adult - he/they - one of many - not straight - not cis - not white - not human
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
(more info below the cut)
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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wren just constantly gaslights everyone around her into thinking the esoteric things she periodically does are entirely sensible, if not Actually Just Normal. it's not even deliberate on her part. it's just that these things *are* entirely sensible to her and she's supremely competent and self-assured when she does them and also she has an utterly no-nonsense attitude that Doesn't Invite Questions. she'll walk out of a building full of smoke with a bandana doused in some unknowable substance tied around her face, suffering zero effects from smoke inhalation whatsoever, and she'll be like "your school didn't teach you about the most basic use of creeping mucosa distillate? are they stupid?"
wren just constantly gaslights everyone around her into thinking the esoteric things she periodically does are entirely sensible, if not Actually Just Normal. it's not even deliberate on her part. it's just that these things *are* entirely sensible to her and she's supremely competent and self-assured when she does them and also she has an utterly no-nonsense attitude that Doesn't Invite Questions. she'll walk out of a building full of smoke with a bandana doused in some unknowable substance tied around her face, suffering zero effects from smoke inhalation whatsoever, and she'll be like "your school didn't teach you about the most basic use of creeping mucosa distillate? are they stupid?"
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For a while, it’s been technically advantageous to never finish your University storyline. We’ve sorted that out, tidied everything up, and added some new activities besides.
I have a new standard for the level of haterdom to aspire to, and it's Reddit User KismaiAesthetics, who hates doing laundry so much that he got really good at it, so that he can (I quote) do it right the first time, every time, and get back to watching cat videos on the Internet.
and by "really good at it," I mean that he does a bunch of reading on the chemistry of laundry, subscribes to academic journals about laundry, and buys a bunch of different laundry products (including from outside the US) to scrutinize their ingredients and test them for himself. he writes a bunch of incredibly detailed longposts about his findings on /r/laundry and his website, which is also about laundry. he even got interviewed about his laundryposts, in which he revealed he's writing a book about laundry. this man is like ahab and the white whale, if ahab had a reddit account and moby dick was a pile of clothes with cheeseburger stains on them
anyway the reason I encountered this guy was because recently, the household washer has been leaving these gross little oily brown flakes on anything washed in it. this is kind of a big problem for me, given that I not only have (literal, diagnosed, medicated) OCD which includes a contagion phobia, I also sew a bunch of stuff with the intent of gifting or selling it, and sometimes that involves prewashing fabric. only, you know, washing is supposed to make things cleaner, not dirtier.
and my research brought me to (gross photos warning!) Kismai's post on the very topic. apparently this stuff is called "scrud," and it's basically a residue that forms over time inside the nooks and crannies of a washing machine - leftover detergent reacting with mineral traces in tapwater to form a buildup that also traps dyes, grease, and other dirt, which bacteria then feeds on, because it wasn't already gross enough. it forms faster if you have hard water, use too much detergent (which most people do), use fabric softener, wash only on cold and the list goes on and on - point is, scrud is the reason that you have to actually clean your washing machine, or be super fastidious about how you do laundry.
(I'll take "things I wish school/my parents actually taught me" for 800)
so now I am engaged in a lengthy battle against scrud, armed with a tub of oxiclean and a sack of citric acid crystals. (we're renters, so disassembling the machine is out of the question.) pour in a scoop of oxiclean, run a machine clean cycle, pour in a scoop of citric acid, run another machine clean cycle, all while wiping piles and piles of scrud out of the drum at the end of each cycle. I'm on the eighth cycle now. there's still so much scrud. the reddit record for "how many cleaning cycles were needed to get a machine entirely free of scrud" is 22 cycles. help
I have a new standard for the level of haterdom to aspire to, and it's Reddit User KismaiAesthetics, who hates doing laundry so much that he got really good at it, so that he can (I quote) do it right the first time, every time, and get back to watching cat videos on the Internet.
and by "really good at it," I mean that he does a bunch of reading on the chemistry of laundry, subscribes to academic journals about laundry, and buys a bunch of different laundry products (including from outside the US) to scrutinize their ingredients and test them for himself. he writes a bunch of incredibly detailed longposts about his findings on /r/laundry and his website, which is also about laundry. he even got interviewed about his laundryposts, in which he revealed he's writing a book about laundry. this man is like ahab and the white whale, if ahab had a reddit account and moby dick was a pile of clothes with cheeseburger stains on them
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my context for mina the hollower's assbusting difficulty level is that I got to watch a portion of a casual playthrough by the guy who had world record for a bunch of celeste speedrun categories. by which I mean I got to watch him, former multiple world record holder for one of the most famous precision platformers, eat shit and die for six hours straight in mousegame
this game was made by sickos (affectionate) who looked at celeste and went "cool game, but it's not hard enough" and added a soulslike combat system on top of the platforming. or maybe it was the other way around
also the speedrun tech for this game is extremely silly.
like a solid 80% of your movement is done using a Specific sidearm that lets you dash. except using sidearms consumes joules (mana), which you only have so much of. except you've equipped a trinket that lets you Cast From Hit Points when you're out of joules, and it can't kill you, only bring you down to 1 HP, so you can dash infinitely. except that now you're constantly at 1 HP and die instantly to everything. except that the Specific Sidearm also makes you briefly invulnerable and restores your health if you dash through an enemy, and also you can choose to restore more of your health with your limited-use estus flasks plasma vials, and also you're wearing another trinket that causes your health to decrease gradually instead of instantly if you get hit. so you're sometimes not at 1 HP and you survive a bunch of nonsense with the right timing and decisions, but also often you are still at 1 HP, enemies hit you for a fuckton because you put all your stats into damage, and you lose your sidearms if you die so if you fuck up you have to do a run of shame back to the guy who sells that Specific Sidearm.
another scalding hot take I have is that while 10-2 is silly and full of fanservice, it's also a reasonable sequel because it actually engages sincerely with the topic of how saving the world also fundamentally changed it in both good and bad ways, and how it can be rough living in this world as someone who both personally saved it and experienced incredible loss in the process of doing so. I feel like 7's sequels are missing the feeling of the world itself being alive and changing, and 13's feels like it starts there and then throws it all out, which is why I haven't been interested in engaging seriously with them
my assorted collection of final fantasy series takes:
scalding hot: ff13 has some of the best main cast writing in the series
lukewarm: the real main character in ff12 is the setting
mildly warm: yuna is one of 10-2's main characters. the other main character is the world itself. they serve as foils to each other, in which the world's growing pains are refracted through yuna's internal conflict about living in a world that both adores her and seems to be leaving her behind and vice versa.
ice cold: ff9 is good
freezing cold: more final fantasies should let you fight trains
regular tapwater temperature: your experience of ff14 will be enhanced in minor but delightful ways if you play ff12
cozy hot bath: ff7 was a complete experience and did not need a movie, multiple spinoffs, an ongoing remake, and whatever else I'm forgetting
bath that has cooled somewhat: ditto for ff13
soda straight from the fridge: ff6's second half is some of the most hard-hitting shit in the series
soda that's been in the car too long on a summer day: ff10 blitzball is fun
spicy: despite the game setting off all of my worst "I can't use any of my 99 potions I might need them later" impulses, I really appreciate that they got weird with ff8's mechanics
liquid nitrogen: also ff8 is better when it's about lesbians
to give you an idea of how much ff12 was a Big Fave - we started playing mmos because we wanted to find a game world that inspired the same degree of wonder as ff12's. so far, of the many mmos we've played, only guild wars 2 has delivered that.
(sorry, ff14. your writing is REALLY good but your open world design is incredibly bland. it's pretty to look at but hardly interactive at all)
my assorted collection of final fantasy series takes:
scalding hot: ff13 has some of the best main cast writing in the series
lukewarm: the real main character in ff12 is the setting
mildly warm: yuna is one of 10-2's main characters. the other main character is the world itself. they serve as foils to each other, in which the world's growing pains are refracted through yuna's internal conflict about living in a world that both adores her and seems to be leaving her behind and vice versa.
ice cold: ff9 is good
freezing cold: more final fantasies should let you fight trains
regular tapwater temperature: your experience of ff14 will be enhanced in minor but delightful ways if you play ff12
cozy hot bath: ff7 was a complete experience and did not need a movie, multiple spinoffs, an ongoing remake, and whatever else I'm forgetting
bath that has cooled somewhat: ditto for ff13
soda straight from the fridge: ff6's second half is some of the most hard-hitting shit in the series
soda that's been in the car too long on a summer day: ff10 blitzball is fun
spicy: despite the game setting off all of my worst "I can't use any of my 99 potions I might need them later" impulses, I really appreciate that they got weird with ff8's mechanics
liquid nitrogen: also ff8 is better when it's about lesbians
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A request for Fallen Londoners doing Art Fight this year
I'm collecting FL OCs on Art Fight to add to a directory of "FL OCs on Art Fight, organized by what kinds of spoilers their profiles contain" to make things easier for some friends who are avoiding spoilers.
If you have your FL OCs on Art Fight and have finished their profiles/don't expect to add more lore or backstory to them until Art Fight is over, feel free to respond to this post with a link and I'll shuffle them in!
Also, just as a disclaimer, I'm not going to be sharing that list anywhere outside the group of friends its for. That's because the spoiler cataloging is super idiosyncratic and tailored Specifically For These Friends, and I don't want it to be treated as a global directory when it super isn't meant as one. You're more than welcome to use the notes on this post as a way to find other people, though!
