#sky rambles

[skybristle]

#sorry this is the only way i could summ my thoughts #sky rambles #rain world #rw watcher #rw nightcat

[sky665]

Just found out there’s apparently a super amazing HTTYD show out in the Beijing Universal Studios. And it’s got some really nice 2D animated bits to it! Gif-ified-em!

#httyd #how to train your dragon #universal studios #animation #sky rambles #Not to mention amazing dragon puppets and a Toothless one that can fly over the audience #Such good things we got in the world today #dragons

[fly-sky-high-bug-games]

"For how long do you intend to play this little game of yours with me? When will you cut to the chase already? Or are you afraid, Taka?"

"Do you fear I will burn your heart until there is nothing left of it?"

#sky rambles #hollow knight #oc #muse: Taka #grimm #oc x canon #don't worry this is normal this is how they flirt

[forbiddnsky]

i want a love i don't have to beg for

#on love #sky rambles #sad sky hours #soft sky hours

[fly-sky-high-arts]

I do want to talk about sharing art online from the perspective of a hobby freelancer but before that I'll just toss this tidbit I mentioned on my main

Reblogs are not numbers. Reblogs are meant to share and pass on artwork that someone may like. NO ONE is forced to reblog anything BUT it is a core of engagement in a space like tumblr. Engagement is what brings in interest after all and it's one piece of what makes it important for freelance artists here.

When you look at the numbers and the notes, we need to stop viewing them and comparing them with likes (me included) or total in general. It doesn't help.

Artists do self rebloging to both show or remind folks they've done some work as well as to nudge people to reblog their stuff. Tags are nice and comments in them are a nice way to engage too but passing on the work, especially to help someone to get noticed, is a good way to just work the site as intended.

It will always be about luck because we can't guess who wants to engage with what online. You also can't blame yourselves for this. Don't use the internet mentality of "content" (eugh!) and "flopping" and go about it that way. People find stuff I drew years back and find ways to engage with it now. It's really about luck.

There are things that can help but I'll go about it in another post.

One more thing. Don't be shy about "shilling". Advertise your open commissions, your patreons or ko-fis. I promise it has nothing to do with how big of an artist you are. Remember that you're doing that within your own zone so "bothering" followers is hardly the case, it's your house. Make a tag for it if it helps your mind. I say as someone with social anxiety.

#sky rambles #sorry I know this topic has been everywhere but it made me have so much on my mind #I also vibe on Savvy's streams when I can and artists chatting there make a lot of good points and HELPFUL tips! #so I end up thinking about stuff like this a lot #freelancing is hard #it's also not a job that's sustainable where I live #but also because I can't pace my work differently because I will hate it then #and I don't want to hate working what I enjoy doing #and numbers can really add to that because it turns into 'content' mentality #(i swear i am becoming allergic to that word it physically makes me recoil every time) #it's about finding what works for you EVEN IF IT'S BUSINESS #you NEED to pace yourself HOW IT WORKS FOR YOU and not what brings more money #as unfortunate as that may sound #otherwise you will burnout fast and hate every bit of it

[the-sky-queen]

Everyone is a person.

Everyone you meet irl is a person. Everyone you meet online is a person.

Everyone you like is a person. Everyone you don't like is a person. Everyone who likes you is a person. Everyone who doesn’t like you is a person.

That artist is a person.

That writer is a person.

That guy whose views you disagree with on a fundamental level is still a person.

The one who's "right" is a person.

The one who's "wrong" is a person.

The one sitting on the fence is a person.

No matter what they've said, or done, or anything, they're still a person.

They came from the same place as you and they're ultimately going the same place as you, regardless of where either of you believe that is.

They're all people.

Just like you.

So treat them like a person.

#let's all be nice to each other okay everyone? #Sky Queen #Sky rambles #important

[defining-skyology]

Defining Darkness.

I need to decide what I want to do here.

I could just tell you what I think the Answer (to each topic) is, and what led me to that. But instead, I want to ask as many questions as possible. If I'm alone in my echo chamber, I need to be my own worst enemy, the most thorough critic possible. I want to make this fun (for me).

So let's strip this down to the most barebones it can be, and dive into the wonderful world of Lexicology: the study of words.

Darkness.

Darkness, according to Wikipedia, is defined as:

A lack of illumination

An absence of visible light, or

or a surface that absorbs light.

Darkness is a concrete, normal concept about real life, but it has transcended beyond its immediate definition to become a steeple of powerful metaphors expressing endless bounds of human emotion.

Darkness is used to paint a picture of evils, unknowns, dangers beyond the warmth of the sun. Darkness eats the sun, holds it hostage and drains hope, love, and joy. Darkness wants, it hungers, and it schemes. It has a plan. And worst of all, it's very patient.

...at least in writing.

Darkness can mean anything a writer wants it to mean, so it can mean all of those, and it could mean none of those!

Our job as Lore theorists, is to observe what this word means to Sky, and what picture should be painted in our head when we try to understand exactly, just what 'darkness' is.

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Because to the unaware, when they first hear of a "Darkness" in Sky, their minds go to every far corner possible that I had just poetized above.

There is an inescapable tendency among fanfic writers and OC designers to relish and drool over the idea of 'the bad guy'. We are craving an antagonist, and we paint them in our thoughts the moment a crumb of content leans in that direction.

And even better than an antagonist; we are itching for an antihero. For some kind of 'opposite' side against the light. Something to represent our rebellions and battles in real life as we rage against the machine, for whatever our machines are.

"Dark" creatures, "dark" skykids, "dark" elders; a world of possibility opens up and we just can't help ourselves, not even the devs!

[Official Sky concept art by Tom Zhao]

But enough about Lexicology (the study of words (if you forgot)).

What about what we can actually see in person? (In game)

As we begin to observe the world around us, we have an immediate official Rule that every theorist seems to agree on:

If it hurts your Light, it's Darkness.

[By the way, damage to your Flame is not damage to your Light. This will someday make sense later.]

The game warns us early on to 'protect your Light', and as we travel through the realms we find creatures that attack us; creatures that the game warns in loading screens are 'dark' entities, "hungry for your light". The rainfall and sludge in wasteland are also harmful to your Light, showing that Darkness may be carried in water.

Within this rule we now have a small list of Things-That-Hurt-Us:

Forest rain

Wasteland water

Darkness crabs

Dark Dragons (Krill)

Shardfall, and Dark Shards

And for the loremoffy, that leaves them with a bunch of questions and dots to connect. Starting with the creatures on the list, we're instantly alarmed, especially as moths entering the false temple for the first time. These two 'enemies' are canonically named by quests and loading screens as 'dark' creatures. "Are they dark evil minions of the bad guy??" gasps the moth, audibly. They certainly seem evil, attacking you with no [some] hesitation. If they are 'a part of' the Darkness, then that seems to guarantee the Darkness wants/exists to attack Light.

And what of signs of 'evil' darkness that don't appear to hurt you?

Darkness plants, also canonically named so, don't hurt you, but, foreign and invasive in appearance and nature, they do seem to be uninvited guests in a land that didn't really expect them. They appear in places that are wet and dimly lit, and have been seen to trap exposed light, be that smaller creatures of Light, memories of Light (released by Shardfall or memory/spirit quests), and lastly, the spirits of Ancestors, who's shells have been cracked and exposed to the Darkness.

The plants appear to keep and store Light, mostly inside small orb-like sacs. This along with the fact that it traps Beings of Light and memories of Light, seems to show that whatever this 'Darkness' is, it doesn't 'get rid' of Light, but rather bury it, keeping it perpetually contained, encased within a strange tomb indefinitely.

More official concept art by Tom Zhao

These things are slowly and painfully choking the land, killing whatever still dares to perch on the ground. They may or may not be 'evil', but whatever they are, they're a plague, a disease. Are they what make the Dark creatures the way they are, or do Dark creatures and Dark plants all appear because of something deeper down the rabbithole?

We follow the trail of Darkness, worse and worse as we grow near its source, and find that the worst of the Darkness comes from the ruined kingdom's heart of society. Whatever Darkness is, the Ancestors obviously seem to have something to do with it. From here the lore moth can trail down a few paths. The Ancestors were either the direct cause of this Darkness, or created it by accident. It was either directly connected to whatever they were doing, or they didn't expect Darkness to be a factor at all. Regardless, we'll look at why Darkness is on another day.

But What is it?

The goal of an Answer is to be able to summarize everything you know about a subject, into a bitesize, consumable, tolerable answer. And to answer what Darkness is, after all of this blog-long research and meditation; one specific word is the Answer.

noun

noun: pollution

the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.

Pollution is the word that matches everything we know about the way this Darkness spreads. It has been introduced into the environment by the Ancestors, and is affecting the world. Pollution contaminates and poisons, killing the world with no intent of its own, but destroying everything nonetheless. This is the perfect word for what we've seen in our journey so far.

But how does this tie back in to the beginning of this post?

We had determined that the possible definitions of Darkness ellicit:

Lack of Light

Opposite of Light

An Evil

Absorption/Burying of Light

We are beginning to find that Darkness in the world of Sky does not 'lack' Light, as it instead traps and stores Light in a perpetual sleep.

🚫 [Darkness]: a lack of Light

We have also found that, being released by the Ancestors of the ancient kingdom, Darkness is not seemingly malicious, but instead a force, a storm, almost 'natural' in its ways, with no conscious mind of its own. We cannot create a face of pollution in real life enough to visualize an antagonist we can 'defeat', unless you generalize a concept of rich old fat men. It is the same way with Darkness in Sky. It's probably not 'evil', but it's not okay.

🚫 [Darkness]: an ancient evil

But we have confirmed that it does absorb Light, which is a concrete definition of 'darkness' in the dictionary.

[Darkness]: content that absorbs Light ✅✅✅

And because of that, we've come full circle! 🎊🎉🎇

Wait, we didn't address if our Darkness is or is not synonymous with the definition "opposite of Light"...

Well, maybe it's better we hold off on that thought for now. Because in order to say it's the opposite of Light, first we have to Define what Light is. And I think its safe to say we won't get there for a while. 😅

You're crazy if you actually read all of this, but thank you so much.

I think I'm really going to enjoy making these, so long as I can make them s l i g h t l y coherent. Have a good day/night yall!

#sky children of the light #sky children of the light lore #sky cotl #sky cotl lore #sky game #sky lore #sky rambles #skychildrenofthelightlore #skychildrenofthelight #skycotl #skycotllore #skycotlstory #sky children of the light story

[cuckhowell]

my biggest flex and also regret is that my little sister and i both got into our tatinof show with the weird stories from our childhood but my little undiagnosed autistic self couldn’t fathom that they were talking about us and making jokes so i just ended up being a 15 year old screaming at them as if they would respond in the middle of the show and that truly keeps me up at night.

#like i was a heckler #it was bad #but it was such a crazy thing that we both got in the show back to back i was just stunned #anyway #sky rambles #dan and phil #dnp #dan howell #phil lester #tatinof

[skykashi]

I keep discovering Sasusaku and Naruhina blogs that blocked me because they think I'm an SNS shipper and SNS blogs that blocked me because they think I'm Sasusaku or Naruhina shipper while in reality all I care about is obsessing over Kakashi 😂 like it's so funny because I don't even do ships, I'm not against or with any ships, shipping was never my thing and the few times I ever reblogged anything that's considered shippy it's either because it's a very well drawn art that looks so pretty or it's a very cute post or a very funny joke, regardless of whatever characters or ships in it, even the very few times I drew any shippy arts it was either for a friend or for my Facebook page's followers. This is 100% neutral territory, I'm only here to fangirl on this beautiful man, I promise 😂

#sky rambles

[skylardoesthings]

WHAT THE HELL GAME.

#Sky rambles #inazuma eleven #ina11 #midorikawa ryuuji #kiyama tatsuya #kiyama hiroto #aliea gakuen #IM SO :FROWN:

[fly-sky-high-09]

Btw absolutely do multiple self reblogs on stuff you post. I get so surprised sometimes I completely miss or just don't ever see the posts people I follow make when they do self reblogs, even if I spend so much time on tumblr. It either gets buried by other stuff or I just don't register them due to the way I scroll (and how much attention I'm paying to it at any given moment)

So heck, please don't worry, please self reblog multiple times if you feel you need to or want to

#sky rambles #eventually they do circle back and I see them because following mutuals does that lol #but still it feels like a self favor to do this multiple times #this aint twitter you won't get shadowbanned or what ever #go off!

[skybristle]

he's here :]

#sky rambles #rain world #five pebbles

[blueskyheadleft010]

I finally finished a Duviri mission after like, completing 60 extra side objectives like a madwoman; and can I just say that despite the coolness of endlessly stacking abilities ontop of one another, the mapping is horseshit???

Firstly, overworld items and side quests don’t appear as icons on the map (like they do in the rest of the Warframe type missions/overworlds). Which is shitty because it forces you to run around endlessly until you find whatever the fuck is making noise or shining in the corner of your vision.

Also the map overlay in the top left is (intentionally??) blurry as hell and is nearly the same shade of color for every building. Which is ugly and also makes me feel like the map isn’t loading in properly. Like wtf??

The mini games are fun tho. Strange, but fun. Only complaint is some start the moment you get close to them, which should instead be optional when I’m trying to do something else at the moment.

Last thing, that really really irks me; unlike the origin system’s gameplay of mapping the main objectives/object you need to interact with, the Duviri missions only highlight locations you need to reach for the main mission, but DOES NOT highlight objects you need to interact with (not counting chests. They show up fine for some reason), making it a living hell for newbies trying to take down the emotional Orwyrm of the hour, and pissing me off by trying to chase the damn thing all over the map and not once telling me the sequence of events I need to do to kill the dragon. (You have to wait until the last second to strike the flying orb, which gives your horse a massive flight speed boost, then you throw your frisbee weapon at the Orwyrm to latch onto its side, akin to a Void Sling ability in the main game, THEN you can reach its head to pilot the thing).

Nowhere is this freaking explained. Not even Teshin helps you until you latch onto the dragon.

I. Hate. This. Lack. Of. Gameplay. Assistance.

Also, if DE wants to keep an engaged audience for that portion of the game, PLEASE LIMIT THE NUMBER OF ROUNDS TO THREE OR MAKE DIFFICULTY LEVELS LIKE EVERY OTHER MISSION IN WARFRAME. I DONT WISH TO PLAY A SINGLE MISSION FOR OVER AN HOUR AT A TIME.

This has been my Ted Talk about Duviri. Thanks for stopping by.

#warframe #warframe duviri #Warframe game rant #DE please fix your Duviri gameplay #i’m begging you #ted talks #sky rambles #it late #shut up sky

[fly-sky-high-bug-games]

Starting to headcanon that wearing the cloak all the way from the mask down like Dreamers do is not a common way to wear it but that it's more like "prepping the dead for a burial" kind of deal, like a ceremonial thing

Masks will never be covered since they seem to hold importance but a good chunk of the body bellow is a must

Makes me think if the statues of the dead were suppose to represent that, cloaks usually used to wrap bodies like cocooning them for eternal rest but leaving the mask on the face for individual recognition

Dreamers weren't wrapped since they aren't traditionally buried

Edit: Added images with explanations in couple of different reblogs you can see in the notes

#sky rambles #just a thought #reminds me of the vails that folks wear for mourning the dead #maybe that's the mental vibe that lead to this idea #also me liking the idea that Dreamers looked different in other occassions #as in they wore the cloaks differently #like how Herrah's mask was bare like Hornet's in normal cases #EDIT: check reblogs with drawings in the notes

[forbiddnsky]

There is no such thing as "balance" with haram and halal in this dunya. You cannot find a balance between a haram and halal lifestyle. Cut out the Haram for the sake of Allah swt and watch how your heart will heal. We convince ourselves that some sin is necessary, for temporary happiness and instant gratification and then cry ourselves to sleep at night feeling empty. We aren't made for this world, I promise you we weren't. We are meant to thrive in the Akhirah. May Allah swt make us amongst those he is most pleased with and grant us the highest ranking in the hereafter Ameen.

#sky rambles #islam tag #this ramandan is truly opening my eyes #islam

[fly-sky-high-arts]

Before I jump back to commissions again, I'll reopen five fresh sketch slots on my ko-fi to start off this year a little easier~ I still want to draw few more things for myself first before I commit to work again, this break has been doing my artsy mood some wonders!

I'll get to reopening them tomorrow :3

#sky rambles