#ask rai

[raiswanson]

DESERT SETTING! What kind of things from real life deserts inspire you the most ? Or are incorporated or changed into The Goddess’s Eye?

Ooh to answer this I feel I need to preface my reply with: Eye's inspiration was uniquely drawn from a dream I had, and egged on less by deserts proper and more the..hm. The vibes, shall we say, of films like Mad Max and Waterworld. The feel of a post-apocalyptic world so far past the destruction/extinction event that the survivors have forgotten there was anything to survive, that this is just how life is. Things aren't great but life goes on, building up the pieces from the ashes and growing anew. The desert-ness of things was more or less just the direction I chose to go in what caused/resulted from said apocalyptic event. At risk of sounding dismissive, the setting itself is more of a set piece than anything I'm super attached to, yknow??

With that out of the way, the biggest things from real life that get injected into Eye in a meaningful way are definitely the animals. All the wildlife in Eye is at least built on an irl creature. Megala, for example (the creature Leonard is) are heavily based on the irl (extinct) megalania a massive prehistoric monitor lizard sharing heavy resemblance to komodo dragons. But with some twists. Obviously :p Night boars are a combination of a javalina and a babirusa, but their tusks are Even Worse.

#ask rai #incandescent-creativity #sorry this is kinda a hard thing for me to answer straight cuz 1 im very very Character Motivated and 2 Im mostly freeballing here hahaha #I mostly grabbed a bunch of desert/wasteland biome visuals to fill the voidspace and went ''aight lets goooo'' #dont get me wrong the desert state of the world is plot relevant and important!!! but ultimately. its a backdrop/result of other things #The Goddess's Eye

[ironpaladont]

🎀 for your guy? :o

Send 🎀 for a cute outfit

I think this gear set is very cute and I love the flowers in his hair. He's a bright cheery person so I wanted to give him a bright colored outfit.

#rai's ramblings #ask rai #zimmena #thank you so much for the ask! #i love my wol hes so cute

[ranger-rai]

Rai got real 😳

He's been working a lot and he's not some kid, only makes sense he would get a bit older!

#ranger rai #pokemon ranger #the ranger base #pokemon #ask me anything #ask rai #getting older #rai art #rai fanart

[anothersuperstition]

will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays?

#hiii i haven’t shared art in so long. that’s bc it scares me now <3 #i started this in 2022 bc i wanted to post it at the end of tour and well. That didn’t happen #got it most of the way done and then couldn’t figure out how to finish it bc illustration proper is still an unknown beast to me #but i took a couple hours late last night to finish it up and i’m actually so happy with it!! #y’all didn’t ask for a novel SORRY #mcr #my chemical romance #the foundations of decay #swarm #swarm tour #gerard way #frank iero #ray toro #mikey way #arty art #mine

[picspammer]

Happy Desolation Row anniversary, released on this day in 2009 ⚡

#feeling feelings rn #i wanna thank bob dylan for creating this song #alan moore and dave gibbons for watchmen #zack snyder for... everything but mainly this video and asking them to do the cover #and this gang for their passion #once again there's a coincidence in these 2 anniversaries and it's fuck the police (on the videos bc stylo's lyrics are unrelated) #my chemical romance #desolation row #zack snyder #mcr #mcredit #desolation row gerard #desolation row ray #desolation row mikey #desolation row frank #gerard way #ray toro #frank iero #mikey way #bob bryar #btw the last frame has been my laptop's lockscreen for... so long i wonder if i will ever change it #that jaw eye... #favourite videos #1k

[local-diavolo-anon]

so help wanted 2 is out

and i would die for jack-o-moon

look at them

they look so cool

i love the colors, they feel like a reference to how the fandom drew eclipse before Ruin! (which makes sense since jack-o-moon kinda looks like the bb minigame eclipse)

Edit: thinking about it, why is this guy's name jack o Moon?

Like this is Sun's model repainted, it doesn't have a nightcap, why would this guy be named "Moon" then?

Edit 2: please not again, please stop liking this

#not an ask #fnaf moon #fnaf #me ranting #fnaf dca #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf jack-o-moon #jack o moon #like i am sure it is a reference to the bb minigame eclipse #and how the fandom drew them #it even has red hands and rays #the pic comes from jack o moon's wikia page #help wanted 2 spoilers #fnaf help wanted 2 spoilers #forgot to tag that #mea culpa #why are my most noted posts just pics of characters from the wikia #i draw and write i make art and writing requests #please #why are my most like posts just these #i post fnaf and genshin and mxtx novel art #i take commissions #please this is agony T-T

[shorthaltsjester]

watching the sdcc panel and i am just very :) about how sweet their answers to “what are some of the micro moments from the game that have stuck with you the most over the years?” are. taliesin saying what the fuck is up with that which was the first like The Party Gets To Know Each Other moments of c3. travis saying asking his wife if he could kiss her in campaign. marisha going way back to the cannonball competition in campaign one. ashley choosing the beauyasha date but also just the silly goat noise matt made. liam adding onto that to compliment matt roleplaying grass so well and then saying his favourite moment was writing a story for laura and reading it to her as caleb for jester. and then matt saying that was his answer, and that his favourite moments of the game are when they find ways to give gifts to each other whether tangible or not. and sam saying his favourite moments have less to do with the story and is more so when he can just. see his friends across the table from him. when marisha perches and when laura and ashley are (badly) drawing dicks and liam saying he loves when sam sneezes and ashley tells him to stop it and just. yeah. they Are an extremely popular online powerhouse, but i’m so happy that they’re also friends building a world together out of gifts to and love for one another.

like i Am so enamoured with the characters and the world of exandria but the moments when you can feel the love that those people have for each other reach out from behind the stained glass of their performances (to steal a metaphor from brennan lee mulligan) are so extremely special and i am endlessly grateful that they decided to share their silly little home game with the world.

#it’s just the. laura and travis’ characters always being supportive of one another when they’re facing hardship #taliesin and marisha consistently making characters who challenge one another and still protect each other relentlessly #all of them being so fond of ashley’s characters always and literally seeing them light up in c1 episodes when ash got to join in person #sam and liam always making characters who offer one another reprieves into kindness that they don’t always get in the campaign setting #liam making orym after falling in love with keyleth as vax #marisha making laudna after matt’s storytelling with delilah and choosing vex as her body double #ashley using ‘i would like to rage’ and matt having kord ask her where she finds her strength #laura and matt always weaving these deeply complicated and emotional interactions between a daughter and a father #the gasps and yells and clapping when matt makes cool sound effects or reveals a map or breaks/ends on a cliff hanger #them ending both campaign 1 and 2 with ‘what a great/nice story’ and travis saying ‘let’s do it again!’ #and it’s like. yes yes i love the comics and i’m a fan of tlovm but . seeing this well produced thing that somehow mimics #the feeling i get sitting in my living room laughing with my roommates about my ranger’s giant rat failing to climb stairs #it’s very special it’s very sweet #critical role #sdcc 2023 #taliesin jaffe #travis willingham #marisha ray #ashley johnson #liam o’brien #matthew mercer #laura bailey #sam riegel #cr cast #critical role cast #my posts

[gunsatthaphan]

#attaboy.

#only friends #only friends series #only friends the series #only friends ep8 #ofts #firstkhao #sanray #sand x ray #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #gmmtv #thai bl #bl drama #its hard for us ray protectors out there #it really is #big sigh #decied not to answer OF asks anymore since ppl kept coming for my opinions so im just gonna rant about it in the tags deal w/ it #so yeah this is all bullshit dskjghf #im so pissed at ray like who tf does he think he is?????? #also I appreciate non-linear storytelling but the thing with mew is so fucked up to me #i have a headache #its so weird #which is probably intentional #but still #i had to skip all their scenes #also top bribing that police officer and now ray is off the hook???? #fcking hell dude #i cant #i have discovered that april is the only sane character on this show #this is why i love her

[spokenfromtheheartandsoul]

oh but the clothing choices are SO interesting here.

right when mew finally seems to be letting ray in, mew starts dressing in a style that's awfully reminiscent of ray himself:

meanwhile, right when ray is finally getting to receive the type of affection from mew he's yearned for ages - ray's not dressed the way he usually does for nights out.

in fact if i didn't know any better, i might even say he's dressed up in an outfit that's awfully reminiscent of a style a certain someone picked out just for him:

what a coincidence, that right when mew's external appearance finally seems to imply he's ready to be on the same page as ray...........ray's external appearance has shifted to reflect the lingering influence of someone new.

#something about the way the blue-green of mew's walls is the EXACT same background color scheme from ray's first shot #something about the way ray's shirt colors when he's dancing with mew are a near perfect inverse of the shirt colors sand picked for him #no this is actually good guys. ray needs to have mew. so we can have raysand endgame. no im not nervouslaughing im soo calm rn why do u ask #ofts #only friends series #raysand #sand x ray #ray x sand #only friends the series #sandray

[occasionaladult]

One does not simply tease the mcrmy with new music on 3/21.

#March 22 is bad enough #my chemical romance #mcr #frank iero #gerard way #mikey way #ray toro #that’s asking for trouble

[tractym]

bluebeard’s wife

#lestat de lioncourt #the vampire lestat #the vampire chronicles #interview with the vampire #iwtv #art tag #asking myself if magnus is based on gilles de rais every now and then

[raiswanson]

#already changing and we arent even 24hr in

First of all, that's hilarious. Secondly, I wanna hear about the changes, if you want to talk about it!

You're laughing. I'm dying, and you're laughing. u_u (I'm glad my suffering is entertaining lmao)

The changes themselves are minute but also very spoilery, so I can't really go super into detail on them unfortunately! Suffice to say they involve a big shift in Raralia's (the MC) origin and where she came from. And while that doesn't exactly turn the whole story on its head it DOES leave me with a lot of little corrections to make about my initial direction for her. All easy stuff to fix since Eye itself is only like 4k long now, but oh boi what a mental toll on whats written in my HEAD already hahaha

#ask rai #incandescent-creativity #I always go in knowing that the cast is going to turn out totally different from expected #but somehow it always takes me by surprise. and makes me have to scrap like half of the interactions I planned for them smh

[ironpaladont]

4, 22, 31 for the 3 things asks 💕

4. 3 topics you'd love to learn more about

Any language tbh.. I can read french but I am horrid at speaking or writing in it. I'd also like to work on my spanish and japanese.

Sewing! I just started trying to sew and its so hard. I wanna learn all the cool fancy techniques people can do and I wanna make cool custom plushies.

Writing. I can write but not at the level I wish I could. There's so many techniques and things I could learn and apply to my writing. Someday I will write and post ffxiv fanfics but that day is not today.

22. 3 movies/books/tv shows that made you cry

ok fine i wont list video games for this lol

Clannad, Grave of the Fireflies, A Thousand Splendid Suns

31. 3 types of flowers you love the most

Snapdragons, Sunflowers, Lilies

#rai's ramblings #ask rai #celeryw #thank youu #i meant to answer this last night but i got distracted

[z0mbiefrank]

i went nonverbal today and my friend said "can you show me what you want? on your phone?" and when i started grinning and typing furiously he was like "...are you about to show me a picture of ray toro"

#i was really sad and overwhelmed before he asked that question #so he saw me go from kicked puppy to manic grinning and was like... theyre thinking about that guitarist #ray toro #mcr #z0mbie thoughts

[tubbytarchia]

For the ranchers a bit more shleep i just really like charakters comfy and nice:Dc /nf

Eepies. Jimmy woke up to really sore wings but its okay because Tango

#(I cannot imagine avians sleeping on their backs lest they have special mattresses or something but hnng. For the domestic fluff...) #team rancher #rancher duo #solidaritek #I imagine Tango is not nearly as much of a ray of sunshine in the mornings as Jimmy is. Jimmy finds it endearing though 100% #I also imagine Tango moves the hell around in his sleep and tangles them both up with his tail #He's gonna try to apologize a thousand times for “making you sleep on your back” but Jimmy won't let him #ALSO what does /nf mean lol. Every other day I see another new tone indicator that I cant figure out the meaning of #please feel free to use brackets to circumvent my stupidity. I do not know the hip things... I am but a boomer noobie #trafficshipping #trafficblr #I have so many other rancher asks in my inbox that could fall under this #Rancher cuddles and smol Tango and this and that hhrr but I will... I will get to them... in time.... #never enough rancher content #also laying on someone when they laugh so their chest bounces up and down etc. Oh it makes me weak. Not that I know what its like lol #but it feels cute... #tubby art

[exocynraku]

EEE FOR UR PIXEL DESIGN THING!! ^___^ hollyleaf .. . tallstar darkstripe (throws dirt in his face) orr needletail :33 or sleekwhisker . or tall shadow TAKE YOUR PICK !!

holly & needle !

#also darwin i will do ur other request in the other ask just :heart: not soon #got STUFF to do #warrior cats #wc #hollyleaf #needletail #ray wc designs