#bio-mechanical

[trash-shrike]

haha time to draw rhysand <- famous last words

Designed an illyrian body plan that balances book canon, aesthetics, and "realism" to my liking. Worldbuilding flying humans often comes down to how strong your ignorance and suspension of disbelief is :) In the case of ACOTAR though, we can just hand wave it and say black box magic is doing 99% the work.

[turbofanatic]

Page 7 is done! Things are blowing up! Good for the reader! Bad for humanity!

I spent too much time holding kitchenware up to various lights to figure out how reflections work on curved surfaces. Maybe someday I'll bother to learn a 3D art program, but being weird with pots and pans is honestly kind of fun, I must admit.

[redrrem]

Satoru being a physic major, with a minor in chem. Or a double degree in physics and chem. That’s the thought of the day.

[jeena-says-hi]

Uni is fun

[lafcadiosadventures]

I never forgot Hugo’s description of his first contact with a train:

“The gave me Watt entirely naked, when I’d rather have him clothed by Benvenuto Cellini”

1) I agree, I love useless ornament. (although 19th c trains are beautiful to me xD)(and if he thought 19th c needed more ornaments what the hell would he think of contemporary architecture/design) 2) i wish someone would write about the quotidian with this much visionary power nowadays

[isa-ko]

Not Napoleonic but I’m in my very first ever drawing class and learning how to do traditional art😆!!

Also I lied, I tried to make a very quick bowlcut marshal soult for fun and I tried to draw oudinot’s face but IT SUCKED so i didn’t finish it😈

[grauline]

new yuyudoll ex-machina sculpt is outside of the budget but god. i think about him and shake

[wolfsbaneandthistle]

Kirison is a Tias-style Kosien from Teth Tias. They serve as the custodian of the Little Bird! They take care of cleaning and minor repairs, and even help out in the gardens here and there. It’s far from the most relaxed position on the ship, but it’s one Kirison takes to like a fish to water.

Kirison and Tinnsali are in a Tias-standard Jyl/jyk bond, as well as a pair bond, per Enithian law. Kirison is a hopeless romantic for Tinnsali, having rallied for the position in order to stay together. He’s also friends with Hán, and friendly with Narihl. Though, the latter is due more to the two of them working so closely together.

[musclesandhammering]

There’s zero chance Loki and Hela having so many similarities is just a coincidence. And even though we’re most definitely never getting a full explanation for it, I’m so curious as to what you guys believe the reason is. Do you think:

a.) Loki’s a shapeshifter who can see people’s memories when he touches them. So when Odin picked him up as a baby, he saw Hela in Odin’s mind and shifted himself to resemble her.

b.) Loki and Hela have the same biological mother.

c.) Hela is Loki’s biological mother.

d.) Odin changed Loki to look like Hela when he first held him, because he missed her.

e.) Hela’s biological mother is jotun, and she and Loki both have black hair/pale skin/green aesthetic/etc because that’s just what frost giants look like when they take an asgardian form.

f.) Hela and Loki are both adopted, both children of Laufey. Odin took Hela centuries earlier, then when he realised Laufey’d had another child, he took Loki too.

**I’ve listed these in order from the ones I find most likely to least likely, if you’re curious. Tell me which headcanon you prefer, I wanna see.

[bakedbananners]

I honestly don’t even know

[malkaleh]

Brain. I have promised people I will remain alive and also that I will work on the idea that I can have (and do not have to earn) nice things please leave me alone.

[rocksanddeadflowers]

so i've been listening to elysian fields way too much lately and thinking how fucked up that song is for the mechs to perform. like put death to the mechanisms out of your head (bc that basically didn't happen yet with udad) and listen.

they're immortal. they can't die. the song is all about the sweet release of death, and arguably a gentle one at that, cradled in the fields on a world were nature ceases, next to the grave of your deceased beloved. it's a beautiful song, and arguably, ulysses got their happy ending.

the mechanisms don't get that, though. most didn't even get the option of keeping mortality. they're stuck on the mortal plane, in flesh and metal, with no escape or release within reach.

their finale performance of this album is the bittersweet comfort of mortality and endings, something they're well aware they will never be granted.

[botaniqueer]

Some arthropod appreciation! Also it's not something we think a ton about because it's normal for us to see them, but it's absolutely wild to explicitly think about the fact that there are animals that can just fly and be in the air for extended periods of time.

Rove beetle wing folding, slow motion flight, and comparison to earwig wings. Rove beetles and earwigs, between them, have the most complex wings in the animal kingdom (IMHO)!

[riki-kitkat]

The Crows.

Here is a closer and more detailed version.

It is still a Work in Progress.

You have a right side view. A left side, and a top side view of the helmet.

However, no crows are the same. Which is one of the reasons why no one knows how they work and how they were made.

[nosnexus]

Daily sketches! Mechanical stuff is so hard and I should do more of it.