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[emrowene]

I would love to follow more people who gush about and share art of their OCs. I just want to see more OC content in general, and more people unapologetically having fun playing with their little guys

reblog or let me know in the comments if that's you!

[emrowene]

Read the New Fractured Magic Chapter!

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Fractured Magic is a queer fantasy webserial. New chapters are published for free on substack and at emrowene.com every Monday. Subscribe on substack and have new chapters delivered directly to your email inbox.

More About the Story (&CWs and a Character Gallery)

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i come from the 8tracks generation where you weren't allowed to just dump three and a half twee indie folk/tswift records into a fanmix and call it done. on 8tracks you had 8+ handpicked songs in rigid chronological order and an accompanying mission statement and thesis defence detailing exactly why each one applied to your derek x stiles coffee shop au AND cover/track-list art hodgepodged from stolen pinterest/tumblr aesthetic photography, and all of this was done under constant threat of death because it was the DMCA wild west and the site was in a constant state of gradual collapse.

[emrowene]

i should’ve known i’d be weak for the annoying blonde elf

[emrowene]

Read the New Fractured Magic Chapter!

Or Start From the Beginning

Fractured Magic is a queer fantasy webserial. New chapters are published for free on substack and at emrowene.com every Monday. Subscribe on substack and have new chapters delivered directly to your email inbox.

More About the Story (&CWs and a Character Gallery)

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My take on the Sherlock Holmes books

[emrowene]

petition to bring back saying "huzzah!" when something goes your way and "alas." when it doesn't

[emrowene]

having an oc you havent drawn / written about publicly yet that only exist as a concept is so funny. i have special access to this limited edition guy from my brain

[emrowene]

i watched one (1) video on how to draw hands that changed my life forever. like. i can suddenly draw hands again

these were all drawn without reference btw. i can just. Understand Hands now (for the most part, im sure theres definitely inaccuracies). im a little baffled

[emrowene]

At some point in your life, you were taught that being slightly annoying is an unforgivable sin. Maybe it was by your parents or a teacher or a friend or a bully or an older sibling. But someone taught you that being slightly annoying is a crime punishable by death.

You must unlearn this.

You must accept that all people will be annoying at some point or another in their lives, maybe all of their lives, and that this is okay. It is okay for strangers on the bus, it is okay for children in the grocery store, it is okay for people on social media, and it is okay for you.

If you ever want to truly love your fellow humans, if you ever want to truly love yourself, you must have forgiveness for being annoying.

[emrowene]

a list of 100+ buildings to put in your fantasy town

academy

adventurer's guild

alchemist

apiary

apothecary

aquarium

armory

art gallery

bakery

bank

barber

barracks

bathhouse

blacksmith

boathouse

book store

bookbinder

botanical garden

brothel

butcher

carpenter

cartographer

casino

castle

cobbler

coffee shop

council chamber

court house

crypt for the noble family

dentist

distillery

docks

dovecot

dyer

embassy

farmer's market

fighting pit

fishmonger

fortune teller

gallows

gatehouse

general store

graveyard

greenhouses

guard post

guildhall

gymnasium

haberdashery

haunted house

hedge maze

herbalist

hospice

hospital

house for sale

inn

jail

jeweller

leatherworker

library

locksmith

mail courier

manor house

market

mayor's house

monastery

morgue

museum

music shop

observatory

orchard

orphanage

outhouse

paper maker

pawn shop

pet shop

potion shop

potter

printmaker

quest board

residence

restricted zone

sawmill

school

scribe

sewer entrance

sheriff's office

shrine

silversmith

spa

speakeasy

spice merchant

sports stadium

stables

street market

tailor

tannery

tavern

tax collector

tea house

temple

textile shop

theatre

thieves guild

thrift store

tinker's workshop

town crier post

town square

townhall

toy store

trinket shop

warehouse

watchtower

water mill

weaver

well

wind mill

wishing well

wizard tower

[emrowene]

i am begging you all to stop treating this site like instagram if you dont want it to be content free by next year

[emrowene]

𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖑𝖔𝖈𝖐 𝖔𝖋 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕿𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖔𝖓

The patchwork conscience of Oz

[emrowene]

can you tell us more about the mantis mentality

hoo boy. so, okay, a thing you might know about me is that i keep two giant metalwork ant statues in my front yard. i wanted to get a giant praying mantis statue to go with them but these are oddly enough hard to find and harder to get to one's house. however, once an idea has occurred to me, i cannot let it go. so any time i'm in my yard now, i think about that giant mantis statue that will one day go there. i think about a giant mantis so fucking often at this point that it was a really small leap from that to being stuck in a terribly boring meeting full of people i didn't like and you know the whole "imagine them in their underwear" thing? no fuck that. imagine them with a giant mantis in the room. hilarious. love it. it's giving ray harryhausen. it's giving stop motion monster flick. it made my day innumerably better every time. and it really was an even shorter leap from that into what i assume all the adults i know who rp warrior cats are doing where i imagine myself as an animal, but giant, and cool, and insectoid. since that moment it's been totally effortless to do anything annoying or boring that involves other people. i also find mantises have a sort of eerie elegance and stillness to them which i find admirable. good posture, intense gaze, etc. how would a giant praying mantis respond to this email? directly, i'm sure. politely, i hope. without fear of god or man? absolutely. this is what i aspire to. "as per my last email" i type without a shred of human emotion, adding exactly one strategic exclamation point afterward to soften the impact. "though i find the efficacy of the model questionable giving how much data they bootstrapped, i don't have any reason to believe it isn't accurate enough to be useful" i say out loud in a meeting as people stare on in horror. i quote decimal places. i snip snap my little jaws. i make direct eye contact with people in other cars on the road. i give a full presentation in perfect stillness while moving my gaze from person to person waiting until they look away before i move on. i am not trapped in room with them. they are trapped in a room, by the veneer of professional courtesy, with me, until i say i'm done. i am not stressed, annoyed, confused, frustrated, bored, or harried. the emotions i'm feeling are: i would like food, and: i will have food, soon, and: it's going to be delicious. nothing else gets through. this is the mantis mentality.

[emrowene]

Persistence of Memory for Fractured Magic?

Persistence of Memory: are there any moments in this work where a character's memory plays a strong role? Either an individual memory, or simply a character's ability to recall the past.

This is a great question for this wip, thank you! A big theme throughout Fractured Magic is hauntings, and one of the largest ghostly figures looming over the narrative is Roman's mother. And she holds the power she does over [redacted] and Roman entirely because of memory.

For Roman, it's a matter of remembering and not remembering. He has a hazy outline of what his mother was like and what she wanted for him, but it was so, so long ago that he can no longer even remember what she looked like. (Which, fairly, fucks him up a bit) He's forgotten crucial things about her - crucial things about her past, about who she consorted with, and about how she died - that, if remembered, would critically reshape the narrative. And then, in book three, he starts to remember :)

[emrowene]

Me: I don't write for validation.

Also me when my story on AO3 gets a kudos:

[emrowene]

crayon and pastels for fractured magic's roman? 🙏

Crayon: what was your OC like when they were four years old? Were they loud? Shy? Were they the resident "weird kid" or did they get along with others their age?

Contrary to [gestures at Roman now], Roman was actually a VERY serious child, something his mother was always teasing him about. He didn't interact much with other kids his age, nor would he really have wanted to. It wasn't until later, when he was moving from town to town with his father, that he got good at putting up a cheerful, friendly front.

Pastels: Give me three colors that best represent your OC. Now give me three colors that your OC likes best. Is there an overlap?

I associate Roman with mostly darker jewel tones:

But I think his favorites tend to be a bit lighter: