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Obligatory pinned post!

About

Howdy, I'm Tom (he/they) - this is a Fallen London sideblog, so I'll end up following you from my main @jaxdaws.

Listen. I'm gonna level with you guys. Unmitigated 100% unapologetic batfucker. Okay? Okay. They're awful. I adore them.

Characters

Rowan Fairchild | The Orphic Polymath | he/they/it | Heart's Desire - Bio

Tags: #oc: rowan fairchild #the orphic polymath #answers from the desk of the orphic polymath

Augustine Finch | [placeholder] | he/him | Bag a Legend! - Bio

Hopestill Carrington | [placeholder] | she/her | Nemesis - Bio

Mercy Harrow | [placeholder] | they/them | Light Fingers - Bio

Other Stuff

I'll put anything else that shows up frequently enough to have its own tag here!

#forcibly redacted by the ministry of public decency - This one's where the unhinged thoughts go. You know the ones. The nsft ones.

#FLPC QotD - As I'm working through character thoughts I'll format them with a blank rebloggable 'question of the day' in case anyone else also wants to answer these questions for their own OCs!

#administrative matters #pinned

a-fiendish-ideologue

Hey Fallen London guys. Tag this with your favorite FL NPC.

#JUST ONE????????????????#GOD.#it's mr spices.#don't get me wrong! I love Pages sooooooo much.#but there's just something about Spices' perpetual >:/ energy and short aura and divorced vibes that are like crack to me #like I could cheat and say “the masters of the bazaar” like they're all inherently part of the same organism #an original Do NOT separate if you will #but that would in fact be cheating #the truth is that I love the shitty loser bat MILF

feeling normal about veils again

I have so much stuff I want to write but what I think are coherent thoughts do in fact just come out as animal barking and snarling

#also writing from veils' pov is sooooo much different than writing it from rowan's pov

littlegumshoe

had to draw a lil tender embracing

#aaaaaaaaa

solsticeofever-light

Day Nine: Accept his heart and lights

Curator Veils

Beggar’s Wake

You might assume The Bazaar simply Does Not "Get" Humans in the way many other alien/vast/ancient/cosmic entities in Fallen London struggle with. That The Bazaar views humans as ants, purely lesser beings, that she struggles to understand their emotions and why they are often angry about the whole 'buying a city and all the people within, exploiting them, and grinding them up when she's done'.

But! Here's the thing. This is not the case, and that's worse :)

I think on some level The Bazaar does struggle as an alien entity to fully relate to the human experience, BUT, it is rather key to her grand ambition that she very much recognises and understands the value and power of human lives and emotions. The Bazaar is taking the love stories of people she has acquired and she sometimes killed and using it as the ink to write a forbidden Message to save her beloved. The stories must be true. A single story could matter as much as a hundred. For this to be possible the Bazaar must be capable of seeing human love stories as parallel to her own emotions— that's exactly why they're so important!

But The Bazaar has an ambition, and won't be stopped. She's torn off parts of her body, broken so many laws, bought a lobotomy, learned forbidden science— the Bazaar knows people are people, but it will not be stopped, because it is very much in love. Millions of deaths is a small price to pay for that one life.

#ngl this always raises the philosophical questions for me.#because if we assume she's correct and the sun will die..#that means the extinction of all surface life.#you can make an argument that therefore her actions are justified BUT #that's not why she's doing it!!!#so now the question is: are her actions justified if it ultimately saves all life on Earth even though that wasn't her intention?#que philosophical debate over outcome vs intent and the role of consent and autonomy etc. etc.