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Railerat

Railerat / 35 / Male / Wherever fine books are sold.

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Commissions: Sometimes
Trades: Sometimes
Requests: Closed
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The Rat Returns + Commissions???

So. After like... a year of almost utter inactivity... my life has settled down enough for me to reinvest my time in creating things. I have a new character to introduce you to, as soon as he gets some colours on him. I have a commission or two to share (commissioner's permission pending), which wi…

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Two things x2 combo

Here's something odd: most of the time, I swear like I’m trying to win a prize for it or something. But for some reason, on Weasyl, I use words like “dang!” and phrases like “oh my gosh!” and “oh goodness!” with complete sincerity. I haven't the foggiest why I do that, but okay self. Sure. Second t…

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Rec me 30-day challenges!

DRASTIC MEASURES TIME. I've been having a hard time settling down to write lately, and I have decided that to break this trend, I'm gonna take on a 30-day challenge! Problem: I don't know any. So rec me some! They can be general or specialised--challenges meant for vidual artists are fine too, as l…

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Two things

Still not feeling that great. Forgive me for my relative silence--or don't, I guess. Two things, though: One, I'm curious about my followers. Why did you follow me? What made you think "yeah, this is a rat I want to keep track of?" Maybe I can use this information to provide more of what you're act…

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There we go

I've reuploaded The Eye--just little tweaks for the most part, but they made a difference to me. I originally wrote it with my eye (heh) on Varlot (heh heh), so hopefully it will read a little better and Stevick won't come off as so pointlessly boring and/or useless. You'll have to be the judge. An…

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And then I got sick

Incredibly sick, actually. I lost about 8 pounds--which is about 1/12 of my body weight. Not something you want to lose in under a week. I'll reply to people and do the writing-related things I promised sometime tomorrow. I'll also have a new character (of a new--albeit previously mentioned--specie…

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Get To Know Me(me)

More or less taken from Rory. I considered doing the writer meme, and maybe I will in a bit, but here's this one. What's your real name? Well, that's kind of personal! How tall are you? 4'10.5" (I'm half Korean, but my father was six feet tall, so...) What's your natural hair color? Black What's yo…

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I Like Weasyl

One of the best things about Weasyl is the number of lovely people I keep tripping on! I'd never felt terribly free to talk to people before and I've always kind of kept to myself. Without the clutter of fA or dA, though, I'm finding a lot of neat people that I'd never seen or heard of before. And…

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Uh... can someone explain this?

...that moment when someone on Weasyl is 'ignoring' you, but you cannot recall ever having spoken with that person before in your life. I don't suppose there's a setting to just ignore everyone you haven't explicitly permitted? I mean, I can't manage to be particularly upset by being forbidden to t…

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On Submissions and Welcome to Night Vale Live

I reread the flash fiction I put up and of course my immediate reaction was "oh SHIT this is GROSS why did I POST IT" etc. I want to overhaul it a bit, and I will, but in the meantime, it gave me reason to think about what I post and why. I have many criticisms of my work, but I think it's importan…

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If you're going to FWA:

THIS IS IMPORTANT: I know it's a convention, and I know we're all furballs, and I know we love animals, but if you see a service dog-- DO NOT TOUCH IT. DO NOT TALK TO IT. DO NOT INTERACT WITH THE SERVICE DOG. I may or may not be there this year, but it is VITALLY IMPORTANT that if you see me and Wo…

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Character Commissions? Interest Check.

So I've done character commissions before, and I'm considering doing them again. Basically, they're commissions where you give me a few words or general guidelines (magic, no magic, species, a colour, etc.), and I'll craft you a character for like ten or fifteen USD. You can also give me an image (…

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I did it! Also, hey, on critiques.

Look at me, uploading some actual writing! Most of what I upload is going to be one-shots like this, mostly because I try to save my continuous-writing energy for novel stuff. That doesn't mean there won't be a few chapter stories, but by and large I really just enjoy setting scenes and letting the…

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What is this? (Design trades???)

Lately I've seen a lot of people... trading designs? Not characters, really, just... designs. Like pogs, I guess. I must be old or something, because I don't really understand what's going on. Where do the designs come from? (Other than 'artists.' That part is obvious, thanks.) Why are people colle…

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Fallen London

I have begun to play this game, and I have to say, it's incredibly distracting. I also have no idea what I'm doing, but I managed to accidentally kill a rat within my first five actions, and that pretty much set the tone for everything I've done since. I've only been playing for two days, but I man…

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What is a MUD?

I'm dumb and managed to completely miss that part of the internet when I was younger. Now I'm 25 and while some people I respect participate in this mysterious thing, I have no idea what it is???? Uh. Help a rat out?

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On Character Design and Commissions/Trades

In case it hasn't become painfully obvious, the primary purpose of my Weasyl account is community participation and character design. I have some sort of strange character-generation machine in my head that produces at least one character a week, complete with story, personality, and many aspects o…

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Nothing exciting here

I'm really enjoying Weasyl so far. The people are lovely, the site is a dream to navigate, and the lighter colours are rather easier on my crappy eyes. The Character feature is by far my favourite, though. Not only is it absolutely IDEAL for me as a writer/character designer, but it's a lot of fun…

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Here I am

Weasyl. I've heard this place is more writer-friendly than dA or FA, and approximately 80% less scummy, so that's nice. I'll probably continue my trend of appearing mostly when I have some kind of exciting present from a friend to add to my collections and being too much of a giant pansy to actuall…