#fallen skies

[quiche-draws]

Commissions I did for @hannahmationstudios for her fic Fallen Skies (if you haven't read it and you're a fan of Kotaloy, horror elements and plot, please go check it out!) I was given the opportunity to illustrate some scenes and here are the last two ones I did!

Thank you for commissioning me, again!!

Also, here's a bonus doodle I did because these two needed Bobble! versions hehe

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST! REBLOG ONLY!

#fallen skies #aloy #kotallo #kotaloy #nil #ared #horizon forbidden west #hfw #not my oc #horizon zero dawn #hzd #qooky art #commissions #q commissions #hannahmationstudios

[han-ban-bam]

Ared

@hannahmationstudios is an absolute triple threat, writing art and creativity abounds. Also she’s an undisputed Babe. 💖 If you haven’t read Fallen Skies and experienced The Actual Threat that is Ared, you’re missing a treat.

#hfw oc #fallen skies ared #Hfw #fallen skies #tw: blood #Hannahmationstudios

[fantasy-girl974]

A commission I've done for @hannahmationstudios of her Horizon OC Ared from her longfic "Fallen Skies". 👀💕

#Thank you so so much again Han for your trust! 💕 #A pleasure to draw the dangerous Boy! #fanart #my art #myart #artists on tumblr #hfw #horizon forbidden west #horizon oc #commission #horizon fanart #Fallen Skies #fanfic #fantasygirl974 art

[mancatrex]

Enter Ared

Inspired by @hannahmationstudios' Fallen Skies Fanfic, Chapter 23

#horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #fanart #my art #fic illustration #painting #ared #fallen skies #fallen skies ared

[hannahmationstudios]

More Ared? If you insist. (The only one insisting is me. I insist.)

Ared is an original character from an original tribe featured in my post-HFW slowburn action/horror/romance Kotaloy fic, Fallen Skies... which has just updated today!

#horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #original character #artists on tumblr #ared #fallen skies horizon #fallen skies #my art

[trackernivrig]

A work (in any medium) that has extra meaning to you because of when or where you experienced it?

Took me way too long to respond to this sorry.

This is an amazing question, and there's a TON of shows that I can think of that are special because of when I watched them. Here's a list of a few.

Bleach. This was my first anime, and I watched it with both my father and my brother every day, staying up way past my bedtime watching it. The end of the Soul Society arc was amazing, and it was somewhere within the bount arc that both my father and brother grew bored of the series, and I continued on my own. This portion is still special to me though, because I remember watching a bunch of it on VLC until the subtitles were corrupted. This prompted me to look on youtube, and I found a few of those ancient part 1/3 with part 2 missing Spanish sub videos that had the English subs overlayed on the Spanish subs. It was horrible but I look back on it fondly. Eventually I found Crunchyroll, and watched on that until the end of the Aizen arc and started FMA:B instead.

Your Name. I remember that one of my friends that wasn't huge into anime recommended this to me, and I really wanted to check it out. Unfortunately, I didn't know anything about anime piracy sites, and only watched on Crunchyroll, and at the time Your Name wasn't on Crunchyroll. So I did a ton of googling and eventually found this really sketchy pirate site that hosted it. It had constant ads that would pop up new windows that I had to close (this was also before I had UBlock Origin), and the video would buffer every 3 or 4 minutes for at least a minute each time. Again, horrible to experience in the moment, but this had a pretty funny effect. Because I had to spend SO MUCH more time to actually watch it, I felt like every scene was like triple the amount of time that it actually took up, making me grow way more attached to the characters that I would be otherwise. I didn't even realize that this was due to the video buffering so much until years later when I was showing it to another friend and felt like it was going at a breakneck pace lol.

Fallen Skies. I don't remember anything about this show, but this was another one of the shows I used to watch with my dad and brother every night. This one we watched for longer though so even though I don't remember the show itself, I have fond memories of the time we spent watching it. This was also before my parents got divorced and we were forced to move, so it reminds me of what our old basement used to look like.

Re:Zero. This was another one of the anime I watched early into my "career" watching anime. I had been watching a lot of FMAB at the time, and still didn't really know much about anime (so I didn't even know what isekai was). I watched it by myself and I couldn't really place how I felt about it for a while. It seemed really good, but I didn't know anybody that had seen it (as opposed to everyone that I knew saying that stuff like FMAB and AoT and everything was the best of anime). I ended up rewatching it at least 4 or 5 times thinking it was good, but unsure if it was just me or not. Eventually Season 2 came out and I rewatched it with a friend and they finally made me feel like I wasn't crazy and said it was amazing lol. It wasn't until about halfway through the second season that I realized the first season was highly acclaimed. Season 2 also reminds me of when I would watch the show weekly with a ton of friends. We'd all get in a discord call and watch it together on Watch2Gether. It was a fun time, and while we still occasionally do it, we don't do it nearly on the scale we used to. Hunter x Hunter, No Game No Life, Made in Abyss, and Mob Psycho 100 are all other shows that I watched in this era and thus have fond memories of.

Steins;Gate. I distinctly remember watching the entirety of S;G (not 0, that was more drawn out). I had watched HalcyonMusic's "100 anime songs in 30 minutes" piano medley a TON of times, trying my best to follow along myself (largely unsuccessfully), and I wanted to watch some of the shows from it (video link: https://youtu.be/JPZ-QyVBOf8?si=cLMYPoJyUK05UT_v&t=1067). I had added anything that sounded good to my to watch list, and one of the songs I really liked was Gate of Steiner. It sat on my watch list for ages until eventually I decided to watch it. I read the description on whatever pirate site I was going to use to watch it, and saw that it was about some organization and a mad scientist. This led me to believe that Okabe's insane ramblings were actually all real for half of the first episode lol. I know a lot of people say that S;G has a slow start, but I was IMMEDIATELY invested, and ended up watching half the entire show until around 3AM. I had online morning classes (was in high school during COVID), so I went to bed right as one of the saddest parts had occurred. This led to me stewing in the depression in my bed for a while and I ended up crying to it. This was the first show I had cried to in probably over 5 years, and I don't think anything has made me cry since. After waking up I did my online class and the proceeded to finish the entire series, meaning I finished the entirety of Steins;Gate within 24 hours. After this I spammed my friends on discord and about a week later started watching it with one of them. After watching with him, I watched it with another friend. Then another. Then another. This happened so many times that in the end I think I had watched the show with 5 or 6 different people, and had seen the show 10-11 times (due to rewatches). It is still my all time favorite show, despite how much I love Fate.

Fate. I had to put this on there. It's my favorite overall series (while S;G is my favorite individual show). I had heard somebody in an ani-piano discord community I was in talk about it, and it seemed interesting so I asked what it was about. This led to me getting the whole "well the community is very divided on where to start" talk, which ironically made me even more interested. I started making my own list of the watch order and how everything worked together in order to figure out what everything was. The thing was, I did this pretty much by myself, so I got A TON of misinformation that I have no idea how I got. Apparently Grand Order was the 1st Holy Grail War, Apocrypha was the 3rd, and a ton of other super weird things. Eventually I watched UBW, enjoyed it, and watched Zero and REALLY enjoyed it. There were only 2 HF movies at the time so I didn't watch that until the third came out. I'm now really into Type Moon as a whole and intend to play through a bunch of their VNs. I just haven't had the time yet.

Switching gears a bit, I'm going to go into books for a second. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. My mom actually recommended I read this book, and I read it on her old Kindle. This was the only thing I had ever really read on a kindle, until recently when I bought my own and have started re-reading some of my old favorite series. I also look fondly on it because it was my mom's suggestion.

Talking about how my mom suggested the previous one, she also had me watch Game of Thrones with her. I feel bad because I am a very quiet watcher of things, so I showed pretty much no reaction to a lot of the really good twists despite them really surprising me. Even so, I enjoyed my time watching it with her. I also watched The Tudors with her and while I didn't enjoy it as much as GoT it was also really good.

There's probably TONS more that I could put if I were to think of it, but these are the first that came to mind. A vast majority of the reason I enjoy watching shows is due to being able to watch them with others, or the circumstances that led me to watch them. I could put shows like Code Geass down, for a very memorable argument following the final episode of R1, or the fact I knew about the series from Madder Sky, or that I watched a "meme' that literally had the entirety of the Zero Requiem before watching it only to completely forget what happens (ok that's a good one I should have put it down). Or I could put down something like Star Wars, which I have enjoyed with my brother since I was a kid. Another great contender is Erased, which was the first anime I got my sister to watch, and was the thing that finally allowed me to show here how good anime can be, and why I enjoy it so much. Doctor Who I have watched with my family quite a bit, restarted every time we finally wanted to try getting into the Capaldi era before inevitably giving up (insert Sisyphus meme here). Pretty much every show I watch has some sort of significance to it because I watch shows as a social experience. I pretty much only have 4 hobbies and that's TV, Video Games, Books, and Music. Because of that, the only way I really bond with people is getting them to watch, read, or play something with me. I'm hoping eventually my friend that is learning guitar gets to the point we can play stuff together to add music to that list of things to do with friends lol.

Thanks a lot for the question. Sorry again about how long it took me to respond to it. I have been super busy and I had way too much stuff to say to respond on mobile lol. I hope the fact that I ranted so long makes up for it.

#ask #anime #books #Bleach #Your Name #Fallen Skies #Re:Zero #Steins;Gate #Fate #miss peregrines home for peculiar children #Game of Thrones #The Tudors #Is it clear I suck at making tags #Code Geass #Star Wars #Erased #Doctor Who #post that is way longer than was probably expected by the person who asked

[failbettergames]

any games you'd recommend? could be for any reason! (similarity to fallen london, you know the people who made it, you just think it's neat, etc.) besides your own, of course, I already own all of those :)

Yes, here's a list of all of the games we talked about in our newsletter last year:

Birth: an adventure puzzle game about constructing a creature from spare bones & organs.

Scarlet Hollow: an immersive, episodic horror-mystery.

Egypt: Old Kingdom: a strategy simulator of the Great Pyramids period.

The Past Within is a fun, eerie way to spend an hour with a friend.

The Pale Beyond: high stakes on the frozen wastes, Sunless Sea feelings. 

King of the Castle: medieval monarch party game.

Stray Gods: an urban fantasy, musical visual novel featuring the gods of Greek myth.

Vampire Survivors: so moreish.

Knotwords: extremely satisfying crossword-anagram-puzzle game.

The Banished Vault: so gorgeous it actually makes us a bit cross.

Astronaut the Best: an anarchic comedy about assembling a team of hapless astronauts. 

El Paso, Elsewhere: supernatural neo-noir shooter, in which you must destroy the villain you loved - even if it means dying yourself.

Thank Goodness You're Here: may be the only game that’s more British than the ones we make.

The Fabulous Fear Machine: pulpy horror narrative strategy.

WORLD OF HORROR: Junji Ito-adjacent roguelike.

Lies of P: tickles your Fromsoft fancy. 

The Lamplighters League: essentially 1930s supernatural XCOM 

Tails Noir (formerly known as Backbone): gorgeous, bleak, compelling and unsatisfying in equal measure. 

Mediterrea Inferno: a spicy story about finding yourself after isolation.

DotAGE: manage a village where the Village Elder has helpfully precise visions of the future.

Slay the Princess: the princess is very bad and you have to kill her. 

VR remake of The 7th Guest: very fun, silly and far less punishing than the original. 

Astrea: Six-sided Oracles: interesting dice-and-deckbuilding system. 

Return of the Obra Dinn: truly a modern classic.

#fallen london #sunless sea #sunless skies #games #indie games #wait i have more things to say

[retroactivebakeries]

#the vriska of fallen london #fallen london #sunless skies

[the-clay-quarters]

pros and/or cons to drinking around engineers

#fallen london #sunless skies #love the royal society #its just a bunch of insane nerds in their natural habitat #sskies #officially noticed #originals

[house-of-mirrors]

Thanks to @neathbowprideflag for the idea:

Please don't put answers in the tags!

#fallen london #fl spoilers #sunless skies spoilers #railway spoilers #lore spoilers #poll

[local-ragamuffin]

Sunless Skies is 60% off on steam right now buy it buy it BUY IT

#sunless skies #fallen london #sunless sea

[thedeafprophet]

Queen Victoria's take on her appearances in the hit game series Fallen London

#i said i was going to make this #and im forcing all of you to see it #fallen london #sunless skies

[mancatrex]

Fanart of @hannahmationstudios's Fic Fallen Skies, Chapter 23

It's a wild one! SO MANY FEELS!

#horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #my art #painting #fic illustration #fallen skies #ared #fallen skies ared #aloy #monochrome

[hannahmationstudios]

Original Horizon-verse character from an original tribe? Don't mind if I do. Here he is: my Horizon OC, Ared, from my HFW fic, Fallen Skies [Aloy/Kotallo, longfic, slow burn with horror/action/adventure elements]. He's from a tribe to the far East called the Erie, and he has some... interesting ideas about his and Aloy's future. Nothing bad could possibly come from something like that... right?

#horizon zero dawn #horizon forbidden west #original character #ared #kotaloy #my art #artists on tumblr #hfw fanfic #the fic is kotaloy thus the kotaloy tag #sorry for any confusion #fallen skies #fallen skies horizon

[grimm-the-tiger]

I feel like we need a better name for the “Victorian London has been relocated to a slightly more miserable place than normal and now you gotta resource manage” genre of game. 

#fallen london #sunless sea #sunless skies #frostpunk #i can't believe it took me this long to realize fl and frostpunk are basically the same formula with WILDLY different tones #one is 'london is underground and now there are cosmic horrors #also you can bang a squid' #and the other is 'the world is an icy hellhole survival is all that matters and humanity sucks' #it's like the 'someone will die of fun' meme #but in game format

[straightboyfriend2]

The Fallen London/Sunless series would actually be the perfect place for like, anime cat girls to exist, because no one would care. They'd be as miserable and gritty like everyone else.

Like: "Me mate Kevin went to go ponder the Orb That Turns You Into Jellied Eels.... nya" but in the meanest Irish accent you've ever heard

#failbetter games #fallen london #sunless sea #sunless skies