#ndm flannan

[hedonist-aesthete]

Potential captions because I couldn't decide:

- Caught between a rock and a hard place

- Learn how to share

- Very tired, want to go home, give me back my horse

[bella-daonna]

Flannán's Five-Day Festival

Hi everyone!

Since it’s the unseelie king’s birthday coming up, me, @unseelie-grimalkin and @unseeliethot (are you noticing a bias in usernames?) thought it would be fun to make a fan event for it!

How it works:

Each day from the 17-21st December has two prompts. Pick one (or both if you want, I guess) and make something based on it. Some examples include: art, fic/ story, headcanon, mood board, playlist - anything you like!

You don’t have to do every prompt or every day - there’s no pressure and it’s just for fun. Interpret the prompts however you like!

Tag what you make as #flannan fest 2022 so that we can see it!

The prompts:

17th December: Treat / Pack

18th December: Fall / Snow

19th December: Sanctuary / Competition

20th December: Talent / Craft

21st December: Lá Breithe Shona Dhuit a Fhlannáin!*

(*Happy Birthday Flannán! - this is a free space. Do whatever you like!)

We're so excited to see your creations!

ps thank you grim for making the lovely banner graphic, and thank you @officialshaefearglas for the idea since we were inspired by Shae Weekend back in summer!

pps i will be following the tag, but feel free to tag me in your stuff if you want to make sure i see it and reblog! :)

ppps if you want to post but you are shy, feel free to send it to me or submit it to me and I can post on anon for you! (specify that you want it to be anonymous!)

Any questions, my asks are open 🥳

[moiraimyths]

See no evil. Speak no evil. ;)

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DEMO COMING SOON: AUGUST 1st

[lonely--shine]

Back to the Wall

Naomh learns she can tease a certain King with her height. King Flannán can't say he's mad about it.

This was supposed to be a doodle but then it got massively out of hand and I turned it into a full fledged thing instead. Call it practice or something. I just needed to draw a flustered Flannán, this drawing is the main reason why Naomh even exists if I'm being honest, lol! First drawing of many with my NDM OCs plus the cast, hopefully! A way to keep myself entertained until the routes come out xD

Oh, by the by! Tip Jar tier supporters have access to a version of this with Flannán NOT wearing the eyepatch (aside from the WIPs, full size, and all the usual). You know, just in case you're curious about that 👀

[unseeliethot]

Don't have shoujo vision at home? Store bought is fine

Have YOU been consumed by a burning excitement and absolute infatuation with @moiraimyths demo of their game Na Daoine Maithe? Do YOU wish you had obnoxious phone backgrounds to showcase the love you have for these characters?

Say no more, obnoxious it is and here they are! Free and all!

[shrimp1y]

modern ay yew where they are roommates. shenanigans ensues

[the-clockwork-three]

ROs' names in ogham

Ogham is the first writing system in Ireland, first used in to write Primitive Irish. It is usually seen carved into ancient standing stones found around the country.

So anyway I thought it would be appropriate to write the Na Daoine Maithe characters' names in it. Ogham is read from bottom to top, and due to Tumblr tomfoolery, you may have to click the image to see the name in full.

Not everything transliterates literally however. There are no fadas in ogham, so Aífe and Flannán lost fada privileges. Keagan is technically written as "Ceagan" due to the lack of the letter "k". There also is no letter "v" in Irish so I wrote Meave's name in my personal favourite way, "Meabhdh".

Bonus! Tadhg (my MC)

[unseelie-grimalkin]

Flannán Fest Treat: Nutella Hot Chocolate

I didn’t have time to pull this together on the day it was actually a Treat day, so take this a couple days late (I did do a Treat / Pack prompt that day, but it was fic).

So, after a couple hours of alchemical experiments in my kitchen and months of taking notes on mom blog recipes, I’ve developed what I think is a pretty good Nutella hot chocolate recipe in service of one Flannán mac Lugh.

Ingredients up front:

3 tbsp (~44.3 ml) Nutella

1 ⅓ cup (~315.4 ml) milk (whole milk gives you the creamiest texture, but experiments with almond milk went well, so choose your favorite reasonable milk option [I was scolded by my husband for considering attempting this with strawberry milk, so I feel the need to add the disclaimer for a reasonable milk option just in case anyone else reading this is feral like me])

Optional ingredients (these depend on taste preferences and availability):

Dark or milk chocolate (dark chocolate will compliment the Nutella’s natural taste profile better in contrast, while milk chocolate will give you something very sweet. I am a ride-or-die sweet tooth, so I like milk chocolate for this. It also tastes fine if you don’t want to use chocolate or are using a more chocolatey Nutella taste profile than I have on hand. I did not have cocoa powder on hand, but I can’t imagine it going wrong in this mix if you use that instead of grated chocolate)

Whipped cream (just a solid topping for this in general. Highly recommended from me if you go the dark chocolate route, just for additional taste contrasting layers)

Cinnamon (very nice topping on top of the whipped cream)

Crunched hazelnuts (in case the Nutella was not enough for you, more topping for your whipped cream)

You can make this on a stovetop or in the microwave, depending on what you have available! Though, if you want to add chocolate to your mix, pre-grate it ahead of time! You can experiment with how much chocolate you want to add (I don’t have an exact numerical value for this, as I really did just wing that aspect for me).

Stove:

Take a saucepan and put it over medium heat. If you're as new to cooking as I am, I've been told stainless steel is the best option for this, because there are types of pans (aluminum, unlined copper, etc) that can react very badly to your milk.

Next, you’re gonna add your Nutella and milk. This is going to be all of your Nutella, but only 1/3 cup (~75-80 ml) of your milk. You’re going to stir this mix until it’s fully blended, which should take around 5 minutes or so (this is where I recommend finding your favorite song for Flan and just jamming out, by the way, because you’re just waiting for the Nutella to melt and blend with the milk as you stir).

Once you’ve got your first mix fully blended (should have a nice caramel color to it), you’re going to add the remaining milk (or don’t, if you want it thicker) into the mix and turn that heat up to medium-high (I found out the hard way that if you go straight to high, you get scalded milk and this really, really funky protein skin, which isn’t great for your final product. Like Flan, this must be handled a bit gentler than you’d expect). Once you’re set with your additional milk, you’re gonna get back to stirring. I found a whisk will make this extra-frothy with a bunch of fun bubbles, so that’s my instrument of choice at this part. Now, at this stage is where you can add in some grated chocolate, if’n you’d like. Sprinkle that in while you’re stirring, watch it melt into the mix.

Once you’ve got everything blended together, you can pour it into a mug and get your toppings in order! If you’ve got left over grated chocolate, put that on your whipped cream if you’d like or save it for additional experimentation for later.

Microwave:

You would think the stove version was hard mode. It is not! Microwave for this is infinitely trickier, much to my surprise, because milk scalds really, really easily in the microwave (I should have heeded your warnings, Greta from New Jersey, I’m sorry for thinking you were just being fussy).

Get your favorite microwave-safe mug. Pour all of your allotted milk into it. You’ll want two minutes on high (two minutes is the longest you can go without scalding. I checked). Once you’ve got that over with, take out your mug and grab your Nutella. You’re gonna stir it into the mug with a spoon, keep going until it’s fully melted and mixed in.

At the end of that, you can reheat your mix for 15-second intervals (no longer than that. I checked!) until it’s warm enough for you or to melt your grated chocolate in (mix gently at this stage).

Once you’re set, it’s topping time! Have fun, go nuts, and enjoy!

[sallertiafabrica]

@unseelie-grimalkin dragged me into another fae story hyperfixation, so here some doodles

Don’t mind the very messy MC concept, my body’s pretty drained but my brain was in Creative Restlessness mode, so we had to compromise.

[maistiruin]

I know you don't do HCs but I like your theories so I wondered if you had any ideas what their weddings might be like 👀

anon i am so sorry because I kept forgetting about this in the drafts

planning fictional weddings may be one of my favorite things to do ever. Everyone else under the cut. This is arranged by who I had ideas for first. Lengths and details may vary.

Shae

You and Shae avoid getting married the whole time somehow, despite doing married people things your entire relationship. And then it's tax time and you realize it would be way more convenient to do these if you were married. Now you're married.

OK, tax joke aside, one night after a long time of marriage-esque domesticity, you just wake up bolt upright and ask, "Should we get married?"

Shae's still a little sleepy so they just grumpily tell you to ask again in the morning. They wrestle you back into a cuddle position. You are soft putty and cannot win.

Before you can wake up and ask again, Shae is up first and beats you to it. You should have proposed first!

You send out invitations—not a lot, just the people who matter. Shae's family, the friends you've made, small group only. You specifically tell everyone that it's because you're getting married in a few days, but everyone still brings food to the outpost like it's some kind of potluck.

The ceremony takes place three days later in the garden. Under the trellis, where some berry plants are tied to prevent them from falling over. It smells like it's about to rain, and you have to act fast.

It starts as a light drizzle that becomes a whole shower just in time for the final kiss. Everybody rushes inside before the rain gets any worse, but all in all, it was a great day.

Maeve

You and Maeve do get engaged and all, but in the spirit of her U-Haul Lesbian vibes (...U-Haul Bisexual?), one weekend in the heat of wedding planning, you spirit away and just elope.

It's a private affair with just you and the crows (ravens?) as your only guests. You come back to the capital two days later and dive back into the wedding planning whirlwind.

You still go through with the public wedding, but now it's more fun for you both. A lil wink to each other as you repeat your wedding vows. No one else gets the joke.

No one will ever know the wedding was just for show, except maybe three people (Flannán included?) and this knowledge will stay secret until at least your 10th wedding anniversary.

Robin

Robin canonically cannot got to a church, so you have a destination wedding instead.

First stop, the trash heap. You have to pick out your wedding rings. There's a lot to choose from.

Next stop, wherever the hell you want. It doesn't matter, they can take you there.

If you can't decide immediately, Robin will cycle between a few places, including but not limited to: Shae's outpost, the forests of Murias, literally right at the Seelie-Unseelie border, the throne room at the People's Castle, and the hoard he calls home.

What follows next may be romantically stupid or stupidly romantic, depending on which end you are so inclined. You exchange vows at the location of your choice.

Part of me wants to say Robin splits their wedding vows into sentences and each one is said in a different location, but I don't know how great teleportation is for either party.

Robin is as Robin does, the last line they say is "We're married now, buck-o."

Seems legit enough. Now let's go pick the honeymoon location.

Flannán

Married and engaged in the same day.

You wake up one morning to see Flannán trying to fit a ring over your finger, and he tries to make you go back to sleep and pretend like nothing happened, but eventually relents and proposes.

As soon as you step out of the bedroom, you find people rushing around the castle covering every inch of it with winter blossoms. Flannán looks as surprised as you.

He flags someone down to say that the proposal is off. He's bright red as he explains that he already proposed to you on accident.

Turns out this isn't for the proposal.

Apparently, no one trusts you or Flannán to plan your own wedding in a timely or easy manner. You are now getting married.

Talk about overwhelming. You just got engaged less than an hour ago. To be fair, it doesn't matter how you got married. Just that you finally do.

Also Flannán's dogs are chewing on the decorations the whole time. If this were a wedding with a photographer, they would feature in every single shot.

Not because the photographer was too focused on the dogs (valid but not the case). It's because they want to be included in everything.

Aífe

OBVIOUSLY a massive ceremony. All of the Seelie court is invited. I'm torn between having it in the palace gardens or the throne room. Both seem like great ideas.

Aífe's wedding will be loaded with outfit changes like nobody's business. She has at least ten gowns for herself, and then ten outfits for you so you match with her every single time.

The ceremony would be simple if not for the break taken for every outfit change. Aífe made all these dresses, she MUST get to use them.

Outfit changes extend to the reception, too.

Aífe sings you a lovely ballad and you just have to stand there and take it and how in love you are with her. And you need to let her finish the song or else she'll be very cross with you, and that's no way to start your marriage.

Unless, of course... you would like to sing with her? She does love it when you duet.

The wedding reception is truly equal parts reception and equal parts recital. People (mainly Aífe) showing off their talents and having fun, celebrating.

Keagan

Full disclosure, it is impossible for me to think of Keagan wedding HCs without thinking of my Arranged Marriage AU at the same time. And that's a very different wedding than what I imagine Keagan would normally have. Probably still similar enough though.

Sorry for talking about the Arranged Marriage AU (not sorry actually :P)

Anyway, garden wedding for sure. Aífe wouldn't say no to lending the royal gardens for her dearest friends' wedding.

It may also be next to one of those super cool waterfalls in the royal gardens but I have my personal reasons for wanting that.

It's a bad idea though because waterfalls are Loud, so maybe we'll keep it to that nice gazebo by the water.

There have been spring showers every day leading up to the wedding so the two of you are rightly worried about wedding plans, but when the day comes, it's nice and sunny.

It's actually too nice and sunny.

If you turn around at any point during the ceremony, you'll see people holding up things over their faces so that the glare from the sun isn't bothering them.

There's a tiny part of you that's actually upset that it didn't rain because you two planned this whole affair around the idea that it would be raining, and now it's not.

The wedding goes off without a hitch. Not a single dry eye when Keagan is done with his vows, made worse when it's your turn.

The reception is not much different from Aífe's (though significantly less of a talent show).

I imagine it's a bit more of a game. You and Keagan can be playful that way.

From the audience, all that can be seen is Keagan turning to you and whispering something in your ear that makes you smile.

From where you're sitting, he is trying to get you to break so you two can leave the reception early.

He is trying very well.

You both leave the reception early.

[grimalkinsquill]

I'm being very normal about this visual novel demo, I promise (you can learn about it more here, the demo is freely available on Steam and itch.io)

[bella-daonna]

Flannán takes MC on that hike to see the dawn

MC, watching the sunrise: it’s beautiful

Flannán, admiring the golden light on MC’s face: yeah, it is

[moiraimyths]

Happy birthday Flannan, my love. I hope I you can relax and enjoy today; you deserve that. And, as ever, I am at your disposal. Whatever you may request from me I will do my best to fulfill.

You are, are you? A dangerous prospect. I might demand of you any number of unspeakable things.

...Giving the dogs a bath, for instance. That's always a horror in and of itself, but it would be very funny (for me) to watch.

***

The Good People (Na Daoine Maithe) was successfully funded on Kickstarter in January 2023. While our full game is in development, interested parties can play our FREE DEMO out now on Steam and Itch.io! Check our pinned post for links!

[oldmisfortune]

!MINOR SPOILERS FOR THE DEMO AHEAD!

Contents: Mothman Keagan CG-like illustration of a scene in the demo

I found the Local Moth Man(TM) in a shady alleyway on my first playthrough, I've had a very vivid image in my head of what that would look like and I finally got around to drawing it!

BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING, I know he doesn't have red in his design ;; but I added it to the first draft before I fetched the ref and I never got to fixing it idoalsothinktheredaccentsreallyhelphimpop

I hope that's alright ;;

[unseeliethot]

Lá Breithe Shona Dhuit a Fhlannáin!

Can't a man blow out his candles in peace? Smh!

Everyone who wanted this: youre all welcome

[robin-goatfellow]

Flannán: We need to distract these guys.

Robin: Leave it to me.

Robin: Centaurs have six limbs and are therefore insects. Discuss.

Aífe, Keagan, and Shae: *Immediately begin arguing*

Maeve, watching in horror: Oh, this. I don’t like this. I don't like this at all.