Selene Kirsten Heidlman

Outer circle? That's about where I expected to be, well done. :sip:

comic with text "during full moon werewolves start to come out" showing a moon with a tiny top hat, a frog in a witch hat flying on a broomstick, and on the hills a silly werewolf saying "I'm gay"

inside you are two (gay were)wolves

I think I have that same monitor sitting on a shelf behind me... does his company also use apps without built-in scaling so sometimes you need 1024x768 resolution for sanity?

Also, I've been struggling to compile this, so if you work at an indie bookstore that will take books direct from authors/any distributor that isn't Ingram or the Big 5, can you please let me know below?

I have a small list but would love more!

It went well for not having my full copy of the chapter on-hand! I has a friend read the first story and her feedback helped unblock me.

I poked my head into my neighbours yard.
“Hey, can we talk? It’s a matter of life and death.“ I asked, and my neighbour Growled.
“Life keeps ending up in my pool, and I know it isn’t fond of swimming, and Death keeps following. Please take better care of your cats!”

Are they better raw?

Wistfully, I realise
that I haven't written about
the stagnant pond #snail.
Seagulls, yes, and crows,
penguins and squirrels,
once even about wolpertinger.
But so far, no word
about the pond snail.
I hope, she doesn't take it
personally.

#whistpr

Chemistry is the same as in our world, and while most people get SOME understanding of it (Protectors need a wide knowledge base for making decisions from, Surma's medical training needs some chemistry background as do Rin's healing potions), pharmaceutical or materials are beyond normal educations.

I quite like the irony of him pretending it's magic, not because magic doesn't exist, but because it's the answer LESS likely to wind up executed for.

I mostly wander around foraging, then plant some fresh trees and fish. Sometimes I dive into the mines for a bit of metal because the upgrade treadmill is real.

Art Train!
I'm not much of a 2D artist, but I do some 3D art. Some who do 2D:

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Fair, but is it Art Train art? Well, I can post a few screenshots either way. :sip:

I chronically overprepare and overworry because I'm scared of disappointing others. Is it healthy? No. Do I enjoy it? Never. But is it effective? Nope.

I have literally no idea what I’m meant to post for this. 😅

What did you have in mind for me to do?

No need to be sorry! 😁
I’m fond of having a team of Pokemon: Umbreon, Archaeops, Dragonite, Blaziken, Aggron and Noctowl are all solid choices. My main for Unite is Gyrados, but I’m brutal with a handful of options.

“Real Men just won’t need explosions“ sounds legit to me.

What about now, 30 minutes later?

Her god doesn‘t care to share secrets too widely: distrust of others in their followers has made them distrustful of non-witches. The witches themselves are picked by her god, found in secret places for reasons not shared widely, but necessary to retain influence in an increasingly secular world.

Storybooks and fable collections are highly valued in some places, and I’d love to explore more of an academic environment in this world sometime, but it’s far removed from the characters I’m following in the series. And since I did mention Rin…

In terms of the myths themselves, there are some areas where Old Faiths are kept alive, and these vary wildly. Cults (which form around a living figure) can have myths, though trying to spread a formal religion would end as badly as expanding a gang: the scars of the Fall of Federalism are fresh.

If you ask Claire, she’ll tell you she was created by her parents, and that goes for most of the others in the Protector world. Rin, however, would smile smugly and sip from her tea instead of answering, since not everything a god tells their witch is public knowledge.

That’s okay: I feel like it adds a little character to the work. I’ma work in progress, too, so it feels comforting to see the seams a little. 💜

Holy cow, it is Miku Lucario!

He got your nose, so you stuck it where it don’t belong? Sounds legit. Let me know if you need help with dismantling his human-dismantling operation~

Ooh, I’ll add it to my list! In English, it’s called a “Capelet” when worn this way, though I usually refer to it as a “Scarf” since that is how it was referred to in the reference material when I was first designing with Road. Merci por me dire que c’est le mot, «capeline»!

That is genuinely how I look before a trainer challenges me, with the exact phrase escaping my lips more than once. 😆

Eeee, I got fan art! Thank you so much!!! Everyone, look at this lovely sketch @scrunklycryptid.bsky.social did! It's lovely to see my winter outfit getting some love, too, and they even included a pokeball and my embroidery! I love the attention to my design details here, this is so cool!

Things I'd consider buying:
* Indie fantasy books
* Nice clothes from ethical providers
* Puzzle or platformer video games

Things Amazon advertises to me instead:
* Gambling
* Shooter games
* Crypto currency
* LLM-powered slop machines

I miss when they stuck with birth control and cosmetics ads.

I'll be looking forward to the update. Keep doing your best at improving!