Earthbread Reconstructed

We ended up on a bit of tangent the other day so here are some silly sayings to use for Time Balance Department and Timestream-related characters!

Curses/Exclamations:

"Gears grind me down." (God damn me.) "Gears of the Great Machine!" "By the hands of the First Clock!" "Flow forbid." (God forbid.) "Timestream's pockets..." / "You found this in the Timestream's pockets, didn't you?" (A curse meaning complete disaster, references Time Pockets from CROB) “Director’s scissors!” (Mild curse.) "Flow take it." (Mild curse/Can mean “I give up” in isolation.) "Rust and springs." (For heaven's sake.)

General Sayings: 

"Do I look like a standard cog to you?" (Do I look stupid to you?/Do I look like a civilian or non TBD agent?) "That's not how the mechanism turns." (That's not how that works.) "Skip a tooth." / ”I skipped a tooth in my calculations.” (Make a mistake.) "You're wound too tight." (Stressed, anxious, etc) “Let your gears cool.” (Calm down.)  "Clocked and counted." (Everything accounted for/Yes, it's done.) "May your gears stay meshed." (A blessing, like good luck or travel safe.)

Insults: 

"You must be really spinning some stripped gears in there." (Your braincells aren’t touching/you are not intelligent.)  "You sure all your gear teeth are touching?" (Are you insane?)  "I am beginning to suspect your maintenance schedule was neglected." (You sound ridiculous/What you’re saying makes no sense.)  “You skipped a century, huh?” (You weren’t paying attention/you are unintelligent.)  “Smooth-geared.” (Smooth-brained.)  “Right, and the Gold Kirin was caught.” (Incredulity, dis-belief.)  “Might as well hang a flag with your work.” (You’re acting like a time pirate.) 

Field Agent Specific: 

“Only a Time Manipulator could fix this.” (Complete disaster.)  “Looks like the Director’s work.” (Either amazing or terrible, depending on context.)  “We’ll need a fleet for that.” (Call back up.)  “Who let a cog-cat in here?” (Similar to “it looks like a tornado went off in here.”) “A universal translator couldn’t fix that sentence.” (You make no sense.) 

Historical Accuracy Division Specific: 

“You look like a Beastborn in the Dark Flour War.” (You look out of place/lost.)  “Who tailored this century?” (Who approved this?)  “Don’t pull that thread.” (Do not investigate that.)  “That’s a tangled bobbin.” (Complicated and not knowing where to start.)  “Mind your seams.” (Keep your story straight.)  “Your seams are showing.” (I can tell you’re lying/your lie has holes.)  “Don’t unpick that.” (Leave it alone.)  “You’re missing your backstitch!” (You don’t know your fundamentals.)  “Your pattern is off.” / “The original pattern didn’t look like this.” (Your time fix is incorrect.)  “This timeline has too many patches.” (You’re fixing the problems instead of addressing the root cause.)  “I can see the repair work.” (Someone meddled in history here.)  “Cross-reference?” (Where did you get that?/Citation needed.) 

The timeline is already seven pages long

... 9402 words. That is how long the second chapter of Gossamer Knight is so far.

And it is

still

not

done.

Where is this coming from?! Elder Faerie, are you that desperate for a backstory?!

Thank you so much to @pastille-pain for letting us commission our silly sheep Vanilla from you!

He looks absolutely gorgeous! 10/10, would commission again!

I wonder what he's thinking about...

She is also open for questions in our ask box! Enjoy chatting with the head of the Historical Accuracy Division!

The first image is the commission and the second is the ref!

Thank you so much, Puffball! :D

Dark Cacao is a lightning channeler, a polar bear, and was born greyscale blind. He is considered a Frostmarch Inlander

Pure Vanilla is a mountain sheep, a shepherd-healer king, and was born with 50% visual snow (not fully blind). He is considered a Wholegrainian Mountainfolk

And Miru—Vanilla’s beloved flower—is staying a flower in this AU and is actually apart of a species called Flora Serpentus, native to Vanilla’s homelands and are often kept as pets. Vanilla’s is trained as a seeing eye animal! It perches on his staff and will bite people who scare Vanilla

(Vanilla got Cacao a Flora Serpentus. It’s a Hellebore (Christmas Rose) and is named Saeg. It hides in Cacao’s cloak or stays at home, and Cacao is fiercely protective of the little creature.)

Immediately had to try and draw a baby Elder Faerie as a larva trying to get lef so… have lef-eater Elder Faerie

Please enjoy this newly born fae larva concept sketch

They have been given lef

This has spared several adult Faeries’ fingers

Don’t worry, the mandibles fade as they grow up. Those were for feasting on feeder eggs

Keep in mind this essay was entirely voluntary as we are 21 and work EMS while not in school

Our brain didn’t wanna do that because ADHD reasons

That was NOT an invitation to make two divergent fae species based off the Maze Grove and Faeriewood respectively where one is a low-predator-pressure floral species and the other is a high-predator-pressure insectoid species. That was not!

… But yeah now we have most of the species design for two fae species and just need to draw the diagrams. We’ll get around to it.

Hopefully before we post our Eldersalt fic because we need the Faeriewood/Beast-Yeast fae for Elder Faerie’s anatomy.

We’re doodling Licorice Cookie for a nice artist who commissioned for us—it’ll be up on our main blog @theeldritchvespero later once we’re done—but we’re looking at his scythe…

Did Licorice Cookie steal a clawed finger from something??? Because that is very clearly three phalanges made into a blade.

Is it a witch finger? If so, why exactly do witches have TALONS if they are human???

And if not, what is large enough in this world to be used for a cookie sized weapon???

Journal of Gossamer Elder Faerie Cookie

The earth aches to claim my bones but lids not my pupils keep

Roots wrap ‘round slumbering forms, the Witches say they sleep

I know their truth is concert, my hope is but belief

But those people they call beasts now never hurt me with those teeth

…