Dude Im Lowkey Simping For The Guide Why He So Cutee 😳✌️

L. Let them cuddle.

(Based on the response to this ask.)

Character designs/AU belong to @aspidateasteism!

Bonus: Wink!

"Prometheus was punished by the gods for giving the gift of knowledge to man.

He was cast into the bowels of the earth and was pecked by birds."

I have so many thoughts about the lunatic cultist...Purity-Town specific things below:

Pre-cult and golden-blue robes, them wielding just a simple silver staff with a sharpened point on the tip, scratching out their spell circles by hand in the dirt, triple-checking they’ve written every rune correct. Carrying a pouch of chalk when they need to draw out a circle on stone.

Then, by hardmode, with the ancient spirits released, with magic once again flourishing in a way it hadn’t in 500 years, them being able to simply spin their staff or wave their hands to create it.

(Stardust dragon staff is there just because I wanted to draw it and it was fairly fitting since they’re a summoner/mage and the phantasm dragon has some strong similarities to the stardust dragon, plus the colors fit, but in the actual story they’d probably have another custom staff of their own.)

I imagine them as a sort of warlock, someone who even in pre-hardmode was able to study and manipulate magic in a way unparalleled since the spirits were locked away 500 years ago, learning and pulling together near-forgotten practices from all sorts of sources to come away with an incredible mastery over it all. Creating dolls and binding them to souls, granting themselves functional immortality, mastering magic (and stealing dark secrets from an eldritch god-level being at the expense of their own sanity), and reviving ancient practices.

(Just thinking of the visual similarities between the ancient manipulator and the demon altars...)

Hauling my spoils home (several pounds of meats and cheeses)

Joined artfight late; here're the attacks I did!

Most of these folks don't have a Tumblr, but I'll put their art fight usernames if you want to find them. Left to right, going up to down: PixelRhys, Catenkaa, IridescentFlight, Dizzyystarrz, Lyssanah, and SlugHooligan.

The original joke was pointing out that Victor Frankenstein dies at the end so maybe jot that down and don’t talk about wanting to be like him when you have two people actively plotting your murder but I think there are maybe more reasons why Frankenstein isn’t a good role model

Anyways yeah I was just thinking about Wheatley’s ranting about literature and then this happened

Aperture is a place of science

Sorry to hijack your post but I’ll offer up two blurry photos of three French pigeons!

[ID: ten photos of various pigeons/End ID]

pigeon appreciation post of all the pigeons ive taken photos of over the years. the first eight are outside a train station in England. the one on the bench is actually near my house pfft, a lil mourning dove

AItober Day 31: Goodbye, Gordon.

"Must this really be the end of our time together? Perhaps you could take the science team's data, transfer us somewhere else, hmm?"

What if Gordon transferred the Science Team's data, per Coomer's last request...onto his desktop?

Introducing the Science Team Ukagakas, downloadable characters that sit on your desktop -- they'll talk to you and to each other, hang out and perform functions for you, and you can interact with them (such as by giving them gifts, asking them questions, and so on.)

They're still in very early development, but there's some more info below the read more!

Before anything else, I would like to state that they are not currently available for download, but ideally will be downloadable once I've gotten them to a basic working level. I'd also like to try and set up automatic updates, but I can't guarantee that that last bit will work. Their text bubbles are also temporary, though I don't look forward to trying to design new ones, haha. I'm new to programming Ukagakas, hence why I'm using Zarla’s template/tutorial (I can’t link or Tumblr will eat this post, but Googling the ashido ukagaka tutorial should get you there), and while I'm getting the hang of the actual coding part, the art takes some time and I'm not the best at writing dialogue for these characters, so bear with me. :)

Ukagakas can have up to two characters together at once, so the Science Team comes in sets -- Bubby and Coomer are always together, Tommy is a single character (to make it easier to potentially add Sunkist or G-Man later), and Benrey is also alone. They function fine just within their "sets", so, for example, you can have only Benrey open at a time and he'll function just fine and have his own content, but he'll also interact with the others if they're open.

You can also customize things such as the pronouns you go by and what name you take, though keep in mind you can't steal their names, and if you continue to go by some variation of "Gordon," they'll have some special dialogue/nicknames. I'll also note that Benrey will continue to say things like "that's pretty gay, bro," no matter what pronouns you use.

Ukagakas also have a feature where you can track mouse movement/clicks on the character themselves, leading to some fun interactions with being able to pretend you're petting/punching/whatever them; as you can see in the shots above, I'm definitely making use of that.

Anywho, long-winded speech over! I'll make a proper introductory post once they're available for download. If you have any ideas for character interactions/dialogue/questions to ask/things to gift and so on, feel free to share! You can even have ghosts remember if you've done something before, and how many times, allowing for me to have relationships build/change over time. Lots of potential, if only I can actually get it all coded in! So- yup, feel free to send a PM/ask with any suggestions, or additional questions/comments.

Thanks for reading! :)

frankenstein’s so funny to me. imagine you have a kid in college and then just fucking abandon him at birth, you think you’re free of your problems, but then a few years later your three your old bastard son starts murdering your family members, tells you you’re a little bitch, threatens to kick your ass on a mountain, and also explains that he learned how to speak so eloquently by reading paradise lost. that’s victor’s life. that’s victor frankenstein’s whole fucking life. i love it so much.