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The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All

I like the green yuri manga

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Cressida Blackwater

I imagine she would have a LOT of Baroque-style oil portraits at her home - though they definitely wouldn't include the new *cough* additions.

I'm playing with Clip Studio Paint to see if I enjoy the interface better. I am in love with the colour mixing palette. Also, what do we think about the rendering style? I'm playing around to see what feels like me.

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I think its fun to go from a campaign of Corazon bullying Merilwen to a campaign of Cressida bullying Robin. Cosmic balance

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In just a few short hours our explosive playthrough of the brand new Discowlrd TTRPG arrives!

Tune in to this incredibly special Oxventure featuring the illustrious talents of @domjallen!

🕓 4pm BST | 11am EST | 3pm PST 🔗 https://youtu.be/ATV8TbbDqsI

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Merilwen outlives her friends.

So before my hands took me out of the picture and before the last season of the Oxventurers' Guild, this is what I was working on!

In my mind, I was caught up on how much longer elves live, and how Merilwen being a true neutral has led to her making some pretty bloodthirsty decisions. What kind of person could that develop into, if left all alone for centuries, I wonder?

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Wyrdwood, but as 3 AM sketches.

No erasing, just a sketch and then inking with a painful 0.005 micron, only 9 minutes each. Practicing them from memory to lock them in as well as play around with posing, nothing crazy though.

Wracking up debt Morven, Lug with tea? Lug seems like a guy who'd like herbal tea?, Cressida deserves a temper tantrum, Yawning Willowfine, Happen, and a terrified Robin.

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Robin Oatcake the sweet sweet boy (young man) you are. Loving that he's not just being played as a vessel to Morvan because he has so much to offer to the group.

He's the heart of the team. He's the only one who can really talk to people! Willowfine, Lug, and Happen are good people, but have lived so separately from normal people their entire lives, and Cressida is just doing her own thing. Despite being "usless" compared to Morvan, he's saved their asses so many times already by just being a good person.

He's wants to help!! He's doing so good at helping!!

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Under Maintenance

The moment Willowfine mentioned her feathers, my mind was caught in how hard it would be to remove the keratin shealth around her own new growth. And the discomfort of walking all day in chainmail, heavy against her feathers, a reminder of her greater purpose and heritage.

She's so SO strong, but sweet and kind, and a little socially awkward (thinking about the fight with the racist farmers). It kind of gives me Laios Touden vibes.

Anyway, I love her. So here's her trying to preen her own feathers back when she was in her hometown.

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I'm so ready for shit to hit the fan.

A Blood Debt is owed to the Wyrdwood...

Oxventure D&D returns TONIGHT!

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I wrote a whole thing updating this but then I DELETED IT accidentally. But I need everyone to know I'M STILL RIGHT about the Wyrdwood party.

I was doing some introspection on the pairings I kept gravitating towards and decided it's due to the key persistent traits of the characters the players choose when they aren't GM.

Andy: insecure (Corazon, Chancey, Edvard, Purvis are all constantly seeking external validation)

Jane: powerful (Prudence, Zillah, Margot, Garnet all vary in morality, all could kill me easily)

Mike: cognitive dissonance (Egbert a dumb paladin, Barnaby an elitist criminal, Silas a cowboy layman afraid of horses)

Luke: innocent (Dob and Delacy are sponges to the world around them, and that leads to impulsive and morally questionable choices)

Ellen: earnest (puns aside, Merilwen, Lilith, and now Edie all have a weight of sincere commitment to the people (or animals) around them, rather than being self-absorbed or hell bent on a specific goal)

Johnny: world-weary (Kazamir and Nate are both aged above the people around them and wise to the world they live in)

I'm keen to hear other thoughts. I'm not really across the guest episodes, so I don't have info on the one-shot characters. I know Andy once said something about enjoying playing pathetic men once, but I love all his soft, nervous lads.

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Feeling Spritely

The moment Happen described his sprites, I was lurched back in time to a high school obsession with Brian Froud’s ‘Faeries’.

Attempting to honour that style was a strong reminder for why I don't do traditional media anymore. It’s so hard and SO much work. Kudos to everyone who does.

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Robin understands the needs of true wine connoisseurs, grape adjacent ingredients... 🤢

Wyrdwood Chapter Three has dropped! You need to see this one! 💀 🌳 🔗 https://youtu.be/Pu-GlIu0Gqo

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It really nourishes my soul to have an episode that lets characters have a bit of a chance to just talk to and get to know one another. I like the group have grown as role-players to the extent that they ask generous questions of each other's characters and take an interest when something of note comes up. Even the awkward moment where Happen and Willowfine got a bit huffy talking about their respective Gods and what they brought into their lives. And the chat about throwing a bucket over a house. That's exactly the kind of silly thing that would come up on a really long road trip with some people you're trying to get to know. And it was an interesting character moment!

I love that there is a much stronger storyline this season, but I think its really easy for DM's to get caught up in needing to move the story along too quickly, and not letting characters take some time to bond with one another. I'm glad Johnny was generous about letting them do that.

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Screaming about episode three, Robin's impulse to help genuinely made me tear up. I am so scared for him.

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You know the Grimm version of Snow White makes more sense than most versions if only because in that version Snow White was like 7 years old.

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In your shadow

I keep thinking about Robin and Morven.

Someone mentioned a similarity to Zac's character from Dimension20. But the 'parasitic' character Zac played most of the time had been the fun, almost charming one, and the host body was originally a horrid person.

Robin is sweet, well-intentioned, and frightened. As he should be, the woman in his body wants it all to herself and doesn't care about risking its wellbeing in the process.

But, just like Andy's other female antagonist, Victoria (who I still think about daily), who can fault Morven? A woman killed by zealots for practising magic in a world that has literally fallen apart without it. Somehow finding herself still alive, albeit in a body not her own and with only minor say in its movements. Who could fault her for wanting freedom, by whatever the means?

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Simple Pleasures

I'm trying to get back into the swing of things by remembering how to draw and wanted to start with something super simple. Mike keeps making characters that are so easy to picture napping, so I guess I just gotta keep drawing ‘em.