#pixel answers things

[pocket-sized-nightmare]

hiii!! can you give the "directors cut" so to speak on your fic "except for you, you can always stay"? (forgive me if that's not the name i can't remember names for shit)

thank you so much for the ask!!!

a thing i've always loved about c!gem is that she's incredibly willing to blur the lines of reality and characterization, to the point where it's hard to tell what she's taking seriously. she was actively roleplaying as a princess during empires, which is the most obvious example, but she's also very quick to pretend situations straight-up aren't happening – "it's fine" is a common phrase in her vernacular. couple that with the fact that she's new to the life series and isn't familiar with the emotions of the death mechanics, and you've got someone who only knows how to fit into this dramatic world by embodying geminislay to her core.

as such, my interpretation of the gempearl divorce arc is somewhat of a tom and jerry situation: they act like mortal enemies, but neither of them would go so far as to permanently harm the other, and there's a deep-down understanding that it's all a bit in the end. that's why pearl keeps coming back regardless of how much gem pretends to hate her. (i definitely think that c!gem took some of her teasing a bit too far towards the end of the season and it did leave a lasting impact on c!pearl, which makes me desperately long for the gempearl 1v1 battle we could've gotten...)

in this fic specifically, gem and pearl each have some of their own demons to deal with already. gem's anxieties towards pearl in this fic are based on my headcanons for secret life (shameless self promotion here: my queerplatonic gempearl secret life retelling) – specifically, that the watchers possessed her when she opened the end portal and replaced her eye with their own warped visions for her. (this ended up creating fascinating parallels later that i think i may need to go back and expand upon, because pearl what the fuck do you MEAN you forgot about your girlfriend's entire corruption arc.) gem sees pearl's eye go scarlet long before the rest of her body and fully panics under the reasonable assumption that pearl is in danger of becoming Watcher Zombie 2.0, which (spoilers for the aforementioned series) nearly permakilled gem.

as for pearl... though i don't subscribe to the idea that the evo smp was torture from the watchers – i think it was genuinely enjoyable most of the time, right up until the ending – i think there was definitely something off about it. glitches abounded, healing was slow, saturation was never quite right... health wasn't really a guarantee on the server. i don't touch on it in this fic (and in hindsight, maybe i should've), but my headcanon is that c!pearl has a habit of hoarding food/medical supplies on the off-chance she's endangered by a glitch no one will listen to. not knowing which items were safe to eat, and especially nearly dying from it, set her off. so neither gem or pearl is coming at this conversation from a particularly good headspace.

gay people talk to each other challenge 2024: difficulty level impossible

but i really do think they still cared for each other throughout the whole thing. gem is still mischievous and playful at the end of the fic, but pearl knows now that it's a bit, and with her "i won't hold it against you" promise, gem basically has her full consent to Cause Chaos for the sake of a good story. they're so silly goofy it makes me emotional <3

there is one very big plot inaccuracy that i will write off as minecraft mechanics. warm pie does not cut neatly!!!!! it will melt and all the filling will run out and you will be sad. so don't do that. Fiction Does Not Reflect Reality, etc.

silliness aside, though, i'm glad this fic made people smile! toxic yuri is fun, don't get me wrong, but i did also really want to explore what the between-session downtime looks like for a character as enigmatic as gem and how it affects her relationships with her friends. (now i just need them both to battle to the death on hermitcraft.)

[buwheal]

Why does the orange Addison's mannequin kinda resemble you?

[spookygibberish]

I love Jar of Mice! I've never seen creature designs like Thrones before.

You mention Ibis tissue in some of the posts, and I read the old post about it - has the lore changed since then? Does it have anything to do with the bones of God at Godtomb?

I'm very flattered! I don't think of Thrones as particularly creative but I suppose that's because I know all the ingredients for them... Actually let me take this post as an excuse to go into them a bit!

I extremely enjoy taurs and human "hybrid" style creatures like sphinxes a massive amount, but there are a ton of artists who's particular styles and sensibilities have inspired me. Coming to mind off the top of my head are artists on social media like Bwusagi, Suzumori521, Deerchip, Theveryworstthing, iliothermia, and definitely more...

I tend to collect a lot of art of centaurs, sphinxes, harpies, and dragons that catches my fancy, here's some of it:

(An Islamic depiction of Sagittarius, Salome Sphinx by Nicholas Kalmakoff, ????, Nagas by Rabi Behera, Şahmaran)

Edit: forgot the Lamassu, which is a more specific inspiration than any of the things above or below.

Jim Woodring is one of my inspirations for Thrones that people tend to clock, and they're correct. It's probably the colors, patterns, eyes, shapes.....

Oh and.

Her.

And for the second question, yes! The tissue was once on the bones, although the Ibis tissue used in the temples for the creation of dagnyds is much more equivalent to a cell culture than anything at this point. It's desire to grow and take form is the creative force that humans have harnessed to create dagnyds..... for better or worse.

I don't have any art of it i'm happy with, but here's some several year old pixel art of an Oracle Computer, which is filled with the stuff. Honestly though, I don't think "black goo" is very compelling or visually interesting considering what the stuff actually is. It needs work.

Everything always needs work...

[arttsuka]

Augustus: *throwing a tantrum* "DAD WHY AM I LIKE THIS"

Octavius: "Well, I didn't sculpt you but it seems they ran out of marble."

Augustus: "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH IT STINKS HAVING NO HANDS"

Jed: "Or legs."

Octavius: "That's not helping."

Omg you can't just say that Jed!

[robinsteve]

i didn't want to let them see me weep i didn't want to let them see me weak but i know i have shown that i stand at the gates alone — ALL THE LOVE, KATE BUSH [happy hellfire holidays viv @amsterdamhotelroom! hope you enjoy your gift 💖]

[hazmatmaid]

Who's your favorite character/boss from deltarune?

I think the easy answer leans mostly towards

but I have a special love for all of them.

[pixelatedraindrops]

Can you do something with Noseblowing it’s so cut n

The closest art I've done involving that illness trope is this one. (older art)

I have a fic that has this trope as well (involving the purple haired boy)

It's not quite my thing personally. But I won't lie, I do find it pretty cute in fictional media sometimes too. So maybe in the future I'll consider making more of it.

[themissingnumbers]

[just as a quick little starry update for those i have interacts going on with- im going to prioritize finishing the current part of Descent i have going before i put my next replies out!

i do apologize to the two of you that like Just answered my asks- we will get to it though!! i just dont wanna bury Green n Descent completely under four diff rp chains,, but i do have answers drafted up for almost everything- its just delayed cus i wanna add images too but i need to focus all in on the current thing im doing for descent ^^']

[wren-writes-things]

Hello random tumblr user, I think you're really cool and also your new blog theme is very lovely, I love it :3

Thank you fellow random tumblr user! I also think that you are very cool, and write very excellent fics.

Also I am so glad you like it! I spent a surprisingly long time messing with the design.

[b0tster]

Do you have any plugins for blender you tend to use? I always get recommended some but they feel like they'd just mess with my workflow. Also bnuuy.

i honestly just stick with vanilla as much as i can so my workflow is as versatile as possible. the last thing i want is to be shackled by some plugin that may or may not be around in a few years

[wow-an-unfunny-joke]

Silly Game Time: What's one interesting fact and and one boring fact about yourself?

Hmmm interesting question.

1. I can lick my elbow. No joke, I’ve got a long tongue or smth ig

2. I have two cats

I can probably come up with more interesting and more boring facts, but ya know

[pocket-sized-nightmare]

trick or treat :)

well, well, well, what have we here? happy halloween, sader! i give you a Potion of Unknown Effect (ignore the “temporary frog transformation” label) and a silly minecraft headcanon: endermen collect shiny things, but they have no sense of what players find valuable. they’re just as likely to treasure a copper ingot as a diamond. but the most valuable gift an enderman can ever receive is a small block of obsidian — the shiniest stone they can’t collect on their own. it can only be gifted by a friendly player <3

[angie-long-legs]

🩷

For uhhhh all of them

send 🩷 for angel to give your muse a love heart candy!

For Val

HEART THROB

For Vox

TOO MUCH

For Alastor

😂

For Husk

REAL LOVE

[tulpar-anya]

ohhh no...anya, lovely, this is going to sound like a stupid question because it is, but someone has to ask:

...are you doing okay right now? :(

Of course not. How do you even begin to cope with something like this?

I can barely breathe anymore, my heart won't slow down. Everything I look at in this room— the pills, that screen...It all makes my head hurt. But I don't want to unlock the medical room door, it feels safer than anywhere else. This feeling that someone will hurt me if I leave the room won't go away.

Hah, I'm going to be sick...

[ribbononline]

just wanted to stop by and say I adore your sprites so much!!! the way you capture movement and dynamic poses with pixels is just *chef's kiss* and the way you use colors makes my monkey brain want to eat them like candy LMAO I hope you have a wonderful life

This is incredibly sweet THANK YOU! I wish the same to you kind stranger :]

[holykhepri]

by the wayyyyyyy sorry for slow postingggggghhhh i'm doing 2981834 art things at once so im getting nothing done!!!!!!