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Messy sketchbook art with OctoMingjue's tango with his baby MerSang for @flying-finch 😃

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Fairy King: Marianne, please. You need to stop all … this.

Marianne: You just gestured to all of me.

(Source: How to Train Your Dragon movie)

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first small illustration made using watercolors 😃

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Soft&Fluff

I’m feeling very soft and fluffy tonight. 

WELP, time to dive into others masterlists. 

I’m also open for roleplays over on @mersang :)

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Regarding what to call Dagda now that Marianne is Queen: according to Wikipedia, a monarch who has abdicated technically loses the use of their title, but out of politeness may still be addressed as 'Your Majesty'. Probably, to avoid confusion over who is in charge, Dagda would revert back to whatever title he had before becoming king. ("Sir Dagda"? I think you said he was a knight?) ~Mersang

That’s right, I did say he was a Knight! I had to go back and check, sometimes I forget certain details of my writing XD

I feel like Dagda would occasionally get Your Majesty from courtiers (especially those who are resistant to the changes Marianne’s ruling will bring), but I also really enjoy the head canon that the goblins would take to calling him The Queen’s Father, since Griselda would go by The King’s Mother  and they don’t see how that would be any different =) 

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Fans might misinterpret a character based on you as having no further ambitions, since you have a good job you love and a large internet following. (Sorry if this sounded mean - you're a nice person, so misinterpretations probably would be a bit mean. The "too good to be true, therefore suspicious" trope is pretty strong.) ~Mersang

No, this makes complete sense! And honestly, it’s VERY ironic that you say this, because…I feel like I’m filled with nothing BUT ambitions and hopes and dreams and goals, the majority of them very much frustrated. 

Like, I do have a good job, and I’m very thankful for it, but I want one that actually supports me and challenges me. I’ve actually been thinking a lot of stuff over in regards to how to accomplish my goals, just what it will take of me, and it’s been both terrifying and exhilarating…

And as for the large internet following, I am and will always remain highly baffled and extremely humbled that all of you have chosen to follow this strange, shy little bookworm. I’ve made some incredible friendships here that I wouldn’t give up for the world…

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Re: "Strange Magic needs more brown characters" - I know Griselda is super pale and Bog has a Scottish accent, but I always headcanon human-Bog as a black man. Maybe mixed-race, or maybe Griselda is albino as a human. It's weird seeing other people's drawings of human-Bog and he's so pale. ~Mersang

I know that @dainesanddaffodils mentioned once that she head canons Human!Bog as being mixed race and having some Romani blood in him, and I’ve gone with that idea as well. 

I also remember a follower of mine once had the idea of making Human!Marianne and Dawn have a Latina mother, with Dagda being from a very WASPy family, which I really really loved. 

We could explore the idea that Dawn’s looks and coloring are more like their Father’s side, and how Marianne used to feel a bit alienated over how dark her looks were compared to the rest of her family. When perfect WASPy looking Roland started romancing her, she began to feel accepted…until Roland was Roland and made Marianne embrace her mother’s heritage and culture and take ferocious pride in everything that makes her different. 

Honestly, I am always for more representation, so I would love to see other people’s head canons about this! 

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Mersang submitted: You mentioned you enjoy Bog’s feet. I enjoy your fanfiction and headcanons. This collage contains the best screenshots I could capture of Bog’s feet. It’s surprisingly hard to catch them ‘in focus’.

*frantically grabs you to her* BLESS YOU. BLESS YOU A THOUSAND TIMES OVER FOR THIS. 

God, look at them! I mean, his hands are the main thing that make me melt (and his eyes and his cheekbones and his everything), but look at these weird, lovely, handsy things! They’re so huge and almost paw like and oh my God, he has totally grabbed Marianne by the ankle with one of them at one point. 

This is INCREDIBLE, thank you so much!