#Ziku's insane rambles

[iamespecter]

Lifeline AU in a nutshell you guys 🫶 God I need sleep

[tadc-harlequin-au]

I was cooking a slight bit with the new reveal pieces before my desk GAVE UP ON ME (ik the preview is REALLY bad but bear with it for now)

Trying to make em look like a combination of loading splash screens and the artworks you get when you roll on a gacha game

and yes, all the main cast are getting one of these cuz they are ✨ special ✨

[iamespecter]

My phone's battery keeps dying (I think something's wrong with it) but I cooked a little bit more on this Doctor!Caine and Patient!Pomni idea.... and this may or may not become bigger than The Amazing Digital Roadtrip.....

My mental illness cannot be contained!!!!!!!!!!!! Also these designs are subject to change because yes ✌️

Things I've come up with last afternoon while going crazy from the lack of dopamine are:

- Abstraction is currently determined to be a terminal illness

- It's contagious via skin-on-skin contact, and can be inherited through genes

- it can even bloom late in life, but that doesn't mean everyone that the patient has touched before is immediately affected

- The physical symptoms are inky black "cracks" forming along the skin, physical degradation, loss of saturation and many more

- Depending on a lot of factors, this illness can be aggressive, or at most be dormant.

- Once it reaches the patient's brain, it is too late

- But the progress of abstraction can also be delayed through amputation, depending on where the "source" is

- It only really affects "organic" stuff

- Which means AI robots are immune, and can touch the patient as much as they want without risk of infecting themselves

- Kinger is the CEO/Founder of the AI Association that focuses on the research about Abstraction, and how to cure it

- He is also, strangely enough, kinda immune? idek he seems fine except he's a bit cuckoo

- Because of it's contagiousness, people who suffer from the abstraction illness are GREATLY FEARED by others

- People who have the illness have to wear a lot of protection (such as gloves, face mask, etc.) in order to even interact with the outside world

- They also need to have their AI Doctor/Nurse with them AT ALL TIMES.

About the main pairing:

- Pomni is the only daughter of Kinger and the late Queenie

- She used to be more upbeat early in her life, until Queenie passed. She then became depressed, and it only got worse as her illness began to show and she became cynical as a result, believing she'll die early, and alone

- Caine was named and created based off of the image of Pomni's imaginary friend during her childhood, in order to ease her into accepting Caine as her personal doctor

- This did NOT, in fact, ease her into accepting Caine as her personal doctor because what the fuck.

- Pomni hates AIs for being unable to save Queenie.

- She also thinks that her new doctor won’t be able to save her, and that her dad’s efforts to delay her situation are fruitless.

- Part of her still clings onto hope. However, said part is also dying.

- Caine is a test prototype of a model that’s supposed to handle (and even possibly cure) the symptoms of abstraction, so there’s defo a lotta pressure on his shoulders

- Especially when he gets assigned to SPECIFICALLY THE DAUGHTER OF THE CEO WHO OWNS HIM

- He’s also one of the first AIs to not only be psuedo-sentient, but also self-evolving; in order to be able to adjust to patient needs and wants.

- He can “manifest” anything physical as long as it’s within the size limit of his own physical manifestation. For example, if Pomni is hyperventilating; he can manifest a pair of artificial lungs that pump oxygen in order to give her breathing space. (You know what that means)

- Not only is he able to float, he is also able to carry Pomni like she weighs like a couple of grapes because this is not me being self-indulgent and thinking he should carry her bridal style all the time (lie), this is me saying “it’s for emergencies when Pomni is too weak to even stand or walk”

- Pomni hated Caine A LOT at first because she hated having to be co-dependent on this walking life support so yes this is an enemies-to-friends-to-lovers kinda story (except it was one-sided "enemies")

- As the story progresses, Pomni clings onto the hope of not just surviving, but also living again; as Caine learns what it means to be not just existing, but alive!!! because me and my homies love stories about positivity and hope amongst shitty situations!!!!

- And then they fuck. Oh yes, they fuck eventually. And they fuck a lot after that

I don’t care this is MY story, MY AU, I will do whatever the fuck I want!!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAA

I have no idea if I want some of the gang to be AI Doctors/Nurses too but erm. we'll see

[tadc-harlequin-au]

Soooo a bit of an update post,

Sorry for not posting y'all, internet is still out. Gangle's and Z's reveals are done and Kingr's on it's way.

On another note, would Harlequin one-shots for my showtime one-shot collection be something y'all would wanna read? Those would range from non-canon, to soft-canon and I already have some ideas cooking up.

So do lmk if that's something anyone's interested in :3c

[iamespecter]

I don't have a lot of time before my phone dies on me again (faulty charging board, I'm at 3% as I type this) but I just wanna say that we are going to have a lot of payables again as the month starts up + I need to get my phone fixed so...

if it's not too much trouble, donations are very much welcome at paypal.me/especterofficial if you'd like to help us out even just a bit (or just spread the word), I literally can't accept any more commissions ;w; Any amount is very much appreciated :')

[iamespecter]

TADC Showtime fandom rise up!!!!!!!!!

[tadc-harlequin-au]

Painting is so hard sometimes man it's an unpredictable beast (yes I'm learning an old painting technique shush)

[iamespecter]

my brain: You're hating your art style again aren't you me: That's literally your fault my brain: Yeah well lucky for you I know how you can deal with it me: How my brain: Practice cloth wrinkling and lighting using a different brush me: Aight...

my brain: But also draw Caine hot me: Wh

what

[tadc-harlequin-au]

if I knew how to 3D model or I had a PC strong enough to handle blender it would be so joever

[iamespecter]

You know what, sure. Let's play this game, no judgement

Reblog this post to ask mutuals to tell you their weirdest theory about u

[iamespecter]

I've updated the designs of nearly everyone because I wasn't happy with the previous ones, sans Jax and normal Pomni (I.... still haven't started on Zooble but I already have a rough concept in mind)

Gangle is STILL giving me a ton of trouble no matter what AU the girlie is in because you can only do so much with a bunch of ribbons and a mask-

[iamespecter]

Stomach hurty today, so have some doodles of the Digital Circus cast in my style being silly and chilling

close up of the Gummigoo plush message:

[iamespecter]

I think this is a sad reality of just how much the mindset of productivity our generation and the ones before us were raised in was so incredibly toxic, but we didn't have much of a clue. We're never allowed to have fun or play video games because it's seen as "unproductive" and won't bring food to the table, you gotta have a "professional" job if you want to make it in life.

Obviously times have changed now, but it's still a little disheartening to see that the only reason why video games are widely accepted nowadays is because we can now EARN from playing them via youtube and thanks to the let's player's help. Obviously, more power to the people who can monetize their hobbies, I'm also one of those people-

But the point I'm trying to put out here is the fact that we're all so wired to think that everything we do MUST be completely productive and earns money, that simple things such as eating while lounging back and watching TV, taking a nap or even playing video games as a past time is considered "being lazy" and it feels like we have to constantly watch our backs and do these things in secret like it's some kind of forbidden ritual, away from judging eyes.

None of us know how to relax, and if someone does, they're shamed for it. Put up as an example of "don't be like this person". I honestly hope one day, the world learns to move away from this toxic mindset.

Sorry for the yapping just felt the need to put my two cents out there

is anyone else constantly afraid they’ll be “caught” doing stuff they’re obviously allowed or even supposed to do

[iamespecter]

I fucking loved the Alice in Wonderland 2010 movie and I keep being reminded by it whenever I see @endomentendo's wonderland AU, so I redrew one of my favorite scenes from that movie with their Mad Chatter and Cheshire Jax. lol

Anyways endo, if you wanna see this scene fully done, just tell me haha

[iamespecter]

DAY 5 - CARNIVAL by @sm-baby

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 6

I HAVE (almost) PERFECTED IT NOW YIPPIEEEEEEEE!!!! AND WITH ONE MINUTE TO SPARE

it only took like, 3 days for me to be able to get used to the speed of the 1-hour challenge lmao, though I doubt that I'm going to be able to keep this consistent, since various AU Pomnis = various designs = varying difficulty in terms of drawing them all in just the span of only an hour

dear lord, may the next prompts be kind to me-

[iamespecter]

I just remembered that I'm no longer keeping it a secret that the Patriarch is Abel in my Harlequin AU which means I can actually draw my own version of Abel in canon TADC

Anyways he's a carnival barker in my own interpretation, and is in charge of the carnival on the circus grounds

I'm kinda surprised no one's had the idea to make Able a Carnival barker to parallel Caine; who's a Circus ringmaster-