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Moray Eels and Selkies

Love the silly Moray Eel eyes. Anyway just a sketch sort of thing today. Justifying it by having it be by Chai. So it's in watercolor pencils.

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Ringduo AUgust Day 8: Here Be Dragons

In which neither of these two are really dragons

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To Minty and Tea: Thank you so much for sharing your ringduo AUs and art they are bringing me such incredible joy <3

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marryduo?? ringduo?

YOO RING DUO we should get matching rings

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I wonder who I am searching for and if they are looking for me.

For Idiots!AU. Quickly drew this up cause what I was working on was taking too long. Technically this still means I owe Wed, Thurs and Fri. But hey I will get those and 3 owed is better then four owed.

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Ringduo AUgust Day 4: Tasklist

For Space AU, in which sometimes a spaceships AI needs a helping hand

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Ringduo AUgust Day 2: Cryptids!

Be careful on abandoned railroad trails at night! You might run into [checks notes] a train and... some shadows??

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Ringduo AUgust Day 1: Do you like the color of the sky?

For Idiot AU, in which Minty and Tea keep looking past each other.

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Doors and Stargazing

First Post for AU-gust Ringduo things.

This is part of the DnD!AU. Not my best writing but still fun.

“Why don’t you use your Soup Shrine ever? Sometimes there will be a little note forming at the Library, the start of the stay but its never long or cohesive. We can make it better for you? What isn’t good-” Tea cut off Minty’s rambling chitters with their own concern, “I didn’t realize that it meant that much that I wasn’t staying the night in them. I cleaned it and kept it nice just don’t want to get trapped in there overnight.” “Trapped? It doesn’t trap you. It gives you a break from the world so that you don’t burn out. Allows time to not worry, to consider and have to rest. Being able to add to the Library is a bonus,” Minty was now actively looking around the Shrine as if it was broken. Pulling the well maintained door back and forth, checking how it sat in the frame. Then moving on to check all the windows as well. “The door locks at night. Can’t get out.” Minty stopped looking at the different points that lead to the outdoors and turned back towards Tea. A look of confusion and his ears flattened in displeasure before going inside and checking the hearth where the yellow and green fire burned away happily. After poking at the hearth a couple times Minty let out a little distressed call. Tea followed hesitantly into the Shrine worry poking at their brain, what was so wrong about wanting to sleep under the stars? Or wanting to experience the dark and quiet that came with the night? “You never stayed long enough for gifts?” Minty’s reflective eyes showed Tea their own confusion reflected back across the different angles contorting like a fun house mirror. “I didn’t want to owe anything.” “But you cleaned! You have helped resupply food. Oh this won’t do. I am going to sleep here tonight and try to talk to Sun God about what to do.”

And that’s what he did as Tea made a small camp outside to watch the stars. The door locking the two from each other. But at the first light of dawn Minty came out with a hammer and a couple other tools that he definitely did not have the night before. Without waking Tea who was sleeping peacefully he started to break the door off the hinges. Not a quiet task. BANG! Tea shot up ready to fight a threat to see the desecration of the Soup Shrine from Minty. Minty who had told them once about how Sun God only ever held malicious for those destroyed its creations: Shrines, people, the Library, it’s woods. And here it’s favored Cleric, someone who would eventually be enveloped and stitched into the fabric of what made Sun God itself was destroying one. Was this because Tea didn’t like the door? Was Minty really throwing away their entire future, one they loved so much, for a fucking door?! BANG! “Oof sorry didn’t mean to wake you up but these last couple bolts didn’t want to come out,” Minty apologized as they picked up the door and moved it off to the side, “Spoke with Sun God last night and we agreed that while a Shrine without a door gives more fuzzy vague stories it is more important that the Shrine is somewhere you feel safe. It sadly means it can’t give anymore boons or gifts but that’s fine. It will still hold the protective charms, just a bit looser. It shouldn’t hold you in at night now. That was the problem right?” Tea just nodded and watched as the door that was now being broken down, hardware stripped off before the heavy ash was being broken into chunks. Then feed into the fire inside. “There we go,” Minty smiled, this weird bare of teeth that would have been more malicious looking if her tail wasn’t bopping back and forth. “Why? Won’t Sun God be mad?” Tea was trying to hide the worry but couldn’t help drawing their cloak tighter as if the sun itself might look down and burn them both like the bugs they were.

“No of course not. I got full blessing. Sun God is the god of Creation. Sometimes Creation is change. While Sun God tends to be the Constant Creation so less regressive change and more building and growing change sometimes erosion is still change. A lot of people misunderstand. They hear ‘God of Creation’ and think that Sun God made the world. No. Some other god or gods made the world. Breathed it into being. But then they made a fire to help it thrive. They called that fire the Sun and it looked upon this wonderful place they were born to protect and help guide growth to. And they grew from that. They aren’t always in the Sun anymore. Sometimes but often they are in the Library now. They want people to make art, to feel safe, to invent new machines, to protect, to build wonders and places to grow. And then they want the stories, to hear about your day and all that inspired you. To slowly take that story from you and sew it into itself so that it may have a little bit of you in it always. That’s what I will be eventually. Another patch in the wondrous quilt that is all.” Minty’s gestures were wide and excited as she opened one of the chests and pulled out some food tucked away for travelers. Other things Tea didn’t often touch, even if they did help replenish. “But why if you want to experience the world would you stay inside at night? Why not explore that wonder?” Tea questioned, imagining a world in which they would have never pondered or stared in the Void. “What can I see at night that I cannot see under the Sun?” “The Stars. The quiet. The Void, though that is less seen and more of an existence.” “Will you stay with me to experience it? I would like to take the story back for Sun God.” “Of course.”

And so they waited. Tending to the plants around the Soup Shrine, cleaning the windows and sanding over the area that would make someone believe that there ever was a door. Because now this Soup Shrine never had a door. After all if it had a door it couldn’t fulfill it’s purpose of being a Soup Shrine for Tea. And then Dusk arrived. Minty’s fur was puffing up a little in fear trying to smooth it back down with thin hands. Their antennae upright and terrified. Then the stars started to show. No moon tonight, Tea noted but that was fine because there was so many stars. Filling the sky and telling stories that no one could hear, unless they knew the language and where to listen. But there was another light a soft glow coming just from Tea’s right. Turning they saw Minty looking up at the stars in the wonder, experiencing the night sky for the first time in her entire life. And that tail that always looked so strange and hallow in it’s white exoskeleton was glowing a soft green. Just a little before fading and starting again. Minty hadn’t even noticed this change but Tea was delighted to learn this new fact about their friend. Nudging them gently they gestured to the tail. Minty’s eye stared at their own tail as if they had never seen this before. A new wonder to add to the Library.

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Okay so maybe this isn't Minty and Tea. But it is the Void and Sun God as their cat forms for the Knitting!AU.

Sun God ended up looking more like the Lorax then I meant for but alright. Also the Void technically a slightly different shade then the background.

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Just too many thoughts and the rando the Ship picked up to help sort them out.

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Big kitty pets. I imagine Minty is purring even though lions can't technically purr. But Sphinxes can because I get to make up the rules.

Also remembered to sign this one. Amd the image quality when down so much. Thanks Tumblr.

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Ringduo AUgust Day 10: Dusting

For Swap AU, in which Tea chases Sun God away from Minty like some sort of weird eyeball cobweb

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Ringduo AUgust Day 7: Window

For Bedrock AU, in which Minty and Tea never even made it to rat server.

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Ringduo AUgust Day 5: Stargazing

Inspired by Mintys D&D AU writing <3

In which they are bugs(????)

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Party of the Unknown

You don’t mean to walk upon them. In fact you don’t even remember walking here. You were staring at old railroad tracks and wondering what the trains that used to use them before they began to grow moss. You know that the old maps that you found of tracks through the state didn’t show these ones. But you knew they were here underneath the ferns and shadowing of shrubs. You were staring at how the shadows seemed to squirm and wriggle like a cat that no longer wanted to be held. As if your watching was depriving the shadows of the ability of their own movement and allowing them to spread as they wished. Then you don’t remember what happened. You vaguely remember getting on a train which is not possible. These tracks haven’t been used as long as you have known them. There is no station in the middle of the woods. But you remember finding a ticket in your hand. Sitting in a seat and there being both too many other passengers and having the car entirely to yourself. Did you have someone sitting next to you? No. Right? But it doesn’t matter because your station was called and you walked off the train at this new destination that you were not planning on. And here you walked upon them. The constant purr and soft forever light mixed in with loud squeaks of horns and movement of a hole puncher seemed to take up your entire focus. Which was a lot. It was moving. It was changing. It was a constant. It was consistently changing in a constant motion that wasn’t actually different. The destination and how it sprawled kept changing off- In fact it was so distractingly loud yet impossible to focus on that you didn’t even notice it’s partner resting also on the checked picnic blanket almost comically small thimble t-cups and bottles full of wonderful names. The partner is not really possible to look at. No matter how much you try it is just out of the corner of your vision again. Dark and shadowy and shape shifting to fit in that periphery. And yet it doesn’t seem to menace you, it seems more quiet and content with your presence here. It knows that you will not remember it past an unsettling hole in the memory tomorrow. So you drink the flavors they place in a spot on the edge of the blanket for you. Flowers that should have been poison. Emotions that you didn’t know could be bottled. Lemonade powder with no water that immediately made your mouth bleed. Your blood is coppery on the tongue as the rest of your mouth’s inner skin starts to shed as well. Maybe you have been here a little too long. There is another ticket in your hand. It promises to take you home. There are no tracks that go by your house. There is no station in your town. And yet you find yourself with a bleeding mouth and tired bones an easy mile walk from your home. Only a week after you decided to go for a walk.

(This is for the Cryptid!AU. Just a quick write to try and not over do it and bite off even more.)