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my EPIC: The Musical Secret Santa gift for @yourstrulycasedy!

wasn’t sure if they had or preferred a certain Hermes design so I used my own! cheers and Merry Crisis!

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OH MY GOD I LOVE IT LMAOOOOO

Heres my Secret Santa Gift @insoucianceart ! I hope you like my Hermes drawing (I used my version of him because I couldn't find one you did, but I hope you like it anyway)

(And yes that is Odyseus beating Poseidon in the back(

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what’s that cipher thing you use called? did you make it? are you in cryptology? if you made that code should I follow in your footsteps to fully embrace harley?

I’m assuming you’re referring to the Helix Cipher, as shown below:

I did indeed make it, though it’s very rudimentary— just a standard 26 letter alphabet with strokes for spaces, and punctuation stays the same as your standard alphabet. It was based off of the code used in Generation Loss, as well as Gnommish (from Artemis Fowl). I’m not really an expert in cryptology, it’s just a minor hyperfixation.

It was made due to the fact that I figured Cierran and Elias would want a way to effectively communicate without chance of discovery. Hence Cierran (at the age of 15 or so) created the Helix Cipher, a code to which he had the only key (Elias didn’t need to possess the key, since, y’know, the Eye).

I was originally going to use it for hints within pages, sort of a little nudge to anyone who decided it. But now I don’t really use it since, y’know, I discarded the project. So here’s how to decode it!

The symbols correspond to the following letters:

So, for example, this would read “GNIYRC TUO ‘YADAM!’”

But that’s not English, is it? So now go back and reverse the letters in each word to get “CRYING OUT ‘MAYDAY!’”

And there you have it! A little yap shesh about the cipher! As for if you should follow in my footsteps… I mean, only if you feel like it. Idk what/who “harley” is though.

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WHERE ARE YOUR LEGS

stfu I’m lazy and don’t want to rig the legs LMAO

(They are drawn though. Maybe I’ll rig them later. Next year perchance)

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Time to rig… oh god

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Mayday! art contest: the final 10 winners

there are two sparkbirds inside me:

sparkbird 1 is the artist who has spent the better part of their life submitting to things and getting rejected. I've received multiple rejections this very month!!

sparkbird 2 has to pick winners for a contest

sparkbird 3 (surprise, there are three sparkbirds inside me?? or maybe there's just one sparkbird and I am all of them... yeah, actually... that's it. it's all just me.) wants everyone who submitted art to this contest to know that I genuinely love your work. every entry took this song and turned it into something new, and that's so amazing. every entry brought more meaning to my life (it sounds cheesy but I mean it) and I hate to pit all you beautiful artists against each other 😭

to quote the art professor in one of my favorite scenes from the show Kim's Convenience: "is an apple better than an orange? is a triangle better than a square? I DON'T KNOW, AND I'M SUPPOSED TO BE AN EXPERT"

all of this is to say, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 10 WINNERS OF BOOKMARKS!!! a few of whom are on Tumblr:

@g-n-c-quoi: mixed media/writing @mushrooms-n-sewing: sewing/writing (Skyjacks-themed) @insoucianceart: digital art/yap (The Magnus Archives canon + OC)

non-Tumblr:

Anya (Mouthwashing) cosplay (TikTok) Lizzie (Empires SMP) cosplay (TikTok) Power Rangers edit (TikTok | Instagram) Mouthwashing animatic (TikTok | YouTube) Frankenstein animatic (Instagram) Digital art featuring pirate OCs (Instagram) Perler bead recreation of the Mayday! single artwork (TikTok)

AMAZING, all of you!!!

please dm me to let me know where to send your signed bookmark (OR if you prefer to receive a prize digitally I can send you a link to the files and you can print your own bookmark)

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balg

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“eldritch abomination”

Also the abomination: 👁️👅👁️

Just a little horrifying guy

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eldritch abomination

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I am looking… respectfully 👀

ehehe

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So what the hell is up with Confounding, huh?

bit of a long post so uh sorry lmao

As much as I love Confounding, I’m putting it to rest. I’ve tried starting it three times now and it just never worked out.

That said, this story is one of my favourites I’ve ever conceived. So below the cut is what Confounding could have been.

Here’s what the first page of Chapter 1 would have been, because I’m super proud of it.

I’ve linked a Google Drive folder here with all the (written) Confounding stuff I worked on prior to setting it aside. Below is the first few pages of what Chapter I would have been in the sketch phase.

(this was the farthest I got lmao)

As for the chapters I hadn’t yet written, I’ll summarise them in more detail:

Chapter VII - Falling Out

(I didn’t finish writing this one, but the unfinished script is in the Drive so here’s the rest of it)

John semi-forces Cierran to come along with him to the prison, saying that he won’t allow Cierran to stay in the Bouchard manor, and basically orders Cierran to stay with him in his flat until Cierran finds a more stable place to stay.

Chapter VIII - Family Matters

John yells at Elias for brainwashing a child to further whatever sick plans he has, and eventually, for some odd reason, Cierran snaps too. He shouts at his father for twisting him into a monster and a murderer. This last part shocks John, and he asks about it, but Cierran screams at Elias that “the only blood we share is the blood on our hands” (by far my favourite line ever), so he has no trouble saying that Elias is no longer his rightful father. He storms out. John follows him and helps him get settled in his flat.

Chapter IX - Suffocating Peace

Cierran huddles in his bed, talking quietly to himself about how he can’t stay with John. He hadn’t meant anything he’d said in the prison— it was all an act, of course. He’d never betray his father. Over the course of a few weeks he shows signs of becoming an actively better person while staying with John, but he’s determined to leave. He finds a note from Elias on his desk at the Institute detailing plans to stage Cierran’s own kidnapping. Not entirely knowing why he couldn’t just leave quietly, but trusting his father, Cierran follows the plans and escapes the flat that night.

Chapter X - Through the Door

This part was, in truth, kind of a plot hole. What happened in the time Cierran left to this chapter? Who can say.

Cierran sits in his room at the Bouchard manor when a deep rumbling begins to vibrate the world. He hears chanting… John’s voice. Suddenly a loud crash reverberates around the room: a doorframe opens into his previously empty wall, its door splintered and broken. It is the Distortion. Helen appears and tells Cierran that “I have always been your ally. You just haven’t been mine,” and takes him into the Distortion. Cierran opens a door within the corridors and falls in, only to land in the top floor of the Panopticon with his father. But his father is gone; all that remains is the Pupil of the Eye. The Eye speaks directly to Cierran: “HE CAN’T HEAR YOU. THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN DO.” Distraught, Cierran races to the bottom floor of the tower only to find himself trapped there. He finds the key to the door that blocks the staircase, but whenever he climbs it he ends up back in the bottom floor. He is alone.

Chapter XI - Like Father, Like Son

John and Martin enter the first floor of the Panopticon, only to find Cierran blocking their path. He reveals that he was acting when he stayed with John and explains to them in rather gruesome detail how he can never change. John refuses to believe this.

Chapter XIII - Breaking Free

John suddenly calls upon the Eye and makes Cierran relive the fire that killed his parents. But Cierran notices one detail that he hadn’t noticed as a child: the rectangular bulge in Elias’s shirt pocket.

The size and shape of a lighter.

John then makes Cierran relive the past few weeks, where he had been genuinely changing for the good. Cierran concedes and gives John and Martin the key to the staircase: “Give him hell for me… John.” (Notably, the first and only time he ever calls John “John” instead of Jonathan”). A while later, a portal opens up in the air, formed by the tape recorders. Cierran turns around, gives a Truman Show-esque bow, and exits the portal.

Epilogue - Emeralds

(the Protocol universe)

Cierran’s eyes open to reveal a cheerful party scene. He looks around to see Rafael and Astrid, who wish him a happy birthday. For the first and only time, Cierran bursts into genuine tears.

This story genuinely means a lot to me, and I’m really bummed I won’t properly finish it. But I know it’s best. I’ve moved on. I’ll still keep drawing Cierran of course, but Confounding is as done as it can be. I’m working on other things, and I’m starting college next semester so lord knows that’ll take up time like a bitch.

if any of you want to make fanart of this story I’d be so ecstatic. but only if you want to <3

Over and out, Inso

(P.S.: I’ve started a roughly 20 minute animatic project for another podcast. here’s hoping I actually finish a project for once. good grief)

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Inso, do we have your permission to also love Akee, or is that not okay? /silly

yall can love my boi, he is very loveable!!

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ref for my Minecraft Origins OC, Akee!

he is very bbg and I love him <333

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don’t feed the machine

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not many Lost in Space (2018) fans here I imagine but have an Adler

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oh, and one more thing