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literally them im afraid (this can be taken in any context)

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Thinkin bout psyduck

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Hi, are you the same FrivYeti that wrote Patchwork Magisters and Champions? I got into Champions from the TVTropes page and got really engaged in it, but the old Magisters archive seems to cut off in the middle of a story arc, and from Wayback it looked like there was more written that wasn't included in the archive. Did Magisters ever finish? Is there any way to read what else might've been written? I've been itching for answers to the 'mystery' for a while, but I understand if this might be a sore spot. Or if you have no idea what I'm talking about, because I might still have the wrong person. Feel free to ignore me if so.

Hello!

You have indeed found the correct FrivYeti, and I'm delighted to learn that Patchwork Champions and Magisters are still finding a place in people's hearts. It's a real blast from the past!

There is good news and bad news. The good news is that there's quite a bit more Magisters than that old website held, and a lot of it is even collected. As you guessed, I moved to a different website which I thought would be a better fit... and it no longer exists, leaving most of Magisters in the wind. But I had collections saved of the first three volumes of the story, which covers about twenty-one chapters, including a few that never made it online.

The bad news is, that's still not the end. I had a plan for five volumes, and the story crashed out halfway through Volume 4 and really wrecked my motivation so I never went back to it.

If you're interested, I can send you a google doc link to as much of the story as currently exists, and answer questions, though. I'm still happy to talk about the story, even if it did end on a sour note. Keeps the characters alive.

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Happy Valentine’s Day, my friends and my followers. My latest campaign setting for Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine, which is also my first campaign setting for Chuubo’s, is now available on my Itch page in Beta form. 

Rustic Vale: Life in the Shadow of Adventure is a lot of things. It’s a story about being the average people in a city on the edge of a bunch of fantasy dungeons. It’s a story about rebuilding a world after it all comes crashing down. And it’s a story about me. If you don’t want the essay, that’s cool! Click on the link, and tell me what you think. I hope you love it.

But if you do want that background…

2015 and 2016 were not good years for me. I’d given up on my dream of being a writer as my primary trade, thrown myself into my secondary passion to become a professional fundraiser, and was struggling with a tough job market, stringing together contract work and part-time jobs to make ends meet. My romantic life was a bit of a mess, my personal life was a lot of a mess, and the world didn’t seem to be going great.

So I did what I often did when I was depressed. I created. And what I built was a little town, where people who were ordinary went about their days surrounded by things that were big, and magical, and dangerous, and they focused on their day-to-day lives because making changes there was what would save them. 

I built a hero who just wanted to live a normal life, and a fortune teller who just wanted an exceptional one. I built a kid who wanted to grow up too fast, and a merchant who was losing sight of her goals. An old man who’d forgotten the things he sacrificed everything for, and a young one who was quietly rebuilding without anyone knowing. A priest who had seen the world pass them by and didn’t know how to reach out, and a mechanic who was reaching out and didn’t know how to stop. All of them were my own fears, my hopes, and my dreams. These little folks were living the life I was, or the life I wanted or the life I was afraid was waiting for me. 

And in the middle of all of that, I got a bit of encouragement. Jenna Moran, the creator of Chuubo’s, happened to see Rustic Vale, and she let me know that she thought it was good. It meant a lot, and I set about turning it from a campaign into a project - something that I could actually share with the world.

Which is where things kind of changed. I’m in a better place these days. The world is still a mess, but I have a job that I care about, a spouse I love deeply, and a life that I’m proud of. I’ve published two novels, I’ve written commission work that inspired me, and I’ve got a raft of little RPG projects that people like to read.

But I never published Rustic Vale.

I wanted it to be perfect. I wanted it to be professionally laid out, with gorgeous artwork and careful editing. I wanted it polished, and finished, and I kept making little changes and shifts. Along the way, the mechanics I’d used to build the characters changed as Jenna continued her own work on the Book of Golden Hours, and suddenly the characters were going to need substantial fixes. And releasing the book incomplete felt wrong. It felt like a betrayal.

But it’s not. The world is in a bad place, and maybe what some of you need right now is what I needed back then - just a little bit of a window into a place that lost everything, and built it back up. It’s not much. It’s not finished, and maybe it never will be. But it’s mine. It’s Rustic Vale.

I hope you love it half as much as I do.

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some wips of my newest project!

this one will have hair, maybe a cape of some sort, and possibly mechanical wings, but i'm not quite sure how i'll approach any of those things, so i'm posting her as she currently is. i've really enjoyed doing projects that involve both making the base sculpt and a fair bit of post-printing customization, and painting & adding details to this doll was mega fun to spend my weekend on. the sculpt itself just kind of happened; couldn't exactly tell you why she is a steampunk violin demon girl, except that it was what i found fun in the moment.

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witch's treehouse (updated)

cross stitch pattern here

support me | commission me | buy a print | buy a sticker

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You: The Anniversary of the First Airing of Amok Time, the Genesis of Slash, K/S Day

Me, an intellectual: Amoktoberfest

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so much for all this talk about “jester’s privilege”. i’m currently being held in the pillory in the town square with a sign around my neck that says “CANCELED” as punishment for teaching the king’s parrot to say slurs he can’t reclaim

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"I wish more people on Tumblr would watch Community" bro this website couldn't handle Steven Universe how do you think they'd react to something that actually IS problematic

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I legit used to only turn off the laser after the cat hit the spot so they would think they got it.

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cant even fault those bailey school kids for this one if i saw that dude i wouldg just go Thats Fuckin Dracula man

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mcapriglioneart

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This is all reminding me that I need to finish developing the New Beginnings Job Agency (a Chuubo's campaign for high-powered characters) at some point.

One of the main characters is Khalos Everwrath, the Beast of the Fells, an ancient and terrifying wolf-monster who adopted a young girl solely because a dying man asked him to and the novelty of someone begging for a favour instead of for mercy totally disarmed Khalos's usual instincts.

Only now Khalos is trying to be a parent in a moderately magical town, and he can't just eat people who annoy him because that will definitely affect which school his daughter gets into so he's trying to play nice without compromising the monster that he is. It's a complicated tightrope to walk!

I like stories where a normal human child is being raised by a sinister supernatural being who is totally malevolent except when it comes to their kid. Those are so much better than the “kids are scary” changeling type horror movies.

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Please. Help.

The girl I'm dating and I both think that we sleep on the left side of the bed. I'm coming to terms with the fact that she may be a psychopath and I don't know what's real anymore.