#of the fantasy variety

[the-matron-of-ravens]

Genuinely curious, what are your thoughts on Dancer and FCG cuz like, he Literally, not figuratively, tried to kill her and did kill all of her companions at the time. I can see being critical cuz she doesn't seem to treat them like sentient beings, but even in the canon... most of the automatons aren't. Just some of the really old ones from Aeor/other old cities, right? So? She got a whoops!sentient microwave, treated them like a microwave, they killed all her friends and almost her and she's supposed to....? Be good buds with them? Also I know it's said that she trauma dumped on FCG, but let's switch it from microwave to personal journal - how would YOU feel if your personal journal popped to life and attacked you for trauma dumping? IDK haha I guess Idk you opinions and I'm just responding to my projected assumptions of your opinion. REALLY I'd 100% sincerely would like to hear your thoughts. I was really bothered by FCG pushing to meet with Dancer. Like jeez just leave her alone, you're her literal sleep paralysis demon, read the room.

Hey! Thanks for the ask, I put this a little bit in the tags but I can elaborate more here. (Edit: elaborate A LOT MORE it seems)

So here goes, I don’t know if you meant it this way but the analogy of a journal or microwave is helpful here because that’s exactly how Dancer treated FCG - as a tool to be used. But they *aren’t*. FCG is a whole being with emotions and thoughts all of which are apparent and so clearly distinct from other automatons.

So tbh, I think the perspective of “whoops! Sentient bot” makes sense for like a month, max. Not years. After all, we have seen NPC after NPC recognize FCG is a sentient being almost immediately after meeting him. I find it VERY hard to believe that Dancer never realized it herself.

Additionally, we need to step out of the plot itself and look at FCG’s mechanics. We know that every time he heals, takes damage for someone else, etc. he takes stress points, and that once past a certain threshold his switch flips and he goes full Murderbot.

We also know that rest and recovery are what reduces FCG’s stress points. So that tells us that Dancer was using and using and using FCG and not letting him rest (enough? At all?) even though he needed it. Because again he’s a person not a tool.

Even when they met back up recently and FCG sobered her up she remarked how she missed him doing that for her. And while I don’t expect her to miss him, I do think it’s indicative of her interest in him never being about him as a person but only how he could serve her.

And if we want to criticize FCG for his lack of boundaries, inability to take no for an answer and pathological need to fix Dancer sure that’s fair. He needs to unlearn a lot of that and quick. But we then have to ask ourselves where did those traits come from? They didn’t come from nowhere.

FCG is mentally extremely YOUNG. Aside from the 6?-ish Months spent with Ashton all he remembers is his time with Dancer. So, if FCG has a pathological need to fix others, to help them, and feels worthless if he’s unable to do so - that comes from how Dancer treated and trained him.

That doesn’t just go away; ESPECIALLY not when FCG doesn’t even remember going postal and doesn’t see to have the (IMO) most clear and realistic view of his and Dancer’s relationship.

After all look how he interacts with the Changebringer. She’s his surrogate Mom/Dancer. He needs someone to tell him how to feel, think, and what’s Good and Bad because he doesn’t know how to do it for himself - because he wasn’t *taught* to.

But here’s my real question. What do we call one person keeping another person in service to them, with no compensation or personhood to be had, and with no intentions of releasing that person from that service? That’s slavery my dude. AT BEST indentured servitude.

(but that implies there’s a debt. What debt? Waking him up? He didn’t ask for that; that was her choice.

And again this sounds a lot like children being “indebted” to parents for giving them life, housing, feeding, etc. )

That’s the part I can’t get over. And that’s the part I can’t get behind where FCG is the abusive one. The power differential was NEVER in FCG’s court; he never once thought of himself as a person or as anything but in service of “Soul Touched”. That complete sacrifice of yourself and your needs (or an inability to even know you HAVE needs) comes from being in relationships where those things are expected/demanded.

So, yeah, he literally tried to kill her, and I gotta be real I’m not surprised. Even children of abusive parents who they love snap sometimes. Because again, that’s mentally what he was at the time. A child.

But even then, no I don’t think it’s unreasonable or unrealistic for Dancer to be traumatized or not want to see FCG again. I don’t even think she’s wrong to say “I can’t give you closure” because closure isn’t something other people give you.

But the way she’s been discussed to be largely clueless about his sentience, blameless in his blow up, and FCG’s victim? I just can’t get behind that. Like at all.

#Critical Role #CR Spoilers #FCG #Dancer #TW: slavery mention #of the fantasy variety #tw: parental abuse #I don’t think this is discourse (moreso Meta IMO) but if folks feel differently I’ll add a tag #fresh cut grass

[hellafluff]

Body diversity in Dwarven Women,,,,, Ryoko Kui marry me

#crying screaming etc #the middle girl in the line up is ME #i am also appreciating the variety of fantasy underwear #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dwarves #dwarf #crazee talk

[renthari-from-telvanni]

Darkness or Light?

#sometimes i remember i have a variety of brushes #shadowheart #shar #selûne #bg3 #bg3 shadowheart #shadowheart bg3 #baldur’s gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate fanart #fanart #fantasy #my art

[wayward-banana]

babe wake up I remembered to do a new years Takumi after 4 years

#Takumi #fire emblem #fire emblem heroes #feh #fire emblem fates #Takumi fire emblem #fe14 #blowing the dust off these tags #DAYUM ITS REALLY BEEN 4 YEARS #well here he is the man the myth the legend #TACO MEAT!!!! #def weird comparing him to the one from 2019/17 #like wow I can see all the stuff that stayed and what habits changed… #wack #anyways back to my finaled fantasy. of the fourteenth variety #also realized that I’m cursed by the number 14. the 14th fire emblem and the 14th f*nal fantasy #I used to mix their names up all the time and now I simply….. don’t.

[pbear]

I am obsessed with unique grimoires in Black Clover. Julius' grimoire with no cover, Rades' with only one page in it, Mars' fusion with Fana's grimoire, the minuscule books of those with little magic.

I honestly wish we saw it more and some of the grimoires were more unique besides their covers. I always thought Luck's looked smaller than everyone else's because he was small and fast. Maybe Magna's is more beat up or is singed at the edges. Give me the spine of Vanessa's being bound by thread. Kahono's could look like a book of sheet music.

Grimoires as thick as encyclopedias, as thin as a pamphlet, or as wide as a picture book. Gilded pages and rougher edged pages. Spiral bound and paperbacks. Someone's grimoire has to be some pages stapled together like a school essay.

#Black Clover is in a fantasy world so some of these aren't as plausible but still #More grimoire variety! #black clover

[catventuring]

Chewing on the walls, waiting for the benchmark.

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv hrothgar #hrothgar #female hrothgar #hrothgals #I was originally not very sold on the third face there #but then I realized that it's very mithra-like (FF11) #(glad there is variety for folks who want it either way)

[radioactivepeasant]

Brief note on small worldbuilding things for my aus:

So, like the JnD wiki, I've been calling their species "human" this whole time because...well, because of one deleted line where Praxis says "we're only human" in the second game.

But it never fit right with the long ears high on the skull and the body proportions more like a Lombax than a human. So in my particular aus, I was inspired by what humans are called in Dungeon Meshi and have decided to call them hu'men instead. With the backstory being that when Precursors and Ottsel Precursors interacted with the sentient species on the planet, the Ottsels called Jak’s species "the huge men". And then over time, "huge men" became the contraction "hu'men".

Admittedly some of this is so I only have to make minimal edits to my documents, but I apologize for nothing.

#jak and daxter #my aus #my writing #worldbuilding #jak and daxter headcanons #this is just for stuff i write. I've seen other people call them a variety of things and they all worked well in my opinion #i just wanted to play with fantasy language evolution and word etymology while not having to make big changes to docs

[witchofthesouls]

So is that pretend marriage Cyber au in space, does that mean Smokescreen is the normal one while Optimus and June is that weird couple that vibes on a different level?

If this is the Do As the Romans Had Done idea, then yeah. Optimus is just that buff need that's really quiet and serious, yet unintentional feral and/or terrifying. And June, while able to blend into mundane societies, has a really broken scale of a Danger sense.

I'm definitely keeping it as Other!Au, but now I'm leaning that June comes from a long line of magic-users: alchemists, sorcerers, enchanters, and what not. Think of them between deep in the mystical many-kinds-of-arts and unhinged field work scientists.

And that's why June isn't too freaked out about everything because this species-swap with an impromptu space adventure isn't the weirdest shit that happened in the family.

Smokescreen is the normal guy from a civilization that fell to an inconceivable scale of planet-wide infighting, but he attributes any weirdness from the others as "Oh, they used to humans, so it's a learning curve" and "Primes doing Prime-things."

Meanwhile, Optimus is climbing extreme cliffs to reach a stray goat without a by-your-leave or safety rigging and more than capable of fishing with his bare hands off a waterfall to use it as a teaching moment for vocabulary and anatomy structures for the kids.

June, while is more affable and likes chit-chat over recipes and the weather, is also the person that made a deal with a fae that's an Archivist in a forgotten library beneath a massive cave system to hunt down extremely rare specimens that were once predominant in textile spellcraft for protection and health. That deal ended with Jack, by the way, so he's still a spooky fae-child.

Smokescreen is deeply engrossed by Optimus in a bar: really terrible at small talk but more than able to consume fuel that's used for stripping rust infections from a tank without a grimace and starts a fist fight when someone tries to drug another person's drink without them knowing.

June is in a shadowy corner doing a secret handshake with an indescribable stranger because she recognizes their cloak's stitching and scented tobacco from her (several greats) grandmother's fellowship. Now she's back to doing odd jobs or quests.

Smokescreen rationalizes it that June was a medical professional for humans, so it isn't too out of the realm why she's interested into toxins because he's more distracted by Optimus dropping bombs that he consumed hallucinogens as a sparkling and managed to survive to make to Iacon.

#ask #transformers #transformer prime #tfp #do as the romans had done #smokescreen #june darby #optimus prime #optimus #humanformers #humans into cybertronians #magic #creature #maccadam #my thoughts #my writing #Smokescreen is getting front row seats to OP's weirdness and finding waaaaay more about the guy on the run than living in a converted silo #smokescreen is also thinking “wow humans are sure superstitious” as Jack is telling him what birds are saying and June makes a potions lab #Optimus is dropping bombs about his past and either very casual or reluctant #meanwhile June is doing scifi fantasy side quests of a more mundare variety

[fairmerthefarmer]

One time for character design practice I decided to draw Captain Drinian and also give him a sister except I’m not much of a writer so I don’t even have a name for her, all I know about her is that she’s an asexual lesbian, and like super strong or something.

Also I just want to believe that Lucy wasn’t the only woman on that ship the entire time.

#and that they are both ride or die for each other and caspian #also did this to practice box braids and locs #narnia #voyage of the dawn treader #artists on tumblr #character design #oc art #illustration #c.s. Lewis #fantasy oc #chronicles of narnia #drinian #caspian x #I love thinking about the lore and headcanons for narnia #particularly around the golden age #but also caspians era #cause it’s rebuilding this new kingdom with even more variety in citizens #I like thinking about the telmarines that stayed and why #this also exists cause I’m bisexual #fairmerthefarmer art #prince caspian #vdt

[awyanno]

I had this idea for a cloak from Pinterest and my head immediately went to Martyn. This is more fantasy inspired but has a lot of references to both his MC skin & his vtuber

#there are watcher symbols in the small purple crystals #but you probably can’t see them all that well #there are smaller details that you can probably find within the artwork #i absolutely love the color palette from his vtuber design #but I added some browns & purples to add some variety of color #plus it gives more fantasy vibes #martyn inthelittlewood #martyn littlewood #inthelittlewood #fantasy #watercolor #awyannoart

[feypocalypse-graphic-novel]

#this is so stupid #and for the record i have nothing against YA fairies #i just want some variety #meme #writing meme #wip meme #wip #graphic novel #knightcore #medieval #medieval fantasy #feypocalypse #feypocalypse graphic novel #apocalypse #fairies #fantasy #horror #fae #fey #comic #indie comics #horror comic #webcomic #web comic

[curiosity-killed]

where the world will never find me

Nine months after the world ends, Wolfwood gets a visitor.

Wolfwood & Vash | 1k | Post-Trigun

#who needs to have variety in their writing when u can just. write 1k one shots about sadness forever!!! #....okay i say that but the wips i have open are a 250k fantasy novel with a. happy-ish? ending + a ~2k fic abt love and family #and a...idk how long roadtrip is but midlength fic about hope + grief + found family #so grief is everywhere but sometimes there's also hope! #my writing #trigun fic #trigun maximum #vashwood

[rotisseries]

i think the most tragic thing in the byler fandom is that I have not seen any celebrity secret relationship aus 😔

#this is another “why don't you people like aus” post I guess lmao #“why is st*ddie so popular?” well you see those people write about a Variety Of Things. we have. fantasy. and spiderman #ok no I'm joking I know there's people writing a lot of aus I know this because they're sitting in my marked for later haunting me #(very sorry to the tumblr user writing the 1930s au and the other one writing the dirty dancing au I'm especially haunted by those 2) #I just have not felt as passionate about byler. in months. and am not reading my marked for later #so anyway I know there's aus. it does feel like we're still lacking some fundamental ones though. LIKE A GODDAMN CELEBRITY AU #do you know how bad I'm craving a good celebrity au rn #someone's probably written one I could probably go find one I just don't know what sort of tags to try #bc it could be like. band au! or actor au! or celebrity au! or twitch streamer au! like idk how someone would tag it #especially since I'm open to a variety of Known By The Public aus #I literally just need an au where they're famous sorry #stranger things #byler

[daincrediblegg]

Going to have to do a prestige war historical/fantasy drama show retrospective at some point because we need to talk about how shogun did more with one season than GOT did with eight

#also my japanese lit studies chickens are coming home to roost with this one because they really nailed so many elements of premodern #japanese court drama in a way that really tickles me silly #brandice if you’re still on here you know what I’m talking about #also mariko might be the only character ever tbh. and I miss her #like there are so many elements at play here that really speak to a deep sense of culture and cross culturality that a lot of series like it #(especially of the high fantasy variety) never fully grasp but my god they did it so well #also anjin/blackthorn I love you forever

[zaruba-needslove]

Hehe. Reblog for reach. I'm just making polls for fun lol. Not saying that I'd consider writing any of these crack combos... but it'll be interesting to check out if anyone interested in such odd ship 😃

I'm excluding the ships that were quite abundant in AO3 like KeiAce, AzuAce cos a lot of ppl tend to write those anyway. And even then there's still a lot i cant include here like WinAce, AzuKei, AzuTohru, KeiJitt, AceJitt, WinGirori...

Anyone interested in Azuma/Archimedel?

#kamen rider geats #polls #i am curious of what kind of odd crack ship ppl can think up #should I think up random crack het ship poll after this? #tbf ppl can always attempt to write these odd ship themselves lol #ship polls #like this post if you want me make the het ship polls #it might end up being cute/weird but hey #it'll be interesting to see more crack ship varieties #also mofos... when said rarepairs it cos i can't find them on AO3 okay? #i dun effing care if ppl fantasies abt odd pairs or lust for it #if i don't find actual ppl writing abt it anywhere what's the point? #kamen rider

[dinitride-art]

everyday I wish there were more stories about trans people that I could hold and cherish in book/graphic novel form. pls. I want to see trans ppl in space. and as superheroes where the story is about them 100%. and like slice of life gardening. and high fantasy. and historical fiction but like we get to be happy. and I want trans people who have magical powers and the stories about gender fuckery and saving the world. and maybe I want to write these stories too but I can’t be blamed for wanting to curl up with a good book with trans main characters written by trans ppl for me (… and everyone else too. I’m just feeling very miette about this right now) and have a fun and funky journey with a story.

#and by fantasy and high fantasy I mean I want trans people as actual characters #like the metaphors are cool too #but I want to see trans people in the actual story sometimes- most times #THIS IS ALSO A DESPERATE PLEA FOR RECOMMENDATIONS #I know there’s gotta be stories out there somewhere #I just don’t have the energy to search for them #I swear they’d cure my mental illness tho #said mental illness is greatly affecting my ability to search #so do you see the dilemma here #anyways I just know that I’ve got a ton of books with gay people in them #but I think I’ve only got one…. actually I don’t know if I own that book #…I don’t #this is devastating #oh thank fuck I own physical copies of heart stopper #got scared I didn’t have any for a second there #my point still stands tho #I want main characters #and I want them to have a wide variety of stories #thank you for coming to my ted talk