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Snowflake Challenge #7: Create a list of at least three things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a wishlist of sorts.

While I wouldn't say I've been afraid to ask for any of these, I still thought I'd make myself a little wishlist, since tomorrow is my birthday and all 😆 This will also double as a rec list of cool things 💖

1) Recommendations for AMVs, fanvids and animatics! Fandom doesn't really matter, but if it's in a fandom I'm familiar with that's a bonus 💖 I used to be really good at finding videos like this, but with how algorithm-broken the internet is, it's getting harder and harder to find new ones. Here's a link to awesome animations (fandom and non-fandom) I've found and an AMV/MEPs list, though my categorizing is a little wishy-washy and mixed 😅 Also, fandoms I'm more active in get their own playlists, like Critical Role and The Magnus Archives, with a mess of both animatics, interviews and other things related to the fandom.

2) Recommendations of "fake" video games! Aka people who make fake screenshots, manuals and such things for games that don't actually exist and aren't planned to exist either. I've been vaguely aware of and interested in such things for years, but this Supereyepatchwolf video on the subject really got me hooked. I'm even making a few of my own together with my sister and a friend, and I'm always happy to find more!

3) Recommend me artists you love! The internet is so vast and the algorithms so broken that I have a harder and harder time finding new artists to follow. Here are links to some of my favorite artist, as examples:
Alex Ries
Allison Theus/BeastofOblivion
ArcaneGold
Caemiel Lilium
CanaryWitch
Cassandra Jean
Dappermouth/Jenna Barton
Eleth
Eliot B.
Janna Sophia
Kiikiibee/rakugaki
King Cholera/Cheyenne (both some horror and NSFW here)
KM Steere (have a lovely commissions of my late great cat from this artist)
Linnpuzzle (who I extra recommend because she's not only a great artist but also a great friend and great to work with on commissions💖 Link to her tumblr.)
Luce Northstar (has both NSFW & horror art - have commissioned art from them several times and they've been brilliant to work with!)
Morteraphan
N*KIM
Natalia Drawing
Owlyjules/Julie W.
Phobs
pocketss
Ram Lightly (has NSFW content)
Sasha Vinogradova
Secondlina (creator of the glorious "Crow Time" comic!)
semochka (blood and body horror)
Sergei Demidov (some body horror)
Shalizeh7
Shark in a Bottle
SJ Miller (body horror & gore!)
Wolfskulljack (horror elements)
Wrat
(Yuumei) Wenqing Yan

I look down for a second and when I look back up I'm in the middle of my first workweek as well as trying to help pull together a big LARP at the start of September 😅

Will hopefully have time to catch up with everyone and reply to comments during August buuuut with my current wobbly time management skills, mid-September looks likelier. Darn. There really should be more hours in the day!

Besides arranging stuff for the LARP (really need to find a horse transport our budget can afford!) I've become utterly distracted by the newest non-fic writing project I talked about in this earlier post. I've been worldbuilding and plotting and having a great time~! I've even, already, commissioned two character artworks for this Apparently Absolutely Now A WIP:

Aster, the main character (a rå/huldra)
and
Yrsa, Aster's human runewitch BFF/love interest.

Spent this evening brainstorming some real fun "lore" about how vittera work in this world, together with the amazing artist of the above artwork 💖💖💖💖

So yeah. Busy with fun stuff (and work) and that's great, but if anyone knows any time wizards, please put in a good word for me.

Along with DMing roleplaying groups (currently have 4 campaigns going~!) and playing video games, my absolute main hobby is writing <3

I'm trying to be more relaxed about writing, having more fun with it, since I'm by no means aiming to publish or write professionally. I'd also love to finish at least one writing project this year. Therefore I'm going to be making a little overview list here, as both a motivator and a way to keep track of all my active non-fanfic WIPs.

As much as this list is for my own convenience, I do love rambling on about my projects and learning about other people's writing pursuits, so anyone who likes to, feel free to comment here with questions or to tell me about your own writing! <3


LONGER PROJECTS (with titles)

( Once a Bard and His Friends Took a Train )

( Mages and Marriage )

( Morning, Evening, Dawn )

( Of Elves and Dwarrows 1: Soul-Stealing Elves )

( Equilibrium & Professor Balance + 12 Months of Villainy )

( Secrets in Ice )

( Travel to Other Shores )

( A Werewolf in October )

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LONGER PROJECTS (without titles)

( Placeholder name: The Baron and the Prince )

( Placeholder name: The Lesser Evil )

( Placeholder name: Mystic Trio )

( Placeholder name: N/A )

( Placeholder name: Solarpunk Not-Pirates )

( Placeholder name: Witches and Fae )

( Placeholder name: Yet Another Vampire Story )

( Placeholder name: Youtube people time )

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SHORTER PROJECTS

( The Sea is Deep )

( Placeholder name: Pride n Prejudice n A Wizard Did It )

( Placeholder name: Ship OT3 plotting )

( Placeholder name: SHORT assassin story )

( Placeholder name: Supernatural Office Romance )

I've been DMing two campaign groups for three years now and it's still so much fun! They've been keeping quite even pace (sessions getting more and more frequent during 2020 because...yeah, we all know why) and both groups are now approaching level 12 and Big Plot Revelations~!

I have 56 pages of just timeline notes for one of the groups, so it's a lot of work but also so much fun and so rewarding.

My group that plays in the Critical Role setting has so many talented artists in it who keep making such awesome art of the group's adventures!!! I am so spoiled <3

Most of the group only share their art (thus far) in-group, but the player of our halfling bard has been posting her wonderful artwork on her Twitter and I can't keep myself from sharing a heap of links finally:

ART!!!
"Old" party line-up; old in the sense that one player has switched characters and our aasimar has lost his beautiful feathers since this was made...

Headshots of the party in its current state, our half-elf sorcerer Leshanna having finished her quest and been replaced with half-elf rogue Reed.

Two of our NPCs, Vergil & Fahmin.

The Dragonkeepers confirm their party name, while talking to the ghost of a platinum dragon.

A fancy sign for a fancy shop, because Whitestone needed a pun-y teashop.

Backstory time for our bard~!

Fallen gunslinger aasimar ;_;

Finnéan Rose, an archfey the group has gotten entangled with.

WIP of that time the party had to fight a giant, angry tree with a huge magical gem in it.

( Artwork behind the cut! )

I commissioned the amazing spacerocketbunny to draw Narathriel and Raserath from my fantasy/steampunk series "Of Dwarves and Elves".

This scene is from the first half of the second novel. Narathriel (left) has just jumped off a cliff to avoid an ambush, but left his spouse behind and is now a bit worried. Raserath (right), his older sister, will be yelling his ears off once they get to the safety of the deck. That is her airship btw.