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Fey, She/They, 26 About time I made a real blog. Follows from @feycirclesposts

[wind-up-philos]

people like to say "tanking is easy" but its not it's just simplified mechanically because the hard part is the role and not the class. tanking is for real fucking control freaks.

[catwings213]

He is risen

[voidsentprinces]

[onefadingdream]

Ok that one caught me off guard.

[mythiclings]

Accumulated Hiens... it's hard to keep track of what I crosspost where. sorry if there's repeats

[feycircles]

Another commission for @shining-scion, this time of her young wizard receiving a specific phone call I drew earlier this year...

[feycircles]

I think I need to open commissions again. Looking DIRE out there lads.

[lysimachias]

Not "The Character did nothing wrong" or "The Character is irredeemably awful" but a secret third thing: The Character may display moments of deep love & compassion, may even have a strong sense of ethics, and may also be capable of brutal cruelty that is irreconcilable with those traits. The constant tension between the different sides of The Character's nature is exactly what makes them compelling, and attempting to reduce them down to simply "a terrible person" or "innocent & misunderstood" is missing the point of the questions a media with nuanced characters is asking you to consider

[natalieironside]

My position as a militant anti-Santa Claus partisan has historically been very unpopular, but in the more general "it's bad and not good to tell lies to children" space I hope we can all agree that "he's on a business trip with Jesus to afford your blueberry budget" may be the singularly worst way you could tell a kid that her dad is dead

[natalieironside]

#your avarice for blueberries has killed your shitty father

many such cases

[mutationgirl]

(to the tune of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen) Your Avarice For Blueberries Has Killed Your Shitty Dad

[feycircles]

All these people reblogging Miranda and not one of you has let her know if you updated your will yet. For shame. How's she supposed to know if it's okay to [incredibly graphic threat not suitable for a children's game?]

[lesbyterianchurch]

It’s that month again folks! Happy February.

[wizardarchetypes]

like if you have a non-human People in your fantasy story, when you introduce them I should be expected to know nothing about them, right? Like if you say, "this is a People in my completely made up world," there should be required followup to actually introduce the reader to that People, right? And to the context of how they exist in your world?

if a story says, "These are the Elves," but it doesn't have to really get into depth about What Elves Are, Who they Are, what languages they speak, what religions they do (or don't) have, how long-lived they are, what weapons (if any) they use, what music they play, how they dress, etc. etc.

because I as the reader am assumed to already know all of those things based on Elves from other media,

then those aren't really your made up Peoples and characters, right? Those are fan characters of Elves from other stories.

Like???

[wizardarchetypes]

I think at this point if someone says "there are Elves in my story," it's considered fair to assume the reader will Know that the Elves are long-lived, likely the longest-lived in the world, capable of magic, have pointed ears, skilled archers, speak an 'Elvish' language, etc.

And well I don't agree with that assumption. I think you should have to define what it means to be an Elf in your story. Not assume that your readers have engaged with Lord of the Rings or Dungeons and Dragons or The Witcher or whatever and basically say, "yeah my Elves are like those ones. You understand."

[wizardarchetypes]

Like yes. Many of the archetypes and tropes assigned to Elves came from folklore and mythology, which is great. But people seem to think Elves as they're presented in Lord of the Rings and subsequent stories are a 1:1 to their folkloric inspirations, and therefore do not need to be expanded upon, which is simply not the case. They're like, 'oh I don't need to switch up the Elves because Elves come from folklore.' Okay well Legolas isn't actually exactly the man as you'd find in the stories which inspired his character.

Idk sometimes I feel nuts because it's like, if I wrote a scifi story and was like 'oh and there's Vulcans and Klingons in this by the way,' people would be like, 'oh. so does this take place in the Star Trek universe?' and I said, "huh? no. this is my completely made up, original scifi universe. But there's Vulcans and Kilingons.' And then people said, 'okay...can you tell us about them?' And I was like, 'Well you Know. They're like most Vulcans and Klingons. I changed a few things up for fun but they're your basic Vulcans and Klingons,'

everyone would be like, 'Okay. So those are from Star Trek!!!'

But throw a literal Hobbit into your fantasy story and that's fine. That's just a type of guy. You don't need to explain him at all, everyone should know.

[feycircles]

I miss getting in arguments with people about Zenos' capacity for redemption in various Lominsan Locales. I should start doing this again. Meet me on Malboro in 15 minutes for an Amaurotine Style Debate.

(This IS what the arguments boil down to after long enough, with a side of "do you think people are only allowed to try and be better when we personally like them." Yes, these are in character, yes Suzume does sometimes struggle to get along with other Warriors of Light why do you ask.)

(This is a Pro-Zenos post bring my baby girl HOME)

[feycircles]

Your Prisoner - Chapter 1.4 - "After These Messages"

After an accident leaves him with no memories, citizen 34615 is reintroduced to his life in the flawless utopian society of Atlantis. "Flawl

A little piece from my other career, go check out the latest episode of Your Prisoner! I work on this quite a bit alongside my beloveds, but this one in particular is in fact my first (hopefully not last) writing credit for the comic!

I also designed the TV chef and did some of the lineart! It would mean a lot to us if you could give it a show, and possibly even come back and let me know how that "apple" pie turns out, haha.

See you soon!

[theomenroom]

when applied to drinks, "dry" means "without sugar". therefore it follows that sugary drinks can be called "wet". the meanings of the terms "hot" and "cold" when applied to drinks are obvious. thus the aspect of any drink can be determined.

for instance, green tea, freshly steeped and served without additives, is hot and dry, and therefore has an aspect of fire.

a mocha, on the other hand, while hot, is sweet, and therefore wet, and thus has an an aspect of air.

lemonade, which is wet and cold, has a water aspect.

finally, the drink which most epitomizes the earth aspect, being both cold and dry, is vodka

[feycircles]

Everyone is letting me get away with my Sybil Branches. Excellent. Most wonderful.

[moonybamboony-deactivated202508]

you guys gotta stop deactivating your blogs cause you're making it harder for me to go back in a reblog chain to remove the annoying additions

[arlo-maintenanceman]

I reblogged this specifically for the prev tag because it made me feel like I was having a stroke

[feycircles]

The lore behind that caption is I’m actually playing the game for the first time rn and I was laughing about how the early game bosses used to like… seemingly call you up on the phone to warn you about how you’re going to Die For Real because this is a DUNGEON.

My commissioner informed me that goes away and he misses it, prompting me to break out a bad Miranda Impression based solely on what I’ve been told.

Apparently pretty spot on.

[feycircles]

Hey, Wiz-kid! Have you updated your will lately?

Just curious.