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sorry for turning into a dragon for a second i didnt know it was wrong

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too late, you got me thinking somehow, you got me dreaming somehow, just now, you got me hopeful

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an ant in the sun

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companion piece to my last upload!

felt compelled to make this version mostly because my job has a shitty broken book printer, and when its fucking fixed and im actually done writing, i might try to format these two fics like proper publications and bind them as a reversible book. can you imagine? kind of cringe of me. speaking of which, chapter four has been finished for a minute but im not sure when to upload it... hrm....

and heres side by side just for fun :)

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i mentioned in a previous post that six years ago, i wrote a TAMB fic that i loved writing so much that i had plans for a sequel. at the time, i scrapped it for lack of ideas, but um... well, i have the idea now, and so six years later im writing a sequel

the original was about finding independence, fighting skeleton monsters, and getting back in touch with your ex. this one is about jealousy, taking one step forward and two steps back, and animal sacrifice. with subtle notes of yuri and gender. i hope people enjoy reading it even half as much as ive enjoyed writing it

the first three chapters of ní neart go cur le chéile are now posted. updates will probably be announced on my sideblog

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4/11 is kittys birthday! another one in the books, and the one year anniversary of KITTYQUESTs second to last update 🥹

kittys rage room simulator coming to a fake system near you

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danse macabre

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trauma response

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make a contract with me and become a mage!

several months ago before i was even back on my tamb grind i had a dream chise was a pmmm magical girl but also all the stuff with the main series was still happening. and i distinctly remember thinking, in dream, "her ass is NOT fighting witches 💯💯💯." kyuubey was there too probably, but puppy elias was the obvious choice. i love how he has six legs. like a buge

well. and with inucurry working on the season 2.2 op. how could i not?

i almost drew elias' actual skull. be grateful i didnt. scary....

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they are siblings. i rest my case

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ch 98

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well. i finally blasted through season 2 and reread/caught up on the manga from the start of the college arc, so it is safe to say that my brain is on fire with tamb rot. its also made me do a lot of thinking about my old fic i wrote for this thing, she who travels, which got some random attention recently so thank you for that!

its a six year old fic... some of it is a little "erm, well that just happened ☝🤓" in my view. but i think its one of the longform writings im most satisfied with. i was and still am smitten with all the ocs i made for it. and with fumiki almost certainly being featured in the newest chapters.... oooh i am writhing in agony

anyway, please dont get mad but i have more tamb on the docket. black and white version under the cut cause i kinda liked it :P

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host mother

you seemed to like it when i actually included expository text for once instead of just the title, so context under the cut?

orchidee and tyche, the mother of cybele and the unicorns' host during orchidees... internship? fantasy internship? what else might i call it... work study? lol

tyche and cynric are the parents of seven kobolds, the oldest being the runaway, gwydion, and the youngest being cybele. despite her familys pariah status following gwydions escape, tyche remains the reason why many mouths are still being fed in the settlement. thats one thing orchidee doesnt understand because of her limited worldview - you would feed people who shun you???? but her confusion is outweighed by her fascination. seeing tyche do all the things that servants do in the shadows back in lafossa is an endless source of entertainment for her. yes, she really is THAT interested in watching tyche cook

very quickly, tyche picks up on the idea that orchidee may not have an awesome relationship with her mother. she doesnt write to her, or vice versa, and seems disinterested in talking about her family. orchidee latches onto tyche as a mother figure, and tyche is likewise enamored by her sweet and curious nature. she is also the first to intuit that orchidee has entered some sort of relationship with her youngest child, and actively encourages it in the hopes that cybele will be motivated to leave for a better life in lafossa. her devastation over cybeles death feeds the flame of orchidees desire to reanimate them. but perhaps the most lasting impact she has on orchidee is her passing down of herbal and natural magic. one concoction she teaches orchidee to make is a draught of torpor, which allows the kobolds to sleep through longer periods of hunger and scarcity. orchidee makes this draught to wait out eubora and attempt to reanimate cybele a second time... but she fucks it up and sleeps for several decades instead. she was never good at any kind of magic, i guess! many of tyches recipes serve her well during her life in the deerwood, even if she doesnt remember where the knowledge came from

another one of those "FUCK, just TAKE it" pieces. the problem with tyche is her colors are all very similar, so she threw me for a loop until i was so fed up with correction layers and shading and lighting that i just decided, you know what, im done. im gonna draw her again someday though so im not sweating it tooooo hard... man

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a hollow tree. the spot where dru most frequently curls up for her long spells of torpor, waiting for something interesting on the other side of sleep

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this is a "draw your oc before and after The Trauma" trend on twitter and tiktok right now. t-words, t-words, t-words....

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the stampede

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They move in a hobbling line, coarse hoods drawn up to their horns. Even in the shade, they all look identical. Their movements perfectly mirror one another, and only by their shadows can she be certain that they are not one person. Orchidee watches them bob in a slow procession to the dark hutch, with its windows all obscured by thick growths of vine. Eubora follows the direction of her stare. “The Eunomiads,” he says - as if this answers everything. “The reason you’re permitted to be here. Don’t stare. It’s rude.” Orchidee blinks. “Are they sisters?” Eubora gives her a withering look. “You’ve not retained your studies.” It’s true that in the weeks before their departure, Eubora lectured Orchidee persistently on the history and politics of the village they’d call home for the next year. The trade language spoken in that region, their traditions and etiquette, and yes, the leadership responsible for the settlement’s isolation – all of it was taught to her in hours of insufferable study. He did not even permit her respite on the final journey. At some point, the brown and green blur of trees out the carriage window became far more interesting than Eubora’s voice. The Eunomiads vanish into their home, and Orchidee stares at the door after it shuts. Eubora lifts the silver handle of his cane and gently nudges her gaze in a different direction.

Kobolds have five sexes – and the fifth is exceptionally rare. Initially hatched from normal eggs of the other sexes, this sex is self-reproducing and will result in a lineage of clones. Kobold legend holds this sex as infallible, and as a result they are the ruling class of any settlement with a kobold majority. It’s expected that successive generations will take over other settlements or found their own partnering communities, but the leaders of Cybele’s village have hunkered down into a codependent pod of miserly and suspicious old women. As a trio, they are known as “The Eunomiads.” In recent years, the Eunomiads have expelled non-kobolds from the community and shut it off from its neighbors. The result is a village that is failing to subsist. With death and hunger on their doorstep, Cybele’s sister Gwydion is one daring member who has successfully fled. Why are the Eunomiads doing this? One of them is experiencing prophetic dreams of the forest’s destruction, a “White Death” that will sweep over them if they do not fortify themselves. Eubora and Orchidee are brought in to keep the village from collapsing, with its former allies arranging diplomatically for the unicorns to be accepted. Because Cybele’s family has already been deemed “tainted” by outside influence due to Gwydion’s escape, they are tasked with taking in and caring for the guests from Lafossa.

^^^ pasted all that shit from deerword lore doc 👍 i wrote the prose off the dome, so its not part of anything longer. i wanted these three to embody the three witches trope... two of their poses are actually referenced from artwork of baba yaga, lol