#I just got sidetracked with other drawings and projects

[wadesart]

an old thing I was working on, finished, but forgot to post

[lieutenantselnia]

@assortedvillainvault I felt like this is something you should see as well

[amarioe]

Welcome to....

The insane ramblings of a mad man! (Me)

AKA

Animator Swap AU!

Note: Most of the drawings in the second image sadly are no longer canon to the au, but i did draw a few new ones you'll probably be seeing a few paragraphs down :D

Long post incoming, do be warned 💀

So, the basic idea of this au is..fairly simple, actually-- as much as i struggled thinking of a good, solid concept for it :'D

As the name suggests, the biggest change is that Alan and Grace are swapped, but, well- not quite..

You see! Their personalities remain more or less the same, but the stickfigures they made are swapped- go simple enough visual representation!

Basically, the idea is: "What if Alan made Mitsi and Grace made the Hollowheads?"

To explain this further: Alan would have treated Mitsi primarily the way he treated Victim and Chosen.

Grace, on the other hand, would have treated the hollowheads far better than Alan did in canon, leading to an entirely different outcome for their character arcs! (Although i'm thinking of having Victim and Grace have a rocky start for,, reasons, but i'll expand on that in a different post, probably)

Anyway, as a result, Mitsi would probably look something like this at the time of her escape:

Alt/ slightly rendered ver.

Also, i'd send in an image of the hollowheads too but uh...they don't really have designs or any art yet lol...rip :')

I was planning on explaining far more thoroughly, but i got a little sidetracked and didn't have time to expand this too much.

To at least somewhat make up for my messy ass brain, here are some ideas i'm planning (key word) to solidify into the canon aswell!

-After Mitsi escapes the PC, Alan doesn't draw/animate another stickman for years after. Then i'm thinking he either draws Purple or the guy just kind of,, shows up on his PC one day and after a tentative truce makes the minecraft village there instead of on the Mac (which could potentially lead to the cg meeting Alan aswell?)

-Victim leaves the PC before or recently after Chosen is created, accidentally ending up in the village from his canon backstory and becoming a farmer there.

-Chosen is mute, and i'm thinking he later becomes a sign language interpreter :D (i'm thinking they'll all get regular or semi regular professions since they'd actually get to grow up properly and have childhood and stuff,,, and absolutely no one has any cursor induced trauma whatsoever! Victim? Haha, who's Victim?)

-I was originally thinking of making Dark a Gordon Ramsey style chef, but i feel like i should make him a programmer/hacker of some kind instead LOL

-Orange helps Grace out with her animations in this au aswell! He also has a lot of independent projects of his own :]

-Orange and the cg still eventually end up being the only permanent residents on Grace's pc, with Dark and Chosen visiting fairly often while Victim visits more scarcely. For some reason, he seems a little bit anxious around Grace.. (also yes they're all probably gonna have different names, excluding the animators)

-I'm thinking of calling Mitsi either Mayday or Malice!

-I'm thinking Mitsi crashes/escapes to the village where Victim is. Victim befriends Mitsi pretty fast. They let her stay at their farm and Mitsi helps out pn the farm in return.

-Agent and the mercs will probably be in this au aswell!! I'm just not sure when and how to include them yet.

[ancha-aus]

Masterpost

Welcome to my new Masterpost! This time including all information on everything on my tumblr instead of just one AU! Asks are always open and I am happy to answer questions <3

Tumblrsona has been made. The icon is still being made :3 The amazing @a-whispering-echo also made a drawing of her <3

AO3 account over here

AUs and stuff.

Ancients and Champions AU - Masterpost [Here] The big one! My main one! Story is finished and readable over here

Careful. It is a long story with many sidestories. All in the story tab <3 All the information I got concerning that AU is over in the masterpost <3

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Real Age Au - Masterpost [Here].

Summary: Nightmare gets deaged, or better said, reversed aged towards his real age. Six years old. Join him and his gang as they discover how to deal with it and learn to be a family.

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Bitty Surpise - My mandatory take on a bitty story hihi. AO3 link is Here. Tumblr first chapter link is Here. And a doodle of Bitty Dust <3 @mikimakiboo made an adorable doodle of Horror! Over [Here] , coloured version [Here]

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Ghosts & Medium AU - Masterpost [Here]

Summary: Dust is a medium who helps spirits moves on as his job. trouble appears when he meets spirit!Killer.

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DoubleNoot (name pending) - Turns out that Nightmare that the multiverse knew, was not just Nightmare. Instead it were two beings. Corrupt, the being everyone knew. and Nightmare. The same young skeleton from before he ate the apple that changed the course of the multiverse.

And now they are split? It changes their lives as well.

First Drabble here!

Idea for a possible story/series. Posts are here, here and here.

@mikimakiboo once again made an amazing drabble with the idea! and it is amazing!

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Sans in Wonderland - A possible project idea that would be an interactive ish story with different endings. original message/concept here.

Nightmare backstory.

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SansNautica - Masterpost [Here]

Summary: Sans crashlanded in subnautica and is trying to escpae the planet but gets sidetracked and distracted by a bunch of very interesting looking mers.

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Spirit Soul AU - A fic idea I had with info here and here An AU idea I had which is inspired by both Omori and Life is Strange

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I have writen a lot for @spotaus and mine AU - New Age AU. Which started as version of RealAgeAU but with Knights but has grown into its own thing.

The masterpost on this can be found with Spot over [Here]

I have made a small masterpost for all the drabbles I wrote on it [Here]

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Little story for @somegrumpynerd and their amazing comics where Dream and Nightmare get body switched <3

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Little Drabble for @mikimakiboo and their very cute drawings about Draz Dragon Nightmare that has my whole heart.

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Little Drabble for @mikimakiboo for their Time Travelers AU.

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That was the stuff I have actual posts about that I can share. Overall progress on other things below:

Ancients and Champions - 100% writen. 100% edited. Fully uploaded.

Mermaid prompt list 2022 - 100% writen. 100% edited. Fully uploaded.

Bitty surprise (name pending) - 100% writen. 100% edited. Being uploaded

Family Ties - 30% writen (ish?). 20% edited. General storyline in my head, just need to actually write the thing

Real Age AU - 100% writen. 5% edit

Story ideas that seem fun to me/ stuff i am thinking about writing:

UT Zombie apocalyse story.

Background story on Error and Geno and their time growing up - A&C related

Story on what would happen to the multiverse if there was NO negativity, the consequences to an only positive multi-universe

another mermaid story but pairing focus dustXsans

story where all the sanses are just actors and they do a series together (no idea how i would make this work in writing gonna be real with you)

Classic Dust ship story where Dust finds the original timeline and hangs around and watches Sans (I can't find my own original post with the idea anymore. It is lost to the void.)

That is all for now folks!

Edited 1 April 2025.

[nitunioart]

Ryou/Yamato comic! Happy birthday Yamato!!!

Plot: Ryou got an amazing opportunity to secure an ally against the entertainment industry. An ally that is also just like a big brother to him...

Content/trigger warnings: Ryou-typical behavior (close proximity, manipulation ; making Yamato uncomfortable), incest play, implied SA. Comic is rated M, no explicit content is present.

Notes at the end, full comic in the readmore!

The End.

This is Part One! Part Two coming on [redacted]!

But actually. This is the last idol* I'm gonna torture with Ryou cause I don't have any other ideas for other idols. This comic was an extremely interesting project to me cause not only did it take two drafts to start being actually cohesive, but also I did all of it in one csp file. Good 😊!

Poor Yamato... I don't think he would stick around with Ryou that long but thinking abt them casually drinking and Yamato not noticing Ryou's behaviour cause he's so out of it...

And I also streamed drawing this comic! (well. streaming is a stretch in this particular instance cause its just me asking my bestie if I can do a private YT livestream while we're on call and muting OBS's audio so it's only my drawing and occasional (frequent) sidetracking bc we're exploring ideas or poking fun) (which is the best thing ever cause the vid is directly saved to YT instead of me having to record and upload it separately lolol)

and here are the. doodles and stuff

[ponett]

Got anything special planned for TKP's 10th anniversary coming up?

Nope! Well, not currently, anyway.

The thing I really wanted to do was get the first part of my big Penders video essay out for the 10th anniversary. It all lined up so perfectly! 10 years since the start of the blog, 20 since Mobius 25 Years Later was published, 30 since Ken's debut on Archie Sonic, and the same year that he put out the first Lara-Su Chronicles book and the Knuckles show was released. And then it just didn't work out like that. I've barely made any progress on the video, or even its script. I haven't really felt motivated to work on it. I got sidetracked by other writing projects, and needing to set up my new blog. And also I'm just very burnt out on endless Sonic discourse at the moment

So yeah, idk what I'll do for the 10th anniversary in November. I'd like to do something to mark the occasion, but if it's not the video then I don't know what. Maybe I'll just draw something.

[slender-hero]

May I steal the Hero's from thee Mod?

And How many iterations of Hero are there......and may I have refs/doodles for reference of each for visual differentiation of them each please....? :3 (Whatever doodles will do, I just wish for something for SOME semblance of accuracy ^-^)

Worry not for why! Mearly a silly of the shenanigans variant, not one that will be started quite yet since I have some other projects first BUT! Thought I could at the least ask first now anywho :3 (And going off Anon this time so I don't accidentally miss it >_< )

,Jester

YES i was meaning to draw all of them but i got sidetracked and then artblock hit me

ill be working on them now!!!

for the time being heres this fuckin thang. its barely a ref but whatever

[sanddusted-wisteria]

Doodle Dump 6/2024 - 9/2024

I should really post more here 💀Have OTAS doodles from over the summer and such fldkrjfkfk

Lil portraits of @spookemsdukems 's 'Builder' and @illusidy 's Ae! Did as some practice while also studying their styles a bit. Want to get back to this some time with other builder friends but I kept getting sidetracked with new projects 😂Soon(tm)

Was trying to practice kissing poses but I could just not figure out anything besides the head 💀 Not sure what this could be...a dream, perhaps?

Since the other clones are largely not Sandrock OCs (some of them never even come to Sandrock unless I think of some reason down the line dkrjdk), I have to fill Sandrock!Wis's thread up with anything to do with all the other clones until I draw proper ref art of them and move them to a new thread dlkrjkdkrkjdks

Some initial design ideas for Wis and Qi's robokid, Aster! I still need to figure out how to draw robots so I can draw them as an adult.....I still barely know how to draw a people....,,.

Why were the clones made? My, what a fantastic question. For the most ethical and sane of reasons, I assure you. :)

They're all weirdos (affectionate)

I got addicted to Nine Sols (go play it it's GOOD [or at least listen to the BANGIN ost]) and when a character named "Heng" appeared I did a nose exhale. I can never escape him can I 💀

[crispycreambacon]

I thought I'd share the sketch of this poster/book cover as well as my initial concepts! You can click the "Read More" button for more in-depth explanations on my design process.

Thhis is all for my latest fanfiction, Snip Snip, so if you'd like to check that out, then...

Now let's crack in!

For the release of "Snip Snip", I actually had several different directions in mind! One was a comic of one of the scenes from the fanfic—specifically the one where the Professor breaks down in front of Kate and Joyce with the line "I don't like being a woman"—and the other was a series of doodles showing the Professor's transition. Unfortunately, both directions met dead ends as I couldn't find the motivation to do either. The most progress I made were these sketches.

If you're wondering, "The first one looks familiar..." that's because I reused that pose for my first promo art! It was too good of a pose. I couldn't waste it :P

But anyways, after a period of getting extremely frustrated over the lack of progress, I realized my main problem: I was biting off more than I could chew. I didn't know this at the time, but I was dealing with burnout from school assignments that made drawing more ambitious ideas like the ones I had very difficult. Hence, I had to scale it down. It made me think, "Why not do something like a movie poster or a book cover?"

That's how the sketches at the top of the post came to be! I consulted a friend of mine over which pose to choose, and he picked the third one which I understand why so. The obscuring of the Professor's face not only made it cool, but it adds symbolism in how we don't really see his true identity—the real him—until his transition. Here's the first sketch!

As you can see, the title is on the top left corner! However, I moved it to the bottom for two reasons

It's advice I learnt while looking up how to make movie posters since moving the title to the bottom tends to bring more focus to the illustration above.

I couldn't find a font that fits! And the idea of doing typography again (especially after the Keep Yourself Safe poster...) was really not what I signed up for.

But then it left the problem of the top corner looking empty. It was too distracting! So what did I fill it in with? The subtitle: This is their story. The composition is now more balanced, and also the subtitle tickles me.

As I said before, I looked up movie posters for this! Special thanks to the Nashville Film Institute and Muse by Clio for their articles that guided me during this poster making process. I will say though I got really sidetracked watching Filmmaker IQ's The History of the Hollywood Movie Poster 😭 It's really interesting, I'd recommend watching it!

One thing I learnt is that movie posters limit their colour palettes. Of course, this is good advice for art in general, but movie posters emphasize on its colour usage to attract the audience with their simple yet bold schemes. It is a piece of advertisement after all! Following their footsteps, I limited my colours to the primary colours (red, yellow, blue) and purple to make the scissors pop and allude to the nonbinary flag colour scheme.

And from there, it was just a matter of experimenting with rendering! I wanted a mix of pop art and storybook illustrations, so I mixed lineart with lineless, and I wanted to retain the energy of the sketch while still polishing it, so I cleaned the sketch, merged it with the colours, and painted on top of it rather than make a separate lineart layer.

Overall, I'm extremly proud of the end result! The struggle of figuring out the promo art for this fic has been tormenting me since the beginning of the year, so I'm glad to bring it to an end. Thank you for reading my ramblings! I hope you learnt something or at least had fun? Either way, have a good day!!

[hideyseek]

hmm... now that i'm posting one fic, i'm somehow as a result starting to turn other ideas in my mind again. the primarily two are zheng bei at 15 and gu yiran goes home. there is, of course, no actual promise that either of this will come to any kind of fruition, it's just interesting to me to consider them and what is compelling me in particular about them.

wow this got long. and extremely tangenty so i'm putting it under a cut. but wow thinking about (as has been said in discord already) zheng bei's general behavior as performance, but linking it to schechner's definition of performance as twice-behaved behaviors and going from there to the idea of responses to incidents from childhood surviving in instinctive behavior often through to adulthood ... whew. extremely exciting to me! aaaaand the second part of: well i sure seem to keep trying to write about a guy going "home" after he's been fundamentally changed, what could that possibly mean?

zheng bei at 15, is, of course, just a shorthand for "i want to dive into the aftermath of this kid's trauma so fucking bad" -- to perhaps nobody's surprise. though i did do some metawriting about it this morning while ruining my fried egg via inattention, and beyond the post-trauma / "how did zheng bei come to be the way he is in canon" aspect, i'm also really interested in exploring the ways in which this experience reshapes the dynamic of zheng bei's friendship with xiaoguang (in the way that friendships change when one person goes through an extremely changing experience that is almpst entirely impossible-to-concieve/experience/comprehend for the other person), and also in some specific choices i could make about younger!zheng nan, and how her reaction and her parents' reaction to zheng bei's kidnapping influences how he replies and what patterns of response he lands on that we continue to see when we meet him as an adult in canon. (oh actually now that i'm writing this, i'm thinking suddenly about patterns of response as twice-behaved behaviors, or richard schechner's definition of performance, which one wow ive never considered that and two ohhh i think is particularly apt for zheng bei. oh my god. the idea that i can go reread performance studies texts to get into zheng bei's mind ... thrilling!!!!!!!).

ok anyway. totally sidetracked. that wasnt even remotely the point of this post lmao. moving on to what i thought this post was actually going to be about lmao

that is, the thought i had that gu yiran goes home is a project in a series of projects with similar themes that intrigues me. back in like ... 2019 maybe, when i was writing for inception, i toyed with a fic idea for a long time of arthur going 'home' after the big job of the film, now that cobb can return to his children, no longer playing pseudo-parent to james and philippa, and finds himself adrift. and then again in 2021, when i was writing for kaztsuyo, i had an idea of writing a canon divergence fic where haiji's dad dies right before the ekiden, and haiji goes from the ekiden (which plays out as it does in canon) to the hometown he hasn't returned to since he left for college, for his father's funeral, with two of the primary driving elements of his life suddenly gone: his ability to run, and the complex emotional relationship between his father and his father's expectation of his running. (this was also a fic about haiji's mom, and how her sense of identity shifts with the death of her husband, but that's beside the point.) anyway, it was weird to me that it happened twice, this idea of a character grappling with the loss of some primary driving / defining force in their life (for arthur, dealing with cobb's entire life; for haiji, running and his father's expectations) and then going "home" (even in the inception fic, arthur was going to his parents' house) to a house that isn't actually their home, to figure out what to do afterward. and, yknow, i can draw the parallels to my own life easily enough.

so i was both surprised and unsurprised to watch the first shot and, at first, not feel compelled to write a post-canon fic. but well, now i'm here, and gu yiran goes home seems to be another version of this story: after the halan lucifer case, after the legal resolution to this driving need for -- revenge, perhaps, but i tend to think of it more as justice for his father -- after all that, gu yiran goes home to huazhou, and to sort through his family's apartment. i don't know what happens after that. i honestly don't know if zheng bei is involved at all. i think what i'm more interested in looking at with this version is ... the character coming back home, to what was an actual home, with more closure than any of the other versions. maybe gu yiran gets to take his time to go back to huazhou, rather than that being the only place he has to go back to (as was my intention with arthur and haiji). he goes back knowing he isn't going to stay there (and maybe that's what makes this version different, because i'm inclined to adhere to this element of canon). he goes back knowing he has someone where else to truly return to. hmm ... which means this version then is less about the slow discovery of what "next" looks like, and more about the slow grappling with and acceptance and refining of moving inevitably toward that next. maybe gu yiran is given a certain amount of leave with flexibility to get his affairs settled in huazhou? hmm. i'm not entirely sold on that. perhaps that's only indicating that it's too eary to try for details, perhaps that's an indicator that this isn't the right details.

well. anyway. long post. lol. if you are still here, reading, i salute you. this was so fucking long.

[weirdmageddon]

If you know / have thought about it already, what's your god tier aspect for SBURB? If you dont, what would you say it'd be?

ive taken multiple tests over the years and never really found one that stuck. i think the one that i sort of solidified in the past was mage of space since i bought a space blanket and keychain. i got space when i did that official quiz for the first time but i’d like to take it again now. i feel both drawn to light and space now that i think about it as aspects. if i was light idk what class i’d be though. i relate to seer though, “one who knows aspect or knows through aspect”; the aspect’s analytic mouthpiece

i feel like im like the spitting image of the official light description

“Those bound to the aspect of Light are the universe's knowledge-seekers. They are, above all, driven to learn and understand. They are great alchemists, able to take multiple sources of information and synthesize them into something useful. They are scholars and researchers, absolutely dedicated to knowledge for knowledge's sake. They are the ultimate students, and although that might conjure up the image of people sitting around peacefully waiting for knowledge to be brought to them, that couldn't be further from the truth. The Light-bound will go after knowledge with a fierce intensity that others may find distasteful. They aren't overly concerned with laws or norms, either. They often take rules as simple suggestions, instead searching for loopholes or work-arounds. At their best, the Light-bound are resourceful and driven. At their worst they can be fussy, pedantic, and insensitive.”

but the non-canon descriptions of the aspects themselves i find myself drawn to light and space. not fully; i cant see myself fully in any of the aspects but these come pretty close.

“Light deals in exploration, knowledge, luck and relevance. It is the electron-microscope prying secrets from any crevice it can find just as much as it is the spotlight drawing attention to that which cannot physically be ignored. The path of this Aspect is well lit and certain. “Luck” here is the state of being consistently lucky or consistently unlucky. Light introduces certainty even in the places where chance should govern. When led astray the hunger for knowledge or relevance can quickly turn to unhealthy obsession. The idea that everything is meaningful, everything makes sense, can lead to crisis when the Light-bound finds no satisfying explanation behind their symbols. They may be entirely unable to deal with uncertainties, or the hunger for significance in the limelight might burn out their pupils. Curiosity may kill them like many a cat, or watering eyes which cannot close for even a second become their constant curse. At best though the light is a source of answers and a path towards genuine meaning.

Space is breadth, diversity, creation and creativity, birth, motherhood and preservation, but also loneliness and isolation amidst the vast cosmos. It can go anywhere because it already is everywhere, and there is a tendency to get distracted or sidetracked by the sheer number of options at its disposal, but the journey is usually more important than the goal to them anyway. The canvas is literally endless; go ahead and draw something. Space has a penchant for lateral moves, for the random and unexpected, all the fascinating points of interest which dot its habitual all-the-way-zoomed-out bird’s eye perspective. At their worst, the Space-bound are unfocused and ineffectual, abandoning projects as soon as the next thing catches their eye. Their often strange or hyper-specific interests can make it difficult for them to relate to people, only deepening the Space-bound’s characteristic isolation. At best though, the wide focus which their Aspect affords leads them to become brilliant multitaskers and masters of navigating the outside of the metaphorical box.

(https://ouroborista.neocities.org/articles/Treatise_on_Classpecting.pdf)

i think the top 3 aspects (from most to least) for me are

light

space

mind

edit: just realized i was ordering their relevance fuck. this is an extremely important revelation to me because im baked rn. is that lightcore of me did i just prove it

[knightprincess]

Forgive Me (Echo x Medic Reader) Part 15

Words: Just over 1k Warning: Spoilers for Bad Batch Season 1, a bit of suspense. Pairing: Echo/Medic Reader Pronouns: She/Her A/N: Sorry for the long wait, got a little sidetracked with other projects outside of writing (digital art & cross stitching)

The war was coming to a close, no one could deny it. The senators who fought in the senate knew the end was drawing nearer, although none could say for sure what if it was they could sense coming to an end. All they could say for sure was the unexplainable feeling of dread and impending doom, lingering in the air. The Jedi too had felt it, along with the harsh judgment cast upon them by the very people they had fought to protect. The judgment that now branded them as much of enemies as the Separatists they fought against. The judgment that called them bloodthirsty warmongers. 

In the months since Echo had been rescued by the daring Jedi Knight, Anakin Skywalker, his loyal Captain Rex, and the Enhanced Commando unit collectively known as The Bad Batch. A fair bit had changed. Echo had made the decision to join the Bad Batch, going on missions and adventures with them across the galaxy, slowly accepting the truth he'd tried so hard to deny, he wasn't the same Arc Trooper he once was, although still an asset, he was more machine than clone now. 

But his decision to join the Bad Batch had come at a price. He had to leave (Y/N) behind. She was assigned to the 501st and would remain with them until she was either reassigned or the war ended. With Kix going MIA, Snap was the only medic the boys in blue had, the only one they trusted enough to attend to their wounds and open up to about the brutality of the war. She was a trusted and loyal friend to every clone she met, in return, they treated her as if she was one of their own, as Cody put it, she had an army of protective brothers. 

At first, Echo had been reluctant to leave (Y/N) behind, during his quiet moments aboard the Marauder, her thoughts would drift to her and the concern she would feel abandoned by him grew in power. He'd forget about the conversations he had with her while recovering from his traumatic experience as a prisoner of war, he'd forgotten the advice Snap had given him while offering encouragement. Telling him to find his place and himself, encouraging him to put himself first instead of everyone else. 

"Still thinking about her?" asked Hunter, noticing Echo had been staring off into hyperspace for quite some time now. The blue and white swirls reflected in his pale eyes. The assignment to Kaller was minor compared to the majority of troopers reassigned to Coruscant, General Grevious' attack there seemingly shook everyone, even more so when the droid commander had managed to gain access to one of the more secure buildings on the planet and kidnap the Chancellor. 

"She has that effect" replied Echo, suspecting Snap would have been reassigned to Coruscant along with the rest of the 501st. He had little doubt she would have been sent back to the military base, prepared to do her duty as a well-trained and tested medic. "I feel guilty for leaving her behind again. The last time I promised her I would be back, I ended up a prisoner and weapon for years" admitted the Arc Trooper, although he refused to word his other concerns, that it would be her taken from him if something was to go arie this time. After all in recent weeks, the civvi medics and other personnel had been targets of attacks, medics more than others. 

"(Y/N) is a fighter, I do not envy those who believe it wise to target her" voiced Tech, not lifting his eyes from the datapad he tapped away at. "My research suggests her last known location was on Coruscant, give me a few more minutes and I should have an exact location" he added, only receiving a hum from Crosshair, he and Hunter were the only ones to really notice Tech like many had become fond of Snap, often keeping an eye on her whereabouts over the time since building a friendship.  

"The 104th, 212th, and 501st's are with her. What could go wrong?" questioned Wrecker, all knew Octavius was a constant thorn but had thrust far been easily deterred, as had Isolde, who spent the majority of her time trying to regain Octavius' attention, especially when she realized he had put it back on to her younger sister. If Isolde wasn't trying to get Octavius back, then she was making a poor attempt at her job, which normally ensured the Jedi were updated on any changes, should anything have changed during the short and normally uneventful trip from the temple to the military base. More often than not it appeared Isolde was sabotaging the Jedi she was supposed to keep informed, a few times her stupidity had been mistaken for terrorist acts. 

The moment the elite unit landed on Kaller, the focus became the mission at hand. Echo forced the thoughts of (Y/N) to the back of his mind, promising himself he would return to them later. For now, he had to keep his mind on the here and now and ensure Jedi Master Depa Billada and her Padawan Caleb Dume had the support they needed, even if they didn't have the backup requested. 

The job was simple enough, provide aid to allow the occupation to continue with as little as possible. If need be settle the hostile residents of the planet, who had plainly stated they didn't see a difference between the Separatist Occupation and that of the Republic, both had caused destruction and brought war with them. At the top of a snowy peak, the five soldiers were met by Caleb Dume, who seemed surprised by there only being five, it being clear he and likely his master had expected an attack battalion rather than the enhanced squad. 

The battle had been easy enough, a standard mission. Hunter and Crosshair had assessed the enemy forces, with the sergeant deciding on the plan to use. By the time the skirmish was over, Wrecker had another battle droid over his shoulders and Crosshair was nudging some scattered across the battlefield if only to ensure they were deactivated. Hunter had gone over to General and those hiding with her, Tech and Echo following behind, with the former still trying to access seemingly locked files. 

Everything had been as it should be, a regular assignment with an easy solution to it. Everything was normal until it wasn't. When one order came through and continued to repeat. 

Execute Order 66. 

Masterlist

[jonathankatwhatever]

Trying to get a better hold on understanding the image from earlier, in which the 3rd End, which Regularizes so each is the 3rd End, which is important because that means D3-4Space is not biased on its own, that without the presence of mass it idealizes and isn’t tilted. That means what happens in 0Space relates to but is separate from the idealizations: they must connect but they can’t be the same.

The reason in this phrasing is that 0Space, where mass occurs, has to meet ccp: it has to cohere and be consistent and persistent. That must be true in each of the perspectives: by which I mean a magic trick always has an explanation, a process by which it occurs which is hidden from the viewer. What cannot exist is actual magic where there is no explanation. The perspectives which make up the magic trick must meet ccp, while an individual viewer may be fooled. This is all enabled by the simple diagrams I’ve been seeing until they drive me batty.

I’m picking this up as the day ends. Went for a walk. Started to see a larger Triangular, which I think we labeled an fT, because it’s 2bT per side, and it completes the image of the central bT by inverting it. This is another view of the SlideOver effect by which the central fD is made of the opposite facing ‘arrows’, that they overlap over the fD. Here, we see the inversion of the central bT as that ‘arrow’. This obviously expands at each step, with it taking each path but of course idealizing to the expanding diamonds.

Which we have described as describing helices as well.

I reached ccp as an explanatory level. Must meet ccp. Those are descriptives for the amount of gsProcess required to maintain a 0Space existence. This fits to the conception of photons as being massless because they directly interrelate with the pattern which relates to larger D-structure, meaning specifically to the SBE limit, which both means 3 in some count and the concept of End. As in, here it is. Here’s your dimensional object at the limit of what can exist while remaining in 0Space. They move in D3-4, but they don’t otherwise exist, which exactly fits the concept that they connect to the larger enclosure. It’s like they’re written from the other side so they become visible on this side.

I got sidetracked into Grassman numbers. The idea of anticommuting makes sense.

So we say that ccp comes with gsProcess because that gsProcess occurs in 0Space and is thus written or recorded in the Registry of Actualities. That’s real notation. The idea is that the szK writes the junction of yK and xK, meaning the ordinal and the cardinal, the meaning and the step, injected at and into and across each End and thus over Ends by the counting methods we describe. That junction is then capable, for instance, of judging how you process versus how the event occurs. This is part of identifying the specific you Thing. And it allows all sorts of cross-indexing and the like for sorting.

It is weird to recognize yet another fundamental experience in the math. That’s my origin story: coming out of a D4-3 existence, put into a pattern tester of some design, and gone never to go back. That can also be seen as a metaphor for the generation of what can be inserted, meaning a higher level gsProcess which can literally reduce to reproduction.

Do I get D3? In some ways, yes. But it isn’t intuitively there. Because it’s a bT, which is not just a triangle but a Triangular made of 1-0Segments. When these are CR’d, they rotate the potential dimensionality of a 1-0Segment, which reduces to the projective of course. The rest is the 3rd End becomes the O-line. Becomes the fD. So when we count gs, we count bT’s and the reason is that a bT forms the 3 and that Regularizes to 1. So 3bT in the grid represent L3 so the original bT and gs now relate out and over the Layer and Layers. That’s very good.

What about 5? If I’m seeing this correctly, that’s attaching 2 to any 1 of the 3. It’s obvious in the drawing. So that abstracts to 2 around 1 or 1 at xK and yK. Not sure where this goes. That means 7 and 9 complete that trip around the fT. That’s good because then we see how L9 relates to the concept of SBE3. Maybe. I’m not so sure. What was the thought? The idea was that L9 counts 5szK and L5 is equivalent to SBE3, so L9 reads or maps to SBE3 through the transformation of a liner count into area and vice versa. This occurs as the count of CM25 reduces to CM5, meaning it’s rooted, so the idea is that the SBE3 count of CM9 relates to the count of CM5 and L5, so the CM5 is the root of CM25. This is how it works.

I almost forgot: the counts above exclude the original bT. That’s a blunt model of Attachment: like here are 9bT and 1 more makes 10. Convert into gs.

We did this work before, but it’s been awhile. The next level triangle created, name I don’t remember, has 16bT. It’s also the image of 3 Hexagons embedded in a Triangular, which is thus the blowing up of the original 3:1. This also generates 13bT: just cut off the tips of the triangle. And the image is the original bT image inverted to 4bT per side. That counts 12 if you double count the corners and 9 if you don’t. It’s essentially the next level Triangular made of fT’s as the unit. The fact that it’s the next level reflects in it being CM16, which is in fCM 2 specified Things.

I’m trying to say that going up a level means there must be 2T. It’s fairly basic to see in gs: you can see IC in each corner of the grid, and can see how the gsProcess models as 1-0-1 across the szK. In this case, what I see is that the fD extends by a bT, so the far tip of the fD now extends a full fD away, meaning the inversion is at the End not over the 1-0Segment, which is addressed through the Hexagonal and the fCM, which we can see count 5 by counting over the central bT in each direction.

I should get some sleep. But I haven’t been able to see the O-line yet. Let’s visualize. We have D2, so we have 2 CR’s. And the third reduces to the O-line because I//I makes that relationship as it forms gs. Note that when I say a bT transforms into a gs, that there is a 1:1 relationship of existence doesn’t mean they transfer over as wholes. I see even a basic slicing into pieces so the bT can assemble as needed. One is obvious: the Irreducible cuts each bT in half, so we can have a rectangle with a diagonal of 1.

I may have lost the thread by bringing in I//I. I’m bugged by the idea that bT oh I’m getting it. The 3:1 constructs in 1Space and gs constructs with 4:1. Both use 2:1, and I see how gs expands 2:1 from the Triangular usage. So in Triangular, we get the O-line, while in gs we get the Bip, right? We get the Bip constructions which represent the Thingyness of existence, meaning both tObject and iObject.

Progress.

[youmissedone]

He was failing hard at not seeming like a clone, he knew. Every time Rain looked at him like he was nuts, Carlos knew he'd screwed up. He had to try to keep this up, though. If he couldn't kill her - and he knew he couldn't, not by himself and not again someone who can come back from all this - then he had to delay or sidetrack her somehow to give Alice and the others time to escape. What happened to him at this point... didn't matter. Protecting them was the mission now.

As he listened to her story, Carlos wondered if it was even true. This ice was thick as hell, he knew. Not many firearms could penetrate it enough to break through and make a hold wide enough for a human being to fall through it. Hearing that Jill had given Alice a Kriss Vector put things into perspective. The rounds from that could definitely have gotten the job done. "So it wasn't any kind of ruse... Valentine really did defect," he said, trying to sound either disappointed or discouraged by that when he was actually so glad to hear it.

When she asked if he'd been hit on the head with a surprising amount of genuine sincerity and curiosity, Carlos had a eureka moment. That... could serve to explain some of his deviant thoughts and behaviors. And he didn't even have to lie. He did get hit on the head, and he had an egg on the back of it to prove it. It wasn't all that bad, he hadn't even lost consciousness, but it'd hurt like hell. "Yeah, I did, actually," he said, rubbing the back of his head where the egg was. "I got tossed around a bit when the facility flooded. I'm not sure what I hit, exactly. Concrete, maybe."

As Rain said they didn't leave orders uncompleted, Carlos chuckled cynically, drawing from emotions that still resided within him from that fateful night in Raccoon City. "Yeah, we don't, do we..." he said darkly. "We do whatever we're told, with little to no information, no backup plan, and if we die, so what, right? And what has it ever gotten us, Ocampo? You're right, we don't leave orders uncompleted. But have you ever asked yourself why? Let's say we find Project Alice and kill her. Great. Mission accomplished. Now what? This facility's destroyed. Where do we get our next orders from? Wander to another facility and hope they accept us? Where does it end?" He knew he was on shaky territory here, but hey, he'd taken a hit to the noggin and wasn't thinking straight. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Her severe reaction to hearing the Red Queen referred to as a computer reminded Carlos of exactly who he was talking to. Not that he'd forgotten, but when someone wore the face and used the voice of your friend, it was sometimes hard not to slip back into nostalgia again. "I don't know!" he exclaimed, still going with the idea of the head injury having done something to him. "I don't feel like myself anymore. Maybe it was the crack on the head, maybe it's hearing that Valentine abandoned us, maybe it's losing our entire team... again... I don't know. I'm just getting tired of all the bullshit, I guess."

"You want to find Project Alice, fine, I'll go with you, I'll help you. But... for all anyone knows, we're dead. So if we were ever going to cut our losses and break the cycle, be something more than just expendable slaves... that time is now," he said, hoping he wasn't about to get shot in the head or something. "Maybe Valentine realized the same thing. Have you thought of that?"

Despite her being a clone of Rain, and despite the creepy way she lacked a lot of Rain's emotion, some of it was peeking through. Carlos could see desire to pay Alice back, not just to follow orders. He could see anger and some amount of affront at being treated as expendable. It was there. Maybe buried, or maybe reduced, but it was there.

When she mentioned DNA and several versions of him, his brow furrowed, pretending he didn't know, that he didn't see that disgusting room with hanging tracks of clone blanks being cycled like clothing on a dry cleaner's rack. Pretending... that he didn't know Becky had been created from combining his and Alice's DNA. Probably the only kid I'll ever have, he thought grimly. "What do you mean?" he asked. Whatever she wanted to tell him, he wanted her to say it. Information was power, and the more of it Carlos had at his disposal, the better off he knew he'd be.

"Oh no, you're not scraping me off that easily. I'm coming with you. We're stronger together," he said firmly. If Rain was really dead set on finding Alice, he had to think of a way to slow her down or of something to do once they got there to prevent something terrible from happening. This is gonna be interesting...

[Sooo... saw that ask about Carlos and clones, and it made Bad Rain wanna say hi] Rain silently assessed the man in front of her from behind the dark-tinted goggles of her gas mask. After her little dinner date in the ocean, her retinal implants started malfunctioning and she could no longer discern if this was a new Carlos or what. "...I thought you were dead," she stated.

Carlos was pretty sure he was the last man standing as far as whoever was still left inside the quickly-failing facility. On their side, that is. There were still plenty of clones running around, and Jill had beaten him to the midget submarines with whoever she still had with her. At least nobody had noticed he was still kicking, or that he'd taken one of them for himself. He barely knew how to work it, but right now it was his only chance. The failing facility was quickly flooding from every angle, so he had to get out of there fast.

Alice and the others were long gone as well - he hoped, anyway - and Barry... Well, Barry hadn't made it. Maybe that was for the best, considering the injuries he'd gotten from that uber licker had probably doomed him anyway unless they could locate some of the antivirus. Carlos had stood by him until the end, hoping they'd bought enough time for Alice and the others to escape.

Carlos wouldn't have figured Alice would agree to leave him behind, but... hey, there was a child involved, and someone had to buy time somewhere. Barry was already screwed and Carlos... was kindof used to taking one for the team. His narrow escape from death back in Nevada was proof of that. He didn't blame Alice one damn bit for taking the opportunity and getting the hell out. At the end of the day, people like her and him were protectors, and sometimes protectors didn't walk away with their lives.

That didn't mean he wasn't going to try. Laying down and dying for no damn good reason wasn't something Carlos was about. He was gonna try to fight his way out of here, or he was gonna make his death useful in some way. So he'd taken one of the midgets subs, donned the trappings of his clone from whatever Umbrella commando attire he could find stored in it, and set out. He didn't know who he was going to run into, after all.

It was a while before he encountered Jill's sub, with any and all communications having been wrecked by all that water. And of course, he didn't have the benefit of any retinal implants. Surfacing so he could get out and see what had gone down, he was met with a disappointing scene. There was no sign of Alice, Becky, Leon, or the rest of the strike team. Except... for Luther. Poor bastard. Luther had been a good guy, and Carlos was sorry to see he'd met his end here. Jill and her clone army wasn't anywhere to be seen either, though. Where did everybody go?

He turned when he suddenly heard Rain's voice, of course knowing she was a clone. Any Rain he ran into anywhere was a clone at this point. He'd heard Alice's tearful accounts of what had happened to the original Rain enough times to know for sure that she was completely dead. Silently, Carlos told himself to be careful, play the part.

When she said she thought he was dead, he had to resist the urge to crack some kind of joke. That was what came naturally to him, something to the effect of , rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated or, I'm a lot harder to kill than that. But clone Carlos wouldn't make jokes. About himself... or the fact that Rain was drenched. What'd you do, decide to take a dip in the ocean? Nope, he had to play it straight.

"No. And neither are you, it seems," he answered flatly, still holding his rifle at the ready, acting like he was suspicious of her for a moment, before lowering it. "Rest of the team is, though. Whatever that explosion was let half the ocean in and took everyone out. I'm blind here, save for the GPS system in the sub. No comms, no maps, no target scanners, nothing. The salt water fucked with all of it," he said, acting annoyed yet also restrained about it. "Where's Project Alice and the rest of the intruders? What about Chief Valentine?" he asked, remembering the various monikers he'd heard the Red Queen use inside the facility.

There just hadn't been enough time, though, to perfect everything before Rain showed up, and Carlos knew these clones were smart. They were engineered that way. So he hoped his outfit was on correctly, that all his major scars were covered, and that he didn't have too much of a haggard five o' clock shadow. Anything like that could give him away, and he knew he couldn't take on a clone version of Rain alone... especially when he knew the clones had access to Las Plagas enhancements that made them damn near indestructible...

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Art vs Artist 2022 and Yearly Recap

It’s been awhile since I’ve done an art v artist, and even longer since I’ve done a year recap.

2022 was a strange year, and as a 21 year old I’m in a very strange stage of life. So much of my future is uncertain, and a lot happened just this year. I’ve got smarter, I’ve made new friends, got traumatized, and learned that I might even have ptsd (unrelated to the trauma thing). It feels weird that it’s almost over.

Twitter turned to shit, and the tumblr kept getting better.

So many of my loved ones are getting older, and I’m contemplating mortality more than I’d like as a result.

One of my snakes burnt himself on a malfunctioning heat lamp and has a blister, and my family is treating him (so far he’s okay and he should be fine).

I can drink alcohol now, but the only ones I like are basically sodas that barely have alcohol in them.

I got my first jobs this year and also graduated as a certified electrician. My first job was working in an assembly line for Honda, and oh my god those were the most miserable 100 days of my life (and because it was a temp service I wasn’t getting paid fully or getting insurance benefits in a VERY unsafe work environment). That shit traumatized me (THIS is the trauma thing, not the ptsd thing) and now I’m very picky with jobs. I then got a job I actually did like, but after a month got fired because my boss constantly forgot to re-order stock and so we were unable to complete orders and people were withdrawing theirs and we were running out of stuff to do, so my boss was losing money and decided to just fire the newest hire to save money. But he didn’t have the balls to tell me the actual reason or do it directly, so one of the accountants had to basically pull me aside and say my boss was firing me “because I didn’t look happy”. That same weekend he took 2 employees out of state to do everything for him at a convention for 12 hours for 2 days; they each got paid 200 dollars, he made 60,000. Let me tell you, having to put on your resume that you only worked at your last job for a month makes it basically impossible to get hired.

This was also the first year I actually took commissions, so I guess I’m *technically* a professional artist? I also made a patreon, but it’s been up for like half a year and I still don’t have subscribers.

This year I also made some major leaps in my artistic skills (and in biological knowledge) and I’d consider myself a good artist. I have a very good understanding of anatomy and proportions now and can draw some special effects. But it also doesn’t feel enough at times and I secretly can get a little green eyed when I see other artists or creature designers (or professional biologists).

I didn’t get as much work done with personal projects as I’d have liked, executive dysfunction does that to a man, but I did get major stuff done. I even wrote an overview for my first book in my GUARDIANverse IP! I’m also getting better at not getting sidetracked and am slowly chipping away at my extensive to do list of smaller not as important projects. The god children gverse thing will be moved to next year. I even illustrated and finalized what I hope to one day turn into a vtuber model (the flesh god).

I’m still pretty far from my pipe dream of making money on the side as an author, having a Bogleech type website, and streamer, but I’ve made progress. I make skulls and charts for the Unnatural History Channel, I’ve been his top moderator, and generally help out sometimes, so my stuff is being exposed to a larger audience.

I also hand picked the chillest people out of the UHC server and made my own server, and finally after 2 years of not having a friend group, I finally have one. And I’m actually entirely comfortable around them! Which is big deal for me because after one too many bad personal experiences I have a hard time trusting people and am constantly analyzing them for red flags, but with the UHC crew (aka the “Poopenshitters” yes that’s the name of our friend group) I feel 100% safe (also I’m the ring leader which is cool). Pathetic? Yes. But is it a huge step for me? YES ABSOLUTELY.

And of course my friendship with dappercritter grows stronger each year.

2022 was also a great year for Kaiju content, especially in games. Also weirdly enough 2022 was the year of gigan, but that’s not unwelcome.

Sunbreak also came out, and I’ve been thoroughly enjoying it.

Well, 2022 is coming to a close. It was a weird year, but I’m growing, and hopefully the world is too.