Sort Of New Side Tumblr Going On ^^

my fav spacecraft turns 100 days old

i love you dearly Psyche

California. Just California ^^

Y'know, life's been a giant buzzkill lately, especially 2024 so far, and hopefully that changes soon. To kind of make things a little better, why don't I talk a little about my favorite Scrambled States character, California? Some nice addition to TSSOA content (california-wise, that is. mwahaha)

^ my lovely art of the boio

Okay so, there isn't a particularly solid reason why he happened to be my favorite? When I look at him I associate him more as the character himself and not the state, though it could have just been that I generally love driving to Cali

What some of my headcanons are

So obviously he's still kind of the rich and famous actor, I've been drawing him where he's got Da Drip and those fresh shades Personality wise, he feels his best when socializing or some other situation where he can engage his senses; that is he's very extroverted and flashy. He has a fun, action-loving side but also has a serious and somewhat tempered side. He can be quite impatient with others.

Cal's also got a sweet soft spot for the ocean, his favorite past times would be surfing and hanging out on the beach, but he also Loves marine life, ESPECIALLY seals and sea otters. He'd cry to whale songs /gen

Also his lactose intolerance can really mess him up, so he tries to avoid going through that as much as he can. Some other things are that he loves bears too, and he still ain't a good singer lol.

It's actually fun to draw him like this lol

My headcanons on relations with other states

Wisconsin and him, first of all, not exactly the best fit, but they don't hate each other. I like to imagine she tries to help him get better at singing.

Nevada is like a wingman to him, sometimes they act like brothers even. Will always go to a party with him.

He enjoys going on tour with his neighbor, Oregon

Him and Arizona also have a good friendship but it's one of those where they sometimes don't Get each other. Not in a bad way, they have largely different opinions on each others' interests but they respect it. Either will lightheartedly go "I don't understand how you can like this..." sometimes.

Florida and Hawaii are some great pals of his. He gets to ramble about the ocean and surf with them.

Marty. (Marty's his favorite phone agent)

This singular screenshot of California

my mindspace has a framed photo of him on the left wall next to the portrait of the Psyche spacecraft and my mars 2020 poster. Kepler's Third Law of Planetary Motion.

wake up, it's 2009.

DSS 35: help me

Kepler: SHE'S GIVING ME A LOOK

sum SSOA ocs

neither have an official name but here's a teensy bit about each

Montana - She/fae (thanks to a nice friend for suggesting the fae neopronouns because it was fitting :] )

She loves being out in the wilderness and she has a gentle personality

Nevada - She/her

People person and also very flashy. Quite sly but not maliciously however. If you took the last slice of cake she would follow you and trick you into giving it to her (never give her the cake, its the number 1 rule of the house. never give her the cake - Arizonac)

adding some facial features now

(i also made Dawn's bus color a little bit lighter since i had trouble with lighting because it was so dark and has no specular reflection)

I miss em <:)

Around this time back in 2018, the retirements of the Kepler and Dawn missions would have been announced or they would have already run out of fuel.

The missions are so interesting and it makes me a little nostalgic to read about. They're really important (also in terms of milestones and science) and wanted to do some tribute art + share some music I did that I named after them!

I'm not the best when it comes to music (I have no idea what I'm doing or what to do next 99.999% of the time) and I'm pretty proud of these especially, so I'm glad they've come to remind me of some pretty special missions

Also get some spacecraft nostalgia! Check out these 2009 archives of the missions <:)

Dawn Mission Home Page

Kepler Mission

gave making a weirdcore(?) edit that was intended to be comforting to me in some way a try (this is not a vent and i am doing fine by the way)

image was me drawing a little wormy boy!!! on an image of a hallway i took