#taking life as is

[lyss-butterscotch]

Have you guys seen @nerdydowntherabbithole 's fic Taking Life As Is? You should 👁👁

Also idk how to do the thing where you put links into a word lmao here's the fic

[niftukkun]

fanart for a scene in @nerdydowntherabbithole 's Taking Life As Is on AO3 !! a scene early on in the fanfic that sounded so cool it gripped me with inspiration, where a vulture swoops down and gets fucking got by a leviathan while our dear protagonists look on in horror of the beautiful brutality of mother nature happening right in front of them! dont you love it when you leave your rotting corpse behind and immediately get hit with the existential horror of almost dying and the primal fear of seeing something that much bigger than you and realising your fragility when you were once a godlike being above such lowly thoughts and struggles? anyway.

some details and thoughts !! :

-just before this scene, sugar (survivor's name in this fic) hunted and ate a salamander, so i included it in this here drawin too !! hell yeah esoteric fic-accurate details -(pro tip for any artists out there; if you want to push something into the background, gradient overlays are your friend. also, dont forget to check your values. outline your characters if they aren't popping out of the background enough) -in other, not fic-accurate detail,, moon's dress and marks. i think in the fic, moon's dress is more like,, an actual dress with sleeves and such. but also like, i do what i want and i want something thats barely a dress so i can show off my anatomy/mechanical bits art skills. i dont care if its not canon compliant im calling rule of cool -whoops i forgor the wires uhh shit nevermind it would cover the cool bits anyway whatever -also, while i am proud of the vulture and leviathan, they both used reference. like, i sketched them out yeah, but also the sketch was mostly done by staring at a reference the whole time and overlaying it on the canvas as needed when the drawing looked a little too off. so if you look at this and think 'aw man this guys too good at drawing i could never draw a vulture/leviathan/background/whateverthefuck like that' youre wrong. use references and get better at art by referencing references -shoutout to the miraheze wiki btw for supplying most of my references for this. fandom wiki could never

this fic holds a special place in my heart. like, i dont agree with it on a lot of things (how the cycle works, time between slugcat campaigns, how rot works, etc), but its very internally consistent and i like how all the characters are written. i really do like how, despite all the bickering, the iterators really do care for each other and love each other. i like that the blame isn't pushed just to pebbles, the acknowledgement of there being a lot of nuance and complications in the whole situation. i like the worldbuilding, nsh's wetland-esque biome, srs's gleaming glass beaches, the different interesting fauna/flora, slugcat society worldbuilding, the fucking trains hell yes trains.

most of all though, i love the authors dedication to getting a happy ending. no one left behind. all the iterators in the local group are getting freed (except for innocence but thats a different thing) all the slugcats are alive and doing well (even artificer's kids!!). and even though the fic throws the characters around, bad things happen, steps backward are taken,,, there is almost a palatable message that no matter what, things will be okay. artificer did bad and its acknowledged with visible consequences (scavenger temple route, which mightve made things so much easier on the route to nsh) but she still gets her kids back. hunter had her rot cured and even got some sick new upgrades but still struggles with overexertion and moments of weakness. both pebbles and moon have ptsd from the rot and the rain respectively and its handled reasonably well, not even mentioning the survivors guilt and learned helplessness on nsh and the whole,, guilt from causing this whole fiasco and the feeling of it being all their fault from srs,,,, , ,,,

i dont know. i just really like how dedicated the fic is to showing the realistic consequences of the unforgiving and brutal world of rain world and weaving it into a story of forgiveness and freedom. there are struggles but the heroes will still win and get to go home happy. its cathartic. i love it a lot.

[kakyogay]

This fic has ruined me in all the right ways

(I half assed the coloring when I did and didn't work on it all all after so to make sure I even post it I'm doing it now <3)

If you're new to my silly little account and want to read it I have it linked in one of my other posts.

Fic creator (very awesome individual): @nerdydowntherabbithole

Extra doodle for fic because I find their height difference funny

And other misc doodles because :)

[xjustpeachyx]

Sugar (me) looking at cherry (tlai)

Not much of a reading guy BUT PLEASE go read this silly fic.. begging....

[trashmammal69]

Pebbles goes hunting with Clover and Peach

Fanart of Ch 18 of Taking Life As Is, a fantastic fic by @nerdydowntherabbithole please read it if you’re into rain world!!

[medi-bee]

Please go read @nerdydowntherabbithole's fic Taking Life as Is. Please. I'm going mad over it.

[nerdydowntherabbithole]

Heheheheah aaannyway so uh. Here's the designs for Moon/Pebble's new drips in Taking Life As Is. Also Sugar. Iterator road trip requires PANTS. They haven't put em on yet but never too early for a design

[skiddlecat]

FORGOT TO POST THIS WHEN I DREW IT. sibling hug based off of chapter 24 of @nerdydowntherabbithole's fic taking life as is :]]

[insaneiceshard]

Based on an interaction I had with my cat! Earlier he begged me for sesame seeds.

I have a headcanon that lizards stick thier tounges out when they're hungry.

[luminumarashi]

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, this is the reason for my lack of sleep the past week, haha! Well, almost a week

Taking Life As Is by @nerdydowntherabbithole inspires me again _x)

I was listening to my playlists and... Well, let me say, it amazes me how well this song fits this fanfic (in my opinion)

[arikuraaa]

Don't remember how it started, but I finally ended up reading Taking life as is by @nerdydowntherabbithole

I have WAY more sketches in progress but figured I had to commit to finishing one at a time cause if not, I'll just have a million unfinished pieces.

Anyways, love Arti being forcefully domesticated, it makes me laugh every time.

The original was meant to be in limited color, but I found that it was tough to keep consistency so I scrapped it.

[lyss-butterscotch]

could you do some more Taking Life As Is moments? I don't mind what they are, I just really like Taking Life As Is!

I haven't been reading TLAI sobs but here you can have this project. I was planning to make a landscape art of all the new areas the story went to but I kinda lost the will to ndndnss but this is what I managed to finished!

[tanyabadtime159]

Another scene from TLAI *derp*

"Taking life as is" by @nerdydowntherabbithole

[kakyogay]

More fic art because my life is in shambles /pos

Big boy piece (road trip fits ^^)

Misc fic doodles (on paper 😱)

Also other doodles (recent co op session and general doodles)

And once again if your new the fic is called Taking life as is on AO3 and created by @nerdydowntherabbithole . If you're a nerd and don't want to look it up yourself it is linked in an older post. Alright I need to get back to class gbye <3.

[xjustpeachyx]

Whoops im on my tlai spree again