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[hope-system-draws]

Bramble & Briar Masterpost

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A post-loops AU where the Hatchling, named Rhyolite, has vanished. Centers mostly around the perspectives of a grieving Hal and Gabbro as they uncover their true fate and attempt to find them before it's too late.

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Listed in chronological-ish order

AO3 LINK (note: those marked with ✶ not included on AO3)

Main series works/comics:

✦ Founders comic ✶

✦ "Memorable, you say?" (NSFW) (AO3 ONLY)

✦ "Suffocation"

✦ "An Atom And A Star" (Chapter one)

✦ Nosy comic (Companion to Chapter 2)

✦ "Reflection of The Moon" (Companion to Chapter 8)

✦ "City in Bloom"

Misc doodles/headcanon posts (no particular order):

✦ Yapper (suggestive) ✶

✦ House Lizard post ✶

✦ Rhyolite's stripes ✶

✦ Vagueposted quote ✶

✦ Gabbro Design ✶

✦ Headcanon infodump ✶

✦ Porphy's Cohort ✶

[digitalmyyth]

Sorry I drew this instead of just drawing Grace in a dress. I think trying to understand how weird humans are about clothing would b really annoying

[likelightinglass]

Hey I was so inspired by this I wrote a fic :) Let me know if youre okay if I link this post in the work

https://archiveofourown.org/works/89295531

[bugology]

Out of the Loop part 2 (END)

Part 1

[hope-system-draws]

Our therapist asked us to draw how it feels when people give us a correction/criticism so here's the physical thumbnail and the world's fastest color thumbnail

[pikamusume]

assortment of cringe halchy doodles + py.

[nodoorintothemansion]

Oh my God..the pain is awful

[pnyukumuku]

handful of old doodles !!! (since banjo playing has been consuming all my recent time to draw)

[whomeidontknowthem]

*translates your hearthians*

incomprehensible and badly written translation notes under the cut

I'm going to preface everything that the language is still work in progress and everything is subject to change.

I am not quite up for writing comprehensive grammar for my hearthian yet, and without establishing some concepts it's quite hard to even approach explaining what I did in translation. I guess I gotta start with the same sentence but rainbow and with a gloss xd

Direct translation: "I repeat, when it comes to touching exhibits, you must be careful"

Details I think are cool:

The word I used to mean exhibit is made from the verb "to fascinate, catch attention, interest" and the derivational suffix meaning "little, cute" and used to signify affection (it's the same suffix used to form the word "hatchling" and a term of affection I can best translate to "lil guy"). So a direct translation of the word would be closer to "little curiosities".

The word I glossed as careful.be is quite a long compound that is from a really funky group of words that are something between verbs and adjectives. They are formed with a suffix that used to be a verb meaning something like "to be, to possess, to embody" and was used only with adjectives. It's no longer used as a verb nowadays, but as a suffix it can take both nouns and verbs and turn them into adjectives that mostly function like adjectives, except for sentences with modal verbs where these "adjectives" casually slot into the position of the main verb. Basically, you don't need to say "must be careful" in Hearthian, "must careful" is fine because "careful" can act like a verb all in itself.

both at.touch and the construction that's going on with "when [...] ST.intro" are also quite fun, but I'm afraid I'd need to explain how topic markers work in this language, and I don't think anyone is quite ready for that infodump.

at.touch is easier. It's what I call a prepositional verb, but unlike most of those that somewhat change their meaning with different prepositions like "look, watch" vs "look at" and "walk, go" vs "enter" (as shown below), the preposition I wrote as "at" doesn't affect the meaning of the verb at all, instead simply stating that whatever noun follows the verb is the direct object of this verb.

The default word order of the language is SOV or OSV (they are about equally likely to occur), so being able to move the direct object to after the verb is quite cool. And, again, it has some things to do with how topic marking functions in this language, but I'm not ready to write about all of that yet

And that'll be it for today's infodump. I'd say hope you enjoyed it but I am pretty sure I'm writing all of it purely for myself lmao

[pnyukumuku]

OHH THIS IS SO LOVELY SO COOL TY FOR SHARING!!! little curiosities 🥹🥹

[solanumwarrior]

Biggest (smallest) fan!! 🌟

(background only + a little talk under the cut!!)

I've had this in mind for quite awhile and i'm glad i was able to pull it off finally!!

Essentially i see Esker as the adult that would lecture you about something if around other adults but, once they're gone, they'll just do the Dumb Shit™ again with you- and you'll both kinda get away with it. There's a reason why they used to form a little trio with Slate and Feldspar back when they were hatchlings in my headcanon hehe (and exploded the mayor's house)

If you are already a little troublemaker like Tephra, it's just logical to like the ol' fish's playful behaviour when they get back home

[seconds-in-the-starlight]

Time buddies in a hammock doodle for national hammock day ✨️

[varyingobsession]

baby mica and their favorite fish toy (for @its-my0sotis)

[axieefj]

Redrew an old pic…

[pnyukumuku]

made a lil clay riebeck ::] they r a little scuffed but i like them (pretend the antenna is not drawn on) (it fell off)

[getfeldsparred]

Reminder that Slate sits up with EVERY astronaut all night before their launches

[domob0y]

Imagine forgetting Esker and their just like-

[savannahlemur]

No No No! 🙀 Don’t take your hands. I feel so comfy. 💕🐊

[johnthedragon]

HOW CAN SOMETHING BE THIS CUTE

[anatombombatallhours]

But really, though 🥺

[white-hole-station]

One of my favourite details about the Feldspar subplot in Outer Wilds is that (in my experience) I always find Feldspar to be a little bit of an asshole compared to what I'd expect after hearing what the others around the village have to say about them. The rose-coloured glasses of grief and old legend have settled around their image back on Timber Hearth so much, and the person to be found on Dark Bramble isn't a disappointment in the afterglow of that, but they are a lot more three-dimensional. They're a little patronizing sometimes ("...You never were the brightest hatchling, were you?" isn't exactly the response I would give to an exclamation about myself being improbably still living), and listening to them talk about their own heroism is just slightly more offputting than when the villagers back home do it. There's still a genuine fire there, a strong love of exploration and an admirable boldness that leaves no question how their passion took this project to the stars...but they're a lot closer to a neighbour, when found, than a hero with a ten-foot-tall image. A neighbour who can be a little annoying sometimes, in spite of the laundry list of impressive things they've done. I like that a lot. I like that the grief smoothed them out too much, in the minds of the Hearthians, and that finding them living roughs that impression up just enough to be real again.

[hope-system-draws]

The thing, too, is Feldspar is aware of this. or at least, I like to think they are. They're "taking a break from being the greatest that ever was". Maybe they're afraid that they won't live up to their own stories anymore, especially if their time in the Bramble has caused them some kind of permanent physical harm

[whomeidontknowthem]

The reason it's taking me forever to create the Ha conversations mod is that I'm creating it at the same time as doing a whole new unnecessarily slow playthrough. Adding new lines whenever I catch myself thinking "I wish I could tell bestie about this", which adds so much enjoyment to replaying everything but also. Forever to get anything done lol

And then I'm also adding multiple versions of each because I want Hal to be able to track what you've told them this loop to some admittedly limited extent, but what's the fun if you don't have to speedrun convincing them the time loop exists before they take you seriously, right?