#cuz it need to redo it

[condor-solaris]

crap I forgot to post here

Mysterious Golden Cities

"The 16th century was an era of great geographical discoveries, when many people dared to challenge the unknown world for the sake of wealth and fame"

Chapter 1 

- Esteban, there is a place to land.

- All right, Tao.

The Condor was spotted from the ground.

- What is it? The Golden Bird?

- If so, then surely it will lead to the golden cities. Follow her, now!

- Yes, sir.

The Condor landed and Esteban, Zia and Tao got off it

- Where do you think we have arrived? - Esteban asked when he got off the Condor.

- I think we got to Mexico. - Zia replied - and as I heard at the palace in Barcelona, Hernan Cortez is now the governor of Mexico.

- CORTEZ!? - Tao shouted.

 - Of course – Mendoza said that Marinche and the Doctor are Cortes’ friends! - Esteban snapped his fingers.

 - And if Marinche could read manuscripts like me, then surely Cortez has a manuscript! - Tao said

 - Maybe it says where the next golden city is located? Surely we can find your father there, Esteban.

 - If he's still alive.  

 - Of course he's alive, Esteban, we'll definitely find him. 

 - If only I had the same relationship. - Tao shook his head sadly.

 - DANGER! DANGER! SOLDIERS! SOLDIERS! SOLDIERS! RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY! FASTER! FASTER!

 - RUN!!

- Stand still, damn Indians!!

The children ran away who went where

- OUCH!

- ZIA ARE YOU OKAY!

- Yes, Esteban.

- Gotcha.

They were brought back.

- Aah! GET YOUR PAWS OFF ME!!

- Who are you and what are you doing here?

- And who are you? And why did you catch us?

- I'm Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, and I'm looking for escaped Indians here. Now answer my question!

- I won't tell you.

- Well, then you will be beaten up just like this Indian. 

The Indian was completely covered with abrasions from the whip, which made the children very scared:

- No, don't do this! I'm Esteban, she's Zia, and he's Tao. We are here on behalf of the Doctor and Marinche! We need to see Cortez right away!

- Yes? Good. A couple of people will stay here to guard this golden bird, and everyone else will escort the Indian and these children to Mexico City with me. Lucas, come here. (in a whisper) Will you tell His Excellency everything that they said, is everything clear?!

- Yes, sir.

After a while, a group of soldiers with children came out of the forest and they were incredibly surprised -

- Look at what a huge city!!!

- Aren't there such big cities in Spain?

- No, Barcelona is much smaller than Mexico City. And what is it?

- These are chinampas, floating gardens.

- Is this dam needed to prevent Mexico City from flooding?

And finally they arrived in Mexico City, at the Spanish fortress, where Cortez was already waiting for them

- Hello, Your Excellency.

- Hello, Coronado. Well, what do these traitors need? And where are they?

- They're dead, sir. The Indians sacrificed them to their gods.

- Serves them right. And what did they want from me?

Tao stepped forward.

- So that I can translate your manuscript!

- Then read it.

- Well?

- "Aztlan is the ancestral homeland of the Aztecs, it stands on a small island in the middle of the lake. One day, the Aztecs escaped from there for an unknown reason. It is located **north** of Mexico City." That's all it says here.

- You lied - Marinche said that this city is located in the NORTHWEST! Immediately tell me what it says.

- But that's all there was!!

- Coronado!

- Yes, Your Excellency.

- You know what to do with liars. 50 lashes for him.

- NO!! PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!!

Esteban stepped between the Spaniards and covered Tao with his hands.

- What are you doing?

- I don't want you to get beaten up.

- What do you want?

- Tao is my friend. Give him time until morning so he can translate everything. I promise he will do it.

- All right, but if he doesn't make it, then I'll execute you all. Coronado, take this boy to the tower.

- I'm listening. But what about the others?

- Lock them down with the Indians.

- Yes sir.

They were captured.

- NO!! LET US GO!!

- I CAN WALK BY MYSELF!

They were taken downstairs. When they were thrown into the dungeon, Esteban and Zia saw a group of Indians sitting in the middle of the cave.

  - Zia, are you okay?

  - Yes, thank you. Why are they so?

Meanwhile, Tao was taken to the tower and closed it.

- TAO!! TAO!!

- Pichu, fly here quickly, and don't shout so loudly! Bring me the rope and now!

- CARRYING IT! CARRYING IT!

- Well done, you're a good bird! (Tao went down the rope.) Pichu, can you find a powder magazine?

- LOOKING! LOOKING!

Tao and Pichu suddenly came across an Indian whom Tao had already seen, he was being carried and beaten to the cell where Esteban and Zia were. He was thrown right at their feet

- OOH!

Several Indians took him to the center of the cave, and Esteban ran to help him, but one of them pushed him away and said:

- Go away, white devil!!

- What did I do? I just wanted to help!

- Stay back!

- Calm down, he didn't do anything to you. Forgive him, we are all on edge right now because of... (Here the elder notices that Esteban and Zia are wearing medallions) - Incredibly, you are wearing medallions symbolizing the arrival of our god Quetzalcoatl, who sailed a long time ago to the west!

- But it's not like that! I'm an ordinary boy!

- It can't be! My people have exactly the same legend! But Esteban, it's true!

- I still can't believe it.

- That's right, because you look very much like him, otherwise we would be doomed. After all, earlier we took Cortez for a god (here the flashback Cortez rides horses with Marinche and the Doctor, and the Indians clap for them) and accepted him as a god, but he looted our temples and killed us, he did not bring anything good. That's why you have to get us out of here!

Esteban sighs. Meanwhile, Tao took two barrels, but the Spaniards noticed him.

- STOP! HE STOLE THE GUNPOWDER! FOLLOW HIM!

- No way.

Tao pushed the soldier off the dam and ran on. There he lit the barrels and ran to the prison.

- Esteban, Zia!

- Tao, how did you get here?

- Pichu brought the rope up to me, but it doesn't matter, we need to leave urgently! The dam is going to explode here soon.

- WHAT IS IT?

Tao opens the bars, and Esteban calls the Indians -

- Come on, we need to leave. 

- Only I do not know where.

- Come on, I know there is a passage to our village.

The elder pointed to a large hatch and two Indians opened it. They all went down and the sewer appeared in front of them.

- This place was abandoned, and I doubt the Spaniards know about it. 

- And what is there?

- An abandoned temple. There is an exit to the other side of the lake.

- That is, we can return to the Condor along this path!! Tao, I hope you understood what the Cortez manuscript was about?

- Of course. We need to fly northwest from Mexico City. The next golden city is located there - Aztlan.

- This is wonderful news!!

- Do you understand our language?

- Just a little bit. These pictographs are similar to the language of my people from Mu.

- As the old legend says, a stranger who understands our language must take the treasure of the temple.

- The treasure of the temple? What a…

Suddenly, a terrible roar was heard from above.

- The gunpowder exploded!! 

- Then we need to run!

Two Aztecs lifted the elder in their arms, and the children joined hands and ran. At that time, water was already gushing through a hole in the dam and into the sewer. The Spaniards are trying to escape from the stream of water, but they are still washed away.  And finally they all came out of the sewer and found themselves in a small village near Mexico City.

- We got out!

- Yes, but how do we get back for the Condor?

- It doesn't matter now. Take a break, and tomorrow I'll tell you how to get there.

- Thank you very much.

Meanwhile, in Mexico City.

- I'm sorry, Your Excellency, we lost them.

- You stupid fool, they couldn't just disappear like that. Find them. We really need them!! Especially this Tao!!!

- I'm sorry, Your Excellency, but you remember we talked about Sibol. 

- About this stupid gossip?

- One person has already been there, he said that the whole city is made of pure gold. I would like to go on an expedition to find him. 

- Find these children first, and don't come back without them!

- Yes, Your Excellency.

The end of chapter 1.

[shynetyme06]

Human crescent doodles just because 🌙

Character belongs to lunnar-chan

[sandrockers]

Logan’s Proposal 💍✨

[foolsinferno]

Found my Apple Pencil immediately after complaining about how long it has been missing for. Here’s a quick Raph done in celebration!!

[Image ID: A coloured sketch of Raphaella la Cognizi. Her left hand is on her hip and her right arm is down by her side. She has a tired/pissed off expression on her face. / End ID]

[majimasleftasscheek]

huhuhuhu look what I made

I AM GONNA open my shop this month I've put it off long enough 😤

[cold-red-venom]

Futtershy and Discord :DDDD

Did NOT mean to go this hard, this was just gonna be a low effort sketch. Discord's a little awkward, but it's my first time drawing him, but I think now that I have it'll be easier next time, I wasn't feeling this halfway through but I actually really like how it turned out :)))

[risetherivermoon]

thought abt the oak twins..heres some art while i experiment with brushes lol, plus a colored version of lark

[draconicfool]

Lài Shoi-Ming Eros - Eidolon

e1 - Secrets Kept Between Six Ears ♡ e2 - As the Garden Withers and Dies ♡ e3 - Kingdom of Stone on a Throne of Bone ♡ e4 - A Broken Heart, A Devouring Hunger ♡ e5 - A Lover's Lifetime Loyalty Reward ♡ e6 - That Which Waters Tomorrows Dawn

[mx-giraffe]

do you take art requests? if so, may i humbly ask for zombie dazai plz (any point of his life will do btw)

absolutely, PLEASE give me art requests o((>��< ))o

and i reckon you may. Here, have a zombie Dazai fifteen.

[fan-tasticalwhore]

Fan art of mottie.. mothie.... Them💕

I'm bad with names, N E WAYS

they're pretty so obviously they have to get fanart

Mothie belongs to... @mothiepixie

[keets-writing-corner]

I FINALLY GOT CHAPTER 2 UP

Here's chapter 1 if anyone missed that one

gawd it took me so long I'm so sorry! In my defense it's double the length of chapter 1. Here's a little preview

It started with a boom that rivaled thunder. 

Lilith jumped awake in the dead of night, heart pounding. Around her, animals were chittering, panicked. There was an energy, a tension in the air. She couldn’t quite understand what it was or what was happening. She still could find no source of the noise that had awoken her. 

Another boom rattled the air, followed by actual thunder. Both were accompanied by blinding light from the sky above. The ground beneath her shook, and the plants rattled their leaves. 

Lilith stood and began to run. She could barely see what was going on through the canopy of the trees, but she was determined to figure out what was going on. Normally at night, she wouldn’t have been able to see anything. But with every crash, every shake, every boom, the sky lit up with different colors and illuminated her path. 

When she finally reached a clearing, her suspicions were confirmed but her questions remained unanswered. 

The sky above her was in turmoil. The clouds churned and danced around each other, trying to crush each other and melting into each other. They tugged and pulled, ripped and teared away at each other. Lights would flash from behind them with their deafening booms. It looked like the end of days. 

The only experience Lilith had that was even remotely akin to this was light rain, but mostly only because it’d be cloudy with distant thunder. This-... This was something else completely.

Lilith watched transfixed. Hoping maybe at some point it would let up or fade. But it wouldn’t. At most there would be a longer stretch of seconds between the next flash of light than other times, but it never waned. 

Soon, the battle of the sky stretched into the daytime, distorting the colors of the sunrise around it to a violent red before eventually giving way to day. The clouds remained dark, and heavy, sometimes even black at times. 

Lilith had hoped that during the day it would make more sense, or be less frightening. Instead, what she saw was only worse. 

“Lilith!” a voice called to her, and she turned. Eve was beckoning her, “Come on! I know you don’t like Adam much, but don’t be alone in this!” 

Lilith glanced at the sky one last time before running over to Eve. 

Eve was right. As annoying as Adam was, being alone with that chaos reigning above her would be worse. It seemed however, whatever it was that was happening, was also rattling Adam. For once, he took on a more protective role over the two women, trying to comfort them. 

They spent the day together eating the fruits of Eden, and sitting together looking at the sky. 

When the sun started to set, the sky was still rumbling and booming. The lights distorted the clouds into monstrous shapes before immediately destroying them and then creating more shapes.

“What in Eden’s name is going on??” Adam hissed under his breath. “Is this going to last all night too?” 

It did. 

None of them got much sleep. 

It lasted all throughout the next day as well. And the next night, and the day after that. 

It never rained, and the wind only minorly picked up, as if down below on Eden was completely separate to what was happening above. Lilith eventually grew weary of Adam once again and broke off to be by herself. Clearly, whatever was happening wasn’t about to hurt her. 

Finally, after seven days and seven nights, when the dawn was breaking through the thickness of night, there was a sickening sound that started off as a crackle but devolved into a rattle as a single light flared in the sky and then jortled across it. 

The sky went quiet as that single light began to fall, a smaller piece of it broke off and went on its own trail. 

Lilith could only watch in morbid fascination as the streak of light fell, and when it hit the earth, the ground itself shook, rippling out in waves as if it had turned liquid. 

Lilith grabbed onto a tree for stability as all the animals screeched around her. 

Then it settled. 

The ground no longer shook.

The sky was silent and still. 

Looking up at it however, in the exact trace of the light, the edges of the clouds had been ripped apart, and the sunrise was making it glow an angry red. The air was uncomfortably chilly. It felt as if something had been irrevocably changed.

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And here's the link again for the full thing

[youredreamingofroo]

something that I realized WAY too late into my tumblr "career" is that when you click on a post and have it pop up, the blog post color turns white, if you dont know what i mean, heres an example:

Here's how I see my intro/navi post (on my blog dash thingie):

But if you click on my page/blog (by clicking my name, not going to youredreamingofroo dot com), here's how anybody else would see it (aka not on dash):

which is VERY annoying especially since I like to make transparent images/banners/gifs and means I have to rebrand my banners- and I can't make the text darker, bc then it'll be hard to see when your just viewing it on the dash :/

I also didn't realize this when I make colored text and thus meaning the text on some posts w/ colored text will be/are hard to read

[benetnvsch]

progress :> not gonna actually line this but significantly cleaned up the basic shapes/sketch- gonna try and color and shade this tomorrow,, wonna animate 1-2 more neco-arc kunikida things then throw all of them together in a trashy edit its gonna be great

[doriansbutt]

usually when I play any sort of rpg, bring it video game or interactive fiction or smth, I first go in w no plan and just experience things and develop my oc along the way, while ALSO planning my next ocs w all the different routes and stuff. Then, I’ll make a new oc w a plan. Gonna romance a different character, this person is made for someone specific.

With infamous, I can’t NOT pine for Seven. Doesn’t matter how I start off, it all comes back to Seven…..I love them, your honor………..

That being said, I had some realizations about the drama that would come w romancing august and o today so I’m gonna be trying them next oop 😳

[diivineray]

So, PSA. I updated my rules a bit, just for accessibility reasons. I've meant to discuss writing and people's use of aesthetics. Please take a gander.

[toestalucia]

what if i gave gran a 3rd about page with further ramblings <-guy who should be fixing up akiras about page