REZQ

Working for a private deep space rescue service, can Thom keep his job... and his mind?

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Just another art dump as I don't post here much! Mostly these are pictures of Thom. Thom is a deep space rescue worker for the nightmarishly bad employer REZQ - you can read his story in bitesize illustrated fiction moments by going to http://rezq.space. It’s a hypertext story and you can read the bits in any order, and they’ll build up a picture of Thom’s life. If you like dystopian hypercapitalist science fiction you might like it, even if you’re not a furry. I’m actually an OK writer!

Yeah a lot of these drawings are a little on the suggestive side, because who cares lol

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Using anon to make this have a bit of "ships in the night" feeling, but you and I used to interact on twitter a bit when that was a thing.

I've enjoyed your work, both visual/written, and music for ages. Having just now listened to your most recent album, it's definitely amongst your best.

Hope you're doing well,

-A stranger

ohh hey that is cool! Twitter was good when it wasn't the stormfront ass cesspit it is now :(

Thanks so much for your kind remarks, I'm super happy with the response I've had to the new album (for anyone reading this who's not aware, I make music as conelrad, and my new album is out at https://conelrad.bandcamp.com).

Whoever you are I wish you the very best! Thank you again!

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This may be really random, but did you ever used to upload music? Every time I see your little dog icon, I think of the word "Paternoster" and I can't quite remember why.

Yes!!! https://conelrad.co.uk

:3

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Hi Mongreldog!

I gotta say... I really love your sketches and character design of Thom and I'm starting get more into the worldbuilding in your work.

I'm thinking of doing fan art of Thom later on because of how cool it really is. The catch, though, is that I enjoy drawing fat positive characters/redesigns.

Is it alright to do that with your characters? I'm genuinely curious how you would feel about that.

Hello anon! Thanks for your kind words! I am always gratified when people enjoy my stuff, and when they like Thom in particular it makes me real happy. And even happier when they want to draw Thom. In short while it's not my specific area of interest/expertise, I absolutely have no problem if you want to do a fat-positive take on Thom. It's not something I know much about, but I'm cool with it (and, actually, you would not be the first). I am very flattered and grateful you'd be interested enough to do your spin on the character. So please do!

That said, I really appreciate you asking first; lots of things I would probably fine with (like this for instance), but some things less so, so it's really great that you asked first to check. Thank you! Enjoy drawing Thom and I am curious to see what you come up with!

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"proship DNI" you need to grow up and recognize the very real problems in your life, like your own willing participation in Christian conservative censorship

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here's Marie Elvish-Princess (yeah that's her name, don't ask). I've been working on redesigning her look and I'm happy that she's getting much more bunny (or more specifically, more hare). Thom is also here. She is becoming basically the main character in a novel I'm working on. Why do I need to draw pictures of a character in a novel? I just want to

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It’s dumb. I’m sorry. I'm fucking this up. I'm being dumb. I'm dumb. I'm sorry

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Thom babbled, getting to his knees and reaching for Branson.

“Wait. Don’t go. I’m sorry, I just. It’s dumb. I fucked up before. I fucked up really bad last time I got together with someone. It got weird. I guess I’m still like. Expecting things to go like that. I’m sorry. Wait. Please.”

Thom looked down at the floor, scared to watch Branson walk out on him. Not wanting that burned into his memory. Not wanting that new final memory to erase the one of the hug.

He repeated.

“It’s dumb. I’m sorry. I'm fucking this up. I'm being dumb. I'm dumb. I'm sorry.”

“Hey. Hey.”

Branson’s voice was close. He had placed his hands on Thom’s cheeks again, and gently tilted his face up to reveal his wide eyes. Another bloom of light from outside made the wetness in them shine brightly.

“Take it easy. Take a breath. I'm not going anywhere. I just had to get a wipe for my hands before I got this stuff in your face fur, alright? And you're not dumb. It's not dumb. You're not fucking anything up. And don’t apologise.”

Branson stroked Thom’s soft cheek fur with his thumbs.

“There's no rush here at all, Thom, alright? Relax. It's gonna be fine. If you want, you can tell me what happened last time. I promise I won’t judge you. I swear. You don’t have to, but if it’s bothering you, maybe it’ll help to share it.”

A long silence from Thom as he sank, this time in a manner with which he was far more familiar. He had fucked this up. It was over. He was not going to be any good to Branson.

Panicking useless little fucking crying pussy bitch, you shut up, I teach you, I teach you be useful–

The low ache of despair was threatening to bloom through him like black mould. In an impulsive flash he imagined Branson’s hands were around his neck, not on his face, and after a pulse of arousal at the thought had passed, he felt even worse. All the rich food and the booze felt like it might return and he was hyperventilating to try and stop it.

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Scene from the last part of my story Manson and Branson. Thom having a mental crisis as he confronts the fact that he may be sexually incompatible with the older man he desperately wants to please.

All parts linked here.

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I had a wild impulse to draw Marie, major character from my WIP story/project/whatever it is, in the tune squad outfit. yeah those socks were part of it you just don't remember because of the mandela effect or whatever

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"It’s dumb, I’m sorry, I'm fucking this up, I'm being dumb, I'm dumb, I'm sorry..."

So uhhh I've been doing tons of writing about Thom and the REZQ setting recently. Unexpectedly a lot of it has been queer adult fiction.

This is a drawing from an upcoming scene in the story Manson and Branson which is set in a period of Thom's life where he's very alone, has come out of a very brutal and toxic situationship with a superior from work, and encounters a kind older wolflike guy who starts to set him on the path to figuring things out.

There are three parts so far and I'm working on the fourth (and final, I think):

Part 1: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y3j6y27xaji0csasziqll/Manson-and-Branson.rtf?rlkey=rgbewhireana3i9cu9f2kceuy&st=6kxqwqwj&dl=0

Part 2: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/836mr48urm0eztw5dszan/Manson-and-Branson-part-2.rtf?rlkey=tyqfdaloxhu7l7feohs8zvfxw&st=6jtiwu7f&dl=0

Part 3: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wnsv0rs2g3kbzmekqv5ux/Manson-and-Branson-p3-final.rtf?rlkey=xxokpix74tvdk1fme2q8rio8v&e=1&st=0dpcp4h9&dl=0

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"It’s dumb, I’m sorry, I'm fucking this up, I'm being dumb, I'm dumb, I'm sorry..."

So uhhh I've been doing tons of writing about Thom and the REZQ setting recently. Unexpectedly a lot of it has been queer adult fiction.

This is a drawing from an upcoming scene in the story Manson and Branson which is set in a period of Thom's life where he's very alone, has come out of a very brutal and toxic situationship with a superior from work, and encounters a kind older wolflike guy who starts to set him on the path to figuring things out.

There are three parts so far and I'm working on the fourth (and final, I think):

Part 1: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y3j6y27xaji0csasziqll/Manson-and-Branson.rtf?rlkey=rgbewhireana3i9cu9f2kceuy&st=6kxqwqwj&dl=0

Part 2: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/836mr48urm0eztw5dszan/Manson-and-Branson-part-2.rtf?rlkey=tyqfdaloxhu7l7feohs8zvfxw&st=6jtiwu7f&dl=0

Part 3: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wnsv0rs2g3kbzmekqv5ux/Manson-and-Branson-p3-final.rtf?rlkey=xxokpix74tvdk1fme2q8rio8v&e=1&st=0dpcp4h9&dl=0

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"It’s dumb, I’m sorry, I'm fucking this up, I'm being dumb, I'm dumb, I'm sorry..."

So uhhh I've been doing tons of writing about Thom and the REZQ setting recently. Unexpectedly a lot of it has been queer adult fiction.

This is a drawing from an upcoming scene in the story Manson and Branson which is set in a period of Thom's life where he's very alone, has come out of a very brutal and toxic situationship with a superior from work, and encounters a kind older wolflike guy who starts to set him on the path to figuring things out.

There are three parts so far and I'm working on the fourth (and final, I think):

Part 1: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y3j6y27xaji0csasziqll/Manson-and-Branson.rtf?rlkey=rgbewhireana3i9cu9f2kceuy&st=6kxqwqwj&dl=0

Part 2: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/836mr48urm0eztw5dszan/Manson-and-Branson-part-2.rtf?rlkey=tyqfdaloxhu7l7feohs8zvfxw&st=6jtiwu7f&dl=0

Part 3: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wnsv0rs2g3kbzmekqv5ux/Manson-and-Branson-p3-final.rtf?rlkey=xxokpix74tvdk1fme2q8rio8v&e=1&st=0dpcp4h9&dl=0

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Creating a character basically just to cause Thom sweet delicious misery - but also sexual tension

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oh wow, I'm so sorry I didn't see this before! This is wonderful, he looks so sad and tired ;_;

thank you so much for this, I absolutely love it!!

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There's probably very few people here who aren't already following me elsewhere, and posting stuff on tumblr without being attached to some kind of fandom does feel kinda like shouting into the void in 2024, but just in case, here is a dump of sketches and doodles of my character Thom. I've been working hard recently to try to get used to drawing him quickly and also injecting a lot of motion and dynamism into his poses.

Thom is a deep space rescue worker for the nightmarishly bad employer REZQ - you can read his story in bitesize illustrated fiction moments by going to http://rezq.space. It's a hypertext story and you can read the bits in any order, and they'll build up a picture of Thom's life. If you like dystopian hypercapitalist science fiction you might like it, even if you're not a furry. I'm actually an OK writer!

There are also a few drawings in there relating to his earlier days as a gig work courier for DLIVRI, the courier company that would eventually be bought out to become REZQ.

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oh also to help illustrate how good it was to me: I stayed up sleepy af to finish it then decided I was actually *too* sleepy to properly say how I liked it, so I made a point of coming back when I was rested to let you know. :)

That's so awesome to hear, thank you so much 😭

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I couldn't reply to the post itself and the "messages" function seems to mostly be used as bots so! I really liked the story you posted and I hope you share more. I am an avid sci-fi fan and you've got the feel going of something that I could read for funsies, even disconnected from "kinda knowing" the author. You've done an excellent job of getting across the characters' personalities. Now I shall hit "ask" on something that is very clearly not a question. Or is it?

Ahh, thank you so much for the really kind words! It genuinely means so much that you'd take the time to let me know you enjoyed it :) It's based on the world I've built over at rezq.space, which has a bunch of tiny bits of illustrated microfiction, readable in any order. But I've long been interested in writing a singular narrative of Thom's life, or at least part of it. I struggle to find time to write but I do hope to expand it further.

Thank you again <3 (The post that the asker is talking about can be found below btw!)

REZQ

https://rezq.space/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/REZQ-Excerpt-Earth.pdf Hi everyone i realised I never posted this here - anyone who has been

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https://rezq.space/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/REZQ-Excerpt-Earth.pdf

Hi everyone

i realised I never posted this here - anyone who has been interested in the worldbuilding and hypertext storytelling I've been doing over at rezq.space may be interested in this excerpt from a longer form story I am working on.

The overall story broadly concerns Thom, a depressive young doglike guy trying to work and live in the dystopian hypercapitalist spacefaring future where gravity is rationed, the value of money pinballs unpredictably from second to second, and patent trolling causes shortages of basic staples. Originally a gig worker for a last-mile space courier based on what was once known as Earth, he becomes a deep space rescue worker by default when the entire business that he was contracting for is bought out and shut down by REZQ, a new breed of ruthlessly profiteering company. REZQ putatively provides recovery services to people whose spacecraft get into trouble in deep space, but they are more controlling, ruthless, and . Alone and untrained aboard the giant empty vessel Angel Fish, can Thom keep his job - and his mind?

This excerpt concerns a short bit of context and scene setting on Thom's home planet (we would know it as Earth, but its name changes according to who happens to be sponsoring it at that time). I'd be really keen for any feedback or thoughts on any element of this. I'd like to continue it but it's obviously early days, and it's always hard for original setting things to find an audience if they don't conform to things that are already wildly popular. Thank you!

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just re: this: if you happen to read it (I encourage this!! it's short i promise) I can't say how much it would mean to me to hear your thoughts!