#Crater city

[gummybugg]

Oh I gave a great idea! *breaks character's psyche into a million unsalvageable pieces with a baseball bat*

[egophiliac]

hashtag just class B things 🤷

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Halloween prompts year 2 day 3

Danny smiled back at the elf boy. Ever since landing in Hyrule this guy has stuck by his side and did everything in his power to help him, even going so far as to learn English and teach Danny Hylian. If it wasn't for Link Danny doesn't know what he would have done.

They were in Hyrule field, practicing Dannys portal and teleporting powers to see if he could open a portal home or teleport there. He began thinking about how pure and clean Hyrule was since it didn't have a drop of pollution and how cities were supposed to be gross and polluted. So he began focusing on pollution, smog and filth, hoping that that would take him back home.

He didn't expect to teleport a city into Hyrule.

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Five minutes.

Jason had only brushed his teeth and washed his face and in that time all of Crime Alley had been thrown into another dimension. Typical.

Whats more it looked like they were in a green grassy area. A legit apple forest was to the North of them and probably one of the clearest, cleanest rivers he had ever seen was directly East of them. God, he could see the fish swimming in the water.

What was most surprising though was the elf people. They weren't causing trouble per say, but hes definitely had to save some of them that wandered in out of curiosity. After the second or third one he saved he noticed a fence had popped up around all of crime ally over night. There were signs on the other side of the fence with some kind of official seals on them. So elves have political leaders? Works for him, he can guess that the signs say something to the effect of "Stay out" and it should make his job a bit easier. That and the numerous woven baskets left surrounding Crime Alley filled with fruits, veggies, cloth, clothing and soap.

Jason wasn't expecting some of the elves to get through the fencing to throw an unknown liquid into Crime Alley and then run. He panicked at first, thinking this was some kind of attack, but after testing it, he discovered it was just soapy water. He didn't understand at first but soon began getting reports from his men that anyone who wandered out of the city was being captured, thrown into the shallow water of the river, and scrubbed with long poled mops.

Rude. I mean, he gets that the elf people have probably never dealt with pollution, which means they never had to smell it, but still. Rude.

Red Hood gets a bit twitchy when he learns the kids who wander out get captured but chills out once he learns the children are never harmed.

The hylians are taking them in, bathing them, clothing, teaching them to cook and teaching them thier language. They are given lots of clothes and toys and the option to stay with them if they have no where else to go. Jason has no idea about this until a short blond elf guy and a teenage human twink talk to him and explain whats going on, the twink even apologized to him and explained that all of this was his fault.

[letlionslie]

i love how chris is such a bad communicator that his sister ends up tracking him across an ocean because his silly ass can’t check his email or send a postcard…

… but apparently leon checks his email so religiously that claire knows she can just fire one off to him and within a matter of hours leon will track down her deadbeat brother and send him to pick her up from secret umbrella prison island.

[strqyr]

this may sound odd, but V9 really should have leaned heavier on the fairytale aspect. the girl who fell through the world, a fairytale the whole group was familiar with, is a story about a girl who traveled through the ever after to make it back to remnant successfully... except that's not what really happened. alyx didn't make it back to remnant; instead, she was killed because she wanted to fix everything that she had broken, but in the progress broke her promise to the cat.

team rwby wanted to save everyone in atlas. to an extent, they succeeded, but not everyone made it, and those who did make it to vacuo are now without a home to return to, and despite the lengths they went to to save penny's life, she too died.

and so did they. not literally, but it's what they thought falling meant, and with no guarantee they would make it back to remnant, for the people still there they very well might as well be.

i'm not explaining this very well, but like. they all should have been dealing with the aftermath of atlas; how they failed in some aspects, how if falling really had meant death, this would have been the end of road for them, how by taking so much on their plate to "fix everything", they didn't pay attention to "the cat they'd made a promise to". how even the fairytale with a happy ending that seemed to be based on a true story, in reality ended in tragedy.

the real world isn't like a fairytale, but "that's why we're here, to make it better"; but one can't bend reality to their will and expect perfect results just because what you're doing is good. sometimes, bad things really do happen for no reason, but by keeping your focus on small things (like helping a mouse to its food source) and minimizing risks, you can hopefully avoid the worst of it while still making a difference.

just, like. tying the threads between what happened in atlas & the girl who well through the world tighter together, creating a point of discussion that drives change in the characters, if that makes sense?

[coffeeandcalligraphy]

so yesterday I was like hm. it’s sad that of all the novella sons, only lonan doesn’t have a sequel, so then I was like well. what if I write something about him returning to oregon. what iffffff

[ereh-emanresu-tresni]

[team5ds]

insane statement but it's wild how yugioh 5ds canonically had two 9/11 like events

[ff7boi]

think it's crazy that cloud was convinced that he wasn't a real person sometimes,, like shinra and sephiroth fucked him up so badly that the end product was a mentally broken cloud who genuinely believed he was never real and just essentially a lab experiment like how badly you got fuck with someone mentally to get them to that point man

[sw5w]

I Haven't Seen You This Tense Since We Fell Into That Nest of Gundarks

STAR WARS EPISODE II: Attack of the Clones 00:07:13

[dreamtigress]

Creation Crater

I have time to write. I have motivation to write. I have plotted out what I want to write. I have STARTED the NEXT CHAPTER. I get four sentences in before I realize I need to name another city because reasons. I then spend several HOURS looking up canon references for locations, documenting every city/town/village/location I have invented for my own canon because they don't exist in the OG canon. (We don't have any cities even LABELED on the map for the Wandering Isle?!) Inventing like 5 news places for future purposes. Laying out an entire timeline of Inej's "Lion Hunts" based in part on said invented locations. AND THEN ALSO, updating the map of the Grishaverse that I have putting overlays on to show all of my invented cities/towns/villages.

Um. I took a break for lunch, and now maybe I can start writing again? WTF, brain.

Sharing because this was ALMOST like a research rabbit hole, but instead was a creation crater that while, including WRITING, wasn't actually, yanno, WRITING. A creation crater is a pothole on the road to your goal, a procraftination, if you will.

Go me! ::laughs in highly detail map overlays that I even sourced the correct FONT for because I am THAT FREAK.:::

[gummybugg]

Yeah I guess so, Frasier doesn't believe in the preachings of the cult but I suppose since he's the unwilling chosen one, he gets exempt from the usual sacrilege bc he's special. Sometimes he humors their letters by responding with instructions on what days to irritate Darcy with protests or clogging traffic or whatever.

I don't think Frasier would be the type of person to take advantage of a group of impressionable people with malicious intent, but he'd definitely ask them for help if he were in a pinch or tell them to do ridiculous things just for shits.

Hi! Happy WBW! This week I've been thinking a lot about religion so... What is considered sacrilegious in your world? Is it common to encounter such a thing or is it punishable (or maybe both)? How do religious institutions react?

Happy wbw & its been a while so hello again. been busy with my life & am not the most active online person but do try :')

There are currently 2 religions in the story: the Brotherhood of Mars Lake & The Motherboard. None of the cast from Crater City are religious that I know of, except forrr Desmond, who eventually escapes his religion (the former) over the course of the story. Don't think I mentioned him at all on here, though. For this ask I will talk abt the Mars Lake cult bc I feel like it.

A little background about it before the questions...

The Brotherhood of Mars Lake was founded by an unknown man who was rumored to have survived the first apocalypse by using the lake's resources alone. The Lake is magic by all those who worship it. It is said to cure ailments if dunked in its water. Followers can be initiated into the religion by being dunked into the water by a leader (Desmond) or by drinking its rusty water. The "chosen one" is deemed to be Frasier after he mistakenly wandered into the area & followers caught a glimpse of him while followers were stuck under the lake's "charm" (they were suffering from radiation poisoning). He avoids the lake to this day regardless of the gifts and letters he keeps receiving to save the world. Darcy thinks it's funny he still gets "fan mail" to this day.

What is considered sacrilegious in your world?

Disrespecting the lake, calling the lake "Lake Menses" due to its red color, disregarding the intrinsic value of the lake, polluting the lake, denouncing the legend of the founder and/or chosen one.

Is it common to encounter such a thing or is it punishable (or maybe both)?

Yes for both, many people make fun of the religion all the time outside of it.

How do religious institutions react?

If you speak poorly of the religion, your tongue can be sliced off and used as fish bait for the next feast, you can be held in the lake for over 30 minutes resulting in death, or you can be excommunicated

Anyway that was fun, so thank u for the ask! 🎉🪲🎉

[flamingostalker]

I think nobody has made a good bilbo food restriction and/or thorin weight gain fic because I personally would not survive it

[nebulousboops]

Pink smoke gets stuck in my throat

[origin-spirits-of-the-past]

Agito: I want to achieve "he's adorable and I will protect him at all costs but also I am slightly frightened by his power."

[punkyblooze]

Geist Concept Art

Progress on the digital art sketch I've been working on today. This is eventually going to be Alastor & its crown jewel: the Arc, which has been built in a crater. Its made up of four smaller super structures & layered into many floors.

The super structures were created as havens for the population when extreme storms caused by unchecked climate change ravage the city. But its much like the Titanic: sinking w/o enough lifeboats. The wealthy live, the poor die, especially in the crater

The Arc is very inspired by the city blocks in the Judge Dread movie, fascist designs, & brutalist architecture in general, while the greater city is inspired by Batman Beyond, Midgar, & cyberpunk city designs.

Imagine one of those big ass structures right inside of one of these w/ favelas creeping up the sides that get flooded every time a storm comes in. The Arc seals itself up & the cops try to lock the favelas out, but the people have found ways to get smuggled in to survive.