Day 12: Pearly Pop!!

@a-plethora-of-peters’ So Much for Stardust au has had me in a chokehold the past few days, so... ART! Fic link below (READ IT I say) as well as me talking about things

Ft. aliens Zed, Tango, and Impulse (still tweaking Imp design) and a very traumatized human Skizz

Warnings! Blood, scars, but also hugs n comfort :')

Fic Link:

So Much For Stardust - Chapter 1 - Cringe_Is_Dead (A_Plethora_Of_Peters) - Hermitcraft SMP [Archive of Our Own]

Quick summary for context, it follows human Skizz after he was abducted from earth by the "Defectors" and essentially tortured and treated like an animal before being rescued by space cops. Team ZIT is a group of scientists whose job is to determine how intelligent alien species are, and they're tasked with figuring it out for Skizz in order to know what crime the Defectors will be convicted of (were they poaching & murdering animals or people?). But they don't speak English, so good luck with that. And Skizz has trauma. :]

Now excuse me while I wax eloquent on random things about the art and the fic itself:

I don't think it's difficult to tell, but my favs are Impulse and Skizz lol. I don't usually like drawing them all so differently from their minecraft skins (especially Tango, in this case), but decided to just go all out making them look a lil alien and I think I went too far for Imp. Might redo, give him more skin instead of scales. Also, his clothes r just grey bc I couldn't figure out what colors to give that wouldn't clash horribly lmao.

Also in case you couldn't tell, I ADORE the hurt/comfort this fic has, the concept is so fascinating and just PERFECT for this kinda thing, the angst is delectable. It's the kind of fic where the longer you consider the scenario that Skizz is in, the more tragic and heartbreaking it gets, for everyone involved. I tried drawing a couple other hug/comfort scenes but scrapped them bc I didn't like how they turned out, might retry later.

As for the fic itself, I'm very excited to see where it goes, hanging on the edge of my seat. I only learned about it like 5 days ago and I think I've read it 3 times (AND ITS OVER 100k WORDS???), not to mention how I reread my favorite scenes over and over (chapter 10 ESPECIALLY, I tried to draw like 7 times but it was all hot garbage lol). I'm slightly worried but also itching to get to the climax they mentioned in the last update. I have a couple theories/ things I kinda want to happen.

First, they've mentioned a few times that ZIT doesn't have the data on what the Defectors actually did to Skizz, even though they should have had it from the start. This hints at 2 VERY juicy things, one, that they're being sabotaged. It seems the Defectors are trying to prevent ZIT from determining Skizz's sapience, and in the absolute worst-case scenario, I can see this going so far as them trying to hurt/kidnap/kill Skizz while he's under their protection, which would be just... evil >:))) and traumatizing. and scary. it would just be so juicy if they got separated after all this bonding and healing and growing love they got for each other. Idk if that's where it's going but we'll see. Second, they're already so devastated every day (especially Zed) by Skizz's obvious trauma and scars, breakdowns, triggers, etc, and they don't even know what happened. But if/when they do get their hands on that information, well... I imagine it'd absolutely break all three of them, to the point where they wouldn't even know what to do with Skizz, they'd feel incredibly guilty, angry, heartbroken, everything over him-- not to mention them becoming overwhelmingly protective over Skizz, wanting to just get retribution on the defectors, maybe break some bones, spill some blood, ya know. (PROTECTIVE IMPULSE PLEASEEEE). Meanwhile Skizz is just tryna eat gapples without hurling and narrowly avoiding panic attacks every time he sees Tango.

I could talk for hours about this, but I think that's enough for now lol. I shall continue to spin them around in my head for the next month, and you should too, I highly recommend.

Is this skizpuls band au posted on any fanfic sites? It’s amazing!!!!

It's not, unfortunately. I might post it on ao3 eventually, but I don't really have the attention span to maintain it long term and putting it on another site feels too "official" or whatever. idk. I already have two other fics I want to prioritize, and this one was completely unplanned lol. Maybe if I end up writing more actual chapters, instead of the random info dumping and art

why do i love this 3rd life skizz skin so much??

i need it back

like

look at him he's so silly :(

This clip has it all. hermit on hermit violence. dubiously family-friendly content. a beautiful woman singing. ethoslab is there.

animation of jimmy getting owned in real life

bonus gif of him celebrating i made for funsies :] oh the oblivious bliss...

last minute decided to participate in skizz's fanart gallery contest!!

check out the voting here

the Pyramid of Skizz by sirchlorox is licensed under CC BY 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"I will delete the world to build a world." WHAT

"HE CAN HURT ME"??? 😭 oh god this skizzly's got some Trauma huh. looking forward to the rest of the month, very excited to see what's in store!!

Skizz is having a bit of a rough time, isn't he 🙃 I wonder why he wrote that in particular..... *cackles evilly*

I just love me a traumatized lil guy, sorry not sorry! And thank you so much for taking the time to translate the secret notes!! I was honestly kinda worried nobody would want to rip

THIS CLIP LMAO

it's also way funnier on 2x speed

transcript under the cut

Skizz: Ohohoho! yes yes yes... (angry) AN ARROW? C'mon man! That better be a really good arrow... I got it... Wait, what is this? The crap is this?! (puts an arrow on his head slot) Oh... *intranscribable maniacal laughter* Oh, I don't hate it! Okay, okay, I'll take it!

Another silent communication moment between them because I am just fascinated with them