#the plate. it is full

[luv-again]

ohhh man almost done another 1k words this session and i still need to do a bit more to consider myself 'done' for this point in time. we're at 11k words now. i hate myself. i hate everything. i want to cry. but it's fine

home stretch (i hope). we'll see

[sparrowseagles]

the way Art’s name is spilling over the gap to Patrick’s side on the board... dare i say it...foreshadowing..

[ink-the-artist]

intaglio print based on this drawing

[fsnowzombie]

Armored Lady Monday

today i wanted to draw a big sword, hope you like

check me out on patreon

[caffichai]

Workout Nearl!

[chimerical-daydreams]

It Never Happens Au party portraits lets go!!!!

(designs/extra comments under cut)

I have no clue how level progression actually works in Isat so don't mind the numbers too much. Loop's stats are taken directly from their bossfight though.

Portraits made using kongkrog's isat profile customizer.

The sad man, after getting to a town and buying some now clothes and having a shower. He's still generally melancholic, but cheers up quite a bit. Has a bad tendency to poke his nose where he shouldn't. Too shy to ask people's names when he forgets, so calls them by their titles instead. Big fan of poetry.

Nille! She jumped at the chance to go on an advent with Bonnie, but has mixed opinions on Loop. Very boisterous in conversation , but usually sticks to herself. Uncontrollably observant and with good intuition, can read people and situations very accurately. Figured out that "thinking really hard abou what you want" when crafting leads to a higher success rate (and the smell of sugar, for some reason?), so her creations stick together even when they look incredibly unstable.

[coenubiaseraph]

I've been meaning to redo the ref I made for him a while back, now looking a lot less like a sky: CotL OC, all things considered. This is basically my headcanon for Dark Cacao style and color wise and atp with all the changes I make to him, I might as well call him OC coded *sighs*

[m3dieval]

Gesellsсhaft "Schwert und Rabe"

[sunlit-mess]

Hi! Have you ever heard of the game called ‘Dead Plate’? Just thought that the main characters will look GORGEOUS in your style (i mean, everything in your style is gorgeous, but it’s the other thing-)

not gonna be able to make this HH AU without knowing that game, buddy ^^

[banditblvd]

Bad boys..... Ssave me bad boys..... Oh God oh no.......,,..

uhh

[sysig]

Two skeletons in a trench lab coat (Patreon)

Bonus:

He’s very careful! Everything was fine before you interrupted!

[stignewton]

hi normal rody and other rody and different rody

its been some time since i made anything like this . idk what i was going for exactly as i just wanted to get something cool out

rbs > likes

[montereybayaquarium]

Solmissus aka the diner plate jelly 🪼

Delight in the delicate dreaminess of the dinner plate jelly 🍽♨️

We’re excited to share this glimpse of the fascinating Solmissus incisa a rare and marvelous beauty from the deep sea. As far as we know, this is the first time this species has been exhibited anywhere in the world thanks to the hard work of our animal care and water system teams who were able to recreate the water chemistry of these fragile friends’ midwater habitat. We can’t wait to learn more about them!

[sanhatipal]

HAPPY OZ DAY!!!

I managed to finish, somehow

I don't know how many goddamn hours I spent on this BJD, but it was all worth it because OZ.

[whatsourmotto-whocares]

scenes I can't believe are directly adjacent =

Tommy gets his cake (and eats it, too 😉)

[serpentface]

Retconned Wardi firearms- a basic handgun, a highly decorative ceremonial handgun (belonging to Faiza), and a lance-gun.

Gun tech has officially been nerfed down to hand cannons (press F) (this has been a long time coming but I'd been fallacy of sunk costs-ing myself out of retconning).

Handguns are held similarly to a shotgun, with the butt pressed into the user's shoulder, one hand gripping under the barrel, and the other free to ignite the gunpowder. These represent the most advanced firearms in contemporary usage, both in make and in their use of uniform iron projectiles built to match the gun's bore for greater range and efficiency. Lance-guns are the more basal form, usually larger and mounted with the pole held over the shoulder, and are most effectively used by two people (one to hold and aim, one to light the gunpowder).

The spread of firearms is currently mostly limited to the Eastern Inner Seaway peoples (with some additional distribution via overland trade), and actual manufacture of hand cannons and gunpowder at Significant scale is limited to the region's core powers.

The reason for this limited spread is partially due to specific elements of the technology's history. Gunpowder was first synthesized by Burri alchemists and considered to be the discovery of the legendary divine weapon + solar fire of the deity Inanariya, and its formula (along with techniques for ideally refining its components) remained a closely guarded state secret. It was used predominantly in priestly contexts to generate flame and explosive sounds (in conjunction with earlier practices of generating multicolored flames with use of other chemicals), then integrated into combustible weaponry in the forms of fire lances, which would eventually develop into early handcannons.

The treatment of gunpowder as a guarded sacred or semi-sacred substance continued with Wardi adoption, where knowledge of its making is considered a closed rite. It's name (inya tsatsul or just tsatsul, a derived adoption of the Burri iñazatsūya) still reflects a divine solar association (the Burri word means 'sun's thunder', the Wardi 'inya' invokes the sun, 'tsatsul' is an adapted loanword and has no meaning independent of the substance itself), though its priestly use is now predominantly associated with the firearm'ed Odonii (rather than priests of the solar Face Inyamache). The composition of gunpowder can no longer be regarded as a Secret by any means, though efforts to obscure the methods of its creation are still moderately successful and has kept knowledge of gunpowder manufacture more limited than the total sphere of firearm usage itself.

The actual strongest limiting factor of firearm usage is the rarity of natural saltpeter deposits necessary for making gunpowder. The practice of actively producing saltpeter via nitraries has not been developed anywhere in the setting, and all is instead obtained via natural sources. These sources are rare and limited within the current spread of firearm technology, and result in gunpowder being a limited and expensive substance to produce. The weapons themselves are also very expensive to manufacture (a good quality steel SWORD is far too material-cost prohibitive for most people to own), particularly high quality firearms designed for use with standardized ammunition.

These guns are also very basal, and logistical difficulties in their use (weight, very slow loading and firing speed, high visibility, Relatively low reach and accuracy) along with the restrictive cost of production has kept firearms far from rendering conventional weaponry, armor, and projectiles obsolete (even within the societies that have access to them). They are still, however, very devastating in use within their contemporary context, particularly in that high quality guns have a longer range than the best arrow-based projectiles, and utterly negate most contemporary forms of armor at close range.