#crossover hell

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And the world stops. The tide crashes. The current takes Curly’s breath away.

Aka: you wouldn't believe the kind of multiverse aus me and my friend ( @rotodrine ) can come up with. Anyways I was proud of this peice I figured I could show it here

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TADC cast but as dragons! Zooble and Caine are from last year, and I just finished up Gangle. You can definitely see my progress in drawing dragons. These are designs for my WOF x TADC fic on A03, which you can find under Subspace_Chronicles if interested ^__^

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Decided to make a little introductory post to a very particular crossover AU (for ABZU, The Pathless, Journey (2012), and Sky: Children of the Light, to be specific) that @abhorrenttheorizer and I have made art for over on Discord. As there's a lot of ground to cover, I'm putting it under a read-more for courtesy.

Introduction

Welcome to Earth! Specifically, thousands if not millions of years in the future, after at least one cataclysm has claimed the lives of every human on the planet. But not to worry!

A little before the end of humanity arrived, two bird-like gods arrived on Earth, settling in the eastern and western hemispheres to establish their own followings.

Off to the East, we have the goddess affectionately nicknamed "Megabird," who landed on a mountain and began constructing her own unique ecosystem centering on light and flight, creating the Rythulians as her worshippers. (AT's more in charge of this portion; he's got a lot of interesting ideas about the "slugbirbs" as we like to call them.)

To the West, we have the goddess known to her own people as Mother Eagle. First, she got to work producing five eggs, which would hatch into their own unique gods and goddesses: Cernos, Sauro, Nimue, Basilla, and Kumo.

Basilla, the shark goddess*, was the one who crafted the people who would become their worshippers, taking remnants of humans and mixing them with seals and sharks to create the Basillan species (my specialty, based on my personal headcanons for the TGS games).

*(based on the Great White from ABZU being referenced in The Pathless and the mysterious stele that got edited out in an update)

The original Basillan kinda looked like this (these being the "humanoid" forms of the Tall Ones, Basilla included).

However, they wouldn't stay united for very long. Differences in religious views and lifestyle got heated, and eventually the mortals banished Basilla and her followers from their island home, with the Basillan cult setting up shop in an underwater territory a ways away from the Eagle's Island. Over time, the more land-focused followers of the Mother Eagle and the remaining four Tall Ones became the Vokara subspecies, and the more aquatic followers of Basilla alone became the Nanshen.

Here's a really old drawing of the differences!

(Did I forget to mention this AU has been in the works since 2021? Man my art's changed since then.)

Anyways, average Nanshen guy on the left, average Vokara guy on the right.

The Nanshen are more suited towards an aquatic lifestyle, with wider gill slits, darker skin due to heightened sun exposure, shorter and more compact body type, a flatter nose more suited for passing water to the gills, and longer barbels on the ears to allow for greater olfactory sensation underwater. (They're based off of the murals in the ABZU game, as well as probably unintentional environmental storytelling with how unnavigable the map would be without a lot of diving underwater; it only made sense to me that the lost civilization was probably amphibious.)

The Vokara have lived mostly in the mountains for generations, so they're more suited for terrestrial life, with a broader chest, smaller gills to focus on breathing air, lighter skin due to weather conditions providing less light, a more opened up nasal passage for ease of breathing, and smaller barbels due to less of a need for underwater sensory measures. (They're more based on the Hunter's appearance in The Pathless, given that she is way too gray to be a human. I know it's probably just to make her aracial like what they did in Homestuck, but I'm running with it damn it!)

(Anyways, here's a nicer comparison drawing from a little while later. Behold the specbio lesbian wedding!)

Fun Bits I Forgot to Organize

Tusks

Adult Basillans grow tusks like boars (based on the Godslayer's ascended model having these wicked tusks among his rows of fangs). They only really develop towards the latter portion of adolescence, around one's late teens to early 20s, and are regarded for the males as the sign that one has become a proper adult.

Of course, the downside is that these things are continuously growing and have to be trimmed every now and then in order to avoid poking oneself in the eye or scratching people with it.

The Vokara are especially finicky about covering their mouths for... not quite modesty reasons so much as baring one's scary teeth at another person is considered rude and aggressive. The Nanshen, living far more amphibiously and thus not really comfortable with more cloth than is comfortable underwater, don't care about that as much, though if you grimace at somebody they might kick you in the shins.

Barbels

A general rule I keep when designing out-of-water clothing for these guys is to cover the ears. In universe, it's because their barbels are very sensitive to differences in temperature and UV radiation out of the water, so it's deeply uncomfortable to have them uncovered for these guys. Out of universe, it's because The Hunter did something like this in her game, in addition to the ABZU people also covering most of their heads but not their chests for some reason (so probably not quite a modesty thing), and I decided to make up a silly specbio reason for it.

For some examples, here's a spread of different Nanshen city states and their different fashions:

History

The games are still canon here! But there's a little more to it.

The Nanshen had always been travellers, more keen to explore and establish their own territories far and wide. But after those dwelling in the Crown began messing with the Abzu, the life energy of the ocean itself, the ecosystem around the capitol collapsed and the population fled the area. Their former empire collapsed, and in its place, a number of different city states off the shore of their various old territories were established in its place.

Some time before, or maybe simultaneous to that, the Vokara had their own little collapse in the form of the Godslayer's rebellion. Many had read the writing on the wall and fled the Isle before he successfully slayed the gods and took control of the whole Island, leading to a number of villages and kingdoms being formed on the nearby continent, which would eventually spawn the Last Hunter, who would defeat the Godslayer.

There's more to it, but I think I'm approaching Tumblr's picture limit, and I've got more, sillier pictures from the AU. I'll add those later!

[spectralquartzstudios]

DID I JUST SAW YOU'RE MAKING AN ARCANA AND TRANSFORMERS CROSSOVER???????

A CROSOVER BETWEEN THE VISUAL NOVEL THAT CHANGED MY ARTSTYLE AND MY WAY OF WRITE FOREVER AND MY CURRENT FIXATION THAT NEVER MADE ME WRITE OR DRAW OR DARED ME DRAWING AS NOW??????????????

TELL ME MORE PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAASEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Indeed, this has been a bit of a passion project for nearly the past year and a half that I've been having SO much fun building.

It started with a few different thoughts. 1: Aisha and Salim would adore the bots.

Thought number 2: Lucio and Starscream have a near identical list of war crimes, all the way down to unintentional bio-terrorism, and that's hilarious

Thought number 3: I finally have an au to put my humanformers stuff in, I get to see everyone interact with each other, this is going to be so good. (My faceclaim for Shockwave is Hugh Jackman and I can't stop thinking about them)

I first wrote about Aisha, Salim, and Nadia meeting Optimus and crew last year in September, but I am currently rewriting this, so keep an eye out for that ;)

On the TF side, we mostly pull from the live action movies, Earthspark and IDW but there's other series in there too. It's genuinely a big giant canon soup. And since IDW and Earthspark are in there, the war is over and everyone gets along, because I said so. Just all around good fun. We need more of that imo.

On the Arcana side, it's also technically canon soup but pulls mostly from Lucio's upright end.

There's also characters from My Hero Academia, Marvel, and Hazbin/Helluva Boss that occasionally make appearances, but it is mostly Transformers/Arcana focused.

It's created some very interesting and fun friendships like Salim and Wheeljack, Nadia and Ratchet, and Megatron and Arne. A couple relationships, like Portia and Minimus Ambus. And... Some new enemies, like Rodimus and Asra. (okay, maybe enemy is an exaggeration lol)

I also FINALLY have a story written about how Rosie and Jules end up in the Transformers universe in the first place. I've had it hand written for a few months now but I finally posted the first chapter today!

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it's always weirdly validating when i come across another sith cosplayer in sto

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

Hazbin Hotel's "Cannibal Town", stuck in a permanent cartoonish/showtunes 1910s-40s setting (complete with sepia tone) and where all the resident demons have black eyes, gives me such "Soldier Boy is Dean Winchester's bad ending" vibes.

and that's not even accounting for ALASTOR.

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Plagueis the Wise was dead, to begin with.

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Me kissing the Warners GIF

Okay but why are the backgrounds all Bluey? And did I see Woody Woodpecker in one of those backgrounds too?

[shrikeseams]

Agony is knowing that Celegorm and Rachel from Animorphs could have an amazing friendship or mentor/mentor relationship, but also if you put them alone in a room together it would end in a fight to the death nine times out of ten. 😔

[myrandomscribbling]

Kill Bill Cipher

Basic plot: The Bride and Bill Cipher shook hands, but as he always does, he lied both about what she would get out of it and the price. He almost killed her, and did kill her child*. Now, she's back for revenge against him and all of his strange henchmen, who she will murder one by one until she reaches the top of the pyramid.

*In fact, he took her child, raised her in a realm of madness. She became one of the monsters. But with me writing it, the Bride and her will meet again and the healing will begin after Cipher is dead.

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UAAUHAHAGSGDVFVFS HELP ME . bros beastin in that mans inbox

there is a beast of some sorts in my askbox

[nicheageoldreference]

Fandroid & Co. but they’re demons :3 Guess what influenced this 😇😇

[holycrimin]

that one Laios meme but with the 12 bros, saw the rise one and got inspired <33

(don't tag as t-cest)

original under the cut!

Original by @/sweepswoop_ on Twitter

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Oh my god

Would Eda be afraid of the IRS?

From the most recent Owl House Voice Actor panel

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Miraluka Valerie.

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Copperrose GIF 2

Well now that's one hell of a crackship.

Look at the proportion difference between the two. They needed to scale up Rodney more. Then again he'd end up blurrier from it. Guess that's a problem when you use other sources.

I'm not sure what program they used to crop out the background Rodney had, but they really needed to tighten it more. There's still a bunch of it visible around him especially between his arm and torso.