#faelan

[the-mediaeval-monk]

Brother Bennett holding Baby Faelan

Fear not monastic lovers, Bennett has not given up his monkhood! Now that he's back at the monastery after being sent off to have his baby, he will be given penance and a public punishment, his hair will be cut and tonsured, and he will be welcomed back into the community...at the lowest rank.

However, now he has to convince his abbot that he's reformed. Which will be easier said than done...

(Meanwhile, Baby Faelan will be spoiled rotten by everyone at the double monastery.)

Also the sigil on Bennett's chest is based on the one found in the necromancy manual MS Rawl.D.252. Brother Bennett lives about 550ish years before that manual was made, but this is my story and I can have some artistic license as a treat.

[crabkick]

Depravity of the gods

[midnightwind]

can I offer you extremely messy sketches of my bg3 characters

[rokkzalm]

White Wulf Faelan

7B901C / ADE972 / E1A491 / 017F79 / 61C0EF

[cripplecharacters]

How would I go about portraying an autistic character in a world where there wouldn’t be the terminology for that sort of thing? It’s a fantasy novel that mostly surrounds fairies, and I’m considering having her family think she’s a changeling (something I know has ableist roots and could be shown to be wrong as she’s just an autistic human)

Hello, thanks for your question!

Using pretty direct Autistic coding would be your best bet for making the character as obviously Autistic as possible without having the in-world terminology for it. This could include showing the character stimming, having distinct speech patterns from the rest of the cast, experiencing shutdowns or meltdowns when relevant, fixating on particular interests, keeping a regular routine (and getting upset when it's disrupted), and reacting more strongly to sensory input than the rest of the cast, among other things. Readers who are Autistic or otherwise familiar with Autism will probably clue in quite quickly if you depict these kinds of traits.

While the idea of changelings being equated with disabilities--and Autism in particular--has grown in popularity over the past decade, I would still advise a lot of caution in associating Autistic characters with changelings. While some Autistic people (especially those of us outside of Europe where changelings originated) do identify with changelings due to feeling othered by society, many of us don't because of the negative context of the original changeling stories. I feel that the real-world history behind the stories should be taken into serious consideration before drawing any direct parallels between disabled people and changelings.

Though it's absolutely plausible that the changeling stories did potentially originate as ways to explain the presence and development of disabilities in children as many theories argue, the changeling stories themselves don't frame changelings in a positive or even neutral light--changelings are creatures you absolutely do not want in your home or family and are seen as undeserving burdens on a family's hard-earned resources. There are documented historical instances of people--adults and children alike--being beaten, abused or murdered just on suspicion of having been changelings. I feel that this context is often lost outside of Europe, as we don't always realize that changelings were taken very seriously, especially in rural communities, and were not just harmless bedtime stories.

Because of this, I would suggest that, if you go the changeling route, you take the time and effort to portray it as a particularly dehumanizing and potentially dangerous form of ableism, and approach the subject with delicacy. Otherwise, if your portrayal of fairies in your story is not negative the way they tend to be when associated with creatures like changelings, you could keep the foundations of the changeling story--a human replaced by a fey creature--but tweak the perceptions your character's society might have around them, and perhaps change the name to something that doesn't evoke the same connotations as the changeling.

Other Autistic people are welcome to add their thoughts!

-Mod Faelan

[lokiina]

Dino is not a fan. fjkhgdkfjhg

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[fellfire-volumes]

Temp Writeblr Intro...

Hello, hello!

This writeblr is a Co-owned blog, run by @author-a-holmes (aka Ari) and @faelanvance (aka Fae), and this Writeblr Introduction is to invite you all into the world of Felvanaria!

What is Felvanaria?

Felvanaria is the world that we have created together. A shared worldstate with a history spanning thousands of years. With multiple races, each with their own cultures and ways of life, histories, legends, and beliefs. Felvanaria is also the setting of our Epic Romantasy Series, The Fellfire Volumes.

Ooooh! Tell us about The Fellfire Volumes?

The Fellfire Volumes are going to be our co-written epic romantasy series, with strong grimdark elements, and a bucket full of trigger warnings.

Both of us have spent the last six-eight months pouring out so much creative content that we're struggling to wrangle it all into some form of coherent timeline, but we're finally beginning to pull it into a semblence of sense.

More details to come soon, but I wanted to get a Temp Writeblr Intro/Pinned Post up on this blog <3 - Ari x

[the-mediaeval-monk]

Brother Bennett holding Faelan outside the church.

[cyrils-inferno]

Don't you love when two artist own a character? Like damn boy, your life is gonna be fucked up 😂

Co-parent/second artist: @kisses44gen

[princekoala]

Surprisingly not a RSA boy(?) This time

Name: Thornby Bell Faelan

Age: 16

Birthday:November 16th

Height: 5'6-5'9

Species: Fae

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Year: 2nd

Dorm: Fableheart (dorm creator: @windbornearchon)

Best subject: Ancient magic

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Likes: attention, being the best, the color blue, flying

Dislikes: His curse, bad grades, not being the best, the idea of disappearing

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Curse: Thornby's destined to be forgotten, and because of this, every time he seems to be forgotten he starts to fade and grow weak, it's only a matter of time before they poof out of existence

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Twisted from: Faybelle Thorn

[author-a-holmes]

Would love to know more about Tale of the Shadowfox

WIP Files Game - Found HERE

I'm actually really glad someone asked about this one!

It's listed as a work in progress mainly because I'm still undecided on whether I'll publish it publically or not, but it's actually a completed story. I wrote it for @faelanvance on the birth of their mini-gremling as a gift to the whole family. Something they could read together, share together, and that the little one could grow into over the years.

Tale of the Shadowfox is a story about a fox cub with threee siblings. As they grow their parents bestow names on her three brothers, but Cub can't seem to accomplish anything well enough to make her stand out, and earn herself a name.

When she is the oldest cub in the pack to still not have a name, and the other foxes begin to shun her, she runs away from home. Determined to prove herself, she braves the wolves and the bears and the humans to find something she's good at... but instead finds herself lost, alone and hungry.

I wrote this childrens story in a week. I spent another week putting together illustrations using assets from Creative Fabrica, and formatted it and had it printed.

1 month after Fae came home with her newest bundle of joy, Shadowfox was delivered to her front door and I'm INCREDIBLY proud of the fact that I brought the whole family (old enough to read) to tears *smug emoji*

As I said, this is a WIP because I'm still undecided on whether to publish it or not. If I ever do, all royalties will go into a bank account for the mini-gremlin. It's her story, after all.

[stranger2time]

I made a new Durge... Meet Faelan.... I can't get over how hot he is... Apparently half-drow get this sexy chest hair kinda like Halsin... who I will definitely be romancing late game...

[fellfire-volumes]

This is you @faelanvance and me Rofl <3

Tip: A friend is someone you can talk to about Fantasy Worldbuilding

[ingwion]

divorces are incredibly funny because youll just be chilling and randomly discover that your in-laws have soft blocked you

[lokiina]

Things to think about...

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[kirin-central]

all OCs from my yuuniverse twst timeline

note: links to the picrews/artists’ profiles are hyperlinked below each set of pictures

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— Yujin Han & Romi Klee

cr: hunbloom / poika

— Hyde Faelan & Hotaru Hasegawa

cr: Siga / poika

— Klara Finley & Rina Liang

cr: Elequinoa / Sangled

— Misaki Hasegawa & Miri Lovell

cr: おいちぃ牛乳 / Naylissah

— Yulia Biru & Feng Yuwen

cr: Sangled / おいちぃ牛乳