#trashcanwithsprinkles cyanide narwhal

[ewilansoleil]

First real post, and one I am very happy to make! I finally managed to finish the 1st segment of the introduction of the animatic I started in *check notes* November 2023 (ah). So... surprise! I'm animating the whole introduction of ATLA for the fic Cyanide Narwhal by the incredible @trashcanwithsprinkles ! *throw glitters*

I've had this in mind since the joke first emerged in the comments when the fic was still updating. I'm glad I can finally work on it! It'll probably take a couple months before I manage to fully finish it (exams am I right), but it's on its way!

I'll post progress here, so don't hesitate to follow along!

(This first 3 seconds took about 8 hours. The rest will not have that many frames bc I CAN'T KEEP DOING THAT)

[anzysart]

It might be a bit of a strange thing to draw fanart for- but the lore for the star foxes of @trashcanwithsprinkles fic cyanide narwhal really captivated my brain in a way that really made me itch to draw. I tried to use some of existed old mural styles (like Tsurumi islands buried ones, and the one on dragonspine) to make something for a depiction of how the zvezdochoty gained illumination- or. Whatever word is most applicable for them Anskkdkd. It truly is a wonderful fic, the kind that alters your brain forever. I love genshin, it’s lore and worldbuilding- and to have the author make two new incredibly interesting species from whole cloth was incredible.

Bonus fox murals under the cut- I really like the little guys, so I tried making some more with more humanoid depictions too (plus a bonus Celestia)

[tickymikky]

A piece inspired by @trashcanwithsprinkles beautiful fic over on ao3, Cyanide Narwhal.

Thank you for the amazing story you created and continue to provided to us. Hope you all enjoy my idea of Childe swimming with his Narwharl Construct.

[right-on-the-money]

a couple of things inspired by @trashcanwithsprinkles’ fic cyanide narwhal! I am in deep very heavy brainrot from their wonderful fic and I highly recommend it. thank you for the amazing fic!

although i can’t fully guarantee anything this may well be a 1/? because i really want to draw more stuff it’s just that i got impatient so i am posting now instead of waiting

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

holy fuck we got fanart now

[yvonnica]

While reading "cyanide narwhal" by TrashcanWithSprinkles, I got an idea for a fix-it fic around the Guili Assembly's time period.

In particular, I have been thinking about an OC who's like Osial. Or an OC that is Osial.

Maybe a recently dead human soul merged with his own when he was newly formed, which changed his personality?

Anyhow, the OC would be the Lord of the Sea of Clouds (the sea Liyue Harbor is right next to). They don't like humans in their territory, so they push all ships out of their waters.

Because of the human soul, they unknowingly have some compassion for humans though, so they don't kill any of them but actually sometimes saves them.

When Guili Assembly is still thriving, Guizhong and Morax seek Orien out to establish a port next to his territory with his permission.

The contract would be about protecting each other's territories. Guili's people would have save passage on the Sea of Clouds and in return Guili would make sure that Orien's ecosystem remains save.

Renn would then slowly befriend Morax, Guizhong, the other Adepti and the humans of Guili Assembly. He would essentially become another patron god.

(Renn's pronouns are He/They btw)

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I have decided that OC!Osial has 4 names. Here are their explanation:

Osial - his godly name. A very formal name only used by foreign strangers who haven't met him yet.

Orien - his lordly name and technically personal name. Full title is "Orien, the Lord of the Sea of Clouds". A formal name, mostly used by people who don't know him personally and in conjunction with his title.

Renn - his personal name and nickname of Orien. The people of Liyue Harbor call him "Lord Renn". Those who have met him more than just in passing call him Renn.

Míngtāo - his "real" personal name. Used only by friends. Given to him by Meiyu, a Liyuen girl and his first friend.

It is a combination of 明 (míng) meaning "bright, light, shining, clear" and 涛 (tāo) meaning "large waves".

[Since I don't know Chinese, Míngtāo's name might be wrong]

~•~

Meiyu was the first person Orien got to know personally. She was the one to teach him human language and became his first friend.

Grinning from ear to ear, Meiyu ran down to the beach. The water snake could finally understand her! Sure, it was because he wanted to make her go away after ignoring and intimidating her didn't work, but she could finally tell him now!

What she needed to tell him was so important that she couldn't let his attempts to make her go away demotivate her!

Finally arriving at the beach, Meiyu took a deep breath to shout out; "Mr. Water Snake! Hey! Heeyy~! I need to talk to you! C'mon! Don't ignore me!"

Like always, he let her wait a few minutes until he finally deigned to acknowledge her.

Rising out of the water, he finally appeared before her.

Excitedly looking between his 5 heads, Meiyu jumped up and down;

"Hey! I need to tell you something veery~ important!"

"What is it?", the other sighted.

"But first! You need to tell me your name! It's very important I use your name for this!", Meiyu told him with attentive eyes and a voice full of expectation.

"... I don't have a name."

Surprised, Meiyu stopped jumping around. She looked between his sets of eyes, taken aback. "What do you mean, you don't have a name? I have heard people call you Orien!"

Agitated, he shifted his body.

"Exactly, that's what you humans call me. It isn't my name."

"Oh. I-... Do you- ... Would you like me to give you one?", she asked with a tentative voice.

He stilled for a moment, but answered, unbothered: "Do what you will."

"Okay! Let me think for a moment!"

After a few minutes, Meiyu jumped up, which prompted the other to straighten up as well.

"I know! How about Míngtāo? You know, as in bright and big wave!"

He seemed to think about it for a moment before nodding with his leftmost head.

"That's acceptable."

Meiyu smiled up at him. However, she lost some of her newfound excitement in the next second, apparently remembering something.

"Right. Now that I know your name..."

Meiyu took on a more serious air and looked straight into his right-most eyes before bowing down low. "Thank you, Míngtāo, for saving my life. And the lives of my parents. If you didn't drag us to the beach after our ship wrecked, we would have died."

[androphagos-mardyakhowra]

The Great Grand Library's 2023 Record

I decided to look back upon all the fics I read in 2023 and compiled them into a list.

Format: Score/10: Title [Author] [Fandom] [Misc].

The scores are a snappy enumeration of my personal rating system. 2/10 means I read for some amount before putting it on hold and theoretically might someday give it another shot but eh, 4/10 means I'm much more likely to give it another shot, 6/10 means I read through all the chapters that was there at the time and enjoyed my time aplenty, 8/10 means I enjoyed it even more, and 10/10 means I enjoyed it so much they're a contender for being among my favorite fics of all time.

Only a small percentage of what are 2/10 are included in this list, so this list isn't bloated by fics that my feelings about are mostly summarised as "eh". Consider them a honorable mentions.

If it's not a fanfic but instead an original work, it will use [Original].

Misc tags: [SI] Self-Insert, [Multi-SI] Multiple Self-Inserts, [FI] Friend-Insert, [OC] Original Character, [Crossover] Crossover which expands as the work goes on, [NSFW] Probably something I got from QuestionableQuesting, [<100k] Less than 100k words long.

If you find anything wrong with the list, like wrong links or a typo somewhere, feel free to let me know.

January

(n/a)

February

6/10: A PMC for you and me [Spent Casings] [RWBY] [SI]

6/10: A shot in the dark [SthUnlim] [Yugioh GX] [SI] [<100k]

6/10: To Answer [Luckychaos] [FFXIV] [FI]

6/10: Voyance [lpofdestiny] [Miraculous Ladybug] [OC]

6/10: The Dungeon Without a System [StrangerDanger51] [Original]

4/10: A Champion in Earth Bet [sun tzu] [Worm] [OC]

March

10/10: Goblin Cave [xaphiriron] [Original]

10/10: Idiosyncrasy [OCfan11] [FE3H] [OC]

10/10: The Most Evil Trainer [Wisetypewriter] [Pokemon] [SI]

8/10: Acting as the love advisor to the big damn (simp) hero [Naqu2o] [Original]

6/10: Self-Replicating Drone Armada, Used [SparraNova] [Starsector] [SI] [Crossover]

6/10: The Divine Hunter [隐约点] [Witcher 3] [SI]

4/10: Tainted Steel [The Distorted Shadow] [FSN] [Tsukihime]

4/10: Terrible, Yes, but Great [Procrastination] [FSN] [Tsukihime] [NSFW]

4/10: Hyperdungeon Neptunia: Mines of Nepvelder [Sedori] [Hyperdimension Neptunia] [D&D]

4/10: cyanide narwhal [TrashcanWithSprinkles] [Genshin Impact]

April

10/10: Fivefold Integration [Kyreneryk] [Worm] [Stormlight Archive] [Steven Universe] [Mother of Learning] [Mistborn]

8/10: A Frog Out Of Water [leaves] [Yugioh GX] [SI]

6/10: H U N G E R [Angel of Shadows] [Kancolle] [SI]

4/10: Violent Solutions [Sabaoth] [Original]

4/10: POISON [BrunofanofK] [Naruto] [SI]

4/10: Cat of the Fellowship [Mimi_Lind] [LotR] [SI]

4/10: Warrior of the Void [Hastar] [FFXIV] [SI]

May

8/10: Back and Forth [TryingItOut] [Worm]

8/10: Apocalypse Reborn [Sage_Of_Eyes] [Original]

6/10: Eternal Shrine Maiden [BeiYang] [Touhou] [MCU]

4/10: Godclads [OstensibleMammal] [Original]

4/10: In Nuclear Fire [Poliamida] [Worm] [SI]

June

10/10: Gacha God [Ideas-Guy] [MCU] [OC]

10/10: Leaf [Slavok] [Worm] [Stormlight Archive]

8/10: A Dead World [Laluzi] [Prototype] [Fallout]

6/10: I have a Plan [DiSCOBOT] [Worm] [SI]

6/10: A Hard Knock Life [Ideas-Guy] [Worm] [Cyberpunk 2077]

2/10: Worm Quest [BreezyWheeze] [Worm]

July

6/10: Shogunai - An Ignoramus SI in Naruto [industrious] [Naruto] [SI]

6/10: The Young Lady is a Reborn Assassin [DWS] [Original]

6/10: Big Brain in the Dungeon [KinKrow] [Danmachi] [SI] [NSFW]

6/10: It Started With a Nightmare [Pro-man] [Gundam UC] [SI]

4/10: I Reap Souls In My Spare Time [Saintbarbido] [DC] [Bleach] [OC]

4/10: Jackal Among Snakes [Nemorosus] [Original]

August

6/10: Metal Marine [Pentel123] [One Piece] [SI]

6/10: Forever is a long time coming [La Pucelle Altre] [Transformers] [MCU] [SI] [<100k]

4/10: Yugioh: New Duelists X [DSComeback] [Yugioh GX] [OC]

September

8/10: Exalted in Passing [luckychaos] [FGO] [FE: Awakening] [Multi-SI]

6/10: A Young Girl's Game of Thrones [Failninja] [Youjo Senki] [GoT]

6/10: A Gamer In South Blue [LordVishnu] [One Piece] [SI]

2/10: Four Heroes Walk into an Adventure [QuartzScale] [FSN] [FGO] [Danmachi]

October

8/10: Legends Never Die [Ideas-Guy] [Crusader Kings III]

6/10: Sublight Drive [miraage1] [Star Wars] [SI]

6/10: A Young Woman's Alchemy [CheshireTwilight] [Youjo Senki] [FMA]

6/10: Serial Meddling [eredinremendis] [RWBY] [AdventureQuest Worlds]

6/10: The Hound of Central Academy [Zap C. Cannon] [Yugioh GX] [SI]

4/10: A Young Reaper's Aferlife [L4 of the WEST] [Youjo Senki] [Bleach]

4/10: Far From Home [Erithemaeus] [Honkai: Star Rail] [FI]

2/10: Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse [VoidWanderer] [Ranma] [One Piece]

November

6/10: Count of Serenno [Y1ofthePlebs] [Youjo Senki] [Star Wars]

6/10: From Shadows [A Numerical List of Candy] [Naruto] [SI]

4/10: Gone Native: Earth Saga [Ideas-Guy] [DBZ] [DC] [OC]

4/10: Unfortunately, I'm not a Hero [Sage_Of_Eyes] [Oregairu] [MGE]

4/10: It's An Abyss, not bottomless [DisgruntledJaeger] [Kancolle] [SI]

2/10: My Trans-Dimensional, Overpowered Protagonist, Harem Comedy is Wrong, as Expected. [Sage_Of_Eyes] [Oregairu] [Danmachi]

December

8/10: A Young Woman's Political Record [jacobk] [Youjo Senki]

6/10: The Pixie of the Hidden Leaf [Dakion] [Youjo Senki] [Naruto]

6/10: Path of the Immeasurable Swarm [derivativeoflife] [Worm] [Cradle]

6/10: To Kill a Bull [Discoabc] [Naruto] [SI]

4/10: Radiant Rebirth [Naron] [Hollow Knight] [RWBY]

4/10: Would that I were born no Princess [Watchinkid] [Youjo Senki] [FFT:WoTL]

2/10: Detachment [Ghep] [FE: Awakening] [SI]