#regular-gnome

[collectors-tablet]

Would the Archivists consider releasing the Maine Coon to roam around the archive?

Not a lot for a cat to eat here, anyways.

[Part 4]

[benjingler]

When Laois first realised Sissel is the dungeon lord they recognised him from the living painting. Ever since then Ive been wondering if they knew him becasue of magic.. or because thats where Sissel spends his time when not busy with the dungeon, and was there in person when Laois was souting for food. Reliving happier times, being around memory Delgal trying to distract himself from the absence

Sorry if its been mentioned before, i legit didnt see anyone talking about it before and its killing me

It hasn't really been disclosed?

Living paintings are illusion spells, so I'd assume Thistle could see into them. It's possible Thistle was pissed Laios was running around in them because they're his memories and all.

Maybe he was like "who is this guy that keeps showing up in my memories? I don't remember him! Was he the man that killed Freinag??" (It was an ancestor of the island lord)

It definitely could be Thistle trying to relive his past, but he looked much younger, so I doubt it. Plus, he never opted to bring them back. As in, Mithrun made a copy of Sultha (albeit a chimera). The winged lion offers to make copies of Chilchuck's wife and daughters later on too. Thistle and Marcille both turn the offer down. Basically what I'm getting at is that he wouldn't really want to interact with a fake Delgal. (Or Freinag or Eodio, etcetera) (another note: he never made a copy of Eodio's body either. Just the doll)

Also, a slight nitpicky correction... His name is Thistle, not Sissel. Sissel was Yen Press mistranslating his name and refusing to correct it lol. He's named after the plant! We can infer that was the national flower of Merini.

[a-e-redacted]

Happy birthday to my favourite writer! I hope you have an amazing day today and a very chill year, let the cats bless you with their fluffines and writer gods with sentences that dont need too much editing. In any case happy b-day!:p

Thank you!! This message made me really happy! I always enjoy seeing your awesome artwork on my dash.

It’s been a fairly mundane day so far but trust me when I say that I will take that over some of the more “eventful” ones I’ve had!

Thanks as always for following along on the MoonShadow adventure. It’s been such a fun story to write and share.

[babyspacebatclone]

I want to say how awesome it is that you can lay out this series chronologically by paying attention to the wanted poster (or lack thereof…), especially the bounty!!

Each scene, obviously, makes sense in context for placement, but it’s such a perfect and fun little detail that really sells the storyline you’re sharing here.

I wait eagerly for where else you plan on taking this series!

grudgby was "kinda" successful

[sclappin]

Final piece of gift art for the season, for my D&D group's secret santa exchange on Saturday (none of them follow me here to my knowledge, so I'm not spoiling the surprise).

The player I got for the exchange plays a druid named Al who lives down by (possibly under?) the docks in Saltmarsh, and they command a swarm of rats, whose company they enjoy more than the company of people. And yet, they're still not the most difficult member of the party to befriend.

[blujaydoodles]

sketchbook doobles of the lad~

[edmunderson]

well. i finally decided on an MC for reanimated heart

[robotwrangler]

I see a lot of love for infodumping as an autism bonding activity, and that’s wonderful of course but I think we also need to acknowledge the sheer joy of showing each other your collections. Literally nothing makes me happier than a friend showing off their hoards of trinkets and telling me the lore about each thing.

If you have a collection of things you’re really proud of or happy about PLEASE rb this and tell me about it in the tags because I really really want to hear about it!!

[gnomewithalaptop]

What is cue the sun? 👀

I need you to know I am kissing you on the mouth rn (platonically) -- I've been rotating this plot in the microwave since like. mid-august.

It's transcendence au (obvi) but here's the basic hook:

The year is 7098. The last Mizar (Fang Wu -- and shoutout to aba_daba_do for making a kickass OC) has been dead for four years now, and Alcor has been MIA for about the same amount of time. In their absence, the North American continent has broken out into a full-on, cross-continental war, with the main players being the Greater Austinian Monopoly (formerly known as Texas) and the Alaskadian Collective (Alaska, plus some parts of Canada and north-eastern Russia).

In a last-ditch effort to find some long-forgotten piece of magical information that could win the war, Alaskadian scientist Fatima Tursynbekova (an r!Ford) is sent to the abandoned site of what used to be Gravity Falls, accompanied by her troubled teenage daughter Olya (an r!Gideon). They're expecting to find little more than scant remnants of a town that was razed to the ground over thirty years before -- not much better than an archaeological expedition if anything.

However, what they find instead is a thriving small town -- the inhabitants of which are all completely and utterly convinced that it's the year 2016 (feat. the OG Mystery Twins and an extremely sus Stan Pines).

Anyways blah blah blah romance, secrecy, interpersonal drama but COME LOOK AT THE MAP I MADE I spent entirely too much time on it and I've been dying to share:

(Plus better quality image link for if tumblr steals all my pixels)

[soup-mother]

I probably shouldn't be allowed to talk about computers while zonked on progesterone but I've genuinely really struggled to like KDE plasma. the idea behind it is cool and design wise i should like it, but it's always just been a bit too weird for me.

yes it's customisable but there's just so many little things that frustrate me about it, like the faint grey outline symbolising a minimised program instead of something more visible, or the program icon showing up next to the cursor when launching something. combined with all the packaged software (that yes you can go without but most people don't) that starts with a K and isn't just called like "terminal" or "settings" and stuff makes for a bit of an overwhelming experience.

i do genuinely understand why people like it, and I'm certainly biased with my daily use of cinnamon. but it's sort of just an overwhelming and kind of frustrating experience that feels like it's trying to do too much and have their own version of every program they could and it's all just a bit too much sharp angles and blue for my liking. even though the full oxygen theme rules so hard.

it's kinda sad that it's trickier to get cinnamon looking good on non mint distros (tho probably not that hard i might just be bad at computers) because thats the main reason I've actually used KDE. this is all an issue of personal taste, but i think for me the issue is the design language *is* very consistent and I think it's a bad looking design language (despite it obviously being sleek and what a lot of people really like)

[stinkrascal]

this is the tav i'm currently playing as! her name is eris, she's a deep gnome circle of the moon druid and i have been so engrossed by her save that unfortunately this is the only pic i have of her :'(

[lixbf]

i was so productive in bg3 today fjsvcjdhd

[divuki]

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

I really thought Izzy Hands was tiny. Is everybody else in this show just a giant? My dude is 5'8"

[screamingatmyfandom]

Merrin (Druid Forest Gnome)

Meet Merrin Felwood!

She is a gnome druid (they don't have artificer so this was the second option) who runs a magical item curio shop in her hometown. She was in Baldur's Gate to establish a trade agreement when the sky broke and ruined her perfectly good day.

She acts as the camp mom/big sister and has a strong moral code, usually pushing for neutral, non-violent tactics if possible. She will throw hands with anyone who messes with children or her companions/friends, though. Her magic would probably smell faintly of cinnamon and cloves, kinda like chai.

[blujaydoodles]

darling little fellow...!