#incarceron

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[mossy-rainfrog]

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Doodles in order: Butch Ahab with her hair down, my Nautolan Star Wars OC in a cool outfit, Dev Patel from Monkey Man, Ahab Starbucks, Crimson Peak ghosts and John Malevolent, Butch Ahab again, my oc Serena and some Fedallah and Ahab being cute, a little fun tattoo I drew on my hand, the dragon pit scene from Incarceron that makes me insane, and a self-portrait doodle of me getting compression gloves

so I've been having an averagely understimulating time at my new job lately. over 50 pages of a sketchbook have been filled in 2 months. 😀👍I am not going insane! I have more theme-specific sketch hauls of these so those will be coming soon! I have. so much art.

Anyways did you know that compression gloves can help with faulty hand circulation so that you don't feel like you're dying as badly??? life is so beautiful????

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

i don't think I'll ever get over how hard the aesthetic of Incarceron goes. It's fully high monarchy Baroque. It's fully Steampunk. Those two worlds are distinct and separate but colliding and pulling at each other, intimately intertwined. There's high politics and assassinations and secret societies and duels at masquerade balls. There's dragons made from rust and bones and scrap metal and a thousand red eyes in the dark as the prison comes alive. There's entire forests and climates and monsters all twisted of repurposed metal that hunger for the people trapped within their artificial biomes. There's a sentient ai that builds itself a body because the only way it can fathom freedom is in the form of a human. Nothing of the world is real. Nothing of the world is fake. Only one man of legend has ever survived Escape. More people need to read this fucking duology.

[agayhurricane]

Finally some news about the upcoming book in the Incarceron series, Lachrymere!

[greencheekconure27]

I will try to analyse this better later on, but one detail that I find interesting about the Incarceron duology* is that Keiro of all characters is the one consistently referred to as Incarceron's "son". He's nowhere near the mythical messianic figure that Sapphique was but on a certain level Sapphique's story and his have more parallels between them than between Sapphique and Finn or even Jared, who seem more likely candidates for the role. And yet.

And yet we get this outwardly selfish rogue side character whose conflict with Incarceron turns out more intense and personal than even Finn's, despite him being much more adapted to this environment than his oathbrother, and seemingly able to thrive there. Keiro is Incarceron's perfect creature, much like Sapphique is said to be, and he hates it so, so much. Finn escapes first, but unlike Keiro, he doesn't "belong" there, and has help from outside.Claudia is an outsider as well. Jared "escapes" into the prison, not out of it**.But Keiro is part of the system(literally), and also the first one to escape on his own accord like Sapphique, using Sapphique's own tool.

I wonder if his hatred of and fight with Jomandric in book 1 was intended as foreshadowing...

*hopefully soon a trilogy

** which in itself is has very interesting implications that merit further analysis

[rusted-paradise]

so um. I made a mistake... I deleted my account haha. whoopsies. anyways uh. I managed to snag my username back so uh. if you remember me at all then gimme another follow and bear with me while I work on getting my content back. haha oops.

[ultimate-artificial]

ROUND 1-B

Propaganda below the cut; feel free to add more via asks or reblogs!

Aigis (Persona 3) -Her journey of becoming “more human” throughout P3 is beautiful and heartwrenching, and the final cutscene with her... aaargh my heart!! -Her Persona changing from Palladion to Athena when she finally recognizes herself as "alive" is SUCH a phenomenal moment

Incarceron (Incarceron) -It's a living prison -Incarceron was created as a social experiment. If you lock a bunch of criminals in a self contained system with all of their needs met would they create utopia? Incarceron was an ai designed to make sure the experiment ran smoothly. But the experiment failed. Generations have been born inside it's walls and it has become the cruel ceaseless watcher that no one can escape.

[mattapparentlystumbltourneys]

Virtual Character Tourney - Bracket B - Round 6

Propaganda below (May contain spoilers!)

Benry propaganda:

He's a great cool. Guy who's feral, guy who just fucking vibes. Because of the improv Nature of the media he's in he ends up being the final boss of the game because Gordon treats him like a villain the whole time and he plays into that.

love em

Incarceron propaganda:

An AI looking after a small prison community, looking to take care of them all...at least in the beginning. Then it went crazy and started torturing everyone. Wants a body of their own, and to leave the prison behind. The others? Screw 'em.

[bmacreadz]

"Incarceron" by Catherine Fisher

"Incarceron" is about a prison. It's also about the people that are connected to the prison - with the prison, in the prison - the journeys they take, the problems they solve, the friendships they develop, the nightmares they overcome together, and their impenetrable self-reliance.

"Incarceron" follows two storylines. One storyline tells us of Finn, who is inside the prison. How did he get there? Who is he? What are these "visions" that haunt him daily? Finn's main goal is to figure out who he is and then, maybe, figure out how to find his old life.

The other storyline follows Claudia, the daughter of the prison warden whose main goal is to understand the game that's being played in the Court and then play it better than all of them.

An incredible cast of characters accompanies us on our journey through "Incarceron." We have Finn's companions: Keiro, Gildas, Attia, and several others who are the object of their interests as they make their way along the winding paths of Incarceron. It's no secret that their sole interest is Escape (sic), as is most inhabitants' of the infernal prison. However, Incarceron is notorious for having no way out, nor any way in. The mystery of this book is found in the efforts of these characters in figuring out the lies from the truth that have been told to them throughout their entire existence in the prison.

Our other cast of characters are found throughout Claudia's story: the Warden (her father), Jared (her tutor), the Queen, and the members of the Queen's court. Like I previously mentioned, they're all caught up in playing the "games" of the Court. Lying, scheming, and pretending their way through their lives so that they can control their way to the top of the metaphorical leaderboard.

Unsurprisingly, these storylines end up weaving together pretty flawlessly. I won't give anything away, but rest assured there is purpose and planning in everything Fisher writes in this book. There are several things you have to pay attention to in this story - the most important, in my opinion, being the chapter intros. They're perfectly placed and everything ends up making sense if you've taken the time to read them.

I first read "Incarceron" when I was in high school and I can't exactly remember how I felt when those life-altering revelations were made in the book. What I can remember is how much I loved it, which is why I wanted to read it again. This story is incredibly unique. It sticks out and although I would categorize it as a fantasy, it sort of holds a bit of everything.

The only thing this book lacked for me was romance. I love a good romance, and this doesn't really hit that mark. We definitely aren't promised romance with either of the books in this duology, so I can't say that I am disappointed with it. Still, I'm hoping the second book, "Sapphique," has a little more of a romantic layer within it. I have to say, even without the romance, "Incarceron" is such a good read. It's fast-paced and intriguing, mysterious, and definitely requires the reader to use their imagination. "Incarceron" made me question everything and I'm so glad to have picked it up again.

[tannydm]

Day 5 - that feeling when only 50 pages are left, and you don't want to finish and want to know how it ends at the same time

[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID: A digital drawing of Finn Starseer from Incarceron. He is a teenager with wavy dark hair, dark eyes, light brown skin, and an oval shaped face. He has the tattoo of an eagle on his left wrist. He is drawn three times. The first with a neutral, soft expression, looking right at the viewer with his hands folded over the hilt of his sword. He wears a roughed up old-fashioned poets shirt under a magenta vest with a brown collar. Above him is written his name, and doodled a crown. Next he snarls and swings a simple rapier with both hands. Finally, he wears a royal suit and a gilded crown. He looks off to the side with a focused expression, and a european golden eagle flies behind his head for effect. The background is rust-red, with blue halos around his face. End ID.]

Underground, the stars are legend.

I cannot overstate how surreal it is to have finished and colored Incarceron fanart in the year of our lord 2024. I have loved this book for over a decade now and only just now actually drawn something for it. I'm currently working on adapting the main characters of this duology into the tarot Major Arcana, and having a blast doing so!! but, in preparation for that, I drew a lot of Finn.

For those who haven't read the duology, Incarceron is a science fiction novel about a war-torn world where half of our cast are trapped within a massive, sentient prison by the name of Incarceron, from which only one man has ever Escaped. The idea of the Outside is a legend, a religion, a fantasy, until Finn, a memory-less cell-born, finds a Key that connects him to a girl Outside, who becomes devoted to helping him Escape, in the hopes that he will free her from the prison that the Outside has turned itself into. Finn must face allies and enemies, gods and queens, the Prison itself, and above it all: his own fractured identity.

It's a magnificent duology with a third book supposedly on the way, and genuinely it has lived in my head rent free for Years. It's steampunk, it's high royalty, it's gripping and dark and decidedly aromantic and it plays on SO many fascinating questions of reality, and I recommend it a thousand times over.

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

god. being a fan of a character that is physically a Presence and not a Being when you're an artist is so embarassing like i'll be sitting there absolutely entrenched in feelings abt a machine that gained sentience and is unfathomably large but also trapped within itself and also i have to be like 😍😍😍😍😍omg blorbo😍😍😍😍😍 and blorbo is this shit:

[ID: A picture of a Borg cube from Star Trek and a picture of a gray, sprawling labyrinth. End ID.]

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

that is super helpful! I appreciate it so much!!

Hello! I wanted to ask your opinion on a fanart character design I'm working on 👉👈 It's for a book called Incarceron, & like a lot of stuff by white ppl, none of the characters have canon ethnicities so I'm having to work that in myself.

There's one character I'm struggling with, but the context of my issue is Incredibly convoluted (since its a fantasy book) so forgive me for how long this question is 😭 if it's too complicated or you don't feel like answering it, no pressure at all! I will figure something out<3

So the setting is this apocalyptic world divided into a massive sentient prison (Incarceron) and Outside. There is only 1 person who ever Escaped named Sapphique, and he is this elevated, almost Jesus figure who people look up to and pray to. He only appears on page in visions to people, but he is THE embodiment of hope. I have chosen for my Sapphique design to be Black bc I think it adds a lot of meaning to him as a person and embodiment of Freedom.

He's not my question though (unless you have notes on my choice for him), where I run into problems is with another character named Jared. Jared is Outside & a wisdom-keeper working to liberate Incarceron. Jared is repeatedly described as looking similar to Sapphique (or his statues at least), and in my first designs, I had wanted Jared to be SWANA.

However at the end of the 2nd book Incarceron creates a body in Sapphique's image to try and Escape itself. Sapphique appears in a vision to Jared telling him to stop Incarceron from using his face, so to thwart the Prison, Jared does magic to essentially take the body for himself and steps into the role of Sapphique to return to the Prison and liberate and free the people. It’s a bittersweet ending treated like an ascension to godhood almost.

So LONG story short I'm no longer sure abt Jared being SWANA since he does physically take Sapphique's visage. Would it still be uncomfortable if I made him Afro-SWANA? Should he just be Black?

I do have other Black and SWANA characters in my design lineup, but Jared is a fan-favorite and his symbolic becoming of Sapphique is a really cool scene, so I want to be particularly cognizant with him.

TYSM for reading all of this 🙏again so sorry for the length. I really appreciate you and your work so much and I hope you're having a good day!

I would immediately see someone named Sapphique as Black lmao now that's just me but like. Come on now. I'm also pronouncing it like "Saafiq", which, tying into your question, would definitely be Afro-SWANA to me 🤷🏾‍♀️ you can very much be Black and from that area.

Otherwise, I don't really know how to answer this. If in the story he gives Jared permission to take his visage, it might not be such a big deal. But also, if they look that similar already, then when the change happens there could be slightly different details so that you know when it's Jared. Like, if he wears his hair slightly differently or wears different colors. Different symbols so that we are aware that while we are gazing upon Sapphique, we are gazing upon a new reincarnation of him. God comes in any and all forms 🤷🏾‍♀️ but that's how I'd take it. Idk if that helps.

[greencheekconure27]

Blake's 7 + Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell & Piranesi = renewed Incarceron obsession

Don't ask me how Idk why my brain does these things.

[enviousjam]

I was gonna write Incarceron for that early 2000s book series poll but that was late 2000s technically (2007?) That was a good one too.

Everworld was really cool to me because it was a world that mashed together all the different mythologies and religions. The characters were asshole teens and each one was different and interesting and one of them was an evil witch. The kids start out as being transported to everworld whenever they sleep, but slowly they disappear from the real world and end up in everworld permanently.

One of the asshole teens kept joking that they would meet leprechauns, throughout the series, and eventually they did meet leprechauns and all the other kids turned to look at him.

Also near the end an army of incel neo Nazis with machine guns invade everworld and the magical creatures have to fight them.

[ultimate-artificial]

Incarceron was created as a social experiment. If you lock a bunch of criminals in a self contained system with all of their needs met would they create utopia? Incarceron was an ai designed to make sure the experiment ran smoothly. But the experiment failed. Generations have been born inside it's walls and it has become the cruel ceaseless watcher that no one can escape.

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