#the underlighters

[scifimagpie]

Theme tag

The bolded words represent major themes, and the italic ones, minor themes, that appear in Monsters and Fools, my current wip! It's a sequel to The Underlighters, and instead of being a horror-inflected post-apoc coming-of-age story, it's a neo-noire about civic politics and rights issues in the same post-apoc setting! Here goes.

addiction | beauty | betrayal | change vs. tradition | chaos vs. order | circle of life | coming of age | communication | convention vs. rebellion | corruption | courage | crime and law | dangers of ignorance | darkness and light | death | desire to escape | dreams | displacement | empowerment | facing darkness | facing reality | faith vs. doubt | fall from grace | fame and fortune | family | fate | fear | fear of failure | free will | friendship | fulfillment | good vs. bad | government | greed | guilt and forgiveness | hard work | heroism | hierarchy | honesty | hope | identity crisis | immortality | independence | individual vs. society | inner vs. outer strength | innocence | injustice | isolation | knowledge vs. ignorance | life | loneliness | lost love | love | man vs. nature | manipulation | materialism | motherhood | nature | nature vs. nurture | oppression | optimism | peer pressure | poverty | power | power of words | prejudice | pride | progress | quest | racism | rebirth | relationships | religion | responsibility | revenge | sacrifice | secrets | self-awareness | self-preservation | self-reliance | sexuality | social class structure | survival | technology | temptation and destruction | time | totalitarianism | weakness | vanity | war | wealth | wisdom of experience | youth

tagging in!

@acertainmoshke @mrbexwrites @tabswrites @writernopal @squarebracket-trick @sm-writes-chaos @isabellebissonrouthier @digitalsatyr23 @sleepyowlwrites

[makowcy]

another very real space mining clip

@kiszoneszczury's au

[caffichai]

More Asbestos!

Thanks everyone for participating in the poll! What an absolutely wild last minute turnaround, and also a close race!

Hey, if you're here, check this out!

[skipppppy]

reject ourple. become a fucking bnuuy.

[thefaeriecreek]

/wakes up from a long, deep slumber/ hhhhhhh

[starredhalo]

i think that nightmare used to be less murder death evil and more murder death fun

[marywoodartdept]

Cardcaptor Sakura Forgery

Nicola, our animation blogger, shares work from her Animation for the Illustrator class where each student could choose their own art for inspiration. Nicola created a Cardcaptor Sakura Forgery. #MarywoodArt #Illustration #Animation #characterdesign

For the last project in my Animation for the Illustrator class, we could choose any piece of animation we wanted to base our illustrations on. I get very anxious when I am given that amount of freedom in a class, because I don’t like to show people things I like. It’s a social anxiety thing. After much deliberation, I chose Cardcaptor Sakura, partially because I love it with my whole soul and…

[artofcarmen]

Here's the Fjord evil AU piece timelapse! 

This one went through way more decisions and changes during painting than the first two.  I wanted these 3 evil AU pieces to be a triptych of sorts, and mesh well next to each other, and a big sea god just didnt fit in the background like I wanted.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

there is no time for that. things move fast in hollywood holler

[woodland--dweller]

New hair who dis? 😊✨🖤

[scifimagpie]

Last Line Tag

@dyrewrites and @mrbexwrites both got me, sooooOOO I'm cheating with a few more lines from The Foundling City, the third book in the Nightmare Cycle trilogy, my current WIP.

I sighed. “Installing some lights in one of the houses we’re salvaging—the upstairs is useable, but there’s mold downstairs, so we’re taking the wires out from both levels and working on some wiring in the sewers.” I shook my head. “I can’t believe they’ve gone all that time with just candles and daylight.”

Tagging in! @tabswrites @ruinmegently @enne-uni

[bonelessart]

nightmare aans is so beautiful

[heartkillers]

Gastorber 2022. Day 20: Experiments with Liuz!Gaster. UnderLight/UnderEclipse belong to @.Samina

He is a bitter, mysterious, complex, with communication problems and keeps a lot of secrets... HOW NOT TO LOVE HIM? He is beautiful XD

[silo1013]

what's the first thing that comes to mind when i ask "favorite krycek scene?"

in terms of "scenes with krycek in them that are not actually about him" it will always be the part at the end of apocrypha where he's expelling the black oil onto the ship and it's coming out of his eyes and everything. something about it is so disturbing, so entrancingly gross. it's almost hard to watch but that's why i like it. i used to wonder a lot how they actually pulled off that effect and so i looked it up and apparently there was like this weird mask with tubes running through it that took like an hour to put on. pretty cool

in terms of "scenes with krycek in them that actually sort of are about him" i really really like the bit in ascension of him in the operating room with the tram driver at skyland mountain. there's already a tenseness to the scene (is mulder going to make it to the top in time? is the tram going to fuck up because he's going too fast? etc) that is really well escalated by the way everything is shot. there are a lot of face close-ups--krycek, the tram driver, barry in the car, scully in the trunk--and a lot of big wide shots showing just exactly how high in the air mulder is on the tram, it makes it feel like an action movie. i love the camera work for the whole sequence; the shots of the tram operator sitting at the desk always include krycek in the background, but never his face, and at the end of the sequence, when the tram driver explains that mulder looks like he's going to make it to the top of the mountain safely, it shows krycek reaching for the gun at his waistband without changing the angle of the camera, so you maybe almost don't notice it. the little micro-movements and expressions are really good here too; krycek pistol-whips the tram operator, fixes his hair (lol), closes his eyes and sighs before reaching out to shut off the tram. the sleeve of his suit is too long, and it covers part of his hand when he turns the key. he makes his phone call in a vaguely resigned manner, maybe not overjoyed at what he's doing but definitely committed to it. mulder is calling his name over the radio--what's going on down there? do you read me? does anybody read me?--and when mulder actually does make it to the top of the mountain unharmed, even after almost falling off the tram, krycek closes his eyes and sighs again in the sort of way where you can't quite tell if he's annoyed or relieved. one of my favorite scenes of the episode, period; it's incredibly rewindable. i get excited for it whenever i rewatch -_-

[onlyhurtforaminute]

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[bornetoblood]

It is him, the guy.