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Hi! Your fics have really opened my eyes to the potential drama of sailing/pirate fics when fantastical abilities are mixed realistic scenarios, like how scary a storm is, or how ships needed to careen. If I may ask, where did you learn the historical terminology and process of ye olde sailing? I would love to educate myself, but all the books I’ve tried to look up at my local library are out of print and circulation.

Glad you liked it and saw the potential too! B)

Funnily enough, I learned almost everything from the internet, except for the "pirate talk" stuff like expressions, I took a lot of these from AC Black Flag (like "what's biting you"), one or two from Pirates of the Carribean, and had noted all the expressions i didn't know from Treasure Planet, especially captain Amelia (thank you subtitles, this lady talks FAST) and then researched what each meant. I then completed with some internet pages, kinda cross-referencing and only using the expressions that had the same meaning from one page to the other

When it came to things like vocabulary and general pirate life, I found some really interesting youtube videos, some sites describing ships tasks, images with the names of every part of a ship. Again, I always compared the info I could find to make sure what I had wasn't an outlier. (I even abandoned a piece of info ince bc I couldn't re-find the place I had seen it and couldn't find a second source so I decided to just not use that info. Can't remember what it was though)

It took a long while though, I was writing chapter 15 and still looking up stuff, even had to go back at some point and change up the word "helm" because I had confused it with the quarterdeck and had been using the wrong word since like the beginning, very oops B) something similar happened with mast ladder vs jacob's ladder, I hadn't properly verified what a jacob's ladder was and used it wrong when i meant mast ladder.

I know that when it came to food, tasks, and what to do in a storm (where i learned that rule #1 of sailing with storms is Do Not Get In The Storm And Avoid It At All Costs so imagine my dramatic gasp when i listened to Epic the Musical when Ody decided to just Go™ head first in the storm MFNSKFJ) I found some really good documentary-styled youtube videos, there was a channel that loved to talk about the golden age of piracy and talk of the "mundane" stuff like food, ship functions, tasks, ship vocabulary (i think I made myself a drawing with arrows pointing at things and lists to have a reference later because I knew I wouldn't remember it until I saw the info consistently for at least a month KFNDJ) and it's been very informative!

And funnily some info (not a lot tho, mostly knowing the existence of bed holes in the hull, just sight stuff) was from a brief visit i did of an old boat during a trip years back. If an old historical ship has a thing on it, it's probably safe to assume more than one did amirite kcbdj or at least that the design is possible!

So the best I can really tell you especially if you don't have access to books (or museums like me, didn't have access to those rip and back then i lived somewhere i didnt have access to the library either) is to look into the internet and look at several sources if needed and really gauge out the info and make sure your source isn't an outlier. It can make the process longer (researched for months tbh and never truly stopped, if I wasn't sure, I was searching again or looking back at the refs I had saved) and it's a lot of "cross-reference" and all, but it's pretty fun!

I wish you success in your research and lots of fun!!

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Who needs therapy when you have comments on your fics /j /pos

I'm okay btw I just really be loving them sweet comments <3

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/51728554/chapters/165750079

Realized it's been a month since last update, have a new one <3

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/51728554/chapters/163119358

ao3 or tumblr are being dummies and refusing to do the lil preview card thing so im doing my own

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/59480035/chapters/165604408

Ao3 or tumblr dunno which is refusing to do the cute preview cards and im angy (/j) so i'm making one myself with a screenshot until it stops being dummy

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Tumblr refuses to make the cute lil ao3 card with the links i'm mad /hj

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I wrote for the first time in so long and it was so freeing holy feck

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Apologies for lack of posting both here and ao3, I'm in a big burnout I can't rest from no matter how much I want or need to

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Im currently working on other songs, but let me just dump all of my Mauve art I have drawn during my time away.

SCREW IT, have his human design too because I got very silly and bored 🗣️‼️(is it obvious I draw him a lot??)

Last one featuring @reploidbuddy sona as one of the maids taking care of him, I think its very cute to include in here <33

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he solely wears fucking dad pants in my au to carry his son around. peak i know.

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As I've said before, if I'm hyperfixated on my boy Mauve, y'all are gonna have to deal with it.

This is around 3 years after Espio left in the au, I just want wholesomeness 😔😔

Original tiktok is here !!

Oh and this is how the lil guy came to be, its canon, I said so /silly

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For those who make ask blogs featuring an AU of yours: how do you choose when in the timeline of your universe it starts?

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Silly doodles cause I need to draw my other designs more !!

If you notice me drawing Mauve a lot, its for a ton of reasons. (I love drawing him👹)

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Here are the major gods from my upcoming one-shot, in order of most powerful/older god to the "weakest". None of them are weak because as major gods they're the most powerful of all of them, but there's still an order.

Gods are wished into existence and grow their powers by mortals’ wishes and prayers. If a god cannot answer too many prayers due to a growing need, another god may be wished into existence to share the load.

Designs of the two main mortals (Espio and Silver) here

Details about each god under the cut <3

Banira was the first ever god and for the longest time, the only one. She is nature, weather, night and day, inner peace. At first, she was everything, but other gods came with time. She’s still the most known and widespread prayed god, though she is usually prayed to for gentle winters, plentiful hunts and gathers, and sometimes to help with inner turmoil, though the last one isn't quite widespread and only used in clans who mainly worship her.

Rozu is about all kinds of love and following one's heart. She's rarely if not never a tribe or clan's main god, but most if not all people have at least once prayed to her to solve a dispute, get the courage to talk to someone, to have a pregnancy go well, and all these prayers people don't quite admit to make her the second most powerful god.

Shiruba is the last of the four to have appeared, as a mix of all three existing gods (Shaido is the third oldest technically and also not, more on that later) with protection and justice. Wishing for a clan's survival in winter, for someone to fight off an illness while another goes to get their medicine, for someone lost in the forest to return safely, these used to be handled by other gods, but went into Shiruba's territory. He's surprisingly often a clan's main god, but usually more for the protection part than the justice. One could say he's the god of karma.

Shaido's case is rather unique, as his purpose has changed. He was "born" as the god of strength and power... But then he fell. A god can fall and become a mortal by accident when they go into the mortal realm directly to answer a prayer, and that's what happened to Shaido (it was the first time this happened). After thirty years in the mortal realm, tragedy hit, and as it triggered the return of Shaido’s godhood... Strenght and power felt like such useless things, his mind never considered these. And with his mortal years changing him and the tragedy hitting and making him know of such painful visceral emotion as loss and despair... He became the god of loss and grief. Disappearing for so long and changing his purpose kinda cancelled a lot of the power he had since he didn’t get the prayers and all, which made him weaker for a moment, but mortals sure know of loss, so it didn’t take long for him to become a major god again, though his purpose being "younger" and the slight reduction of the amount of prayers he gets keeps him as the fourth major god for now. He is prayed to at funeral ceremonies, and often after one's death, or just any situation where one needs to grieve. His connection to mortal emotions has made him a lot more empathetic, and he's the god that has gone into the mortal world for direct intervention the most, usually for someone so grief-striken they're unable to get better despite their best effort (the most well-known case of a mother who had lost her very young child). He cannot take the grief away, but sometimes his answers give the last boost needed to start the road to recovery. Anyone who has seen Shaido (and therefor had a direct intervention from him) report an overwhelming sense of comfort and warmth.

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hes just being a little dumb right now, temporary setback

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um have some sonic-ified characters i drew like a month ago and forgot abt