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equinoxts2 · 10 months
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You have no idea how much I actually struggle with setup for TS2.
Since my game is a coping mechanism and a comfort for me, I get extremely stressed when I can’t play it and that makes it difficult to get through the whole process of building, creating sims and - if it’s a Kulo Sena rebuild, and it nearly always is - doing all the SimPE stuff to give them their personality, interest and skill points, recessive genes and age days left back. I’m so tired of it. And because I can never bring myself to ditch ACR - I don’t know why, because I actually hate ACR - I always end up with population booms that make the next inevitable rebuild even harder.
I need my TS2. Giving up on it isn’t quite up there with woohoo and abandoning my spirituality on my “I’d seriously rather die” list. But playing my way is so setup-intensive, with the need to pick downloads for that all-important non-modern-Earth visual, decorate terrains, build (and you know me and building), make sims, come up with names and backstories, SimPE editing... I’m going berserk here. I’m seriously contemplating sticking to solo TTRPGs for my worldbuilding and gaming fix, but I desperately want KS back, and I want to play, and I can’t take any more setup, I can’t.
I desperately need help but I feel ridiculous calling my usual helpline and saying I’m losing the will to live because I have building to do in my favourite game, even when it’s true - I’d feel terrible about taking up some volunteer’s time with that either way. But the need to do all this stuff has been sending me further into the depths of despair all week. I don’t know what I can do...
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robynqueenofstuff · 2 years
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If you like these things feel free to follow or rec your blog for me to follow if you like
Writing tips - worldbuilding, character development, tropes, the whole shebang. I am planning to start sharing more stuff from my WIP if you’re interested.
news on book releases and announcements or ARC requests is increasing on my blog and I’m a massive animation buff so animation news of any kind is fine. facts about history and mythology of all kinds are great too. psychology recently became a big interest for me so i been looking for good ones to follow.
I like pretty things. I like macabre things. I like Star Wars. I like cats. i like art, I like fantasy like Narnia and Spiderwick. i talk about a lot of things that are underrated in my opinion.
actual good news. i cannot stress this enough. I need actual good news in my dashboard! i like hearing good news dammit!
no complaints about me sharing helplines and charity links thank you
help
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aboleth-workshop · 5 years
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D&D/Worldbuilding Asks!
Hey Friends!  From now on, I’ll be taking regular Worldbuilding and D&D/Tabletop RPG Asks every Friday!  
I will try to answer as many questions as I can that day at @aboleth-workshop, while peppering in a few asks during the week so I don’t overwhelm your feeds.
I take all questions (keep it PG-13 ish please) regarding the following:
Dungeon Master Problems
Tabletop Horror Stories
Perpetual Problem Players
Campaign/World Creation Obstacles
How to get an idea working
D&D/Fantasy Races - discussion of canon, ask for new lore for older stuff, or share your own spin
Recommendations for D&D books and other TTRPGs (I’ve read a good few)
My Game Design: 
Currently playtesting my D20borne (D&D Bloodborne) system
Want to see past D&D Asks?  Click here for #d&d-ask, or the few ask masterposts I’ve done.
I’m deciding to put all my Worldbuilding and Tabletop Writing posts in Aboleth-Worshop, leaving my main blog ( @aboleth-eye ) for artwork, reblogging campaign ideas/stories, and other fun stuff!
And if you want to join my Discord where I post memes, host D&D Bloodborne and other rpgs, etc. Click here!!
Thanks!  Love you all!
-- Aboleth-Eye!
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aboleth-eye · 5 years
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What is your take on a world that has discovered and utilized electricity, but not miniaturization?
Hmmm, an interesting worldbuilding concept.  Electricity’s utilization brought a great many changes to the way people live their lives, and the boom in electronics brought electrical 
You could have a multitude of worlds where:
Lightning “farms” drive an entire Industrial Revolution/Regency era society.  Military Ships sail massive kites above them to capture lightning for electric cannons.  Home appliances are sustained by smelly coal generators, with the richest neighborhoods indulging in the new Lightning Tower line that just went up in the city.  Many of the fanciest balls take place over gigantic vents, where dancers float through the air to music.  Technology is the bees knees in a world where the greatest computers take up entire college campuses; with classrooms full of students studying inside the great electric mind.  Great Tesla brand towers would charge the air, allowing all the bulky metal-finished appliances to function without wires.  This world would be a mix of The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Fallout and Close to the Sun.Or a world where robots are bulky but commonplace things--friends that take care of chores, work in factories or entertain at discos.  Big phones and big computers everywhere.  Disco never dies with massive dance halls with lighted floors.   Vice is all electric, baby: hologram headsets project dancers and films in your own home.  Drugs are flown in on unmanned drones, with both sides handling joysticks in arcade-like bases.
Just think of the era you want to have technology present, then let it stagnate in its refinements.  Technology is made to be made, not to fit in the palm of your hand.  No one wants to build a battery smaller than a grain of rice because it’d get lost in the clutter of the era.
Considering the technology level of your world is a great step in establishing limits to the story you’re telling.  With those boundaries in place, you’re free to establish other rules or just go wild, all while remaining consistent in your world’s abilities. 
Thanks for the ask!  I hope this was helpful!
-- Aboleth-Eye
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ettawritesnstudies · 4 years
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Hello my dear friends!
I don’t talk about this sort of thing often, but this is super exciting for me so I needed to share. Some of my FAVORITE Youtube channels are doing a Charity Live Stream right now playing Spiro, talking about writing and storytelling in order to benefit Crisis Test Line: a super important mental health service!
This is such an important cause and I know a lot of us here on Tumblr struggle with mental illness so I wanted to put the link out there and spread the word! Boosts would be appreciated! Plus, you get to hear from a bunch of brilliant YouTubers all about writing!
The host is Hello Future Me - who does video essays On Writing and Worldbuilding that taught me literally everything about writing, plus a lot of stuff on LOTR and ATLA. He volunteers for a youth crisis helpline so this is really important for him.
Other people are Benji from Tale Foundry and Red/Blue from Overly Sarcastic Productions, which are two of my favorite youtube channels ever, and a bunch of other people and there’s a ton of other people coming too! There are so many interesting insightful conversations going on so you should totally go check it out and donate if you can! It’s going on for about another 20 hours (as of 12:00pm EST, 12/7/19).
Here is the link!
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prinzenhasserin · 6 years
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Chocolate Box Exchange
Dear Chocolatier!
Please don’t feel obligated to use my prompts! This letter is just in case you might want to poke at some more of my prompts/likes. Generally, I’m open to a lot, and I will be delighted with any rating from gen to explicit. My AO3 account is here.
My prompts may tend to the longer side, but I’d love just a snippet or a scene from any of them, or illustrations of any of the scenes, too ❤️
(If this letter cribs a lot from my other letters, it’s because I’m lazy, and my likes don’t change around that much :D You can find some of my other letters under the exchange letter tag. I hope you have fun creating!)
General likes:
loyalty
odd couples!
found family, dysfunctional families that nevertheless love each other
historical stories for same-sex pairings that aren't unhappy but that fit with the society of the time (so like, spinster ladies living together; bachelors-for-life)
cultural differences! age differences! height differences!
heists, rescue missions
character driven narratives
dragons, fairy tales, magical realism, urban fantasy
Space AUs
competent characters
people not realising they’re the most competent at their job/hobby
people failing their way to success
happy endings, earning your happy ending, open yet hopeful endings
cynical humour
mutual pining
everything is better in suits, corsetry, fancy dresses
Identity shenanigans (secret identities, mistaken identities)
Blatant Lies
Enemies becoming friends and/or lovers
outsider POV
epistolary, poetry, unusual narrative formats
orange/blue morality (that is, not entirely human morality); grey/grey morality
non-verbal expressions of affection
Art likes:
sketches! 
textures! 
background! 
lavishly designed worlds and setting! 
Kisses! Sleeping Together! 
Trees! 
Colours! Black and White! Sepia! 
Explicit art! beauty spots and scars! hair!
Kinks:
wall sex
shifting power dynamics
semi-public sex
lots of foreplay, drawn out orgasms, edging
desperate sex, drunk sex, we-just-can’t-help-it!sex, sex for life-affirming
sex toys
sex toys in public (though I get embarrassed if someone else notices)
General dislikes:
infidelity in mentioned pairings
suicide
non-con (dub-con is totally fine though; as are consent issues due to power imbalances, people not knowing all the facts, or drunken sex-pollen-escapades)
permanent character death
unrequited love between requested pairings
non-canon nicknames
Gokusen (art+fic)
(Pairing: Sawada Shin/Yamaguchi Kumiko)
How do I love this so much? I have no idea. I’m not even near high school age anymore, and yet the plot (and tbh, sometimes its ridiculous nature) always gets to me. I’d read more about any aspect of this canon though I am a little more partial to the manga, for giving me more content ;), and if you want to bring in any other characters, feel entirely free to. Post-canon would be great, but anything goes really.
How does Shin convince Yankumi to have sex with him? (A wonderful fic I got was with plenty of bad yakuza movies, which :D :D :D but I am always open for more! Maybe Shin speaks to Kumiko’s competitive spirit? Maybe he asks her to spite the police commissioner, by doing it in his house? Maybe there is some heavy kissing because they are trying to escape thugs/police/Kumiko’s students?)  Is he getting kidnapped left and right before they actually get together because all and sundry already think they’ve been doing each other for years?
If they are already in an established relationship, how does Shin deal with Yankumi’s students (especially when one of them develops a crush)?
I’d be also super interested to see how other people view their relationship, like Shin’s father, Kumiko’s grandfather, the other yakuza groups, her students-- or simply Kumiko and Shin setting out to fight an up-and-coming group of delinquents, rescuing kittens, or Shirokin, from an overzealous school commissioner?
I have no problems about depicting violence, or graphic criminal activities, but please no major crimes involving children.
Inuyasha (art+fic)
(Paring: Inuyasha/Sesshoumaru)
I am here for all the contrived reasons to get them together. Hate!sex? Yes! Sex Pollen? You got me! Arranged marriage by their dad to keep dog demons with dog demons? I am here!
What I like is their contemptuous relationship with each other, that nevertheless evolves -- I like that they claim to not spit on the other if they were on fire, but when push comes to shove, they do help each other, and defend the other from their enemies. I like that they are halfbrothers, that they clearly recognise the power in each other, the underlying class issues, and all.
How about a small snippet of them teaming up together? Surprised by sex pollen, or a gender-changing well? time loops would be awesome! as would Inuyasha and Sesshomaru meeting again in the future, with Inuyasha time-travelling and Sesshomaru getting there the conventional way. Would also read soulmates!fic, or a sleeping beauty AU
I see both Inuyasha and Sesshomaru as fairly aggressive and forthright, and would prefer you not to characterise either of them as submissive (outside the bedroom).
Miss Marple (art+fic)
(Pairing: Miss Marple/OFC)
I am a fan of Miss Marple. I, too, have lived in a quiet town where you can see into the abysses of the human condition :D
I’d love to read something that lead her to the person we know her as, maybe when she went to the girl school in Switzerland? Maybe during her time in the cypher division, during the war — maybe the cypher division was really a cover for Miss Marple’s spy activities for the war office?
I’d also love fic about her as we know her: spending time in St. Mary Mead’s and solving crimes, quietly knitting her nephew another sweater. Was she maybe in love with a woman the whole time? Did she quietly retire into a cottage with her best friend, and everyone knows but doesn’t really?
Depending on when you set it, I would also love Miss Marple in a relationship one wouldn’t expect of her -- with a rival maybe? An enemy spy? A crossdressing motorcyclist, or a authoress of mystery novels. I would love an outsider POV on that! Or a 5 Times someone was surprised by Miss Marple’s companion thing.
Harry Potter (art+fic)
(Pairing: Amelia Bones/Minerva McGonagall)
I’d love to see a slow blossoming romance in the halls of the ministry, when they both started out as Aurors. Or maybe they are rivals, always competing for the same spots on specialisation teams and then, sparks fly, and there’s tension filled hate-sex? Maybe Minerva is Amelia’s auror trainer, or her superior officer, and Amelia keeps breaking the spirit of the rules while following the letter in the interest of capturing a culprit?
Would also read a story set later, when Minerva is already a Professor at Hogwarts! I love tiny extra bits of worldbuilding that show the inherent magic in the setting (like magic knitting needles, or self-filling tea sets)
(Feel free to disregard their entire backgrounds on Pottermore.)
Original Works (fic)
If you’d like to go wild with the pairings alone, that would be delightful! Otherwise, here are some thoughts:
Bored Female Physics Prof who Built a Time Machine Last Week/Female Human Intergalactic Ambassador
Long suffering Intergalactic Ambassador trying to reign in the mad genius that’s been time-travelling across history! What is there not to love? 
Or; Intergalactic Ambassador is stranded on Earth and now this remarkable (beautiful, brilliant) woman has built a time machine with which she can get back to her people
adventures through time and space! physics prof trying to woo her lady love and getting stuck in time loops instead, and her lady love having to rescue her!
Classic Hollywood Female Screenwriter/Classic Hollywood Actress
they have a longterm relationship behind scenes
Screenwriter keeps writing roles for Actress, who is very annoyed at being typecast all the time and keeps bugging the writer about being a hack, and the Screenwriter is very condescending about her acting talents --> hatesex ensues
a happy ending for expies of Greta Garbo/Mercedes de Acosta maybe?
5 Times the press walked in on them having sex and didn’t realise it
Demon Brother/Half Demon Brother | Demon Hunter
idk, idk (I WANT IT LIKE BURNING) uhm, yes.
tempestuous relationships! drawn out seduction that devolves into physical confrontations!
xeno? vaguely inhuman anatomy? yes! sex pollen! ritual sex to do stuff! 
maybe demon hunting together, demon brother freaking out that he’s a traitor to his race? demon hunter brother freaking out that he’s a traitor to his people? yet both of them not being able to resist each other
soulbonds
I’d like a happy or open ending, please!
Down-On-Her-Luck Aristocrat Forced to Become Barista/Emperor in Civilian Disguise
... this would be great set in SPACE. Fantasy? or 19th century Austria, either way, I am here for it
I am not to set on any gender! (The civilian disguise could even be crossdressed, for extra tropey-ness)
secret dates that lead to more! sneaking around to find a place to have sex in! and then it turns out they met before, and they have been lying to the other the whole time!
escaping bodyguards -- one thinks they are there for his debts, the other to collect him to the palace!
revolution? weird government shenanigans? reams of paperwork? beleaguered bureaucrats?
Fake Paranormal Investigator TV Host/Trolling Supernatural Creature
maybe the supernatural creature thinks the hotline for the show is a real helpline, and asks for help with the infestation of pixies, and then falls in love with the host and trolls him forever?
maybe the tv host keeps accidentally stumbling upon their real lair
prank calls: “Uhh, there’s a werewolf in my kitchen” and when the film crew arrives, there’s only the caller (who happens to be a werewolf)
Female Detective/Female Supervillain in Disguise
moral quandaries! maybe the detective figured it out way before, and didn’t say anything for plausible deniability 
maybe the supervillain seduced them to keep her off track, and fell in love for real? and now she’s scared of saying anything at all?
maybe they both go to the same club to relax, sex happened, and now that they wake up they realise what they have done! most awkward morning after ever
Female Mob Boss/Female Undercover Detective
in SPACE! modern times! 1940s on the home front!
is it a planned seduction? does the detective set out to get secrets during pillow talk?
is it an unplanned seduction? does the detective have no other explanation for being in this gay club rn, and they have sex?
are they trying to seduce secrets out of each other, and more importantly, does it end with the both of them blowing this entire popsicle stand and eloping together to the wilderness?
Also here for pure smut: hate sex, switching power dynamics, ill-advised drunken one-night stands, sex for blackmail reasons
Female Pirate/Female Naval Officer
I would love this pairing in any setting, Mediterranean pirates of pre-Roman Empire, Egyptian pirates, Chinese pirates, privateers, pirates of the Caribbean, pirates in SPACE, smugglers…
Did they know each other before? Is the naval Officer perhaps a point of contact for the crown for a privateer? I like an aspect of danger in my ships, but I don’t like totally unredeemable characters.
Does the pirate capture the naval officer for ransom? To seduce her to the dark side? hate!sex! stranded on an island/planet with sex pollen! 
Does the naval officer capture the pirate, and the pirate seduces her for her freedom? Or both at once?
Female Regency Crossdressing Rake/Regency Bluestocking
They meet at a ball, and flirt. Then they meet again at the next ball (or the theatre, or gambling halls) and their relationship continues. The crossdressing Lady is very worried about being actually a woman, and pretending to be a man, but the other Lady found out the very first night and is totally cool with it.
How does the crossdressing work? Is she pretending to be her own brother because he’s off to Gretna Green (or wherever) to get married, or do people dismiss the rumours that she’s a lady because of her general attitude?
There are no tropes that could make this bad for me! :D
I would enjoy this in a world without homophobia, just as I would enjoy this if they had to pretend to be a heterosexual couple forever (though I would enjoy it more if they had the support of at least one of their friends/family, or a community behind them)
Female Selkie/Original Female Character
I did not have space for the anglerfish selkie or the squid selkie, so clearly i compromised. Plain selkies are also awesome!
OFC is manning a selkie rescue station -- she steals back stolen skins; and never has she been so tempted to keep this one
OFC is a ship captain, who is rescued by the selkie and falls in love
OFC is a fisherwoman, who catches a selkie accidentally, and then retires in the lighthouse
King (Elderly)/Evil Vizier
hatesex! confused boners! a scheme plotted out by the King to secure the reign of his heir
the King is blackmailed into a relationship by his vizier, and he could try to resist, but doesn’t because he likes to be submissive in bed, and it’s so hard to find good doms at his age
they have been pining for each other for all of the King’s reign, and during a terrorist attack (?) they are sex pollened
Librarian/Patron With A Very Overdue Library Book
Librarian is part of a secret cabal of librarian assassins, and they hunt the patron down
The book is alive and doesn't want to go back to the library.  It keeps on sneaking back into the patron's backpack to leave with them,
the patron is a ghost, trying to return a book from 200 years ago
hatesex
Patron with late book is actually using it in his attempts to summon the Old Ones and has already lost some sanity points in his attempts, he refuses to return the book until he is successful
The book is one of a kind and contains some secret ciphers and codes that are needed in the on-going plot to save the world. However, the patron ends up needing to also borrow some other unique books from the same library and struggles with explaining this to the unamused librarian who has a waiting list for that first book. 
idk, idk, i have no ideas, but i’d love absolutely anything, and i am thirsty
time-travel! set in space! passive-aggressive notes back and forth! the patron tries to insist on their perceived superiority! and then they have to donate enough money to fund an entire new children’s department!
Loyal Knight/Professional Gambler Crossdressing As a Woman
confused boners
why the crossdressing? just because? does it confuse his gambling partners? the people he’s in debt to? 
i can only tell you that i’d be into it
set in space! set in a fantasy hub! Star Wars AU! Italian Renaissance! 18th century France!
New Male Supervillain Struggling to Control Superpowers/Superhero
supervillain becomes accidental villain because of their destructive powers, superhero tries to redeem him
supervillain’s power is mind altering, and he thinks he is influencing the superhero with his powers, but the superhero has a really terrible crush on them
supervillain thinks his power is mind altering, when in fact it’s something else
supervillain’s powers are mind altering, and he seduces the superhero, and rescues him from the government who had them working for free? idk, this isn’t planned out that well
superhero seduces supervillain to do good
Pirate/Pirate
I would love pirates absolutely anywhere, Scottish smugglers, piracy on rivers,  Mediterranean pirates of pre-Roman Empire, Egyptian pirates, Chinese pirates, privateers, pirates of the Caribbean, pirates in SPACE.
f/f pairings would be great, just as m/m pairings, or f/m, whatever floats your boat (heh)
Two different pirate ships try to stop a ship of loot/weapons/high profile people from arriving at its location. Two of the opposite crew fall in love along the way.
The First Mate oils their muscles, and it’s the best thing that ever happened to this bosun (or the worst, depending). There are various bets about the futility of this most obvious crush.
The smuggling cave is only accessible during low tide, and it’s only known to the pirates, yet their stash of high-grade alcohol/sauerkraut/sails/unobtainium  keeps vanishing, and so they set out a trap, and it turns out to be another pirate who needs it to help heal some other dudes.
The captain is so throughly annoyed by two of his crew members, he makes them sleep in the same cabin (or the hammocks nearest to each other) for the entire voyage, and they keep falling into the wrong bed because of reasons. (Optionally, hate-sex — or they are united by their hatred for this clearly unreasonable captain and overthrow him.)
Regency Lizard Monster Coffee Shop Owner/Down-on-His-Luck Aristocrat
here for xeno! or urban fantasy! or space coffee shops!
is the lizard monster pretending to be a human, and the aristocrat finds out but nobody wants to believe him?
does the aristocrat want a job, but fails at How to greet a Lizard Monster 101?
Royal Uncle Looking to Inherit/King's Pirate Captain Identical Twin
identity shenanigans! hate sex! court intrigue!
does the royal uncle know about the identical twin, or was he raised in secret for assassination prevention, and now he roams the Seven Seas, or the space equivalent of that
the identical twin seduces the uncle, so that they can inherit together
the King deliberately introduces his two heirs to each other so they can fight it out, and they have plenty of hatesex
Successful Businesswoman/High School Rival
hatesex behind the bleachers on their 10th highschool anniversary
hatesex during their unexpected meeting at the new gallery opening in town! and then their best friends get married to each other, and much embarrassment all around
Supervillain/Superhero's Sidekick
hatesex, sexpollen
trying to seduce secrets out of each other! identity shenanigans! moral quandaries!
Female BNF/Female fandom newcomer
... look, i just want to know where this is going, okay? I’d love something inspired by Mina de Malfois; or like, whatever!
is there fandom wank about it? is it just a quiet lovely back and forth? 
Crossover Fandoms (art+fic)
Victoria Winslow (RED)/Female M (Bond)
Victoria as one of M’s double Os; headstrong and stubborn and a loose canon
did they know each other before M became M? (was there hatesex, and now it’s an awkward relationship that might turn into more?)
Victoria Winslow breaks into M’s apartment with the intent to seduce her; M is prepared for the entry, but expected a man, and now Victoria is there
Victoria is in trouble somewhere, and M accidentally rescues her; Victoria has to show her her appreciation someway
Susan Pevensie (Narnia)/Minerva McGonagall (HP)
They could have met when they were young, being roughly the same age, or later. Childhood friends! 
Susan Pevensie becomes the first muggle to enter the Department of Mysteries, on account of her crossing worldstreams before, and that’s where she meets Minerva, who has to open the doors for her every day
Susan is the first muggle to ignore the anti-Muggle charms on Diagon Alley, and Minerva is sent to investigate
Phryne Fisher (MFMM)/Jane Marple (Marple - Christie)
teaming up to solve a murder!
teaming up to drive a poor inspector up the wall
teaming up during the war, codebreaking! and seeking comfort with each other
they went to girl’s school together, and now have to relive old glory days!
definitely here for Phryne and Jane being each other’s lesbian experience
John Constantine (Hellblazer)/Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
they’d be so glorious together! I’m here for all the fucked-up-ness this pairing can generate
hatesex? sex pollen? :D i hate repeating myself, but really, anything would be great; I’d love a AU in which John convinces Severus to not join the death eaters because they are all wankers anyway
or a AU in which Severus survives and joins John on madcap adventures trying to survive eldritchs horrors
or like, a one-night-stand that ends in Severus hearing the prophecy and defecting from Lord Voldemort
or like, anything, please, i really want this like burning, and i saw this in the tagset, and how is there only one story of this yet, really, anything, please
also, I’d love if they’d bonded up over their chavness, or something. really, anything would be great
Jane Marple (Marple - Christie)/Minerva McGonagall (HP)
I’d love Miss Marple snooping her way into the Scottish ruin, and finding out there’s a Wizarding World
maybe they are childhood friends?
maybe working at the cypher division is a code word for Department of Mysteries, during the war?
I’d love outsider POV for this; maybe Harry noticing that Minerva is living together with another woman, and it turns out to be Miss Marple? and they bond over having books written about them
Cher Horowitz (Clueless)/Elle Woods (Legally Blonde)
Do they meet in law school? Or before, or after? 
I want them to be competent, and brilliant, and dazzle each other with their excellent taste in clothes. I want them to be besieged by terrible human beings, and persevere. I want them to cuddle on a sofa, and inspire so many girls to do great things. I want them to grow as human beings, and be kind and positive, and succeed. (And I want one of them to be President.)
Also excellent would be: Elle does criminal law, Cher is in charity work, and they need to solve this embezzlement case.
But I’m also here for the porn, because that would also be amazing. Or like, buying a house together. Getting married. Deciding to adopt a puppy together.
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aboleth-workshop · 5 years
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Aboleth-Eye’s D&D and Worldbuilding Hooks
50 D&D QUESTIONS Answered
5/6/9 - Multi-Ask
27 - Spell I’d want to have
D&D Races
Lizardfolk:
Far from home
Dwarves
Hill Dwarf Families
Elves
Evil High Elves vs Evil Drow
Drow--Non-Cliche Good Alignment
Drow--Campaign Lore Change Idea
Gnomes
Personal Thoughts
Halflings
Courtship and Love
Birdfolk
Aarakocra vs Kenku
Aasimar
Variety of Celestial Traits
Gnolls
Lore and History
Celestial Warlock Gnoll
Great Old One-worshipping Gnoll
Dungeon Master Discussions:
New Dungeon Master Advice
Planning Things Out: New DM vs Experienced
Players: Greater Goals
Half-Elf Pyromantic Lycanthrope
Convoluted Character Concepts
Homebrew Races 1 
Homebrew Class Creation
Ghosts of Saltmarsh: Captain Confidence
My Funniest Encounters!
Ridiculously Evil
Bringing in Backstory w/ Consequences
Adjusting Homebrew (AroAce vs Succubus/Fiends)
Lightvision --> Blindsight/Blindsense in 5e
Campaign Hooks:
Aboleth vs Kraken
Minotaur City
Shardmind Monastery
Dragons and Xorvintaal -- The Great Game
Sphinx Riddles
The Crown of Fantasy -- Homebrew/Relic
Skull of the Autumnal Messenger -- Homebrew/Relic
Alignments
Lawful Good vs Greater Good
Morality of a Divine
Monsters
Unique Celestials
Virgavis, Antlered Birds of Omen -- Homebrew
Favorite Hags
Wraiths vs Ghosts/Spectres/Shadows
Aberrations
Favorite Elementals
Class Discussions
Wizard
Necromancers (Moral Quandary)
Shy Imp Familiar
Warlocks:
Celestial Warlock Pact
Personalized Tome Pacts
Braille: Secret Script
Bardlock Patron (the Artist’s Caretaker)
Clerics
Not Automatically Good or Kind
Bards
Bard Spies
Wondrous Items/Wondrous Garbage
Submissions #1
Pistachio Scale Mail
Magical Item Decay/Mutated Sentience (Raven Crossbow)
Pumps of the Scaled Princess -- Homebrew
World Concept/Creation
Hollow Sphere/World
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aboleth-workshop · 5 years
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Worldbuilding Ask Prompt: Genre Flipping/Merging Worlds
Hey Friends, its @aboleth-eye! I haven’t received any asks for Friday Worldbuilding Asks so far; and so I decided to start off with a prompt.  
Your World Changes in One Fell Swoop
What would happen if your setting (with all its preconceived ideals and aspects) were to suddenly merge with an entirely alien setting?  What if a never seen before force or faction from a completely different world were to invade (or appear diplomatically)?  Or, what if some terrible event undoes all the standards and knowledge of your world?
What big events would this change interrupt and put into perspective? The Final Battle to the War?  The Wedding of the Century?  The Celebration of a New Year?  A Protagonist’s Graduation from University/Apprenticeship?
How would your original world’s denizens react? Peacefully?  Horrified? Defensively?
What does this force/faction/group/event desire or create upon arrival?  Peace?  Destruction?  Colonization?  Trade?  Survival?  Nothing?
Was this change in your world planned?  Did the new force arrive by design?  Was the world-shaking disaster an accident?  
What elements does this great change place/remove in the world?  Magic resurfaces in your world, or has the power begun to fade?  Technology to be shared from across the stars, or does all technology fails?  Mutation and ascension, or abhorrent and virulent destruction?
Ask away: What settings or genres would you like to see merged?  Do you have any ideas you’d like to share or get advice on successfully merging?  Submit your ideas to @aboleth-workshop, and get sharing today!  
-- 9/20/19, Aboleth-Eye
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aboleth-eye · 5 years
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D&D Worldbuilding Challenge
Hey Tabletop Tumblr Friends!  I’m taking asks about different D&D/Fantasy Worldbuilding ideas!  
If you found something really cool you want to use in your worlds/writing/campaign settings but don’t know how to introduce it; Message Away!
If you want to combine two favorite fantasy tropes/races/monsters/etc and see how they could be used; Message Away!
If you have a character concept for your setting/world and need a multitude of campaign/story hooks or personality traits to flesh them out; Message Away!
I’ll happily respond to anything you guys send me, because I already love you all!  And I’ll save it to my @aboleth-workshop worldbuilding blog so everyone can see how we collaborate! 
Your Friend, Aboleth-Eye
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aboleth-eye · 5 years
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Submitted by @neededtomakeanewaccountfordnd:
 Hi! I had a question about magic items, I apologize if this has been answered somewhere or if it was not a type of question you're accepting, and for the run on sentence. I saw some ideas for faulty magic items coming from the 'probably___rpgideas' blogs, one for example being "A crossbow that when not in use becomes a large raven to fly around on its own. It has its own, very specific ideas as to when and where it is in use." 
How could i incorporate that into my campaign? If a player were to find it and attune to it, would they know that this crossbow turns into a raven of its own volition? Should the spell card state that its idea of 'not in use' is whatever it wants it to be? Or can I just leave the players in the dark until one of them goes to use the crossbow and it turns into a raven?
Hmm, I like the idea of faulty magic items.  The raven crossbow sounds interesting.
Now, this question I feel stems from the campaign creator’s decisions on magic item availability.  I could see faulty magic items being more prevalent in settings with wilder and more unpredictable magic, or as mass produced magic items that are churned out as fast as possible.  Either way, the characters you’re dealing with would probably have some knowledge of faulty magic items and unplanned sentience.  However, unless you have a specialist in magic item crafting or a scholar of magic present in the party, it doesn’t need to be apparent until it is needed for the story you’re building.
 If your characters have the skills to study and retain knowledge of such topics, then give them the opportunity to “remember” reading something about identifying faulty items.  Or let them conjecture what the item unintentionally does if you describe it as “having something ‘off’ or unusual”.  And if a character spends time attuning themselves to a specific magic item, perhaps they can “feel out” that the item is sentient or has a secret ability.
You as the writer/Dungeon Master have the choice to either give your characters access to information, or to catch them by surprise.  Think about what the characters need--do they need a bit of downtime and the surprise could be a pleasant distraction from their troubles?  Should the characters discover its powers at a moment where it is most needed?  Or should the item introduce itself and become a component of the characters’ plans from then on?
Thank you so much for the ask!  
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aboleth-eye · 5 years
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couple things, first, your background picture, where did you find it? i think it looks amazing! and second (which is main thing) is, lawful good, for the GREATER GOOD? so, our celestial warlock serves a divine creature (more towards inhuman like medieval style) who finds a 'root of evil' corruption of demons in a town. he wants his warlock to purge them, aka kill all of them. even if only a few are involved. he wants to make sure NOTHING can survive. is this a GOOD thing? prevent future evil?
I found if years and years ago.  It’s Aboleth Attack by Joachim Barrum.  Here’s the image link I downloaded it from years ago.  I had been looking for a blog name to reflect my love for D&D and fantasy monsters, and this image cemented it for me.
Now, onto your Lawful Good question; specifically about Celestial/Divine creatures.  The problem with Outsiders of any alignment is that they are the perfect manifestations of a specific alignment’s viewpoint.  For instance, Devas and Archons are both lawful good outsiders, but they have very different Purposes in imposing their influence on the world.  Celestials, fiends and other alignment Outsiders are made to serve a specific purpose.  
Devas/Angels are messengers of gods, tasked to inspire mortals to live justly and forsake wickedness through their awe and messages.  They embolden the fearful heart and give support (divine and otherwise) to those victimized by evil actions.  They protect planar travellers, defend Material Plane sanctuaries and keep watch on the Ethereal and Elemental Planes.
Meanwhile Archons are soldiers on the front lines of good verses evil.  They’re the survivors of the ancient wars against demonkind, and believe any trace of demonic influence damns the soul (sometimes even damning the faintest trace themselves as justice).  Their hierarchy has levels of archons for every purpose and role in defeating evil because they MUST.
And even though these two Celestial species are on the same side, and sometimes occupy the same plane (Mount Celestia); the two are fiercely independent of each other and their goals.  And yes, named Celestials in D&D’s past have formed their own ideologies within their alignment.  Some have even been designed to be antagonists (often from giving up on the potential of mortals, or abandoning a deity’s ineffective orders).
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I believe your friend’s Celestial Patron could have any philosophy within Lawful Good.  Perhaps their specific stance on smiting the townsfolk stems from past trauma: they witnessed entire planes consumed by the Abyss, they lost loved companions in the past wars against demonkind, etc.  Perhaps they are zealots of their purpose, knowing that demons must be eradicated, and all those they even barely touch must be purged before the corruption spreads?  
If your friend’s Celestial Patron is one of those medieval-style Celestials (and those things are a close cousin to eldritch horror beings in terms of disturbing inhuman forms) perhaps they are removed from mortal thinking and believe its protege’s MUST complete the Patron’s personal vendetta against demonkind?  Patrons are fun for DMs to roleplay, and you have free reign to create any philosophy and beliefs from a lawful good viewpoint.
Thanks for submitting!  You always send in such great ideas, @garbage-boy-sass-man!  I love getting the chance to build stuff from you!
If YOU have an idea for worldbuilding, D&D headcanon/lore, etc and want some input and advice; message away!  I do campaign hooks, lore reimaginings/explanations, setting design, character concepts, and all that other good stuff!
Love, Aboleth-Eye
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aboleth-workshop · 6 years
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You Got Worldbuilding Issues? Wanna Share What You’ve Built?
Then come on down to this NEW SIDEBLOG!  
I, @aboleth-eye, am happy to share my advice and enthusiasm for worldbuilding with anyone!  I love and specialize in fantasy writing (D&D-style tabletop usually), but my interests in worldbuilding spread far and wide. 
Have an issue with your fantasy world?  A little detail in your writing sticking out you want to hammer down?  Want to discuss ideas on how to flip the script for your players/readers?  Have a great idea and need a place to share it?  Then this blog is for you!
I’m always happy to engage with creators and worldbuilders far and wide, and would love to offer this blog as a sounding board!  My only stipulations are that your asks and messages are PG-13 and that you have enthusiasm to share it!
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aboleth-workshop · 6 years
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Helpline is Open!
Hey all you aspiring Worldbuilders and Creative Types!
I want to get the ball rolling with this blog.  To do that, I want your guys’ input and ideas!  
The Topic: How to Get Started Worldbuilding!  From In Your Head to Audience Immersion!  Picking and Choosing Your Building Blocks!
Send in your own problems and questions with starting a worldbuilding project!  I’ll be turning this blog into a podcast, where I @aboleth-eye will answer the very best questions and geek out over your great ideas!
I can’t wait to hear what you guys have to share!
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aboleth-workshop · 5 years
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Want to Playtest a Land of the Lustrous RPG?
DM @aboleth-eye / @worldbuilding-helpline or reply to this post for the Discord link!
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