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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all that said, I really am enjoying the head-shooting part. I genuinely do like that the combat is both slower and spicier than warframe (especially if you went full glass cannon rogue like me) and I extremely enjoy having to aim for people's heads, one by one, with a normal bow that shoots normal arrows with normal video game arrow physics. I love my cinta a whole bunch, y'all know this, but there's something just really satisfying about going "hey watch this" and nailing some dude through the face from 700 meters away
anyway my feelings about soulframe so far are that it's a fun head-shooting simulator, but I'm loath to treat it as any more than that until it hits 1.0, ideally with a lot of quality of life additions.
like holy cow, restricting fast travel to three whole times a day? I get that they want players to slow down and enjoy the journey, but the thing is, "slow down and enjoy the journey" applies mostly to traveling in real life where things are continuously new and changing. nothing is continuously new and changing in any live service open world, not at a rate that matches how much your dedicated players grind. (something like "you can only fast travel every 30 minutes" would feel much better to me - that way I wouldn't just fast travel everywhere and would think about how to pass 30 minutes in a particular zone, but I also wouldn't be fretting about using up my Limited Fast Travel Charges.)
and I also get that gamedev is hard and that the game is in heckin pre-alpha, and I am saying this with the hope that people will give it grace accordingly. but. also. there's a number of decisions in this game's history that seem needlessly tedious at best and hostile at worst. like what the fuck do you mean you had to spend a rare item every time you wanted to reallocate your stats for a new build. how are these decisions being made by the same people who made warframe? (the answer is "it's not the same people, it's a different team within DE trying to do a different thing.") like it's good that they realized these things were excessive and rolled them back, but these feel like problems that had already been solved (or not solved, to their detriment) by several games, including warframe
the ode Really don't like it when I fill their heads with arrows. they say it's "barbaric" and "rude" and "making it hard to meet KPIs." to which I say: if they don't want me to fill their heads with arrows, then why don't they simply stop colonizing alca? are they stupid?
woke up from a nap with an intense urge to resub to ffxiv for the sole purpose of getting Really Good at triple triad. I think my resident snakes want to play cardgames
in this dream I had to endure a house visit from the traitor empress, who was cross-examining me on every word of our "pleasant chat." according to the dream logic These Visits Just Happen Sometimes. also you have to be dressed Properly when she visits, in full mourning regalia, but I didn't have any of that so I made a headband with very long pieces of scotch tape stuck to it. part of the "pleasant chat" was me trying to convince the traitor empress that this was proper mourning regalia because the children I was teaching took great amusement in it. "they say it makes me look like I'm being eaten by a jellyfish," I said, staring the empress directly in the eye
eventually I managed to wiggle away and dream-me decided to chill out by playing triple triad. which is really the most unrealistic part of this dream, because triple triad has never been relaxing
anyway now I want some kind of fallen london activity that requires you to be dressed Somberly and Properly. except, because you're the FLPC, resident harry du bois of the neath, you can instead come dressed in What The Fuckever. this activity would also have tie-ins for all of the bizarre, questionable, and downright alarming items in your wardrobe, and you'd have to pass increasingly difficult mithridacy checks to convince your hosts that your own shed skin, a giant headache, and a kitty collar count as Somber And Proper Dress
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woke up from a nap with an intense urge to resub to ffxiv for the sole purpose of getting Really Good at triple triad. I think my resident snakes want to play cardgames
in this dream I had to endure a house visit from the traitor empress, who was cross-examining me on every word of our "pleasant chat." according to the dream logic These Visits Just Happen Sometimes. also you have to be dressed Properly when she visits, in full mourning regalia, but I didn't have any of that so I made a headband with very long pieces of scotch tape stuck to it. part of the "pleasant chat" was me trying to convince the traitor empress that this was proper mourning regalia because the children I was teaching took great amusement in it. "they say it makes me look like I'm being eaten by a jellyfish," I said, staring the empress directly in the eye
eventually I managed to wiggle away and dream-me decided to chill out by playing triple triad. which is really the most unrealistic part of this dream, because triple triad has never been relaxing
woke up from a nap with an intense urge to resub to ffxiv for the sole purpose of getting Really Good at triple triad. I think my resident snakes want to play cardgames
dream lucidity is actually such a mercurial thing. last night I dreamed that I was looking for my gate at an airport but kept running into dead ends, and eventually I was like "well, since this is a dream, if I Will It So hard enough I'll get there" and proceeded to noclip through the floor into a secret basement that contained the gate I was looking for. at no point did it occur to me, though, that I could choose to dream of something other than frantically trying to be on time for a flight, and of course I forgot about Imposing My Will entirely when I entered the bathroom and found that all of the toilets were unusable, on account of them all being one apple tall and mounted to the wall at chest level
highlights of this year's fallen london summer event:
absolutely no disasters happened.
this greatly distressed the people of london to the point that some of them began trying to make a disaster happen On Purpose
in the end they settled for making a Past Summer Disasters Theme Park in the esoteric dream-memory-forest that grows in the land behind mirrors
you can go to this theme park to relive past summer events (and the disasters therein). this includes climbing into a furnace, on purpose
(you do not HAVE to climb into the furnace. climbing into the furnace is entirely optional. you are told, in bold text, that even in a dream, it is a bad idea to climb into the furnace. you can still climb into the furnace.)
you can also assist the theme park by barking. barking pays ridiculously well, better than any other grindable activity in the game. to be specific: at max stats, it pays you the equivalent of 6.9 echoes.
assisting the theme park or reliving past events builds up a community-wide nostalgia meter that unlocks rewards for everyone as it rises. one of these rewards is the ability to make your profile header picture a drawing of a croissant.
the playerbase lost their minds over this.
another reward is the unique, one-time item "An Insatiable Porcine Investment Vessel" - aka, a piggy bank.
you can smash the piggy bank to get an uncertain amount of money. the bold text warns you that this action is "permanent and irrevocable." the description for this action makes sure to mention that you're not looking it in the eyes.
you can also put money in the pig, one penny at a time. doing so increments a quality that changes descriptions depending on how many pennies you've put in, all the way up to 777. you are told, in bold text, that this quality has absolutely no effect on the amount of money received from smashing the pig.
there may or may not be a cult dedicated to the pig among the playerbase.
you can climb into the furnace multiple times. climbing into it a second time gives you a quality that calls you out on your questionable decisions. it can be incremented further by climbing into the furnace again, up to seven times.
this quality is a pain to raise because you can only climb into the furnace once per ~80 action replay of that specific past summer. it also does absolutely nothing.
and naturally, a significant portion of the playerbase dropped everything to max it.
truly delighted that multiple people have responded "holy shit you can climb into the furnace AGAIN??? stop the presses THIS is what I should be doing instead of barking." truly the players of this game have only the most correct priorities
highlights of this year's fallen london summer event:
absolutely no disasters happened.
this greatly distressed the people of london to the point that some of them began trying to make a disaster happen On Purpose
in the end they settled for making a Past Summer Disasters Theme Park in the esoteric dream-memory-forest that grows in the land behind mirrors
you can go to this theme park to relive past summer events (and the disasters therein). this includes climbing into a furnace, on purpose
(you do not HAVE to climb into the furnace. climbing into the furnace is entirely optional. you are told, in bold text, that even in a dream, it is a bad idea to climb into the furnace. you can still climb into the furnace.)
you can also assist the theme park by barking. barking pays ridiculously well, better than any other grindable activity in the game. to be specific: at max stats, it pays you the equivalent of 6.9 echoes.
assisting the theme park or reliving past events builds up a community-wide nostalgia meter that unlocks rewards for everyone as it rises. one of these rewards is the ability to make your profile header picture a drawing of a croissant.
the playerbase lost their minds over this.
another reward is the unique, one-time item "An Insatiable Porcine Investment Vessel" - aka, a piggy bank.
you can smash the piggy bank to get an uncertain amount of money. the bold text warns you that this action is "permanent and irrevocable." the description for this action makes sure to mention that you're not looking it in the eyes.
you can also put money in the pig, one penny at a time. doing so increments a quality that changes descriptions depending on how many pennies you've put in, all the way up to 777. you are told, in bold text, that this quality has absolutely no effect on the amount of money received from smashing the pig.
there may or may not be a cult dedicated to the pig among the playerbase.
you can climb into the furnace multiple times. climbing into it a second time gives you a quality that calls you out on your questionable decisions. it can be incremented further by climbing into the furnace again, up to seven times.
this quality is a pain to raise because you can only climb into the furnace once per ~80 action replay of that specific past summer. it also does absolutely nothing.
and naturally, a significant portion of the playerbase dropped everything to max it.
truly delighted that multiple people have responded "holy shit you can climb into the furnace AGAIN??? stop the presses THIS is what I should be doing instead of barking." truly the players of this game have only the most correct priorities
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highlights of this year's fallen london summer event:
absolutely no disasters happened.
this greatly distressed the people of london to the point that some of them began trying to make a disaster happen On Purpose
in the end they settled for making a Past Summer Disasters Theme Park in the esoteric dream-memory-forest that grows in the land behind mirrors
you can go to this theme park to relive past summer events (and the disasters therein). this includes climbing into a furnace, on purpose
(you do not HAVE to climb into the furnace. climbing into the furnace is entirely optional. you are told, in bold text, that even in a dream, it is a bad idea to climb into the furnace. you can still climb into the furnace.)
you can also assist the theme park by barking. barking pays ridiculously well, better than any other grindable activity in the game. to be specific: at max stats, it pays you the equivalent of 6.9 echoes.
assisting the theme park or reliving past events builds up a community-wide nostalgia meter that unlocks rewards for everyone as it rises. one of these rewards is the ability to make your profile header picture a drawing of a croissant.
the playerbase lost their minds over this.
another reward is the unique, one-time item "An Insatiable Porcine Investment Vessel" - aka, a piggy bank.
you can smash the piggy bank to get an uncertain amount of money. the bold text warns you that this action is "permanent and irrevocable." the description for this action makes sure to mention that you're not looking it in the eyes.
you can also put money in the pig, one penny at a time. doing so increments a quality that changes descriptions depending on how many pennies you've put in, all the way up to 777. you are told, in bold text, that this quality has absolutely no effect on the amount of money received from smashing the pig.
there may or may not be a cult dedicated to the pig among the playerbase.
you can climb into the furnace multiple times. climbing into it a second time gives you a quality that calls you out on your questionable decisions. it can be incremented further by climbing into the furnace again, up to seven times.
this quality is a pain to raise because you can only climb into the furnace once per ~80 action replay of that specific past summer. it also does absolutely nothing.
and naturally, a significant portion of the playerbase dropped everything to max it.
see, my ploy here is that I bait people into reading my blog by posting about textiles, or fountain pens, or FF13, or plurality, or some other reasonable interest. and then when their guard is down I hit them with the madness that is fallen london
honestly the really funny thing about barking this estival is that payment scales with your stats. you get paid 6.9 echoes' worth of items if you bark with your stats all at unmodified 230, and somewhat less if your stats are lower. given that unmodified 230 requires significant story progress my only conclusion is that the people of london really want to see the FLPC in particular bark like a dog
the Other really funny thing is that barking only becomes this profitable after meeting up with His Amused Lordship, who arranges for "a little celebration of London." this implies that the FLPC is, in at least some part, being sponsored by HAL to bark like a dog in public... which honestly y'know what, that checks out
honestly the really funny thing about barking this estival is that payment scales with your stats. you get paid 6.9 echoes' worth of items if you bark with your stats all at unmodified 230, and somewhat less if your stats are lower. given that unmodified 230 requires significant story progress my only conclusion is that the people of london really want to see the FLPC in particular bark like a dog
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vaguely annoyed by how much underwear has "cold wash only pls 🥺" care instructions. like maybe it's the OCD speaking but if you can't cleanse your junk-wrappers in water heated by the fires of mount doom then what even is the point
