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they found the Affluent Photographer

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Come on down to see em play!

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finally finally did @t6fs‘ awesome OC chart for Atlas. My boy..

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filled out @t6fs's template for Drakona! this was fun

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Building on my point of the july es circumstances coinciding with false summer. I can have a little whump as a treat

-the July ES seemed to be an 'within a day' affair so I kind of headcanon that Anfroy only got back in the morning the next day. Completely dripping. Wounds at probably 6 or smth. Probably would've toppled over on the street if he got home an hour later.

-Marigold/the Mathematician is also completely zonked out by spore fever of the puffy eyes+runny/stuffy nose variant. So they're both home-bound and Dilan/the Semiotician stays in the house too because he's used to being the caretaker in spore-fever season.

-Dilan in this case, apart from the standard meal preps and symptomatic relief, makes sure the windows are closed and perhaps sets up a vinyl player. He's used to Marigold needing textile and audible stimuli during spore fever. Both of which Olaf/Ruffs/Flufflewuffs/the space woofer helps with of course.

-as for Anfroy, if not for his whole issue of being sopping wet his case of spore-fever would've been better, but. Well. The last time he was sick sick was in the aftermath of getting his soul stolen + getting lost in parabola + sighting the stormbird so he was barely lucid, and before that he'd been in relatively good health, so he's absolutely miserable here. Everything spins and hurts and is in the wrong temperature and his eyes are burning and his arm feels like it's going to fall off again. It sucks.

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i'm just gonna say that the premise of the july es in which you go in the water with the addition seasonal spice of it being false summer and the time where spore fever is at an all time high is an immensely delicious combination

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As decades have gone on, Ellie's meticulous journaling has never changed. Though the use of language has gotten lax over the years...

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I'm doin' it.

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Blink through the blood and steam. Then sound it out- those words between stars- with the ring of glass chimes and broken rime.

(Looks at firm men ch 5. Screams. I've finished it but i won't mention it in read more or until some times has passed haha)

Anyway there has been a few updates: he's managed to reach the hurlers before the great hunt began! He's managed to lose his (already ailing) right pinky and its associated palm bone to the cold!

And he has been trying to bring up his prior experience with correspondence in preparation for crazier things on the Roof, so he's commissioned an extra glove with a wrist brace and glass-adjacent pieces so he can makes things faster- fingersnapping works more in the sense of a full stop or a comma so he can cap off words of correspondence and send it out quickly. It doesn't actually do anything for physical taxation as of yet, so he needs to use them in short bursts or risk tiring himself out or worse.

An interesting observation is that the scar where his right hand now ends starts steaming when he tries to use correspondence, so the glove ends up not covering it.

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BREAKING NM NEWS!!

a while ago i saw this pin and produced the sketch. now coloured this anime shipbait poster ass thing to commemorate my ghostie's getting their first ever nat20 on their edcard rolls.

Big Things were always set to happen the first time either rolled a nat 1 or nat 20, so... this means they're Aware of their Feelies now. still laughing my fucking ass off at these circumstances however RNG continues to be one of the biggest nm fans.

so, context that led to this latest groundbreaking development in TL;DR format:

rei gets invited to a wedding. edward finds out

they argue abt their weird fucking marriage

he's forbidden from attending, as expected, but it still pisses him off incredibly. he stays home nicely though drinking wine til he passes out instead

rei attends but is haunted by the conses of their own quences regarding matters of love and couples

they end up dreaming of the orphanage the very next day again and finally puts 2+2 together about Some Things

well .

more context!! context for the context god!!:

two days prior. we receive an invitation to a extravagant wedding. the literal next card draw was poor fucking edward i kid you not. he knew.

these two argued badly (read: in a non-fun way) like they hadn't in quite a while. it's less about the event itself and more what it represents. this particular kind of thing – romantic partnership that isn't there despite both still clinging to the "marriage" word – really triggers edward. and when he gets tilted he gets really antsy & full of violent thoughts about wanting to ruin things for his terrible horrible spouse somehow.

here's the thing: reisz has always been putting quite the work in making sure he still Is. which means that although

the guy in question can technically manage to sneak out when they're not looking just fine. He doesn't because he feels compelled to stay in the Orphanage, and the sheer reality of the Is after so long in the mirror makes him feel nauseous and smothered to almost an incapacitating degree. But he can.

i rolled again to decide the outcome. first was how much he was okay with complying. he got a whopping 2. (if it was a nat 1 I'd have to bite the bullet and say he actually went to commit a faux pas of some sort and this would set their relationship back really hard LOL.) then whether he actually complied. got a 18. he was a good boy despite it all

rei goes to the wedding and does have a great time But. it's a marriage. there's couples everywhere in the afterparty. there's love mentioned all the time. they didn't feel like courting anyone bc they kept uncomfortably being reminded of the fucking guy on their basement. also known as their husband lmfao

it's not that they wanted him there, or anyone to know; but the concept of bringing someone along to go to an event, the fantasy of having an actual partner they could lock arms with and take a walk around town; all these silly things they loved doing & that they gave up on when they removed themself from the dating pool and chose to keep him...

it was a little lonely.

the next day, on rei's 16th (or 17th) edcard draw (fuck i lost count), their subconscious yeets them on the Orphanage again and. 20. the day finally arrived. the Realization comes like a trout jumping out of the water straight to their face:

- they really miss doing actual couple things

- they ? are okay with the idea of doing these with him ?¿

- they DID wish they could have him there .

- they DO feel kinda ??something about the things he said in the argument

- whenever they think too much about love or romance or company they end up drawing an edcard dreaming about their husband. this was a pattern.

maybe they actually like him?

huh.

ok.

what do they do now?

(and the answer so far has been: literally nothing . this got them so destabilized they started working on the railway board again. cheers!)

anywho og pics below :3c

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HI so I mentioned earlier that I think Anfroy sounds like Hermes FF14 and @slightly-sigilant was very kind to have shared a Cameo of the VA (Jeremy Ang Jones) voicing a shitpost so here. It helps that he doesn't like frogs kdhkfhf

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVOLUTION!!!

Happy Anniversary to my favorite storyline in the game, and Happy Birthday (in a way) to my favorite character <3

If you know anything about me you know I LOVED Evolution (understatement of the century), I've been waiting 6 months to make art for its anniversary. It means so much to me, I could go on but I don't want to get weepy. Just know that the Youthful Naturalist is very near and dear to my heart.

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Small blurbs about anfroy because idk where it'll fit elsewhere

-the characteristic of him having a little violet earring was actually inherited from hallward (the limbus oc that has recently been revamped); i thought i wouldn't have any use for the latter anymore lmao (but that's fine! Hallward has robot ears now)

-him having the tatterskin effect (the little. Reflective mottled light in bright lighting on the face and such) feels like i gave him reverse freckles

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Yay

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Oh yeah a late happy father's day and almost 6 year anniversary to this AU guy in particular

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Since i've been getting a bit of a itch to draw other ocs: for people with floc sideblogs is it wise to set one up for the anfroyer too?

Pros: easy, focused access; condensed content

Cons: i'm not sure whether i want to copy/paste posts over there or delete them from my main blog (this one) as I do