#all my fantasy skyjacks

[griancraft]

♡ ͎. ｡˚ ➶ Peregrine/Grian Griancraft ♡ ͎. ｡˚ ➶

He/she, please do not use they/them for me!

Japanese-Canadian

Anthropology major

Professionally recognized DID system

Our system name is maplewoods

Dating @old-pine-woods 🫂

Currently on Skyjacks episode: 34

Help me get out of my abusive home situation

If I like your art and don’t reblog it is in the queue

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Hello! My name is Peregrine, but I also go by Grian sometimes on here. I am the host of our system and the one you’re most likely to see online here! I enjoy hermitcraft, Skyjacks, Bg3 (but really only Wyll Ravenguard his story is so so good), Band of Brothers, and TTRPG/fantasy stuff of all sorts. I am studying sociocultural anthropology with a hope to work in the anti-eugenics movement. I am an amateur (really amateur) at HTML website building on neocities.

A small disclaimer: I do my best to read the majority of recent literature I can find on DID. I’m not a source by any means at all, but I do know what im talking about. Diagnosis is dangerous in the current climate and im doing the best I can with the resources I have.

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[lorspolairepeluche]

@solipseismic wants me to submit myself to the mortifying ordeal yadda yadda i guess

Last song: actual last song is "call of the sky" by arne parrott, from campaign skyjacks. song stuck in head is the parody of "hail to the chief" that they sing in the m*a*s*h movie when trapper is named chief surgeon. HAIL TO THE CHIEF HE'S THE KING OF ALL THE SURGEONS,

Favourite colour: Pank. it's a very specific shade of bright pink.

Last TV show: Actual Factual TV Show was probably, uh, wheel of time? if we're talkin youtube show, i'm getting into fantasy high. it is. Deeply Quotable. rip my echolalia.

Sweet/spicy/savoury: spicy for SURESIES; my spice tolerance is a running joke in the family

Last google: dosa (went out to a new (to us) indian restaurant and dad didn't recognize one of the menu items)

Relationship status: too weird to date, too rare to die

Current obsession: uhhh still the usual suspects i guess? outside of that, knitting. lots of fuckin knitting. i am drowning in yarn.

tags for whoever replies to/likes this.

#unscientific aside #i guess??? tag games count sure

[campaignskyjacks]

Hello! I have a question. The stars have fallen and in the setting they're linked with Angels and the Heaven so maybe the answered here is obvious, but my question is is there any sort of outer space or is it all firmament up there? Are there planets in the sky. I feel like astrology has been (jokingly) referred to. I know Speir is shaped by stories so space doesn't even have to be a thing at all. In our world we told stories to explain the planets. I wonder if in Speir there are stories that formed planets. Lights in the sky that look like stars but aren't stars.

Also there's the Sun. Which in reality is a star, but Speir is made of stories so of course it doesn't have to be. I had sort of assumed that the Sun was the Sovereign (which would mean the sun is a god corpse), but if not is there a story behind the sun? I know the moon is connected to the Forest Queen somehow. (You might have mentioned the sun before but if so I apologise I don't remember)

Basically my real question is if the Sailor Scouts can exist in the setting or is Sailor Moon is on her own. (I kid but genuine question about planets and celestial bodies)

The answer to this is a little bit "wait and see" and a little bit "I don't know because it is non-essential."

The important thing about skyjack's cosmology is that the stars in the sky are angels. There aren't that many stars because there aren't that many angels left up there. I know that angels have an important role in the orderly workings of Spéir. They kept the seasons in order, they keep gravity in check and time flowing the right way. After the stars fell a lot of things went completely out of whack.

I know the sun and the moon are special cases. I believe the Sun is going to get explored a little bit more in future plots so I won't talk too much about it here. The moon is something that we decided is under the Forest Queens domain. You can get a lot about it on the lore episode we did for All My Fantasy Skyjacks. The only thing that I think is important or indicative about the moon for the rest of skyjack's cosmology is that it is an object that creates light. The sun and stars are also responsible for their own kind of light. We know that servants of the forest cannot see by the light of the stars. They depend on the moon.

I don't know if space exists. It definitely doesn't exist in the way we think of it in our world. I'm not sure if there are planets at all. Like, the sphere equivalent for astrology would be calculating the influence the positions of literal stars had on you. Probably each of those stars has a name sort of the way the morning star does. When there are only a dozen or so it's pretty easy to do that!

As for the idea of astrally bound shenshi, it's possible, but not one of the things that I have applied to the setting yet.

[boombox-fuckboy]

re: questions- every emoji thats mostly/significant enough red (on your screen)!

You're a menace

💝 A podcast you think deserves more affection

InCo. Go listen to InCo

❤️ Favorite romantic relationship

Haven't thought about it. I don't care much about pairings.

💕 Genre you want to see more of in podcasts

Fake true crime, ie Arden, Night Shift. Bonus points if like Night Shift they have elements of fantasy/sci-fi/other speculative fiction.

📌 A moment that lives rent-free in your head

All of them, I am not a landlord (Monstrous Agonies Presenter Voice: we do NOT allow your kind around here)

I'm going with Audio Tour Guide demands The Clockwork Mother to pet a cat for it (The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality).

💥 Favorite superhero show

The Phonebooth. No competition.

⁉️ Favorite slipstream/“weird” show

Archive 81, if it counts. If not, The Far Meridian.

🎲 Favorite actual play podcast

The Weird, but it constantly trades places with Campaign: Skyjacks and Skyjacks: Courier's call.

⏰ Preferred episode length

No preference.

🕹 What else do you do while listening to podcasts?

I take my headphones off to shower.

🎟 Podcast you’d like to see a liveshow of

Life With Althaar's team comes from stage acting, but the show itself relies somewhat on being audio-only, so I think that'd be really interesting to see.

#ask game

[theluciferswar]

Did no one else submit from The Sandman? Gwendoline Cristie can take my soul at any time.

Lots of people, actually !

I abbreviated it as "😈TS Netflix" on the picture.

Not all the contestants participate in Round 0 because I have 48 of them, so to have a 32 characters bracket with 1v1 matches in Round 1, we have to eliminate 16 of them first, which means 16 pre-matches (what I called Round 0). So Gwendolyn Christie's Lucifer will be up against whoever wins the Lucifer/Louis Cypher (Shin Megami Tensei) VS Lucifer (Pony Island) fight

For the other acronyms (sorry but I was lacking room, I know some of those are not used in their fandoms) in this picture :

BE is Blue Exorcist

CS is Campaign : Skyjacks

GG is Girl Genius

GBF is Granblue Fantasy

JD is Jackson's Diary

Dante is Dante's Inferno (the video game)

RL goat is @bobvelsebishot's real life goat

RGU is Revolutionary Girl Utena

MS is for Monster Strike

SNB is for Rage of Bahamut/Shingeki no Bahamut

TCAOS is for The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

#not polls #ask and you shall be answered #side b

[shipaholic]

Stuff on my list to watch, read, play etc.:

TV:

Call My Agent - finish S4

Russian Doll - S2

Orphan Black - all seasons rewatch

Our Flag Means Death

Severance

Podcasts:

The Last Post - eps 120(ish)-the end

Skyjacks - most recent ep

Hey Riddle Riddle - poss a couple of eps, not sure if I fell asleep halfway through?

Billbuds - I think I’m two or three behind?

The Milkman of St Gaff’s - most recent ep

Games:

Final Fantasy 12 - replay

Airborne Kingdom

Stardew Valley - I’m on Summer Year 3, only one fish needed to complete the community centre

Final Fantasy X-2 - pick up my current save again (close to the final boss as I recall?) and New Game+ it

Books:

It Devours! - I like Night Vale a lot. I have made several attempts to read this book. I have no idea why my brain slides off it around page 70. I will finish it this time, if only to put off having to read Wanderers.

Wanderers - sigh. It was a Christmas present I asked for, so I really should read it even though I’m on page 50 of 1200 and it has the HACKIEST fucking dialogue I’ve come across outside of the trailer for Top Gun Maverick.

The Ocean At the End of the Lane - don’t actually own this book, but my local pub has it. Will peruse it from a leather armchair as I gently sip half a pint of cider.

13 Storeys - Jonny Sims’ book! Ordered it yesterday, should arrive soon.

#that's... a lot of stuff. i might have to bunk off housework to fit it all in. #lists #personal #I've got decision fatigue so if anyone wants to push me towards one of these things or another #feel free!

[taisy22]

James describing his “machete order” of listening to all my fantasy children is how I’ve listened to half a dozen podcasts and I’m feeling called out ahdjdjjdjd

#also I’m LOVING these world building episodes it’s just so amazing listening to them all bouncing ideas around and building off each other’s #the vibes are just immaculate #all my fantasy children #all my fantasy skyjacks #skyjacks #campaign skyjacks #taisy22 talks

[thirteen-abalone]

Hey if the people of Black Pebble Beach live on a volcanic island they are literally living on land being reclaimed from the Mariner BY THEIR OWN VOLCANO. IS THIS PART OF THE COVENANT THEY MADE WITH THE VOLCANO??? God. they don’t talk about it explicitly in the episode but god damn. the symbolism.

#all my fantasy skyjacks

[equalseleventhirds]

said i was gonna make the post, i'm gonna make the post. sure i have only like 3 followers who listen to skyjacks, that is not relevant, this post is for ME bcos i love to overanalyze worldbullding implications on a wider cultural level particularly in regards to religion,

also important to note that while i am caught up on skyjacks main and have started courier's call, i have not listened to everything on patreon, or read the zine(s?), or backread all the official twitter posts or w/e, so if i am mistaken and this HAS been relevant in the worldbuilding then oh yes PLEASE link me i would dearly love to see!!! i am very much good faith abt this bcos skyjacks aims to be anti-colonialist and does deliver in so so many ways.

anyway. so. skyjacks, speir, the sovereign (+the luminaries a bit), and the unintentional implications when your fantasy catholicism stand-in is like, provably correct about some aspects of their god??? (subtitled: and why it's not as bad as it could be, really, and the world does leave plenty of room for this to be easily fixed and here's how)

thanks for joining me nice to have u here etc etc i write long essays deep-diving into media for funsies are u ready for a ride

so firstly, the catholic church in the real world is.... historically tied to a lot of colonialism. so much. SO much. like, i'm filipino, ok? so much. often in the supposed name of, y'know, god and missionary work or w/e.

and to his credit, james d'amato put a lot of thought into making the church of the slain god, his fantasy analogy for the catholic church, a Bad Institution and tied into colonialism (and other stuff) and a bad bad thing which the players go up against. also some cool stuff done in nordia wrt the church as an institution vs individuals in the church living their lives, etc, altho that is less of the point here.

additionally, prior to the beginning of the campaign itself, in one of the tales from speir, it is set up as just one of many churches, one which happened to gain notoriety and power. the concept of a single god is mentioned pointedly, as though other churches had more gods. it's even explained to the listener, as though it is not ubiquitous among speir's citizens, as though one might hear a priest preaching about the slain god but not really know about it at all. furthermore, the narrator notes that even if he was religious, he wouldn't worship that god; the slain god is presented as an option, a belief, but not a fact.

of course, over the course of the campaign, things develop as they do. currently in canon, we know that the sovereign was real; that he really was pretty close to all-powerful; that he did die; that his death did cause the calamity that befell speir and made it what it is now; that his angels (those that did not fall) do direct the current church, in some way or another.

this is actually provable bcos of the way canon and our knowledge of things has developed. (vitally to my respect towards & enjoyment of skyjacks, the details show that the worship of the slain god, as practiced by the church as a whole, is incorrect in its methodology and morality; and, furthermore, although the sovereign existed, we are led to believe that he was not necessarily a just god. not necessarily a good god. and that there are options besides following a god just because he exists. killing him, for instance.)

further, we know that even amongst people who are not part of the church, knowledge of the sovereign and of the whole 'the sovereign's death caused the apocalypse' thing is common. common enough that when people (hildred, the crew of the uhuru) who are demonstrably not part of the church learn that gable killed god, there is. a bit of a Reaction there. it is widely known.

now, the only other gods really mentioned or worshiped so far (in all the places we have been!) are the luminaries (ok yes fine i believe they are defined as 'not quite gods', but, semantics; they function as a pantheon of deities, albeit not in the style of the sovereign), so let's talk about the luminaries.

it is, perhaps, plausible that the luminaries might be the other gods of (one or more of) the other churches which the narrator of tales from speir obliquely refers to. but let's take a moment and examine how they function and interact with both the common people of speir and the church of the slain god.

first the common people: altho the luminaries may demand sacrifices, altho there are shrines around to them, there doesn't seem to be any sort of organized worship of them? folk-magic invoking them, certainly; widespread belief in them, certainly. other churches dedicated to the luminaries and excluding the sovereign? ehhhhhhh.

as for the church: no one in the church seems to regard the luminaries as competition, as heresy, or as belonging to another organization at all. people who believe in the sovereign seem totes cool with invoking the luminaries as well. perhaps to them they function as lesser spirits who serve(d) the sovereign in some way; it's not really addressed at all.

additionally, the sovereign himself is mentioned as interacting with the luminaries (altho, uh, obvs not currently). notably, the moon belongs to the forest queen (who refers to humans as 'children of the sovereign' i think?) but the stars belong to the sovereign. there is sharing there! bargaining even perhaps?? definite mutual acknowledgement; regardless of levels of power, it would appear that the sovereign and the luminaries (at least the forest queen) are part of the same large pantheon.

the luminaries are also, once again, gods (or 'gods') that are provable. they and their power definitely exist. they are also ubiquitious; universally, at least among the various locations and cultures we have experienced so far, the luminaries are both known and invoked (if not worshiped in quite the same way as the sovereign).

if, as i posited, the luminaries and the sovereign are part of the same pantheon, this means that there is one universal (apparently) pantheon in speir. (occasionally we'll have bits of folk magic where ppl are sorta kinda almost worshiping an element, like fire or wind or trees; this is cool, but not made clear as a religion separate from the sovereign/luminaries at all. also still no other gods. tales from speir narrator tell us abt the other churches with other gods PLEASE.)

taking a step away from skyjacks in particular, it's important to note that this is a common enough occurrence in a lot of high fantasy. you make some gods; those gods have actual impact on the world and the story; of course they are the only gods around. if there were other gods around, they'd just be. y'know. part of the same pantheon.

this is fine for simpler fantasy worlds, where a universal, provable religion is not even the biggest issue of cultural same-y-ness in the worldbuilding. not ideal, but also not a big deal, comparatively.

however! speir is intentionally built to be a wide variety of cultures, with inspiration drawn from many real-world cultures (and many of those locations worldbuilt by incredibly cool freelancers often pulling on their own lived experiences). and part of cultural variety is religious variety.

yes, the sovereign and the luminaries provably exist in speir. but if worship/knowledge of them is universal across speir; if they are the only gods ever encountered in all these various cultures; if they are the only gods that do exist and hold power; then like. oof. bcos you've got, on the one hand, fantasy catholicism; and on the other hand, folk-magic-gods which, let's face it, are based around songs made by the decemberists, who altho they do cool music are also... p much white americans drawing mostly (altho not entirely, shoutout to the crane wife) from western history/stories (and lbr does tell even the crane wife through a white western lens, but also i am not here to analyze the decemberists)

and the implications of that being our canonical true real only universal pantheon sure are implications!! like god yeah i love that gable killed god, i love the luminaries (hit me with capricious deities!!), but also i am metaphorically throwing rocks at james d'amato's window to point out stuff abt history and religious variety and cultural stuff. u kno.

but algie, i hear some of you saying (especially those of you who have followed me for a bit and Seen Some Stuff), why would you do this to yourself? why would you willingly deep-dive into this particular flavor of analysis when it has burned you so badly before with other media that you love? have you not learned from tma and fear soup and robert fucking smirke? why would you once more do the thing where you point out that a white man has accidentally incurred some weird colonial implications in an unthinking moment of fairly standard worldbuilding??

well, imaginary audience member standing in for the bit of me braced for horrible disappointment, listen. yes it's similar, but the situation is different. firstly bcos skyjacks, unlike certain other media, bills itself as anti-colonialist, and so this is important to the actual goals of the show. and secondly, bcos given other elements of the worldbuilding and the overarching narrative, it is both difficult and unlikely for the show to ever say no, actually, the sovereign and the luminaries are the sole and only deities (or deity-adjacent-beings) in the entire world of speir.

the world they've built for skyjacks is vast! and lost!! so vast and lost that it is entirely plausible that there are other religions and deities in other cultures, just as powerful and real and true, that the party just hasn't run into. maybe they are hidden from the rediscovered world; maybe they are part of the rediscovered world and just haven't made it into the characters' paths. it is so so easy to imagine that entire other pantheons exist, and are worshiped, and are real functioning gods... elsewhere in speir. and the story does not at all seem to be heading in the direction to blatantly and completely contradict this.

so that's why it's not as bad as it could have been. shall we discuss how it can be even better?

first, the thing i would not like to see: i am so utterly and entirely disinterested in some kinda 'oh other cultures worship the same pantheon but with different names/faces/whatever'. that's not religious variety of the type the real world has (and the type that colonialism tried to stamp out). none of this with fantasy catholicism still having the True God but y'know, other ppl might have a different name for him. that rubs me wrong in so so many ways. that is not cultural religious diversity at all.

(note: it's been mentioned that the luminaries, at least, may have different... relationships? vibes?? with different cultures. that's neat! i do like to see capricious gods showing different sides of themselves to different people!! as long as that's not all we get. i am cool & chill with the bandari people having a bargain with the forest queen or w/e it was that was brought up in that one worldbuilding ep abt the luminaries; i am even chill with the grand fire giving ppl stones that appear to correspond to the luminaries. clearly the bandari were part of the broad group of cultures falling under this pantheon. that's fine, as long as we aren't told that EVERY culture, without exception, aligns with this pantheon and no other.)

now for a thing i WOULD like to see: would love the players to actually encounter a culture where worship of (and perhaps even common knowledge of) the luminaries and the sovereign is in the minority. a culture with their own gods, gods that are worshiped in different ways to the sovereign and luminaries, but which demonstrably have power. (magic is in the story, this is canon; enough stories about other gods mean the other gods do exist. or vice versa.) maybe they have their own explanation of why the stars fell. maybe they don't have an explanation, but their gods have been doing their best in the meantime. (maybe they wave their hands dismissively; 'oh yes, our gods know about your sovereign. they foolishly did not intervene before things got bad, but they're making up for it now.' there are lots of ways people interact with their gods.)

if we are digging deep into colonialism and implications and drawing on history wrt the catholic church and colonialism: i would kind of like to see a place where religion developed under colonial rule in, say, the style of the philippines (yes yes yes i'm biased shhh). a place where the red feathers and the church came and took over (not by war, since that's not a thing in speir as it is now, but y'know... they've got ways), and the people there with their own gods already said, well, okay. sure, we follow and believe your religion; we just also have our own spirits and even minor gods and so on that don't quite follow your rules, because they are ours. and those spirits and minor gods have adjusted and changed to accommodate the ways the colonizers are making us live, because we must adapt; but still they are here and they are ours.

(in the latter, ofc, they would need a rly rly good freelance worldbuilder and probably another cultural consultant. these ties to real history and cultures and pain need to be treated with respect; eg i would hate for this to be a place that the main cast come in and free from the church, bcos outside saviors are not the needed thing. but y'know, it'd be an interesting culture to see represented and explored.)

ofc the big meta problem with introducing other pantheons with real power is: does this break the fucking game?? if there are other gods on par with the luminaries, can the players call on them for help? and the easiest answer (and lbr the culturally sensitive one) is: no, these are not their gods. they may witness their power. but they cannot use it. play continues the same for them.

but they know stuff now. it maybe won't drastically change their lives and how they live them. but no longer are the people who worship this pantheon the only right ones.

#long post #skyjacks blogging #am i putting this in the main tag FUCK no!! i know the official campaign tumblr tracks that!! #yes i think this is important NO i'm not gonna on purpose show this to them!! fuck!!!! #anyway here u will find a big ol discussion of religion and culture and unintentional implications in fantasy stuff #and also i started this like two hours ago i am SO sleeby now. perhaps even incomprehensible. we'll see if this is readable even. #anyway tho i pulled a lot of my viewpoints and examples here from like. my own experience with stuff. #both my experiences with christianity and my knowledge of history and catholicism being colonialists #and also my experiences in learning abt precolonial polytheism in the philippines #and how that has adapted and changed and been reconstructed a bit today. a bit. u kno. #.....so MOSTLY i am coming at thsi from a polytheistic viewpoint #wrt specifically having gods that most of the rest of the world does not #and how to make multiple pantheons function in a fantasy world #i have previously seen some good good discussion of how to incorporate judaism in a fantasy world with provable deities #but i am uncertain how that would work wrt speir bcos surprise surprise i am not jewish #could be fun discussion tho. not for right now bcos did i mention i am SO sleepy. #but in general. love to see discussion of things. it's very deeply cool. #...............uhhhhhhhhhhh anyway um. warning for discussion of colonialism and catholicism #but not going super in depth on either #also i do rag on white ppl a bit for being so. u kno. one viewpoint on things. easily forget abt other cultures things. #oof i am VERY tired. ok. ok. ok. #OH ALSO i enjoy skyjacks so so very much. on a surface level this is very easy to skim over and continue enjoying the show #it's just that SOMETIMES i overthink things and realize deeper implications of surface-level stuff #................uh. clearly. u kno. (gestures at all of me) #anyway will i be deeply disappointed in james and the rest of the group if they do not make other pantheons canon? #no not rly! i do not expect it of them!! #do i think it would be neat and show a deeper understanding of some stuff? hell yeah i do!! #but also i am satisfied with just. being allowed the space to imagine they exist elsewhere on speir. #as long as they do not take THAT away from me. i can tell myself a little story. #and that's where the magic is. u kno.

[drefvalentine]

top five podcasts?

ah! perfect, my favorite thing to talk about: podcasts :))

1) Campaign: Skyjacks. Hilarious ttrpg about sky pirates, necromancy, anti-colonial themes, pro-sex work, and very queer with deep lore and worldbuilding! what’s not to like!!!

2) Hey Riddle Riddle :) podcast about riddles for people who hate riddles and aren’t very good at them which is mostly just an excuse to be funny and do bad improv scenes.

3) Dungeons and Daddies (not a bdsm podcast). Four dads from our realm find themselves in the forgotten realms on a quest to find their missing sons. Very funny and very dads.

4) Criminal. A very unique take on the “true crime” genre, talking about people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. The host/interviewer has a very soothing voice and this show consistently makes me cry, or outraged about the world, or just very connected to humanity.

5) The Penumbra Podcast. Very queer story about (1) a noir detective taking place on Mars sometime in the future, very much in love with Juno Steel and (2) a high fantasy setting with magic, knights and monsters. The characters are all so rich and it’s so easy to fall into the worlds.

#podcast #skyjacks #campaign #hey riddle riddle #HRR #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies #criminal #criminal podcast #tpp #juno steel #second citadel #penumbra pod

[wordsintimeandspace]

WIP Game

I was tagged by @thebloker, thank you!

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

While I do have a longer doc with fic ideas for the future, I usually only have a fairly small number of current WIPs. This is what I currently have for my active fandoms:

For Skyjacks:

aro Dref fic

For the Magnus Archives:

Jon&Tim post prentiss

JonMartin neighbors cat fic 

Fantasy AU

Comfort, The Other Way Around

I’m actively working on the first two (aro Dref and Jon&Tim), the cat fic is my tentative plan for JonSimsandCatsDay and doesn’t have anything written yet, and the last two are more or less abandoned (at least for the moment). But I’m happy to talk about all of them :D

I’m very late to the party with this, so I’m not tagging anyone in particular, but if anyone hasn’t been tagged feel free to join in!

#ask game #rambling about my writing

[chiropteracupola]

this is such a wacky question, but what nautical media (besides the aubreyad, with which I am very familiar) features a ship doctor? I’m trying to get into more nautical media, but my main interest is really medicine. do you have any recommendations? thank you!

Okay, so there's a big one right on the tip of my brain that I feel like I'm forgetting, but here's the ones I can come up with at the moment.

Yeah, the really good and solid one is the Aubreyad, in my experience.

The Terror has a variety of interesting ship's-doctor characters, but beyond Goodsir, I wouldn't say that the narrative is really all that focused on the real doctoring aspects of it. I can't confirm at this time because that scene makes me uncomfortable, but I've heard passed around that one of the major medical scenes (an amputation) includes some of the few accuracy slip-ups in an otherwise really well-researched show.

Same with Voyage of the Narwhal - the doctor is a semi-central figure but the medical aspects are mostly glossed over in favor of focusing on the Arctic expedition aspects of the story. However, Dr. Boerhaave is still one of the more interesting characters, in my opinion, and the book as a whole is well worth reading.

Hornblower, both books and show, only really feature the medical men as very minor characters, but they're usually very fun when they are there at all, and I did get attached to them quite quickly anyway, so that's something, I guess.

If you're okay with expanding to fantasy-nautical, the Campaign: Skyjacks podcast features one of my favorite ship's doctors, Dref Wormwood, who is also a necromancer, magician, and general interesting time. However, it's also very much a fantasy actual-play tabletop podcast, which might not be to your taste.

If you want to go heavier on the medical side of things, Robert Louis Stevenson's short story The Body Snatcher is the spot for you. It's in approximately the same time frame as the rest of these, but as it isn't the slightest bit nautical, I'll skip further explanation.

There is one last absolutely excellent ship's doctor shoutout that I've got to make here, and that's Treasure Island. Livesey's probably my favorite character on this list, and he's featured close enough at the front of the story that he just might capture your attention too. It's Treasure Island. Better people than I have pitched it before.

This wasn't such a weird question - I've got a fondness for ship's doctors as well, and this was quite fun to get to think about. And if anyone reading this has other recommendations, I would love to hear them as well!

#answers from the cupola #anyone want to join my clive likers club which consists of. just me I think. #I assume you're here from Nautical Quiz - glad to have you! this was a grand old time!

[mistah-aluminum]

I’ve never listened to All My Fantasy Children (but I’m gonna change that soon) so listening to All My Fantasy Skyjacks was WILD because Aaron ... swears???? And now I really really want to hear Cici say f*ck because goddamn that girl deserves to verbalise her frustrations

(But also please don’t because I adore the fact that Courier’s Call is all ages - maybe a blooper reel released in the Skyjacks feed would be an appropriate compromise?)

#courier’s call #campaign Skyjacks #Skyjacks

[ezrisdax-archive]

quarantine year two list of new (to me) things I’ve gotten into because the old list was getting too long and I just like making lists:

Transformers IDW comics 1.0 and 2.0

Transformers Marvel comics

Transformers: Cyberverse

Transformers: War for Cybertron

Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015)

Transformers: Prime Wars trilogy

Transformers: Last Knight (a mistake)

Dimension 20: Mice and Murder

Kid Cosmic

Ted Lasso

Mortal Kombat (movie)

Final Fantasy VII: Intergrade/Intermission

The Owl House (season two)

Buzzfeed Unsolved (final season)

Puppet History

Marvel Comics (All New Wolverine, Mighty Valkyries, New Mutants 2019, Beta Ray Bill 2021, Champions 2020)

DC Comics (Far Sector, Green Lantern 2020, Wonder Girl 2021, Blue and Gold, Crush and Lobo, Static 2021, Teen Titans Academy, Aquaman: The Becoming, The Flash 2021, Nubia and the Amazons)

Amphibia (season two and three)

Resident Alien

Infinity Train (season four)

Ratchet and Clank: A Rift In Time

Power Rangers comics

Dimension 20: Magic and Misfits

Space Jam: A New Legacy

Prozd Plays Games: Danganronpa 1 & 2 playthrough

Leverage Redemption

Master of the Universe: Revelations

My Life is Murder

Rogue Runners

Ghosts (season three)

We are Lady Parts

Free Guy

Space Sweepers

Derry Girls

Dave Made a Maze

Luca

Dimension 20: The Seven

Star Trek: Lower Decks (season two)

Brooklyn 99 (final season)

The Great Ace Attorney (started, first game done)

NEO: TWEWY (started)

Star Trek: Discovery (season four)

Encanto

Shang-Chi and the Seven Rings

Deathloop

Only Murders in the Building

Star Trek: Prodigy

Horizon Zero Dawn

Arcane

Destiny

Doctor Who (series 13)

Dimension 20: Shriek Week

9-1-1

9-1-1 Lone Star

Wheel of Time

Kirby: Star Allies

things still do watch/read/play, some of which aren’t out yet this year but I’m keeping track here regardless:

Gintama

Way of the househusband

Soul Eater

AI: Sominium Files

Snow White with the Red Hair

Skyjacks

Tales of Arise

Kena: Bridge of Spirits

Witch Hat Altier

#so far this year I haven't been doing newer stuff so much as getting back into older stuff #case in point I am rewatching all the transformers media #the 80s is wild

[hraishin]

got tagged by @lindstrom2020 on this, thank you!

20 questions, writer’s edition!

How many works do you have on AO3? 90..... not counting the few anonymous ones but like.... I just went buck wild there lmao

What’s your total AO3 word count? 742.231. Aiming for that 1M.

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they? X-Men, the It movies, Star Wars, Atonement, Shame (2011), Filth (2013) (but these last two only together lmao), Skyjacks, Lucifer and MCU (Thor: Ragnarok specifically).

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

(All are cherik)

You want blood, and I promised

Wrap me up, unfold me

And then there was you

The Songbird and the Lonely Man

There's something broken about this, but I might be hoping about this

Do you respond to comments, why or why not? Most of the time, yes! I enjoy replying cause, in my case, it's me acknowledging that I've seen it. Sometimes I don't have the energy to answer tho.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? The first one that comes to mind is "I had all and then most, some and now none of you"... Made even myself cry at that one akjsdhj

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending? Almost all of them ig? I usually go for that happy ending.

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written? Yes, I write a series with @insertmeaningfulusername that's a crossover between Filth and Shame, but the craziest one I've ever written was X-Men and the show Lucifer. It works, I promise.

Have you ever received hate on a fic? Yes.

Do you write smut? If so what kind? Yep. Not too kinky ig? Dom/Sub undertones most times but usually I like smut to work with the plot of something (except the PWP, that's self indulgence).

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of.

Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes!!

Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yeah! The times I did it it was fun, but mostly cause I did it with friends kasjdhajk

What’s your all time favorite ship? Cherik, as shown by my ao3 page lmao

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will? So far I think I intend on finishing all wips I have posted so none ig

What are your writing strengths? Describing emotions. At least I always get compliments about it and I do like describing emotions.

What are your writing weaknesses? Does "english" counts? Cause I'm definitely weak on that.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? Sometimes I do it when I have the means, and I think that if the character pov is of someone who doesn't understand said language it translates the confusion to the readers, but sometimes I prefer just saying that the line was said in another language.

What was the first fandom you wrote for? Supernatural at age 13 [runs]

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written? The Songbird and The Lonely Man for sure. I've said it many times here but the worldbuilding for that was so much fun and I had such a good time writing each chapter of that story that it makes me happy that people got to enjoy it. (I'm also biased because I love fantasy aus)

tagging: @secretlymagneto @himbomcavoy@insertmeaningfulusername @midrashic @lyricfulloflight @gerec @ikeracity @crystallized-iron @pinkoptics and anyone who feels like it!

#tagged #writing #fanfic #sorry if you've already been tagged

[fandomtrumpshate]

Unlisted Fandom Challenge - Update

Today's Unlisted Fandom Challenge update brings you not just the leaderboard, but the WHOLE LIST of write-in fandoms - yes, all 136 of them. Five new fandoms joined the list (historical/artist RPF, The Goblin Emperor, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, Vorkosigan Saga,  and Witch Hat Atelier), but so far, nothing has been able to challenge Gundam Wing for the top spot. Lucifer, did, however, snag another entry and move up a rank. The full list is under the cut

Separate posts  a bit later this evening will give the details on how signups are going for the listed fandoms (spoiler, Sherlock is still on top of the game), and info on the supported orgs and overall signup numbers.

There's just ONE day left to sign up! Still time to knock Gundam Wing out of the lead and get your fandom onto the leaderboard.

7 Gundam Wing 5 9–1–1 5 Bridgerton 4 Genshin Impact 4 Lucifer (TV) 4 Sanders Sides 3 Campaign: Skyjacks 3 Diamond no Ace 3 Pirates of the Caribbean (films) 3 Rusty Quill Gaming 3 Stand Still Stay Silent 3 The Maze Runner 3 Yu-Gi-Oh! 2 A Redtail's Dream 2 Assassin's Creed 2 Attack on Titan 2 Black Sails 2 Bleach 2 Carmen Sandiego (Netflix) 2 Cobra Kai 2 Cyberpunk 2077 2 Emperor’s Edge by Lindsay Buroker 2 Final Fantasy 8 / Final Fantasy 14 / Final Fantasty 15(XV) 2 Ling Qi/Spiritpact 2 London Spy 2 Newsies 2 Shameless (US) 2 Suits 2 The Imperial Radch Trilogy 2 The Last Kingdom 2 The Losers 1 Ace Attorney 1 Angel Sanctuary 1 arthurian mythology 1 Babylon 5 1 bastion 1 Benjamin January Series 1 Big Wolf on Campus 1 Billabong Books - Mary Grant Bruce 1 Cherry Magic / 30sai made dotei dato mahoutsukai ni narerurashii 1 Chicago Fire 1 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 1 Chronicles of Narnia 1 Cosmere - Brandon Sanderson 1 CSI: Miami 1 Cut High Earth Defense Club (any season) 1 Daiya no A 1 Danganronpa 1 Death Note 1 Destiny 2 1 Devil May Cry 1 Dimension 20 1 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016) 1 Discworld 1 Dragonriders of Pern 1 Fallout 1 Georgette Heyer - Romance Novels 1 Great Pretender 1 greek mythology 1 Grimm TV 1 Hawaii 5-0 1 Hilda (TV series) 1 Historical/artists RPF 1 Horizon Zero Dawn 1 Hunter x Hunter 1 Identity V 1 IDOLiSH7 1 Ivanhoe 1 Jeeves and Wooster 1 Jibaku Shounen Hanako-Kun 1 Jujutsu Kaisen 1 Jupiter Ascending 1 Kuroshitsuji 1 La Casa de Papel 1 Lupin the 3rd 1 Moominvalley (Cartoon 2019) 1 mushishi 1 My Roommate Is A Detective 1 Nancy Drew games 1 Oceans 11 (2001 version) 1 Pandora Hearts 1 Persona 5 1 PG Wodehouse - Psmith 1 Phandom 1 Movie fandoms 1 Pokemon 1 Pretty Little Liars 1 Prodigal Son 1 Promare 1 Ranger's Apprentice 1 Red Dwarf 1 Resident Evil (Video Games) 1 Rhink 1 Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch (series) 1 Robin Hood BBC 1 Rookie Historian: Goo Hae-Ryung 1 RootBound 1 Saiyuki Gaiden 1 Sanditon (TV 2019) 1 Sarazanmai 1 SCI Mystery 1 SEVENTEEN 1 Skip Beat! 1 Smile For Me 1 south park 1 Speed (1994 film) 1 Star Ocean: The Second Story 1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (any) 1 The Elder Scrolls 1 The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison 1 The Hour 1 The Last of Us 1 The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 1 The Librarians 1 The man from uncle (movie 2015) 1 The Mechanisms 1 The Mighty Boosh/Boosh RPS 1 The Murderbot Diaries 1 The Old Guard Movie RPF 1 The Order (Netflix Series) 1 The Rookie 1 The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System 1 The Starless Sea (novel) 1 The Terror (S1) 1 The Wicked and the Divine 1 Tiger and Bunny 1 Timeless (2016) 1 Tokyo Babylon 1 Tomorrow When the War Began - John Marsden 1 Tortall 1 Tower of God 1 Vagrant Story 1 Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold 1 Warehouse 13 1 Witch Hat Atelier 1 works of L.M. Montgomery

#fth2021 #fanworks auction #charity auction #unlisted fandom challenge #signups are OPEN #ONE DAY LEFT