my friends r so talented. rb if ur friends are talented

Oathbound work in progress

"I am the product of violence and I am the Scion of Arthur, and I don't want to be either. I just want to be me."

the downfall of the found family trope over the last decade or so has truly been something to witness. studying the phenomenon under a magnifying glass like a bug

i am being overdramatic for fun when i call it a downfall but the way its general perception has shifted from "universally loved" to "seen as kind of cringe by a not insignificant amount of people" is interesting to me because it's not a case of "it's popular, so it sucks" - or not entirely, at least; i think it's also a result of:

1) people completely missing the point/appeal of found family and assigning every character a Traditional Nuclear Family Role (annoying) (& if there's a woman of colour in the group she will inevitably be deemed The Mom regardless of her actual personality. so also racist.)

2) people, usually overenthusiastic fans, overusing & watering it down as a descriptor. i'm sorry but are they actually found family or are they just coworkers. are they found family or do they just have friends

3) media trying to capitalize on the popularity of the trope - or earnestly but clumsily trying to depict it - by rushing into it and trying soooo hard to convince the audience These People Are Family Now without earning it (i.e. actually depicting them getting to that point of familiarity and intimacy). it comes across as cheap and inauthentic - like it's trying to appeal to your fondness for the trope as a shortcut in place of developing the characters' particular relationships properly

does that make sense

If you know, you know.

I love hearing about the vibes I give off cause I honestly have no idea

Sir Curse-a-Lot and his noble Not Merry men.

Halkion - an introduction

Halkion is a tarot-like card game I invented to give flavor to the universe I'm writing in. For the past two years, I've worked with the lovely and talented @drawnecromancy to bring the cards to reality, and as we approach the last few cards out of 35, I decided to write an in-universe guide to the game. Here's the first part of it, which gives a bit of historical context

I've now reblogged all the finished suits of halkion and tagged them for ease of browsing. The purple one will come, eventually.

Also don't worry about the numbers. The numbering changed between the beginning of the project and now.

We've come a long way aka when we started I had no idea what I wanted the final vision to be 🤣

Haha I was always convinced you did ! I was like wahoo yippee let's follow your lead I have no idea what we're doing

I mean I had some idea but with each card my ideas for the next evolved xD

The Arcane Suite

I genuinely do not recall which of them have been posted or not, but since it's finished, have all of the Arcane suite in its entirety.

As always, the Halkion cards are for @logarithmicpanda ! Thank you so much for your continued support :)

Genesis suite

I just realized I forgot to put down the entire suite that we finished recently with @logarithmicpanda ! That's 7 red cards !

If you see repeat numbers with some prior cards, no you don't. These are going to be updated eventually.

15-21 : AVATARS

Set of 7 cards for @logarithmicpanda, drawn over the past couple of months ! Thank you again for ordering and trusting me with all of them !

CARDS 8-14 : THE GODS

A series of commissions for @logarithmicpanda. Incredibly cool to work on, full of neat little details i could put in !

I'd say one of my favorite details is on the Musician card, if you can figure out what that detail is. :) !

Thanks again Jo for trusting me with all of these !

I've now reblogged all the finished suits of halkion and tagged them for ease of browsing. The purple one will come, eventually.

Also don't worry about the numbers. The numbering changed between the beginning of the project and now.

We've come a long way aka when we started I had no idea what I wanted the final vision to be 🤣

Mycroft likes to climb. A lot.