#plastic-pipes

[foibles-fables]

commission created by the lovely and ridiculously-talented @plastic-pipes—a moment from one of my Hawk and Thrush fics (gray areas and expectations), brought to life.

I'm honored and beyond excited to show it off! The softness, the lighting, and the physicality are perfect. Thank you, Pipes, for this gorgeous piece! ❤️☀️🏹

[heroineimages]

Y'know, I finally watched the first couple episodes of What if...? this afternoon. Peggy got to kick so much ass in that episode, and I love the idea of these two as a hard-hitting power-couple.

patron request c: 

captain carter x wonder woman

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[soulsoffairlight]

Hi chat just showing off this drawing I made of PA!Raz for a band flyer to hopefully start a school band okay bye chat

[plasticageau-psychonauts]

"I was struck by lightning, walking down the street. I was hit by something last night in my sleep." --Dead Man's Party, Oingo Boingo

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CHARACTER NOTES:

- This AU takes place around 2-3 months after the events of Psychonauts 2, making him 11.

- Raz, alongside his grief and shame for his father's kidnapping and his peculiarly changing body, has undiagnosed ADHD. He has faced belittlement from superiors, being told he’s ‘not working hard enough’ and ‘needs to act normal like everyone else.’ This has led him to believe that he’s ‘broken’ and needs to ‘fix himself.’ As a result, he has developed a dangerous method of reducing his symptoms that has caused damage. But he still continues, believing that he needs to do this or else he will fail as a Psychonaut AND as a person.

- He can sometimes be prone to unexplained bursts of aggression/anger episodes, irritability, self-isolating behaviors, dread and anxiety. This is a vulnerable area that Raz doesn’t understand nor can he control, and is overall very frustrating for him.

-Raz is prone to overstimulation due to heightened senses of unknown cause, especially toward scent and sound. This is a relatively easy way to deter him.

- In this AU, the majority of Psychics can't feel touch when using their telekinesis to help them navigate without looking. However, Raz does. His telekinesis is heightened and is more developed than usual, which has helped him adapt to his half blindness. He can also manage SCARY amount of psionic pressure, particularly when angry.

- He tries to hide it, but he's absolutely sleep deprived.

- Raz has done all kinds of experimentation and tinkering with his Mental Projection ability in particular, which has resulted in him being able to create a 3-D and completely singular Archetype. Even though Doodleraz seems to bully him (affectionately), Raz doesn’t seem to care and even encourages it. Deep down, the relationship between the two is hearty and symbiotic. They are two peas in a pod, having some quarrels and play fights sometimes but overall sharing a deep, affectionate bond. Self care <3

- Raz hates touch and everything to do with it unless you are close to him. He won’t even offer handshakes. The only person he’s truly comfortable with being touched by is his Archetype and his family, but he will hesitantly let people he trusts touch him (Lili, Milla, Sasha)

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BACKSTORY:

[Around a month after the events of Psychonauts 2, in an almost parallel universe…]

Raz's family, The Aquatos, have faced all kinds of threats throughout the years. For example, their memories were fooled by machine and they [THOUGHT THEY] were cursed by fortune tellers to always die in water. After a threat has been resolved, the family thought that they were safe... until The Aquatos faced a sudden yet vicious attack from unknown, mysterious figures one night... but don't worry. Everyone's fine.

Except for Augustus, Raz’s dad, who was kidnapped.

All kinds of threats that seem to be related to the kidnapping in some way plague the Psychonauts, and one thing is for sure: there is an otherworldly danger threatening theirs.

Raz, hardly keeping it together with the tension rising in his family and the absence of his dad, begins to go through things he's never been through before.

He always noticed that his mind was very different from others. It's... overwhelming and difficult to navigate. There's so much going on at the same time... cobwebs, figments, judges, doubts, regrets, bad ideas, all flock together at alarming rates. And not to mention, his Archetype is acting... strange. There's so much going on inside his mind that even his censors are intimidated.

But maybe if he finds a way in that place he always sees the censors come out of ... he can find out the source of the problem.

And he can fix it.

As Raz is forced to navigate his divergent mind amidst a heart wrenching case that has him losing hope, the demand for him to keep 'fixing himself' to keep up with the world around him only grows bolder. He's not sure what he is anymore. He's touched areas of his mind never meant to be touched. Milla and Sasha are worried about him. His family is growing more suspicious of him. He can hardly tell mind from body anymore. He's not sure if he's even human anymore. He's lost an eye to his own censors.

Damage is being done, and he knows it.

But he continues to punish himself through this.

For his dad.

Because he would've much rather been stolen than his dad.

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ALT OUTFITS:

I swear I will make proper refs for his alt outfits.

Cold weather:

"LSD Plane" Appearance:

(This last drawing is a commission done for me by @silvrfissh , and it is GORGEOUS!! Her art is absolutely beautiful, please go show her love and support and consider commissioning her!)

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CHARACTER SPECIFIC ASK RULES:

For the love of all things divine, please do not be weird. I shouldn't even have to say this, but Tumblr is littered with degenerates, so here goes: do not ask NSFW/suggestive questions to him. He is a goddamn 11 year old. You will immediately be ignored, blocked, reported and publicly shamed (lol)

Don't be a dick Yes, this AU does tackle topics of ableism, but that doesn't mean you get to be a dick about partially blind people (infantilization counts). You will be ignored, blocked and reported. He is representing a very real condition.

^ However, IN CHARACTER picking on him for ANY reason is allowed (including for his eye.) With that being said, still be careful and don't get too rough. And don't expect your character to not be criticized in roleplay. I draw the line at character giving death threats or telling him to kill himself. That's a trigger for me.

[sracha]

recreating the thing they beat jesus with.

[driver270]

Teleporter Karma 🤖☕️

[shadowbrightshine]

If we really want to reduce plastic bottle useage we need to fix the pipe systems around America.

For a lot of people it isn’t pickiness. They cannot drink their own tap water because it's unsafe to consume.

If we really want people to stop buying bottled water, they need to have water safe to drink in the first place. And a reusable cup, no matter how good, does not fix your bad water supply. The people who need better water will not get it by filling these cups with more bad tap water.

If we want to get rid of these insane companies selling water, we should try to put pressure on fixing our pipes and our resiviors. Not just in America but worldwide.

Not only is there over buying of expensive cups for clout, but that doesn't help at all. I don't blame people for buying a cup or two. (The people who bought 30 Stanley's I am not happy but it's not a moral thing.) I have reusable bottles. I like the smaller ones.

Mentioning Stanley cups I don't like them for a few reasons but, I am autistic and I have trouble with spacial awareness. I am knocking these over all the time because they are big and bulky. And unlike my cylinder metal bottle, the Stanley is open, so the water spills everywhere. And they are too big. They hurt when they fall on my feet or hit me in the hallway.

I think we should try to put more focus on fixing the pipes and the water ways. Everyone is supposed to have a tap in their home, (where I live) and yet I have friends who can't use it for anything but showers and dishwashing. One of my friends brings jugs of water home from water fountains or taps in public places because they can't afford to buy bottled water, but they can't drink their own water.

Personal filters would help, we should use them. But it's another thing not everyone can afford.

If we have a right to drinkable water, why do so many of us not have a source of water we can drink from in our homes?

I'm not doing a "we MUST DO THIS or you're a bad person! You're doing activism wrong! You are looking at the BAD kinds of work and not doing this RIGHT ONE."

That's not what I'm doing.

I'm tired of plastic water bottles and of giant cups. I just want to be able to drink my water.

It would solve a lot of problems if people could just drink from their taps safely.

[mihai-florescu]

Yeah no this is just what bucharest's like

[amethysia]

I'm super excited for tomorrow~

I'm running my work's costume contest and we're doing a fashion show too!

In the meantime, have a picture of some cupcakes I made for my team! There were more, they were just in another container lol

[4th-make-quail]

A semi perky quail many hours before he finally escaped the chaos that was a textiles conference for students..... Christ I think I've never talked about being an industry professional to so many people one after the other before oh my goddddd

Got to evangelise about Quality and also got to eat free (not actually that great) food, as well as leave work at 1pm tho, so I guess not all bad??

[songofthedeathmachine]

SIGHHH

[heroineimages]

Oh, yeah, those turned out really cool, Pipes!

Master and Padawan

I haven't had a lot of time to draw the past two weeks, which sucks but so I've been doing these sort of simpler, sketchy pieces. I have been really enjoying them c:

[soulsoffairlight]

Hi psychonauts fandom I present to you my cringe au yhat i call 'Plastic Age'. I'll explain it if anyone shows any interest. But for now you get no context as to what the au is even about!!!!! Meet PA!Raz

yeah it's partially a shapeshifter au. I warned you it was cringe

[plasticageau-psychonauts]

Psychonauts 1 style rendering test

[skrubu]

Indoor Sports Venue by Pekka Nikrus Via Flickr: In album This.

[driver270]

When An Idea Seems Good On Paper 🤖☕️

Puggle Swerve was made by @callykarishokka.