I’ve read “The Rift” and it was worse than “The Search” – it has two ideas about ecology and “bad capitalist”. We have some more spirit stuff and a person, who finds Toph more exciting person than Avatar and cool interaction with Toph’s metal bender students. Oh, and reunion of Toph and her father.
Here’s my favorite background I painted on the show. I love getting the difficult money shots, and this one was particularly challenging. 20+ hours staring at this and I never realized the arches were hooves. Facepalm.
Background Design: Britney Thoreson, Art Direction: Kim Knoll
is it just me, or is the education wing/building/floor/whatever on every single university campus just…
a rift in reality?
my friends and I call it that The Rift
seemingly impossible architecture, staircases that lead into walls, shadows with no source, long hallways that shouldn’t?? fit?? with a single flickering light, 500 metre or more wheelchair ramps, unintelligible signs written in plain english
traces of construction crews—tarps, a hard hat, some drywall— that have been there since you started your undergrad three years ago it hasn’t moved someone’s etched a happy face into the dust on the hard hat, but something else has smudged it and now it just looks ominous
you’ve never seen a construction worker down here
weird little office doors on a foot and a half wide landing, whose stairs cut directly through a bank of lockers the door claims it’s .4 of a room you can’t find the other .6
that walkway— where does it lead? you can’t get up to it come to think of it, there’s nothing on the other side of that wall. you were just there.
a TA walks out of the door
you fail to see what’s behind them
the door closes too quickly
the TA doesn’t care.
they have midterms to grade.
stick to the well-lit, well-travelled paths don’t open any doors that aren’t your destination don’t step in any shadows don’t litter don’t take anything out
whatever lives there may not be malevolent, but you’re in its space
Grian glided smoothly through the air, scanning the landscape for the perfect place to build his megabase. A mountain surrounded by a forest caught his eye, and he felt inexplicable drawn. A grin spread across his face. He alighted on the clifftop. It was
perfect.
Grian surveyed the area. He’d have to do some terraforming, definitely. He could have Dwayne, the rock, over there. Grian prodded the ground with his foot. Stable. This would make a great place for his bridge! First, he had to excavate underground. He would definitely have to be careful not to upset the stability though. It felt
right,
somehow. Even with Grian’s beacon, it was taking a while. Deepslate was hard to mine. Luckily, he’d felt very
energetic
the entire time. Grian must’ve been pretty excited for his megabase. His pick dug into a rock and a crack spread from the bottom of the cave wall to the top.
Power
rushed through his veins as he pulled his pickaxe out of the wall and stumbled back in horror. Purple light shone from the crack he made. A low rumble sounded out as the crack spread out, lines nearly branching across the entire cave wall. Chunks fell and cracked against the floor, revealing the rift.
Grian had been fine living near and studying The Entity. It was magical, odd, and fascinating. It was something he’d never seen before. Grian was fine with The Entity, it was another magical object in a world filled with magic. But the power he felt radiating from the rift in front of him? The
