#raatha

[hubedihubbe]

Abitail Pawlely! (Raatha's rat!!) Bell's close friend and occasional singing buddy!

[raatha]

Huevember 2024 - Day 4

Color Hex: FEAD0B

I don't often splurge anymore on games, and this is hardly a splurge at $5.00, but there's this game called webfishing that's is pretty cute. It came out recently and all you do is catch and collect fish and chat with other people. It's a very stress free game and I'm loving the tongue and cheek in written in the game from NPC's to the fish descriptions itself. This is my character, and I love the tired, but still trying energy she has in the game.

[queen-raatha]

For a guild friend of mine, @adventuresofasylvari, this was a piece long overdo. They had a particular idea of their character Perffaith having a younger and older version in the same piece- a juxtaposition of their transformation (from what I understood of it!) It was a brain scratcher to get the vibe they wanted, but it was a lot of fun in the end!

I don't do pieces like this very often anymore- but I do take commissions and for more information on that, visit my carrd- https://queenraatha.carrd.co/

And I stream on Twitch every Tuesday & Thursday! Click here to take a peak!

[nobody-nexus]

So I woke up and realized I have 720 followers.... UHHHH

How about a DTIYS?

So I much ask....

What DTIYS Would You Lovlies Like?

Classic Designs Doing Something Funny

Guardian AU date

Analog AU 'date'

DND Pomni in a cool pose

All of my AU Pomnis internacting

Something more with Bimbo x Tomboy Ragapom

Voting ended onFeb 1, 2024

[whitefangz]

i should do inking again. raatha from last night during dnd

[twilightsmmobabies]

Raatha is a character I'm interested in developing at some point, possibly with Bastion in Shadowlands. I really liked the idea of the Lightforged, but what if a Legion-aligned eredar underwent the procedure? Can the Light really expunge so much fel corruption?

[felidae-charr]

#GW2FriendShips : on how I met my future wife

“Gwendolynii? She must have really wanted the name Gwendolyn.”

A lot of people say that first impressions matter the most, and I suppose that’s true in terms of actually getting to know somebody... but more than that, immediate first impressions are memorable rather than anything else. After all, those words were the first things I ever said about my now-fiancé and (hopefully) future wife, @raatha. It’s a joke that, much to her chagrin, is probably going to follow her to the grave if I have anything to say about it.

Guild Wars 2 was a huge and important part of my life for many years. I met some very amazing friends on it, and had some incredibly fun times. One of my current best friends that I’m still in contact with, I never would have met if one of his friends hadn’t found me and signed me up onto his PvP team back in ye olde days of the game pre-release when beta tests were still happening. I probably would have a lot more money in my wallet if I hadn’t played this game and would have spent over two thousand hours of my life doing something else. (Let’s be fair, that probably would have just been two thousand hours of a different video game.)

But I wouldn’t have met my fiancé if I hadn’t played this game, and as the longest standing romantic relationship of my life, and as somebody that I am willing to not just move home but move country for, this story is going to just talk about her. Because I love her, and my life would legitimately be so much less fulfilling without her in it. My #GW2FriendShip has pretty much saved my damn life, and that’s worth talking about!

And it still never fails to make me laugh that my first impression of my future-to-be-wife was that her character’s name was Gwendolynii and I giggled at how desperate she must have been to get the name Gwendolyn if she was willing to go that far for it. I saw her at a group roleplay, as we were both big into roleplaying on GW2 at the time and she was part of a RP guild that I had a bit of interest in potentially joining. We didn’t speak at all, more than we just sort of saw each other in passing, and we didn’t even really roleplay with one another either.

Actually... funnier than how I remember how I first saw her is the fact I don’t really remember how I met her. I know that @raatha approached me first, and we joined a party, and there was an at-length discussion of how beautiful she thought my sylvari was. There might have been some talk of roleplay ideas on both our ends, things she was interested in doing and things I was interested in doing. It was fun, I just don’t remember that much of it. For the most part, a lot of our friendship initially revolved around roleplay, but as time progressed it branched outwards, too. What other games did we like that weren’t Guild Wars 2? Maybe we should play them some time!

Then, drama happened. Not between me and her, but between me and other folk. A lot of miscommunication and misunderstanding, a lot of very harsh words from both sides, and far more hurt feelings than was really necessary. It was actually a really, really dark time for me and it impacted my love of Guild Wars 2 really heavily. I had to move server to even feel brave enough to log in and play the game, and my motivation for doing anything inside the game was thoroughly trashed. I still love GW2, but to be honest, everything that happened back then (over three years ago now) still impacts the game for me a little. Guild Wars 2 was never quite the same. Raatha was one of the very few contacts from my GW2 life that stayed in touch with me, and I’m really glad that she did. Without turning this into too much of a sob story, Raatha offered very endearing and very comforting support as I tried to muddle through a really hard time for me, and I’m forever grateful for that. She really did help me see it through to the other side of that nasty place, and our friendship really only got stronger because of it. As I got back onto my feet again, we dabbled at doing things that weren’t related to Guild Wars 2. We continued to roleplay, just not in the game. The friendship just developed along with everything else that we were doing.

And then one day, while I’m in the middle of work, Raatha asks me straight out of the blue if I’d be interested in dating her. The rest is history~!

I don’t have the same relationship with Guild Wars 2 today that I did five years ago. I’ve grown a lot as a person and my life has changed pretty significantly over those years. I still enjoy the game, still log in from time to time and play it, and I still get excited about story patches or new armour pieces that look pretty, but the game isn’t quite as magical for me today as it used to be. But honestly... I’m okay with that. I’m okay with that, because everything that was magical about GW2 has been replaced by everything that’s magical about my fiancé instead. And even if I don’t play GW2 as much any more, and even if I never play it the way I used to, the bottom line is that I don’t play GW2 as much any more because I met so many amazing people playing it. My activity in the game today does not change the fact that the game’s community, the game’s design and the game’s open-minded attitude towards creating an MMORPG that encouraged players to communicate and help one another rather than forcing them to compete for mobs or drops or quest progress is the reason that I got to make so many amazing friends, have so many amazing memories, and eventually - to my great surprise - meet the person that I now hope to one day marry and spend the rest of my life with.

So... thanks, ArenaNet. I might bitterly complain about your design decisions sometimes, I might get frustrated with some of the microtransaction choices your company makes, and I might have ranted very often and very frequently about bugs, or intentional mechanics in game that just don’t work, or stupid story decisions, or poor character writing... But I kind of owe you one, too.

TL;DR: GW2 made me realise I am actually incredibly gay and now I’m in loving lesbians with a very wonderful woman who I met while playing the most intense MMORPG dress up game of all time.

[raatha]

HUEVEMBER DAY 6 - #c37c31

art raffle winner - Kinzoh

"The guards, when I walk up, always says "Scram! Scram!" So, that must be my name! Scram!"

I absolutely love Kobolds and Scram is no exception. He's a lil guy- just a sweet boy! I love him! There were no references for Scram either, so this is my design for him based off of a short description. He's a lanky lil, perfect trash baby. I protecc he. Yes yes.