curiosity chained the cat...

I’m olrin and/or doots, I use either one and so can you! Pronouns are they/them/elle, age 31.

My fic:‌ olrinarts on AO3, tagged #olrin writes My art: hosted here and here alone, if it’s anywhere except here or my bluesky account (follow me here!) then I didn’t put it there. Tagged #olrin arts or #olrinarts (second tag is older), fanart tagged with its fandom, OC art tagged with #olrin originals. Anything not covered by those is tagged #olrin rambles

TWITCH STORYTIME PLAYLIST HERE

Main Project Quicklinks:

constancy must transpose – 150k, complete

chimes of bone – 167k, in progress, 15 chapters out of ??

ashes ashes – 48k, incomplete, 2 chapters out of 3

lore masterpost – where all the background lore and worldbuilding is stored

woolhaven nonsense - exactly what it says on the tin

more woolhaven nonsense - more up to date, actually talks in detail about the split between the Sheep and the Lambs

ref sheets/backstory - Lamb/Esriaal here, Narinder here

How you do that??

By being Deeply Normal™ about the things I love, and as like calls to like I suspect most people who follow me are also Deeply Normal™ about the things they like

But as at least two projects have been scrapped due to accidentally calling 90% of Woolhaven about a year before Woolhaven dropped, and as I didn't want to reheat canon's delicious nachos (DW neither are projects I've discussed publicly so none of y'all are missing out), I needed new ones

take artistic liberty, by all means! part of what's fun about writing is that i could go into meticulous detail and someone might still see it differently - and i don't always do that, i try to keep descriptions and such to what the POV character would personally perceive and pay attention to, so we're always seeing it through a singular camera lens

for instance, there's a reason not a lot of people get detailed outfit descriptions in chimes of bone, but narinder's always paying extra attention to esriaal, so we see more descriptions of what they look like and what they're doing than we do about other people

that said, not all of us are looking through that lens at the same angle, if that makes sense? maybe it's more accurate to compare it to a window - just because i'm standing directly in front of it and have a bunch of stuff I see doesn't mean there's not a different angle of the landscape to see

mine's creature from the black lagoon, saw it at age 3 and was hugely upset the fish man didn't get to be happy with the pretty lady despite my grandmother's insistence that it was a monster