#living construct

[gregor-never-leaves-the-house]

I'm posting some Creature tokens I did for my mtg cube where I made up half of the cards. I know I'm posting almost exclusively about Magic nowadays, but hopefully these have enough merits on their own to satisfy my NUMEROUS fans that followed me before I fell into a trading card shaped hole which I'm incapable and unwilling to crawl out of.

First off, Kobolds. I just loved drawing these critters! Couldn't get enough of them. I'm glad I gave them this silly way to dress that seems just cobbled together. Giving them individual ear forms and fur patterns was also a delight.

Next off, Worker and Golem. I'm particularly proud of the worker one because my inking style is pretty heavy, but the illustration still seems airy and full of light.

[teitpp]

Rewatching Star Trek Prodigy and knowing what we find out later about Hologram Janeway is putting so much of what she does in a brand new light.

When I first watched Ghost in the Machine I thought the ghost was the living construct - the sinister force lurking below the deck. But now I think it must more accurately refer to HJ - out of control of her own actions, a powerless entity trapped in the ship's computer, while her own program was used against her. Being manipulated by the construct for the whole first half of the season and then in the second half being robbed of her control, unable to warn the crew that it's not her they're interacting with until it's too late.

I'm on the episode with the Borg Cube and it strikes me that it is the first full episode that Hologram Janeway and the Living Construct are in knowing conflict with each other's goals. For most of the first half of the show HJ is unaware of it's existence, and their goals are aligned: get back to the Federation. But by the time they find the Borg cube, HJ knows about her hidden memories of her first crew, and she knows the construct has been put on board without her knowledge (and that going to the Federation will destroy Starfleet)....

She does something really interesting when the kids encounter the Borg. First trying hard to scare them off (is this all her or the construct influencing her to make this warning as harsh as possible?) And then they decide to go onto the Borg ship for the express purpose of seeking knowledge to disarm the construct. HJ disapproves of their plan... but then she is able to do a 180, drawing on her knowledge of the Borg to fully prep them for their mission. She wants them to succeed. If HJ and the construct were not entwined, would she have approved of their idea to go? how much more might she have been able to help them if she were acting fully under her own power? And does the construct have full control of her program here? or does it take it until Ghost in the Machine to fully work it's way in (after all, she's no simple piece of code).

For how much of the series is HJ resisting the living construct's influence? How much of the show is her own self speaking? And how much is the living construct speaking through her image?

[quasi-normalcy]

Ironically, the weapon used by the Vau N'Akat against the Federation seems a lot like the sort of weapon that the Federation would use against the Borg.

[liminal-species]

I drew my d&d character and they look derpy here bc their eyes are diff colors, not wall-eyed...they are looking at the viewer with a side eyed expression and visible disinterest. I actually don't know what my magical dagger looks like, so i drew my costume dagger for flair.

I'm currently playing a rogue elf reborn named Anlyth Naïlo in the pre-written module, "Out Of The Abyss". They have adopted two deep gnome children and are best friends with a kua toa. The sum of their parts are mostly wood elf and drow, which makes the political aspect of The Underdark a bit difficult...

I AM ALSO ONE OF FOUR REBORNS IN THIS CAMPAIGN. IT WAS A COINCIDENCE.

I might cosplay them at ren fair next year. Gonna have my hair grown out by then. Dye a portion silver and paint my face. How fun!

I stuck with the amnesia route until i can figure out a better story than my original idea which i forgot while drawing them the first time. Since then they have changed a lot, so I am figuring them out still. They are intelligent but not wise so it makes for awkward situations. Thankfully they sneaky.

[headlesssamurai]

prolly a lil bitch

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[the-drifters]

[hanbeihood]

Me, throughout life: Man, why do I have to be so short! This blows! Fuck needing step-stools!

Me, p much whenever I can create a character: Do I want to be a Gnome, Halfling, Grung, v short Human, or an actually sentient toy/doll/construct of a similar height.