Welcome To The Hot Line. What Is The Question?

“Welcome to the hot line. What is the question?”

“When am I?” He breathed. His eyes drifted close and opened again.

“Season six will start soon, too.”

“Season…”

Bdubs put the phone back. He walked back and sat in his car. He started driving again. He changed the radio.

“Your daily is back again. Tomorning is nothing like you’ve ever.”

He changed it again.

“In another world, you long for them as well. They long for you too. Fall, my friend, home, fall.”

He changed it again.

“Forget what makes you human. Remember why you are a monster.”

He listened.

“You looked up and said there was nothing more to be done. The plants that hung from that pot are fake and you knew it. The scheme was a scheme of fraud, yet you make it real. It was real to all that bore witness. That machine was your child.”

He didn’t understand.

“Remember that night, when the moon was high? You took your machine, your baby, to the field to watch the flowers. That machine bled into your body and infected you with its chymus and made you bleed. Bleed out. Fall. Fall. Fall. Fall--”

Bdubs’s eyes shut before he could release the pressure on the gas pedal. His head hit the steering wheel and the car spun off to the side. The car looked helplessly towards the cliff.

~~~

Bdubs felt the warm concrete scraping his skin as someone pulled him out of a pool. Bdubs coughed the warm water up and opened his eyes. Keralis looked down at him, eyes wide and fearful. The sudden sensation of water and rough concrete made his body shiver. Was that a dream? Bdubs tried to speak, but nothing came out. Keralis said somethings, but Bdubs couldn’t hear. Keralis lifted him up and took him inside.

This a concert band photo I drew over. Fun fact, the person I drew Mumbo over in the last one is the same one here, because he was the tall friend and I’m Grian here cause I’m the shortest >:(

Some Infinite Ocean art for the soul

Here’s a concept for The Infinite Ocean AU.

Scar had to decide whether or not he should talk about... The thing. The sea monster? To call of that seemed nearly insulting. Something so beyond words and beyond description would hardly fit the title of "sea monster." It was something else, something that could not-- would not-- be defined by such a childish phrase. But was there anyone who could give it an appropriate title?

Scar got up from his bed and thought. He lifted himself into the air with his elytra and glided away from the happy Scar Land. He came to the ledge of Mumbo's base and looked up at the enomous structure he built in between Buttercup shananigains. Mumbo saw him from above and glided down.

"You're pretty darn smart," Scar began after their greetings, "what might you call something that exceeds description."

"Well," Mumbo started, fumbling with black stone in his hands, "ineffible means too great to be expressed."

"I need a name for it."

"A name for what?"

Scar's cover that he had no desire to keep was gone. "I saw it in the ocean. Where the bottom should be, something killed me. Well, I drown, but it dragged me down."

"What did it look like?"

"That's the thing... You just can't describe something like that, at least not in a timely manner."

"The Amorphous Ineffeble."

Scar's eyes lit up with Mumbo's words. "The Amorphous Ineffable..." He repeated. While putting a name on it discomforted Scar, what was more suiting of an idenification that could not-- would not-- identify it.

"Have you told Grian there's something down there?"

"Not yet. I hesitated to tell anyone. What if they didn't believe me?"

"Let's tell Grian; he'll believe us."

Scar and Grian walked across the bridge to the stone castle of Grian's base. Scar furrowed his brows and atuck his hands in his pockets. What if his experience was a blip? What if The Amorphous Ineffable wasn't around any longer than it had been? Was it a fleeting beast that only existed in that space and time when Scar was unlucky-- lucky-- enough to witness.

No matter, Grian would be thrilled by the prospect of something new under the blue-green waves and salty sea foam.

Part 3

Hermit's Hollow Masterpost

What is Hermit's Hollow?

Hermit's Hollow is a mysterious small town AU centered around the titular town of Hermit's Hollow. It's is heavily inspired by works such as Twin Peaks, Welcome to Nightvale, TAZ: Amnesty, Gravity Falls, and other similar media. The story, while not always in chronological order, is told through transcripts, recovered photographs, journal entries, and -- occasionally -- strange puzzles strewn about. Basically, there's weird things in the trees, the town may be almost be literally alive, and the weirdest thing at the local tourist trap is its owner.

What's the story?

Grian is a former journalist with a tarnished reputation. With nothing else left to lose, he accepts an invitation from his sister to start anew in the sleepy mountainside town of Hermit's Hollow. What appears to be a peaceful escape quickly reveals itself to be far more, however, as soon Grian is embroiled in the mystery of a missing scientist, a charming tourist trap owner, and a town that's far more than it seems. Now, armed with only a Polaroid camera and his intuition, he's determined to uncover the town's secrets -- for better or for worse.

Find the AU here: #hermits hollow au.

Official Playlist

Got some art/writing/anything you wanna share? @ me and be sure to tag it! I love seeing all the cool stuff people make :D

Art:

Grian + Pearl (Official Character Sheets)

Scar + Cub (Official Character Sheets)

Grian and Pearl Reunion (Comic)

Dead is Better - Ex and Cleo (Comic)

First Time at the the Diner

Strange Things Happen For No Reason

Take a Picture

Scar (Doodles)

Etho (Doodles)

Gem (Doodles)

Scarland [by @fadedandromeda]

Doc [by @rainoftime3]

Cleo [by @rainoftime3]

Welcome to Hermit's Hollow [by @suffer-my-beloved-mutuals]

Etho at the Pass N Gas (Comic) [by @domithekingoffools]

Fics:

Not Very Ideal, Is It? (Tumblr) [by @roxie-roo]

Day 2 (Tumblr) [by @roxie-roo]

Inbetween - Etho (Tumblr) [by @eagle-warri]

A Hollow Mystery (AO3) [by @myths-gay-and-random-bullshit]

Cosplay:

Grian [by @myst3ry-pl4nt]

Info:

General Character Overview

The Hollow is Weird

The Lunar Express

The Diner, The Facility, and The Past

Doc

Joe Hills

Impulse

Bdubs

Keralis

xB

Xisuma/Ex

Mumbo

Etho

Tango

Zedaph

False

Wels

Hermit's Hollow Recap (KHHR)

NOTE: this masterpost is incomplete. If I am missing anything, lmk and I will add it as soon as I am able.

DSMPs ur gemyct

Au by @chrisrin and inspired by @cherrifire