#fist of the elements

[dndtreasury]

Fist of the Elements by Goblin Coach

#goblin coach #fist of the elements #magic weapons #magic armor #guantlets #guantlet #elemental #elements #fire #flames #lightning #water #earth #earthen #electrical #modular

[dozydawn]

spinning the ball on their fingertips

chrystalleni trikomiti & yana kudryavtseva

#such a rare & fun element #interesting how their hands go about it differently. chrystal with the rigid pointing finger/fist #versus yana with her hand splayed & fingers bending at every joint #(yana did it on her thumb sometimes too. with her hand out like she was asking for a sideways/low down high five) #rhythmic gymnastics #rg #yana kudryavtseva #chrystalleni trikomiti #ball

[impossible-rat-babies]

lover’s revenge

#ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #oc: eyrie kisne #cw blood #me banging my fists this bad boy can hold so much symbolic meaning #almost all the swords are pierced through the chest like haurchefant #zephirin + charibert + grinnaux are all here #as they are the most antagonistic + the one responsible for Haurchefant’s death #adelphel is there as well—even as the youngest member he is not beyond the cruelty of his fellows and eyrie’s revenge #also something about how war takes the youngest and the finest first #there is also some element of the five of swords tarot card but it’s accidental sdjdjdjd #and the shield too. the broken shield to be used as a weapon #eyrie being mostly clean as to be related to goodness and godliness #despite the incredible violence that occurred #this is what happened when I listen to DSR shdjdjdj #anyway this is not canonical eyrie just has intense nightmares/dreams #I should have a gpose tag

[gale-sized-hole]

Was collecting possible githyanki Tav names from the fantasy name generator recently and I am still haunted by B’lessu. I assume her greatest rival is S’neeze. I… kind of want to make her now and see how I like playing her.

#a way of four elements monk obviously #uses a lot of thunder damage #fist of unbroken air etc

[sysig]

Went absolutely feral on WOY again recently (Patreon)

#Doodles #Wander Over Yonder #Specifically about Peepers #Commander Peepers #Wander #Lord Hater #Fist Fighter #Emperor Awesome #Sylvia #The quality's gonna be scuffed for the next little bit 'cause it was too scribbly to work with lol #I had fun drawing! I just was not feeling particularly careful or clean #Also I decided to try out a new challenge and editing would've eaten up too much of my time - give and take! #Hhhh even after all this time Peepers is still my fave of the cast <3 The Most queer-coded villain (minion) how could I resist! #I'm simply too gay for evil that's just how it goes lol #Plus he is So fun to draw - like all of the WOY cast is they're all so bouncy and squishy! Very fun shapes! #But Peepers is the perfect mix of elements to me - effectively an objecthead with a rounded triangle torso and so expressive! #I love himst #Immediately going in on the shipping lol - yes I do genuinely ship him with everyone featured here #The Fist Fighter is new! But everyone else has precedent lol #He's my favourite so I love all of his dynamics! Or did he Become my favourite Because of his interesting dynamics? Who can say ♪ #The most obvious ships like Wandering Eye and Death Glare are probably my favourites but hhghggg he's too interesting to leave alone! #I like him with Awesome because of a specific fic but I even besides that I think they could bounce off each other well! #And with Sylvia it's their begrudging comradery of being the Keepers of their fools <3 They have a lot in common especially their passions #As before I did not expect the Fist Fighter but I recently realized how cute they are and it turned into a rival/friendship/crush thing lol #They're arguably more competent than the Watchdogs - I think C.Peeps could grow to recognize and appreciate their prowess lol #For now it's all one-sided tho haha - still cute! #Anyway let Peepers say ''fuck'' even just once he deserves it

[bloodsbane]

one thing ive noticed watching blind/live reactions to SU, particularly when we start learning more about Rose (and then Pink) in the latter half of the series, is this idea that Rose never really suffered consequences for any of the bad things she did. and yeah i suppose if youre going through the show for the first time - especially if you're not watching as it airs, so absorbing a lot of information in a way shorter time without processing it alongside other fans - it's easy to come to that interpretation of things. the show even brings it up, this idea that Rose's choice to have Steven was so she wouldn't have to face the consequences of all her past choices

personally, i truly don't think that's the case. but it made me start thinking about something in a new way, sparked by Rose's tape to Steven. she says, "We can't both exist. I'm going to become half of you. And I need you to know that every moment that you love being yourself, that's me! Loving you and loving being you!"

i take this sentiment to heart. in a way, yes, i do think Rose wanted to escape who she was, but again, that's a discussion for another time. what i want to focus on is the idea that this means Rose - in whatever way you'd prefer to interpret it - is WITH Steven throughout the entirety of his life, and the thus the events of the show. and if she can feel Steven's love for himself, for others, for existing just as himself... that means she also feels his sadness, anger, frustration, despair.

...this is difficult ground to tread without making it sound like anything resembling 'rose/pink = steven', although i hope the fact that the show itself handily refutes this is enough to undercut such a reading. what i mean to say is, in a way, Steven dealing with everything in the show is also Rose dealing with it. if we generously accept the idea that her 'spirit' or what have you lives with Steven, if not as Steven, and that she to an extent does experience what he does, then it kind of adds a new layer to the way you watch the show. a really interesting one!

because i think one of the most difficult things to consider with SU, especially once you get through it the first time, is the idea or feeling that Rose's story just... stops. and there's so much leftover that needs to be resolved. i mean, hell, that's the entire point of the show to an extent. Steven dealing with what she leaves behind. but i think there's something nice in the idea that Steven does not only inherit powers or thousand-year-old problems from his mother - he also inherits her love of freedom and life, of family and friends, and a heart that wants to find solutions to problems in a way that doesn't hurt anyone else.

i guess think of it in this way: if Steven is able to see his mother's memories, to feel what she felt in those moments, who is to say that Rose, in whatever way she continues to exist (even if only as a concept), does not also feel what Steven does?

i'll tell you, this has been an interesting way to re-experience the show. i think it adds a lot to the bitter-sweetness of Rose's relationship to Steven. i thinks she loved him so much, even if it was only the idea of him and what he represented to her. and i kind of love to think that, even if it is only some metaphysical concept of Rose that now rests forever inside her gem, dormant but for the power and life she's bequeathed to her son, Rose recognizes the trials that Steven is going through and aches for him. that she would hold him, if only she could.

#banebabbles #fuckin uh. #su meta #steven universe #i need yall to be cool w me on this one i stg im not saying rose is like. still Alive #it's the Vibe. the Feeling. the Concept #rose is gone but like the heart of her is not #crying bc this especially makes storm in the room like. A Lot #shakes my fist at the sugar woman for making it so delightfully ambiguous how much of that ep was steven talking to himself #since there are elements in rose's room eps that hint at the idea of the room's autonomy(???) being a reflection of rose #or SOMETHING #IDK #IT'S 2022 HERE'S SOME SU META JUST TAKE IT

[radioactivepeasant]

Fic Prompts: Snippet Monday

Some weeks ago, @sparguscityangel and I were discussing the world map in Jak 2, and it occurred to me that at least one character refers to the northeastern area of the main continent as The Wasteland as well as the island to the west. And in the Jak and Daxter franchise, plot holes are just writer worldbuilding opportunities. So we started tossing around the idea of there being two or three separate communities of Wastelanders, all in different environments, because "wasteland" doesn't automatically mean "desert". And we thought "maybe they're all loosely affiliated and the leaders of the clans meet up every once in a while". For context, my idea of the other clans was Longstump Clan, down where the swamp used to be in TPL, and Foothills Clan, which lives around what used to be the Spider Caves and the base of Snowy Mountain. All this then got incorporated into Adopted Dadmas au with a pinch of Spy Tess. (That bit comes tomorrow)

"Fine young gun you've got there, Wolf."

The chief of the Longstump settlement took a drag on his intricately carved pipe and nodded to where Jak was climbing up one of the old pillars to watch for Marauder activity below. The old man snorted as the boy turned an unnecessarily elaborate flip to make it to the top.

"What is he now, eighteen? Nineteen?"

"Sixteen, by count of his last physical," Damas answered, sparing the boy a glance. A faint smile tugged at his cheek. "Sixteen, impudent, and always climbing, that one."

Sal puffed out a smoky chuckle. "No wonder the Foothills band likes him."

He leaned back and shook out the soft hide vest and tunic common to the inland Wastelanders, rattling with wooden beads and Precursor metal. His hands were wrinkled, and his face creased; Sal was old enough to be Damas’s father, but his hair was the same deep teak it was in his youth, tied back in neat plaits.

"At the rate he's going, he'll have no trouble when it's time for his Proving," Sal observed.

"Hm."

The Proving. That was what the Wastelanders of Longstump called the trials to usher newcomers into their ranks: a three day test of strength against metalheads in the basin, with an amulet awarded for each day survived.

The Foothill Wastelanders called their test Running the Spire. Young warriors or outsiders wishing to join had to race up a dangerous trail on the border of the Marauder homelands, without being caught by Marauders or dangerous wildlife, and infiltrate Snowy Mountain to bring back a piece of Marauder armor.

By comparison, the Arena was a far more controlled environment, with more rules. There was a strange irony in that.

Damas couldn't have said why the swell of pride he felt was so overwhelmingly strong, but he didn't bother to hide it.

"Jak has already passed the first two trials of his Proving," he corrected the Longstump chief with a full smile.

"I predict that before winter, he will join the warriors' councils as an equal."

Sal took another puff of his pipe and shook his head in wonder. "Two amulets and he's sixteen. Shee-oo! You dune-wolves don't do anything by halves, do you? You must be so proud."

Damas looked up. "I am," he murmured, smiling.

From the top of the pillar, Jak seemed to feel his stare. He looked down and made a questioning face. Damas snorted and signed up at him, "No moncaw-business! I'm not stealing light eco from the temple if you fall down and break both your arms!"

Sal laughed out loud beside him. "Ah! I remember telling my daughters that all the time!"

Yvelle, matriarch of the Foothills Clan finally looked up from the trade agreements the three had been exchanging. "Sometimes you just have to let them learn the hard way," she offered.

Damas made a face. "Can't. He convinced an Oracle in Haven city to teach him how to battle-shift -- like the Sages used to in the history books -- and now half the time he just regenerates whatever damage he's done to himself. I tell you, if my hair wasn't already white..."

"Your boy is a War Sage?" Sal sputtered, choking on smoke.

Yvelle's eyes glittered with interest. "No wonder he's half done with his Proving already. Hey, if you need a break, just send him up to the Caves. We'll tire him out."

"In your dreams, Yvelle," Damas scoffed. "Get your own kid: Jak's mine!"

"Worth a shot," the woman joked. "But seriously, my Lurker Wastelanders are asking about taking back their ancestral city in Frosthold. Loooooot of Marauders up there. We could use a War Sage."

Damas leaned back and searched the sky for a moment before his eyes landed on the Day-Star. He frowned. "Let's deal with subverting the apocalypse first. Then we'll see how far I'm willing to let my boy travel unaccompanied."

Of course, Jak would likely have all three amulets by then, and thus be considered old enough to go where he wanted. But Damas wasn't fond of the idea. He'd lost one son, why tempt fate by letting another wander far from home without supervision?

#jak and daxter #fic prompts #writing prompts #snippet monday #adopted dadmas #wastelander ocs #jak and daxter ocs #Sal has four daughters in their twenties and thirties and he's very well versed in Teen Wastelander Nonsense #Yvelle has no children because she'd rather be Bad Influence Auntie to everyone #dadmas #king damas #damas has only recently adopted jak but he's absolutely going to make his peers think he raised jak from childhood #jak plays along because he's never had a dad before and he's loving it #part two to follow tuesday #during the whole meeting dax is having the time of his life ruling the cook tent with an iron fist #spot the Horizon Zero Dawn reference 😉 #the Longstump and Foothills Wastelanders have elements loosely inspired by the HZD Nora and Banuk #adopted dadmas au

[amarriageoftrueminds]

reminder: pre-serum Steve is not a 'feisty chihuahua' picking fights

he is the lone quiet voice of reason who HAS to repeat himself loud because bullies do not listen

and he stands his ground because some people do not have the LUXURY of running away from their problems

#did I post this yet? #steve rogers #steve meta #dat's me #pre-serum Steve #we have to remember that there is a strong element of: disabled man being attacked by able bodied bullies #in what happens to him before serum #getting the serum was like being suddenly able to catch the fist that had been swinging towards his face all his life #and fight BACK

[everybodyknows-everybodydies]

the kharish emotions are upon me… what kinds of things does she like to do for fun with her friends at winterhold? :) & humor me on this one but in some distant hypothetical future do you think she and colette are the type to coordinate outfits….

UPON ME AS WELL... ;u; rubs my hands together. WELL

very important: mini book club with Urag. once in a while someone else joins out of curiosity but mostly it's just the two of them every Fredas afternoon animatedly discussing the pick of the week and taking turns choosing the next one. she tries to keep her picks to things she thinks he'll enjoy rather than the overwrought fluff she keeps on her nightstand so the first time he gruffly is like "...let's do this one next" about something that in a world of mass-market paperbacks would have an elaborate oil painting with lots of roses and windswept silk on the cover she's so touched she doesn't even tell him it's one she's already read.

she's coming from a background where everyone eating together is an important part of community bonding but UNFORTUNATELY the dining hall is mostly occupied only by students as faculty/staff largely prefer to eat in privacy when possible for a cherished hour of peace. she'll go eat with someone when it's not an intrusion but it's not the same :( solution: occasional ladies night... very informal dinner crammed into someone's office (they rotate!) with extra chairs pulled in from the next room over. the importance of sharing bread AND of sharing laughter <3

one of these days they'll be able to clear a decent space in the Hall of Elements so she can teach them the most fun festival dances and try to learn some of everyone else's cultural dances as well... it's a LEARNING opportunity! in which everybody has a turn getting dipped: giggly first-years and wizened professors alike YOU get dipped and YOU get dipped and YOU - (first though we have to find some music 😔) in the meantime though if you catch her in the right mood in the stacks you are in imminent danger of being twirled. Urag is the primary victim due to proximity and now takes this in stride. she's up on a stepstool once when Faralda comes by and twirls her twice because it makes her laugh.

to your second point. making me weep asghsdklfj. on normal days I think probably not intentionally but if there happens to be some more elements of subdued navy and restoration green-gold in Kharish's wardrobe or if perhaps Colette has taken up a scarf in a very specific shade of blue then. well. :') for the rare Event however Kharish is like what are you wearing I want to make sure I match!! ...what do you mean "normal clothes" that doesn't help at all let me see :'|

#Mouse talks! #Kharish gra-Shatul #me @ myself with tears in my eyes. make the dancing happen it is a mighty need #also clenches fist. I just think. when characters' color palettes take on elements of each other's................. it is Good #THANK YOU JAY... gleefully made good and correct use of company time today working on this <3

[orcboxer]

Castlevania Nocturne is so fucking incredible holy fucking shit.

#orcspeak #the writing of this season is on par with season 4 of the original and the fights are somehow even better #the plot with the singing. Annette's whole character. Mizrak and his dragon boyfriend. the binding of isaac allusion #and on top of that Richter fights with magic elemental fists more than once #also I'm kind of in love with Mizrak #fuck man i can't wait to see season 2

[phantastragoria]

do you have a favourite portrayal of a character in the gotg game!! who is it and why <3

Oh I think they're all great honestly!!! Part of why I love the game so much is that genuinely, the whole team + supporting characters are written with such obvious love of the source material and equal attention between them all. When I see comments of people saying who their favorite character was from the game and the answer always being different from each person I'm like!! That's how it SHOULD be!!! They're the Guardians of the Galaxy (plural) the focus shouldn't all fall on a singular character like most other GotG media usually ends up as 😭

The two (sorry I can't pick just one) whom I think benefit the most from the game though are Drax and Gamora because they're almost always sidelined both in-and-out of universe by most of the various writers (especially as of late) and in turn the viewers/readers. I've been told plenty of times that they're the most boring members of the "main" team, BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY! The amount of love the game versions get (by the few who've played it at least) proves that 🥺

I've never really liked 616 Drax shifting to being a complete clown during the 90s and such (and even less so when the MCU followed along 💀) So I appreciate the game taking a bit of his seriousness from the DnA run and just making him struggle with nuance and context clues in a less exaggerated way (autistic Drax I still believe in u) and I feel the focus put on him and how losing his original family + the aftermath deeply affected him hits pretty hard here because it's treated very seriously and shown in depth, especially with how his family (wife) gets actual focus. I cannot tell you anything about Yvette in comparison to Hovat, who actually seemed to have had a personality lol (AND she was on their village's council like omg imagine having more to you than just being The Housewife) Though I will say I flip and flop on my thoughts about Heather being disconnected from Drax's life in this universe... The TLDR is that I think his arc here specifically works stronger when he has to come to terms with losing his entire family and accepting the life he currently has with the Guardians. BUT!!! I very much appreciate that Heather is still confirmed to exist within this universe, even if that means her dad issues would have to be dealt with in a different context if we ever get to see her.

Also? Shoutout to the writers actually bringing up the intense paranoia that always kneecapped 616 Drax but having that be a turning point in his backstory here, with that conversation he has with Peter where he talks about how he was becoming so paranoid of everyone being a chitauri/Thanos conspirator to the point of literally turning into an obsessed maniac like Thanos, and realizing that he desperately needed to turn his life around, it's so ough.

Out of the already many great conversations throughout the game, I think the ones with him are the most poignant. My favorite scene in the whole game is Drax and Pete's little moment on Knowhere... makes me go wahhh

(l also love that out of everyone on the team, it's his headspace that we quite literally get to go into. You KNOW that if this was any other media it'd be going into Rocket or Groot's head and likely treated as a joke.)

And oh my god, Gamora...

I find it so extremely refreshing that her role in the plot doesn't revolve purely around the men in her life, and instead, it's nearly exclusively her connection with other women. Or in the most direct obstacle she has to deal with, being how she starts projecting to the millionth degree on Nikki's situation for reminding her of what happened to her and Nebula. I find that infinitely more fascinating as a reading of her character rather than just dating drama or her arc getting completely overtaken by a man's instead.

And especially in her friendship with Mantis, who, despite having all these futures she's constantly seeing and having to navigate, still makes time to do her best to help her 🥺 From saving her life and being the one who put her on the path to healing on Lamentis, to getting her to join the Guardians and still checking in on her when she's able 😭 Friendship between women can be so powerful... u love to see it (🏳️‍🌈)

I also find it nice that there's this emphasis on her recovering mentally, and the comparison between Thanos essentially teaching her to just Deal with the shit in her life through very simplistic meditation versus the priests of Pama actually teaching her something to help soothe the mind :^( and that she still has moments of relapsing essentially. I find that to be a realistic take on recovery because that's just part of the journey since healing is not linear... and I think it's very sweet that she finds comfort in collecting something ---girly--- like dolls. Love to see a person reclaim a part of their childhood that they weren't allowed to experience. And how she's allowed to make BAD JOKES?? Imagine a woman being written to have multiple dimensions, crazy and absolutely unthinkable, I know.

There's this extremely specific theme in relation to Gamora across media that's been rattling around in my brain since first playing the game. When near the end during the revisit to Knowhere, she's about to completely lose it when Peter tries talking -for- her on what she's so upset about before immediately shooting him down, and she explains what happened between her and Nebula and she starts crying. It really struck me right then that she's never given a moment to cry elsewhere (or in the 616's case, the quite literal inability to.) aside from her shedding a Single Manly Tear (Original Sin) or a single moment out of legit fear (MCU 💀) because she's a hashtag Strong Independant Woman who can't be vulnerable etc etc. But for her to cry in front of the people she's come to care about, It gives her a moment of true vulnerability that I don't think she's allowed ever in most other media.

That and all of the above hits hard and is what makes me genuinely believe that the writers cared about her in the narrative and tried to do right by her when every other bit of media really hasn't nor cared to the majority of the time since the 90s :'^/ Brings a tear to my eye that she's allowed to just... exist in the narrative on her own merits and not on what she can provide to someone else's story.

#lex thoughts #gotg thoughts #universe: eidos game #gotg2008 #sorry for asking for a question then immediately disappearing for a month 💔 I'm on the most stressful roadtrip ever #i 🫶 you for asking about them though the Eidos gotg are my everything and i won't shut up about them if given the chance #very funny to me that all these important moments happen on Knowhere. Strange things can happen at the end of the universe. #The end page of W&tIW 09 is the only other Gamora moment of vulnerability across media that i can specifically pinpoint #But it's more self reflection in a way of a heavily traumatic experience that I don't feel ever truly got resolved within the 616 IMO #And I find it a specific point to be made when Gamora is/isn't allowed to feel or literally denied things that are stereotypically- #-categorized as -feminine- (which is dumb to assign gender roles to a simple human emotion such as CRYING.- #-But you get what I mean I hope) We play fast and loose with gender around here pardner I think all of the gotg should cry more #but in Gamora's case specifically it Hits Different knowing her past and treatment throughout media #i could also heavily go into the way the game adapts Peter's character in relation to his element guns but that's an essay for another time #just because -i- find that extremely fascinating doesn't mean i think he should particularly be the main focus (and he isnt) #bc pete rocket and groot are the ones that already get all the attention (even if i dont agree with how they're written elsewhere) #i just find it more engaging for the other two main characters of the team that always get sidelined by the writers actually being put in- #-the spotlight with equal attention given to them for once to be sooo -shakes fist #sorry for the intense word salad i hope i make sense lol ESSAY/RANT OVER .🤐

[feelingsfromallison]

Good day to everyone except for whoever was in charge of the marketing for Elemental, yall did this movie so so dirty 

#elemental #seriously it was so good #haters gonna catch some fists

[peepooworld]

girls when the html is entirely fucked and you have to edit it by hand. groan.

#so glad i'm taking a free course otherwise i'd be shitting myself over this. #shaking my fist. why the fuck would you make every paragraph element have a span element inside it. we don't need this. #the paragraph block element is a perfectly good container. why the fuck would you also make every font style be contained in another span. #what the fuck! i'm in agony.

[hoaxghost]

public enemy no.1 is whoever wrote the homura/mami fanlore page

#smh #though i do make an appearance on it #but seriously i cannot believe people do not see the utter potential... #its about putting someone (madoka) on a pedestal so high you no longer can reach her #and then finding yourself in the company of those who are also seeking the same sort of connections you are #and discovering the love that can come from shared experiences of loneliness #but the connections can never last as it keeps on looping again and again causing one to constantly be in the self loathing cycle #however while mami is not privvy to the cycle she still latches onto an element of hope despite how fleeting it may be to her #while homura knows far too well of what is going on she is reminded of that hope for a better ending by mami #though the cycle keeps ending in losing everyone one cannot forget it can also be a cycle of reuniting and gaining companions again and aga #mami represents the start of the loop the start of a new day with hope for your friends even if the dark of the night was harrowing #while homura is the moon always having to see the end of sunshine #DO U SEEEEE clenches my fist #always following after eachother both completing the outcome for eithers path #hope after loss #and loss after hope n gain

[rough-handss]

not to talk about like minds AGAIN BUT FUCK THIS really. the way this idea is actually so interesting and it could be SO MUCH MORE if it was a book/series instead of a movie.

#like minds #murderous intent #and we only have one movie #17 fics #and edits #like!!! i love it but i want MORE #biting my fist #also like don’t get me wrong #i like the movie #but there are SO MANY ELEMENTS THERE!!! #and i would love to read alex and nigel relationship development #so many thoughts

[crystal-grotto]

//augh brain is vice gripping young Alex thoughts/verses/aus

#taking a break - ooc #//shakes fist at the BF1 campaign and my general idle daydreamy thoughts that mash in fantasy elements