#tricotron

[bumblecon]

What I wouldnt give to listen to tricotrons 8tracks playlists again, they were SO GOOD!! I want to put them on actual cassettes

I was a huge fan of the intermission stuff way back when, I drew nothing but that for like 3 years

[doomface]

the intermission sucks you in i swear... everyone who skipped it skipped out on being sucked into intermission hell with the rest of us....

[beasies]

your minibot humanformers are TOP NOTCH

ohhh THANK YOU TRICO!! ♥（ﾉ´∀`）

[madelineireland]

Sorry to hear about your cat trico, feel better soon!

[tantoknives]

Mr Queasy, Mr Smiley, Purple Puma, Arhimicarus

Mr Queasy: What’s the sickest you’ve ever been?

ohh man it’s a tie between the time i was little and i was so sick that i had just gone completely limp and had to be carried to the women’s center, or the last time i had alcohol poisoning ahhah

Mr Smiley: Favourite type of donut?

ohh mm!! i was just talking about doughnuts! actually my favorite thing i always get from the doughnut place is a bacon egg & cheese croissant breakfast sandwhich! but i guess my favorite type of doughtnuts are actually doughnut holes!

Purple Puma: What would your alter ego be?

this is my alter ego

Archimicarus: Top 10 fav fictional characters?

- TFP Breakdown!

- Rose Quartz

- Jazz

- Samus Aran

- Prince Ashitaka

- Kirby

- The Iron Giant

- Zero Moustafa & Mr. Gustave

- Seymore Krelborne

- me i am a fictional character

[tantoknives]

truly accurate tfp breakdown playlist: the complete mad max fury road score

[tantoknives]

omg I told myself I wouldn't ask more questions for the night but IS THAT TRACES OF AN INVENTED LANGUAGE I SEE IN YOUR REPLY. linguistics and conlanging is a huge passion of mine, is that language something you started from scratch or did you base it off of one or more human languages in some way (sentence structure, conjugations, phonology etc etc)??

B))

yes!! yes yes yes it is!! i haven’t got it all down pat because you know inventing a language can be a little tricky but! yeah yeah it’s a language i’ve started all on my own just for this story! the language is very airy and smooth and if it doesn’t flow you’re not saying it right

one of the main things of the language is that you primarily speak with the front of the mouth by using crisp or airy sounds sounds like the hard ‘t’ sound and ‘p’ in “tip”, or the entire word “hiss”! it’s very rare that you hear a sound from the back of the mouth in their languagewhat’s funny is that the hard ‘k’ sound is actually extremely offensive to them. like just making the sound isn’t exactly a word for them, but it is basically a verbal form of extreme disdain and rudeness, like if you made that sound at any aish don’t expect them not to fly at you in rage

their sentence structure tends to be extremely flowing and doesn’t leave a lot of room for thought. the ui, or rhythm of the words is actually very important when speaking the language because the rhythm portrays the mood of the speaker. they achieve this by throwing in a lot of filler syllables and either nodding or moving their hands with their rhythm

and actually a lot of adverbs/adjectives are conjugated (built) into words! such as silumanvah as the word for ‘freed slave’ and not just slave! the -vah indicates that they are freed. if they are just saying ‘slave’ the word would be silumanve (there would be an accent on the e because whenever the word is not conjugated the ending is usually an accented vowel) 

gosh there’s pprobably more i could go on about but my head is getting a lil muddled ahhah!

ohh also little tidbit the name of the main character, Anonor, literally means ‘he who falls’ in Atuleel!

[tantoknives]

I know I sent a buttload of questions in that last ask but y'know how it goes, coming up with one makes you think of more haha: ok so where do the aishians live, do they have their own planet? are they the only sentient species that is native to it? are they interplanetary and do they interact with alien planets? is their planet like an alternate earth or not earth-like at all?

oohh oh my god trico these are absolutely fantastic questions ohh my goodness! okay im just gonna answer each question individually so here go

where do the aishians live, do they have their own planet?

they absolutely do have their own planet! her name is Atuvaal, and her moons are Dihana and Vriael. A majority of the planet is uninhabitable due to overgrowth and hostile conditions that megalithic forests had created in response to impeding civilizations that came before the Aish. The Aish as a race actually live on several different planets, but Atuvaal is their native planet. The ‘bases’ in the west and north, or the eumta, started out as just that: bases. They eventually became permanent homes to other Aish, who have developed significantly different cultures than the native Aish. But, the storyline focuses primarily on the Aish of Atuvaal, or the Atuleel. 

are they the only sentient species that is native to it?

This has been an argument among many intellects of the aishian population, since many argue that the pedaladesh are not just significantly intelligent, but that they were the first sentient species to inhabit Atuvaal. Since they have no way of communicating with the pedaladesh and they have been receding deeper into the primeval jungles, the argument has largely been dropped. There used to be other small communities of refugees that came to Atuvaal to try and start new lives and survive on the outskirts of the Aish communities or even in the jungles, but after the war there weren’t enough resources for them to survive. Oddly enough, the biological warfare didn’t hugely affect the jungles, but destroyed most of the more delicate and tame plants of the region the Aish inhabited. also, there are an inordinate amount of myths about ‘jungle-people’ that hide in the forests who have never, ever been seen. 

are they interplanetary and do they interact with alien planets?

In the main story, a vast majority of their sustenance comes from off-planet! They are definitely interplanetary, and are considered one of the more ‘social’ species of their solar cluster. Since they can’t support themselves agriculturally, they act as a ‘military for rent’ in return for vital resources for a lot of other planets. They’ve really strained themselves a lot doing this, but its all they can do until they get back up on their feet or die. Possibly the most significant other planet in the story is Vakulimi, which is actually a conjoined planet (the main planet has a smaller planet attached to it by a system of both natural and man made anchors) and the planet is. filthy rich in resources. absolutely dripping with them. a lot of the story takes place here, since its much more culturally rich and this planet was the one to defeat the Atuleel in the War of Nations.  Other significant planets include Gyxie, Chama-char, and Booum.

is their planet like an alternate earth or not earth-like at all?

I don’t think earth is at all comparable to Atuvaal. She’s nearly seven times the size of earth, with four times the land mass. The jungles are practically predatory, and the seasons are considerably different. The two moons also spice things up a bit for the planet, and a majority of the species that inhabit it are absolutely massive, like the pedaladesh, scullers, and rhayales