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Flower Dragons by KeyboardFish, literature

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Flower Dragons

Flower Dragons STATS STR: 4 DEX: 25 CON: 10 INT: 6 WIS: 15 CHA: 15 HP: 30 Size: tiny (30- 90 cm) AC: 24 Alignment Possibilities: CE, NE, CN, TN, CG, NG Attacks Bite: +8 1d8 dmg 2 claw: +9 1d6 dmg Flower dragons can be almost anywhere flowers are, though they are most frequently seen in tropical areas where the largest and most brilliantly coloured flowers are found. They come in as many varieties as there are species of flower, each vareity patterned after the type of flower they prefer to live in. They can often be found nestled in growths of beds of their preferred flower, basking in the sunlight that filters through the leaves. They dr

Porcelain Homunculus by KeyboardFish, literature

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Porcelain Homunculus

The porcelain homunculus looks like a large, painted porcelain doll. Height can range from 6" to human sized to even larger. It is usually clothed in the kind of lacy frills a rich child might dress their dolls in, though that depends on the maker. Some will have a large windup key on their backs, and in order to activate them that key must be wound. Once activated, however, the homunculus will continue with whatever task it has been set to complete- some act as servants ans assistants while others may attempt to dissuade the PCs from proceeding further. They have an intense bond of affection and attachment to their maker. The porcelain homu

Lessons on Being Whole by KeyboardFish, literature

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Lessons on Being Whole

Strange how I fit into you there's a distance erased with the greatest of ease. -Vienna Teng, Eric's Song 1. In a world of puzzle pieces dumped out of the box and scattered on the floor, colour and pattern align for a brief instant and two pieces snap together. One edge fits. Their place on the box-cover still unknown but wherever it is, it is together. 2. A white-striped fish teases through the hair of a mermaid with her head buried in the sand. The blades she keeps in that upwards cascade don't touch him. The poison she uses when she's scared- as dearly known to him as his own skin. He will dwell in her hair foreve

Orc Creation Story by KeyboardFish, literature

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Orc Creation Story

It is likely prudent to note a few things here for an audience probably less familiar with the Orcish culture than I have become thanks to Evelyn Minalin and her family. The Orcs of the Minalin Islands are the only recorded monotheist society in the Homeplane. They worship a being called Cai, whom they believe is omnipresent and transcendent in one, and who is often represented in story as a corporal being. They offer the appearance of a pantheon through the worship of many different faces of Cai, as they believe that this being is unknowable in its entirety, but though they might give different faces different names they maintain a careful a

Prayer by KeyboardFish, literature

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Prayer

I'm an awful pen-pal. Yet patient as love my correspondents wait the weeks, months (last time it was a year) it takes for me to come around and remember to write. They have other things to worry about but never begrudge me my pages of rambling, constant requests for help my sestina (re-written from the copy burned into my subconscious) always with the same six words: fear, doubt, skepticism, apology, self-deprication and gratitude. They never begrudge me middle-of-the-night chicken scratch on the back of a greasy napkin drunken scribblings on a paper answering machine soaked with tonight's tearful intoxicant. They never begrudge m

Hibernation by KeyboardFish, literature

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Hibernation

The last, panicked autumn scrabblings end end with bare trees and closed doors and closed books. I have gorged my mind mauled a few papers and trotted off fat and fuzzy to curl up in a warm, redbrick cave. But my hibernation isn't really sleep I paint the walls of my cave with pictures of Tamriel of Middle-Earth I paint rings and swords and dragons. And lit by glittering, heavy branches, I plod my way through a book or two and dream of spring.

A Skyrim Love Song in Two Parts by KeyboardFish, literature

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A Skyrim Love Song in Two Parts

1: A Plea to Mara You sent a stranger to ease a lover's pain. A stranger who's mind and heart are stranger to himself. "We all wish we had her problems." Right. They're easy to understand. Just a choice. Easier for two men to become one than for one man to become two. I wish someone could write me a poem to give to him. I wish he liked poetry. If he did, I could write it myself. I'm content to be your stranger- but does that mean that you will never send one to me? 2: Due Thanks He didn't understand why we were helping two lost ghosts find each other on the snowy hills in the middle of the night. But he never questioned me. A

Angel by KeyboardFish, literature

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Angel

They say that angels are made of the light that filters through the thinnest clouds and shyly caresses the fading night. That the light is wrapped in the softest down the sky has to offer, a womb of white feathers drifting on the edge of the pink and golden dawn. They say that the embryo nestled within breathes in swansong and the morning lullabies whispered to drowsing moths and the secret singing of a choirboy's first love. When it's time, they say the zephyrs breathe life into paper-thin lungs and the drifting womb becomes a cradle and the baby angel luxuriates in the pale sun of a soft spring day. It only makes sense that such delicate c

A Lover Stands in the Ruins of Shalott by KeyboardFish, literature

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A Lover Stands in the Ruins of Shalott

I saw your face in the fragments of the mirror fragments scattered on the floor of a hidden room in the dark grey stone of remote Shalott. I kept my back to the window. I knew the corpse that lies in bobbing boat below I've beat the heart that glides, still now, down the rippling stream. It was a different man who killed her, but I see him in your reflection. To turn around and look you in the eye would hang me on the golden cord that binds us to God. Her curse is my inheritance.

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Flower Dragons by KeyboardFish, literature

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Flower Dragons

Porcelain Homunculus by KeyboardFish, literature

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Porcelain Homunculus

Lessons on Being Whole by KeyboardFish, literature

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Lessons on Being Whole

Orc Creation Story by KeyboardFish, literature

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Orc Creation Story

Prayer by KeyboardFish, literature

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Prayer

Hibernation by KeyboardFish, literature

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Hibernation

A Skyrim Love Song in Two Parts by KeyboardFish, literature

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A Skyrim Love Song in Two Parts

Angel by KeyboardFish, literature

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A Lover Stands in the Ruins of Shalott

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Target by DodgingTheBeat, literature

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Target

Salt breeze kisses at his cheek. It isn't the way she does it, slow and soft and sweet, but it doesn't bother him. She's focused on other things right now. He'd best leave her to it. "Correct angle." Never had anyone order me around, but that's fine. That's just fine. He sets the stock deeper into a shoulder pock-marked with bruises, grit, camo paint, bite marks. They've had an interesting time of it. Whole firefights have erupted, echoed, died away in the ghost streets beneath their feet. "Standby for next target." The scope fizzes, sharpens with his will and his target. Never had a target worth firing at. Just ghosts on the rad

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June 14
Canada
Deviant for 11 years
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So, hi. I'm Alex, I'm an eighteen-year-old transguy who develops worlds and characters with his girlfriend and close friends as a method of entertainment. If asked why I write I probably wouldn't be able to tell you- it's a simple fact of my life that I'm going to write things fairly frequently. I figure the more frequently I do it the better I will get, and having a *chance* at a wider audience might motivate me to write more often and better.

Enjoy my verbal fantasy diarrhea. Sometimes it's violent, sometimes it's smutty, sometimes it's sad, and sometimes it's squishy. Sometimes it's all of those at once. Most of it is medieval fantasy, but not all of it is.

Some of it will be rather terrible poetry. Especially sestinas- all of my sestinas are the same but I write the damn things anyway. You can deal.

Favourite Movies

The Princess Bride, Thor, Captain America, Avengers, Hoodwinked

Favourite TV Shows

MASH, As Time Goes By, Blackadder

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Motoi Sakuraba, Heather Dale, Loreena McKennitt, Alexander James, Jason Mraz, Cage the Elephant

Favourite Books

The Sleeping Beauty, Queen of the Orcs, Monstrous Regiment, Dragon Rider, Dragon and Phoenix, The Last Dragonlord, His Majesty's Dragon

Favourite Writers

Mercedes Lackey, Terry Pratchett

Favourite Games

Skyrim, Baten Kaitos I and II, Tabletop

Favourite Gaming Platform

Gamecube and PS3

Tools of the Trade

Notebook and pen

Other Interests

Singing, screwing around in photoshop

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TheMoorMaiden

Jun 14, 2013

Happy Birthday!

BATTLEFAIRIES

Feb 27, 2013

... And thank you for watching me, by the way!

^_^ my pleasure!

Hi and thanks for dropping by! I read your horoscope today ([link]), and it said something about Vlad Dracula and El Chupacabra being in town for a commercial shoot (some kind of hair conditioner) until the end of the week.
Be advised that the open call for blood donation in the newspaper is NOT what it looks like!
Hope this helps, and thanks again for adding something of mine to one of your collections!
I'm also glad it got me to notice your rare talent. What I've read so far is very nearly magic to my eyes. Please do carry on the good work!

KeyboardFish

Feb 27, 2013

Wow, thanks a ton! ^^ I'm glad you're enjoying it.

why-not-green

Jan 21, 2013

I spy with my little eye an Alex!

Hobbittzu

Jan 17, 2013

Thanks for the favorite on my recently painted mini.