The Assortment of the Void

Hi, I go by Void/Jackal/Abyss. This is a various assortment of thoughts and art and trinkets. I have various interests and am down to talk about any of them at any point in time. I crochet a little and play a variety of video games.

[voidedjackalope]

Collab art piece has my soul. Took a while to do the coloring, but it has been worth the time and effort. My pencil died multiple times throughout working in it, forcing me to step away from it.

@bloomingskullz did the sketch and line art.

I pitched the idea for the art piece while I was watching. Enjoy the pitch:

[voidedjackalope]

I stare at my friend and their cosplans when we already have so many cosplans together but that won't stop me. The amount of plans we each have individually that we are bringing together. But I stare at them with their little plans and blink my eyes so slowly, a little frog blink here and there, and just stare.

[tobiosty]

General useful stuff!

Guides

How to make Crumbl Cookies!

How to bookbind!

How to pirate movies/shows

How to make frog plushies

How to make a Go-bag for emergencies

How to repair clothing

How to make different a03 kudos!

How to download videos/pictures/gifs from a website

How to make various chocolate desserts!

Tips and Tricks!

A03 formatting

Back stretches!

Depression tips

Adult cheat sheet

How to regulate and understand your emotions better

Disabling Windows 11 web search in search bar

Resources

Horror game recs!

Dca fic recs!

Hand references

Free Adobe photoshop

Artist resources

Free spotify

Pirating sites

Artist resources pt 2

Helpful random sites

Homemaking, gardening, sustainability

Free libraries!

Making stuff and doing things (free book pdf)

Healthcare (medicine discount websites, guide on how to pay hospital bills)

Alternative stuff to mega corporations

[slyrivers]

I love this so much, I’m gonna start saying “nuts” we need to bring it back

[libralthinking]

I love b&w proper ladies breaking character with “sonofabitch”

[yooterus-deactivated20220126]

"OHH you're following me, oUUhhh I didn't know that!"

[cowboy-garfield]

It brings me such joy that people seem to have always done the *sputters and blows raspberries like you're having a stroke* thing when they stammer

[mooncustafer]

If you’d like to see more of these, go on YouTube and search “breakdowns of 1938” (or 1939, 1940, etc). The editors at Warner Bros used to save them and make a blooper reel for the whole year to show at the staff holiday party.

[voidedjackalope]

My friend tortures me by not watching lore live (which i completely understand the reasoning for) but I want to talk about the lore with them but I have to wait til they watch it (which can be delayed by a lot depending on when they get around to it). Anyways, I'm a lore gremlin.

[connorsnothereeither]

How are we feeling Dartfrog Nation? :D

[voidedjackalope]

So joyous. I love the Starbound Yuri.

[voidedjackalope]

[bobbyikkyikk]

Part 2

Which crackship you?

which you?

Ic and Midas

Midas and Haley

c h a r l e s

Ic and Charles (friends)

Ash and Krit! (shiny duo)

Voting ended onMay 7

[voidedjackalope]

The fun of relaying these as they happened to my friend.

[voidedjackalope]

What's the best thing to do in finals week?

Get a CMV idea and then reward yourself with working on the storyboard after finishing assignments.

And then you finish majority of the storyboard in a short amount of time.

And so, Skybound SMP to Epic the Musical is shaping to be a reality.

[aghostcalledhollow]

Top surgery:

Or why Zane became male in the game.

Spoilers for episode 13 & 14 of Zane’s POV

In episode 14 of Zane’s perspective of Codebreak, we see Zane after changing out of his bartender fit discover he has top surgery scars. At first this doesn’t seem too deep, Zane is clearly a trans man and he is now starting to accept the being trans part of wanting to be a man.

However, I think it’s actually a bit deeper than that because of what Ezra says about the players’ forms in the game world. “Your forms reflect a version of yourself you wish to be.”

This actually says a lot about Zane, especially when we take his earlier discussion with Ra (Episode 13) which was likely the impetus for this change.

Zane’s form in the world was a full biological male because Zane wanted to be a man. However, it was also because Zane genuinely and truly thought he’d never be able to reach a point at which he’d be able to achieve anything close to actually being that in the real world. Zane didn’t really know about top surgery and definitely didn’t know about bottom surgery before his talk with Ra.

It’s part of the reason why whenever Zane talks about leaving he talks about turning back into Luci. Zane can only exist here where he can magically become male.

Now, through his discussion with Ra, he’s realised that not only is that not true - that it’s completely possible to get the body he wants in the real world - but also started to accept that as being okay.

What do I mean by that second point?

We’ve seen from his early discussion - Episode 2 and his discomfort at the trans flag - that he clearly has some internalised transphobia, likely stemming from his Queer-phobic parents. But then his discussion with Ra opened his eyes he saw someone like him (at least trans masculine in some way) whose form is specifically not male but man. Ra wanted to look like this, top surgery scars and all, and that completely breaks Zane’s understanding of how things like this work.

He clearly knew about trans people - he specifically mentions not looking into it, which means they knew it was out there - but likely in his mind trans people were what transphobes say; never truly achieving what they wanted just a pale imitation. But, that can’t be true because Ra chose to look like this.

I think, at the start, Zane was very much the type of trans person who would say “if I could magically become male I would.” But is now starting to accept the concept of “being trans is an important part of my identity and I wouldn’t choose to be cis if I could.” Though, he definitely isn’t all the way there yet.

I think it’s also telling that Zane’s top surgery scars are so very obvious. He literally has claw marks for top surgery scars. They are big, there’s three on each side, if Zane goes shirtless you are going to see them, they are not able to be hidden or be confused for something else. Zane totally could have had the really thin really hidden scars that some trans masc people really try for. But instead they are big and bold. I think that says a lot, maybe it’s Zane coming to terms with the fact that there will always be signs of who he was. Maybe it’s the masculinity of being strong (look at how vicious the scars look), or maybe they have to be bold and obvious so that Zane can’t ignore them. So, he has to think about them, what they mean, and what that means for him. (I also understand this could just be a character design decision rather than a deeper thing - looks cool).

In conclusion, it is very important to both the understanding of where Zane was and the growth that Zane is going through that Zane develops top surgery scars and didn’t start with them.

Zane is, in a way, learning what it means to be trans and a part of that is learning to accept the inherent differences between a trans person and their cis counterpart. Zane will never be just a man, he will always be trans even in the game where he became male he was still trans because of his experience before being male and now he has two (6) big reminders of the inherent difference between being a cis man and a trans man.

And most importantly he likes them, even if he’s not 100% sure and not ready for everyone to know about them yet.

[voidedjackalope]

How have I forgotten Zane's tail both times I've drawn him now?

I remembered his hands this time but forgot his tail and feet.

[voidedjackalope]

I'm a little theatre nerd and have a gel book for lights. And so, I was looking one day and saw Roscolux color 312 is called "Canary." My brain immediately jumped to Dawn, and so, went about figuring what gels Io and Percy would be. None of the names matched Io and Percy quite like they did for Dawn, so we went for matching colors. Thus, we have landed at:

Dawn: R312, 'Canary'

Io: R348, 'Purple Jazz' or R26, 'Light Red'

Percy: R72, 'Azure Blue'

[voidedjackalope]

Everything in Starbound is so fine right now. Absolutely nothing could go wrong.

Spoilers as of 4.27.26

Down to 3 worms!

Nothing is going to go wrong after curing Romeo, right?

[voidedjackalope]

I hadn't watched Ocie's lore so it is back down to 2.

[turtle-taetell]

stickers!

I have a few sticker designs now up on my ko-fi! There are some codebreak designs and also some discounted/discontinued designs from fable smp and others ^^

https://ko-fi.com/turtle_taetell/shop

I’ll be shipping some out tomorrow!

[voidedjackalope]

Everything in Starbound is so fine right now. Absolutely nothing could go wrong.

Spoilers as of 4.27.26

Down to 3 worms!

Nothing is going to go wrong after curing Romeo, right?

[voidedjackalope]

I offer out the art that I’ve spent a week on.

[autozer0]

Mutated Dartfrog as random texts :3