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Call me Phosphor!
I’m just here (very reluctantly, given tumblr’s Everything) for my friends and my fandoms, and I read much more than I post. I expect that I’ll mostly post Fallen London stuff (namely my OCs and my fanmade sigils) but who knows. I may occasionally post things on my headmate Lark’s behalf, including stuff about his own FL OC. (You can find him on his own blog as well, at @lutekeeper.)
Anyone who’s not a TERF/Nazi/etc is welcome to follow. I believe in good faith and in caring about people despite their messiness; I have no fondness for exclusionism, puritanism, or the slapfighting that passes for “discourse” on social media. Do with this information what you will.
Tags/posts of interest:
My Correspondence sigil art
My "what even is Fallen London" guidepost
References for canon Correspondence sigils
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Other links:
My system’s website
My account on the fediverse, where most of my personal posting happens - instance is set to allowlist only because I got tired of Nazi whack-a-mole, but if you want to follow me and your instance isn’t allowlisted, let me know and I’ll add it. (If you don’t have a fedi account but want one, here’s a few instances.)
My blog, where I keep many of my longposts, including some that I don't put here or on fedi.
FAQ
Why am I blocked?
See this post.
Are you still drawing Correspondence sigils/taking requests?
Yes! I go long periods where I don't draw any because I'm prone to getting deleted by seasonal depression and other health woes, but it's always okay to send in requests as long as you understand that it may be a while until I get to it.
Can I get a tattoo of one of your sigils/use it in my Fallen London fanart/brand it onto my Fallen London OC’s back/(some other personal noncommercial use that doesn’t involve blockchain or AI)?
Yes, go ahead! No credit needed.
Can I make NF*Ts of your sigils/use your sigils to train my AI/(some other techbro junk)?
No. Fuck off.
Can I use your sigils in a non-techbro commercial project?
Ask me first! If it’s something like slapping my art onto T-shirts, almost certainly no. If it’s something like “I’m drawing my Correspondent OC for a Neathy charity zine and want to use one of your designs,” then it’ll probably be fine - but again, ask me first!
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another thing about "had a Does Not Compute moment upon reading that people wanted fluff not suffering" is that in my Fallen Londoner social circle I'm pretty sure I have some of the mildest tastes when it comes to suffering. I am a hurt/comfort liker in the sense that characters hurt so that the comfort Hits Harder. meanwhile a lot of the folks I know are on that all-hurt-no-comfort eternal conga line
I've been pluralizing "eximus" as "exima" but it turned out I fucked up latin pluralization. the correct form is probably "eximi"
like I could just say "eximuses" or "eximus units" like a normal person. but one is a mouthful and the other caused my brain to take an immediate left swerve
anyway I'm reminded of the time that someone went "how are the tatterdemalion kissers doing, I bet they're really upset over this" and I was just like are you kidding. I'm having the time of my life. I have never eaten so well
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anyway I'm reminded of the time that someone went "how are the tatterdemalion kissers doing, I bet they're really upset over this" and I was just like are you kidding. I'm having the time of my life. I have never eaten so well
I think being in the fallen london fandom has skewed my perception a bit because I had to sit and have a Does Not Compute moment upon reading a bunch of people going "I wanted pure fluff, not more suffering for the characters"
anyway I understand why people are feeling bait and switched but I'm personally really glad they took this direction, as someone who ended up disengaging with the newer Hex chats because they felt too... idk, fluffy is the only word I can think of for it. there's nothing wrong with fluff but as someone who played In Stars and Time (which does NOT pull any punches about how much being trapped in a timeloop actually sucks) it just always bothered me that the Hex seemingly accepted their eternal entrapment in a hellish fascist-warzone-slash-zombie-apocalypse timeloop so easily. like not even having friends with you in the loop can fix that situation, especially when one of those friends is a nigh-immortal nigh-demigod capable of manipulating said timeloop and your memories. like it's because the characters are so believably and engagingly written that this was a downright immersion-breaking thing for me.
so I'm really fucking glad they're addressing this particular Sword of Damocles. even if they're addressing it because it fell on someone. sorry, Amir. I do have a lot of faith in you and your friends, though - I believe you can make it through this.
I think being in the fallen london fandom has skewed my perception a bit because I had to sit and have a Does Not Compute moment upon reading a bunch of people going "I wanted pure fluff, not more suffering for the characters"
so I've seen you chat about the robodog but I don't, like. Understand why it Does That (gives every enemy every status) and because I am yearning for An Objective I am considering acquiring dog. However. Dog also *sucks bad* to acquire and I'd like to know how exactly it works and what interactions it is that cause it to Do That (you know, before I go hit my head against a brick wall for fun)
long story short: it's an extremely silly behavior centered on one specific mod, Manifold Bond.
Companion Precept Mods apply Status Effects from Companion weapons. Killing enemies with 3 or more unique Status Effects reduces Companion Ability cooldowns by 3s.
the first part of that description is what's relevant: you can mod elements onto companion weapons just like you can mod your own. when your companion damages an enemy with one of their equipped abilities (precept mods), it also applies every status effect affiliated with every element on their weapon. (so for example if you've modded their weapon with cold and radiation, it freezes and confuses the enemy.) it does not matter what status chance the weapon has - as long as the element is there at all, the effects will trigger 100% of the time.
so. give a hound Manifold Bond and some good AoE precepts like Synergized Prospectus, stack as many elements as you can fit onto their weapon, add Momentous Bond and kill a bunch of exima to get More Elements (not hard given the sheer density of exima in lategame content), and you've got a robodog that gives Every Disease to Every Enemy. it's glorious, especially if you're running a weapon that makes use of a Condition Overload-type mod.
important note: Manifold Bond is available only for robotic companions, i.e. sentinels, hounds, and MOAs. you cannot equip it to kubrows, kavats, or other organic companions. there are still some ridiculously broken setups for those, but I'm less familiar with them because I've almost exclusively used my hound since I got her.
(also hounds are capable of stealing exima abilities via Null Audit. I'm not sure how powerful this actually is but it's always extremely funny to see enemies get chased around by jade lights, so I keep it)
at some point, whenever Ergo Glast gets around to stocking one at 60% valence bonus, I'm going to nab a Tenet Grigori as well, because apparently Limbo can make it hit damage cap with minimal effort. and then to add insult to injury, I'm going to spend 20 plat to rename it to Tenet Gregory
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the Tenet Ferrox slaps actually. it's a cool staff (speargun technically but w/e) that fries your foes with big crunchy jolts of lightning. it feels exactly like how I imagine What Might Be A Thunderbolt feels. I don't think it'll displace Scourge Prime for utility (the alt-fire pull-in is neat but I run Vazarin which comes with its own grouping button) but I don't regret grabbing one
(for additional context Ergo Glast is selling one right now that has a 60% heat valence bonus, which is the max possible valence bonus. great time to pick one up if you've got the holokeys and Mastery Rank on hand)
black mage pre-7.2 was a complex dance of mircomanging timers and skills and sacrificing mobility in exchange for Big Damage Numbers. it was the most complex caster in the game and people (including myself) loved it for that. then ffxiv patch 7.2 came out and the devs removed all of the timers and skill expression in favor of a simple job anyone can pick up and play. black mage is now one of the simplest casters in ffxiv. This Is A Bad Thing. it was a rework made to appeal to people who didn't like black mage, alienating basically everyone who actually did. this happened like seven months ago but im STILL angry about it and i refuse to touch the game until they give my baby back
"limbo is fine actually" post brought to you by someone who mained elementalist from literal launch in guild wars 2, which is probably the least surprising fact ever to anyone who knows what that means
anyway I'm going to kick a hornet's nest here and say that the people who actually play a frame matter more than the people who don't when it comes to discussions of retouches/reworks to said frame. yes, this is about all the people who go "limbo rework pls" who don't even play him
like, with apologies for going off on main: it's almost always the people who don't play him who are asking for reworks, while those of us who actually do (in all content, as our main, not just for a specific gimmick) almost always say "his kit is fine, it just needs visual QoL. if there's some way to make him play nicer in groups without fundamentally changing his abilities that'd be nice too, but not fundamentally changing his abilities matters more."
it's fine if he's not your thing, but that's why we have like 60 other frames. please go play one of them instead of demanding that DE change our guy (who is the only guy of his kind) into something he isn't. thanks!
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ETA this week was super soloable as well with Limbo, it turns out. didn't go full modifiers because one strugglefest with a bad loadout is enough for me, but did grab enough to at least pick up the gold reward
I still probably won't go for Perigone because Janus Captain Vor sounds purely obnoxious, but it's nice to know that if I ever change my mind that last objective is right there
