent like the entire party drunkly talking with him and honestly i hope hes doing well (i could message him right now but I'm too embarrassed to do that since i also acted very stupid at the party)

me: so basically his alcoholic withdrawal makes him hallucinate the devil as a manifestation of his self loathing due to his internal struggle about his lack of faith, and how he cannot believe in a loving god despite how desperately he wants to, in large part due to the suffering of children, or the problem of evil

girl who just wanted to say she liked my costume:

[achairwithapandaonit]

Emailed tutor like pls too much depression. Cannot do assignment. Send help. And I think im very brave for that

[blitzkennedyrieg]

who was gonna tell me that the stuipid " i think we're gonna have to kill this guy steven" thing's full comic had hitler in it . also i'm gonna draw it with dr heiter and dook larue

[howdyhey-neighbour]

I Love your crocheted Wally!!! ❤How did you do the hair?

thank you so much!! ive been asked this a couple times, so I've been meaning to make a post about it- this ask is a perfect opportunity for that

so for Wally's hair, it's 3 different pieces-

the flat rectangle piece

the cylinder piece

the swirl

the flat rectangle piece is the base, essentially. I crocheted a rectangle that I measured out to wrap around the back of his head, and go from near the top of his head down to near where his head connects to his body. once completed, I sewed this piece on

note that this piece won't actually cover the top of his head, it just wraps around the back. he should look like he's balding, for lack of a better descriptor

the cylinder piece starts off as just working single in the round and increasing till it's the size you want. from there, crochet one round in the back loops only, and then continue on with normal single crochets and no increases to make the tube/cylinder shape and make it long enough to reach from the back of his head to his forehead. stuff as you go- I stuffed mine with more towards the front and less towards the back so that I could sew the end shut and have it be almost flat. then that piece is also sewed on

you can honestly stop at this point if you want, but if you want the swirl-

I chained till I got to a good length, then I single crocheted in each chain for one row. I then pinned that one row in a swirl shape to the front of the cylinder, and sewed it into place from there. this step isnt necessary, but does add a nice touch and make the swirly pompadour come across much more clearly than just the flat cylinder

sorry I dont have counts for this or anything- I didnt write down any of my stitch or row counts when I made him, and ive done several projects since completing him so any counts that might've been in my head are gone by now. I hope this was still helpful!

[snixx]

my sister will NOT let me read my puckurt in peace

[klettari]

this is absolutely incredible please watch it

;_;

[candiedblueberries]

guys i am literally abt to be so annoying

[roboromantic]

ough I really oughta just pay for an Actual blender course instead of trying to teach myself via youtube tutorials and messing around bc holy adhd, batman

[k4sey1st]

If I were to just drop a  post, that’s been in the works for more that two years analyzing not only Ben 10 but Alien Force, UAF, Omniverse, and  Reboot!Ben 10 also - that is just a jumble of opinions and rambles, would ya’ll (ben 10 fandom) be down to read that?

[nycorix]

Not me weeping actual tears over the obiwan finale I'm