Oh boy i have actual people who follow me now i should prolly have a pinned post.
Hi! My name is Skater (she/they). Currently my main interests are Undertale/Deltarune, MCYTs (mostly the Dream SMP, SFAWTDE/DAWTDE, Life SMP (like trafficblr), and Hermitcraft), the Legend of Zelda, and Critical Role, but i also like Amphibia, The Owl House, Gravity Falls, Homestuck, Project Hail Mary, and a lot of other stuff!!
You can find everything to do with my rewrite of the DSMP under my tag: #dsmp rewrite
Additionally, I do NOT support cc!dream or cc!wilbur and if you do i would appreciate if you leave
For critical role enjoyers, i will always spoiler tag relevant spoilers from the most recent episode with #cr spoilers until the ep is released to youtube!
I do art and you can see all my art @skaters-art-blog! Or for some of the art that I either rb to here, or deem too shitty to go onto the main art blog, its all under #my art
Mostly a Bench trio, SBI, Eternal Duo and overall c!tommy, ghostbur, and c!eret enjoyer!! As much as i like SBI, i dont really enjoy c! emerald duo so there might be some crit stuff for them here, fair warning. (but i love cc!phil and cc!techno)
uhhh i think thats it!
(headers from transillumina, and its-arson-time)
Tag guide below
These are my organizational tags, all of which you can find quick access to in this post, i'll just be listing them in the order they appear in this post
#for later - for general things that i want to save that might be useful for me to reference later. Anything from art tips to interesting clips cool websites. the lowest rung on the tier of my "saving stuff" tags
#for life - Things that would be useful in "adulting" also doubles as my tag to put recipes. The 2nd rung on the "saving stuff" tags ladder in terms of importance of stuff saved
#important - the highest tier of saved stuff. stuff that is, as said, important. Often has uplifting posts or mental health help. I used to use this fairly interchangeably with #for life, but nowadays i pretty rarely use it
#chatting - For my original posts or posts where i reblog with my thoughts actually written in the reblog, not in the tags
#recs - supposed to used for fic recs but i never use it and only has 1 post in it
#gender - Posts that are mostly centered on space aesthetic posts and general feeling like a star-person
#dsmp rewrite - For when I'm talking about my big project to rewrite the DSMP. I'm always accepting asks to talk about this project, and while its not abandoned, i unfortunately am very busy with schoolwork and other projects so i cannot devote my whole time to it. Currently just working on art for the storyboard that will support the story, the script is all written and recorded and has been for awhile
#fav fanart - For saving my favorite pieces of fanart from a variety of media
#my art - for art that i post here. If you want to see more of my art, look at my art blog linked above!
#games - for cataloguing posts that give recommendations of games to play, often free web games or itch.io bundles
#fantasyposting - For storing funny and not funny posts where people have posted roleplaying as if they were in a fantasy-like setting
#assurance - for posts about plurality, assuring one's self of their own plurality, and plurality resources
i want to put my thoughts behind this: this was supposed to be a piece for pride month, titled "you were loved". the sky is the color of the aroace flag (just upside down)!
basically, i wanted to show an aroace person — an old aroace person, to be precise. being aroace myself, i am always told that i will forever be lonely and miserable if i don't get a partner. so showing grace, who is aroace to me, as old and happy and fulfilled and oh so loved by his best friend, was really important to me <3
Everyone knows the first day of Friend Grace’s class is nickname day. It’s the day when every pebble is on their best behavior to try and make sure they get a cool nickname, something unique that they can brag to their friends and classmates about.
Sometimes, Grace will do it without thinking. That’s how Kiddo and Buddy got their nicknames. Often, Grace will nickname students after their coloration. Gaia got his nickname because he’s blue and green, and apparently looks a lot like Earth. Violet got hers because she’s purple. (She was initially disappointed since color means nothing to Eridians, but then Friend Grace showed them violet flowers and said that humans often associated purple with wealth and royalty, and she changed her tune.) Most of the time, Grace will give his students what he calls “regular human names” like Abby, Carl, or Martin.
But the most coveted nicknames are ones named after Earthen creatures. When ♩♪♬ 🎵 ♩♪♬ 🎵 first introduced themselves, Friend Grace immediately perked up and shouted “Robin!” After a bit of explaining himself and a few videos of bird calls, Robin was trilling and chirping happily, excited at having a nickname that felt like a 1-to-1 translation of their own.
Even well after Friend Grace is gone, his legacy remains. A hundred years into the future, when humankind finally launches a new ship with the express purpose of properly meeting their Eridian neighbors, one of the first messages exchanged is “Hello! My name Robin.”
My job? I’m the bat enemy in 2D games that flies at you from a diagonal angle you can’t shoot in, it’s an under appreciated role but really serves to test the player’s understanding of the mechanics leading up to harder challenges. I also receive an intense smug satisfaction when they can’t hit me.
I do think it would be kind of funny if Eridian media, like Earth media, sort of tends to go through phases. Like you know how sometimes 100% evil vampires are all the rage, and then sometimes they're sympathetic tortured antiheroes, and sometimes it's all vampire romances, and etc?
So like, with the stars dying, I'm thinking Eridian media might have gone on a whole "aliens are bad bad bad out there killing stars and wanting to eat Erid" and etc trend for their sci-fi. Long ballads about what are essentially evil Eridians with the equivalent of prosthetics doing terrible things to the galaxy and brave heroes like Rocky going off to stop them. Because y'know that's probably how you'd conceptualize a huge scary conflict like total cosmic annihilation in a way that makes it seem beatable: designate a bad guy you can just defeat in order to stop it.
But then Grace and Rocky get to Erid and that trend gets immediately flipped. Turns out that there were kind of bad aliens, the astrophage and all, but that's more like a natural disaster, and hero Rocky has returned with the weirdest, nicest alien ever. Erid media suddenly rockets back to a prior era of optimistic sci-fi previously considered intolerably twee and cringe after the solar disaster kicked off, where the aliens are always nice nice nice, incredibly weird and sometimes goofy as fuck but friendly and not the bad guys.
Of course you never get full consensus on these things, so there are also creative Eridians who are like. But what if evil humans question? Evil humans posing as saviors infiltrate Erid and replace Eridians with pods that hatch into creepy non-Erid rock monsters question? Evil human comes to Erid under guise of niceness and KILLS Eridians question???
Which is broadly considered like. Holy shit dude stop being gauche the nice alien saved the planet stop fucking writing stories where his skeleton cracks open like a nest of evil eggs and turns into a bunch of monsters! Rude, statement! Aliens very nice statement!
And like at first all the Eridian scientists are very sure to keep this sort of stuff away from Grace, they don't want to insult him or imply that he's being slandered in their media or anything. And again overall the popular trend turns a lot more to aliens-as-friendly, especially if they're expressly humans, and the sci-fi writers of Erid are having a total BLAST speculating about Earth and writing stories about it and etc, Grace seems to very much enjoy answering questions for the ones who want to keep things accurate and chuckling and enthusing over the creativity of the ones who don't. He's like, oh yeah they are definitely also doing this back on Earth, don't worry.
Researchers laughing and nervously just being like, yes of course, this is the full extent of it, not to worry! Normal thing which humans are also doing!
Until one day Rocky just brings Grace a recording of a full-blown Eridian horror sci-fi where Grace HIMSELF is EXPLICITLY a horrible monster that goes on a killing spree and tries to destroy Erid.
The other researchers are losing their shit. RoCKY?!?! WHY QUESTION??? Oh fuck Grace is going to be so upset! He's such a sensitive soul he doesn't even like it when one of his students gets distressed!
Anyway Grace thinks it's hilarious and Rocky gets to be smug about it for months.
in my mind this is all one storyline thing where they manage to find some kind of space mumbo jumbo shortcut between Erid and Earth that massively reduces travel time, so Rocky and Grace go on a political (vacation) trip to Earth to build further connections between the two planets...
...and with Rocky being one of the two saviors of both planets naturally needing to come along as well, he gets a human body to (temporarily) transfer his consciousness into
(keeps their profiles lower, cuts the time, effort and storage space that would normally go into a mobile life support system for Rocky etc - eridian scientists probably also just wanted to see if they could, now that they've figured out stable stem cell based cloning for lab grown protein for Grace)
...... full transparency, I just wanted a plot excuse to have Grace and Rocky hang out on earth and get into shenanigans while Rocky experiences being human for a while and I'm having fun <3
I like to think that Rocky feels like a lot of words in English are superfluous, so he tends to cut the "unnecessary fluff" on purpose, despite knowing perfectly well how it's done correctly. A small part of it is also just personal defiance, he's not ashamed of being an eridian and sees no reason to adapt to humans more than necessary. Friends and strangers alike understand him just fine, and that's all that matters.
He sometimes also kinda mockingly uses it almost like "baby talk" with Grace, since this particular syntax and lack of conjugation is the result of him originally dumbing down his wording in Eridian just enough for Grace's roughly cobbled together translator to make sense of it until Grace learned it properly later.
So when Grace act stupid, Rocky will speak stupid with Grace too. The next step of Rocky's particular brand of sarcastic "you're being an idiot"-ese would be to start miming at him "puppetshow" style.
You know he's being concerningly serious when he starts actually talking in English with full, perfect grammar sentences.
I also wanted to make a little gif to visualize how the range of motion for his mechanical arm functions, since I keep drawing it come up from behind different shoulders haha
I'm still not sure how exactly he controls it but this is just a first rough concept kinda thing anyways.
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