#for my 505

[orengejoshi]

even tho we seem to all agree that we don't wanna see Flug's face, here's more of my joke hc bc y'all liked that anyway

(based on a real person, no ship/n$fw art pls)

[atdawn]

— MERLIN 5.05 (The Disir)

[0megaastro]

they were forced to eat cement when they were 6 💔

[veilantares]

Dark Dweller

Depth dwellers unite, and swan dive in the Dark, Metal Masked Machines designed to always hit their mark.

obviously all of the cool energy tatoos carved onto the robots are so that they can be lights amidst an infinite expanse of darkness, duh. they were Made this way.

About the piece - I'm still feeling inspired by anglerfish and other deep sea creatures, I spent more time than usual adjusting the texture on this one to give the dark blue a sinking feeling, but it being this dark also means the turquoise can stand out more which I like. I didn't get the detail as intricate as I would like, but its cool that this feels like more of a full body piece than I usually do, theres a bit more posture here.

One aspect of my setting I want to get better at depicting is there being "Celestial, Skybound" robots, and "Terrestrial, Groudbound" robots - they are sisters, at once the same, and yet parallel. Sometimes I like to think of variants, like what would the Celestial variant of this Terrestrial one look like or vice-versa, and that leads to some of the more exciting designs to try.

The Celestial ones live in and explore space - their part of the Singular Empire probably looks like thousands of space stations. The Terrestrial ones live on the ground so they have more complex structures and cities, but the "ground" also has unexplored frontiers, locales and wildernesses that require specialised equipment.

I like the idea that the robots can be natural astronauts of sorts, they're robots so maybe they don't need to breathe, but maybe they might still need tools to travel and move around or interact with their environment. Recently in the limited spare time from work I've been thinking about what their tools and equipment could look like, given that setting lets me have all kinds of different explorers.

This ones "wings" are probably meant to be one such kind of equipment - maybe it's like a jetpack - the idea is in the setting that the machining (lol) and craftspersonship of tools have gotten so refined that the cyborgs can get equipment that looks "like themselves" from a competent enough smith, even if they have really ornate or unusual patterns or shapes. Maybe amusingly when theyre using something generic second hand it very obviously doesn't look "like themselves".

In the past I've drawn others with similar backpacks that have gatling guns or other equipment instead, like the wings are a storage platform or something (while still maintaining the silhouette of being wings). I've somehow lost confidence in giving them complex looking equipment in the years since then, and should find a way to get it back.

[skylarbee]

505 in 2007 // 505 in 2023

(via milexkaner's IG story)

[aimasup]

tiktok memes + that one tweet

[sunkissedlouis]

when you look at me like that, my darlin', what did you expect?

[moondove330]

then confucious asks whats on her head 'cause no one wears headphones anymore AMIRITE. Ehhh

[delicatepointofview]

gonna have to deal with people missing the point of louis singing 1d songs in festivals... don't get me started on the other covers

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

505, iTunes Festival 2014 🖤

[magicalgrimm]

Neighborly disputes

Prompt was- golden- for paperhatober 2024

[imaginealexturner]

🤧🥹🤏🏻

[statementlou]

FITF LIVE the DIY bonus tracks (RIP covers and Lucky Again official live versions😪)

~will update with more, but these are the ones I'd already sorted out for me to have; requests for other missing tracks accepted and added on if people want~ 505 live from Cardiff 7 live from Rio de Janeiro Night Changes live from Cincinnati* Back To You live Lucky Again live from Chicago** Beautiful War from Live From London Megamix live from Austin (yes this one WILL be on the record but who wants to wait I love getting to listen to this whenever I want) *beginning is a little bit messy but best audio throughout I found... plus the way he says 'beautiful!' in the middle is 🥵 **I could not find as good a sound quality version of this as I would like at all :( if anyone has a better version please send it!!

[scooterpengie]

Does 505 know he was grown in a lab? Probably but this Kung Fu Panda 2 reference was too good to pass up, they're even both bears! 😭

[veilantares]

Blue Ember

 *hair toss* I guess even robots can be a little bit devilish

A bit more organic than I'd prefer for something for march of robots, but I'm happy with the design nonetheless :>. This one's meant to be an oni rather than a demon but I guess there's enough overlap that the theme kinda gets across.

If we're talking lore for my setting, the regular robots are meant to be characters, but the cabal of Over Gods are meant to have speechless "demon" servants that I've tentatively called Machine Daemons. I often try to think about ways to differentiate these two groups beyond the fact that daemons don't talk (or vibrate their skin to produce words etc). Sometimes I picture daemons as more savage and jaggedly shaped, other times I think they should have horns or halos because they're servants of Divinity ... though nothing has stuck so far.

One thing that has been somewhat stable though is that the more powerful the form they perma-transform into is the more likely the individual is to be overtaken by one of the Over Gods - those Over Gods are like giant supercomputers with their own pocket dimensions, so they exert strong influence wherever they can.

A lot of cyborgs carry a little bit of influence with them because the connection to the Over Gods lets them perform useful skills, magics and feats. This way they can teach each other abilities even when they respectively have extremely different body formats.

Most of the illustrations I post are oneshots, so maybe these and the accompanying writings are all my practice attempts to get to a place where I know exactly what the things in my setting should look / be like. Part of the fun comes from the exploration and not knowing where I'll take these.

[applysome]

Alex hyping up then being blown away by Miles during 505, Hurricane Festival 2013 💛