#kicks tiktaalik back into water

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*G'Kar tries to blow Londo up with his mind*

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THE Q&A ANSWERS!!!

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damn it

Alright, I’m going to be honest. It depends on which Papa. If it’s Primo or Secondo, I say TAD. Terzo or Copia (regardless of whether he’s Cardinal or Papa then) then Ghost. Sorry, I’ve gotta be loyal to Terzie bae

Oh, Qcard, Spirk and Daforge for sure! *is embarrassed to admit they’ve only seen TNG, Picard, the TOS movies and a few TOS episodes*

If you’ve seen my likes, you’ll know it’s gotta be cats. I grew up with cats and I have cats to this day.

TNG…

Qpid kinda set it off and I was like “Q? You gay man?” then Tapestry happened and I was like “OH YEAH THAT’S MEGA GAY”

I’m a fan of The Amazing Devil and Ghost first and foremost, but I also love Taylor Swift, Imagine Dragons, Green Day, Panic! At The Disco and various showtunes. I was a theatre kid

The first ship I ever wrote real fanfiction for was Stucky. I remember summer of last year just writing away to the point where I ended up with quite a few fics sitting around my Scrivener (yes I use Scrivener) and it was fun. I wrote because I wanted to deny and push back against canon and reshape canon the way I wanted it to be. I wanted others to see it. Then I wanted to try other things so I started writing Unraveled!

some of you may remember that I had some of my Stucky fics on my AO3 before I matched my username up with my tumblr. I took them down. It was out of embarrassment and the fact my writing was a lot worse last year. I may put them back out there but only if Unraveled gets 100 kudos. GOOD LUCK!!!!

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is this the Krusty Krab?

No, this is the Exile's mess hall. I think you have the wrong comm channel, Tik... However you contacted the mess hall from wherever you are... - M

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answering asks vol 2.

'Smiths' can encompass enginesmiths (mercury), armoursmiths (mars), alchemists (saturn) and some others - generally a smith is someone who works with engines or metal in any capacity, whether by constructing them, managing their fuel, making armour, etc. all of them have a completely degendered role in the church. They are supposed to be wholly devoted to their craft & church, to the point of becoming almost unpeople, sexless.

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I like pantera :) he's the main character beast sure (alongside leun) but he's got a lot of interesting history and has been through a lot.

To start out I do some basic sketches while looking at bestiary diagrams of the animal type. Then I draw the base proportions over a photo of the animal's skeleton. Once the joints are all in place and I could imagine it moving relatively freely, I pick a motif and design the armour shapes with that in mind (i.e leun's trefoils, taurus's waves). The motifs come from a bunch of sources - if I see them in medieval art around that animal, the beast's use purpose, the culture that built them and how it might differ in art styles to the 'basic' designs from the heart of the Mezian theocracy. Fun stuff like that.

As an exercise I have taken (human) characters from other settings and made holy beast versions of them, trying to imagine what animal it would be, what weapons, what armour designs, etc. Behold, Bowman:

It's a fun exercise! I recommend :>

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Hi! Thank you for the suggestion! I actually did try to use OneNote for my thesis but I found that it ended up an extra step that got in the way. Instead I organised my reference papers manually (and wrote up all my bibliography by hand as well). I haven't heard of Notion so I might look into it :> as someone with adhd I find that the best way for me is to make it stupid easy, which is why discord works because I already use it for talking with friends and I like the mobile app.

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SO true!! You can make whatever the hell you want forever and that sounds really cool, I'm glad I was able to help in some little way >:) (although, holy beasts are not robots.. i think the best description for them is just. exotic vehicles.)

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lmao it's totally fine!! I love to talk

Sir Heaven had such a profoundly negative experience with Leun that he struggles with the concept of making anybody else do what he now considers to be his burden. He also feels that taking any new people inside Leun would endanger them.

The bishop of Salvius cathedral is the guy Heaven answers to, and his superior officer. The bishop has reported the matter to the pope and they're still working hard presenting new potential novices to Sir Heaven, but the thing is that Sir Heaven rejects them for seemingly valid reasons. He doesn't just say 'no I'm not taking apprentices', he says 'this one's reaction speed isn't good enough' or 'this one is too prideful'. But the longer he tries to keep this up, the more suspicion he heaps on his shoulders. If the time came, no, he would not be able to deny a direct order from the pope.

Ketjan was selected at random, one of a large group of other children who were not raised in the church. This is to ensure that there is no per-existing bias or knowledge of how holy beasts work. And he just happened to be the only one of the group who could master Leun's very demanding dialogue tattoo. The recruiting enginesmiths, who designed Leun's systems, were the ones to train him, but Ketjan was the one to write most of the procedures for operating Leun based on feedback from the dialogue.

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Krokodilos had an amazing high-tech ventilation system that used active air pumps to keep it circulating. But exactly like the second reply says, it broke down frequently. And because of how it worked, the interior of croc had to be air-tight so that the pumps could work efficiently. And, of course, if it broke down, and it was air tight on the inside, it instantly became a more dangerous deathtrap than your average passively ventilated beast.

There were valves that could be opened in an emergency but these were only added after the first Incident. The pumps would break down from the fabric seals degrading, lose efficacy, and then the parts furthest from the pumps would suddenly not get enough air anymore because air couldn't be moved such a distance with faulty pumps. The reason his enginesmiths want him to be re-commissioned is because the only barrier was the material used for the seals, and they believe they can innovate some new materials or try something different and have it work. They were even thinking of trying natural rubber, which would have worked perfectly, but they never got approval for it.

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inspired by @kicks-tiktaalik-back-into-water

[h0l0gramglasses]

"Did it hurt...?"

He turns his head towards you, furrowing his brow.

"What?" he asks, slightly caught off guard by your sudden question. You fiddle with your glass on the bar, feeling slightly guilty for asking at all.

"When they made you human... was it... painful?"

His eyebrows lift slightly, his eyes drifting away from yours as he processes and recalls. You can almost hear the shaking of his voice as he pleas for a second chance; the silent refusal that follows, more deafening than the vacuum of space itself. The sudden burst of light that shoots forth from his incorporeal form as it begins to mold itself into a humanoid shape. The twisting, writhing agony of bones, organs, muscle tissue and blood, expanding and snapping and gushing into place from their origin. His screams, reaching out into the deepest corners of the galaxy, heard by no one at all.

He lifts his eyes to meet yours once again, his expression having shifted to one of fear, pain and sorrow.

"Excruciating," he whispers.

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slightly tipsy tonight and felt like writing a short Q angst fic lol

was talking with @kicks-tiktaalik-back-into-water earlier today about Human! Q headcanons and fic ideas (although they were significantly cozier than this!) This came to mind a few hours after they went to sleep (I'm so sorry)

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quick lil doodle of D'Tan for @kicks-tiktaalik-back-into-water who just really loves sweater vests for some weird reason

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Riker where’s yo hand goin’?

May I offer you some gay ppls in this trying time? :3

YES PLEASE. LOOK AT THOSE ADORABLE BOYS.

His hand is clearly where it needs to be...on his boyfriend's thigh.

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Is it really true that Q is short for Q?

Yes

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blub blub

How did you find us? - First Officer

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@kicks-tiktaalik-back-into-water @dustydahorse when the timezones kick in

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@kicks-tiktaalik-back-into-water

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no no wait I'm normal wait wAIT--

@kicks-tiktaalik-back-into-water

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RAAAAAHHH!! RETURNING FROM THE GRAVE TO GIVE U FERAL PUPPY MANS

*dies*

AAAAHHHHH FERAL PUPPY MANS!!! THANK YOU, FIS!! 💙

I hope you're doing well, btw! Stay hydrated! And fed! And rested! Be good to yourself!!

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Alright let’s try the Q&A again

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Are you fish?

With how much the Exile finds itself submerged, we might as well be. - the Major