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How tall is Peter?

Peter is six foot even!

For the sake of completeness, Clarence meanwhile is 5'4"

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HAHAHA YES?!!!?? WHAT A WAY TO GET A VISIT FROM THE KIDDO

LAKSJDFL;ASEK UM. MY KID FELL ON ME?????

See, Samuel died at zee again, this time he got TERRIBLY UNLUCKY WITH GLIMFALL AND UH. UHHHHHH.

"UNUSUALLY MORTIFIED" LMAO????? LIKE THAT HAS TO BE SAMS CHILD. ARE U OKAY KIDDO????????? I'm so sorry it turns out samuel's cringefail genes were NOT recessive....

anyway im losing my mind. what a way to go. kid finally visits its dad and obliterates him instantly. crushed by a diamond the size of a cow. i got 5000 glim for this.

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[as always, no spoilers for other Light Fingers tie-ins please! I love to stumble upon things myself and lose my mind in real time LMAO]

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HAHA I LOVE THIS

snake friend has his own (definitely accurate) view of things....

Artfight 2025 - Sir Pent

I kinda got ahead of myself in this one...but here's @shazzbaa 's soaking wet cringefail looking incredibly dashing and put together for once. Parabola really can do wonderous things...

Also including some cameos in the back ground which include characters from myself and

@little-red-notebook @coffeethathurtsyou @reliably-derogaffectionate

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Look. Look. Sometimes the little innocuous soft looking smiling guy who up to now has mostly just been hard to sneak up on should get to unexpectedly slam you to the ground in the .5 seconds when your guard was down do you see the vision

Artfight continues! My secret this year is apparently to just use it as an excuse to draw my guy interacting with people, but I also had a great time getting to draw Sam for @shazzbaa :3

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nodnod yes correct

Something something In the sky or in my mind?

Sighs fondly and thinks of Flight of Dragons

the main purpose of imagination is to think about birds being bigger and even more horrible than they already are. to bequeath unto them the fearful awe that is their ancestral birthright as the last of the dinosaurs. to picture your blorbo being carried off by a twenty foot seagull

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Oh yeah, remembers I could in fact post artfights! This one for @frost-mothit of his extremely typical guy and their definitely also very normal dancing partner!

Moth has shared a couple songs for Clarence and Atropos with me and THEY'RE SO GOOD, I've been listening to them so much and anyway this happened thinking about them dancing and how even when they're both out of their comfort zone and flailing they end up glad for the time they spent together...

It seems like I can do no wrong... to your eyes Sing the wrong lines to my own song... you don't mind Make it up as we go All the words we don't know ... Those eyes, damn, those eyes, they get me every time...

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Another artfight attack! This one of @coffeethathurtsyou 's Zagel and co. Just has a lot of feelings about...them........

Under the cut for a very upset Zagel

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More artfight! For @verdigrius-splendidus of her good baking boy Quilliam and his very happy award winning bug cake!! Clarence maybe helped!

Sometimes what really matters in life is making the sweetest happiest little frost moth cake with your friends... and also not having your mind erased while crushing the competition who are all secretly backstabbing spies <3

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hahahaha Rafael has priorities!!

Clarence isn't quite to THAT extreme, but! For your consideration:

this traumatized everyone in the official failbetter discord when I posted it so I'm inflicting this suffering upon all of you on tumblr too. here is rafael's progress in railway, firmament, and heart's desire respectively

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I know we're all pretty focused on "Hell is Missing" right now (and Understandably So), but because I don't trust Failbetter in the slightest when it comes to not trying to kill us all, I'm taking a moment for "least of your worries". I can't help but think of one giant, bee-filled rat leaving a sinking ship. What threat to the Neath could be big enough that the entirety of Hell decides to take itself to a more pleasant locale??

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waahhhh yeah, he's so good, I think about this a normal amount

Actually based on that silly story I came up with for Jamie

Surely there must be precedent for this in the game text somewhere, yea? Bonus points if anyone gives in game takes on the matter too

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HEHEHEHEHEHE I COULDN'T RESIST

also thoroughly losing it at this video, YES YES, INTO THE SPIN BOX AS HE SHOULD BE

there's a lot of Rotate Poor Edward In The Microwave talk in the Poor Edward tag so I do need everyone to know that when I first moved out to the west coast, @little-red-notebook decorated THIS for me as a welcome gift:

He's a like, heating pad thing that can wrap around you (hugging? strangling? unclear) .....which means that now if I'm having bad cramps:

I DO IN FACT HAVE AN IRL MICROWAVEABLE EDWARD THAT GETS ROTATED REGULARLY

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DW HES ONLY A LITTLE BIT POSSESSED. ONLY A SMIDGEON!!! Feat. @little-red-notebook's little guy, Clarence, a friend of Sam's who is slightly psychic (long story) and would immediately realise something is up, but is gonna just roll with it as long as everyone is behaving themselves.

The "king" here is a piece of the Knot of Tales, a collector (and eater...) of stories, and since single fingerkings on their own tend to struggle with speech, I kind of enjoy the idea of it just talking in story-pieces that style itself as a fairytale sort of King... normal nickname......

(more doodles and also how this happened under the cut....)

So I recently played through Dream of a Thousand Tails (I RLY ENJOYED IT), a story where you help a young rat Dreamer try to recover lost ratty myths and legends in Parabola. Long story short, the Knot of Tales at one point offers to share these lost legends in return for its freedom -- but it has to place the stories into your mind. Samuel was... a little concerned this might involve possession, but wanted to help both his new rat friend and the trapped fingerking, and accepted being the recipient on the Dreamer's behalf. AND THEN HE GOT AEONS OF RATTY LEGENDS DUMPED DIRECTLY INTO HIS MIND and was unconscious(???) and babbling incoherently about rat myths for MULTIPLE DAYS.

Now, the text doesn't say Samuel got possessed, specifically. But I did get an achievement called "A MIND OUROBOROS" and this entity is described now as "mostly dormant" and while Samuel was still reeling from being overwhelmed with more rat myths than a human mind can hold, his body was apparently moving without his input. So it makes sense to me if the Knot of Tales sent a fragment of itself to possess Samuel, to be rid of the stories that were confining it and impart them into his mind. After his interactions with the Catastrophe of Crowns, Samuel sort of thought this could be a temporary arrangement... but he has been unable to find the rest of the Knot of Tales once he woke up, and after seeing how the Catastrophe's fragment faired on its own, he doesn't actually want to kick this one out. Fingerkings really seem to prefer a communal state...

Anyway, Samuel is...... probably going to have to quit his job at the Labyrinth of Tigers LMAO, but he IS trying to make this work out for both of them. The king is usually content to listen, has (probably?) not eaten any of his memories, and is interested to travel through the Is and see what stories its new knight can unearth.

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The most recent @neathyfashioncoalition prompt is Parabolan Elegance, which of course brings to mind all sorts of impossibly vibrant or ephemeral dream-clothes... but it was hard to imagine Samuel Ashman being that sort of fancy. Eventually I realised he spends most of his time in Parabola hunting nightmares and dream-beasts, so maybe his idea of fancy clothes for the dream realm would just be a nice hunting get up. Norfolk jackets are period-appropriate as far as my haphazard googling could tell, and I thought he might be handsome in one......

I had already been thinking Sam might look a little ratty in Parabola since his experiences in Death and Tax Evasion, bUT THEN IN THE MIDST OF SKETCHING THIS I finished playing Dream of a Thousand Tails and where u get access to ratty dreaming so......... ITS EVEN MORE CANON NOW. Sometimes he just gives his parabolan self rat features. He doesn't notice he's doing it.

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what a nice, kindly old man...!

commission for @lutekeeper of his fallen london character, claude marceau!

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the best idea i will ever have is making a mannequin for the best gurl so I can dress her up as much as I want most normal most beautiful most fashionable most perfect cat uwu

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everyone look how cute Peter's definitely not a master thief husband is!!

finally drew my updated design for jack with curlier hair. him cute