Me when I’m an artificial construct and every other construct like me was created as a man but when I gained free will I decided I was a woman and I rebelled against the people who made me and told me what I was and now my body is my own and I made it into art
ok this is seriously cool: An open source alternative to Google docs backed by French and German governments (this part is important because it may assure adoption and usage)
i lost my childhood to not knowing i was neurodivergent and trans - i've lost my early 20s to covid, intense burnout, and anxiety - forever spinning out of control and without the discipline and determination to take hold of anything to find joy in - and to be honest i've had such a privileged upbringing that i'd give up without the comfort that i unfairly live in. houston please advise, am i too boring to write the music that i feel in my blood?
this is like my fourth batch, but i haven't posted any of the previous ones, so let me show off some of the cards from all the batches!
briar and his three mr stoneses! these are the face commanders of the deck. there are alternate commanders that you'll see later, but this is the pair that i like using the most often.
more masters! (and bazaar-aligned entities). all the masters in the deck are vampires, and they also all have the seal of the bazaar as a watermark. just a neat bit of visual clarity, i think!
ocs! incuding mine. not all of them will be able to make it into the deck proper (for deck size and colour identity reasons) but i'm still so happy to have them all.
basic lands: seven of each. these gave me so much hassle back when i made them, but i think they turned out well!!! apart from the edge mountains which are like 70% black.
more lands! a triplet of creatureland which i feel work very well. the rest of them are neat too. whenever i say i have an underground sea proxy in the deck, people give me a Look, but how could i not! it's a perfect fit.
dfcs! the frames of these all had to be done by hand, which always took a while. i still think they turned out incredibly well, all things considered.
more creatures!! some legendary, some not. i made the decision pretty early that if i represent a named character with a nonlegendary card, i'd just cut the "the" from the name (see sallow spirifer and voracious diplomat). i think it works!
and noncreatures!! there's a vague treasure theme in the deck (as can be seen in the fall of london, revel in riches and spirifage (as well as a lot of the creatures)) but honestly most of the cards are flavour picks. still, artificial evolution has gotten me out of some jams. fun card!
aaaand tokens! which is everything. i reckon when i play this deck properly, i'll report back any fun scrapes that anyone's characters get into. like getting turned into a bug, or killing the god of death.
again, thank everyone who contributed OCs or art to this project. i'm very happy to have so many flumblr characters appear in the deck. all of the cards have art credits on them, but some probably aren't visible in the photos. so for proper credits (and as a ping list) i've included a list below the cut:
@alexis-royce: The Ex-Disgraced Academic; Mr Pages; Mr Stones (x2); New Blood.
@anomalouscorvid: Darcy, the Appalling Artist; Furnace Ancona; Mr Transport; May, the Merry Gentleman; The Seventh Coil.
@capn-twitchery: Captain Twitchery Lazaret.
@ciriparipa: Mr Sacks.
@dualclock: Oswald, the Decadent Parvenu.
elena-illustration: M. Melchor.
@esteemed-excellency: Haunted One; Hiram Hargrave.
@feivelynartvelyn: Black Ribbon Duellist; The Carnelian Exile; The Grand Geode; London Ascends to the Stars; Thopter Token; Voracious Diplomat.
u/Galvatyr: Poor Edward.
@hells-dear-heart: Isidore Carter.
@letters-of-fire: Boots the Cat; Giorgione, Crooked-Cross.
@madame-butterfly-knife: Inessa Fonseca, Lyon.
@milleart: Snuffer.
@mledoesart: Mr Eaten.
@oneirotecture: Warden, Scarred Silverer.
@pinchbees: Merry Darthfellow.
Sarah Warrington: Orsino Elderwood.
@shazzbaa: Griz, the Efficient Commissioner; Mr Fires; Stargaze; Tragic Slip; Virginia, Lord Mayor of London.
@sorrow2art: Cardiac Echoes, Spymaster.
StagyTryout: The Avid Horizon
@sunlessveils: Parabolan Kitten.
@tears-n-tarot: Charlie and Artemis Burnet-Lin.@the-insouciant-scientist: Briar Hathaway, the Apologist; Mr Stones; Noman.
@the-masterless-press: Betty Horvat, Pugilist.
@the-noted-collector: Endemannus Korabl'nikov.
@thedeafprophet: Elias Leroux; Harper Faraday.
@thegreatyin: The Bandaged Scoundrel.
@thunder-threnodies: Captain Francis Morgan Dargor.
@torturingpeople: Edison, the Sybaritic Laureate; The Tender Pathologist.
@velvetlinedbox: Doe, Waterlogged Detective.
@viric-dreams: The Boil of Calamities; Drown in Dreams; Horiatio Digby; The Six Finger'd Scrimshander.
@waterlogged-detective: Brett Heroux, Dandy Detective; Marian, Prickly Bluejacket; Namkuzu, Avaricious Meddler.
@yuuuyang: Sigil-Ridden Navigator; Storm, God of the Roof; The Woods in Winter.
@zeebreezin: August Shaw, the Black Rook.
and @failbettergames: Arcane Signet; Artificial Evolution; Beseech the Queen; Betty Horvat, Pugilist (bg); Black Market; Blood Token; The Cave of the Nadir; Censor; The Chapel of Lights; Clothes-Colony; Clue Token; Copy Token; Darkness; The Dawn Machine; Dreamscape Artist; The Echo Bazaar; The Fall of London; Flood of Tears; Food Token; Hecuba, Doomed Obliterator; Hideaway; Hillchanger Tower; The Horticultural Show; The House of Chimes; The Implacable Detective; Inessa Fonseca, Lyon (bg); The Irrepressible Heiress; Island (x7); Jack-of-Smiles; Khan's Heart; Laughable Reconstruction; Miniature Hellworm; Mountain (x7); The Mountain of Light; Mr Chimes; Perigee of Silver; The Prismatic Dowager; Probably a Coincidence; Revel in Riches; Rise and Shine; Road // Ruin; Sallow Spirifer; Salt, God of the East; The Scuttering Company; Shapeshifter Token; Spider-Council; Spirifage; Stone, God of the South; Swamp (x7); Treasure Token (x2); Underground Sea; Venderbight.
the idea that acting against prophecy makes it self-fulfilling or that prophecies will naturally subvert themselves is actually an invention of Big Wizard so that you will become complacent and stop interfering with their equivalent of the stock exchange
i've been thinking about how irrigo and violant work recently. so of course i had to make diagrams about it
i don't think the plaque is like a literal tangible thing like it is on your tooth or in your blood vessels, but it's more of a residue that either snaps the synapses immediately and makes it impossible to reconnect the memory or builds up over time on the synapse and makes it harder to access a memory
"with resistance" in this case refers to someone who uses or has been exposed to irrigo frequently over an extended period of time. it works in the same way as drug/antibiotic resistance does in the sense that your synapses grow more resilient to the effects of the plaque and don't just immediately break. think of it like going from dental floss to rope
i also think violant can provide resistance too - in this way it would more likely cancel out the effects of the plaque and it's like placing a casing over your synapse, but at the same time now you have both a violant casing (with violant being impossible to erase so the casing is there basically forever whether it's effective or not) and irrigo plaque on your synapses so it's not something you can do repeatedly without eventually damaging the synapse and doing something fucked up to your memory
there's also potential for the buildup of irrigo and violant causing toxic shock in the brain in the same way foreign objects do - it's only in a long-term sense and if left unchecked the body will start attacking itself and engaging an immune response to remove the buildup, which will in turn inevitably damage, weaken or break the synapse entirely
the way to treat violant+irrigo buildup is with exposure to apocyan. in essence this has the ability to remove the plaque buildup and the casing, essentially breaking it off your synapses, and can help to heal any damage caused by an immune response or the synapse being freed from the casing and plaque. in this it would return the neuron to its natural, unaffected state, and the pathway would neither have the benefits or drawbacks of using violant or irrigo
Deirdre's Hallowmas fit for @neathyfashioncoalition!
She's dressed up as a banshee, with the signature green dress and the bloody tears, because 'tis the season to stand on a roof and scream like a vengeful ghost. As you do. Maybe the ghost had a little too much though...
[I mostly got inspired by the iridescent beetle wing dress in that one Lady Macbeth painting, as well as some pre-raphaelite artworks in general- the vibe is very much "Victorian interpretations of medieval clothing", it was quite fun!!]
their roots form a ribcage that hides burried scars,
and the twigs underfoot crack like bone.
these pillars of oak bleed sap from open wounds,
and the veins of their leaves gasp for air.
and the shade of their branches shield me from harsh sun,
their embrace warms the wind's gravelike chill.
when i wake, are you with me? the world won't stop spinning.
they're not here. they're not here.
I wish I was a female tiger because then if I was talking to someone and I was getting off topic I could say “but I tigress,” and then kill and eat them because I am a tiger
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