#TTO:U

[propalitetz]

most valued teammate: guy who can bake. from @derinthescarletpescatarian normal spaceship story

[aekulina]

Late to the party, how'd I do?

[siras13]

@derinthescarletpescatarian

I just marathoned Time To Orbit: Unknown in like... three days.

Is good. Now I have three days of work to catch up on.

[patheticbatman]

My Squishmallow got chewed so now it’s moose-Aspen! Moospen*! If themed skin grafts were a thing I’m sure Tal would talk them into a citrus patch for sure I totally didn’t have to post this to discord and have someone goodnaturedly point out the irony lol

*also stolen from discord ^_^ thank you @ Moshicat

If you have no idea what I’m talking about you should check out Time to Orbit Unknown by @derinthescarletpescatarian . You definitely won’t lose hours of your life to an excellent serial!

The culprit

The inspiration chat from discord (see description below I ain’t typing all that into alt text)

Moshicat Today at 8:37 PM

Oh no the citrus! Is Moospen going to be ok? (Funniest fabric choice you could have made)

😆🍊

Pebble Today at 8:39 PM

oh my god it IS an orange fabric i love that

❤️

Deathsmallcaps -... Today at 8:40 PM

Oh dag I didn't even think of that XD. I had a cheap-fabric apron | was never going to use to l used part of its smock (?) as the patch and the apron string as their eye (edited)

Moshicat Today at 8:54 PM

It adds to it. Those are clearly exposed synnerves

🧠

[visemes]

victusinveritas, tumblr // time to orbit: unknown, chapter 119 - sight // nazrigar, tumblr // sanborn western camps // ttou, chapter 53 - autonomy // martianlukeart, tumblr // ojibwa, tumblr // ttou, chapter 18 - crew // rainer maria rilke, the book of images // victusinveritas, tumblr // ttou, chapter 6 - recovery // the epic of gilgamesh, herbert mason translation // ttou, chapter 18 - crew

aspen greaves - what's in a name

time to orbit: unknown by derin edala

[renefitzgeraldgreen]

"the problem with talking to an AI is that I can't punch it"

[countably-infinite-rats]

ASPEN CAN SEE SHRIMP COLOURS!!!!!!!!

[technicallyeldritch]

fandom has wildly skewed my moral compass (like it's a magnet that's been placed next to it in my pocket)

murder? yeah that's chill just make sure u don't get caught (honestly most fandoms)

medical malpractice? friend my beloved (platonic) from time to orbit: unknown

being annoying? unacceptable. solomon reed die by my hands instrumentafish

i am turning into oscar wilde

[understanding-hold-on]

long-toed dolphin

[vampire-connoisseur]

i wish aspen would get an eye already because the longer they dont the more convinced i become that someone is going to die and they will keep their eye to honor them and it will poetically mirror arborean funerary practices

just as long as it isnt well. you know, the most important and lovable character. please.

[propalitetz]

tal (left) aspen (middle) dr friend (right) from @derinthescarletpescatarian webnovel are in cool fits rn and this is how im picturing it

[pseudonym-creatures]

my favourite podcast and web serial have both ended :(

[moltengoldveins]

I made the mistake of beginning Time To Orbit: Unknown while I’ve got like eight separate things due in the next few days. Help. It’s so fascinating. I literally cannot stop reading this, and I’m considering using a live tweet reblog chain or whatever it is you call it to keep track of theories and such.

[patheticbatman]

You’re interrupting Adin on a smoke break, back when he was on Earth.

(Check out Time to Orbit: Unknown by @derinthescarletpescatarian )

@answeringmysister @bambismom

I think if I had dark watercolors I would’ve just used those but I done. So gel pens, normal pens and markers (mostly sharpies) with a little digital editing to finish it up!

I initially wanted to make this in a different stylistic fashion but i haven’t slept so this is what came out ^_^

Also here’s his original look, I made his hair longer (I figured he wouldn’t be able to grow it out for his prison picture sadly) but I think for his ears right. (The weird lighting is because the image was AI generated before it became public knowledge that AI art makers use stolen source material). I probably made my rendition have too long of a face, but all my drawings end up looking like me a little. Especially when I have to use my own face for a pose reference! I’m not posting that though.

[deathsmallcaps]

@derinthescarletpescatarian has a wonderful scifi story called Time To Orbit: Unknown, where the main character Aspen comes from floating (on water*) mangrove forests. On the discord we talked about how Arborean kids might play with little floating isles for fun (and/or spite). And with some recent reveals about Aspen’s family, we’ll. I just wanted to make a little comic set in their last (Aspen uses they/them!)

*a lot of readers, myself included, thought this meant a floating-in-the-sky deal. It’s a running joke now.

Individual panels and the conversation that inspired under the cut, as well as a transcript for the conversation. I outlined the people in red and pink to help them stand out against the shading better, and to show that their a family. In previous fanart, I outlined Aspen in red. So if I did a scene about Denish’s family, they’d be purple, and so on.

Transcript for the last two pictures below

It’s a discord chat. The cancel thing is an joke on the server.

Deathsmallcaps - Cancelled!

I feel like Arborean kids who are rebellious often try to start their own drifting islands, and push off from the shore. Their hippy parents are like,

"good initiative, kiddos! We'll send a boat by sunset just to bring some more supplies if you want"

Ultimate Ragnorok, replying to previous message

and islands made from one moderately large tree and a couple smaller ones are always visible from some part or another of the shore. Sometimes they bring back the island and join them with the main one, since most trees can merge with one another and become a larger network like that even between species

Deathsmallcaps - Cancelled!

I can see this becoming a lot of very cute pirate games

Dea626

very tom sawyer

/azirpidia/ (called gpedia on the server, my phone didn’t allow me to copy their phonetic symbols)

Tom sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn, come to think of it, would be a valid Arborean name from what we've seen of Arborean nmes

Dea626

YES

mark twain, time traveler??

End transcript

[culmaer]

I do have work to to, but I've only been reading tto:u for a brief five hours. just a few more minutes and I'll get to work