Carliro

Lands of Fire build 4

https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/249207/build-4-is-here

Alas Poor Coyote

Janice stretched her arms and yawned.

She was not getting younger for sure, but today she felt particularly like a fossil, entombed in her house, preserved as the rest of Echo decays. Not a pleasant feeling when you know that being a relic from a lost age is all you have, when you could have lived and travelled so far and wide.

She took one of her old novellas from her nightstand, staring at it with a sad bitterness.

It was the one she brought with her when the old cougar di...

Lands of Fire build 3

https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/241254/new-build

Cafeteria

An Echo AU fic where Sydney lives:

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The bell rang.

The cafeteria was already a cacophony, but TJ was quickly able to find Sydney by the sound of his voice. As well as his musk, just barely disguised by the deodorant. Next to him was Flynn, and they were already carrying trails and sitting on an otherwise unoccupied table.

"Hey Syd!" TJ waved, "Hey Flynn!"

Sydney got up and hugged the love of his life, giving him the softest of ...

Echo Babies 2: Da Black Parade

With the end of Echo proper comes another installment of Echo Babies to celebrate:

https://mega.nz/file/JyQ31YRQ#OLdNQ67dJw6YlKnseoNn-IwIE-KLna9dT5u2RfjbAw8

https://mega.nz/file/4mZwCZKK#kRa7axBZHQKLZ_-YSF9T16UpfN5mXfJkIq9iZDf3bBQ

Credits are in the About section.

MTG color analysis: Echo character decks

After my initial artcle, I’ve decided to expand on what decks they might use (and in universe magic they might use).

Chase: Blue/Black milling and discarding standard, give his crisis of identity. Maybe some water and darkness spells.

Leo: Red/White equipment and vehicles, no doubt about it. Dude loves guns and cars.

Flynn: Black/Red/Green, probably some form of lands matter, given his outdoorsy nature. Maybe with some gra...

Lands of Fire Announcement: good news

https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/236112/good-news-more-builds-than-expected

Lands of Fire update 2.2

https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/234500/22-update-sprite-experiments-and-e-begging

Lands of Fire Build 2

https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/233954/build-2-released

Sonnet

Sydney writes a poem for TJ.

***

"Do you promise not to laugh?" Sydney asked, half in jest and half in legit worry.

TJ simply kissed him in the cheek, then looked at him with his beautiful blue eyes. A wordless sign for him to go on.

Sydney looked around. No sign of his brothers, nor of his mother. Normally he wouldn't care about them, but he felt pretty defensive and didn't want to have any witnesses.

"Syd, it's alright" TJ said, "I can hea...

Sydney Alone

Echo AU where Sydney survives. The lead up to said AU's equivalent of the game's event.

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First, it was his family.

Eliza Bronson HAD enough of Echo, and most of her sons went with her. Sydney stayed behind, his friends and especially his boyfriend not worth abandoning.

Then, Jenna and Chase departed. Carl did, but he returned.

Then, his aunt left. In her place came a red panda, Injy, who was if was anything better company. But still, Sydney could help but sigh...

Echo Babies

Like, lots of other people are posting Echo parody VN's, so....

Goes without saying but everything here belongs to the Echo Project and associated artists.

https://mega.nz/file/gvBmCZBQ#RWyoXtJRr5gbPXdaTRh4BnqNzX5yAYqD8fko_rwLSXE

https://mega.nz/file/UzBWQJLJ#HqecnpvRr9i8cTPI4PaRlwN3NPgW1RVUqBf4p4tMCYA 2021-03-03 18:51:38 +0000 UTC View Post

The Evening After

To honor the cute sprites in the new Echo build.

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Night passed.

Day passed.

And TJ still felt like he was dreaming.

Red and blue flashed in his mind at that horrible visage in the lake, as if the sun and moon were constantly on his eyes.

He didn't scream, he didn't talk. His body was in an instinctual autopilot, reacting to what other people said, nodding every once in a while. If he was in a state of shock, it didn't matter: life went through the mo...

Lands of Fire update

https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire/devlog/227140/everything-corrected

Lands of Fire launch

New VN launch:

https://mullerornis.itch.io/lands-of-fire

Proposal

When TJ woke up, Sydney wasn't in the bed.

Normally, he'd watch as his boyfriend snorred and drooled, either gently waking him up or staying with his love until it was time to leave. When for some reason Sydney woke up first, TJ usually was still met with his blue eyes and a kiss.

But not today, apparently.

In normal circumstances, this would be a mild incovenience. But considering it had just been a month since the Echo hysteria, after an year since their last meet during C...

#makeabettercartoon - Aethersworn

So after careful deliberation I've decided to spoil what I have been working for years now. Commission made by HodariNundu (on deviantart)

Aethersworn is a science fantasy project based on Iranian cultures, with several LGBT characters. To learn more of what I have planned for now:

https://ichthyoconodon.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/aethersworn-hosting/#jp-carousel-2948<...

A loose attempt at categorising Aboriginal Australian history

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There is an increasing body of evidence that, rather than primeval stasis, Aboriginal Australians underwent several technological and cultural developments for the thousands of years they have inhabitted Australia. By the time colonists arrived, Australia thrived with several complex societies that rivalled those seen in other continents, not only altering the environment to suit a...

Echo/Minotaur Hotel Crossover

In which TJ and Sydney go to the famous hotel.

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"And that should be all of it" TJ said proudly, loading the last bags into the truck.

"Oh sweetie, we're going to miss you so much" his mother said, a sadness dramatised, before hugging him.

No sooner did she release him than his father not only hugged him but dragged Sydney into it as well. The otter protested about having his spine crushed as usual but TJ knew just how much he enjoyed those moments, seeing...

Todd and Cliff

A The Smoke Room fanfic.

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"I c-could escort him to his apartment!" Todd volunteered hastily.

Quite a few people at the poker table rose eyebrows, but Clifford seemed excited at the prospect, and that's all that mattered to Todd.

"Splendid!" the stoat said, "I was going to ask Sam or Murdoch, but I do believe it'd be most genial to catch up with Todd!"

"Y-yes, it would" Todd said, still gulping.

"How I wish I co...

Alien Worlds creatures reimagined as earth animals

Skygrazers: a lineage of sauropterygians that developed lateral collagen fins, first to allow them to glide like flying fish but then having grown enough to provide lift for permanent flight, while the wings formed from the limbs provide thrust and steering. Spend their entire lives thermally soaring through the air, even giving birth on the wing. Some species feed on aerial plankton (seeds, insects, spiders et cetera) while others opt for more predatorial ecologies like thos...

Alien Worlds review

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Alien Worlds is, as the name implies, a speculative exploration on how life might evolve on other planets. This marks the welcome return of speculative biology documentaries, long after the era of The Future is Wild and Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real. Other documentaries based on this premise, Alien Planet and Extraterrestrial, also ste...

A Lusitanian Cosmology

Here's a speculative take on Lusitanian Cosmology. See my article on the Lusitanian gods for the reason behind my choices.

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Three great rivers cross the land: Durius in the north, Erbina (Tagus) in the middle and Guadiana in the east. They feed the sea, which in turn feeds the sky, the realm of the gods. Erbina, the central river, is a goddess of boundaries, and s...

Liesa of Dusk

Dusk settled in the moors. 

One day, this area of haunted hills and oily fens would become Westvale, and even then, thousands of years before Ormendahl's time, demonic orgies polluted the land with black miasma and fiery sulphur. When the sun set, eerie fire lights dotted the moors, and in the moment of sunset a sick gold like that of coins made the land gilded in vibrant but noxious splendour. Dry grass went from yellow to gold to gray to hearth orange and then black. 2020-10-27 13:25:59 +0000 UTC View Post

From the maze to now

All that I loved is dead.

My island? Turned to ash, entombing buildings and people alike.

My family? My mother's wisdom was long forgotten, my brother is remembered as a monster, I myself a lovestruck fool.

My world? No one remembers my culture, no one can read what I wrote, no one can understand our art and our souls barren in it.

Even our deathless gods are shadows, living only as whispers within the Olympians.

Mine was a great culture, where wisdom and passion...

William's Gift

A The Smoke Room fanfic for a change.

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William Adler was a lot of things in life. 

A sheriff, a detective. A pragmatist, a cynic. A Native, trying to make himself useful to the colonizers. A man who married and had children to fit in, denying his own heart.

Most of all, he was a coward with an empty heart.

The last few days of his life were strange recollections. He remembered standing, burned and bruised, in the ...

On the origins of bat flight and implications

So a new interesting study has come out on the origins of bat flight. In it we have an examination of the various hypotheses of how bats became volant, with a very intriguiging possibility that flight might have evolve...

With The Best Friend Part 2

The door bell rang.

"I'll go get it" TJ said, though his mother followed him anyways.

Sydney looked over in the couch. He and TJ's father were watching a strange melodrama from up north. In all honesty his mind dozed off, occasionally focusing on a pretty actor and other times falling asleep, but he wasn't terribly bored. This, however, would keep him consistently entertained.

"Jenna!" TJ said, hugging her.

"Hi TJ!" she said warmly, "And good day to you Mr...

With the best friend part 1

 A two parter, where TJ and Sydney hang out with Flynn and Jenna respectively. 

***

Sydney yawned. It was slightly later then when TJ usually went for hikes, the sun already revealing itself, but it was still way to early for his usual standards. TJ, naturally, didn't seem to think so, and paced around excitedly as a certain figure blended into the similarly coloured sunlight.

"Syd, you look like absolute shit" Flynn said, waving towards them.

...

Infinity Train, Mark Twain and personhood

Infinity Train is easily one of the high lights of 2010’s/2020’s animation, being Cartoon Network’s last bastion of sincere, mature storytelling in an ocean of mostly wacky cartoons and horrible reboots. Tackling issues such as divorce, toxic masculinity and grief, it carries itself with a dignity that even other contemporary mature cartoons like Steven Universe lack, and the fact th...