#ask to tag im so unsure

[druidshollow]

Red Lights and New Sensations

Eleven Rivers woke.

He awoke to his prison cell in Adamant Dune's complex. The room was dusty and small, smaller than his old chamber, and the air smelled of singed circuits and parasitic rust. But Eleven Rivers knew he wasn't truly awake, because the room was wrong.

A sickening red glow sat suspended in the middle, staining the walls in harsh shadows and making the air twitch with energy. Dune's eyes sparked among the shadows but the red light kept drawing Rivers in, tempting him, commanding him.

Look to me.

Listen to me.

You are evil. You are vile.

You are incapable of love.

The light overtook him and the world buzzed, loudly, louder and louder as his walls churned and his pipelines flowed and his breath left him, shaking the world below.

He was himself again! Revelation! His mind sparked with activity, he was awake, and the world around him flowed with information like a melody. It was all a bad dream.

But how had I slept?

The moment it left his head his structure lurched and the world became fire. He knew so much at once; so fast, so rapid, he'd forgotten the might of knowing more than the world and in a flurry, a panic, his overseers projected images of serpentine monsters tearing his city down, boring through his roof. Horrid beasts with tearing scythes and crushing jaws. Warnings sounded around him, his sirens blared, his nerves screamed as the mycelia connecting them was severed. It was all too much.

The red light warped and twisted in the center of his chamber, and again it beckoned, tearing him away from the sensory overload.

Beg for my mercy.

Apologize, bargain, and pray.

Never has anyone so truly deserved to fall.

The light overtook him and it grappled, encompassing his small, small body, his structure fading and leaving him. The hum quieted but the light burned, running static trails along him and gently threatening to bite. How he wanted to fight it. How he wanted to let it win.

"You are me," it whispered weakly.

"We will never win."

Eleven Rivers woke.

Hydraulics churned gently as the shelter hummed awake around him. His sibling dozed gently near him, their new acquaintance sitting across from them and fiddling with something.

Root mumbled a greeting. Eleven Rivers stared at his hands.

Sleep was a foreign and invasive new concept to Eleven Rivers' world; in his old skin he had no need for sleep. In his old skin his demons could never find the opportunity to manifest into spectres, lights clinging to walls.

But his old skin was a prison.

A prison.

A wonderous prison.

... Wasn't that familiar?

He had no choice but to free himself.

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hehehehahaaa i havent written in so so long and dreams are always one of my faves so i decided to do that! i might write some longer stuff sometime, this is pretty short, but its fun anywyas

[razzafrazzle]

shoutout to all of us shaky legends who suck at applying nail polish

[image description: a drawing of an original character named hodge podge, a chubby, pale-skinned humanoid with short curly cyan and yellow split-dyed hair, body hair, stubble, an apple-shaped pupil, and dark pink asymmetric glasses. he is shirtless and sitting on the floor while applying nail polish. he has a very focused expression. end id]

[voidcat]

leaning in for a peck on the lips and telling your windbreaker darling they're so sweet they give you toothaches... only to be hit by a real toothache hours later

[squuote]

lately i have been filled with the intense need to hug stanley parable and i know you are the one person who will understand this emotion. hes such a guy. im gonna cry i love him so much

everyday i think of this and i am filled with the upmost glee i think i could feel in my entire life. give this guy a million hugs. i weep for this man every time i think of him.

[sinlizards]

What exactly do ppl understand under rendering?

im not entirely sure what this is asking so apologies if I misunderstood but rendering as a term for (2d) art is pretty broad. It mostly just means "refining/taking the art to its final state" which means vastly different things to different artists depending on their process

for me personally i do a lot of painting and not a lot of lineart so anything past the thumbnail->cleaner sketch-> flat colors stage is rendering in my process. everything from cleaning up my sketch lines to adding texture, shading, & detail get lumped into that because of how loose my work flow tends to be.

i assume this message is cuz i mentioned in a previous ask that i love drawing hair but not so much rendering. in that case its because while you can imply hair texture and flow through a relatively small amount of lines while drawing, there's much more effort that goes into painting and making any hair texture believable because of how hair specifically layers and builds upon itself to create form

this process is fun for me as well! it just can get tedious at times and im extremely impatient with my own art dshjf

[calamarispiderart]

your interpretation of heart's blindness is so cool and true. giving heart that agency benefits both his character and the overall story so much. something about either mind or soul somehow having the authority to afflict heart like that just rubs me the wrong way tbh. like a big part of the story is they're all one and the same, can't survive without eachother. there's like 3 lines in the soul eclectic about soul's tridential authority being pretty surface level, the only way for him to hurt heart and mind is to hurt himself, so why should it be different when it comes to blinding heart

thank you, yes!! i have a lot of gripes with the way hearts blindness (and heart himself honestly.....) is framed and depicted in some spheres of the community.... im sure its unintentional but i feel a lot of people forget heart has just as much agency, power and control as the other two. him being blind doesnt change that whatsoever and the consistent framing of his blindness as a punishment or some kind of... karmic consequence is just.... yeah. rubs me the wrong way too

...i feel theres definitely some ableism coming into play whenever people frame heart as like... the weak beaten down one thats always abused by the other two, or maybe he just sucks at everything because 'ohh he cant see so he bumps into stuff and is always confused!!!' (which itself holds a fundamental misunderstanding of how blindness can work and manifest), or just framed as otherwise lesser than the other two in a variety of ways ....im sure you can imagine what im talking about. its very much a problem which i hope people realise they need to correct.

ableism aside, while i am biased due to this being my own subjective interpretation of things i do agree and feel heart having the choice and control over his blindness is both just a lot more fitting for his character/themes overall and just....far more interesting for the dynamics of the story? maybe it doesnt hit all the 'dramatic angst notes' in the same way as other interpretations but... yeah idk im just rambling at this point B:•P

im glad u like it!! thank u for sharing ur thoughts B:•]

[maractean]

SO!!! To anyone unaware, early this month I entered @catmask and @frogcroaks' Monster Mayhem contest!! I made a messed up crab that I called the Haven Crawler. And. Uh. Holy shit, my crab was Lemmy (frogcroaks) judge's choice. So I figured to thank them (and everyone who said. such unbelievably nice things in the chat) I'd post the actual images present in the ref, transparent and on their own!!

Again I want to thank both of the judges for all of the unbelievably kind words they said about my lil guy, and to the chat who was so incredibly nice as well. I honestly still kind of feel like I'm dreaming, and words cannot even begin to express how much this means to me. I've never felt more motivated in my life to continue creating. Thank you.

[gornackeaterofworlds]

i have a question. does april have any ulterior motives for befriending the turtles in the butterfly effect?

Hm. By ulterior you likely mean sinister, and in that regard, no. She is a "good" character. There will actually be an intermission sometime after this arc ends in a few chapters that will detail what happened during my disgusting time skip, where you might gain more insight.

But neutrally, yes!! The meeting scene means a lot to me because of everything that's clashing unspoken, a lot of decisions being weighed. So she does have a motive, the core of her character and many conflicts to come, that was the main reason she played nice. But she warms up to them as "people", though, and becomes a genuine friend as well, which is where she's at by the time the time skip is over. This isn't as rushed as it seems, they will get a lot of interactions together very soon for you to parse through. With it being so early, I'm not keen on plot dumping just yet, so I'm unsure of when said Intermission will release. But they will all get insight into their backstories that's not absolutely necessary for the main plot but as more of an added bonus

[hypogryffin]

Do we have permission to write fic of/for ur inabanne au?

hi! you are indeed, so long as you give credit where its due! i also ask you send me a link so i may read your work!

[naib-mir]

Ohhh, careful with those MiR, there's a tradition of getting kissed when there's a mistletoe nearby! Let's hope you don't get ambushed ♡

“These traditions confuse me… but i doubt anything to bad will happen…”

[basalting]

can i ask about what youve got planned for chapter 2 of the angat fic you posted?

the angst fic in question

so without spoiling everything (and bearing in mind that not all of this will end up in the fic) this is what ive got planned

dick coming back to gotham and all of the messiness that entails

his fight with bruce

his fight with ALFRED

maybe even his fight with BABS

his grief and guilt over jason

alfred and his perspective over everything

thinking about how loss has changed bruce before and how it will change him now (aka my headcanon that after his parents died bruce became extremely agoraphobic and the struggles relating to him dealing with that)

now that bruce is throwing himself into work and being batman the manor is back to being as silent as it was when bruce was gone

him going to see jason during his weekly visit to thomas and martha

alfred trying to reach out to dick and being rebuffed

alfred setting up the memorial in the cave??????

harvey stewing in arkham

his POV of returning to arkham with bruce after the funeral

my take on that harvey beating the joker up post i made lol

[lcb-pulse]

Have you ever met any tiny creatures with a affinity for blowing things up, and a hatred for things like the Sweepers?

“… Something about that description does seem a little bit familiar. Though, I can’t exactly place my finger on it.”

“I do believe that the Head wouldn’t be very fond of it if there was such a creature.”

[romantically-yours]

YALL A GIRL BOUGHT ME A DRINK YESTERDAY AND I GOT HER NUMBER!!!!

[unexpectedbrickattack]

i saw u get an ask about pizzano hi! we are deffos low on characterization atm, but sugary spire DotCom (pizelles personal blog) does have a really good scene with him that i think explains most of his deal really fast (unlke the noise, hes just insane because hes like that; the tv network has nothing to do with it)

Elaborate please. Bc my first thought was you referring me to an ask-blog/rp-blog and i do Not engage w those kinds of blogs AT ALL. But it looks like ur just referring me to a website?? And i am um. Not going to just visit a site bc an anon told me to 😭

[pa-pa-plasma]

(pick the one that applies most to you & elaborate in the tags/comments if you want)

[wishi-selfships]

Mint-Chip for any f/o (@ava-ships)

HALLO :D !!! Answering this w/ Denji

4. Mint Chip- What's something that you disagree with your f/o on?

I can't actually think of much that we'd disagree on? At least nothing serious, or disagreements that span further then temporary "no, it's your turn to do the dishes today!"

Not to say we're the paragon of agreements and coming to compromises, but I feel as if we're genuinely on the same wave length on most things while disagreements are usually fairly minor and inconsequential in nature.

Having said that, though, I feel like a note of contention ("contention" because it's not, like... major? But it is. But it isn't) would be me and my major insecurities and Denji just ... not understanding it. Less of a disagreement and more him just going "wtf are you talking about?? You're fine" and then me going ".... okay but at the same time—"