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Oooooo it's pickin up rubbin my hands together like a fly we still have one more intro part to go and then I can finally get into the actual plans CCC:<

Y'all will likely see that one in. Another two months! Because I have to move right after artfight ends!! yAAAAAAYYYY!!! (/sar)

I'm making a preemptive masterpost to go along with this because of those aforementioned plans, even though I... literally only have two parts out so far. I didn't know if I was gonna go further with this au before, but now I DEFINITELY am so we need a masterpost boys!

Sssttiiiiilll figuring out how I want to do backgrounds for this au. I don’t practice them a lot so I don’t especially have a concrete “background style”. These ones ended up being quite painterly! Honestly I might end up switching up the style and level of polish in general a lot for this au just based on what I feel like doing, so that I can keep making it, because that. Is how my brain works!

I had a friend help me do some research on burns for this au but I think they'd rather not be tagged so. Just know. I am very thankful for [name expunged]!!

I'm still figuring out how exactly to post these, in terms of the actual comic. For the first one I made each page on a separate canvas and THAT was hell, so for this one I moved over to one single comic strip. And in order to be able to shorten the post I cut it up into individual pages. But this means it's awkward in a different way because the pictures aren't all the same length, which could be jarring even though it's intended to be read in comic strip format anyway. So.

At first I was gonna make a poll about whether I should post chronologically or not but I've mostly figured that out by now (It'll be mostly chronological in case anyone's wondering!) so here's a different poll instead:

Carnelian: veerrryyy Grian rock. The redness of it and the black flecks aside, I really wanna eat this rock and I think Grian deserves a yummy rock. Also, that photo is in fact of a piece of carnelian I have on my shelf. Shoutout to my shelf

Cherry quartz: okay, get ready. Cherry quartz is made from quartz and cinnabar. I’m not an expert at explaining sciencey stuff, but they essentially melty mix the two together and the cinnabar creates the funny lines of reddish/pinkish colors throughout the quartz. (That’s how you can tell the difference between cherry and strawberry quartz! If you see sort of ‘feathered’ inclusions, it’s cherry quartz. If there’s little seed shaped inclusions throughout the stone, it’s strawberry quartz!) Grian feels very cherry quartz to me for a lot of reasons, but I’ll sum it up in two reasons. 1) red. 2) cinnabar is highly dangerous due to the mercury in its chemical composition. Now I’m not saying that Grian is made of mercury, but I am saying that I wouldn’t trust him around explosives.