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If I can figure out how to pin this, an attempt at organizing my tags and keeping track of the exact wording

new: art adventures - rambling about process and techniques and stuff that isnt an actual art piece but is related.

People peopling - when humans are just being goofy doing people things.

Faith in humanity - stuff to counteract the feels that people are all awful

Weird art - this is a compliment. It stood out to me in a way that makes me want to save it so I can find it again and have thoughts about it.

Comment - i have reblogged with a proper reply

Tags - i have left a comment in the tags

Recc - something has twinged and i might look this up later

Laugh RULE - stuff that makes me laugh

Cat TAG - cats being cute and funny. Try not to mix these up.

Nona save - this is saving nona the ninth spoiler material for someone who hasnt read it yet.

Ambition - this is super cool and i maybe want to learn how to do this sometime

Decorate - like moodboard of cool shit basically?

Worldbuilding - this is a fun vibe, keeping it for creative works moodboard. This does not mean im gonna steal your fic or art or whatever, its just saved for maybe later going into the percolation process.

Mine - original post.

I think thats the main ones.

New one: soapbox. For when I realise Im suddenly standing on a soapbox and have been for some time.

Art ref/art resource/resource

Internet resource

Ao3

Job interview/job interview tips

#mine #tags #pinned

tanoraqui

I love how Lash, the actor who played Vokjan Murzat, is just an NPC. He's not even a significant NPC - he's had probably the fewest appearances and lines of the named characters in Hal's troupe.

And yet! He's arguably THE significant figure in the ritual liberation of ancient orcish souls on KoTher'ai's opening night! As a player, Liam/Halandil rolled "Producer checks" to see how well he'd readied his whole cast and crew for this, but by all reason Lash was also rolling the Performance check of his life. He and all the other troupe-members were rolling, oh, Wisdom saves to not be intimidated by the Creed luxes in the audience. None of them know they're making an enemy of House Tachonis by freeing an afterlife with this, but they DO know they're making an enemy of House Halovar, which is a much more imminent threat - and every one, stage crew and special effects team and actors with Lash leading as the Heretic, the Renegade, of KoTher'ai - is still here rolling their best Performance checks to say, We are the Rungjani and this is our story. Now we are free, and we will continue to free ourselves and each other.

Because a rebellion isn't, can't be, just 13 significant characters. It's 350 soldiers who believe in a cause but still need to feed their families, so you get a donation and set up discreet soup kitchens. It's a theater troupe of renegades, it's the Faerie diaspora living in the shadows, it's maids and merchants and noblewomen all picking up their rocks. It's ancient Elvish enemies talking in the woods together. It's all of us. It's everyone.

Primus Tachonis is fucking quaking in his designer bone-tipped boots.

utilitycaster

Making this mostly for personal reference but it may be useful to others:

Leveled up in 4x27: Murray (gems), Tyranny (knife)

Leveled up in 4x28: Thaisha (Thjazi's grave/Calling the Corners)*, Wick (return of the prodigal son), Azune (Einfasen meeting), Vaelus (conversation with Hannan)

Leveled up in 4x29: Occtis (touching the veil), Hal (KoTher'ai), Thimble (protecting an ally so they can go forward into the Reaches), Kattigan (finds the sorcerer).

Still level 4 as of the end of 4x29: Bolaire, Teor, Julien

*initiated by Aabria - the rest of the Convergence level-ups have been Brennan declaring them level 5, but as Aabria did not level up Thaisha during the Seekers arc she was able to level up here. This is not a bad thing and honestly it fits the pattern for this episode (see below), just an FYI.

Episode 4x27's level-ups are both item-related but ultimately more about realizing a particular interest or calling that also ties back into their nature. Murray is from a gem merchant family but her interest and goals have always been in the realm of the arcane, and these gems, which allow magic at a distance, combine the two. Tyranny is a demon and her purpose is to cause harm, but the knife is a means of channeling that productively, to cause harm to those who have harmed others.

Episode 4x28's level-ups are about facing a difficult but necessary conversation, and at least attempting to make a connection. Thaisha's is regarding Thjazi and also I would argue nature/the world itself with Calling the Corners. Wick's is with his grandmother, Azune's with House Einfasen, and Vaelus's with Hannan. I think all of these also represent a certain degree of honesty with one's self, even if Azune and Wick are very much lying to others.

Episode 4x29 is a complicated one - you can draw a very clear line between Occtis, Kattigan, and Hal in terms of realizing a long-term goal (comprehension of his family's magic; finding Marienna's killer; dedicating the former Dithyramb of Azgra as a theater) but Thimble doesn't quite fit in that. Now I will admit on a meta level that Team Birdwatch - which was entirely level 4 at the start of this episode - is going to be combat-heavy, so your best bet is to make something of a combat triumph rather than waiting for an ideal RP moment. But I also think these are all borne of risking one's self for someone else. Occtis levels up when he touches the veil to protect Thimble from necromantic magic. Kattigan finds Primus because he ran into the aspirants' trap to help Teor. Hal puts on the play despite knowing it might bring down the Candescent Creed on his head because he believes it is what's right for the city and especially for the Rungjani and for Thjazi's wishes. And Thimble risks her life for Julien, also in the service of Thjazi's goals.

#iiinteresting #what the likelihood by theme by epi is planned ir if it judt shook out thay way

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Fanart

kerosene-in-a-blender

Kattigan, man who lost his daughter in extremely traumatic circumstances was just stuck in a sack listening to Primus being like: "Yeah I killed my son, what of it?"

Kattigan was ruined for years. Primus is clearly only emotionally disturbed by the idea that he shot his alliance in the foot.

dol-makjarcoffeehouse

I just want to make a quick note about this before people get too silly about the situation. It's very important to remember that Robbie is Native American, and is putting a lot of work into making sure that Kattigan has indigenous cultural touchstones as part of his characterization. And that is the appropriate lens through which we should view his missing and murdered wife and daughter, I think.

I would be reluctant to use fridging in this exact context, because this isn't some imaginary scenario to generate manpain for a white hero, this is a much more common experience of Native American and First Nation people, having their wives and daughters and sisters (in particular, but not exclusively) go missing. And never getting answers, never learning what happened, and not being believed that there's a problem in the first place.

This is like how being rescued from a tower by a prince is not particularly empowering or affirming to cis physically able straight thin perisex white women and girls, but can be for basically anybody else. Particularly black girls and women, who do not get a lot of cultural messages that treat them as people who are so valuable and precious, who may not have the strength to save themselves, or may wish that they didn't fucking have to save themselves (and everyone else) all the time.

White men have this story so often happen that we have a trope name specific to one specific and particularly egregious version of this, but you don't often see men who look like Robbie dealing with this type of story in fictional settings, even though it happens for men like Robbie in real life with horrifying frequency.

Sometimes stories that are old can be new again in different hands, from different point of views, so just... mind how you step here.

#and its no accident their murderer is one of the most powerful people alive to whom the incident wasnt even worth remembering #its about whose lives are and arent valyed by those in power. and tachonis are specifically white #its not a lazy hmm what motivation for my character a dead wifr i guess #kattigan is clearly now an exploration of deep grief too #thr issue w the fridging trope is the carelessness and +- dehumanisation of the dead woman. thats not whats happening here at all #its clearly deeply about the loss and grief #im really excited (invested devastated) to ser where this goes