I would have been lost without you. Thank you for guiding me, and always protecting me.
I don’t think you ever needed me as a guardian, though it was my life’s honour to do so.
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Baby Emhira having a bright moment with her guardians Purvan and Galdric! I can’t stop thinking about Purvan helping to raise the Raven Queen as a baby. The mortal who became a goddess who became a mortal, and he’s there to watch her grow up. It makes me so emotional 🥲
still refusing to render sprites because my brain only cares abt full illustrations now - but either way, here's Venison! finally got around to doing their garments and chibis properly
here's their old stuff if you wanna look at it!
Venison is the former leader of Spina Venatores - a mercenary group working under Manus Vindictae that are tasked with erasing people from history through any methods possible, ensuring that their name is TRULY gone from everyone's minds and mouths to continue causing "Storms" by fucking with history
it also doubles as the one place for Arcana to send all the Manus members that are MUCH too troublesome and volatile to keep close, but much too useful to get rid of. Venison and the rest of Spina Venatores are introduced in their own event, "Underbelly of the Unforgiven" where all main characters are related in one way or another to arcanists Vertin has met, to really drive home how she can't save everyone and how some people, instead of being sifted out by the storm, will fall victim to Manus Vindictae
I imagine Venison later shows up on the main story to try and make up for their failures during the event, but Arcana abandons them to their luck on account of now being useless to her - so they go a little deranged about it and attempt to side with the Foundation instead, but Vertin shows up like HEY. HEY DONT DO THAT, CONSIDER ENTERING MY SUITCASE INSTEAD
so the Venison in the pictures above is the much, much, much more calm version since they're actually getting some good exposure therapy to healthy mindsets in that suitcase <3
Please enjoy this photo I took of my hen, Tammy Wyandotte, who at the age of three went SUPER broody and is now enjoying raising her very first brood of chicks. Then tell someone you know about my work--you can reblog this post, or send it to someone you think may be interested in my natural history writing, classes, and tours. Here's where I can be found online:
The big handsome rooster is named Edith. The grey fluffy silkie rooster is Itty save only 1 hen really likes him. He also absolutely hates my husband @weenie-extraordinaire
And the white hen is Pearl, the one who almost died earlier this year. She's doing great.
Maxwell image from the other day, he’s started to come Inside the house for some reason… he was waiting for me to open the door and then he came right in like that’s a normal chicken thing to do