#rhiannon42

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commission for @rhiannon42!

(commissions are open!)

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Did another VTM commission for my friend @rhiannon42 of our games Former Prince Caleb

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Commission for @rhiannon42 ! Moments before a new year's kiss… 🥰 Thank you for commissioning me!!

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tagged by @forever-and-almost-always to list the five songs i’m listening to right now and we are just going to be honest on tumblr dot com

1. the Love Between Fairy and Devil theme song

2. Queen of Hearts by TWICE

3. Cruel by TWICE

4. Cactus by TWICE

5. Talk that Talk by TWICE

i did technically listen to a lot of star wars music at the end of the day today but i was trying to find a theme song for my ttrpg character so that feels less like it counts as Listening to Music

tagging: @deepestbluesky @shadowsong26x @canonskyrissian @rhiannon42 @antique-forvalaka

[iapetusneume]

Thank you for all of this! I really appreciate it.

I’m putting the replies on here too in order for me to more easily find it:

To Be Taught If Fortunate by Becky Chambers via faejilly

Anything by Seanan McGuire, especially the InCryptid series, or her Newsflesh series under the pseud Mira Grant. The Wayward Children series is also really good, but happy ending's a little negotiable. Guy Gavriel Kay's pretty good in general but I particularly recommend Tigana. The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir, if you haven't yet. Chris Wooding's Tales of the Ketty Jay series is also good (starts with Redemption Falls). Hope that helps! via thessalian

HELLO I AM HERE: Becky Chambers, her sci-fi series that starts with Long Way to a Small Angry Planet and her Monk and Robot books. The former series has heavy moments, the latter is like a warm blanket. The Murderbot Diaries aren't exactly *light* but they're short and very very good and things generally end well. The Saint of Steel series by T. Kingfisher are very sweet well-done fantasy romances with, uh, ambient murder and political intrigue. All the books I mentioned have queer characters and relationships as well, all portrayed positively and with much happiness in their lives. via rhiannon42

I’m off to put all of these on my To Read list on my library account.

I could use some recommendations for novels.

My current reading list is pretty heavy, and I think I need to intermittently pepper in some lighthearted stuff.

So, can I have reccs to some lighthearted things? Or in the very least, things with a happy ending?

Fantasy/Sci Fi and/or Queer preferred. But really, I'll take anything recommended by a friend.

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Stitches & Cedar

Stitches - What kind of clothing do you wear?

oof, all kinds! my personal, non-work style is very woodsy and witchy with a light touch of punk. bones and feathers and gems and wooden things, tasteful sideboob tanks with bright bralettes, ripped jeans and beanies, boots All Year Round. 

for work i’m much more matchy, and have color combos that work across the entire outfit, nails and makeup and everything. I love color coordinating so muuuch. 

i also make tons of my outfits just as closet cosplays or at least character inspired, it helps me face a day if i can go in with a different mindset. 

Cedar - What is your favorite season?

winterrrrrrr. i love the stillness, i love the cold. the frost grey skies, that silent calm. the way the sky turns yellow at night just before it snows. i love the constellations in the night sky, the way a cold beer feels in your hands or the way a warm cocoa perks you up. every breath feels like you’re a dragon. i love it.

ask me things!

[elenafisher]

Ultimate Uncharted Challenge → 10/15 Scenes

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CONTRIBUTOR LINEUP - ZINE WRITERS

We’re very excited to finally announce our contributor lineup for Clan of Two!

First, we begin with our lovely writers - you can find links to their socials below the cut!

@spectroscopes @rhiannon42 @gonkdroid @t7-01 @notsowearypilgrim @asunachinadoll @hippolvte @nydile.jpeg @dinluke @communistkenobi

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@rhiannon42

scrunchy kermies pt 2

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rhiannon42 Oh, yeah, jeez, that is a tough decision. Is there any room to negotiate on the salary?

This is what they came back with after I said the first offer was way too low. :(

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rhiannon42 said:

so very cute gosh!!!!

Thank you!!! I was long overdue for a cut, and this was shorter than intended but it came out really well.

sweetskeleton said:

bruh

b   r   u   h

dailyvituperation said:

So cute! very 20s

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rhiannon42 started following you

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[iapetusneume]

For the D&D ask meme, for all your characters: 17, 31, 47

[The list of questions for the meme is here.]

For Nidia Tylan, Vivian Chaudary, Glabra Jacaranda, and Zylvi Dufaure

17. what do they dream about, when their dreams are their own?

Nidia - For the longest time, she dreamt of having her own library, preferably in an area that didn’t previously have one. She started adventuring because she needed to raise funds for it, and her family was not going to be in a position to support her financially for this. She also dreams of being close to her family, which doesn’t exactly jive with where she wants her library because she comes from a city with a university and a wonderful already-existing library.

She also dreamt of having a best friend who didn’t care about how “strange” she was. 

Honestly she was too scared to dream of having a lover. She wouldn’t daydream of having one, but sometimes when she dreamed deeply she would.

Vivian - Having her own restaurant, and a living space that would allow for a large herb garden.

She also had dreams of having kids. It was actually a recurring dream that would be a little modified each time she had it. Part of the way she knew she was falling in love with one of her many partners was she started to see them in that dream, as part of her family.

Glabra - Glabra actually struggles with dreams, and has nightmares more often than pleasant dreams. Wilden don’t usually sleep - they usually meditate for 2 hours - and only require sleep when they’re extremely exhausted. The other exception is if they’ve been turned into a vampire. And I won’t get into all of the minutae of how Navona ruled her vampires work mechancially, but a big point is: if a race would usually require to sleep for a long rest, they’d have to sleep 8 hours in a coffin over some of their grave soil. If they were a race that meditated while having a long rest, they’d need to sleep 4 hours. So, Glabra went from needing to sleep once every few months to having to sleep every single night after she was turned.

So this, along with the stress of being the Captain (now Admiral) of a large group of adventurers who are trying to save the world... she gets a lot of anxiety. It’s difficult to tell if she’s getting nightmares from her nerves or from potentially one of her enemies, but it’s enough that she despises sleep and sought out ways to have dreamless sleep.

But when she manages to have the rare pleasant dream, she dreams of having a large family, in a beautiful home somewhere warm.

Zylvi - Ever since Zylvi was little, she’s had dreams of flying. Not the sort that she can do with her tiefling wings (that’s more of very short flight and low to the ground), but being extremely high up in the air. And from the way the dream was, she knew that she was the one flying, on her own wings.

It was very recently she discovered that she was a gold dragon in her past life, and those dreams were actually memories.

She also dreams of making the perfect sculpture of Bahamut. She is afraid to practice because she feels like her failed attempts would be like an insult. (Overcoming her pride is part of her larger character arc.)

31. they’re given a blank piece of paper–what do they do with it?

Nidia - She’d save the paper for when she might need it later. She went through a lot of paper during transcription work when she spent time in a city, and was pinching every copper she could. Post-game the need to do this would be less (since her boyfriend became a king and they then got married), but the impulse to not waste anything would remain.

Vivian - Without any explanation given to what to do with it, she’d probably start writing out recipe ideas she’d like to experiment with.

Glabra - She would fold it a la origami and give it to her fairy dragon - Minima - to play with.

Zylvi - She’d sketch someone or something nearby.

47. when they meet someone, what is the first thing they notice?

Nidia - Their language patterns, dialect, social status. Because of her devotion to helping educate those who don’t have access to education, she’s very aware of how differently people talk across education and class barriers. She also does a lot of work with scholarly circles, so she needs to immediately alter her vocabulary to best suit her surroundings. She doesn’t want to alienate the people she’s trying to help, but she also wants to be taken seriously by scholars so she can get work and save up for her goals.

Vivian - Their smell. As a werewolf, her sense of smell is extremely good. She’s very good at being able to discern what race a humanoid is by scent alone, if they practice magic using material components (or the scent of residual magic), what they had for lunch, etc.

Glabra - At the beginning of the campaign, I would say a person’s smile. Glabra is a cinnamon roll but was extremely naive. Now, she’s going to be looking for cues to see of someone is going to take her seriously. She’s gaining a reputation, but Wilden aren’t viewed favorably everywhere in the world, and her bubbly nature often makes people think they can take advantage of her.

Zylvi - Any religious symbols someone might be wearing. Zylvi’s faith in Bahamut is deeply personal and complicated, and she’s had a lot of bad experiences with Bahamut’s followers. It takes her a really long time to get to know - and trust - other followers of Bahamut, and she often tries to avoid them. And because her mother is a devil of Tiamat (where she gets her infernal heritage from), she avoids any and all Tiamat followers. Honestly she tries to avoid people who worship any of the dragon gods because it always leads to awkward questions that she didn’t know the answers to for a very long time.

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@rhiannon42

My biggest frustration has been indie creators putting out all these lists of "stuff to play that's not D&D" and they're all WILDLY different from D&D in terms of genre. I love Blades in the Dark but it is not sword and sorcery high fantasy, and yet! I've seen it on many "instead of D&D" lists. That genre has problems but it's popular for a reason. Sorry for the reply rant, it's just been eating at me lately!

I’ve been frustrated by that too - there are a lot of very niche game systems, which do the thing they do VERY WELL and are worth playing, but a lot of them can’t do the exact same things that D&D does! Pathfinder and the AGE systems are what come close at this point in time, I think, but they come with their limitations. It would be so much more helpful if people would start explaining, or pointing to explanations as to what systems do and what kind of games they’d fit. 

(I'm also thinking about doing a BitD explainer video series and this might be the motivation I need to make it happen, hmmm)

DOOOO IT

For those who don’t know, @rhiannon42 has been running a series of Blades in the Dark actual play podcasts the last few years that are EXCELLENT and definitely worth checking out if steampunk-ish settings and “be gay, do crime” are your kinds of things. 

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@rhiannon42 @faejilly @elfyourmother

[elenafisher]

Where's the link for that U3 meta you mentioned?

WOW, I never received a notification in my inbox about this message. Yikes. Sorry! I never meant to ignore you, Anon.

Anyway, you can read it here. I’ve probably read it and re-read it a thousand times, it’s so good. @rhiannon42′s work is amazing.