"Release Restraint: Level 1"

emotional state/Live Octoling Reaction™️ when it’s 2am I lose near every splatfest battle i got in, getting in 2 x10 battles in a row, losing both , saying “look I’ll do one more match but it’s getting depressing” then somehow with 0 festival shells WINNING A 100x by 1%

art by @chunky-doggo who was there to witness this irl xD <3 <3

My favourite thing about living on shitty Terf Island (tm) is all the shitty old men who look like boiled thumbs and throw their shitty beer cans everywhere every match day.

This is my husband holding my fat little boy! Such a lovely baby boy.

enough religious spam blaze posts here’s my biggest ferret instead

A new cool art from my wonderful partner @xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx , Check it out!

current hyperfixation + the current shitshow in this joke of a country

I love the fantastic narratives Dorf Fort makes for us, this one in particular you could genuinely write into a story or rpg and it'd be a beloved character.

dwarf fortress fucks so hard. my current fort has an occasional patron who is an 86 year old owl lady named 'the frozen one' who spent the first couple of years just perching in trees and watching my dwarves. a two headed fire breathing ettin came to lay siege to the place before I had a proper military established, and while I was freaking out trying to lock doors she just. floated down and tore him in half. when I checked her inventory, all she had was a plain brown dress, socks, shoes, and a pair of gloves. she just ripped him down the middle like a phonebook with her bare talons.

later while checking out other visitors I discovered that almost every bard in the fortress had been her apprentice at some point. eventually she came inside to check out the taverns, and now she just sits around watching performances and getting into arguments about them, feeling nothing. I love her so much.

Just say no!

A fun spoof of an old soviet era poster, I think the origional was trying to tell people to not drink booze with meals? Anyway, I like the whole Elves Vs Dwarfs Dorf Fort has going on and I tried to capture the low graphic nature of the game in a different way to the previous PETSCII/ASCII ones.

I actually like salad, but as part of a meal, not the whole thing itself.

Very correct!

To add to this, bandits could also be:

- desperate farmers during a bad harvest

- rebels funding their cause

- mercenaries between contracts

- soldiers on campaign, both ally and enemy

- noblemen’s thugs sending a message

- refugees who are completely out of options

Banditry in fantasy and fiction has unfortunately become a sort of shorthand for “low level humanoid enemies you don’t have to feel bad for killing” but it heartens me to see people investing creatively in their settings “bad guys” backstories.

An example of how bandits in fantasy are disconnected from the way real bandits worked is Marion du Faouët, a woman bandit from Brittany in the 18th century.

Bandits in a lot of fantasy are full time bandits. They have no other job, and usually live away from the rest of society.

Marion du Faouët, aside from being a highwaywoman, was a mercer, selling, selling fabrics & cloth.

Because yeah, turn out that there isn't a special group of people called criminals... there is no "criminal society VS honest society", the two are part of a whole.

And fantasy stories should work more on that : seasonal bandits that do crime when they can't do their job. Fishers who do some pirate stuff on the side. Thief guild member that have legitimate job on the side, not just cover.

Samuel Samantha Sammy-Sam-Sam-Sam

me and husbans IRL friend Sam, who would really fit in on tumblr.

Kevin Wettsworth; The Parable

Kevin, great and mighty, voiced by the amazing @earndiltheequalizer!

The folk over at Ogre Poppenang have the remarkable ability to make a character hilarious one moment, and heartbreaking the next. I think Kevin here is one of my favourites. I hope he survives the series.

Lemme tell ya, making a guy with a nose like a mosquito look forward wasn't easy, but I think I got it in the end.

The Witches Oven

My slavic thaumaturge characters very important oven!

I think my favourite thing about drawing stuff I'm unfamiliar with is the rabbit hole you can fall down of learning, both in how to draw the stuff and its history and background. I now know considerably more about eastern european rural home design than I did before!

I haven't thought of a name for the character yet, but I know her Domovoy (house-spirit that lives in the oven) is called Uncle Ugol. You can see him peering out of the stove.