#the dark crystal emperor

[sixeyedmonsters]

saw this meme and immediately thought of them

[lichdandy]

SkekSo the Emperor

[chainsxwsmile-personal]

“Chamberlain will help Emperor— Chamberlain always helps!”

(Text post credit to @pseudocapsicum)

[scientistservant]

[skekgra-smokes-weed]

nuh uh

[n0seblood]

WIPs and doodles of Seladon (featuring skekSo because i love how they look next to eachother) she’s probably my favorite gelfling to draw! lol i might finish some of these

[tdc-incorrect-quotes]

Rian: You took EVERYTHING from me-

SkekSo, wagging his finger: NUH UH

[thirstyokapi]

[punkcalf-art]

The Cark Drystal

[vivigthefizzgig]

I have a doubt about your the emperor's new groove au

and it is in the world of the dark Crystal age of resistance who would be kuzco and pacha?

[monsterforge]

Taking Skekso to lunch

[jinn-zerik]

How I visualize a humanized skekSo, I guess he eventually loose his hair, and nose and he would try to hide it, so he could wear some wigs for it.

[ben-the-hyena]

If Deet's vision on SkekSo's throne and the latter's accelerated cause of death turn out like that I'll call that shitpost my magnum opus

YouTube version

[sunderedandundone]

Oh, SoSu. Oh, poor SoSu.

So just to back up and provide some context: if you ask me, the great sin of UrSkek culture isn' so much that it's 'collectivist' but that it's just...*so* collectivist that the society can't countenance any person within it needing more than their 'fair share.' And before you say that sounds reasonable, by 'fair share' they really mean it. No UrSkek is supposed to really need more of any resource than any other.

Hold on! What I'm saying is that In other words, *disability is fundamentally not okay.*

Yeah. How you like them apples?

Part of the problem, of course, in their defense, is that they haven't had to think about disability for literal eons. Not on a societal level. Disease, war, and poverty have after all been eliminated, and the species is a product of extensive self-administered genomic engineering. (We are talking here about non-physical/informational 'genetics', of course, given the UrSkek's being Ascended all. But the point is, whatever malformations or birth syndromes the original bio-species might once have been prey to are long gone.) Trauma? Is something that happens very occasionally to off-planet UrSkeks, and off-planet UrSkeks don't really ever count quite as much as Homeworld UrSkeks do. If you are by some wild chance traumatized off-planet UrSkek, you're best advised just not to attempt a homecoming. (I'm sorry nobody mentioned that, GraGoh.)

I knew I had it in my head that SoSu was a Homeworld native, and that they also had a bit of a 'rough patch' in their youth that they had by sheer dint of geological time lived down, to eventually become one of the most respected academics on-world. I knew they had genuinely spent all the intervening eons working to be the very bestest, most unselfish, most not-needing-extra-love UrSkek they could possibly be.

But it wasn't till today that I realized, *they got put through Purgation as well.*

Purgation is the other sentence you can get that's not exile, and when UrSkeks choose exile over Purgation, it's because they're not keen on the idea of having the problematic bits of their body-mind 'genome' copy-pasted over with fresh acceptable code. The idea, in short, of being partly mind-wiped and re-educated. In a sequestered environment. As many times as it takes for them to start behaving rightly again.

It dawned on me today with horror that the first time round, SoSu chose Purgation.

It happened when they were very young. They were an immense psychic talent who -- again in what fairness to the UrSkek I can muster -- had to watch their emotions, which at that time easily escaped control and could manifest in, you know, stuff that could hurt people or the environment.

Or at least, stuff that if it went further, which they worried that it might, could conceivably potentially hurt somebody.

They underwent the psychic surgery to be made better, and again, worked for actual billions of Earth years to become a paragon. (And as NaNol's also-tragic story recounts, probably even benefitted from some of the extremely subtle and slow-moving erasure of history that is a phenomenon among certain UrSkek elders, so that in time, between that and the other UrSkeks that had actually been there voyaging off to other worlds or higher planes and never coming back, as the Eldest of the Eldest do...they could in time enjoy a spotless reputation on Homeworld.)

The second time they were convicted of a crime, all those long Ages later, they......................did *not* choose Purgation.

[ender--slime]

By Gelfling hand, or else by none.

HAPPY 40TH ANNIVERSARY TO THE DARK CRYSTAL!

Finally, FINALLY i’m done with this absolutely massive piece and i’m INCREDIBLY proud of it! I’ve been working on this one on-and-off since, like, AUGUST, and i’m very happy to finally say that it’s done :)

Also I’ve got my Crystal of Truth anniversary window decals up in my sh0p still so go check em out!

Happy (late) Dark Crystal Day, and Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to those who celebrate! 💜