"My land is the land of the far horizons, of the wide sky. It is the land of grass and wind and galloping hoofs. In summer the wind can be as hot as the breath of an oven, and when the pampas take fire, the line of smoke stretches a hundred leagues and the lions ride our cattle to escape it, looking like devils. The men of my country are brave as bulls and the women are fierce as hawks."
The audio drama adaption for Chapter 24 of The Claw of the Conciliator, 'Dr. Talos' Play: Eschatology and Genesis', is live!
Here's a direct link to it on the Ranged Touch website, but I definitly recommend reading Grant's introduction to the project on Cohost (aswell as the production diary, which I found pretty interesting)!
"What struck me on the beach — and it struck me indeed, so that I staggered as at a blow — was that if the Eternal Principle had rested in that curved thorn I had carried about my neck across so many leagues, then it might rest in anything, and in fact probably did rest in everything, in every thorn on every bush, in every drop of water in the sea. The thorn was a sacred Claw because all thorns were sacred Claws; the sand in my boots was sacred sand because it came from a beach of sacred sand. The cenobites treasured up the relics of the sannyasins because the sannyasins had approached the Pancreator. But everything had approached and even touched the Pancreator, because everything had dropped from his hand. Everything was a relic. All the world was a relic. I drew off my boots, that had traveled with me so far, and threw them into the waves that I might not walk shod on holy ground."
- Gene Wolfe, Citadel of the Autarch. 1983. p. 258.
“There is no category of human activity in which the dead do not outnumber the living many times over. Most beautiful children are dead. Most soldiers, most cowards. The fairest women and the most learned men — all are dead. Their bodies repose in caskets, in sarcophagi, beneath arches of rude stone, everywhere under the earth. Their spirits haunt our minds, ears pressed to the bones of their foreheads. Who can say how intently they listen as we speak, or for what words?”
Meet redacted! It is my fnaf sb sona / oc. Like many other sun and moon lovers they are partly based on the same aesthetic, however redacted never got past to inspection stage but somehow avoided being scrapped.
His nickname is crybaby because of a funny run in with DJMM. When referring to ppl djmm will assign certain songs to them, much like bumblebee from transformers. They were assigned ‘crybaby’ by Melanie martenez. Obviously no one else knows of his existence so the other animatronics are left on a wild goose chase on who crybaby is lol
It basically acts like a desperate groupie, constantly running around trying to be just like their finished products in hopes of being acknowledged at the least. He has a heart attack anytime someone’s sees him let alone speaks to him- he is very VERY much a pick me, not necessarily annoying but definitely a pick me. In terms of personality it is quite shy and embarrassed at first before they take a nose dive into unstable excitement, obsessions and genuine sweet intentions. The anxiety and people pleasing is strong in this one, but they tend to do things that make it worse. Very teasing and will do things that scare you on purpose, not like jump scares but more eerie unsettling, horryfying behaviour kinda creepy. He thinks it’s funny. Pls laugh.
Oh also has a small platonic squish crush on chica since the poster. Sneaks her random stuff it finds.
They have their own self made area called the citadel of zest. It was a prototype branch off area for foxys cove (therefore also the daycare) but never met the light, the only things about it’s concept being a singular chica poster about it. It is located somewhere in the utility tunnels.
They’re body is interesting, with the extra limbs but also the same paws as our loveable bear, the original plan was to give it the classing endo bear and then change the feet and give it gloves. It’s hair is (faux) pigskin fur , soft with memory foam undersstrycture. His eyes are supposed to be permanently closed, but due to technical issues he refuses to close his right. Its is based off of meteors, meteorites, shooting stars, you name it.