#astriiformes

Greatest mountain range ever uplifted! It’s got something for everyone. Painted Desert? CHECK! Weird sharp foreboding spires? CHECK! Hot Springs, Geysers, Fumaroles, and Mudpots? OF COURSE! Sand Dunes? YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT’S GOT DUNES!

It’s an amazing open air museum of the natural sciences. There is nothing not to love.

Well, there’s mosquitoes and habitat loss, but there’s very little not to love!

Also The Grand Canyon is absolutely part of the Rockies because the Rockies is comprised of multiple ranges already, and the Grand Canyon was made by the Laramide Orogeny. I won’t die on that plateau, but I’ll argue it ambiguously because the naming of groups of things is subjective!

Here are some pictures of places in the Rockies I like:

Chances & Choices & Fortunes & Fates - Astrisoni

Yes, absolutely! Late submissions are 100% welcome, please send all your aspec content our way :D

Slightly more than a sentence, from a found family-centric fix-it fic called ‘Corner Me And Make Me Something’:

“Good,” she said. “All we want to do is help. If Ironwood has stopped being stubborn, maybe we can all work together again.”

“I do not think it is possible for the General to stop being stubborn,” said Penny, and Ruby snorted. Penny tilted her head slightly, realising something. “It’s a way that you are very much alike.” Ruby made an offended noise.

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12. How has your character changed in response to their party members? Are these changes significant or small? 

Oooh, good question. There’s at least a level of meta “me getting used to playing the game and the group in general hitting our stride more” that probably overlaps with “character who’s been on their own a while getting used to being with a group.”

In terms of things where I can go, “yeah, I think this is very much an in-character change” she’s become less impulsive, more inclined to run things past others first. I’ve mentioned before that her instinct with combat is to retreat, which she has mostly had to suppress lately. While some of that is just the situations the party finds itself in more than the other party members, I think at least three out of four of the others are more comfortable in combat than she is.

Also, and again some of this is circumstance but some is definitely party members (specifically the boys) -- Ditto’s been the type who’s inclined to offer help to random people she comes across in her travels, but before the campaign I don’t think she ever imagined taking on problems of scale.

Pre-campaign, if she rolled into a village that was beset by monsters she’d have felt bad for them, and she might try to help anyone who wanted to leave make it down the road. But it would never occur to her to think “well, I have to save this village” because she wouldn’t have even imagined she could. Jokes about murder hobo adventurers aside, I don’t think she ever saw herself as the good, nice kind of adventurer either. That was just way outside her concept of herself.

But at this point that’s genuinely changed, and I think even if she was alone she’d be like “welp, I guess I should at least try to save this village, right??? Wild.”

15. What aesthetic do you think your character would fit best? This can mean anything from decade of choice to clothing style to [insert word]-core.

I was so close to just saying “everything in this music video,” (which has a truth to it) but okay -- she does have a slightly more specific aesthetic than just “loud.”

Decade-wise I think the bright colors, plaid and cluttered aesthetic of the 90s maybe suits her? But there’s still a nature-y “plants and animals” thing to her, so I guess with a little hippie mixed in.

Predict five cat names in Widogast’s Nascent Nein-Sided Tower.   

Bombadil

Sam

Krampus

Zelda