"Ope, the tower. Sorry Kansa but I guess you get to experience what hell feels like."

Yeah, she had to stop when she was 16 when she had her twin girls, and now she works too much to try it again.

As long as you don't piss her off, she's great. The humans and elves just have a bad habit of pissing her off.

That's a fun topic, car maintenance in difficult areas. I read an article a while back about blacksmiths in rural parts of the Congo using traditional blacksmithing skills to make and repair axles and drivelines for old land rovers. That was also a common thing in the US in the heyday of the Model T

Reminds me a bit of Enya's home of Tacust. It's not a city state, it's part of the MUCH larger Republic of Motornin, but it also has an economy built on imports, small businesses, craftsmen, and militia surplus.

I disagree, you deserve nice things. :v

Ah, made by Pilot, and a roller ball with liquid ink. Very nice, I approve 😎👍 even if I tend to be a bit of a fountain pen snob.

A lot of pens that are made for technical drawings or lineart inking will give you similar results, but they aren't likely to be cheaper.

Other kids come along later as well, but that's a story for a later time.

They will, they all stay close to their mother, even into adulthood.

Sophia achieves her dream of becoming a temple priestess, Susanna joins the army and fights the war and then goes on to become an important civil rights leader for the Chunes of Motornin, all with mom's love and support.

Little things like preferred foods in characters really makes me smile, little details like that really give a character a lot of depth. :)

I put a lot of effort into it, and looked up lots of drawing references of ladies from the 1880s. :)

I don't have anything to share for complicated reasons I don't want to talk about. So here, have this very pretty chune I drew the other day.

Don't worry, they get their pastries. Mommy gets a big paycheck for her dangerous work and buys the girls some little treats.

No idea, I don't tend to make wordcount goals because I worry it might just make me want to add too much filler. I like to be very deliberate with what I include in the story, even if that means some chapters are like 12 pages and others are like 4.

Not yet, I'm on chapter 2 of like 10ish.

Oh don't worry, the dam will get built, it just won't start until 1931, so the MC has a couple more years to wait.

The Chussen K'Setho in the industrialized midwest have a lot of wheat, oats, and other grains made in bakeries or baked at home. Things like pastries and pies are big.

Chunes of the Chussen K'Yami live in the mountains where it is common to live off of whatever vegetation they can find, as well as funguses and non vascular plants that grow well in rocky areas.