Me missing Wildstar and crying because it had so much story potential ;v;
Anyways, this is (left to right) Daniil (@bowlersandtophats), Andi, and Taren, our aurin T0T
It's moments like these I wish Wildstar had a tv show or dedicated comic, its world building was just so good.
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All this Scrooge-thirsting just reminds me of my brief obsession with Duke Malvolio Portius from Wildstar and how much I miss that MMO, rip 🥲
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More video game gingers: Hawke, Commander of the Pact and my Mordesh from Wildstar (RIP)
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Thinking again about this whole “donking the warhammies together like theyre dolls in a dollhouse” gig and transformative work that’s like that. Most conventional language fails to describe it—not really an alternate universe, not a crossover, definitely not mild enough to be called canon-divergent fanwork. I think moon came closest with “spinoff,” much in the way that something like Pathfinder is DnD but Pathfinder also Isn’t DnD.
Going back again to the kind of joyful irreverence with which young children take their favorite characters and keep what they like and then build on everything else in absurd and unique ways. Thinking about the ways that adults are allowed to play in socially acceptable ways, namely tabletopping and roleplaying. Being given some tools and told “go wild.”
I am not sure I would call it a fundamentally human form of storytelling, because I think it’s very much a product of being raised with pop culture and relating the way that we do to media from a young age, here in the West. But it very much invokes that childlike joy of creating.
I don’t have a thesis here I am just thinking very hard about linking our identities to media and being subsumed in it from day one. And also capitalism and copyright law. And how those things effect the ways that we allow and don’t allow ourselves to create.
This is part of why I want to be better about reconciling with my own ego and feelings of hurt when other people riff on me. The biggest reason is because there is almost nothing in Moribund I can claim “ownership” of; it is too rooted in the Sonoran Desert and human culture that doesn’t belong to me or any single person. But even if there were something I Truly Owned, I don’t think I am interested in relating to my work that way… Of course I want to be respected but I don’t think its very morb to think of it strictly in terms of copyright and ownership and author intent.
I still very much squirm at the idea of someone ripping Sadren’s likeness for their completely unrelated tabletop character or something*. But I’m also having the time of my life doing that with chief and reyes and sinuk and brun and morgan and ashe and roan and hei and len and… etc.
*lbr he would get a very big kick out of that don’ttakethisaspermissionbutdon’ttakethisassomekindofstatementeither
The power dynamics are Wildly different but it goes back to exhibit A.) donking the figs together to make them kiss.
I am satisfied that the morb characters are transformed enough that they depart wildly from their original roots (namely wildstar and the elder scrolls.) This is a sticking point of pride for me that any fanwork dalliances inevitably get sucked into the swirling toilet bowl that is Moribund. So, of course chief and reyes are a wild departure from that. Not only are they fundamentally incompatible with the premise of Moribund, but they’re also not really interested in being that different from 40k. But they are? But they aren’t. Only when it’s fun. The Endling Cult is surface-level indistinct from the Skitarii, but if you walk inside I taped plants to the walls and made up lore about how earth went to hell and is being rewilded by a fucked up fungus. Also they’re, like, in recovery now. And the machine animism is used for fun purposes, and not to paint them as backwards and superstitious.
Usually the impulse to take a wrench to a piece of fiction and Fix It and do Everything my Damn Self Around Here is just impetus for making original fiction, but this is… I dunno. It Is What It Is. Sometimes you Are something and you Aren’t something at the same time.
… I’m thinking of that bart and bobby comic now.
Also interstitial.
Ok, that’s probably enough. I am making a concerted effort not to edit this for readability and to let myself not have a thesis LOL. this is my internet journal and I make the stream-of-consciousness posts about the skitties.
If you read all that then thank-you and look at this pic of markus as compensation. In my forebrain I know he’s a mediocre little prince at this stage, but hindbrain says (:
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Did a bit of a glow up for my wildstar main Zadinel, so she looks a bit more the part of the pirate now XD, also leaning a bit on something I read one time about Aurin growing hair anywhere
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I miss being mean to strangers, and RPing drinking on the job, and making up weird drinks.
I miss The Last Mistake.
The guild tumblr turned 6 the other day and I just stared at the email, upset. haha.
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The very first screenshots I took of WildStar, during one of the closed betas way back in 2014 (2015? Can’t remember).
Hilariously, I hated the female character models so much that I sent a message to Carbine telling them I simply couldn’t bring myself to play the game any further. Imagine my joy when they announced body type options!
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The final Moments of Wildstar before shutdown.
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I missed my last chance to grab screenshots of my psychopathic chinchillas, so I drew them. Medic Chee Tingdeth on top, engineer Chu Zwaizly below.
Wildstar deserved more.
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