The Crow Bones Chronicles

~ 🦇 Charlie Wilde 🎃 ~ Artist, Writer ~ teller of tales ~ collecter of bones ~ "Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Cesar A. Cruz

[blccded]

I'm so happy to see you back to the IF community I've been following your story since the start! & I can't wait for the demo! Now that you've returned, are there any IFs you are looking forward to personally? Thank youx

Dear anon, thank you so much for the welcome back and for keeping our story in your heart all this time, we're working hard on the demo and bringing our intro back to life! There're so many new IFs we came back to it's hard to name them all, but there's some we're looking forward to as well: @evertidings — When we received a similar ask back in 2021, we mentioned 'When Twilight Strikes', and it's still one of our favorites! An amazing author. @guardian-of-time-if — A super hooking demo, we love Tzesar, highly rec! @neondreams-if — A very new IF, amazing concept and we couldn't wait to play the demo. Big congrats on the well deserved mile stone<3 @suevi-if — Their demo weaves together such a beautifully intricate world and story, always excited to read more! @bloodlines-if — Extremely compelling ROs, can't wait for more! @fateunwritten-if — Unique premise and excellent writing, an all-in-1 @cosmic-writes-if — Incredible customization and exciting plot @if-mirrormine — Beautiful aesthetic and a haunting story, what more can we ask for @woesoftheirwretched-if — So dark and REAL, an amazing cast and concept @spoiledblogif — HYPE WITH EVERY LORE DROP, THANK YOU FOR FEEDING US @night-market-if — Characters have so much LIFE in them, and we love Gabriel @ri-writes-if — Heart wrenching, their words convey MC's turmoil so well incredible @debauchery-if — Tackle a very real concept with a riveting cast and writing! @if-underourskins — MORE RO PROPAGANDA PLEASE WE LOVE YOUR WORK @acatslifeif — On hiatus but super excited for whats in store! @featherofdarkness-if — On hiatus but an incredibly unique mix of concepts & style @oneshot-if — Loved the prologue and looking forward to more! @leoneliterary — An addicting read and an equally addicting playlist, love love love @ataleofcrowns — We've been keeping up for years now, for good reason! @whentherewasatime-if — Very recent discovery, GOLDMINE, you will prevail @bloodandiron-if — Incredibly hyped for the demo, hooking plot, we want to interact with the ROs so badly (EYEING YOU D-6) There's so many more we'd like to mention because all these authors are such inspirations and have amazing talent. The community is seriously thriving, so we'd love to reconnect with the community and support them!

[hobgobknowsbest]

I am 100% trustworthy

[pangur-and-grim]

Belphie FINALLY fits into his extra small kitten sweater!

[yazmati]

Incense beast!!

[rylandsgrace]

This is cinema actually

[alleesaur]

i've always combined the two main interpretations of kobolds as lizards and dogs into one in my head

lizard dog.. log.. or dizard

[alleesaur]

of course of course!! i'm not the only person to come up with concepts like this, i'd love to see more people adopt the idea too!

the nightstalker from fallout nv just forever rotates in my brain, so i draw creatures like this often

<3 love this good dog

[crowboneschronicles]

I wanna play one of those goodest of boys 🥹

[87437732156806533-deactivated20]

I can feel The dryness of those markers in my bones

[the-silent-screamer]

Fun fact those dry markers were supposed to have water put into them to make them work. You take off the bottom thing and pour water in and bam, instant marker success. Only learned about this four years after I’d lost my set 🙃

[bemusedlybespectacled]

WHAT

[a-girl-with-sparkling-lies]

WHAT

[bee-dot-exe]

WHAT

[maximumsunshine]

Hey. Reblog to save some poor kid lots of grief.

[no-lo-lo]

Fucking what?!

[tinydooms]

Every ‘90s child on Tumblr raises their head in outrage.

[justenoughlight]

I just stood up so fast and snatched mine out of my closet brb going to the sink

[justenoughlight]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

[amyreadsandstresses]

OH MY GOD

[brink-of-insanity-georg]

WHAT

[crowboneschronicles]

WHAT?! T^T

[fandomhell97]

So this is the joy Norse Loki feels by lovingly annoying the shit out of people

[viperpaws]

reblog / like / comment if i can spam boop you !!

[ im having so much fun ]

[asjfjldfjkldslkjdfskl]

knock knock it’s odin the death god 

[crowboneschronicles]

So dope 🐦‍⬛

[haaarpb]

the enigma of peaches

[deadhaven]

Have you learned enough yet, Allfather?

(motif designs originally by Jonas Lau Markussen; redraw of this)

[lizormianillustration]

but i wonder where you are, i call your name into the dark.

[pothosrays]

crow 703

[friendshiptothemax]

I was on a plane this weekend, and I was chatting with the woman sitting next to me about an upcoming writer’s strike. “Do you really think you’re mistreated?” she asked me.

That’s not the issue at stake here. Let me tell you a little something about “minirooms.”

Minirooms are a way of television writing that is becoming more common. Basically, the studio will hire a small group of writers, 3-6 or so, and employ them for just a few weeks. In those few weeks (six weeks seem to be common), they have to hurriedly figure out as much about the show as they can – characters, plots, outlines for episodes. Then at the end of the six weeks, all the writers are fired except for the showrunner, who has to write the entire series themselves based on the outlines.

This is not a widespread practice, but it has become more common over the past couple of years. Studios like it because instead of paying for a full room for the full length of the show, they just pay a handful of writers for a fraction of the show. It’s not a huge problem now, but the WGA only gets the chance to make rules every three years – if we let this go for another three years and it becomes the norm? That would be DEVASTATING for the tv writing profession.

Do I feel like I’m mistreated? No. I LOVE my job! But in a world of minirooms, there is no place for someone like me – a mid-level writer who makes a decent living working on someone else’s show (I’d like to be a showrunner someday, but for now I feel like I still have a lot to learn, and my husband and I are trying to start a family so I like not being support rather than the leader for now). In a miniroom, there are only two levels – the handful of glorified idea people who are already scrambling to find their next show because you can’t make a decent living off of one six-week job (and since there are fewer people per room, there are fewer jobs overall, even at the six-week amount), and the overworked, stressed as fuck showrunner who is going to have to write the entire thing themselves. Besides being bad for me making a living, I also just think it’s plain bad for television as an art form – what I like about TV is how adaptable it is, how a whole group of people come together to tell a story better than what any of them could do on their own. Plus the showrunner can’t do their best work under all of that pressure, episode after episode, back to back. Minirooms just…fucking suck.

The WGA is proposing two things to fix this – a rule that writers have to be employed for the entire show, and a rule tying the number of writers in the room to the number of episodes you have per season. I don’t think it’s unreasonable. It’s the way shows have run since the advent of television. It’s only in the last couple of years that this has become a new thing. It’s exploitative. It squeezes out everyone except showrunners and people who have the financial means to work only a few months a year. It makes television worse. And that is the issue in this strike that means everything to me, and that is why I voted yes on the strike authorization vote.

[neil-gaiman]

I explained this to a young writer recently. They could not understand why the WGA might go on strike, and worried that it would hurt younger writers.

They had worked in TV for 4 years, been on 3 major TV shows, primarily in “mini rooms”, had their name listed as cowriter on one broadcast episode and had never been on set for any of their shows. Had never seen anything they wrote being filmed. They knew next to nothing about the actual process of getting TV made.

I explained that we weren’t going on strike for people like me, we were going on strike for people like them. Because we need more writers to be there, to work their way up. We need a generation of showrunners to take over from us, and to, I hope, have an easier time of it. We need the young writers to be properly paid, not to be on a six week writers room once a year, and a crack at having their names on a script.

Their reply: “So they are basically asking for all the things I could have really done with in the last three years”.

I said, yes, and sent them a link to the WGA pattern of demands, as I link for you now:

2023 Pattern of Demands

The Pattern of Demands is a constitutionally-required statement of general objectives for the MBA negotiations.

[angel-ponders]

It shouldn’t be surprising that writers have some of the best strike signs in existence

[kauriheart]

Can't stop thinking about muntjac deer. See the thing with muntjacs is that they have these large scent glands below the eyes and on the forehead, and they use them to mark territory. Many types of deer have the glands in front of the eyes (pre-orbital) but muntjac are unique in having forehead glands (frontal). Here's the video I saw. There's something really unsettling about the idea of an animal being able to like. Open it's face. Idk I think it's madly creepy but it's like a perfectly natural thing for the animal to do. It just looks scary.

[leupagus]

Oh it gets so much worse! They have FANGS

And it also has the least chromosomes of any mammal. This deer is old as fuck and also gives no fucks. It'll open its face and EAT YOU.