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[spoonsandsporks]

HGKJG [gets down on one knee] Q, my mutual, homie, and very dear friend, of course I would be delighted to platonically marry you for tax benefits, we will have a beautiful summer wedding, im handing you a ring pop as we speak hgkj <33 omg suits would be SO FUN!! we'd look so fancy and eat cake and itd just be a fun party hgkj :3 <33

(also youre so right about the benefits, EVERYONE MARRY YOUR HOMIES FOR REAL!!! hgkjg)

*takes your hand* Voli, I'm so glad you agree, I accept your ring pop and platonic proposal with glee hjklgjf WE SHALL HAVE A SUMMER WEDDING BTWN FRIENDS. A FRIEDDING IF YOU WILL. EVERYONE IS INVITED TO THE PARTY OF THE CENTURY TO STUFF YOURSELVES FULL OF CAKE

Also, in all seriousness, thank you for the excuse for a character design exercise I needed to get better at drawing suits hrktkgj and your sona is v v fun to draw <33 (For context: )

[spoondoodles]

Welcome fellow nerds!!

Artblog of @spoonsandsporks

I draw ttrpg ocs! And fandom stuff!!! I've drawn CotL and SaSi and I'm currently obsessed with my own OCs!!

Watch this space for animatics and animations too!!

Check out the spoondoodles tag for art!

[burpfrog]

Half way through reading a fic: realising that maybe *I* am the problem in my relationship-

Shooketh.

[kaviiinsky]

everybody congratulate me I am getting top surgery in TWO HOURS

[spoonsandsporks]

Ty my day went splendidly! Had a good time playing some games with girlfriends :))

Hey friend my dms are always open for dwalin brainrot any time, any day (timezone depending lmao). Let's have fun stabbing our blorbos together!!

For the character archetypes post: you like guys with Issues. Boys with Problems. What issues and problems you may ask? Well let's just say.... Mental illness. (You like a healthy dose of angst in your blorbos is what I'm saying if it can't make you cry when you think about it too hard you don't want it)

Hope your day is going well!!

god you're so right... sometimes i even invent more problems for them if there isn't enough in canon because it adds flavor (more angst). deadass the fic that i'm writing, i'm making up the majority of one of the main character's backstories and i'm just like hmmm how can i add more pain to this man's life and i'm doing it weirdly easily. truly it is just silly little guys (gn) with absolutely horrendous mental illness

i hope your day is going well too!!

the snippet in the response to my ask is making the dwalin worms go brrr and we should talk more about how we can stab this man in the gut mentally sometime

[imaspoonnotafork]

Hey dudes I'm back lolll...

[kaviiinsky]

Yeah I’m really attracted to the whole Having Everything Collected part of it, and I’ve got so many ideas that I know I’m never gonna publish, I just wanna ramble about them and have other people possibly enjoy them! If I make one I’ll absolutely let you know!!

I just followed your writeblr and it’s so cool! I love the idea of having wip and oc stuff all in one perusable area, it might be inspiring me to make one of my own!! Also your stories are very very sick and fun and good congrats

Aaaa thank you!! And I can highly recommend making one, while I'm not active as much there rn (I'm having a Time) it's a great place to just. Have everything. And it's fun connecting with other people in that sphere, even if I am waaaay more casual about my whole thing vs people actively wanting to publish stuff. I just throw stuff into the void and see what happens. It's very fun

[aspontaneousthought]

Yeeeeee

I finally have the internet I’m so happy I can finally stream my art again I wanna cryyyyy

[spoonsandsporks]

I love your url name/gen

That's all. Have a good timezone :3

This is so sweet?????? Tysm!!!

It's inspired by the two best eating implements in the world (and also a childhood memory of eating spaghetti with a spoon when we ran out of forks).

Just for the record, I am v fond of your URL too, always brings to mind a little rat with a number two tag tied around their neck like a little bow.

I also hope you have a good time in your relevant timezone! <33

[kaviiinsky]

I think these are actually the two best photos I’ve ever taken. I call it “That’s Me!!”

[spoonsandsporks]

hiii I saw your tags on your reblogs of my stuff and I just. tyyyyy

Oh my gods, hi!! A fellow volition enjoyer!!!! Hello!!!!!!

Your art is so! Cute!! I found you through Voli (volivolition) and wow! You make such cool stuff!!! I love your style and use of colour especially everything looks so cool and well put together, your composition is very skilled.

So no need to thank me! Thank you!!!!! For making such good art and sharing it here!! So excited to see what you'll draw in the future too!!!!!

I hope you have a nice day! <3333 You've made mine a little brighter with your comment :))))

[spoonsandsporks]

🎉 🤝 VOLITION LOVERS UNITE :]!!

YEAH BABY!! 🤝

He's just so...... 🥰💖😍 I'm newly back into the disco elysium hyperfixation and I'm concentrating it all onto crownhead this time let's give it up for the Voice of Reason and Sobriety 🎉 🎉🎉

If anyone other than @volivolition is reading this GO CHECK OUT THEIR BLOG it's got some incredible art of the skill the myth the legend Volition of Disco Elysium fame that I highly recommend. Also just in general their art is super cute!!!! Go look at it!!!!!!!!

Now please excuse me as I continue to plague the dash with art of my beloved 👉👉

[spoonsandsporks]

wait for this https://www.tumblr.com/spoonsandsporks/755104817199857664?source=share i gotta say your character archetype is 100% guy who regrets living when the person they were meant to protect has died

(for the character archetypes post)

H-hey man you don't gotta come for me like that...

But also y e a h I see it, for both oc's I've made and that dwalin fic I'm writing huh. Either that, or characters who would regret should the worst occur but it simply hasn't happened yet. Yet.

Hey thanks for the ask here's a sneak peak of some writing I've done for that fic:

“Leg-” he clears his throat and starts again, “The elves call it ‘sea-longing’, I think. The roaring of waves, the cries of gulls. It wears them down and reminds them of death, inevitably. They either leave for their shores to appease it, or die from it.”

“Do they now.” Dwalin states and it's not a question because he doesn't want to have this conversation and is determined to not care about the topic out of spite. He won't be ambushed like this and Gimli will have to work harder than that to get answers out of him.

Gimli squints, suspicious, “Yes. They do. I have it on good authority it's called ‘sea-longing’.”

“What is.” Dwalin almost demands, though there's no heat in it, he's too tired for that nowadays.

Gimli finds his gaze with a look in his eyes that is sympathetic enough to be sickening, “I think you know what.”

Guess they're both done asking questions they already know the answers to.

[spoonsandsporks]

HI <3 polite invitation to talk about your godtier and land thoughts for your characters if you want to!! i am sitting and listening intently :3 <3

Oh my god asfdgdgifgdb you don't know what you've done,,,,,

Long post incoming!!

So quick plug of an old blog that established a lot of my HS godtier opinions early on dahniwitchoflight so you can see a lot of where my context originates (esp. the godtier aspect masterpost) but with that out the way here we go

In terms of godtier opinions, I don't believe in gendered classes. I think that, socially, there may be a bias certain genders may have to certain classes (Muse and Lord, for example). But I don't believe that's an absolute. For one, there are more genders than the binary and people don't always identify as one forever. Secondly, I think to say that, for example, Lord is always aggressive and therefore only men can be Lords is uhhhhhhh,,, very stereotypical and simply doesn't encapsulate the range of human expression. Besides, isn't it more fun for the classes to be non-gendered using gendered human words? Who's to say the game mechanics of SBURB/sgrub are in english? There's gotta be some kind of translation errors or approximations going on in lore lmao

Related to this is that a godtier is meant to be a culmination of a character arc, the end reward of the 'ideal self' a character can be. This is not referring to 'ultimate' selves (i sincerely don't want to touch that concept at all) or even 'morally correct' selves - merely the best kind of self a character would want to be. The best you that you wanna be! Whether that means embracing your flaws or overcoming them, the godtier is the symbol of your growth as a person. Hence why to 'go godtier' you have to fuse your dreamself and awake self together, finally bringing together the two separate experiences you've lived as a player before this; your 'normal' life and your SBURB life. This also follows why death is a consistent theme and in fact needed for godtier ascension. You are killing or accepting the death of your former self in order to ascend into your new self, via combining everything you've learned into everything you'll be. It's supposed to be a positive, if traumatic, experience. Like changing and growing in life already is! Just faster lol

On a brief design point, I do think godtier outfits should also therefore change to fit the wearer and what they're comfortable with. I don't necessarily think that it should be like, witch skirt for girls but trousers for boys, I think that if a godtier outfit is your ideal self it should automatically change into whatever you'd be comfortable wearing. So if someone is a Witch, but doesn't mind wearing a skirt, then they'd ascend into the default Witch outfit. If they then wanted to change it they could through a thought. But if a Witch ascends and they hate skirts or maybe just cannot imagine wearing one then maybe it changes into shorts or something lol. I've actually done some alternate designs of godtiers along this line as it happens which you'll see in this post.

I also like the Aspect counterparts, that each one has an opposite, and while in canon that doesn't have much of an effect on the godtier design beyond the kids, I actually like the accessories and shoes on godtiers taking on the colours of their opposite Aspect. I like that it symbolises that even their opposite has an affect on the Aspect in question.

Now, this is all some lovely prose but what am I going on about? So, like all great and real scientists, I'll use myself as an example first.

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Me - Sylph of Heart

So I've gone through many, many iterations of godtier introspection (started in Hope, have moved to Heart, Sylph has stayed pretty consistent but I still have doubts) and, of course, being a real life person this is the one that's evolved and changed the most as I have evolved and changed throughout my teens and adult life. But for the sake of analysis, I'll give my 'sona' or 'self-insert' the godtier to separate myself from the analysis and come at this more honestly.

Heart as an Aspect is all about Emotion and the Soul. As the opposite counterpart to the Aspect Mind (which is concerned with the brain, reason and, y'know, the mind lol), Heart players are more impulsive and driven by personal goals. It's all about the Inner Self, the Individual, what makes You Unique as opposed to everyone else in the world. It's Passion, it's Empathy, it's Understanding - about people, mostly. It's about Knowing Yourself and what you like or dislike. Your Heart, in a lot of ways, is the emotional centre and Heart players follow it to a T - and often to the detriment of everything else. It's not inaccurate to say Heart players come across as self-obsessed b/c they are concerned with discovering themselves and their own identity. None of these things come without drawbacks of course and none of this means Heart players don't care about others. They simply assume everyone else is just as obsessed with Finding themselves as they are. I mean, at their best, Heart players are compassionate, imaginative and a steady presence in life. But, uh, at their worst they can come across as dismissive, rigid or nosy lol Personally, as someone very driven by emotion and with a tendancy for introspection, to the point of contantly overthinking my feelings and second guessing my impulses, I feel comfortable in the Heart Aspect.

So Sylphs are talkers. Chatterboxes you could say. They're also one of two 'healer' classes and the active counterpart to Maid. Which yeah I'm aware I have a tendency to ramble. Sylphs are known to love talking about their interests to an audience, whether the audience is interested or not lmao. For a Sylph of Heart, that's mostly concentrated into the subject of Love and Relationships. Sylphs are also nosy little meddlers and so one interpretation of Heart could be a cupid-like matchmaker of sorts. I don't personally see that for myself but it's a valid interpretation.

Personally, I see myself as a person obsessed with Connection and the Relationships that make these connections stable. Friendship, romantic, QPR, you name it, I'm interested in the dynamics. In fiction and in fandom, this makes me a prolific shipper yes haha but most of all I love character interactions. I love filler episodes! And beach episodes! And regency romance! And slice of life isekai anime! B/c all those things prioritise character interaction and personal character arcs over plot or action or whatever haha. I love gentle drama and harmless gossip, I love watching two people get to know each other and be forever changed for having met one another and! I!! Love!!! My!!!! Friends!!!!!!!

Also the sylph outfit is cool af actually. In this image I've actually redesigned it to be a little more gender neutral hence the billowing trousers but I love the no sleeves and the curled shoes and the ribbon-y capelet thing lol. And the bangles!!

I have some ideas for godtier powers but they're not fleshed out yet, but for Sylph of Heart I imagine they'd have to power to 'heal the soul/heart' so to speak. To keep emotions steady in the heat of battle and to help heal mental or emotional wounds. They sound like a support class, like a buffer or healer.

Oh god this got long, I have some ideas for lands but I'll be honest it's almost entirely based on this post from dahni years ago (literally 10 years ago oh gods how long have I been here) b/c i really vibe with it so I have nothing new to really add lol. Maybe there'd be like pink lakes or maybe i'd have a coastal type planet with rough seas that symbolise riding the waves of emotion or something lmao

Hope you enjoyed this brief foray! I'll probably reblog this with a breakdown of the godtiers I've assigned to 4 of my dnd characters I did for fun so you can see my opinions on the Space, Time, Mind and Heart (again) aspects as well as the Maid, Page, Mage and Knight classes too. But for now I need to cook dinner lol

[spoonsandsporks]

Artblog created!

Hi! So I finally made an artblog! @spoondoodles here on tumblr!

I'd appreciate those interested in my art to follow me there! It's mainly ttrpg ocs but I also draw other fandom stuff! And I make animatics and animations! Check it out if you have the time!! :)))

[spoonsandsporks]

[HOLDS YOUR HANDS LOVINGLY] YOU ARE. SO KIND TO ME!!! DID YOU KNOW YOU DESERVE THE WHOLE WORLD AND MORE?? LITERALLY SO SWEET IM TWIRLING YOU AROUND SO AFFECTIONATELY!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH <33

NO U??????!? <33

Voli you are one of the sweetest individuals on this hellcite I am simply responding to your vibe with the kindness you deserve for being so nicesies all the damn time. Your posts make me smile and your comments and tags on my posts are delightful.

TY FOR THE NICE WORDS THO TRULY YOU ALSO DESERVE THE WORLD AND MORE WE CAN SHARE THE GALAXY TOGETHER BESTIEEEEEEE <333333

*holds your hands and twirls faster until we take off like kids in a Ghibli film*