Elsewhere University - Groundskeeping’s Addendum

A sequel to this!

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When I posted the first Elsewhere University comic, I had no idea what it was going to turn into over the following months. The community that’s grown out of it - the stories and art and obscure bits of folklore and science, the fortunetelling asks and vague anon prophecies, all of it building on itself and branching into places that still manage to take me by surprise - has created a weirder and more wonderful world than anything I could have imagined. This comic is meant as a celebration of everything that’s grown out of the stories set in Elsewhere, and an expression of gratitude. I wasn’t even close to being able to include everything; the Library alone would need a dozen pages. For those whose works I did include, I dearly hope I did them justice. Words can’t express what this world and community have grown to mean to me, but I hope this comes close. Thank you so much, all of you. Keep making amazing things.

All works referenced below the cut, if you want to learn more about them!

• The Elsewhere University seal
  
• Cat-Eyes, Feathers, and Barnes from runwildwithme’s story Feathers
• General Elsewhere U crow lore
• First mention of the kelpie
• The Wyrm from this story by themagnificentgod
• First mention of the Unsea
• General Elsewhere U pool lore
• First mention of the Forbidden Major
• Professor Chapel from cannibalhello‘s story Ferus Ferrum
• Professor Fives from agender-plant‘s drawing/story
• Ms. Muse from starlight-opera‘s story
  
• Sequoia from lonelymountainson‘s story
• The moster-hunting librarian from spiralink’s story Librarian
• Spring and fall courts from this ask from treegona
  
• True Royalty from this ask from irleughlivelyatalanteangodfan
• Shoutout to taocalleddow for the theatre superstitions (unrelated but interesting: superstitions and the language of theatre tech itself have a lot in common with those of sailors. I think that’s really neat)
• General Theatre lore
  
• General A Midsummer Night’s Dream lore
• Although the forest is mentioned in passing often, and there are various mythical trees, the first in-depth discussion of the forest Morganwode is here
• Dirt from the Elsewhere rp community, based off this art by lifeandluna
• King of Cats from art by ridafi14
  
• The Shining Many from art by v0idsign
• Twistrose from art by fox-the-hermit
• First mention of Jimothy and general lore about Jimothy
• Dëandr from art by insanityoverhaul
• General lore about the library, although I’d also highly recommend daemonluna’s Library Services at Elsewhere University: A Guide and Compendium
• Beware the lights (one of many mottos) from waveringbriar’s story
• Groundskeeping, including the motto Keeping the Balance, from bluedragonbook’s story