everybody’s always on writing prompts like “what if there was a world where everyone had a timer ticking down to their death… but you met someone whose timer said infinity!” or “what if everyone had their cause of death tattooed across their forehead… but you met someone whose forehead said THE CREATURE!” Enough -
enough. stop with the shock value. there is no need to insert THE CREATURE; the benign concept of such a world is horrifying enough. not even in urgency, but just in banal, everyday interaction. imagine you meet someone and their timer says two years. not tomorrow, not urgently soon, but two years. enough to do quite a lot. they could fall in love in that time - could they get engaged? have a baby? you might otherwise get to know them, befriend them, but perhaps you opt not to, make a conscious choice not to invest in your own grief. what balancing act would every individual person have to participate in - I have ten years, is that long enough to be a good mother to children? is that long enough to secure a caretaker for my own mother? my wife will die a few months before me. my newborn’s timer reads nineteen years.
and cause of death. you interview for a job and emblazoned across the healthy, smiling face of the HR lady is MALNUTRITION. your country is prospering, safe, but every person you meet on the street from the babies to the old women read BOMB. BOMB. what kind of havoc would fate wreak on the world? what about the loss of privacy? how would that shape our notions of hope? idk man I think a lot of those ancient poems were right, and the fates are monsters. I’m interested by the framing of these ideas as trite horror tales when the premises themselves are so much more disturbing if simply taken to their logical ends
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Canonical bunny hug.
(I know the weather transition didn't happen like that but NG+ isn't exactly generous with the transition to switching off the zone when technically Frog was halfway through Stormblood in the first screenshots :P)
(I just wanted to make them hug tbh. I may be back when NG+ comes here for real. Lamaty'i should be here to make faces in the background while G'raha and Krile facepalm.)
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Jjust found out I never posted this drawing I did of lil Antonio introducing his new friends to his parents because he couldn't go to bed without ranting about their surprisingly agitated lives
anyways i like to think the bed in Pepa's room is a cloud so it also changes color and shape to her mood
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Last one for a few days cause im travelling (chilchuck's frog suit has cuts so he can use his arms)
What if they actually wore the frog suits to the battle
Pt1 | pt2 | pt3 | pt4 | pt5 | pt6 | pt7 | pt8 | pt9
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I am so fucking sick of looking for drawing references and finding one thousand fake shitty images created by craiyon or open ai or whatever the fuck. get those fucking things out of my search results. if I am looking for reference photos of a frog species or a person with arm crutches or a medieval depiction of an animal I do not want to see this shitty ai crap that not only looks like absolute ass but also overtakes actual images of the thing I am looking for and pushes them way down the page. begone foul thing
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Is there a frog in spirit? Or is the sword a metaphor for a frog?
The real frog was the paladin who got poisoned along the way...
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