#embers of tomorrow

[scarlettroubles]

I’ve been working so much on character designs fdjnfjfdhdfsdfd

#embers of tomorrow #concept art #character design #character concept art #my art #digital art #original character #antares almazan #juniper gunner #I'm still reworking the name of the bottom character

[catsharky]

A little early something for Valentine's Day ❤

Rolan got one too

#There'll be a second piece up tomorrow #I had to draw Ember with /both/ her boys of course :3 #finally got around to drawing something non-platonic for these two and it only took like 6 months wowie #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 astarion #tavstarion #tav x astarion #female tav #tav: ember #oc: ember #sharky's tav #sharky art

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Yet another day where no one said "as you wish" to me as a loving endearment

#maybe tomorrow #the princess bride #kate daniels series #kate daniels #curran #kate x curran #asite #a shadow in the ember #nyktos #sera mierel #seratos #love #romance #film #movies #quote #books #reading

[chromoluminary]

I am going to be. so brave today and get thru The Agonies

#ember talks #I think I’m just in a low swing of things but I just need to get thru my 14 straight hours of Having To Do Things #and then tomorrow I have more free time (ish)

[reginrokkr]

Guess who decided to grace this peasant with the 52 passes I had saved for him 🥺

His build needs more work as well but I'm completely fine with that. I managed to level up his traces to almost the max and I plan to finish those (besides the def, I'm okay without that lol) and then jump straight into relic farming for him. The good side of this is that Dr. Ratio will also need these, so it'll like farming for two character at once!

#◟༺✦༻◞ what lays behind the mantle of faux stars ┊ooc.┊ #I'm so happy that I didn't even need #the ember shop reset to farm him #and I think I won't even farm his traces anymore #and just get his mats from the shop tomorrow #so I can focus on relic farming #he does decent damage as he is at least #now I can save up the coming passes for R.obin and S.unday ♥︎ #hope that your pulls are great if you plan to pull for either S.parkle or him!

[risingsunresistance]

every time i notice i've lost a follower i'm like man you're REALLY gonna regret that when i post this banger art piece in 4-6 months

#trying my best <- lying #i actually did draw a sketch yesterday but i dont wanna post it #...mostly bc i dont know if ember still hangs around here or not- #IT'S NETHER CLOTHES IT'D BE SO AWKWARD TO @ AND FIND OUT THAT WAY BUT I DONT WANNA CHECK #and im not NOT giving credit for the inspiration that's not happening #the nether clothes live in my head rent free. best post on this website #chat #anyways goodnight i have to get up earlier than usual for work tomorrow aaaaaa #it's my fault but still. upsetting

[music-wrestling-nascar-fan]

#asuka #the empress of tomorrow #ember moon #athena #nxt #wwe #wrestling

[horizonzerodawnaesthetic]

The Foods of the Forbidden West

The discord was talking about worldbuilding, as per usual, and we were trying to figure out what the people in Horizon eat/grow. So, armed with the encouragement and companionship of @elsodex, I set out to every major settlement to take pictures of their food and crops. Warning: this is gonna be a long one.

First up on our culinary quest: the Tenakth! And the first of them is the Lowland clan. Let's see the food of Thornmarsh.

(For every image we look at, we'll start at the top left, move our way down, then go to the next column.)

On the top left there's a basket of artichoke (the only one I found) next to a basket full of fruits. I can't be 100% sure, but I believe the purple/blue fruits are plums, and the red and yellow fruits are apples and pears.

Next image. Left basket has dragon fruit and.. well the other fruit I'm finding difficult to place. At first I thought it was a durian, but looking at images it definitely isn't. The closest fruit I could find was the kiwano, but it looks as though the colors of the rind and the flesh were swapped. The basket in front of it also has the kiwano, as well as... okay I talked to several people about this and we couldn't figure it out. Honestly I think it might be a grub of some kind. Or really large mandarin orange slices? There's a better picture coming up. The basket on the right has the same miscellaneous fruits as before (here it's easier to see the pear), with an addition of onions.

Below that we have our meats and veggies. A basket of radishes, a basket of turnips and carrots, baskets of seagulls (the only unplucked bird we'll see), a basket of fish, and a container of what seems to be nakati, which is a type of eggplant.

on the top right we have a medley of foods, most of which we've seen already. We have nakati, multiple kinds of radishes, fish, dragon fruit, kiwano, and the new addition of bell peppers in the basket on the right. (spoiler alert, we're gonna see kiwano and dragon fruit a lot.)

Up next is the Sky clan, lets see what food they have at The Bulwark:

Alright so, top left we have some hanging foods, garlic, fish, onions, and what I believe are oranges?

both pictures below are boars, the skyclan is the only place I saw these, though it's possible I missed something.

The whole middle column is meat, with the hanging meat likely being boar, and the bottom being some bird (likely goose), and possibly sides of salmon?

Top right we have more boar and birds, as well as a crate of eggs below them. (I'm struggling to place them, they are speckled and many different colors, which neither geese nor ducks lay, but chickens do not exist.) Next we have sausage, more meats, oranges again, kiwano, dragon fruits, and now tomatoes join the fray.

We have all the same foods found in Thornmarsh here, bell peppers, radishes, kiwano, onions, and dragon fruit.

Next up we have kiwano, dragon fruit, and some bread. Under the table is some already shucked corn.

The final Tenakth clan is the desert clan, and well, they have some interesting things going on in Scalding Spear.

We've got our usual contenders in these crates, dragon fruit, kiwano, and nakati.

Next we have some racks of ribs, and a coil of sausages I originally mistook for a giant cinnamon bun.

next we have onions, eggplants, plums, pears, apples, corn, and green and red varieties of romaine lettuce.

Back up at the top we have the beginning of an interesting trend: "skewering foods and placing them near a fire". Do I even have to tell you what's in the top pic? say it with me now: dragon fruit and kiwano. there's also some meat that was absolutely not spiked on that wood.

next we have Dragon fruit and kiwano again, this time with bell peppers to shake things up.

At the bottom we have various small sausages and cuts of meat, sitting way too far from that fire to be getting any benefit from it. This level of meat preservation might explain every quest that's in the desert clan.

Now hold on! We're not leaving Scalding Spear yet. You may have noticed the bamboo being used to build the fire pits in the last image. Now you, dear reader, may be wondering where the hell you find bamboo in the middle of a desert. Well the answer is in Yarra's Personal Stash of Shit. (Or Drakka's, I guess, if you kill her. Does he automatically get her stuff? idk.)

On the left is potted bamboo. There were actually a few of these around her area. There's a few other plants as well, it's interesting that she chooses to cultivate these plants despite the clan's constant need of water. (Additionally, if that bamboo really is cultivated, then it is the only example of farming I've found in the Tenakth.)

On the right is what must be Yarra's pantry. we have an unknown spice in a dish on the left. Kiwano in the middle. The hanging fruits are probably mangoes, the green just looks blue because of the lighting. And other that we have those orange things again. I don't know maybe they're circus peanuts.

Next stop: Plainsong, both the foods and the planted crops.

Alright, you know the drill, top left is radishes, turnips, carrots, and a two new vegetables: salsify (the black one), and parsnips (the white one).

Under that we have a basket of the same, next to what I believe is a bowl of uncooked rice (though it could be another grain).

Next up we have a colorful collection of veggies. Parsnips, carrots, radishes, eggplants, peppers, romaine lettuce, rice, and scallions (though the leaves aren't correct so it might be something else).

We have rice soaking before it's being cooked (this is done to enhance the flavor and shorten the cooking time).

Then we have some beautiful honeycomb. (Mead, anyone?)

Then we have a nice array of dishes, I'm not going to try to figure out what they all are, but we have: a single baked sweet potato, various bowls of rice, and what seems to be various versions of a dish similar to lau lau. (Though lau lau is made with meat, so I'm not sure what they're using, probably something starchy such as the sweet potato.)

Finally we have some more root vegetables, along with some bamboo. (Waiting to be incorporated into plainsong? To be made into dishes? Exporting to Scalding Spear? Who knows.)

Now for the crops of Plainsong:

All of these are fairly simple. Up first we have some kind of bean plant, not certain on the variety.

Then we have either bananas or plantains, I'm leaning towards the former.

Then we have sugarcane, older and younger fields respectively.

And I wouldn't know the other if it weren't for these nice ladies, who are harvesting turnips.

Our final cuisine is that of the Oseram tribe. These include pictures from Barren Light, Chainscrape, and Hidden Ember, in that order. (Barren Light did not have Carja food as far as I could tell, at least not visually. The chef was Oseram and her wares were the same as the other two settlements.)

Okay first up we have an obscene amount of onions, corn, more onions, and.. Okay I really don't know what that is. It was grilled, I can tell you that much. If it's a meat, it's a bird, maybe a turkey patty.

Next we have a pile of sweet potatoes and some kind of flat bread. Somewhere along the lines of pita and naan (fingers crossed for naan).

At the bottom we have a bunch of sausages and some birds.

Chainscrape has this sick meat rack. It has whole boars, sausages, and two types of birds (it seems the ones at the top are turkeys, meaning the rest of the birds we've seen are likely geese). At the top right is more sausage and some pretzels. (I want to see the hook they use to get those down.)

Over at Hidden Ember we have more sweet potatoes and bread.

Radishes and sausage.

A bowl of onions and a leg of Boar.

But no exploration of Oseram food would be complete without discussing ale. Here's a lovely distillery found in Hidden Ember, along with other ale-related things.

Here we have a very proud man and his distillery (He's the herbalist at Hidden Ember if you want to see him.), kegs that were lifted to the third floor via a crane or pulley system, and some nice tankards.

And that's the food of the West! I didn't go to every settlement, so I might have missed something, though I should have gotten the broad gist of things. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed- wait, what's that? I forgot something? The- THE QUEN?!? Oh no, you're right.. well, I'll leave that for another time.

#I really did forget the Quen. I was finishing this up and realized I forgot them and I really don't feel like going and looking for the #for them* #At least I wanted to get this out first I'm impatient lol #I might actually stream looking for it cause that's what I did last night and it was sm fun #Also please like this it took so long #and fanfic writers this was for you #mine #horizon forbidden west #oseram #tenakth #utaru #theories #thornmarsh #scalding spear #the bulwark #plainsong #barren light #hidden ember #chainscrape #I also took a bunch of other pictures of the people and what not so I'll be posting those later. Probably tomorrow #I really hope this comes across as some strange travel guide because that's the vibe I was going for

[pyrokinetiic]

『I've also edited Ember's bio』

#【quieting flames】★ ooc #『Think I'm going to type a whole timeline for Ember and make a new promo graphic/pinned post tomorrow』

[magic-is-something-we-create]

i must say, writing a book like whispers for once (aka one where i know 90% of the main storyline going in and enough of the other to improvise it well) has meant editing is... way easier than it has been before.

#braindumps.txt #im so glad i had this spiderweb fuckery of a timeline/plot 99% figured out in advance #because just imagining having to add in foreshadowing and subplot threads at /this stage/ is giving me hives #thank u brain for marinating this one perfectly #and for letting me marinate GT while i was at it #(im gonna have to revamp the start of that quite a bit bc im like. 40k in and ember hasnt narrated AT ALL #and this is still THEIR arc which is fucked up of me honestly idk how i missed that when initially drafting #thats why it didnt feel quite right i think. but yeah im getting excited and marinating the plot has helped again) #no liveblog tag bc im going to bed but i might liveblog tomorrow idk #this editing process is going swimmingly #(i also changed it up from how i did it for firebreathers and such as well so thats helped i think)

[bridges-to-ashes]

Better hope she doesn’t freeze out there. :<

... Better hope not.

#ember in the ashes #the door unlocked • [ asks ] #[mod will be going to bed fairly early today since he has an exam tomorrow!]

[makerscockandballs]

"please correct us if we use your deadname so we can get used to this."

*calmly does that*

"SHOW SOME RESPECT. WE'RE TRYING! CAN'T YOU SEE THAT? YOU'RE SO UNGRATEFUL"

#sorry babes. i gotta put this somewhere or ill implode and burn this place down with the embers of my own body #only today and tomorrow. then im back with relatives who arent spouting terf shit #siblings & beer my best friends. glad to have ya #basil yells at cloud

[chromoluminary]

teeth :(

#Ember talks #genuine phobia of dental work is going to be faced tomorrow I suspect #assuming I can get an emergency appointment?

[ryeonah]

tag dump

#✖plotted starter║with a candle through time i could still see your ghost but i can't close my eyes for it is there where you haunt me most #✖mobile post║& i sat in regret of all the things i've done for all that i've blessed & all that i've wronged #✖psa║a reaper's guarantee of responsibility #✖music║again this evening ancient rain is singing the same ancient song #✖saved║those painful memories are what help us make it to tomorrow & become stronger #✖wishlist║you don't have to be a ghost here amongst the living #✖open starter║how can i blame the cherry blossoms for rejecting this floating world & drifting away as the wind calls them? #✖dash games║i liked the bittersweet taste of danger touching my lips #✖dash commentary║so how do i apologize & put the tears back in your eyes? #✖meta║the glass of my intentions turns to sand & shatters in my hand #✖character study║the last person I have to save is me & in the end we are the only ones who can save ourselves #✖headcanon║death & i have been scandalously intimate for some time now #✖hae dae-soo║there’s a black bird perched outside my window he burns me with his eyes of gold to embers he sees all my sins he reads my sou #✖gop-dan║others may forget you but i am haunted by your beautiful ghost #✖the jade emperor║there was something beautiful & tragic in the way that she waged war #✖lim ryung-gu║i know the pain that you hide behind the smile on your face #✖park joong-gil║solace lies in the ritual of remembering the dead & yet he cannot find solace in his rotted ribcage made of anger & grief #✖choi joon-woong║does it make me unique to hold hands with the grim reaper rather than go to the angel? #✖koo ryeon║how many nights does it take to count the stars? that's the time it would take to fix my heart

[waffle-bubbles]

Does anyone remember City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau?

Because that was my favorite childhood book.

#I got it for Christmas :) #I'm going to reread it tomorrow #city of ember #jeanne duprau #books

[gailynovelry]

So I finished all of the formatting for Winter Herald and I'm blown away that it was all this easy this time around. Not "absolutely no effort easy," but definitely "I've done this before and I know exactly how long every step takes" easy.

I'm glad I slogged through figuring out how the hell I was supposed to publish Shadow Herald on my own because it really paved the way for me to keep doing this stuff.

I am going to write and then publish a billion gay fiction stories and nobody can stop me.

#like assigning an ISBN? #that scared the shit out of me the first time i ever had to do it #now all i had to do was pop into my account on bowker #pick a number #and drop Winter Herald's information in #easy peasy pie compared to the absolute terror of the unknown i faced the first time #anyway i'm gonna put Winter Herald up tomorrow #and rest today #and after all of that i am going to advertise the shit out of Heralds of Rhimn #and work on writing Ember Warrior and also Mindhive #gods i've miss Mindhive #barely-functional Nat my beloved #writeblr #self publishing #indie books #lgbtq fiction #booklr