An Oscillation

31 / Genderfluid / Art+writing hobbyist / Expect Star Fox, One Piece, nature, art, science, and whatever else I find interesting. Most is tagged. [Really, I've had this blog for so long that it's a mix of everything!]

[naytile]

Fara’s Arc is back for more sketches, lore, and chaos in 2026!

Yes, really! The last time I touched my Star Fox comic concept about Fara Phoenix having her own death-defying parallel plotline during the Lylat Wars of 64 was in 2020 - 2021. I can’t get enough of this story, it’s such a sweet escape for me to keep developing!

Since I’ve been on such a long hiatus to the point that this plot has aged like fine wine, I’m calling my own reboot of my own fic-comic something DIRECTOR’S CUT-y: Fara’s Arc DX!

As you can tell, I’m extremely lazy when it comes to naming my stories, but I wanted this one to sound just like a videogame. I had fun cooking up a few sketches of new ideas.

Links to the old content:

Fara's Arc (2020): My remixed take on the Lylat War, featuring Fara as the protagonist of a wild series of events. I gave Fara a unique plotline during the war against Andross and experimented with her as a main character, a hero of her own story. Through her arc, we also experience the Lylat War in a new way.

It was fun for me to imagine how to build on the lore of the Lylat War and play with introducing other events and characters that make the Star Fox world a little larger and take you all on a ride! A piece of Adventures lore (Cerinia) has a “butterfly effect” on triggering this plot.

Fara’s Arc (2020) was an experiment for me where I told the fic through ‘storyboard’-like sequences. It was dialogueless with only my storybook-style passages as a supplement (think of how Star Fox Command narrated the endings!). I wanted my readers to infer all sorts of things through the drawn pictures.

I’m really fond of Benimaru Itoh’s SNES comic, so this story is influenced by a lot of things established by Fara’s creator. Fara’s Arc emulates the rather mature and eccentric atmopshere of the SNES-era Star Fox and loosely follows the SNES character ages (Fara, Fox, and friends are aged-up to the SNES canon).

Lastly, I don’t pair Fara with Fox in my continuity. I give her a new love interest made precisely for her, in an effort to have her narratively step out of Fox’s shadow and have a life of her own. I’m a fan of both Fara and Krystal and their story potentials in SF and I prefer not to show them competing over a man, lol. More self-actualization for the Star Fox ladies, please!

Act I (Parts 1-6)

Part 1 - My Part 1 sketches were very primitive, I just wanted to kickstart the plot, haha.

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6 : MACBETH - End of Act I

Act II (Parts 7-12) - On Hiatus.

Part 7 - (Unreleased since 2021 - Here's my old thank you for reading Act I)!

Fara's Arc DX (2026) reboots the whole thing from Acts I-II. To be continued!

Fara’s Arc DX (2026):

Sketch log is tagged as “FADX sketch log”. That’s all I’ve got so far!

I plan to write DX in an illustrated narrative fashion, similar to the original: I’ll guide you through the plot in each Act as a third-person-omniscient narrator. This is a rather old-fashioned, “storybook/fairytale” style of writing that gives it a more nostalgic quality. Ironically, this kind of style was applied in Star Fox Command.

This is my little pet project that’s supposed to resemble an official-release Star Fox comic in terms of the plotline and storytelling decisions (with my own stylistic flavor and takes, of course). That includes my character designs and worldbuilding choices. It’s supposed to be a “canon-compliant” story with its own unique continuity features, lore-wise: I want to immerse my readers!

[phantomrose96]

I think Elon Musk has done irreparable damage to the tech industry.

[phantomrose96]

Elon bought twitter in late 2022, fired 75% of the employees, and 'proved' the platform could limp along under the 'wear 4 hats at once' efforts of the remaining employees, and the rest of big tech got big ideas.

[phantomrose96]

There are many intersecting elements at play between the tech market downturn in late 2022 and the interest rates hikes and the reduced need for online infrastructure post-quarantine and the advent of AI. But big tech are a bunch of homework-copying lemmings and that Reddit-brained manchild kicked over the first 6,000 dominos.

[aaantlion]

[naytile]

The way I stare at Venom 1 as my last medal to get:

[naytile]

Me staring at the screen flabberghasted when Venom 1’s Expert medal was easier to get than its Normal medal:

[70sscifiart]

Uncredited Trancers movie poster art, 1984

[fugummyfruit]

New chapter of clamp Volume 0 on the site!

You can read it here!

[rotisseries]

that being said I'm not actually always opposed to conflict free fluff I am just opposed to the characters having their claws filed down for it. you can stick them in a coffee shop au it should just still feel like you sat the two worst most insane people on earth in a starbucks

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[echojulietfoxtrot]

Hello, I work for a large moderately evil corporation and for at least five years now I have to sign a yearly thing to say I will never ever have one of these devices in the same room as me while I work.

My large moderately evil employer takes it for granted that these things are spying on me at all times, and you should too.

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[fiddleheadfinn]

Send this to someone you love 💕

[eternalgirlscout]

extreme heat warnings and air quality so bad that it's actively hazardous to all life. i need every single oil lobbyist who has ever lived to be [THIS POST VIOLATES TERMS OF SERVICE]

[qqchurch]

[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[pollen]

you should really get comfortable believing in love and magic and whimsy or you’ll continue to live a half-life for the rest of the time you have on earth

[yeyinde]

Collins is gone.

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

wīya ispīh iyiniw-kiskīyihtamowin pasikōpayiki kāwi askiy ta-iyihyīmakan

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

I view reading fantasy/sci-fi stuff as "this work of fiction is being translated into english so that I can understand it, meaning some phrases should not be taken literally" lord of the rings style, and then I meet people who nitpick every word or phrase that "shouldn't exist in this story" and I'm like wow you guys are truly miserable and unimaginative. and also you tend to assume that english words all popped up in the 19th century and you never bother to check the etymology of the words you're claiming "shouldn't exist in this universe"

like sorry but in an apocalyptic alternate-universe earth, the phrase "train of thought" is plausible even in a world without locomotives, because the word "train" comes from the 14th century, and it meant "to drag"

that's why we call dress trains "trains". because they drag. the word wasn't invented for locomotives.

y'all say shit so definitively like idk man I think it depends. the english language is OLD AS FUCK. a lot of words you believe are modern just aren't