#project: radiant

[briarwickart]

"Do you really think you can threaten me into compliance with mere horses and some sharpened sticks? Cease this absurd provocation or I will turn your woeful excuse of a city into glass." - Abbess Prisca

Prisca is the figurehead of the NORN-1 facility, a subterranean mountain fortress tasked with stewarding spent nuclear fuel until it is rendered inert. She has held onto this position for over 160 years, resolutely preserving the organization's values and consolidating more of its internal power for herself. Even though she's more tubes than flesh at this point, Prisca refuses to retire. No one can be trusted to continue the work that must be done.

[ash-and-starlight]

i was tagged by @ranilla-bean and @erisenyo in both the “last line” and “six sentences” wip challenges soooo wildly rummaging through the 6 5 wips that im working on lately 👀

tagging uhhh the girl (gender neutral) reading this 🫵 if u feel like sharing or talking about your wips feel free to do so!!

[errantsquam]

Scientifically Accurate Heron Laguz

(we are also on bluesky)

[cosmosnout]

Pov: Someone drops off their kid at your work place and now you're suddenly a dad

[tumblerislovetumblerislife]

the radiant emperor series may be a buddy comedy, but it is also the worst group project ever. zhu and ouyang spend most of both books working towards the same goal in very different ways. a fraction of this is actually spent working together. ouyang fucks off halfway through hwdtw to do the thing they agreed to HIS way. they attempt to kill each other several times.

[goldensunset]

life is hard when you don't care about the Male Side Character Extended Fanon

[macbethisms]

the third prince is so interesting to me bc he's made of the themes. he subconsciously attempts to replicate his parents' power dynamic with his first (and only) real relationship except it's not even a real relationship bc his evil mistress is manipulating him the whole time. he looks like the physical ideal of warrior masculinity (you know. the one who died in the last book) except that he sucks and is useless and can't fulfill his singular purpose and literally everyone knows it. he's a hollow shell with nothing inside but also he's intelligent and perceptive and a whole person underneath it all but also it doesn't even matter who he is bc he's being slowly suffocated by other people's expectations and agendas but also he has no choice but to be nothing bc he can't be great. "what if you were willing to do anything to get what you wanted" well what if you didn't even know what you wanted. what if what you wanted was so completely opposed to who you are and what you were made for that you could never actually believe that you could have it. what then. he's happy about two people being tortured to death bc his mom didn't like them. he's the living embodiment of a crumbling heirless dynasty. he's a blushing maiden being seduced by an older man with ill intentions and he's a powerful royal whose lover is wholly reliant upon him for survival. he and baoxiang are both punishing each other for the things they hate about themselves. his death causes the end of the book. and he's been dead since the day he was born.

[firestorm09890]

I NEED to redraw this but with Ansem and the apprentices because like

do you get it...

[tourneys-by-me]

Multiple Elements Character Tournament - Round 1 (D) 10/12

Patchouli Knowledge: Fire, Water, Wood, Metal, Earth, Sun, and Moon

Soren: Fire, Thunder, and Wind

Propaganda under the cut

Soren: He's an angy little tactician. Is an ass to most people except for Ike. Def gay for Ike.

[shouldprobablybereading]

Cosmere Inktober Day 4: Frozen

[duckapus]

Project Thunder: Codeship Battle

The battle rages outside the Firewalls. Mira's part in the plan is working perfectly, Chroma and Blaze focusing on her to the exclusion of everything else while Amy in a custom fighter (Mira can't fly she had to get to the Firewalls somehow) fights off any backup that might show up, and scans for potential weakpoints in the shield as she goes.

The parody twins are cutting a path of destruction through the battlefield, Radiant especially, and when the Grid's Firewall Twins run into them they realize very quickly what this is supposed to be. And they ain't happy. A few other Programs also get thrown into That Whole Mess, including Crash and Download. As a result, while Tartarus and Spirit end up focused on each other, Radiant ends up finally finding somebody who matches her freak and she and Crash are both having way too much fun trying to dismember each other, much to the terror of everyone around them. Except Download. Download thinks it's hot.

As the battle progresses the painful reality is that the CCC's army is more-or-less infinite while the Fleet is very much Not, and they keep having to pull out new tricks and secret weapons. One in particular, codenamed Plan 69, Peach is planning to only use when absolutely necessary, but with how long things are taking she eventually puts it in the Standby phase. And apparently it involves Chris, Swag and GG in some way.

Also, the CCC isn't just content to keep throwing troops at the problem in an endless loop, no, they're actually innovating and optimizing and restrategizing as well. And this is best shown when they finally bring out two of their biggest trump cards. The first are Twilit Swarms, massive swirling clouds of Twilight that can corrupt those they envelop, assuming they don't tear them apart. Notably, Mira actually gets hit, and while it doesn't manage to turn her evil or anything it does activate her Werehog form for the first time, and the loss of her super speed obviously causes issues with her part in the plan so eventually she and Amy have to get sent to the Jubilation so Chroma and Blaze don't manage to Fucking Kill Them.

The second trump card is a result of the Deal that Mr. L struck with someone from a true alternate universe. Namely, with the version of Worm from Samurai Bob's world who's a parody of Aku. Yeah he actually shows up in the middle of the battle and starts wrecking the Alliance's shit, saying that it's time for him to truly hold up his end of the bargain.

He does a lot of damage, including blasting away a big chunk of the Jubilation's outer hull (the shields hold up, but some Twilight and Brobots manage to slip through, so the internal security's gonna be putting in their money's worth), before a Thoroughly Enraged Antivirus, Matrix and Dave start laying into him. It's at this point that Peach fully authorizes Plan 69.

"And may the Stars forgive us for what we are about to unleash."

It turns out that Plan 69 is for GG to stuff Swag full of every cheat code she can think of and then turn him into a Code-Level entity like she did to Tuff that one time, then Chris will shoot them both out of an airlock, setting them loose to Wreak Havoc. The power immediately goes to Swag's head, with him declaring himself to be "Swagmageddon" and saying shit like "I see no god up here, other than me." He also manages to piss off Rhythmi by calling her a "Fugly-ass little spider gremlin preschooler" and genuinely fearing that if she touches him she'll lay eggs in his brain. Because Swag.

[briarwickart]

"I am to become the instrument in which we measure the long wait" ― Sister Alara

the uniforms of old, tarp and tyvek, offer little protection from the forces contained behind galena's gate, and yet they have been worn for centuries by the nuns who maintain the vault's inner seals and mechanisms.

no instrument is yet capable of accurately measuring the levels of radiation contained beyond the gate. rough estimations are instead calculated from the poisoned nun herself and the time she takes to expire.

[gatoraid]

My contribution to the Kitchen Extended Universe! And it's an OT3!!

5900 words, Esen POV

Established Ouyang/Xu Da, eventual Ouyang/Xu Da/Esen (but it takes them years to get there)

Featuring Esen realizing some hard truths about life and trying his best to be a girldad

[humblegoatart]

daily sketch 1.21.24

two more lil environs and some real quick juni sketches for my dailies tonight

[cosmermaid]

I’m re-reading Syl’s POV chapter from Rhythm of War and noticing how similar her nature/base personality is to Shallan’s. They are both prone to playful sass, repressing their pain, have a fascination with the natural world and express it through some sort of art (Shallan by drawing, Syl by shapeshifting), and seeing themselves as more than one entity. Syl not to the extent of Shallan, since Shallan has alters, Syl just has “responsible brain” and “child brain”. Their characters are still pretty different, but I feel like that is entirely on how they were shaped by circumstance rather than their natural personality. I feel like Syl would be a Lightweaver rather than a Windrunner if she herself was a radiant instead of a spren.

[a-shy-mimiktwo]