"Even Spirits Like A Good Drink, Just Make Sure That You Clean The Pot Out After Its Done, No One Likes

A short story that came to mind after writing the above:

"You wright historical Victorian supernatural murder mystery novels?" I asked, the woman could have been a double for Clara Bow, wearing a real fir coat as she sat at her typewriter.

"To me they weren't historical, but yes, I do." Her voice smooth and seductive, a voce that was confusingly half stereotypical British half vaguely eastern European accent that reminded me of a prowling large cat.

"So due to your vampiric abilities you are able to publish all of these in a year." I stated, the abilities to not get tired was a heck of a thing, then again getting up at six everyday and going to bed dam-near midnight for years was probably more soul crushing than having no soul.

Confused she stopped her work, turning her head "What? God no, I get one done about a year, writing is hard."

"Huuuu..?? You put out 12 full lenght novels last year, any you have for the last 10 years?" I stammered out, that cant be right, your a vampire, you didn't have to worry about making money, having to commute to your work, or cleaning your neo-gothic mansion thanks to your butler.

"Those? Those are just the backlog, not a who lot else to do when your trapped under a collapse consecrated burial ground." She stated going back to work, her finger movements slower, her face scrunching trying to decide on the next word.

"?????"

"I don't know how others are able to do it, Sometimes I wonder if they are actually human, Its like saying that humans have made it to the moon." She said half compilated.

A long moment of stunned silence passed with the occasional ticking of keys, my brain slowly began to reboot. Stupidly the first thing out of my mouth was "… We have… 50 years ago.."

Whipping her head around I could hear the sonic crash as she looked at me as a Deer would look at headlights. "YOU WHAT? I thought that was all Science fiction, Why haven't I herd about this!?" she all but screamed

"We… we left.." I stammered out, stunned by they statement

Slowly blinking, she took a shawl breath that she didn't need to, "You.. Left?.. Why?" She asked, looking about half a mind to jump at me if I didn't answer.

"We.. As in older folks with more power, decided that it wasn't worth the cost, you know the old 'Why should we spend money on useless things when there are people in need here?" I said, the stupid statement, not that the statement was stupid but it was true and that was what was stupid, mostly because that money was embezzled by nameless government alphabet soup.

"So you didn't encounter monsters from beyond the stars?" She asked

"No, Aliens don't… Scratch that, they probably do exist, Vampire & Fae exist, probably do aliens." he said with the new found perspective of 'Yah, its real alright'

"Fae don't exist, what sort of lune do you take me for?" She stated incredulity with the upmost confidence turning back to her work Looking over at the obviously Brownie butler, they look back with a smile only a devil or a used car salesman could have, "I have a job, and she's none the wiser." they said with a shrug of 'What are you going to do. "Would you like tea?"

A Idea that came to mind while reading vampire folklore & Tumbler head-cannon posts, Vampire are usually obsessive, be that at people or things. And we have the trope of them twisting things into grotesque version of there previous interests, such as using blood to paint or twisting human bodies into monstrous statues. What happens to vampire who have more mundane interests/hobbies? What happens when a thousand year old vampire obsessed with candle making do? (Well besides start using a multitude of human bodies as the bace for the candles), Would they do shit like taking ten years to mold & carve a decretive candle in the shape of hyperrealist animal only to toss it into a pile of other previous attempts at a slight flaw?

And that is assuming there hobby is creative, what if the fang barer had something like physical exercise? "Ok, I have my jog around Europe all planed out, It will take three months, ill get back just in time to start laundry, have a quick snack before Elizbeth show's up". I know that they cant cross running water & the sea has a lot of salt so they cant exactly do a "Swimming across the English channel" but between the tips of South America & Africa, but still what sort of cray shit would they get up to?

Then again on the other side, how lazy & bad can they get. The 'I can do it later' mentality but when you have a near endless immoral life you can put stuff off for decades. Imagen trying to get the money for a commission you started in the early 1800's only to find that the entire bloodline is dead, and having to track down any connection, and the only living blood descendent is some HVAC technician living out in nowhere Ohio who knows nothing of his family history other than he was adopted & now has to try and convenes this Vampire that 1)he doesn't want it. 2) cant afford it, and 3) has no room for it in his shack of a house.

Decided to get onto the #DnDecember drawing challenge thing, Drawings are decided my roulette wheel for 1)Classes, 2)Lineages/Races & 3)Color Scheme. Color Scheme are that of different Oreo flavors.

"Rumor has it, if you go out past the Badlands, farther than the Waists, out into the Endless Flat that you can still find them. Those old ruins, fragments of the old war, back when the rains came. Now, there just Monuments to ruin, to the forgotten, and to all those fools who try & find them."

More Fanart of TheLoadingCrew's character Hana, I think with how often I do her in comparison to other characters I'm realizing I have a thing for Dark Elves.

MTG Ramblings Spellshapers

Expanding on Spellshapers that have effects besides creating a certain spell or create certain token creatures. Such as creating certain Enchantment or Artifact tokens.

Spellshapers, a odd sort of Class type among MTG's creature types, as it implies with both it's name & Mechanics to specialize in changing spells. Mechanically how it works is you pay minimal amount of Mana, or Mana equal to the Original Spell that the card is refencing, Discard a card, and then have an effect of a card that already exists. Such as "Jolrael, Empress of Beasts" referencing & being a slightly better "Natural Affinity". Of course Time Spiral block does what it does & introduced a new cycle that can create Creature tokens that reference creatures that exist, Example being "Sarkspitter" creating "Spark Elemental" tokens.

And again my mind went "This could have gone further", and low and behold I did it again, this time with others, that being enchantments & artifacts. Of course there already exists cards that create Enchantment & Artifact tokens, the Roll Tokens from Eldrin come to mind, and the few that make equipment tokens that exist, or the myriad of 'Create Treasure Token' cards out there. But I want something else, actively referencing older cards other than Modern Horizon Sets, and giving some indication of what it means to be a Spellshaper instead of just another Magically inclined class (Such as Wizard, Druid, Shaman, or etc.)

So some examples:

"Traveler/Venturing Mage" {3} 1/1 Creature -Human Spellshaper (w) - {1},{T},Discard a Card: Create a Artifact token named Traveler's Amulet, it has {1}, Sacrifice Traveler’s Amulet: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. (If you want to get rid of the additional cost then maybe have this creature just do the Artifact's effect.)

"Growth Mage" {2}{G} 1/2 Creature - Plant Spellshaper (w) - {G}, {T}, Discard a Card; Create a Aura Enchantment token with Whenever enchanted land is tapped for mana, its controller adds an additional {G}{G} & attach it to target land. (Powerful, Yes, especially when you can do this multiple times, so may need to have two cards discarded.)

"You ever just ever stop and take a moment to listen to the wind rushing threw the grass & trees? That melodic whistling sound, sort of weird ain't it?"

MTG Ramblings: Lands & Assumptions

I believe that both we the audience & the in universe Planeswalkers don't really know the true existent of magic or the lay lines that run through every Plane, so every Planeswalker will have there own theory's & names for mana, and where it comes from, its just that we were introduced through Alpha so we stick to what we know.

Personally I see it as all the potential energy of a location that could be collected/used in one amount of time/turn, Planes have the light & warmth of the sun and the growth fields of grains, grasses or other such that don't fall into Green's domain.

Islands have the flow of the water the pulling of the current from the moon & the creatures that swim within it.

Swamps have the decay fueling the growth of other plants or whatever dwells there.

Red... Yes the volcanos speak for themselves but also landslides & the movement of tectonic plates,

And Green's forests and the color's ability to grow out of control with the highest ramp of the colors should speak it for itself. (As well as Green's ability to produce mana of other colors)

It's the non-colored that are more interesting, they are cities, ruins or lands where not even the dead dwell (Bazaar of Baghdad, Scorched Ruins & Field of the Dead)... Or places so obscure that not even the colors have defined those places (Sheltered Valley, Winding Canyons & Rath's Edge) can produce mana that is ether so mixed together that cannot be separated into it's individual colors, or create a new type of mana.

With the Izzet mapping the multiverse threw the Omenpaths, I would like a character interviewing others plane by plane, each native explaining how they see each of the basic lands & what makes them so.

Is the land itself necessary, or just the Idea of the land? We have scene great & terrible things along our journey through the Blind Enteritis, so is there a land of pure blue mana? Mabey, but it would be so perfect that it would destroy us if we ever try and tap into it.. But Tolarian Academy is dame close, no wonder it keeps getting attacked.

Imp?Midna

At least Midna regained some of here true form, even if she can't get rid of the Fused Shadow. P.S. How does one draw the Twilight particles that don't look like ass?

Quick question to everyone, How thick does a accent need to be before your TTRPG group thinks your Half-Elven NPC is ether Cursed or a Fae?

And yet more obscure Digimon without Official art, Cardmon (Tree 1 to 4). Digimon World 3 is nostalgic for many, I picked it up just the other day from a antique store... (Pleas, give me time). But an original enemy Digimon was created for it, so yah.