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i need that album art as a sticker omg

well here you go then!

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Would anyone be interested in iwatex adoptables? I keep having ideas for characters that end up going nowhere and that I only draw once that giving them to someone else might be for the best, but I don’t know how interested people are in that sort of thing especially in this small fandom. The designs would probably have the same level of detail as my other ocs if not a little higher? This is just an interest check for now. If there’s enough interest I might do a poll for pricing?? Idk we’ll see

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Did someone ask for fanart of Vace x Noctilucent? No? Just me? Well, too bad, I drew some, and I'm making it everyone else's problem because that's what they would do 😈

I have no explanation for why I went so hard on this of all drawings, but no regrets. This is simultaneously the best and worst thing I've ever drawn. This is a masterpiece and a curse.

Also, I just need everyone to know I listened to "Baby One More Time" a lot while making this. It came on while I was working and had the perfect vibes. Do with that info what you will.

A close-up, another version with slightly different lighting that prob no one can see but me because I can't decide, and the original sketch.

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... I should make an iwatex preplot playlist

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Songs I associate with iwatex but I DO have enough to make a playlist

This post is long so the song associations with the characters are below the cut, if you listen to the playlist I highly recommend looking at them!

Sol: Lifeline - Jack Stauber / Petals on the Moon - Wasia Project / everything - JAWNY / Rearrange Us - Mt. Joy / Worst Thoughts In The World - Sophie May / This Is A Life - Son Lux, Mitski, David Byrne

Anemone: Between My Teeth - Orla Gartland / love is a black hole ! - Matin Luke Brown

Cal: Ease Up Kid - Hippo Campus / Nobody’s Soldier - Hozier

Dys: Alone and Sublime - Mother Mother Slow Down / Peter McPoland / He’s Getting Away! - Ethan Tasch / Death - Mt. Joy / ur so pretty - Wasia Project / Lover Boy - Sophie May / Allies or Enemies - The Crane Wives

Tangent: Allies or Enemies - The Crane Wives / I Wish I Never Met You - Babygirl / Scars - The Crane Wives

Tammy: No More Birthdays - Sophie May / Baby - Oh Wonder

Marz: Superstar - Rainbow Kitten Surprise / Moves - Suki Waterhouse / After Midnight - Chappell Roan

Nomi: Coexist - Wild Party / Drop Pop Candy - REOL / Sunday Best - Valiant Vermin, Ricky Montgomery

Rex: My Type - Saint Motal / Anything You Want - JAWNY / Talk Too Much - COIN

Vace: Shutup You're Stupid - That Handome Devil / We’ve Got A Score To Settle - The Dear Hunter / I’m Gonna Win - Rob Cantor

Sym; High on Humans - Oh Wonder / FIGURE IN THE BACKGROUND - SNAKE POOL

Misc: Grass Stains - Laura Elliot / Youth - Daughter

Bonus; Congruence: A Human’s Touch - TWRP, McKenna Rae

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got rlly into hadestown over the summer. I have a favorite but I don’t think anyone can tell 🤣

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what's better than this? just guys being dudes.

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I got the sym one hehe

They’re so pretty I’m so excited

✨BEGONIA KEYCHAINS ARE HERE!!✨

You can check them out here!!

These keychains are in collaboration with the lovely Poayo, who will be handling shipping- and remember to check out the rest of their merch while you're at it! :D

I'll be posting the art for each of the designs over the next few days! <3

(also, full link to the shop is here!!)

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day 3 - from a family of bakers, hydrapple has left the family business to become a professor and expert on pokemon social groups!

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A quick doodle for what I think an adult Echinacea may look like; safe to say she takes after Grandpa Tonin much to her mother’s dismay lol!!!

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✨BEGONIA KEYCHAINS ARE HERE!!✨

You can check them out here!!

These keychains are in collaboration with the lovely Poayo, who will be handling shipping- and remember to check out the rest of their merch while you're at it! :D

I'll be posting the art for each of the designs over the next few days! <3

(also, full link to the shop is here!!)

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Ok so originally I was gonna make one post with a whole ton of them together but uh. it got too big. So instead take some headcanons to match my design for Councilor Besk

God tumblr is going to ruin the quality of this

Councilor Besk

Birthday: Early Quiet Age: would have been 36 on New Year's Day the year the game starts, turning 37 shortly after

"The adults only talk about Councilor Besk in hushed whispers and and melancholic, well-practiced platitudes nowadays, never letting the topic linger before pushing it on to something else."

(Spoilers for late game content below)

Besk died almost exactly four years before the ship reached Vertumna, a few weeks past the 16th anniversary of it's launch, and, tragically, the day before her 37th birthday.

When Besk first signed up to have a child in the third age bracket, almost everyone arround her assumed she was intended to be a surrogate mother for a child that would be raised in the creche, but nobody ever actually asked her; When she later asked Eudicot and Seeq about having twins, she told them that she never said that, and the two were flustered enough in the moment to agree to her request without fully going over it with the whole council

The reason people assumed that was because Instance assumed that, and the reason Instance assumed that was because she had been the one to suggest Besk carry a child - with Besk thinking that Instance wanted a child with her.

No, it did not go well when they cleared this up.

Yes, this is why Besk wanted twins.

She had a few friends earlier on in the Stratospheric's journey, but those relationships quickly deteriorated, either from the imbalence of Besk's role as only councilor, or from her habit of self isolation to deal with her own issues

Anne thought that they were friends, and they sort of were for a brief period when Kom was young but before Besk had her twins, and they had a friendly-but-not-friends relationship before leaving Earth, bonding with other troubled teenagers over a pilfered bottle of whiskey; Bernie was another kinda-sorta-not-really friend of hers getting on the ship and briefly becoming actual friends before drifting apart as she withdrew into her depression

She was always kind of short for her age and was never very tall as an adult, but a lot of the gen 2 adults have a skewed memory of how tall Besk actually was, either remembering her as a small teenager back on Earth, or an average-to-tall adult as councilor on the ship. Tangent unfortunately got her short queen genetics, and even before her gene therapy was destined to be short, but the combo of the two makes her look like an Especially Small Arabesque in their eyes

She also has the same brown-black eyes as Tang rather than the blue-black ones her brother has

Her office and quarters had faux-window monitors in them, something that most rooms had at launch but were considered gaudy and mostly broken down for parts, she had the last ones in operation by the time Sol was old enough to notice them. Most of them were recycled after her death, but one of the larger ones was left in her old office out of a sense of guilt by one of the engineers tasks to break it down.

Said old office was turned into an extra storage room, as nobody was able to properally work in there after her death, and even years later the researchers of the Heliopause found the room uncomfortable to be in for too long

In general she was just very into old tech, like I picture her old communicator being like somebody today going around using a walkie-talkie in their day to day life just because they think it's neat.

The genetics that give her the iridescent sheen to her hair and the genetics that give her the "dark on top but light near the neck" aren't directly connected, and happened to only pass down one to either of her kids by chance; Dys inherited the gene for blue-purple structural iridescence, while Tang inherited the one responsible for the pale underside; the gene that gives her the non-iridescent purple hair was also from Besk, the matte one being recessive to the iridescent one.

Not technically a Besk trivia but related to the above section, but by pure happenstance the donor picked for Dys also happened to be a carrier of the matte purple hair gene, in turn making Dys himself a recessive carrier of it but not through his mother.

God I am probably missing random details and things I meant to add on here but it's already like four times as long as my wip attempts for other unseen parent designs so I'm cutting myself off here

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Lil doodle of Tammy I did on the plane :D

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Another new start or perhaps just another page in the book

The stars still sing an dacen, this year has been tough yet to become reclient we need to push thru. But for this night, let us hold hands as we send Earth's own sparkling notes to sing with the night sky. As a new year arrives everything changes yet everything is the same. How ever and who ever you celebrate with, I wish you a happy new year

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I’m sorry but congruence-Sol AI gave me such a strong mental image that I had to draw it

(ft. Minor tracing of congruences screen thingy)

Im bad at writing coherent things but I need to get this concept out of my head so it stops haunting me.

I had this idea for another fic called The Undine Colony.

The setting would be the second colony by the sea- started when Sol is in their forties- the story taking place an unknown time after that.

It starts with the alarm that the original Stratospheric colony has gone silent. Collapsed all its networks, killed every signal, spirited away every colonist. As it still houses much of humanity's most advanced tech, like the servers for their holonet, essential parts of the power grid, this is an issue of extreme urgency.

And who better to turn to in their moment of need than Sol? So here they are suddenly jolted into wakefulness.

Their first thought is that they cannot feel their body. They quickly learn they are not in fact the real Sol, but only an AI copy made of their brain-scan from many decades ago. Though they cannot access the future vision as an ephemeral bit of software, they have superior computing on their side.

The gist of it being that AI Sol is now in charge of the 2nd colony to replace the hole left by Congruence, all while being tasked to figure out whats happening to the og colony & trying to reestablish contact. Aaand trying to piece together their own existence on top of it. Trying to find out what even happened to the original Sol. If they have something to do with this blackout.

So yeah, itd be slowly unfurling that mystery, piecing together the gap in their memory & issues of personhood.

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Cult Leader! Solana

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im also curious about suzie ..!!! she looks so cool, love her design !!! whats she up to? would she get along (or not) with marz since shes a politician?

(also sorry, just noticed you say that lucys a soldier in your post..! i saw your ocs, got excited, and only skimmed it before sending my ask)

Suzie is the daughter of commander Morikawa (the one Eudicot was talking to before the Heliopause landed) and wants to follow in his footsteps and be a leader.

When she catches wind that Marz plans to overthrow Lum, she also decides to campaign herself as governor. (Functionally, she’s Marz from the Helios lol)

She admires that Marz is willing to overthrow an incompetent leader and poses a good rival but questions if she’d actually be a good leader.

She has trouble getting along with most people but has a soft spot for Lucy.