#asm.psdc

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the image of the ninth doctor i used for a pose reference because i love him:

n e ways this one was fun! i very much enjoyed capturing the greasiness of s3 jon and hitting gerry with the transgender beam 🏳️‍⚧️

i have spent entirely too long trying to convince myself i don’t hate this, so i’m putting it here before i can delete it. enjoy it, you freaks

n e ways here’s the dumb stuff:

this pose came to me in a fever dream. or while listening to carousel by linkin park, i can’t remember

something about jonelias just scratches my brain. idk why, but it’s probably because i enjoy complicated love/hate dynamics and not because elias/jonah is the hottest character ever, definitely not, who would even say that? i don’t ship them, not really, but it’s a very interesting idea

and that’s not even the point of this piece! it’s more just me messing with control as a concept in a typical tma fashion as best i can while also still hating my art, iykwim

on the hail mary:

- ryland is 38 and simon is 33 :)

- in my fic, simon gets teleported into the petrova line of tau ceti right before the eel gets him, and after rocky wakes up from their fishing trip mishap. they pick him up and work on healing together!

- if i’m remembering right, in the book ryland says that he got second-degree burns from the ammonia of rocky’s atmosphere when sticking him back in his tunnels. i way overshot the healing time, but that’s kinda how second-degree burns look i think. the one from rocky’s claw is from the movie and would definitely be a lot more than second-degree but i think i did an okay job differentiating them

- both of the shirts i gave ryland are ones i own irl and wear regularly! my “say no to pot” shirt is from connecticut, not maine, but i didn’t feel like correcting the google image. also since i posted a tiktok about the “be greater than average” shirt and got a few comments asking where i got it, it’s from kennedy space center! they do still sell it as far as i know :)

- everything else about his appearance is entirely movie-based. i really like how they designed him, especially the dumb t-shirts lol. also i really like the jumpsuit-as-pants thing he has going on so here he is

- simon’s are a bit different. i kinda figured that the corrosion’s effect would resemble burns a bit but it’s 100% more severe than ryland’s so. also darker red because blood? i suppose? i feel really dumb not having done any research now BUT i can just use the excuse that at this point, the blood is doing just about everything it can to keep him alive kinda like it does in the movie, so this guy is effectively immortal and heals decently fast. i can do whatever i want i love my blorbos

- none of simon’s clothes survived the blood, so he’s wearing ryland’s, though they are entirely too small for him despite ryland being the closest crew member to him in size. the tshirt design is one i remember my sixth grade english teacher having so i gave it to ryland and then simon by proxy because why not. ryland does get his jeans back eventually as you can see so the clothing exchange is fine for now! the shoes are yao’s, however, because they just happen to share a shoe size.

on erid (actual headcanon territory):

- ryland is 47 and simon is 42 :)

- in the book ryland mentions having a cane, but i gave him a modified forearm crutch instead since it’d help with the increased gravity. the end bit looks like an eridian claw and has a mechanism to grab onto rough terrain, as well as grab objects from low heights when he can’t bend over because of his arthritis!

- he continues to wear the clothes he brought with him from earth even after all this time, because they’re comfy to him. obviously during his malnutrition and recovery his weight fluctuates a lot, but it eventually settles back into his normal range so he can wear his dumb t-shirts again!

- he wears the jewelry rocky made for him every day. it’s a common eridian tradition to give others a piece of your exoskeleton when you’re close to them (supported by the bit of adrian’s in rocky’s arm in the movie) so the necklace has bits of rocky, adrian, and several other eridians he’s friends with. his earrings are extra bits of rocky and adrian! his students also like to make him jewelry so he wears those a lot too.

-also his watch is a modified eridian clock! he uses the same watchband that he wears in the movie because it’s comfy for him even after the face itself breaks, so rocky fixes it for him so he remembers to go to class and eat and other important stuff that his audhd brain wouldn’t remember otherwise lol

- after being on erid for a while ryland decides to grow his hair out a bit, and since simon gets a proper prosthetic arm they’re able to help each other with haircare! it’s self-indulgent for me but idc i’ll draw all the long hair men i want. also he greys more than simon for reasons i’ll mention in a second

- on that topic, simon’s hair is properly long. he keeps it for a few reasons: it reminds him of how his mom used to care for it for him when he was a kid, he likes having ryland help him with it (ryland loves it too), and it looks awesome on him and everyone agrees. he keeps it in a braid like this most of the time, though he tries different styles very regularly, often with ryland’s help. he has bits of adrian and rocky tied into it as well!

- he greys a lot slower, not just because he’s younger but also because it takes a while for the bits of the blood in him to let him age, and it only happens after he finally accepts that he’s safe and isn’t letting his carnal desire for survival overtake every other emotion he has. yippee trauma

- xenonite arm!! i was kinda going off of how rocky’s inventions looked in the movie for the design, including how a lot of the base shapes are hexagonal, so he has joints that kinda look like d12 dice. it works though! the bits in his toolbelt attach to his fingers so he can do just about anything with it. and it does attach to his nerves (think fullmetal alchemist) so he can move it properly and somewhat feel with his fingertips. he can remove it and does sometimes, but after they really perfect the design he just keeps it on most of the time. theres also a silicone cover he can put on over it when he’s doing more domestic things, because the joints do still get caught on stuff, and also it’s softer for fluff purposes iykwim

- he also keeps his garden shears on him because of course he does. this guy LOVES plants, so whenever he’s not with rocky’s engineering team or with ryland, he’s in his garden or tending to his trees. he has tool attachments for that too, which he designed himself since the eridians aren’t used to having trees around.

- since simon doesn’t have anything that fits him, the eridians make him a bunch of clothes using designs from the endless amount of information on humanity the hail mary has. he prefers much looser clothing (sensory issues. autism) and tends to be better at putting outfits together than ryland, who just cares about comfort. he likes looking nicer but doesn’t like attracting attention to himself, so he usually wears simple button-ups and the equivalent of loose dress pants.

- there is a point later where they have a proper eridian mating ceremony, and—i’m gonna need y’all to get cool with a lot of things real quick—they exchange a bit of the skin on their forearms like eridians do! it’s only the top few layers and they have to do a lot of testing on both of their cells to confirm that they’re biologically compatible after simon’s mutations, but it works because i say so. also they do have a version of a traditional earth wedding as well, and simon takes ryland’s last name because he doesn’t have one :)

aaaaand that’s about it!

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have a wonderful day and enjoy the sci-fi yaoi :D

ngl that’s actually a pet peeve i have with people depicting mag91—mike doesn’t throw jon into the sky, he just makes him feel like he’s falling endlessly. he even says so!!

then again people probably do the exact same thing i did here and draw it that way because it looks cool, and i have no room to talk. whatever lol

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n e ways! mike crew my beloved i get to talk about him now :)

notes on mike’s design: a lot of people draw him in like full flight gear when he’s talking to jon but i just thought: why would he wear all that in his own house? like dawg when i’m home i just wanna chill and he seems pretty chill at first so i doubt he’s wearing his scarf and all yknow?

but mostly i just went off of the descriptions in mag46 and mag75, and the rest is my own personal headcanon. i love my fellow short king vastard <3

also for jon: it may look like he’s wearing a sweater here and as much as he would have liked to he is not. that is a longsleeve graphic tshirt (you decide what the graphic is) that he’s trying desperately to make look more professional. the undershirt is wrinkled and borrowed from georgie. there is no professionalism to be found

i think i’m gonna draw all my favorite episodes in this anime screenshot format. it’s just fun yknow? next on the docket is 121, then 101, then maybe 151 if i feel like it… damn all my favorites end in 1 that’s crazy

for real though if i had to pick an avatar to marry it’d be this man. yknow the one who dated the guy with the not!them table, had a breakdown and started getting prophetic dreams about death, got so sleep-deprived he did an identity theft on a guy he saw die, killed a research vessel full of people and himself, and was still socially awkward enough to question how to address a guy in a coma? yea that one

sorry for the wait on this one gang, i’ve been having a rough go of it lately and it seems all i’m able to do now is doomscroll, drive to work, doomscroll some more, drive home, doomscroll again, and sleep. but hey, i got it done! in the name of oliver “antonio blake” “dr. thomas pritchard” banks, i have done it‼️

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oliver is one of those characters that doesn’t really differ from the fanon design in my mind. there are a couple of differences though:

idk why everyone decided he was goth? i mean i think it’d be cool but it seems almost stereotypical for an avatar of the end to be goth yknow. my personal headcanon is that he got into motorcycles after taking over the life of thomas pritchard, so most of the time he just wears a tshirt and a biking jacket, along with some jeans he’s had for years and the most basic boots he could find. the tshirt itself is the official grifter’s bone one, just as a reference to the fact he was in that episode (i feel like a lot of people forget that as well so i had to acknowledge it). i gave him the skull ring because i really like the trope of death guys having skull rings, and the one with the black stone is just cool. also, note: there is a black ring on his left middle finger. :)

i love the idea of certain fears turning their avatars’ hair white so much, as is obvious if you’ve seen the rest of my art. the lonely, the end, and the web are the ones i picture it with the most, therefore my martin and oliver (and annabelle if i ever decide to draw her, idk if i will) have white roots. for oliver specifically, i don’t think he’s the kind of guy to put too much effort into his appearance, so he’s had the same locs for at least a decade and has learned how to retwist them himself when he feels like it.

other than that i just went with the description of him from the aforementioned mag42: “he was tall, black and careworn, deep lines of worry etched into an otherwise handsome face.” guy is canonically hot and that’s about it

also yes, jon is still there, you just can’t see him because i wanted to mess with perspective in this one. he does have the death roots, and i like to think they’re covering his eyes and mouth before they recede. and he definitely looks terrible—well, more terrible than usual, anyway.

i have never seen a british hospital. i do not like to research for my art. this is obvious.

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notes on each: (SPOILERS‼️)

s2: i promised i would draw him in a skirt a long time ago, this is me keeping my word. this is his “hey i might die any second now so i don’t think dress code matters anymore i know you all want me dead fuck you” era. also elias gifted him that necklace for reasons that were not obvious to him at that time, and he thinks it’s cool, so he wears it. the two pins on his bag are the bi flag and the autism symbol. the rest of the fit is based on one i wear regularly irl so uh yea

s3: i so desperately love the idea of him in one of those zigzag headbands, so i drew it. this is him before his encounters with jude and daisy, so those scars aren’t there, but the shoulder one from michael is. idk if i’m confusing the placement there but one could reasonably be careless with a bread knife and injure themselves there, right? yea it’s supposed to be a shitty excuse idk

s4: this is the one of the first days after he returns to the institute and therefore is still wearing his glasses out of habit. he does not need them anymore. also his eyes are definitely bright green there but he’s—as i said—not having a good time so you can’t see them. also sweater vest moment because he couldn’t have been bothered to put anything complicated together that day.

s5: the proportion of martin’s hand to his face is based on my partner’s hand in relation to my face, which is equally as large as depicted. they are my martin/my reason. not much is different here from my other headcanon post so go look at that for more design notes.

also, generally, i think my design for him has changed. this is literally only because grey streaks are very difficult for me to draw traditionally so i just had his hair fade to white, which in all honesty is more realistic. i also just really like that idea so yeah

also i did draw him in more outfits a while ago to fulfill my desire of treating this grown man like a paper doll. i don’t like it too much but i’ll add it here because i don’t just want to leave it sitting in my creative cloud.

these are circa s3 when he actually felt like putting in effort (and wasn’t occupied by travelling or being kidnapped), which he does sometimes despite everything. they’re also all based on real outfits i wear irl, minus the skirt.

heyo!! new hyperfixation time lesgo i’m killin it over here

i finished the magnus archives in about three weeks. it was an incredible experience lemme tell ya jonny sims and alex newall are gods among men

i love this depressed wet cat eyeball godbeing so much it hurts me. his voice has become my entire inner monologue. i think about him the instant i wake up and the second before i fall asleep.

him and his foggy soft sweater tea boyfriend restarted the fanfic addiction that i’ve been fully recovered from for two years. two years.

this is bullshit anyways have some art of him

here are some various progress shots of this guy, who took me surprisingly long to figure out how to draw.

he has no canon design, gang. none of these characters do. this scares me.

i tried to include all the scars he canonically has, but i apologize for my lack of knowing how to draw the scar from a worm fucking burrowing into your skin and i am not googling that thanks very much that’s fuckin terrifying

and here are some closeups because why not

i intend to draw his progression through the seasons at some point, but let’s just say in my head he went from a typical academic to… this thing pretty gradually

if i were to serve a fear entity it’d probably be the vast, cause i love big empty spaces and big cities and buildings and the views from those buildings and idk if i see something big my first instinct is to pog face. also space is vast and i LOVE space. my legal last name is spacekid trust me bro

the worst one for me is the corruption, 100%. i fucking HATE insects so much and its whole thing is yknow THAT and it fucking sucks i hated the noises they added when jane prentiss attacked holy hell i’m gonna stop thinking about it now

also what in the hell is the mechanisms and why do they keep showing up in fics as a band jon was in? are they real? because if i am able to hear jonny sims singing then goddamn i need that shit RIGHT NOW