#especially in a fantasy adventure

[saturnvs]

the world is full of wonder, let me show you

#horse art #horses #art #fantasy art #my art #fanart of my own childhood dream/fantasy horse? yeah #her name is trolla she's a huge north swedish horse and we go on whimsical adventures together :-) #i listened to björk's album vespertine while drawing this .. especially frosti!

[lucalicatteart]

-- Poorly Constructed Enchanted Tool --

A small tool carved from a fruit tree seed. Energy to power the enchantment has seemingly run-out long ago, and the method of recharging is unknown - but, based on the appearance, it's very likely that this was once used for detecting magic. Usually, looking through the glass center would highlight areas of higher magical energy concentration present in the viewer's environment, even if they were otherwise obscured to the naked eye. While this form of enchantment itself is highly advanced, the craftsmanship of the item is far less neat or complex than what might be typically seen in similar devices. It may have been made as part of training/practice, or as a hasty replacement for a previous tool that had broken.

#written from the perspective of some fantasy traveler who checks all of the local thrift-stores and lost & found places for every #town they visit - looking for interesting items and documenting them or something #In reality - just another one of my goofy little avocado pit carvings lol. Still working on inlaying little stones in them and stuff #I don't really have the tools to make super intricate stuff but doing little plain swirly patterns is still fine enough lol. #WORKING ON NEW POLL ADVENTURE also I know I know it's been months.. I have been Busy and struck by the evils of summer #But like I mentioned in the previous one I do want to at LEAST finish the quest with the egg lol #ANYWAY. #Things like this would plausibly exist in Nanyevimi (my fantasy world) but wouldn't be very common as - like mentioned- this would be an #extremely advanced enchantment. REALLY advanced mages could sense magic around them (to varying degrees of pinpoint accuracy of location #) without even having to use any external device. But for a majority of people there's really no way to know someone is using magic near #you unless you either see visual proof or if it's strong enough to feel effects from it (since magic is kind of like radiation in that the #higher energy/more of it youre exposed to the more it damages you/can make you sick/etc.) and even then most people would just be like #'hmm why do I feel so nauseous and bad out of nowhere?' likely wouldn't directly think to link it to magic. Thus the only really reliable w #way isto just hone your senses over like 500 years as you become an expert mage - OR use enchantments like these. But a 'sense magic' encha #ntment is not as common as a just 'magic is not allowed here' enchantment. If you wanted to prevent magic from being usedin a space #it's easier to just put up a broad barrier enchantment around that space than to have some sort of Magic Sensor to pick out if it's being #done and then handle each individual case of it . etc. etc. These sort of things can have their uses (especially for people investigating #things or trying to be secretive about detecting something etc.) but are less common - especially in this form (where visuals are used. itd #be more likely to jsut have like 'piece of metal that gets warm or cool depending on magic nearby'.) ANWAY so this is why it's a notable #object. Though a majority of the realm is not very magic literate - if you were a researcher or a mage and found this at a pawn shop you'd #definitely be like 'oohhh!! :0 inch resting... ' if not you might just be like 'oh cool necklace!' lol #also love the quick 2min ''costume'' for the image of it being used. literally just 'wrap yourself in scarves from the waist up' and slap o #a wig and ears lol #on this blog I guess since it's worldbuilding related and technically art.. maybe more like crafting? I should have a crafts tag lol.. hmm

[rysttle]

Part 6! :D

GDVHDBDJSNSK 'NO' WON BUT LIKE BARELY

Well this one has more panels than the previous ones phew but hey i updated on schedule (ish)

#this cyoa is entering the middle part me thinks #art #my art #comic #choose your own adventure #not fanart #webcomic #oc comic #oc art #weekly comic #fantasy art #illustration #poll #polls #twwh #he just want to see a cat and it goes to this lol #writing is not my strong suit especially grammars so forgive me for mistakes etc etc

[variousqueerthings]

I note that I don't, and I never, was much of a fan of doctor-and-rose as romance, but that I -- rather than get annoyed at the romantic-coded scenes -- had a tendency to simply read them from a totally different perspective, and really maybe should have been a sign of sooomething different about me, that I continuously felt that the doctor's concepts of connection must be so alien, that to call it romance would be to diminish the actual Thing that they had, which was presented as such onscreen (to my mind then, now I realise what was happening, but I prefer what I had going on), which is basically that the doctor was a shell of a person, hurtling towards destruction (he would have died without rose in ep1), desperately lonely and sad and traumatised, and she retaught nine -- and by extension ten -- how to love the universe, at the same time as nine and ten taught her the same. (I think about the scene in father's day, where while they're arguing, rose says that she knows how sad he is, and he'll just hang around the tardis waiting for her -- she knew!)

and then on top of that with sarah-jane (which, I never watched the classics as a kid, so I didn't have that context for her beyond what the episode presented) it felt like that was sort of confirmed and made even more canon through this idea that the doctor is constantly mourning the inevitable deaths of their companions and would rather simply leave them behind at some point than watch that happen (and they've seen that happen before, although dying for a cause versus just... dying, because you die, while they don't, they just continue on and on, always seeking connection, always knowing that time will take them away, that's a whole other thing)

and then of course there's ten's... I would call it "sex appeal" because it's david tennant and with his performance there's immediately a bit of a focus on oh he's quite pretty and he faints/is knocked unconscious in both of his first episodes, and a lot more flirting, and the people want to see sparks or what have you... but the doctor as portrayed and written is still... not coming at it that way. yes yes girl in the fireplace but also, once again, doesn't work for me, because I find it soooo much more interesting that the doctor would imprint on A Life - and a life that they admire -- and speedrun the exact thing that they're most afraid of with their companions... that she ages and dies and it's the one thing that the doctor simply cannot stop

meanwhile rose is quite young and swept up in this whole massive adventure and very much reads the doctor not as an alien (frequently surprised by their alien-ness) and gets jealous of sarah-jane as if she's an ex, and renette as if she's... a replacement? but really it's more that the doctor met her at the point when she was about to accept her life as it was. not an exciting life, not a bad life, but always having to ignore the idea that there must be more to it than this. and the idea that she might be unceremoniously dumped back in that after seeing just how This the this could be, of course that's terrifying. and of course she's simultaneously taken with the dashing doctor and the jetset life, and worried she could be replaced, because to her the doctor saved her at 19 years old. in some ways the doctor created her (considering who she becomes after dooms day)

contrasted to martha who initially has a similar kind of experience, but the doctor doesn't meet her at the space she's in with them -- ten is leaning on her, like they did with rose, but not giving anything back unless kicking and screaming and traumatising her whole family. martha's trajectory is so so tragic, because she barely gets a taste of the splendor versus the horrors and the latter marks her for life. but she also knows to walk away from those overwhelming feelings, rather than give into them, she knows they'll never be rewarded and she also grows beyond wanting to be a crutch for the doctor (the fact that she then ends up as a soldier, well... ouch)

and then of course donna, who never has those fucking awe-feelings to begin with and whose connection with the doctor is explicitly de-romanticised but never placed on a lesser pedestal as if there's a hierarchy of alloromanticism. topples those pillars, never sees the doctor as anything but what the doctor is. good old donna. (sobs.) (but also... cautious hope for the specials.) (but also sobs.)

my point being. just don't buy alloromantic doctor, they're a near-immortal alien. it's such a dull simplistic way of reading their relationships to other beings. other point being. all those women who were making heart-eyes at ten, wish they'd met thirteen and had a... "yeah, this still works for me," moment. their horizons, too, are broadened by seeing More. (that or they realise they were never actually "in love" but just thought ten was a sexy skinny little snack and it blinded them.) (although jodie whittaker, too, is a snack.)

and lastly lastly ofc, is that if the doctor has a longterm (by doctor time measurement) intense relationship with anyone, whatever that might be called, it's the tardis. and that relationship is also so alien it cannot be quantified by human words for concepts

#im rewatching doctor who #doctor who #dw #aroace doctor #look im rewatching into 13 and beyond i am willing to entertain yaz and 13 because we enjoy a good bit of lesbianism #however will wait and see because the doctor in my head is so so aroace in every incarnation #they just manifest it in different ways #i could go into the whole eleven-and-river and how i feel about that #i am perhaps in the minority in that river's arc just doesn't work for me and often neither does her character #i kind of want to listen to the audio adventures because ive heard she's got much more to do there #than be a flirty enigma/sexy lady/moffat fantasy #but i can say that one of my least favourite things about moffat's run was how 'sexy' he tried to make everything #by literally just having people use the word sexy all the time and talk about bad girls and what have you #it's like sexiness as written by a straight teenage boy #and not a supposedly grown man writing for grown people #other minority opinion perhaps but eleven just isn't my cup of tea #am interested in how i'll feel going back into that run #dont like matt smith much dont like moffat much and dont like what they envisioned for the doctor and how they directed/acted the doctor #feel like capaldi had to claw the character back into some semblance of thematic coherency #i was never too much into especially ten getting a bit high and mighty with lonely god and the like titles BUT #waters of mars places that in a very particular context that makes it so so gooood #(another post for another day about companion opinions)

[rainebownerd]

I know this is a logistical nightmare to make happen but I would die if they did an episode with the Bad Kids and The Seven at the same table for Fantasy High Junior Year

#d20 #fantasy high junior year #aguefort adventuring academy #dimension 20 #Riz and Penny solving things together #Ostentatia and Kristen talking about their gods #The Seven but especially Sam interrogating Gorgug #Antiope and Fabian being jocks together #also i know Carlos is right there on set and i for one wanna see Cheese meet Arthur Aguefort

[blujayonthewing]

person in chat in my friend's stream: what's dungeon meshi

me: [SLAMS THROUGH THE WALL LIKE THE KOOLAID MAN]

#they asked like 'any y'all watch anime' and I was like 'well I just watched 2 eps of dungeon meshi 5 times between them because I'm normal' #to be fair the elevator pitch IS very brief and normal #especially to a person who also plays dnd #'oh it's about an adventuring party going into a dungeon to try to save a party member who got eaten by a dragon' #'they have to reach her before it's too late to resurrect her so to save time and resources they cook and eat monsters they encounter' #'and the art is incredible and my favorite' #and like to be honest? the story gains a lot of complexity and is excellent but this pitch is still really the heart of the appeal for me #the SPECULATIVE FANTASY BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY and the ART and HOW MUCH I LOVE THE CHARACTERS!! #anyway please read dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi Good #also watch the sub on netflix

[me-8d9-fan]

its almost comical that we are able to see in real time how the "kevin-feigefication" of media is affecting star wars though this new season of the mandalorian. the mandalorian was an honestly brilliant revival of the star wars universe that was the perfect blend of tie-in references and new, fresh ideas that still felt uniquely star wars. but you cant just make movies or shows or tell stories now, now you have to create empires of fan service and merchandise. stranger things, star wars, grishaverse, john wick, even fucking spongebob has spinoffs... everything needs 50 million characters and 20 convoluted plot points so everything can be spun off into 10 different movies and tv shows. and every story needs a super-mega bad guy to build up to because the mcu was able to create a semi-plausible mediocre overarching story out of 30 mediocre movies. what was so good about the first two seasons of the mandalorian is it didnt need 10 new spinoffs to "tie the story together" it worked as a standalone piece of media that you could enjoy if you've seen every star wars movie or zero

#in conclusion i am very hesitant for the future of star wars especially with the announcements at star wars celebration #seriously no hate to the other franchises i mentioned #im just definitely not a fan of this new wave of “storytelling” #i find it absolutely ridiculous that fantasy/adventure as a genre is being reduced to commercialized franchises #the mandalorian season 3 #star wars #the mandalorian #8d9post

[indecisive-dizzy]

i hate puzzle games I hate puzzle games I hate puzzle games I hate puzzles games I hate

#FUCK #I want fun fantasy adventure! NOT FUCKING PUZZLES #im talking to YOU F3NYX R1SING #i love this game i swearrrr hahahaaaaaa #i especially hate puzzles that require speed/precision/and Reaction Time #i am Non of those things #i am Slow Blind and have the reaction time of a dying goldfish #it takes me A Whole Minute to process most information #I have milliseconds with this DAMN PUZZLE #I wanna get to the good bits!! waaaaaa i want to fight monsters and hear funny dialogue #i want the “I Completed A Thing” Dopamine but i can'ttt #typing out loud #more like ranting tbf #but im angry and im justified (probably not) #woe is me #me and the woes #maybe i am the problem #akdhajahamsjamsh #brb gonna cry over puzzles #will i delete this? maybe #maybe this blog is just my diary now. maybe ill complain bc no one can stop me #I will stop me. i dont want to just complain all the time #but im allowed to complain Sometimes. as A Treat #no one even reads my tags lmao why am i down hereeee #my personal rantings hidden by a show all button... sighh #Welp! Back to the Grind! *grits teeth* This. Is So. Fun!

[lilly-white]

I wanted to not get so salty about other people’s books because people get salty about mine and it makes me sad, BUT... I think we get angry because of the marketing, right? The absolutely stunning cover, gushing reviews, a PROMISE basically that the interior is really good and you MUST read it. But then when the interior is really shoddy, well, you feel like you were lied to by all the marketing; I think this is why we react so negatively to books when in fact they are just, well, books - to each their own tastes, etc. But wow yeah. I am so disappointed by The Cruel Prince because every edition I’ve ever seen has sold you this amazing complex fae world, complete with neat little illustrations at the chapter headers etc... but... all this lavish appearance for a story that is, in the end, very obviously a “minimum viable product”

I don’t buy the book for the promise of it goddamnit, I buy it for the MEAT and the author’s SPECIAL INTERESTS that they went crazy over; but in the end the book’s appearance is the only reason I’m even keeping it at all, as a book designer (as I’ve seen in other people’s reviews too) and that makes me sad

#i feel bad bc i'm like #do i believe it's a minimum viable product when the author DID in fact give it her all? #i don't think so though. Holly Black writes fast as hell #1-2 books a year #this is what guts me about modern fantasy tbh it's like. how are you meant to know what was written with sincere polish and care #and what was banking on trends & bashed out without too much care #one year for a book when you're writing full-time CAN give you the time for some polish #especially if you're writing a series #so it's a gamble #indie adventures

[sharkieboi]

Neverafter is absolutely eating my entire soul and has just fully reawakened my passion for fairy tales and so now im actually drawing and writing again to make a Neverafter OC based on Bluebeard’s wife

#shhh sharkie #i saw a post circulating around that was like what story would you base your Neverafter OC on #and the first one that sprung into my head was Bluebeard cause it’s such a fucking cool tale type #and there was a bit of me being like ‘well i could come up with something more original or cool’ #i literally took all of my language arts classes in college about fairy tales and childrens literature #it’s my second non-work-related hyperfixation #i love fairy tales and mythology and stories and how that’s all so connected to history and humanity as a whole #but anyway i stewed on a few ideas cause i was like ‘oh you could do something else like this or that’ #but i’m just. really compelled by the idea of Bluebeard’s wife after the story #that she’s haunted by a) Bluebeard himself b) the other murdered wives or c) both #and i decided fuck it im leaning into it #drawing and writing for the first time in a while i love it #i’ve been so uninspired for a long time rn especially for drawing #just needed the horror fantasy season to really throw me back in #i’ve watched the first episode and it’s adventuring party twice now and i’m probably gonna watch it again before next week’s ep #*screams in fairy tale*

[atticcreationz]

We've reached the point in the season where I don't want to watch the Adventuring Party episodes until AFTER the ending, but good lord the physical restraint I will have to exhibit if any of the last few APs have even a whiff zoom energy...

#dimension 20 #and yes I chose the word whiff on purpose coz you can smell a zoom energy adventuring party coming - as we all know they reek of axe peace #but for real sometimes towards the end of a dimension 20 season i wanna just stay in the media res and not be in the meta yknow #i wanna stay in the fantasy and not know what the players are wondering or thinking of doing next i wanna be surpised yknow #and then i can go back after the ending breaks and mends my heart all at once and watch the APs for comfort ^^ #like im watching the bonus features that dont come out until the dvd is out u feel? #whelp wish me luck im gonna TRY block Adventuring Party as a tag but i have a feeling thats not gonna be full proof in the slightest #especially after that ending Emily on that wavelength and Brennan like wellllll funny you should mention those beads... #at first i thought they were the dice from the box of doom so i was like whaaaaaa we're really going there baba yaga knows dnd huh #neverafter #d20 #dimension 20 neverafter #neverafter spoilers #tagging spoilers just in case #in case people read these very long tags lol sorry #d20 adventuring party #adventuring party #like yall i didnt even watch the episode trailer at the end i shut that shit down right away and then i forgot id done that and #saw a post about murph next week and im like nooooo dont tell meeeeeeee

[gxtzeizm]

that feeling when you found a local drama series that being originated from a local streaming platform in which the plot reminds you of a fic that you wrote 6 years ago

#apparently i randomly watched the series out of nowhere and somehow i started to gain interest on it #which led me to search it on the local streaming site (it's viu if someone especially malaysians or seasians probably know) #and personally i truly love the drama series that originated from that site #i mean it's not like that typical 7pm local drama on tv just saying #but yeah i just wanna say that after i looked on the summary of the series including each of the episodes #i realized that i once had wrote a fic almost like that on wattpad #(yeah i know but it was 6 years ago tho and i'm still a middle schooler 🫣) #okay to make it simple...it's about a fantasy fic where two persons met towards each other in a same dream and all those adventure etc etc #and actually i not really completely published there because of you know...writers block and stuff #but i remember that i literally had a complete story plot written on my notebook back then #and i really want to find it #which means it's that urge for me to reboot this fic back with more refreshing ideas and also changes of the whole character line #iz being too random

[st-just]

dnd sci-fi anon here! Thanks for the answer, you hit the nail on the head.

As someone who tries to make the best game i can for my players I'm always trying to be aware of where I'm in the wrong about how I run my games, so with so many "it is impossible to do sci-fi in dnd, just play starfinder or lancer" posts I sometimes worry I misstepped by sticking with dnd overall, but I think what it comes down to in the end is that my players directly asked for a dnd campaign in space, with magic-powered tech and space elves and bringing swords to a gunfight, and we all prefer 5e over Starfinder (which would also be a good system for the kind of campaign we all wanted). I had someone who went "I want to play a wizard space cowboy" so I think this was a good pick for the campaign we all wanted.

But i did want to make sure I wasnt just being stupid about it. I agree with you and I think I just run into so many people online who don't see it that way, and that ends up making me second guess and worry that my view on it is just wrong and im being pigheaded by sticking with 5e in the end. I shopped around for a bunch of systems when i first considered this campaign but it came down to "why learn a new system when my players quite literally asked for dnd in space?"

I feel more sure about that decision after hearing from someone I dont know personally who has little reason to worry making me feel bad by telling me if I'm wrong, but also explains thoughts thoroughly enough to convince me if I am. You were more likely to give me a more detailed explanation than the people who just go "there is NOTHING dnd is good for, just play another game" and if i had just asked someone I knew would agree with me it wouldnt do much to help me feel like I made the right choice.

re:

I mean, like, 'your players are comfortable and enjoy D&D and don't want to learn another system' is a perfectly legitimate reason to stick with it! (Certainly the reason I mostly have).

Anyways, I'm super not an authority on TTRPGs at all (I can recommend Legacy and Blades In The Dark and Delta Green as all variously a lot of fun with the right group and Unknown Armies 3e has my favorite session 0/campaign creation chapter ever, but that's about it), but I can absolutely say that you should absolutely positively never take people vitriolically hating something on the internet as being the final word on its quality. Like, about anything.

#my actual take is that at this point D&D is mostly especially good for #a) introducing new players to the whole idea and culture of ttrpgs #and #b) doing the very specific subgenre of D&D fantasy #but like it's functional for a lot of action/adventure power fantasy SFF stories #reply #anon #rpg

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads // twitter thread  

Tell Me How It Ends

YA fantasy

a young tarot reader who’s barely left her family inn is recruited by a nonbinary thief to break their friend out of prison

friendship, adventure, autistic lesbian MC

#Tell Me How It Ends #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #i was very hype for this and i did enjoy it but it does suffer from some writing issues unforch #the writing a little stilted in places both paragraph wise and also wider plotting and getting from a to b conversation or concept wise….. #like. shes in an entire different city across the ocean at an inn and her brother happens to have double booked the exact same room? #there is not even any lampshading of this plot-convenient coincidence? #that sort of thing #it does have a fantasy racism allegory where theyre different species and also the opressed people are more strong and magical. #i don’t think it’s especially problematic here but it;s just like; conceptually can be… #i would have loved more of an emphasis on how she’s never left the place she grew up & is aching for adventure or something to more justify #why she just leaves with them lmao #also constant “the short man-“ use their name they’re a main character!! #anyway i do appreciate a fantasy that uses the words ace and aro #she hasnt quite figured out shes a lesbian yet but that's also pretty obvious #no romance #<- but I'm assuming there will be later in the series #having said all that; it’s fun i like the characters and when there is a good friend group and no romance i am willing to lower my standards #of writing craft a lot LMAO

[m3djed]

trans rep where characters explicitly say theyre trans or come out on screen is good n all but im gonna be honest i much prefer trans rep where the character design makes it explicit as hell but not a word is spoken about it by the other characters . they arent questioned about their gender , its obvious that theyre comfortable with themselves , theyre living their best life and no one bats and eye . thats the kind of trans rep i live for . i love seeing obviously trans people just existing peacefully without having to explain themselves to anyone . yes this is about rika pokemon and also every other gnc character in sv .

#im kind of so tired of seeing trans rep that feels like it takes up the characters whole personality #especially if its a fantasy adventure story where the plot is entirely unrelated to being trans #i dont want to see the struggle of coming out or dysphoria again and again ive LIVED it . #been there done that lets skip to the part where a trans person is living a happy life with their gender being the least of their worries #of course its important to show the struggles we face and have characters that make trans ppl know they arent alone #but i think its equally important to casually show trans people happy and at peace to give hope for the future to trans ppl seeing it #sv did an amazing job at this . so more trans/gnc side characters . thats my thought for the evening . #txt

[clownkiwi]

OH YEA hiii halloween enjoyers

i entirely get it now, the first original movie Is really good

#ruby says clown shit #marlee was here yesterday and i endulged them entirely on their horror hyperfix (specifically slasher hyperfix) #we over-evil dead ourselves with the original; the remake & the sequel #the original and sequel are really good. i still havent seen army of darkness yet but from what i heard they replace the horror and scares #with more humor & fantasy adventure. which makes sense #and then we tried to watch friday the 13th (1980) & it was very slow... so we switched to halloween (1978) #and yea halloweens really good. crazy how simple & subtle it is compared to the genre itd basically created the following years later #ESPECIALLY since halloween & friday the 13th were released like. 2 years between each other