#underfoot

[rhoxxia]

Chapter 11 of Underfoot is live!

Please read the trigger warnings in the beginning notes.

This chapter has more angst than any other. Sorry about that. But what’s Solavellan without Solas crying at least once, right?

I’d like to thank my lovely beta reader @lana-writes for ABSORBING my entire 77k fic so I could post this quickly. Bless you!

Like it? Let me know!

[homestuck-music-tournament]

Pumpkin Tide vs Underfoot

Pumpkin Tide From Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido By Michael Guy Bowman Propaganda: None submitted

Underfoot From One Year Older By Erik Scheele Propaganda: None submitted

[soxsneaksboots]

The right foot of my straight turkish footmaster

[goatmanteau]

Brittle stone

[sluggoonthestreet]

Adventures in Collaboration! I stumbled across an orderly line of blue rectangles outside an elementary school in my neighborhood, and with the assistance of two sisters waiting for their brother to finish soccer practice, we created an impressive parade of 15 dogs and one brave cat.

Most of the creative credit goes to Nora and Clare, because I only scribbled in the blobs for legs, tail and head. An excellent reward for carrying chalk and charcoal everywhere I go!

[ttaranza]

hey!!! if you like TTRPGS and fairies and being small and exploring a big world then do i have the game for you! you should check out Underfoot! a ttrpg made by Ella Carter with some contributing writing by yours truly. Travel through the house, the garden, or even the woods beyond as a fae of your choosing. This rules light game is also perfect for beginners! It features gorgeous art and some fantastic writing and you can get it HERE: https://www.ellacarter.art/underfoot

[alannah-corvaine]

ᴅᴇᴄᴇᴍʙʜʏᴜʀ ▶ ᴅᴀʏ 3   ↳   ʜᴏᴍᴇ

[az12lol]

Ralerin, the pangolin god, is tasked with eliminating the plague of mortal humans by destabilizing the natural order of the world.

Without the little humans being able to do anything, the god Ralerin rises as the dominant deity he is, and his feet will do the dirty work: reducing cities to pure fine dust.

Ralerin is owned by Arrogance127: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/arrogance127

[rhoxxia]

Last line written

Thank you for the tag @virshiral ! Here’s one from Chapter 13 of Underfoot, yet unpublished.

Elora practically melted against him as he cupped her jaw with his other hand and pressed his brow to hers. She closed her eyes. “You are..everything”. Solas whispered in the quiet air between them. “Everything I could have ever wanted. Everything I never allowed myself to dream existed. Ma sa’lath.”

It’s actually a couple sentences but ah well.

Tagging @buffybummerz @daylinlavellan @mysteriousnewt @lana-writes

Only do it if you want to! No pressure!

[homestuck-music-tournament]

Underfoot

Album: One Year Older Composer: Erik Scheele Leitmotifs: None Characters: June Egbert, Jade Harley, Skaia

[tenderloingeographicsociety]

Hard times for the soft, October 2023.

[caffeinated-moogle]

Job Transitions: Rogue -> Ninja

A friend of mine in game asked an interesting question some time ago about whether or not I follow game canon for the transition from Aeryn's starter classes into her specialized roles, and that's been really fun to ponder!

I'll split this up into a few posts, because it's liable to become quite long. For starters: rogue and ninja!

(Very minor class quest-related ARR spoilers behind the cut!)

N I N J A

For the rogue/ninja quests, the story of the class is canon for Aeryn - but the class itself is not! I adore the rogue questline and its characters with the entirety of my heart, and early rogue is probably my very favorite class to play. I was sad it ultimately branched into ninja, because although I find the characters for that story equally compelling, I find the class and its mechanics far less so. It looks really cool, don't get me wrong! But something about the flavor of rogue just appealed to me more, and I didn't want to skew away from that aesthetic, regardless of how much I enjoy the ninja lore and characters!

As I was already committed at that point to Aeryn being an archer main with lancer on the side, it didn't seem terribly realistic that she would also somehow become a ninja. So I ultimately decided on a path of adopting the rogue/ninja story for her lore without canonizing anything else.

The way I play it, Aeryn got on the radar of the Dutiful Sisters and was approached by Jacke, perhaps after he'd heard about her from various informants across Limsa. After assisting Jacke and his crew on a mission and getting caught up in their competition with Milala, they forged a bond of friendship and mutual understanding, such that the Sisters felt comfortable calling on Aeryn now and then for aid, trusting in her skill and discretion. Some of them (V'kebbe and Underfoot included) taught her to wield a set of daggers as well as how to maneuver in the shadows, but only as a backup means of defending herself in situations when carrying her bow or lance would be too conspicuous. In this way, the rogue story happens more or less canonically, just with Aeryn along for the ride in more of a sniper capacity as archer. She grows to love her silly little rogue family without necessarily becoming one of them.

Likewise, Aeryn does not truly become a shinobi. She does get some twinge of feeling from the soulstone she returns to Oboro; and I believe Oboro likewise has some glimmer of insight from the stone as it passes from her to him, such that he suspects she might join them. But in spite of his optimistic attempts to invite her into the fold, it seems Aeryn is incapable of learning the mudra. Try though she might, the mystical natural magics of ninjutsu simply will not resonate with her. (I feel she would be blocked from this in the same way she is blocked from most magic in Eorzea.) However, she picks up rather quickly on the physical techniques that Oboro and Tsubame teach her, expanding on the skillset taught by Jacke and his crew. And like with the Dutiful Sisters, her bond with the shinobi becomes one of friendship. She is invested in their mission - and forcefully involved due to Karasu's interest in her as Oboro's little "horsebird chick." Whether at Karasu's meddling or at the request of Oboro or Tsubame, Aeryn joins them on their missions as bard, and thus the storyline progresses much as normal - with just a dash of added sneak-sneak.

So Aeryn does technically progress from rogue to ninja as outlined in canon, but without ever actually picking up the class. She participates in the story and adopts extra skills but remains bard/lancer. As a result, Aeryn learns to move more gracefully/quietly as well as to work with her surroundings to mask her presence in a way she never quite learned from Ywain, Luciane, or any of her other mentors. She already knew quite a bit about close-combat, particularly hand-to-hand, from Ywain; but the shinobi and the Sisters helped her learn how to fight with small weapons when needed, including the best ways to incapacitate someone in those circumstances (both fatally and otherwise). She canonically starts carrying daggers at all times for situations when it might be more cumbersome to have her bow or spear along, such as when crafting or gathering. And she is considered an honorary member of the Dutiful Sisters and a friend to the shinobi, to the degree that she is often involved in their adventures. But that's the extent to which the rogue/ninja class is "canon" for her.

That's all for ninja! More class lore to come!

/ponder

[rhoxxia]

In my fic, when I write "held her as though he wanted to be part of her", this is exactly what I mean.

[3lix13]

ZINE-O-WEEN Day 4: UNDERFOOT - Riffing on the 1937 Disney cartoon 'The Worm Turns' to warm up this afternoon using Tombow Fedenosuke pens & Copic Multiliner SP pens & sketch markers...

[aestheticofaccumulation]

Accumulation as minimalism.

Mary Miss, Knots, 1969/2020. Pinakothek, Munich.

“These many knots suggest community. They revivify the potential of a cultural memorial. The traditional association of knots and memories suggested that this field was not a formal exercise in reduction but a trace of past events. Miss’s practice exemplified expansion, referring to the inclusion of new occurrences and practices as sculpture.” — Andrew Stooke, 2020

https://stookeandrew.medium.com/this-minimalism-which-is-not-one-patriarchy-in-an-expanded-field-99e34884a8d6

[az12lol]

You are under the enormous sole of the mighty god of destruction...

You have no escape.