#no construction kits

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Something something trapped kid in a pipe at a home renovation and his older brother going in to save him Eddie and saving his sisters from their parents and Eddie reconstructing his life in the aftermath of Shannon…

[necrobividity]

made myself a new artbook out of old aldi bags. hoping to make some art that's as fun and experimental as the book itself

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[ganymedesclock]

So that #Syrin the Dread Blade tag, thats a new one. Seems like a interesting character, a sentient sword, how did Tyler happen upon them? What does the sword look like, and does it have any special magical abilities? How do they like the other members of the party? Do they actually speak or do they have a telepathic voice?

Technically it's just a tagging misconception; I haven't tagged Syrin reliably before because his nature as a sword does mean he's kind of attached to Taylor. But he is his own dude!

A short primer: magic items in this setting tend towards a level of awareness. Magic is essentially what souls are made of, ergo, if you stuff enough magic in anything, it starts to have a soul, and behaves accordingly. Entities as fully developed and chatty as Syrin are rare; far more common is that magic items tend to feel just a little bit haunted, inclined towards some things and away from others. It's a bit creepy if you're not used to it; enchantments are commonplace and widely accessible, so that 'not being used to it' is more a statement on if the individual is used to handling a particular thing.

Syrin himself is the ostensible opus of the previous Lord of Darkness, a Dark Sword that was meant to contest and cancel out the legendary sword of light wielded by the hero. Ostensibly, because for unknown reasons Syrin was left in storage the eve of the fateful battle. Being groomed exclusively for this purpose by someone he regarded as a father and then abandoned for ten years definitely wasn't traumatic or terrifying for someone with the cognitive level of a child, we promise. Especially since Syrin needs to eat.

Syrin's construction, and what leads Taylor to point out he's a bit like a 'needle', is a crystal-bladed thrusting sword with a hollow core. Despite its delicate looks, the blade is actually both quite sharp and highly durable; the thin tube at the center being essentially his mouth, by which he is supposed to drink blood. His victims', if he can get it, or, failing that, magically drawn from his host. As a result his blade itself ranges from grayish translucence to dark red if he's gorged to fullness.

From there, he has the power to generate and shape a kind of magical flesh, allowing him to weave more elaborate forms around his core body, the sword.

As you can guess, this gives Syrin a somewhat unpleasant and brutish first impression on people, as he has no verbal filters, was raised by a would-be conqueror of the world, and is dependent on blood and thus interested in more fights than not. I've described him before as like a preteen on xbox live who talks up a nasty game mostly out of loneliness and a need to be liked, where you can tell the kid themselves is not as bad as the people who taught them all those words and that they were "funny".

Deep down (and not all that deep, like I said, no filters), Syrin is a vulnerable child who was groomed to do violence and got no experience with it until strangers came to loot the dangerous ruins he was held in, at which point he did what you'd expect a strong but sheltered child to do faced with a home intruder, and killed/devoured that individual in a panic. His first kill being no glorious conflict or victory approved by his father, but essentially a desperate scramble in the dark with himself on the edge of fatal starvation messed him up even more than ten years of silence.

Enter Taylor and party, who happen to pass through those same environments. Syrin makes an attempt to body-snatch Taylor that fails due to the latter's particular properties, and Taylor, being both a good-hearted person and a stubborn busybody, feels obligated to bring this chatterbox with them and attempt to bully him into developing some sense of tact while Syrin attempts to Corrupt His New Wielder To Violence.

This doesn't work because Syrin has no real ideas how to go about corrupting someone besides loudly telling them to stab things more, while Taylor is an apprentice surgeon and mortician who is a lot more desensitized to bodies and their workings such that if they have a weapon, they'll at least consider it as a solution to most problems. So the punchline is that Syrin is more often thrown/flabbergasted by Taylor than vice versa, while the latter just sees him as a sort of annoying kid who's easily talked into almost anything as long as you compliment him first.

[everydaymacro]

yoshimura SUZUKI GSX-R750 1986年鈴鹿8耐レース仕様 Fujimi 1/12バイクシリーズ No2 エキゾーストパイプのスプリングの追加。ブレーキディスクの穴明。ケーブルを細いものに交換。といった、ちょっとした追加工だけで格好がいい。外装のガンメタはインストの指示では黒50、シルバー50の指示。明るすぎるので黒を足したが、不足のようだ。エキゾーストとシートカウルをつなぐステーは2回折れた(笑)

[sigmaleph]

It’s often assumed that robots will easily master human speech, but will remain forever baffled by human emotion. This is quite backwards, so far as I can see. Human language is immensely complicated, and sixty years of intense effort hasn’t gotten us much closer to general purpose text handling, much less speech handling. Emotion, by contrast, is simple and useful.

the good old days of 2010

[whimsal-sketches]

some sketches i did figuring out how to draw kit and jade :D

I did the first one immediately after watching Episode 1 LOL. it got to me, alright

[tetedurfarm]

so it turns out i have more rabbits than i have space for 😬 so we're pretty crowded at weaning. the good news is when i get back from my trip i'll be selling a lot of these guys which will make things easier. but i held back a bunch of kits from this last round of litters and didn't realise i was so tight on space. whoops.

[the-king-and-the-druidess]

[gender-void-partially-stars]

i didnt realize just how much of what we say in english is metaphor. anything that isnt physical is talked about through metaphor, the whole way word meanings evolve is through metaphor, it feels like every other sentence i say has a metaphor in it

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[gena-rowlands]

blogging on uk morning time is passing around the same posts between three different mutuals because nobody else is online

[everydaymacro]

YAMAHA YZR500(OW98) 1988 WGP500 CHAMPION ヤマハ YZR500(OW98) 1988 WGP500 チャンピオン ハセガワ 1:12

リヤホイールをうっかり逆向きに取付けてしまった。 直そうと思ったのだが、ディスクプレートを 強固に接着してしまって外れないので、そのまま組立。 タミヤならこんな凡ミスが起きないように 逆向きでは組立できないような構造にするはず。 自分の粗忽さを悔やんでいます・・・

[bonefall]

Do you plan to do anything with minor characters (as in those that don’t even have names and just kinda show up for one thing)? Big fan of the Bonefallverse so I wanna see what you might do with them.

Some of them, yes!

Fenneldust and Batear from Spottedleaf's Heart will be recurring Dark Forest background characters. They won't have BIG roles but I don't like how the DF feels empty. Fenneldust also is not killed by Thistleclaw-- it is not known that living cats can kill spirits until OotS.

I want to do something with the "tabby queen" in the first book of TPB, but I'm not sure what.

There is an SE/Novella that takes place after Mapleshade’s Vengeance, Darkstar's Commandment, which takes place in RiverClan. Because of that, RiverClan's allegiances will stretch up to at least 10 warriors.

So in addition to logical additions like Volepelt, who must exist to become Volestar by Goosefeather's Curse, all the RiverClan background characters without names will get one.

I'm not sure if she counts, but Dragonfly is not going to vanish with Darktail's rogues. She becomes a member of SkyClan. Claw and Fury are also alive and well when we last see them; Fury is the aging leader of BloodClan by Graystripe's Vow.

I don't like "nameless kills" like what happened in the Lights in the Mist vs Ashfur confrontation. I will always try to avoid 'unknown bodies' when possible, even if the POV wouldn't know them, someone did.

[thriftrescue]

i'm not sure what this is but I love it already. Trestle TRACKS building kits seem locally. looks SUPER fun and I know what I'm getting for my bday. ⚽

[melonkittii]

just found out i actually have two essays due in the next two weeks instead of the next three weeks. displeased by this development!