#YAY ISAT DAY

[playtheshadw]

You dreamt of stars, stars, stars.

(Still Versions)

Happy anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[dreamdripdistance]

"I touched the other side of the cracked mirror, screaming "why", but you never paid me any mind" (HAPPY ISATVERSARY)

[tawnysoup]

two new critters just dropped

[lonesomenecromancer]

more isat drawings yay

[reddrowan-draws]

Practicing more posing art~!

Reference art under the cut:

[buttercupshands]

Day 29 - Stolen

Isatober again yayyy

Took a long break between those

[jchorsky]

Celestial eyes i don't really think their eyes look like this - this was just a fun experiment for me !! i learned some stuff about painting and making stuff look like it's glowing so. yay yippie!!

(OH YEAH BEFORE I FORGET I HAVE ART REQEUSTS AND MY ASK BOX OPEN PLEASE GIVE ME ART REQUESTS PLEASE PLEASE PLEA )

[daily-isat]

day 5. funny shirt fthursday

sketch version under the cut. because i think it looks funny.

i did this with my finger on my ipad screen (with really high stabilization on accident) because my pen died. kind of love how silly it looks

[daily-qpr-miraloop]

I like to imagine that when the group is between towns that they take night watch shifts and this piece was born from it egowihoigehoiweg

[sysig]

Having fun, more and more! (Patreon)

[spyres]

i fucking love pokemon man

[brokenstarwishes]

I found my Isa!!! I just need to find everyone else now, and I'm!!! hopeful!

[dreamdripdistance]

im genuinely amazed at how much ive drawn over the past few months just because of in stars and time, and also like. in my own opinion, the amount ive improved? it pushed me to be more accurate with my anatomy and drafting because i wanna make cool stuff so i cant be lazy lol. it also gave me an excuse to draw subjects that i Like to draw but was too shy to. bc Too Sad. but that doesnt matter when the game thematically supports it LOL

though. i Have forgotten how to colour things HAHAHA

[star-shaped-froot-loops]

MY CREATCHER IS HERE

yayayayayay!!!!!!

[ricecaqes]

looks left. looks right. In Dogs And Time

(i had a dream where the entire isat cast was dogs and i had to make it real) MORE ART AND BLABBERING UNDER THE CUT!!!

a few days ago i woke up from a dream where, somehow, someone's wish caused siffrin to join the king literally right before the battle against him, and everyone else in the party was looping as a result. i think loop's business was still the same so theyre still here and Just As Confused as everyone as to why siffrin switches at the last minute (and also why its the rest of the party looping). also, everyone was dogs! i cant say why

so i locked a couple days ago and started brainstorming dog breed/mix ideas for what the cast would be and ive just finished em all. smile :) i am happy w these i loved coming up with everything and designing them it was such a blast!!! I LOVE DOGGIES!!!

and an extra two doodles. for fun<3 the loop hangout would prob not happen in this hypothetical au considering Everything. so. yeah yay :) i want to flesh this out more and maybe make a more real thing out of it bc i loved making these designs. id love to try and string together some weird story with what my dream gave me

[llilyrose]

llilyrose spends her time analyzing aroace stuff. yay.

isat spoilers afoot

what i especially like about the way adrienne wrote mira's orientation is the lack of room for interpretation. yes they snuck aroace talk into fantasy france, but just stop and think for a minute. what would happen if mira just said "i'm aroace" or "i don't feel love the same way" instead of all the nuance we got to her character in the friend quest convo?

we know she's sex repulsed, we know she's romance repulsed. we know she loves fiction that has those things in it, loves interpreting fictional characters that way, but can't bare to see herself in that situation. it makes a lot of sense with regards to her location (vaugarde, a very sex-positive and romance-adamant country) and also with regards to herself (the way she feels about her environment). Of course she wouldn't blame other folk around her for engaging with their religion the "correct" way, of course she'd internalize all her feelings of being outcast and turn it back on herself.

The fandom respects this! Nobody ships her romantically, or sexually, because we know she's not into that. We know she would never and i know a bunch of people who would punch you for even thinking it!

Now what if Adrienne hadn't put this in the game? What if they had just said on their tumblr one day, "mira's aroace," or something. where would we be now? aspec shipping discourse would definitely take the reins. we'd have people shipping her in all kinds of different ways, bending the aroace character to the best of their ability because they could still be into sex, or romance, or whatever. this is TRUE, it's POSSIBLE, but there's no nuance. We wouldn't know the way Mira really feels about these things unless Adrienne told us, so a lot of people would either ignore/"work around" her identity or just wouldn't even know about it to begin with!

Introducing mira's orientation in the way adrienne did leaves no room for discourse. we know if she's sex-positive, sex-negative, how she reacted to finding out she was, etc. It provides so much more representation than a simple "I'm aroace" ever could. It's such a wide label, so finally having CONCRETE information about a canonical aroace's experiences with their orientation is so, so freeing and honestly quite refreshing. and it's worked into the story seamlessly!!!

She's not an emotionless carcass with no capacity for love, she's not outwardly detesting sex or romance at every possible moment, she's simply a well-rounded character who happens to be aroace. You have time to warm up to her before ever even finding out about her orientation! Or having any clue at all (barring maybe the suspicious sketches)!!!!! Aroace people are real!!! We're so real!!!!

Speaking of the suspicious sketches! We know siffrin's alloace (from, like, one line of dialogue), but we don't know if he's sex-repulsed. Adrienne's gone on record to say "aces can still have sex" in reference to siffrin, so I'm inclined to believe he has at least some sort of libido.

When looking at the sketches, both him and mira have a repulsed reaction. I think there are three possible reasons for Siffrin here!

Siffrin is sex-repulsed and has a visceral reaction to them because he thinks it's gross.

Siffrin has no libido because the stress overrides everything in his system. That combined with his ace identity would probably lead to a distaste for the papers.

Some people would NOT GET THE MEMO from the act 3 friendquest. Sometimes when you're writing you have to account for the gamers being really really dense. Some people didn't even understand the Isa friendquest was him coming out as trans basically. Since Ace characters are hard to "prove" unless they explicitly state they dislike sex, this line of dialogue might've just been there to drill it in that Siffrin is ace because the only other place we see that implication is one line in the friendquest. It could even have no tie to his relationship with sex, who knows?

one of these options is not like the others! /silly

I couldn't tell you which one of those it is, but i think at least one of them had to have hit the mark. It's a lot harder to decode siffrin's sexuality when we only get like 5 lines of dialogue total that vaguely even reference it

With this we come back to the issue from earlier: He could be demi, he could be ace, he could be sex-repulsed, he could not! Most people write them sex-repulsed and I'm personally on that bandwagon, but interpreting them a different way isn't any less correct unless you completely ignore the fact they're ace in the first place.

Even sex-positive aces have complicated relationships with sex. Some do it for the gratification, some simply have higher libido and can't think of a different way to get it out, and others only do it to please their partner.

I think writing an ace character as sex-positive should be seen as a character study instead of an excuse to ship two characters together. Is this character the type to even enjoy it in the first place? How often? How do they interact with it? Etc. Which I think is what Adrienne was talking about when she said "aces can still have sex." We don't know about siffrin's identity, we don't have a grasp on the nuance, but we do know he's ace and that he experiences love differently from the way mirabelle does, and the way isabeau does, and the way odile does, and what have you.

I love love love the representation we get in isat. An aroace, an alloace, and someone that a lot of fans headcanon as aroallo though it's unconfirmed. Even if Odile's not aro, we still get that line of dialogue about not finding romance suitable for her at the moment, which speaks true to a different experience altogether. No two characters experience love, experience life the same in isat. That's why i get to make a tumblr text post that's a bit too long exploring the different avenues adrienne took when writing the characters lol :')