#BLORB

[birdhism]

How to identify different types of birds: If you'd like to learn how to draw and color these birds, you can pre-order my book! Out May 7th

[orofeaiel]

Blorb (of the White Crowned Sparrow variety)

[choking-on-ice]

it's Grandma!!! and oh no! she's nakey!

[dysfunctional-doodle]

Wow I really haven’t drawn anything independently in ages. Here is a freckled 1987 Donatello sketch because for some reason I love the idea? Who knows why.

-> Commissions || My Kofi || Tip Jar :) <-

But yeah, until early May I am going to be stupidly busy, so mostly commissioned art as I cry over my assignments /jk

[lovelycrawfishy]

HAPPY ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO IN STARS AND TIME’S RELEASE!!! Won’t post the current main thing I’m working on for now but here’s a goofy looking Siffrin to commemorate this day

[crowley-exploder]

HELLO

[choronus]

[blorbo-blog-bro]

Low resolution Blorb

[jay72664]

Today my ADHD

Is going nuts. It wants my to over explain everthing. I said oh my god, and then had the urge to type out how I don't have a god so that doesn't really made any sense, but I had other things to say, plus I they're a random person on the internet, I can't say that. And right now I'm all jiggly, I'm probably gonna have to take melotonin again to fall asleep. Low key just wanna talk so I'm just gonna keep going till I can't think of anything else to say because I can. I can't really talk this long irl because no one cares to listen to me for this long, and even if no one bothers reading this it feels good to get words out sometimes, I should do this more often. I was watching Bluey, because I have free will, and I really like Rusty he's such a good big brother, I think he might be better thana mine and that's saying somehting, because my big brother is great. But he'd never ever ever let me win, even when I was little, but it's different because there's only a two year age gap between us. Also, the episode with the passing game, I cna't remember what it's called, oh! Pass the parcel, that one? Well, it's not a super great moral, I mean, could you imagine if Muffin went to even one of them and lost? It would have gone really bad, I know, because I played the non-lucky's dad rules, and my little brother STILL got upset, he's really annoying sometimes, I wishe he'd think about other people, he's only nine, but still. I'm pretty good at talking to him, but whenever other people get involved it tends to go downhill. Are you still reading this? Damn, you must be really bored, huh? Or maybe it's just fun to read ramblings, doesn't make much difference to me. Say, commetn ')(' if you get to this point, I've always wanted to do something like that, anyways. I cosplayed today, it was fun, I did it at dnd, now my whole party is gonna do it, I started it, it feels great. Welp, I'm tired, so I guess this is it, probably won't go to bed just yet though.

[aka-indulgence]

Thank you Jezzi for the kofi! Here’s New Moon Sans! I also miss moon god sans :’)

Doodle Details Kofi

[buttercup-fluffalove]

behold the magificent blorbulosity that is me

[coldgardengentlemen]

Me: I don't understand people who read angst, I just want my blorbs to be happy☺️

Also me when it comes to The Character: put that fucker in the torture dome!

[silverskydreamer]

FNaF 3 & 4 - Collective Blorb Dump

None of these games had Custom Nights so I just decided to drop some of the connected blorbos and call it a day.

FNaF 3 - Frights

Here I decided to put Springtrap (og green), Michael (as the Frights guard) and Ralph (due to it being his final 'appearance' outside of UCN).

Took inspiration for Mike's hair and eyes from @chloesimaginationthings take on the character (go check her out!).

FNaF 4 (Nightmares not Included)

Had to put little Dave (as a rabbit here because I thought it would be cute), Plushtrap (I'd run from this thing) and FoxyBro!Michael (because I couldn't resist).

Bonus: William as Spring Bonnie, nice and pristine (and ungreened).

[dysfunctional-doodle]

For the anon that asked “what’s the fastest time you can physically draw something” I present to you my magnum opus: blorb Mikey.

This is 100% not what you had in mind but hey, it took 2 minutes and 13 seconds so challenge complete

(Yes, I actually do art I swear - )

-> Commissions | My Kofi/Tips :) <-

[desisailormoon]

RizeNish returned some nights ago!!

ft. My Furuta Funko fell on its own that same night. Maybe it was ADHD zoomies but that shelf didn’t shake

[spewagepipe]

Plumbing the Depths: Low Trust "Traditional", Part 5: Conclusions

In an effort to understand Hamilton's position better, I started reading other articles on his blog, and found this:

This is why role-playing games are so awesome. The game is yours. No designer and no judge has any right to come to your table to tell you that you’re doing it wrong. The methods you find to work for you, to portray and play your worlds are the right way. 

It seems... odd? For one, this isn't unique to RPGs – you can hack and homebrew any kind of game. But also, it directly contradicts the very prescriptive way that he's been attacking blorb.

Justin, if you're reading this, what you need to understand is that Sandra did exactly what you're suggesting in the quote above. For years, she played according to FKR standards, in high-trust groups, using the recommended techniques. She tried everything to make it work – and it still sucked for her. So, in response, she changed her game, and through those changes, she made it fun.

So why is Hamilton still unhappy about blorb?

Firstly, he's unhappy because it should be impossible for an FKR game to suck. Since it allows the GM to use any tool from any game while also empowering them to ignore any rule that causes problems, FKR should have all the strengths of all RPGs with none of their weaknesses. It should be a perfect game, satisfying any and all desires. If that's true, then Snan must be either lying or mistaken – hence, he accuses her of arguing in bad faith.

In reality, Snan's blog earnestly and clearly explains that unlimited GM authority was, in fact, the source of her problem:

I felt like nothing really mattered. The GM just made up what would happen according to their whim of what would fit the drama or what would be cool in the moment or what they thought made sense.

Unmoored from any hard rules, the games lacked tangible, real-life stakes to keep her invested. To fix this problem, she made the GM subordinate to the "prep", creating an non-negotiable bedrock to the game, and with it, the tangible stakes she was missing.

This, as Hamilton argues in yet another article, constitutes a "betrayal of the medium of role-playing".

This statement finally reveals the misconception at the heart of all of Hamilton's confusing contradictions: Hamilton is an RPG essentialist. He thinks that only One True RPG exists, and that all actual RPGs are, secretly, attempts to describe this essential game.

When he writes that we should "allow for the referee to follow their intended role", he genuinely thinks that there is only one intended role for the GM, for all RPGs, for all time. It's not just one possibility that he happens to enjoy – it's the true one, the default one. It was ordained by the universe itself, rather than some mere game designer. This is why he is disdainful of "designer intent": a designer's will is an imposition, their rules a kind of coercion, that are interfering with the essential RPG.

When he writes "the game is yours", he means, "except for these, the essential things".

He is, of course, wrong. There is no essential RPG. When Hamilton (and far too many other FKR/OSR theorists) describe the essential characteristics of the RPG medium, they are actually just describing their own designer intentions. GM fiat is not essential to RPGs – it's just one design choice, among many, and like all the others, comes with its own set of advantages and drawbacks.