#techmomma

[jade-mod]

Been a minute since I’ve done some doodles! Felt like I’d been neglecting Jade for a while- and wanted to figure out how she might look when she’s a little older.

When I first came up with her, I made her the same age as me (or thereabouts- certainly more established in any rate). It’s weird to think that it’s been almost a decade since then- she seems so much younger in comparison now. So I skipped ahead maybe up to two decades to see what she might be like when she’s a bit older than I am.

She’s more tired then- probably been through some stuff, raised/is raising a family, still keeps in pretty good shape physically but likely has traded field work for academia. Sometimes needs reading glasses (that’s around the age my mom needed hers)

Included @techmomma ‘s Eddy since I felt like doodling him too, and illustrating the change in dynamic as Jade ages, from being something of a mentor she looks up to and a source of information, to a colleague she can better relate to and reminisce with.

[jade-mod]

🔥Boffin Barrow

It’s been done before, yes- but why mess with perfection? Perfection here meaning two fabulously stylish, morally dubious short men who nonetheless will do *anything* for the people they care about.

Here's another character! This time, Mr. Problematic Queer-coded Villain himself!

If you would like me to draw your character kissing Tiberius (gay, he/him), then reblog this, comment, or dm me with your character reference(s)!

Make sure you include what level of spiciness you are comfortable with for that character! (Not necessarily what I will draw but the level of spiciness that you are comfortable with me drawing of your character! I don't want to draw some hardcore makin' out when you were only comfortable with a peck on the cheek for them!)

💖= [heart] light pecks! familial, friendly

🌶= [pepper] longer kiss, definitely making out, may or may not be tongue, very romantic

🔥= [fire] all the way baby, no limits

Watch for one more character (you already know who) to come! ;>

[crayonurchin]

It's been a while since the last doodle dump so have some doodles featuring a few of Cammie's friends he's made on his little adventure so far

Ed belongs to @techmomma

Lilyfeather belongs to @kajeaynart

Sandy Shores belongs to @theamishpirate

[askmerriauthor]

@techmomma

It's a weird moment when I'm playing this new game and run into TB twice over.

[seawitchsteph]

Hey so I live here on @techmomma now if you want where I put my art. Don't... don't look here. Please. I beg of you. I wanted to change main blogs and now it's too late-

[empressofthelibrary]

15 questions, 15 friends

tagged by @pendrvgons

are you named after anyone? My mother picked my legal first name based on her late best friend, who passed shortly before I was born. My penname began as Alanna West, and both halves of that are from fictional characters. I use Alanna as a middle name now, and "Emory Alanna" has such a nice ring to it. I'm really happy with it -- I might make it my legal name, if I ever wanna set anything in stone.

when was the last time you cried? Within the last thirty-six hours. I've slept a lot today as the last two days caught up with me, so beyond that I'm not sure.

do you have kids? What, in this economy? Hah! ...Jokes aside, no, I don't, and tbh I'd probably be a terrible parent anyway.

what sports do you play/have you played? I used to do archery as a hobby when I was a teenager. I miss it, but I never had the opportunity to really practice.

do you use sarcasm? Me? Sarcastic? Noooo...

what is the first thing you notice about people? Their voices, I think. I'm not good at eye contact and I'm pretty faceblind, so those things tend to slip past me. But voices are much easier for me to recognize.

what is your eye color? Blue!

scary movies or happy endings? I'm not a horror movie person. I'll enjoy the occasional thriller, I guess, but I want to know the heroes win. Even if it's a temporary victory, with a bigger threat still out there. "The heroes die, the villains win" is basically impossible for me to enjoy. Tragedy can be fun, you know I love Hamlet. But I need to be expecting a tragic ending, in such a case, and the villains need to lose too, even if the heroes die in the process.

any talents? I write! I've been told I sing well, but I still waffle back and forth on if I can believe it. I can draw decently, both digitally and traditionally. I used to be really good at climbing trees, too, but I'm too heavy and too short to haul myself up like I used to.

where were you born? Oklahoma, unfortunately.

what are your hobbies? Reading, drawing, writing, and I'm trying to learn to play guitar. I also do very bad, off-key karaoke sometimes.

do you have any pets? Three cats. They are needy baby terrors and I love them.

how tall are you? 5'4", I think?

favorite subject in school? I excelled in English in k-12, and art was great. I loved science, but I wasn't good enough at math to really get into it. I wanted to enjoy my history classes more, but the sliced-up way it was taught made it really difficult.

dream job? Oh, jeez, I dunno. I'm not sure I even have one anymore. I honestly wish I could just spend all my time doing art and creating things, and not have to worry about money. That's the dream, really.

I'm not tagging fifteen people, but: @lovelyladylavie @lilyntlrs @saberwriter @twinklecupcake aaaand... @techmomma and @crayonurchin 💛 (no pressure, only if y'all wanna)

[crayonurchin]

@techmomma

get yourself a main character whos two primary emotions are "little cunt" and "catatonic with grief"

[crayonurchin]

Happy birthday @techmomma!!

[crayonurchin]

I absolutely love this meme it keeps cracking me up

Mom belongs to @techmomma

[crayonurchin]

🌲🌿🌾 For Cammie, and/or Solo, depending on how much you want to write!

Cammie first, Solo second!

Cammie:

🌲 What is the kindest thing your OC has ever done for someone? What is the kindest thing someone has ever done for them? On the flip side, what is the worst thing your OC has done to another person?

The kindest thing someone ever did for Cammie is tricky. He's had many things done for him that can't ever really be re-paid. In rps, he's been essentially adopted by both @theamishpirate main boy Sandy as a brother, and @kajeaynart gummy gang as their next lil member. Outside of rps, I think it's honestly meeting Lucas as a little kid. That boy singlehandedly showed Cammie there was life beyond what was decided for him, and coming to meet him got Lucas in a lot of trouble, yet he kept it up for his friend trapped behind trimmed hedges. It's small, but it completely changed Cammie's life. - For the worst? When he ran away from home, he told nobody, including his Nanny Peppermint, who'd been caring for him all his life. She was beyond broken when he vanished, and she died before he could ever reconcile with her. He was a kid at the time, he wasn't trying to be cruel, but he was, and he regrets it constantly.

🌿 What is something true about your OC that they refuse to admit about themselves? Is there any reason to this besides embarassment?

He's cowardly. He tries to run from everything that he can't control and pretends it was never real. He wants to believe he's a grandiose man when he's really a selfish boy at times. He can't admit when he's wrong, because it would mean admitting the people he was oppressed by may have been right.

It's a tricky bag of marbles, but there's truth in it all both directions.

🌾 What would your OC be like if they were evil. Or if they’re already evil what would they be like as the good guy?

An evil Cammie is a very, very manipulative person. He still wants many of the same goals, but rather than abusing himself to mould his essence into what he needs it to be, he moulds everyone else around him, without caring how it affects them. And he's clever, he's always able to use words that never make him the villain but always make him the victim. Anyone speaking out against him would look like a monster, and he's aware of it.

He'd still be in great denial of many things, but the evil Cammie uses that denial to justify his every action and it lets him sleep at night, inside a bus that everyone else got run over by.

And now, Solo!

🌲 What is the kindest thing your OC has ever done for someone? What is the kindest thing someone has ever done for them? On the flip side, what is the worst thing your OC has done to another person?

Once again, RP has different answers! @techmomma and I have done a LOT of rps with Solo and their blorbos, so in order: Ed essentially adopting and helping them get into therapy, survive the reappearance of their abuser, and becoming the grandparent of their son. TB doing much the same but in a very queer and motherly role from a bit more of a distance Mom being their bff that holds them accountable Pet being their bff that lets them feel joy again Outside rp, canonically at 13 years old as a runaway with a brain damaged baby, they knew this was stupidly dangerous. There was a man, Antony, that ran these awful apartment blocks, and he was a mean sonovabitch. That crusty angry man let this random child and infant live in one of his studios for seven months, with rent being 'whatever was doable', though that was never formally agreed. He was a bastard, but he saved their life at an extremely vulnerable state.

Solo's done a lot of bad things. They've let others take the fall when they're the one committing the crime, they've pushed away people who care about them. TECHNICALLY, they tried to murder their abuser by hitting her in the skull with a cast iron pan, but I think that's forgivable in context. Also she didn't die so, who cares. To name a single thing, they probably pickpocketed someone, realised this person definitely needed the money, but still kept it because fuck that other person they've got their own shit to deal with.

🌿 What is something true about your OC that they refuse to admit about themselves? Is there any reason to this besides embarassment?

They refuse to admit they had a horrible childhood. From being a kid of 13 other kids in a cramped trailer, to being sold to a circus that for sure took advantage of them, to be kidnapped by a woman and [REDACTED] for years resulting in the birth of their son, to watching that baby get smothered with a pillow and only managing to revive him after the oxygen deprivation caused a stroke that resulted in cerebral palsy, to being a teenager with an infant on your own running away because you possibly killed the adult that captured you, to developing severe OCD and PTSD as a result of it all. If they admit that it was bad, then they're going to have to deal with it, and they'll have to let go of the few happy memories that they grip like driftwood in a storming ocean.

🌾 What would your OC be like if they were evil. Or if they’re already evil what would they be like as the good guy?

An evil Solo is using their brilliant charisma to work their way into a powerful position of love, adoration and worship. So much so, that it lets them get total revenge on everyone in their life, without facing a single consequence. They can crush anyone who dares to even think about stepping on them or their son, who they basically lock in a box to protect.

Good Solo is super flawed but wants good things. Bad Solo is super flawed and will hurt people to ignore that.

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@techmomma

[theghostlymuse]

Hey so I heard it’s a @techmomma​ borth dang over here?

“Leave it to me. This is nothing I can’t handle with a little civil conversation.”

‘Civil Conversation’ also happens to be the name of the dagger that Kenzie and Flaire and (reluctantly) Bagga and Gaiihl sent good ol’ TB for his birthday this year. Kenzie has personal experience with plotting the downfall of societal rules that are just holding you back and go-getter attitude that comes with being a sword owner. Sassy bastard grandpa man can do a little stabbing, as a treat. Plus, I’ve given Eddy his fair share of arts, it’s about time this terror got some.

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prompted by @techmomma to think about au / character interactions that make/have made me happy...

-just... quiet moments in general (Ed is real good for those), especially if the characters can bond over a shared interest or similar experiences (Tomo and chjorniy-voron’s Hans reading a story together, Altan and crayonmod’s Pisca sharing in each others’ similar-but-different surivival experiences,Piscaa and Mr. Khan cooking, etc)

-local idiots appreciate and support each other while remaining frustratingly blind to the idea that, they themselves might deserve love and happiness too (Ward and Kaj’s Hooligum)

-just.... Boffin and TB being terrible enablers, in either/both directions.  I’m still way too pleased at myself at the image i came up with of Boffin literally turning down someone’s request while not-so-surrepticiously slipping TB hat money.

-judgemental character (TB, Boffin, Ward) either getting a good zinger in on someone who probably deserves it, or alternatively realizing Perhaps I Was Wrong (For Once and Only Once in my Life).  Also reaaal satisfying to see them actually warm up to somebody

-stardeew farmerss i love Saas’ Peppa and Kaj’s Petunia and my very own Jade Who Is A Farmer In This Universe For Some Reason But it Kinda Works.   its just so pure... the festivals, the impromptu sleepovers, running errands for each other, getting caught rooting through people’s garbage like the feral idiots we are

-Someone Please Adopt These Poor Lost Children (anyone running into crayon’s Young Pisca or Solo.  Also applies to theamishpirate’s Sandy and other adults who still nonetheless have become overwhelmed by work/stress/anxiety/whathaveyou and could probably use some help.  Always feels good to see other characters help them)

-??? more stuff probably but that’s it off the top of my head???  really just seein my friends’ characters regardless of context

[crayonurchin]

Tb meets a local street rat druid that sells flowers.

Said street rat is in luck that he can grow the flowers right then are there- a good way to make a few copper pieces.

A gold was NOT expected for one tulip but is HIGHLY appreciated :D

[enderrosa]

@techmomma

oh I tripped I fell I don’t know how this happened

[fanofthedoctor]

So my coworker the other day (totally unprompted) started going on about how muscular women and tattooed women are big turn offs for him. Me thinking that it might be just a preference said something to the effect of "what you don't want a strong woman to pick you up and take you home?" ... With how much of a dude bro he has been I should have known better. He immediately starts in to "ew no she can't be stronger than me that's just wrong" and "no one wants a manly girl." I guess my main point here is if I am ever so insecure in my masculinity that I start talking like that, I want you all to find me and punch me in the face. Please and thank you.