🐱 Bengal
📸 Victoria Mykhaylyk [Paramount Cattery]
🎨 Black Smoke, Black Silver Rosetted Tabby
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sorry to "Earring (one of a pair)" at the Met Museum, but I desaturated you a little bit. mostly because, unlike herodotus's indian ants, I do not have free and easy access to gold.
mine on the left, argentium and pearls. the original on the right, gold and pearls.
(the other one of the pair is not pictured due to me not having made it yet.)
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I am STILL waiting for Rollo to burst into Sage Island out of sheer anger and spite. Come on, you can't prove the man right after GloMas and NOT let him make a cameo in episode seven!!
While I do love Rollo and I'm all for vindicating him (especially as both JP and EN servers dropped book 7 part 1 right after initial runs of GloMasq), I want to make it clear and reiterate that I 100% believe Rollo will NOT be showing up in the main story, cameo or otherwise. I'd advise everyone else to not get their hopes up as well, just enjoy the fan works that come out playing with the idea 💦
Here's a compilation of why this couldn't happen, as I have spoken about this topic a number of times in the past:
Rollo showing up would imply that the events of Glorious Masquerade (which takes place around Halloween time) are canonical to the main story, even though this would create many continuity errors. For example, Deuce's UM, which is very important to GloMasq, is not gained until book 5 (which occurs in late winter, early spring). GloMasq cannot take place autumn after Deuce gets his UM either, as the third years would all be gone on their internships. Another continuity error that is recently created by book 7 part 7 is that Silver + Sebek and Idia do not seem to know each other (they have to introduce themselves to one another), meanwhile they seem quite familiar in GloMasq.
There is no reasonable way that Rollo would even KNOW what is going on or be able to breach Malleus's barrier. Only high-level officials such as Briar Valley royalty and those in STYX seem to be aware of the ongoing situation and even they have trouble trying to break into Sage's Island. Why and how would Rollo have this same knowledge, then somehow get inside Malleus's barrier?
This could set up a precedent which puts more unnecessary pressure on the devs and the direction they take future stories. It's not fair if Rollo is the ONLY Halloween character that gets to show up in the main story (especially this late into it), that would be favoritism. This creates the expectation for devs to somehow find ways to give Fellow and other future Halloween characters cameos or some relevance in the main story.
Not everyone has played GloMasq or read its story. For the people who have, it's a nice treat I guess? But for those who haven’t (even with the new feature that lets you read missed events, there is no guarantee that everyone has), this is coming out of left field and makes zero sense if they don't have context for who Rollo is. There is little gain from having him show up for the risk of alienating late or casual players, no matter how brief the cameo.
A simple summary of who he is and what he did could be implemented, but it really detracts from the experience of going through it yourself and disrupts the pacing of book 7 in order to "make space" and "play catch-up" for this other character that was NEVER previously mentioned or alluded to in ALL of the main story. This is just... not good writing in general. This would read as a convenient deus ex machina for anyone unfamiliar with Rollo. It's not the same thing as the dorm members from the previous book coming to help you save the day in the current book. At least in that situation, there is a shared understanding of the main story campaign and a practically guaranteed bond with those characters. The same is not true of Rollo, whom you as Yuu barely get to interact with that much even in his event.
To summarize, it's just not pragmatic, especially when you consider all the implications of bringing an event-only characters into the main story. There is a good reason why vignettes and events were indicated to NOT be in the same timeline or canon as the main story: to avoid contradictions and issues such as the ones I have listed above.
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#MetalMonday:
Ostrich egg ewer
England (London), c.1675
Ostrich egg with silver gilt mounts
27.5 x 22.2 x 13cm (10 13/16 x 8 3/4 x 5 1/8in.)
On view at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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This is a custom pendant that was commissioned from me recently, which I've been given permission to share publicly.
It was constructed using a natural Black Pearl (in honor of my client's birthstone) and a spiny twig of Hawthorm that was hand-gilded with .999 Fine Silver (in honor of their ties to the Faerie Faith.) The chain and all fittings are made from sterling silver.
I continue to happily take on custom commissions such as this, so if you're interested in hiring me to craft a unique piece on your behalf, feel free to message me here or reach out to me using the 'contact' feature on my shop. I will gladly take on ritually specific and/or detail-oriented projects that call for things like locating rare materials, executing atypical designs, or following parameters for when/how a piece should be crafted.
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🐱 Maine Coon
📸 Catherine Rutkowska [Hodowla Kociaczek*PL]
🎨 Black Silver Shaded
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If you find this paper, you'll be richer than the KING.
Here are a couple more sketches, yes, I liked Blind Pew
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