Kasimir Jones. Crime father.

I haven't drawn OiTD stuff in so long, but Nate and his millipede pal reminded me of Kasimir and how he has beetle energy. I forgot how much I enjoy drawing him.

Fandom: Oxventure (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Barnaby Fortescue III/Kasimir Jones Characters: Barnaby Fortescue III, Kasimir Jones, Zillah Bruseau Additional Tags: Episode: s02e01, Barnaby in that dress, mild jealousy, Drinking, Casual Relationship, Affection Summary: “She sussed me out, you know, absolute bloodhound that one. Remarkable woman, really. Voice of an angel and the business sense of-” Barnaby's glass lifted and he barked another short laugh, “-well you actually. Haha!”

~selfie for the first day of school ^^ #skbj #bukitjelutongshahalam #oitd #15mac2023 (at Sekolah Kebangsaan Bukit Jelutong) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpzmZAgP92poKiBFDn5hQJenTMByTHYD59BaoU0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

things I’ve had stuck in my head this week:

gotta get it out in the distance distance 

back to the business

in with the victims 

out of the witness 

and like infinite combinations of it all and even! occasionally!! the right lyrics but hardly, like why does my brain insist on rewriting this fucking chorus I do not know but every day I’m like wait... that’s. wrong. help. 

Ahhh ok so I’m reading harrow the ninth for the first time and like I have some casual spoilers about some main characters who I know aren’t dead forever but at this point seem to be but not much else of an idea of what happens and not gonna lie I am not built for second person narration so I’ve been slow going. But with that all being said,,,, the line???? Where it’s like “you never could have guessed that he had seen me.” ??????!!!! Fucking blew my mind right there i literally had to sit there a moment in awe as my whole interpretation of the book so far shifted and I’m sooooooo thrilled

Anyways I will probably finish this book tonight bc all day I have had Tlt brainrot and I already checked out the next book from the library 😏😏

I hope I'm not the only one who prefers how oxventures used to be edited. The editing where you see the character art interacts with each other and stock photos. I genuinely enjoy seeing it a lot, and not seeing it with the more recent episodes upsets me. It almost seems like character art is getting phased out, and that kinda scares me.

It started with oitd when they just had the neutral character art next to a square of the person playing their pc. Then, with their "previously on" segments, they give us more of the characters, showing us different expressions and clearer references for drawing them. However, it also feels very limited. I know seeing the ox crew in their costumes is very fun, especially with Andy's dramatic acting as Edvard but I think seeing the character art dragged around the screen like how oxventures used to be edited would be just as fun.

Then, with oxventure deadlands, the character art rarely makes an appearance. It's so divorced from the show that a casual viewer might not have ever seen it. I think that sucks because character art really helps people visualize the characters. Especially when the characters look different than the actual person playing them, like with Nate and Johnny, Delacy and Luke, and Garnet and Jane, to name a few. (There isn't much difference with Garnet and Jane, but Garnet's hair is red, not black like Jane's.). In fact, you could argue you have to go out of your way to find the oxventure deadlands character art. You go to an oxventure (Halloween? I believe) special video to actually see the oxventure deadlands character art.

I do love seeing the ox crew in their costumes and them interacting with each other irl as their characters, but there's an enjoyment I get from watching the art of the characters interact. To me, the character art is the characters and the players dressing up as their characters is just a supplement to help get the players get into the mindset of their characters and to help the audience understand who is playing who.

If it's not obvious, I very much dislike the less and less appearances and uses of the character art. I get it's probably quicker to edit and get the videos up without doing all the editing of the characters. I also get that it's cheaper to pay for one group shot of all your characters than five characters with multiple different expressions. It's just that I feel like the decrease of character art and the silly little editing of the characters in the videos takes away stuff from the experience. I think a big part of that for me is the silly whimsy of the editing Andy did with the character art. It really helps bring the story to life for me. To be honest, it does a better job than soley watching real life people sit at a table and talk.

zillah: pay the man edvard and let's boogie!

zillah: i wouldn't say that. let's leave.

Y’know what? He can have this too.

more of mochis fit backlog 15/????

the amount of vertical black and white striped items ive owned is in fact a shitload (yes i have a Beetlejuice cosplay suit and all). i ended up getting rid of this skirt after this fit because it was so incredibly short on me so i basically never wore it. i will, one day, make my own version but scaled to my proportions so you dont see my entire ass at the drop of a hat

shirt: betsey johnson

skirt: thrifted/h&m (???)

tights: cherrycheezy

shoes: killstar (i almost ate shit in them walking to the bus this day)

accessories: mostly thrifted or hot topic

I am once again imploring the Oxventure/etc tags on Tumblr to stop shadow banning my art from the tags, the world needs to see Barnaby in glasses.

Update: The post is now showing up in the OitD tag, but not the regular Oxv tag.

Update 2: I can’t spell, nor read.

Celebrating the end of Oxventure Presents: Blades in the Dark.

Treasuries the friends we made, sometimes literally, along the way.

It hit me that all those WMMs are just, dead to the world now. Also I'm so glad we got one last bit with Bug and Mumbles because I love and adore them and I'm glad Kasimir has decided theyre his kids now.

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Some Lingering Questions, Part 3

Today the big question is: what's up with Barnaby?

Is Barnaby incompetent?

There is a consistent mismatch between what we're told about Barnaby and the things that Barnaby actually does. Barnaby does act like an idiot, like the four times he overindulges, and there's no denying that he's a very cruel person (c.f. Magic, Ghosts, Danger, & Death).

However, it's my read that Barnaby is the de facto head of the Fortescue family. His parents are apparently very checked out (The Horrors of Castle Wisenshire). We are both told and shown that the Fortescues have a vast investment portfolio, and Barnaby seems to have granular, unchallenged control over their investments (Dead Man's Debt, Ironhook's Bounty, Fate of the Dimmer Sisters, Magic, Ghosts, Danger, & Death). There is no suggestion that Barnaby has to consult his parents or any sort of board or advisor in order to direct investments worth thousands or tens of thousands of Coins.

Never mind how I came to this bullshit figure, which involved an inflation calculator, modern construction estimates, and the price of the Graybar Building, but I think Barnaby's investment in Astor HQ could reasonably be pegged at something like 6 million USD in 2023 dollars. I cannot translate that into Coin for you, because that's not how Coin works (BitD CRB). But if Barnaby is not a good investor, then presumably the head of their finances (his father, perhaps) could just remove his ability to invest. Either Barnaby is very good with money, or he has control of the family's finances, or both. The amount of money Barnaby spends on being an idiot is far outstripped by the amount of money that he makes for the family; if all nine of Barnaby's ruined coats cost 50 Coin a pop, he paid all of it back in one stock trade in The Fate of the Dimmer Sisters.

There are two complicating factors. The first is that Mike is a very pragmatic player who takes sure bets over long odds. I said what I said; is just murking everyone in the level not more pragmatic than forty-five minutes of elaborate stealth? Until very recently, Egbert consistently used bombs over his mace because the bombs are more powerful*, and as much flak as Mike gets for it, Andy agreed once he saw Egbert's character sheet (A Fete Worse Than Death). Mike rolled the most crits of anyone in OitD, and that's because they were all Resolve (command, consort, or sway) rolls. If you always do the thing you're the strongest in, you will always have a character who gets more done, regardless of their characterization. That's how math works.

Second, I don't think Barnaby wants people to know if he's competent or not. I don't think it suits his purposes.

2. Was Barnaby in line to become a Brightener?

We know that the Fortescues have been a powerful/moneyed family since before the Cataclysm (Wedded Redemption). They were among the Brighteners from the beginning (The Horrors of Castle Wisenshire), and they still maintain a seat, currently filled by Earl Montgomery Fortescue (To the Depths!).

Barnaby has never been told about the Brighteners (The Horrors of Castle Wisenshire), which is unsurprising. The level to which Uncle Monty actually cares about the mission anymore is up for debate, but almost certainly he was going to try to keep on living. The only other relative of Barnaby's that we know is Percy Pomeroy, Monty apparently having no children and Barnaby apparently having no siblings, and Barnaby is the one Uncle Monty wanted to draw in.

Barnaby is also able to convince the Red Sashes and Roth at the Barricade that he's turned on the Hobbyhorses to join the Brighteners (Magic, Ghosts, Danger, and Death). I don't think the Red Sashes are great evidence, but I think Roth ended up knowing a lot about the Brighteners. If Roth thought it was a reasonable development, it probably was.

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* Egbert's bombs were being calculated at 3d6 (9) damage, and his mace was 1d6 (3) or 1d6+1d8 (7) with smite. It should have been 3d6+2+3, 1d6+4+3, and 1d6+1d8+4+3, respectively, which gives bombs and mace+smite an even 14 average damage. Johnny has since leveled up the mace, which is now hands down the better choice; the mace also should have counted as a magical weapon.

next year i would like to see u write more mr fortescue bein a lil idiot. which i realise as i type just means any oitd fic..... lmao

This will happen, as watch me 7 is Barnaby focused. Now just to write it omg why does everything have to be so hard?

ok just woke up and super tired but i managed to finish the rough draft for the next chapter of OitD so maybe today i might he able to finish the 14th chapter since i haven't updated that fic in months

I can't wait for oxventure to give us silly little queer cowboys