#<-- that'll be the tag I guess lol

[tawnysoup]

CW DEATH, DEAD BODY, STRANGULATION, BLOOD, IMPLIED SELF-HARM (in case my tags aren't enough!!!! stay safe)

(Above you, you hear Loop trying to take a breath.)

[eye-of-the-silver-dragon]

I am so very nervous about making this post but I need community input so here I go-

Hi! My name is Clara and I'm a senior writing my thesis in college. I'm an art history major and my thesis is gonna be about fanart and cosplay (and video games!) and why those are underrated but also super important and valuable in society! (This is a very basic watered down explanation lol)

Since I'll need some examples and sources, I want to reach out to people who do fanart/cosplay (especially since this is the fanart site hehe) to see if you'd be willing to have your art included in my thesis! I'm a nerd about Arcane, Severance, Hades, Baldur's Gate, and a bunch of other stuff, so if you are into any of those fandoms, please especially say hi! (But even if you're not, please drop by anyways! I'll use anything and everything I can get lol)

Any skill level or medium is welcome! Digital (minus AI, since that's not what I'm writing about), traditional, sculpture, embroidery - and if you want to yap about your experiences with making fanart, I'd love to hear it!

Ditto with cosplay - any skill level/focus is welcome! I also would love perspectives from LARPers or people in SCA groups, since I'd like to touch on historybounding at least a little bit. (I do know that SCA is a much different beast than LARP, but what you guys do is also super valuable and interesting to me and I'd welcome any input there as well! I genuinely love learning things so please teach me about what you do!)

It's gonna be seen by my professor and likely not many other people on my campus (it's not getting published anywhere official), but anyone whose art I'd use would get properly cited and whatnot, and if you have any interest in reading it once it's done, I'd consider sharing it directly with those who would want to read it.

I'm a pretty small blog so any reblogs help immensely! And if you have any questions, feel free to DM me, message me in the notes, or stop by my askbox :) I'll try to reach out to individuals as well, but I'd love to get a broader group if I can. The more the merrier. :)

Thank you guys so much!!

[catwyk]

ok i'm a little late to the party but these are my renditions of a couple hymns whose lyrics are given in the silt verses :> god bless silt choir for everyone's lovely interpretations !!

[lordichamo]

creatureposting + species swap for funsies

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

trying to psych myself up to finally do oc refs by doing fandom-related refs instead: volume 1

wanted to update my yuma from whatever tf this au is so he was a bit more unique... takes inspo from a lot of different things while also trying to be its own sorta thing? which is fitting given the au ;)

bonus chibi now that i'm also figuring out how tf to do chibis lol:

[calypsolemon]

resurrecting an old lego movie oc for fun. He's a silly pirate who has retrograde amnesia due to experiencing the Horrors (think tank)

Some extras also, including me going sillymode shipping him with captain facepatch lol

[electriccrayon13]

ive been half considering making a separate blog for all my rpg stuff bc it doesnt fit right with either of my current blogs, but then i realised id have to come up with a new username 😭

[savventeen]

would anyone be interested in seeing my placeholder "chapter" titles for my upcoming socmed au bc i Desperately want to talk about it but also don't want to spoil it so..

if it helps, it's going to be called "Thanks For Playing" and will be a tragic chan x reader horror story (not in the gory way but in like the emotional/psychological way), but it starts out fun and silly

also the titles out of context are hilarious to me haha

also also by "socmed au" i mean it's all text convos with some written parts sprinkled in

[until-the-brahmin-come-home]

i'm not a person who cares too much about combat, but i just had a very exciting fight where, just as i went into vats to kill a mongrel, i heard the telltale snarl of a deathclaw. so i blew up a car in its face.

[anon-e-has-a-tmblr]

I got ralph's boyfriend...

Surprise! Tumblr just got turned into an epic fantasy RPG, just like [your favorite appropriate media franchise]. And the Tumblr RPG's plot needs to have all of its characters covered, in roles both large and small.

That means that you are assigned to a stereotypical RPG role inside our new fantasy world. Spin this wheel to find out what you are now doing for a living.

[suddenrundown]

it really is all danandphilgames all the time now i love this for me

[melody-love-sketch]

All of your posts are hermitcraft now, I just won't take this, get unfollowed

not that i answer asks much at all but lmao buddy, pal, friendo- i literally be scrollin through my all socials like a sugar crazed kid loose in a candy store, a black bear breaking into a quiet unattended gas station late at night for the sweet, sweet grub, caution to the wind(somewhat) just a lil creature with a gremlin brain scrambling to consume whatever happy or at least interesting enough posts i so choose; free to change my mind whenever.

i see pretty art, i psuh button! one day it's Deltarune, next it's minecraft subfandoms, then it's whatever. "i am cringe but i am free" yadda yadda, et cetera and all that jazz

edit: also forgot to add before postin but i got like 25+ tabs of tumblr up on my phone browser for years now, each bein the tag page for diff fandoms(deltarune, splatoon, minecraft, the owl house, whatever latest animation, etc) and just a couple at most on my pc...i cant escape tumblr, tumblr cant escape me lol

[guardevoir]

rules: tag nine people you want to get to know better

Tagged by @indrid-hot - thanks a bunch!

Favorite Color: A nice, warm, sunny orange - but also honestly most other colors of the rainbow and then some.

Currently Reading: The Tevinter Nights Dragon Age short story collection.

Last Song: L'appuntamento - Ornella Vanoni

Last Movie: Ah, gosh. HM. I haven't watched anything that's not a TV show in a while. I semi-voluntarily caught the last fifteen minutes of Scrooged over the winter holidays I guess?

Last Series: Last series I watched any part of is, as always, "Emergency!" because I will never not be stuck in 70's paramedic hell. If we're talking new-to-me shows, a friend's making me watch Grey's Anatomy (early seasons) once a week, probably because observing my growing despair about the characters' poor life choices is fun. I don't even normally watch medical shows, and yet here we are lol

Sweet, Savoury, Spicy: Savory if I had to pick

Craving: Some good spaghetti with olive oil and obscene amounts of lightly toasted garlic.

Tea/Coffee: Yes please, lol

Currently working on: OH BOY WHAT A QUESTION.

Spinning: Gotland on my spindles (4-ply, one single per spindle, for funsies - except I accidentally mixed up which bits of fiber go with which single on which spindle, so that'll be fun to sort out...), 7oz/200g of red Merino on the wheel (for a crochet hat, followed by 9.5 oz of red and black Merino for a woven scarf). But also 24.5oz/700g of grey Merino. And cotton on the supported spindle. And I've got some laceweight viscose on the mini turkish spindle that I should really work on...

Crocheting: Half a dozen things, including a lacy collar that needs buttons and blocking, a gigantic star-shaped wrap-around shawl, an incredibly boring granny square top for my little sister, and too many others to count.

Art: The Emergency! tarot as the eternal never-ending WIP; I also have some Dragon Age Veilguard related plans revolving around the Grand Necropolis and irl Catacomb Saints and I'd love to get some DA-style tarot cards done for all my player characters.

Writing: I still have a couple unfinished fanfics that need another chapter, as well as two deeply self-indulgent OC/Emergency! crossovers that friends are making me write, and I also have some Dragon Age stuff in the works - though if anyone will ever see that is another question entirely.

Music: Practicing various stuff for LARP; also slowly chipping away at Hozier's Work Song because my partner asked nicely.

With no pressure, I will tag: @geminyde, @caseyscraftycorner, @swords-n-spindles, @alpacazappa, @rosesonneptune, @rose-of-pollux, @zooarchaeologyatdinner, @kalikatze aaaaand I can't decide on a 9th person to tag so whoever wants to do this: You're It!

[scrawlingskribbles]

biopsy unfortunately came back cancer-positive tho :( my poor girl...

babygirl is now home safe & sound & freshly lumpless, thank goodness 🙏✨️

[batboyblog]

I feel like some people can't be/refuse to be educated, or they're deliberately being obtuse because they're trolls, psyops, or they just fell for the trolls and psyops. But its still good to point out where they're wrong and to give actual, you know, facts, for the benefit of other people reading who might actually be reachable.

yeah, I mean I usually ignore them because usually its bad faith and when a post is getting hundreds even thousands of notes in a day you just can't keep up with the 10-20-ish people who say something, particularly if its in the tags because thats just hard or fighting in the replies which always feels weird

But I was in a bad mood and in general seeing the same either bad faith or straight up don't know comment over and over and over again is very annoying

the "lol Joe Biden didn't do anything about Student loans!" one is pretty annoying since Biden has forgiven well over 100 BILLION dollars worth of student loan debt, so like he has done a lot on student loan debt. I'm not a big deal but I remember I did one of my "what Biden did this week" posts and it had the student loan debt forgiveness for people who got defrauded by the Art Institutes, and a few people added their stories of being defrauded and being in debt to AI for years and the one that'll stay with me was an older guy who went to try to get a new degree to get a job in a different field kinda late in the game, his 50s or 60s and of course didn't get the jobs he hoped for because scam college and saying how he thought he'd die in debt and it was all gone, all forgiven. So just like people flippantly dismissing a very real life changing thing is very annoying

there are a few other very common annoying ones "why didn't he do this when he controlled congress before!" well he was busy passing the biggest climate change bill any government on earth has ever done, investing in our Infrastructure for the first time since before Reagan was President (Reagan 😒) listen Biden passed 4 of the biggest most transformationally progressive bills the US has seen since LBJ

American Rescue Plan

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

CHIPS and Science Act

Inflation Reduction Act

on top of which he passed the first gun control law out of congress in 30 years, and other things, like the Respect for Marriage Act to protect gay marriage, or making Juneteenth a federal holiday (the first new federal holiday since MLK day in 1983)

SO! thats why he didn't do the things he wants to do in his next term he was busy doing equally (and in the case of climate change more important) things and thats why we should all be hopeful if Joe Biden is President with a Democratic Congress he'll get most if not ALL the things on his agenda done, because he's fucking good at this, we haven't had a President this good at pushing bills through Congress and using every switch and lever of the federal government to make major progressive change since LBJ or FDR, I guess his big mistake was naming it something boring like "Inflation Reduction Act" and not something sexy like "New Deal" or "Great Society"

sorry to go off on a tare there, but its just frustrating to see 40 (out of tens of thousands really) posts saying the same dumb shit and having no real way to respond

[nerdallwritey]

AO3 Tag Game!!

Thanks @vividiana (and I think @khywren?? I think you may have tagged me but I couldn't find it in my mentions) for the tag!!

how many works do you have on ao3?

7

what's your total ao3 word count?

104,450

what fandoms do you write for?

At the moment, just BG3!! The first fics I ever wrote, however, were for Miraculous Ladybug and My Hero Academia. Neither of which have ever seen the light of day nor will they. Probably. Right now I'm perfectly happy just writing BG3 stuff, but I'm open to writing for other fandoms in the future!!

top five fics by kudos?

An Evening to Ourselves

Just to Ruin Me

Cheeks All Flushed

Worth the Peril

Perfect Every Time

do you respond to comments?

I sure do!! I try to respond to every single one (unless there's a comment thread happening and I feel like it came to a good stopping point 🥰). It makes me BEYOND happy to see anyone engage with my works. Thank you all for taking the time to read and comment!!

what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Hmm. I don't think I've had an angsty ending?? I try to come to satisfying conclusions (with the occasional cliffhanger) that'll make the reader smile. Although I think in my most recent work, About to Strike, Astarion is NOT too pleased about realizing his feelings for reader, lol.

what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Maybe an Evening to Ourselves?? I didn't expect to make it into a series, so I kind of tried to make it come to a satisfying conclusion that suggested that Astarion and reader were going to stay very happily together. But I also think About to Strike is pretty happy?? Despite me just saying it could be interpreted as angsty too?? Reader has such a wonderful time with Astarion that it makes him realize he's in love!!

do you get hate on fics?

Luckily, not that I've seen! I've gotten a passive aggressive comment on tumblr before, but nothing heartbreaking or bothersome!

do you write smut?

Sure do! I have pieces that include no smut, but I do enjoy writing it if only to spoil the vampire lol. It's a very weird process, for sure, but I think it often turns out okay!

craziest crossover?

I never published it, but before I started posting fics, I wrote a crack fic for BG3 that was essentially this scene from Night at the Museum 2 😂

have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I'm aware of. There's definitely been plenty of common tropes between my friends and I, but it's always been like that meme that goes "Yay! Two cakes!" Lmao. So no, I don't think so.

have you ever had a fic translated?

I have not. I'm only fluent in English, but if anyone ever wanted to translate my works, I'm open to it! The more people who get to partake in my silly fics, the merrier!

have you ever co-written a fic?

No, but I'd love to!! I've co-written stuff for school, and it's always fun to blend styles and ideas together :)

all time favorite ships?

Astarion/Reader/Tav/Durge, and then I also love Crowley/Aziraphale from Good Omens, Marinette/Adrien from Miraculous Ladybug, and a bunch of My Hero Academia characters/reader 😅

what's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I don't really have many wips. I've started writing part 7 of Beauty and the Bard so I guess that counts but I DO plan on finishing that one. I did start writing a fic last year about a bard writing music for everyone in camp and Astarion getting jealous (but obviously Tav DOES write a song for him) but I doubt I'll ever finish/post that one. Mostly because Tav/reader is basically the exact same as reader from Beauty and the Bard. And I tried describing music without lyrics and that shit is HARD. I think it turned out fine, but idk, I'm more interested in writing Beauty and the Bard!

what are your writing strengths?

Definitely my dialogue! It's my favorite thing to write, and I think I've gotten Astarion and the companions' voices down pretty well. I want to be a screenwriter and I think going to school for that really helped me come up with clever/silly lines of dialogue.

what are your writing weaknesses?

I feel like I could do more scene descriptions/character introspection. I don't necessarily think I'm BAD at it, but I prefer writing about the characters interacting than describing, say, a setting, or exactly what a character is feeling. I usually try to get that across with dialogue and rely on reader interpretation, but I'm trying to add more description and introspection where I can/remember to!

thoughts on dialogue in another language?

Love it! I try to incorporate Gith words when I can to Lae'zel's dialogue, but I LOVE when people have Astarion or Shadowheart speak Elvish. I would love to add some of that to my writing moving forward if I can. I don't want it to feel like out of nowhere though, since Astarion doesn't really speak Elvish in game and has become more of a fanon idea. BUT! I love it whenever I see it!

first fandom you ever wrote in?

Honestly, I think Phineas and Ferb? I tried writing my own episode for it when I was in middle school or high school, but stopped because I thought it might be bad to write an episode of a show that already exists. It's not! That's called a "spec script" and can be used to demonstrate that you can write in the voices and style of other shows. I didn't know those existed at the time though, and stopped writing. I'd give anything to see what I'd written before I stopped! It's lost on some computer in my childhood home somewhere.

favorite fics you wrote?

Definitely Worth the Peril! It was SO MUCH FUN writing a feral Astarion, along with the companions basically telling him that the reason he was acting that way was because he's in love. I also really like An Evening to Ourselves for kicking everything off, and Just to Ruin Me for how sweet and soft and funny everyone is.

Sorry this took me so long to do, but it was really fun to think about!!

No pressure tagging: @arzen9, @astarioffsimpmain, @decadentpaperduck, and anyone else who wants to participate!!!