#friends at the table

[coriolisunset]

Today is a Monday. Today is also the 2-year anniversary of the release of Friends at the Table Palisade 03: Today is a monday. Today is the 2-year anniversary of City City's founding.

They're inventing the perfect city, a Divine city, the Divine city, the City City. City: the City. What's past a Divine? The City: the City. City City is the next city to be built on Palisade. It's also the next City to be built on Palisade. City City is the future. City City is the Past (capital P). City City comes next. City. City City is the city. I imagine your Curtain folks could see this as the City City too. A city where City happens. A city where tomorrow is tuesday and today? It's Monday City! "City" is a verb in City City but "city"? In City City? City is a noun too. You're City. I'm City. Welcome, to City.

So, uhhh, that's what it is. If you don't understand that then i can't help you, so.

[evegoldenwoods]

A bit of an experiment but I had fun working on it: the in game models vs the box art.

(guess which one of these took me longer to do, it might not be the one you'd think)

((I don't consider these charcater designs my actual headcanons, I was sort of loosely playing with very stereotypical game language))

[queenoftheantz]

Fashionably late, I arrive with a lukewarm tea in one hand, and my Secret Samol gift in the other!

Allow me to present ECLECTIC ATTORNEY- a fan adventure!

My recipient (Biorenewologist/iamnotathing, platform unknown) asked for a Ace Attorney style case for Eclectic, and I did my best to deliver! This is a REAL visual novel game that YOU CAN PLAY!

You do NOT need to have listened to Palisade to solve the mystery, all clues are given to you in the game. However, there will be mild spoilers, like characters/appearances that appear later in the season. It is not canon compliant, Blue Channel crew that never met will be hanging out!

If you have never listened to Friends at the table or Palisade, the character interactions (and there's lots of those) might not be as entertaining for you.

You can play the game here: https://myrdrottningen.itch.io/eclectic-attorney

Warning! This is a MURDER mystery, and will include things like: Blood, death, mentions and depiction of the aftermath of gun violence, murder

Have fun! c:

[voyaging-too]

Austin Walker's new TTRPG is fascinating to me. Realis is built on a strange core mechanic where characters advance by becoming more specialized, and unlike in the average game where specialist skills are added on top of generic skills, here there's a serious trade-off. A weak ability to win fights grows into a medium ability to win swordfights grows into a powerful ability to win swordfights against royal guards. A weak ability to track prey grows into a medium ability to track prey at night grows into a powerful ability to track prey at night on the tundra. Austen talks about how this is partially inspired by Berserk's changes over decades, and how this will encourage players to start with simplistic, archetypal characters, and mold them over time and through play, into something more unique and specific both in gameplay and storytelling terms.

But also this game's core mechanic is literally just about aging, about the beauties and tragedies of aging and hopefully getting good at one thing but losing the chance of getting good at a hundred other things, mastering your life but letting go of other possibilities. Heavy.

[bakanokiwami]

[2023] TOP 20 PODCASTS ON AO3 FOUND IN FANDOMS > OTHER MEDIA

To make this ranking, all series titles in Other Media were copy-pasted to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then manually filtered since not all podcasts were marked as such.

The numbers under each rank indicate how much they rose/fell in the rankings based on last year's (Oct. 24, 2023) rankings, which can be found here. The gray numbers in parenthesis indicate how much fanworks it gained since last year.

The data for this year and last year's rankings were taken while logged in, so lcoked fanworks are included in the count.

A few web series like Critical Role and Dimensions 20 released audio-only versions of their works too, but I left them out since they were listed was a web series on ao3 and more known as one too.

Cabin Pressure has also been left off the list this time since its podcast format was only released in 2019, years after it aired on the radio.

All nonfiction podcasts have also been excluded (Not that there were many), because with RPFs, it’s hard to tell if the fic in question is just based on the podcast or because of the things the person has done outside of it. Last year, I accidentally included The Misfits in the list since I didn't realize from its description that it was nonfiction.

The Two Princes (Podcast) ranks 21st in the rankings this year, and actually ranked 20th last year when the rankings are adjusted to exclude Cabin Pressure and The Misfits.

The College Tapes is actually a spinoff of The Bright Sessions.

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏

[xxthewolvenstormxx]

Tomb of the Diver in Paestum, Italy | The Carder - Jean-Francois Millet | Entry into the Mine - Diego Rivera | Tin Mine, Various Aspects - Graham Sutherland | The Workers - Pavel Filonov | Death and the woodcutter - Jean-Francois Millet | The Wood Sawyers - Jean-Francois Millet | Peasant Women Planting Stakes - Camille Pissarro

[mrmarielda]

blame it on the weather

[glassgob]

milli blue

[Image ID: Digital bust illustration of Ver'million Blue from Friends at the Table: Partizan. She has wild, teal hair that covers half of her face. Her face and body are decorated in teal markings resembling the cuckoo wrasse. She's wearing goggles around her neck and a leather jacket. End ID.]

[dancy-nrew]

Adaire creating some workplace hazards for @fatt-pinups week (inspired by these pinups!)

[wereshrew-admirer]

My piece for @hieronzine

[image ID: a two page spread of Hadrian, Rosana, Ace, Throndir, Kodiak and Red Jack walking down a winding path through the rhizome to visit their children and grandchildren. Hadrian, Rosana, and KodiaK are all visibly aging.

Red Jack leads the procession of grandparents, holding a lantern up in one hand and a picnic basket in the other. He's following a fox made entirely of flowers that stands on a tuft of moss farther down the path. In a sling on Red Jack's back is Kodiak (too old to walk very far), who rests a paw on Throndir's shoulder.

Throndir is smiling up at Kodiak and leading Ace by the reins. Small in Ace's saddle are Hadrian and Rosana; Rosana is knitting and Hadrian is slumped against her asleep but still holding her yarn ball.

On the opposite page in the distance Benjamin and Blue J tend a campfire. Ben has a horned toddler in his lap and is helping it stir a large pot of soup. Blue J is helping a curly haired toddler carry a giant piece of bark to add to the flame.

Around them is evidence of an established camp; their tent is two giant leaves held together with stitching and a twig. nearby on a lawn of moss there are two gigantic tree hopper nymphs, a rope tied around the spines on their backs leashing them to the area. one feeds on a large root that has grown over the branch, producing a bead of honeydew.]

[egg-tats]

jack de quidt has crafted the most wonderful music track of all time for Realis 3. I can only describe it as "confused clown solving farm mysteries"-core

[goodbirb]

mako 🪐

redraw of this !

[to-find-out-what-happens]

oh yeah I wanted to share this here as well

I'm reading Realis if you can't tell

[queenoftheantz]

By the way, if you play the game, PLEASE tell me if you liked it! or if you managed to guess the culprit or any of the evidence! It's my first time writing a mystery and I'm curious how it turned out! (also if anyone actually found the little pieces of secret dialogue...!)

Link again just in case!

[evegoldenwoods]

The Phrygian Mode

A 21 page comic about Brnine and Phrygian. Continues under the cut.