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moonlit-positivity · 3 months

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🌸 Activities for healing your inner child 🥹

Emotional activities

Scream (into a pillow if you're concerned about noise)

Cry

Rage

Throw a tantrum

Acknowledge the pain

Acknowledge there is a baby version of you inside that needs to be comforted

Make an effort to connect- notice what gets in the way. Is it hard to think of yourself as a child again? Talk about it.

Allow yourself to talk freely

Make an effort to leave the judgements behind

Tell them it wasn't their fault

Hold them when they cry

Shake your body

Allow yourself to vent

Get it out

Validate your emotions

Allow the anger

Try real hard to create a safe space in your mind

Give the comforts

Put your arms up to defend yourself

Scrunch up your face to show anger/pain/discomfort

Say "No!" out loud

Say "Don't hurt me!" out loud

Allow yourself to be vulnerable without shredding your own sanity

Punch the air like you're punching your abusers

Hold your heart

Hold your head

Hold your cheeks

Rub your shoulders

Tell them they can leave that place/situation now

Show them they are safe

Draw vent art of how you feel (can be vulgar and graphic, it's vent art)

Watch gentle parenting videos on YouTube & Instagram

Creative activities

Make a collage about your life

Allow yourself the artistic expressions

Art therapy prompts

Get into Dungeons and Dragons

Make a playlist of all your favorite video game soundtracks

Look up random videos that you like to watch

Indulge in the hobby

Give them a coloring book and their choice of crayons and markers and colored pencils

Buy the hobbies you wanted as a kid

Watch cartoons (tubi has a good selection for free)

Dance to a good song (u can dance sitting down btw)

Make a funny face

Get a teddy bear

Dye your hair

Draw fake tattoos on ur skin with markers like we all did in middle school

Finger painting

Face painting

Go outside and collect some rocks

Go outside and take a picture of the sky

Play in the snow

Play in the rain

Visit a playground & swing

Jigsaw puzzles

Video games

Creative writing

Buy some toys you've always wanted as a kid

Get some fidgets and dunk on your friends

Get in touch with your sense of humor

Daydream

Get yourself the books/manga/video game

Sing

Frolic in the flowers & dig in the dirt

Put your hand out the window of the car and do that wave thingy on the wind

Teach yourself a new hobby (might I suggest hemp bracelets, perler beads, crochet, these are pretty cheap and easy to start)

Decorate ur house

Go thrift shopping for nicknacks

Decorate return envelopes with cute funny pictures for the people youve gotta mail stuff to

Make a card for yourself/friend/loved one etc

What are some other fun things you'd like to do? I invite you to make your own list.

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Hope this helps

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#recovery #ptsd #trauma #boundaries #mental health #healing #inner child #inner child healing #child abuse #reparenting #somatics #depression #bpd #advice #life advice #self love #self harm #attachment #codependency

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dreamy-dread · 8 days

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People I'd Like to Know Better(meme)

I've been tagged: @githik

Last Song I Listened To: Groove is in the Heart-deee-lite Currently Watching: Nothing right now. Waiting for more cartoons to magically appear and be popular.(The only cartoon Continuing I'm interested in is sadly Smiling Friends. Good show but not what I'm looking for ATM. So I'm waiting for all EPs to drop and watch later) Sweet/savory/spicy: Sweet and spicy!!! Relationship Status: Single, non-romantic partner Current obsession: Baldur's gate 3 characters(Owlbear cub, Astarion, Karlach mostly.), D&D lore somewhat (thinking about seeing Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves for the frist time, lol.), WILDSHAPE WILDSHAPE! shapeshifting!!!!!, Lawrence oleander Tagging: @rainandflies

Gatobob just make him a Dungeon Master. He'll KILL IT in D&D. Make some easy bull based on the books he reads,lol.

#meme #not art

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thegayhimbo · 3 months

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Stranger Things x Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Crossover Review

If you haven't yet, be sure to check out my other Stranger Things Reviews. Like, Reblog, and let me know what your thoughts are about the show or the upcoming final season! :)

Stranger Things Reviews/Theories

Stranger Things Comics/Graphic Novels:

Stranger Things Six

Stranger Things Halloween Special

Stranger Things The Other Side

Stranger Things Zombie Boys

Stranger Things The Bully

Stranger Things Winter Special

Stranger Things Tomb of Ybwen

Stranger Things Into The Fire

Stranger Things Science Camp

Stranger Things “The Game Master” and “Erica’s Quest”

Stranger Things and Dungeons and Dragons

Stranger Things Kamchatka

Stranger Things Erica The Great

Stranger Things “Creature Feature” and “Summer Special”

Stranger Things Tales From Hawkins

Stranger Things Tie-In Books:

Stranger Things Suspicious Minds

Stranger Things Runaway Max (Part 1 of 3)

Stranger Things Runaway Max (Part 2 of 3)

Stranger Things Runaway Max (Part 3 of 3)

Stranger Things Darkness On The Edge Of Town (Part 1 of 3)

Stranger Things Darkness On The Edge Of Town (Part 2 of 3)

Stranger Things Darkness On The Edge Of Town (Part 3 of 3)

Stranger Things Rebel Robin Book and Podcast (Part 1 of 2)

Stranger Things Rebel Robin Book and Podcast (Part 2 of 2)

Stranger Things Hawkins Horrors Review

Stranger Things Flight Of Icarus

Stranger Things Lucas On The Line

Stranger Things Episode Reviews:

The Vanishing of Will Byers (Part 1 of 2)

The Vanishing of Will Byers (Part 2 of 2)

Synopsis: Set before the events of Season 3, Mike, Will, Lucas, Dustin, and Max take a field trip with Mr. Clarke's class to New York City (with El secretly tagging along) to explore all the sights in the Big Apple. However, when the group gets separated from the class and encounters an old enemy, they're forced to join with some unexpected allies as they attempt to stop a world-ending threat........

Observations:

This is one of those comics where I wish I had been in the writers room so I could understand what their thought-process was.

The premise: Sometime in 1985, the Party is in New York City on a field-trip with Scott Clarke's class (why and how they get this trip arranged is never explained). Along the way, they split from the main group and end up lost in the underground subway. As they try to come up with a plan, they hear sounds coming from the tunnels and go to investigate. Guess who they end up running into?

DEMODOGS...........except with robotic parts attached to them?!

To make this more surreal, the Party gets saved by (you guessed it) the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMMTs for short):

Later on, after introductions are made and explanations given, the kids and TMNTs (with encouragement from their sensei Splinter) discover that:

a.) The robotic demodogs (referred to as Demomousers by Dustin) are being controlled by Baxter Stockman, a mad scientist who's one of the Turtles adversaries.

And b.) There's a gate in NYC allowing demodogs and demogorgons to come through, and the Mind Flayer is preparing to invade.

Realizing they need to join forces, the Party and TMNTs attempt to take down Baxter and the Mind Flayer before they bring ruin to the city.

If all of this sounds weird, you now know how I felt reading it.

I'll admit when it comes to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I'm not an expert. I have some knowledge of the franchise from when I was growing up, mainly from the 1987 cartoon and the first two live-action TMNT movies (no, NOT the Michael Bay produced ones), but as far as the comics go, I've never read the original ones. In terms of my knowledge:

I know the 4 turtles are named after famous Italian Renaissance artists: Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo.

I know they have a sensei named Splinter, a former human martial arts instructor from Japan named Hamato Yoshi who was transformed into a rat via a chemical mutagen (since the chemical mixes the DNA of living beings who've been in contact with one another, and Splinter had constantly been in contact with rats while living in the sewers).

I know that the turtles were originally ordinary turtles that Splinter adopted in the sewers before they also got infected with the chemical and (because they were in contact with Splinter when he was human) became humanoid turtles.

I know Splinter named and trained the turtles in ninjutsu, adopting them as his students/children.

I know Splinter and the Turtles arch-enemy is Oroku Saki, aka The Shredder. He was responsible for dumping the chemical that transformed them, he runs a criminal ninja organization called "The Foot Clan," and (in the 1987 TV show at least), he has two animal/human hybrid henchmen named Rocksteady and Bebop. Also, Shredder aims for world-domination.

I know Shredder was allied with an alien brain named Krang from Dimension X, and they operated from a station called the Technodrome.

I know there was a scientist named Baxter Stockmam (who's one of the main antagonists in this comic) who created MOUSERS (also present here) that did his bidding and reeked havoc.

I know about April O'Neil, the news reporter who is an ally to the turtles, and Casey Jones, a violent vigilante who wears an ice hokey mask and has a bag of weapons, who is also an ally to the turtles. They make a brief appearance in this comic towards the end:

Finally, I know about this earworm of a song:

vimeo

Like I said, my knowledge primarily comes from the 1987 show and the first two movies. What little I'm aware of about the original comics is that the turtles all wore the same red-eye masks before later media would color-code each turtle (likely so audiences could tell them apart). In typical 80s fashion, the comics were dark and gritty. Judging by how the Turtles are depicted here in this crossover, it appears they based the Turtles characterizations off their original comic book iterations:

This brings me to one of my problems with the crossover: Because it's dead-set on portraying the characters in a grim fashion, it doesn't leave much room for humorous interactions between the turtles and the kids. What little humor is present is either forced, or just recycled jokes from the show. Stranger Things is rooted in the science-fiction/horror genre, but it balances it out by having funny moments between the characters to level out the tension. Same thing can be said for the 1987 TMNT cartoon: Part of what made that work is the creators realized how absurd the premise was, and embraced the weirdness while having fun with it. This comic expects the reader to take the story solemnly, and all it does is highlight the ridiculousness of its premise.

Another issue I have is the whole crossover aspect. I know this isn't unique to TMNT and characters from this franchise have done crossovers with Batman, Power Rangers, Street Fighter, Transformers, Archie Comics, etc. The difference though is that 1.) These were usually done with other superhero or cartoon characters franchises, and 2.) To my understanding, most of those crossovers weren't usually considered canon in either universe.

This comic on the other hand tries REALLY HARD to make itself canon in the Stranger Things universe by setting it between seasons 2 and 3, before The Battle of Starcourt:

On top of that, when the kids and the Turtles finally confront Baxter at his lab about his motivations, he reveals he was a colleague of Dr. Brenner, which is how he knew about El:

This ends up creating several plot-holes:

1.) You'd think that if the events in this comic took place in the show's continuity, the kids would have talked about it at least once during seasons 3-4. I have a hard time imagining, for instance, that Dustin wouldn't have been chatting Steve's ear off about encountering a bunch of humanoid turtles living in NYC sewers, or the Demomousers they had to fight off.

2.) Same problem with Baxter Stockman and Dr. Brenner's relationship: No mention of it on the show? That's not even including how this relationship is at odds with Brenner's character since he considered other people (even fellow scientists) to be beneath him in terms of intellect. Brenner was NOT a man who saw others as his equal.

3.) Since Stranger Things is a show set on referencing 80s media and paying homages to it, and since the TMNTs were a big franchise in the 80s, does that mean the first volumes of the TMNT comics that came out in 1984 don't exist in this universe? Especially when the kids reactions to first encountering the TMNTs is not knowing who they are:

I get that Stranger Things is a fictional show that requires suspension of disbelief when it comes to its science-fiction elements (i.e. The Upside Down, El's powers, etc), but for the most part, it was grounded in a believable way. By that, I mean its universe was set up to be one that could conceivably take place in this reality. From its references to historical moments that occurred in real life, to its disturbingly realistic portrayals of bullying, bigotry, Cold War paranoia, homophobia, racism, government corruption, abuse, forced conformity, trauma and grief, and other social issues, to the whole dynamic of the Party being outcasts trying to survive middle school and high school. It's a coming-of-age story that also acts as a deconstruction of the 80s, and uses science-fiction elements in service of that goal. I've talked before about the Upside Down being a not-so-subtle metaphor for Hawkins and the 80s as a whole: Things look shiny, bright, and appealing on the surface (especially since the 80s continues to be a decade our current culture is obsessed with romanticizing), but when you actually dig deeper, there is rot underneath.

By setting the Stranger Things universe in the TMNT universe, it breaks that illusion in favor of turning it into popcorn entertainment. Some would argue Stranger Things was already this to begin with, but considering how the Duffer Brothers incorporated the themes I've just described into their work when they could have ignored them altogether, and considering how Stranger Things has a passionate fanbase dedicated to analyzing the show, its characters, and how it acts as a commentary for events and situations in the present, I would argue the show transcends that in a way TMNT never could. This comic tries to achieve this, with the Turtles (and Splinter) preaching about the importance of friendship, how everyone has challenges, not being defined by where you come from, etc, but all of these themes were already examined on the show way before this comic ever came out (and in a much more satisfying manner). Here, it comes off as repetitive without offering anything new to the table.

This isn't to say that the comic itself is bad. It still has cool moments and impressive visuals, and the fights between the heroes and the monsters of the Upside Down are a treat to behold:

The levels of detail put into these images is impressive, and it's neat seeing each member of the Party take up weapons to deliver damage to the Mind Flayer and his monsters.

On top of that, there were elements in the comic that (whether intentional or not) tie into the show and leave a lot to chew on.

For example, the whole fight against Baxter Stockman's forces and the Mind Flayer gives an idea of what we might see in Season 5. Whether it's the main characters dealing with Colonel Sullivan (who's still set on capturing El) or Vecna's impending invasion.

Even Baxter Stockman and his ambush of the heroes reminds me of Colonel Sullivan and the soldiers under his command from S4:

There's also Will's description of the Upside Down being worldwide and how the dimension isn't just limited to Hawkins (which is something S4 also confirmed):

There's also the Turtles speculating that El's powers are tied to the Upside Down, which is something I've discussed in my reviews (specifically Six and Suspicious Minds):

Additionally, the comic introduces the idea that there are other dimensions out there besides the Upside Down that can be traveled to.

While I doubt the Utroms (i.e. the alien brains) that the Mind Flayer possesses will be making an appearance in season 5 (or the TMNTs for that matter), the idea of multiple dimensions is something the Duffer Brothers could explore in the final season. It could also give more detail about what the Upside Down is, and whether the Mind Flayer really was just black particles with no conscious that Vecna formed into his avatar, or it was a multi-dimensional conqueror (as I've seen speculated by parts of this fandom) and it was simply dormant until Vecna woke it up and started collaborating with it:

But like I said, this is all speculation.

Overall, my feelings about this comic are mixed: On its own, it's a decent read and has plenty of cool moments and creative imagery. However, when you look closely at the story and how it's supposed to tie into the Stranger Things universe.........it starts falling apart. I think fans will enjoy this crossover for the sheer entertainment of it, but I seriously doubt this is going to be counted as canon.

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talenlee · 2 months

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3e: The Love Potion

We’re all kind of on the page that ‘love potions’ in stories are probably bad, right?

Those things that you could buy in 3e as a cheap, disposable magical item?

It’s one of those tropes from history that people used pretty freely up until like, even until 2013. Gravity Falls featured an episode about a character using a love potion, and then realising it was a foolish plan and going to undo it, only to find that, y’know, maybe it was an okay idea after all. And that was Gravity Falls, a cartoon I like. Shock! Horror! And that’s a bad trope and all!

Love potions show up in stories all over the place, and that makes them an iconic trope and I feel like they go through a sort of life cycle. In their oldest appearances — as I remember and are filtered through the mind of a boy like me — the love potion is a solution to a problem. Then, as things get a little more protestant, a little more puritanical, love potions tend to be set up in the first part of the story, and then developed and dismissed in the second part. Love potions are a thing you think will solve your problems, then you find they don’t.

There are a lot of reasons they can fail. They can fail because you find out that the person you love-potioned, you don’t actually want them in love with you. They can fail because you find out that the potion doesn’t make them love you the way that you imagined. They can fail just because love potions aren’t real but now you have to consider what it meant that you tried. They can fail because they have to destroy the way the person you were interested in order to work, somehow. And of course sometimes they can fail because you mess up their application like spilling it on a bird or something.

Lots of different ways that ‘the love potion’ is a setup that gets subverted. In fact, so much so that, especially in reset-heavy pulp media like sitcoms and weekly dramas, love potions fit the mould really conveniently. The subversion means that the characters undo the love potion by the end, and that’s that. It’s a tidy little plot loop, and the form it’s poured into handles it just fine. Makes sense.

Why can ya buy ’em?

Look, 3rd edition was a hungry beast. It needed content, content, content and a lot of what it needed never made sense to me. I did not think I needed as many versions of ‘human, but ugly and weird’ as the game books provided me. I never needed the flying mount rules, or the keep rules. They were nice, ostensibly but they weren’t useful, because they weren’t focused on the game played by players and instead on a sort of systemitising the world. This is a reasonable thing for a system to do when it wants to do it, I’m not criticising them for the choice, but that the choice put the way D&D 3E was built at odds with the way I expected to play it.

You’d see this throughout supplements, in Dragon Magazines and soft cover splatbooks; sometimes there was a cool idea that the game could do and that cool idea ran headlong into the system’s design. A gladiatorial campaign? Cool idea, here are maps and opponents. Oh, the system isn’t designed to make one-on-one fights very interesting for the uninvolved parties and dying represents an immense debt? Hm, sounds like the real thing this system needs is loans and banking. Oh wait, but if you’re doing gladiatorial fighs, how do you get loot from enemies? You can’t loot the bodies, that belongs to their stable! There’s got to be a payment system!

And thus we return to the love potion. The love potion was in the Dungeon Master’s Guide (and SRD, even now!) because it’s an obvious trope, the item works in a simple, easily explained way, and it fills some inches in the book that needs so, so many inches filled. The item is built by a formula, it works to a rule and it kind of rests on a leyline of things D&D 3e doesn’t do very well.

First of all, the item gives a save. Well it has to right, because otherwise it’d be overpowered. But saving throws aren’t like, narratively coherent things. They’re there to defend you from attacks, but ostensibly, they’re there to represent how well your body resists things changing it (which was why you can resist healing spells and, in some cases, are called upon to do so, which is, yes, dumb). Don’t worry, though, the DC is really low: Only a DC 14. Which means an ordinary human with nothing heroic going on has about a 30% chance to ignore it and it lasts for 1d3 hours.

Thus we position the elixir of love perfectly badly. It’s a magic item that an adventurer can buy in bulk, that they never would care about, that represents life-deforming mind control, but not for very long and not very well. It promises what a love potion in a story is, but delivers instead a very crap charm spell, which is the closest thing it can approximate to love because the game system wants to try and systemitise love without dealing with how incredibly overpowered love is. There’s no category of ‘minor effect’ or ‘story beat’ for magical items, which need to be built to instead, operate the way adventurers expect adventurers to work.

The Elixir of Love doesn’t actually represent anything particularly heinous. Nothing out of type. It’s a love potion, but because it sucks it’s not that bad, and nobody would use it, except because it sucks, and that it sucks isn’t because of the story needs but because of the way the mechanics of the system handle items. It’s the same wonky stuff that permeates 3e. Systems aren’t immune to this. My favourite system isn’t immune to this kind of thing!

Still pretty funny way to waste a year’s wages for a normal person.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

#DnD 3e #Dungeons &amp; Dragons #Games

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theowritesfiction · 2 months

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How’s it going @theowritesfiction ?

So I saw one of your Baldurs Gate 3 post on my dash recently and it got me thinking about D&D and Azutara. Your being are one of the Azutara trinity with @juniperhillpatient and @itspronouncedjulia and all ;) it got me to thinking… of a potential combination of the two. Which gave me an idea that I wished to bring to your attention.

In the early 1980’s there was kids cartoon more simply known as “Dungeons and Dragons”. The show itself was hosted by CBS.

The basic plot of the show was that a group of school friends were hanging out at an amusement park together. When they were at one ride, the group was hit with some sort of mystical energy and found themselves transported to another world. That of course being Dungeons and Dragons. The group have to go on adventures together while on a journey to discover a way back home to the real world.

Which got me to think about a possible ATLA version of this. Where the characters everyone knows and loves are transported to a similar new world.

I can see two ways for an ATLA adaptation. One that’s more canon minded. With the Gaang+dangerous ladies+whichever other characters are taken from the “Avatar” world and placed into this new one. Probably at some point in book 2 or early book 3. With Yue being taken out of the spirit world, and given corporeality again.

Or in a modern Au, the characters are pulled from somewhere in placed into a fantastical world of monsters and magic. Through everyone, would have to grapple with this new world, and their own interpersonal issues.

And of course, with an Azutara romance. Either an enemies to lovers stint with the “canon world” version. While the modern Au may be a rivals to lovers stint.

Let me know now what you think?

Hey, thanks for the question, @745voiceofthepeople!

Of course, considering my love for both franchises, I have already been thinking about the ideas to combine ATLA with BG3, and actually, it would be ridiculously easy to set up.

The main antagonists of BG3 are illithid or the mind flayers. Their ships, the Nautiloids, are capable of making planar jumps, which the mind flayers use to enslave whole new species and make them their thralls. It would be the easiest scenario to execute to have a fleet of Nautiloids suddenly pop into the ATLA world and abduct whichever characters we want to send on this adventure into the world of Baldur's Gate.

Still, I'm not sure if it's a story I will ever write. I just love the characters of BG3 too much to replace them with equally beloved ATLA cast. Could both casts of characters coexist? Maybe, but I'm a bit intimidated by working with such a huge cast.

Basically, I have a very clear idea on how to get the characters from the world of ATLA to Faerun, but I have no idea on how the story could take shape after that. Maybe one day I'll come up with something, who knows. :)

Thank you for asking!

#ask answered #baldur's gate 3 #atla

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eternalglitch · 1 year

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Hey! Loving this story so much. Can’t wait for the next episode and the movie version of lfls. Question: any other fandom you are a big fan of beside rottmnt?

Yeah, I mentioned some of these yesterday, actually!! Not sure so much about specifically fandom because I (so far) haven't actively participated in larger online spaces for these, but I check the tumblr tags and definitely consume lots of content for these media that way.

I'm actually intentionally stepping away from (any ongoing/new) Western cartoons for a moment. Don't get me wrong, I adore the medium, but there has been such a pattern of show cancellations lately that I don't want to keep getting into things that are inevitably going to be cut short for budget reasons by large companies that don't care.

Last month I fell RIGHT into Dimension 20, which is a Dungeons and Dragons campaign show with comedians that I really adore. Like I started episode 1 uncertain if I would like it, and by the end of that episode I could feel the brainrot starting. I began with the newest season, Neverafter, which is a horror based season about fairy tale characters. Every single player is fun and the DM, Brennan, is incredible at storytelling. I'm trying my hand at DMing soon, and it seems fun!

I'm also really into The Murderbot Diaries, which is a book series I wish I had written myself because it's just so good. It's a book series about not knowing how to find what you want to do with your life or who you want to be, as well as how important it is to form connections anyways. (Plus how capitalism is the enemy lmao) I also adore non-human protagonists struggling to understand very human emotions. Literally could not recommend a book more.

And lastly I've looped back around to replaying Hollow Knight. It's a video game with REALLY charming art and atmospheric storytelling, and although it's gameplay can be challenging there's patterns that make it all feel satisfying and manageable.

#glitch answers

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thals-gr27 · 2 months

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Thank you for tagging me, @princesskatherinie!

Last song I listened to (currently listening to 😂): "burn it down" by Against the Current

Favorite Color: 🩵 or 💜

Last film/show I watched: The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting

Sweet, spicy, or savory: spicy

Relationship status: Taken by my girlfriends 🥰🩵

Current obsession: Young Justice (cartoon) and Dungeons & Dragons

Last book I read: "A Grim and Sunken Vow" from "The Hollow Star Saga" by Ashley Shuttleworth

Tags: @the-queenbrat @dragon-stoned-butch @sapphicsstars @lead-paint-girliepop @nsfwcarpetmuncher @mommyemmy23 @amy-in-hell

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spinnychaircirclecasting · 4 months

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5 & 12 for the ask game!

5. TV shows that cheer me up

My Little Pony (G4), Dungeons and Dragons cartoon from the 80s, and What We Do In The Shadows are all good comfort shows for me (though I'm not finished with wwdits yet so no spoilers pls <3)

12. If you could make a candle that smelt like anything, what would you pick?

This is a hard one, and probably any answer I pick already exists. But some of my favorite smells are: patchouli, leather, campfires, incense, peppercorns, cumin, and really old books.

#spinnychaircirclecasting #ask #ask game #answered

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neurotten-creature · 10 months

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Hi! My name is Sibbe or Sib for short (they/them) and I’m a 22 year old dutchie looking for some mutuals

I came back to tumblr to experience the submersible drama here. Deleted my old account a while back because some terfs started interacting with my page. Lets hope that doesn’t happen again

Shows that I love: it’s always sunny in philadelphia, the office, house of the dragon, the last of us, squid game, derry girls, the good place, the boys, community, buffy the vampire slayer, what we do in the shadows, scrubs, arrested development

Cartoons that I love: daria, adventure time, avatar the last airbender, archer, bojack horseman, king of the hill, total drama, bob’s burgers, craig of the creek, regular show, ten year old tom

Other stuff that i might enjoy or talk/blog about: weed!, movies!, baking, sewing, embroidery, archery, dungeons and dragons, a song of ice and fire, cats, bouldering and climbing, cryptidcore, librariancore, cottage core, comfy academia, knitting, building furniture / woodworking, bracelet braiding, books (mostly dystopians or fantasy), or just any old silly little meme that makes me giggle.

If you are 18+ and interested in being friends/mutuals, please DM me :)

#looking for mutuals #mutuals #looking for friends

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agayprince · 2 years

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A Little About Me

Interests:

Books/Reading

Writing

Mythology/Fantasy

Superheroes

Psychology

Book Genres:

Gay YA Romance, YA Fantasy, YA Dystopian, YA Contemporary, Gay Romance/Erotica

Fandoms:

Anime:

All Saints Street, Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE!, Delicious in Dungeons (Dungeon Meshi), Digimon, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Given, K Project, Kemono Michi: Rise Up, My Hero Academia, One Punch Man, Princess Jellyfish, RWBY, Sailor Moon, Seraph of the End, Seven Deadly Sins, Sirius the Jaeger, Spy x Family, The God of Highschool, The Rising of the Shield Hero, Tiger & Bunny, Yuri on Ice

Books:

Adventures of Sik Aziz, Alex Rider, Arc of a Scythe, Carry On, Chronicles of Nick, Chronicles of the Avatar, Circe, Creekwood Series, Dragon's Reign, Fablehaven, Gentleman's Club, Good Omens, Grishaverse, In Deeper Waters, In the Lives of Puppets, Iron Widow, London Calling, Lord of the Rings, Lorien Legacies, Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Outlaw Saints, Pandava Series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Portrait of a Thief, Red Rising, Red White & Royal Blue, Skandar, So This is Ever After, Spell Bound, The Extraordinaries, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice & Virtue, The Heir Chronicles, The Heroes of Olympus, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Kane Chronicles, The Paper Magician, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, The Seven Realms, The Shattered Realms, The Song of Achilles, The Storm Runner, The Sunbearer Trials, The Trials of Apollo, Tristan Strong, Under the Whispering Door, Zachary Ying

Cartoons:

Adventure Time, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ben 10, Ben 10: Alien Force, Captain Planet, Carmen Sandiego, Code Lyoki, Codename: Kids Next Door, Danny Phantom, Fionna & Cake, Gargoyles, Infinity Train, Jackie Chan Adventures, Johnny Quest, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, King of the Hill, Krypto the Superdog, Legend of the Dragon, Legion of Superheroes, Loonatics Unleashed, Martin Mystery, Maya and the Three, Milo Murphy's Law, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, My Adventures with Superman, Over the Garden Wall, Owl House, Phineas and Ferb, Q-Force, Scooby-Doo, She-Ra and The Princesses of Power, Teen Titans, The Dragon Prince, Thundercats, Tiny Toon Adventures, Totally Spies, W.I.T.C.H., Winx Club, Wolverine and the X-Men, X-Men: Evolution, X-Men: The Animated Series, Xiaolin Showdown, Young Justice, Yu-Gi-Oh!

Comics/Graphic Novels:

Check Please, Chef's Kiss, DC, Heartstopper, Kill 6 Billion Demons, Marvel

Movies:

Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, Alex Strangelove, Barbie, Charlie's Angels, Disney, Dreamworks, Edge of Tomorrow, Ghibli, Hoot, I Am Number Four, Inception, Night at the Museum, Nimona, Pixar, Promare, Sherlock Holmes (2009 & 2011), Love Simon, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Sky High, Star Wars, The Greatest Showman, The Way He Looks

Podcasts

Dragon's Reign, Ologies, The Adventure Zone, The Two Princes

TV Shows:

BBC's Merlin BBC's Sherlock, Good Witch, Julie and the Phantoms, Leverage ,Leverage: Redemption, Lost Girl, Love Victor, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Monk, Power Rangers, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, SKAM, SKAM: France, Star Trek, Supergirl, The Mandolorian, The Office, Umbrella Academy, Wonder Woman

Video Games:

Among Us, Coming Out On Top, Deep Rock Galactic, Dream Daddy, Hades, Human Fall Flat, It Takes Two, Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Mario Kart, Minecraft, MTG Arena, Orcs Must Die! 2, Overcooked! 1& 2, SCP: Secret Laboratory, Smash Bros., Stardew Valley, Tabletop Simulator, Team Fortress 2, The Sims

Webcomics:

Boyfriends, Just us Fairies, Out of the Blue, The Legend of Genji

Webseries:

Dimension 20, Game Changers, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, SCP Confinement

Music Artists:

Big Time Rush, Clean Bandit, Lindsey Stirling, Little Mix, Miike Snow, Pentatonix, Qveen Herby, Todrick Hall, Years & Years

Superheroes :

Wonder Woman, Blue Beetle, Raven, Shazam, Captain America, Storm, Phoenix, Scarlet Witch, Iceman, Wiccan, Hulkling, Gambit

Favorites:

Boyfriend: NakedJustice

Colors: Black & Purple

Mammal: Bear & Meerkat

Bird: Peacock & Hummingbird

Mythological Creature: Phoenix

Season: Fall & Spring

Holiday: Christmas

Candy: Chocolate

Dessert: Cookies and Cake

Ice Cream: Mint Chocolate-Chip

Drink: Cream Soda, Sangria Soda, Horchata

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Updated On: 03/14/2024

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neapaulatan · 11 months

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Hi! What elements from books / shows / things you like are present in your WIPs? Can you trace each WIP back to their main inspiration source(s)? (hope the question makes sense, I'm lurking in inboxes trying to be more writeblr-active)

Ooooooh good question! Let’s seeeeee.

A lot of my inspiration comes from anime and cartoons like A:TLA and Gravity Falls (I’d list anime but there’s way too many I’ve been inspired by but InuYasha, FMA:B, DBZ, Sailor Moon for starters)

I’m also into lore and mythology. For instance, with my WIP graphic novel Where Demons Hide, I’m inspired by Fae lore, fairytales, and even Dungeons and Dragons. I would say for Near Death Experiences, I can’t remember the first inspiration but Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy was definitely one of them. My “new” (revamped more like) WIP comic, Cool and Hotshot, was first inspired waaaaay back when I was 5-6 yo and I was deeply into superheroes and DBZ (Hotshot had Goku’s hair originally). It’s still superhero inspired, but now it’s not from a 5yo lens. It’s more of A:TLA and MHA but with reluctance and everybody has an elemental power.

I hope I answered your question 😵‍💫 thanks for the ask !

#wips #comics #answered

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bylightofdawn · 1 year

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Dungeons & Dragons was hilarious and excellent, turn your brain off and just enjoy the show movie. I went in with semi-low expectations so maybe that's why it exceeded them so much. Lots of fun easter eggs and nods to fans of the tabletop system. I'll discuss some stuff below the cut but I am just gonna put myself on blast here but holy hades....Michelle Rodriguez's barbarian character? I know she was going to be hot because it's Michelle Rodriguez so it's just a given.

But she beefed up for this role and not to call myself out for my subby tendencies but I need a hot barbarian girlfriend who will pin my ass to the wall make me her bottom b*tch and or potentially crush my head between her mountainous thighs. Fuck me running. Hi yes, I am very, very gay for Holga.

Like, she was distracting and making me feel all sorts of ways.

Also, now to be the utterly ridiculous bi that I am, Regé-Jean Page was ALSO unbearably hot in this movie, especially when he was being super competent and just mopping the floor with fools. I never thought a paladin could be that hot. I don't know which god he's sworn to but they obviously imbued him with that smoldering hot holy warrior spiciness. When he cast smite on his sword I was done. Sir, you are already unfairly attractive, how dare you level up in sexiness somehow?

I also kinda high key love he was kinda coded maybe overly serious maybe could be read as autistic? Like I totally read him as autistic which is awesome if that's what they were going for.

Honestly? Everyone in this movie is pretty. Of course they all are.

After the movie, I ended up going to ulta, sorta mentally checked out and bought way too much stuff. So much so I'm like....I need to return some of this. So I guess I'm going back on Sunday. Some of it I thought was on sale but I guess I misread the ads.

And I stopped by the local Vietnamese place and got some pho which was....very good and I have a bahn mi sitting next to me that I should really eat but I'm kinda full from the pho because I always underestimate the portions you get at pho places. It's quite literally pho for days.

EDIT: Somehow I managed to eat that bahn mi but I legit might need to pass out now. I've had a piss poor appetite the past few days thanks to being stressed out and just in bad head space. So I've had like one meal a day the past two days and today I didn't eat at all. Because I was mainly busy. But by the time I got done with eating to say I was famished is an understatement. I think I just made up for the past three days of not eating.

I really need to edit Seeds but I think I might just pass out and go into a food coma instead.

SO MY MAJOR COMPLAINT. We went to the Underdark and didn't SEE A SINGLE DROW??? So my major knowledge of D&D comes from Forgotten Realms. I know the system, have watched some Crit Role. But I just I loved those books and Drizzt to DEATH growing up. And then they introduced Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxle and I was sunk.

I STILL buy a Forgotten Realms book if I know those two are going to be in it. They're like my trashy comfort characters. You will see a predictable pattern in my trashy comfort characters.

I knew I wasn't going to get Drizzt or Jarlaxle because they are FR characters but the moment they mentioned the Underdark I was still screaming in my seat mentally because I thought they'd bring the Drow in somehow.

And they didn't. And I was very, very sad.

Also? If I ever get a black cat somehow, I am naming her Guenhwyvar, that's how much of a FR nerd I am. And literally no one but .5 % of the population will get that reference. Also it's hard enough to get my vet to spell Genji's name right, can you imagine trying to get them to spell Guenhwyvar? FORGET ABOUT IT.

But, eh it's a minor bitch in the grand scheme of things. I was still so stoked to see/hear things like Icewnd Dale and the Spine on the map and Neverwinter and Waterdeep etc.

Also THEY HAD A CAMEO OF THE OLD D&D CARTOON CHARACTERS. SCREAM. I used to that that with my mom as a kid, that was one of those few stark childhood memories I have of watching D&D and Voltron with her.

There was a Mimic which made me squee and a gelatinous cube. Not super deep easter egg shit but enough to make me feel in on the jokes, you know? And freaking displacer beasts.

And some Dragonborn and Aarakocra! Ugh my nerdy heart is full of joy.

Suffice it to say, I loved it. I might go see it again though I also want to go see the Super Mario Movie and maybe John Wick 4. There are way too movies out I want to see.

#dungeons and dragons: honor among thieves #minor spoiler discussions of the movie but mainly just my screaming and squealing over random d&d stuff #hi yes I am a filthy bi and this movie made my ace ass feel stuff

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mermaidfantasy05 · 1 year

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Hello And Welcome To My Blog!!!!!

I'm MermaidFantasy and it's so nice to meet you!!!

Facts About Me:

I am 18 years old.

I am a Pisces (but you could probably already tell by the blog)

I LOVE mermaids (But you probably already guessed that by my blog's theme and username).

I love anything dealing with fantasy like, mermaids, superheroes, fairies, magic, witches, mythology, etc.

I also love books and reading in general.

I have a Shih Tzu.

And I am a huge Tom Holland fangirl (he is SO adorable!!!).

I still watch cartoons.

I like musicals and singing.

I love the color pink.

I love girly things (but I'm also a bit of a tomboy if that makes any sense).

My favorite movie is WALL●E.

I love food that is either cheesy or sweet.

I love video games.

I'm a Sonic fan.

I love RPGs (I haven't played Dungeons & Dragons, but I hope to someday).

I don't like horror (but ironically I own and have read a few horror books and am writing two horror stories).

I have arachnophobia (but will gladly watch Tom Holland's Spider-Man movies).

And I love magical girl shows.

Books I Have Read (And That I Can Remember Off The Top Of My Head)

The Fazbear Frights Series

The Wild Rescuers Series

The Land Of Stories Series

The Powers: Haven's Secret

Journal #3 (Gravity Falls)

The Magic Book Of Spells (Star vs The Forces Of Evil)

The Star Darlings Series (I've ordered the last three books in the series recently).

Mistress Of All Evil (Serena Valentino's Villians Series).

Mother Knows Best (Serena Valentino's Villans Series)

Forest Of Shadows (Frozen II)

The Silver Eyes Trilogy (FNAF)

The Tail Of Emily Windsnap (Emily Windsnap Series)

Emily Windsnap and the Monster From The Deep (Emily Windsnap Series)

Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children)

The Old Willis Place

And that's everything about me!!!! I hope you all enjoy my blog!!!

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anangelcalledinquisitor · 1 year

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Hmm...for the assumption about art game thingy majig. The only thing I can think of is that you those 80s cartoons with that very specific art style that like he man and that one dungeons and dragons show had. And you possibly also used lots of colouring books for those shows or redrew the scenes yourself and played with toys from the shows. Idk, that's the only thing I can think of

This is hysterical, because you aren't far off--I didn't watch the Dungeons and Dragons show or He-Man (I'm actually a little younger than that, I was born in 89), but I did love things like Pirates of Blackwater, Loony Toons, and Ghostbusters, which had interesting designs and themes and stuff, so that's fun. I did loooove coloring books a lot when I was younger, until someone had the gall to criticise that I wasn't using the right colors for things, and then I developed a very slight hand tremor so physical art has been difficult for a number of years, so digital art has been lots of fun. Unfortunately, I was second oldest of five kids with a single mom, so didn't get much in the way of toys from the stuff I watched, but books, good god I couldn't get enough of books <3

Thank you! That made me smile a lot!

#the inquisitor speaks #ask game

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snat-snailcat · 2 years

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TLDR: we gain more from being critical in our consumption and analysis of problematic media than we do throwing it away.

There’s already been essays written about it but I just am having one of those times where I feel I shouldn’t have to justify still being able to enjoy a media even if there are problematic elements. Just because a clearly bad take was made doesn’t mean I have to throw the whole book in the trash.

It feels harder and harder right now to be like “here is a thing I hyperfixated on for months/years and really care about” when I *know* that somewhere in the history of that thing is some racism. I know it, I acknowledge it, I learn to be better, and I move on still being able to hold these characters and stories close to me.

Need some sort of stamp that I can smack on things like “I know that this media has some Issues, I have come to terms with them, acknowledge them, and will still enjoy the parts of them that really mean something to me”.

I really like Dungeons and Dragons. I just do, I love Forgotten Realms for how vast a setting it is, and for the decades of world building and details that it has put into it. I know that there’s a history of the game and its lore having some Issues. Some pretty bad ones too. As someone who loves to plunder the (digital) pages of books from the older editions (AD&D 2e is my current baby), I see a lot of it. Some of it has been addressed and changed to be less racist in the years since, some of it has been retired or shuffled away altogether, but I trust myself in having a critical eye to see the parts of the game that aren’t as inclusive or thoughtful as they ought to be, and I change them for my games.

I love drow. I’ve always been fascinated by the ideas of underground worlds since I was a kid, reading books like City of Ember and writing Warriors Cats fics about sprawling underground mazes. I love the aesthetic of caves and tunnels, of luminescence and strange fungi. And I love reading War of the Spider Queen, a series of nothing but drow and their betrayals. It’s far from unproblematic, but it’s a study in magnificent bastards, in characters who are so far from being moral paragons that they stand out. And from the moment I first read of her, I love Eilistraee. It’s that same story over and over again, about enduring all that is horrid and still choosing to be kind, to be better than those before you. But I also will not deny that in these books, especially the older ones, there is racism. There’s white authors depicting struggles far from their own with clear analogies to real world people.

I enjoyed a lot of shows, especially in grade school; Steven Universe comes to mind. And some issues do exist with this media, but at the same time, I enjoyed it. It did things that had never been done before for a network cartoon for children. Are there much better shows now that have similar, if not better representation? Yes! Absolutely. But someone had to walk so that others could run.

We learn nothing from tearing down the world behind us as we all move forward. It’s important to have it there to see how far we’ve come.

Part of being a good consumer of media is being able to identify that, take it, and reflect on it. What is being said? What do you believe the author’s point was in trying to include this? What were the common views/rhetoric at the time this was written? Was there intention to cause harm by this, and if yes, how can that intention appear in other places? What can we learn from this in what not to do, and what we can do to fight against people like this in our world today?

I’m not saying to ignore the issues that many pieces of media have, but to be able to use those faults and flaws to better yourself. When it comes to a media as vast as TTRPGs, it’s easiest to rewrite and disregard issues, because it becomes *your* world, your rules, and your place to exist.

There’s no easy way around it. Hate still exists, there are still terrible people out there, a lot of which we should not be supporting. But there are also people who make mistakes, who mess up, who are still learning. And there are ways we can learn from those before us, or those we watch.

It’s all about how we work with what we have.

#media analysis #rant #problematic media #i didn't proofread this #please send me a message about issues before leaving a very long or harsh comment #it's a tricky issue to go about #this was partially brought about by the Hadonzee errata from spelljammer 5e #I agree that it was bad and needed change #but I don't believe in boycotting WOtC over this #i believe that people can get better #and if they dont #there won't be a place for them much longer

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