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[longinghomecoming]

Showbiz by Muse

Sunburn

Muscle Museum

Fillip

Falling Down

Cave

Showbiz

Unintended

Uno

Sober

Overdue

Hate This and I'll Love You

Spiral Static

[cinematicmasterpiece]

blood tea and red string (2006)

[epiphainie]

bucktommy web weavings (2/?) invisible string chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons, one single thread of gold tied me to you.

invisible string by taylor swift // aristotle & dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire sáenz // smoke signals by phoebe bridgers // you are a mystery to me by pavana // the sun is also a star by nicola yoon

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i dig his earnest soul & neglected middle child vibes. he's so Charming and for what reason!

[corvidsofthedeep]

No Context Crow #120: Guitar Playing Crow

From PaperWolfDsgn on Etsy.

[niftukkun]

fanart for a scene in @nerdydowntherabbithole 's Taking Life As Is on AO3 !! a scene early on in the fanfic that sounded so cool it gripped me with inspiration, where a vulture swoops down and gets fucking got by a leviathan while our dear protagonists look on in horror of the beautiful brutality of mother nature happening right in front of them! dont you love it when you leave your rotting corpse behind and immediately get hit with the existential horror of almost dying and the primal fear of seeing something that much bigger than you and realising your fragility when you were once a godlike being above such lowly thoughts and struggles? anyway.

some details and thoughts !! :

-just before this scene, sugar (survivor's name in this fic) hunted and ate a salamander, so i included it in this here drawin too !! hell yeah esoteric fic-accurate details -(pro tip for any artists out there; if you want to push something into the background, gradient overlays are your friend. also, dont forget to check your values. outline your characters if they aren't popping out of the background enough) -in other, not fic-accurate detail,, moon's dress and marks. i think in the fic, moon's dress is more like,, an actual dress with sleeves and such. but also like, i do what i want and i want something thats barely a dress so i can show off my anatomy/mechanical bits art skills. i dont care if its not canon compliant im calling rule of cool -whoops i forgor the wires uhh shit nevermind it would cover the cool bits anyway whatever -also, while i am proud of the vulture and leviathan, they both used reference. like, i sketched them out yeah, but also the sketch was mostly done by staring at a reference the whole time and overlaying it on the canvas as needed when the drawing looked a little too off. so if you look at this and think 'aw man this guys too good at drawing i could never draw a vulture/leviathan/background/whateverthefuck like that' youre wrong. use references and get better at art by referencing references -shoutout to the miraheze wiki btw for supplying most of my references for this. fandom wiki could never

this fic holds a special place in my heart. like, i dont agree with it on a lot of things (how the cycle works, time between slugcat campaigns, how rot works, etc), but its very internally consistent and i like how all the characters are written. i really do like how, despite all the bickering, the iterators really do care for each other and love each other. i like that the blame isn't pushed just to pebbles, the acknowledgement of there being a lot of nuance and complications in the whole situation. i like the worldbuilding, nsh's wetland-esque biome, srs's gleaming glass beaches, the different interesting fauna/flora, slugcat society worldbuilding, the fucking trains hell yes trains.

most of all though, i love the authors dedication to getting a happy ending. no one left behind. all the iterators in the local group are getting freed (except for innocence but thats a different thing) all the slugcats are alive and doing well (even artificer's kids!!). and even though the fic throws the characters around, bad things happen, steps backward are taken,,, there is almost a palatable message that no matter what, things will be okay. artificer did bad and its acknowledged with visible consequences (scavenger temple route, which mightve made things so much easier on the route to nsh) but she still gets her kids back. hunter had her rot cured and even got some sick new upgrades but still struggles with overexertion and moments of weakness. both pebbles and moon have ptsd from the rot and the rain respectively and its handled reasonably well, not even mentioning the survivors guilt and learned helplessness on nsh and the whole,, guilt from causing this whole fiasco and the feeling of it being all their fault from srs,,,, , ,,,

i dont know. i just really like how dedicated the fic is to showing the realistic consequences of the unforgiving and brutal world of rain world and weaving it into a story of forgiveness and freedom. there are struggles but the heroes will still win and get to go home happy. its cathartic. i love it a lot.

[raintailed]

Wretched beast for a worldbuilding project called Skylight!!! I'm calling it a dragon shrimpfish for now.

Info and notes transcript under the cut!

For context, this is an extinct alien native to a moon that has extreme tides due to orbiting a planet. The world also has magic because it's fun :]

Dragon shrimpfish have a mix of arthropod and vertebrate traits. I'm thinking that they lived in shallow seas and foraged in reefs. Occasionally they would enter intertidal zones to forage but were forced to retreat when the tides went out.

Notes transcript:

Main drawing

3 body segments

belly fuzz to stick eggs onto

3 pairs of swimmerets

tail "fin" made of interlocking hairs

Swimmeret detail

covered in setae!

claws for gripping rocks

Lower drawings

moray eel vibes

2 lower jaws!

feeding arms are usually folded under mantle plate

[ofbakerst]

[haveyouheardthisband]

[latenightsundayblues]

How fucking stupid do you think Hoffman felt when it was his turn to record the tapes and move Billy's mouth in sync with the audio

[longinghomecoming]

love by muse

[shorthaltsjester]

fjord is to vex what imogen is to fjord but imogen and vex don’t have all that much in common beyond general laura bailey pcism. do you understand what i’m saying?

[invisiblestringmm]

reminiscing - smau (one)

a/n: just a little something for the first new chapter 🥹

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[zephyraes]

AESTHETIC - Holiday Kitten String Lights

[wehadfaces]

you just know gul dukat would be a swiftie

[kyouka-supremacy]

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