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the question, you see, is not ‘is it too ooc for this character to cry’ but rather ‘what circumstances would push this character to cry’

this is the whump wisdom, go forth and make that character cry

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HELLO?

#light fingers spoilers #fallen london spoilers #i love people experiencing LF for the first time after going in blind 💕 #vicariously re-visiting my own 'wtf' through y'all

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an important principle of fandom (and life, actually) is that if you want more of Less Popular Thing, it is good to create positive spaces and events for it. however, if you use those spaces to take cracks at the More Popular Thing which you perceive as stealing oxygen from your Less Popular Thing, you do not increase the audience for Less Popular Thing. you decrease it, because you irk people who like both Things. and depending on the relative popularity, there are quite possibly more people who like both Things than people who only like Less Popular Thing. (not to mention - you kill your chances of recruiting people who like More Popular Thing but are neutral on or haven’t considered Less Popular Thing.) 

you’re not campaigning for votes (where There Can Be Only One), you’re marketing for a share of people’s attention. don’t be petty. be effective. 

#subtracting from the whole doesn't provide or encourage more variety. #it just results in. less. #anyways just be obnoxious about your own things and sometimes people are enabled by your passion and then you're like 🥺

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Dirk Wachsmuth

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@zeebreezin

Nothing unusual to see here, folks. Just a perfectly normal goldfish in a deeply unethically-sized bowl.

Alternate version under the cut.

#look at it. youve taken a perfectly good goldfish and given it zealotry.

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How Tumblr live should’ve been

#seventh city posting

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Experts say yes.

Fellas. Is it gay to have a twisted and complex thing with a man over your shared resentment over the past, the blame about that loss, the lingering affection and grief you both still hold for someone lost, while holding the heart you cut out of her chest?

To slowly go mad failing to understand why she felt she had to do it?

#thanks fbg sdflsdf #city in silver spoilers

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if i'm even more incoherent than usual. i'm sorry.

#words are NOT working today. i am not entirely if they're making sense.

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People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

#i love all of them dearly. please talk more about them.

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The game may declare that its 1899 forever, but that wont stop me from leaning into more Edwardian inspired clothing 🤭 so enjoy this fashion plate-esque drawing of The Percipient Scientist herself~

Finally finished a drawing for @neathyfashioncoalition ,hopefully more to come.... at some point...

#others' tales #devils and anachronisms are permission to draw in different decades. so it's declared.

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New fallen London oc: canadian zailor who calls it the Unterzed

#im sorry this made me laugh #it's still the dominion of canada at the time of FL. and we get our idiosyncrasies primarily from the british.

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Tummy hurty… have some doodles

#others' tales #oh these are all very good. i love the dynamic...ness of them very much. #duels are my beloved.

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Aaron Westerberg

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Girl's Dress

1885-1890

Paris, France

The MET (Accession Number: 2009.300.993)

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tradgedy enjoyers when you look into the eyes of your worst enemy and can only see yourself

#this was WAY too aptly timed sdfsf #the director #the alleged protege

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Re-reading Evolution, and it's even better as a whole with some things from the final chapter in hindsight.

These enigmatic metaphors go too well with the Calendar Council's inspiration from "The Man Who Was Thursday" and what its author said: "You ask me who Sunday is? Well, you may call him Nature, if you like. But you will note that I hold that when the mask of Nature is lifted you find God behind."

My mind is passionately gnawing on an AU (NOT meant to be a theory, just a purely self-indulgent fantasy): what if "Death's twin" is literally Life – which makes December the Creator – and the Judgements are merely usurpers (very befitting their usual role of a flawed and cruel Gnostic demiurge who only pretends to be the highest authority) who deposed December just like they banished the Black King of the Adulterine Castle?

Or, if December isn't a deity, simply a rebellious servant (because the Boatman says "we both served the same table once"), what if it was a forced reduction from the former to the latter as a first-warning punishment?

What if this original god of life-and-death truly cared about all creatures equally, but then the likes of the Sapphir'd King decided to devour souls for more power instead of guiding them through rebirth (which Devils reclaimed + which somehow-December-connected frost moths represent) and devised the Great Chain to justify the right of "greater" beings to prey on "lesser" ones?

What if the Liberation of Night isn't an overthrow of natural order but is a return to what it should always have been (before "then the light came") and it's no coincidence that the Anchoress managed to behold god's love and true design only in the darkness? (High-fiving this @gant-eyed-warden’s post.)

What if the Bishop of St Fiacre’s knows it all – and that’s where his hopeful religious devotion comes from despite being a Neathy creature that would never be forgiven and accepted by the Judgements?

...I definitely want to write something about it, but I already have two WIPs, ooooh...

#lore posts #fallen london spoilers #oh i LOVE this take. please ramble more about your thoughts on this whenever you desire. #i will definitely be chewing on this for a while and likely incorporating some of it into my own beliefs/canons. #i really do love evolution when considered on a grander scale. i waited till it was finished and did it all at once. #while savouring the writing all together. #and i really do think it's a better experience as a result.

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Listening to a non-fiction book about maritime disaster and the way this author is describing the ship sinking is so sexual

#I should call her (lady black) #<- prev habfgdhs