#i feel bad for the fl

[isekyaaa]

What's the point in announcing things on your writing blog if you're not going to do them? That just seems like so much added stress you don't need.

[rasoyas]

we're on our way to sulani! 🏝

[hellisntreal]

I DON'T BELIEVE IN A SUBTLE ROMANCE

A big ol' Bazaar papercraft! I've been working on this one for ages. The spires meant I couldn't photograph it on a neutral black background, so I had to bust out some patterned paper instead. It's also way too unwieldy to hold up with one hand and photo, but i included it for scale.

[vonlipvig]

new year, new art! trying to start it on the right foot, so of course i have to draw my darling fallen london oc jack.

see, i can make him look cool and charming from time to time! (as opposed to his usual states of 'unluckiest slapstick comedy protagonist' or 'only human in a muppet movie').

reference art by artist watatani gahaku!

[capn-twitchery]

time to send grace and his bat child off on a really fun vacation to grace's favourite spot<3

[sparingiscaring]

Played the ES... I am just so profoundly uncomfortable with that story and not in the good horror way. In the oh God no this feels racist and bad- way

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

i can just imagine childe beating the abyss’ will down with a stick whenever it tried to make him take on a new form like it’s a particularly bad dog

genuinely unsure how to answer this ask because on the one hand yes, that's kinda funny and it would indeed be something like that had the abyss essentially come back to him time and time again like 'new form? 😳' and childe would've slapped it away like 'no!!!' like some sort of shitty spam email that lands on your regular inbox without fail, BUT

uh

the abyss only wanted him to take on one form. in cyanide that form was the foul legacy, and to be frank childe did take it. he just refused to remain with that form. and also like- for it to have reached the 'haha the abyss is like an insistent dog' status, it would've had to have been-

not agonizing. like i get the joke but the process of rejecting the abyss' insistence on taking the FL form was not only a one-time process, but also like- nearly cost him his life. so uh.

yeah

[raysofcrosby]

love living in fl bc i can take a day trip to the beach without having to drive too far, drink my weight in rum buckets and go home 🥰

[cubtales]

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[rinbylin]

the first scene we see of them interact is literally shot like they're an adultering couple crazyyy..

kleptomaniac naughty teenage girl always up to no good who's so lonely and weird and with dong jie's cute lil chubby face you will never do any wrong

love that for every thing that is wrong with zhan yan you could trace it back to ji dongyang.. her whole world - socially and ethically - is a world he has shaped for her. and himself. (wang qi: there's something wrong with her! she keeps stealing things! jdy: there's nothing wrong with her - she steals MY things and i'm happy with that. wang qi: there's something wrong with her! she has no friends! jdy: there's nothing wrong with that - i'm her friend. -> is also as isolated and lonely with no friends) it's a world she has been so far contented to stay within yet a feeling of loneliness she can't articulate still surrounds her

[rasoyas]

A Flashback 🛠️ pt. three of five! 🦾

[thegreatyin]

How would the Scoundrel react to Miss Emilia Stone, do you think? To give you an idea of who she is, the Threadbare Outrider is one of the alternate identities of Barnabus Moss, and possibly the closest to who he actually is - he's only still an egg because he's too busy with his job to give too much of a shit about being trans right now.

She is functionally the Hyde identity; open revolutionary, Parabolan wanderer, purveyor of extreme and generally unnecessary violence. I also considered naming her the Extremely Unlicensed Silverer - she has never actually fulfilled the requirements to become a proper silverer (she thinks the sunglasses look kind of dumb) but she offers equivalent services for cut-rate prices to people who can't afford a "real professional."

In terms of her actual personality, she is... frighteningly happy. To steal a phrase, she wields her joy like a hammer; judiciously and with great violence. Moss is basically drunk on life whenever he's her, and it very much shows. She is a release valve on all of his life's worries - whenever he gets too pissed off at his life as Moss or Haversham or the spy, he can just duck into Parabola and gut a few chessmen with a meathook to unwind.

Correspondingly, he gets really irritated under the hood when she has to act consistent with the persona rather than how he actually feels - for example, Emilia is the kind of person who doesn't really dislike anyone, so when someone pisses him off she can't really show it without breaking the cheer, and it is thoroughly upsetting to him.

I think original flavour Moss would probably be fascinated by the Scoundrel, from a professional standpoint - he has a degree in the Correspondence and the whole bat thing is very interesting - whilst simultaneously being deeply, deeply exhausted by the man's life choices. Meanwhile I think Emilia would enjoy doing this to him.

Thoughts?

first of all, love the OC dissertation, chewing ur little guy like a gummy bear as we speak

second of all, the scoundrel would probably react the same as they always do- with overwhelmingly smug manners and more than a little bit of "i'm better than you and i'm being generous and indulging you by existing in your presence"... at least at first.

depending on how their interactions go from there, the scoundrel would either be delightfully open to infodumping about the bat thing to the point of tedium, or needlessly spiteful for Literally No Reason aside from a vague sense of pettiness and jealousy. how dare she get to be so damnably happy all the time, how dare she act so damnably carefree about it, etcetera etcetera. whether or not they'd like to admit it, i could see them holding a grudge against emilia purely on the principle of (supposedly) having everything they've ever wanted.

which is to say, they absolutely get scrunched like a cat, and they are biting her + biting her + biting her + biting her + biting her + biting her + biting her + biting her + biting her + biting her + biting her + biting her + biting her + biting her + biting her + b

[thedeafprophet]

Me gently every time someone meets Alex in game is just like.

he's a very grumpy cat. he will likely hiss and glare at you when you meet. he will not bite, but dont expect a best friend right away

[optimisticmiraclefest]

✨The Job of An Imperial Concubine✨

Author: Butterfly's Shadow Beneath the Moon/Yue Xia Die Ying

I am rereading this for the third time bc it's that satisfying-

Zhuang Luo Yan is one of my favourite (transmigrator) fls ever bc her scheming is top tier- not too mary sue bc she does make mistakes but so smart bc she does something that no one else in the harem is capable of- capturing the Emperor's heart

The best imperial harem cnovel ever, in my opinion bc here we have-

🪷 White lotus fl 🪷 done right- she is so good of an actor that no one finds out her lovey dovey wife act is well, an act (she would probably win an Oscar award for best actress in modern era, she's that good)

Realistic harem drama in the sense that all concubines are truly trapped in the rear palace forever - even getting to see their family members (for half an hour at most) is considered an honor only for the truly favoured consorts

Ml is a great Emperor when it comes to running his kingdom but a crappy husband bc he resolved to never give his heart to anyone in his harem and regards them as playthings (spoiler: it doesn't last thanks to fl)

This is not a romance where fl falls for the emperor- she considers being a concubine as a job- hence the title which is so damn satisfying bc of how many women got their hearts played with and broken by the emperor

✨The Emperor loves Consort Zhao much more than she ever did (if she ever did like him more than a 'boss' that is)✨- that itself makes it my favourite bc in a sense fl won the game- in a hugely patriarchal misogynist society, she managed to make a safe place for herself and never gave her heart to the emperor ...........

[sparingiscaring]

Well team, it's that time of year again almost!

My guys are still undergoing some edits to their references, but who isn't still under construction at this point? Hoping to get a hit in on everyone I feasibly can in the Fallen London fandom - I can't guarantee I'll get to you but. But please in some way make me aware of your existence, I want to attack everyone sosososo bad-

[persimminwrites]

my review of when the phone rings is they should have been worse for each other. the best part of the show was the first half of the season where they were miscommunicating and blackmailing each other like their lives depended on it. i needed them to have hate sex or get so heated while arguing that they almost kiss before they remember they hate each other!!!!

time to watch beyond evil which i believe holds promising depths of obsessive yearning and violence