#that thing in the desert
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
Venti would be cool with it tho
#genshin impact#aether#amber genshin impact#gliding license#genshin#sumeru#that thing in the desert#genshin crack#myart#my art#gi#glider
187 notes
·
View notes
Text
Literally what the hell was Session 5 lol
#wlsmp#wlsmp spoilers#life series#trafficblr#mcyt#grian#mumbo jumbo#jimmy solidarity#martyn inthelittlewood#goodtimeswithscar#desert duo#3rd life#art#my art#ink does minecraft art tag#you can see where the brainrot really started taking a hold of me. i did not intend to fully color the 3rd one lol#designs being made up as i go ofc not entirely sold on a lot of things#getting into the life series right before wild life started either the greatest decision i've ever made or the worst mistake of my life#1k
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
[Day 365 | Ref to Day 1]
And that's a wrap đȘ»đ„
===
fhksjdkwjw ITS OVER. ITS OVERRRRR I MADE ITTTTT
Screaming and losing it. It only started to feel real as I'm posting this rn HRKSJAKSJLELH. A year... 365 pieces (probably a bit less bc I did post wips?) of desert duo... I would make a collage maybe but its prob a lot of work HJASKDHAHEHW
đ«” @vesperionnox @cherrysherin without u guys I wouldn't have been here <3 This challenge kinda became its own thing at some point, but I didn't forget where I started :D
đ„đ„đ„ AAA I hope you guys enjoyed this challenge as much as I did!! but also WOOOOOOOOOOOOO FREEDOM. I WILL DEF STILL BE DRAWING DESERTDUO THO LOL BUT LETS FREAKING GO ONE YEARRRR
#dddaily4sherin#desert duo#grian#goodtimeswithscar#3rd life#third life#third life smp#traffic smp#trafficblr#my art#quite happy with how these came out too. esp grian :D#I feel crazy#:DDD YIPPEE#i feel like i should say more things tbh but all thats on my mind is holyshit i can fucking play minecraft#+ holyshit I can make The Bug real in minecraft /ref hgcz HASHDAHSHEBA#putting this in the tags too im thinkinggggg i could make some of the ddds into posters or prints later?#i will look into it and ask u guys a bit more officially later but ye if anyones interested :D
4K notes
·
View notes
Text
How The Nocturnal Bottleneck and Nipples Make Us Human
Almost every post here considers what humans do have, really. Itâs a little tiring; realistically every world has its harsh environments and vicious species and a sophont to match. We probably wouldnât be unique for our adaptability or our persistence or even adrenaline
But our evolution is fucked up as hell, to put it lightly.
Mammals went through whatâs been dubbed the nocturnal bottleneck essentially since the start of the mesozoic right up until the Cretaceous ended the archosaurâs exclusive hold over the daylight. We lost a lot of things from every mammal spending most of its time in either a cramped, suffocating burrow or scrounging around in the faint hours of nighttime. Our blood cells lost their nuclei to hold more oxygen while we spent time deep underground, we lost protections against ultraviolet rays in our skin and eyes, we canât even repair our own DNA using the light of the sun. Most aliens probably wouldnât have such traits unless their evolution followed a very similar path to ours. Theyâd be able to see ultraviolet and wouldnât have to worry about sunburn and all the wonderful privileges essentially all fish, birds, amphibians, and reptiles enjoy as we speak.Â
Thereâs also what we gained from spending so much time in the dark.
Brown fat is only found in mammals, itâs a special type of fat which bear cells with several oil droplets and are utterly jammed with mitochondria. This lets it make heat, a lot of it, fast. We donât even need to shiver to induce this heat generation from brown adipose tissue - factor in our downright hyperactive mitochondria, and we can warm up quickly. Sure, it doesnât have too much use in adult humans, but it keeps our infants warm and still provides a little boost the whole run we have in this universe.
Unless aliens also went through a time where their small ancestors had to face cold nights, theyâd have to produce heat the old fashioned way when chilled. Aliens might have to shiver the whole time theyâre in a cold room while the human watches in confusion, quite literally unshaken, and wonders if the room is a lot colder than the thermostat set to 60 says. The aliens stare at their companion in confusion, itâs just a normal temperature to shiver at after all, how is the human sitting so still?
Our small ancestors spending all their time out foraging at night is also why we have such a good sense of touch, smell, and hearing. They were more important senses than vision (weâre lucky to have even redeveloped basic color vision, frankly) at the time and place and simply ended up continuing to serve us well. Birds and reptiles rarely have acute senses of smell and the latter especially are lucky to have acute hearing, and birds rarely have impeccable hearing themselves either. Our skin is free of scales and honed to sensitivity, and our external ears and complicated ear bones provide an immense range of hearing (from 20 all the way to 17,000 hertz!).
Aliens might not be able to pin down the chirp of a cricket or the light click of a lock being picked. The human might be the only one on board a ship that can pick out the finer sounds of the engineâs constant thrum and know the critical difference between when everything is fine and when something is wrong. The human could probably pick out the sounds of an approaching enemyâs careless footsteps - theyâre only as light enough for *them* to stop hearing them, after all - and be the one to see the horrified expression (well, more on that later) on their face when we get the drop on them in spite of their perceived stealth.Â
But perhaps the most versatile, convoluted, amazing, and utterly unique trait we have is right on your face this instant. Lips.
Lips in most animals are a simple seal to hold in the mouthâs moisture and protect the teeth, even if theyâre supple theyâre NEVER muscular except in mammals, and we have only one thing to thank for it; milk and nipples. Lips evolved exclusively to allow babies to suckle, it required a vacuum to be created in the mouth, and with no other animal having anything like a nipple it never happened in other animals. Many animals make milk, to be frank, but no other animal has nipples.
Your cheeks and lips are a marvel among tetrapods, no other animal can suck like mammals can. Aliens wouldnât have straws or even be able to sip from the edge of a glass, theyâd have to have a proboscis or simply tilt the whole thing back. Aliens likely wonât have woodwind instruments or balloons you can blow into. We take so much about our lips for granted. Hell, our muscular faces are vital for expressions, weâre probably absolute facial contortionists among a cast of creatures with mandibles and beaks and expressionless scaly maws. Aliens might find us ridiculously easy to read, if anything, compared to their own kind (all the better to deceive them) - or perhaps theyâd find us hard to decipher anyways, with our lack of color-changing skin or erectable crests of bright feathers. Baring teeth might not be seen as a sign of aggression in most of the universe, smiling would be all too distinctly human.Â
Perhaps with how infectious we are sometimes, thatâs what weâd contribute to the universe; others might have to make do with opening their mouths just enough to show their teeth or splaying their innumerable mouthparts with just the right curve, but perhaps weâd teach the galaxy to smile, one ally at a time.Â
Wouldnât that be amazing?
#humans are space fae#humans are space orcs#humans are weird#humans are strange#Iâm seeing a lot of people in these tags just kind of disregard the nature of life and the universe#Unfortunately there probably arenât mediterranean worlds without desert ânor tundra and life easy enough that losing a limb#wasnât considered evolutionarily advantageous to be able to survive.#There will be wolves and tigers and bears all the same on alien worlds#and life will probably be hard everywhere in the galaxy#and there will be hatred and wars and love and hope and the burning feeling in thingâs vital organs when they just need to go a little more#and thatâs what makes it life.#Sorry for ranting in the tags lolâŠ
4K notes
·
View notes
Text
something so crazy-making about unhealthy mentor-protegé relationships. we're foils, we're mirrors, we're the same person, we're a parent and a child, we're lovers, we're enemies, we'd be better off without each other, we'd kill and die for each other
#its literally all walter and jesse: you're the only one i can teach and i'm the only one you can learn from#don and peggy: we're building the desert of the real and you're the only real thing there#house and chase: please free us from our bad show so we're more than just the potential for being interesting
15K notes
·
View notes
Text
at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"
like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.
"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."
... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.
and i'd still keep writing.
i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.
i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley
"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"
and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.
it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.
you create because you're greedy.
#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME#there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing#and the writing is what i need to be doing#writeblr#this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to#edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol#i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!!#my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means#i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her)#hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong#i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet.#i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse#i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!!#i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO#i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness#and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it#im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us#i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer#and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art.#i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work#even if it means being miserable#but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.
18K notes
·
View notes
Text
Pretty little things wilt away
unfiltered / no text under cut
#ohhh this session did things to me#i miss them so bad#wild life#wild life smp#wild life smp fanart#wild life fanart#grian#grian fanart#goodtimeswithscar#goodtimeswithscar fanart#gtws fanart#gtwscar fanart#third life#3rd life#desertduo#desert duo fanart
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
HOLD ON HOLD ON THAT ONE POST ABOUT S10 AROACE GRIAN AND THAT ONE POST ABOUT SIREN SCAR-
Aroace Grian who's a fisherman and friends with Scar, a siren, because Scars magic doesn't work on him.
Scar Is also aroace. He just likes eating people.
#cw cannibalism#stiff talk#gtws#grian#i think this would be a really funny desert duo thing#âscar you cannot seduce or eat my friendsâ âawâ
7K notes
·
View notes
Text
I CAUGHT HIM
I FOUND IT.
grian didnt include it in his own episode and lizzie didn't include it either and i didn't see it in mumbos episode? but in skizz's episode you see him add the <3 by his name and then spin around really quickly like he's scared someone saw
#ive been going crazy cause he's the only one who *would* have added the heart by his own name#but hes decided to be sneaky with it.#and for why#dfgjnmkfg#like#sus.#cause obviously he wanted other people to see it but didn't show it in his episode#so its only shown later when scar's erasing it#dgoujkmfg#they drive me crazy#theyre obsessed with each other#tell the little bread man in the red jumper that I've caught him in the act#grian#ldshadowlady#mumbo jumbo#skizzleman#the spanners#goodtimeswithscar#desert duo#scarian#wild life#wild life spoilers#life series#pixls things
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
u + me world domination âïž
#this is more of a vibes based thing than any real meaning itsok itsok#anywayyy itâs them again đđđđ#mcyt#mcyt fanart#gtws#desert duo#grian#grian fanart#roe.art#hermitcraft
4K notes
·
View notes
Text
i have to draw 3rd life desertduo every once in a while or else i'll explode
#desertduo#desert duo#grian fanart#goodtimeswithscar#gtws fanart#grian#3rd life#3rd life smp#traffic smp#mori draws things
2K notes
·
View notes
Note
Your art is like honey and marshmallows. It makes me feel so giddy! I love it! If you donât mind can you do desert duo?
can we still be friends?
#i super love desert duo#also love the idea of them looking at each other fondly while the other does not notice#weirdly specific things that i like that also suit them so well#also the idea of âwell but what if your first life ends. what happens then. will you still stayâ#dreamy sigh#anyway they're sweet#ask#desert duo#3rd life smp#traffic smp
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
Inktobertale 2024 Day 5: Camping
Cross doesn't know that the first law of the multiverse is that there's nowhere Ink can't be.
#inktobertale2024#inktobertale#utmv#utau#undertale multiverse#undertale#undertale au#my art#desert art#art tag#ink sans#ink#ink!sans#girlie too busy to do lighting does bootleg lightning (me I'm the girlie)#I really like the idea of a Cross that is so new to the bad sanses gang (and to the multiverse)#he thinks he will not be bumping into any of the 'good guys' outside of battle#he doesn't know Ink comes over to Night's castle to game nights. he's been coming over longer than Cross even knew the multiverse exists#in my vision Ink does the star sanses bit as a friend thing. he's not a full member and he doesn't exactly stand for all of its values#but he does participate ocassionally#not because he doesn't care. but because he cares enough about his friends to take part in a thing that is important to them (fighting evil#so outside of that he really is just doing whatever and being friends with whoever#ok ramble over goodbye#cross sans#cross#killer#killer sans#dust sans#dust#horror sans#horror
527 notes
·
View notes
Text
warning signs definitelynottober - day 13
shoutout to my friend who helped me figure out the song choice <3đ„ This day got very derailed from what I was gonna draw originally because I found. these and proceeded to just blank out and put them on my canvas (hope these still make relatively some kinda sense HDKDNEKFN)
#definitelynottober#definitelynottober2024#desert duo#grian#goodtimeswithscar#3rd life#third life smp#trafficblr#traffic smp#isdoodles#IM JUST A MANNNN WHOS TRYING TO GO HOMEEE /REF#Istg tho i need to stop doing comics or big things so i can actually paint UEKANKSQNHWKQA#and again posting at Late as hell hours i am so good at this trust. đ„
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
old 3l desertduo design concept
#for those of you who said you liked my 3rd life designs ^_^ heres an early version of them#my art#desert duo#3rd life#grian#gtws#trafficblr#most of the changes have to do with the colours of things but there r a few other noticeable ones#this specific version is from the beginning of 2023 when i was starting to redesign the designs from june 2022
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
been seeing a bunch of posts about people going back to their steddie roots bc of s5 but iâve never fucking left. those fuckers invaded my mind two years ago and now theyâre the freezer burn in the back of my mind. yeah all those half finished steddie fics that everyone forgot about? sitting in my bookmarks like the cobwebs on my ceiling. every so often iâll scroll through them looking like a forlorn wife in the 1940s after my husband went away to war.
#steddie#steve harrington#eddie munson#stranger things#those fuckers#rent free always#they wonât LEAVE#yâall those unfinished fics will be the death of me#deserters when i catch you#PLEASE JUST PUSH THROUGH AND WRITE THEM#anyway#guess whoâs mentally ill
1K notes
·
View notes