#the solar machine

[redjaybathood]

привіт!!

were you the one that mentioned the solar machine? i know i saw it mentioned on my dash a few days ago and meant to ask this but completely forgot until now. i wanted to ask if you could share what the book is about because it seemed really interesting based on the title! i was trying to find some info on it on my own but had trouble since my ukrainian is still pretty basic and there wasn't much available in english. eventually i would like to try reading it along with more ukrainian literature :)

i hope you have a good day, and слава україні!

Haha I sincerely don't recommend starting with it when you start with Ukrainian literature. Stylistically it's a very heavy-worded book, Vynnychecnko himself wrote that he kinda shoulda worked on editing it for a few years before publishing. But, him being in exile, and I guess there are not a lot of job opportunities for a former head of the Ukrainian government.

I would describe it as a book that would be perfect for an anime adaptation. It also has a Chinese web novel about the revenge of a rich girl turned destitute vibe (not entirely, because there's a whole lot more to it, and Elisa doesn't really take that much screen time! but if I were to adapt it, she would be in the core cast)

Plot in short: Germany lost the WWI, now aristocracy is irrelevant and capitalists - bankers, factory owners etc - are taking over becoming essentially the new aristocracy. Which, people still being people and power being attractive, that doesn't make Germany any better off.

An old aristocrat loses everything on the stock market. Out of honor, he just kills himself and his elder son, masking it as a tragic accident, because god forbid someone finds out he treated the stock market as a casino, and now the only thing that is staying before the public finds out that he's broke, all his property taken away etc etc - is an arranged marriage of the head banker with his daughter. So yeah, at least he didn't sell off his kid and just went away and died.

So now princess Elisa has to take revenge.

That's the Chinese web novel vibe. It also comes through the romance subplot, the love interest of the "perceived as useless and ugly by the people in power but actually really handsome and capable. And also of how the novel consent between MC and ML. The dubcon vibes (as the inciting incident of them getting together).

And the anime vibe starts with the, you know, actual Solar Machine subplot. The sci-fi part of it - except for the social fantasy - doesn't really start up until, I think it was halfway through the text? I didn't care about it as much as the whole Inarak subplot. I don't think he really thought it through enough. Thus the debate, is it utopia or anti-utopia? I would argue the former, or rather, it progresses from anti-utopia to utopia.

(also, you need to be aware that it is written in the early XX century; for example, he rightfully calls out racism via the duke's description of people and MC's reaction to it, all the while not breaking the character of the MC, bc she's coming from the same background. At the same time, in narration, he's constantly giving men "women traits": ass, lips etc. And I'm a shipper of Simon Petlura/Volodymyr Vynnychenko, so I would love to believe it's something other than a bit of period-typical background misogyny; like, he writes women so differently and with much empathy, but he still cannot escape the notion that a man having a woman's trait in his appearance is a symbol of weakness.

At the very same time, he gets it: God is with those who have money. There is no God, and all the misfortune of a woman is that she has no money... )

(in response to the older duke's daughter telling her younger sibling about what amounts to her husband stopping short of pimping her out and then forcing her to have sex with him, with financial abuse on top)

All in all, Vynnychenko is great with characters. You can like or dislike them - and he doesn't make an effort to make you one way or another, except maybe with the main antagonist and people who serve him. But they are engaging and, yes, would be great to see on screen, imo.

And I would expect tumblr leftists to love Solar Machine, actually, for its critique of capitalism, for Inarak (they so would stan Max! and possibly Trudy but for other reasons) - and for the end message. I've seen exactly the same message spread around on tumblr so I would have said I'm shocked he's not popular among them, but then again, he's a Ukrainian.

#ukrainian literature #volodymyr vynnychenko #the solar machine #asks

[filthyguts]

Igor Lastname

#my art #battle nurse #battle nurse solar panel for sex machine #Igor #Igor lastname #my ocs

[riftiee]

PANACEA - VOID - JUDGEMENT

this one took me way too long. i’m rusty at digital art, so this was a bit of a process! but i’m happy with it.

#heart machine #hyper light drifter #hyper light breaker #solar ash #alx preston #hld drifter #hld #hmtober #digital art #judgement #panacea #indie game #original content #original art #do not repost without credit #drifter #riftiee

[dragonroilz]

cosmetic ideas for S105

#vaproxy #robots #machines #indie games #va:proxy #you can parry nukes in this game #first one is based off of mother may #second is based off of the solar panel creatures #i think its fun to have themed cosmetics like that #my art

[mitsuyuki32]

The Voidrunner

#fan art #video games #solar ash #rei #watercolour art #heart machine

[bisexual-yuri]

From my upcoming poetry collection “The Bones Clocks: Conductor’s Score”

#writeblr #poetry #poetblr #writing #my writing #me #personal #lore #Taylor swift #swifties #solar eclipse #nyclife #teacher crush #ttpd #hozier #florence and the machine

[silvervictory]

Absolution.

#silvervictory #solar ash #heart machine #hyper light drifter #wretched rei #echo #my art #silv art #doodle #traditional art #no k!nnie interaction #looks cooler irl but what can you do

[ell-dordo]

Tiny lil Solar ash dump with ryd content, and Spica from @azaazvertigo I keep forgetting to post because nothing I post gets attention, but, here we go anyways

#solar ash #not my oc #fanart #ryd #rei x cyd #cyd solar ash #i love rei #solar ash fanart #rei solar ash #heart machine

[gauthiercolin]

You have to die 1000 times to get all the achievements in this game. That’s a lot !

#drawing #dessin #hyper light drifter #HLD #Hyper Light Breaker #Drifter #heart machine #Alx Preston #Solar Ash #Gauthier colin #digital art

[charseraph]

‘Gooblering’ is the act of spraying aerosolized starter cultures onto a hazard. These cultures grow into mats that develop sterile fruiting bodies that emit an odor for shlorpians to detect danger by.

The microorganisms assist shlorpians in nutrient synthesis, immune response, and sensory capacity. Rather than needing to learn the scents, sounds, and appearances of many dangers, they get by knowing only a few. Without the work of their collective, they are individually naive.

The hunter shown is a pursuit herbivore, descended from a grazer. As their primary food source began to develop ambulation, they too changed into bodies better suited for catching their meals.

Three true jaws (in dark blue) with a rigid nose/eye structure (in white) support their new bite. The nose stalk developed a horn to serve as an extra bottom tooth, since the incisors and top dental pad were too specialized to turn into fangs.

#my art #solar opposites #speculative biology #seed shlorpians #spectember #wish we could see more of the animals on Shlorp 😔 I had to base these on the napadoodles #Which… are technically half-machine constructs. Yumyulack could’ve been pulling a design out of thin air #if anyone has a name suggestion for them (hehe maybe starting with ‘shlor’ as in ‘shlorbats’) let me know 🙌🏼 #shlorks #Thank you spinetrick!!

[filthyguts]

phone drawings

#my art #battle nurse #Igor lastname #my ocs #battle nurse solar panel for sex machine

[riftiee]

burger

#heart machine #jerma #jerma985 #jermaposting #jerma fanart #hyper light breaker #hyper light drifter #solar ash #hyper light drifter meme #hld #drifter #‘turns out he just had a cholesterol problem’ #riftiee

[jarhingeart]

Cyd from Solar Ash

Was thinking about this game so I drew Cyd ^^

#solar ash #heart machine #hyper light drifter #hyper light breaker

[darkita11]

A doctor and his nurse

Dr. Doctor and Battle Nurse belong to @filthyguts !! (Great artist)

#battle nurse solar panel for sex machine #battle nurse #fanart #digital art #medibang paint

[starheirxero]

imagine Solar Flare having a tail, but being completely expressionless . like they don't express any type of emotion, nobody knows what they're felling, except their tail gives them alway all the time.

They can gave you the most dead stare of your life, while their tail is just wagging behind them.

AOAIAYAGAHAGAJAHANSS ISAC. ISACCCCC OH MY STARS THIS IS THE CUTEST FUCKINF THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE OMG!!!!!!!!! THIS IS EVERYTHING. THIS IS EVERYTHINGGGGG I AM CRADLING THIS SO CLOSE W MY CHEST RN.

THIS WHOLE CONCEPT IS UTTERLY DELIGHTFUL ON ITS OWN BUT THE ADDED BONUS OF THE TAIL BEING THE MAIN INDICATOR OF HOW THEY FEEL HAS ME ON THE FLOOR AAOAUAUGGGHH THIS IS SO CUTE. I ALWAYS LOVE YOUR IDEAS THIS IS GUNNA LIVE WITH ME FOREVER

#asks #lazyboy-baby #art #no id #tsams #solar flare #sun and moon show #sams solar flare #SORRY. OBLIGATORY 'INSANE ABT SMALL DETAILS' SEGMENT: #THE TWO HOLES U PUT IN THE SIDE OF THEIR TORSO HELLLOOO #THE SMALL SPACES IN THE JOINTS THAT WOULD ACTUALLY ALLOW MORE MOVEMENT #THE SAME ON THE TAIL!!!! #(ANS THE SPIKES ON THE TAIL AOAAUUAGHHJJ) #AND THE SCARS ALL OVER THEM (MAINLY THEIR BACK THERE HWLLO.......) #THE FOLDS IN THE CLOTHES AND THE LIL CLAWS AND THEIR ADORABLE EXPRESSION #I'M GOING TO EAT MY FLOOR #THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY SUCH A GOOD MACHINE. SMOOCHING THEIR SWEET LITTLE FOREHEAD THEY R EVERYTHING 2 ME

[brainstorms-briefcase]

Saw the New Trailer for Hyper Light Breaker a while ago so i droped some fanart.

Some arts are older so I forgot to post them.

And some of them aren't accurately drawn as they should be, for example the ALT has no sword or the Proto Breaker has a stick as in the trailer.

But anyway, I hope you enjoy it^^

Can't wait to play the New game>.<

#hyper light drifter #heart machine #hyper light breaker #solar ash #gaming #gaming art #drawing #pencil art