Hi, I'm Ainsley or whatever else you want to call me. I'm 21 (as of writing this in 2025, indubitably I shall forget to update it) and use any pronouns. My interests include biology, art, fursuiting, and Fallen London (I'm sure nobody guessed that one). I'm a little socially awkward but I don't bite. My main is @redtailcatfish, it's kinda spammy.
DMs, asks, fanart, etc are all extremely welcome! I LOVE talking about my OCs. Just please don't involve me in discourse, call-outs, etc as this blog is intended as sort of a safe space for me.
FL accounts:
My only account right now is Arilus. Feel free to send calling cards, assassinate me, or what have you.
Tags:
I think my tagging system is fairly intuitive (when I remember to use it lol) but for completion's sake I'll give a brief overview.
My OCs are tagged by their alias if they have one, just their name if they don't have one. All OC tags are at the bottom of this post for your convenience.
non-oc content is tagged '#general lore discussion' but honestly I don't like that tag name so expect it to change.
Canon characters are tagged with whatever they're most often referred to as unless I arbitrarily decide I want to tag them as something else, and also generally tagged as #canon characters.
In general, I'm not going to add content warnings other than spoilers for any canon or canon-adjacent content unless there's a CW in-game, such as for parts of Evolution. I don't expect to be posting anything particularly racy, but sexual humor/imagery will be tagged with #nsft.
FL Characters:
under the cut for your sanity
ohhhhh boy here we go. These guys are not in any particular order, but Carlotta is arguably my main OC/FLPC.
Carlotta Linnea Tebrick
Alias: The Transmogrified Naturalist
Carlotta was cast out to the Neath after a strange encounter resulted in her waking up with the face of a fox. She is slowly transforming into a fox. Her body hair is becoming coarser and gingery, her nails are sharper, and her personality is becoming more impulsive and aggressive. She spends much of her time in the Neath trying to reverse this process, but she has also been caught up with Revolutionaries. She spends a lot of time in her University Laboratory and takes interest in the Shapeling Arts and Red Science. She has a bit of a laudanum problem due to her constant nightmares
Edith
The Tattooed Rat
A surly Rattus Faber mechanic with an impressive array of tattoos. Who in their right mind agrees to tattoo a rat?
She primarily works maintaining Carlotta’s zubmarine. Carlotta doesn’t pay the best, but she’s a nice girl, and the Tattooed Rat struggles to get hired by more respectable folk. Carlotta also lets the rat say at her lodgings when the weather’s not good.
Master Shades
It needs an actual ref but this'll do for now
Mr Shades was formerly a Master of the Bazaar, but defected in favor of revolution and the Liberation of Night due to a Name. It keeps the title of “Master” both ironically and out of habit. It wears a simple dark grey/black cloak.
It knows the Name, but the other Masters used Discordant Law on it to prevent it from speaking it. It encourages young revolutionaries to seek the name. It appears not to remember what happens to them when they do.
Master Baits
I'm only a little bit kidding
Mr Baits is the Master of the Bazaar in charge of Unterzee fishing, fishing supplies, and boats. It functions somewhere between a game warden and a mafia boss. It is elderly but more spry than it looks, and it can often be found performing spot checks on fishing boats to make sure that all fish are of proper size and all supplies were purchased legally (from Baits!). Most Londoners struggle to to take it seriously for obvious reasons, but if you had to choose a Master to hang out with, Baits is certainly one of the more pleasant ones. It is cordial but not very talkative unless you would like to hear about fish.
Stargazy Pie
what the hell is that
Nobody is really sure what this thing is. It's believed to belong to a group of urchins. It uses its robotic arm to pick pockets and steal people's Rubbery Lumps.
The Rubbery Proprietress
Info TBA
Name TBA
Character is themed after the old west. Monster hunter, possibly devilish. I intend to run Bag a Legend with them and probably Seek as well.
Something has been seen stalking the streets of London this Hallowmas. Some say it's a new Master. Urchins swear it glows like candle flame.
It might read your future in it's cards it you want to. Just know you might regret asking for a read.
... Is @neathyfashioncoalition doing a Hallowmas edition? Does it count when it's not really a costume?
"I asked chatGPT--" well I asked master pages and it called me "a fooludicrous little solicintruder" and told me to "begone from [its] visage before [it] eviscerendered me"
Hey y'all, uh, know how your captain lost his eye, right...?
Fallen London has a few recurring events, one of which involves a bomb run that accidentally awakens an angry zee creature... but THIS time had a SURPRISE TWIST of instead awakening A FLEET OF SHIPS OVERTAKEN BY EYE-STEALING SPIDERS that have amalgamated to pilot them and menace London's waters.
Samuel is doing so normal and fine thanks for asking
Jonathin Doe (who *has* spelled his name correctly, thank you very much) is a normal human man in his early hundreds and definitely not an empty diving suit that walked up out of the zee one day. He's exactly five feet tall, and absolutely hates social situations, which is a problem as that's half his job, being a detective and all. Any anomalies in his person can be chalked up to the fact he's from the United States of America, and no other reason. People from the midwest are just Like That. (Right image is what he looks like, left is what he thinks he looks like.)
Darcy Middleinitial Doe would like to remind you that he's a doctor and has his license to prove it. Probably. This tomb colonist loves to party, and to take people apart piece by piece. Sometimes he even puts them back together again! A former resurrectionist and current dead man, you won't find anyone more experienced in being an asshole than this doctor. Hedonist at heart, and mysterious of age, Darcy loves to start fights about absolutely everything and will die on any hill. Enrichment!
