so this is fear

"Sternly Worded Letter Kata"

Her hands were still trembling when she flopped down at her desk. The office was dark and still; the chaos hadn't followed her home. At least, not yet. She supposed she should've expected the voice barely arm's length from her when it spoke, but she jumped all the same.

"Negotiations went poorly?" asked Night Locust, her fond shadow. She spotted him now, comfortably veiled in the dark.

"N-not as well as I'd like," she replied. "I had to send them a sternly worded letter."

He leaned in, sniffing the air around her a little more obviously than was strictly necessary. "You smell like fire dust. And there's glass in your hair."

Kalara couldn't help the cringe that overtook her face. As if to cover it, she let her face fall into her open palms "…it was an extremely sternly worded letter, all right?"

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I've been meaning to do a proper, full-effort bit of fan art for @theuncrucified of her gal Kalara for years, and I finally got around to it.

I was playing as a modified England, however, and while I have my own Queen for the fantasy kingdom from my d&d game, the ruling model is Victoria, so just sort of imagine that for the empire's leader.

Anyhow I was doing okay, trying to get a diplomatic victory, but one of my neighbors was Germany and Friedrich Barbarossa kept invading my city-state allies and annexing them. This irked me. This irked me greatly.

Eventually I decided to inform him of my irritation by building a Giant Death Robot and sending it promptly toward Berlin. On the off chance that a colossal robot marauding toward his capital did not convey my intent, I decided to name said robot as follows-

the imperial couple going for a nice ride

had exactly enough energy to do Mermay and zero energy to think about it. none of this deciding what kind of fish they are etc (maybe next year). but fun to do all the same!

park that car

drop that phone

sleep on the floor