Klawaw's posts

@wildfire: Gosh I've been so busy these past two days I missed so many posts :viocry: I've been taking advantage of the good weather to get a lot of errands done and to get some walking in. For the past two months my max has been 5K steps a day and yesterday AND the day before i broke 10K :D My hips are making sure I'm feeling it though gosh I might have pushed myself too much. So today is just a lovely chill day.

I also picked up some honey and some of my favorite tea (rooibos) because I'd run out~ There's no tea stores where I am right now so I had to settle for supermarket stuff but any tea is better than no tea and the quality is just fine, there's just something about scooping leaves straight out of the bag that really makes me happy.

I hope you've had a really good past couple of days!

@MoodyB: Sorry I took so long to respond! I've spent the past two days running around like a madman doing errands and just haven't had the energy to come online. I love your instagram! The pictures you've done are all so pretty ;a; I'll have to make a character that's cute enough for your style~ Most of my OCs are monsters so I tend to go for the scarier artists x3

Veeeeery tempted to just commission you to draw my avatar from here! If you'd be down for that, message me whenever you get the new tablet!

@moodyb: Are you kidding?? Your art is lovely, even just that little sketch on the first page! I'd love to commission you sometime! Is there somewhere I could see more of your work? 0w0

I hope the new tablet gets there soon! I've been pretty lucky in that when I order stuff it usually gets to me at the start of the expected delivery time so hopefully I can pass a little of that luck onto you~

@wildfire: I'm doing pretty good! The weather where I am is much nicer than I was expecting c: I was braced for 40F and it's closer to 65! How're you doing today?

@moodyb: Ooooh, I really hope it gets there soon! Unfortunately I had to use my stimulus checks for rent or I definitely would have snagged a switch~ Oh well, I'm working again so I'll just have to save up for it like normal c: I know most of my art friends set aside like, a portion (or all) of their commissions when they need a new tablet. Maybe that's something you could do if you ever start taking commissions and need a new tablet!

I'm late to the party but! Hello everyone~

This is my first time doing one of these events here on Voltra and I've been really liking it so far! I love all of the casual chatter cafe themed threads that have sprung up~

I hope everyone has been having a good day so far!

Ooooh congrats on the new tablet! It's always exciting getting a new one ^u^ I had one that ended up breaking and I never got around to replacing it so I just do all my work traditionally now, which, uhm, mostly means I don't draw much anymore >u< I've just been so busy with work I haven't had the time to do anything or look into new machines~

Ah! This game and the whole concept are super cute. I loved all the little treats from yesterday, and for today it's nice getting to know the NPCs a little better! I love cafes so this mini-game has been really sweet c:

I'm reading The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan, the second book in the Wheel of Time series. After that, I plan on reading Magic Bites, a recommendation from Fading Kings here on Voltra~

@RainbowPanda: I actually adopted a much older kitty with many of the same issues! I very much second the "lots of treats and pets and loves", slow blinks are amazing, and if she has a spot that she likes to sleep a lot, I recommend putting a well-loved and frequently worn piece of clothing down so she really gets used to your smell! For other advice, I'd recommend making sure she has somewhere up high she can safely go to. Many cats feel safer when they're up above everything and they can see anything that's trying to reach them (but I also know that can be a bit of a money investment and might be a no-go, there's still plenty of ways to make her feel safe with smells and the like).

Priestess of Pie's suggestion of play is also a really good idea! If you can coax her into play and help her forget that she's scared, it'll help her adjust to you and her new home much faster! Just give her time, keeping showing her love and support and leaving out food and water for her. Talk softly around her, even reading a book to her to help her get used to the sound of your voice! I hope she starts to come out of her shell soon

@KittyBeary: Hey! As long as you’re making progress on them, it doesn’t matter how long it takes, right? :D I’ve got an OC I’ve revisited on and off for, gosh, ten years now? She’s finally in what I think is her ‘final’ design, but who knows if I’ll change my mind in the future!

@Totalanimefan: Oooooooh OwO Thank you! That was super helpful! I was wondering what was up with the spaceship shaking X3

@sunny: Yay! I’m glad it helped! And yeah it’s the kind of thing that seems obvious when it’s been pointed out but it really isn’t! It’s actually a general tip I have for any setting that has magic! Even if the price is something like “It’s really difficult to learn.” That still leads into questions of “Then who learns it? Why do they learn it? Are they sponsored (through a guild, or a ruler, or even other mages)? Do they charge for their services because of how long it took?”

I’m glad you like Hive!! It’s a little bit complicated, what they are, but they’re both a person and a literal hive of bees.

They do their best to fight against the instincts of the Queen and mostly succeed, but they must continue to ingest the honey to keep themselves alive. They’re actually from the same base world as the doctor! They don’t know each other, though I have toyed with the thought of them meeting~ And yes! So much wonderful angst! It actually originally started as an AU because I was CRAVING angst of mine and my friend’s OC (his husband) and I just happened to play him in a fantasy DnD game at the same time and I was like “oh but what if it’s literally him and not just a fantasy AU of him!"

Uhm, I actually only recently started writing again >_> I’m honestly really shy because I got burned a lot when I was younger. I had a lot of friends in high school that would promise they’d read my work, and then either a: never do it or b: lie to me and pretend that they had :( It reached a point where I was just so tired of being lied to about it I just…stopped writing. BUT!! I’m working on changing that now and making sure all of my OCs have their time in the spotlight! It’s been really nice to just write for me again, especially because I’ve made some friends that I can actually trust to read my stuff….granted, only two of them, but that’s because the rest of my friends are super squeamish :P (hence my extreme caution with talking about Hive and my other Body Horror OCs. Even what I put in spoilers there was too much for one of my friends. As for the other question, I actually only write original work these days! I just haven’t had a fandom in a while, nothing has really caught me in that way ever since Homestuck ended.

@Edelaen: OH! I currently only have one tattoo, it's on my left inner wrist and it's just a warning for my penicillin allergy lol (in case I'm in an accident, a little extra insurance that they'll see it and go "Oh hey we shouldn't give them this." It's BRIGHT red so they'll definitely notice when they take my pulse.

Buuuut, I have hmmm, three planned right now. I want to get a semi-realistic muscle and bone tattoo on my right forearm, a set of [fake] runes wrapping around my calf with the words "The walker chooses the path", and a phoenix across my chest. They're all quotes from books or poems that are important to me. The first is for Dune by Frank Herbert, because of the phrase "Fear Is The Mindkiller", the second is from the Abhorsen series by Garth Nix, where the question is asked "Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?" (the runes will be runes from the book series), and the third is for the poem Fire and Ice by Robert Frost, for the line "I hold with those that favor fire."

I struggle, a lot, with being brave and confident in myself, and those three quotes have been the things that I have kind of worked to rebuild myself around. A reminder that allowing fear to rule me is the path to living a dull life full of regrets, a reminder that I am the one who chooses what path my life takes, and a reminder that my world will end at some point, and better to have lived a passionate life full of the things I care for. The phoenix has a double meaning as well, as I plan to get it after I get top surgery. And what better to symbolize me getting to live the life I was meant for than a creature of rebirth!

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back to everyone! Today ended up being MUCH busier than I expected and I didn't want to respond before I could really sit down and take a minute!

@GoblinsAndTea: OOOOH New player!!! Welcome to DnD! I hope you have a ton of fun! It seems like your DM and group is making sure you remember it's all just a game and doesn't have to be grim, dark, and serious all of the time! Your fruitling sounds adorable! I hope he's able to rescue his sister before she gets turned 0_0 I had a tiefling character with an absolutely unpronounceable name, but halfway through their campaign they got partially possessed by a Shadow Demon, so everyone just started calling them Shade c: All muscle, no brain characters are some of my favorites to play. I have a half-elf Barbarian that fits that to a T. She's dumb as a box of rocks but so full of love it's ridiculous. Those ideas all sound really fun and I hope you're able to play them all!

@Shark: Please tell me if you pick up any of Sanderson's work! If you like YA, I recommend starting with either his stand-alone book The Rithmatist, set in an alternate Earth where the united states are actually the United Islands, and there are these little chalk creatures that are running rampant! The main character has to figure out how skilled Rithmatists (People who have the ability to bring chalk to life) are mysteriously disappearing while also struggling with having no powers in a school where everyone is a Rithmatist. It's really good! If you prefer a little more action adventure, his Mistborn Trilogy is like, a fantasy heist series where the main characters are trying to kill a god. There are so many lovely twists and turns, I could re-read that series ten times and still discover something new I'm sure!

@KittyBeary: I am absolutely guilty of that :viocry: It's like "OH hey here's a new OC!" 'Oh cool where did they come from' "....*crickets*.....uhm.....north?" Sometimes you just gotta DESIGN a character and not worry about silly details like "Personality" and "Interests" and "Genre" :P

@totalanimefan: Thank you so much! I'm really happy to be here!

@sunny: My biggest tip is to think about how much magic you want in the world! You can go kind of "low magic" where there's a secret, hidden world of magic, or you can go all the way up to "magic is fully integrated with the world" but at every step, think about how that impacts things. If magic is real and common, are most doctors magicians? What is the price that you have to pay for magic? I find having a cost for it helps keep it from being an overpowered thing. For instance, if curing your broken wrist costs some of your memories, you might be more willing to go to a doctor and wait it out in a cast, yeah?

I would LOVE to read what you're writing right now! And if I ever get the courage to share some of my own work... >_> The main OC I'm working on and fleshing out right now went through some pretty awful stuff. I've never been a very good gauge of what is and is not too much as far as horror is concerned so to put it briefly, their name is now The Hive and they used to be a beekeeper. For a less horror, recent OC, I have a human doctor who's been cursed so that he hops between dimensions when he sleeps, sometimes. He can never predict when, but it started happening when he already had a full life built on a low-magic Urban Fantasy Earth, so now he's struggling to find a way back home, and a way to make sure he STAYS home. Every time a 'jump' lasts longer than a few months, he starts being afraid that he'll be stuck there with no way back to his husband.

@LilMissKushy: Oh my gosh! Thank you so much! I'm really happy to be here, it's lovely to know so many people from Menewsha came here as well <3 I have some fantastic memories on that site c: