I found the novels that were made by Fawnlingās old owner, and they are⦠nothing like the group she killed⦠so Iām a bit peeved and heart broken that it was scrubbed from the internet for literally nothing. āIām using it for a bookā my ass. Itās closer to ATLA than Fawnlings :^p
So while being nostalgic and a bit sad, I ended up discovering the books that were created out of Fawnlings being wiped off the face of the internet. For context, Fawnlings was an open art roleplay game and after the owners return after a 6-7 year absence (it had been run by the abandoned mods) she decided to shut it down to use her āoriginal concept in a novel.ā
I was a roleplayer there for roughly two years before that happened, accumulating almost 10 characters, but the group had 1,6k members and many had been there from the start. It was very popular, friendly, active, and well maintained by the passionate mods who the owner had left behind. Tons of the game, lore, and changes to the species were created by them without any direction from the missing admin.
Back to the discovery⦠I couldnāt find the book by looking up anything that had been an aspect of Fawnlings, so I thought the damned novel just didnāt or hadnāt come out. I found it by her pen name (or real name?) which I will not divulge even though sheās technically publishing under that name, and has been writing articles under a different once since at least 2021. But the reason I could never find the book in connection to Fawnlings was⦠because there is none.
The main reason she claimed to want to separate herself from Fawnlings, which led to her refusal to give the group to the mods who had been caring for it, was because she intended to use the IP she made in a novel. When the mods didnāt bite they made their own group with a separate similar species and new but also similar world mechanics. Sadly, the new group has never been as active as the old one, Iād say there is activity (like art) made every 3-4 months. Iāve seen a lot of RPs die, and it is dying.
Now, I find out that Fawnlings was deleted for nothing. The novel is just⦠an ATLA AU, sharing little to nothing with the destroyed Fawnlings group. Fawnlings were deer, the book is humans. The ex-owner played characters in the Irish/Scottish inspired part of the game, but the book is based on Asia (specifically Japan). Fawnlings didnāt even have an Asia inspired location (ironically the new game does, which she didnāt even play a part in). The second book is about pirates, Fawnlings didnāt have those nor could they make boats. Thereās a map in the first book and none of the locations are named after anything from Fawnlings, so the herd names she had originally requested be changed werenāt even used in the book.
The only similarity to Fawnlings is shared by both ATLA and (again ironically) the new game that she didnāt even play a part in. That magic and gods had disappeared but are now returning, and the main character turns out to have powers. Blessings and curses are also a thing. I can see some vague plot points that resemble Fawnlings plots, but theyād never make that connection if you didnāt know her involvement and are again generic (royal betrayal- generic- and stealing children for a cult- generic). Basically, she deleted Fawnlings because she wanted to use⦠magic tropes that already existed? While everything else unique to the group and itās members wasnāt even used.
What makes it worse is two three things:
1. The article she published (again I wonāt reveal her name) two months after the incident with the group about how you shouldnāt take negative comments personally and how itās āsomething going on in the other persons life, not your fault.ā Which is true advice but the context is shitty, she had been pretty heavily criticized at that time.
2. A Tumblr blog post months after (unless you get her Twitter which I wonāt share you wonāt find it, she didnāt use that blog much) the closure saying the story draft for the novel āstarted 9 years agoā and then a joke about āflushingā the evidence of the first draft.
3. (edited in) About a year or so after deletion, she got Wayback Machine to exclude or redirect the majority of captures. New captures and ones showing any criticism or discussion involving the shut down were excluded, and many older captures were turned into redirects that directed to captures from circa 2012-2016. Years 2020 and 2021 were completely wiped. Petty as Hell! This alone makes me feel like I would be in the right to give the name of her book series, just so you could avoid ever supporting it or her, but I still wouldn't feel good about doing that.
getting into RPs is hard for me as an adult and Iām still peeved that Ciel had only just turned 1 in game year old when the plug was pulled, and the new game is as good as dead so thereās really no community to keep playing with. Imagine playing one giant DND game for 8 years, then the DM (who had been napping through the majority of it) throws all of it into a garbage can, changes 95% of the plot everyone loved until itās unrecognizable and tries to monetize it against the wishes of everyone who contributed to it. Thatās what itās like ā ļø and the new DND game just doesnāt have that same spark or comradery, so most of the players left. Or, like making a rudimentary toy for the public to play with. Then they build onto the toy so itās more fun, then after years you come back, yoink it from everyone, strip it of everything they made it into, and started reselling it under a different package. And the new toy they tried to replace it with just doesnāt bring everyone the same joy, so it starts gathering dust.
Does the DM have the right to throw away their campaign and ignore the feelings of others? And does the toymaker have the right to take their toy away and sell it? Yes, but it doesnāt make it any less shitty, especially when thousands of players were in that DND game/playing with the toy. āHas the rightā is not equal to kind, ethical, or selfless.
Well, thereās nothing to be done, itās been three years. But it wasnāt what I was expecting to find and it kinda fucked me up :p
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You know I realized I never once posted anything I actually ever finished here because it always goes into my ARPG shit. Have something thatās actually been COMPLETED for once.
Have a Caoimhin, a Lord of Glenmore. Heās a creature called a Fawnling, you can find them on Deviant Art if you like playing sapient unicorn deer horse creatures with varying styles of magic per āherdā
Honestly I fucking love this adorable rose boy and his scarf. So glad I actually started working on him again.
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first image was a trade so itās someone elseās fawnling
this grouping of images mainly features my other silverthorneās, sundrop and roman, as sundrop practices herbalism and roman was training for silverthorneās army and luanās guard (the night army). last pic features sundropās possible lineage since she was a starter design. it features a free fawnling base made by auldale on DA :)