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[justmything]

8th of April 2022 - A day in Riyadh

[keplercryptids]

[image description: screenshots of various DM notes of mine, reading as follows. “The genasi think they invented paper. Will be very excited to show it off.” “I think dao CAN die on the material plane but only from erosion.” “Dao stories are a bridge to the ducks!!!” “Work out details of rube goldberg machine.” “(Bullet point) Genasis: anxiety. (Bullet point) Genasi blood laminates paper. (Indented bullet point) Bloodbound notebooks.” “Cave interior: paintings on the walls. Feral toddler.” End ID.]

my dm notes are usually completely unhinged, but they were even more so for this session lmaooo

[louve-garoue]

Hey remember that post on how the Kokiri in Ocarina of Time had gendered clothings and Link wore a set of a mix of the boy and girl clothes ? Guess what ? They did it in Twilight princess too ! (honestly this may have already been pointed out because the games is more than 15 years old but I'm making my own post too for reason)

Look at the girl's outfit in Ordon Village :

And here are the boy's outfit in Ordon Village :

Alright so the main difference is that Women wear pants while Men wear a sort of long skirt (I'm sorry if it has a name that I don't know).

Smaller differences are that Women tend to prefer short shirt that they put underneath their garb with little to none decoration on their clothes. While Men tend to prefer long shirt/tunics with their 'skirt' underneath (unless those are long tunics with the end being in a different color ? idk maybe both are present) and a sort of apron(?) over it and have a lot of decoration on their garbs which feature a very specific belt.

You can note Women do have those apron(?) too, just like Men can have shorter shirt too. It's just rarer, less popular it's seems. Also young boys don't have long tunic like their parent so I guess it's considered like are considered for adult ?

Anyway by that logic those outfits :

seems to be gender neutral :). Maybe you could think that it's just more practical for their job except Link has the same one as Fado who is wearing traditional boy clothing and I would like to show that at Ordon it's perfectly acceptable to put a relatively short tunic with only underpants underneath as proved by Mayor Bo :

And although it does seems that Illia and Link dresses in a way that calls back to their parents (I'm talking about both Rusl, Uli but also Fado in Link case) which very heartwarming but they could also have gone into a more gender-conforming way to do this.

So in short : enby Link, Illia and Rusl solidarity (no wonder they are close).

Oh and @childrenofordon this might be an useful reference :) (you're doing god's work, thank you)

[caporushes]

Reposts from Twitter!! It’s easier for me to post little doodles there, so if you’re interested in that kind of thing you should follow me over there! 

[catboymoments]

I wanted 2 doodl down some hcs for jamies parents!!! I love them they're good people

[keplercryptids]

If you'd like to talk about it, your recent post about the genie arc you and your dnd group just finished has me really curious to hear more about it! Its sounds like it was so cool, and it's always awesome to hear about narratives where characters get to travel all over the world- especially since i know that yours is homebrew.

yes omg thank you, there's nothing i'd rather do than talk about the genie communities of my dnd game.

the party began this arc in halkifell, the hometown of an npc friend named mahety. halkifell is home to ifrit and their fire genasi kids, located on the top of a volcano (which is also a portal to the elemental plane of fire). at birth, mahety was chosen by the volcano to be the next leader of her people. she was actually out in the world before now as part of her self-discovery journey before stepping up to the leadership position officially. the time to do that is now, for many reasons, which means she has to stay in halkifell, on the other side of the continent from where the party (including her PC gf) have their home base.

so mahety's dad, an ifriti named temza, suggested the party go to the other genie communities to collect spell components in order to create a teleportation circle in halkifell. this makes it so (eventually) mahety and the party can visit each other at their leisure. temza was vague about where they needed to go and what exactly the spell components were, because that was all part of the journey (which would be important to the spell later). they were told to get:

A binding from the dao, an iron link; Salt from the marid, in liquid sync; A yielding from the djinn, a burden's drink.

and they were given general directions and landmarks to follow. the marid could be found submerged in the ocean to the north, at a distance of "a sunrise as the dolphin swims." the djinn could be found to the southeast in the desert, after "following the eye of the storm for one moonrise." the dao were located in the mountain range to the southwest, at "the top of the peak that looks like a bird."

i'm gonna put the rest under a readmore because uhhh. believe it or not, this got even longer lmao.

also, just as a note. genies in my world are beings made out of elemental magic + something i am abstractly referring to as Story Magic. mechanically, this means the ifrit, marid, dao and djinn are big ol' elemental bards, lol. narratively, each genie society has specific values and traditions when it comes to stories, which you can read more about here.

so the party traveled north and went into the ocean to find the marid (story value: listening to stories), who were NOT thrilled to meet the party. they had a tense encounter where they had to tell stories based on marid tradition. the trick was for the PCs to tell the marid sad stories, but they only learned that through the minigame i designed (which you can read more about here). the spell component they needed was the marid's tears (salt in liquid sync!), which calcified into pearls.

then they went to see the djinn (story value: story making), who were located on a massive cloud trapped within a cylindrical sandstorm. the storm was unnatural, caused by a djinni that had lost themself in storymaking (something that can happen to djinn if they're not careful). after proving themselves to be protagonist material, the party reenacted the story that the djinni was trapped in, in order to snap them out of it. the spell component was the djinni's sweat (a yielding! a burden’s drink!), which calcified into fulgurite (a kind of rock that forms when sand is struck by lightning, look it up, it looks cool!).

finally, the party went to see the dao (story value: recording stories). at this point, the players had correctly deduced that they needed the dao's blood (an iron link; plus: blood, sweat and tears) but the problem was the dao do NOT share their blood with anyone. dao blood has immutable properties when combined with material plane stuff, and making earthly things permanent goes against the dao's creed.

i should have mentioned before now that different kinds of genasi have unique relationships with each genie community, and the earth genasi had ostracized themselves. they wanted to be more dao, but the dao wanted them to be patient etc etc etc. one of the genasi wanted to do a risky spell to become a dao, which backfired and he kind of lost himself. so one PC, saube, underwent a daoist carving/tattoo ritual to connect herself to the earth, where she was able to use the genasi's blood as part of the tattoo and also take some back to halkifell. this all sounds complicated when summarized like this lmao, but just trust me that it was beautiful and special and now saube is literally connected to the land of halkifell, where her gf lives and where she will live, eventually.

OKAY SO. the party got back to halkifell, and the last component / part of the spell was for them to tell their story to mahety. the ifrit story value is storytelling, and the telling of the story created the teleportation circle that will link mahety to where they are, forever. it was beautiful!!! it was a good arc actually!!!

[justmything]

As long as we structure our lives in a way where our happiness is dependent upon something we cannot control, then we will experience pain.

[keplercryptids]

Keeping Things Whole

by Mark Strand

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been.

We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.