#ttsbc beyond

[khoirkid]

A Karol Kidd Short Story - Bedrock

Karol sat her keys down on the desk in the small foyer of their apartment and kicked off the mary jane’s she’d kept on throughout the day before waltzing into the kitchenet to make a cup of tea. As the aroma of their black liquorice tea wafted through the apartment, Karol scanned through their phone looking at the last texts she’d gotten. One from Cleo, one from Ms. Kidd. While they’d said goodbye in person before catching a rail cart back up, her mom was determined to send off one last reminder. 

Remember, we can still see the stars under here with the right tools and you can still see us someday with the right tools. I know you need to keep working but know that I love you and I’ll see you again soon. 

Love you, my Kidd ;) 

Karol sniffled, the empty longing settling into their bones as they scrolled back through the thread. Her mother had too much to work on below ground, helping to work on building the educational system and a physics class for older students. Karol would just have to save every night sky photo they took. 

No point in regrets now, Karol thought, pouring her tea into their green mug. Green like bamboo. They were too fond of the light and the colors in the overcity, too proud of the progress they had made to return home. The photos on their apartment walls, the small development room in the supposed to be bedroom, all of it that they had worked so hard to make. 

RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE

The tea nearly slopped over the sides as Karol anchored herself to the counter.

“Ow, fuck,” Karol mumbled as the tremors shook the city. The rumbling hadn’t stopped yet and it was getting easier to find glimmers of those red rocky fibers in the cracks in the edges of the city. They’d started to take and even print their photos of the rifts closing. Someday they’d get those to Cleo and run a whole educational segment on it. Someday. 

Karol grimaced as they made their way back to their beanbag to relax for the evening.

But it wasn’t much good. Even with the TV full blast playing their favorite epic fantasy show, it wasn’t enough to hide the fact most of their friends and family weren’t just a phone call away anymore. Karol still scrolled through Cleo’s last messages as if there’d be an update anyways.

One gap. Karol thought resolutely. One gap to slip the tools their mom needed to continue studying the galaxies beyond. One gap to mail letters of any progress they found, captured forever in a small photograph. Karol’s fluffy panda ears flicked at the thought. Just. One. Gap. 

(Hey KhoirKid here! I'm sorry for the poor quality image but I wanted to do some art where I didn't try to be perfect and just rush through something while studying so this is just a lil piece that got me through a chem final!)

[amethystfairy1]

Really random question because I wanna make an OC for the TTSBC:Beyond writing thing (If I can get the energy to write something) but if a Glare mutant dyed their hair, how would that affect their hair when it glows? Would that depend on the way they dyed it (removing the natural color via bleaching it and then dying it with a more permeant dye versus putting a color deposit mask thing whatever those are called on it) Random thought I had while making a character and it hasn't stopped rotating in my head for the last couple days, so I figured I might as well ask, sorry for the chaos that is me asking a question lol

Ooooo that's a great question! Also I'm so glad you hear you're wanting to participate in TTSBC: Beyond!

I think that if a glare mutant dyed their hair their day cycle color would be whatever they dyed it too, but their night cycle would still turn silver and glow same as always! Hope that helps!!!

[beautifulstarlightphantom]

Glamour tier list thing 

Super good: void Walkers blaze born, and all plant mutants 

Good : avians, goblins, phantom, ghast and most winged hybrids 

Ok: dog wolf, cat fox deer demon 

Not very good:  most mob mutants, with the exception of zombies, skeletons and ghast

Bad : zombies and skeletons 

[ihavetodothisdonti]

This is a Podfic for the fic i wrote for TTSBC:Beyond and it is so great, thank you so much BOO_the_AHH, because listening to this brought a big smile to my face

[dwa-albatross]

debating if i should post my ttsbc:beyond art right now or wait until the big day... hehe

[trafficblrpositivityproject]

@silver-sunray !!! The work you've done to expand the ttsbc universe is just. Insane. Utterly insane!!! Ttsbc!beyond was such a cool event and I can't wait to hopefully participate next time! And the fan wiki? So cool! Not to mention the blackwell blog! And I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize for the, uh, slightly lore heavy asks I've left on the blackwell blog lol? I do apologize for it as I'm sure it's hard to answer some of them (at least the major plot-driven ones lol) but I will not apologize for the enthusiasm! That whole blog concept is amazing and you do so much for it! Also you seem fun to interact with and I hope to do so in the future!

(Also, I have to say. All of the tinted glass crew deserves some major props because the direction this mini fandom has taken is beautiful. Art, podfics, events and side blogs, ttsbc itself! All of it is wonderful. All of you guys are amazing.)

@silver-sunray !!!

Here is the Beyond event and fanwiki!

[dragooned-speaks]

I PROMISE i am HAMMERING away at Joel but got sidetracked by OCs XD

So enjoy my TTSBC: Beyond submissions.

[khoirkid]

Tinted Glass Crew OCs!

-Warden Mutant Amethyst @amethystfairy1

-Willa (Silver OC) + more! @silver-sunray

-Boo Cat Hybrid edition! @boo-the-ahh

-Karol Kidd, a panda hybrid and photographer

If you have TTSBC OCs, we’d love to see em!

(Also featured is Neap by @silverorchideon and thanks to @procrastinatingwritersblog for bringing up the concept!)

[boo-the-ahh]

Links to my Podfics!

Also, if you have any requests for me to podfic or want me to podfic your work, send me an ask or dm me (or drop a comment on ao3)! I can't promise I'll get to it right away, but it'll go on the list if I get permission from the author :D (I won’t anything spicy/smuty/NSFW, but swearing and innuendos are fine!)

HI!!! Boo here! I don’t have a whole lot going on, but thought I’d make a pinned post for my podfics tags, so here we are. Check me out on ao3 as BOO_the_AHH if you wanna see all my podfics

[amethystfairy1]

Just out of curiosity(*cough*(<- dumbest word ever) and totally not for TTSBC: Beyond *cough*) what school does Gem work at?

She runs a school in the mid-level with Bdubs and Katherine! 💖

Glad to hear you're *totally not* looking forward to TTSBC: Beyond!

[silverorchideon]

Having a bit of a time trying to get back into drawing, so have my TTSBC OC ref sheet!

As you may know, TTSBC is made by @amethystfairy1 with the first arc ending recently! Do support her if you can!

If you read one of my fics for TTSBC: Beyond, you may recognize Neap and maybe Plethora, but they're not the only people in this little family!

[nuggeteri]

Blue is fulfilling (And I do mean this, too. So much of the color Blue has been with me through my creative processes. Blue is fulfilling.)

Luminescence. It's not done, but it's my baby. It's my original work and I could never ever let it go.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, 2016 Best Seller

WatcherAurora and Amethystfairy1. TheYesterdayShow, A-Plethora-Of-Peters. TheDreadedRobert

Any of the Cane scenes in Luminescence, honestly.

It was a lead up to a sex scene in my fanfic "Half The Dessert's Rotten". I wouldn't have had to write the sex, just to imply it was there, but.. I'm asexual, and my god, how do some people write smut. thats beyond me

Scott Smajor and TangoTek.

I can't draw Scott. With others, it's fine, right, but Scott, i hold so much love for him and I want him to be so perfect that I can't draw him, because i'll never be satisfied with it.

It has to be all of TTSBC from Amethystfairy1. Sometimes I'll just go to their dms and quote their own fic.

Traffic Life Series!

Traffic Life Series!!!!

Mhm,,, I have this Unicorn AU I'm working with with Syn, as well as GUILDED CAGE!!! with Cat. But I'm looking forward to post more personal projects like Beat Around The Bush or an Impdubs oneshot.

Even Joined Walls Fall Down by WatcherAurora wrecked me more than anything else but,,, yeah.

Something new...Uhm, Legos?

My general approach to writing? I take it more laid back than before, making it much more entertaining for myself.

Prophecies! For Guilded Cage, with Cat. Very interesting.

I wanna say....Buzzkill?

definitely "Til the end of the earths (guess we found out where the earths ends)".

Apocalypse AU with the fic mentionned above ^. I always go for more Modern/Highschool/college Aus otherwise.

Unicorn scott as a concept. sorry syn not sorry

Rescue Fire by ImagineThat

Ah, this is a hard one, because I usually try to make everything fit? And if it doesn't make it, then the idea was just.. Not great. Maybe in Rotten Dessert, I wanted to make Scott's relationship with his mother so much more worse, but instead, I ended up making it another fic entirely (Beat Bush). Maybe shipping Gem and Cleo in "Tomorrow we'll dig through the garbage" because I forgot Cleo was already shipped with Martyn.

TheYesterdayShow's new series, "A billion moths flying towards you" (maybe i messed up the name.) Or the Lark AU! I liked that one!

woofuspigeon on Tumblr. I love their style.

All of Trust Life by Capritarius

My experience with the foster care system and speaking up about how fucked it all is.

Rodamrix on Wattpad has been a delight to have comment regularly. Thing is, they're not even in the Traffic life series fandom, and still want to support me!

Brother by Madds Buckley, Teen Idle by Marina, Pick Me by Alex Benjamin, all of Evil Anvil's songs.

WatcherAurora has been a huge inspiration. Amethystfairy1 too.

Take your time. you don't owe a chapter to anyone. Write at your pace.

Artist and Fic Writer EOY Asks

Describe your journey this year in three words

A piece you're proud of and why

A fic or artwork you enjoyed

Creator you'd like to see more from

A scene you enjoyed creating

A scene you struggled with

Comfort character to create for

Most challenging character to write or draw

A work from another creator you keep coming back to

Fandom you created most for this year

Fandom you'd like to create more for next year

A concept you'd like to develop next year

A fic or artwork by another creator that made you happy

Something new you tried this year

An area of your art you feel you improved upon

Something interesting you researched as part of the process

The creation that took the least amount of time

The creation that took the most amount of time

A new genre or style you tried

Something that made you laugh

Something that made you emotional

An idea you had that didn't make the cut

Rec another creator's fic you wish more people would read

Rec another creator's artwork you wish more people would see

A scene or image that lives rent-free in your head

Something that inspired you this year

Shout-out to a commenter/reblogger who encourages you

A song that relates to one of your creations

Shout-out someone who inspires you

Advice to yourself (and maybe others) for the new year

Don't forget to tag!

[khoirkid]

One of my submissions for the TTSBC: Beyond event! I love flower husbands bc of @amethystfairy1 so hey blame her if they show up on my feed a bunch. I decided to draw comic book covers for each of the couples and then Pearl. For flower husbands, I decided to show off the picnic with a hint of the world below and letting Jim show off his wings :)

[amethystfairy1]

Sorry, Allay anon here to apologize.

I think the whole thinking about the Allay mutant kind of goes against the going past your whole timeline thing? In case you were planning any Allay mutants or anything.

Also, I didn't realize there was a whole index about the different hybrids and mutants, and didn't realize that the correct term would be mutants, so apologies again.

Also, thinking back on it, the whole rant felt sort of diminishing of intelligence with how much I explained stuff, and also it may feel like I was taking your au out of your hands. That truly wasn't my intent, and I realize that my over excitedness of it may not parse well through text?

Just a whole lot of apologies for that, I didn't mean to overstep any boundaries or anything, and I just wanted to apologize for that.

I hope you have a good day, stay hydrated and eat and sleep well and take some breaks.

You don't need to apologize at all! I loved your ask about the Allay mutants you came up with and I 100% encourage folks to come up with that sort of thing and PLEASE send it to me, I don't want you to feel bad about that at all! I promise I loved it and you didn't overstep at all, the fact that my AU made you feel creative and inspired and you came up with so many ideas made me so so so happy!

Let me clarify something about that little timeline rule that I'm sure you must've seen in @silver-sunray's TTSBC: Beyond post! What I mean by that is specific events that haven't happened yet. That's why the given examples are a Flower Husbands wedding and Cub's hybrid reveal. Both of these events are things that might happen in TTSBC's future, so I would rather not have folks writing fic or things along those lines that portray those events because they haven't actually happened, and I want to have a chance to write them first 😅

This rule does not apply to hybrids/mutants that have not yet appeared in TTSBC. If you wanna write about an Allay mutant OC, go for it! Please, by all means, I would love to see what you come up with for them! If you want to participate in TTSBC: Beyond with them, all you gotta do is make sure they fit into the TTSBC universe, which I will say they totally do because I did read your ask and I loved it!

It's just that I got back in town from a long, very fun, but also very exhausting con weekend this week, and your ask was so lovely, detailed, and interesting that I didn't want to half-ass a response, so I wanted to give myself a few days to try and restart my brain cells before I typed up a reply to you! I'm so sorry if my taking so long to answer made you think I didn't like it, because that is not at all the case!

Imma go type up my reply to it right now as a matter of fact 🏃‍♀️💨

But yeah, do not apologize because there is nothing to apologize for, I promise! And Thank you for the well wishes, hope you are having a lovely day as well! 💖

[amethystfairy1]

Uh, hi!

I don't really know how to meld my little OC into TTSBC: Beyond! But I still wanted to show off my little guy and maybe infodump about them because they're very silly in my mind.

This is Neap (NEE-ap), an allay mutant (allay anon no longer, I suppose)! Standing at 5 ft, around young teens (15-16 ish) with a light blue glamour!

Originally born in the depths, captured for their luminosity and kept around for his healing blood and reflective crystals from said blood by a gang. They tried escaping once, as a young child, but got caught and below the knees were chopped off. In their time there, they only managed to regenerate one of their legs, not ever having enough glamour or blood to regenerate the second one. A second attempt years later proved successful, though.

After scrounging around in the depths, trying to find cloths to hide their body, they found Etho's gang busting the criminals that they were once imprisoned by. They noticed Neap and brought them to the near surface for medical treatment.

A witch noticed them and brought them under their wing, and they've been living with them ever since, organizing their materials for them. The witch nicknamed them "Flora", because it's cute.

They also sometimes work at a nearby library/archive (because there must be a library if there's a school? For general education?) and after chatting with a regular visitor with a robotic eye, learns more about the old Director and his theories about her. They don't really believe him, but they likes listening to him.

They use a cane because they only has a temporary leg until she can regenerate back herself. Still, even if they regenerate their legs, their knees often act up, so a cane is handy for keeping them upright.

So yeah. Neap. I have no clue if I accidentally moved too far back from canon, so let me know if anything is out of place, but yeah!

AHHHHHH CUTIEEEE

I love them!!!! I love their hair and their design and their backstory all so much! They work for a witch too? That's just so perfect I adore it! I think everything is right in order to this!!! If you want Neep to be included in Beyond, make sure to send an ask to @silver-sunray who is collecting everything for the event, so that Neep can have their part in the submission gallery when the event eventually goes live! And of course feel free to add more or write more about them alongside that bit, I love them and I think you did a great job! Thank you for sharing! 💖

[amethystfairy1]

🎉 Happy New Years! 🎉

It's been a loooong year so I figured I may as well make a post about it, as well as talk a bit about my plans for 2025! As you know, I tend to ramble, so this got a little long, and maybe sounds a little too much like an Oscars acceptance speech...whoopsie 😅...but from the bottom of my heart I genuinely just felt like I needed to get all these emotions that were emotion-ing today thinking about the New Year out for those of you who have played a part in giving them to me.

If you have a few minutes, please do give it a read through!

The Mushy Stuff:

Firstly, and most importantly beyond a doubt, I want to thank everyone who's been so incredibly kind and supportive of my writing this past year! Every kudos, comment, like, follow, ask, all of them have been treasured by me!

I've had a very difficult year. As I've mentioned before, I'm a full-time masters student. I also work a nearly full-time job on top of that. And while I don't like my blog to have anything to do with my train wreck of an irl life this year, let's just say it hasn't been great...lots of stuff went down, lots of things went wrong, so on and so forth.

Point is, my tippy taps have been crucial to my mental health. I started TTSBC, literally posted the first story 'Pretty Boy' on my very first day as a grad student, sitting there in the office with the knowledge that between school, work, and things happening in my own life, and I'd be having a really rough couple of years to get this degree done.

I finish in May, and I feel confident with my work, I'm ahead of the curve, I'm doing well, and I think that's in no small part because of my tippy taps. These AUs, the writing challenges, the amazing friends I've made and the little community that's somehow decided for whatever reason to form around my obsession with the block people, they've been a very big part of what's kept me going through all of this.

Knowing I could count on people to read my work, to enjoy it, that I could give someone out there something to relate too or even just make them smile if they were feeling as shitty as I was, that made me feel better. It's been so, so important to me.

So thank you. Thank you for following Through the Sky-Blue Cracks and Traveling Thieves. Thank you for screaming over my Whumptober and Febuwhump collections. Thank you for following me, for chasing me and my thoughtful Batman gif around in the asks, for playing along with my goofy-ass side blog, for commenting and kudos-ing and somehow materializing the instant a chapter goes up even before I post the tumblr notif. It means a lot more than I think any words I could come up with would convey.

I also really really really want to thank my Tinted Glass crew!

@silver-sunray This is all your fault. You started this 😤 And by that I mean you made these AUs and me screaming into the void alone so much more than that. It's because of you that I started to fight the fear, scuttle out of my shell and start actually trying to talk to others in this little online sphere. Your incredible work on the Beyond project and now in helping with my side blog and all our other plans and projects mean the world to me! You always have so much spunk and confidence whenever any ideas pop up that I suddenly feel like it's so much more is achievable thanks too you. I'm so very happy you reached out to me this year and I know so much that I've done with my writing wouldn't have happened without you 💖

@boo-the-ahh you're just the sweetest! You always make everything feel so light even when things are complicated or heavy, and you don't even know it! I love getting to work with you on the podfics and our other projects we've been plotting! You're always so full of energy and enthusiasm and encouragement that makes me feel like I can come up with the most whack-ass idea and you'll just back me up, and that's absolutely amazing! I'm so happy you reached out to me and started podficcing for me! Your work is incredible! You put in so much effort, your final products are always so beautifully polished and you always go the extra mile even when it makes things trickier. I admire that so much! And I apologize in advance for the sheer amount of my writing you're probably doomed to have to read out loud in the coming year 😅

@khoirkid You're just a marvel, in my opinion, which I know you don't share but shhhhhhhh. You come up with masterpieces at the drop of a hat, and the fact that you are willing to draw my whack-ass lil guys is still just unfathomable to me. You're always so easy to talk too and down to earth, and you're so creative and imaginative with how you weave symbols into your art with different imagery and color! I feel like half the time the stuff you come up with is so articulate and amazing that it goes over my head, but that's fine! 😆 You're so knowledgable and you have a perspective on things that helps me think things through. I love getting to work with you and I'm so very grateful for all the gorgeous illustrations, and for all the time you've given to me that's made me feel a little less alone.

All three of y'all are just so cool and supportive and talented that most of the time I don't get why you're hanging out over here and giving so much of your time and energy to these projects of mine, but I'm forever grateful that I have you as my friends. So thank you. 💜

Plans for 2025:

Ok, now that I've gotten my emotions all emotion-ed out, let's talk a little bit about my plans for the New Year!

Of course I'll still be continuing TTSBC and TT! No doubt about it! There's big things happening in both the AUs, and I'm so very excited to share them with everyone!

I'll be finishing my degree in May...to be perfectly honest, I'm still unsure of how much of a workload I'm gonna end up having academically this last semester, so I think I'll just say that if updates slow down a bit, just assume Amethyst is drowning under piles of revisions doused in red ink and a bunch of reference texts and papers due to be graded. I promise I'm not gonna just stop tippy tapping! I don't think my brain would be able to handle it if I did 😅

As far as some of the typical challenges go, I will not be participating in Febuwhump this year. I wish I could, but I know I'll definitely have too much going on academically to commit to another writing challenge...also I think Whumptober almost killed both Khoir and I, and we don't need to be doing that again anytime soon 😵‍💫 I'm still gonna check out the prompt list, and if I see a few prompts that I find particularly intriguing maybe I'll write those up, and do a few of the days, but I won't be doing the full writing challenge.

Jury is still out on Hermit-a-Day May, which I'm hopeful will be running again this year! I'd love to do it, but I'll have to make that later, once I know for certain how my workload is feeling since I'll be doing my final revisions, my defense, all that good stuff in late April, which is when I'd typically be working up my fics for Hermit-a-Day May.

I will be doing Whumptober. No questions about it!

I have a few other Hermit/Traffic/Empires fanfic projects on the back burner that I'm working on here or there whenever I need to take a lil break from TTSBC and TT. One of them is a project that all of the Tinted Glass Crew is working on together, and while I don't wanna give spoilers, I'll just say that it's going to be a ton of fun! It's unlike any other AU or one-off I've ever done before, and even just brainstorming it has been incredible so please look forward to it!

I also have my original series. Which...I haven't talked about, not really. I'm pretty nervous about putting it out there, to be honest, but it's my baby and I've been working on it for over four years now. It's written in a similar style to TTSBC and TT, that is, focused on queer romance and found family in a ton of stories all organized in chronological order and written up and down on a timeline. One of my big hopes for this year is to finally share this series. I dunno where yet, or when...it'll definitely wait until after I finish my degree in May, that much is for certain, but I suppose I just wanted to prime everyone. The Tinted Glass Crew has already been so amazingly kind as to agree to help me find a way to get this story that's so dear to me out to all of y'all someway somehow...and I'm confident if I have those guys on my team we'll figure it out! 😅

I hope, if you've enjoyed TTSBC and TT and any of my other work, you'll at least give my original blorbos a shot whenever they are freed from their little cage in my notebooks and save files. They're not so different from the way I write my MCYT characters, they're a bunch of big gay idiots with personality issues, a ton of tangled up secrets, and more trauma than you can shake a stick at...and they're mine, which means I really like to put them through the wringer. 😆 But after everything I've done over this past year and even further back here on this blog, on A03, and in this little community, I feel like maybe they might find themselves a home in at least some of your hearts...or maybe just piss you off with their poor life decisions and accidentally give you brainrot, who knows.

Anyway, this has been a lot. Sorry I tend to ramble...all of this is just to say thank you. I had a lot of fun this year, getting to share my stories with all of you, and I hope you'll continue to support me as I tippy tap my way into the New Year!

-Amethyst