#slowly for the late reply :(

[bacchuschucklefuck]

class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)

[shamedumpster]

if you want you should draw feuilly my love in one of your fits

Here you go! This one's a throwback for me. I call it the working-through-a-community-college-graphic-design-degree-while-still-working-full-time-at-a-machine-shop-you-hate. Seemed appropriate for Feuilly.

[bleaksqueak]

Caduceus glyph doodle while I get back on my feet

[spookygibberish]

Hiii! I REALLY love your Thrones and I'd like to ask if I could make one as a oc?

I'm not sure if I've shared enough information about their cultural context publicly for people to do this well, but I have helped my friends workshop Throne OCs before.

Some important stuff to know:

There are two broad classes that most Thrones fall into, private and imperial. Thrones which are private citizens can technically be found all over the empire, on account of the fact they're wealthy enough to go and live wherever the hell they want, but you're going to find the greatest number of them in Godtomb and other densely urbanized areas of the Imperial core. All thrones belong to the aristocracy by nature, as they're directly a product of wealth and privilege. If a Throne is not currently wealthy, they are inevitably descended from wealth. They were also a huge huge fad before the creation of new thrones was clamped down on, and nearly every old money merchant empire is a Throne family. Godtomb (the imperial capital) has the highest number of Thrones which are not associated with the government, as it was the birthplace of the literary movement which first spawned them (longish story). It is tempting to say that private citizen thrones are more diverse than governmental ones, but it's more accurate to say they are more diverse than thrones belonging to the tricolor court, which has fairly strict expectations for the appearances of Headless (quadrupedal; preferences for lions, lizards (varanid), oxen, eagles; a set color palette (gold, azure, white); the inevitable 'mantle' of 'petals', etc....)

Imperial Thrones can be divided along the lines of whether or not they are associated with the Tricolor court, A government body made up of regional power centers (Greathouses) which communicate directly with and contribute to the government in Godtomb. Each Tricolor Greathouse has houses under it which may or may not be aesthetically aligned with the tricolor court, if not directly members, depending on how culturally similar they are to the Hegemony. The further you get from the Bitano, the more likely these Provincial Houses are to differ and be more influenced by non-hegemonic local culture.

By necessity, all Thrones, governmental or not, are inexorably associated with the Empire and their existence functions first and foremost to legitimize its authority. Even in the cases of provinces like Lujnola and Sevab, which are each heavily tied to indigenous cultures (and therefor divergent from Tricolor Court aesthetics), they belong to ruling houses modeled on the Hegemonic standard, and are all vassals of the emperor in Godtomb.

Slightly finer categories:

There are Throne Houses which are not themselves Imperial houses, but are in the employ of Imperial houses. Many of the Thrones produced by these families are more or less born and bred for the military. Prominent members of such Houses (need to come up with a name for these...) often marry into Ruling Houses, although rarely TRICOLOR Houses, since they lack the clout to be competitive in that marriage arena.

There are Sansin Thrones. Sansin are an all-male order of magnyd (essentially the same type of being as Unbodied) that staff the Bibat Temples (of the Jacantese State Religion, they make and manage other sorts of Dangyds.) I will elaborate on Sansin later this post has gotten long but theyre just monks. Its an all-male social caste of monks that grow new members in little jars and sometimes they make their own versions of Headless and assemble their own version of Thrones. These Thrones are smaller, usually bipedal, and always sexless.

Other things to know:

Due to the biological reality of thrones there are headless which are born outside of major Houses. The vast majority of Throne-children are Unbodied (the sort which more or less exactly resemble ordinary humans), and those Unbodied inevitably leak out into the general populous. All Unbodied are capable of parenting a child which is Headless (the lower half of the throne). Headless born outside of major Houses will inevitably be snapped up when discovered. Even prior to the existence of Thrones, Houses can be propagated just as well by apprenticeship.

Not all imperial Thrones are lazy figureheads! Just the majority of them. Some Thrones belong to a guild which is basically Throne Interpol, going around and keeping despotism in check. What happens when one of those guys is corrupt? Don't be silly that doesn't happen and isn't a problem (it is.)

It's more common for Thrones to be generals when in military positions. Thrones tend to be high ranking wherever in whatever employ, not really because they're uniquely qualified, simply because they're Thrones. Many of them have fairly insufferable personalities on account of being treated like they shit gold their entire lives. They're not inherently *bad people*, but they're almost exclusively coddled, spoiled, deeply entitled, and profoundly disconnected people. This is isn't true for every single throne, just like, a solid 99% of them.

[dailysoldier]

i love daily soldier >:)!

could you do solly hanging out with kermit the frog 💚 i think itd be silly hehe

Thank you for tuning in to daily soldier !!

Daily Soldier 168 (Inspiration is Moving Right Along by The Muppets !!)

[thrumugnyr]

Hey! Started following you from the moment you started posting things on #curse of strahd. Haven't seen Patataj in a while. I love your art and will definetley commission you when the opportunity comes!

Just wanted to know how is your loveley bard doing? How is the campaign overall?

I hope this question didn't bother you much

Patataj is still running through Barovia, only making the soundest of decisions! For example he wanted to protect some werewolves from certain death after he helped them rebel so he agreed with Strahd's offer of giving him 10 whole favors. He was just too happy about the werewolves being okay.

Rahadin was angry, not so much because Patataj owes favors to Strahd, but because Patataj is clearly absolutely terrible about making deals. And what if something else asks for a bargain?

[stevethehairington]

if you see me replying to an ao3 comment you left on any of my fics anytime in the last. fuck. year or so?? please, don't mind me ksjdflkdsf.

[sarcophagid]

your art style is so crunchy in a good way and your ithaqua analysis had me jumping around at work the other day thank you so much :3 !!

aaa tysm :,D im glad you like my art and analysis!

[penisbilt]

waving hello everyone so uh sorry for just kinda up and vanishing for um. months and months and months. i kind of exploded and then died and then lived briefly and then died again. but with the days getting longer and me being brave and being outdoors more (Even Though its starting to get real wintery outside) it feels like im coming to life again AND developing social tendencies for the first time in uhh ummmm. so anyway yeah hi i can almost handle the thought of communicating with other human beings again in the near future, stay tuned

[homkamiro]

I just want to say, your speeding bullet fanart is just *chefs kiss* delicious. I love it and your artsyle!

AHHHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! i appreciate it!!🥹🥹🩷💕💕

[vandalizedheart]

might actually start going with The Substance schedule regarding this blog...

[lisxdumbr]

The whole "if a person is mad at you it's their responsibility to tell you" thing just made me realize how fucked my situation is. Like just. woah

[kazucee]

I miss interacting w you on here 😞💔

I'm so sorry for being dead (I haven't forgotten anyone here dw TT) I didn't realize how hard the second semester becomes especially with a battery exam and everything. TO ALL MY MOOTS ILY AND THANK YOU FOR BEING SO PATIENT.

[fa-i-ze]

Oh, I understand it now

[kyoukoscorner]

Do you like using the spear or would you have preferred a different weapon?

“At first, I thought I wouldn’t be able to use it, but… I prefer it no other way now.”

[darcyxpalmer]

How do they respond when someone doesn’t believe them?

Before the island it wasn't a regular occurance that what Darcy said people flat out didn't believe (she also did not go around saying wildly unlikely things, to be fair, she was not a flat earther or anything!), but even then she usually just tried to explain it with reason and logic and she is doing the same now on the island even though now she has jumped over all gates and ventured into "unreasonable af" territory. (In her mind, she makes the most sense, though.) So now she is just trying harder and harder, hoping that if she says it enough and says it just the right way, could explain it just the right way, people will hear and believe her eventually. And if not her, with time enough things will happen that finally people will see that she's been right all along.