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Can Brawny Leg be the discord mascot?

That would be for the Discord to decide but you're gonna piss off the Brat.

[forumkedis]

Other Other Discord’s mascot is Ghehanaborus, for all the people who didn’t ask

[deancrowleycas]

I hate having banger fanfic ideas. What do you expect me to do? Write it down????????????

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Almost afraid to ask, but what do the male Agib look like?

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If Boo remained in the Khert, would he be safe there? Would he enjoy living in the Khert?

Sure! There are lots of other squishes to play with and eat. It's his natural habitat, really. He'd just miss Sette.

[forumkedis]

He’d be so sad the first time he ate a squish a little bigger than one of his size normally could without that streak of Frummagem tenacity and Sette wasn’t there to be proud

[unsoundedcomic]

Glass! My dream of knocking up Minnow via Sessine shenanigans is ruined :c

Minnow wasn't made to make babies D: She was made to make storms! Go have a hurricane with her, you don't need Sessine for that.

[forumkedis]

Oh I just thought of the most horrific fic concept

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Hey I was wondering— materials like gold and silver actually do exist in this setting, right? Not just as remnants of sender beasts? Does the reputation of the caste influence people’s association with the real metal? Like gold not being as valuable as silver? Or copper being treated as more special than both of them?

That's a good question! Both materials do exist in their base forms but these all are derived from their First forms, so there's a perceived worthlessness to "precious metals" that have lost their pymaric use. Neither regular gold nor regular silver are considered especially valuable, even if they are used for ornamentation. You take a bunch of Earth gold into a pawn shop and they won't even want it. Go take it to the jeweler, they'll say, and you do, and he scowls at it and says you can't even enchant any of it, I'll give you a buck fitty.

First Materials are the precious materials, but it's an interesting situation because they are not only valuable, but they're crucial to the formation of pymarics. They can't be turned into baubles or minted into money. They can be stockpiled and used to measure wealth that way, but it's a volatile standard since FMs are being exhausted and new supplies discovered all the time.

ANYWAY, yes, silver is more valuable than gold when it comes to coinage, but this is because First Silver is one of the strongest First Materials. Sem coins are all plated tin or steel, but they're still referred to as silver, gold, or copper except in Alderode, where they have specific Tainish names for each - doubtlessly developed due to caste connotation :)

I'm trying to remember those names. It was Barque, Fish, and something else, I used 'em in RP... bah, can't remember. I probably won't use them in the comic anyway, it's unnecessary complexity.

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...why am I such a sucker? I have already had my heartstrings mangled with Pant's VERY GOOD, BRAVE GIRL ending, and now I'm fully invested in Chea. She's such a brave wee bean, defending the Queen. I like to imagine Duane* watching this scene in passing from somewhere and then looking up*, 'I GET I was being a jackass. Quit rubbing it in. Jeez.' *or looking wherever feels right. *But not really, because Murkoph shouldn't be near Chea.

Long, long ago when I was first scripting Unsounded, I intended for Duane and Toma to become much closer comrades, and for Toma's eventual reunion with Chea to be catharsis for Duane, who of course never reunited with Mikaila. He'd help get them back together, learn that Crescians are perfectly nice people, here little girl, have this badge I found in chapter 1 to add to your collection, let's all go to Denny's for pancakes.

I dropped all this pretty early on when it felt too tidy. Duane plays his tiny little part here in facilitating this, but mostly it's all Toma and Elka (and Chea and the Queen!). Toma has one final big decision to make, but he had his actual boss battle last chapter against Bell.

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How does Lady Ilganyag stay sane, being trapped in the Khert mostly alone for who knows how long? What keeps her going? Is a sense of responsibility for the mistake really enough? Duane had his faith to keep him going. What does Ilganyag have?

It's important to remember that she's ultimately not human, so her mind was built to withstand the brutality of endless time. It's not difficult for her to do nothing at all but sit unmoving for days, for months, for decades, for centuries.

I think she's made it clear that her primary motivation currently is fixing her mistake, however. She has been very intent on this for a good while now, and will remain intent on it - with a new plan - going forward. If Duane doesn't rotisserie roast her, anyway.

There is something deeper to fixing the mistake than personal responsibility, of course. She sincerely cares for humanity in her own way, and wants to restore the world to how it was, for their sake. The suffering of the dead moves her; she wants to grant them peace. And her true children - all the Settes and Jacarandas - deserve a khert that isn't teeming with misery and chaos.

She did have her secondary goal of putting First Sette back in a body and possibly mending their relationship by returning the First Soul, but that looks like it's gonna be a bust. Maybe next time v_v

[forumkedis]

Reverse ADHD

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Minding that Sessine exists outside in the khert outside time, can her next scheme happen in the past? Well, some time between the Man leaving the khert and the current date?

Sessine is alive so, unfortunately, she is bound to her timeline. She can and does use past and future knowledge she has gathered from the timeless khert, but when she acts outside of it, interacts with reality, she's always on her own timeline.

This will be important later, but only the dead can break out of their timeline. Sette can't, senet beasts can't, even Evil Overlord Matty can't.

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*until after next page, when He Dies.

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Was Duane the kind of dad who would've unironically enjoyed watching Bluey with his kids? I feel like he's got at least a little bit of Bandit in him.

I've never seen Bluey, but I could imagine him intently studying Yo Gabba Gabba or Pocoyo. Or marvelling at the creatures of Sesame Street before Sette strolled by and told him they were puppets and he had to pretend he'd known that.

[forumkedis]

Does Aldish Yo Gabba Gabba have famous opera singers on instead of My Chemical Romance?

[unsoundedask]

Dear Lord Winalils,

What makes a nobleman of Alderode a nobleman, other than wealth and a family tree on moth-eaten tapestry? Does VITS grant titles like the Gefendur priesthood and Queen do in Cresce? Or can one style themselves a noble and eventually make it 'official'

In the hoary old days of peasants and vaosa, kings and things, noble families owned and exploited the land. After the Council War, many of their holdings were seized or forcibly purchased and turned into the ginnals we know today - with some exceptions for the midland fields and kussenna, and a few small cities and towns still under the control of certain private families. You may recognise my name from that of the pleasure-town in southwest Durlyne. My father runs it still. Imagine, if you will, a stormy-browed man whose second century is quickly advancing, whose forelock is streaked with silver like bird droppings down dark glass, nodding along as a spry young renghul proprietor of a gambling den petitions for permission to convert his basement into a high-end Gefendur gastropub serving Younger Twin tartare and scandalous craft sodas made with waters and blood sustainably harvested from stormbringers he keeps in a shed out back.

...I've lost my trail of thought.

Where was I. Otherwise the old families no longer have any particular power. Still, the title looks good on a caling card, no? When taken abroad, it lends one a certain air of respectability. I introduce myself as Lord Doctor Bastion of Winalils in Sharteshane, and the blackguards genuflect like I've come proffering a chilled platter of that tartare.

Aye, I know nobility is for sale in Sharteshane, but that is proper in a country that values wealth more than absolutely anything else. It is admirable they admit it so freely by crowning their richest. The Beadmans paid for their title like a pymary license, and by the Dark Lady's Half Dozen, I say that makes them far nobler than I am.

[versegm]

Literally cannot emphasize enough that my #1 writing advice is to stop being afraid. Stop being afraid of sounding too cringe, or too stupid, or too horrifying, or too horny, or too weird, or too much, or too little, or too you. You need to put your entire pussy into your art. Sure, it won't be to everyone's tastes, but if you keep yourself to the blandest tamest safest roads possible you will be of no one's tastes, not even yours.

[theforumcat]

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[serpenthyne]

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Addilyn Theron // The Lioness of Durlyne

BEGINS VIBRATING OUT OF MY SKIN

My most beloved @amikoroyaiart was kind enough to take on a c0mmission of my Unsounded OC Addilyn, and I could weep over the finished piece. It's perfect, it's gorgeous, it's her. Thank you so much again, Amiko <3

If you aren't already, please read @unsoundedcomic! I cannot sing its praises enough. And there was never a better time to start reading it! We're currently in the midst of updates for the final chapter of the first Book, and this current scene is a doozy.

Now, if you don't mind me, I'm going to be sitting here staring at this for the next eleven hours.

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Corollary, why didn't Sette die? She's small and weak and an obvious target. Has nobody tried to take her life before with seriousness?

Lady Ilganyag's gonna kill her in about five minutes, so I hope you didn't like her.

[forumkedis]

Right after Matty

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Duane's face in panel 5 is hilarious.

He is very happy to see Lemuel, he wants to talk about beating up cops :D

[forumkedis]

Duane Adelier: possibly the last person in this comic I expected to say ACAB, including the two literal cops

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Blue milk?

Farold's is a tea house and Aldish tea is almost always served in buttermilk with some kind of additional flavouring. Sometimes the tea's left out entirely when it's for kids. Farold's signature is rosemilk but the Adelier brothers both prefer elatakh, or viperberry. And tonight Duane's finishing theirs with vodka.