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[slugfishh]

hey.... what wi happen. If i. Take inspiration from your shading style.......

do it :3 art style theft is not real I want you to grab my shading style, shove it in a bag and run out of the store without paying

[nineslugs]

Hello and welcome! My name is Veed (they/them please) and I am an artist + volunteer naturalist.

This is a place for my art and creatures. I post a lot of pet bugs and Pacific Northwest nearshore wildlife, so be careful if you don't like creepy crawlies! I also occasionally post artistic nudity.

I'm currently mostly working on art for Sea of Spires, a sci-fantasy setting with speculative biology elements.

I also have the planet Attis, an older hard scifi leaning project that I'm in the process of dusting off.

PLEASE feel free to send me questions! I love answering stuff about my worldbuilding!

[slugfishh]

Hello everyone, apologies for being a little dead on here lately. Recently I've gotten very, very deep into Rain World lore over on my twitter account, and am now bringing the madness here, on a sideblog i've now dedicated to rain world lore discussion :') if you're at all interested in that, please give it a follow!

This post here is only a small snippet of the kind of stuff I'd like to talk about pertaining to Rain World, my main wish is to educate and inform as many people as I can, as well as help clear up some wider misconceptions, so asks are more than welcome :D

(the piece above is a little more opinionated, while lately my interest has fallen much more into making useful infographics to make complicated lore stuff more accessible and simpler to understand. expect a mix of both though)

Some Thoughts on Karma, the Natural Journey of Ascension, and Why the Ancients/Benefactors were Kind of Wrong

I'd like to address the community-wide misconception that you can only gain karma through "shedding your urges" when both in game and within the text of the game, we see this isn't true! the whole "shedding urges in order to ascend" stuff was only really a thing before the void fluid revolution, as Moon states in the bright red farm arrays pearl. The discovery of void fluid entirely trivialized needing to completely shed your urges by providing a much more natural method of ascension, and we see this play out within Rain World's story and gameplay.

In-game, we gain karma by directly engaging with our urges, whether it be sustaining our hunger, holding treasured items close or just survival in itself. From the beginning we are deeply ensnared within the struggles of living, "caught in the net" as the ancients/benefactors say. However, over the course of our gameplay, (I'm using survivor as a baseline, since their campaign illustrates the core of this) as we learn and grow and become more knowledged, living becomes easier, the struggle is not as harsh as it was before, and surely but slowly we die less and less as time goes on.

Simultaneously, this is reflected in our karma, as by dying less, we now hold higher karma more frequently. This coincides with the natural gameplay loop of rain world; the more we explore and learn new things, the more we grow and learn about the world and our place within it, we tread further and further away from the struggles of life, and become closer to enlightenment.

Ascension is the natural culmination of this journey of enlightenment, the next step on the path beyond. It's not inherently the right or wrong choice to make, its a step into the unknown, in search of something greater, of answers to our own existence, true spiritual self-fulfillment. This is how the ancients/benefactors saw it, but you could say they still got parts of it pretty wrong...

This is treading more into personal headcanon territory now, so bear with me, but I believe the issue lies within the great problem that the ancients built the iterators to solve. They wanted to find a means of evicting all life, material, the entire world from the cycles entirely, eliminating the personal struggle tied to ascension, taking away the choice and the journey that are so unbelievably crucial to it. This is also why I personally believe that a solution to the great problem doesn't or can't exist, as it would go against the fabric of their universe, from which the cycles are built upon. (LTTM describes the group behind this ideology as "triangulators"; they believed a solution was dangerous and had to be inferred rather than solved)

Ironically, in their desire to become effortless, by creating the iterators to make living easier, and to detach themselves from the struggles of the cycles, (just as we do within our own journey to ascension as the slugcat) this could also only be achieved through massive effort, so they even weren't truly "effortless" in the end, as nothing can be. Of course though, the few echoes in-game demonstrate that same ideology slipping through. Those ancients/benefactors became echoes because they hadn't experienced the personal journey paramount to ascension, or maybe they just didn't want to leave, but regardless, they weren't able to let go of their place in the universe and move on, and thus, they stayed behind.

TLDR: The ancients/benefactors were wrong about ascension because as a society they didn't fully recognize how important personal struggle, journey, and choice is for ascension, and sought to remove that struggle entirely.

[slugfishh]

Rain world on the mind but I cannot for the life of me think of what specifically to draw, so my asks r open to requests :0

[slugfishh]

question

how do you boop people. i see no prompt for it on mobile or online please i just. need access to this dark magic. for very serious reasons

[slugfishh]

what art software and brushes doyou use,,,,,,ur art is so chewy i loave it

I used to use clip studio paint but 6 months ago I got an ipad and started using procreate instead and now its my go-to art program. I only really have a few imported brushes I use but the big one I use for mostly everything is the knucklehead brush from @zzztlk on tumblr (and @samzalong on twitter, where I got the brush links from) I use it especially for lineart, while for blending I just use the default procreate blend brushes. here's the individual download links below

procreate: https://t.co/DPTRMBlCEc

clip studio paint: https://t.co/Ou6OVtqGtF

Also, the reason my art looks sorta crunchy is that I tend to draw pretty small, for 4-7 drawings on one page I usually use 1000x1000 tho it varies a lot, I personally just really like the rough pixel-like feel of it (this technique i uh, also stole from samzalong/sleeptlk lol, love their stuff)

[slugfishh]

changing my username on here to slugfishh!! it’s like sunfish but combined with slugcat :) plus rain world is special to me and I want my username to reflect that while also keeping my love for fishkeeping in there lol, I’ve already been using it on my other accounts for a while now so I’ll be slowly making the change across all my art accounts. you can still call me sun or sunfish, I don’t mind

edit: now I’ll be able to have the same exact username across most social platforms which will be nice to have 👍 will make things less confusing

[slugfishh]

um i just sent you an evil boop wihtout meaning to

dude I didn’t even know evil boops were a thing that’s so cool how do I do that

[slugfishh]

Hi! Do you care if I take inspo from how you draw 5P’s head? Specifically how it looks humanoid on the face but has the metal/wires/everything exposed on the back of the head.

Funny thing is the way I draw FPs head was already totally inspired by other artists I saw, especially @/random gods older FP drawings, so I’m not even the one who started it lol, by all means go crazy

[slugfishh]

sorry if youve already answered this, but is it alright too use ur art as a pfp/banner? i just love ur art , very nice on my eyeballs :]

thank you anon! and yeah any of my rain world fanart is free to use as long as you credit me :3

(Also sorry to everybody whose sent me an ask, I promise I’ve seen them I’m just so bad at responding, I’m gonna try and start getting thru them all finally :’))

[slugfishh]

god I need to stop drawing so small, I want to post some new art I’m proud of yet it’s so unbelievably pixelated that I need to go over it in higher quality 😭😭😭 why do I do this to myself

[nineslugs]

Hey! I just queued up some art I have made over the past several months. New stuff will be trickling in soon!

[slugfishh]

Can your art be used as a profile picture? (with credit ofc)

Yeah any of my fanart is fine to use for pfps or banners with credit :) i just don't allow usage of any of my personal art like of my ocs for example

[nineslugs]

I adore the creativity and originality of your spec evo designs! So many things seem so thoroughly thought out

Aww, thank you so much! I spend a lot of time thinking about them so I'm glad that comes across!

[nineslugs]

Just queued up a bunch of art that I’ve made over the past few months, so expect some regular art posts! There will be some Elder Scrolls and Flight Rising related art, as well as some things from a couple of personal projects. Enjoy!

[slugfishh]

not me saying this and then getting way over my head in college work :’) when I’m free from it all I really do want to do a few

Rain world on the mind but I cannot for the life of me think of what specifically to draw, so my asks r open to requests :0