#craftsman tag

[aahanna]

THE UNSUNG ARTISANS OF DIWALI 🪔

[jeeaark]

in a timeline where the illithid invasion never happen, a world where the absolute never existed, what would greygold's life be like? or maybe even lae'zel's? a world where they stumble upon each other without all the destruction around them.

The funny thing is.

Without squids trying to ruin their life, Greygold would have never discovered the power of friendship

Worse even, they'd still be a dispassionate lone ranger with questionable bird ethics surviving the wilderness and living off raw eggs like a weirdo.

Meanwhile, Lae'zel is still a Vlaakith devotee and if they stumble upon each other without a plot to drive them to work together and get to know each other... Bad things would happen! Someone would probably die. Most likely Greygold. But! Lets say. A plot did happen.

Buckle up buckaroos. This train thought went off the rails enough that I had to draw pics. Faster than writing out a 13k+ fic (for me anyway).

Let's say Greygold got the 'steal the githyanki egg ' job from Esther. Let's say they succeeded in sneaking in and out without too much of a fuss (mostly involving cat familiar distractions). And something Unfortunate happens before Greygold could complete the quest, leaving Greygold with an egg that eventually hatches:

And the githyanki child is not your average run-of-the-mill space lad either (Who loves eating raw eggs now too. It's fine. Builds character. Probably) But uh yeah, that whoosh accidentally cosmos-signaled all the githyankis and Vlaakith to which she reacts with a 'Wtf? Did anybody just get Prince of the Comet vibes from that? With a "I love egg" aftertaste? No? Just me? Hrm.... I do currently have a lot of free time on my hands....Fetch me that child. I want to study him like a bug. I'm suddenly feeling... Creatively ambitious with a side case of nefarious today. Might bury an old big secret if that kid is replacement-viable.' Thus search patrols investigate-

And never return.

After the first surprise patrol disaster, Greygold has been putting their danger ranger skills to good use via setting up counter-ambushes for all the constant surprise attacks. Classic "who is hunting who?" ordeal.

Nonetheless, there is more of them than there is of Greygold, so they resort to hiding in the Underdark after realizing the githyankis don't have dark vision and it's more environmentally dangerous than the surface. It is also a fun learning experience for the kid. Search patrols continue to never return. Until-

Lae'zel can't help but notice her mission orders do not add up and her rationality has a mighty need to make sense of it before solving problems with immediate hostility. Meanwhile this has been Greygold's first super tiny dose of kindness involving people interactions in years. Instant crush. Chase Shenanigans Ensue. Until child makes their first hunting trap. Instead of catching food, Lae'zel is captured. It also turns out the over-the-top trap involves sinking sand and a nest of Ankhegs (giant burrowing man-eating bugs). Greygold tries to help Lae'zel. For Reasons.

Something akin to mutual respect is formed. Stuck working together. Get to know each other. Discuss contradictions with mission. Verdigris worms his way into Lae'zel's heart (as much as she loathes his name). Escape the Ankheg nest which had terribly escalated because a giant fire ant invasion decided to overrun the ankheg nest at the same time.

Everyone is covered in bug guts after this.

Something something bond over experience enough to trust and listen to each other's opinions. Short Rest. Negotiate. Discuss plans to investigate Da Truth together. Shenanigans Ensue. Then Bad Shenanigans Ensue. Argument Ensues, resulting in Lae'zel Splitting Off. Verdigris disagrees with this approach and chases Lae'zel in order to bring back. Unanticipated Ambush happens at most inopportune moment. Greygold is Captured.

But they escape. Not before confronting Vlaakith's projection and discovering her plans and secrets thanks to one extremely curious Verdigrisgold (Verdi for short omg so long) with ridiculous super psionic powers.

And then they coincidentally interwovenly meet/save/recruit their bg3 companions anyway because there are no mindflayer abduction to stall certain ill-fated situations from happening to certain Companions-to-be and I need for them to be OKAY. So. Greygold discovers the power of friendship again. But is also now co-parenting a fate-of-the-githyanki-freedom child with Ex-Vlaakith-devotee Lae'zel. How's that for an AU timeline?

[r0swells]

hello! take some designs for an after-game PMTOK au i've had rattling around in my brain for a bit. More explanation under the cut :]

Okay so the basic premise is that a couple of months after the game something something star spirits cause the legion of stationary + Olly and Olivia get reborn as toads (except for like, 1.5 of them) and are dropped off unceremoniously in Toad Craftsman's front yard for him to deal with.

This was mostly an excuse so I could draw some Olivia interacting with everyone because we never got to see her hanging out with them and I plan to rectify that! Uh here are some design notes:

For all the LoS I really wanted to give them all different types of mushroom caps for fun so Colored pencils got a death-cap mushroom as theirs since I wanted something flat like their box. I wanted their design to be reminiscent of an art student since I thought it would be funny.

Rubber band's mushroom cap is a bunch of enoki mushrooms reminiscent of their little hair thing. I think they adjusted the best of the LoS to being a toad since they already took a pretty humanoid form when they were an office supply.

Hole punch's mushroom is a Morel mushroom since they have a bunch of holes and stuff. their hair is also supposed to look like cut up paper.

Tape has a button mushroom since I really didn't wanna distract from their hair and them having a really tiny hat seemed funny. Still the most loyal to Olly even though he literally has no powers anymore because its the FAMILY!

Scissors is an oyster mushroom since it looks kinda cut up. Also their Handaconda has been turned into one of the Underwhere hands from the river Stix. They're the one dealing the worst (besides Olly) with being a toad and keep trying to do flips and shit and failing.

Stapler is a chain chomp with really messed up teeth, thats it.

Olivia and Olly are just normal toads! Also Olivia is fine, she just spawned with the "cut" out on her cap, since she can't really wear her signature hat. Didn't really have to change much about their designs, they're already perfect. But as stated above, Olly is really not doing well being a toad, makes it really hard to make origami. I also think Olivia really doesn't like it either, she liked being who she was and this just feels wrong to her. it feels wrong to all of them tbh

I also tried my hand at an Origami craftsman design. I wanted him to kinda look like Olly and Olivia, having Olivia's hair texture, but Olly's color and shape. I've seen people head canon him to be really young and I totally agree, makes his mistake seem a little more driven by naivety then by deliberately going against what he should know. He's dealing...okay with having a bunch of people in his house.

+ some sketches

Yea the only ideas I have for plot is that Olly is trying to remake all the 1000 cranes again so he can turn them all back into their true forms and they can leave (the idea of taking over doesn't really appeal to him anymore) and go somewhere else. But there's also a time limit since the origami festival is happening soon and the Craftsman has to go to it and the others really don't know how everyone else might react to them. Also everyone only remembers up to when they die so colored pencils really has no context while Olivia knows mostly what happened. i like the idea that this creates some tension between Olly and the LoS who are questioning what happened to make him change his mind so drastically.

so yea if anyone has any ideas or questions send me an ask, I really like this au and really wanna talk about it :]

[moe-broey]

What the hell is that thing. Where did it come from. Put it BACK 😤

Mani isn't a "unit" in the traditional sense, it's more of just. Some sort of lingering apparition in the back of your mind. I really like the idea of it wielding half a pair of broken scissors as a dagger, though. Old fashioned brass sewing scissors... very on theme! (And VERY HARD TO DRAW!)

Compared to Moe, it's very... poised, you could say.

[draconicfool]

"Well y'do a good job if it~." She purrs, her tail wagging absently as she looks him over. And then, realizing perhaps she shouldn't be flirting with technical coworkers, she straightens a bit. "I would love t', actually. That ain't sarcasm, genuinely- ramble t' me about y'er things-."

@xianzhou-craftsman || c.

[alchemiclee]

I hate that whenever there's a gay ship, people immediately het-ify it. people are so obsessed with making one the "man" and one the "woman" when that's completely unnecessary, because they are both the man or the woman. It's extremely annoying. these people will completely mischaracterize a character to fit into their stupid little het roles they force on them.

for example, you don't need to make one man the "wife" and feminized him to the extreme and fit him in a traditional "woman" role so the other man can be the big strong masculine manly man. they can both be masculine or both be feminine or both be both at the same time! they do NOT need to be gendered opposites to fit het roles. crazy, I know! it's like no one considers it a possibility! or sees how good it can be to have them be equals without gendered nonsense.

when there's a gay relationship, you have the perfect opportunity for the couple to stand on equal ground. they get to be equals who are just as strong and just as soft as each other. there's no faulty power dynamics where one is above the other (because let's face it, society unfortunately deems masculinity > femininity). one doesn't need to protect the other. they can protect themsleves, fight aide by side as equals. one doesn't do all the housework. they share that duty equally. one isn't weak and pretty, while they other strong and manly. they both are strong and pretty, or masculine and weak at the same time.

equal relationships are amazing and need to be explored more and appreciated. there can be more understanding and working together. i'm bad at explaining what I mean, but I prefer these equal relationships over forcing them into opposite roles to mirror het relationships, which are usually extremely unbalanced and unequal. especially because these not het relationships! so why must they look like one? they can and should look different! so why does literally every shipper and writer out there make them so het coded?

I don't understand why people do this. do they actually believe all romantic relationships must mimic het ones to exist and thrive and purposely force that on them? or have they genuinely just not fathamed that they can be different and dont need to follow the expected het standards?

I wonder, it feels like no one actually knows how non-het relationships are meant to be and how they could work, since het ones are always forced down our throats since birth. it becomes The Standard that everyone thinks they must follow. maybe it's all people know since they don't see any other possibilities. their preferred dynamics for their ships are what we are taught and nothing different, because they don't know it can be different. i also think people might be obsessed with that whole "opposites attract" trope. but that opposite doesn't have to be the traditional het-fueld feminine vs masculine or wife vs husband characteristics. it can be other personality things like one is loud and one is quiet, one is dumb and one is overly smart, one is rich and one poor, etc. it doesn't have to be masculine vs feminine!

BREAK OUT OF THE HET NORMS!!!!! TEAR DOWN HETERONORMATIVITY!!!!!!!!! FREE THE GAYS

(disclaimer, not saying masculine vs feminine ships are all bad/shouldn't be done ever. but it doesn't need to be 100% of the time either 😅 can't think of one ship people dont do this with lol)

[the-craftsman-and-mover]

Hey Gerald is this your blog? You said you were the only Regigigas on Rotomblr but I keep finding a ton of them surprisingly.

Thanks for the hospitality, I’m looking forwards to hanging out again sometime soon

- @trainer62

PS: Wormby says thank you too

No. None of us are “Gerald”. We hope you find the right one.

[yingren]

"Can I borrow your identity real quick, I'm thinking of committing a crime, and it's not like one more on your record would make a difference-"

staring. he’s staring. maybe judging a little too.

“fine. i better not wake up to news of a planet imploding ‘mysteriously’ though. if you’re going to have that much fun you might as well invite me. oh & you owe me one.”

[artheresy]

Hyv keeps mentioning in multiple places A craftsman from the Zhuming and 5 times out of 10 its probably not Yingxing but I still foam at the mouth every single time

[bleachblomde]

investing in chetney x braius at ground level and baby, I’m not expecting returns

[acr3ss-the-cosmos]

(for Chenhua) For a date, I'd finally take a relaxing, healthy nap with my head in your lap, so you wouldn't have to constantly be concerned about my lack of rest anymore. And then I think it would be quite nice to go for a swim together, with a picnic afterwards. I'll even have mercy and not try to cook. There might just be surprise Foxian-safe brownies though...

Anonymously describe a date your muse would take mine on. Accepting!

"That... all sounds absolutely wonderful, Yingxing. I could also brush through your hair while you rest if it'll help you relax more, maybe even braid some of my flowers into it. I'm looking forward to those special brownies of yours too. How thoughtful of you~."

[fragmentedblade]

Blade compared the relief from pain death brought him to the moments spent with his friends drinking together.

His desire for death as both a release from pain and from the condition of existence in which he finds himself now, so similar to that which he most hated (hated so much as to dedicate his entire life and self to fight, up to the point of crossing unthinkable barriers for shortlife species); but death also almost like a returning to the time that was, the joy and pride it brought him, and the friends and self he lost

[astriiformes]

Scribe and I started another Pentiment playthrough last night and went with the law background and the orator and logician areas of specialty this time so I'm referring to this one as our speech & debate kid Andreas run.

[voidfishing]

Magnus and julia thoughts

I have Quite A Few thoughts and feelings abt them… I love them so dearly….

I feel like Magnus never really thought about settling down as a young adult. like the concept was pleasant to him for sure, but he wasn’t big on dating and he’d only had a few relationships that hadn’t lasted super long. he wasn’t disinterested in dating, it just wasn’t a big priority for him. and then he met Julia and they became incredibly close friends really quickly, and he appreciated having her around so much that he honestly took a while to realize he’d fallen in love with her. luckily Julia could read him like a book and asked him out, and pretty early on Magnus was like “oh. I want her in my life forever.”

I know in my heart that he proposed to her with a puzzle box and ring he made himself.

I think Julia is one of the coolest women in the series and we didn’t even get to see much of her… she fought right beside Magnus in the rebellion. she spent her time in the astral plane building an entire house while waiting for her husband. her first words to Magnus, the love of her life, when she finally gets to see him again are “You lived so much longer than I thought you were going to!” !!! she’s strong and funny and creative!!!!

also. Julia definitely is At Least as big and buff as Magnus. she’s a fighter she’s tough!! we know Magnus admires people he perceives as strong and capable, and he talks about Julia like she’s the best person he’s ever known. she could pick him up easily

and something that just breaks my heart but I have to bring up is that I think they were very much planning on having kids. Magnus was fully ready to settle down and live a regular life after the rebellion, the two of them finally could get married and really start their life together. they’d only been married three months before Kalen destroyed Raven’s Roost, they’d only had three months of peace together… I think they would’ve had a family if Magnus hadn’t lost her

[ponderings-of-a-half-elf]

THIS IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT WITH THE SVSSS FICS.

it's a lot of stuff...

[draconicfool]

"M' BOYFRIEND WAS S'PPOSED T' BE MORAL SUPPORT WHILE WE ASKED OUT OUR MUTUAL FRIEND AND THEN HE PASSED TH' FUCK OUT WHILE YINGXING JUS' STOOD THERE! THIS IS SO EMBARRASSIN'!"