#iwilltryalittlearter

[stitchy-face]

Hi! I’d like to come at ya with #4 for the ask game

4. A piece you wish got more love.

My fake book covers! They surprisingly always don’t get a lot of traction on social media (being text heavy I guess?) I don’t really care though I love doing them and have plans for a lot more and have been exploring the style a bunch :-)

[utilitycaster]

How about 3 and 15?

15: that one thing you see in fan art all the time. gonna go very general with this but: I've done some casual fencing and some semi-serious powerlifting, and a lot of dumb fanart discourse about how muscular/big characters are is 100% not based in reality. yes, there are in fact people with Jester or Yasha's canon fanart body type who eat a lot and win powerlifting competitions. there's also people with Veth's body type who eat a lot and win powerlifting competitions, and there's people with Veth's body type who have a strength of 11, as she does. given that strength is tied to muscle mass and not amount of fat, throwing a hissy about this is really dumb. Please go to like, a weightlifting competition, because strength sports more than anything comprise a REALLY broad range of body types. It's valid to wish there were more fat characters but like, commission art of them instead of attacking the official artist for not validating your headcanons or insisting incorrectly that the cast is unrealistic.

[13eyond13]

To support your procrastination, how about Mogi?

lmao this works a little too well, I would 100% want Cave Mogi hunting Woolly Mammoths with me

[send me a character and I'll draw them doing something from a random idea generator]

[bumbling-bi-bee]

Thank you so much @iwilltryalittlearter for the beautiful Pokemon drawings that I won from your competition!

They are absolutely stunning and I can't wait to get them in a nice frame and hung up!

[utilitycaster]

Hello! I’m interested in that redacted meta rant about Fjord and Caduceus’ friendship mentioned recently; especially in context of why Cad would bow out of this adventure.

Is the implication that he might want to see Fjord grow without further clerical guidance in regards to worship of the Wildmother?

Hi! So it's actually much simpler: Caduceus does not care for the ocean and very much wants to have some time to spend at home with his family. As he puts it in 2x141, he occasionally goes on walkabouts and adventures, but "every couple of years". It's been a few months since the campaign ended for this adventure; he is still having his Much Needed Downtime.

I think I do need to address the obvious which is that if Caduceus's Divine Intervention that resulted in Kingsley had failed, then yeah, Caduceus would probably be here. But it didn't, and this is the story, and it's not out of character for Caduceus to politely decline.

The reason I specifically mentioned this is that the fandom often assigns greater import to Caduceus and Fjord's relationship than there ultimately was. It's very understandable, but Caduceus and Fjord have long since realized that they are incredibly different people with rather incompatible ideals who worship very different aspects of one deity in very different ways. While the fandom often thought Fjord should become more and more like Caduceus, in-game, both characters fairly quickly come to understand that Fjord's arc is his own, and Caduceus plays a crucial part at the inflection point, but Fjord then continues on. They're friends! Everyone in the Nein is! But even setting aside Fjord's romantic relationship with Jester, he relates more to and is closer with Beau and Caleb than Caduceus, and both of them are well aware of that.

I'd have to do more digging than I have time for, to be honest, to find all the Talks and episode references, but Taliesin said that Caduceus does tend at times to see people like projects, and once Fjord is back on somewhat even footing - the reforged sword, the return of his pact magic, the tentative beginnings of a paladin oath - they have one more conversation, the one where he gives Fjord the holy symbol and talks about deception. It becomes pretty quickly apparent to Caduceus that actually, Fjord is pretty comfortable with his personal moral code, and needed guidance specific to the Wildmother but is going to follow his own path - as he should, since a paladin of the oceanic aspect of a deity would, logically, have a very different relationship to her than a cleric of the mortality and natural order aspects.

I don't want to diminish Caduceus's role in Fjord's development, because it is absolutely crucial, and I don't think anyone else could have been there for Fjord right after he broke his pact in 2x72 in quite the same way. But Fjord has been quite confident in how he worships the Wildmother since at least post-Rexxentrum arc, or at least confident that he needs to find his own way forward, which is why taking his oath is a private thing and why, pretty much from the start of the Eiselcross arc, his and Caduceus's relationship turns to more of a bantering one and even one in which Fjord is the one wondering what Caduceus might need and being the one on which Caduceus and others can rely on. (More generally...for all people talk about wanting more gray area w/r/t the deities, they actually really struggle to grasp the vastness of the Wildmother's domain and how Fjord and Caduceus are actually great examples of the diversity in-world in divine worship; this is frankly also a giant separate tangent but as always, I do blame evangelical protestantism.)

Basically what I was trying to say there is "Fjord and Caduceus are good friends, but if you're asking 'how could Fjord defeat Uk'otoa without Caduceus there', you clearly skipped the entire post-hiatus story in which Fjord does quite a lot without Caduceus's guidance, and Caduceus has his own quiet crisis that Fjord and Jester monitor from afar."

[13eyond13]

You seen Secondhand Lions?

SECONDHAND LIONS:

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

I did see this wayyyyy back when I was a kid, I loved Haley Joel Osment in the Sixth Sense which is why I wanted to watch it, but I barely remember anything about the movie now! I didn’t even realize it was Michael Cain as one of the uncles, I didn’t know who he was back then. This is one I need to revisit now that I’m older, I’ve heard lots of good things!

[friendly-jester]

#7 for the ask game!

7. what's your favorite way to travel? Is there a mode of travel you haven't done that you want to experience?

if the rail system in the usa wasn't so fucked i think that'd be my favorite. the few train rides i've done in the past were so neat!!! i wish the rail system was better here 😭 but the actual answer is car i think. i like looking at the scenery while we drive and playing road games and all that jazz. plane is a close second which is wild cuz i used to be terrified of planes but anxiety meds are magical lol

[utilitycaster]

Oops sorry I’m blind you already did 3 😭🙃

no worries, answered 15!