#they live in the desert

[mintesprig]

I must emphasize that when I think of Midst penguins, they are sabertoothed.

[simm-mouse]

I decided I wanted to draw more than just babies, So here's a small art dump

Baby beans. I decided on making Violet's hair curly, I wasn't satisfied with her hair before. I think she looks better with curly hair

Speaking of curly hair, I also gave Jill curly hair as well

Sk8er boy Johnny. Just vibing until Tank appears out of nowhere

Finally we got lil chibi Mr and Mrs Curious. I've seen people say that Glarn is the strict one because he had emotional issues, but I think it's Kitty

Glarn is pretty playful, while Kitty is serious for the most part. I do see him having emotional issues, especially from after his abduction and divorce. Probably messed with him in that department. I think he seems to have trouble opening up with his feelings. I think overall he tries to be a good dad with his kids(Especially with him giving up Lola and Chloe), but anything that involves feelings he's not good at. So with those he'd say "Go ask your mother about that one"

Kitty however is very emotional. She's a hotheaded woman, and would like to speak to your manager because her son asked for no pickles. Kitty's got claws, you don't wanna mess with her. Not going to lie, I would totally see her bragging about how successful her children are. This woman has four children that were doing well in school, and now in their careers. She had high expectations, her children needed be good at school. They come from a family of scientists, how could they fail. She obviously loves her kids, she just wants them to grow up well and not have any struggles later on in life. So she thinks that being strict can help. It's no wonder that pretty much all of them, except for Lazlo are pretty serious. I think maybe with Lazlo she toned it down a bit. As long as he was doing well in school, it was enough. Also can we talk about Glarn's clothes

They're the cund clothes. I think that Vidcund liked his dad's style, so he started dressing like him during high school. Also he thought it made him look hot, and getting the ladies(Circe)

[stars-and-suns-and-boobs]

🐸 I took this picture 🐸

[snowspot]

all the world will be your enemy

[seagiri]

heatstroke

[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

[sprinklesharkie]

the way grian just yoinks robo scar T-T

[starcurtain]

Teyvat's "Most Down Bad" Award Goes to Alhaitham for a Second Year Running

Seeing everyone making fun of Alhaitham for his "stalkerish" tendencies in this event is funny, because I feel like a lot of people missed that "Be literally everywhere Kaveh is" has been Alhaitham's MO from the day Kaveh appeared in the game.

From only grabbing his house keys after Kaveh returned from the desert (he couldn't have had both sets of keys at the end of the Archon Quest unless he went home and got Kaveh's copy) to ditching conversations to get back to his house only after Kaveh came home, to showing up without any warning or explanation in Kaveh's hangout with some ridiculous excuse about hearing his voice through noise-cancelling headphones... Refusing to offer any help in the Temple of Silence story quest other than staying in the library with Kaveh...

Since when does Alhaitham willingly cover anyone else's duties?

But this trend of "Be everywhere Kaveh is" didn't start when they were adults. It was already in place when they were still Akademiya students--and it's a trend that didn't end even when they had their fight.

Even when they weren't speaking, Alhaitham dogged Kaveh's every step through published responses to Kaveh's research articles in academic journals. He insisted on keeping a line of communication between himself and Kaveh open, even if the only way to do that was through very public ideological clashes. Pulling Kaveh's pigtails to get his attention lolol. It's implied that, for at least the few years between their fight and Kaveh moving in, this was the only communication between them--Alhaitham's refusal to allow their connection to entirely fade away. (And the fact that this is revealed in Kaveh's character stories--through his precious journal that records the moments of his life that had the most impact on him--shows just how deeply he values the fact that Alhaitham didn't give up.)

Another relevant side note: Alhaitham never asked Kaveh to give up his half of their house. Knowing half of it belonged to Kaveh, knowing that Kaveh may one day want to reclaim his part of it, knowing that it was listed as theirs, Alhaitham moved into the house and made zero effort to change its ownership. He was completely fine with living in "his and Kaveh's house." The stories suggest it was only months later (or even longer) that Kaveh even noticed he had the house, and he transferred away ownership of his portion without Alhaitham ever asking him (or even seemingly wanting him) to do so.

Please, let that sink in. Alhaitham actively left his grandmother's (presumably comfortable) house to move into "his and Kaveh's house," with no apparent explanation for why, and after doing so, he made no attempt to change that "his and Kaveh's" label. He moved into the house with no promise that Kaveh wouldn't show up on the doorstep the very next day and move in too. It almost feels like another deliberate provocation--I've moved into our house, are you going to come stop me? LBR, if Alhaitham had had his way, Kaveh would have been living there with him from Day 1...

There's also the fact that Kaveh literally can't write on a single message board anywhere in the entire nation of Sumeru without Alhaitham hunting his messages down and responding to them (which absolutely no one else does, by the way).

"NUH-UH!" "UH-HUH." "NUH-UH!"

Alhaitham's own character stories tell us explicitly that one of Alhaitham's defining character traits is "He is never where you need him to be," yet somehow...

Shot, and chaser:

Any time Kaveh is in the slightest bit of need or danger or just wants Alhaitham near, Alhaitham is "coincidentally" exactly where Kaveh needs him to be, whenever Kaveh needs him to be there.

Alhaitham didn't just "happen" to run into Kaveh in Port Ormos, an entirely different city from where he was supposed to be working. He didn't just "happen" to read the same terrible book as Kaveh when we know he otherwise would not waste a moment of his time on poorly-written literature...

He didn't just "happen" to appear when Kaveh was upset and needed a distraction in the House of Daena during Kaveh's hangout. He didn't just "happen" to be sitting around waiting when Kaveh needed answers after the Archon Quest. He didn't just "happen" to find Kaveh's academic publications and every single message board posting and respond to them at length and in public.

The only person for whom Alhaitham just "happens" to be available is Kaveh, over and over and over again--because he is very deliberately making himself a constant presence in Kaveh's life.

Which is exactly what Kaveh's mother told Kaveh he needed.

(Like, out of all things, I think people really underestimate the devs deliberately paralleling the romantic relationship between Kaveh's mother and father with Kaveh and Alhaitham's relationship. If you want to point to one thing that says "These two characters are intentionally queer-coded," it doesn't get any more obvious than this.)

Alhaitham, are you not embarrassed to be this transparent??? 🫣

[keymintt]

flygon illustration for the pokemon tcg contest! didn't make it past the first round, but i had a lot of fun with this one regardless hehe

[isjasz]

[Day 304]

Andddd here begins Grian's long suffering o7

this is a canon event don't blame me blame the game👍

[catminecraft]

panel redraw, kinda

[nobie]

[cherrifire]

[0.5/70] Renchanting + Desert Duo - Take Me to War

“Take me to war. Honey, I dare you”

[DTIYS, rules under the cut!]

If you don't know, I've been slowly working on a project where I draw a fake album cover for every song by The Crane Wives themed around the Life series. IT'S ALMOST DONE! I have around 8 left!

So as a sort of precursor for what's to come, I made 2 more matching covers for "Take Me To War" as another DTIYS! I just thought it would be a fun thing to do as another build-up for the final product :)

[Rules]

No deadline! Take all the time you need <3

You can do one or all four, it's up to you how many you do!

You can change elements if you'd like I just want to see people get creative!

If you post yours, use “#cherri dtiys tcw” and tag me so I can like + reblog

[findafight]

Why is everyone like “what happened to Cody!! Where is he!?”? We know where he is! He went to live that desert hermit life with his depressed cringefail husband.

[la-brielle]

my new hyperfixation yay  

[kunehokki]

@isjasz and I had the lovely opportunity to join this year's @mcytblraufest! Of course, what AU better for us than In Stars and Lives?

In Stars and Lives is Jas' and I's In Stars and Time AU centered around Grian and the other GIGGS members as his adventuring party!

You can find out more about the game's premise from Jas' ISAL tag, playing the game ISAT yourself, or reading the fics @all54321 (Family Bonding) and @evil-mop-eating-sponge (In Stars and Lives: Act 1) wrote for the AU Fest! The fics aren't canon to our AU since that exists in its own space, but they're a lovely read for getting to know what ISAT/ISAL is all about :D!!

The fics are linked below!