#many thoughts....

[sergle]

squinting at this dress thinking this could look so Severe if I wore a corset under it... since the waist can be tightened

[lenreli]

[doomedyuri]

i finished veilguard

[ai-kan1]

your fantasy gear ace is making me insane in a very positive way i need your thoughts about ace in the red mage gear from final fantasy 14

OMG FF... Funnily one of the things i thought for the inspo while thinking about Aces fantasy gear first was of course prince Phillip but also ff1 red mage/wizard!! When you look at the shape its very similar to the design i ended up with...

But general thoughts for Red mage Ace design wise would be that most of red mage gear in the game fit him so well.. if i played ff14 more than 9h ( i tested it out with a freetrial last summer, it was fun but drawing took priority bdbdh) i probably would say more!! (Ngl waiting for sale so i can buy the dlc just bcs i wanna make Ace in the character creator and have him as the bunny species)

On other hand, red mages aspect of being jack of all trades fits Ace perfectly!! Red mages can learn wide range of spells and able to do physical damage too.. all rounders, this of course comes back to bite you in a sense because red mages cannot learn strongest spells like black and white mages...

[softshuji]

Just saw a beautiful black Porsche and it had tinted windows too.........hmm....

[limey-self-inserts]

Howdy Limey!

I wanted to ask these from the rolodex vocabulary ask game but first, please allow me to take this moment to remind you my Ask box is always open to come chat about the highlights of your week or gush about your f/os anytime!

10. Vociferous: What are some things your f/o is passionate about? Why are they passionate about these things? Do you share their passions? How likely are they to get into a debate over their passions? For Douxie!

3. Izod: How tough is your f/o? Have they ever reached their breaking point and if so, what happened and how did they pick themselves back up afterwards + how did you help them through this time? For Alucard!

8. Bauble: Does your f/o like to collect anything? If not, do they own something that brings them immense joy and satisfaction- if so, tell us about it! For Sirius!

2. Appellation: If possible, look up and tell us the meaning of your f/o's name + tell us if you feel it reflects your f/o in any way (those of you with OC f/os, It's your time to shine ;)) for Obitus!

Cheers,

Moxie @tex-treasures

hey hey! thank you for sending in the ask! (and I'm so sorry this took so long to complete)

Vociferous: What are some things your f/o is passionate about? Why are they passionate about these things? Do you share their passions? How likely are they to get into a debate over their passions?

oh Douxie is ON with music, especially rock and heavy metal. he likes to spend his spare time making up riffs or learning tunes from songs he's been listening to recently. he's also super passionate about magic, especially in the practical aspects. being able to blend music and magic is such peak Douxie because he's just putting his all into what he loves

Avalon is a fellow magic-caster but has a very different perspective due to being self-taught. you can bet that they and Douxie will be sat down for hours debating how certain spells are cast and comparing notes/experiences of it, with Douxie intrigued in how Avalon learned spells without the studying and Avalon wanting the actual teachings to better understand what they can do. of course, sometimes it means they'll get heated in which method is best vs. which method is correct

Izod: How tough is your f/o? Have they ever reached their breaking point and if so, what happened and how did they pick themselves back up afterwards + how did you help them through this time?

(cw Castlevania spoilers, assault mention)

Alucard is. hoooo, he is tough. he is very tough, despite going through an exceptional amount of hardship. he had to fight and kill his own father (regardless of the massive threat Dracula posed to the rest of humanity in the instance). he ended up living predominantly alone for several months, and when he did welcome people into his life in the form of a pair of wanna-be hunters - well, those hunters tried to kill him out of fear he was hiding secrets from them. so he killed them in retaliation. that was definitely a breaking point for him. he opened himself up with trust and it hurt him badly for it. it took the offer of trust from a different stranger to start picking him back together

Crow was hurt badly during Alucard's breaking point. they didn't so much help so much as retreat from humanity alongside Alucard. they were a comforting presence, but not much else

Bauble: Does your f/o like to collect anything? If not, do they own something that brings them immense joy and satisfaction- if so, tell us about it!

ooooooo Sirius does enjoy collecting small trinkets whenever he goes on excursions. this can range from pressed flowers to shiny rocks to small gems. mostly reminders of places he's been to.

he never really developed a taste for expensive items during his childhood in noble life, and instead finds joy in beautiful and rather natural items. he might pick up a piece of jewellery, but more likely simple pendants or leather-banded items, things where the beauty is found more in how the item was made or a singular gemstone in the piece

Appellation: If possible, look up and tell us the meaning of your f/o's name + tell us if you feel it reflects your f/o in any way (those of you with OC f/os, It's your time to shine ;))

Obitus' name come from the Latin word 'obitus', associated with the approach of death/dying/setting of the sun. 'obitus' is the base for the word 'obituary', a short descriptive of someone's death with general information on the person.

as an assassin, this fits very appropriately with him. his approach bodes death to the unsuspecting and suspecting alike. he certainly takes his job seriously.

[twelvemonkeyswere]

not even JRR Tolkien, who famously developed the concept of the Secondary World and firmly believed that no trace of the Real World should be evoked in the fictional world, was able to remove potatoes from his literature. this is a man who developed whole languages and mythologies for his literary world, who justified its existence in English as a translation* simply because he was so miffed he couldn't get away with making the story fully alien to the real world. and not even he, in extremis, was so cruel as to deny his characters the heavenly potato. could not even conceive a universe devoid of the potato. such is its impact. everyone please take a moment to say thank you to South Americans for developing and cultivating one of earth's finest vegetables. the potato IS all that. literally world-changing food. bless.

[machine-saint]

look at this wacky thing the google AI results just showed me!

[mimimar]

(open pages for better image quality)

the moment I heard elphaba's delivery of "there's a girl i know..." in i'm not that girl i knew i had to draw this comic, i strongly recommend listening to it while you read for the full experience!

this comic is a companion to this piece (which was inspired by glinda's delivery of the same line in the i'm not that girl reprise).

pages 1-4 are from elphie's pov, pages 5-8 are from glinda's.

prints of individual pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

flower meanings in order of appearance:

[cherryysocks]

can't stop thinking about this movie tbh..

[mintaii]

death of the magician

[mumbito]

me clicking on a video from the silliest man in the world: teehee what wacky hijinks await me

world renown block clown mumbo Fucking jumbo: you ever think about how old technology seems to live forever in the suspended state of whatever the newest advancements were at the time. how most technology immediately and fundamentally tells you when it was important and when it was left in the dust. it’s suspended in its era forever, and in that it is perfect.

stagnation is a form of death but nostalgia is cruel immortality. still i find myself locked in pursuit of it until i finally stumble across the undeath of the mechanical. as my hard earned improvement truly begins to pay dividends, surrounded by my opus of change, i will freeze myself in eternal utopia. the only way to never die is to preemptively kill whoever you might become. i will not have a grave, i will not be ashes and dust. i will be a perfect, extant machine.

me: Ok. i dont think this will plague me at all actually. like video.

[attleboy]

TADC SPOILERS AHEAD!! //

don't forget

[mlm-blues]

“lmao imagine liking men” OK!!! ON IT BOSS 🫡🫡🫡 it’s beautiful here

[dragonroilz]

[elucubrare]

there's this horrible school of attempted literary criticism on here that holds that 1. everything in any given author's work is autobiographical, especially if it seems "real" and 2. those themes seeped into the work subconsciously, revealing something about the author that they're either trying to hide or unaware of themself. it drives me up a wall, since it seems to deny the fundamental skills that make people good writers: the empathy to imagine and portray experiences that one hasn't had oneself and the ability to take one's personal emotional experiences or worldview and fold them, consciously, into the unworked clay of a narrative.