#low one today

[roadkill-dreaming]

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[frenchphobe]

griddlehark modern pen pal au where they don’t know each other but are assigned as pen pals for those pen pal projects you get in middle school and it just turns into them sending each other hate mail and somehow they just keep going for several years, even though they dont rly have to

[anniilaugh]

2 years worth of wild moss/seaweed overgrowth in salty sea air. Sanji malfunctions.

@uniquetosmbody had such a galaxy brain prompt in twitter and my samurai aesthetics loving brain inhaled the bait, hook and sinker immediately. : D Thanks for being an inspiration! <3

Reference under the cut~

/casually foams/ How dare this man de gozaru

[princema-k]

welcome to my evolution...

[rystiel]

that annoying moment when getting left for dead in the trunk of a car in your 20s comes back to haunt you 40 years later (take a shot every time ford says “stanley”)

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Transcript:

SPARKLE OFF. IT'S THURSDAY. FORGET WHO YOU ARE.

Audio Source

[scythedaily]

Day 28

[gh0st-4ss]

lover's quarrel

[obamerzslop]

Caine getting put down

[coquelicoq]

the executive dysfunction is not going to win today. i am winning. pay no heed to the fact that i am on tumblr writing this post instead of doing a task. i am winning. i am winning. i am winning.

[thelaststarling]

we all have that friend whose a little too silly sometimes, oppsies :p

[spicyraeman]

Rûngrim doodle

[bocchidaily]

Day 94 is me finding an excuse to show off my Cool New Desk Plant

[celeryguy]

It’s a little outdated since I’ve cleaned it up more, but here’s a very small clip of the animation

(Don’t expect the rest of the animation to be that smooth lol, I like to indulge myself a little with bits and bobbles of smoother animation)

[marlynnofmany]

Best Suited to the Task

I entered the spaceship kitchen to a strange sight. Zhee had one of his exoskeletoned pincher arms stuck between the stovetop and the counter, fishing for something, while Eggskin stood out of the way. Probably so they didn’t get whacked by a stray bug leg while Zhee’s attention was elsewhere. Eggskin was also holding the divider thingy that usually covered that particular gap. Cleaning wipes sat on the stove. A half-prepared plate of Mesmer food sat on the counter.

“What’s happening?” I asked, though I was pretty sure I knew.

Zhee pulled back and clicked both pinchers in irritation. “The sauce bottle is terribly designed.”

Eggskin clarified, “It rolled.” They set down the divider and gave my long human arms a calculating look. “You might be able to reach it, if it fell where I think. A bit to the side. Out of reach of glorious blade-arms.”

Zhee muttered something disagreeable and stepped aside, cleaning one pincher with the other.

“Sure, I’ll give it a shot,” I said. A look into the dark crevice didn’t help, but once I turned on the stove light, I caught a glimpse of something red. “Is it a red bottle?”

“Yes,” Zhee hissed.

I rolled up my sleeve and went for it, confident in my monkey limbs and the ability to bend my wrist. I probably had a better sense of touch than Eggskin too, now that I thought about it. No scales. And Eggskin’s arms were far too small to even try reaching this far down.

But mine weren’t quite up to the task either. That gap was narrow, and while my arms weren’t bulky by anyone’s standards, I was getting stuck at the bicep area. I reluctantly took my arm back out. “No luck,” I admitted. Before either of them could be too disappointed, I opened the lowest drawer under the counter. “Maybe we can reach it from down here.”

“Those don’t come out all the way,” Eggskin said.

I’d just discovered the same thing. I tried reaching an arm in past it, elbowing the dishes, but that gap was even narrower. I wasn’t about to admit defeat. “What’s stopping it? This bar right here? I feel screws. I’ll bet I can take that off. Lemme get a screwdriver.” Closed the drawer and hopped to my feet. “I’ll be right back!”

While Zhee complained about bottle designers who should have made the thing square, and Eggskin went back to cleaning, I dashed off to borrow a screwdriver from Mimi.

I almost tripped over him in the hallway, since he wasn’t walking at full tentacle height. I managed to dance past him just in time. Eggskin’s medical bay may have been nearby and the medtech there top-notch, but stepping on the ship’s mechanic was really something I wanted to avoid.

“Sorry!” I said over his popping noise of surprise. “I was just going to look for you, actually. Got a screwdriver I can borrow real quick?”

“Why?” Mimi’s rough voice was curious. He was already looking into the room I’d left in such a hurry.

“I want to detach a bar so I can pull a drawer all the way out. Zhee lost something between the counter and the stove.”

“Oh, down there? Here, I’ll get it for you.”

I thought he meant the screwdriver, but he tentacle-walked into the kitchen. I followed. Zhee was already off to the side, poking at his unsauced food, but Eggskin made a point of giving Mimi space.

He wrapped tentacles around the drawer handles and climbed right up to the countertop. Then as I watched, he reached into the gap and kept going. In less time than it took for me to drop my jaw in amazement, he’d disappeared completely.

I thought back to stories I’d heard about Earth octopus escape artists, and their ability to fit through any space wider than their beaks. It really shouldn’t have been surprising that Strongarms could too, but here I was: surprised.

A pale green tentacle holding a red bottle was the first to emerge, followed by the rest of him. I closed my mouth while Mimi schlorped out of the crack and handed the bottle to Zhee like it was nothing.

“Here you go.”

“Thank you.”

Eggskin stepped forward with the clean divider while Mimi dropped to the floor. “Excellent. Let me put this back on, and we won’t have to worry about that until the next deep cleaning session.”

“Got any wet-wipes?” Mimi asked, rubbing a tentacle over his head. “It’s dusty back there.”

“These are the chemical ones,” Eggskin said of the pack on the stove. “You don’t want those. I haven’t found the regular kind yet; I think someone misplaced them.”

“Oh! It’s up there!” From where I stood, I could see a similar pack on top of the cabinets, well above most of the crew’s head height. And if I stood on my tip-toes, I could just barely reach it. “Are these the ones?” I presented the pack triumphantly.

“Yes!” Eggskin said. “Why in the wormholes were they up there?”

As Mimi took them with a murmur of thanks, Zhee said, “I suspect Trrili. It could have been intentional or accidental, but she does prefer those for maintaining her shine.”

That made sense. Trrili’s exoskeleton was even glossier than Zhee’s, though I would never say so where either of them could hear me. And she could reach up there pretty easily.

But she wasn’t here to save the day in a minor way now, so I’d take what I could get. With everyone settled into their own tasks — Mimi cleaning his tentacles, Zhee eating a bowl of meat mash, and Eggskin wiping down the stove — I was free to get my own snack, which was what I’d come here for in the first place.

I think I’ll go for some string cheese. The conversation about that last time was pretty entertaining. You never know who’ll find something appealing when they think it’s a dense worm colony, but revolting when they find out it’s processed milk.

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These are the ongoing backstory adventures of the main character from this book.

Shared early on Patreon! There’s even a free tier to get them on the same day as the rest of the world.

The sequel novel is in progress (and will include characters from these stories. I hadn’t thought all of them up when I wrote the first book, but they’re too much fun to leave out of the second).

[shopwitchvamp]

So as gauche as it's gonna be, I'm gonna be back to posting & boosting preorders despite everything :[ Like especially because I have all these amazing guest artists who put their hard work into designing for this set & have entrusted me with their artwork.. I don't want to let them down by having the collection fall flat. I wish I'd chosen different timing for these preorders but unfortunately there wasn't realistically any other time that would work since we'll be moving early next year. I hope you'll all understand that I've gotta keep trying to push forward. Thanks as always for your support, everyone 🖤