#ZRINGOT

[keplercryptids]

[image description: a digital drawing of characters from my d&d campaign, Ingot and Z’ress, as they embrace in front of a sunny curtain and Ingot kisses Z’ress on the forehead. Ingot (he/they) is a tall, thin tiefling with gray skin, large bat wings, horns that start at the temple and go straight back before curving upward, and straight, dark blue shoulder-length hair. Ingot is wearing a long-sleeve green tunic and gold earrings. Z’ress (he/they) is a shorter, thin drow with dark purple skin, white freckles, and white hair in thick cornrows gathered into a bun at the base of his neck. They’re shirtless, showing a scar across their neck and scars like the spokes of a wheel on their chest. Z’ress is smiling softly, gazing downward, as Ingot kisses him. Z’ress has a red string threaded through his braids, and Ingot has the same red string threaded through a small braid in front of his ear. The lighting reflecting off them is yellowy and warm. “Together, JD ‘22″ is written in the bottom corner. End ID.]

they’ve been through A Lot lately and they just deserve a soft moment, okay?!

#jd arts #jd&d #zringot #z'ress #ingot #dnd art #reforged campaign #d&d characters #d&d art #i was finally able to depict this damn piece the way i saw it in my head #after restarting it three times lmao #i! love! these! boys! #they're Good your honor

[artemissoteira]

there’s a world a bit to the left (ok; a lot to the left) that haunts me sometimes where ithren learns what love is just from watching sauhety and zringot and kemplock. and they might still get there (i hope they get there). but what they’re learning from ingot&kempa and saube’s sudden anger and whitlock whitlock my friend whitlock is such a different kind of love. not just friendship, not just safety, not just sacrifice. it’s so messy. as much as ithren claims to understand ingot they are at such a loss with this. how could you teach that love to someone who is, to some fundamental extent, such a casual & direct threat to any and everyone around them? you decide to kill them. how else.

#ingot&kempa deciding to kill ithren is truly going to live in my brain rent free forever #of COURSE they are of course of course #kempa also did clarify to ithren in pasra (in the crosstalk) that by talking about shooting them they absolutely meant killing them #and that did not go unnoticed #the only thing that confuses ithren is that you haven't tried it yet; you keep choosing not to #and then for all that whitlock doesn't want to he's also entertaining doing/allowing it; he has to #you are all so MESSY you are all such PEOPLE #the lengths you'll go to to keep others safe. what a lesson. what love. #ithren #reforged campaign

[lichfucker]

zringot and 🎵?

g-d not when I've literally been listening to jd's z'ringot playlist on repeat for like two weeks dlfkjsdf

I know the thing said a song but I cannot choose just one. so.

a case of you by joni mitchell

lapis lazuli by the oh hellos

hell or flying by jeremy zucker

old college try by the mountain goats

someday we'll linger in the sun by gaelynn lea

what's love got to do with it by tina turner

first love/late spring by mitski

not for me by forth wanderers

3 rounds and a sound by blind pilot

and uh. a whole bunch of songs that I wrote myself. lmao 🙃🙃

I tried to narrow this list down, I really really did. I left off so many but all of these ones are sooooo necessary

jd's playlist is on spotify but I made a youtube version here bc I don't have spotify and spotify doesn't have a case of you

#beatricexbenedick #thanks hollis #bluh bluh #jams #ingot #z'ress #jd

[keplercryptids]

I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand.

—This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

#amal el mohtar #max gladstone #zringot #reforged campaign

[keplercryptids]

And, to be honest, love confuses me. I've never felt it before this—I've had joy in sex; I've had fast friendships. Neither feels right for this, and this feels bigger than both. So let me say what I mean, as well as I can.

I sought loneliness when I was young. You've seen me there: on my promontory, patient and unaware.

But when I think of you, I want to be alone together. I want to strive against and for. I want to live in contact. I want to be a context for you, and you for me.

I love you, and I love you, and I want to find out what that means together.

—This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

#amal el mohtar #max gladstone #okay last one i swear lol #zringot #reforged campaign

[keplercryptids]

[image description: a closeup, realistic digital painting of characters from my d&d game, Z’ress and Ingot. Z’ress (he/they) is a thin drow with dark purple skin and white hair in thick cornrows that are gathered into a low bun at the base of their neck. Ingot (he/they) is a thin tiefling with gray skin, horns that start at his temple and go straight back before curving up slightly, and long, straight, dark blue hair. Their faces are very close and they both have their eyes closed. Z’ress is cupping Ingot’s face with both hands. The background is bright white, and next to Ingot it says: “Perhaps then your god and I will be square.” End ID.]

getting square

#zringot #jd&d #jd arts #reforged campaign #dnd art #i painted this instead of doing any prep for the game fjdkalfs #though if you think about it #this is kind of prep!!!! #if you're me!!!!! #anyway i Love Them #they are Good

[keplercryptids]

You were right, back when—I have built a you within me, or you have. I wonder what of me there is in you.

—This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

#amal el mohtar #max gladstone #zringot #reforged campaign

[keplercryptids]

i have no justification for my z'ringot tag lacking the appropriate apostrophe while my ros'ae tag is grammatically correct. any explanation i can give is mere speculation. but anyway it's been 4 years of "zringot" so i can't do anything about it lmao

#zringot #ros'ae #jd&d

[keplercryptids]

Manifesto in an unknown language

No, I couldn’t sleep. I’m building my loves from the smell of rain and the bus driver’s soft wave when I’m broke, from a sea that carves cracked bottles into gems, and a stranger’s laugh runs a vein of silver through the night, a love cut from the dark when a kissing scene fades on a film screen. Say the last time someone touched me with a tender feeling and I’ll eat the clock. Name the next time, win all the lucky pennies I’ve thrown away waiting for that love like a nasturtium, the petals with their birthday candle flame, hot and sweet. The kind of love in my steps where empty rooms are only rooms you’ve left.

Rhiannon McGavin From Grocery List Poems Not a Cult, 2021

#rhiannon mcgavin #ZRINGOT #hhhhhh #z'ress #i'm dead #reforged campaign

[keplercryptids]

[image description copied from alt text: a digital painting of a scene in a very green foggy forest. there's a silhouette of a couple holding hands sitting on one of the large tree branches.]

this is messy af but sometimes you read a whole book about trees and then your ttrpg npc is reunited with his boyfriend in the feywild and one thing just leads to another, okay??

#jd arts #zringot #jd&d #reforged campaign

[keplercryptids]

i can't explain to anyone but tess that z'ringot is hands and hair and thread and the color blue, but it's just true, okay???

#zringot #reforged campaign

[keplercryptids]

yes it's been two days. no i have not stopped thinking about how z'ress and ingot immediately insight-checked each other as soon as z'ress was conscious. something something inherent mistrust in the face of tragedy something.

#this is not cognizant but whatever #zringot #reforged campaign #jd&d

[keplercryptids]

ingot: you make me more myself, and i'm sick without you.

z'ress: i love you too.

#reforged campaign #zringot #jd&d #i am still feeling extremely normal about this game if you were wondering

[keplercryptids]

[image description: a digital drawing of two characters from my dnd game, Ingot and Z’ress, kissing each other. Ingot (he/they) is a tiefling with light gray skin, straight dark blue hair, and horns that start at the temples and go straight back before curving upward slightly. His bat-like wings are extended around Z’ress, and one of his hands is cupping Zress’ neck while the other is pressed against the wall behind Z’ress’ head. Z’ress (he/they) is a drow with dark grayish-purple skin, faint freckles, and white hair in box braids that are pulled into a low ponytail. The background is pale gray and there’s a tiny red heart drawn above their heads. End ID.]

I was swimming My eyes were dark 'til you woke me And told me that opening is just the start It was

Now I see you 'Til kingdom come, you're the one I want To see me for all the stupid shit I've done

yes this is the most self-indulgent thing i’ve ever drawn, yes i am manifesting that these boys kiss and make up and get married and stop fighting about their ideals lmao.

#jd arts #zringot #reforged campaign #jd&d #i! am! manifesting! #also i am especially proud of ingot's hair #also this is the first time i've drawn wings wooo #anyway i love these boys #so much #they Hurt me #tess #z'ress #ingot

[keplercryptids]

[image description: a digital drawing of two d&d characters, Ingot and Z’ress, in a canoe at sunset. Ingot (he/they) is a gray-skinned tiefling with long, straight blue hair and bat-like wings. Z’ress (he/they) is a drow with purple skin and white hair in braids. Ingot is seated at the back of the canoe and Z’ress is seated on the floor, resting his head in Ingot’s lap. They’re both smiling with their eyes closed and they look very peaceful. End ID.]

“i will be your anchor.”

sometimes, being a DM means you get to set up a scene between a PC and their boyfriend NPC, where the boyfriend promises to always be there and that he’ll do anything for them, knowing full well you are about to force the party to leave the boyfriend in hell for an indeterminate length of time. and sometimes this backfires because then you, the DM, think about this scene nonstop for weeks fdjsaklfa

anyway. here’s a moment of calm before the storm.

#this is messy af but i needed to draw it and i needed to draw it NOW #zringot #z'ress #ingot #jd arts #jd&d #reforged campaign

[keplercryptids]

what if instead of doing all the shit i needed to do, i painted a forest instead

#for reasons i am needing to paint a forest scene okay #zringot