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Thermal Equilibrium!

What happens when you put an uptight and stubborn diarist with a spacey and morbidly optimistic valedictorian? Friendship, of course, one that is quickly and violently interrupted by the machinations of gods! When Q and Z meet in their sophomore year of highschool, Q insists that their studying agreement will be nothing more than that- a studying agreement. However, everything changes when the gods of their world communicate with them and interfere with their lives, giving Q reality-shifting powers and causing Z to question their sense of self. Among all the chaos and life threatening events, all they have is eachother- causing them to grow closer than ever before. Eventually, the depth of their relationship threatens to affect the state of the universe itself- and ruin their friendship in its entirety. After all, the term soulmate is not merely a descriptor of a relationship- it is a warning label. ——

Thermal Equilibrium is a book about what it means to be a god. What place humans have in the world. Alternative love languages. Unconventional friendships. All the ways self hate can get mixed up with love, and all the ways love get mixed up with hate. Learning to adapt to what seems unnatural, and realizing that not every stereotype about what you should do with your life has to be followed. And, of course, the absolute agony of having a best friend.

Thermal Equilibrium includes discussions and themes of: mental health, self harm, suicidal thoughts and actions, fear of death, parental abandonment, animal death, and descriptive body horror, including blood and organs such as the heart or liver. Reader discretion is advised.

#Hello!! Thought I’d make an actual tumblr blog for this since I’m in the copy editing stage #it’s been a LONG ride #thermal equilibrium #q #z #Author #self publishing

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z is fully capable of winning any chess game they play but they eat the pieces regardless

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other Z-isms

-they’re able to start arguments between people very easily due to having the social reading skills of a fbi agent so they start loud debates and then walk away completely uninvolved

-they can disappear into crowds very very easily

-they occasionally forget that their ability to manipulate atomic matter is Not Normal and they will just leave entire animals floating in midair at their work for a couple seconds after holding them and having to go suddenly do something else. The entire workplace has simtaniously decided not to talk about it because if Z wasn’t able to handle animals so well half of them would be in the hospital with sepsis

-they occasionally donate blood, and by “occasionally” I mean they go to the blood bank like 7 times a week if they feel like it because they can generate an infinite supply of their own blood from the surrounding air and no one at the place can figure out how they do it but Z has gotten told not to come back for the next month several times out of concern for their safety

-they’re great with kids. They’re like that one uncle who tells you blatantly untrue stories and then expects you to believe him

-Z has accidentally killed a man

-by the time Q and Z decide to “die”, Z has gotten at least 15 college degrees

-Z is able to befriend geese and once accidentally scared the shit out Q by walking into a local park with them only to be immediately surrounded by their geese friends

-Z doesn’t get grudges very easily, but when they do, it’s nearly impossible to tell. The only way to tell is if someone in their general victinity is being annoying and then something like their coffee spilling on them inevitably happens. -contrary to nearly everyone who knows them, the only people Z is actually open with is Q, and their mother. They don’t cry very often, but when it happens, it’s… bad

-z is horrible at singing

-when they were around 200 years old a small cult started up around them and started dropping off gifts to their doorstep and trying to follow them around and Z had to make a fool out of themselves in order to get them to stop

-it takes about 10 minutes for them to fully wake up and during that weird half sleep half awake period they are VERY clingy. They used to imagine Q was by their side when they woke up before they started living together, and now that they DO live with Q, Q has the joy of being woken up by Z mumbling about them in their sleep and being clung to like a koala

Fun fact: [SOUND OF STATIC] can only exist in one timeline at a time.

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How does that old children’s song about the baby bumblebee go again?

#Reallyytyyyy old art #shoutout to that period where I drew Q and Z as anyhromorhic bugs that was a time

Oh by the way!! this blog was primarily created to answer questions! If you've got any questions about the characters, storyline, process, or anything else surrounding Thermal Equilibrium, I'd love to answer them! Even if it's not a question and it's just a giant picture of a hot-dog, I'd still appreciate it! Go wild!

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Welcome to the world of Thermal Equilibrium! We have:

-A tall, twitchy disaster who was literally the worst choice to give time powers

-a short ticking time-bomb who probably needs to go to therapy. Desperately. Like right now.

-a chicken who named itself chicken and has the capacity to kill you

-a ball of fire who has never done anything wrong ever in its life

-some Mist who. Uh. I don’t know really. It’s just there. Oh dang now it’s gone. Bye now I guess.

-a giant jellyfish who has the spirit of an arrogant mediocre 40-year old white man

-a moth mantis thing that REALLY likes children. Don’t worry about the spines, it knows what its doing

-God, but if they made mistakes all the time. And got sad. And a whole host of other things that probably makes you wonder how the universe has sustained itself for this long