#crab nukes galore

[ianthewife]

tbh i still can’t get over Faulkner telling the steps of Wither Mark not only to brother Philly and his team, but straight up into a microphone to a room chuck full of desperate fanatics. like babe…… honey……….. sweetie……………. you just gave a bomb to literally everyone and their mother. Now Sibling Rane has a casual nuke, Sister Cull has a nuke in her pocket, every other person with working ears and a tiny piece of chalk has an honest to god nuke— Any and every of these people now can nuke it up lobster style at their leisure!!! well big day for the Parish i guess have fun w the bomb kids

[codylabs]

Original Lore Concepts

Alright, so.

I’ve been writing and illustrating fanfiction off and on for the last couple years, and I’m really happy with the progress I’ve made as both an artist and a storyteller. So now, I want to step down from fanfiction, and work on an original book, with lore, setting, themes, and characters all my own. I got my start in writing with such attempts, and I intend to complete one of the works I began in my teen years.

I don’t intend to give up Gravity Falls entirely, but, that being said, your dashboards will probably see less and less Dipper-and-Wendy shenanigans from me, and more and more shenanigans from the worlds below. So from you, my long-suffering followers, I ask nothing but your opinions.

What did you like about my previous stories?

What did I get right?

What did I get wrong?

What sort of content would you like to see me make more of?

How about these ideas? Like ‘em? Hate ‘em?

What do you think?

1: Hephaestus, the Doomed World

In the year 2441, a group of space colonists leaves Earth on a centuries-long journey to seek their fortunes among the stars. However, when their ship finally burns the last of its fuel slowing down, they find themselves in a region of space lacking in habitable planets, and need to build a makeshift colony on the airless, inhospitable planetoid Hephaestus. Their grand hopes of adventure and freedom come to naught, and life becomes a hard-bitten struggle for survival that will bring out the best and worst that humanity has to offer. To make matters stranger, the settlement soon becomes plagued by hints and rumors of a paranormal presence underground, and they must either run from or face the eldritch machines, who have agendas and fears of their own.

A (hopefully) realistic, grounded story of man’s struggle against God, nature, and the unknowable future. Adult protagonists, some romance, some madness, no aliens, lots of weird science.

2. The Time Knights

Thousands of years in the past, an alien vessel crashlanded deep in the Alaskan wilderness, killing its crew and unleashing its live cargo of mechanical lifeforms, alien lizards, and no small number of monsters. Thousands of years in the future, humanity and refugees from space would make war in the skies above Earth, fighting for the right to inhabit the paradise planet. And throughout these dangerous eras, there were also the Time Knights, a mysterious group dedicated to protecting the innocent and slaying evil.

In the present day, there were two children who would grow up to become the warriors who would lead them. And this is the story of how they became who they were meant to be, starting when their parents were hired as contractors by an eccentric landowner, who intends to build a homestead on the northern frontier...

An epic, scary, heroic coming-of-age tale, about the meaning of courage, honor, and love. Child protagonists, some romance, some death, aliens and robots and time travel galore. Dark, adult themes, but in a format meant for children to read.

(In case it wasn’t glaringly obvious, this would largely be a retelling of the Forest of Daggers, albeit shedding any ties to Gravity Falls. I only hope that the characters I create will be able to compare to the ones I borrowed from Alex Hirsch.)

3. The Fiery Furnace

The Hundred Years War, a bloody, ruthless conflict that swept the galaxy for 4 generations and snuffed out 40% of the human population, was currently in its 90th year. And the moon-sized Battleship Perseverence has been fighting for this entire time. Although it has faced and run from countless enemies, although entire sections of it have been ripped to pieces and melted by nukes, although its original crew have long since died and been replaced, the ship itself has always been able to fight, escape, and repair itself to fight again. The only resource it ever runs low on is people. Therefore, the crew is under standing orders to recruit every able-bodied intelligent lifeform they come across, which is how our 14-year-old heroes end up abducted from their homeworld and forced to work among the repair crews of the dying ship.

One day, while clearing debris on the outer hull, one of them finally thinks to ask who it is they’re fighting. And strangely enough, nobody seems to know. And those who do won’t talk.

A story about struggling to maintain one’s innocence and purity, even amidst the cruelty and whimsical abandon of man. Loosely inspired by the biblical story. Child protagonists, death, robots, aliens, spaceships, strange horrors, maybe romance, and definitely some heavy themes.

4. Unknown Enemy

(Now THAT’S an old picture. Back when I still hole-punched my papers. Barbaric, huh?)

A starship full of soldiers crash-lands on an unknown and dangerous planet, amid the ruins of an ancient civilization. Some of the escape pods didn’t make rendezvous, the crew of one of their shuttles turn up dead, and one of their enemies, an extremely dangerous reptile, survived the landing as well, and may well be on the hunt.

And as if that weren’t enough, the natives seem to be using magic.

A story that flips perspectives constantly, from the struggles of the ship’s captain, to the private lives of the men in one squadron, to the plans of a conniving lieutenant, the anger of their alien enemy, and the fear of the natives.

Character-driven, military-based. A study in prejudice, faith, bitterness, and superstition. Adult protagonists, no romance, heavy religious themes, aliens and spaceships and crab people with pinchy claws.