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[kayarenwick]

7, 13 and 30 for the questions for fic writers please!

the questions:

I'm gonna go ahead and answer these all as they pertain to my longest work, Every One That Asketh, which is... essentially a Mass Effect 4 fic, if I had to sum it up.

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

Loads, honestly. But the first thing that comes to mind is the expansion I've done into batarian culture and the impact of the Hegemony on a millennium of batarian society. I'm particularly proud of that worldbuilding because it gives the batarians a hell of a lot more depth.

Beyond that, I'm also incredibly proud of the huge amounts of worldbuilding I've done into turian society... notably what may be my crowning achievement of nerdery, which is the conlang Venian.

13. Are there any tropes you used to like but don’t anymore?

Hm, good question. None immediately come to mind... I have phases of enjoying certain tropes more than others, I'd say, but the tropes I don't like I haven't liked for a long time. Will have to give this one some more thought...

30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?

Some of the scenes with the Marquis were tough to write, because he's meant to be an amalgamation of some of the worst tropes sapientkind can offer while still maintaining a 'human' presence. He makes my skin crawl.

[joelywoely]

alopex in tmnt eota!!!!!!! i love this little fella so im glad to make a design.

alopex will ALWAYS be transmasc. to me.

[queenoffishingandcookies]

Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss - Trying to Figure out the Timeline

The story is presumably set in the later months of 1905.

You play as Cam, an experienced deep sea diver who once served on the ship S.S Thalassa, alongside a crew with excellent capability.

Cam, in-game, has neither voice nor their own character picture profile as the others do when speaking. This can be a bit odd, however, as the other characters will respond as though Cam has said something.

Even in a group photo, Cam is always seen covered head-to-toe in standard diving dress - likely a bid for a person of any gender to be able to identify with them, and better submerge themselves in the story.

A BRIEF BACKGROUND OF STORY:

The S.S Thalassa, commissioned by a woman by the name of Isabel Greenwood, had a mission to recover relics from the Spanish Galleon her family once owned, known and named as the St. Catherine - and perhaps eventually raise her from the seabed, where it had laid for roughly three hundred years.

After the personal and traumatic loss of a close friend and teammate on a dive gone wrong in early May - due to an accident caused by the collapse of a faulty lift crane - Cam takes a leave of absence from the ship, plunging into a deep depression once the shock of the event clears.

This actually serves as the prologue of the game, and is considerably graphic as Alex - Cam’s friend and diving partner - drowns before the player on camera. After the crane fell, carrying in the net several heavy artifacts from the wreck, she was promptly trapped beneath the broken mast of the St.Catherine which punctured her dive suit - which filled with water.

Bailey Tulloch, the diving assistant aboard the S.S Thalassa, also took a leave of absence in order to keep an eye on Cam’s health, while an inquiry was opened as to the cause of the incident which took the late crewmate’s life.

It was this decision that saved both their lives.

A few weeks later after their departure, on what should have been a routine voyage to and from the St. Catherine’s diving site, the S.S Thalassa sends a distress call on July 8th, 1905... before sinking for an unknown reason, not a glimpse of the vessel to be seen by rescue ships upon arrival at the last known location. No lifeboards from the vessel are found, either.

All hands aboard her are deemed lost.

With a lack of investigation coming from the mainland, and the family of the presumed deceased crew needing answers, Bailey and Cam - the only ones left - head for the last known location of the S.S Thalassa after months of searching, with plans to dive, if possible, on where the wreck was believed to be.

To find out what caused the sinking, and what happened to their crew - and even, additionally, the presence of several others.

TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE IMMEDIATE TIMELINE:

When I was reading reviews of the game out of curiosity, trying to find the characters surnames (because I really only know Bailey, Isabel, and Maria’s), one line in the review stated that several years had passed since the incident - which I didn’t think was possible.

- The game’s summary on steam states, without a doubt, that it is 1905. Meaning, the main game is 1905.

- In the game’s opening, even before Cam has been sent down in the water and has begun the trek to the S.S Thalassa’s wreck, Bailey mentions it has been months of Cam in a deep depression - drinking heavily, and not often cleaning up after themselves.

- In other words, months since Alex’s death, at the very least.

- S.S Thalassa last set sail from port-au-Prince in Haiti, on June 27th, 1905. According to a map on Bailey’s ship, it was roughly a seven day voyage to the St. Catherine site.

- We also see, pinned to a board, that the S.S Thalassa’s last message - an S.O.S call (which had originated first in Germany on April 1st, 1905, though only became international regulation in 1906) - was dated on July 8th, 1905.

- We can assume this is around when the ship went down, because when reaching the wreck of Thalassa, there is an S.O.S message response from another ship still attached to the telegraph machine.

- After Cam has entered the water and begun making their way to the wreck, Bailey specifically states that the news of the sinking came only a few weeks after they left following Alex’s death, or roughly a month when taken as a whole measurement.

- Meaning Alex may have died at some point in either very early June or mid-late May, or even early may, since I think ‘few’ most commonly is attributed to a span of two or three weeks, but it depends on the person and what’s being talked about - and again, it was at least seven days back to the nearest port, a week, if that was where they went.

- I don’t know where Alex lived, and it’s not mentioned in game where she was buried as far as I’m aware (don’t have the game, can’t open character screen though I know it exists, which is also why I know no one else’s surnames) - so it’s entirely possible that Cam and Bailey brought her body home from port-au-prince on another ship, and arranged her funeral while Thalassa eventually continued on - to her sinking.

- But still, without a doubt, that means both Alex’s death and the sinking of the S.S Thalassa still occurred in 1905, relatively closes together, May-June 1905 specifically.

- Later on in the game, when investigating the investigation into the crane incident, you do find purchase records of the crane parts dating back to May - which I think means they were replaced around then, implying the accident - again - occurred possibly mid-late May 1905.

- I think most people assume it happened several years ago, due to a group photo Cam accidentally steps on upon first entering the wreck, which he states was taken two years prior (in 1903).

- Which wouldn’t be feasible, as at the time of Alex’s death there were actually at least two other members of the dive team - Llewellyn and Mathias - who aren’t in the picture, although they should have been, if the wreck occurred that long ago.

- This can be explained away by saying one of them took the picture, but i find it more likely that that maybe they joined the crew some time after the photograph was taken.

- Again, the wreck of the Thalassa is known to occur in 1905, and Alex’s death was also implied to have been in 1905, fairly recently - not 1903.

- As far as I’m aware though, Llewellyn and Mathias are never again mentioned after the prologue, where Mathias was badly injured by the fallen crane and all the debris or falling artifacts in the net it carried.

- When Cam dove, it looked like a broken leg, as you can see the two. Llewellyn made to bring him back to the surface, while Cam went to look for Alex whose’s equipment was damaged.

- Llewellyn was likely the one, also, to bring Alex’s body back as Cam was in shock having seen her drown, and Mathias was very badly injured.

- At the very least, they weren’t on the ship when it sank a few weeks later (as far as I’m aware).

- Mathias couldn’t be with his leg, and perhaps like Bailey, Llewellyn took a leave of absence to help him - or, simply quit due to the loss of life, because trauma can do that to people. Sometimes, even if you love a job, you can’t go back to it after losing a friend to it.

- Seriously, if anyone’s aware of what happened to those two, please tell me. I was wondering It maybe it was the surname of other crew members and they were aboard, but I don’t know. Help.

- News of the Sinking of the Thalassa broke on July 18th, according to the newspaper Cam had been looking at, prior to the dive. As Bailey heard the news over the telephone, we can assume that they heard of it from someone else sometime before.

- Unfortunately, I have no clue when exactly in 1905 that Cam dives on the Thalassa. Again, all we have in reference to that, was that months have passed since Alex’s death and the subsequent sinking of the wreck.

SO.

TIMELINE OF THE IMMEDIATE THALASSA STORY:

Essentially, not including all the other background stuff, like when the Thalassa was made or the St Catherine, etc etc.

May - June 1905: The Crane Incident / Alex’s Death

- On a routine dive to the wreck of St. Catherine, the crane of the S.S Thalassa breaks down under the weight of several recovered artifacts, including the large figurehead of the St. Catherine, which comes directly over the head of the three divers - Mathias, Llewellyn, and Alex - already in the water. Contact with the three is lost on the surface.

- Cam, who had been requested to check on the ship’s cradle to see if it was ready to lift the ship’s bow, which it was not, and so plans were just being made to instead look at other dig sites around the wreckage for other artifacts, was the only diver out of the water. As the crane collapsed, they were in the process of being suited up by Bailey, and immediately went to go down and see what had happened.

- Though Llewellyn seems uninjured, Mathias’ leg was badly broken by the fallen artifacts or debris from the ship. Llewellyn was to bring Mathias back to the ship as he could not do so himself, while Cam went to find Alex, who had been on the other side of the bow when the incident occurred.

- Cam would find Alex pinned beneath the broken mast of the St. Catherine, with a compromised diving suit. She stated she could not feel her leg, and that her suit was filling with water. Alex’s telephone system was damaged, she could neither send messages nor receive them, thereby reliant on signals alone.

- The mast was bound by thick rope, which made it difficult to free Alex’s leg. While Cam attempted to saw through the ropes with the diving knife, the movement aggravated the flooding of Alex’s dive suit while Llewellyn was on his way to their side.

- Cam was unable to cut the ropes before Alex’s suit flooded. Her suit flooded with water, and Cam was only able to watch as her helmet flooded, and she drowned in front of them.

- Cam subsequently went unresponsive to any calls through the telephone system, and would be found by Llewellyn hugging Alex to them, before Llewellyn pulled them away from her body and back to the ship.

- Presumably, Llewellyn would later dive to recover Alex’s body, before the weather turned and the S.S Thalassa was forced to return to port.

- It’s requested by several others that the crew have time to recover and heal from Alex’s death.

JUNE 27TH, 1905:

- The S.S Thalassa departs from port-au-prince in Haiti for a routine voyage to the St. Catherine digsite.

JULY 8TH, 1905:

- The S.S Thalassa sends out a distress signal, with its coordinates. These coordinates are later used to find the presumed wreck site.

- Presumably, the Thalassa sinks. A telegraph message is found in the machine, when Cam reaches the site, which implies messages were still being sent out and received.

July 10th, 1905:

- A rescue ship arrives at the last known location of the S.S Thalassa. No sight of the ship, or any lifeboats in the area.

- Essentially means the Thalassa could have sunk at any time on the 8th, 9th, or 10th (prior to the other ship arriving)

JULY 18TH, 1905:

- News of the sinking of the Thalassa is published in newspapers. By this point, the belief is that every person aboard has died as no bodies, or lifeboats, were found.

- An investigation is launched into the missing, presumed sunken, ship.

UNKNOWN DATE, 1905:

- The investigation into the Thalassa’s sinking is called off, much to the frustration of others (ex: Bailey, who refers to them as the damn bureaucrats).

- Bailey begins looking into the sinking of the Thalassa, and at some point begins correspondence with Ethel Jackson, the fiancé of one of the lost crew members - Kaymar - who entreats for any information, for closure, as they have given up hope for the crew’s return.

- Cam and Bailey reach the S.S Thalassa’s last known location, and dive in hopes of finding the wreck. Bailey (when getting Cam up) and Cam (in the main hub of the Thalassa) both have mentioned that it has been months since Alex’s death and the wreck, by this point.

[emmywlemmy]

She’s got some chompers

[monster-noises]

8, 12, 13

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in I have been trying to write a webcomic since I was in the 5th grade.. the veritable Graveyard I could walk you through... Gracious gracious.. But the last project I abandoned before I started working on Haggarty (and my numerous other current projects, don't Look at me ;;><;>) was called End of the Atlas! It was a sci-fantasy apocalypse adventure thriller? type thing? with a strong focus on interpersonal relationships and internal struggles against a backdrop of much larger circumstances (as many of my stories do) A planet that had only in the last few decades settled into relative peace after ages of war is beset upon by a cosmic force who wants to consume everything; With the luck of being in the wrong spot at the wrong time four (mostly) strangers have become the key to stopping the destruction and must face terrors both external and internal on their journey to the End of the Atlas (comical eyebrow waggle)

12. Easiest part of body to draw

This is going to sound Silly because they are just Cylinders, basically, but there are some subtle shapes to forearms I like to think I've gotten a pretty good grip on.. (genuinely I struggle with most parts of the body, even those I'm super familiar with T<T art is hard and yet I continue to do it...)

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

this is one of those questions that really confuses my ability to interpret what's being asked skdjgfhsg cause the answer could be 'No one comes to mind, because I tend to only keeps tabs on and engage with artists whose work resonates with me' if the classification we are going with here is like "art you recognize is Good and Skilled but you don't really like" Or the answer is ' basically the entire cast of drawfee' because watching them draw never stops being inspiring but, save maybe julia, none of them really do stuff that's like My Thing? but I still really like a lot of the art they make so? does that moot the point? so the answer is one of those two things sadfskdf

[pumaskulls]

Wanting pretty background images for my story folders on toyhouse means.....actually learning how to do a background augh 😩

[eroticcannibal]

Every day I become more and more committed to never sending the child to a school ever again

[erythristicbones]

looking at my oc profiles on TH and wanting to add more info....but don't want to spoil stories i intend to publish one day.....hrrmmmm

[dawnguard-dumbass]

this post made me think of your fic <3

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(tumblr(.)com so the ask may come through)

I apologize for taking a hot second to reply to this but AKDHFJAKFJFK im touched people think about my fic still 🥺

im also gonna take this moment to give an update on said fanfic below the cut

So! The fanfic version of Entrails of the Animals has been taken down, which was a very hard decision to make bc goddamn were those 60k words a labor of love several years in the making.

But I'm an aspiring author and Kirsen as a character has always been very near and dear to my heart- I decided I wanted the first story I get published to be hers. So, I took everything that I could salvage of her backstory and personality and I've adapted it into the worldbuilding for the universe all of my original stories take place in.

Then, most amazingly of all, last year I sat down and I wrote her story. All 99k words of it. The first draft of OGverse "Entrails of the Animals" has been finished. In fact, I'm currently making some revisions on draft number 4 of EOTA!

I took down everything I could of the fanfic version of EOTA/Kirsen, so that there would hopefully be no confusion when I do eventually get Kirsen's story published. Right now I'm working with the idea of EOTA still being the title- but we'll see. It was super tough to do- Skyrim!Kirsen will always have her own little niche in my heart. I was incredibly sad that the people who were so kind as to follow my story and comment on every chapter, would not get to see the resolution to the story I was trying to tell.

But at the end of the day this, Kirsen's story, is something that I want to tell more than anything in the world and I want to do so in a way that is completely original. And ya know, hopefully just as magical and interesting as the old version lmao.

My intention is to advertise the book across my blogs once it is published, so maybe someday soon those of y'all that have stuck around will get to see the best version of Kirsen I've created yet <3

[avienarthur1111]

Part 2 of the au

TADC: End of the abstraction (EOTA au)

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[thesquireinvictus]

Various names of the English and their meanings:

Anglican — Lit. "Angle Kin," i.e. the English peoples; now religious in denotation. I think the English should adopt this name again. An "Englishman" or "Englishwoman" is an Anglican.

Saxons — From the Old English seax, transl. "knife" or "blade;" meaning lit. "Men of the Blade" "Swordsmen" "Warriors." Relatedly, Saxnot, their god of war and a steward of martial culture.

Angles — From the Old English Angul, a place just south of Jutland, as in lit. "Angle," referring either to the "narrow" land, the "hooked" land, or the "corner" of the earth. Possibly also lit. "to grapple" or "to fish." The Angles were probably driven out of their lands by early Danes. Whence "English."

Jutes — More rightly pronounced "Eutas" or "Eotas;" meaning "Jutlanders;" the inhabitants of Jutland (lit. Land of the Giants, see Jotunns), now Denmark; probably driven out by early Danes. Closely associated with Hengest and Horsa, the first Kings.

Related:

Gewisse — Yhe-WEES-sa. A Saxon clan, founding dynasty of Wessex, and the original name for West Saxons; Wessex would go on to found England herself. Gewisse in adjective form means "reliable" and "sure," and as a noun means "certainty." The Gewisse dynasty was almost certainly Cambrian or half-Cambrian in origin, and ruled over an Anglo-Cambrian peoples who would become the English. The British Monarchy can be traced back to this line.

Briton — Any of the peoples native to Britain: the English (Ango-Saxons), Welsh (Cambrians), and Scots (Gaels).

[demifiendrsa]

Burn the Witch #0.8 anime - Main PV

Burn the Witch #0.8 will premiere on December 29, 2023. The new anime adapts the original pilot one-shot of Tite Kubo’s Burn the Witch manga.

NiL will perform the opening theme song "PROVE”. 

Key visual

Cast addition

Subaru Kimura as Balgo's pal Shelby

Returning cast

Asami Tano as Ninny Spangcole

Yuina Yamada as Noel Niihashi

Shimba Tsuchiya as Balgo Parks

Hiroaki Hirata as Chief

Rie Hikisaka as Osushi-chan

Staff

Director: Tatsurō Kawano

Original Creator: Tite Kubo

Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Natsuki Yamada

Script: Taku Kishimoto　

Backgrouond Art: Studio Colorido

Art Director：Kunihiko Inaba

Color Design：Miho Tanaka

3DCG Production：Peakys

CGI Director：Tomoya Nakaza

Photography: EOTA Photography Unit

Compositing Director of Photography：Hikari Fukuda　

Music：Hiroaki Tsutsumi　

Sound Director: Keiichiro Miyoshi

Animation Production: Team Yamahitsuji/ Studio Colorido

[joelywoely]

my iteration casey

[queenoffishingandcookies]

I may have, possibly, maybe, (absolutely) fallen into a sea-diving rabbit hole which led me to try and hunt down a 1905 Diver's Manual.

Which, somehow I managed to find a PDF of? After a lot of googling at least.

1905 Handbook for Seamen Gunners - Manual for Divers.

Because Thalassa takes place in 1905, and I was curious about the technology deep-sea divers would have used at that time and how accurate the diving in the game was.

I now also have the knowledge of what the early Edwardian precursor to modern CPR was, somewhat.

[emmywlemmy]

APRIL O’ NEILLLLL

[kiyoomean]

OKAY SO I WAS RE READING THIS BCZ WHY NOT AND THEN I NOTICED SOMETHING

I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE CALLING OTOYA EOTA A NOT SEMI EITA?!?!

poor boy had to give up all his identity after i learned his name was eita

DEEZ NUTS

↳GN Reader | Crack Humor

A/N: I just want to apologize in advance that my humor is questionable and hella immature💀 Also ayee writing for more characters! :D