Grief enough to drown an ocean. Love enough to ruin a city.
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blog for my FL OCs, the Capricious Fabulist/Wistful Correspondent, and their companions. Struggling Artist and Artist's Model enthusiast i suppose.
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Call me Corin or Coryn or Cory or Lee or Cory Lee. He/She/It/They. 18 years old. Romanian(of greek descent). FL sideblog
I've been playing Fallen London since I was 14 I think but very on and off to the point where I have not finished the ambitions on any of my accounts but I swear THIS TIME I won't stop playing this game again and will actually finish my characters' ambitions(and continue playing after that). I swear. Been spoiled for a lot of things and don't mind spoilers(the exceptions to this is firmament). I love the artist's model and (sigh.) the struggling artist.
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Sometimes I post a lot and other times I may not post for a long time. who knows. English is also not my first language so I apologise if I make any mistakes. Calling cards (and some roleplay) are always welcome. And so are asks!
List of (Original) Characters and stuff related to them [WIP] (also here is a simple introduction to them all)
List of ships/relationships (my tags for them and stuff) [WIP]
the fact the other ambitions are still kind of canon even when you don't pick them is a really fun bit of FL. like,,, the orphanage doesn't pop into existence just because you chose light fingers. it's there in every timeline. light fingers is just the only one which gives you the chance to stop it.
and that's interesting, right? because if every ambition exists in some capacity- completely regardless of your choice- that means everything in nemesis would logically exist even outside of the ambition. like, the stuff that leads up to nemesis would still occur even if you pick bag a legend or heart's desire. the FLPC's specific journey wouldn't occur, but everything that's established to transpire before they arrived in the neath? that's canon. that happened. Regardless Of Circumstance, That Will Presumably Always Happen. because the vake is a constant, and the marvellous is a constant, and the orphanage is a constant, and nemesis is ultimately no different than the rest.
so. to get into spoiler territory for a second.
the logical conclusion is that mr cups' plan to blow up the bazaar is a universal constant. it always plots this, and it always kills seven people to achieve this, with the FLPC's loved one being the final step.
except, as established, the FLPC's adventure does not occur if you do not pick nemesis. but ☝️ cups' plan always does. therefore, if you pick any other ambition, the plan carries out as normal, with the only deciding variable being whether or not the FLPC was a specific victim in its plot.
this means every non-nemesis ambition continuity has a mr cups with six victims and only one step remaining in its plan to get revenge on its employer. and there is, theoretically, nothing stopping it from simply finding a seventh victim and carrying on unimpeded. sure, someone might take on the role of the FLPC and kill/mutilate cups as they would, but if you don't specifically headcanon that?
...i think cups might just. win??
like. in every non-nemesis continuity, as a baseline, there's nothing theoretically stopping cups from getting all of its stories of vengeance and inscribing its murder sigil on the bazaar. Because It Has Six Stories Already. it only needs a seventh. and it can Simply Get That. cups nuking the bazaar might be canon to your entirely unrelated heart's desire playthrough and you might not even know it.
...what im saying is the way ambitions are set up has some really funny worldstate implications if you think about them for too long. 👍 you're welcome for this horrifying shower thought. im probably wildly incorrect about several aspects but im too eepy to double check with my own nemesis playthrough records. so. let's all pretend this is true because i think cups being schrodinger's W taker is really funny
helloooooooo. i miss fallen london but i haven't had the time or energy to log into the game or really think about my ocs in months. but I miss this game. I do hope that one of those days when I am less busy and less tired I can return to it, though. until further notice this blog is still obviously pretty much inactive save for the occasional reblog
I think the thing is - I like the Calendar Council not despite their flaws, but because of them. I like them because they're a bunch of leftists who have, to varying degrees, lost the memo along the way, or are ruthless about the ends justifying the means, or are Troublesome in some other way. I like them not because I think they're paragons of progressive virtue, but because despite all their mystique, in the end, they're a bunch of limited, messy people doing their best in a limiting, messy world. In short: I like them because they're problematic.
Likewise, I like the Liberation of Night because it's fraught, because it's uncertain, because its realization would be painful and messy no matter what. I like it because it has the potential to go Wrong just as much as it has the potential to go Right, and I like it because even in the case that it goes Right, it isn't without pain, without loss, without grief.
Even in modern FL writing, which treats them much more positively than the old writing, they are intentionally unsettling - as former creative director Bruno Dias wrote, "the Liberation as an idea is so slippery; it had to be both hopeful and a little scary. […] The Liberation is meant to retain a little edge, even if you’re sympathetic to it." And because they are as slippery as they are, they are an invaluable place for me to safely explore my own complicated feelings around building a better world. They aren't perfect, they aren't above critique - but that is exactly where their value lies for me.
This evening dress contains the label Stern Bros., which was a department store in New York. This dress is very typical of the mid 1890s with gigot or leg-of-mutton sleeves
1910s Two silk afternoon dresses. Left of off-white china silk trimmed with off-white net and chemical lace, elbow-length sleeves; Right Black silk edged with black silk charmeuse, orange silk velvet bodice insert and black silk ribbon embroidery. From Augusta Auctions.
my sequal to that one other post is also "people absolutely do hold more diverse media made by minority creators to higher standards then mainstream content in an unfair manner" should be held aware of alongside of "If you advetise your media for how diverse and caring it is, people are going to care more about what you actually consider 'diverse' and are presenting'. yknow
normally when you call fictional characters war criminals it doesn't actually suit them because they haven't actually violated the geneva convention. this is not true for the masters. the masters have done ALL the war crimes. usually multiple times. Per Individual Master.
That's it, Chap. Put that monocle and top-hat on. You don't need to think anymore, you're a proper Gentlemanly Chap now. Yes, drink your tea.. Now get in the fantastical steampunk flying machine..
