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Dragons, Cosmic Lore, & Note-Posting by TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Original Work
23 Apr 2024
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Some assembled notes about the worldbuilding and lore of the dragons of the Other Realms, who are very much abominations you wouldn't want to encounter.
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- Part 11 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents
- Part 12 of Lethericon Books Presents
- Part 7 of Prose & Artsy Words/Other Postings
- Part 7 of Worldbuilding & Lore Posts
- Part 1 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
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Anostos + Demon Lore by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
13 Jun 2024
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Random notes about Anostos, a world I've had for a while. It's always been part of the Other Realms, but I'm slowly putting together a grander cosmological picture of where they are in relation to each other now that I have the Chasm of Stars as a backdrop to pin them all to, so it's helping me pad out backstories and connections I've left vague for years.
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- Part 12 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents
- Part 12 of Worldbuilding & Lore Posts
- Part 7 of Solemn Graces & Sorrows Of Blackwood (AUs, Fanfics, & Other Material)
- Part 2 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 16 of Solemn Graces-related stuff
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- English
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- 697
- Chapters:
- 1/2
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- 1
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Races of the Chasm of Stars by TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
23 Aug 2024
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The Chasm of Stars is vast, and home to life that takes many shapes beyond merely human and humanoid. Some are like us, while others are like octopodes, or bears from the woods, or far stranger forms of consciousness and intelligent or non-intelligent life.
For those interested in travelling the Chasm, let this be your guide to some of the races and types of life you might find amongst the planets and colonies located there.
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- Part 3 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
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- English
- Words:
- 292
- Chapters:
- 1/?
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- 1
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Further Thoughts On Dragons, Spirituality In The Chasm Of Stars, And The Concept Of Space As Hell Itself by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work, demonology - Fandom, Ars Goetia - Fandom, gnosticism - Fandom
25 Jan 2025
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The Chasm is meant as a realm of flesh opposing the consciousness planes of the Other Realms, but there is reality and spirit in both. Dragons ruled over them as well, but even they aren't the only beings, as there are also cosmic beings and ancient spirits and other worlds collapsing into theirs. Categorizing them isn't always easy snd changes constantly; even when the names if beings like the dragons are known, their classification and courts can still be redetermined, as well ad the cosmological layout and stellar cartography of the Chasm's many homeworlds, wandering stars, and lesser dimensions of existence.
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- Part 4 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
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- English
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- 734
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- 1/1
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Rudimentary Cartography of the Chasm of Stars by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Works
31 Jan 2025
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This'll be a work in progress for quite some time, but I decided to start mapping out rough locations of different major regions within the Chasm of Stars as a setting. It's not quite a galaxy until in-universe powers start pulling things together, but things still change and star systems change place every now and then; for the most part, though, it served as a mostly-accurate reference to the general distances and cartographical placements of everything, or at least the major worlds.
Most of these are homeworlds, like Byrenna and Rusidra, or long-standing colonies, like Mons Platina and Karsha Orralys, and obviously, there are unique regions differentiated by location and roughly what types or worlds and events happen there (the Realm of Sin has Devolans, the prison planet of Kon Thalry on Nemessia, and the burning world of Cauldra; the Central Planets have the remnants of the Vorinthian Nation, the Braxanite Regime, Dorriya, and so on; etc).
Oh yeah, and the Tessarium in the Astral Grotto is technically where the Other Realms are located; it's sort of a quasi-physical portal between the Chasm and the more ethereal Realms themselves, so very important to note.
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- Part 5 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Language:
- English
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- 910
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- 1/1
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Dragorean notes — (ROUGH DRAFT ONLY; SUBJECT TO CHANGE) by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Original Work
11 Feb 2025
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Working on conlang stuff for my dialect called Dragorean, which is used primarily by dragons and elder races in the Chasm of Stars; based on the naming "language" I formatted up, with a whispering phonology and 38 official letters representing various consonants, vowels, digraphs, and sounds currently, I've been expanding it into a hopefully-speakable linguistic sample, and although I'm coming at it practically rather than scientifically (I've been building workable phrases and naturalistically reverse-engineering it from there), I thought it might be fun to share some of my behind-the-scenes development notes so far.
There's also a set of runes used to write Dragorean, which I'm developing; there will be at least 38 for each letter, collectively called Mezhon, and in the Valozian script, they're written in blocks of 4 to represent different syllables within the sentence. You'll see how it works, if I can get it drawn up along with the language itself.
Hoping to do a workable phrasebook eventually. I seem to be developing this from the viewpoint of phrases a person learning the language might need to know first — IE, basic "I am, you are, we are" phrases — and spiralling out from there.
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- Part 6 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 3 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,038
- Chapters:
- 6/10
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- 12
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Mezhon runes — (Developmental/Prototype Tests) by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Original Work
11 Feb 2025
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The idea for Mezhon is taken mainly from your classic Elder Futhark series of runic inscriptions; it was designed to be a simple way for dragons in the Chasm of Stars to leave behind messages carved into the runic "dragonstones" left behind as memorials on the planets and in the realms they visited. Currently, there's 38 runes for different consonants, vowels, digraphs, and other sounds within the Dragorean language, and they can be written individually or using the "Valozian method", which is more common — inspired by Korean hangul, the Valozian method presents Mezhon runes and messages in blocks of four, representing two runes/sounds/phonemes at a time to form the full word.
Blocks of four become blocks of four to form longer words or sentences, and because it's still fairly primitive, there's currently no way to differentiate between sentences or parts of speech, as I'm mostly testing it with basic Dragorean names and syllabic phrases, but I expdct that might change as it continues to evolve and I finalize more of what the Mezhon runes actually look like.
This document is mostly some of my crude, first-run trial tests of some prototype Mezhon runes and what names in the Valozian method might look like.
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- Part 7 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 4 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 32
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The Other Realms #3 by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
23 Feb 2025
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A treatise on the Other Realms as a setting, The Other Realms is an adventure through the multiverse — from the valley of Inglenook — to the spaceborne settlement of Spotlight City — to the lucidite-laden world of Dorriya — and far beyond, including the Chasm of Stars — and more. Each installment brings you up close and personal with a selection of facts, figures, and lore from every corner of the urban fantasy multiverse known only as the Other Realms.
"Alien"
An agent of the Blue Rose Institute investigates stories of alien invasion around Inglenook, and discovers the rising threat of reptilians, witches, and much more.
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- Part 3 of Thomas Castle's Other Realms
- Part 4 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents — February Solicitations, 2025
- Part 60 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents — All Solicitations (Issues + Lists)
- Part 8 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,911
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Bookmarks:
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- 15
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Veil Comix #2 by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
06 Mar 2025
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Of all of Inglenook's teams of masked heroes known as Royal Protectors, the Veil stands above the rest; the best, and most independently-operating, of the Kingdom's commissioned heroes, the Veil is led by fortune teller Mother Mancer, and serves the Kingdom as a whole, rather than any specific city within it. These are their stories — stories of Catman and the Red-And-Gold, Captain Flexo and Dr Connector, and many more — right here, in Veil Comix.
"Mother Mancer's Haunted House"
On the eve of Soultide, 1979, Mother Mancer encounters a thief from her past: the former Royal Protector Haunter, who seeks information about the whereabouts of ex-Familiar Five member Nightingale.
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- Part 6 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents — February Solicitations, 2025
- Part 61 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents — All Solicitations (Issues + Lists)
- Part 9 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 2 of Veil Comix
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 816
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Bookmarks:
- 1
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- 9
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Escape To Prolune by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
18 Mar 2025
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Werner Goldrucken, a Silvani elf from the worlds of Inglenook and Edelmund in the Other Realms, leaves his increasingly-industrialized multiverse of fantasy and imagination and magic behind for the much larger — and more complex — one just outside, known as the Chasm of Stars, which happens to be full of aliens, starships, and a backwater planet where community is the focus called Prolune.
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- Part 9 of Pick-n-Mix Novels
- Part 63 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents — All Solicitations (Issues + Lists)
- Part 25 of Chronological Pick-n-Mix
- Part 10 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 1 of Pick-n-Mix Novels — 2025 etc
- Part 2 of Braxanite Rising
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Advocate — Episode Plans, etc by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Original Work, Pick-n-Mix Comix
25 Mar 2025
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Some episode listings for a series I'll probably never write called Advocate, based on some of the lore I've developed in my life and work, and for Pick-n-Mix Comix specifically, set in a region of the Chasm of Stars known as the Outer Sanctum, on the borders of known space.
Specifically, Advocate is set in 2300s-era Braxanite space, at the edges of the Central Planets, which have been dominated first by the Galactic Prospect, then by the Braxanite Regime which replaced it and installed Braxanite immigrants and colonists all across the Central Planets.
In this series, an enforcement vessel for the Braxanite Regime known as the GOV Advocate delves into the mostly-uncharted Outer Sanctum for the first time and meets new races unknown to the Regime, such as the Mechosians, the Foraldians, and the Ishyr. In the process, we follow the Advocate's captain, Braxanite Teben Yuroz, as well as a crew of mostly races united under the Regime — such as Byrennian medical advisor Dr Huldren, Keladon security director Chief Wuttle Mack, and stowaway-turned-pilot Dessiny Trix — as they evolve and adjust to the revelations about their own lives to be found within the Outer Sanctum.
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- Part 62 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents — All Solicitations (Issues + Lists)
- Part 11 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 1 of Advocate
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The Sorrow Hunter Database — Documented Sorrows No. 001 to 099 by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Sorrows Of Blackwood, Solemn Graces, The Sorrow Hunter Database, Original Work
29 Apr 2025
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The Sorrow Hunter Database is an in-universe collection of documents relating to the cataloguing and study of entities and events known as Sorrows, which appear increasingly often throughout the Other Realms once a creature known as the Sorrowfather is created, carrying with him various entities and cruel fates from one world to the next. In this storyline, it's up to the Sorrow Hunters — those entrusted with their research from the shadows and hidden corners between realities where time has been forgotten — to research, pen down, and document evidence of each Sorrow's existence so that future generations can always keep a watch out for them going forward.
This collection is Documented Sorrows No. 001 to 099, listing the first 99 Sorrows known to have been researched by the Sorrow Hunters on duty.
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- Part 1 of The Sorrow Hunter Database
- Part 16 of Pick-n-Mix Novels
- Part 42 of Solemn Graces-related stuff
- Part 12 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 71 of Pick-n-Mix Comix Presents — All Solicitations (Issues + Lists)
- Part 7 of Pick-n-Mix Novels — 2025 etc
- Part 1 of 1173rd Rhapsody, Staff 1
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The Pick-n-Mix Annual Compendium Of Identities & Masked Personas, Volume Two — 2025 by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix
02 May 2025
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This is just a list of character ideas and potentially art or HeroForge adaptations I came up with this year, or who first appeared in a Pick-n-Mix Comix story this year, updated as the year goes on with additions as they happen. Possibly links to stories that include them, but no guarantees.
If the date isn't known or isn't relevant due to a multi-day development or missing notes or something, just the month will be given, and if the month isn't known, then we're just shit outta luck on that one.
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- Part 2 of Annual Compendium Of Identities & Masked Personas
- Part 5 of Collections — Captain Mytho
- Part 13 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 17 of Pick-n-Mix Novels
- Part 8 of Pick-n-Mix Novels — 2025 etc
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 65
- Chapters:
- 13/13
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- 32
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The Cyclops as Shipbuilders by TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
03 May 2025
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I had a random idea today about a race of Cyclops giants in the Chasm of Stars who served the purpose of building starships, and it filled so neatly a gap in my worldbuilding in regards to where starship development in the Chasm came from and which race was the first to start innovating them on such a wide scale that it became a crucial, potential backstory item for other ancient story threads, such as the origin of all races on the planet Adishem, how Adishem became lost, why Zurzumzarazul created the races he did, and why the races spread to so many other planets after that, plus why there are other races beyond the Elderlands where Byrenna and Rusidra are.
With that in mind, I wrote a bit of meta to exploring the concept; nothing too suitable for a story, but the folklore behind the idea of the Shipbuilders is interesting, and was kind of fun to put together in any case.
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- Part 14 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
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Rudimentary Cartography of the Chasm of Stars, V2.1 by TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
03 May 2025
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It's the second version of a map of rough locations of stuff in the Chasm of Stars. This version was purported to have been made by the Braxanite Regime, but OOC it's not "finished" yet, as there's a bunch of locations I still need to mark, including other asteroids (although Zotune, Vartoth, and the Foraldian black hole are here), and artificial constructions like the galactic hospital-station Kenovin's Hope and whatever Night's Edge ends up being in this canon. (It was originally a planet, but I've had the name for so long, it's just anything it needs to be at this point.)
It still marks regions fairly cleanly, though, and there's plenty of room for expansion. Plus, it has the Outer Sanctum from my Advocate episode outlines! Useful!
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- Part 15 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 0
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Bookmarks:
- 1
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- 4
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Byrennians — Alien Race Reference Sheet by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
23 Jun 2025
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This content was originally posted on FurAffinity under CC0, licensing the Byrennians as an open-species concept effectively under the public domain.
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- Part 1 of CC0 Content (Public Domain, etc)
- Part 16 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 956
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
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- 88
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Pick-n-Mix Universe Sketches #1 by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, No Fandom, Original Work
22 Aug 2025
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Took up sketching. These aren't great, but they're some initial layouts for a few scenes from Grimshaw, and a couple bonuses.
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- Part 17 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 1 of Drawn Art & Universal Visuals
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 0
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 41
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Dragons: The Elemental Types by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
24 Aug 2025
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All dragons in the Pick-n-Mix Comix universe have an elemental type, which develops as they grow out of their drakehood phase and into adulthood. Here's what that means for specific individuals of their kind.
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- Part 38 of Pick-n-Mix One-Shots & Shorts
- Part 18 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 15 of Worldbuilding & Lore Posts
- Part 7 of Worldbuilding Documents
- Part 5 of Dragons & Dragorean Language/Cultural Notes & Worldbuilding
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 853
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 8
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Structure of the Government of the Kingdom of Inglenook by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work, NationStates (Video Game)
24 Aug 2025
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Information about what the governmental and political structure of the Kingdom of Inglenook, one of the core settings within the Other Realms, as part of the larger Pick-n-Mix Comix universe, is like.
This was originally posted on NationStates as a factbook for the nation of the same name, which was based on the official Pick-n-Mix Comix version.
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- Part 39 of Pick-n-Mix One-Shots & Shorts
- Part 19 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
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Mirror Universe by Pick-n-Mix Comix (PicknMixComix), TheAestheticMerchant (Teacat)
Fandoms: Pick-n-Mix Comix, Original Work
25 Aug 2025
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This was originally in response to writeblrsummerfest's Tumblr post from 8/22/2025, titled "Mirror Universe", which asked:
Reblog with one of your characters and describe their evil twin self—what’s their aesthetic, their vibe, their fatal flaw taken to the extreme?
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- Part 40 of Pick-n-Mix One-Shots & Shorts
- Part 20 of Pick-n-Mix Universe: The Lore Essays
- Part 16 of Worldbuilding & Lore Posts
- Part 8 of Worldbuilding Documents
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 545
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Hits:
- 4