#with MY fiancee's character

[jakey-beefed-it]

In the campaign where I get to be Altanin, my enormous tiefling barbarian, we’re currently attacking the massive Evil Citadel of the Evil Wizard Overlord whose family includes our shadow sorcerer, Tora, played by my irl fiancee. Altanin has developed a crush on Tora, but it turns out that her former boyfriend has been captured by the aforementioned Evil Wizard Overlord and brainwashed- instead of having been killed, like she thought.

As such, Altanin is like “We will find him, subdue him, and deprogram him free him from being in thrall to this vile sorcery.” Because sure, he likes Tora, but she’s his friend first and foremost and this is what would make her happiest. Besides, the guy deserves to have his mind-control broken. It’s the right thing to do.

But Altanin, who just a few months ago in-game broke up with his fiancee because her destiny was to be a Khan of their people on the steppes while his is to walk the earth, casting down cruel tyrants and vile sorcerers (and especially tyrant sorcerers), is now in the position of fighting at least as hard as he always does... so that his current love interest can be with someone else. 

He’s a good boy and he’s being *so brave* about it.

[vernorexxia]

My Ghost Trick Fiancée Design! I really enjoyed looking at references for 90s fashion (my headcanon for Ghost Trick's setting), that was fun. She's a very stylish lady and I like the idea that she's just as tall as Yomiel or taller with boots. She's a graphic designer and a softie (but can hit with a death glare that makes you think otherwise about messing with her)

[metanarrates]

orv scratches that good gamer itch in my brain because i learned about the term "ludonarrative resonance" once in class and now every time i see a mechanic that serves as storytelling fuel i start screeching with delight

[grimm-the-tiger]

My FL main went through some really weird, organic development over the...oh god, I think it's been five years since I started playing now.

So my main is named Skadi Larkin. They are a little bastard. They started out extremely 2D; I named them after my favorite Norse goddess and the protagonist of the book I was reading at the time. I originally wanted to make them female like both of their namesakes, but the second I saw the third-gender option, I thought it was too good to pass up. This is where they got their primary base characterization as a mad scientist who wanted to Cause Problems.

Then I started the Nemesis ambition and forgot which option I'd chosen for who I was trying to avenge, so they lost both their lover and their older brother under tragic circumstances (only the lover was killed by Nemesis's antagonist, though).

Then I got an Exceptional Friendship and had to give my tragic backstory in order to gain entry to the House of Chimes. Skadi pulled said tragic backstory (orphaned in a hansom accident) more or less out of their ass, but it did establish that their parents are dead.

Somewhere down the line, I realized that technically Skadi is a linguist, since the Correspondence is a language, and I made that their profession on the Surface as well.

Around this time, I started working on character designs for my fan comic. I got really into messing around with skin tone, and somewhere along the line thought it would be fun to draw Skadi (who was originally white) with darker skin, and it stuck.

Then I abruptly realized I was taking a lot of options that increased my Melancholy, and almost all of them were based on the Surface. So now Skadi has a longing for the Surface.

I left the game for a few years, but somewhere during this stretch of time, and I don't know how this happened, but I decided Skadi was now Native American; specifically, Metis. I changed their design to incorporate a sash woven in a style characteristic of the Metis, which also added a bit of color to their design (which was mostly black or grey at this point).

During this time, I started incorporating Skadi into my fan comic. This would eventually lead me to actually flesh out their backstory in greater detail. When I started playing the game again, I also created my first alt by total accident (long story), and I decided to weave her backstory with Skadi's.

So Skadi is in the interesting position of being an Indigenous person who is what we'd probably consider Two-Spirit today but they'd just call "Bollocks to that gender crap". They never belonged on the Surface, since the Metis are in a bit of a liminal space compared to other tribes due to their interesting background (the Metis are the descendants of French settlers and Indigenous inhabitants, mostly Cree), and Skadi exists in a liminal space within that liminal space due to only being half-Metis and raised primarily in white culture, although they still maintained a connection to it through their late mother. They also never belonged because no one else on the Surface outside of the communities they already felt isolated from would ever accept them for their gender. London gave them a chance to express one of those, but not both, and despite knowing that the Surface hates them just for existing, they still long to return.

[the-kipsabian]

[sleepinglionhearts]

If you've been playing the new pokemon games and you've run into one very purple/pink boy named Amadis.....

[aleenya]

so the s;g replay is going great

[erinscoolart]

made a stencil based on this digital piece of mine, to see if i can speed up my painting process a bit for the sake of selling stuff idk

done in acrylic paint with the patterns freehanded with a posca

next up will be a rainbow one more like the original digital piece

[fennel-tea-and-nightshade]

Einmal so ein sozial Leben haben wie Eliana Phlox

[transjeffdr]

Some Dani doodles for anyone who remembers I have OCs, she's the fiancee of my "creepypasta OC" Nessa and her ass is CONSTANTLY in danger because of it (well, that and she's a lawyer). She usually appears to be stoic and aloof but she has a goofy side that only shows up when around her loved ones, particularly Nessa who she's been with for around 10+ years. Dani is VERY tired and stressed even when not working.

[gothducky]

It's so funny seeing people shocked I play Fallen London. I've been playing FL since way back when it was in storynexus. I've loved and played FL for over 10 years

I'm just more vocal about it now that I'm not playing alone anymore

[llatimeria]

Just finished The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert (my dad likes to play audiobooks in the car on trips) and I didn't like it much (and there's quite a bit of Yikes in it, because frank herbert and the 1960s in general,) but the aspect I found most interesting was the concept of like. A world's subconscious desire to kill The Other.

In the book an investigator visits a small cultish town in order to investigate it for a market study after a few other researchers mysteriously died. he gets into a frightening number of "accidents" while he's there (like the former investigators) and starts believing that there was a conspiracy among the townsfolk and all of them were intentionally trying to murder him.

tl;dr, it turns out it actually was a subconscious yet intense phobia/hatred they had of The Outside they had as part of their personal traumas, childhood indoctrination into their local cult, and the LSD-like drug they were constantly on. They didn't mean the investigator any harm, if anything they were extremely welcoming, kind, well-meaning people, but this background radiation of fear and rage kept making them accidentally do things to kill him - mixing up insecticide and spices in his food, gas fumes being pumped in his hotel room after a botched maintenance job, a torn carpet tripping him off the railing of the balcony, and Many Other subtle attempts on his life that he just happened to avoid by sheer chance.

But all the townsfolk don't really think anything of it - the town doctor, especially skeptical, "diagnoses" him as "accident-prone" until the investigator begs and pleads with him for days after several brutal accidents in a row, and only then does the doctor start believing him but even then only comes up with the theory that all of this supposed malice towards the investigator is "subconscious" - later shown to likely be correct when the investigator himself, after overdosing on their special drug, "accidentally" shoves his colleague off a roof, killing him, but the investigator physically cannot see it as anything but an accident anymore. it simply doesn't reach his mind that he killed a former friend of his. it was just an accident. he just fell, all on his own.

the idea of A Town That Wants To Kill You, But It's Nothing Personal resonated with me from the perspective of being a disabled person, especially one in a generally welcoming, accepting environment. when you're disabled, not a lot of people will come to you bearing their ableism between their teeth. They'll be nice, insensitive maybe, but nice, and are often outwardly willing to accomodate you. But they also stick out their leg as you're walking along to trip you. They'll apologize, and you'll maybe even believe it, even though to you, from your perspective, it was obviously an attempt to harm you. You excuse it once, maybe twice, but after a point, you realize that this world, this community you have entered, is actively hostile towards you and everyone like you. so you start screaming it to the rooftops. you tell authorities that the world wants to hurt you, but they begin affixing labels to you like "paranoid" or "anxious". they know no one actually has it out for you, personally, after all. that would be ridiculous.

but you still keep getting tripped down the stairs. the rat poison and the sugar at your favorite coffee shop still keep getting mixed up, but only when it's your order. in the hospital, recovering from your previous "accidents", a nurse will still accidentally pump you full of saline instead of medicine.

after a point, doesn't the fact that all of these are "accidents", and that no one WANTS to kill you, just... stop mattering a little bit? Yeah, no one wants to hurt you, but they just keep doing it. They keep making stupid little mistakes. They know everyone like you who has visited their community has died or been seriously injured under suspicious circumstances, but the idea that they, themselves, could be a little bit at fault just doesn't even register to them. they don't even consider that they might have to change their ways in order to protect people like you. After all, you can't prepare for every "freak accident". Even when the solution could be as simple as "stop putting rat poison next to the sugar", every time it happens to you, or a person like you, it's just an "accident", that no one "meant" any harm, and "nothing could be done".

it doesn't cross their mind that a string of unfortunate accidents ceases to be accidents, but serious negligence. it can't cross their mind, because they're not the victims here. they only even begin to acknowledge something might be wrong when the victims are screaming in their face, day after day. even then, they come to the conclusion that even if you're right, and the community does want to kill you because you are Other, they won't immediately see anything wrong with that. To Them, the answer is clear as day: just become one of Them, and you'll be safe. They take care of their own.

[dilebe06]

My Top Male Characters of 2023

[spxnglr]

"Egon may respect Gozer's genderfluid status but it's Peter who reminds them all that their proton packs are rated E for Everyone."

My fiancee's thought upon watching the final bit of GB1 w me.

[tempest-art]

uhhhhh more spotify cover art. i have to color correct some of the tarot cards so you won’t be seeing more of them for a bit until i get that sorted so here’s some hands. half of these are my fiancee’s ocs!

[diagoose]

a disaster-caster-cringefail-bitch and my dnd pc <3

I rolled well for her stats and have not rolled decently since