I Was Inspired By @amethystfairy1 's Latest Traveling Thieves Fic, So... Ren And Martyn :D Ren Was Sleepy.

@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.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DUDE THE CHAPTER WAS SO GOOD

Imp was so sad and that made me sad

so excited for skizz to give him a sweet treat tho!! great stufffff <333

awwww thank you!! i'm so happy you decided to come here and tell me :D

he is very sad :( we'll see if skizz can help with that

and speaking of sweet treats, here's a piece of the art for the next chapter ;) you're welcome

hi ummmmm. Skizzleman is hot. opinions on this 🎤?

Have you SEEN my banner? You literally have to look at it to send me an ask.

Is the sky blue? Is water wet? Is Skizz hot? Yes!

If you somehow need more evidence (even though my word should be enough), have some CHOICE screenies. (you know I'm including that photo of him holding the drumsticks, that shit's my goddamn muse)

hey. hey. hi. your fic is so snazzy. i read all of it for the first time on the 16th and am not being normal

hi. hey. hey there hello. you putting a date on this ask really highlights just how long I take to get to my inbox riparonis xD

thank you so much for reading and for not being normal and for sending this ask even though it took a month for me to reply!!!!

I appreciate all of it <3 and i'm so happy my lil story made you happy :D

Griffin Skizz

Inspired by this post. he is very griffin coded :]

Skizz rolling a poker chip on stream (no audio)

ik it's been many chapters since, but... https://www.tumblr.com/crystaleevee4/763991427951837185/as-i-type-this-im-like-not-even-halfway-through?source=share

was I right? ;P

You were lol, I was originally planning to do something like what I did for the calc problem and give spoiler art, but uhhhh.. it's kinda been a while since then, and also I am in the process of reworking the outline (AGAIN rippppppp I just want them to have DEPTH and WORLDBUILDING) so there's not much I can give you for certain as a reward D:

HOWEVER! of the things I do know for certain, here's the smallest crumb from my outline for next chapter:

"Skizz runs into Impulse, literally. Again."

the snails but I turned them into giant mounts!!!! for funsies I usually hate spending more than 3 hours on a piece, but I had a lot of fun doing these

Chapter 6 is out!!! READ IT, I dare you (aka CLICK THE LINK I SAY, HERE HAVE IT TWICE)

In which Skizz goes out for a pumpkin spice latte because he loves them and it's a very normal fall day and he loves this very normal treat for when he's feeling normal because everything is fine smile

Theoretically, if I started doing commissions (art and potentially writing), would people be interested in that? Idk how much I'd charge yet, but here's some examples of my art + link to my writing to help decide:

More examples under the cut! Varying backgrounds, shading, styles, etc.