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i was inspired

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love doodlin these guys

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:3 🥰🥰🥰

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graha tia performative male core

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this is how big ashbuncle is btw. haurchefant for scale

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😘😘😘🥰🥰🥰.

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he just needs some love is all c: graha loving hours

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I've made a lot of commentary about mods in the past (predominately here, but there's pieces intermingled on my blog), so I'm sure it's no real surprise to a lot of people I'm not overly devastated about losing access to Mare.

On the one hand, I absolutely acknowledge the validity of people using mods to enhance limited customisation options (especially for poc on a broad spectrum) and I have been very transparent about the importance of that and the nuance it brings to the conversation, but I have genuinely had way more positive interactions with just the people around me since Mare went down. Like, as much as people are upset about it... it almost seems like there's a collective relief of like 'thank god I don't have to maintain anyone this if I don't want to'.

I don't doubt that something like Mare won't come back. I've heard it has in some capacity; though I would caution ANYONE jumping on a new tool before it's been vetted by someone with experience in malicious code.

However, while Mare is down and there is no alternative... can we take the time to interrogate how we use it? If you think your roleplay experience is ruined, why? Outside of the nuanced reasons above, it is not enough to use your imagination, screenshots or art? Do you feel 'lesser' for having your mods stripped away? If so, has that thought ever crossed your mind about a console player or someone who doesn't want to use mods? Has that affected how you interact with them?

Just food for thought. I don't say this to make an argument or interrogate any specific person(s); I just think it's interesting and validating in my spaces that most people were like 'oh no! anyway.'

I think this may be a good opportunity people to look beyond visual mods to the content people write, and that's exciting for me personally.

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H..have you seen the new Moonfire promo art?

YES. And it hurt my heart, because I remember this line from Emmanellain during that one Island Sanctuary event...

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The wol's Canon boyfriend, G'raha Tia!

What a cutie

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Haurchefant Greystone

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Just can’t get enough of him. I just think he’s neat ❤️

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'𝑀𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑. 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢, 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑.' Follow me on twitter ♥

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Commission of G’raha Tia for a good friend, had a blast rendering this c: