#the dull

[entities-of-posts]

do you have an idea for what a domain or ritual for the Dull could be?

An office job with a perfect grid of grey cubicles, bright halogen lights and hidden ceiling speakers that play only a quiet drone of white noise. Each come with a small, perfectly identical plastic plant and the same empty corporate motivational poster as only decoration. You are not allowed to decorate them yourself. There is a strict business formal dress code. You are always busy, but the purpose of your work is inane and vague. You fill forms. You push your pencil. The workload is not necessarily enough to make you feel crushed, but enough that you don’t have time to chitchat. Enough that you stay a little late every day. It’s strongly encouraged by the blankly smiling faces of the managers. You start to feel like you never have time for yourself when you get home, even though you work perfectly reasonable hours on paper. The cafeteria is free, but everything tastes so bland. Everything you cook yourself starts to taste the same way. On your days off the weight of the week that passed and the week that’s coming oh so soon keep you glued to your sofa, apathetically scrolling social media or watching empty reality tv, until it’s time for another week, again, again, again. But you’re lucky to have a job that pays well enough, and you won’t find any better. Your coworker Carlos’ name is spelled as “Carl” on his cubicle. But it doesn’t matter, you hardly know him anyway.

An idyllic suburbia. 2,5 children per home, good Christian marriages. An HOA that makes sure no one breaks the dream with any colorful paint outside the identical house, any colorful paint inside them, anything less than a perfectly manicured turf lawn, any decoration, anyone out walking past sunset or other irregular hours, any car too cheap or too old or in another color than a pleasant muted grey or an unapproved model, any children’s lemonade stand, any children drawing in chalk on the sidewalk, any children yelling, any children outside the houses, any fruit tree, any flowers, any bird, any bug, any pet, any backyard party, any inside party, any overnight visitors, any daytime visitors, any flag but the star spangled banner, any words but the right kind of English uttered, any lights on past nine, any unusual outside furniture, any unusual inside furniture, any unhappy faces, any noise, ever, ever.

[thedullestofcorrupts]

And as the grass turns green, we all recognize that in truth, war is futile, yet the conflict still persists within all of our poor, miserable lives.

--- unknown

Hello there, paradise..! I am Cube Hexahedron, as some may know.. The corruption has primarily ended, so... I've decided to make this...! Feel free to ask questions.. If you dare... (Really, Cubic?) [WHAAAT, it's funny!]

(All available to chat with are located in the tags! Check under cut more extra information on the au!!! PROFILES FOR CHARACTERS WILL BE ADDED SOON. BTW!!)

BACK AT IT AGAIN WITH AN AU CHAT

I renovated my Astro rp blog to this the pfp WILL get a glow up soon so dw so will the banner

SONE INFO!

Cyanide has vitiligo here from being purified and dulled at the same time!

Cube and Cubic share a body!(somewhat like conjoined twins but Cubic's only visible bc of one eye and ear. plus his voice!)

The heroes are FAIRIES here!!! AYAYAYAY two(Citren and Gold) are more akin to insects however! Cyanide is a mech so she gets tv antennae hehe

will add more soon!!!

[captain-price-unofficially]

[salamispots]

it got turned into a 17" x14" pillow instead haha

[entities-of-posts]

Do you think office cubicles and emptied office buildings would be under The Dull? And also schools even during the day bc omg…

There’s a lot of different influences in schools, but that moment where everything is soulless and empty, or filled with quiet people filing through the monotonous corridors in obedient lines, absolutely would relate to the Dull. And I would bet a lot that the first proper manifested Domain of the Dull would be an office building.

[neo--queen--serenity]

Maomao legitimately asked herself, “who really is he? Just ‘the emperor’s favorite eunuch’? That doesn’t seem to add up…”

And then we immediately get this visual:

When Maomao knows damn well that the emperor’s brother goes by the title of “Moon Prince.”

[sixth-light]

so one of the things I was vaguely aware of before reproducing was that people hold a lot of anxiety around the gender of babies and 'wrongly' gendering babies (i.e. failing to guess correctly based on their clothes and appearance what their genital configuration is) and having now had a baby: wow, yes, they really do.

I take an extremely laissez-faire approach to baby clothes because like, they are constantly being thrown up on and grown out of and so on, what matters is that they are clean and easy to put on and I am not spending $$$$$ on them. as long as the colour/design is not directly offensive, it's fine. what this means is that people are quite frequently 'misgendering' the baby and then falling over themselves to apologise about it.

and, like, I haven't even had a chance to dress him in anything pink yet; this is based on rules I didn't expect like 'anything with flowers or sparkly bits on it is for girls only'. equally, I do not care when this happens because it's an irrelevancy, but THEY care to make sure I am not offended. so I have started telling them "look, he's only [x] months old; his gender is baby."

and you know what? you'd be surprised how many otherwise average heterosexual people process this and go "huh, yeah, I guess it is." there is a tiny amount of hope for the future after all.

[glassiskies]

immediately thought of that one meme when I watched this scene in episode 2 LMAO

[spookys1fan]

Phew, finally done with the dod headshots! I definitely had a lot of fun and I loved experimenting with a more cartoony style and brush textures!

I tried to keep their designs based closely to their names and personalities! I did make tsunami a little bigger size wise than clay but she’s definitely shorter and more muscled than him.

I tried to make glory and clay almost iridescent like clays underbelly is described in the books as copper like and I wanted to bring parallels between clay and glory bc I like the idea that they are kinda alike if u know what I mean? And I wanted to give Tsunami fins like a wave of water like what surfers surf on! Like those water tunnel pictures! And I loved giving sunny features like starflight bc she’s a hybrid. I feel like if she wasn’t so unassuming you’d immediately be able to tell she’s a hybrid heheh. And I like to think Tsunami hated when her siblings got hurt enough to take all their “training sessions” with kestrel nearly every time, and continuously challenged the guardian enough that when she did take them kestrel didn’t hold back whatsoever and was constantly nearly permanently injuring her and she required many, many scars over the years.

Well, I had a blast making these and I hope you guys like em! ^^

Love yall! ^^ <3

[idiotsonlyevent]

i really like this detail in chapter 51 where tall-man chilchuck pulls ahead of the party as they're walking.

i know it's in part because there are gaps and grates in the floors, and since he's physically larger, it's easier for him to walk around or over them, and his step length has increased, but it also makes me think that he's had to adopt a faster walking speed to compensate for his size. now that he's larger, he's turned into the dungeon's faster speed walker lol

[ink-the-artist]

intaglio print based on this drawing

[miiwiiss]

YOU DON’T FEEL A THING. DO YOU?

[magicicephoenix]

dca who (doctor who) au!!! it’s happening!! sound the alarms!!!

Sun comes much later in the au once y/n and Moon become closer… but i couldn’t just NOT draw him :)

[entities-of-posts]

Seconded

Tip: you can microwave stale croissant for 15-20 seconds and it will become soft and warm and nice. Cut it open, put butter in it. Peace and love

[entities-of-posts]

hi! would like to ask— what would the fear of monotony fall under? been mulling it over for weeks :,)

It’s a fear which, while common, doesn’t neatly fall into one of Smirke’s 14. If i had to pick one, I suppose it would be a metaphorical aspect of the Buried, possibly tinged with the Spiral or the Web. However, I am using your experience as yet more proof of my theory of the Dull.