Roddacember 2023!!
Roddacember runs during December to celebrate all of Emily Rodda’s books.
With a new prompt every day, make a piece of fan content of your choice. You can draw some art, write fic, make a playlist, rant about something, or whatever you vibe with!
Remember to tag it #Roddacember 2023 so we can check it out <3
I’ve also created an AO3 collection for those who would like to write fics!
Update
This is my attempt at taking the best of the past years and bringing something for everyone.
What I've come up with are three levels of abstraction that (hopefully) serve as different levels of difficulty. The first week-ish draws more from 2019's style, and the last couple weeks are the more recent style, with the middle being a segue between them.
(i kinda struggled to make questions, but you're welcome to use the prompts as keywords for your own!)
Notes
A reminder that you don’t have to commit to every day. Take care of yourself. You can make it more manageable by skipping days.
It’s also okay to alter the prompt slightly for grammatical purposes, if you so wish (e.g. growth –> growing) or to cut out irrelevant words (e.g. animal or monster -> animal). Feel free to interpret the prompts as metaphorically or as literally as you want!
If there’s anything you are confused about, feel free to ask me in the notes or DMs or whatever. You can also check out what the fandom did previously at #Roddacember 2022, #Roddacember 2021, #Roddacember 2020 and #Roddacember 2019.
Prompts in text below:
Your Favourite
01. Character
02. Place
03. Animal or monster
04. Something you wish was real
05. Magic
06. People, culture, or tradition
07. Filli❔
08. Relationship of any kind
09. Symbols or signs
Memorable Moments:
10. Epic
11. Courage
12. Deception
13. Power
14. Foreshadowing
15. Playful
16. Envy
17. Solution
Abstract:
18. Ripples
19. Design
20. Trade
21. Nurture
22. Technology
23. Intricacy
24. Mend
25. Twisted
26. Pathway
27. Watch
28. Growth
29. Time
30. Unity
31. Essence of Rodda
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Roddacember 2023 - 17: Solution
For this Roddacember prompt, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone of the fact that, for a moment, the DQ trio genuinely thought the solution to the Guardian of the Valley of the Lost's puzzle, and therefore his name, was Eedoe.
Eedoe.
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28 - Growth
'But we cannot knowingly leave someone at the mercy of the Granous!' Lief hissed. 'They will ask him their infernal riddles, and when he cannot answer them they will start biting off his fingers and toes. They will kill him, Jasmine!'
'Better that they kill a stranger than that they kill us,' Jasmine said. And Lief knew that she was repeating a lesson she had learned only too well in the terror that was the Forests of Silence.
For a moment he hesitated. He knew that he should not let his heart rule his head in this. But then the piteous cry came again, followed by a scream of pure agony.
'No!' Lief breathed. He started forward.
'Wait! I will go back and fetch the guards,' said Barda, catching at his arm.
Lief pulled himself free. 'There is no time for that!' he muttered. 'Come with me or not, as you like.'
He began to run, and Jasmine and Barda followed, as he knew they would.
DELTORA QUEST 3
Dragon's Nest
Ch 7 Dragon Hunt
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09 - Sign
DANGEROUS BRIDGE
DO NOT TRY TO CROSS GAP HERE IF YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE
NEXT BRIDGE IS LAST CROSSING BEFORE FORESTS OF SILENCE
DELTORA QUEST 3
Dragon's Nest
Ch 11 Signs of Trouble
i just think this scene was so funny lmao mostly in hindsight
but also i want to highlight the chapter title, truly one of my favourites for the irony
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01 - Character
i usually use roddacember as a way to diversify my art and draw some of the more underrated characters and moments but i couldnt not draw her
was there any doubt lmao
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lief: so where's barda
jasmine: he's looking for the belt of deltora
lief: he's wHAT
31 - Essence of Rodda
'Despair is the enemy. Do not let it defeat you.' [Zeean whispered.]
DELTORA QUEST 3
The Sister of the South
Ch 9 The Yellow Notice
'Norris!' shouted Rowan, shaking him. 'Even if you are right — even if we have been led by some evil force into a trap — we cannot just lie down and die!'
ROWAN OF RIN
Rowan of the Bukshah
Ch 13 The Climb
'So it is not too late, Rye! We still have a chance to stop that future from happening! It is not too late!' [said Sonia]
THE THREE DOORS
The Third Door
Ch 23 Three Doors
And she imagined what her companions on the shore were seeing — a dishevelled girl in a flaring red skirt, surrounded by a throng of fawning ghosts. No wonder Sky and Jewel had fled from her as soon as they were able.
She quelled the wave of misery that threatened to engulf her. She had always been haunted by her past. The wraiths were just the visible sign of it.
STAR OF DELTORA
The Hungry Isle
Ch 6 The Glittering Shore
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[ben wyatt voice] it's about the perseverance through suffering 👌
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there's a bunch of other stuff like double meanings and being epic and found family that i wanted to do but in the end i didn't have time for lol and so i had to chase the serotonin for this last post and make a bad joke out of it to motivate me adfKSDJFH but also so serious
the suffering is not the end; there are horrors AND delights; you lose when you give up; not everything is as it seems but also multiple interpretations can coexist; i know this is so sappy and kids cartoons but it's so real hope is everything and can counter the overwhelmingness of despair; choose to be optimistic, to love, to be happy
you're gonna really feel that in DQ3 because of the high stakes but this is also like the very essence of rowan of rin. he's always being surprised when the big heroic models of courage break down, but they've never had to keep moving forward and doing so scared the way he has. norris was overconfident but he's never had to face something like the cold time and the Mountain, but this is rowan's like hundredth rodeo. this is not to dunk on norris at all but just the way that rowan of rin directly and indirectly shows courage and perseverance
anyway this was supposed to be our beloved trio being a family and looking after each other but it turned into post-mask and then i forgot i cant halfass things to save my life this was supposed to be a crappy shitpost but then i was looking up so much cirque du soleil references trying to figure out what they might wear lol. they might not actually be wearing costumes but the other acrobats with jasmine were so why not put her in one too and then how could bess not resist dressing lief up in her son's clothes etc
so lief's outfit is like a preliminary costume before a more grander and brighter one if he became fully integrated into their circle. i keep searching up baby bird and forgetting that im going to see some gangly pink guys lmao
jasmine's acrobat troupe were described as just blue costumes from what i found. and i was like. UH OH. because i was gonna have to work soooooo hard to differentiate from bede's blue bird vibe. i thought i'd go for a lighter blue than the sorta. royal blue i give him usually. and then it got me thinking sky blue. the perform acrobatics up in the air. they reach for the sky. they up there in the sky. sky costume.
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11 - Courage
'Endon had realised by then that by his foolishness and blindness the people's last trust in him had been destroyed. The Belt would never again shine for him. All our hopes rested with his unborn child.'
DELTORA QUEST 1
The Forests of Silence
Ch 9 The Secret
im leaving this up to your own interpretation because i can't articulate thoughts and feelings rn, but generally this post is about endon finding it in himself to admit his mistakes and how he would decide to rectify them i.e. raising lief
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16 - Envy
i was feeling silly asldkfjhas
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24 - Mend
'I cannot stay in the palace, though our king himself invited me to do so, because I was hurt in the Shadowlands,' the man said, his voice rising as if she had argued with him. 'The healers and nurses are kind and the food is good, but I must be here to finish my task. If I am taken back to the palace I will run away as I did before.
Britta bit her lip. So this poor man was one of the lost souls she had been thinking about on the way to the harbour yesterday. More than his face had been scarred by what he had suffered during the rule of the Shadow Lord.
She had seen such people in the streets, had even met one or two in her own neighbourhood. But now, for the first time, she truly faced the horror of the time before she was born — the time that had always seemed like a colourful story, exciting but a little unreal.
STAR OF DELTORA
Shadows of the Master
Ch 11 The Cellar
lief's doing his best
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05 - Magic
The amethyst, symbol of truth, calms and soothes. It changes colour in the presence of illness, loses colour near poisoned food or drink…
DELTORA QUEST 1
Return to Del
Ch 10 The Road to Del
interpret this art as you wish lol i cant articulate it, at least right now. but i did want to briefly talk about one aspect of my headcanons for toran magic.
they always allude to the ancient torans being far more powerful to the modern torans (e.g. carving tora from the marble mountain, creating the magic highway between tora and del) but there's no given reason why.
i think that it's all about their core value: truth. i think we can presume that the symbols assigned to each gem were ones that the different peoples upheld and valued.
thus, the second the torans started to live in untruth, they doomed themselves. a slow decay, unseen over the centuries, but it's seriously telling.
pre-tora, they were living in tents and immersed in their world, connected to everything in all their senses. within tora, they are living a lie and sheltered, cut off from the world.
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08 - Relationship
"girls the flowers are eating us alive"
- jasmine probably
big fan of the whole thing the blood lilies and fleshbanes have going on <3
love how the blood lily pollen is a numbing agent and it helps the fleshbanes eat, uh, flesh. and then the remains continue to decay and nourish the soil for the lilies. symbiotic mutualism beloved :D (a term i had to look up lol) evolved friends, nature's besties
i was just about to wonder how the lilies get pollinated if everything it touches gets numb and sleepy, but i suppose the fleshbanes would do it right? theyre just crawling around lol. and i assume theyre immune or resistant to the pollen because it's everywhere and theyre fine.
anyway i think it's interesting how rodda included ,, i think in Monsters probably but could be Secrets, but people did try to use the pollen as an anaesthetic but the effect doesnt lost long enough to make the journey. (but what's stopping them from taking a flower and planting it on the mainland. dangerous im sure. it'd be hard to transplant them without accidentally taking a fleshbane, and they spread really fast so it'd be horrible if left unchecked. i suppose it makes more sense to dry a flower and collect seeds on the island and take those actually lol. thank you for listening to my ted talk bye asdlkfjhaslkdfj)
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07 - Filli❔
lil bby too precious for this world (will burn your house down if you hurt jasmine)
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18 - Ripples
The man hesitated, the bracelet hanging between his fingers. 'It is forever, while we live,' he warned, suddenly unsure of her.
But Rosalyn looked deep in his eyes and smiled, and felt his joy as if it were her own as he fastened the bracelet around her wrist.
TALES OF DELTORA
Tenna Birdsong Tales
The Trader's Daughter
and they lived happily ever after the end
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30 - Unity
'Let the seven gifts of the land be joined — at the last.' [Zara's father said.]
Adin took the great gem and pressed it to the last, empty space in the belt. It slipped into place with a tiny click.
And at that moment, our world changed.
TALES OF DELTORA
The Deltora Annals
The Battle for Deltora
just wanted to draw my moon and stars ocs since i love them and they are Adin-era so i guess it fits the first deltora unification but then i ended up drawing them in wedding garb so i guess it's double unity or something alsdkfjh
anyway this is Badr of Rithmere and Luisa of Del, theyre warriors who spedrun enemies to lovers because of the shadow invasion. they often had princess bride esque encounters of "you seem a decent fellow i hate to kill you" "you seem a decent fellow i hate to die lol" type of border skirmishing / patrolling etc. found themselves fighting side by side at hira and developed a nicer respect rather than the grudging kind and they began to enjoy each other's company more as they could hang out in peace under Adin's rule
i think it's too presumptuous to say that they were the first intercultural marriage, i would imagine that there were some at least they were just quieter and lived in the country or something to avoid conflict. but badr and luisa's wedding(s) wouldve been a big deal post-adin's coronation because now everyone is start to trade and intermingle and chat with each other in friendly terms, and they would be well known for their courage and skills so their respective cities were definitely Too Involved lmao
anyway del people are curious and love travelling so i think generally they wouldve been like "oh cool" but also "please have a del wedding with us" because they want to partayyy 🎉 etc but the mere were probably waaaaaaaaaay more reserved. maybe average reserved. like not the most suspicious but also not the most enthusiastic lol. they'd be like woah a stranger here. but luisa is so bubbly and loveable they take to her eventually 😌💙
i drew a rough version of the mere wedding attired because i've sort of done del wedding attire for jaslief so i thought why not try something else
also it's a coincidence but ive latched onto it so much but im obsessed with giving del moon imagery because of how the topaz and the moon are so interlinked and i think it's important to their culture, but guess what's also in the night sky. stars. you know who's famous for star motifs?? the mere. [always sunny in philadelphia red string.gif]
here's some drawings i haven't posted yet because i've been trying to do the warrior getup for all the tribes and i haven't done that yet lol
they're my favs my lil guys :)
and all because i drew a mere person swindling a del person once upon a time lmao
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27 - Watch
'All the gold is yours, my loyal crew,' [Laughing Jack] said in a trembling voice. 'If I take one piece of it for my own, I myself will take to the oars. I swear it on my soul!'
'I hear your words, James Gant, and they will bind you!' cried Verity from the prow, her voice as shrill as a sea-bird's call.
DELTORA QUEST 3
Isle of the Dead
Ch 10 Deadly Bargain
god the verity arch is so 😘👌
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