#world: infested

[sonic-au-collision]

SONIC AU COLLISION: ROUND 2

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Infested belongs to @flightyalrighty [link to comic]

Resurrected AU belongs to @superscourge [link to masterpost]

Explore each world below the cut!

Infested:

Infested is an AU webcomic in which a large swarm of ancient brain parasites are unleashed from underground to wreak havoc on Mobius. In this AU, Sonic and Shadow both become hosts to this parasite -- A situation that causes the former to do the unthinkable to his closest friend and brother, Tails. This (17+ for gore, violence, and mature themes) AU is as much a work of horror as it is a drama, and is very much about grief.

Resurrected AU:

What starts as a strange, unlikely alliance between Scourge and a mysteriously resurrected Infinite somehow turns into some kind of freaky sitcom situation where a bunch of previously-not-alive villains are all living under the same roof as a family!

[1caru]

legendary, beautiful, and coveted

[lobslobslobs]

* alright gang . new (as in it existed before bur it just wasnt named apparently) ship cuz i've been rotating these 4 in my mind since last night ... i present to you - shark-infested waters (artificer x rivulet x spearmaster x hunter) (named by my partner @voldkat !!!!)

* name explanation Lol . two shark one infested one waters

[andr0nap-wf]

every day i am closer to giving into temptation and redownloading the sims to create the hex so i can put them into situations

[i-can-sabotage-me-bi-myself]

Pennsylvania, I am super disappointed in you and disgusted by you. If this moldy peach wins that's it. I'm fucking leaving. My life is already a dumpster fire but I'd rather drown myself in a tub than live through another 4 years with that rapist as president

[dreams-of-rainfall]

tried a new style inspired by @mushroominaforest 's slugs

[geelk]

AHHHHH IM SO OBSESSED WITH HOW THIS TURNED OUT!! The gaysest little guys! I remembered these songs existed and had to draw them singing them.

[frickfrack1001001001]

I haven't been making anything for halloween unfortunatly ! but i've got a cool idea ill try and craft it in time ! .. as for now im working on Amanda's Father :)

[glowsticcc]

I'm gonna live forever!

[ganymedesclock]

My personal feelings on people headcanoning the Hollow Knight world as small is that it always feels uncomfortably like looking at a world where there are no humans and immediately deciding we'd have to be overpowered supergiants that are being worshipped more than the actual gods.

I've seen it paired with takes that PK or even Radiance would be helpless before a god, when Radiance in particular is, you know, a god of dreams shown to be able to affect or press on just about anything with a mind to the point that other deities were scared of her, and even if she was the size of a soccer ball she'd pose a significant threat to an ordinary person.

Ruka's point about the nails being obviously in-name-only, that the scavenged weapons are scavenged from the corpses of larger creatures and not from any evidence of a bigger creature civilization also grates on me because not only is it literally a plot point in strengthening your weapon that the nailsmith works raw ore, nail weaponry is obviously a sophisticated technology with cultural and practical variations in how they're made... but it feels lavishly patronizing to look at a character like the Nailsmith who is very explicitly being driven by a single-minded obsession to make the perfect weapon, and insist he has to just be stealing thumbtacks from humanity, that he can't possibly compete with.

Like I'm in neither the position nor the desire to run around other people's blogs screaming at them until they Forsake Their Ideas, people think what they will think, but I think it's important to ask questions of, why do we believe what we believe? The idea that the HK bugs are tiny seems to come inextricably paired with the notion they are subordinate to humans, which there's no existence of humanity in HK. We don't even see evidence of mammals. Some bugs mostly resemble earth wildlife, but others? The God Tamer's beast was a lobster in its original concepts.

[sonic-au-collision]

SONIC AU COLLISION: ROUND 3

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Infested belongs to @flightyalrighty [link to comic blog]

Manufactured Malice AU belongs to @pretzlforpresident [link to original post]

Explore each world below the cut!

Infested:

Infested is an AU webcomic in which a large swarm of ancient brain parasites are unleashed from underground to wreak havoc on Mobius. In this AU, Sonic and Shadow both become hosts to this parasite -- A situation that causes the former to do the unthinkable to his closest friend and brother, Tails. This (17+ for gore, violence, and mature themes) AU is as much a work of horror as it is a drama, and is very much about grief.

Manufactured Malice AU:

Metal Sonic doesn’t quite remember why he wants to be the one true Sonic. He’s been destroyed and rebuilt so many times that those memories have escaped him years ago. For a long time it never really bothered him; it was part of his programming after all. But one day during a battle, Sonic asks for an explanation. Unable to answer, Metal short circuits. Waking up still in his cold metal body and alone at headquarters, Metal feels like something is wrong. Not with his programming, but something else. Someone else. Someone they used to be.

Tania Parlouzer went missing 7 years ago, and ever since Sonic has been searching for her. The only thing left behind from her disappearance were her favorite pair of earrings, and ever since Sonic has held onto them in hopes that one day he can return them to his little sister. As the years go by and he makes new friends(and enemies), being a hero became the main priority for him. He never did stop passively looking for her though, even as her face has largely faded from his own memory.

Little does Sonic know that she’s been hiding in plain sight, still looking up to him just like she always has.

[crypticemerald]

RUH ROH

not sure what i was going for... i just thought it would be a bit fucked up if off the strings nsh witnessed a functional but rotted moon

[kakyogay]

ah hell nah the ops forced them to be snug as a slug in a tub

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[cerbreus]

i think people really need to just come to accept that if you live in a place with bugs you will have bugs in your house and around you. the spiders in your home aren't unexpected, you live in a place in the world with spiders and other insects. whether or not they're useful insects/arachnids to have in your home they are just always going to be there no matter how old or how new your house is, and i think we all just need to accept that and learn to properly coexist instead of the constant 'i'll burn my house down if i see a spider' behavior. get used to the bugs. while we still have them, because there might be a day we don't have them anymore :(

[gardeneticist]

I set up a light trap in my yard to try and attract a lady friend for one of my two male rhino beetles but I found another male instead.. so I guess I have three male rhino beetles now! I’ve given him some beetle jelly to snack on in his temporary home and he seems to be enjoying it :]

[magicturtle]

Can I ask your opinion of a RPG writing trope? I listen to a podcast “System Mastery”, that reviews old RPGs that are no longer in print or first editions of RPGs that are on new editions now. One of the things they can’t stand is the trope of American Indians and Mexicans reverting to horse back, tepees, human sacrifice, worshipping spirits, building pyramids, and etc…. after some kind of apocalypse happens or they go out into the stars or different dimension. Something happens to separate them from the “white men .” They find the idea preposterous and pretty cringey because these books are written by white men usually and show an idolized version of the “noble savage”. They feel, why would natives give up cars, modern medicine, houses, roads, and bunch of other modern things just because there has been some kind of reset.

I can see that point. And I can think of all the games I have seen that trope, Shadowrun and Gamma World are good examples. I have also seen it in some other sci fi games. Interestingly White Wolf has a version of this in the world of darkness setting. The supernatural creatures are worshipped as gods or spirits by the natives. Werewolves by shamans and vampires as descendants of the bloody gods of the Aztecs. On the surface this all does seem ridiculous and can be dismissed as all just being fiction.

However, there is a lot of resentment by natives of having their culture, beliefs, language and so much more being stripped away by people that are invaders. Would they gladly undo the negatives and positives that were introduced by these invading cultures if given the chance? Would they rebuild what they lost just as it once was? I have read some articles and seen some videos about Latin American gangs worshiping their version of the old Aztec gods. And new gods that they have invented for the current times. There are also less violent new gods that have been invented. I saw how some of the old Mayan shamans are keeping the old beliefs alive in the rural parts of central America. And how there is still a lot of blending of native beliefs and Catholic beliefs throughout Latin America.

What do you think? Is there a long simmering longing for the old ways just below the surface just waiting to be released by some sort of catastrophic event?

To this day colonized peoples either maintain their old beliefs or hold some syncretized version. All you have to do is look at the way the Loa or the Orishas survived in the Caribbean, the supplicants of heretical saints like Santa Muerte, or culturally negotiated holidays like Carnaval or Dia de Muertos. Often white people in the US don’t know much about these current practices because A) they don’t care and B) many are private or even secret. Instead our cool, white dude writers and game designers focus on what they DO know, the ancient history of these groups. This is why white coded populations evolve, but non-white coded ones “revert”. It would be nice to see someone who actually knows these groups extrapolate current cultures into futurism, post apocalypse or “returned magic”. I haven’t read Coyote and Crow, but I hear that’s what they’re going for.

I will say that even in the defense of marginalizes groups being “reverted” there is a clear bias. Why would a community give up cars? …Are cars good? Can we honestly look at our communities, our cities, our environment, and unequivocally say, “this is clearly a net good for the world”? Traditional medicine is also frequently shot down by “logical people” until decades in, scientists “discover” analgesic or antibiotic properties. Isn’t it great that we’ve started unlocking the potential of cannabis only 1000 years after the Nahua were using it medicinally?

Hope this addresses your question.

Thanks for writing in!