#ladycavalier

[basilacademia]

Heyyyy,,,, Got any more Wilson or Don't Starve art? Or Wilson art? Of Wilson?

Sure thing! Wilson is actually my main writing muse and DS(T) was(is?) one of my special interests from 2013-2017, but I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested in that content here!

[ghoulshouting]

Yo please talk to me about those sweet sweet 200-years-since-the-apocalypse detes, I feel like I'm the only one who ever thinks "there wouldn't be perfectly preserved skeletons here let alone clothes" and "wouldn't these wooden structures be all rotten and fallen down now" talk to me dog

I think fandom is with us on this one, there's been a general air of frustration for a long time about this. Definitely I get into weird spirals about production lines and the factories/craftspeople that may or may not exist. I'm talking textiles, ammunition (obviously), lumber yards (to make up for the rotten wooden structures thing), contraception (because I'm an optimist?), scrapyards, and some sort of post-apocalypse pharmaceutical joint (this one, obviously, I haven't considered in depth lol).

But also like, SURELY even in the Commonwealth there are just straight-up bicycle gangs, right?? There would have absolutely have been a movement to a) clear out and bury (or whatever method of interring disturbs less radiation in the soil) as many skeletons lying in the open as possible, and b) people who do their best to clear out and reconstruct (I use this loosely) major roadways for the sake of bicycles, brahmin-led carts and wagons (so that caravans can have more going for them, I suppose?), and I assume so that people can take major pieces of furniture or infrastructural resources or whatever from a to b while building their settlements. Show me where the cyclists are at!!

My personal thing that almost certainly I will (one day) get to in the epilogue of my fic, Unbreaking, is that there's a debate about literacy rates in the Commonwealth, and regardless of whether it makes sense for people to be highly literate, the game seems to think they are, SO: 200 years have passed? We should probably get better at distributing print information about weapon maintenance, farming, schooling, construction, repair manuals, whatever else is important so that people stay alive and do a bit better for themselves than huts that lack four solid walls, in a world in which there are radstorms and —worse— radsnow (!!!???). Maybe we can assume this is something the game brushes over for the most part, because this is a weird deep dive sort of a thing interesting to probably only me, but show me the large-scale printing press!!!

And of course if we assume there is a large scale printing press and other factories, we have to assume several significant transportation routes are fairly secured. Maybe that's a minutemen thing, maybe not, but I think I would find it fairly atmospheric for the apocalypse to stroll through a couple of tightly-protected thoroughfares aside from the area outside of Diamond City, and then raiders can have a highwaymen vibe to them instead of what feels like being haphazardly placed about the map. I do think that parts of the map should, realistically, be a lot safer from raiders and super mutants, 200 yrs in.

If I had a spare week, I could write a few tens of thousands of words on this, and maybe some parts of it are partially addressed by canon and I've missed it, but whatever, here are my thoughts.

And yes, Commonwealth folk, I'm begging you to clean out your unused toilets if you're not going to bother to fix up your plumbing systems. You have a cool, tiled room that can be sanitized and used for storage. But also, fix up your plumbing —after 200 years someone should really have figured that one out.

[awesomesaurous]

I am DETERMINED not to develop an actual Thing for Maxwell, he just a problematic fave and nothing else,,,and your art is making it SO HARD to keep it that way >:0 hhhhhh

I'm not trying to woobify him or anything, but I always want to explore the human sides of characters, and that inevitably means I develop some sympathy for them. And if you need to reconcile the "problematic" part, most of the stuff I draw takes place before Don't Starve, so this was before Maxwell's villain career. But also - this is all fictional and whatever you feel about it is fine? So no worries!

[weaver-z]

Lol i followed you accidentally and came here to unfollow, but heck I'll stay just for those hilarious anon answers 😂 10/10

Ha, thanks! I'm flattered.

[lousydrawingsforgoodpeople]

Bro.... Why are you and your skull and your cats and dogs so darn relatable and wisdomy? Too late to cry tonight but tomorrow you bet your sweet bippy ima read through this blog and process some trauma, thanks for the chance (and the cats and dogs)

You know what’s relatable? “Too late to cry tonight…” I DO THE SAME! Like, can’t deal with the snot factory, will push this off ‘til later…

Thanks for this message, ladycavalier. I hope you got some sleep!🖤

[momosweetpeach]

can i get a hug pls

[letmebegaytodd]

oh my freaking gosh this whole time i swear i thought ppl were just calling u charlie bc of benny and the charlies until i saw that bday post and checked your bio ghsdghshdfgh

yes well, funny story about my name

[sightkeeper]

Simple sketch commission for @ladycavalier of the Don’t Starve OC Waverly! She was a delight to work on! :D

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