Another Silent Communication Moment Between Them Because I Am Just Fascinated With Them

Day 22: Keralis :D

I absolutely love his design, but it took forever to get right rip. Close up of the photo and more sketches under the cut!!! There's a lot of design stuff down there :D

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hiii i was wondering if you’re still updating This Side of the Screen and the skizzpulse band au? sorry if this comes across as annoying just wanted to know 😓

i just binged the all of whats out rn of TSotS and its amazing i am hooked <33

It's not annoying, that's a fair question! I do plan to continue both of them, it's just a combination of things that have been stopping me :( A big reason I haven't been working on those is that I've been focused on my lils au with Enkay for Hermit a Day May, and we've been working on that for well over a month. The other thing is that I'm just generally struggling to find consistent motivation and time to actually work on it, but that doesn't mean I've abandoned the projects entirely!! I'm about halfway through the next chapter of TSotS, but it's slow going. Idk how long it'll take, just know I'm working on it :P

Twitchcon crew (minus joel) bopping out!

Source: Skizz's September 26th stream

Grian: “If anyone- If anyone tuned in and didn’t know our vibe, they’d think we just hated eachother”

Skizz: “Oh- I know what this- this is the thing, this is what friends do. In fact-“

Gem (overlapping): “Every friend group I’m in, we just like, are the worst to eachother”

Skizz: “No, my, my biggest love language is physical contact and uh, Impulse hates it because he hates hugs and I’m always hugging him and punching him, all the time”

Impulse: “Not true-“

Gem (overlapping): “Impulse you hate hugs?!”

Impulse: “It’s not true! I just hate hugs from Skizz.”

Skizz (angry): “HEY! I HEARD THAT, OKAY? THAT HURT!”

Impulse: (laughing)

Midnight alley :DDDDD

Me and @vesperionnox worked together on October in the Views of Hermitcraft calendar! CHECK IT OUT FOR THE FULL IMAGE AND ALSO JUST CHECK OUT THE CALENDAR ITS INCREDIBLE AND ALSO BOTH THE CALENDARS ON @hotguycalendar LETSGOOOO

+ the other half nox posted :)

@a-plethora-of-peters’ So Much for Stardust au has had me in a chokehold the past few days, so... ART! Fic link below (READ IT I say) as well as me talking about things

Ft. aliens Zed, Tango, and Impulse (still tweaking Imp design) and a very traumatized human Skizz

Warnings! Blood, scars, but also hugs n comfort :')

Fic Link:

So Much For Stardust - Chapter 1 - Cringe_Is_Dead (A_Plethora_Of_Peters) - Hermitcraft SMP [Archive of Our Own]

Quick summary for context, it follows human Skizz after he was abducted from earth by the "Defectors" and essentially tortured and treated like an animal before being rescued by space cops. Team ZIT is a group of scientists whose job is to determine how intelligent alien species are, and they're tasked with figuring it out for Skizz in order to know what crime the Defectors will be convicted of (were they poaching & murdering animals or people?). But they don't speak English, so good luck with that. And Skizz has trauma. :]

Now excuse me while I wax eloquent on random things about the art and the fic itself:

I don't think it's difficult to tell, but my favs are Impulse and Skizz lol. I don't usually like drawing them all so differently from their minecraft skins (especially Tango, in this case), but decided to just go all out making them look a lil alien and I think I went too far for Imp. Might redo, give him more skin instead of scales. Also, his clothes r just grey bc I couldn't figure out what colors to give that wouldn't clash horribly lmao.

Also in case you couldn't tell, I ADORE the hurt/comfort this fic has, the concept is so fascinating and just PERFECT for this kinda thing, the angst is delectable. It's the kind of fic where the longer you consider the scenario that Skizz is in, the more tragic and heartbreaking it gets, for everyone involved. I tried drawing a couple other hug/comfort scenes but scrapped them bc I didn't like how they turned out, might retry later.

As for the fic itself, I'm very excited to see where it goes, hanging on the edge of my seat. I only learned about it like 5 days ago and I think I've read it 3 times (AND ITS OVER 100k WORDS???), not to mention how I reread my favorite scenes over and over (chapter 10 ESPECIALLY, I tried to draw like 7 times but it was all hot garbage lol). I'm slightly worried but also itching to get to the climax they mentioned in the last update. I have a couple theories/ things I kinda want to happen.

First, they've mentioned a few times that ZIT doesn't have the data on what the Defectors actually did to Skizz, even though they should have had it from the start. This hints at 2 VERY juicy things, one, that they're being sabotaged. It seems the Defectors are trying to prevent ZIT from determining Skizz's sapience, and in the absolute worst-case scenario, I can see this going so far as them trying to hurt/kidnap/kill Skizz while he's under their protection, which would be just... evil >:))) and traumatizing. and scary. it would just be so juicy if they got separated after all this bonding and healing and growing love they got for each other. Idk if that's where it's going but we'll see. Second, they're already so devastated every day (especially Zed) by Skizz's obvious trauma and scars, breakdowns, triggers, etc, and they don't even know what happened. But if/when they do get their hands on that information, well... I imagine it'd absolutely break all three of them, to the point where they wouldn't even know what to do with Skizz, they'd feel incredibly guilty, angry, heartbroken, everything over him-- not to mention them becoming overwhelmingly protective over Skizz, wanting to just get retribution on the defectors, maybe break some bones, spill some blood, ya know. (PROTECTIVE IMPULSE PLEASEEEE). Meanwhile Skizz is just tryna eat gapples without hurling and narrowly avoiding panic attacks every time he sees Tango.

I could talk for hours about this, but I think that's enough for now lol. I shall continue to spin them around in my head for the next month, and you should too, I highly recommend.

Chapter 3 of This Side of the Screen is up!!

In which, Impulse pays lots of attention in class and never gets distracted ever :)

i spent hours on this and its still not reaching my vision but idc anymore, so here u go. a very not distracting Skizz taking notes.

the sillies

Im oh so normal about real life smp and gaslight gatekeep girlboss

Day 9 (kinda): Martyn!

Like we said before, we're doing life series members as well as normal hermits in our au! Instead of outfit swap, we have Martyn today for Hermit a Day May! Also notable in this fic is that he's in a poly relationship with Ren and Doc <3 (More on that in our future posts)

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