#i feel like the whole concept of dragons having that thing they hoard is like getting a cutie mark or some shit

[toxooz]

does kari have a hoard? also, if she did, what would it be?

thats her whole deal is she hoards anything PINK thats why she's the way she is the DNA ingrained Dragon Obsession that's considered a hoard lolol i like to think she even had a 'hating pink' phase before she realized that her Hoard was pink things and had a small ohno phase where she knew but still tried to deny it and even tried different things to hoard before she just accepted that her dragon brain simply Wants Pink it doesn't matter how redundant it is wrappers plastic anything that would usually be thrown away if its pink she simply must keep it

she tries to stick them in scrapbooks at least to keep them together but alas the books build up lmfao but at least they're organized by color hue, saturation, texture ect. however she can organize and have an excuse to ogle and touch pink things sksksk she'll dig through the scrapbooks and look at them over and over again for up to hours some days especially if shes struggling with things she will tinker with her collection a lot more 🌸 speaking of dragon hoards Mangule's hoard is skateboards (which reflects the fact that she may be Ollie's foil bc he has an absolute assload of boards as well) BUT the main way she finds herself collecting skateboards is by taking the skateboards of those she kills, so her 'hoard room' is just a big mass of ghost boards that she digs about in to look at and i feel like rarely if she really likes the way a skateboard looks she may solely kill someone JUST for their board bc at this point her mindset is the notion of having a board from someone she killed makes it all the more valuable so her hoard is pretty eerie if your in that room 🤫

[facewithoutheart]

Ten Questions for Writers

Thanks for the tags @shrekgogurt, @artsyunderstudy, @youarenevertooold, & @roomwithanopenfire I’m enjoying all this navel-gazing a whole bunch actually & I’ve done this before but it’s been awhile… sooo

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 169 (niiiice)

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? ~950k (yikes) although some of that is Birthday Man and collabs with people from WIP fest. Don’t ask me to do the math tho; that’s mean.

3. What fandoms do you write for? I’ve written for HP, Check Please, and RWRB although right now I’m mostly a CO writer with a toe dipping into 9-1-1. I have one Captain America fic posted and some WIPs I don’t know if I’ll finish. Nobody look at that AFTG fic; it’s pure crack.

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Whoo boy do I have thoughts here. I want to be the kind of writer who replies to comments and I harbor so much guilt that I’m not; I know I miss out on opportunities to connect with readers, and I genuinely appreciate comments so much; I hoard them in my inbox like a greedy lil affirmation dragon. I write to engage and connect. So, like, I know I should but at the same time I hate forcing interactions. I like them to spawn organically. I keep my circle small because I get really emotionally overwhelmed and then I feel guilty when I can’t give people what they deserve. And I’ve also never been comfortable with compliments or gratitude, I don’t trust them. So here’s a bulk of emotional trauma no one asked for to say: I don’t reply to comments as often as I feel I should and I’m trying to release the guilt I feel about this while also recognizing that not commenting probably has a direct negative affect on my ability to meet my goal of connecting through writing and at the same time my mental health probably couldn’t withstand the pressure I would need to place on it to get to where I’m replying to comments regularly. Hi I’m a mess who’s trying to love herself and often falls short of that goal; aren’t we all?

5. Have you ever had a fic stolen? No.

6. Have you ever co-written a fic before? So many actually! I didn’t think I’d ever get to a place where I trust someone else to the level this would take but I’ve been really lucky to work with some amazing writers even if not all of those works went anywhere. I actually don’t even think I could realistically tag all the people I’ve collabed with bc I’m afraid I’ll miss someone and isn’t that amazing? Personal growth; we love to see her.

7. What’s your all-time favorite ship? Oh man. I want to just be lame and say it’s me and Mr. Face 🤣 I shipped us when no one else did. Um! Snowbaz is always going to have a special place in my heart, but I’m really leaning into Buddie right now because of age and wanting to explore people in their 30’s still figuring out their lives while battling PTSD and late-in-life sexuality realizations. For, um. Reasons.

8. What are your writing strengths? I do like my dialogue a lot; dialogue is often where I start my scenes and I develop from there. I think I’ve done a good job of honing my ability to vary action/dialogue/internality a lot. I also think I keep people engaged or maybe I just keep myself engaged which is good enough for me. Sometimes I’m funny although sadly not as much recently.

9. What are your writing weaknesses? I struggle with remembering to add in physical descriptors. (Like oh shit have I ever mentioned this character has eyes?) Logistics are a frequent source of pain. (Wait, where were their hands?) I think my plots are kind of basic and boring; I don’t come up with really vivid and detailed concepts. I use the wrong words for things. I really hate detailing out backstory. I have to reread my fics a million times to maintain character consistency. Etc.

10. First fandom you wrote for? Hey Arnold. I wish I could find those fics; I bet they suck.

Tagging 10 peeps @sillyunicorn @mostlymaudlin @martsonmars @bookish-bogwitch @cutestkilla @ivelovedhimthroughworse @thewholelemon @palimpsessed @aristocratic-otter & @you-remind-me-of-the-babe

[balanceoflightanddark]

I feel like most think Chromatic Dragons are evil because they worship Tiamat instead of Bahumat, Tiamat is a goddess of Chaos which most people generally associate with acts of evil but chaos generally isn't evil it just is. While Bahumat the metallic god of Order is generally seen as good there are times when too much Order is stifling

Well to start, if I were to write Tiamat or Bahamut for whatever reason, I'd wouldn't try to stray too far from their moralities. I mean it's right there in their titles: Tiamat, Queen of the Evil Dragons and Bahamut, King of the Good Dragons. It's practically written in their DNA and concept. So trying to portray Tiamat as some woobie or Bahamut as being secretly evil would defeat the entire purpose of the characters.

I wouldn't even say that Tiamat is a Goddess of Chaos in a traditional sense. Chaos usually means the potential for change and the hope for a better future. Tiamat on the other hand seems to lean more to the "evil" in "chaotic evil". As in she's fully willing to commit to atrocities in order to further her goals. And indulge in her own whims and impulses instead of tearing down an oppressive order. Hell, for a Goddess of Chaos, she keeps a tight leash on her servants and has very problems with dominating them when they get too uppity. Aren't the Blue Dragons (Lawful Evil) amongst her most dedicated followers?

As a whole, I don't think Tiamat represents Chaos as a force for change. But rather as a force for shortsighted impulses and domination. She's the one who would dominate and use her domination as an excuse to indulge in her vices. Think a dragon version of a Skeksis and you get the drill.

Conversely, Bahamut is a bit closer to the "good" in "lawful good". His sphere of influence centers around justice, doing good deeds, and promoting acts of charity. He's not even focused on establishing some kind of societal order or regime since he rarely gets involved with mortals on a societal level. Usually, Bahamut only acts to right some kind of wrong or bring justice (which tends to be against his sister and her followers). In that way, he's more of a knight-errant than a king.

If Tiamat represents domination and living out one's impulses for the self, Bahamut focuses on helping others and holding the self to a higher standard. In that regard, the "lawful" is less societal and more living to a code of honor or strong morality. And their relationship is less "chaos vs order" and more "depravity vs nobility".

So with all this in mind, how would I handle Chromatics as a whole if it's less a societal standard and more a moral standard? Well to start, I sincerely doubt the Chromatics have too much love for Tiamat. Again, she keeps a tight leash on them and expects things like accepting consorts from them or reaping whatever portion of their hoards they have collected. And I did read that some Chromatics will try to keep portions of their hoard secret to keep out of Tiamat's hands. From this, I believe that their devotion to Tiamat is less out of reverence and loyalty and more wanting to stay on her good side. Thus, the idea of leaving her has to be a thought a lot of the Chromatics have.

Thing is, Tiamat is freakishly powerful and I doubt she'd want any of her children to get any ideas of rebelling. Even if somehow a Chromatic could break away from Tiamat and survive, they were still raised with the toxic mindset that their "mother" instilled in them. So it would be a pretty painful changing process if all they know how to be are vicious monsters. Add to that how many mortals rightfully think Chromatics are violent monsters, and you have a stacked deck.

Again, I do believe it is possible. It just won't be easy. If I were to write this sort of story, I would possibly have a young Chromatic who strikes out on their own from their parents who instilled that toxic mindset. Old enough to be self-sufficient, but young enough to still be mentally vulnerable and a bit awkward in terms of actually being vile. Basically enough of a threat to gain adventurers' notice, but not enough of a threat to have a massive bounty on their heads. From then, you could either see them begin to question themselves on what they're doing wrong. Not sure how Bahamut might see such a dragon though. On the one hand, forgiveness and mercy are part of his sphere. On the other, I did read that he was also pretty merciless when it comes to Chromatics (I mean, he's been in conflict with Tiamat and her brood for so long that it's hard to blame him). So it could go either way.

That's how I'd write the dynamic between Tiamat and Bahamut along with the Chromatics. Let me know what you guys think or if I'm missing something.

[aenor-llelo]

I've been reading your fox fall series and I've decided to pick your brain about the vessel-gendered and thunderus-tornadus things. But could you elaborate on those for me a little? I get the basic concept but I would like a more elaborate explanation please. Thank you in advance and I enjoy the series very much.

(second question first cus it's short) thundurus-tornadus is basically their word for a tsunami. a lot of weather events in this setting are basically considered acts of god.

(first question next because it's long) in foxfall, draconian gender operates on a trianary of which of the three tao dragons most represents their self-chosen role in life. things like trans/cisgender Do Not Exist in draconian culture because they do not factor for biological sex in how their society functions. that kind of information is considered taboo outside of lovers, doctors, or most immediate family. (hormone therapy and what we'd consider gender reassignment surgery exists, but they see it as matter of dysphoria intervention rather than a gender thing.)

sexuality also isn't something they define either. people marry or cohabitate with whoever, and it doesn't matter if that union produces children. draconians don't really care about the integrity of the bloodline, only if someone has been raised/taught in the draconian way.

(something like ingo and emmet, where they live together as a platonic civil partnership in all but name, is considered completely normal by draconian standards. it's much weirder that they're 30 years old and don't have any kids or apprentices.)

draconians as a whole will accept whatever pronouns they're assigned unless the individual finds it convenient, or even advantageous, to insist on a certain binary pronoun set when it exists in the area's language, but some dragonless choose to default to they/them for draconians out of respect to their gender privacy. precisely because they consider it private information, draconians take the genders/chosen presentation of the dragonless very seriously, since in their eyes knowing that kind of thing is an act of trust.

the setting as a whole thinks draconians are kind of mysterious. "there's this spiritual nomad culture that tames dragons, has genders we don't know about, and keeps huge parts of identities to their graves!" queer culture doesn't insist draconians are themselves a nonbinary/trans society because of the different circumstances, but draconians are considered cousins/friends of the queer community. in places where draconians are common, they're often a baby queer's first exposure to the concept of xenogenders and genderqueer individuals.

trianary semantics under the cut:

the first set of honorifics is fire/winter/storm, which is basically just an elemental vibecheck. which dragon to you kin? this sort of thing is figured out relatively early in childhood, but all of these aspects can be changed at any time if someone feels like they've fundamentally changed as a person.

the second is song/silence/roar. which do you choose to strive for- skill, patience/simplicity, or vigor?

then there's the base gender, hoard/vessel/stone.

hoard, the reshiramgender. Defined by power, knowledge, philosophy, art, parenthood (draconians consider the act of teaching to be the same as parenthood)

vessel, the kyuremgender. Defined by service, cold/ice/lack, taking aspects from everything, jack of all trades, becoming what is needed.

stone, the zekromgender. Defined by craft, skill, tradesmen, labor, hard work.

by pure semantics, draconian culture basically has nine possible self-determined genders meant to communicate the following in ascending order- what do you do in life, how do you do it, and why?

Ingo, fire-roar vessel. "for the sake of an honest world, i put my passion to realizing the ambition of others. show me your true form!"

emmet, storm-song vessel. "for the sake of an ideal world, i hone my skill to reveal the talent of others. let this be the perfect battle!"

drayden was once a winter-roar hoard, but nowadays is winter-silence hoard. "for the sake of inner peace, my wisdom is the strength i wield to teach and protect others." (the transition from roar to silence happened after his sister died.)

iris is winter-song hoard! "for the sake of harmony, my skills will hone and defend the world."

[cinhomi]

unfortunately I had a nine am class 💀 it completely slipped my mind last night that milk tea had caffeine haha

class was good though, at least most of the lectures were :P

hanjisungstatas sounds delish. not me renaming the blog name to something jiddies related even though I don't really post there anymore-

OK RORA MY LOVE I PROMISED filthy ot8 thoughts and unsurprisingly its Chan related. again. like Chan absolutely strikes me as having a devotion kink in the sense he's absolutely head over heels for the rest of skz. possessive, too, I just read a fic about dragon!channie and how he'd just hoard them and sit on top of them- he always has to have them near, a stray kid cuddled into his arms, telling him that he's theirs, hyung is here. love being the centre of their affection. being felt up. loved being known that the 8 of then are so tightly intertwined they're inseparable. loves worshiping each of them, watching them fuck in his bed. he's theirs and they're his.

there was more to this but I completely forgot 🥲 hope you're having a great day my love <3 I will go to sleep now (finally!)

- titracha nonnie

my reaction to this whole ask wtf nonnie why are you always right...

there could be a whole lore built around this concept... ah... I have so many ideas about this? I would need a bit more time to think about it tho... this is genious and perfectly makes sense. are you graduated in Chanology perhaps? I want more about this omg I have so many concepts to go in depth with thanks to you but I have so many things to write this is a curse I'm cursed. I don't know if I should add something now or wait for a better moment... oh...

Channie being possessive, obsessed with his members... because he's the leader and he chose them and they are sewn together by destiny's thread... doing everything together... feeling for each other love in its purest form... omg I adore this.

ANYWAY WHERE DO YOU FIND SUCH FICS I WANT THEM TOO PLEASE??????? DROP SOME RECS?????????? it also has been a while since I last searched through tags because now I usually just check how my fics are doing lol

If you come back with this I'll write more about it, it's a promise!

[m-r-levine]

On Interruptions of Flow

Blocks used to be just part of the normal cycles of work and rest and refilling the well, the rhythms of moving between projects. (I won’t deny the good feelings and brain juices from feedback on the work, but it was never the driving force. I treasure comments like a dragon treasures their hoarde, but the urge to write and the pleasure of storytelling are not primarily or even secondarily grounded in the reception of the work.)

In the last few years, that changed. I don’t know if this was a true cause or if it was just one little part of a whole system of events that led to my creative process breaking down, but.

In 2019, I dropped all my other projects to meet an absurd deadline for a zine piece, and then for various reasons, a month later I took that story to pieces to see if an actual novel length concept might be hidden in there**.

Meanwhile, some fairly major things were going on in my personal life, and the tremors were getting markedly worse.

Suddenly I didn’t have blocks of time or steadiness of hand to paint either, except for pushing through for a couple of excruciating outstanding commissions, and struggling to wrap up the second volume of the graphic novel. Yet even with a few of those deadlines dealt with I could no longer make words go on any other project. I tried everything in the toolbox to get the brain going again, especially after a side effect of quarantine gave back my former 3+ hours daily commute time.

Finishing the renovations on the old house ate almost everything I had to give, and my partner’s mental health struggles took the rest. I cannot begin to explain to you just how few spoons I have had between the boring job (which became much more intense with the effects of the pandemic) and Life™️.

Previously, writing and sketching helped me unwind and ground after a shift, or even during breaks. In the last few years though…

Words came slowly for La Mala Suerte, but opening any other story filled my brain with static noises. I could not string basic sentences together. I could not outline plot, I had no fragments of dialogue or vignettes fall into my head like before. When I ran out of backlog to post… Suddenly I had nothing.

Short stretches being dry like that are familiar enough, but days and weeks turned into months and years of desperately wanting to tell the stories and in the few moments of quiet I could steal away? Nothing. It’s an eerie feeling, having the vivid and even visceral scenes that are already written and outlined still looping in my head, screaming to get out, but the moment I try to write connective tissue? Right back to tv snow.

Unlike painting, my writing is accessible everywhere I go, even when it hurts to hold a pen - being able to get ‘lost’ in stories helped me through some incredibly hard times in the past, and losing that ability was devastating. The disappointment and yes, the shame of being adrift and wordless has been wretched. I have longed for the elation I used to find on the other side of a hard passage, the joy of solving the puzzle and freeing the spirit from the proverbial stone.

I still don’t entirely understand what happened in my brain that autumn of 2019… I just know that something changed, and we’re still not… entirely back from it. I am suspecting that Long Covid is now part of it - that was summer of ‘21 though, and I was already firmly lodged in The Block by then.

Maybe it was just one a longer but still normal drought and needing recovery time from intensely brain-heavy Life Events™️ until that extra layer was added? I truly don’t know. I don’t know if it matters either, except in that I am deeply afraid I will lose it again.

Anyway, that’s the ramble for the afternoon on the writing side. Hopefully the Boring Job leaves me some braincells to work on asks and stuff later.

* caveat: Except for the fact some truly wretched negative/judgy feedback can entirely poison the affected work for me and make it impossible to get forward motion(Obsidian Slipper is one such victim, I may talk about it more later.)

** hola Teca. 😒

[gingersnappish]

Hi! I just want to say I absolutely adore your art, and I'm so excited to see your new stuff! Particularly anything Kylo Amidala related, it's my favourite au/concept of mine and I love seeing different artists takes on it!

I was just wondering if you had any advice for new artists? I want to be good at drawing but I get so discouraged when things don't come out how I envisioned.

Also, could I ask what you use to draw your art? Is it a digital setup you have? Would you have any recommendations on things to get?

Sorry to ask you so many questions, so please feel free to ignore this! I hope you have a lovely day, and thank you so much for all your wonderful contributions to the kylux fandom ❤

Thank you so much, Anon, for this lovely missive! It was such a warm feeling to find it in my inbox and brought a smile to my face! I love Kylo Amidala more and more the longer I'm in kylux fandom-honestly I wasn't sure if he was my 'thing' or not at first, years back, and then the more I saw takes on him in art and writing and fandom in general, the more he grew on me :) He allows for so much fashion fun and character creativity-like you said, it's really fun to see everyone's 'take' on him! Part of the reason it's taken me this long to respond is that I read what you asked about starting out with art and related hardcore! The thing where you got the vision but it can feel discouraging when stuff doesn't come out finished like it looked in your head? That was me for like- a couple decades. Still me on certain days. Like, MOOD, my friend! The good news is: every artists struggles with the above problem. So you are not alone! I guess in a sense, the bad news is also: 'everyone from beginners to seasoned professionals ' struggle with this....so yeah, it doesn't ever *entirely* go away? BUT! Better news: There have been a lot of 'takes' written and a lot of good advice given about how to mentally manage the 'it doesn't come out how I wanted' phenomenon! It's not so much 'make it go away' as it is 'learn to manage that phenomenon in a healthy, painless, productive way'. And that is a learnable skill that gets *a lot* easier with practice!

Also: I hoard tutorials/drawing resources for all levels/YT channels/'how to think about and approach art meta'/etc like a dragon hoards gems, so I'm putting together a post of resource links that might help or give you some starting points--that is taking a hot minute to craft though, so I figured I should just go ahead and respond here today and then post the resources list as soon as I get it finished (so you don't feel like your ask just went into the void)! Re: What I use to draw....time was, that would have been a whole post to itself on traditional materials and comparing computer programs and such. These days it's real straightforward: Procreate on an iPad :) I'm entirely digital these days but my honest opinion is that everyone is drawn to different materials and media and you should feel free to try out working in whatever interests you, whether that is digital art tools, or traditional media like acrylic or ink or something else! Also: making lots of drawings and practicing with what is cheap and available will get you farther,faster than any expensive supplies when you are starting out. Ballpoint pens and a pad from the Dollar Store (or equivalent where you are) are perfectly serviceable for practicing-plus sometimes I personally find I relax and have more fun experimenting and less angst if things don't come out how I wanted if I'm not working with something 'precious'. Case in point: I have custom-leather-worked sketchbook made by a friend sitting up in the office, being exquisitely beautiful and gathering dust. It is empty but for a single drawing, that I became unsatisfied with the day after I finished it. I got that sketchbook 7 years or more ago and I'm still trying to convince myself to use it properly. In contrast, last summer we went to the beach near our house and while we were there I ended up with access to cheap kiddie art supplies from a summer 'communal stash'-a blank sketchbook of the lowest quality paper and 10 colors of crayola pencils, half sharpened. It was a 'throw away', didn't matter what was done in that book-there were 10 more like it in the pile. I ended up doing a bunch of messy stuff born of people-watching and seagull-antics-observation. Filled 5 pages, both sides, and felt incredible joy in the making of shitty scribbles! And then I just put the book back in the 'communal stash' at the end of the day, since there were still a bunch of blank pages left. It was low-pressure and extremely freeing. (side note: when we went back a week later, the other sketchbooks were gone but that one I'd messed around in had more doodles from artists of all ages and beginning skill levels. And more the week after that. I think it turned out to be pretty freeing for a lot of people.) OK, this turned into a way longer response than I intended-boy, can I 'talk'! I hope you have a good day! Wishing you lots of positive creative vibes!

[nightmareworks]

hey so i'm gonna talk about the wargame i'm writing

its called DRAGONSMOKE: A Game of Black-Powder Fantasy Battles and is basically my attempt at making a Warhammer that I can more easily share with folks unfamiliar with why my brain clicks into place at the concept of Your Dudes and using a big setting as a springboard.

i'm talking about it rn bc i'm thinking about fantasy worldbuilding and i'm really proud of what i have in it so we're gonna call this the Worldbuilding Post in tagging systems okay? okay. insert a read more here if you remember

The setting of Dragonsmoke is the Known World, which is based on the Mediterranean and near-east of earth in terms of culture, history, and terrain

so the Known World has a bunch of stuff you'd expect from a fantasy wargame that the author has admitted is a Warhammer heartbreaker- we got your invaders serving a dark god, we got your necromancers doin evil stuff, some funny orcs, we got the empire of men, we got some elfs, some dwarfs, yaknow, all the good stuff!

so as you can see most of the map is taken up by the Sultanate of the Dragon, this is the empire of men i mentioned. i like my fantasy a little less grim than warhammer tends to be, so they're all right in general. they're my first of the Good factions as i term them in my writing. the Good Guys of the story, even if they can do wrong and war with each other or just be Dicks, at the end of the day they're gonna usually do the Moral and Honorable thing for the kinds of stories the setting wants to tell. i go through all of this cause, yaknow, empires are bad things, but also i love when the Good King on his Rightful Throne struggles against the impulses of power and does what's best for all the people of the lands. it rules.

anyway that's the basic idea for the Sultan and basically carries over into the rest of the very Ottoman vibe the whole army is meant to give off. The Sultanate is the Son of the Wyrm God, the Emperor Beneath, Last Victor of the Diamachy, Patriarch of Scalekin- a gigantic and truly ancient Dragon that slumbers beneath Truyvillium. It is with the mandate of the Dragon that the Sultan rules, and the Oath of the Sacred Hoard binds the disparate cultures and peoples of the Sultanate. In every human of the Sultanate flows the blood of Dragons, their Oaths becoming scales on their bodies. Such is the way the nobility is given the right to rule- through their scales and their promises and their binding oaths of service to protect and maintain the Sacred Hoard. For the Sacred Hoard is all the Sultanate, every piece of gold and every child born within its borders are the Hoard of the Wyrm God. The most precious treasure of one of the beings who shaped the world when it was young. And so, woe to those who break their faith with the Emperor Below and the House of Ozmani. May their scales fall out. May their ambitions rot. May the Dragon Blood within them catch flame at the Emperor's Ire.

the Sultanate of the Dragon are, in game terms, a host of well trained and equipped mortal men doing their best to protect their homes and livelihoods from the Darkness that threatens the known world, supported by heavy artillery, the dragon-blooded Janissary Corp, auxiliaries from the far reaches of the Sultanate (like the Cynophelli, the Beastmen with the heads of Dogs; and the Men of Blyemmae, the Ogres who are as tall as two men, as strong as ten, and posses a great gnashing second mouth on their stomachs), and the Dragons who answer the ancient oaths betwixt Man and Drake.

so that's the Sultanate, whom i really adore, but there's another human faction! and this one is the Evil one. i don't feel like i really have to explain the ideas behind the Evil factions quite as much as the good ones cause Evil's easy to grasp when you read it so i'm gonna launch into them with a little less preamble

from across the Great Sea, the reavers come bearing their dark miracles- A Heretic's Crusade, lead by knights astride steeds gone mad with fear and clad in enchanted armor that refuses to let them die. In the wake of their charges follow the Sinners-at-Arms and those blessed and damned by That Miracle's touch. They have come from the Blessed Lands at the order of the Holy See of That Wretched Miracle, to burn the Known World and pick through the ashes for whatever their wicked masters desire- all to bring That Miracle into this world. The Crusaders are just that- Crusaders. A roving army of murderers warped by the attention and touch of That Miracle, bound together in their Dogma and their twisted Faith.

in general the Heretic's Crusade has a bit less to say about it than the Sultanate bc, well, they're the Chaos Warriors- servants of Evil, come to despoil and burn. Its very straightforward! they're from fantasy italy (which they ruined) and focus on having heavier cavalry than everyone else. the Crusaders on their horses (or on foot sometimes) make up the core of the army, supported in the wings by the twisted porcelain angels of That Miracle, the enslaved footsoldiers they brought with them, and the occasional dark theologian capable of speaking the foul un-words of That Wretched Miracle. i love my bad guys cause they're just the worst, and sometimes you want Just The Worst. and what's The Worst more than catholic legalists who are capable of a lot of murder? not much!

so that's where we leave off for the human factions and i'm tired of typing so we're gonna call this done and post it and next time talk about the dwarfs (sexually dimorphic elementals who invented socialism recently) and orcs (a kind of youkai)

[kittttycakes]

Yes, that look in 1789 is a whole lotta hot damn.

I love the thought of Morpheus and Grace teaming up to torment Hob. *holds hands and considers this very, very much*

I think it would be great to see Grace get her freak on. I also feel like I can picture a baroque or renaissance-esque scene with Hob caught between Morpheus and Grace. Or even Hob caught between Demon!Morpheus and Angel!Grace (thinking George Clark Stanton’s Death and the Maiden here).

I am also imagining your dragon’s hoard of smut ideas and I want to Scrooge McDuck dive into it!

Yes, you should definitely watch it, it’s quirky but so good, and Idris Elba is just nnnnghhhhh. And his voice. And hands. Omg.

I'm obsessed with that look Morpheus gives him in 1789, and I'm dying to know what the acting direction was there or if Tom and Ferdie just...ran with it.

Hob would also be very into it. Two of his favorite people, focused on him? He's highly motivated to make it through any torment, knowing that he's getting exactly what he wants in the end. He can be patient when he knows it’s worth waiting for.

Someday Grace will absolutely be allowed to get her freak on! I think the thing about Grace is that she's just as unhinged as Hob and Morpheus are, she's just better at keeping it in, until she realizes that she can just match their energy and neither of them think it's odd.

Demon Morpheus and Angel Grace I'm!!!! Absolutely losing my mind over this. God, what a concept. There’s just something about Morpheus to one side, whispering promises in his ear, and Grace pressed to his other side, fighting equally for his focus and attention (in the end, of course, they all win, there’s no losers here, no matter who Hob gives in to first).

(I have to link the painting here as well, because yes hello yes absolutely yes.)

Please feel free to dive in with me any time! I have so many thoughts about all of them, and eventually I will get around to properly writing them all, but until then I just turn them all over in the microwave of my mind and enjoy them. I feel like I haven’t given Grace’s specific fantasies enough page time and that really does need to change.

I am such a sucker for a voice. You know what I mean, the depth, the resonance, that ineffable quality that just stops you in your tracks and makes you go oh. And don’t even get me started on hands……..

[triple-mayday]

Oh boy… listen up I’m about to go on a tirade cause I’m tired of this shit and I need to vent. Apologies for a very long post, I need to scream into the blue Tumblr void

Tech bros better keep their slimy hands off our fics. The fact that they perceive one of the most genuine expressions of creativity as a “market” is telling. Go fuck yourself, I’m not spending every night on AO3 for customer support simulator, I’m there to experience my favorite idiots through the lens of people who get it

These “static stories” send me to stratosphere convulsing and squealing each and every time without fail, I hoard them like a mad dragon with insatiable appetite for creative thought. I sit atop my mountain of books written with passion beyond the comprehension of dipshits who treat art as a product to be consumed instead of a miracle to be cherished. Fanfiction gave me what AI will never be able to replace. I have community, I have ardor, I have a skill for storytelling that I have been polishing since I was 12, I can build endless amount of worlds just because I feel like it, I have a safe space and a reliable outlet to explore my personal experiences, no matter how dark they are

Tech bros don’t understand that art is a form of communication. AI generated stuff is inherently empty, it’s inspired by nothing because it comes from nothing. It’s a generated answer to a few key words, a collection of genuine works chopped up and regurgitated to fit the prompt, not to tell a story. I don’t care how good AI can get. I’m not reading just to mindlessly consume

When I open a new fic in my favorite tag, when I read it and get the rush of satisfaction and contentment from the very feeling of oh you see it too, you get it right, your perspective and language and flow of story make me so happy I can’t wait to get more of what you create… that’s what really gets me going. When authors shape the narrative using their lives as a template I can see it with absolute clarity. Nothing can beat the relatability of a fellow human being. Do tech bros know that authors and readers interact? Tell each other about their inspirations? Trade stories? Dedicate works of art to each other? Make friends? Develop an incredibly difficult to master skill?

The novelty of AI will eventually wear off, there’s only so much you can get out of a random sentence generator. Shit gets boring, and after getting some hahas from chatbots people will start craving some substance. AI won’t improve your writing and reading abilities. It won’t give you space to challenge yourself and make your own niche. If you want to see what fandoms are really about, what power AI can never have, look no further than the Danny Phantom fandom. People have been faithful to their community for 20 years. I’ve been in this fandom since I was 7. I’m in my 20s now. And all this time, people have been expanding the canon universe, creating and sharing new concepts, building a whole ass character from scratch, developing storylines, new AUs, and so much more. There was a non-stop flow of communication happening for literal decades. People host events, participate in challenges, gather for ambitious projects, and all of it is for fun

I’ve seen way too many attempts to automatically generate images and texts and present them as “art.” No, boo-boo, art is a product of a mind. Art is communication. Art is experience. Art is self-expression. People have this inherent desire to connect, and the act of creation is the most powerful unifying force in the world. Forget your crypto currencies, your market shares, your obsession with optimizing consumption. Sit the fuck down and re-learn how to enjoy things just for the hell of it. If you crave efficiency then teach AI to do work that is hard and miserable to people. Quit trying to take away one of the things that makes us happy (also stop stealing shit, we all know y’all just take works without permission to train your AI, leave people alone you nasty gargoyles. AI is just a tool, sure, but for now it’s being used in the most unethical ways with no proper regulations in place)

starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is

[wittynameme]

Okay so this one's incredibly specific from a story that I'm writing in my head.

Hung in the church is a painting of a knight slaying a dragon

A was treated like a monster by the townspeople A's whole life and has a bitter hatred towards the head religion of the town. Secretly internalizes the cruel jeering of the town and believes themself unworthy of love, or nobody safe enough to love A. On more than one occasion people have tried to warm up to A but A realizes too late that they were just trying to convert A to the religion and use their marriage to steal A's hoard of gold...oh did I forget to mention A is a hot dragonoid?B is a devotee of the religion of the highest order of the land, a virtual angel who was sent on a holy mission to put an end to the disturbance of the town. They tell him to kill the dragon.

They realize that the world around them was spun from generations of complex misunderstandings and form a tight bond as they go on a campaign to discover what really happened and make the world a better place as B has set out to do.

B has serious daddy issues, Bs dad is a dragon slayer. He has a complex where he tries to be as nice as possible to try and "make up" for looking just like his dad. He tries to fight inequality from inside the system and doesn't seem to understand any issues with that . A will not hesitate for even a moment to correct him on this.

For like 4 seasons (including one where they go on a pirate ship and have a whole pirate story arc) their dynamic is the optimist and the nihilist working together for a shared goal. A comes out of their scales and B forms a more complex perspective of the other side of the wall.

(I was planning on just keeping them like this because I genuinely hate forced romance, well oops)

It breaks his heart to realize she's been such a fool and overcompinsates twice as hard. Eventually burning himself out.

A always event hard on B because A truly never thought that his near endless rays of obnoxious sunshine could go out. A feels horrible and shuts down, blaming themselves for breaking their prescious source of glowing warmth.

A becomes overly agreeable and enabling of B in hopes it will bring his spark back, thinking themselves and their constant badgering and putting down the course corrosion that works away at him. A's not entirely wrong, but their approach is completely misguided by conditioning saying that a dragon is only compatible with agreeable society if they are a docile pet.

B doesn't need doting . He needs A more then ever now and instead of helping A shut down. The sudden personality change terrifying him as this was exactly what he was trying to avoid by enabling A to express themselves even to extremes. He's reminded of his mother.

They eventually get over it but the world is slightly dimmer now. As the sun has been overcast and the pessimistic dragon will never change.

A has crippling paranoia and is hurt too deeply to handle a relationship

B is hands over heels in love with her but understands that A will take any approach as some kinda trick, and he doesn't blame A one bit for this. He also has a handy helping of purity culture guilt that prevents him from acknowledging or fully understanding his feelings.

A and B are just friends to spite eventually doing all the things a couple does. They don't notice because it all happened so fast and so authentically and smoothly and all these events on the "they're in love" checklist (which A denounces the entire concept of) happened spaced apart between acts of sacrifices and near deaths that leave both of them shellshocked and unhealthily dependant on each other. They never stopped to look back and put it all together. Even if they did they'd have no other word for these repressed feelings other than "very close friends out of nessesity".

Through a combination of the world conspiring against them B is pressured to Merry by his horrible mother and is about to be wed to a beautiful but indescribable stranger to carry on his "proud lineage". As stress (and his unhealthy relationship with A) is wearing him down and the time is slowly running out he rolls over in his bed which at some point he started sharing with A (As cold blooded and was freezing to death) and realized he can't imagine being without A and proposes. Both of them were not emotionally prepared enough for marriage but they both don't know that because both of them don't know what the signs of relationship burnout is and blame themselves, playing the roll of happy domestic couple to try to prove to themselves that they're fine. Both of them can't tell the difference between being desperate and touch starved and being in love.

A once again realizing that maybe they messed up by pushing B away feels guilty and tries to offer him their body. Thinking that this is what he'd want. He does not , he might actually be asexual but he doesn't know and now thinks that this is what A wants.

They try , they both have a massive panic attack after which A is completely emotionally detached and B is the one left to do the aftercare for both of them

Both of them are told by their peers completely different and contradictory things about how love is supposed to feel that constantly lead to them bickering. They are living in the same house and hold no contempt for the other , no , they desperately need each other, but neither of them can approach the other anymore.

They desperately fight off any signs off their relationship falling apart while scrambling to put up more scaffolding of a home that was never on a sound foundation to begin with.

At some point through all this they actually did fall in love with each other...at least they think so.

Hung in the church is a painting of a knight slaying a dragon.

[gem-morey]

SwynWriMo Day Sixteen – Character Tour

Ten Places Gem Has Slept

His childhood bedroom -- The walls are blue. There are bunk beds. He shares it with his brother. Peter makes all the aesthetic choices. The onlything Gem wants is red bedsheets, but Peter wants blue. So, they get blue. Gem sets them on fire twice. They are never red.

The slide at Hyde Park -- It’s cold and wet. He’s not sure how, because it hasn’t rained or snowed recently, but he can feel it through the fabric of his shirt. He can’t get comfortable. It is the only place to hide from the winter wind. The shivering is so bad the whole slide rattles.

An alleyway he doesn’t know the name of -- It is snowing. Gem hasn’t eaten in a few days. The fire escapes above keep the snow from falling on him and the alley keeps the wind at bay, but sometimes it changes direction just to crawl up his shirt. He doesn’t remember how it feels to get a good night’s sleep.

The back of a police car -- The first five minutes after he was picked up on the street, the cop couldn’t even touch him. The fire kept lighting, making it impossible for anyone to touch him. But, eventually, the police officer coaxes him into the back seat. The heater blasts warm air. Gem falls asleep immediately and doesn’t wake up until he’s been carried into the police station.

At the Moreys -- Gem has a room all to himself, for the first time ever. He puts posters on the wall of metal bands that scream. He spends most of his time there, collects books like some sort of dragon, hoarding its treasure. He’d rather read than talk to anyone. At least, if his books go up in flames, they don’t scream. His bedsheets are red.

His first sleepover -- He goes home early. Someone is crying. Gem only got to sleep for a few minutes. He had a nightmare. It isn’t his fault, he tries to explain, but no one will listen to him. Except for Papa, who tells him it is okay and next time, they will have the sleepover at their house. There isn’t a next time. No one wants to have a sleepover with the kid who lights things on fire.

Swynlake Jail -- He cries himself to sleep. Eventually, his body exhausts itself and he curls up on the bench, passing out. He sleeps all night. The sheriff looks at him with some sympathy when the police come to get him the next day. It’s the last time Gem sleeps in Swynlake for five years.

His prison cell -- Abracadabra Penitentiary isn’t known for its five-star rating. The first night, Gem doesn’t sleep. There are too many noises and too much light. He isn’t someone who can’t sleep in uncomfortable places. He’s done that plenty. It’s the unknown. It's knowing this will be his life for five years. Probably more. He shivers violently all night, his magic sucked away. The second night, all his shit gets ransacked. He wakes up to it all over the floor, the drawings Devyn made him ripped. The sweater that Mama made him stolen.

His prison cell [part two] -- He gets a new roommate and Gem lays out the rules: where things go, how things work. Gem gets the bottom bunk because he’s too lazy to climb. It is your fault if you miss headcount in the morning, I won’t fucking wake you up. And keep your shit to yourself. If it gets in my way, it’s going in the trash. Don’t touch my shit.

Home -- The first night, Gem stays up. He reads a book. A book he couldn’t read in prison. They were strict about it. Nothing about revolution. Nothing about violence. Nothing that would give anyone any ideas. They’ve never heard of escapism. Or they had, and misunderstood the concept. He can’t sleep, waiting for headcount in the morning. His body is too hot. He burns his red sheets. The next set Mama buys him are black, at his request.

[accirax]

Wow, this is such a smart theory, from connecting how many characters have various animal motifs to explaining why there are only 11 characters in the cast! Since you said you were still looking for monkey, rat, and horse, and characters #2 and #3, I've been thinking about how I might sort them out. I think you're spot on for most of it, but I wanted to share what thoughts I came up with myself.

(CW for an image of a rat, for anyone who's afraid of rats)

Man, why do we have to start with character #2, the one I'm least confident on? Honestly, I think that how you originally placed him in your reblog of skulemojee's post is pretty strong already-- he definitely could be the monkey. (okay looking back at the reblog it does not say anything about #2 being the monkey. i don't know if you edited the post or i just hallucinated this connection but anyways. monkey.) The playful vibe that the monkey has just sort of suits what we've seen of #2. #2 also seems pretty close to the protagonist from the art we've seen so far, and the monkey is right next to the rooster in the calendar order. If he wasn't the monkey, he could possibly be the pig? The beady eyes kind of remind me of how cute pigs are drawn.

I find it very likely that #3 would be the rat. The whole white hair/pink eyes thing totally reminds me of the albino rats that are often used in lab experiments.

XF-Ture Tech seems like it might be a pretty experimental company, so if #3 was part of any of those experiments, being associated with a lab rat could make a lot of sense. In the zodiac myth, the rat is also a very clever character who manages to place first in the race to the heavenly gates due to its strategy and manipulations. A character with that sort of disposition would make a lot of sense as an antagonist, which is what I feel #3 will be.

With those two out of the way, it's time for... a contradicting opinion?! (dun dun dun...) In both this post and the original reblog, you said that #10 would be the dragon, which does make some amount of sense. An intimidating dragon feels like it could be a good sibling match for the fierce tiger, and some dragons are known to breathe ice or be associated with weather. However, I also think that #10 could be a good fit for the horse. To me, he has the sort of dignified yet hardworking vibe that horses encompass, being both a symbol of wealth and a symbol of labor depending on when and where in history you're looking. More importantly, #10's outfit reminds me of some outfits that horse riders wear-- apparently, specifically when they're competing in "dressage."

It's the combination of the collared top, tight pants, and especially high boots that reminded me of this look.

If we make #10 the horse, that also frees up #11 to be the dragon. Personally, I don't really see what visual elements would make her appear to be the pig, although I'm certainly willing to hear any explanation out. While the concept of a dragon's hoard is (I think) more closely linked with European dragons, Asian dragons are still sometimes known as a symbol of royalty. #11's crown hair clip and cape would fit in with that perfectly. Additionally, given that #11 appears to be Caucasian herself, DRDTdev may have chosen to associate her more with European dragons than Asian ones. However, it could also be that #10 could still be the dragon, and you could make #11 the horse for the same associations with wealth I brought up before.

At any rate, I don't think that the mascot would be the horse, just because Monohorse sounds... strange. Like, not just the name, I'm just trying to imagine what a mascot-ified horse would look like. My Little Death Game: Killing is Magic, I suppose? Monomonkey or Monopig sound much more viable as something that could be mascotized, to me.

Also, can I ask what made you decide that #7 was the dog? Is it just the dog tags he recently received, or was there something else to it?

Anyways, I just want to reiterate that this theory is super smart, and I think it stands a good chance of being correct in some form. Ox, rabbit, snake, rooster, sheep, and tiger all seem like shoo-ins to me. For the others, though, hopefully this feedback will be helpful to you in some way! :D

Another DRDTDev Danganronpa Fanganronpa - Lunar Calendar Zodiac Cast Motif

This cast follows a Sheng Xiao (The lunar calendar zodiac or umm, the 'Chinese zodiac') motif, right ?

I don't have many feelings regarding these characters because we only have designs and some abstract ARG text connections however just by engaging with these designs where they're at it feels clear to me that there is a throughline of animal motifs all of which align with the 12 animals assigned to each year in the lunar calendar cycle.

Only really pointing this out because I'm having trouble identifying this connection for two characters in particular - If anyone could help me in tying this specific character character to an animal it would be greatly appreciated since I think that this would both lead us to identifying the basis for the mascot as well as potentially discussing certain attributes of the characters characterization in the future whenever they do yield more significance.

For the purpose of this post being read with more universal ease, the characters will be labeled by numbers reading from left to right.

1 - Ox

4 - Rabbit

5 - Snake

6 - Rooster

7 - Dog

8 - Sheep

9 - Tiger

10 - Dragon

11 - Pig

The only three remaining are the monkey, the rat & the horse - the only currently unidentified characters are the mascot, #2 & #3 - if anyone could point me towards any ideas that might help making this connection easier I would greatly appreciate it though it may just not be possible until we see the mascot.

Thank you. 🛐

[stealingyourbones]

Okay, so fanon has pretty much stuck with Danny having a protection obsession, right? So for awhile Danny has done the hero gig, but it sucks. So instead, he tries to find things to protect, okay? So he starts to protect objects and stuff (like a dragon), but that just isn't doing it for him. THAT IS UNTIL he witnessed the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Anyways the end of it is that Danny is the spirit of Gotham.

Thoughts?

(also he's kinda immortal)

My thoughts are ricocheting around my brain at frightening speed rn because this is beautiful. (also fuck I accidentally added heroing to this my b but I don't wanna scrap this draft)

Danny has a 'dragon hoard' and adds Bruce to his hoard after the death of his parents. Suddenly Danny feels fulfilled for the first time in years. It's like he can finally breathe again. He will protect this boy and the town that he resides in.

Before The Batman, whispers in the darker corners of Gotham talk of a demon with glowing white hair that crackles like a roaring bonfire and with piercing toxic green eyes that seem to look directly into your soul and read your entire life story like a book. A horrible creature of teeth and stars and darkness that wants to consume you whole. This demon stopped violence and death around the city for years... until suddenly it stopped. The last appearance of the King of Demons was the day before The Bat made his debut in Gotham.

A terrifying beast made of shadow whose billowing figure seems to curl and twist unnaturally as it raced over rooftops and made mob bust after mob bust. Its glowing eyes are the only thing to cut through its silhouette.

The beast is accompanied by a small creature that is in no way considered a boy, for that would make you think something so unearthly would have a concept of gender in the first place. A small figure of lithe frame with flaming white hair and glowing green eyes. Its crooked crown sat upon its head and somehow stayed on even as the being flipped and twirled along the city's skyline.

They say that the Beast managed to tame the Demon. All those beware being stuck in their path, for you may not see the light of day in months.

It's been six months since the appearance of The Bat. Crooks and thieves wake from their comas brought on by the watchers of the night. Their ravings and rantings of a swirling green expanse with far too many doors lands them in Arkham Asylum. To this day, there is an entire wing in Arkham dedicated to these creeps and crooks. Their minds fully broken by the Demon and the Bat.

The Phantom grins as he watches the wrongdoers invisibly in the center of the 'Phantom Wing'. His core thrums happily as he listens to the fiends go mad. They'll be fine in a few years, but for now, they're out of the way of harming His City. No one messes with his hoard.

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

What do you think of the theme in DMBJ of foreigners being evil and trying to steal artefacts? and how anti-foreigners-buying-them Wu Xie is?

Well, IDK if you can say "Foreigners being evil" when from what I've seen it's mainly just the one Cox Hendry dude as the villain. A single character does not a pattern make.

But to the overarching theme of Wu Xie being against foreigners buying artefacts for private collections (stated in Lost Tomb 2 several times), I agree with it.

Like- the whole concept of foreigners- such as Americans though Lost Tomb doesn't usually specify- coming in to China and taking advantage of economic or social lows to pillage antiques for a song and then hoarding them like dragons with treasure... That's not base-less. That's kind of the standard game plan. I mean *waves a hand to museums everywhere but ESPECIALLY in England*

And I agree with Wu Xie there. Cultural relics should belong first to the peoples they originated with. From there relevant authorities can decide to send out artefacts for museum exhibitions and use them for educational purposes that way, rather than some random person being like "Look 'tis pretty so I bought it I know nothing of the culture but wanted you all to know I'm rich enough to have old things illegally obtained."

I started off college studying museum management (History and Museum Studies double-major) before deciding it was too much networking and politicking for my personality. But one of the things I was most passionate about was kind of an unpopular opinion back then-- give all artefacts back to their people and then let THOSE people say if we can display them and how they should be displayed (the main museum in our area is Native American art and you run into a lot of 'this was my grandfather's ______ why is it in a museum case and I'm not allowed to use it which is its entire purpose?').

So yeah. I'm 100% on Wu Xie's side in this. Chinese antiquities and artefacts should belong in Chinese museums or even in the hands of Chinese people. Not being whisked away taking advantage of starving peoples (for those not familiar, a lot of the stuff in DMBJ was traded for pitiful amounts of food during a massive famine).

If a foreigner really wants some piece of that then they can buy reproductions or high-end copies. Don't hoard history.

Obviously there are exceptions to this when it comes to countries (yes many do it) self-censuring their history. That's a whole other thing I don't feel like getting into and don't think I need to for this specific question. Like I said, I didn't get the degree, decided against it.

[blackvahana]

Yeah alright

So... Ive made it abundantly clear I have been having big issues with angel and demon stuff in recent years. I was demonkin in 2016 and then a few years later picked up angelkin.... havent touched it in like 4 years. I do stand by what ive said about how those are basically solely christian terms given other cultures that "have" them technically have their own terms for conceptions similar to how we view angels/demons - and its definitely true that angel and demon as words extend past christianity but its such a christian term that if you say "jewish angels" most people are going to subconsciously imagine christian conceptions of angels with something that makes them suddenly jewish... if they even add that last bit. The terms are used to translate other similar concepts and carry christian connotations. I dont give a shit about christianity beyond liking catholic aesthetics lmfao. Insert wide-eyed witch child seeing european catholic worship spaces for the first time

I cannot hide the fact that demon and angel... were foundational, beginning identities for me for a reason. Just because I didnt understand the context and so labelled it as demon and angel, doesnt mean what i was was incorrect and catholic lmfao

Look. Tempest.

Beginning design (i always just start with a relatively solid base design for an oc then change them over time, i dont make solid designs for ocs):

Old sky god, grumpy as fuck and pompous and - Im fucking realising this last week thats been me for the first time ever. if not ever then years. ive been extremely Get Out Of My Face - Tempest was Like That lmfao but it was a fictional extrapolation...... alright. more proof this is just an expression of dragon me, which is what im getting at.

evolving further, getting closer and closer to accurate expression his base resonance, still feeling him out:

I'm struggling so hard to talk lmfao I am so aggressive atm

But there's.... This is the rough idea of Tempest but like

me looking at him created 6 years 2 months ago going "i feel like thats relevant"

6 and 2 messages. yeah. This is an echoing of something I am... in the way that Tempest is a bit of a simplified-for-art form.

Hoards of black crow wings, burning light, multiple faces, weird faces, many limbs, gilded in gold - never fucking noticed that Tempest has a halo. I was wondering the other night, I think last night why i never express with a halo and yeah im so sick of angel imagery but like. fact of the fucking matter is no matter how hard i chase that out of me..............

This form isnt going to look like this. I - yeah. remembering this piece - lmfao hold on. why am i getting multiple pieces in my personal divinity board. how long have i been ignoring looking like this

Scrap that whole last section. Dont care to find and then find sources for art. But anyway..... Im going to have to stop ignoring what the fuck I look like. Most of my goddamn sonas have been feeling out parts of me and theyre all many-handed, many winged, crow-esque dragons or other types of dragon or weird fucked up Beasts lmfao

scrapped a bunch of this post.

I need to go deep and unlock some things and then become the Cathedral. will fucking do. I see feathers with stained glass imagery thats only visible in the light like the gold in my black hair irl is. ill take it. asunder come play minecraft pspsps

We all knew what I was trying to squeeze into Tempest was going to become an astral form right? Right? Just me? ... that didnt know?