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leapdayowo · 7 months
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Over the Garden Wall :3
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I think I did otgw art forever ago once, and I’ve made a few attempts over the years, but I finally did it! It’s them! :D and just in time for autumn and spooky season!
oh also here is the painting in direct sunlight (it’s not the right vibe but I like sharing it anyway):
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nordsea-horizons · 1 month
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🍃river walk🌱
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juncopandi · 1 year
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Playing through FFXIV for the first time and just...laughing at every cutscene where my poor WoL tries to be threatening. bb girl I'm so sorry
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accirax · 4 months
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Through the magic of an AU, Xander, Min, and Teruko make it through the night, avoid a Class Trial, and participate in the first motive alongside everyone else. Except, this time, the first motive is... a gift exhange?
(basically, if it wasn't clear, i'm drawing the drdt characters doing a secret santa exchange with each other, hopefully posting one interaction per day until christmas!)
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ratwithhands · 5 months
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I was listening to So Much (For) Stardust and accidentally had too many thoughts in one sitting so we have another AU concept. I don't have a solid name yet so I've just been calling Team Supernova AU.
Long story short:
Ghetsis freezes over Unova's major cities, taking most survivors hostage to join Team Plasma, and leaving several thousands dead from the frost
Emmet, Elesa, and others try fending off the Plasma Frigate in Nimbasa but ultimately lose with injuries (Emmet got frozen on his right side)
Emmet takes as many survivors as he can into the tunnels, later joining other groups to his and forming Team Supernova in resistance to Team Plasma
Ingo went missing about a year prior to all of this, so Emmet has already spent a lot of time alone. The only pokemon he has left is Ingo's Chandelure, as the rest did not survive the invasion. He's generally very cold and shut off emotionally as a result, and doesn't really express himself like he used to.
I'll drop more details later, right now the AU in early concept stages so it's essentially a bundle of "what would this be like" and "what if this happened" and "this could be cool". If I have time I'll drop some of the other uniform designs later. Anyways have a good night, see ya.
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penandinkprincess · 1 year
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okay but geralt tries the “invade your personal space” intimidation technique one (1) time bc jaskier’s response is to suddenly get VERY excited and move even closer 
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whump-or-whatever · 1 year
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I’m all for a Whumpee who is super defiant and confident right up until Whumper finally approaches them fully and they realize just how big Whumper is. Whumper walks up close to them and Whumpee slowly raises their eyes, which get wider and wider the further they have to crane their neck. They end up having to look nearly straight up just to meet Whumper’s gaze. And Whumper just smirks as Whumpee swallows roughly and looks away nervously.
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rawliverandgoronspice · 3 months
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Alright I think I’ve sent a ask in before and you answered it, I’m not sure if I’m just repeating myself but if I am feel free to ignore!
Alright I wanted to talk about changes in the gerudo culture, now naturally culture norms will change and fade as time goes on. But with the gerudo I can’t help but feel that they were forced to change much of their culture just to appease the other races.
Like why did they stop training Molduga? Why did they change their style to be more feminine etc.
Personally I feel like they were forced to change their culture so they wouldn’t get attacked. Why? Well example the sheikah, the sheikah are a tribe very close to the royal family. They will take out anyone who is a threat to the royal family, correct? Well who used to actively oppose the royal family, the gerudo.
I believe the sheikah still have a prejudiced against the gerudo because, you cannot find a single gerudo in kakariko village. You can find gerudo npcs outside the village thought, on the dangerous rode. Wouldn’t it be easier and safer for them to just cut through kakariko village? Unless there was still bad blood
I’m sorry to bother with my my insane ramblings I just wanted to share and I felt this place appropriate to share my thoughts.
Thank you for reading and thank you and have a nice night/morning/afternoon
Hey, thanks for the ask!
I mean, regardless of what actually did happen in canon, if anything did, I have to say that BotW, and then TotK's internal narrative regarding the gerudos feels rather worrying to me --for several reasons, some of which you do mention here.
The gerudos, by virtue of having the strongest culture that differs from hylians, is the one that is also the most dynamic in these games' shared reality (so TotK's mythical past, BotW, and then TotK modern era), the one that is the most malleable and ongoing internal change.
The first time we see the gerudos, historically, they have a certain political structure that seems to rely on kinghood, have certain skills related to war (the molduga situation), and even have fashion sensitivities that are relatively different to modern era's gerudos (the mohawk, etc, and I Will Not mention the ear situation for the inconsistent mess that it is). Then, the whole shenanigans with Rauru happen, we see the Sage of Lightning having a fashion sense that feels closer to what we know, and we get to see active collaboration happening.
Fast-forward hundreds-to-thousands of years later: not only are gerudos vassal to Hyrule pre-Calamity, but, while their town is still closed behind walls, the gerudos have a strong cultural focus on seeking (mostly) hylian husbands. We get to hear about the younger generations pushing against the strong rules keeping the city closed, and that the walls aren't as closed as they used to be.
In TotK, not only is the actual language evolving (so even if old hylian seems to have been a thing, the speed of language evolving is to be noted imo), but we see clear examples of the ancestral rules being challenged to the point of near annihilation. By the time we leave the gerudos behind, two hylian men have snuck inside the walls/forced their presence upon them, and we have heard of at least another group who have been working for years to make them bend the rules for their sake. Zelda came around and influenced their war techniques, and even their ancient legends get recontextualized as involving hylian men with the Eight Heroin, or as monstrously evil and something to seek forgiveness for in the case of Ganondorf. Subtextually, I'd argue we are assisting to a culture being assimilated in real time. It might be portrayed as a good thing, as old, useless or even arguably bigoted traditions being cast aside, but I still have to insist that while gerudos are yielding their cultural identity under (mostly) hylian pressures, hylians spend the *entire game* rediscovering and reinforcing their own culture and pushing forward a cultural heritage that is thousand of years old --even reinjecting lost elements of its roots into its prosperous future.
And, yeah. It's kind of worth noting at least.
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emeryleewho · 6 months
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It's always nice when you write a thing and someone goes "Wow, I really needed this! Thanks!"
Like I don't think people realize how rare the "this was great!" comments are compared to the "you're everything wrong with the world for having said something I didn't like" comments are. Especially now that some people consider me a "big name author", the number of positive comments I get is about the same as when I used to self pub, but the mean ones are a lot more frequent a lot meaner. Even just a "this made me happy :)" comment can really lift my spirits when I get them!
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pastrypuppy · 1 year
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Fic meta post! I’m going to rant a bit about characters escaping the narrative, a concept @moorishflower uses masterfully in Maybe Sprout Wings. This is one of several mini essays I’m sketching out because I just cannot contain myself.
(Fic rec time: Maybe Sprout Wings is a novel-length Sandman fan work built around layered references to western literature, including the Romantic fairy tale genre, Arthurian legend, and the Odyssey. This story works effectively as a standalone novel and can be enjoyed and understood with little or no knowledge of Sandman canon. Lots of fic spoilers to follow.)
Hob as an author figure in Maybe Sprout Wings
In this post the author mentions a critical shift in the narrative where Hob begins speaking like an author rather than speaking like a character. He’s demonstrated that potential for much of Maybe Sprout Wings, actively changing bits of the setting to suit his quest in a way most other characters cannot. At the critical shift, however, he goes from being a knight in a tragic Arthurian Romance to something else. I’m going to focus on chapters 9-11 here.
The major conflict of Maybe Sprout Wings is between Dream and Hob about what kind of story they’re in. Dream is determined that his story is a tragedy, and for a long time, he’s been the only author figure in his own life. As a creature literally made of stories and living in a dream dimension, his opinion of his own story changes the dreaming-world around him and tends to suck in the people who live there. Hob has been pretty clearly acting as a knight for much of the narrative, including wearing armor, riding a war-horse across fantasy realms and into battle with monsters, and being recognized and named as a knight by multiple other people. What happens when the knight in a tragic tale loves the king? They get separated, obviously. A knight in a tragic tale either dies with the king or attends the funeral of the king to weep and give great speeches and look really aesthetic in gilded illustrations. Remember, Dream is determined that this story is a tragedy.
During the critical shift I want to talk about, Hob is perched on his love’s castle steps in a magical sleep. At this point he is wearing armor and has been recently referred to as Sir Hob by various side characters. A knight getting stuck in magic sleep is the sort of thing that usually requires true love’s kiss or some other drama in a Romance. Instead Hob simply wakes up when Lucienne invites him into the castle. There’s no drama, no battle, no resolution of the knight’s quest. The primary conflict isn’t solved yet, but Hob wakes up and walks into the castle anyway.
I think the shift from character to author was already in progress before this because of how disrespectfully he speaks to Dream when he first arrives at the castle. He literally tells the gate guardians: “We’re all caught up in the story […u]ntil the moment we aren’t. […] You can close the book.” He had also been hesitant to put his knight’s armor back on before going to the castle in the first place, where he then gets literally stuck in a dramatic fairy tale motif. Lucienne helps move things along by offering an alternative and Hob accepts, moving farther out of his tragic knight role. Hob tells Lucienne not to call him Sir, and makes a self-deprecating comment about how he’s been too formal with Dream. He’s correctly identified the tragic-knight-narrative as part of the problem and wants no part in it. It is perhaps significant that Lucienne assists in Hob taking ownership of his author role. Perhaps she in particular is suited for this, not only because of her long relationship with Dream as his advisor, but also because a librarian might be expected to have some special appreciation for authors (Dream and Hob, in this case).
Hob, critically, with his ability to change the story, disagrees with the tragedy narrative and makes choices based on that. Instead of continuing to act like the character role placed before him, he goes to the library and looks for ideas, like an author looking for ideas about where their story can go next. Hob even discusses the narrative problems with an outside observer (Lucienne), a common way for authors to work through difficult sections. Ironically, Dream, the Prince of Stories, is so good at telling stories that he has trapped himself in his own tragedy narrative. His expectation became a self-fulfilling prophecy, dragging in everyone around him.* This is why it’s so important that Hob gradually extracts himself from Dream’s tragedy narrative and starts acting as an author instead.
A knight is stuck in his tragedy, but an author (Hob) can flip forward in the manuscript their fellow author (Dream) just handed them and be like ‘I see where this is going. Are you seriously going to kill your main character at the end? Your character who has agency? No offense but you need better logic before I'll believe the king or the knight has to die. You can do better.’ Hob’s an author figure, not just a knight, so he gets to hand back the manuscript of the story he’s in. He does this by speaking disrespectfully, by going where he is told not to go, by taking offered help that don’t match the tragedy genre. In a few more chapters he literally, physically leaves this section of the narrative by exiting the Dreaming to further change the story.
The other residents of the Dreaming are also susceptible to Hob’s role as an author: that is, to his ability to disrupt Dream’s dominant narrative. After Hob enters the castle and Dream has been missing for a while, the throne room dramatically develops visible damage because of Dream’s absence. A group of dreams at gathers to play a stock tragedy role here, consistent with Dream’s own image of himself as a tragically noble kind. The dreams see the damage, correctly conclude it’s because of Dream’s absence, and almost immediately begin to play the role of panicking and faithless courtiers, leaping to the conclusion that Dream has abandoned them. Despite his strong tendency towards drama, Dream generally acts to put his kingdom ahead of his own wants and needs, so their response is rather unfair. Hob intervenes in their panic spiral to point this out, and it works!
Dream left behind a narrative of himself as a tragically misunderstood figure but Hob shuts that right down. Considering the canon sequence of events, where the dreams’ doubt worsens and many of them abandon their posts, there is no reason to think they would have listened to just anyone. However, Hob is an author figure now, so he is able to argue with them not as a peer, but from his unique narrative role.
yeah I just. this really goes with my much longer essay about Hob as Odysseus and Greek adventure epic vs. Greek tragedy themes but I need to stop editing this before it ends up being 10k words <3
#uhhh#dreamling#metacommentary#fic meta#maybe sprout wings#* holyyyy no wonder he’s literally Scylla in that one part. dragging people down with him indeed#when in doubt go to the library and make a battle plan tbh#I wrote a draft of this last month and then intimidated myself out of editing it#Dream Death Lucienne and most of the dreaming probably: youre not supposed to be able to do that#Hob from the first chapter: hold my beer#the tree believed in him and so did the audience which if you REALLY think about fanfiction is literally exactly why this story exists#to work out differently from Sandman canon#this story being fanfiction is so astoundingly extremely thematically appropriate. literally no way to write a story like this without#referring to another complete work.#[insert Everything is Fanfiction rant here]#am I going to reread this fic? so that I can finish writing an essay about how it references greek tragedy themes and prevents a greek#tragedy by being the Odyssey instead? highly likely#I just reread the Starless Sea which I love and hate in equal measure in large part because it fails to do something this fic does better:#maybe sprout wings gives me (1) slightly fairy tale relationship logic BUT the romantic interests interact and have growth#(2) a clear narrative framework and end goal for the characters and (3) a consistent fairy-tale like writing style#to override any possible impression that one character might be going harder than expected for a romantic interest they don’t know well.#there’s fairy tale logic and then there’s giving your story a strong enough foundation that it can support payoff at the end.#these things are not mutually exclusive#if you have read starless sea you KNOW what im talking about. shaking that novel upside down waiting for the rest of the missing#character interactions to fall out#- getting tired of shaking that novel and reading maybe sprout wings again instead#see I have so many thoughts I wrote an entire additional#minor tag essay#kula speaks#arthurian legend
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2demon2slayer · 8 months
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Which Demon Slayer, personality wise, scares/intimidates you the most?
For me Shinobu honestly scares me, like probably a-lot at times.
love shinobu, i relate to her so much. i too am a person who tries to be polite but is constantly bursting with rage
you know it's pretty hard for me to feel particularly frightened of any of the demon slayer characters because of how goofy they are in my head. most of the hashira, for example, land somewhere in between normal and too campy for me to take seriously. and most of the characters who aren't hashira are kind of . inept. and thus lack the intimidating factor.
if i had to pick one, i might go with himejima? because while the uh . dramatics are pretty hard to take seriously, something about him being so stalwart in his beliefs can be a little much. like… when tanjirou's first being introduced to the hashira and he's pleading his case, i remember thinking that himejima might take his side because to me he seemed … conflicted or something
and so when himejima was not only all for killing nezuko but also brought up putting tanjirou out of his misery??? i remember feeling a brief moment of terror in sympathy for tanjirou.
he turned out to be a pretty cool guy but it was still weird for a while lol
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pierswife · 6 months
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What if pokemanda favored a different typing from steel/water, a la the pokemiku series?
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"I've always been super super fond of Ice Types, actually! The Glaceon is Eve, Froslass is Eir, and Beartic is Jeralt! Don't mind Jeralt too much. He doesn't bite! ... much."
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wakebymoonsleepbysun · 6 months
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Yeah I'm a Papyrus liker too.
Based on a dream I had this morning. I was out shopping with Sans and had a coughing fit (because I was having a coughing fit IRL which seems to happen most mornings lately) and he said something along the lines of "Whelp let's get you home to Papyrus" and then this happened.
Papyrus made me a cup of soup and cuddled with me on the couch with a huge blanket. It was very sweet but possibly not a realistic expectation for Papyrus, hehe. Maybe in this universe he's had more practice? :P
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boghermit · 5 months
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I'm thinking comics might be a good gateway into getting better at art and composition but Where Do I Even Start
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redd956 · 2 years
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Whump Ideas: Oversized Whumpees
Lmao! I just moved into my college dorms !!! Might start taking and finishing requests (No nsfw, I’m finicky on whether or not I’ll do pet whump, not a gore fan)
Another whumpee archetype is the oversized whumpee, generally tall and more muscular whumpees. (Perhaps monster whumpees that are just big bois and gorls) I surprisingly don’t see these as often in writing as I initially expected. Here are some I ideas I’ve conjured for this archetype.
The Big Scaredy
- An intimidating Whumpee at first glance
- A big anxious push over
- Perhaps once a terrifying force of nature, reduced to acting much smaller than themselves
- Greatest Hugger
There’s Always  A Bigger Fish
- These whumpees are viewed as the more massive and sturdy ones
- Caretaker is shocked to find how someone like them could be reduced to anything, and no one knows how to deal with them
- Their Whumper is somehow bigger than them
- Tends to be ashamed of their “lack” of strength, and blames themselves
- Caretaker is even more terrified at the image of who could be Whumpee’s Whumper
Ashamed of their Whumper
- Their whumper obviously wasn’t there size... Bonus: Whumper is smaller than the average person
- Sometimes stoic
- Whumpee entirely blames themselves, and cannot be convinced otherwise
- Though their Whumper is small, the scars/emotional baggage they bear are surprisingly big
- Shame determines their every action
Big and Strong
- Hiding their injuries and ailments type
-Stoicism
- Can also be the leader
- Refuse to show any sign of weakness, but is increasingly reaching their breaking point
- Likely still being Whumped
- Harsh towards other Whumpees (especially ones their size)
- Why won’t they fight Whumper? Did they already reduce Whumper to ashes?
Traits I love
- Intimidating Scars
- Smol Caretaker vs. Large Whumpee
- Absolute Gym Bro Personality
- Stoic and Big
- Whumpee carrying themselves as if they’re smaller; hunched in posture, enclosed body languages, bowing, crouching, kneeling
- Whumpee terrified that they’re going to hurt Caretaker with even the lightest touch
- Caretaker starting out hateful or frightened of Whumpee
- The big dog trope (laying their body weight on caretaker)
Bonus: Feral Force of Nature
- Usually non-human and/or monstrous
- Sometimes associated with pet whump
- A danger to all those around them
- Will attack caretaker/trying to actively thwart caretaker
- Sharp teeth & claws
- Requires a team to handle
- Caretaker is even more hateful and frightened of Whumpee; constantly trying to get themselves out of the situation
- Gear up and armed Caretaker
- Usually requires force, restraints, or triggers to contain
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recitedemise · 5 months
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𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲. From his relationship with Mystra to his great mass of acquaintances, most have sidelined him to what he's worth. However, it's seldom for his character or the man that he is, and rather, instead, for what he has to offer. Gale, as Mystra knows, is a brilliant, razor-sharp mind. The best of the best, he's proclaimed several times. She had liked his talent, watched as he studied with obsessive passion, and knowing his fondness for all things Weave, saw a tireless, rampant, and immovable love. She wanted that loyalty. She was greedy for it. And knowing Gale nursed an appetite for awesome power, she, too, longed to keep him beneath her thumb. After all, this goddess, familiar with her ambitious wizards (see: Karsus), had no intention of sharing her arcane domain. Magic's her realm, not anyone else's, and though Gale was astonishing, half a diamond in the rough, she saw him less as promise and more subservience. That was what she saw. That was what he gave. And Mystra, fed full with it, didn't care who he was, didn't care who he could be, and damned who he's become. He's seldom been cared for, his one love--his greatest love!--having been a ruse, but being Mystra's favorite was still a badge of honor... and a title, of course, that was very known. In other words, the great Gale of Waterdeep was a means to an end. Friends and companionship were as genuine as Mystra for how better to meet her than to win the favor of her Chosen? This ambitious, skillful man was a golden ticket.
Very few people have asked to Gale Dekarios. Not many, to be honest, has cared to see him for who he really is, and with his heart embroidered right on his sleeve, one can't help but to think that a travesty.
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