#cosmic inbox

[cosmicpoutine]

There's also open dyslexic, if that helps?

im not opening up to you bro, we just met

[heycallmeplease]

Was your star next to mine ?

@skyrigel

[cosmicpoutine]

as a comic artist who's working on background as we speak, i think i speak for us all when i say THANK YOU FOR NOTICING. comic artists work hard even on the smallest of panels and on details that most people probably don't even notice

i love comic books bc like there are so many panels that like aren't even a focus of the story and people just look over them but are SO good artistically

it just makes me go like WOW this is SO good and it's just a small part of this 24 page story

[critter-creature-or-beast]

Submitted for classification by @hiraeth-daydreams

"NEW RAT SPECIES JUST DROPPED‼️‼️"

[sainteclectic]

Whywould you draw whole and Soul being together that's unpleasant

why are you asking this to the soulwhole guy. do you get mad when you go to the ice cream parlor and they sell ice cream

[ivystoryweaver]

10 & 47 for the asks babes!! 🖤🖤

Hey thank you so much for the ask!

47. what story are you most proud of?

Hmmmmmmm that is tough. I thought about this a lot and came up with a list of 10 of my stories. Then narrowed it down to a couple as to not bore you to tears

"With You" - my first tumblr fic and also first Moon Knight fic. I was proud of myself for finally writing it, posting and just going full out on it, being myself

"He's Okay" - I'm rarely scared to post a story, I am truly out here doing my own thing at all times, but for some reason, last father's day, I was too nervous to post my father's day fic. I just felt like I was reaching or trying too hard to make Marc have this father moment?? I got over myself and posted it one week later, knowing I wanted to share the story with others and I'm so glad I did.

10. at what point in the process do you come up with titles, and how easy or hard is that for you?

Coming up with titles is pretty easy for me. I definitely go with my gut instinct and I don't overthink it. Usually my titles come from the last line, the reveal, the plot twist or the double meaning of something in the story. (such as "Can't Live Without Him". We think that is about reader not being able to live without Marc - which is true - but they actually say that line about the stuffed frog he wins for them at the carnival). Sometimes I have a last line stinger and that's the title. (Such as "What a Mother Can Be" - Marc, in the very last line, thanks reader for showing him what a mother can be, on mother's day, no less)

In Spectre, a spooky chapter story, I gave each chapter a horror movie title (also obviously Spectre nods to Marc Spector. I was going to call the story "Ghost of You" but another author friend had released a story by that title around that time)

In Cosmic, where Poe crash lands to earth, I'm giving each chapter the title of a classic sci-fi film

On occasion, when a title doesn't jump out at me easily, I just name it something basic that the fic is about. It's okay to be simple sometimes and I don't stress about it. Such as the very lazy "Distracting Gamer!Steven"

ask game for fanfic writers

[cosmicpoutine]

thank you so much! bailong is also a main character and will get more depth eventually!but im so glad you're enjoying it !

hiiiii I’m regulus (he/him) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

what’s your favorite color? Also weather? And have you read any books about dragons?

Hiiii!

I'm in love with purple 💜(lavender and magenta to be more precise). I like them beacuse they are pretty but also I love how this color is connected with queernes 💜

I don't think I have a favorite weather 🌧

No good books thst I remember of right now but I read 2 good webtoons with humanoidal dragons

"Starlight and brimstone" it's about a dragon and a unicorn living in our times in human bodies

And now something thst I already love with my whole heart "lonely prince club" it's not really about the dragons but main character's best friend is a dragon. It's about a trans human boy who gets into a magic school it's SOO good I LOVE IT

[apple-onigiri]

Being terrible and triple dipping actually. 4 and 14? :3c

ahhh don't be sorry!! i love yappery it's my favorite thing in the history of things you can do

4. Which character do you wish you didn’t relate to?

looks over the suspiciously memory-shaped hole where several years of my life should be. wow. that's crazy! anyway, that saffron guy or something has a funky hat huh wonder what his deal is and why he acts that way, and how he portrays existing with your memory being not a very reliable thing

14. Favorite pun?

hmmmmmm,,,, thinkery. it might be the "isa. stop being cheeky" it made me chuckle :} tho i might be blanking on some other one that i really liked. but! i did like that one a lot so!! admitted as a response ✌️

[dailypearldoodles]

Can you do Pearl with 3A 🥺👉👈

Day 492

The silly!!!

[little-creature-of-the-day]

little creature of the day: cosmic brownie turtle

hey, wait a minute this is a real little creature! this is just a delicious Halloween treat disguised as a little creature! i’m so sorry I don’t know how this happened, i’m gonna have to go through my little creature stock and see how many more of these there are.

[kyokokusakabe]

Hey Girlie, come ‘round here often?

Only when beautiful, inconsistent gendered beings that are obsessed with stars and dragons are around.

You wouldn't happen to know someone like that would you?

[cosmicpoutine]

ok but have we considered Damian giving a shovel talk to the core 4 after he witnesses their adoration of Tim lmao

there's no talking, it's just vague threats and misunderstandings. damian sends kon a box with kryptonite and a note saying "fuck around with my brother and find out - robin" and he gets confused bc he thinks its from tim (he will assume its for jon and make fun of him)

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[icedlemonlatte]

sunnie !!! lolol you saw the two am reblog? (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)

I did uwu !!!

this was me getting the notif:

[eldritchamy]

A question for Uneiverse (to give you an excuse to talk about it, only if you wanna. Since I also just really hearing about it). What's a detail about it that you really enjoy but haven't gotten a chance to use anywhere story related or otherwise just don't get to play with much (silly or serious)

This ask has been sitting in my inbox for over 5 months.

It's time.

And so, we begin with a question of my own.

What IS time?

We're off the map now. Come with me. Take my hand as we walk through the valley of the shadow of time. We're going to uncharted waters, and I'm going to put the fear of god into you. I'm going to make you ask yourself (and me) Amy, how the fuck does you brain WORK like that?

Let me tell you about time and fate, and about what it means to "predict" the future.

And you will begin to understand the scale of what lives within me, eternally gnawing at the inside of my skull, begging for release.

If I asked you to conceptualize time, what would you say? Is it the neat and rigid tick-tick-ticking of regular intervals on the clock? Is is the fluid, indivisible space between?

Is is all just an illusion conceived by the animal brain to account for the changing shape of the universe as one dimension passes through another, which our three-dimensional eyes are too flat to see all at once, and our souls have concocted for us a comforting lie, that we may pretend to know the universe in its whole, by knowing it piece by infinitesimal, grinding piece, seeing the pan-dimensional amalgam of existence as an endless, continuous sequence of cross-sections in a number of dimensions our meat-circuitry can pretend to process?

Time is shadows.

Imagine, if you will, a sphere.

You hold it up against the light. Suspend it in the air, perhaps, for simplicity's sake. And the sphere casts a shadow.

Is the shadow still a sphere?

Far more importantly, is it even a circle?

At even the tiniest fraction of an angle, the sphere casts a shadow that no longer perfectly represents a cross section of the sphere. It has ceased to perfectly capture the nature of the object that cast the shadow, even accounting for the wrong number of dimensions. It's skewed. You can never unskew it. The distortion is irreversible.

And the floor isn't flat.

The sphere casts a shadow at an angle at a surface that ranges in distance and direction from the object casting the shadow. Is the shadow still an oval? Has it become a shape you can't name?

But the shadow isn't cast upon a floor, even an uneven one.

What shape is the shadow of a sphere cast at an angle upon a field of grass blowing in the wind? By now there's no pretending you know the answer. And even if you could snapshot a single instant of a single shape, the very next instant that shape would change in the breeze as the grass shifts.

The world is not a field of grass upon the ground. The world is endless variation of leaves upon trees, forests upon mountains, birds in the sky, hunting for the bugs that crawl on the branches of the trees. Massive floating pools of water churning in the low atmosphere as humans decide whether that one looks like a mouse or a sheep. So many humans walking, their clothes flowing behind them as they talk, eat, buy goods, shed tiny particles of skin and hair into the wind, their breath adding chaos to that same wind and a hundred miles away a leaf turns slightly more to the left than if that human had said nothing.

What is the shadow of a sphere cast upon that world? Twisted by its unfathomable complexity of shapes and movement?

And now, to make things worse, imagine if that shadow were a tangible thing that you could pick up. That could cast its own shadow not on the floor but up against the wall.

And all of that is if the shadow is cast by a perfect sphere.

Imagine you are a being that can see the shape of time. Could you look at the echo of a shadow of a shadow of a reflection in a fun house mirror, and recreate what it once was?

Could you look at a crooked set of lines upon the wall and know the meaning of cause and consequence? Could you predict what consequences of which actions would lead to favorable outcomes when realization dawns on you that

𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖕𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊 𝖍𝖆𝖘 𝖙𝖊𝖊𝖙𝖍, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖎𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖘𝖔. 𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖞. 𝖍𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖗𝖞.

Time is an ocean of possibility. Each possibility has consequences. Each consequence a sea of new possibilities. How can you hope to understand the shadow of a shadow of a shadow, and not only know what's coming, but how to stop it?

Nothing is fated. But I said something important that bears repeating. Time is an OCEAN. We'll come back to that.

Time MOVES, at least the way we perceive it. I don't like the phrase "everything happens for a reason." I prefer something of my own creation: for every effect, a cause. To achieve a desired effect - a desired outcome - you must change the circumstances of cause that lead to that effect. But there are limits to your influence.

The time to change the course of a river is when the river is still small. The longer that river runs its course, the deeper it shapes and erodes the ground around it. The larger and faster a river the harder it is to redirect it. It will go where it's going, and there's nothing you can do about it. There is an element of momentum that must be accounted for. An element of inevitability.

The path of one person's life, one set of choices available to them in one specific context, may feel perhaps like the current of a river, when you look back on it. But if different changes were made during its formation, it could have taken a completely different path. Ended in a completely different place. And influenced the formation of completely different paths in the future as a result.

But I'll say it again, and you'll know its significance now: time is an OCEAN. It is not a river, but an IMMENSE network of currents with no clearly defined borders, flowing with or against or around each other in an unimaginably complex churning of possibility and consequence and cause and effect. A shift in one current may brush up against another. The second current may shift with it, or crash violently into it, or ignore it entirely.

For every effect, a cause. But for every CAUSE, many POSSIBLE effects.

So time becomes a series of choices beyond number. Each choice leading to fathomless changes in the flow. As the earth turns, some currents flow inevitably in certain directions. If not here, then somewhere else. SOME CHANGES ARE INESCAPABLE.

The universe must be dynamic. If nothing changed, the universe would not need to exist at all. Change is the point. Variance is the point. Choice is the point. The universe exists to know itself, and it knows itself through change.

There is an endless sea of currents flowing in various ways with, beside, against, around each other. Some directions of flow are strongly influenced by the shape of the seafloor and the rotation of the earth. There are changes in the world that are virtually guaranteed to exist, whether because the nature of the universe has made them inevitable, or because changes long past have created the currents that are now too old and too deep to change.

Picture a river again. What happens when you throw a stick into it? The stick is swept up in the current and carried along the river.

Throw in more sticks. Same thing, right? You can make small changes without affecting the overall outcome. Within one large shadow of a sphere, the details of a hundred blades of grass whose shadows are lost within the larger shape.

Anchor a large stick to the riverbed so it can't get swept away. Now, it's just one stick. The water will flow around it. There are small ripples. Tiny changes in the river, micro-currents that will affect a localized area. But on the whole? The river still flows. You changed something. But you didn't change the course of the river.

Add stick after stick after stick until the river is obstructed completely, and the current is forced to change shape.

Which stick built the dam?

Which straw should the camel's back blame?

Back to the ocean. Can you dam the sea? Can you build that dam one stick at a time, by throwing sticks into separate currents, hoping the currents bring them where they need to be in time?

There are patterns borne out from the endless flow of possibility as the ocean of time churns. With all those ancient currents running together, what difference does the wake of a boat make on the shape of the waves? How many breaches from how many whales would it take to turn a current south instead of north?

What if you could make a bigger change? What if an avalanche altered the shape of the seafloor, so the rotation of the earth forces new waters to resist the old currents? So the inevitability of the dynamic universe drags forth a new set of possibilities?

There are a LOT of currents. They've been turning for a long, long time, ebbing and flowing with a billion tides and ten thousand quintillion waves. Choices can make new currents. BIG choices, with a lot of consequences, may even change existing ones.

But the ocean still has a geography to it. There are places where water is forced through the gaps between landmasses, or forced into the shallows, or freed to dive into the black beyond a continental shelf. There are places where, no matter how many changes you make, many currents are still guaranteed to meet.

There are fixed points in time.

What if one of those points is a whirlpool, threatening to swallow everything drawn into the place those currents meet?

What about a whirlpool on the scale of worlds and gods?

How do you keep from drowning?

How do you give yourself the best chance, not of AVOIDING the whirlpool of inevitability, but of entering it at the farthest possible edge, where the right momentum, the right decisions made in the moment you are caught in its gravity, may carry you through to the other side, so you still remain when time marches on?

Is it better to see things coming at all? Or is the ability to see time, to speak a language of the universe that no one else can speak, one of the greatest cosmic horrors you can imagine?

Imagine the burden of time on those who can see it.

Imagine the WEIGHT of being able to see those currents. Of knowing which threads of fate to pull. Of knowing which ripples to make, which waves to break, which currents to shift. Of knowing.

Imagine the complexity of figuring out WHICH changes to make. And the great leviathan of guilt left on your shoulders when the decisions you made - even in pursuit of the best possible outcome - bring harm to the ones you love most, the ones you're most desperate to protect.

Even if you're right.

Even if you played 17-dimensional chess with the wizard-addled corpse of god and knew, with certainty, that if a single problem you had a hand in creating had been resolved more neatly by even minutes, the sticks would not have fallen into place within the dam, and the entirety of creation could have been swallowed piece by piece by the horror you were trying to stop.

Imagine the horror. Imagine the responsibility. Imagine the unending, agonizing pain of the burden of Knowing.

Because what time is, most of all, is a nightmare.

And there's no waking up.

[cosmicheartz]

crystal/lili with all the 2 questions?

What was their first impression of each other?

Crystal : Was a bit intimidated by Lili due to her status of being the Grand Heads daughter and Lilis general closedoffness but still wanted to try and be her friend regardless.

Lili: Found Crystal ( and Clem by extension but this ain’t abt him /lh ) kind of annoying at first due to her overenthusiastic nature but despite that found her surprisingly tolerable to interact with compared to most of the other campers.

Did they have an official first date? If so, what was it like?

Hmm I’m not exactly sure to be honest. i feel like they did but how it goes about does differ a bit depending on if my ClemRazLiliCrystal polycule is a thing or not

( If the polycule is a thing it’s essentially like a double date thing between them and Raz + Clem )

Haven’t really considered what they’d do on the date but I like the idea of them going to a roller rink or something since I hc Crystal likes to roller skate ( her main form of levitation is having the lev balls function as roller skates )

What are their primary love languages?

Crystal: a mix between Words of Affirmation, Acts of Service and Physical Touch

Lili: Quality time

If they get married, who proposes, and how do they do it? Would they change their surnames?

Again this does depend on if the polycule is a thing or not

If it’s a thing than there wasn’t rlly a proper proposal but rather Lili, Crystal Raz and Clem sat down and tried to figure out a marriage plan ( it ends up with Crystal and Lili marrying and Raz and Clem marrying ). They don’t have a traditional wedding either, it’s more like a party with some wedding theming than a full on wedding.

If it’s just Crystal and Lili then I think it can go either way on who proposes and they have a relatively chill wedding with family and friends.

As for the surname situation in the polycule they hyphen it and if it’s just them in a mono relationship Crystal takes the Zanotto surname

[ivystoryweaver]

OMG NEW POE FIC I AM SO EXCITED!!!

(is that what the sci-fi hallmark horse one shot was from/based off bc that was SO GOOD)

Looking forward to it!

Poe is here and he's confused and he's ready to be shown planet Earth! Or at least the US midwest...

Yes, Cosmic is the larger fic set in the same world as the "sci-fi hallmark horse one shot" No One Like You, which acts as sort of a deleted scene, although I may weave it back in.

You are too sweet!