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Older commission done for @calyxofawildflower a while ago of their lovely character for their Dishonored RPG, Romana Kyme, a former member of the Oracular Order.

Did a thing on Twitter where people would say a number between 1 and 132 and I had to draw a little thing based on a song I have on a 132 songs playlist called "An insurmountable amount of garbage" that I curated for a friend who wanted to know what I've been listening to for the past 2 years or so

13 - "The Neverending Story" (cover), The Birthday Massacre

55 - "Shadow Moses", Bring Me The Horizon

27 - "Eden", Sara Bareilles

101 - "Xtal", Aphex Twin

8 - "I'll keep coming", Low Roar

65 - "Slaughterhouse", Motionless In White

132 - "Torture Me", 100 Gecs ft. Skrillex

23 - "How Not To Drown", CHVRCHES & Robert Smith

i have neither a good imagination nor aphantasia, but a secret third thing

OH SHIT

CRABS FOR THE CRABLORD

I'm so happy

Peak Tumblr experience

Thank you whoever you are

then saying “ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole”

“You’ve got DOOMS,” Daud whispers to Thomas, just to take his mind off their impending death. Thomas glances at him. He presses his lips together. Then he nods. “I can sense them.” “Can you see?” He shakes his head. “I just feel the cold. They echo.” Daud keeps moving. His body hums with adrenaline, but ironically he feels a bit better. With Thomas able to sense the BTs, their chances of survival have just gone up by a generous estimate. They’ve almost made it to the more level ground when the odradek chitters, low and urgent. Before either of them can react, it starts spinning.

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Aka the Dishonored/Death Stranding crossover no one asked for. If you haven't played Death Stranding, here's a good exposition video about the world.

Title is from Anne Boyer's poem What Resembles The Grave But Isn't.

Beta by @exalok

uses of pragotron terminals

thoughts on doctor who?

Is that another Tumblr imaginary movie?

When Twitter is trending on Twitter

modified map of the Empire of the Isles: elevation (land and sea), lakes, major cities, trade routes (red: heavy traffic, yellow: light traffic)

modifications explained below the cut

the main change, which prompted most of the other changes, is that i placed tyvia and morley on one tectonic plate, and gristol and serkonos on another.

i'm not a geologist and possibly there are other explanations to how the isles were formed, but my reasoning went thus: the temperature difference between the north of tyvia and the south of serkonos is too huge for a single archipelago -> the distance between them must correspond to something like that between finland and spain -> the isles are the size of a continent -> a continent, as far as i know, does not split apart unless through the movement of tectonic plates -> there is divergence happening

it could also have been convergence but wow that would mean so many more volcanoes. instead you get block rift mountains

the main tectonic rift is between tyvia+morley and gristol, as evidenced by the very deep chasm -- it's probably smaller in width than it should be, but i'm not going for full realistic accuracy either -- but there is also tectonic drift between tyvia and morley (according to the north american tectonic plate this is a thing that can happen, because that thing branches off in all kinds of directions. could it cause a continent to split on this small a scale? who knows. i'm pretending the answer is yes. can you tell already i just wanted to go hog wild on the tectonic plates) and there are convergent plates above tyvia and below serkonos

CONSEQUENCES: volcanoes volcanoes volcanoes (and fault block mountains)

now serkonos is half dormant volcanoes, half huge old magma flow from a massive volcanic event at some point in the distant past; tyvia has a volcanic arc as its northmost feature but it's partly calderas; the south of tyvia and the north of gristol is very mountainous (but the area between gristol and morley isn't because the tectonic forces along that axis are transformed [dunno if that's the proper term, basically lateral] rather than divergent

does this also mean there are probably earthquakes everywhere? yes. oh god

OTHER FEATURES: a couple of meteor craters (the shapes were already there, i just decided they would be craters) east of baleton and west of caltan; a void rift deep in the ocean right near whitecliff, pulling in the landmass around it; minor modifications to certain outline areas because i added in mountains. i like mountains. they make things less flat. OH and this was already present in the canon map but the line of islands east of gristol is now a bunch of extinct volcanoes formed as the result of a hotspot at the morley-gristol tectonic limit, now closed; and i just fully deleted an island west of gristol for the hell of it. also the lakes were either already there, or hadn't been colored in right on the canon map, or were Very Weird Interconnecting Rivers i decided to fill in because why not

TRADE ROUTES. obviously all capitals would be trade centers, or at least trade-rich considering their population level, but i've decided several other cities are either merchant towns for reasons such as being nearest to another isle, being conveniently placed to connect to many other cities and thus either the center of trade (like yaro or driscol) or a waypoint (like caltan), or being an exporter of stuff and conveniently placed right on a trade route thus favoring its development (like potterstead, but that's entirely my personal fanon)

some trade routes are heavily used because they lead to many ports of interest, or because they lead to a major port, or because it's the only way to get to a certain major port efficiently (for example, the trade routes to the east of serkonos are little used because if you leave from karnaca you have to get all the way around the trail of volcanic islands, can't dock at whitecliff directly because, see name, it's on a huge cliff, then avoid the dishonored bermuda's triangle [void rift, huge myths around that place, few people risk going through there], then get all the way up to driscol); the heavily trafficked trade route that stops right at the top of serkonos actually leads to the serkonan canal, which isn't even present on the canon map (probs because they hadn't invented it yet when they drew the thing), and is a much faster way of getting to karnaca, but deep-keel boats can't take the canal and series of waterlocks and have to go around the old way; wei-ghon does a lot of trade because it needs to to support its population way in the north, and a lot of tyvian trade goes by boat due to the poor travel conditions inland and the huge fuckoff mountains

not pictured: trade routes to pandyssia

The Outsider 🖤

Eldritch boyfriend 🖤

Yesterday we finished our first complete DnD campaign, after 4 years of adventures! We lost people, we found people, we got betrayed, we won tournaments, we punched demons and we even found love… it was pretty ✨EPIC✨!

PSA to New Tumblr Users

DON'T CENSOR YOUR TAGS. DON'T.

Write out 'Suicide' Write out 'Rape' Write out 'Abuse' & 'Assault' & 'Gore'

If you don't use the real words in your tags? People won't be able to filter those out and stay SAFE.

You need to tag properly to keep everyone safe.

Don't water down warnings just because social media has trained you to water them down.

Depths - Black tentacles, rising from the unfathomable depths of the ocean, slithering to the surface slowly but surely.

reblog to give your mutuals a BLÅHAJ

Can I interest you in a

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crabonated beverage?

:/

I miss my crabs

From Les Bords de Mer. illustrated by Carl Brenders in 1981.

“La Couleuvre Alchimiste”, an imaginary, anomalous, vaguely new-age shop