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Fri, 17 May 2013 02:21:00 -0400

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I tried some other patterns in the clipping mask and something...

Thu, 16 May 2013 23:16:23 -0400

I tried some other patterns in the clipping mask and something went horribly right.

Reasons I made this: 1. I forgot how to draw my own character...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:32:16 -0400

Reasons I made this: 1. I forgot how to draw my own character WTF 2. Pattern abuse

How often do magical objects gain sentience (ie Tully)?

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:55:00 -0400

It’s actually pretty rare. So much so, it didn’t even happen to Tully. What is more common is for magically constructed intelligence to contain vagueness in the spell that leaves room for magic to solve the problem of making a thing that does x, y and z, and that leaves open the possibility that magic’s solution will be to make it sapient enough to understand what it’s being asked to do and how to do it and when. It’s a bug/feature.

When Tully was created, the vagueness was in place on purpose and the results expected and accounted for. His growing into sentience was really more a matter of growing beyond constraints that concealed what was already there.

Somewhat inspired by the reaction I got to Ruins of...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:30:17 -0400

Somewhat inspired by the reaction I got to Ruins of Melancholy.

Parker “what did I do” is not an appropriate reaction to a hug from a friend.

So I found out purple sweet potatoes exist, and the plants they...

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:56:30 -0400

So I found out purple sweet potatoes exist, and the plants they grow from are also purple, and immediately I wanted one. And then, as luck would have it, I found a place selling purple sweet potatoes.

So now the sweet potato plant has a purple friend. I’m thinking I’ll plant the slips together in one pot for some sweet contrast.

oscyllarus replied to your post: Within universe, how do creatures like Agents and… so what...

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:34:58 -0400

oscyllarus replied to your post: Within universe, how do creatures like Agents and…

so what about hat?

Hat is another “just liked the way it sounded” one, though for different reasons. Smudge just didn’t care what humans called her and didn’t feel like translating, Hat specifically wanted to keep them from knowing something that personal.

Within universe, how do creatures like Agents and magiphages get their names? Will an Agent change their name if they feel it no longer suits them?

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:18:00 -0400

Magiphages make theirs up, and sometimes do so while in the process of coming into existence, permanently imprinting the name into the spell in their bodies, making it an unchangeable reality for them. Some magiphage’s names are combinations of past generation’s names, they inherit them like it’s an eye color or some such, it was written in the spell material so it ended up in the mix.

Agents come up with thought-names for themselves, made up of sounds, sights, sensory experiences and feelings (basically anything that can be thought of or remembered). Other Agents shape an Agent’s name with their input as well.

Names change with the Agent, though they tend to build rather than change completely. A young Agent’s name might be just a few notes of bird song or the image of a single flower, and slowly it accrues into a complex scene, a bird perched on a dead tree singing that song in bright sunlight, that flower blooming out of snow.

Verbal Agents may try to translate this name into a name that can be spoken outloud or may come up with something totally unrelated. Non-verbal Agents often acquire names in unusual ways, and some guide the name they are given by responding to names they actually like being called and totally ignoring those calling them names they don’t like. But others just do not care, and their spoken names are about as related to them as the names we give wild animals.

Parker’s name is an example of a translation. His “real” name is something like a memory of being in a place full of trees and manicured-looking green lawns.

Smudge’s name is an example of just making something up - her thought-name is totally unrelated, she just likes the way “Smudge” sounds.

The Autumn Man’s name is an example of guiding others into a name. Since he is non-verbal, he can’t communicate what his name is or choose a translation. Humans just called him whatever they wanted to call him, and were usually just being obvious (The orange man, the man with one eye) - when someone finally called him The Autumn Man he was so surprised that someone got close to his name that he perked up and looked them right in the eye. That caused the name to catch on.

AAAAA A ROOT A ROOT IT’S GROWING

Wed, 08 May 2013 06:03:49 -0400

AAAAA A ROOT A ROOT IT’S GROWING

“Ruins of Melancholy” Parker spent almost a hundred...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:16:27 -0400

“Ruins of Melancholy”

Parker spent almost a hundred years in the ocean, isolated and exiled, before he finally just gave up. He did not feel that he could keep going. He beached himself, entirely intending to let himself rot there and die.

But he’d beached himself near a town, and he was soon found by a man named Ernest.

When Ernest found him, he was already so broken and listless he figured he was going to die and there wasn’t much he could do about it.

So he just stayed with him. He visited him, talked to him. He picked out debri and dirt that fell into his broken, wounded body.

And that was enough.

Misery loves company, and it’s unethical to knock out the...

Wed, 01 May 2013 21:13:08 -0400

Misery loves company, and it’s unethical to knock out the teeth of real people.

My options were have a complete mental breakdown or grow a sweet...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:32:45 -0400

My options were have a complete mental breakdown or grow a sweet potato plant. So let us begin the saga of the sweet potato plant.

Dammit tumblr that was supposed to be answered privately… whatever, you guys are free to know...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:55:31 -0400

Dammit tumblr that was supposed to be answered privately… whatever, you guys are free to know about my cracked tooth now.

I apologise for bringing it up here instead of lj, but how much money do you need for having your tooth fixed rather than pulled out? I'm not exactly rolling in cash but pulling out a tooth instead of fixing it is just fucked up so I want to help.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:52:00 -0400

I won’t know until I go to the dentist tomorrow and get the x-ray and find out what she thinks I can do. I’ve decided to try to save the tooth, so I won’t just get an extraction while I’m there like I had initially thought I would (unless that’s the only option, period), but I really won’t know until then. Thank you though. <3

How would Hearth react if its "people" where taken far, far away from the rest of the body? What about the "people"?

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:26:00 -0400

None of Hearth’s parts has it’s own separate mind, the body and little people are all essential parts in his collective brain. The further away the people are from his body (or from each other) the longer it takes for his thoughts to traverse the space between and resolve into full, whole experiences, ideas and reactions.

So what happens is he develops a pronounced delay in his thinking and reaction time. He finds the delay terribly uncomfortable, because there’s a point where his reality appears to jerk forward suddenly at regular intervals with lost time in between. His senses also dull considerably, in a bid to avoid this - like a computer with a bad connection displaying lower quality video.

Is a charackter you created aware of you? If no do not try it gets weird.

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:51:06 -0400

This question just perplexes me to be honest.

It’s not a matter of whether my characters are aware of me or not, it’s whether I want them to be or not. And I don’t, because 90% of the time it’s really boring to have characters and authors interact. Sometimes it’s funny but it usually isn’t.

superpyrrhocorax replied to your photo: If I fits, I sits. are both sets of Parker’s eyes...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:20:24 -0400

superpyrrhocorax replied to your photo: If I fits, I sits.

are both sets of Parker’s eyes functional, or only one?

Well, in a way, none of them are functional. Agent’s exteriors are misleading, as their real body, and real sensory equipment, is made up of the magic inside their bodies, and the outside stuff is entirely symbolic. His eyes are all functional in the sense that they move and react like real eyes, but none of them are his actual sight organs.

If I fits, I sits.

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:19:13 -0400

If I fits, I sits.

This character is Lizard, and belongs to o11.

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:17:03 -0400

This character is Lizard, and belongs to o11.

Seriously, I’m about the point where I see a reblog of that picture with “but those are...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:18:16 -0400

Seriously, I’m about the point where I see a reblog of that picture with “but those are bunnies” and I just want to throw my computer out a window.