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The most recent @neathyfashioncoalition prompt is Parabolan Elegance, which of course brings to mind all sorts of impossibly vibrant or ephemeral dream-clothes... but it was hard to imagine Samuel Ashman being that sort of fancy. Eventually I realised he spends most of his time in Parabola hunting nightmares and dream-beasts, so maybe his idea of fancy clothes for the dream realm would just be a nice hunting get up. Norfolk jackets are period-appropriate as far as my haphazard googling could tell, and I thought he might be handsome in one......

I had already been thinking Sam might look a little ratty in Parabola since his experiences in Death and Tax Evasion, bUT THEN IN THE MIDST OF SKETCHING THIS I finished playing Dream of a Thousand Tails and where u get access to ratty dreaming so......... ITS EVEN MORE CANON NOW. Sometimes he just gives his parabolan self rat features. He doesn't notice he's doing it.

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He's out here winning games they ain't even invented yet.

( Shaw belongs to @zeebreezin )

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Come on down to see em play!

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Out here in the club making bad choices (starting Light Fingers).

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I simply do not want to start Chapter Five. Ockham's basically been hanging out in Burgundy and the Stacks, but I'm still so firmly in grinding mode and cannot make my brain read words.

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As decades have gone on, Ellie's meticulous journaling has never changed. Though the use of language has gotten lax over the years...

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Limited palette commissions

me and my partner @lord-emerson are trying to save money for me to go visit them in September, so I'm opening commissions again :) this time for small painted portraits in limited color palette

here're some examples:

(Jones belongs to @viric-dreams, Hiram belongs to @esteemed-excellency)

the palettes are based on Fallen London items and made by @thedeafprophet (you can find them here). another option is for me to create a different palette based on some other FL item/NPC/location of your choice

price: €10, payment via PayPal/Revolut

if you're interested in something else, my regular commissions are also open!

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I forgot that painting was hard again. Pivoting to linework.

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wait hang on. having some realizations here.

a thing about the Missionary and the Firebrand is that (I'm realizing now) you can see how they ended up together. like, literally. you can see it in their storylines.

if you decide to seduce the Firebrand, you do it by first appearing as a Mysterious Alluring Stranger and then getting him to feel protective about you, which is ALSO kind of how the Missionary presents herself to you. this charming, mysterious, poor woman so distressed by her missing husband. and you can be there for her. you can be the steadfast presence she needs. you can write her letters and take her on dates (the Firebrand writes you letters and takes you on dates).

just. something REALLY fun to me about how the way you potentially get them to fall in love with you might also be the exact way they fell in love with each other

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I find it very funny that I didn't know about September's backstory when I created Jones, but there's no way learning about the fate of Lost September isn't going to have a profound effect on him. I can't tell yet if it's going to cause him to go back to his own roots or denounce September entirely and make a run for it, but it sure will be interesting.

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Ok, ALLEGEDLY one cat. As far as anyone can tell there’s only one cat.

Putting this here so I have an image to link to for Art Fight.

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Putting this here so I have an image to link to for Art Fight.

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Ockham Ellie Jones Lottie Wells Horace Tamara

I don't know if I'm adding anyone else.

Artfight Fallen London OCs

So... since artfight is coming up very soon, I was thinking we could all link our ocs that are on there in a giant thread! I'd love to see who I can send boxes of rats to via the post i mean politely create art for in ways that definitely do not involve mailing rats!

You can find mine here:

Ace la Rose

Serenity Prince

And here's their refs since artfight requires a login:

Feel free to reblog with links to/image of your ocs as well!

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The Regent of Hats Hearts, or Favoured in Two Courts, or Is and Is-Not

A piece of my OC Elias Leroux, the Regent of London, and Bride of the Red-Handed Queen.

Based on the official Marvellous deck of which i shall someday aquire a Violant copy

Happy four years, Elias! 🎉

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And a silly one for the road.

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"How is it they still haven't spotted us? It's almost impressive."

"They seem preoccupied with not making eye contact with each other..."

"You don't think it could be a bluff, do you?"

"Nah, the kid's way too green for that."

"You'd think a dead drop would've been the smarter option."

"Hang on, looks like they're doing the hand off. About time."

"... Wow. Congratulations. I can safely say that's the worst anyone's ever done it. And that's including our time in the Koloman delegation."

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got carried away trying to figure out twitch's gant eyes a little better >:3 even though nobody ever gets to see them