#light fingers spoilers

[shazzbaa]

NIGHTMARES IS INCREASING...

Samuel is dealing with the horrors just fine! hes fine. just needs a lil laudanum to take the edge off. Just a little, tiny, several bottles of laudanum,

wheezes and collapses HI HELLO I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED..... THIS!!!!.... I don't know what possessed me to make this out of pixels but im v pleased with how it came out!!

[Everyone has been extremely cool abt this!! but just to be sure: no Fallen London spoilers/suggestions/hints in tags, replies, etc. please! I'm still in the middle of some of the stories referenced here and I'm excited to discover it all for myself! ]

Nightmare sources referenced here:

A small, velvet-lined box from Light Fingers

The coiling spire bit from Light Fingers

Poor Edward from Light Fingers

I Shot the Albatross from the southern wind zee dreams

and of course, the Comtessa

At some point during Light Fingers I finally grabbed some laudanum to help with nightmares before some zee trip or other, and discovered that once you're Important, taking laudanum gives you "A Less Than Laudable Laudanum Habit" and that the initial, normal result is locked once your habit gets over level three. Naturally, I HAD TO KNOW.... WHAT HAPPENED AT OTHER LEVELS.....

I'd also decided to finally do the rest of the Watchful MYN at University, which I'd already heard about from several friends as a place where you are constantly going insane from the mundane stress of just, like, uncooperative witnesses while trying to solve a murder. The timing ended up perfect -- Samuel just coming back from the horrors of the Orphanage in Light Fingers and Trying To Be Normal And Hold Down A Normal Job For A Bit, and maybe just a lil laudanum to keep it together for class, and when withdrawal is ratcheting up everything, some annoyances like "can't find info for your murder investigation" might just tip you over the edge,

hilariously he hit level 8 on the laudanum habit -- helpfully labelled "a wretched slave to the hellish stuff" and the point where it stops working altogether -- IMMEDIATELY before running into a step of light fingers where you have to get rid of all your nightmares before you can proceed. HAHA OOPS.

ANYWAY HE STILL HAS IT BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT, IT TAKES A REALLY REALLY LONG TIME, TO KICK A LAUDANUM HABIT...... i, uh, dont recommend giving urself a laudanum addiction but narratively im having a great time lmao

[catgirltraveler]

Hmmm. So I'm guessing that she embraces all children

[szilverer]

tonight i bring flumblr a meme. tomorrow? who knows...

[theunluckiestdevil]

me: maybe i should post some of the art that's been accumulating of my characters-

brain: wrong. post Red Flags Poor Edward

No spoilers in the notes please!

[thedeafprophet]

The final farewell, a ship to freedom at the cost of being apart.

For the best, of course... of course.

(lyrics from Beautiful Crime by Tamer)

[thegreatyin]

is it bad if my honest immediate reaction to getting the advent calendar horsehead amulet gift wasn't "oh sweet, i've spent a year on this game and i've somehow literally never gotten one of these bad boys on any of my accounts before, now literally all of them have one, that's an epic gift thank you failbetter very cool". because it was instead "wow gee golly gee if you got buried alive by poor edward with this in your inventory your light fingers protagonist would probably need to crack their own skull open and kill themself at least twice in that coffin in order to escape. that's awesome."

[the-avaricious-meddler]

AMBITION: LIGHT FINGERS

Poor Edward only under the cut:

[awordbroken]

i think what the thing with the actual light fingers tie-in in the gate of misers is is that crow melusine has spent years idealizing and fantasizing about the hybrid, but in their imagination it's always the same child it was when they had to send it away. it's their baby that they've thought a hundred thousand times about raising, about caring for, about teaching and playing with. so encountering the young miser calves, it's very very easy to project those fantasies, to fill in the gaps with new observations of How It Might Have Been

but the hybrid isn't a baby anymore. i think in cm's timeline it'll have been 5-7 years, i'm not sure yet (if this is what gets me to let them crack the 40 mark... they were 35-ish in their light fingers, i'm thinking? it might be time to unfreeze them and set them at 42 right now), but all the tie-ins so far seem to me to depict that the hybrid has reached miser maturity by now, although this will be the first one i'm allowing to be canon for cm.

regardless, finally meeting the hybrid again and it's all grown up... it's gonna be rough for cm. a final end to those fantasies - that they always knew were impossible, and yet, the heart wants... but now they have to live with the fact that their child is a real person and standing in front of them, and they don't really know it at all. and it's nothing like what they dreamed. and the time lost really is, finally, truly, completely, lost forever. and that's not even getting into introducing it to its LITTLE SIBLING...

i. have to chew on this for one million years

[the-rose-tinted-detective]

“Can we have poor Edward?” “We got Poor Edward at home”

Poor Edward at home:

[oh I had wanted to do something spooky for Halloween but the plan had fallen through a little, at least I got a good laugh out of it, if anything! I hope you guys at @failbettergames found this as amusing as I did 🤭 (I do adore how mysterious poor Edward is, even if he’s not involved in Conway’s ambition at all lol)

[hells-dear-heart]

I need him dead

(Version without color and version with color cause I think they have very different vibes)

Completely maskless headcanon under the cut! warning for slight gore

[the-dye-stained-socialite]

family portrait for @thedeafprophet 's OCs!

top to bottom left to right is:

Buttons, Sweets

Alex

The Hybrid, Penny, and Johnny Croak +frog!

i love this father

[shazzbaa]

(audio from portal 2!) This is how that dream conversation went right????? au where everythings the same but poor edward is from the west country,

ANYWAY LMAO HI I've been learning animation just to make this!! FOR SOME REASON!!! IT TOOK TWO WEEKS TO ANIMATE. this quote was my IMMEDIATE thought as soon as Poor Edward said "I've had to make ALL the sacrifices for this marriage!" so i just needed to bring it into being outside of my brain. tbh IM PRETTY PROUD OF IT...... anyway sweet dreams samuel!!

[video transcript] [Poor Edward, from below, gesturing with exasperation]: I've done nothing but sacrifice to get us here! And what have you sacrificed? [Cut to Samuel, feeling around him to figure out that he's in a coffin, panicking as the sides start closing in] Poor Edward: Nothing. Zero. [/end transcript]

additional notes:

thren and I both did the riot rather than burning down the orphanage, so instead of burn scars, Edward got his hands broken. He might have new skin but making a fist is still a lil lopsided,

one of the friends in our flondon group has been making an impassioned case for Edward favouring regency-era looks and I must admit ive adopted this into my belief system, so thats leaked into his outfit here. i havent been keeping sam's outfit historically accurate tho so i dont know why i think this is something i need to clarify

this animation was done in Krita, which is a free open-source program that was pretty easy to get the hang of -- Jesse J Jones and Animate with Dermot had tutorials that helped me a lot if anyone else wants to try it!

[thevioletscout]

For Christmas, I put together a Fallen London/Light Fingers themed gift box for my friend @anannoyanceofjackofsmiles. So I figured I'd show everyone here what I put together since I think you guys might get a kick out of it.

While out shopping for craft supplies I picked up a "decorative mushroom" (a mushroom ornament) and a "handful of echoes." (chocolate coins)

Stained some paper with tea and wrote two notes. One from myself and one from Poor Edward. Please excuse my poor handwriting, calligraphy is not one of my skills.

Two polymer clay hearts in a jar, based off one of the gifts Poor Edward sends the player.

Fun fact, this was going to actually be a snow globe, but the jar's lid doesn't contain the water, and I was advised against mailing anything liquid regardless. Soooo I'm just sending two sculpted hearts to my friend. Thankfully he gets it.

And then I had some leftover red clay, so I made a necklace of Poor Edward's mask, along with a coffin box made out of cardboard, duct tape, and black paint to hold it. The mask looks a little scuffed I'll admit, sculpting is also not one of my talents.

Finally, it all gets packed into a box I stole from my old workplace with some paper to keep everything safe, and it gets sent to my beloved friend.

By the time this post goes up he'll have already gotten the gift, so if you're seeing this it means he liked it!

[szilverer]

to my ilk

[theunluckiestdevil]

This was supposed to take me like an hour to de-stress from a long day but my hand slipped whoops. It should be illegal that he's cute.

[thedeafprophet]

I've seen a lot of new people coming in and engaging with light fingers especially recently, which is cool! don't get me wrong

but uh. im really hoping fbg listens to my feedback email about putting content warnings into the game cuz some of that content is not always something you want to go into blind. imo.

there are themes of medical rape, forced pregnancy, and heavy pregnancy body horror in that story. which can be a lot for some people