Between Midwestern Gothic and Warren Zevon's LA

♤Taylor•32•INTP•Autistic•She/They pronouns•Melancholic Humor•Chaotic Good•Aspiring writer and game designer•I blog about whatever catches my interest, including Gothic Americana, model building, social issues and so much pop culture.

[cozycue]

I've been in a valentines mood.

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[elekid]

does anyone else see the spectre of stones inside the post

[incorrectpasswordip]

i want her to be free

[izapug]

Pomni que ouve evanescence ~

[crow-keys]

Here's the third comic in the Open World AU. I decided it would be more interesting if the cast also had some limited ability to conjure and worldcraft, so I wanted to explore that. This comic is both the longest I've done yet and is the most involved painting-wise. I hope it was worth the wait!

[welcometoshrimptown]

This is beautiful and adorable, I love this au 🥰

[dragon-in-a-fez]

what the medicine packaging says: "new and improved orange flavour!"

what I expected: orange juice

what I got: the taste of your parents just told you they're getting divorced, and your mum said she was taking you out for ice cream after but she actually took you to the "healthy" frozen yoghurt place and would only let you order the non-dairy orange cream soda flavour

[byjove]

you ‘found God’? where? put Him the fuck back RIGHT NOW.

[b0tster]

settling into something casual 💋💋

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[captainjonnitkessler]

Does the book explain how Stratt knew about Grace and his paper?

Because what I'm imagining is that when they found potential life they reached out to the leading expert in the field, and when they told him that the aforementioned potential life was found on the surface of the sun the first words out of his mouth were "If that motherfucking asshole was right about water-based lifeforms this whole time I'll destroy this planet my goddamned self"

At which point Eva "I need people who piss people off" Stratt started making phone calls

[moociao-after-dark]

Rest in peace, John Blanche

The father of Warhammer 40k art direction and the man that has inspired me as an artist, down to inspiring my current artstyle (and I am sure will continue to inspire me, even in death). 40k just wouldn't be 40k had it not been for the foundation of grimdark sci-fi that he laid.

Farewell, you absolute legend.

[penny-anna]

no but im thinking about the videos diaries now bcos for like 20 years Grace and the other astronauts were all remembered as the heroes who went on a suicide mission to save the sun? which is impressive on its own but once the beetles come back and some of the videos get released everyone is like :O :O :O bcos not ONLY did Ryland Grace nobly volunteer to go on a suicide mission to save the sun, he did the whole mission by himself after the other astronauts died and made first contact with an alien species while he was at it?? he's basically the best guy in history??

but then someone leaks the Full Unadultered Ryland Grace diaries and there's gonna be various Realisations along the lines of

oh my god he didn't volunteer. oh god he was so angry & miserable and lonely up there. they just sent this sweet man to die in space against his will. oh we're all alive because they killed this poor man. okay.

oh my god he was so stupid he was such a stupid dork he nearly got us all killed so many times

[poison-p1nk]

replaying control 🔻 1/?

[puppetmaster55]

suddenly thinking about the courtroom scene, of Stratt being accused of pirating literally everything, and Grace later having everything in the various computers aboard his ship that he gave a copy to Rocky without issue, and the beetles having such a massive memory capacity and...

Stratt was a historian. She wasn't just pirating for the sake of entertainment for the astronauts, she was doing a full historical backup of the planet. Who knows how much knowledge and communications ability, how much art and culture and history, how much niche knowledge of how to make specific pieces of modern technology or modern medicines, was lost as the wars for resources isolated everyone, as the death tolls led to the deaths of specialized trade workers and scientists, as the power grids failing across the planet (or cut off, potentially) led to all the cloud servers going dark. Stratt was facing methods of combating extinction and she did her best to ensure that if/when the Hail Mary worked, it would send back not just the hope of the future in the solution to the astrophage, but the restoration of history and culture and knowledge.

Just.... she pirated everything, and put it all on the Hail Mary.

[murkymtl]

*points a loaded gun at you*

Ryland Grace will have the biggest funeral of any human ever

He already was the reason for the 2nd largest Eridian Thrum

When he passes, two entire planets will celebrate his life. (Head cannon) Eridians view funerals a bit more light heartedly than humans. While the passing of a loved one still hurts, it also concludes an experience so sacred within the universe. They throw a rager in Graces honor. Rocky commissions a memorial & for WEEKS it’s surrounded with food, dancing, tributes & speeches reminiscing everyone’s experiences with one of the saviors of Earth & Erid, but most importantly their memories with their Friend Grace

Earth will get the memo in an Eridian probe years later. Someone, probably a younger friend of Stratt/a descendant of PHM will give the news. There won’t be quite the collective celebration, but everyone, everywhere, will pay tribute to him somehow. Some families include him in their ofrenda, others whisper to his spirit in the wind, some name their pets for him

Statues are built, of course. On both planets. The two largest are one right outside of Grover Cleveland Middle School & the other is in Grace’s biodome on Erid. He’s wearing the fox sweater in both

Both planets name stars after him. Both planets mourn him. But most importantly, both planets Love him. The Universe cried “Hail Mary!” & it received Grace

[loki-zen]

has anyone considered that it was probably her house too. where else was she supposed to put her chintz?

[foolcrum57]

found this pic on facebook marketplace thats unintentionally up my alley

[lost-where-the-forest-would-grow]

I just got described as an "ad hating commie" by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff

[daovihi]

reblog if you are an ad hating commie