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Happy Birthday to Miguel [they/them]~ ⛵🎉

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Polycule Fursonas [Part 4]

Lena questions the concept of a "fursona".

[Part 1] | [Part 2] | [Part 3] | Part 4*

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Happy birthday Val [he/him] ~ 🍰🚴🏽‍♂️

Last one's been reposted >here<

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Polycule Fursonas [Part 3]

Despite heckling Sin earlier, Alfonz makes a fursona of mor own.

[Part 1] | [Part 2] | Part 3* | [Part 4]

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Yep going to attempt Artfight a fourth time this year.

All the featured characters this time (save for Raisin) are thematic :)

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Happy birthday to Sima [he/him] ~ 🌞🎉

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Happy birthday to Decker [he/him] ! 🎂🦇

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Happy birthday Stacie [she/her]! 🎂🌱

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Polycule Fursonas [Part 2]

With Mikki's help, Sin makes their own fursona.

[Part 1] | Part 2* | [Part 3] | [Part 4]

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Happy 6/9 (or 9/6), Lío [he/xem] 🎂🦎

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Polycule Fursonas [Part 1]

Mikki hyper-fixates on something other than trains for a moment.

Part 1* | [Part 2] | [Part 3] | [Part 4]

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Before AAPI Heritage Month ends, it's time to post a little bit of Mili/Mikki [ji/xer], since a. xer in-universe birthday is in September and b. ji had thrown me into a Tagalog/Filipino hyper-fixation loop for over 3 months now.

Ji likes trains. 🚊

While writing a supplementary story for the second main story I had finished in February, I fell into the largest rabbit-hole on Philippine culture that I'm still not out of. I'm currently stuck listening to OPM and trying to learn Tagalog independently as I develop the culture that Mikki comes from: an indigenous culture that lives on the bay, called Raynes [or Republika ng Tagalook].

Shifting around a culture to fit within a new geological context isn't easy, I will say. It pained me to deduct eggs from their diet, since eggs aren't consumed in their region due to the lack of livestock, but they still have an abundant fishing culture at least.

Because Tethysia [the region Raynes is in] borders Titania, they still have some Spanish influence thanks to Platina, Titania's largest and most artificial technologically-advanced* country. Since they're the closest civilization to Titania, their language has Čeloñol [auxlang Spanish] injections in it.

As for Mikki? Mikki's a vehicle enthusiast with an extensive sign collection, road-themed decor, and a permanent shame associated with assimilating to the standards of a culture that isn't xers :)

Ingat po kayo! 👋🏽

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Birthday time for Alfonz [she/they ➡he/they] 🥟🎂

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Though neither of their birthdays align with AAPI Heritage Month, I wanted to post Ahn [xie/xier] and Kiri [she/he/they] today.

Since writing a story that involves Ahn, then Kiri, then their twins, I had indulged a lot in researching Korean and Japanese culture to properly emulate their cultures and listening to a *lot* of Korean music to fix Spotify's constant suggestions of Japanese music.

Korean was the main focus (next to a different culture/language, which will come up in a few days) for actual months, and Japanese came into play because Kiri is coded part Korean, part Japanese.

I could not start learning Korean during AAPI because of a different, SEA language :) And the fact that the Korean language book that I am on a wait-list for is still with someone else, overdue more than a month lol Libraries, am I right?

At least I sat down and finished learning Hangeul using Wikipedia (minus diphthongs). Duolingo is bad at teaching Hangeul-- check out Wikipedia to actually understand Korean phonology.

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I did it for Lío last year, so I'm doing it again.

Happy 5/23 (or 23/5) Pato (it/its) 🎂🦆

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The Prideful Wyrm and the Wyrm's Ire [both He/They] ,,September 2023; February 2024

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The Lune and Sol [both she/Her] ,,September 2023