#fahd

[image description: screenshots of various DM notes of mine, reading as follows. “The genasi think they invented paper. Will be very excited to show it off.” “I think dao CAN die on the material plane but only from erosion.” “Dao stories are a bridge to the ducks!!!” “Work out details of rube goldberg machine.” “(Bullet point) Genasis: anxiety. (Bullet point) Genasi blood laminates paper. (Indented bullet point) Bloodbound notebooks.” “Cave interior: paintings on the walls. Feral toddler.” End ID.]

Look at the girl's outfit in Ordon Village :

And here are the boy's outfit in Ordon Village :

Alright so the main difference is that Women wear pants while Men wear a sort of long skirt (I'm sorry if it has a name that I don't know).

Smaller differences are that Women tend to prefer short shirt that they put underneath their garb with little to none decoration on their clothes. While Men tend to prefer long shirt/tunics with their 'skirt' underneath (unless those are long tunics with the end being in a different color ? idk maybe both are present) and a sort of apron(?) over it and have a lot of decoration on their garbs which feature a very specific belt.

You can note Women do have those apron(?) too, just like Men can have shorter shirt too. It's just rarer, less popular it's seems. Also young boys don't have long tunic like their parent so I guess it's considered like are considered for adult ?

Anyway by that logic those outfits :

seems to be gender neutral :). Maybe you could think that it's just more practical for their job except Link has the same one as Fado who is wearing traditional boy clothing and I would like to show that at Ordon it's perfectly acceptable to put a relatively short tunic with only underpants underneath as proved by Mayor Bo :

And although it does seems that Illia and Link dresses in a way that calls back to their parents (I'm talking about both Rusl, Uli but also Fado in Link case) which very heartwarming but they could also have gone into a more gender-conforming way to do this.

So in short : enby Link, Illia and Rusl solidarity (no wonder they are close).

yes omg thank you, there's nothing i'd rather do than talk about the genie communities of my dnd game.

the party began this arc in halkifell, the hometown of an npc friend named mahety. halkifell is home to ifrit and their fire genasi kids, located on the top of a volcano (which is also a portal to the elemental plane of fire). at birth, mahety was chosen by the volcano to be the next leader of her people. she was actually out in the world before now as part of her self-discovery journey before stepping up to the leadership position officially. the time to do that is now, for many reasons, which means she has to stay in halkifell, on the other side of the continent from where the party (including her PC gf) have their home base.

so mahety's dad, an ifriti named temza, suggested the party go to the other genie communities to collect spell components in order to create a teleportation circle in halkifell. this makes it so (eventually) mahety and the party can visit each other at their leisure. temza was vague about where they needed to go and what exactly the spell components were, because that was all part of the journey (which would be important to the spell later). they were told to get:

A binding from the dao, an iron link; Salt from the marid, in liquid sync; A yielding from the djinn, a burden's drink.

and they were given general directions and landmarks to follow. the marid could be found submerged in the ocean to the north, at a distance of "a sunrise as the dolphin swims." the djinn could be found to the southeast in the desert, after "following the eye of the storm for one moonrise." the dao were located in the mountain range to the southwest, at "the top of the peak that looks like a bird."

i'm gonna put the rest under a readmore because uhhh. believe it or not, this got even longer lmao.

by Mark Strand

In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing.

When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been.