⁠☆ Jonathan Bell⁠ ☆

----⁠☆---- Jon(athan) Wikka baskets are untrustworthy. Conditional genius. 🥀 ----⁠☆----

[dcartcorner]

whatcha got there?

[marvelousiz]

This is how that scene went right guys

[rqbossman]

I was thinking about the absolute carnage of towerfall - you were in a plane before, you’re dead; you were on a train or you were in a car travelling 60mph, you’re dead (assuming people are back where they started and travelling the same speed as they were before the Event) - like yeah, utter bloody chaos because the implication is everything (planet included) moved for 6 months but the humans are dropped into the exact latitude and longitude that they were before (consistent velocity to be confirmed) - every road is a pile-up, there are plane crashes everywhere, everyone is ✨horrifically✨ traumatised✨ (the bleakness is so wonderful, I adore it)

I asked before about how Jonny nearly killed billions of people - surely it must’ve been something regarding the consequences of towerfall? Did he want the people to be dropped back into the space they were in (sans planet)?

please do tell 😆

I FINALLY get to tell this story! Yay! Enormous Protocol and Archives Spoliers READER BEWARE: Firstly, you should know that whilst @jonnywaistcoat is a big ideas guy, I am normally the one who ends up going off and actually figuring out how things work in the real world. I'm always ending up saying something like "sure that's creepy but that's not how steam trains work. You need to account for the Stephensen Regulator" etc. This means that when @jonnywaistcoat had thoughts as to how Towerfall worked in early Protocol drafts, I was the one who had to try and make it work. We both wanted to make sure that people could begin to rebuild in a meaningful way rather than going full Mad Max but unfortunately I quickly realised that almost every instinct @jonnywaistcoat had for cataclysms generally lead to the irrecoverable collapse of civilisation and death of basically everyone. For instance, we both felt that the actual Hellscape could have lasted longer (in the order of months, not weeks) but no matter how I tried to bend things to fit that timeline, the truth is that human built infrastructure does not recover well from that length of absence. (at least, not in a way that doesn't kill most people from pestilence, starvation and associated wars.) So we had to make it a bit shorter and thankfully we'd already established there was time dilation at play in Archives. (We actually even experimented with it only lasting 1 day but we both decided that wouldn't hurt enough.) The worst case of this kind of logistical horror however, was about locations. @jonnywaistcoatwas was really enamoured with the idea that everyone would arrive back, not where they had left, but instead clumped according to their fears. I.e. Everyone in the Arachnophobic domain turns up in Australia together, everyone in the Nyctophobic domain turns up in Antarctica etc. so I dutifully went away and ran the numbers and no matter how I tackled it I kept coming to the conclusion that this pretty much kills everyone in less than a week due to the massive logistical collapse it causes. (There's actually a really great examination of this on XKCD) Now don't get me wrong, I was all for getting stuck-in telling the story of the bleakest logistical collapse possible but to quote Jonny "that sounds pretty grim and not in a fun way" so in the end we opted to return people where they left (albeit compensating for planetary movement so that we wouldn't accidentally extinct everyone in the most unsatisfying way imaginable). So there you have it. Technically, technically I saved the world including all your favourite characters from @jonnywaistcoat's insatiable bloodlust. You're welcome.

[wreegis]

listening to Alice and im convinced this is what that teaparty looked like

[lunehowls]

good cow

[radladrobin]

What if they came back looking like this...

Manifested from whatever was in the office where they kept the server towers...

Closeups:

Alt pastel-ish version i also liked:

Find more of them at @radrobsgarage

[this-too-shall-bleed]

quite the wager

[janezebu]

Some extra miserable Arthurs

[autumn-doodles]

Its always the devil you know, but what if you are said devil

Kayne wondering who has been fucking with him this whole time and it’s literally the inverted version of himself I love them your honour <3

[menacingmanatee]

~ The One Alone ~

(Another oil painting I did for class! Supposed to match the Jarchivist one)

[lonelyslutavatar]

My guy Heinrich really googled "how to treat a human guest", discovered you're supposed to offer them a seat, and then immediately went to ikea to buy a chair for 60 euros

[fox-wulf]

The eye opens

[menacingmanatee]

Not a brave man, but at times a very stubborn one

(Limited color palette assignment for my oil painting class. I love college <3)

[autumn-doodles]

Antoine De Foile aka Kaynder Egg Surprise

What if Kayne didn’t make Arthur do his dirty work for him… mmmm…..

[autumn-doodles]

Upper Management

Wife v2 drop and I immediately hit him with the invert colours beam INVERT THAT BITCH

Plus a clearer shot of the papers on his desk because at least someone has to read that complaint form because you can sure as shit bet The Manager hasn’t

[mx-paisley]

MALEVOLENT PART 52 SPOILERS AHEAD ‼️ + CW BLOOD

Yesterday I listened to part 52 it was the devastating episode to ever come out of malevolent but im not here to talk about that in this post anyway i got reminded of an unposted drawing I did all the way back in august 2024

Its crazy it looks so much like the ending of 52 except there was no dagger and and arthur was obliderated to bits (im still not over that i cried)

[physical-manifestation-of-spite]

I Died For You [A Malevolent Animatic]

Voice acting and audio by @malevolentcast , who very generously sent me this audio file to use for this animatic. Thank you for creating such a beautiful show.

Background and details under cut

I began this animatic early last year after finding the audio on TikTok. Once I heard it, I was immediately struck with the thought of how those first couple of weeks in the Dark World would be for John immediately after Season 2. It seemed perfectly fitting, how John might be tortured by his guilt and uncertainty if Arthur was even still alive, and that torment would only aid his regression to his more… Kingly qualities.

I began to draft the thumbnails of the animatic in my sketchbook before transferring it to my digital workspace, which was incredibly intimidating at the time. This was my first independent animatic. In last year’s InvictusCon, Harlan popped into my stream as I was explaining my animatic thought process to my viewers, shaking with both excitement and terror. I was stunned when he offered to voice it himself. The next day, he sent me the audio file. To this day, I am still stunned he spent so much time and effort to create something. It was the encouragement I needed to finish a longer-form animatic. It may be only a minute and some change, but this is a whole year of my life condensed - my obsession, my adoration, my passion for not only this podcast but for art in general, both visual and audio.

It’s by happy accident that I finished this right at the cusp of the Season 5 finale. It almost perfectly slots in. So… let’s all pretend that this animatic took me a month to do rather than the year I spent sweating on my couch and complaining about the number of times I forgot Arthur’s wooden finger.