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i watch for signals, for a clue

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IO

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they call me the rememberer the way i never remember to upload any destiny oc sketches

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bold take perhaps but if you cant accept Osiris being bald u dont deserve every other aspect of him

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.quit|ter Defeatist. Poor - sport yielder RESIGNED. F A I L U R E DROPOUT no + good second = defunct

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Styx

My first proper attempt at drawing anything in who knows how many years, it's supposed to be the past/future of Mercury from Destiny 2, and I think it came out pretty decent all things considered :3 It's definitely not as completed as I wanted it to be, but maybe I'll come back to it later when I'm more experienced.

(Also click Read More for an alt without the river in the middle because I thought it looked cool :smile:)

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non-destiny players. does this mean anything to you

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went to an art gallery, got inspired to paint Lodi and ix with gouache. wah.

+ bonus: gold!!

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My small contribution for the Super Secret Seth Dickinson Fan Appreciation Compendium (a real physical book 😱), based on the Cosmogyre II lore! All thanks and credit go to @lizzieraindrops and @thefirstknife for organizing/editing/delivering the project!

I don't have much to say, but I hope Seth knows how much they're loved as both a D2 writer and an author in their own right. 🫂

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Just some hive textures bc I love hive textures

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Are the traveler and the gardener the same things?

Difficult to say! I think it's intended to be that way primarily because of how more or less everyone speaks of it and calls it Gardener, as well as some other details mainly from the Traveler's POV, including the way it describes Light itself as its blood (and again in Ergo Sum). Also the way the Traveler itself is described as:

It feels like lead and neutronium and electroweak matter fashioned into a moon-sized ball that you must carry as you move.

Aka it feels like the Traveler itself was created to be a physical entity in the universe; the Gardener created a "moon-sized ball" that it must carry around as it moves. This is interesting in the context of what we've seen in the cutscene for the creation of the Witness, and also interesting in the context of Unveiling and the way this is described as the Gardener "inserting itself" into the game to change the rules.

But stuff like this can have multiple interpretations, and intentionally so. At the end of the day, we don't truly know the scope and scale of the Traveler and its origin, even with everything we've seen and established. It's possible that the truth is somewhere in between; aka the Traveler is considered to be the Gardener because it's the closest to our concept of it. It's possible that the Traveler and the Gardener are two entirely different concepts, as well as that they're one and the same.

It's also possible that "Gardener" is one of those nebulous/religious ideas that the people in the setting have to try and explain paracausal forces and the origin of the universe; maybe they ascribe the term "Gardener" to the Traveler because it's the easiest way to understand it. And maybe the Gardener is some force that exists somewhere in a non-physical state beyond the universe. Maybe it's just a concept (much like the Winnower described itself as a concept).

Personally, I think it makes sense that the Gardener = Traveler, given the physical nature of the Light, as a contrast to everything Darkness. So the Gardener and the Light physically exist with us. But ultimately we don't really know for sure. It's one of those things that are too grand in scale in cosmology to ever be fully answered directly. Or at least it makes more sense that way.

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Just finished this IO piece with Brakion the genesis mind.

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DESTINY 2: BEYOND LIGHT

Riis-Reborn Approach

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lodi + text post memes part 2

the last one popped off so i made a new one. i will not apologise

+ bonus brian villalobos bc i watched him play final shape with byf and fallout and he is a delight

we're also twitter moots. hi oomfie

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SWHFTT‼️‼️SUNDAY‼️‼️

65: Words hurt (Part 1)

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Eliksni Zine Interest Check

Velask! Over the past year or two, the Destiny fandom has seen a handful of zines centric on all of our alien friends - but nobody has pitched one for our favorite space crabs yet.

So a handful of us Eliksni lovers come to you to ask - do you want more Eliksni/Scorn content? Do you want to have fun contributing to a big group project that accepts artists of all skill levels? If this sounds up your alley, please fill out our interest check!

If you have additional questions, feel free to check our FAQ or send us an ask.

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