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Look, that thing you want to do? Stop being a weenie and just do it.

Bottom images are from here.

Hey, kids - I see this post making the rounds again, and I’d like to add some additional thoughts that I’ve gained in the 5+ years since originally making this post:

When I originally made this dumb comic in 2013, I was a Graphic Designer for a Radio Station in Ohio. As of this writing in 2018, I am a Storyboard Artist at Warner Bros. Animation. I am now one of “””the professionals””” referenced in the third image. And let me tell you:

…I am still making things up as I go.

…I still don’t have character turnarounds.

… I have… some worldbuilding done. Not all of it, though. That’s going to be a permanent work in progress.

…Making the comic is the character study/studies.

…I am still convinced I’m not working hard enough.

…You will never, no matter what you do or how far you go, ever feel like you’re completely ready to do something until you actually do it.

Trust me. I’m a professional.

bludragongal

Coming at you again from the year of 2022 and working for Disney with an update: it’s all still true. I still have no idea what I’m doing. This is getting ridiculous.

But seriously: the second you free yourself from the expectations of perfection you will suddenly be overleveled for many of life’s challenges.

bludragongal

Its 2025 now. No changes to report. As you were.

lordlawson

Also boobs talk on the dash, Hattie technically binds their chest? At least until they get a means of chopping theirs off so unfortunately they would have bumfuck nothing to contest.

And if anyone tried to sneak a peak they'd get shot in between the eyes.

lordlawson

Honestly, food for thought. 🤔

Though I fear someone with knowledge of red science could use that kind of power for nefarious purposes.

lunar-insanity

The Storming Detective: Normally I would say use the Shapeling Arts but since we are specifically talking about Red Science and transference...

Theoretically it would be possible, the question is would you need a single sigil, or two to mark who the giver and receiver would be. Then one must consider the safety of such an act since these sigils are likely to burn if poorly done... the specific wording needed...

The theory is there, practice is another.

#Def-Not-The-Gazette #I'm sorry but Detective would absolutely throw in her two cents due to being a Correspondent and thus working with RS all day

johnnyfoursandco

Hello, I decided to make an OC-tober board specifically for Fallen London OCs! I do apologize for not getting this out sooner, but please feel free to participate in your own time and have fun with it. I know my own participation will not be perfect or entirely timely, so don't feel pressured to do more than what makes you happy!

Even after October is over, feel free to tag me in whatever piece you've made that was inspired by the board above, or use the tag 'neath-tober', I would love to see it and go crazy in your notes.

#didn't know this existed till now!#This gon be good! I think I'll do them even if October's over

lunar-insanity

WE HAVE ARRIVED AT STATION VIII!!!

lunar-insanity

Excuse me I need to call up Otto Mentalis from Psychonauts 2, I need to know if he's ever been to the Neath.

#fallen london #def-not-the-gazette #the storming detective #//Whistles to the PN2 fandom #My brain made the connection to the Distilled Emotions like #You see the vision yea? Just that here we're using colours from the Neathbow and //squints// Books.

WE HAVE ARRIVED AT STATION VIII!!!

#fallen london #def-not-the-gazette #the storming detective #FINALLY #THIS WAS MY GOAL #thank fuck oke now we can move on #I got a factory to build up an break into

Hi I started playing Expe 33 a lil bit ago and--

#expedition 33 #expedition 33 spoilers #I dont know how this happened man just started doing the do-see-do round Maelle #I have a second video it's a close up but tumblr says only 1 per so hold on

My Detective who recently got married to The Roguish Semiotician and the Infamous Mathematic, and this trio also has her boyf-partner The Sun-Kissed Polymath: ... I wouldn't object If that was the case.

#fallen london #Def-Not-The-Gazette #the storming detective #look she has a competency kink #Detective really appreciates someone who knows wtf they're doing and a brilliant mind to wit #Yes the poly relationship also involves the Sunkissed Polymath I WANTED HIM INVOLVED OKAY THEY HAVE FUN TOGETHER #Also yes i've been journalling finally >:3 #Detective's got a railway to run but by god she is gonna find where the fuck Furnace is

Fallen London Character Progress Update:

The Storming Detective: BALMORAL HAS BEEN REACHED! Currently following up on rumors of Cornelius, then we make for Station VIII. It's so close now. I have three big experiments saved up for the next Watchful gains, come on!

'Marvel': 19 Levels away from Persuasive 200, currently at 15 Poet Laureate. He is also pissed as all hell that he's failed the "Pursuing a Case of Books" check 3 times now and has to wait around for cards again.

The Achromatic Constable: Currently having his turn in Parabola doing hunting. He's a little too acquainted with Insanity tbh (had many stays in the Royal Beth early on) (Still trying to figure out what could be his big character turning point)

#fallen london #Def-Not-The-Gazette

immaplatypus

man this new notes/reblog/whatever system is. actually infuriating

inevitablyuncertain

someone made a fix https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dashboard-plus/

immaplatypus

MARRY ME

#holy fuck thank you #my muscle memory was VERY unhappy

rainrein

you are the latest incarnation of MYOSOTIS, a greater chain being that has gotten cursed to either 1) die or 2) forget or 3) forget and then

hey friends can you escape the myosotis incarnation curse . #youcanrememberipromyyyyy i know you can do it!! winky wonk try your hand at it. tell me who you get too

lordlawson

the sand subsumes all

When you return to the Surface, you begin to walk. You use your weapon to guide you, at first. You told him: I will spare you the pain of seeing me forget. But it does not spare you. You walk until you bleed, you walk until you forget. You last for longer than most, walking on, and on, and on--pieces, fragments, wisps and winds and gusts of memory escaping you. Sometimes people find you, and you beg them to remember your name. Sometimes they do. Most don't. The last person you meet is a young traveler, and though you are not old, he thinks you are old, and weary, and when he asks you for your name, you cannot remember it. When you lay down, the sand consumes you, piece by piece. You are subsumed: memory and all.

lunar-insanity

diet: hemlocke, foxglove, and honeysuckle

They said your veins were as cold as your homeland, and for once, you wished what they whispered about you was true. When they imprison you for your breach of knowledge, place you in your prison of whispers, for daring to break through their veil of ignorance, you are sure that some like-minds of your caliber will come to help. They do not. So single-minded, so fiery in pursuit of knowledge, but so cold when it came to your peers. When they come to your prison, and you assume they will help, they press a chalice and a bowl of soup into your hands. You drink. Your name is in shame, your accolades and renown destroyed when you are not there to salvage it, paralyzed in your cell, only able to beg with a heavy tongue for water. You almost wish you could forget what they did to you. But in the end, you die for what you dared to learn. But you would do it all over again, if you had the chance to.

#Tried for my Detective and yea #Her pursuit for knowledge; that ever-hungry ever-unsatiated curiosity #Would probs land her here

So.

I got Stormy-Eyed last night. Today I get up, do some dockers brawls, check my cards, AND I GOT BLASTED WITH SEEING IN APOCYAN AND HAUNTED BY STAIRS

The Dreams just said "HERE HAVE ALL THE THINGS"

#fallen london #the storming detective #my girlie really just haunted by the nightmares

Real question guys

How would I make a reanimated skeleton character in FL.

We can build skeletons yeah but now I want that fucker to walk n talk and be a proper character.

Could you bind a soul to a skeleton somehow, use enough red-science or correspondence (without the skeleton bursting into flames) or shapeling arts to re-animate it?

I wanna know because I think a talking skeleton character would be really fun to make

#fallen london #I mean considering the stuff going on in the Sanatorium #Those guys could look decently skeletal #pull a reverse devil thing and BIND a soul to a skeleton

So my second PC for FL was meant to be the opposite of The Storming Detective. He's half behind her in terms of progress, so he's still not due for a reference.

BUT! Thanks to a friend, I do now have an idea for some interesting bits to him. And it involves Glasswork, and the Nadir >:3

#fallen london #am I going to bend what Glasswork and Irrigo does? yes.#Is it going to be fun? absolutely >:3 #This PC's epithet is 'Marvel'#Put in the same time as Detective... He probably got less knowledgeable people who asked for a sponsor on an expe to the Nadir.#February couldn't get Detective to spill. And now Marvel similarly can't lol

lordlawson

What's the next goal, boys?

An Invisible Eminence

A Shattering Force

A Legendary Charisma

An Extraordinary Mind

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Voting ended onSep 30, 2025

lordlawson

Alllright, now what's the best way to grind for shadowy??

lunar-insanity

Alright so how do you feel about grinding money for a Weasel of Woe

#fallen london #I say as across three different characters my lowest stat is always Shadowy #Take what I say as a suggestion xD #BUT! You could do some woeselling #I learned this on the discord when I was trying for Extraordinary Mind #You get the Woesel #You find a storylet that doesn't give you menaces #and then spam that #Worked well for doing Dangerous too since i got 4 cp each time

Different pc SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW I LOST AN 80% CHANCE TWICE AND HAD TO USE UP A SECOND CHANCE

This pc specifically has the weirdest luck. He fails checks like these and yet wins the 50/50 on robbing the brass embassy when I WAS TRYING TO SEND HIM TO JAIL

#fallen london #This character I've dubbed The Achromatic Constable #Seriously I had to rob the brass embassy upwards of 5 times before I failed finally so I could meet the dang Forger.#CONSTABLE WTF MAN

Just dropped like 1k echoes in buying the Parabola suits JUST to use em on Base camp. And now I need like 11 rookery passwords

Whyyyyyyyy i cri lol

At least grinding up moon pearls for echoes goes hand in hand with grinding Poet Laureate

#fallen london things

lordlawson

Actually depending on how you interpret it all

Attar, becoming a Lyon or making a deal with the Fingerkings, Seeing in Apocyan or Stormy-Eyed, even the bloody hands you get as a member of Those Who Will Not be Caught Red-Handed.

You'd probably be near unrecognizable in Parabola. At least if Attar is even visible there, not sure if it sticks around besides in Arbor. But think about it.

#fallen london #Lune's reflection is an anthromorphized Storm Bird in a Belstaff garuntee #Considering what reflections of people can look like #You could be a tree or a swarm of bugs in Parabola #It's when you look the exact same that maybe you should be a bit worried #To me at least --looking over at Gebrandt's reflection--

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