#without any actual depth

[myimaginationplain]

I've come to the conclusion that being assigned the fandom-mandated "sunshine character" is the worst possible fate a character could face

#maybe I'm just biased because the characters that this happens to tend to be some of my favorites but I think I'm onto something #these characters aren't allowed depth of emotion or complex inner worlds. once a character is fanonized as the 'ray of sunsine' #or the 'cinnamon roll' they cease to occupy any space outside of that role in fanon content. they're happy & silly & not much else #no matter how much depth they may actually have in canon. #popular fanon has a tendency to treat happiness & goodness like states without any emotional complexity. #emotional complexity is reserved for the anti-heroes & jerks-with-a-heart-of-gold you see. #atp 'X is a ray of sunshine' has begone to feel like code for 'I don't actually care about this character very much nor do I understand #their canon narrative so I'm just gonna ignore them 98% of the time. but hey they're really nice! that's something! anyways—' #this is about many characters but I particularly want to call out aang & nightcrawler / kurt wagner as two who get this the worst. #because christ the mischaracterization they get from people who never think about them outside of the 'uwu small bean' box is infuriating #also steven universe & miles morales. although it's not so bad for steven after suf #fandom bs #please pretend I typed 'begun' a few tags back

[greensaplinggrace]

the darkling says “fine, make me your villain” because he is. what’s not clicking

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #sab #aleksander morozova #the darkling #pro darkling #sab meta #‘he acts like he isn’t the villain’ like yeah I guess if you want to examine it without any deeper analysis #when the statement itself is actually fascinating to put into a narrative context and analyze the means by which certain steadfast roles #are enacted throughout the books #and the larger implications of character want/desire and leading goal vs world state and perceived morality #largely due to prejudice and war time sentiments #as well as the individual harm caused and the way it’s significance becomes questionable when placed in stark contrast #to the broader political and socioeconomic climate #which doesn’t even take into consideration individual character roles and the doylist analysis of their relative functions as ideas #instead of entire personalities with depth #when you give an idealistic character a goal larger than life with a tactical relevance over a moral one #within a story that also centers around a broader goal of ‘saving the world’ as well as personal trauma #and attempt to liken both to the same moral equivalence and significance #then try to pit them against each other #especially when your narratively condemned villain desires more than anything to protect the masses and be loved for it #showing a fascinating level of genre unawareness. yet displaying a relative awareness to the role he has been unwillingly cast as #because he is both at odds with the genre but not with the general moral tone of the story and it's discordant messages #that rely on the pov of a character that fundamentally cannot understand him #because of his place in the story #and cannot understand the world state #because of her place in the story #you are going to get statements like this #sure yes. he ‘says it like he isn’t the villain’ #but come on. we can do better

[torgawl]

i keep thinking about how “is this what justice means to you, answer me neuvillette”, despite having been used in a case all those hundred of years ago, was probably a question that haunted - and still haunts - neuvilette during the entire time he has been chief of justice. i keep thinking about how they highlighted his struggles through time with both carole and wriothesley's trials. how guilty and powerless neuvillette must have felt for not being able to support and save those he recognised as vulnerable and victims before a system that corrupted their fates but that he wasn't able to change despite his position. the theme of being a casualty of a system no matter if you're the victim or the perpetrator in its eyes. the way neuvillette took, in both cases, things into his own hands. even if it was too late to fix the hurting carole and those who cared for her went through, even if it was too late to save her life; even if it was impossible to change wriothesley's past, his verdict and subsequent imprisonment; neuvillette went above and beyond, making use of his influence, to allow both melusines and wriothesley the opportunity of a better future - to melusines by making sure they weren't discriminated, to wriothesley by supporting his attempt at a second chance in life. i think part of the reason he's so intriguing is our awareness that this internal conflict he's bound to have is so complex. you have a chief of justice, or a judge, that is supposed to be imparcial and follow the law stictly confronted with situations of social injustice, unable to protect those who rely on him. you have someone who understands better than anyone what it means to be an outcast, being able to relate to those who are ostracised and have their pain weaponise against them. you have, in vautrin's case, a friend who cannot even showcase his own pain and is still expected to fullfil his juridical duties despite being personally related with those involved in the case. someone who people constantly turn to but whom he feels like he has no right to turn to himself. it's about the conflict between his feelings and his duty, between what's expected of him and what he can actually do. i think that's why the end of his story quest is so emotional and why it's so heartwarming to have him realise he isn't an outcast anymore, that he has a community there for him too. because a system is a system and he will probably never be able to save everyone, because yes he isn't human, but it doesn't mean he doesn't deserve to belong or that an active demonstration of love towards individuals and people he can relate to rather than the theoretical concept of humanity isn't meaningful. in fact, i'd it's a lot about that, about finding ways to be kind and how community gives meaning to life; how personal relationships and targeted kindness can shape society, or at least i think so

#i don't know if this makes sense but i like how character's stories in fontaine are interconnected in the perfect way that they're used to #give depth to each other while also existing perfectly independently #i forgot to add navia's story to the post but that's also another scenario used to characterise neuvillette #the same way wriothesley's backstory exists independently but it's also used to give depth into neuvillette's character and his motivations #the same way navia and clorinde's probably will as well #i always headcanoned (is that a verb 😂) neuvillette and wrio's friendship stemming from neuvillette trying to atone to his silence during #wrio's trial. i think it makes sense. i think it probably meant a lot to wrio too to have someone be so trustworthy after everything he #went through the betrayal from his adoptive family and his only aid through his life being the melusines who aren't human #and neuvillette being that sort of comforting older figure especially probably feels familiar to wrio #i have no idea what i'm trying to say actually i have a big headache at the moment and i feel almost delirious but i just love the concept #of neuvillette as a character and i think a lot about his friendship with wriothesley how it began and the grief and guilt neuvillette #probably still carries #but also about how he also gets the chance to a brighter future and how he achieves it so naturally without even realising #how he never expected anything from his compassion even if he saw it as duty and didn't interpret his own kindness as anything other than #his own responsabilty towards others #like idk am i making sense??? #he's just so cool 😂 #like yeah there's a layer of there's no reason he would have any animotisity towards humans because they're not at fault for the primordial #one's actions but from that to actually actively being so empathetic and compassionate goes a bit of a long way?! #okay i'm over i'll shut up this is probably si confusing i apologise if anyone read this mess shsjhs #this is also influenced by my tbk brainrot because loving others actively is a big theme and i just think that's beautiful actually #genshin thoughts #genshin impact #my post

[hmsmilkbone]

honestly. I don't really have a lot of interest in jjk anymore, which is super frustrating as the story foundation is really interesting. I have my favorite characters, and I'm not really interested in reading beyond this point.

As a whole, I'm not a huge fan of dropping stories just because they don't go the way you want. In general I personally try not to do this, but stories where the author clearly hates the material or the audience so much they're willing to destroy the story to do so are not enjoyable. I really don't think gege even really likes writing jjk anymore.

There may be some change that I hear about months from now where something worked out one way or the other, but in general I feel like this story is not going to resolve in a way that feels like reading it was a worthwhile experience. And like, for good OR bad. Not every story has a happy ending, but this is really not particularly interesting and I don't feel the need to continue a story where the writer isn't even interested in what happens or how it advances anything outside of their personal pettiness. Feels very much like grr Martin. All the meaningless death and abuse without any real redeeming qualities.

I'm trying to remind myself that not every author wants to be a storyteller. Not every story is good. It's ok to read stories that aren't the best simply because you want to see where it goes, but gege isn't superior in some way, and i dont 'trust that he's cooking'. Even if the story turns around in an interesting or strategic way, I really am not particularly impressed. Ordinarily I would stay along for the ride, but I can't bring myself to care about something even the author doesn't care about. :/

#jjk spoilers #idk i really just dont have any expectations anymore #i love reading books apart from manga and ive had to put down a few because they felt like this #and i have almost always found that in the end my perception of the author and their story was accurate #it makes me sad seeing this unfold in this way #but the shibuya arc which is apparently the least ljked arc in the series #is stretching on forever and people arent enjoying it #anecdotally ive seen a lot of people drop the series #and eventually its just gojng to be all the grimdark losers who unironically love shit like this #it just feels very much like a story for men who hate people #it feels like all the weirdos who made the joker their personality and all the dudes who cant breathe without talking about fight club #or like.. say shit about how the liberals are ruining media like thats the kind of person i see talking about jjk most of the time now #using slurs and not even having intelligent conversations about what's happening #the conversation is usually 'sukuna mid no cap' 'are you stupid gojo is mid stop copium' #and that exchange is repeated over and over like. you have nothing else to add at this point? #i mean i know its primarily bc honestly there really isnt any depth to the story beyond that but my god #what an insufferable way to write or receive a story #and honestly!! i really dont feel like jjk fits into a kids story category at this point #so i do actually feel ljke it is reasonable to expect better writing #not that stories aimed toward kids are bad but one piece is a good example of a story geared more towards children or young adults #adults CAN enjoy it but oda intentionally does not make the story so upsetting that kids cant read it and feel reflected in the events #but jjk is very very different and i think the drop in the quality of writing is reflected in the growing toxicity of the fanbase #anyways.. if you read jjk & youre feeling upset its ok to step away and check in once a month when you can mentally / emotionally prepare #i had to enforce a no read/watch accountability pact with my friends because it was making their depression worse again #no story is worth your health. gege does not give a flying fuck about you. you need to take care of yourself. #im just enjoying my sandbox with the characters and when the story is over ill check back in #theres no right way to experience the story but if its not healthy for you #you wont miss anything by unplugging #and you may find that you really dont want to get back into it when you read it again to check on the story every once in a while #jjk 237

[ettaevie]

Do you have any idea who everyone else in the flags was based on??

Hm…if you’re asking if any of the Flags’ personalities directly align with any of irl Chuuya’s friends, Wikipedia hasn’t given me a whole lot of insight into that.

I’ve mentioned in this post that I hc Piano Man as Saburo Moroi. That’s the one I’m most confident about.

Chuuya also fell for a couple of actresses in his youth named Yasuko Hasegawa and Michiko. I think Michiko was just a crush and a muse, but Yasuko was his first love and a lifelong bestie. So that could have been the inspiration behind Lippmann.

For any other possible Flags influences I’d really have to reach though. None of his most notable besties really stood out to me as having anything to do with Iceman Doc or Albatross. Not even his ride or die Hideo Kobayashi. But then, wiki pages tend to just list accomplishments over anything about someone’s personality.

If you care to go into random headcanon territory, I did consider Iceman as Jiro Aoyama, an art critic and antique collector/appraiser. He was known for his “genius, discerning eye that could see straight into the essence of an antique to critique it harshly”, which reminded me a bit of our astute assassin. Chuuya’s friend group would regularly gather at his house for "Aoyama Gakuin" meetings, and he was known to make their mutual bff Kobayashi cry at drinking parties.

I also considered assigning Iceman as Testsutaro Kawakami, the Surya member who brought Chuuya into the group and introduced him to Moroi to begin with. He, Chuuya, and Kobayashi also started a magazine together called “Idiot Group” or “The Idiots” which could maybe have something to do with the Flags. Yasuko even ended up publishing a few poems through them. Kawakami and Chuuya were also really close to the very end. Chuuya sent him a letter of farewell when he got sick and Kawakami proceeded to visit his bedside every day.

Chuuya probably knew multiple doctors, between his dad and Mori and such. That could have inspired the Doc personality. For the sake of giving Doc a name though I just went with Hiroshi Tamiya. He played cello for Surya but is most famous for being a really important microbiologist.

Albatross is an enigma.

#bsd the flags #You have now witnessed the depths of my wikipedia rabbit hole insanity #Don't judge me too harshly it's just really hard to write a longfic without giving any of the main characters actual names #Plus it was actually interesting to read about #answered

[robocops-a-christ-allegory]

you know how John Carpenter said Michael Myers was inspired by when he like visited a mental hospital once for class and he saw a teenage patient just sitting there looking kind of scary because he was spaced out. I kind of think about that alot

#villains being mentally ill or disabled is everywhere obviously but slasher villains like #are even more often mentally ill and/or disabled I feel like. Like Jason Leatherface Freddy Kruger Michael Myers Obviously #Like guys who have mental illness or mental disabilities or like. just have burn scars #I was gonna say maniac cop like maniac cops a iconic slasher but he counts too #Guy from Prom Night. Guy from Maniac #I think its a little complicated too because like alot of the time it is also to make them more sympathetic #like Jason. Leatherface. Prom Night guy. theyre all mentally ill as part of their sad backstory basically #or like their Understandable Motivation. Harry Warden Bloody Valentine's another one #Also Angela from sleepaway camp whos also transmisognyistic #Though I dont think this actually makes it any better or anything to be clear I just know its also like 'but its also sad!!!' #The funnier side of this is that guy who got like the character description for Jason without knowing who he was and #did a bunch of like in depth research to sensitively play him and then he found out he was in like Friday the 13th part 1000 #but yeah anyway. I think about this stuff alot sorry.

[bloodanddiscoballs]

Kim is a,fascist

are you stupid

#actually you perfectly articulated why i believe tumblr DE fans to be incredibly annoying and foolish #like im gonna explain more on this here in the tags #this is what i mean by the fact that i think not everyone should play this game #its a very complicated story and it requires you to really pick things apart and pay attention #and have really in depth uncomfortable conversations #many of those being political #its not an easy game to dive into and it takes a shitton of concentration and the willingness to put yourself in a space where youre ok wit #having really uncomfortable discussions and challenging your world view #and if you are not used to doing so without having basic kneejerk reactions to things and are someone who just doesnt allow themselves to #STOP AND FUCKING THINK #then DE is not going to be a game that will have any impact upon you #like yeah its got funny moments and people love to call it the funny communism game #but that is seriously such a pathetic way to look at a story that discusses the EXTREMELY COMPLICATED impact of systematic issues #like its a story that is not American or Western Centric made and that in and of itself is very important #the formation of the RCM is the specific way it is to have complicated conversations #so that one can hopefully avoid making really fucking stupid comments like the one you sent here #which btw reeks of you being American jsyk #anyway if you played this game and this was your take away just block me already #youre not someone who thinks #thats very clear #once you idk actually play the game and wanna have in depth conversations with me lmk #disco elysium

[sketchy-scribs-n-doods]

the way i wish there could be more good faith analysis and fic about billy having adopted racial prejudice from his dad and then learning to properly recognize it and grow past it in order become a better person. i wish there was more posts and fics that tackle the bullshit lucas has had to deal with as a black kid in small town indiana because the duffers never even considered it. but the sheer puritan black and white thinking and performative activism or moral virtue signaling or whatever the fuck that is so pervasive in this fandom means that even the few posts and fics that dare to try and actually tackle racism tend turn it into either a punishment narrative, are depressingly shallow about it, make it about hating and liking the 'right characters', or miss the mark entirely

like i get it, homophobia/transphobia is easier to explore and talk about for most fans. it's complex and multi-layered just like other types of oppression, but so much of fandom is queer and dedicated to shipping and labels that yeah, i can see how talking about it is just. easier for a lot of ppl. also a lot of fandom is white. and lots of white gays get weird about discussing racism in their spaces. y'know the deal, but i digress. from what i can see, very few ppl want to explore how racism affects our favorite characters and the stories they live in. i know some ppl are probably afraid of getting it wrong, or they don't know anything about it and don't feel like they should. it's like, my blorbo is queer and so am i, so why wouldn't i talk all day about that? i get it. but it honestly just means a lot when someone tries earnestly. i have read beautiful fics about trans love through hardship by cis authors and such genuine fics about connection in the face of racism's poison by white authors.

there is just SO much untapped potential in exploring lucas and max and billy and patrick and argyle and all the other characters directly and indirectly affected by bigotry and racism within the narrative that never got the acknowledgement it deserved. plus it's super weird being used as a 'gotcha!' by white fans that hate billy (as if poc fans of billy aren't capable of seeing it for the bullshit it is) or seeing lucas' treatment in the show get brushed aside like it's nothing or how argyle gets sidelined an awful lot in the fandom (and don't even get me started on how messy the classism in this fandom can be, the borderline erasure of eddie's poverty and its effects on who he is as a person in fic is insane sometimes)

anyway. idk if any of this makes sense, but i can count like maybe 3 good fics and maybe a dozen good posts about billy that actually address this in good faith and only maybe a dozen more for every other character i mentioned. and i desperately want more. i am brown and queer and i want healing and love for all of these characters and i am going to have to start churning out more of it myself at this rate.

#the dozen or so good posts are all by my mutuals at this point lmaoo #and 1 of the like 3 only good fics is ALSO by one of my mutuals #oh actually i forgot about TOWNIE make that 4 good fics and 2 written by my mutuals lol #billy hargrove #i cant tag any of the other blorbos bc then ppl will start acting stupid in my notes #i may already be playing fast and loose bc i mention my man argy #this is super incoherent bc its late for me so im not in the mood for clowns #it's rly mostly bc either billy is painted as horrible bad racist who is either forever so or needs to grovel and suffer to redeem himself #OR ppl who like him dont rly know how to tackle the obvious racial prejudice in his actions and try to toe it aside #like yea i love him but that boy isn't gonna magically free himself of any bigotry without some in depth introspection #or some very specific headcanons about what he got up to in california and what was motivating him when he treated lucas like he did #and even then you gotta acknowledge it #idk man maybe im just picky like no one is obligated to write fic this is mostly me bitching #except for the overt racism and classism n shit in this fandom that im being deadass about #but yes TOWNIE + Spin Me Right Round + Yourself or Someone Like You fic supremacy #if you have recs. hand them over pls. i have a Need.

[autistictaylorhebert]

askgame

i want to get back into power-gen stuff, so if you send me a trigger event in an ask (anon or otherwise) i'll respond with a power and some information about the parahuman's backstory. (Edit: ok the backstory stuff is mostly a lie, but if you give me backstory i'll try to expand on it)

please send trigger events 🥺

#parahumans #should go without saying: #please do not send something that actually happened to you #or to anyone you know #they don't have to be in-depth though #any amount of information is fine

[pokemart-official]

I'm sorry but is that a Pidgey?

Sorry this took so long to answer, I was trying to find a good diagram to demonstrate the differences

Gatsby is actually a Pidove He is just a variant of the normal pidove

Many people just see them as nuisance city flying types, but they weren't always! They used to be very sought after and people bred a whole bunch of variations This diagram is just a short list

As you can see the variations aren't just different colorations, but they can also change the shape of the feathers, placement of feathers, beak length, and posture of the pokémon

Gatsby is specifically a Lahore variant pidove, Although he isn't the best example because he has a lot of speckling on his chest and his muffs (foot feathers) are quite short

I will say there are some variants that are honestly kind of questionably ethically just because they can reduce quality of life of the pokémon, like ones with excessively short beaks can make it very difficult for the pidove to eat

Aesthetics should always take a back seat to the well being of the pokémon

#pkmn irl #pokemon rp #sorry to nerd out a bit I just really love Pidoves! #and i feel they deserve some recognition for being so pretty #unfortunately pidove is not the only pokemon with variants that lead to poor qol or health for the pokemon #it can happen to any pokemon bred only for aesthetics without care for anything else #really fun to talk about pokeology! #I actually would love to go to school to study it more in depth

[clonehub]

i have to remember when i critique star wars as being v liberal my def of liberal is farther right i think than other people's definitions of it are

#ch posts #for me now liberal means the mostly spineless ''politicians like AOC nnem are my friends and decorum + appearance are more important than #actual change'' types #status quo support with a face lift #so if/when I say something like Crosshair tbb and Kylo Ren ST are v liberal its like #the appearance that things are changing for the better #without the acknowledgement of how violent those ideologies are #and how one does not simply stop being fash one day #and how no it cant be cured with forgiveness and solitude #and i get for storytelling purposes any journey away from that ideology #has to be shortened bc TV/movie runtimes #but Andor (while not perfect) at least understands that people #*ppls reasons for joining it are meaningless #they had depth without demanding empathy! #thats how i wanted to phrase it #overall not forgiving the way some others are #im tired of redemption arcs i really am

[moodyvamp]

did i tell you guys about my adventures in searching for a wall shelf to put in my room

#so basically i don't have any shelves and i would like one or two because i have no more space to put things #like books comics dolls monster cans etc #so i've been spending the past few nights (yes home renovation hours start at 11 pm for me) measuring my entire room to find a place that #could fit an ikea shelf #i've decided on the east wall of my room over the corner where i keep my drawing tube and the larger folders #and i should be able to fit two of the eket cabinets from ikea (the ones that are 25 cm in depth because they look better) #but when i go to the physical ikea store i'll ask an employee if that could actually work and if not if they have a better suggestion #i'll show them a picture of the area and the measurements of the space i can take up #my budget is 50 euros for now but i may get more money for xmas so it may go higher #also my dad will have to help me install the shelf because there's no way i can drill a hole in the wall without damaging something in there

[beholdthemem]

Friendship cannot mean 'I have constant access to you 24/7', all right? It just can't.

I get being lonely. It sucks. But at some point you need to learn to manage that from time to time. That's part of being a grown up.

There will be times when your friends will be totally down to hang and chat for a long time, and times when they won't, and THAT'S. FINE. You cannot expect constant entertainment from someone like they aren't a real human being with their own worries, and bills, and responsibilities and- sometimes- EVEN A NEED FOR DOWNTIME THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE BEING SOCIAL. The fact that they are not always ready or willing to hang out and text for hours is not an attack on you, and behaving like it is is completely unacceptable.

Healthy friendship involves boundaries, and one of those boundaries is letting your friends have space. If you cannot respect that, then you might need to take some time and ask yourself if you're really all that good a friend.

#personal #read a book today that addressed this and it really struck a chord with me #when i was younger and not as good at enforcing boundaries i ran into this a lot and it. sucks. shit. #like a word of advice? that is the fastest way to kill a friendship because when you refuse to ever leave your friend alone even when #they have asked you too it quits feeling like friendship and it turns into a job. #i stopped looking forward to seeing and hearing from those people. i'd start getting panicky when i saw texts from them like 'what what WHA #CAN YOU POSSIBLY WANT FROM ME THIS TIME I TOLD YOU I'M TIRED I'VE BEEN AT SCHOOL ALL DAY LEAVE ME ALONE-' #it felt like not one single hour of my life was my own #i remember writing an essay in english class about how i didn't want to ever make any more friends because because having to babysit #constantly without ever getting a moment of respite was hard enough as it was- add any more people to be responsible for #and it would kill me. if this was the price of friendship i couldn't pay it. i would rather have been permanently alone. #when i went to college and started making some friends that actually understood and respected 'sometimes when i'm online i don't #want to talk i just want to veg' 'i can't have a long in depth text/discord convo when i'm at work' etc #it blew my mind. #those are the friends you want to keep.

[bumblingbabooshka]

YOUNG TUVOK: I was sent against my will. VULCAN MASTER: Then I suggest you leave. YOUNG TUVOK: I'm not a prisoner? VULCAN MASTER: Only of your emotions, or so I have been told. YOUNG TUVOK: My emotions free me.

#haters will say he's neurotypical #Young Tuvok wishing he wasn't Vulcan can actually be something that's so powerful #the alien feels like an alien bc to him he is not an alien but he /is/ weird...he WISHES he were an alien then everything would make sense #His teacher was like 'Tuvok you need to see what's behind you' and Tuvok was like NICE try MORON I don't have any eyes behind me #'....I meant....(sighs) Tuvok I was speaking metaphorically-' YOU CAN'T TRICK ME!!! #I love teen Tuvok #I love him as a character and as a method of recontextualizing adult Tuvok #it hypothetically (not used in the show) gives a lot of depth to his character to have been a troubled teenager on the verge of becoming #without logic...literally got kicked out of school and banished by his dad. You'd never imagine that if you saw Tuvok in canon #I love how Tuvok goes from wishing he was not Vulcan as a teen to taking a stubborn pride in the fact that he's Vulcan when he's an ensign #and I mean stubborn in a good way #Tuvok is like...when you think as a teenager that you're a weirdo and you're abnormal and you're fucked up #and then you realize what exactly was causing that and you get fucking MAD when people call you weird and fucked up #and then over time you calm down into an adult canon Tuvok who's completely at peace with himself and no longer trying to prove anything #to anyone #idk I just love him #and all his implied character growth #also I love how in snw its established that there are like facilities established to help people who are struggling with their logic #but Tuvok still got sent to some fuckin caves to deal with it because his family's religious /j #also fuck Tuvok having the same haircut his whole life I'm giving him long hair #Tuvok art #st voyager art #st voyager #bea art tag #the caption is a quote from the voyager ep Gravity #neurodivergent tuvok #autistic tuvok #? perhaps

[blujaydoodles]

@opportunity-strikes​ HI HELLO I’m gonna answer this heeere because I just realized I did a couple of sketches of them way back but never posted them aaahah

Indigo "Skylights" Asterix Pollux Kosjisk Ankabut Fatespinner is my pirate!! Quite awhile back one of my friends mentioned the idea of an all-gnome pirate crew whose ship’s name is comprised of the names of all the ships they’ve successfully raided and/or destroyed, and long story short it ended up being a one-shot and hopefully an ongoing series of one-shots :D

Indigo is the ship’s navigator and lookout; they’re a circle of stars druid, and their star map is a gold false eye etched with constellations, with a Gem of Brightness core that can project the stars outward-- which is, not to brag, the coolest idea I’ve ever had about anything (it’s an admittedly low bar; I’m not a very creative Ideas Guy lmao)

also their Archer starry form gives them a flintlock that shoots comets, and their Primal Savagery cantrip is flavored as a cutlass that’s formed from an extension of their starlight :D

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #gnome #druid #character art #heroforge #imagine the treasure map from treasure planet. that's sorta how their eyeball is (they pop it out to do readings and stuff) #in starry form their eye is the only thing that remains solid and opaque and you can see the whole thing floating and shining #I never got an opportunity to blind someone with my eyeball when we played 😭 hopefully next time lol #I default to they/them because I personally prefer consistency but they use any pronouns and their gender is 'none for me thanks' #they're an astrology bitch and constantly saying things like 'the stars predict you're gonna see a bird today' #but they also have like you know... Actual Portents and stuff as class features but they straight-face all of it #so it's hard to tell when they're being serious about astrology and when they're bullshitting you #similarly if you ask what happened to their eye they'll give a different answer every time including 'this IS my real eye?' #also we've talked about doing rotating DMs for Pirate Gnomes but my friend who ran it first had us explore a mysterious ghost ship #which was extremely cool AND we managed to grab her nameplate off her before she sank forever into the depths HELL YEAH #their roll20 bio is just 1) the 'look at the sky-- it's not dark and black and without character' bit from the van gogh ep of doctor who #and 2) the bridge from weird al's 'that's your horoscope for today' #so that's The Vibe lmao #anyway they're cool I like em they've got a handful of features I didn't get to use that I'm excited about in a theoretical future adventure #altho I'd want to better dial in how to actually roleplay them lol their voice and manner of speech was all over the place :'D #my OCs #Indigo

[guhhhhhhhhhhh]

I'm watching Queen charlotte and let me say each new episode is driving me further up the wall

#likeeeee how are they going to make race a main plot point but never actually have any meaningful in-depth conversation about it #how is this whole show like 'oh have you heard about The Problem' so ambiguously referring to any point of conflict and then resolving that #conflict without any real struggle like #ajdnfnsnsksmsmamskalsksmsmsmsksAAAAAAAA #Queen charlotte #like how are they not going to touch on COLONIALISM like Britain wS a huge colonial power at the time and at first I was thinking #oh maybe in whatever back asswards universe this takes place in Britain ISNT a colonial power but then they name dropped America #!??????