#Opus 20

[bacchuschucklefuck]

soon it'll be dawn again

transcript under the cut ⏬

page 01

Fig: no way? - you're still up?

Riz: Wh– yes?

Riz: Why'd I not be.

page 02

Fig: I me~~ean - that took.

Fig: whole day.

Riz: Yeah?

Fig: 'm beat.

Riz: you should sleep.

page 03

Fig: nah. my guy's still up

Fig: I wanna hang out.

page 04

Riz: That's really nice.

Fig: Hah! - Nobody ever expects an Archdevil rockstar to be nice.

Riz: … yeah. - 's just budget work tho. (the stuff I'm working on) - I've heard it's boring.

page 05

Fig: yeah, but you do it…

Riz: It keeps things going, right? - Nothing happens if nobody sits down and - does the thing.

Fig: That's right… - though. Yeah.

page 06

Fig: sometimes it's someone else who - doesn't want the same thing to happen.

Riz: … - mm.

page 07

Riz (off screen): …It took me a long time to get that not everyone likes doing what I do. - 's probably because you guys are so nice– - or. - kind.

Riz (off screen): to anyone too, not just. - the people you /love/.

page 08

Riz: that's not how it is elsewhere. - The world's– not. hostile. - but 's not like it's kind.

Riz: So I'm doing as much as I can now… 

page 09

Fig: Hey.

Riz: ?

Fig: Go dig some dirt with me.

page 10

Riz: [blank speech bubble] - oh you meant like - actual dirt. (not incriminating information)

Fig: o yea.

Fig: there's clay in the backyard soil. - sometimes when I'm sun deficient or something I go touch dirt for a bit.

page 11

Fig: here u go

page 12

Riz: uh

Fig: now we make a thing! - 'm pretty good at freehanding a bowl.

Fig: I'll show u

page 13

Fig: just– yep, flatten that out as evenly as u can, then–! - actually ur nails'd be so good at cutting out the strip. [larger than usual space] wait. - wait. wait u can carve patterns with them! we HAVE to try

Riz: uh - What. do I carve?

Fig: anything!!!

page 14

Fig: and– yep just seal the inside uh. seam?

Fig: yep that works - okay time's up! all contestant hands up

Riz: [blank speech bubble] - okay - wh. what's next?

Fig: haha - watch this.

(sound effect text): FWOO—MP

page 15

Riz: WH– DON'T JUST DO THAT???

Fig: Now it's fired!

Riz: THAT WAS NOT SAFE

Fig: (actually it's just dry. if u add water rn it'll dissolve)

Fig: ok catch!

Riz: [blank speech bubble] - careful!!

Fig: dw no need haha

page 16

Riz (thought bubble): oh - it's warm…

Fig: now I want you to throw this.

page 17

Fig: u gotta do it - c'mon

page 18

Riz: wh– - It's like 3AM right now

Fig: oh it's not /fired/ fired it's not gonna make a loud noise

Riz: And then just? leave a pile out here?

Fig: pour water over it & it'll be gone I told u

Riz: but

page 19

Fig (off screen): RIz.

page 20

Fig: I've done all this before.

Fig: Can you trust that at least?

page 21

Riz: no, I– - I do. - I trust you.

page 23

Riz: okay what happens now

(sound effect text): glob

page 24

Fig: we do it again!

page 25

Riz: wh. [larger than usual space] What do you mean. (this clay's too wet also)

Fig: see! you're already learning

Fig: [blank speech bubble] - there are flows that are futile to fight. - The world changes.

Fig: Things change.

page 26

Fig: I've learned my lessons with "forevers". - But - as an artist

Fig: I can give you one thing: - You can always do it again.

page 27

Fig: most of everything depends on the rest of the world, - but this. - making new. - that's yours as long as you want it.

page 28

Fig: So?

page 29

Riz: Yeah. - Yeah! - let's make another one.

[ribbittrobbit]

The Gunner Channel: where the ball is always rolling up

[darling-sephiroth]

final fantasy vii in a nutshell

[rizwalda]

♫ that's not my name ♩ ♪

[the-greatest-magic-of-all]

It'd be so sweet (and funny) if the Ratgrinders also had similar relationships to one another that the Bad Kids have.

Kipperlily made matching bff bracelets for her and Ivy. Lucy and Oisin would study in the library for hours for research projects. Back when Ruben was playing acoustic guitar, Mary Ann would jam with him on a tambourine. Ivy's nickname for Kipperlily, "The Boss", was once mocking but now loving. After a mini falling out with his fam, Ruben stayed at Kipperlily's house for a bit. Lucy awkwardly tried to invite them to pray with her sometimes, no pressure. Oisin was tormented for months by Ivy's crush on his older brother. All of them huddled over Mary Ann's shoulders as they coached her through texting someone she likes.

Idk. Just... the Ratgrinders being echoes of the Bad Kids, even in more personal ways.

[blue-banditt]

im mentally deteriorating [my art]

[standcom]

the hq community is SO dead it’s depressing

[2129888]

higuchi sensei when it's time to cook up the guy that'll be falling in love with the main character in one of her little stories

[stunt-lads]

My goal is to finish this monster by the end of the year, I have a couple of event things I want to write for (thank u Ren for hosting the IT Halloween thing again ♡) but this beast is GETTING FINISHED

[pc-98s]

i still say "one (1)" because of you

my legacy.......

[xxbillieshears]

Stay With Me, Go Places (Fantasy High Fic)

"It’s Jawbone who suggests they take a road trip and get out of town for a while, travel for pleasure rather than a life-threatening school trip. He tells them that they should make new memories together, happier ones, so they’re not bound together by trauma alone. Kalina is gone, the Nightmare King is gone, the Forest has begun changing - but the Bad Kids remember."

Read Stay With Me, Go Places Here!

[khaothanawat]

i’ve been sort of unintentionally sitting on most of my only friends opinions but really they largely just amount to ‘thank you, she was perfect, if you get it you get it, if you don’t you don’t.’

[bootlickerhawks]

me : equating your self worth to academic success is really unhealthy-

*has the best scores out of every third year on the literature finals*

me :

[star-arcana]

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It's amazing to be alive right now!

Edit: Grammar and information vital: For as long this offer is still there, I will pin it so that everyone can see it here. Enjoy your Summer!

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[regallibellbright]

Bro: If money were no object, how many Mareep would you have?

Me: Life-sized plushies, right? (He nods) Hm, while the flock IS a tempting option, if money’s no object then I can get whatever life-sized plushes I want. I can have Furret. I can have Spheal.

Bro: Do they actually make -

Me: Yeah there’s a whole line of them, one of them is Furret, he is a LOOOONG boy. Maybe not taller than I am, I know Clodsire is because I looked it up last night. Saw a really cute piece of fanart and thought about making a plush and was like ‘okay sure 5’11” is taller than you are -‘

Bro: That’s taller than me.

Dad: That’s taller than anyone in this house. (Note: Bro is tallest at about 5’10”, so: yeah.)

Me: Yeah, but it could serve as a body pillow or I could make a smaller pillow-sized one and it wouldn’t cost $500 and I was like ‘get in line, there.’ (Everyone nods sympathetically. Mom is also a crocheter and everyone else has at least one creative type.) I’ve already resigned myself to the fact that I’m going to eventually do ten or eleven TWEWY dolls, it’s just a question of which versions. Minamimoto’s going to be almost as bad as Rindo, he’s ALL black on black details. (Bro nods sympathetically and also ‘yeah no obviously this is a reasonable desire’. Hell I wouldn’t be shocked if he’d want his own Neku, his battle portrait’s still his Steam avatar.)

Dad: That’ll be your master works?

Me: Eh, no, that’ll be a project I work on and do others in between, that’ll be about two or three… or five years probably. Eleven dolls. Or more. (I have not… ruled out doing other Reapers. It would be a massive addition to an already massive project. But I have not ruled it out.) *Beat* Actually Rindo’s coat MIGHT be, I’d sooner learn to WEAVE for that one, that thing’s evil. But anyway, Bro, that means the Wayfinders are back on the table.

Bro: *In a tone of voice saying ‘Obviously and I’m glad you’ve accepted this in your heart because it should always have been in your plans’* Correct.

Me: *Resignedly* I’ve actually got a few ideas about Aqua’s spikes. But yeah, if I’m going to do something as bad as Rindo’s coat I can’t justify NOT doing Ven. He’s not AS bad as that.

Later I realized, going back to the original question, that if money is no object then neither is space. So then, Mareep flock AND other life-sized plushies.

Dad: Is that an airplane hangar? No, that’s the Pokemon extension.

Me: Exactly. There’s the ball pit full of plush toys, dive right in.

Bro: A Scrooge McDuck thing but with Pokemon.

Me: You get it.

[eternalcyclicality]

Opus Number One by Tim Carleton and Darrick Deel (1989)

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