above drinking-age * reblogging whatever sparks my interest at the time * just some guy * probably the mum-friend * sensitive bitch * expert of the Holy Ronan Order * tomato-hater with a passion (yuck)
I was tagged by the wonderful @myheartinshambles! Thank you so much bb!! ♡
I'm actually tagging you loves because I have new people I wanna learn more about and updates on my long timers (tagged in no particular order) @bartolomamba @passifaggot @1-jar-of-stars @precociousreader @bucky-thebae-barnes @sophfandoms53 @always-rolling-my-eyes @skyhawkstragedy @padawanduck @taylorslistofexlovers @insertcoolnameherethanks @ziggyuchiha @whoblewboobear @phalpz @funghoul @kyberghoul @gloriousfckingpurpose @kenobion @princessplantasaurus @talesfromthevoid
If you feel left out DON'T I'm 30 and stupid and have had this blog since 2010 and hit a patch of mutuals who have not updated in almost 10yrs and got sad lmao So if you see this and wanna do it DO IT and tag me! I'm trying to yap to more than my three people more :)
1. oddly specific thing that brings me joy: what I call "trivia night" which is going through a bunch of songs by various decades and seeing how many I can identify by the first few seconds. sometimes I do genres too
2. phone wallpaper: i'm doing this on desktop and don't feel like uploading screenshots just know that my lockscreen is trafalgar law and my homescreen is roronoa zoro (portgas d ace and choso are my two pretty boy widgets)
3. are you a morning or night person?: i love getting up early and being productive on days i dont have to work lmao but my body is naturally a night owl
4. favorite scent: anything clean/fresh, lavender, beach, and fresh balsam because I am that annoying christmas friend
5. origin of your username: way back in the day i used to go by various "simply(blank)" and on all other social media I have kodos (simpsons reference) so while I'll always love star wars, it didn't feel right to have lukeslywalkers any more and went back to my roots.
6. song on repeat: i do this thing where I rediscover Zeppelin (my favorite band lmao) every other month and get into these like listening loops and right now I'm back to listening to their best album Houses of the Holy (rain song was literally inspired by my favorite solo artist george harrison and jonesy was a GENUIS on No Quarter). also America Has A Problem Remix with Kendrick staaaays in my On Repeat playlist
7. i will always order this food: any variation of a turkey club. i love a basic sandwich so much
8. current favorite show/movie/book?: current right now favorite show is Apothecary Diaries and JJK, movie is still GDT Frankenstein but also rewatching classic Disney, book I've been a very bad reader and have only been reading fanfic lmao im sorry the creatures in my phone just know how to write my brainworm characters so well
9. last thing you hyperfixated on: the same thing ive been hyperfixated on since like sept of 2023: One Piece lmao i caught up to the anime in Jan and for the last few weeks it has just been me in my room going "i miss one piece :(" while actively reading the manga, fanfics, watching edits and compilations. i also briefly hyperfixated on the original star wars movies there but thats because i got a new tv and soundbar and what like im NOT gonna watch the greatest movies to test ride it?
10. what's your job/occupation, if applicable?: front desk at a urology office! DRINK MORE WATER OH MY GOD
thank you for tagging me even though it took me 800 years to get to it!!!!!
1. oddly specific thing that brings me joy: getting the shade i’m looking for just right when i’m painting. i have really specific preferences and i like when it comes together well.
2. phone wallpaper:
i made my lock screen myself but like. you can probably tell 😭 there’s so much space in the top right corner because my phone didn’t want to fit everything i wanted so i had to compact stuff
and my home screen is a wallpaper from an unknown source but my friend said it reminded her of me before i moved away forever so it’s been there like. 9 months. i’m not going to put it here bc i don’t want to repost anyone’s art but it’s a moon over the tide with various stars around it. and one of them has a music note inside it. it’s very nice.
3. are you a morning or night person?: i do my best work at night!!!
4. favorite scent: i like vanilla and chlorine. not together ofc
5. origin of your username: okay so the fun thing is that i have. No Idea. i’ve had it since 2022 i think? and i was like. 12. and then i changed it for 4 months last year in memoriam before changing it back because i missed it. no idea where it came from though 😭
6. song on repeat: right now it’s been brand new city by mitski!!! orrr way down by adrian lyles!!! and as by stevie wonder!!!
7. i will always order this food: fried rice is one of the foods of all time i know this in my heart. also my local mall has the best picada in the world its ridiculous. it’s chicken, beef, sausage, fries, and fried plantains and they give enough for two people plus a drink of choice and it’s like. 17 dollars.
8. current favorite show/movie/book?: my current favorite shows are one piece live action, interviews with the vampire, and yellowjackets!!! my favorite movies are Sinners, The Long Walk, Lilo and Stitch, and Scream but. s/o to bodies bodies bodies, the truman show, and funny games. and my favorite books are the secret history, the long walk, and the hunger games series!!!
9. last thing you hyperfixated on: Well. this is a long walk blog right now but before that it was a tie between yellowjackets and thg!!!
10. what's your job/occupation, if applicable?: im basically a ticket clerk. its sort of more complicated but. ticket clerk sums it up pretty well
1. oddly specific thing that brings me joy: i need to go on a really long walk every night to the student center on campus to get an ice cream sandwich or i get ridiculously upset. this ritual keeps me grounded.
2. phone screen
enough said.
3. are you a morning or a night person? NIGHT PERSON. i do all my best work after 11 PM and i have a really hard time waking up which sucks because i have an 8:30 AM like every day of the week this semester
4. favorite scent: i really like when things smell kinda earthy and clean but idk the exact word for it. and i like lavender.
5. origin of your username: sunrise on the reaping lol, i made this blog back in july or august and it's meant to be a joke about how haymitch had the tendency to overshare. he's a yapper! haymitch yapper-nathy. bc he's me. i also like to yap.
6. song on repeat: uuhhhhhhhh the entirety of AMoT by laufey i am very obsessed with it right now it's very stolson to me
7. i will always order this food: MMMMMM CHICKEN PAD THAI FROM THIS PLACE OFF CAMPUS MMMMMMMMM
8. current favorite show/movie/book: well my favorite book has always been les mis and always will be. but i'm very THG pilled and TLW pilled rn in terms of movies and books (the 2012 les mis movie doesn't exist to me) and i don't watch a ton of tv but i like yellowjackets quite a bit
9. last thing you hyper fixated on: TAKE A WILD GUESS, BUDDY
10. current job/occupation: i am a full time student but i work at the trademarking office on campus part-time and deal with a lot of copyright issues!
anyways i hate bothering people for tag games despite loving participating in them and syd did take a bunch of my moots....hmmm........ anyways no pressure tags: @riverroan @corrodedghosts @lenoredoveisms @juliescarlets @literallystarfire @maurlaeee @oldschoolstylez @chasinggwhit3rabbits @cordeliadelamare @the-knockoff-gilbert-blythe @illustriously-annie
1. oddly specific thing that brings me joy: when an old person calls me son or boy oh my gods I couldn’t explode even more. that or I open the haydock tag to find a new fic
2. phone screen:
I think we all expected this
3. are you a morning or night person?
surprisingly a morning person😭 I actually can’t stay up past like 11:30pm anymore it’s insane but I LOVE waking up on the weekend at like 6-7am (heh 67) bc then I can spend all day bullshitting and scrolling on my phone and then I check what time it is and it’s only 9am and I’ve already been awake for three hours?? A great feeling to me
4. favorite scent:
vegetable soup 🤤🤤 either that or lavender or mint
5. origin of your username:
i was in a production of anne of green gables the musical and I was like “man gilbert is a COOL name and Gilbert Blythe he’s so cool!!” and then i made my name gilbert and i thought well i can be the knockoff version of him yk
6. song on repeat:
either the weekend by modern baseball, cough it out by the front bottoms, or tomcat disposables by will wood
7. I will always order this food:
this one burrito from this mexican restaurant I used to go to all the time that had chicken, sour cream, guacamole, beans, rice, and then was covered in cheese dip 🤤🤤🤤
8. current favorite book/show/movie:
sunrise on the reaping for book, but project hail mary has starting consuming me, i really like the outsiders movie (i prefer the book but it’s a good movie)
9. last thing you hyper fixated on:
oh gee I wonder (sotr)
10. current job/occupation:
i am unemployed i just go to school
now that im done it’s time for the no pressure tags: @sparklebear11, @mustikkkamaito, @threeplusthria, @burdockeverdeensn1fan, @missveevee, @your-least-favorite-poet, @columbiastapshoes, @itshamwich,
1. oddly specific thing that brings me joy: hmmm I don't know I guess birds? I looove birds all birds I think they are fascinating I love listening to them everything, I love birds. honestly just animals in general which is not very specific lol. more specific thing is I guess the study of evolution? I LOVE that stuff
2. phone screen: it's boring just a landscape rn I may change it to phm/space themed but idk
3. are you a morning or night person?: both?? idk I wake up really early and stay up late and enjoy both?? so I really don't know but I guess I'm a touch but more of a night person but I like both :)
4. favorite scent: probably like that laundry smell? or actually no BEACH I like beach scents lol. I like anything tropical smelling lol but honestly many smells just overwhelm me so nothing too strong just like clean scents
5. origin of your username: it's from 1 singular line in sunrise on the reaping when magno calls haymitch hamwich. I thought it was funny and it reminded me and haymitch of sandwiches which is my favorite food lol. also I tend to get my name messed up a lot too so I liked it for that and then it just stuck (fun fact I hate ham lol)
6. song on repeat: well I'm listening to the phm soundtrack a TON so I guess all of that but specifically two of us by the Beatles
7. I will always order this food: chicken and white rice! man I love it so much. also burgers ( heh heh me burgers??) and sandwiches my favorite foods
8. current favorite book/show/movie: man you guys will never guess... it's project hail mary lol
9. last thing you hyper fixated on: bet you guys will never guess!! yea it's project hail mary lol
10. current job/occupation: idk what my job title is honestly lolll I work as like part of a tech crew for events at theaters around the school I kinda help with whatever they need me for but mostly lights
NO PRESSURE!!! @boatemholes, @silly-blue-gosling, @originalsphererook
oddly specific thing that brings me joy: when i see a group of people that all look super different. I love it when I see people hanging out and they all have unique looks and faces like they are all so beautiful
2.my phone screen: is of my dog laying on the floor but on my laptop is much cooler
3.are you a morning or night person?: I ended up getting a fun little combo so i barely get enough sleep
4.favorite scent: has got to be the smell of the earth right after it rains
5.origin of your username: so silly came from what i am, blue came from my favorite color and then gosling came from my love of the animal goslings(they are so cute) and of course Ryan Gosling
6. song on repeat: this is hard cause i got a few that i love to listen to on repeat, I love Paranoid Android and Man of War by Radiohead I also love Champagne Supernova those are all bops
7.I will always order this food: this one Mexican place that i love i always order a meal that has three enchiladas with chicken and rice and refried beans on the side, the funny thing is its not just me who orders the same thing from that place every time, once my we got my whole family together and our server immediately guessed every single one of our orders
8.current favorite book/show/movie: Project Hail Mary-its this little brain worm that won't leave
9.last thing you hyper fixated on: its the same thing as before. Its a problem how much i love it my friends are concerned
10.current job/occupation:
Anyways thanks for that tag
Hey @aroace-ryland-grace @wolfymakes @mostlyvoid-partiallyturtles @epicmilly you guys join in if you want to plus anyone else id love to see what you guys are like!
Oddly specific thing that brings me joy: seeing strangers with pins/keychains/etc of characters or other things that I recognize!
My phone screen is:
(I don’t actually remember what my laptop screen is but tonight I shall change it to one of the stills from PHM of the Hail Mary floating in space. Hoo boy those shots make me feel Emotionce)
Are you a morning or night person?: definitely a night person but due to class I must wake up at 5:30 😔
Favorite scent: SAWDUST!!! I love sawdust. Not any specific wood, just sawdust in general. Makes my techie heart soar
Origin of your username: based on the line “mostly void, partially stars” from Welcome to Night Vale, but with turtles on the end bc I (still!) like TMNT
Song on repeat: I have a lot on repeat but what’s stuck in my head right now is Little Alien Spaceman by Dayglow! (Take me with you, beam me up my buddy! /lyr)
I will always order this food: shrimp……… I love shrimps
Current favorite book/show/movie: Project Hail Mary!! It has bewitched me body and soul (I have been bewitched since 2021)
Last thing you hyperfixated on: Transformers 🙂↕️ it’s still there, I still love Transformers, it’s just taken a backseat to PHM lately lmao
Current job/occupation: TECHNICALLY unemployed 💔 I do lights for the theater department at my school but I don’t get paid for that because I’m not aud staff
But no yeah tysm for the tag!!
No pressure tags: @cosmicariaa @silvermoonisreallybored @petrichorandarson @twohourstoolong @sketchjay @schrodingers-lesbian @hopefulqueer and whoever else wants to join :]
Oddly specific thing that brings me joy: when I’m on a walk (or walking home from somewhere) but I’m not in a rush so I have time to listen to the birds and take photos of birds and look for feathers
Phone screen: (lock screen- PHM, home screen- photo I took)
Are you a morning or night person: definitely night person, but I suspect I would like mornings a bit more if I went to bed at a more reasonable time
Favourite scent: Lemongrass! As a scent in soap or candles as well as in food. I just really love it
Origin of your username: it’s a silly quote from Star Wars: the Bad Batch, where one guy goes ‘you, uh, know the lieutenant well?’, the other says ‘for about two hours’, and then the first guy goes ‘two hours too long, I bet’. And I couldn’t come up with any other fun username so I just picked that quote
Song on repeat: the entire PHM soundtrack, or also ‘the one who’s running the show’ from TADC ep8
I will always order this food: honey chicken with fried rice, usually from a shopping mall food court
Current favourite book/show/movie: haha have a guess (it’s Project Hail Mary)
Last thing you hyperfixated on: currently it’s PHM but my previous proper (as in one that actually lasted a while) hyperfixation was Severance
Current job/occupation: student!
Tags (no pressure and if I haven’t tagged you before and you don’t like tag games plz lmk) : @wizardinahole @bumblebee-in-the-sea @random-user753 @bubbl3zdaseaotter37 @mildlybizarrecorvid @spenchag @unauthorisedeva @reidak-artcreature
Oddly specific thing that brings me joy: listening to the nightingale that lives near my home 🖤
Phone screen: "Resurgam" in white on black background
Are you a morning or night person: So much of a night owl that I could be a vampire 😂
Favourite scent: thicket roses – the most beautiful rose scent in existence. Sadly, it blooms only once a year.
Origin of your username: I chose the most un-assuming user name I could come up with without making it look like a bot's name – hope it worked 😅
Song on repeat: currently Rauschkultur/Why!Ask – Don't need you (https://youtu.be/lDxs8pz954U?is=W05DhblaWCzpeilu)
Current favourite book/show/movie: while I'm currently totally enjoy reading the Vorkosigan Saga, my current favourite still is the same thing I hyperfixate on...
Last thing you hyperfixated on: meaning the same old thing as always – The Nibelungs' Lay from which I don't see that I'll get away in the near future 😆 – and The Hollow Knight (Silksong)! The latter is challenging, but sooo much fun. But I'll never ever touch the Steel Soul Mode...
Current job: Scientific research assistent
no pressure tags!!! @mikkalia, @thrawns-backrest and @dieheidirun enjoy!
Small details - doesn’t matter the format or medium. It probably isn’t a secret anymore that I am a whore for good craftsmanship. I love carpentry, I adore jewelry and my heart belongs to interiordesign and how people decorate the places they inhabit. And whenever somebody adds something special to an object that could easily function without it? My heart skips a beat. One may think I exaggerate a bit here, but in a world where companies seem to be only focusing on optimizing things, making productions more efficient and using as cheap a material as possible - it feels like a warm hug in said cold-hearted world. Finger-joints in a wooden-corner? Relief on a wall? Intricate sewing-pattern? YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!
2. phone wallpaper:
Lake and mountain near my home. Picture taken by my mum.
Picture I took in an art-gallery some years ago that I am still proud of.
3. are you a morning or night person?: Born to be a night-owl. Forced to be an early bird.
4. favorite scent: Freshly baked brown bread (preferably made by my neighbor or aunt)
5. origin of your username: Let’s go back in time, back to the days where I was a YouTube-kiddy, eagerly awaiting the uploads of my favorite YouTubers. And one of those happened to have a last-name/username that was quite similar to my firstname. Do any of you german-speakers remembers „derHeider“ (the Heider)? And since people refer to me both by my full name „Heidrun“ and my nickname „Heidi“ I wanted to get both of those names in. And this is how „dieHeidirun“ was born. Thank you for your attention.
(The username stayed unproblematic until I first came into contact with non-german-speaking users because it could also be read as „Die! Heidi, Run!“ or „Die, hide and run“ but that makes me sound either depressed or cowardly … so no.
6. song on repeat: Not a song - a whole album… Breach by TØP
7. i will always order this food: Tom Kha Kai and sushi. Noodles of any kind are also always welcome.
8. current favorite show/movie/book?: All-time favorites are still Vinland Saga and Fullmetall Alchemist:Brotherhood - both anime and manga. Currently also enjoying Maul? But I haven’t finished it so my opinion may still change. Also reading the old Thrawn trilogy right now and get to enjoy it more and more.
9. last thing you hyperfixated on: Thrawn Ascendancy (I never intended to care for blue people again after watching the smurfs as a kid, yet here we are)
10. what's your job/occupation, if applicable?: Former interior designer. Now doing a masters degree in wood-technology.
Those were very fun to think about - thank you for adding me @random-user753 🫶
(Sorry for how late this is, but university was and still continues to kick my ass😅)
A few people asked for a PDF version so here you go!
@nymphl @mcabby28
I added a thicker outline so that he's easier to cut out along with a pic showing how I put him together.
Mine was painted on watercolour paper, so I recommend printing yours on the thickest paper your printer can handle, or glueing him to some before cutting him out.
Download here! let me know if it works ;-;
Happy reading :)
Definetly plan to make more, maybe with different characters, and digitally this time. Let me know if you have any suggestions!
@random-user753 I like how you are thinking. Maybe I should contact OP and ask, if I can take her idea and copy it with a new face? (I say this as if the ability to draw people manifested in me overnight - but I can at least try)
But I also have the feeling that, once our dear Ronan-enthusiast sees this post, she will take matters into her own hand XD
A few people asked for a PDF version so here you go!
@nymphl @mcabby28
I added a thicker outline so that he's easier to cut out along with a pic showing how I put him together.
Mine was painted on watercolour paper, so I recommend printing yours on the thickest paper your printer can handle, or glueing him to some before cutting him out.
Download here! let me know if it works ;-;
Happy reading :)
Definetly plan to make more, maybe with different characters, and digitally this time. Let me know if you have any suggestions!
Hello again! This may be a bit random, I know, but I just wanted to check in to tell you that you should be more careful with what you write me. Because this little „Heidi’s General-Proof furniture“ joke has grown and manifested in a complete drawing + new HC for me on what Chiss architecture on Csilla could look like.
With your idea of the Chiss making the EDF-offices look like as if they would put them right on the planets surface and my addition that they would „bend nature“ and the elements when designing their buildings I thought that they maybe not only used the solid rocks in their vast caves but also the ice itself as an architectural-asset. Combine those ideas with other cultures i connect the Chiss with and you have whatever this is:
This is just a sketch but I call this particular building the „frozen-waterfall-building“ because it is supposed to look like - alright, I think you get it. Along with using the ice in its „natural form“ (as if it where a real waterfall) they could also use it as bricks like you would when building an igloo. They are so called „glass bricks“ that were highly popular in the 70s and are experiencing some kind of renaissance in the last years. It is those „glass bricks“ (that to me look like huge ice-cubes) that would make a funky building material for a species that inhabits an ice-planet. As for the other architecture-item: for me the Chiss give off a bit of a Japanese/Italien/iranien vibe (please don’t ask me how that combination manifested). So I have intentionally as well as unintentionally copied certain elements of their architecture.
You have the door (that I drew based on vibes only and only realized after finishing that this could be the door to a Moschee or a library) or the mosaic resembling the Chaos the Chiss inhabit. The lamp really exists: I saw that one when I visited Milano a year ago and just had to take a picture of because the design and craftsmanship was truly mesmerizing. As for the simple sign.: You have a human-craftsperson, might as well let her bring a sign from her place of origin.
Thank you for inspiring me so much that I actually went and made this. It was incredible fun to make it and I actually would love to think more about the possibilities of Chiss architecture. Maybe you have some other ideas?
Sending you hugs and all the best for the upcoming school-week! See you!
GOODNESS ME, WHAT A TREAT!! you keep telling me to be careful but the only thing I hear is 'don't be careful and you'll get scrumptious content'. I'll start off by saying THIS IS SO GORGEOUS I CAN'T STOP LOOKING AT IT LOOK AT ALL THE DETAILS AND THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWY LINES CONTRASTING WITH THE RECTANGULAR ICE BLOCKS IMAGINE HOW PRETTILY IT ALL GLITTERS UNDER THE SUN OH MY GOD I WANT TO BE THERE SO BADLY AND THE ICE WATREFALL BUILDING WOULD BE SPECTACULAR IN REAL SCALE I WANT TO EAT THAT IDEA
alright. now that that's out of my system. let's try and be coherent. I am so in love with the idea of the ice bricks and absolutely see what you mean, it's a very proud Chiss thing to do, as if saying 'the environment tried to crush us but we subjugated it and turned it into something beautiful'. it both embraces and takes control of the hand they were dealt and the thought of the different ice slash snow forms they could use as inspiration makes my head spin with possibilities. the frozen waterfall idea is brilliant!! those elongated elegant shapes are so pretty but also kind of sharp and daunting which is exactly what I associate with the Chiss
have you heard of cute aggression? I think I'm having beauty aggression looking at your second drawing because I want to squeeze it and shake it violently for how pretty it is. Japanese/Italien/Iranien?? that sounds so cool oh my god. the lamp and the flooring absolutely floored me (pun intended) and I adore the little representation of the chaos flowing under their feet. that's just mesmerizing. and the door?? hello? illegal. jail. too pretty to be true. everything comes together so wonderfully too, like the different elements are meant to coexist (with the little exotic touch of the sign, we have an alien craftsman after all). I can see myself drifting to that place every day, at first to wonder at the crashing noises coming from inside but eventually just to admire the pretty place
I once again can't help but think how beautiful all of this would look in the sun (artificial sun?), with all the mosaics and ice and glass textures all glittering along with the natural snow and ice themselves. it's also fascinating to imagine the technology behind it, if they are using actual natural materials for some of this, maybe we're looking at chemicals mixed in with the ice or spread over it to prevent it from melting?
and finally, I'm a bit giddy because we somehow arrived at similar visions, at least I flatter myself by thinking so, because my architectural headcanons for the chiss, though they're somewhat sparse, have always involved tons of colored glass and glossy icy surfaces (with a generous amount of gold metalwork) and I feel like our visions match there. I also had a little headcanon that the Chiss incorporate a great variety of shapes into their art to create the image of seemingly disparate parts working together (an allusion to the ruling families being in harmony, which, obviously not the case but something they'd love to project). and I feel like that's embodied perfectly in the intricacy and variety of the shapes you've used
again, correct me if I'm wrong but this is one of the images I've always used as inspiration and I feel like it has a similar vibe to your ideas?
uuuh yeah, I may be completely confusing styles here, please bear with my ignorance. as for art, the only more 'architectural' piece I've drawn was this very rough sketch of a Mitth throne (as part of a circular room with similar seats for all the nine family heads where I imagine they each get a dais and a pretty stained glass backdrop with an abstract illustration of their crest behind them). the texture is a stand in for stained glass windows and the 'rays' are golden metalwork
anyway, your drawings reminded me of that little piece and again, I flatter myself by thinking it's compatible with your far more informed and superior vision. at the very least I can see them existing side by side
to wrap this up before I ramble further, thank you so much for blessing our eyes with your drawings, I'm super proud and smug that I was able to inspire you to do them and am myself feeling incredibly inspired with my head swimming with images of pretty cathedral slash mosque like images of Chiss architecture. you made me want to get up and join my best friend in her weekly winter hikes, your images remind me of the pictures she's shown me of frozen trees and pretty ice scapes. I'm especially obsessed with the ice bricks and intricate mosaics
all in all just gorgeous. no idea how I'll teach my classes today what with my mind being elsewhere but I'm not complaining
First of all, I would like to remind you that no: “don’t be careful and you´ll get scrumptious content” is not working on me (it actually is). Secondly, I am totally not smiling like the cheshire cat and kicking my feet at seeing your response. Thank you for your kind words and your own headcanons (that funnily enough collide with mine. Well done, Timothy, I guess?)
Thirdly, I would like to remind you, that sending me drafts of yours is also no way of baiting me into picking up a pen (unfortunately, it also is *sighs*) – so this happened.
I regret to inform you, that I couldn’t finish it in time before I go and spent a week with my family where I will have no time to work on it, so I thought I may put it out there before I forget about it and it starts moulding somewhere in my folder. I tried to keep as many details as possible from your work and let my pencil run free for the rest of it. This also led to me, realizing halfway through the drawing, that it had detached from my original vision and ended up being much more art-deco than Chiss-inspired. I didn’t intent for the windows to be complete squares but to have a shape much more related to that of a gothic-church-window. I also wanted to work much more sun- and ascendancy inspired symbols into it or the few canon-family-crests that we know of. But I still hope that I caught your idea of “incorporating a great variety of shapes into their art to create the image of seemingly disparate parts working together”.
Again, I didn’t get to add more details to show the smaller glass-parts that form each individual shape or draw any shadows, but I still hope that it manages to pull your thoughts away from the stress you experience right now – even if just for a second.
Sending you strength and all the best before I go back to building an ice-brick-wall for the two of us to hide behind when the stuff and its hellhounds come looking for us.
🎶Ba’kif, @thrawns-backrest and Heidi are lying on the floor, ignoring the task-demons knocking on their door. They just need a peaceful minute - before they do yet another draining chore🎶
💬 8 🔁 25 ❤️ 94 · I saw this while waiting for my flight back home, why couldn’t you post that earlier? I was so excited and full of energy
Hello again! This may be a bit random, I know, but I just wanted to check in to tell you that you should be more careful with what you write me. Because this little „Heidi’s General-Proof furniture“ joke has grown and manifested in a complete drawing + new HC for me on what Chiss architecture on Csilla could look like.
With your idea of the Chiss making the EDF-offices look like as if they would put them right on the planets surface and my addition that they would „bend nature“ and the elements when designing their buildings I thought that they maybe not only used the solid rocks in their vast caves but also the ice itself as an architectural-asset. Combine those ideas with other cultures i connect the Chiss with and you have whatever this is:
This is just a sketch but I call this particular building the „frozen-waterfall-building“ because it is supposed to look like - alright, I think you get it. Along with using the ice in its „natural form“ (as if it where a real waterfall) they could also use it as bricks like you would when building an igloo. They are so called „glass bricks“ that were highly popular in the 70s and are experiencing some kind of renaissance in the last years. It is those „glass bricks“ (that to me look like huge ice-cubes) that would make a funky building material for a species that inhabits an ice-planet. As for the other architecture-item: for me the Chiss give off a bit of a Japanese/Italien/iranien vibe (please don’t ask me how that combination manifested). So I have intentionally as well as unintentionally copied certain elements of their architecture.
You have the door (that I drew based on vibes only and only realized after finishing that this could be the door to a Moschee or a library) or the mosaic resembling the Chaos the Chiss inhabit. The lamp really exists: I saw that one when I visited Milano a year ago and just had to take a picture of because the design and craftsmanship was truly mesmerizing. As for the simple sign.: You have a human-craftsperson, might as well let her bring a sign from her place of origin.
Thank you for inspiring me so much that I actually went and made this. It was incredible fun to make it and I actually would love to think more about the possibilities of Chiss architecture. Maybe you have some other ideas?
Sending you hugs and all the best for the upcoming school-week! See you!
GOODNESS ME, WHAT A TREAT!! you keep telling me to be careful but the only thing I hear is 'don't be careful and you'll get scrumptious content'. I'll start off by saying THIS IS SO GORGEOUS I CAN'T STOP LOOKING AT IT LOOK AT ALL THE DETAILS AND THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWY LINES CONTRASTING WITH THE RECTANGULAR ICE BLOCKS IMAGINE HOW PRETTILY IT ALL GLITTERS UNDER THE SUN OH MY GOD I WANT TO BE THERE SO BADLY AND THE ICE WATREFALL BUILDING WOULD BE SPECTACULAR IN REAL SCALE I WANT TO EAT THAT IDEA
alright. now that that's out of my system. let's try and be coherent. I am so in love with the idea of the ice bricks and absolutely see what you mean, it's a very proud Chiss thing to do, as if saying 'the environment tried to crush us but we subjugated it and turned it into something beautiful'. it both embraces and takes control of the hand they were dealt and the thought of the different ice slash snow forms they could use as inspiration makes my head spin with possibilities. the frozen waterfall idea is brilliant!! those elongated elegant shapes are so pretty but also kind of sharp and daunting which is exactly what I associate with the Chiss
have you heard of cute aggression? I think I'm having beauty aggression looking at your second drawing because I want to squeeze it and shake it violently for how pretty it is. Japanese/Italien/Iranien?? that sounds so cool oh my god. the lamp and the flooring absolutely floored me (pun intended) and I adore the little representation of the chaos flowing under their feet. that's just mesmerizing. and the door?? hello? illegal. jail. too pretty to be true. everything comes together so wonderfully too, like the different elements are meant to coexist (with the little exotic touch of the sign, we have an alien craftsman after all). I can see myself drifting to that place every day, at first to wonder at the crashing noises coming from inside but eventually just to admire the pretty place
I once again can't help but think how beautiful all of this would look in the sun (artificial sun?), with all the mosaics and ice and glass textures all glittering along with the natural snow and ice themselves. it's also fascinating to imagine the technology behind it, if they are using actual natural materials for some of this, maybe we're looking at chemicals mixed in with the ice or spread over it to prevent it from melting?
and finally, I'm a bit giddy because we somehow arrived at similar visions, at least I flatter myself by thinking so, because my architectural headcanons for the chiss, though they're somewhat sparse, have always involved tons of colored glass and glossy icy surfaces (with a generous amount of gold metalwork) and I feel like our visions match there. I also had a little headcanon that the Chiss incorporate a great variety of shapes into their art to create the image of seemingly disparate parts working together (an allusion to the ruling families being in harmony, which, obviously not the case but something they'd love to project). and I feel like that's embodied perfectly in the intricacy and variety of the shapes you've used
again, correct me if I'm wrong but this is one of the images I've always used as inspiration and I feel like it has a similar vibe to your ideas?
uuuh yeah, I may be completely confusing styles here, please bear with my ignorance. as for art, the only more 'architectural' piece I've drawn was this very rough sketch of a Mitth throne (as part of a circular room with similar seats for all the nine family heads where I imagine they each get a dais and a pretty stained glass backdrop with an abstract illustration of their crest behind them). the texture is a stand in for stained glass windows and the 'rays' are golden metalwork
anyway, your drawings reminded me of that little piece and again, I flatter myself by thinking it's compatible with your far more informed and superior vision. at the very least I can see them existing side by side
to wrap this up before I ramble further, thank you so much for blessing our eyes with your drawings, I'm super proud and smug that I was able to inspire you to do them and am myself feeling incredibly inspired with my head swimming with images of pretty cathedral slash mosque like images of Chiss architecture. you made me want to get up and join my best friend in her weekly winter hikes, your images remind me of the pictures she's shown me of frozen trees and pretty ice scapes. I'm especially obsessed with the ice bricks and intricate mosaics
all in all just gorgeous. no idea how I'll teach my classes today what with my mind being elsewhere but I'm not complaining
You need to check out Art Nouveau design, specifically Antony Gaudi. I've visited some of his buildings in Barcelona and the designs are heavily based on the natural forms of rocks, ice and underwater things like kelp forests and coral reefs. What is canon is that the Chiss are big on terraforming and genetic manipulation so they would probably grow some of their furniture and architecture.
I can totally see your vision for associating the Chiss with Art Nouveau because my first impulse was the same. What made me reconsider though is the fact that yes- while this style plays a lot with natural motives and elements (especially Gaudis) the style is very playful, almost loving with their usage of flowers and other "softer" motives and has a romantic flair. Seeing how the Chiss are 1) based on an ice-planet, harsh landscapes, coldness and in general rougher climate and are also 2) a race of warriors, whom I believe is why they are so strict individuals, I wouldnt say that the playful and romantic motives and designs, that Art Nouveau is so well known for, would appeal to them.
This is why I like to propose to you a similar style that gets often confused for Art Nouveau: Art Deco! Its motives are much more symmetrical, more hard-edged and the designs lean more towards machinery than nature. This way it captures more the character of weaponry, technology and the sharp-edged icicles on Csilla.
But they could also have a combined version of the two design-styles: using the natural forms and bending it toward something more industrial and controlled, rather than have the forces of nature overrule them.
Twenty years ago, even ten, I would have said the destruction of the Chiss Ascendancy would be a straightforward exercise. No longer. A new generation of military leaders has arisen, warriors who cannot be trusted to walk recklessly down the well-worn paths of manipulation set before them. Supreme General Ba’kif, Admiral Ar’alani, a few others—they think and plan outside the normal patterns. Unpredictable.
It’s 100% this! And the fact that it is followed by the immediate revelation that yes - he is responsible for all of this (waves hands frantically in their direction) but also admits that he would definitely do it again.
Lamiov: Do you regret it, Labaki?
Ba’kif, as smug as they come: No, and I would do it again.
I might make a continuation where Eli explains why cloud/bubble chambers are incredible. We'll see if anyone is interested in more data science nerd content
- do not trust reddit for or with any given information at any given time. ever
- always factcheck for yourself before spreading potential misinformation
- there is no hope. the abyss is infinite. all i see is void. we will never know the light
- in emergency situations our squads can mobilize within an hour. drill scenarios are important to test the strength and effectiveness of our collective response
- if given a decent reason we will spontaneously create a holiday out of anything
- it’s fun to be on tumblr when a couple hundred people are freaking out over something that doesn’t actually impact the real world in a serious way
- we are prepared to handle an ongoing alectopause and our current resources and equipment ensure our survival for at least the next 23 years
- if we manifest it hard enough anything could be true
Me, completing a drawing? Forgot that could happen. Anyways the thought of little Hera working on Chopper during the war makes my heart feel things, so have this :)
Sure - it´s not like I needed my heart or anything. Thanks for tearing it to shreds, I really needed that. I´m so grateful for your services, I appreciate it, couldn´t be more happy to have it ... (breaks down crying)