The Mechanisms may be dead, but out here in the stars, their words live on without them. And they're, like, really fitting sometimes. (Content warnings for violence, feral bastardry, murder, violence, cannibalism, everyone thirsting after Gunpowder Tim, violence, arson and violence)
doing some more doodles of that monster/myth designs thing i was talkin abt and thinking about like, okay , how the hell do i draw eldritch!ivy in a way that is. convincingly eldritch?
[ID: a screenshot of the deep dream generator website, showing surreal images of a cabin in the woods. end ID.]
i think ive got an idea
okay so on one hand this is incredibly time consuming because i have
to do a colored sketch, import it to the deep dreamer, mess with that
for a while til it looks right, then put the deep-dreamed image back
onto the original and use a clipping mask so only the correct parts of
the image get all fucked up. but on the other hand:
[ID: a drawing of ivy alexandria that has been partially passed
through the deep dream generator neural network, giving parts of the
image a swirling, surreal appearance, often resembling eyes. end ID]
ivy organizes books by colour but she can see shrimp colours so the books all look completely disorganized and the only other one who can see the colours/organization system is tim
Iconic!
“Hey Ivy can. Borrow that book on bullets used in the great coffee war?”
It’s loving and appreciating Nastya Rasputina time!!!!
(Image descriptions: Jonny D’Ville grabbing and biting Nastya Rasputina’s arm as she yells at him and sprays him with a spray bottle,
Nastya pushing Jonny’s face away who is flailing his arms at her trying to reach her, and is drawn to be much shorter than Nastya. Writing next to Nastya says “fuck off you rat”
Nastya Rasputina holding a martini glass with an olive in one hand and gesturing out with the other, eyes squinting. Writing above her says “like, I don’t see how it’s monster-fucking if it’s a spaceship but go off I guess.” And writing below her says “fuck I love Nastya”
Gunpowder Tim walking through the hallway of the aurora past Nastya, who is making out with a metal socket on the wall. Tim has his hand on his face to block his vision on the side he’s passing Nastya on. Writing next to Tim says “life is hell”)
Jonny is Very Much So Illiterate so right now his favourite story is The Very Hungry Caterpiller that he makes Ivy read to him
Don’t you go and make me feel feelings about something so clearly silly >:\\
Ah dammit I’m feeling them, here we go:
Gosh imagine it’s like just a secret between the two of them, just a few minutes where Jonny can relax and not be So Much and Ivy doesn’t mind at all because she’s just glad Jonny is getting something out of a book
The mechanisms are incapable of handing emotions like normal people, so sometimes one of them will just start incoherently screaming out of nowhere to let it all out. Once one mech starts screaming, it leads to a chain reaction where everybody on the ship is just screaming bloody murder for like ten minutes.
you know what? nastya deserves a day of the week too. proposing: Cyberian Saturday, where we all collectively burst into tears over how great nastya is
guess what day it is…
*thinks of her* *bursts into tears*
(photo by thecuriousmagpie)
Cyberian saturdays!
*thinks about nastya* *thinks about nastya* *thinks about nastya*
[ID: A screencap from the game Among Us of the moment after a person has been ejected from the ship. It shows a dark field of stars with the text “Carmilla was An Imposter” written in white in the middle. /end ID]
hey does anyone want to hear my fucking horrible fleshy brian thoughts (that are partially @trashymayhem‘s fault but it’s just him not stopping me from going down this path)
Me
GOOD.
So y’know how Marius’ fingers are like, nebulously flesh? depending on costume budget. (also not human but that’s a different post).
[image description: a screengrab of a tweet from Kofi Young, @neitherabaron, replying to @ElzienBoo that says “I’ve never had “human fingers”, Sam. I’m not human! But sometimes my fingers are organic. It depends on my mood and also the costume budget. Mostly that one.”]
So Marius’ fingers can have skin, right? and bones? and muscles and all that?
What I’m saying is all or some of Drumbot Brian could be organic, aside from his heart which is… usually the only organic part of him. I’m talking big ol’ robot with organic arms seamlessly attached. Organic spleen.
(Days where he can’t pull himself out of bed because as strong as his legs were in life, in his last days they atrophied in space and they can’t carry his metal body. Soft hands. Scars from his execution.)
brian: hey tim can you open me up for some maintenance? I asked nastya but she told me to fuck off
tim: yeah sure
tim:
tim:
tim: brian. why are there bones in here.
brian: oh haha did I regenerate a spine again? that explains the back pain, can you just yank it out of there?
tim: wh-
brian: yeah just yank out any stray vertebrae. it’ll hurt like a bitch but it’ll come back metal :)
raphaella, passing by: ooh, did brian grow a pancreas again? can I have it???
tim: i realize the hypocrisy of this statement but what the fuck is WRONG with you people
