#tidelocked

[gemsalive]

@faedemon (aka @moipale)'s new postcanon loop oneshot tidelocked is really, really good. however sometimes to write really really good fic you need to take a break to write really really dumb scenes.

thus: to you, the good people of tumblr, i offer an illustration of one such scene. think of it like a blooper

in case it isn't already clear: this comic is 100% a goof, based on a completely contextless equally-goofy screenshot of the wip document from very early in the making. however, the fic itself is entirely genuine; my fervent plea to read it, entirely meant.

tidelocked is 14.8k of loop's postcanon persistence in someone else's home, in someone else's life, in a fifth bedroom by the seaside -- and true to faedemon form, every last word of it is utterly, utterly devastating from beginning to gut-wrenching end.

if you've read tidelocked you will know full well all the ways this illustration doesn't actually make sense as a faithful recreation of the scene it would have been from, but hey! it's a goof. we're calling it bonus content. if you haven't read the fic, know that i am strongly urging you to go read the fic so you can point and laugh at the inaccuracies with the rest of us. i promise you will not regret it

[fanfics2747]

here i go posting about my characters as if i'm not literally the creator of the series

[pacmastermeow]

writing a story when you have Ideas

introduce main character 1 & narrator <- you are here introduce main character 2 introduce main character 3 introduce main character 4 they all launch into the REAL setting of the story evil omochao starts haunting the main characters imp battle scenes in the main comic flash animation friday night funkin minimods ????????? introduce mirror characters from a mirror universe created by the game from a mirror universe from the same universe? romantic tension between the Evil One and her mirror counterpart ELEMENTAL WIZARDS!!!!!! ???? they were animatronics in an animatronic restaurant the whole time cut to the nightguard no. make that a separate story the scratch

[tathracynart]

My dnd group's planning to try out MASKS: A New Generation, and (like always) designing a new character has proven to be the best source of inspiration! Eridani (they/them) is an Outsider who's having a blast on Earth because it's way more fun than the situation on their homeworld

[pacmastermeow]

“so your friend Grace from that drum & bass band you were in a while ago—“

“SOLD!”

“i didn’t even tell you your future together...”

“all i care about is that we have a future together. i’m not just being weird about this. as soon as i find my phone i am going to make this happen and nobody can stop us.”

do you have an oc couple?

take one of them. 

if, before they started a relationship with their partner, someone had described this person in full, what they had done, how they were in the past, how they will be in the future of their relationship, would it have effected their decision to romantically pursue them?

[moipale]

for those who want to scream and claw at the walls when they think about loop & especially the potentials of postcanon loop, i bring you Tidelocked, a 14.8k oneshot chock fucking full of LOOP MISERYYYYY

summary under cut:

Tidelocked

Siffrin is your jailor. Your purpose. Your caretaker. Your better self, your now-unreachable future, your child all grown up. You—you are past the point of wanting to take their place. All you want now is a belonging of your own or another cessation, a complete one, because this? This fifth bedroom, this toothbrush, this windowsill overlooking their life? This you cannot take. And as much as every day you miss the people who are right there in front of you, you know they are not yours. After the journey, in a five-bedroom house, Loop endures the fact that the Universe likes Siffrin more.

[horsegirlrehab]

staring into the sun

artwork i did to accompany a podfic recording i did for @moipale 's amazing fic Tidelocked! go read it if you haven't had a chance!!

[lucabyte]

via your last comic, i think youd have a great time reading Tidelocked by faedemon. its like your braincells found eachother across time and space and went “hey what if Loop was suffering actually because they no longer had autonomy due to the wish”

well i've sure read it now !! damn !!!

Here's a link for everyone seeing this ask -> (LINK)

@moipale hi this fucking rips? �� i am grabbing you i have nothing particularly coherent to say but this was very very well written! The flow of the prose was very nice and there were a lot of really good moments of rhythm!! As someone who is dialogue-heavy in my writing i can really respect a more prose heavy piece like this it is super well done. Massive fan of that method of loop getting their body back also. really fucking good.

i don't wanna say anything specific in this ask because people should go read it for themselves but the bit with the [objects] in [the location] was so fucking inspired. perfect pairing down and microcosm of theme. well done

[entryn17]

Ur uaafic has literally made me insane about post canon isat fics, do you have any recommendations while I wait for the next chapter?

THANK YOU SO MUCH??! i'm flattered.

my main recommendations are some of the most popular ones (they're popular for a reason!!!) like TRY IT AGAIN, CHEATER! by discatded, tidelocked by faedemon and literally anything on the top page when sorted by kudos. but!!! i'm also keeping up with false positives by wayward_stardust which i'm really interested in, and also like ouroboros consuming itself by biblically_accurate_crow!!! i also really like of seas and stars by Icestorm238 + like real people do by snapdragon_stories they're really good oneshots

[shlubbyart]

so. um. can i have the deets on tidelock

Ah. Sam's spilled the beans hasn't she.

Well alright, for those of you out of the loop: TideLock is the ship name between my squid (Tide) and @salmonthaart's squid (Lock). It started out as a joke, but now it's been canonised into both of their backstories.

It's basically just Sam and I having fun with the concept of two completly opposite personalities in a doomed relationship. Lock being the broody, aloof type who masks his emotions to hide how sensitive and vulnerable he is, and Tide being the peppy Prince Charming who would happily treat Lock with kindess and respect despite his shortcomings.

In present day they are exes. They eventually ended things off after Tide realised they both had a bit of soul searching to do. They are still friends, albeit on strained terms.

Here's an old doodle of mine that probably best summarises the relationship:

[beneathsilverstars]

finally read tidelocked . bitches help

[syncopein3d]

It's been an awful week for irl reasons and I've therefore spent a lot of it huperfocusing on that Deathwatch kill team idea I had and therefore doing research and planning instead of writing on either my novel or The Warm One.

I'm kind of looking at this roster:

Watch-sergeant/team leader: White Scar or descendant, obsessed with perfect timing, older than all but Blackshield, prides himself on using any weapon and making anything INTO a weapon, definitely lowkey a heretek.

Blood Angel or Ultramarine descendant, specialty ranged/overwatch. Oddly distant, others suspect he has private missions they're not being told about.

Black Templar, melee specialist, can't believe he's stuck on this kill-team with at least two mutants, brutal and direct with his hammer.

Blackshield Brother Vanitas: versatile, but in melee uses a long and a shortblade and is fast and graceful. Slim build for an Astartes, skin albinism, hair shaved, eyes inexplicably purple like his Primarch. Will not talk about his possible chapter or any past before the DW and does not like being asked.

Salamander, heavy flamer expert, laid-back, sturdy and strong, the glue that holds this team together. Gets shit done without argument.

Battle-brother from homebrew chapter still WIP, very red skin, bigger than average, comes from badlands/jungle deathworld with sulfurous tidelocked planetoid where the fortress monastery is. Stoic, dry sense of humor. Mildly suspicious of First Founding guys for some reason.

[fanfics2747]

Meet The Davey’s Locker Crew

yall ever fuck around and make an entire chuck e cheese style animatronic band

Name: David Flippin Radroller

Nickname: Davey

Species: Coconut Octopus

Age: 24

Gender: Male (He/Him/His/Himself)

Height: 7 ft 3 (measured from end of longest arm to posterior end of mantle)

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual, of course

Status: Singer in the D-Wave (His Band)

Personality: A smooth jazzman who likes to show off. Has a certain swagger to him. Very dramatic, often to his own downfall.

Likes: Singing, Jazz, Rock, His Band Members, Ice Cream, Puzzle Games, Attention, Ice Cream Dislikes: Being Booed Off Stage, Five Nights at Freddy's, Gummy Worms/Bears

Powers and Combat

Combat style: Hand To Hand (Hand To Tentacle?)

Combat Weapon List: Handheld microphone with a hidden switchblade out the back

【Power 1: LIGHTS】 Davey can control any light source within 10 meters with just a swish of his tentacle. He can snuff out or ignite candles, make electric bulbs flicker and dim, and even disable other creatures' natural bioluminescence.

【Power 2: Oh, Inkballs】 Davey can pick up his ink and turn it into a solid object while it's being held. While in this hardened state, it can be molded into a specific shape, but if it sustains upwards of 0.9 megapascals of stress it reliquidizes.

【Power 3: Breath of Fresh Prince】 Davey can breathe perfectly fine both in and out of water.

Weaknesses: Due to the fact that he is a mollusc, he is highly susceptible to piercing, slashing, and bludgeoning.

Why He Wants To Be A Star: For the adoration of the fans. A thousand fangirls and fanboys screaming his name every time he slithers onstage, crowds of people wearing his face on their chest and their hearts on his sleeve.

Name: Hexity Decixas

Nickname: Hexy

Species: Axolotl

Age: 22

Gender: Female (She Her Hers Herself)

Height: 7 ft 10

Sexual Orientation: Again, bisexual

Status: Keytarist in the D-Wave

Personality: A bold and energetic empowered performer who's not afraid to go off. A bit of a charmer and a flirt too.

Likes: Keytar, SynthPop, Disco, Her Band Members, Ice Cream, Rhythm Games

Dislikes: Rooms Being Cleaned While She's In Them, Shows Ending Due To Closing Time

Powers and Combat

Combat style: Evasive

Combat Weapon List: A keytar that can shoot electric note bullets (think of Mega Man’s Buster shots, but note shaped) - with a special program, it can also turn into an axe, but that’s on a USB stick and isn’t pre-installed.

【Power 1: CAMERA】 Basically the “blue skdoo” power from Blue’s Clues. Hexy can dive into camera feeds in order to come out of the other side of the camera. She can also do this in reverse - if she’s being recorded, she can disappear from the scene in order to crawl out of the screen it’s being displayed on.

【Power 2: X-HEAL】 Consumes a magically supercharged item to regenerate lost body parts in seconds.

【Power 3: Breath of Fresh Queen】Hexy can breathe perfectly fine both in and out of water.

Weaknesses: Highly susceptible to odd temperatures and all attacks utilizing them - she sustains damage at temperatures where humans would likely just break a sweat or a shiver.

Why She Wants To Be A Star: To prove all the people who put her down and belittled her wrong and show the world that she is better than they’ve said she is.

Name: Grace Whirlwind Bonaparte

Species: California Gull

Age: 23

Gender: Female (She Her Hers Herself)

Height: 7 ft 11

Sexual Orientation: Take a wild guess (spoiler: it's bisexual)

Status: Electric bassist in the D-Wave

Personality: A violent/rude bird that loves to make chaos and steal. There’s a bit of edge to her as well, though it’s mostly just a manifestation of her supreme hubris.

Likes: Bass, Heavy Metal, Industrial Rock, Her Band Members, Ice Cream, FNAF, Horror Games In General

Dislikes: Bright Lights (Especially Flash Photography), Hecklers, Peppermints, The Establishment/The Man

Powers and Combat

Combat style: No holds barred grapple-hold madness

Combat Weapon List: Morningstar bass guitar

【Power 1: Action】She can go so fast it seems like she teleported/for her it seems like time stopped around her. However, to gather the time needed, she has to stay still for the same amount of time her actions in Action-time would have taken. (for example, if she wants to go to a room that normally takes 5 seconds to run to instantly, she needs to stay still for 5 seconds.) It takes much longer to charge the power if she’s being stared at while she charges. Compare and contrast with the way the animatronics switch from PNG to PNG in Five Nights at Freddy’s, a game Grace is a fan of.

【Power 2: Malformed String】Basically, Spider-Man web powers, but the strings disintegrate into glowy text characters after they’re no longer of use.

【Power 3: Breath of Fresh Knight】Grace can breathe perfectly fine both in and out of air.

Weaknesses: None.

Why She Wants To Be A Star: For the luxury. The heated pools, the shiny locales with blaring programmable spotlights, the fancy feasts of shrimp and buttered lobster with cedar-planked salmon appetizers, and all the wonderful things the money people pay to see her can buy.

Name: Rosemary Monstr

Nickname: rose_str

Species: Tricolor Hermit Crab

Age: 21

Gender: Female (She Her Hers Herself)

Height: 5 ft 8

Sexual Orientation: Bisexual (noticed a pattern yet?)

Status: Drummer in the D-Wave

Personality: A shy and reserved creature, but when she really gets into the rhythm of her drumset and when she's chilling with her loved ones, she reveals a playful and energetic side that isn't apparent at first.

Likes: Drum & bass, breakcore, being around her friends, climbing (including on/over the other band members), curling up in a dark room whilst watching videos, cozing herself into small spaces

Dislikes: Being pressured by the crowd, getting wrapped up in trouble/court proceedings, being pulled away from her safe spot, the spaces she tucks away into turning out to be too small to properly remove herself from, having her groove thrown off

Powers and Combat

Combat style: Defensive

Combat Weapon List: Drumsticks have chains on the back that can clip together to turn them into DRUMCHUCKS.

【Power 1: Clapperboard】 Rose_str can create a directed shockwave of sorts when she claps her claws together, blowing anyone that gets hit by it back severely. Essentially, the “fus ro dah” of creatures.

【Power 2: Shellspace】 Rose_str can create a “bigger on the inside” space within an object, but only if she can fit inside it in its natural state, and it consumes a magically supercharged object to do so (though once a space has been opened like this, it can be closed and re-opened with a click of a claw without destroying it). She mostly just does this with her shells, hence the name.

【Power 3: Breath of Fresh Rook】 Rose_str can breathe perfectly fine both in and out of water.

Weaknesses: Like any hermit crab, Rose_str molts three times every two years, give or take. In the days before her molts, she becomes lethargic, and after the molt she is weak and soft for the next week.

Why She Wants To Be A Star: To send a message and change the world for the better.

[random-thought-depository]

Little side project I've been mentally tinkering with lately, trying to come up with a world with a similar vibe to that world we see in the beginning of Alien but a bit more of a hard science foundation (though nothing super-rigorous). Thought this would be appropriate to post on Halloween originally, but I didn't find the time or energy to write it up then.

Start with a small red dwarf star, maybe just above the hydrogen fusion threshold, around 80-100 Jupiter masses. Significantly, it is a flare star.

Put a gas giant around it, orbiting somewhere between .1-.5 AU. Give this gas giant a bunch of satellites, including three to five planet-sized ones. The innermost or second-innermost big satellite is the one we'll be focusing on.

This satellite is small by planet standards but big by moon standards, maybe somewhere between Titan and Mars in mass. It's big enough to hold onto a significant atmosphere. It's got a pretty typical composition for a world that formed beyond the snow line; lots water, ammonia, carbon, and sulfur. It's tidelocked to the gas giant, but gravitational interactions with outer moons pumps up the eccentricity of its orbit, which means it experiences substantial eccentricity tides, enough to cause substantial tidal heating and drive substantial volcanism. It's a lot warmer than Titan but its surface is still pretty cold by our standards, average surface temperature is maybe around -35 C (238 K).

It's got an icy crust of mostly water ice overlying a water/ammonia ocean, which in turn overlies the silicon/carbon/metal core (maybe with a thick layer of exotic high pressure "ices" between the core and the ocean). Tidal forces cause this icy crust to flex and crack and generate a lot of cryovolcanism; lots of water and ammonia comes belching out at the surface. The water mostly comes out as liquid with lots of carbon and sulfur compounds dissolved in it, and as the surface is pretty cold most of it freezes pretty quickly. The ammonia is a bit more interesting...

This world has a pretty thick atmosphere, mostly ammonia and methane, with a little hydrogen sulfide. Orbiting a flare star, the top of the atmosphere gets significant UV which causes some photolysis, so there's also some ethane, butane, and other longer hydrocarbons, and there may also be some (molecular) nitrogen (likely quite a lot of that, as it's not very reactive so it'll tend to build up - same reason it's the primary component of our atmosphere) and some carbon dioxide and other oxidized chemicals. It's certainly at least 1 bar, maybe quite a bit more, and probably creates a substantial greenhouse effect.

The surface temperature is close to the boiling point of ammonia, so this is a world where ammonia can exist in large quantities as gas and liquid; it's a world with an ammonia cycle, kind of like our water cycle. Ammonia gets belched out of the interior, goes up, condenses, forms ammonia clouds, and rains down. On the rugged surface, these ammonia rains form pools and lakes of ammonia/water mixture - ammonia in water acts as an antifreeze, so water/ammonia mixture stays liquid well below 0 C. This ammonia/water mixture then tends to find its way into the many cracks in the icy crust and eventually returns to the global water/ammonia ocean deep underground, completing the cycle. An Io-like level of volcanism means ammonia is constantly being pumped out of the interior in large quantities and then returning back to the interior this way, which generates a thick global ammonia cloud layer and frequent ammonia rain.

Meanwhile, higher up in the atmosphere, the UV radiation created by the big solar flares causes the formation of long hydrocarbons and also carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and other oxidized compounds. Some of these compounds (e.g. sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide) are liquids at the temperature of this planet. The result is a tholin haze, like on Titan, and periodic rains of these chemicals from the haze layer to the surface. These liquids pool on the surface, contaminate or enrich (depending on how you look at it) the surface water/ammonia pools, and become incorporated into the icy crust, either directly by mixing with water that then freezes or by becoming part of the water/ammonia inner ocean and then bubbling back up as part of the cryovolcanic water "lava."

The ammonia cloud layer and tholin haze layer blocks a lot of the sunlight that might otherwise reach the surface. And that sunlight is pretty dim to begin with. It's probably only something like 5% to 20% the intensity of the sunlight Earth gets to begin with - and that's across the whole spectrum; a cool star like this puts out mostly infrared light invisible to humans. We can use Proxima Centauri as a reference; Proxima Centauri's bolometric luminosity, its total energy output, is .00152 solar, but its visual luminosity, its brightness in visible light, is a mere .0000562 solar. If you were in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, it would be about 4% the visual brightness of Sol seen from Earth! This world, outside the habitable zone, probably has something more like 1-2% the brightness of daylight on Earth at the top of the haze layer, or less. This would probably be bright enough to be subjectively experienced as daylight by humans. But then a lot of that gets reflected or absorbed by the tholin haze layer and the thick, stormy global ammonia cloud layer below it. Daylight on the actual surface is going to be pretty dim!

Note: while this world is usually globally well below freezing, the biggest flares may raise the surface temperature above the freezing point of water locally, near the equator, for a short time. This might tend to form big but very shallow temporary seas of liquid water which would then quickly freeze back over into broad, flat ice plains, which would then tend to gradually get broken up into rougher terrain by geologic activity. In regions that didn't get quite that hot, it would tend to cause temporary near-surface melting and softening that might give the terrain a distinctive look. These mega-flares might also pump a lot of water vapor into the atmosphere, which would increase the greenhouse effect for a while and then come back down as snow, hail, or water rain - in this geology, water rain would be kind of like a rain of lava.

Subjective impressions on the surface:

Daylight would be very dim; it might look more like a dim cloudy twilight to humans. The sky would be darkly clouded, and visibility would also often be reduced by frequent ammonia rains and fogs and maybe by less frequent water snow and hail.

Deep cold, but not very deep; boiling point of ammonia is around -30 C; Antarctica cold, Mars cold, not Titan cold.

There is no free oxygen and the atmosphere is poisonous. After an EVA the suits and equipment will probably smell bad (I guess a mix of rotten eggs, old urine, and kind of a motor oil smell).

The surface is very rugged. Low gravity (smaller mass than Earth plus a lot less dense) means there's lots of tall, narrow pinnacles and the like. There's lots of cryovolcanoes with steaming vents. Much of the water ice "rock" is colorful in the same kind of way as Io and some hot springs on Earth (though you'd probably need to shine a light on it to notice), but a lot of it is black; the color varies with the balance of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur compounds that got incorporated into it. Earthquakes are common.

It's stormy; it rains a lot (the rain is mostly ammonia). The liquid forms pools and lakes (of various mixes of ammonia, water, and tholin sludge). The liquid in these pools and lakes often appears to be some kind of dirty sludge, often but not always dark; it's heavily enriched/contaminated with hydrocarbons and nitrogen and sulfur compounds.

The nature of the ammonia cycle (lots of it constantly bubbling up from the interior, relatively short residence in the atmosphere and on the surface, quickly going back to the interior) and the terrain (very rugged, lots of deep cracks in the icy crust) means this is a world of ponds and relatively small but deep lakes, not seas and oceans. This is actually probably fortunate for any visitors; the strong eccentricity tides mean any body of surface liquid that stretches across a significant percent of the east-west extent of the world will have huge tides. Even small seas might slosh around in their beds like water in an unstable container, locally rising and falling many meters each day. The global ocean probably has very high tides, but since there is no emerged land and the ice crust rides on top of it, these are experienced on the surface as the "land" rising and falling, not directly perceptible but the earthquakes and other geologic activity it would generates would be very noticeable.

Life?

This world is a much better exobiological prospect than Titan. Much warmer (though still cold by our standards). Much more energy available, both from sunlight and from tidal heating. All that tholin sludge raining down could be nutrition for living things. Bonus; some of the gas giant's other big satellites may have substantial atmospheres and surface liquid too, opening the possibility of local panspermia. It'd probably still be a much lower energy biosphere than Earth, but it's quite plausible that there could be simple single-cell organisms in the water/ammonia lakes and maybe even in the subsurface ocean.

Space Jockey preservation?

Any long-derelict crashed alien spacecraft on this world would probably have sustained significant damage from earthquakes, rain, and temperature changes over the millennia. If built tough enough, it might still be mostly in a handful of pieces, but it'd look old and weather-beaten. If close to the equator or in an area with lots of crust turn-over, it might have become buried or even eventually ended up in the subsurface ocean; to have it remain above ground, better to put it far away from the equator and in an area where the water ice crust is relatively stable.

What about a suitably atmospheric giant alien corpse in the cockpit? The temperature is below freezing, but not very far below freezing (of pure water), and maybe with some brief occasional excursions into above freezing conditions. Assuming any life support systems failed soon after the being's death, I think this would probably lead to such a corpse becoming an ice mummy instead of a corpsicle or a clean (exo)skeleton; I guess -30 C or so is probably warm enough that its bodily fluids would gradually sublimate away, basically it'd get freeze-dried. There might be some thaw/freeze damage along the way, from thaw/freeze episodes that happened before all the water was gone (and, after that, more gradual damage from thermal expansion and contraction and the like). This is assuming the cockpit stays relatively intact, so we don't have to worry about water/ammonia rain getting into it. The corpse might be occasionally exposed to warmth and humidity after really big mega-flares, which would probably not be good for its preservation. My guess is a Jockey-equivalent somewhere between thousands and hundreds of thousands of years old might be still in one piece but degraded enough you'd need to use some imagination to picture the creature in life.

Differences from Alien LV-426:

A water/ammonia lake world would probably need a lot more sunlight than a methane lake world like Titan. I was going to note that I'm not sure if it's plausible for a gas giant in an orbit like that to have nice bright presumably icy rings like Saturn, but actually, assuming the planet in the opening credits scene is supposed to be the gas giant LV-426 orbits, I don't think it has those either; those rings look fairly dim (as does the gas giant itself, though we're mostly seeing its night side).

Also, points in defense of the gas giant this moon orbits potentially having visually bright rings:

This world has a substantial atmosphere and methane and ammonia are greenhouse gasses. It also has tidal heating as a non-trivial component of its energy budget. Its surface temperature is probably a lot higher than the surface temperature of a ring particle.

Earth's moon is rock (pretty dark rock IIRC) but still looks shiny and bright to us; rings with ring particle composition resembling a S or C type asteroid might still look pretty bright.

Terraforming this world would probably be pretty much a non-starter. It just doesn't get much light, and even if you somehow did manage to raise the surface temperature above 0 C, you'd just a big dirty ocean with no emerged land; it has way too much water to ever be Earth-like unless something removed probably a majority of its mass, and with an Earth-like radiation environment it might be too small to hold on to a significant atmosphere, especially after you've stripped it down to the core. Plus, the core probably resembles a C-type asteroid in composition; expose it and you'd get a carbon world, which probably wouldn't be particularly habitable for humans. Also, to get a really Earthlike world you'd need to circularize the orbit to get rid of the monster tides and you'd need to do something about the solar flares.

I might do something with this idea in my own sci fi universe, but I don't know what.

[openphrase123]

same anon from the other day who has finally read both curtain call and inutile hi 🥹 i think you’re my favourite isat writer now because wow. reading those two fics vaugardian capital c Changed me 🥺🥺🥺 curtain call is everything i could ever want from an immediate post-canon fic and inutile, while just scratching the surface of what the story undoubtedly has to offer, is already so dense and packed full of raw feelings it leaves an ache in my poor maidens heart. i’m so excited to see what you have in store!!! and i apologize if i keep crawling to your ask box anonymously .-. thank u for everything and i hope you’re having a great day i owe you my life

HELP i don't even know what to say to this??? this is so sweet???

i very much just write whatever makes my brain happy but i'm glad other people like it too :3

also do not apologize for coming into the inbox on anon. that is why i keep anon up!! (i'm sorry i don't allow anon comments on ao3, i had trouble with spam there before the last time i did a bunch of fic stuff and i didn't want to put up comment moderation lol)

anyway this is too sweet i need to plug other creator's stuff in return. go read human after all or tidelocked i wouldn't dare compare myself to either of them but it's the same genre of density i think

[pacmastermeow]

tidelocked

animatronic band becomes homestuck and makes the readers learn sea animal facts along the way

viewers suggestion comic

whoever reads slightly educational webcomics about bisexual sea creatures i guess. and also the people from the Other World

define “time spent working”

not how mspas work

sure why not

mspfa

i was thinking about situations i could put my creatures in and decided using the format of something that broke itself by removing its core while refusing to break my version would be an interesting venture to take

headphones by britt nicole

visually it’s old computer games with limited graphics

it’s already partially posted online and i intend to expand on it there

davey and hexy are not officially a couple but grace and rose are. also in a non canon crossover story all of them faked their deaths giving the main antagonist of the other property guilt fueled nightmares

there’s a dog named sparky who was originally just a rip-off of the fnaf character but has since been developed into a sparkledog pack leader that is also a living computer virus

there isn’t really a main antagonist planned but there are/will be the altern8s, who are recurring minor antagonists that are basically just the evil mirror image of the main band (a lot like the neighbores from eddsworld)

currently it’s just in davey’s house on earth but just like homestuck they’re gonna get sucked into the game. except for them the game is music based and they have to muse their way through it

like chuck e. cheese, the world of davey radroller would blend near-seamlessly with the real world as they appear physically on stage and deliver cool animal facts to the audience. of course, they don’t exist as real animatronics in an actual animatronic restaurant (yet(?)) so this blending happens with the world where they do. there’s another story for that “real-esque” world, but that’s for another reblog of another longpost

only for the virus sparkledog subplot

headphones by britt nicole again

idk. challeng-edd neighbores mix i guess?

yes but it takes a backseat to the higher stakes that the blorbos have to deal with. my favorite couple would have to be grace and rose, only because they’re the couple i’ve put the most thought into canonizing (i am also debating putting them all into a polyship too though)

favorite friendship is the gift with any of the 4 protagonists

best dynamic is also the gift with the protagonists, though hope & grace come close

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whether octopi, axolotls, gulls, or hermit crabs have teeth (none of them do, but axolotls are the closest)

time is an illusion existence is a hologram buy gold bye

davey = davey jones, crowther greenglow = fiddler’s green (opposite of davey jones’s locker) the glowing animal. also the gift obviously

"I see you're very excited about Davey. I am too. / I can't show you what happens next, since it hasn't happened yet. My nigh-omniscience doesn't stretch that far. / I can, however, show you what else he has on his com puter."

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i just want them to learn the sea creature facts that i pepper in there

36 WIP questions

1. What is the title of your WIP?

2. What is your WIP about?

3. What Genre is your WIP?

4. What is the target audience for your WIP?

5. How long have you been working on your WIP?

6. What draft are you on?

7. Did you plot your WIP before you started writing, or are you pantsing it?

8. What program do you write your WIP in?

9. What inspired your WIP/how did you think of it?

10. Share a song that makes you think of your WIP.

11. What is your WIP’s aesthetic?

12. Do you want to publish your WIP traditionally, self publish, post it online, or keep it for yourself?

13. A little bit about your protagonist?

14. A little bit about your supporting cast?

15. A little bit about your antagonist?

16. What is the setting of your WIP like?

17. One fun fact about the world of your WIP?

18. Do you have any faceclaims/picrews for your characters?

19. Share a song that makes you think of your protagonist.

20. Share a song that makes you think of your antagonist.

21. Does your WIP have romance? If so, what is your favorite couple?

22. Favorite friendship in your WIP?

23. Characters with the best dynamic?

24. Share a song that makes you think of your favorite character dynamic.

25. Easiest character to write?

26. Hardest character to write?

27. Which character is the most like you?

28. What is the strangest thing you’ve had to research for your WIP?

29. What is the latest you’ve stayed up/earliest you’ve gotten up to write?

30. Do any of the names in your WIP have significance?

31. Favorite line from your WIP?

32. Is your WIP action heavy, or more relaxed?

33. What are your favorite tropes you use in your WIP?

34. Sum up your WIP using only emojis.

35. What are some of the themes of your WIP?

36. What is the message you want readers to take away from your WIP?