#tweoad

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I told myself I was just gonna do some simple doodles, and TECHNICALLY, I did do that! I just also did a few more complex ones with references and cleaned up lines and shading... so there!

Anyways, never let anyone tell you you're too old to play with dolls!

And go read The Welcome End of a Dream by @adjacentperception

[adjacentperception]

The Welcome End of a Dream - Chapter 4 is now available!

Hello good afternoon and welcome to Stella and Archer's wonderful world of Investigation and Remembering.

Thank you all so very much, not only for your interest in this silly little story but also your patience as I pried the next chapter out of myself. Sometimes the words just don't wanna come easily, despite knowing what I want them to ultimately do.

As always, feedback, questions, etc are always very appreciated <3 I hope you enjoy!

edit: the usual link insert isn't working for me atm so just click the title.

[adjacentperception]

The Welcome End Of A Dream - Chapter 3 is now available!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Figured it might be a good fit for a year in which I hope to write more, to post an update on the first day of it.

So here we are. Archer and Stella both taking some time away from each other to sort out their feelings on this Very Strange Situation so that they might start off on a better foot with one another.

Archer comes to terms with his current doll body, more or less, and Stella comes to terms with the idea that Being Confused is a better answer than Absence.

Hope you all enjoy and would love to know your thoughts :)

[adjacentperception]

there are certain things that you learn about your ocs as you travel along the narrative with them that you're not sure are ever going to make it into the actual story itself

and i mean that's great! i love knowing these things because these little details still color them as a person even if I'm the only one that knows them.

but i also have a blog, so i don't have to be

so this is how I'm telling you that Raymond would be/will be absolutely devastated to know that he completely missed Woodstock even though there's a Higher Than Likely chance that his square ass wouldn't have gone anyway but that's really not the point.

what i want y'all to know that under this fuckin desperate 2 b respected academic candy coating is a man who was into some really crunchy music of the day complete with a hidden record collection and enjoyed the poetry of allen ginsberg and shit like i know this and i want everyone to know this and i don't care

[adjacentperception]

lord lord LORD i need to finish up chapter four of TWEOAD but I've left myself at the edge of a moment and while that usually makes it easy to come back to i'm caught like a deer in headlights on this one

me and archer both.

[adjacentperception]

Hey Zip, if you're cool with questions, I'd like to know more about Raymond as a professor. Not sure if you plan on touching on it in the story but what were his classes like? Is he actually any good at teaching? Did he like doing it? (...are any of his old students still around?)

Feel free to answer as much or as little as you like. Thanks!

Hey there! I am always totally cool with questions. I got a dome full of background information and only a narrative to try and spill it into otherwise😅

I do apologize in advance though, as I cannot summarize for the life of me.

So! When Raymond was teaching back in the 60's, the magical community was still very secluded. It wasn't a secret, but access to that information was incredibly hard to come by without already being within it. (For comparison, this is technically the same universe as my Rose & Laporte stories, and the magical community is much more open and lax in that universe when it comes to 'mundane' folks.) So, what Raymond was studying and teaching in those days were mostly magical fundamentals and how it works. In this universe, magic is a fact of existence/force of nature in the same way that gravity and magnets and time and space are. It's like an energy that permeates existence itself, and magic users are just those that can latch onto that energy manipulate it for their own use, sometimes intentional, sometimes not. Raymond's classes were about understanding what that energy is, how it can be harnessed, and what forms that takes.

Which then leads into discussing magical mediums (i.e. potion making, gemstone magic, sigil/symbol/rune work, enchanting, charms, etc, etc, etc) and I could really just go into a long babble about what that actually entails bc I've been hammering out the details of this sort of Mental Expanded Fantasy Universe in my head since... =checks notes= 2005, but i'll stop myself there to save everyone some scrolling, but that's the nature of what he studied and what he taught.

He will tell people his interest is purely academic, for the sake of record and interest, but deep down he just wants to figure out for himself. Thinks that if he breaks down the whole of magic down to its core components and understands every facet, he'll eventually be able to use it himself. Nothing else has certainly ever worked for him.

All that being said, I do think he was a very good teacher. You need someone who is passionate about a topic, and there are practically no other Non Magic Folk with a passion for the study like Raymond Archer. He's deeply fascinated with it all, and he wants to share that with as many people as he can. He sees a lot of value in the information, and thinks it can ultimately do a lot of good in a lot of ways (for instance, in making it easier for the magical community to integrate more seamlessly into modern mundane society. Understanding leads to Acceptance, and I don't think it would be a stretch to say that his papers and books on the subject were incredibly helpful on a wider scale than he realizes.)

So... yes. He was a good teacher, and I think he truly loved the job. It wasn't a class a lot of people were looking to take, as it wasn't taken very seriously still, but those who were there cared about the subject matter and that made it much more fulfilling for him.

Whether any of those students are still alive today though... I mean I'm sure there are some. They would have been twentysomethings in 1969, so you're looking at people in their late seventies and early eighties at this point. To be entirely truthful, I haven't at this time given his former students a great amount of thought. I've focused much more on someone else from his past that's still kicking ;D (Stella was going to bring it up with the other stuff, but uh... after going to sleep mode she elected to hold back on follow up questions for now. they'll get there though~) Thank you so much for the questions, mock! sorry it turned into a small lecture, but as stated, I cannot summarize for anything x_x

[adjacentperception]

inside me there are two wolves

one wants to edit this chapter to hell and back

the other just wants to post the rough draft and be done with it

neither seem to be able to overpower the other

[adjacentperception]

so i accidentally broke the arm of one of my little wooden desk figures last night due to high anxiety fidgeting and let me tell you it was not the way i wanted my imagination to jump off of the page

[adjacentperception]

I am HOLLERIN oh my god oh my god??????

This is so so nice!!!! I love them so much i cannot even process words rn omfggggg

Thank you so much!!! It means everything to me that anyone cares enough to read my silly little words, much less draw my silly little words ;0; ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I told myself I was just gonna do some simple doodles, and TECHNICALLY, I did do that! I just also did a few more complex ones with references and cleaned up lines and shading... so there!

Anyways, never let anyone tell you you're too old to play with dolls!

And go read The Welcome End of a Dream by @adjacentperception