#mechanical age

[shoomlah]

my new poster for the 30th Anniversary of Myst, available over at the Cyan store (link in the source and the comments)! This imagery has been indelibly inscribed on the inside of my eyelids since I was a kid, so it was an absolute joy bringing it to life in a more official capacity. 📚

[an-unlikely-poet]

108

Indifference of a milestone

Not habitable, no way

Suffer or suffer not

In the blood or not

Half of em settled on a Great Lake

Others content just north of the line

perhaps I a shut in, continental roaming

West

South

Wait

mixed reception and

too hot for opinions

that we could all agree

price of paradise, in mechanical breezes

non-negotiable come first of the month

Not habitable, no way

[zoneofsmites]

Im of the full (possibly delusional) belief that Durge is not the species that they physically appear to be.

You’re telling me this being crafted from nothing but bhaal’s flesh and his blood - this demigod - is actually a dragonborn/tiefling/human/elf/etc.

No. This thing is bhaal’s flesh and it just happens to look like that. They’re an imitation of a species, they’re not truly a (full)mortal being, they have no heritage aside from bhaal.

As a result I’m sure there’s some…oddities.

For example, a demigod child, not fully mortal. I doubt they adhere to the lifespan of whatever species they look like. Looking younger than they should. (less so perhaps with long lived races like elfs and half-elves where that is par for the course).

A dragonborn durge that by all accounts looks like a blue dragonborn but their breathweapon is acid. A tiefling durge that seems to be a Mephistopheles tiefling but they cannot cast mage hand, instead smiting like a zariel bloodline tiefling.

An elf or tiefling durge that doesn’t read as fey or infernal trough identification spells. Because they aren’t either of those things. Perhaps they could read as divine but not quite.

Members of a race that durge is supposed to be looking at them and sometimes when making eye contact they read as wrong. And some kind of uncanny effect triggers in their brain.

Give me more freaky durge who isn’t really what they appear to be at all. Just a little murder demigod crafted from dead god flesh to be the shape of something else.

[ageremoji]

[corixal]

•nighttime smallness•

⭐️💤🌙

- cuddling with stuffies

- can barely keep your eyes open

- tiniest stretches !

- little mumbles and "mmhs" throughout the night <3

- lullabies playing to soothe your wild mind

- listening to the outside noises, and maybe you're a little bit scared of them (don't worry! the outside noise won't hurt you, dear <3)

- falling asleep and waking up once or twice in the night, just to fall back asleep immediately

- waking up in the morning with sheet marks on your skin, because you just slept so well <3

good night, little one!

sleep tight ^_^

NO NSFW INTERACTION AT ALL

[dosemakesthepoison]

Just saw a post about zevrans torturers in the fade being dalish elves that made me think about this.

I was listening to zevrans dialogue with the warden and other companions and zevran truly doesn't identify with or as basically any of the groups he could conceivably be a part of. He's left the crows so he's no longer a crow, he was rejected by the dalish and is not really a "true elf", he can't go back to being a kid in the brothel (last place he felt unconditional love). He's never had a lover which wasn't a contract or he didn't kill. He's just very dissociated from himself and everyone around him.

The only thing he consistently identifies as is being worth 7 gold coins. He says it to the warden more than once. He says it to some of the companions. My guys got 1 thing defining his self worth and it's that the crows bought him for 7 gold coins. And what does the warden give him to increase affinity? Gold bars. The warden is saying "You are worth so much more than what the crows paid for" in a quite literal sense. I'm emotional about the pixel man again.

[lucybellwood]

A while ago Falynn K. asked this question on Twitter:

"So on a tall sailing ship you have the mast, and you have the yards across it--is the yard/spar actually attached to the mast, by like i dunno, a pin or something, or is it strictly roped/lashed to it?"

This is a totally reasonable question! A lot of folks who haven't sailed square riggers might think that the yard stays put, but in fact it needs to move up and down the mast so the sails can be fully set. (Y'know how everyone's always talking about halyards? They literally haul the yard up. You're welcome.)

So to answer the question: yards are held loosely to the mast by a looped line strung with large wooden beads called a parrel. The beads roll up the mast as the yard is raised and lowered. Here's a drawover that hopefully clarifies a little:

Once you start explaining things about tall ship anatomy it's hard to stop, so there's a bit more context for how the sails work:

(These are pages from my comic A Week at Sea with OHP, which you can read online here or grab as a print minicomic here.)

Hope this is helpful!

[cams-cozy-corner]

Statement I feel needs to be said, headcanoning a character as an age regressor is NOT the same as infantilizing them

[dropitdoeeyes]

a freshly mechanized baby drumbo bee

[ID: A digital drawing of a younger Drumbot Brian from The Mechanisms playing the drums. Brian is a coppery robot with short curly hair who’s wearing a collared light blue shirt and a stripy brown vest. The background is minimally colored, with only a few blobs of color on Brian’s drumset. End ID.]

[dragonologist-phd]

Man I miss the DAO specialization methods, I hope they bring back that type of thing in DA4. I wanna become a blood mage by making a deal with a demon. I wanna become a reaver by joining up with a dragon cult. I wanna become a duelist by meeting a pirate in a random brothel.

Even the less wild ones are really good! Getting close enough to your companions that they teach you their unique skills? I love it!

It’s just so much more interesting and engaging than doing random fetch quests or being purely mechanical

[blotb0x]

lyfrassir edda. you agree

[saym0-0]

tma x mechs college band aus are SO funny because all i can imagine are basira and jon awkwardly not making eye contact and pretending not to know each other the whole entire time they're working together, but sometimes one of them will offhandedly reference a song and the other one will laugh at this seemingly entirely random sentence leaving everyone around them like ?????

[ltwilliammowett]

Hand made mechanical Whaling Box, circa 1930-1950

[namelesspages]

Look I drew Jonny D'Ville

[ageremoji]

Can you make one of holding up a stuffie? Like holding it out for kisses or smth

[kiindr]

stop letting social media and society set the timeline of your life. you're not too old to go back to school. you're not too old to get married. you're not too old to enjoy playing in the park or filling in coloring books.

you're never too old to just be a person.