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At first glance, Lottie's reflection almost looks like her. It's at a second glance that the reality becomes more clear. What if she had left for London earlier? Not married that man, not had her kids, not had her dreams pushed back, not had that contract rescinded, had boarded that zubmarine...

What if she'd gotten everything she'd wanted?

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I made a bunch of sketches the other month to keep my sanity intact during the heatwave and now that i finally made peace with the weather i can share at least one: Catboy Hiram.

The text reads:

is a grown ass man

steals all your drugs

leaves gory gifts at your door

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I think that in terms of menswear Hiram always seems slightly weird in the eyes of high society because he mostly wears anachronistic clothes, with defined lines and pointy lapels or sometimes with shoulder pads (think about 1920s tuxedos, late 1920s/early 1930s pinstripe suits, and all the new and different 1930s vest cuts)

but he's also very fond of outdated dandyish trends like cravats, bows, boutonnieres, high collared shirts, flower patterns, puffed sleeves, etc with a fitted waistline (trends that were starting to be considered foppish - in a derogatory sense - when he was young).

He often ends up subtly combining old and new styles, always in an elegant but inevitably scandalous way.

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Jamie is very important to me as a messy abuse survive.... someone who kept going back to people he knew hurt him. Lashing out whenever someone tried to talk to him about things. Refusing to talk, to communicate, continuing to engage in bad coping mechanicsms and digging himself deeper until there was nothing to do but sink deeper or crawl himself out on his own.

but he still did, in the end. He still will

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Drakona Substances thoughts.

I don't think the partying is the problem actually. I think they overdo it with honey or alcohol at parties on occasion, but mostly they're actually good at pacing themself because they prefer to keep their composure and filter when socializing. the worst of their honey usage usually happens alone, in that they'll either do it at home or go to a honey den, but it's not a part of like. an Event. they're just tired and they'd like to be somewhere else for a while. maybe they've been working on a case and they need to clear their head. maybe they catch themself thinking about something they don't want to be thinking about. they've come to see honey as a convenient "hard reset" button for their brain, where after they dream for a while they feel more Normal, which is. not the greatest way to go about this.

also almost every single time they've gotten honey mazed was at a honey den, with the exception of the one or two times it happened at home because they messed up their dose/took more than usual on purpose

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A post I saw reminded me. A bit ago I was considering plotting everyone on the Kinsey scale just to get a fun little spread. Which leads me to my conclusion that in modern day community and terminology Ellie would fully still identify as gay.

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It was a fun summer in Fallen London...

(May as well be Archie Reid here instead of my PC)

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a quick lil body ref for @the-insouciant-scientist 's hunter Harper!

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Art fight revenge of @letters-of-fire ‘s Howard and @lord-emerson ‘s Oswald!

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"wow, i suddenly miss my ocs" -guy completely capable of drawing/writing them

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"A light grows in the far south-west. It begins like a distant bonfire, but very rapidly, it becomes brighter, brighter. It looks remarkably like sunrise. Some of your crew fall to their knees: others duck behind cover or shield their eyes.

There is warmth on your face. Your eyes water. Your skin stings and tingles. You catch a glimpse of geometries in the heart of it - complex faceted shapes that reconfigure like the wheels of an orrery

Light sheets over you. Your hair crackles as if a storm were rising. You squint your eyes shut, but the radiance around you is bright enough that you see the pink of your eyelids..."

Been working on the next bit of Portia's storyline which has her asking the navy for help and stumbling into encountering the Clockwork Sun and the New Sequence and so decided to make some art of it

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Okay, my own story inside “Sunless sea”

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my pen started like leaking ink and it got on my hands so that’s why she’s surrounded by smudgies. my beloved madeline

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The source you last met with has sent you a daguerreotype of the Missionary, taken as she sits outside a farmhouse in the sun.

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wow i cant believe the chess was romantic-

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Pour one out for me. Not only did Ellie spend days grinding Cellars of Wine just to mistakenly convert them all on the Opportunities card, and only discover this once she got to Godfall. On top of this, spent ages grinding Wells' nota up to get that last point they need, only for TTH to come 8 minutes before I could cash out.

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Everyone else is doing ficswap, so I’m going to use this same time to actually finish my own.