#Cyrstal look!

[moonfromearth]

Ten people I'd like to know better...

Thank you so much for the tags @bloomingkyras @enchanteriv and @bastardtrait!! 🥰

Last Song: Cyrstallize Mashup (Remix by Wild Children) by Lindsey Stirling. I just got a stero so I'm listening to CDs again (yay!!) 😁

Favorite Color: It changes a lot but right now it's like a light, forest-y green.

Last Movie: Slightly disturbed that I can't remember... I'm going to cheat and say a TV show. My brother and I just started Mobile Suit Gundam: Seed (which is so long we'll probably still be working through it at the start of next year lol).

Last Book: Fullmetal Alchemist (Volumes 4-5-6) by Hiromu Arakawa. Really enjoyed it such a good story!! 😭 Currently reading A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson 😉

Sweet, Savory, or Spicy: Sweet as of now.

Last Thing I Googled: "min name origin" I named a sim Min and I couldn't remember it's meaning 😅

Current Obsession: Princess Peach's Showtime!! It's so cute but I haven't been able to play because I'm back in school. Also learning to crochet but also haven't had time for it 😭😭

Looking Forward To: Posting sims again!! I have some posts queued but I just started playing again so I'll have more content soon!! 🎉 Also I have several new series to start so 2025 is going to be a good blog year.

Aaaand I'll tag... @igglemouse @birdietrait @butterscotchbog @elderberries-and-honey and @akitasimblr (feel free to ignore tho if you've already done it/don't want to!!)

[black-suns-rim]

Shattered Cyrstal - The shattering

Short story. This may become a series, so let's say this is part 1.

Warning: death, graphic imagery

Everything's a blur...

"Ugh.. everything hurts... what happened?" The large figure tried to get up. He winced in pain and held his side as he slowly sat on his knees. He held his head as his ears rang loudly through his head. He looked up to see the quart room, once white and gold, now in a red light. The stone pillars that were once decorated now were broken, chipped and cracked. Stone fragments laid on the ground along with the statues of past Light Priests.

His eyes slowly began to focus and the ringing in his ears ceased. "No... no, no, no..." Stone shards rained down from the sky as he got up, grunting in pain, ducking for safety. "The crystal..." He didn't believe what he saw. He had to look again. He had to see if his eyes were telling the truth. Peeking out from his safe cover, he saw it; red, violently spinning and shooting out shards. The same shards that were falling from the sky. The crystal that once was made of pure light, it was no more.

He leaned his back up against the pillar he was hiding behind, "this can't be... how?.." He noticed something odd amongst the broken stone as he was trying to recall the events that happened before this. He squinted his eyes to try and see more clear. His heart sank as he realized what he was staring at and then all his memories came flooding back to him. The events became clear in his mind before he was knocked out.

The screaming, he heard it now, all around him. His senses were heighted as his heart began to thump within his chest. A Light Priest was crawling on the floor, injured serverly, trying to get to cover when a shard fell from the sky and hit them. He witness the Light Preist get Impaled and turn to stone. He gasped as he looked around in panic. Remembering everyone who was in the quart room with him before the crystal shattered.

"Alef! ALEF!?" He left his safety as he desperately called out, "ALEF! MY SON! WHERE ARE YOU!?" He winced and limped, taking cover when he needed to. The shards were shooting out of the reddened and broken crystal in timed periods. "ALEF!" He called out once more. He traveld closer to the crystal where the shards became more frequent, "ALEF! AL- Alef...? Alef!" He ran to the stone body that bore his son's clothing.

"No, no, no, NO, NO!" His voice cracked and shook as he fell to his knees at the small cold stone statue body. He picked it up, "No! My Alef! This can't be! My boy..? No... my Alef..." He held the stiff body in his hands as he began to weep. His son was small enough to fit in his hands, but was larger than any other child of the kingdom since he was of royal blood.

He was out in the open and the shards fell on him, but he ignored the pain. The adrenaline was high and he didn't believe what he was holding to be his son, "This can't be you?... no, you were here! You were here..."

He held the stone body close to his chest, not wanting to believe it was him. But he still weped. The shards pelted him for a while before someone began to shout for him.

"MY KING? MY KING!" He didn't hear the strained small voice over his weeping and the sound of the shards hitting the ground, the pillars, the statues and so on.

"Oh my Alef, my sweet Alef..." He kept repeating.

"MY KING!" The small voice became louder as it came closer. He heard the voice and recognized who it was.

"He's dead..." He choked back tears, his voice not loud enough for them to hear.

"My king?..."

"HE'S DEAD! My little boy! My Alef, he's gone!" He cried out.

The small figure stood behind the hunched over king. They stammered, trying to speak and hearing how heartbroken he was, "King Resh, we need to get out of here. It's not safe."

Another figure appeared behind him, limping with a large battle spear in his hands, using it as a crutch, "My King, Lamed is right. It's not safe here, we need to get out."

"Tsadi... Lamed... where are the others?..." He turned to face them. He saw the both were injured, Tsadi more than Lamed.

"They are out of the storm and safe. We tried to rescue as many as we could while you were knocked out. We didn't know if you would even wake up..." Tsadi hesitated, "Alef... he refused to go to safety... He... He saved as many as he could. Your son was brave... and a true leader."

"My king, you're injured, we need to leave before it gets any worse." Lamed pleaded. Resh was silent as he held onto the stone body of his son. The giant king stood up to his full height, gripping his side under his cloak as he did so. He looked down at his two friends. The shards came down again, hitting his back. This time he felt it and grunted in pain.

"With the rest of my strength, I will get us out of here." Resh tucked away the small stone body of his son into one of the many pockets. He picked up Lamed and Tsadi as if they were just toddlers, and with what little light magic he had left, the king charge up his cape. As if his cape were a pair of wings, he used it to shoot up into the air like a bird.

The light magic he had left was enough to keep them in flight until they were able to reach safety, where the other injured were taken. King Resh landed, stumbling before letting go of Lamed and Tsadi. He felt light headed and his vision faded to black before he fell over. When his body hit the floor, the ground beneath everyone shook.

"MY KING!" Tsadi yelled, "GET A HEALER OVER HERE, NOW!" Tsadi went up to Resh. He noticed strange dark shards coming out from the king. He didn't like the look of them. At least 3 healers ran over to the king to come to his aid.

Tsadi backed away as the healers began their work. He sat down on a stone bench and held his head. Lamed sat right next to him and placed a hand on his arm, "you should get looked at, you are far worse than the others."

"I won't be looked at until everyone else has been taken care of. Including you." His tone was soft but stern.

"As you wish..." She left and went to any available healer. Tsadi watched as the many healers frantically went forth and back to as many as they could. People were howling from sorrow and loss, others cried from pain. It heart is heart to hear all the pain. He spotted the other Realm Elders being treated which somewhat put him at ease.

Tsadi stood up and limped his way to a healer to be looked at. Daleth had watched Tsadi arrive with Lamed and the King before he had fainted from the injuries he obtained. Daleth's arm was broken and placed into a sling that hung from his back. The old Realm Elder slowly made his way to Tsadi and sat right next to him as he was being treated. Tsadi took notice of Daleth but didn't say a word. They sat together in silence as they watched the healers bring in an extremely large transportation boat for the king.

"Who knew this would happen..." Daleth broke the silence.

"Yeah... How are the twins, Teth and Ayin doing? Any bad injuries?"

"Broken arms, legs, ribs and concussions. The twins had to be sedated because they wouldn't stop moving while the healers tried to work on them." Daleth coughed and winced.

"Figures. They are young and don't know how to deal with pain like we do." Tsadi glanced at the old man while a healer was stitching his arm up.

"They could learn a lesson from you about dealing with physical pain." Daleth stood up.

"They could. But they wouldn't have the patience like I did when I went through my training."

"True. Take care, Tsadi. I'm going to aid the healers." Tsadi nodded as Daleth left. He looked up to the mountain the crystal was kept on. A violent storm was forming around it and he had a horrible feeling this was only the beginning of something far worse.

[corrienteallita]

List 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to simblrs whose sims you adore 💜

I've been sat on this one for quite a while (sorry - I'm super slow sometimes!)

But this is a great opportunity to have a ramble about one of my favourite sims, Crystal Vu! Here she is in sims 4 form.

Crystal often spells her name as Krystahl for business. She thinks it makes her come across as more professional.

She's not particularly interested in monogamous relationships. While she thinks of herself as quite the flirtatious presences about town, it's always the Curious brothers that she ends up with.

Crystal has casual relationships with both Vidcund and Lazlo. In my previous Strangetown 'hood she casually woohood with both brothers and became pregnant. Her baby was raised quite happily by both brothers!

Crystal runs a small shop on the main strip of Strangetown. She sells strange looking crystals that she finds near the infamous UFO crash site. She charges them where three leylines cross in Strangetown and whispers a prayer of good fortune into each one. Some of the smaller stones she fits into jewelry that she tries to sell online. She's still waiting to make her fortune.

Cyrstal isn't quite the full ticket. Her mind drifts on the breeze, and and quite often she'll meander into the desert. It's on these little trips that she finds her best stones. Vidcund is always concerned when Crystal doesn't show up for a few days, but she always finds her way back home. She says that she always has a light guiding her home.

[honestmouse20]

I think my 2 favorite Ninjago side characters have got to be Mistake and Fugi-Dove.

Mistake is just, So interesting yk. She’s been in Ninjago since the time of the First Spinjitzu master so she’s ancient. Cause Wu and Garmadon are like 3 to 4 thousand years old and there’s no telling how long their father lived before he had them. Also, I have a hc that she’s actually been in the background of the main events the whole time the show timeline has been going. Bc her face print is/was used rather often as background characters. The same goes for her ‘never heard of it’ line. For example, in Tournament of Elements, there’s someone who looks and sounds like Mistake there when Garmadon and Wu banish the Anicondri Generals to the Cursed Relm. And, I belive she survived her fight with Garmadon in the Oni trilogy because someone with her face print is shown in a car fleeing the city just a few scenes later.

As for Fugi-Dove, I don’t have any major hc about him. I just think he’s fucking hilarious tbh. Every scene he’s in cracks me up and I find myself saying his lines all the time. He’s easilly my second favorite part of Crystalized too. (Garmadon is my first for obvious reasons lol) He’s comic relief done right, yk? I don’t find him annoying and even on god knows how many watch throughs now, he still makes me laugh. Especially after I found out that people thought he was a halucination Jay was having in the desert in Cyrstalized. Knowing that makes that scene so much more entertaining. I would love to see a Batman/Joker (from the lego batman yk) relationiship between him and Jay in the future. I hope he survived the Merg. 

[captain-ralonzo-blog]

Fancy finger spell focus

So i had a Impulsive thought, what if in dnd, artifical finger nail spell focus. So how a person would craft this spell focus is similer to how someone makes the nails, but you use the spellfocus crystal, and add that into the nail creation. So now every time you cast a spell, youre new finger nails, may glow a color everytime you cast a spell, and since every nail has a cyrstal you can also choose what nail to use and glow.

For my character timere, they/maybe he) would have motions of his/their fingers and hands depending on the spell cast,

Example: He/they cast message, one nail glows green, he/they cast chill touch, 5 nails glow and he does an attack motion, and if he casts fear all nails glow as he slowly makes a bear claw like pose as the spell is cast to look intemedating

And then magic item wise you could also have spell imbuded finger nails that work like spell imbued tattoos

[w1r3z]

Thinking back to the time that when I used to count Ninjago seasons based off of the sets, so I thought that the Pilot was Season 1, Rise of the Snakes was Season 2, Legacy of the Green Ninja was Season 3, and so on and so forth. I finally got my head on straight around Day of the Departed, which would have been Season 8 if I had continued with that mindset.

To further understand my mindset, here's the current order of seasons:

S1: Rise of the Snakes

S2: Legacy of the Green Ninja

S3: Rebooted

S4: Tournament of Elements

S5: Possession

S6: Skybound

S7: Hands of Time

S8: Sons of Garmadon

S9: Hunted

S10: March of the Oni

S11: Secrets of Forbidden Spinjitzu

S12: Prime Empire

S13: Master of the Mountain

S14: The Island

S15: Seabound

S16: Cyrstalized

S17(ish?): Dragons Rising S1

S18(ish?): Dragons Rising S2

And here's a guess of how it would look to my 10-year-old self:

S1: Pilot

S2: Rise of the Snakes

S3: Legacy of the Green Ninja

S4: Rebooted

S5: Tournament of Elements

S6: Possession

S7: Skybound

S8: Day of the Departed

S9: Hands of Time

S10: The Lego Ninjago Movie

S11: Sons of Garmadon

S12: Hunted

S13: March of the Oni / Legacy Wave 1 (MotO doesn't really have any official sets relating to the actual events of the season for some reason)

S14: Secrets of Forbidden Spinjitzu

S15: Legacy Wave 2

S16: Legacy Wave 3

S17: Prime Empire

S18: Master of the Mountain

S19: The Island

S20: Seabound

S21: Core / The Virtues of Spinjitzu

S22: Crystalized

S23: Dragons Rising S1

S24: Dragons Rising S2

[headstrongblake]

"what do you think about the new guy? he seems really nice." / alec & dealers choice abt nate B) / @thewholecrew

nick's scowl deepened at alec's words, head tilting as he looked at him across the bar. of course alec thought he was nice. really nice even. crystal hues shifted towards nate and the others. after nearly a week in their lock up, it didn't take octavia long to spout off her mouth, suggesting nate could be useful to the gang. nick didn't trust it. couldn't trust him even though nate had been very compliant. bellamy had the final say and when asked for his opinion, nick begrudgingly agreed. realistically with their expansions, they could use another member.

"don't tell me octavia told you to say that," he shook his head, glancing back down at his inventory log, making notes here and there before he tossed the pencil down. that wasn't entirely fair to alec but nick made no apology, just grabbed two glasses to pour himself a coke, and a drink for alec.

"all right, i'll bite, he seems nice, sure. that's great and all," and it is. nick was always saying the group needed more balance that alec often brought but...he'd meant to their friends. not his gang. "but we don't really know anythin' about this guy and now he's just going to be here, hangin' out with all the people we care about? nah, i don't trust it for a second." nick kissed the back of his teeth with a tsk before he leaned against the bar on his forearms, taking a sip of his drink.

with a heavy breath, cyrstal hues lifted to alec's hopeful eyes. "i don't know alec, am i just reading into all this cause of all the shit we've been through?" he asked genuinely this time, gaze drifting back towards jasper, atom, and nate all seemingly getting along just fine. probably. but who could blame him? every time they seem to allow themselves the pleasure to be comfortable, they're blindsided. they're hurt. "seems to me like someone's gotta keep their guard up 'round here, but sure, he seems nice and all."

[akumanoken]

Night time was quiet, and they didn't say much on the way home at first, not until reaching the crystal. They were both taking the long way around it seemed, and they didn't mind. "So… you said Makoto yeah?? Isn't that far??" He knew the seas pretty well, and Makoto was a tiny island, but also surrounded by many powerful countries. A little trade hub, last time he remembered the area. "I imagine you're missed…"

"…I miss them as well," he smiled. "But I need this time. They need this time. AFter everything that's happened, I need to learn what it is to lead… and I cannot do that as long as my father…" He shook his head. "Never mind… it would be much warmer there by now surely," he laughed.

"…" His father, eh? It stank of a rank ass ruler… and a child who was raised as he was told… He pressed his lips thin for a moment before grinning. "I'm sure… but it's nice here too… a little. It's growing on me.."

Sakura smiled, hands on his obi as they kept walking. Talk of the island, of the seas and pearls… of the flowers and the festivals… they left his mouth easily, his compainion more than happy to listen, to watch his face light up. The same look he gave when they were at the cyrstal. He was someone who simply… loved people. More and more rare.

"Here we are…" Sakura grinned. "Thanks for… keeping me company. It's been nice."

"Thanks for saving me earlier… and for showing me around. I'll see you tomorrow maybe??"

Sakura blinked in surprise. "Ah-- y-yes!! Okay!! I will…" He blushed a bit at his sudden outburst then, and looked away.

"Tomorrow then…" He reached out, moving some hair from the other's face. "G'night, princess…" he smiled before walking off.

If anyone spoke of the rouge on his cheeks, he would stubbornly attribute it to the cold.

[sonicasura]

The “cables” were definitely integral to the spaceship’s operating systems. Gradually, the yellow glow of—data? power?—something fed into the lower levels of here. Whatever was being transferred around was doing it at a near glacial pace. This transfer was integral yet somehow separate from the usual operating system. Maybe alien programming? Pen noticed an uptick in wild Digimon yet otherwise it seemed to be mostly consistent with Rookies.

Another development was Bluff ducking back in from defense duty to show her loot: tiny blue crystals. Her inventory couldn’t make heads or tails about it so they were still stuck waiting for the translation program to come in.

The blue crystals were sorta bioluminescent?

Also, explosive.

Bluff kept her mildly updated as the handsized crystals kept dropping from defeated Digimon.

.

.

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Ion returned with the scans, although they seemed vaguely proud of something else they managed to collect. It looked like another crystal though glowing like a LED light. A cyrstal incased in a metal sphere. Weird.

In addition to the scans of several Vehicons and a winged cybertronian, she was finally starting to understand what she’s working with. The cry—Data Core in particular helped out greatly as it had much more cybertronian data.

“Did you steal this from the outside world or scan it?” Pen couldn’t help asking, as the data continued to form into what was essentially a processor scan blueprint. “Were you detected?”

“[…The being who this belonged to is not functional enough to lament it. This unit exercised secrecy, Leader.]” They reported back to the cyber sleuth in their typical monotone.

Pen sighed at the lacking elaboration, but knew this was just how the Hagurumon spoke. They would know if they had been caught.

“Alright, then. Good job, Ion.”

——————————

He was really confused.

One moment he felt Screamer’s claws run through his spark chamber (and thought that this was the end)… The next? His systems were blaring at him about a powerful virus and then he wasn’t in pain anymore. Cliffjumper had experienced all kinds of nasty infections as an Autobot—some were biological weapons made by the Cons! Still, something that took the edge off pain through the spark chamber was unheard of. Decepticons weren’t that merciful.

An even more confusing thing was that he heard someone talking—scans rippled around him making him realize he wasn’t in his frame. It felt perceptive yet not entirely invasive toward him. Wasn’t exactly pleasant to experience his entire self being scanned.

“Could probably use this as Eater bait in a pinch.”

That was English.

Cliffjumper really wondered where he was…

—Ion essentially took everything involving the Autobot’s spark, including the casing in his frame back with them into cyberspace. They are fully aware that they essentially kidnapped someone. Hence, the vague wording.

If Digimon can drop real world gems, then wild Digimon based on Cybertronian programming can drop Energon. It’s only human finger sized crystal yet could add up fast.

Pen is gonna freak the fuck out when they realize this is a Spark. Like potential bait definitely goes through checks by Hudiemon or Mirei. I just say someone familiar with Transformers to see the Spark and explain to their companion that essentially kidnapped a Cybertronian.

[90sloverwithinsomnia]

A secret that is kept to us - Chapter 5/?

This is one of many archived fanfics featuring 1st and 2nd generation K-pop acts that I've come across recently. It's all in good fun, and maybe a bit cringeworthy! Just to clarify, I don't post fanfics, so I hope to the people that post and read K-pop fanfics makes sense.Credits go out to the original creator 90s_love.

*Note: Nothing in their post will change (unless necessary), other than being posted here, and the (Link) will be provided to the page that i found it on.

Characters:

Kim Jaeduck, An Seungho (Tony), Moon Heejoon, Jang Woohyuk, Ahn Chilhyun (Kangta), and Lee Jaewon from H.O.T., alongside Eun Jiwon, Lee Jaijin, Kang Sunghoon, Ko Jiyong, and Jang Suwon.

Summary:

Dark Moon is trying to target the rest of H.O.T and Sechskies.

Chapter 5 - Targets:

Seungho and Jaeduck can't seem to take a break. Dark Archive's soldiers were everything, wreaking havoc across Seoul. After leaving them powerless, they leave the scene and make sure that the police arrests the soldiers.

"That's 10 times this week."

"I need a break."

"We all do." Ange, Crysta and Selena were preparing drinks.

"Thanks. I wonder why they're being so active these days."

"I wonder too."

Then Jaeduck remembers something.

"Uh, hyung. Remember Dark Moon's plan?"

"To get our members. Wait. You don't think..."

"It's just a distraction to capture them."

"We'll have to make sure."

The next day, Seungho went to work and to his relief, the members were okay. He just needs to keep him safe. But how? With a fake ransom note.

"Guys. We have a problem."

"What is it, Tony?" Heejoon asked.

"I found this note in the mail. It's from Dark Archive."

"Dark Archive?! The terrorist organization?!" Everyone was surprised.

"Yes and we're their next target."

"What do we do?" Jaewon was getting worried.

"Don't worry. We'll be safe. As long as they don't find us."

"Easier said than done. We're national stars." Woohyuk reminded him.

"Oh..." That was a setback.

Meanwhile on Sechskies side, Jaeduck also made a fake ransom note and showed it to the members.

"So, we're targeted?" Jiwon asked.

"Yes. We have to be careful."

"What do they want from us?" Suwon asked nervously.

"I don't know but I know one thing. This is not going to be pretty."

"You said it." said Sunghoon.

During another battle against the Dark Archive soldiers, Selena couldn't stay put at the house. She wanted to help Angel White and Cyrstal Light but she knows that Juhong would find her if she does.

"So, here you are."

"Juhong! I..."

"This is your punishment. Alter my ego."

"NO!"

Juhong transformed into Dark Moon and attacked Angel White and Crystal Light.

"Ah!"

"Why are you doing this? We're on the same side."

"We're not on the side of evil!"

"We're not evil. We just want to the world to be ideal."

"Ideal in what way? This seems ideal except for Dark Archive exsisting."

"Well, I mean business. See you later."

"Wait!" Angel and Crystal left the soldiers powerless and tried to get to their respective companies. Seungho ran to SM Entertainment to see if they're okay. But he was too late. Dark Moon had got there first. Jaeduck didn't have much luck either. Both H.O.T and Sechskies are captured!

"Hello, hyung? We're too late. They're gone!"

"Jaeduck, calm down. We'll find them."

"But we don't know where Dark Archive's base is."

Then Ange had an idea. "Crysta and I can sense Selena's presence. We can use that to find the base."

"It's worth a try. Meet us at the park."

Sechskies woke up and sees that they're in an unfamiliar place.

"What is this place?" Jiwon then realizes he and the others are in confined capsules. 

H.O.T also woke up in the same room, also in confined capsules.

"What are you doing here?" Heejoon asked.

"That's what we want to know." said Jiwon.

Then Dark Moon entered the room.

"Well, well. Looks like Project World can continue."

"Project... World?" Jaijin remembers his conversation with Angel White and Crystal Light. "Why are you doing this?! This is INHUMANE!"

"Oh, you don't know the whole story. Angel White and Crystal Light were also part of this project."

"WHAT?!" Both groups were surprised to hear that.

"But they defected while the scientists completed the experiment on me. And now, I can complete the project." 

"We won't let you!" Woohyuk shouted.

"But you can't." Then, Dark Moon flipped a switch.

"AH!"

A few days passed. The news of H.O.T and Sechskies' disappearance made headlines. But they missed the detail that Seungho and Jaeduck are the only ones safe. Jaijin now realized that Jaeduck is not there with them.

"Where's Jaeduck?!"

"What?! I'm one short?! Here too. There's supposed to be 11 captives!"

Selena's presence lead Seungho and Jaeduck to a large building. 

"This must be Dark Archive's base."

"Now what? We'll stand out."

"Or maybe we won't."

They attacked two of the bodyguards and took their uniforms. Ange and Crysta kept sensing Selena and they lead Seungho and Jaeduck to a strange door. They knocked on the door.

"Come in."

They heard Dark Moon's voice and went in the room.

"Oh. What is it? This should be important!"

"Ange."

"Crysta."

"What?!"

"Alter my ego!"

They transformed in front of Dark Moon.

"YOU!"

"Let them go!"

"And I won't. Not until Project World is complete."

As Dark Moon was about to attack, he was suddenly stopped.

"What?!"

"It's Selena. She's rebeling."

"No! Don't!"

After so much struggling, Selena managed to break free and went to Angel and Crystal.

"Selena! You dare to betray me?!"

"I already betrayed you when I was born!"

"Still, I have the capitves. Project World will continue!"

"No it won't!" Angel used his feathers to break the capsules and freed H.O.T and Sechskies. "Get out of here."

"What about you?" said Jaijin.

"We'll be fine." Crystal reassures him. Then, he runs away with the others.

"Why are you doing this? I told you, we're on the same side."

"Juhong. We don't want to work for evil purposes."

"But this is not evil."

"Not evil to you. But to the world, this is heinous."

"Heinous, huh. I'll show you what's heinous."

Then Juhong shows little balls of light above the destroyed capsules.

"This is..."

"Yes. They're unborn friend spirits."

"No! Friends spirits are born from their hosts' deepest desires. Not extracted from them in a hurtful way."

"Why... WHY?!" Crystal's eyes and hair glowed and attacked Juhong.

"Ah!"

"Crystal. Calm down! I know you're mad but this isn't the way."

This was the first time Crystal went berserk. As he continued charging up, he unknowingly flipped a self-destruct switch. Then, the entire building exploded. Good thing H.O.T and Sechskies were already out.

"No... It can't be..."

[lisaannemarie]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Picard And Cie Leopard Print Ladies Watch.

[cherry-angrynoodle]

I present to the birb cult my birb Jamie! He based off of this werid alien au I made a long time ago but hey his birb like so close enough. Space birb is very much excited to meet everyone :3

@leobashi @glass-trash-bab @flowers-zombie-rob @allykatsart @geekyfox2 @call-of-cast

[a-random-packet-of-noodles]

[theveryworstthereeverwas]

@unmatchedpowerofthesun) MY IMPATIENCE HAS LED TO SEVERAL MISTAKES, I'm in a big ass hole full of crystals, and i'm looking quite er, cryptid esque from what I can see.

Uuuuh what. Where are you good my friend.??? I’m afraid I can’t help but advise maybe? What do the cyrstals look like??

[eyrieofsynapses]

Okay okay okay, so, I know everyone’s been posting the promo art, but I’m looking at this and I have some immediate observations to make before I go bounce over to today’s Leverage panel. 

Y’all, I’m screaming, this is absolutely gorgeous. Anyway:

This is set entirely in space. There’s been a lot of stuff going on off of Earth ever since the second season, but we generally aren’t away from it for too long, even in Outsiders. Does this mean we’ll be spending even more time off-planet this time around?

That’s a boom tube opening behind Nightwing, isn’t it? Given that that’s the favored method of traveling in space, I think that might be some support for the “lots of time off-planet” theory. There’s also a few more planets in the background that don’t look like they’re from our solar system.

Look at the two largest planets. Earth’s on the left, and I can only assume Mars is the one on the right. Now, we know that M’gann and Conner are going to Mars, but the positioning is... interesting. M’comm already messed around with Earth in the third season. If I remember right, we don’t know why M’gann and Conner are going there. This is a bit of a stab in the dark, but could this mean we’re going to be seeing some inter-planetary conflict? 

Those globes in the background are awfully interesting! I can think of a lot of things they could connect to, like Halo’s powers, buuut the thing they most remind me of is the typical setup for DC’s multiverse. We often see multiple versions of Earth overlapping and interconnecting in art for things like Infinite Earths. Maybe each of these represents another dimension? Again, big stab in the dark, but, well, we are hoping to see Wally again, and alternate dimensions would be a way to handle that. 

There’s also the matter of the Legion of Superheroes character at the very end of Outsiders. They could be timeline-related instead of dimension-related. (That would also help tackle Bart’s backstory.)

Only the original team is featured in the poster. I repeat: only the ORIGINAL TEAM is on the poster. This is a dramatic change from stuff for Invasion and Outsiders. We’ve been promised more of the original team for this season, and I have to wonder... does this mean they’re going to take center stage again and put the newbies to the back? Because if so, yes please.  That isn’t to say that I don’t like the new kids. But look, I love the original Team, and frankly the show’s been incredibly overwhelming with all of the new kids. They need to put some characters on the backburner. In fact, I’d say it’s time to let the original Team wrap up some of their arcs. If they get a season to do their final stuff, the new kids could take over full-time in a theoretical fifth season and get the focus they deserve later.

As lots of people are pointing out: ROCKET!!! The radio-type play we heard last year already had her as a bigger focal point, but for her to be on the major poster is big. Is she finally getting the attention she deserves? Pleeeaaaase can we get an arc for Rocket?

And Zatanna! With any luck we’ll be getting some focus on her arc with Doctor Fate. 

(Just for the record. I wonder if this is the first YJ poster we’ve seen with more women than men on it.) 

I have no idea what those little cyrstals up in the corner are, but I get the sense they’ll be pretty important if they’re positioned in such a highlighted spot. Does anyone know what those could be? 

Also: NEW SEASON STREAMING SOON! It’s soon, y’all! It’s finally happening!

And that’s about it for first impressions. Once again: damn this is a beautiful poster. There’s not a ton of info here, but it’s enough to be notable. I kept forgetting that YJ was actually coming back this month (look, Leverage: Redemption has been more than enough on my plate), but jeez, I’ll definitely be thinking about it now. Phantoms is looking more promising by the minute.

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What inspired Asim's Divine Form? I love me some creachers! Do you just start drawing and figure it out as you go, or start with a particular animal as a base, or another method? Does the shape/colors or certain details have any symbolic meaning or are they just there to be incredibly awesome?

Hi! I'm gonna need you to bear with me for a minute, I love both Aim and designing monsters so much and I'm writing this between working on the finishing details of a Really Big Art

EDIT: Big art finished time to go rabid at this bear with me x10

A lot of it is just... thinking up some concepts and putting things on paper and seeing how it works.

The double form, wiith double limbs, double arms, double face, is based on how the form came to be - he merged with a monster that was a representation of how he felt others saw him. How it's pulled off and put together takes heavy inspiration from a really old sketch I did years ago.

It's not the first time I've revisited the double torso concept and it'll probably not be the last time either

It's just the way you can make the hip muscles mimic the clavical muscles. It's just so ... yeah.

I kept the mane somewhere between a horse's mane and lion's mane like in the original design and made it ... more. Longer, and more. To fit with Asim's hair. I kept the cyrstal horn from the original design too, but moved it to where his right eyes should be. This part is a bit of "because it's cool" and a bit of symbolism.

Asim lost his right eye when he was killed by a gunshot to the head, he's worn a mask over that part ever since then. He's the sort of person who knows he's handsome as hell and while he doesn't necessarily flaunt it, he doesn't shy away from it either. He knows he's all that and a bag of chips and he's not going to sell himself short. Having to hide a decent portion of his face behind a mask is a bit of a blow for him, even his closest loved ones won't look at his face without the mask.

The crystals here are a manifestation of those feelings, a desire for beauty to be seen in this part of him, despite the gunshot/crystals mutilating the face beneath it.

The star on his chest:

Whether or not he's in beast form this is here!

It was originally a part of a tattoo hiding a near fatal scar, but it turned to crystal after being blessed by a god.

when it was a tattoo:

The tattoo has it's own meaning, but to keep it short:

tentacles - the god of healing

guiding star: symbol to the god Asim serves as a paladin and a a symbol of the archfey his culture respects as analogous with that celestial god

spinal column: Heart. Instead of a normal heart, elves have a spine like structure where there sternum should be. This is a bit like having a heart shape tattooed over your heart.

Marigolds: a symbol of Manaan, the ferryman, the archfey Death.

I'd love to incorporate more of his tattoo as real physical manifestations the higher level he gets....

The colors: (I don't have a fullbody finished color of him yet so bear with the mockup colors I put together for reference during an art exchange)

I wanted to keep his Zaixaudai(drow/orc) colors as being a zaixaudai has important meaning in his culture. So blue leaning iridescent white, and teal leaning iridescent black.

Red on the crystal for the children's hospital Bloodish feel to tie it back to the wound.

Patterning: For how to arrange the light and dark I took inspiration both from monkeys and where there hair is densest vs. where you could see the skin on them, and siamese/point cats and their dark markings. He still has fur where the colors match his skin, monkey fur just felt like a good jumping off point for where to put the skin tone fur.

A NEW CHALLENGER APPROACHES: gold and turqoise/tealish

Important colors in dairau(dark elf) culture. It is the colors of home, heaven. Makhir/Makhirau. Home is... a god who became a primordial forest. Lots of fungus trees and other fungus adjacent life. Lots of shimmering golden and turquoise light and particles. A good set of colors to integrate for his divine form, and what better place than the god-blessed star and his tusks which are a manifestation of his zaixaudai heritage?

SHAPES AND ANATOMY:

Already touched on the double bit, but the general shapes and inspiration.

Largely his face is an exageration of the facial features he already had

You can see it a bit in this clip that I made to talk about the marking on his face that I forgot to talk about earlier so real quick uuuuuh

This marking is where he got kissed on the forehead and blessed by the god he serves. But when transformed it's... More. Oh and it's an abstraction of a fiery eye

You can see it a bit better here, but it's still pretty abstract. I'll draw a less abstract version eventually but for now you have the holy symbol icon versions

BACK TO SHAPES. But yeah, largely an exaggeration of features already present. I did look at some baboon pictures to get a feel of how I might exaggerate some things.

I call him a big puppy a lot for fun, but no dog reference came near his beast shape. I have in the past used bull terrier as a vague jumping off point for designing his normal people shape face shape though so I guess you could count that as a bit of a distant base.

His neck... largely horse based inspiration there. pretty much 99% horse.

The rest of his anatomy was just me messing around, cross checking muscle diagrams, and making it Weird and Monstery. I do a lot of "muscle studies" which are just me looking at muscle diagrams then applying them in New and Interesting Ways. I've been doing it for several years now and it's kind of become the way I pose characters. It makes me sad when I have to cover them up with skin and body fat and fur and clothes but I at least still have the copy where it's just the muscles because I do everything but color with pencils and lightboxing.

And I think one more anatomy before I go

his back peeties.

Monkey feet+large birds/birdlike dinos and of course chimkens. This is just a rough sketch And I'll probably workshop it a bit more once I do a full drawing with him standing but this is where I am currently with it.

I uuuuh, think that's where I'll leave it for now. If I missed anything you were wanting to know you can always shoot me another message to ask specifically about that.