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[eyrieofsynapses]

why Aurora's art is genius

It's break for me, and I've been meaning to sit down and read the Aurora webcomic (https://comicaurora.com/, @comicaurora on Tumblr) for quite a bit. So I did that over the last few days.

And… y'know. I can't actually say "I should've read this earlier," because otherwise I would've been up at 2:30-3am when I had responsibilities in the morning and I couldn't have properly enjoyed it, but. Holy shit guys THIS COMIC.

I intended to just do a generalized "hello this is all the things I love about this story," and I wrote a paragraph or two about art style. …and then another. And another. And I realized I needed to actually reference things so I would stop being too vague. I was reading the comic on my tablet or phone, because I wanted to stay curled up in my chair, but I type at a big monitor and so I saw more details… aaaaaand it turned into its own giant-ass post.

SO. Enjoy a few thousand words of me nerding out about this insanely cool art style and how fucking gorgeous this comic is? (There are screenshots, I promise it isn't just a wall of text.) In my defense, I just spent two semesters in graphic design classes focusing on the Adobe Suite, so… I get to be a nerd about pretty things…???

All positive feedback btw! No downers here. <3

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I cannot emphasize enough how much I love the beautiful, simple stylistic method of drawing characters and figures. It is absolutely stunning and effortless and utterly graceful—it is so hard to capture the sheer beauty and fluidity of the human form in such a fashion. Even a simple outline of a character feels dynamic! It's gorgeous!

Though I do have a love-hate relationship with this, because my artistic side looks at that lovely simplicity, goes "I CAN DO THAT!" and then I sit down and go to the paper and realize that no, in fact, I cannot do that yet, because that simplicity is born of a hell of a lot of practice and understanding of bodies and actually is really hard to do. It's a very developed style that only looks simple because the artist knows what they're doing. The human body is hard to pull off, and this comic does so beautifully and makes it look effortless.

Also: line weight line weight line weight. It's especially important in simplified shapes and figures like this, and hoo boy is it used excellently. It's especially apparent the newer the pages get—I love watching that improvement over time—but with simpler figures and lines, you get nice light lines to emphasize both smaller details, like in the draping of clothing and the curls of hair—which, hello, yes—and thicker lines to emphasize bigger and more important details and silhouettes. It's the sort of thing that's essential to most illustrations, but I wanted to make a note of it because it's so vital to this art style.

THE USE OF LAYER BLENDING MODES OH MY GODS. (...uhhh, apologies to the people who don't know what that means, it's a digital art program thing? This article explains it for beginners.)

Bear with me, I just finished my second Photoshop course, I spent months and months working on projects with this shit so I see the genius use of Screen and/or its siblings (of which there are many—if I say "Screen" here, assume I mean the entire umbrella of Screen blending modes and possibly Overlay) and go nuts, but seriously it's so clever and also fucking gorgeous:

Firstly: the use of screened-on sound effect words over an action? A "CRACK" written over a branch and then put on Screen in glowy green so that it's subtle enough that it doesn't disrupt the visual flow, but still sticks out enough to make itself heard? Little "scritches" that are transparent where they're laid on without outlines to emphasize the sound without disrupting the underlying image? FUCK YES. I haven't seen this done literally anywhere else—granted, I haven't read a massive amount of comics, but I've read enough—and it is so clever and I adore it. Examples:

Secondly: The beautiful lighting effects. The curling leaves, all the magic, the various glowing eyes, the fog, the way it's all so vividly colored but doesn't burn your eyeballs out—a balance that's way harder to achieve than you'd think—and the soft glows around them, eeeee it's so pretty so pretty SO PRETTY. Not sure if some of these are Outer/Inner Glow/Shadow layer effects or if it's entirely hand-drawn, but major kudos either way; I can see the beautiful use of blending modes and I SALUTE YOUR GENIUS.

I keep looking at some of this stuff and go "is that a layer effect or is it done by hand?" Because you can make some similar things with the Satin layer effect in Photoshop (I don't know if other programs have this? I'm gonna have to find out since I won't have access to PS for much longer ;-;) that resembles some of the swirly inner bits on some of the lit effects, but I'm not sure if it is that or not. Or you could mask over textures? There's... many ways to do it.

If done by hand: oh my gods the patience, how. If done with layer effects: really clever work that knows how to stop said effects from looking wonky, because ugh those things get temperamental. If done with a layer of texture that's been masked over: very, very good masking work. No matter the method, pretty shimmers and swirly bits inside the bigger pretty swirls!

Next: The way color contrast is used! I will never be over the glowy green-on-black Primordial Life vibes when Alinua gets dropped into that… unconscious space?? with Life, for example, and the sharp contrast of vines and crack and branches and leaves against pitch black is just visually stunning. The way the roots sink into the ground and the three-dimensional sensation of it is particularly badass here:

Friggin. How does this imply depth like that. HOW. IT'S SO FREAKING COOL.

A huge point here is also color language and use! Everybody has their own particular shade, generally matching their eyes, magic, and personality, and I adore how this is used to make it clear who's talking or who's doing an action. That was especially apparent to me with Dainix and Falst in the caves—their colors are both fairly warm, but quite distinct, and I love how this clarifies who's doing what in panels with a lot of action from both of them. There is a particular bit that stuck out to me, so I dug up the panels (see this page and the following one https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-20-30/):

(Gods it looks even prettier now that I put it against a plain background. Also, appreciation to Falst for managing a bridal-carry midair, damn.)

The way that their colors MERGE here! And the immense attention to detail in doing so—Dainix is higher up than Falst is in the first panel, so Dainix's orange fades into Falst's orange at the base. The next panel has gold up top and orange on bottom; we can't really tell in that panel where each of them are, but that's carried over to the next panel—

—where we now see that Falst's position is raised above Dainix's due to the way he's carrying him. (Points for continuity!) And, of course, we see the little "huffs" flowing from orange to yellow over their heads (where Dainix's head is higher than Falst's) to merge the sound of their breathing, which is absurdly clever because it emphasizes to the viewer how we hear two sets of huffing overlaying each other, not one. Absolutely brilliant.

(A few other notes of appreciation to that panel: beautiful glows around them, the sparks, the jagged silhouette of the spider legs, the lovely colors that have no right to make the area around a spider corpse that pretty, the excellent texturing on the cave walls plus perspective, the way Falst's movements imply Dainix's hefty weight, the natural posing of the characters, their on-point expressions that convey exactly how fuckin terrifying everything is right now, the slight glows to their eyes, and also they're just handsome boys <3)

Next up: Rain!!!! So well done! It's subtle enough that it never ever disrupts the impact of the focal point, but evident enough you can tell! And more importantly: THE MIST OFF THE CHARACTERS. Rain does this irl, it has that little vapor that comes off you and makes that little misty effect that plays with lighting, it's so cool-looking and here it's used to such pretty effect!

One of the panel captions says something about it blurring out all the injuries on the characters but like THAT AIN'T TOO BIG OF A PROBLEM when it gets across the environmental vibes, and also that'd be how it would look in real life too so like… outside viewer's angle is the same as the characters', mostly? my point is: that's the environment!!! that's the vibes, that's the feel! It gets it across and it does so in the most pretty way possible!

And another thing re: rain, the use of it to establish perspective, particularly in panels like this—

—where we can tell we're looking down at Tynan due to the perspective on the rain and where it's pointing. Excellent. (Also, kudos for looking down and emphasizing how Tynan's losing his advantage—lovely use of visual storytelling.)

Additionally, the misting here:

We see it most heavily in the leftmost panel, where it's quite foggy as you would expect in a rainstorm, especially in an environment with a lot of heat, but it's also lightly powdered on in the following two panels and tends to follow light sources, which makes complete sense given how light bounces off particles in the air.

A major point of strength in these too is a thorough understanding of lighting, like rim lighting, the various hues and shades, and an intricate understanding of how light bounces off surfaces even when they're in shadow (we'll see a faint glow in spots where characters are half in shadow, but that's how it would work in real life, because of how light bounces around).

Bringing some of these points together: the fluidity of the lines in magic, and the way simple glowing lines are used to emphasize motion and the magic itself, is deeply clever. I'm basically pulling at random from panels and there's definitely even better examples, but here's one (see this page https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-16-33/):

First panel, listed in numbers because these build on each other:

The tension of the lines in Tess's magic here. This works on a couple levels: first, the way she's holding her fists, as if she's pulling a rope taut.

The way there's one primary line, emphasizing the rope feeling, accompanied by smaller ones.

The additional lines starbursting around her hands, to indicate the energy crackling in her hands and how she's doing a good bit more than just holding it. (That combined with the fists suggests some tension to the magic, too.) Also the variations in brightness, a feature you'll find in actual lightning. :D Additional kudos for how the lightning sparks and breaks off the metal of the sword.

A handful of miscellaneous notes on the second panel:

The reflection of the flames in Erin's typically dark blue eyes (which bears a remarkable resemblance to Dainix, incidentally—almost a thematic sort of parallel given Erin's using the same magic Dainix specializes in?)

The flowing of fabric in the wind and associated variation in the lineart

The way Erin's tattoos interact with the fire he's pulling to his hand

The way the rain overlays some of the fainter areas of fire (attention! to! detail! hell yeah!)

I could go on. I won't because this is a lot of writing already.

Third panel gets paragraphs, not bullets:

Erin's giant-ass "FWOOM" of fire there, and the way the outline of the word is puffy-edged and gradated to feel almost three-dimensional, plus once again using Screen or a variation on it so that the stars show up in the background. All this against that stunning plume of fire, which ripples and sparks so gorgeously, and the ending "om" of the onomatopoeia is emphasized incredibly brightly against that, adding to the punch of it and making the plume feel even brighter.

Also, once again, rain helping establish perspective, especially in how it's very angular in the left side of the panel and then slowly becomes more like a point to the right to indicate it's falling directly down on the viewer. Add in the bright, beautiful glow effects, fainter but no less important black lines beneath them to emphasize the sky and smoke and the like, and the stunningly beautiful lighting and gradated glows surrounding Erin plus the lightning jagging up at him from below, and you get one hell of an impactful panel right there. (And there is definitely more in there I could break down, this is just a lot already.)

And in general: The colors in this? Incredible. The blues and purples and oranges and golds compliment so well, and it's all so rich.

Like, seriously, just throughout the whole comic, the use of gradients, blending modes, color balance and hues, all the things, all the things, it makes for the most beautiful effects and glows and such a rich environment. There's a very distinct style to this comic in its simplified backgrounds (which I recognize are done partly because it's way easier and also backgrounds are so time-consuming dear gods but lemme say this) and vivid, smoothly drawn characters; the simplicity lets them come to the front and gives room for those beautiful, richly saturated focal points, letting the stylized designs of the magic and characters shine. The use of distinct silhouettes is insanely good. Honestly, complex backgrounds might run the risk of making everything too visually busy in this case. It's just, augh, so GORGEOUS.

Another bit, take a look at this page (https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-15-28/):

It's not quite as evident here as it is in the next page, but this one does some other fun things so I'm grabbing it. Points:

Once again, using different colors to represent different character actions. The "WHAM" of Kendal hitting the ground is caused by Dainix's force, so it's orange (and kudos for doubling the word over to add a shake effect). But we see blue layered underneath, which could be an environmental choice, but might also be because it's Kendal, whose color is blue.

And speaking off, take a look at the right-most panel on top, where Kendal grabs the spear: his motion is, again, illustrated in bright blue, versus the atmospheric screened-on orange lines that point toward him around the whole panel (I'm sure these have a name, I think they might be more of a manga thing though and the only experience I have in manga is reading a bit of Fullmetal Alchemist). Those lines emphasize the weight of the spear being shoved at him, and their color tells us Dainix is responsible for it.

One of my all-time favorite effects in this comic is the way cracks manifest across Dainix's body to represent when he starts to lose control; it is utterly gorgeous and wonderfully thematic. These are more evident in the page before and after this one, but you get a decent idea here. I love the way they glow softly, the way the fire juuuust flickers through at the start and then becomes more evident over time, and the cracks feel so realistic, like his skin is made of pottery. Additional points for how fire begins to creep into his hair.

A small detail that's generally consistent across the comic, but which I want to make note of here because you can see it pretty well: Kendal's eyes glow about the same as the jewel in his sword, mirroring his connection to said sword and calling back to how the jewel became Vash's eye temporarily and thus was once Kendal's eye. You can always see this connection (though there might be some spots where this also changes in a symbolic manner; I went through it quickly on the first time around, so I'll pay more attention when I inevitably reread this), where Kendal's always got that little shine of blue in his eyes the same as the jewel. It's a beautiful visual parallel that encourages the reader to subconsciously link them together, especially since the lines used to illustrate character movements typically mirror their eye color. It's an extension of Kendal.

Did I mention how ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL the colors in this are?

Also, the mythological/legend-type scenes are illustrated in familiar style often used for that type of story, a simple and heavily symbolic two-dimensional cave-painting-like look. They are absolutely beautiful on many levels, employing simple, lovely gradients, slightly rougher and thicker lineart that is nonetheless smoothly beautiful, and working with clear silhouettes (a major strength of this art style, but also a strength in the comic overall). But in particular, I wanted to call attention to a particular thing (see this page https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-12-4/):

The flowing symbolic lineart surrounding each character. This is actually quite consistent across characters—see also Life's typical lines and how they curl:

What's particularly interesting here is how these symbols are often similar, but not the same. Vash's lines are always smooth, clean curls, often playing off each other and echoing one another like ripples in a pond. You'd think they'd look too similar to Life's—but they don't. Life's curl like vines, and they remain connected; where one curve might echo another but exist entirely detached from each other in Vash's, Life's lines still remain wound together, because vines are continuous and don't float around. :P

Tahraim's are less continuous, often breaking up with significantly smaller bits and pieces floating around like—of course—sparks, and come to sharper points. These are also constants: we see the vines repeated over and over in Alinua's dreams of Life, and the echoing ripples of Vash are consistent wherever we encounter him. Kendal's dream of the ghost citizens of the city of Vash in the last few chapters is filled with these rippling, echoing patterns, to beautiful effect (https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-20-14/):

They ripple and spiral, often in long, sinuous curves, with smooth elegance. It reminds me a great deal of images of space and sine waves and the like. This establishes a definite feel to these different characters and their magic. And the thing is, that's not something that had to be done—the colors are good at emphasizing who's who. But it was done, and it adds a whole other dimension to the story. Whenever you're in a deity's domain, you know whose it is no matter the color.

Regarding that shape language, I wanted to make another note, too—Vash is sometimes described as chaotic and doing what he likes, which is interesting to me, because smooth, elegant curves and the color blue aren't generally associated with chaos. So while Vash might behave like that on the surface, I'm guessing he's got a lot more going on underneath; he's probably much more intentional in his actions than you'd think at a glance, and he is certainly quite caring with his city. The other thing is that this suits Kendal perfectly. He's a paragon character; he is kind, virtuous, and self-sacrificing, and often we see him aiming to calm others and keep them safe. Blue is such a good color for him. There is… probably more to this, but I'm not deep enough in yet to say.

And here's the thing: I'm only scratching the surface. There is so much more here I'm not covering (color palettes! outfits! character design! environment! the deities! so much more!) and a lot more I can't cover, because I don't have the experience; this is me as a hobbyist artist who happened to take a couple design classes because I wanted to. The art style to this comic is so clever and creative and beautiful, though, I just had to go off about it. <3

...brownie points for getting all the way down here? Have a cookie.

#aurora comic #aurora webcomic #comicaurora #art analysis #...I hope those are the right tags??? #new fandom new tagging practices to learn ig #much thanks for something to read while I try to rest my wrists. carpal tunnel BAD. (ignore that I wrote this I've got braces ok it's fine) #anyway! I HAVE. MANY MORE THOUGHTS. ON THE STORY ITSELF. THIS LOVELY STORY #also a collection of reactions to a chunk of the comic before I hit the point where I was too busy reading to write anything down #idk how to format those tho #...yeet them into one post...??? #eh I usually don't go off this much these days but this seems like a smaller tight-knit fandom so... might as well help build it? #and I have a little more time thanks to break so #oh yes also shoutout to my insanely awesome professor for teaching me all the technical stuff from this he is LOVELY #made an incredibly complex program into something comprehensible <3 #synapse talks

[shey-pancake]

Question for Both of you:

What is the Craziest thing you both have done?

This was kind of hard to answer, since I have like 38578937 ideas of what they might have done and being the craziest thing ever, CAN'T DECIDE!!!! plus, it would be a somewhat spoiler, teehee

but what they said is true, they have done like...a LOT of crazy things together, taking into account how long they have been together for this specific moment in time (in AU timeline which I usually do draws of them)

#art #doodle #doodles #sketch #sketches #fnaf #fnaf art #fnaf au #fnaf au art #fnaf oc #springtrap #fnaf springtrap #springtrap and aurora #springtrap and aurora redemption art #springtrap and aurora redemption #fnaf 3 #finally answering the q&a after SO LONG #school has ben torturing me hel p #btw take a rlly close look at their body language and the way they talk #it might look not too important #but just take it into account in the future :]

[phyyne]

a bit disappointed by the Ghost community right now after the Aurora and Swiss kiss, like so much hypocrisy and misogyny its incredible

clearly you guys weren't a safe place for lgbt+ people when ghouls were kissing and all, you were just fantasizing on us

i knew some of the fans were like that, but this event really shows it

#i know it's not all of the fans like i guess the majority is clearly ok #but still #i saw way too many things of that and people saying they were shocked by it and all #“separate the artist from the character!!” until suddenly you are so sad for swiss gf abt that kiss #1) his relationship is none of our business #2) he kissed orher ghouls many times and it wasn't a problem (even out of character sometimes?????) (not sure) #3) respect everyone définition of couple like its not because you think kissing is cheating its the case for everyone #4) i love Aurora and her talent is not talked enough and when we finally talk abt her its because of that 😭 #maybe i should take a little break from the fandom and go back to only listen to the music for a little #ghost #the band ghost #LA concert #LA ghost concert #Aurora Ghoulette #Swiss Ghoul

[satoru-yuuji]

Bridgerton s3 is going to be two parts?? First on May 16, second is on June 13. What's the reason they already rescheduled and delayed the date so much 😭

But hey we got a final -hopefully- release date after so long!!

#bridgerton #bridgerton netflix #bridgerton s3 #bridgerton season 3 #aurora talks .ೃ࿐

[here-there-everyfuckenwhere]

“You deserve to be with someone who makes you feel like you’ve been struck by lighting”

Well what about someone who makes you feel safe and special and comfortable and like you’re home when you’re actually in a different country?

#thinking once again about the unnamed dutch man and Rebecca #ray rants and junk #personal #I saw a post on here saying something about how this episode was all about everyone (except for the boys on the team-rip) trying something #new and doing something different/something they had never done before #Keely seeing the aurora borealis #Roy riding a bike #Dani (wanting to) see a tulip #Ted actually coming up with his own plays #Colin coming out and him and Trent talking about their queerness openly #etc etc #and Rebecca finally let herself be taken care of for the first time 🥹 #she let herself be free and vulnerable and let someone really put HER first #and we haven’t see that yet!!! #that’s a big deal!!!!!!!! #god #this episode gives me #So Many Feelings… #Ted lasso #Ted lasso season 3 #Ray watches TLS3 #Ted lasso spoilers #spoilers #Ted lasso season 3 spoilers

[lizardthelizard]

That playlist though. Oh no. OH NO! Feelings for and about Mulan. Right through the heart. I love "Another Love" so very much, but I'm often said when you watch some fanedit and it's kinda missing this beat how, well, the previous/other/first love was so all consuming, that finding something new is hard. Now you make me think about Sleeping Warrior vs Red Warrior here, OBVIOUSLY!

Mulan hitting rock bottom, wandering around aimless after leaving Aurora, because obviously she didn't join Robin. And we see her in that tavern, given up on honor (her truest of loves, clearly). Hitting the other direction of her whole character so hard. Meeting Ruby is nice, but falling for her doesn't come easy at all. She had her hopes set up on Aurora and it destroyed her completely, now where is the energy to muster up the courage to go for a second round?

~And if somebody hurts you, I wanna fight But my hand's been broken one too many times~ HELP! I'M DYING OVER HERE WITH THE IMAGES!! Thinking back to the intensity of the first time and while wanting love not being able to go for it... yeah, very canon, very tragic.

I'm listening through the whole thing, but I saw it ends with Marina. Great. The only thing more devastating would have been a Florence song. Marina's voice alone can carry this specific kind of melancholia/sadness... ~I'm a nomad [...] no sweet home~ Yeah, a Mulan song. What a choice. Never meeting anybody from her past, not getting her own happy ending.

Also, yes to the thing you said - she is so terribly stubborn. They gave us a fullfledged 3dimensional character with flaws, who would also bring a very useful skillset to the table and with more time all those walls she clearly build could have been torn down by the right person. Damn.

(Maybe I should finally cave and get spotify, make things easier. lol)

Another Love THEE reason for this playlist! At least, when I listened to it some years ago, it was the first (and for a while the only song) I had on her playlist. Because it was so perfect for her!! and I HAD to have it on some kind of Mulan playlist.

But YEAH!! Mulan's heartbreak over Aurora is so evident in season 5 and it really changes her as a person. And she becomes so bitter and so jaded (and then canon doesn't even give her a happy ending and she has to third wheel AGAIN 😭)

But when you throw Ruby into the mix? Oh boy, I'm VERY here for this. It won't be easy for either of them (Mulan struggling to open up and put herself out there again and with Ruby viewing herself as a monster still and worrying about hurting Mulan if they're too close) but...if they were both able to work up the courage and power through any of those issues... 👀

Also, see, I think it's such a shame because I feel like Mulan IS three dimensional, yes! But sometimes fandom (very broadly speaking) treats her like she's not. And she gets watered down into this kind of 'girlboss' character. And yeah, she IS a girlboss! Sure! But she's kind of a dork-ass-loser as well sometimes and she takes things way too seriously and she's so closed off.

Anyway, the point is that, like many ouat side characters, Mulan deserved so much more from canon.

#I really do have to thank mulan specifically <3 because (and I apologise because I HAVE said this before but) #she was the one that made me want to watch ouat in the first place #because (via internet osmosis) I thought that sleeping warrior was canon ashbdhaiushdasd and that was THEE reason that I started watching #(and also the reason I didn't STOP watching after the first few episodes. because idk I couldn't get into Once at the start.) #(but I powered through cause I knew mulan and aurora were in season 2) #I really really do love ruby/dorothy btw #but hdfgjdfgkfgdgdkgf all this talk about ruby/mulan lately has made me SO unreasonably excited about them #it's actually been SO long since I've seen s5 of once #(mostly because I don't really like the season over all (outside of a handful of episodes)) #but I can't wait to actually get onto s5 just to see mulan again. I'd forgotten how much I'd missed her #asks #<:) thanks for hopping in my inbox. I'm so happy that you're enjoying the playlist #ALSO YEAH...I should have looked into a florence and the machine song for this playlist

[resetting37]

I realized I do in fact have a "villain who is mean to everyone but the biggest sweetheart to their significant other" oc but ! She's technically a villain sidekick and not a real threat, just a big brat

say hi to whitney, she's mean to everyone except her fiancé matthew

#oc talk #whitney #and I'm sorry but she's insufferable <3 #She's not MEAN mean to aurora or vivian but she can still be super judgmental towards them #I will give credit she's one of the few people not afraid to call out aurora. #but sometime's it's not justified lol

[divingdeepdown]

No longer alone || @wrensfeatheredpen

Ryley couldn't believe what he was doing, he was going back to the Aurora. He was sure there were supplies he missed on his first journey there, but that'd have been natural considering he was more focused on fixing the radiation leak. Now that most threats were dealt with, the creatures not included, he can go back to the things he may have missed. The former technician took some lantern fruit and a bottle of water to take with him and checked the batteries in his glider, once he was satisfied Ryley set off. He jumped out the bottom of his moonpool and swam to his Seamoth, he stroked the side and smiled as he jumped in. 

‘Welcome aboard, Captain.’ The same robotic dialogue as always but it always brought him comfort. “Thanks, Sandy.” He replied. 

Being in the Safe Shallows right now, it was a fairly straightforward path to the Aurora and one he was well acquainted with. Despite doing the trip once, it was burned into his mind. Parking Sandy at the edge of the grassy plateau he made the rest of the journey with his handy glider. At first, it went swimmingly, pun not intended, as he hugged the side of the Aurora but then he heard it. And again. 

“Oh no, ohnoohnoohno.” Panic settled deep as he aimed for the entrance and just made it in time before he became fish food. With everything he’d been through, he thought a Reaper would be nothing by now but no, still as terrifying as always. He sighed in relief and sat on the ship, making sure there were no cave crawlers around, and drank some water. God, he thought he was a goner. 

After a few moments to recuperate, Ryley put the empty bottle away and stood up baring his knife and walking forward into the ship. He sliced a few crawlers on his way inside and kept the knife on him for defense if needed. The man hummed a small tune as he explored the ship once again but it looked a little… different? Less wrecked, he could have sworn there were boxes and wreckage that blocked certain paths when he was first onboard. He began to walk down one of the blocked-off corridors and saw a shadow, there shouldn’t be one like that. Raising his thermal knife he stepped forward, now was no time to be afraid. He can run away later if needed. 

“I will live, I will return to Sandy.” Ryley muttered reassurance to himself as he walked farther forward but froze soon after seeing something he never thought he would on this planet. A human. Ryley dropped the knife in shock as he took in the sight, “N-no, you can’t be… Wait wait wait. I’m seeing things, I have to be. You weren’t here before. I looked everywhere. There was no one.” He pointed to the other person, reaching back for his knife.

#Surviving the Impossible: Ryley #A captain will survive for his crew: Hollister #Sorry for the long starter #I needed to get him to the Aurora #Also Reapers? #Terrify me #Well everything terrifies me in the game #Top 3 scariest #Reapers #Warpers #Crabsquid #Ghosties are a close third but you don't see them as much #Anyway #To stay sane Ryley has named his tech #Seamoth = Sandy #PDA = Peda #Cyclops = Clyde #Prawn Suit = Peter #He talks to them to remain sane #It's what I did when I played the game #wrensfeatheredpen

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[boycigs]

also. forever ago I found these beautiful totems/figurines/statues of gods and goddess' on etsy. I made my own out of clay, all I gotta do is paint and make a charm belt or sum

#selene offering <3 #the 1st is selene or diana or whoever u think of as a moon deity #the second is aurora/eos (goddess of dawn) #.witch talk

[aesrot]

"stop imagining horror scenarios with you and your boyfriend" no <3

#sighing dreamily and doodling and when you look over its a drawing of me and aurora covered in blood <3 #lua talks

[polyboros]

well hold on….. drop a fact or two about your funny cookies ideas… I’m inch rested now

HIII okay. i will try to keep it to a fact or two bc i could talk about this all fuckin day!! spillways is the larger universe that working hard at follow through takes place in, which posits an alternative dark choco healing arc + eventually sprawls out to most of the cookies of darkness defecting, and the effects it has on the story continuing from hollyberry kingdom or so. the projected end of the "main" story is the end of dark cacao's storyline, though there are a whole buncha side stories + a cookie run odyssey plotline i've been rolling around. dark cacao's storyline focuses a lot more on plot threads i thought it dropped the ball on - namely how bad this man has been fucking up his kingdom in his grief, and the fascinating implications of the ruined villages (licorice!!! licorice!!! i think about it all the time!!!) and, of course, what happens if dark choco is there. from my notes:

the main bit of ch 14's emotional beat is definitely, i think, both. dark cacao's no good very bad soul-jam-worsened illusory time & also a bit more focus on hey dark cacao your maladaptive coping mechanisms have screwed your kingdom over just a bit tfw your paranoia is justified by the licorice sea attack but also it isnt at all!!

spillways 3 is my favorite to talk about because it goes the most off the rails (pom & de get to pull a lot of fun horror bullshit & also evil wlw bullshit, because by that point they're the only cookies of darkness left) but spillways 2 cannot be discounted. it's a heist fic about red velvet & his relationship to dark enchantress, strawberry crepe's Revenge Of The Ten Year Old, and poison mushroom missing their older brother and i think about it often

#kbitycus talks #sillypix #the side stories are some of my favorites that i have sketched out! #'growing pains' is about crepe splicing some of red vel's dragon dna into themself. and the consequences #'married with a lack of vision' is a silly fic about parfait & snow sugar & licorice putting on their first joint performance #'aurora borealis' is my pre-spillways 3 cotton & dark choco friendship manifesto #etc!!! #i am always so happy to talk about this au thank you hocus!!!!

[shirehobbit]

tagged by @eohwyyn to show my lockscreen homescreen and last song 💕💕💕 eons ago

will tag @rheanrya @forcekenobi and anyone else who wants to show off ✨✨

#lia talks #1. my lockscreen is a photo I took in New Zealand on my hike #I love that photo so much #2. frodo and sam on their journey art #3. I GOT TICKETS TO SEE AURORA NEXT YEAR BABES #IM SO EXCITED #4. yes I have bumble and hinge #and what about it

[sparklingpax]

Ok I had a thought!!! ✨

rb this with songs you think people would (or that you would) edit your faves/OCs/AU characters/canon or not canon ships/OC ship/etc to! 👀

You can put as many or as few as you want!

#I'll go first #my OC kathra gets Runaway (Aurora) or Fiesta (Iz*one) #my OC Alexis would get Hit and Run (LoLo) or Hayloft (Mother Mother) #Ryo from City Hunter would get Flamingo (Kero Kero Bonito) or 悲しみがとまらない (Anri) #Optimus Prime gets Finale (Madeon; actually someone might have done this? I just wish i could do my own--) or Live To Rise (Soundgarden) #finally #my AU Hawk & Ginrai (as a ship edit) would get Levitating (Dua Lipa) because. #thats all #kuni talks #random #for fun #<3

[linalilia]

Also, Daisuke's relationship with Kei! I think my boy would first notice yours thanks to their matching flashy sunglasses. It's nice finding someone with something in common with you in Milgram. (Poor Daisuke doesn't have a smokers group uuuuu)

Kei is actually not the most romantic kind of guy, he always gets straight to the point and even though he might say a cheesy pickup line or two, he will say what he wants from you almost immediately and he will make sure it's impossible for you to say no to him.

If Kei ever tried to flirt with Daisuke... Well, Daisuke would flirt back! That is, until Kei tells him what he wants, in which Daisuke would probably back out completely. He doesn't actually want to get into anything further than flirting. He likes flirting! He views it almost as if it were a playful way for him to make friends. Funny, huh?

This guy is a lot more childish than he looks like and he often gets mad at people for very stupid reasons.

Once Daisuke finds out that Kei is mad at him for a rather stupid reason, he won't be able to take Kei or his childish anger seriously. He'd most likely get up and leave Kei to his temper tantrum until he calms down. Like an experienced older brother or something.

His mood swings are so unpredictable that even the bravest people find them terrifying, especially considering that he's not afraid of getting violent and he doesn't care about the whole "prisoners can't hurt guards" rule.

If Kei ever, ever, tries to pick a fight with Daisuke, he'll find that Daisuke won't take it lying down. He's had some experienced with fist fights, even ones with improvised weapons! Perhaps most concerning of all is that Daisuke won't have any problem talking to Kei afterward as if they're still friends, as if the whole fight hadn't happened. Is he...used to people with violent mood swings?

Kei is actually a huge liar. And he's not even that good at lying.

Daisuke lies a lot too! Sometimes because he needs to keep certain things secret, sometimes just for fun. He'd find Kei's obvious lies funny, and even play along sometimes if he has nothing better to do.

Kei also loves to make people believe that he's the victim and not somebody else and he will do anything to make people trust him.

Someone with violent mood swings? An innocent victim? Kei? Daisuke won't fall for his manipulation tactics. He's met plenty of victims and abusers and victims pretending to be abusers and abusers pretending to be victims, Daisuke is hardly phased by anything Kei tries to convince him with. He doesn't mind playing along though! It's not like he's any better.

kei and daisuke noticing each other like

and i actually can imagine kei being a smoker as well though he mostly does it for the aesthetic sooo maybe they actually have even more in common than they thought!

also it's okay, i can definitely imagine kei flirting with daisuke at some point, but i doubt that he would be serious about it, sometimes he just does it out of habit and also because it's kinda like a coping mechanism to him but we're not gonna talk about that daisuke would be more like a friend to him, maybe even an older brother figure? yes, kei is an older brother himself, but.. he kinda wanted to be the younger one instead and he certainly feels like one most of the time because of his younger brother being more responsible than him. maybe kei wanting to be seen as someone who's younger than they really are is also a part of the reason why he can act like a child sometimes? and it's good that daisuke can fight back because kei is actually weaker than you'd expect, at least when he doesn't have some kind of weapon with him. he just can't fight only with his own fists, he's too used to people being so scared and helpless that they can't do anything to stop kei, haha..

kei would act like he finds daisuke playing along with his lies funny at first and he would even thank him, but at some point.. he would reveal that he actually thinks it's annoying. he knows that daisuke can see right through his lies and he doesn't actually believe him. so can he stop acting like that already? it just makes kei feel more pathetic, he knows that he's not good at lying, but he wants people to believe him and not just go "haha, you're so right, kei, that definitely happened".

#also kei acting like a younger brother and making eiji to do everything the older brother was supposed to do 😔😔 #i want to reveal his crime so bad but. i must stay strong #i'm planning to talk about the undercover mv moments but with my ocs though <3 #also i'm even more curious about daisuke's past now #lina's ask box time! #lina's friends! #friend: aurora! 🌠 #linagram

[ravenousgf]

I'll have you know that I think of you whenever I use the word "ravenous". Sometimes I use the word "ravenous" so I'll think of you

fhsdkljgdfkj adding this to the list of the nicest things said 2 me ever

#i <3 having a brand #i'll have you know i'll see the word mina on a storefront or i'll overhear someone talk abt aurora (lights) and i'll have to recalibrate #from immediately assuming its you hfkfjg #which makes no sense bc why would you be on a store's advertisement board. but tis real #mina tag