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An eclectic blog. I have a backlog of drawings, but I write as of late.

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My fic

AO3 (jonagold): x FFN (Mythendary): x Notes and ramblings under tag "#my fic"

I think my best Symphonia fic is The Goddess Who Bled, and I think my best FE fic currently is Poor Shepherds (my labor of love).

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About me

I like Fire Emblem Awakening a lot at the moment. I also like Tales of Symphonia, Sound Horizon, classic rock, and historical fiction. I like schlock and bad movies, and I liked AI a lot more when it was funny. My image color is crimson. I do not like to bother people, but I am not shy if people want to bother me.

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Finished this in the kitschiest way possible

Also detoured to make a korok charm for my girlfriend (pattern by Craftigurumi)

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On some level I know I should stop poking my fic. But. Now that I can ACTUALLY look at it with fresh eyes I'm sure I could cut out at least 5k words easy.

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I made this gothic biscornu and it makes me so happy!

Can't decide between the gravestones and the red bead as my favorite bit.

I made the chart too, if you want it.

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I don't want to stitch a tactician again, so I'm doing something else for a proper biscornu.

Too busy, too pink.

Too Zelda...

I like the gray, it's like Awakening's boxart, but maybe the red is a bit much?

Nevermind, this is too dull.

Going to stitch this on 16ct gray aida once my supplies come in. It'll be tiny!

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Charles Giraud (1819-1892), Eugene Giraud in his Studio with his Brother Charles and his son Victor, oil on canvas.

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I am the only one in the whole entire world maybe

In seriousness, this was my first time using FlossCross to create my own pattern. I think it has a higher learning curve than I expected. Some of the DMC colors looked good on screen but incredibly strange irl. I changed Morgan's hair twice because FlossCross made it gray (which could have worked, but not with the actual floss it suggested nor any color I had.) Then I left Kjelle's for the very end because a couple of the colors there were VIOLENT neon blues (you can see one in the lance, shield, and Morgan's body). Virion's sprite colors are admittedly way brighter than how he and his kin look in portraits, but I manually picked out a bunch of Dimensions blues from an old kit to use instead. Finally there was a gray in the bodies that I changed because it ended up looking too close to another gray in practice (you can see it change between pictures 3 and 4).

(That said sometimes I fret about Virion's hair color looking bad next to Chrom's, but with the player unit colors they look really good! Also I probably should have used the next frame from the idle animation for Morgan...)

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V. Germain, Chateau Interior, 1834, watercolor, gouache, ink.

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MORGAN: You collapsed during training! I brought you here myself...well, I had help carrying you for part of it, but mostly myself! KJELLE: But...I remember days since I was feeling ill. Entire battles… MORGAN: That was the time you almost collapsed. This time you actually did!

Morgan/Kjelle rewritten S support. Please consider.

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Strawberry camper from LivingOnTheRainbow. This is what led me to learn what a biscornu was by the way.

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I didn't! It's a bit hard to see, but the side pieces are folded over and glued to cardboard backings. You can kind of see this in picture #4. The long top piece has the side edges glued in on itself (the instructions said to use a special glue, but I just used the same clear tacky glue lol)

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I kind of thought the button might fall off. I glued it on per the instructions, but if I was really thinking big I would have sewn it to the felt before sewing the base on. The edge of the base is really the only place to hide repair stitches, which made getting the needle through the bead tricky.

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larger than life

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Strawberry camper from LivingOnTheRainbow. This is what led me to learn what a biscornu was by the way.

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A year or two ago, for my birthday or Christmas, my girlfriend gave me a romance novel with some stock male model with a tattoo mediocrely edited onto his bare arm on the cover. (This was something she had been threatening, and it’s not that I didn’t take this seriously but that I forgot.) It was a fantasy romance published in 2018 before everybody and their grandmother started using a portmanteau, and I’m sure the mentions on the back cover of people who can turn into dragons had no impact on my girlfriend’s decision.

I actually made myself read this. It wasn’t good. It did not improve my opinion on romance as a genre. It had some good ideas for a poisoning subplot, and could have made a really neat fantasy-mystery novella or perhaps even short story if the author wanted, but that wasn’t the book it was. It was one of those books where the perspective switches every chapter not because it helps the flow of the story or conveys new information to the reader, but because the author NEEDS TO SHOW EXPLICITLY WHAT EACH ROMANTIC LEAD IS THINKING AT ALL TIMES. Male friends talked among each other as though they were on Disney Channel and female friends talked as though they were on Sex and the City. The climax was one of the worst I’ve ever seen in a published genre novel. And this made me sad, because like I said, the mystery elements of the story had real promise!

But the thing that really triggered me was coming across a line where the male lead, a seasoned warrior, sees the female lead wearing armor for the first time and thinks about how the “breastplate” is “long enough to follow her hips”. Now if you are a published author in any subgenere of medieval fantasy and you reveal that you don't know what a breastplate is, much less that you never obsessively looked up the names of armor parts in high school so that you could correctly describe what your warrior princess OC was wearing, how can I trust you? I can’t.

(I was thinking about this earlier because I was first thinking about how I threw the word “besagews” in my fic, and one of my readers interpreted it as a “sort of armor accessory”, which isn’t really wrong. I love the word “besagew” and I’m not asking for romantasy authors to know what those are offhand, but come ON.)

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Instead of the pixel art project I've been half-wanting to do for like a year, I'm doing this instead. It feels easier because I don't feel like I need to recolor the outfits.

while I was recoloring the hair I also got the idea for a chrobin family biscornu....maybe I'll do that next