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Lan Wangji Goes To Lotus Pier AU: Part 3: Enveloping Feelings.

(Part 1, Part 2, Part 4 (soon))

cleaning out the files, sonic sketch edition

Think I Might Stream Something In A Half Hour Or So

Vacant 💫

Tma characters as hyperspecific non-categorised experiences.

Jon: Trying not to fall asleep on the bus when it's cold and dark outside.

Martin: The slightly firm texture a fluffy blanket has before you wash it for the first time.

Tim: Sipping a cocktail without realised how cold it is, the ice brushing your lips.

Sasha: The slightly artificial but altogether natural scent of fresh homemade popcorn.

Basira: When you spill rose oil on your hands and they smell like it for the rest of the day.

Daisy: The sting of a burnt tongue from a sip of scalding coffee.

Melanie: The taste in your mouth after you spit out chewing gum that's lost its flavour.

Georgie: Pressing your hand into a brand new feather pillow

Elias: Accidentally putting your hand in your mouth after using hand sanitiser.

Some more Altair!! :D I’m so flattered by the reaction to my boy ;;v;; <3 <3 Ya’ll are incredible TvT <3 <3 Originally I mean to post these with the first image, but The illustration looked so good on its own... I couldn’t find a way to get them all to look nice xD I’ll ramble a little bit below the cut about Character details/ideas i”ve had so far :D

- Altair is 16! Right now I’m leaning towards making him shorter than both Deuce and Ace SDFLKJSDGLDSG - He didn’t have white hair before being Isekaid into Twisted Wonderland. That is a new feature, and one he has mixed feelings about. -If its not parsible enough, the armband emblem is supposed to be Grim’s Face!! :D The idea was inspired by Crowley calling Yuu a beastamer! - The blue And Orange-ish red-ish earring are supposed to represent Ace and Deuce. :3 They are his best friends, and Altair appreciates them a lot. - He’s Conflict avoidant for the most part, but once and a while he whips out the driest, most piercing comeback, and everybody is left either shocked or wheezing. - He does use some dry delivery or sarcasm pretty frequently besides that too (ei when I was first playing the game and Trey started calling Ramshackle a Dump before switching words, my first thought was “No, No you can say it, that’s exactly what it is” xD) - A lot of the personality I haven't figured out yet!! I’ll probably be playing that by ear when I construct shenanigans xD - The more people he befriends the larger his Tsundere Protection squad grows xD - He is not a shipping OC!! I will not be shipping him with anybody :D - For anybody who’s seen my whumptober with Leona being stabbed, that was Altair! The art/concept for him was already drawn at that point :D Its not much xD But its what I got for now!!! I don’t usually make OCs, but Twst offered me an organic way to do so, so this was fun. :D I’m excited at the possibility of doing more with him down the road.

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anyone who knows me irl knows my ISAT brainrot has been unreal so huge thanks to @insertdisc5 for inspiring me to draw fanart

two versions because i couldn't make up my mind

(cordoned off over explaining)

okay okay so the colorful one in particular is inspired by the cover art for MIKA's Life in Cartoon Motion, which is the album that has Relax, Take it Easy in it. which is ALSO in Siffrin's character playlist on spotify, and is also by the same reasoning the song i've been playing over and over basically ever since i heard it.

also also inspired by????? the nebulous canonization of colors in isat yo where did they GO ???

Soft Mkulia? Soft Mkulia (I'm a sucker for evil couples that are soft to each other) No scars on Mk bc I'm lazy, I tried to doodle the beanies but it looked awkward so.. No beanies

"The confident reach of his arms as he leans in for a hug is a déjà vu in the back of his skull, sudden and instinctual, so right, especially when Ranboo meets him midway with desperation the likes he hadn't felt in years."

Here's an experimental piece of fanart I made for my fanfiction, you can read it here if you haven't already :)

OM! Nightbringer players, I have a serious question. How do you play Ruri tunes?

I wanted to ask because I find you have really good takes on arknights ships most of the time so I’m genuinely curious what the deal with PlatiNearl is. I don’t remember them interacting much in the Kazimierz events and I assume the ship is popular because they were some of the only kazimierz operators from when Arknights started. You don’t have answer if you don’t want to of course, but I want to know what it is about the ship that you like if you wouldn’t mind explaining

Huh. I don't believe I've talked about ships that much, but I was originally baited by the Near Light 3D PV. They played up a sort of rivalry or climactic showdown between Ideal Knight and Knight-Assassin... only for them to never exchange a single word in any event. Needless to say, I was disappointed. Though it wouldn't be the first time. Also NLPT isn't really popular at all, at least in EN.

Regardless, it did get me thinking about the potential. Even if they don't say anything to each other directly, Platinum does have a voice line about Nearl, and her operator record has Nearl show up in her dream. Also Plat's whole deal is that she's assigned by the Armorless Union to keep an eye on Nearl.

On the surface it's knight and knight-killer, positions that are fundamentally opposed and can never truly meet on the horizon as the KGCC has a hold on both. One is stuck in darkness, the other in light. Nearl (at first) wears mostly black, Platinum is all white. Nearl is pretty old-fashioned, Plat is a bit of a fashionable girl. Nearl is serious and disciplined, Plat is casual and wants to coast by on life. Nearl has a hidden dorky side to her personality while Plat, despite her lackadaisical nature, enjoys simple frivolous pleasures. They're pretty clear opposites.

It's no secret that Platinum hates knights. According to her, they’re either muscle-headed jocks or self-obsessed assholes (and she knows what she’s talking about; she was one of them) What pisses Plat off the most about Nearl is that Nearl is neither. Nearl is what a knight SHOULD be and Platinum is just astounded that after all these years, after all this time, she’s acting like being a knight actually means something. It pisses her off so much because why? To run the risk of being left behind by stubbornly clinging to what some might call outdated ideals... deep down, I think she can’t help but admire Nearl too. There's something admirable about believing in the romanticism of true knights in a world so determined to quash you under its boots. For all she knows, the world has moved on from knights, but Nearl disagrees. There's value in keeping the ideal alive in a world that seemingly dismissed it but is also in desparate need of it. Nearl is not the artificial lights of Kazimierz that Plat is used to, but actual light.

I also want to say that Plat resents Nearl because Nearl had the chance to escape Kazimierz, but came back instead. Plat wants nothing more than to be free from her current life. So to see Nearl willingly return to the place that made her life hell? It’s infuriating. How can she think this rotten country can be fixed, when Platinum herself can't see any light at the end of the tunnel? They're both victims, but how is it that their outlooks are so different?

Pictured: Juxtaposing the symbolism of Nearl standing alone but bathed in light, who's still adored by many, while Platinum stands in shadow, surrounded by others but in reality she has no one and has to fend for herself in a cutthroat organization she hates. Their respective loneliness and isolation...

The events reveal that Platinum is quite compassionate. She didn't become an assassin to kill people; rather, she was coerced into it by someone taking advantage of her emotions. Yes, her job is to monitor Nearl, but she doesn't want to hurt her. She sees that Nearl has been away from her family and just wants her to be with them, likely projecting her own feelings of being estranged from her own parents.

This is more going into extrapolation of their characters and circumstances, but yes, Platinum kidnapped and threatened Maria to use as leverage but I have to wonder if Nearl would actually hold that against her should she learn about Plat having been manipulated into a job she desperately wants to leave. Also I think just based on Nearl’s voice lines about not pursuing enemies and giving them another chance to change their life trajectory, she’d feel sympathetic for Plat’s situation if she ever learned that she was tricked into it and couldn’t easily leave.

I just really like the idea of a slow-burn where Nearl herself is actually against Plat at first because of said kidnapping but eventually learns about her situation and how Plat is trapped and miserable. Her distrust and wariness turns to pity and then gradually concern. Nearl’s strong desire to help people compels her to try and find a way if she can help the girl she has mixed feelings about. In Plat's op rec, Nearl's appearance implies that both of them can never truly escape the shadow of the KGCC. If they come calling, Plat will eventually have to answer. Nearl still has to watch her words and actions now that she's back in Kazimierz, otherwise her friends get targeted.

Compare and contrast Nearl the ideal knight who stuck by her morals versus Platinum who just did what she was told under threat of retribution and how they both ended up getting screwed over by the system anyway, the unwinnable Kazimierz competition scene. Alternately, an assassin falling for their mark? That's the stuff of novels. Something that actually happened to Platinum's predecessor, and for her to follow in his footsteps?

NLPT slow-burn because both of them aren’t sure how to feel about the other. Plat avoiding her, it’d be so easy to blame all her problems on Nearl; if she didn’t exist, she wouldn’t be in this predicament. and Nearl always second-guessing Plat’s intentions... I have a scene in my head that’s basically like: too much of their dynamic is rooted in the place that changed their lives for the worse. But at Rhodes Island, they are not assassin nor knight, but comrades. And as her comrade, Nearl will die for Platinum, if need be. She was willing to die for Firewatch too, despite Firewatch also claiming to despise knights.

My personal compromise between a Sonic who never shuts up and one who barely says anything would be to give him a constant inner monologue that he routinely forgets to share with anyone ever

I don't like this, but maybe someone else might.

trying to practice anatomy and shading/lighting, because I'm struggling-

It's freaking 2 am maybe I'll like it more in the morning