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A Much-Needed Gap
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"The absence of a thing or a person, in the right place or at the right time." Sideblog for fallen london oc posting >:)
Ace (thats my name) - 26 - he/it Follows from @acedefiant
Heya I'm Ace! I made this blog so I can show everyone my fallen london ocs like im a kid at show and tell. I have a degree in linguistics and work as a museum curator. I also draw. Among other things.
Take a look at my guys!
The Prismatic Professor, Mina Azoulai, they/them [Nemesis, completed]
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The Cosmogone Visionary, Riaan Valeri, he/they + feminine terms [Heart's Desire, completed]
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The Obedient Fire-Starter, Norren, he/him [Light Fingers, completed]
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The Faithful Hunter, Bríd Connolly, she/her [Bag a Legend, completed]
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Yvette Solal, any/all pronouns [Heart's Desire]
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The Sequencer Collection:
The Dawnlit Captain, Fleur Trieu / Tag
The Keen-eyed Chemist, Kelly Connolly / Intro ⋆ Tag
💜Send a calling card to Mina
🧡Send a calling card to Riaan
❤️Send a calling card to Norren
💙Send a calling card to Bríd
🩷Send a calling card to Yvette
July update: We (Duo) successfully moved, however our former roommate and best friend is still without a job, and could really use the support to keep her safely housed. She is a trans lesbian and very vulnerable as a result, and her situation may have gotten even more unstable, so while under NO circumstances should you donate if you, the person reading this, are not yourself financially secure, I still have donations turned on on our Ko-fi and all donated funds will be going to help our dear friend keep her head up. I am also linking my Cashapp in case that is easier for anyone.
DM for paypal, or for any details/proof on the situation should you have need of them. I want to be as forthright as possible about these circumstances while keeping my friend's identity and situation discreet for her privacy.
Once again, I cannot express the gratitude I feel toward this community and those who have already donated, truly it means everything to me. Things are still turbulent and we are still figuring out what we are going to do, but the support yall have shared and shown us and me means more than you know. Love you all <3
baby captain born 5 minutes ago in the cage gardens. they don't know what they're doing but they're just happy to be here. zailing sure is fun :3 sure hope everything stays normal for them
design notes since i put too much thought into it:
i tried 1 million different outfits but nothing worked other than big coat big hat. twitch was fighting me
so i figured well if twitch crashes out of the cage gardens with an idea of who twitch is. then twitch knows they want big coat big hat from day one
yes this is just clothes stolen/gifted by various zailors no they have never bought their own coat ever
nothing fits her. rope belt to hold up the pants. pants too big And too short. coat too big and too short. hat falling to pieces
their shirt is literally just a men's undershirt. wildly inappropriate for 1899 but they don't mind. scandalous
15 years in the cage gardens would matt their hair beyond saving so they just cut it all off. badly. no they will not let anybody fix it
they get the glasses from day 1. crucial
if you think 5 year old twitch was bad this twitch is 10000x worse. they came out Swinging. they have not experienced a single consequence yet and their brain is REALLY loud and they are doing whatever they want and what they want is ???????????????. so they're going to try everything at once. and she's having a blast doing it🔥🔥🔥🔥
highly recommend: making that character’s mourning WORSE!!!! make them play pretend with that corpse. make it seem like they’re moving on until they start telling the new person to start dyeing their hair the color of the person they lost and start calling them their name to make it clear that they’re hanging out with this person now to try and make them into the old one. make your grieving character put people in the same situation the person they’re mourning died in and have them hope they die to prove it was unpreventable. make your grieving character put people in the same situation the person they’re mourning died in and have them hope they live to prove that it wasn’t doomed to happened. make your grieving characters actively harm the people around them and the memory of the person they lost. I love you morally dubious grieving characters
realized i never posted any art ive done of my fallen london character so everyone say hi to that doctor, a totally normal doctor who is in no way incredibly ominous and off-putting
So, a bit of a lore primer for those who don't go here: natural law, in Fallen London, is writ by the powers-that-be and enforced via literal light, particularly sunlight. Unfortunately, "natural law" means things like "people suffer, die, and then suffer more after death" and "transing your species is Forbidden and Shameful under celestial law" and "some people will instantly die if touched by sunlight for no other reason than being an 'illegal' species," with the deep, dark Neath being one of the few places where these capital-L Laws hold less sway. There are many more injustices I could get into, but that would delve into the Deep Lore - all you need to know is that a number of people are aware of this, think this is incredibly fucked up, and want to extinguish the stars and cover the world in complete darkness as a way of preventing anyone from ever wielding that kind of absolute, arbitrary power over others ever again.
This movement is called the Liberation of Night - its people are called Liberationists. It's no secret that I hold a special spot in my heart for the Liberation, problematic aspects and all, to the point that if you asked me what my IRL political alignment is, I'm likely to say "Liberationist (of Night)" and only half mean it ironically.
Despite (or perhaps because of) this fondness for the Liberation, I enjoy it when people wrestle with the concept, when they really, genuinely engage with its messiness. This includes things like having characters who are, for one reason or another, opposed to the Liberation even if they are also of the mind that heavenly law is unjust. Or critique of how the Liberation goes about its means - that this movement, so fundamentally analogous to real-world anarchism in its opposition to hierarchy, is prey to hierarchy itself. (That would be the Calendar Council, ostensibly the leaders of the revolution - but its members include an ex-king-turned-luxury-hotel-owner who treats his staff horrendously and a literal nightmare woman who drives her acolytes to suicide.) Or that many Liberationists play into the worst stereotypes of the bomb-throwing anarchist. (I personally believe that nonviolence must be a central tenet of any meaningful anarchist movement - this article explains it better than I can. Obviously, there are times when violence is necessary for self-defense, but it should be seen as an absolute last resort.) Or simply thinking about what a world without light might be like - where reality is a joint creation, where all beings have a say in how their world works, from the forms they personally take to the flow of time and space - and what the inevitable birthing-pains of such a world would be like.
That kind of engagement, I respect a lot. What I don't respect is this particular kind of dismissive non-engagement from a vocal minority of the playerbase. People who won't engage with the concept beyond calling it "stupid" and claiming that every pro-Liberation player or character is a "psychopath." (Mandatory pause here to point out the ableism inherent to this language.) People who say that they "don't want politics in games." (Another mandatory pause here to point out that for many of us, our very existences are political, and it is both privilege and ignorance to demand that stories be "apolitical.") People who say that the Liberation is an obviously bad idea because people are inherently evil and need ironclad authority to keep them in line. (This idea is a construct that has been proven wrong time and time again - read Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell, or if you can handle current events, her discussion of anti-ICE movements in Minnesota and beyond. Certainly, people are messy, and I wouldn't be so charitable as to say that people are Inherently Good under all that mess. However, that the typical response to disaster is compassionate unity, not selfish chaos, does say that we, on the whole, are more than our worst selves.)
And to be quite clear, I'm also rather bothered when enthusiastic young leftists in the fandom (by which I mean players, not characters - it's fun when characters do this) treat the Liberation as the best thing since sliced mushroom loaf. As something that will save everyone and everything without fail, to which ends all means and losses are justified, under which the Calendar Council are our glorious leaders, after which everyone will live happily ever after, and anyone who questions it is either a heretic or has yet to see the unlight - as, essentially, the Rapture, but with darkness coming to save us all instead of Jesus. That way is a dangerous way. That way, applied to real-world leftist movements, leads to things like telling diabetics anxious about insulin supplies during civil war that they should be happy to die for the sake of Revolution. (This is a real thing I have witnessed. It's why I keep the fediverse community at arm's length, despite generally being in favor of fedi's core idea.) But the former issue is more common than this latter one - and thus, I am here writing a 6 AM post where I complain about people not engaging with fictional anarchism Rigorously enough.
Anyway, if you enjoy inversions of the usual "light good, darkness bad" trope and love dark and marvelous worlds that are also monstrously queer in wonderful ways, come join us! Especially if you're also interested in anarchism as a philosophy about building a world without hierarchy and coercion. I'd love to see what more people make out of this premise.
okay, so, before the update, biting mr fires looked like this;
with the shadowy check increasing proportional to your repeat dentistry quality- IE; the more you bit mr fires, the harder this check became, until you literally couldn't succeed at it anymore. this screenshot was taken at the exact point i hit 0%.
but. post update. the option has changed. it now looks like this.
and the new requirement... is this.
and the success text...
this gives an exclusive burden.
i have no idea when this started triggering. i have no idea how this started triggering. i only know that i have done it.
i have officially gone further than anyone has ever gone before.
