The Stars Don't Judge

!nice to meet ya i'm castian! he/him art blog

[canttakemy-eyes-offyou]

after 8 long hours, it is finally done. i love it

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[100ceruleaneyes]

i am honestly in love with this piece but in a very toxic, i-guess-i'll-love-you way. it caused me some pains. got me through a lot more pain. and was one of the best, therapeutic experiences i have ever had. i love drawing these guys' faces sm. and thats not an excuse to look at them for hours on end! i really do!

[stereosonicanimatronic]

ryland grace is aroace. however he is also stratt’s dead wife, rocky’s red string of fate starcrossed soulmate, & intensely violently homosexual for mark “simon iron lung” iplier. all things are true & all things can coexist. peace & love on planet erid

[mellifexfarm]

behold my ugly

[waywardwarren]

I painted your ugly

[canttakemy-eyes-offyou]

If someone asked me at the end I'd tell them, "Put me back in it" I would do it again If I could hold you for a minute I'd go through it again

I couldn't figure out which background i liked the most so here are some of the other options (there were like, ten originally...)

[100ceruleaneyes]

i had this finished or on the brink of finished for like, half a week. idk why but the background fucked me up so much

[lana-is-reading]

part 1, part 2, part 3

very short one today, this is like,,, an interlude between chapters i guess, let's call it part 3.5

posting this mostly to ramble about the amalgamation of thoughts that make up this eldritch AU:

the idea is that the eldritch thing here isn't the iron lung god, or the eel, it is literally the tree that exploded out at the end of the movie

it gained consciousness/became an interdimensional eldritch being (through handwavey fuckery, idk) the moment it exploded out and it killed the eel

also healed simon,, lizard style, he obv aint human anymoe

the reason it is so fond of simon is because they fused and it gained simons memories (and most prominently of his fond and reverent memories of the tree on eden that the tree came out of)

(also of him taking care of the tree in some way, whether its tending to the soil or spilling blood to it)

somewhere in that logic this giant interdimensional plant thought "ah yes this lump of flesh gave me life and my freedom and it yearns for freedom therefore i shall search for a suitable habitat"

then it spent a few moments and an eternity scrolling through universes where it believed its charge would be happiest, found poor grace, saw the same cinematic parallels tumblr saw and said "aight thats the one"

it connected them like,,, cosmically

(not really relevant to the plot but it infected and changed grace the moment he reached back to it in his dreams to become like simon bc the lifespan difference between ryland and rocky devastates me on a daily basis)

(i don't think anyone mentioned it in the comments of part 3 (or at least i didnt see anyone mentioning it) but one of my favorite little details i added is that the tree roots gradually wrap around graces arm and around his ring finger) (hell yea, symbolism) (so i gave the other end of the tether to simon now :) )

another reason for the interlude is i realized that everything i wrote down was in graces pov so i figured id add a bit of simon before i wrap things up (even if hes unconcious)

thanks for listening to my ted talk, if anyone writes something about this begging on my knees send me a link, i find this stupid concept so interesting

[heynhay]

shopping trip

[jullssaa]

Just a little fanart, because I think like most people I'm currently fixated on Project Hail Mary.

[raphalorem]

it doesn't matter

[tedisfishing]

funi in my head, stupid in execution. Anyway, happy pride.

[maybmila]

Lvl up or sum idk

[pumpkinhrat]

She would, in fact, download a car

[tedisfishing]

shoot him into the sky

[tedisfishing]

rat-touille

[tedisfishing]

👎 :)

[bismuthfool]

I'm sure he likes all animals

Simon continues to rejoice at the fact that he can look at recordings of something living existing on Earth

btw, this is one of the first comics I drew about them

[lana-is-reading]

i live! here's part 3 🎉

(working on this again after having to rush to finish work for finals has been a balm on my weary soul, but also i feel slightly insane bc i was tired of drawing and i am recovering by drawing🧎)

part 1, part 2

[lana-is-reading]

here's part 2 of this stupid brainrot if you're unfamiliar here's part 1 🎉

part 3 now up