#“what are they going to do?”

[iturbide]

So about your concept fire emblem (especially the part about the reversal of the stereotypical Divine Dragon and Evil Dragon dichotomy) I bring tribute. congrats you have created brainrot.

maybe the reason why the MC's Divine is called Ultimate Evil is bc it's a more introverted sort. so the MC's Divine doesn't really attend to outside dragon stuff, but still knows what's going on (my current idea is they're a oracle/All-Seeing Eye type. they may not particularly fully comprehend or have context for what they see, but they most certainly see it).

bc of that, the other Divines are wary of the MC's Divine, (as in "you haven't left your continent in 700 years HOW do you know everything that's going on in MY nation") and their peoples noticed. cue growth and sharing info, and then people notice that ALL their deities are wary of This One Place And It's God, and THAT snowballs into calling it Arbiter of Fate(derogatory), and decades/hundreds of year later, the start of the game begins.

you know what I accept this tribute with extreme gratitude because it actually plays perfectly into a long-running trend I have in my original magic systems involving premonition and the ability to see the future.

Which is that it's not light magic that does it: it's dark.

Think about it: the future is eternally uncertain. There are countless branching pathways based on decisions both large and small: until those choices are made, there's no guaranteed outcome for anything. Predicting the future is like trying to see down a dark path stretching out before you, watching shadows move in the distance and trying to see where they go and what they're doing. If you shine a light down there, you're going to chase those shadows away -- and that may well make it seem like there's only one path, one possibility, one assured outcome. But if, instead, you let your eyes adjust, pay attention to those shadows, you can find a wealth of other tracks going elsewhere, and leading to an entirely different future.

So this Arbiter of Fate is potentially a Dark Dragon of some sort, and is pretty good at taking things it knows about other Divines from past experience/interactions, weighing that against these possible future outcomes, and making plans based off of that despite not directly interacting with any other Dragon's land or people. There might not be a guarantee that their plans will be needed, but it's at least based a solid foundation. And particularly in cases where a neighboring Divine had been, say, gearing up to invade to claim more territory, only to find defenses already raised and an army waiting to meet them...well, that's not going to go over terribly well.

It might not just be that other nations interacting with each other share notes and realize that their Divines seem to have either beef with or a keen suspicion of this other nation. It could be that one (or more) starts a targeted smear campaign against a nation that has never posed a threat before. They raised an army, they must be planning to invade (says the nation that was planning exactly that but then hit an unexpected wall): they're warmongers, they're conquerors, they can't be trusted, and all our Divines clearly agree. And because of that overall agreement among the other Divines, it becomes a rumor that spreads, and spreads...and finally becomes ingrained as though it were fact, even though it's a lie concocted by a nation that had intended to conquer but failed before they could begin due to another Divine's foresight.

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[holographings]

someone on twitter said Imagine what s2 jayce would give to talk to s1 viktor just one more time. and someone had a time travel alternate dimension fic ready to go. and i read it. and now my face is being eaten by 3750 feral dogs i think

[demaparbat-hp]

He's never happy

[vaperarmand]

hey guys if you’re planning on making a vaguepost on the dashboard can you message me with the details and some of the lore behind the vague post you’re making. a vaguepost for the dash and a detailedpost for me. because i like to know what’s going on. if you do this i will automatically take your side because you’ve done the right thing by letting me know what’s up. thanks in advance ❤️

[pangur-and-grim]

one thing that took me embarrassingly long to learn is "sometimes when people say things, they will not be true."

I used to tell people about this revelation and they'd be like yeah.....duh.....but like, why wouldn't my base assumption be that you're communicating to me in a straightforward manner. anyway, I get scammed a lot.

[frankierotwinkdeath]

Y’all want Taylor Swift to be gay so bad but you won’t even write femslash about her

[obsob]

i am a being capable of immeasurable love and whimsy

[yeepof]

Local PHD student at wizard school HARRASSED!! FOR SHAME!!

[mochasucculent]

The gang all together 👍

Sketch v final + refs below!

First pic was reffed from My Own Private Idaho, which ended up being a really bad idea because this focal length was ridiculous to try and flatten out and match with the others lol

Second pic was obvi The Pieta by Michelangelo, but shoutout to my partner for suggesting the role reversal cause I was initially gonna draw Viktor in Jayce's arms again, but having it the other way around gave me the idea for the last piece where they're mutually in each other's arms and on equal ground in the composition

Third pic was reffed from The Blossoming Of Love by Miquel Blay! Had to move Jayce's hand to Viktor's shoulder because he was too yolked for his arm to fit between them lmao

[daisywords]

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

[verysadlesbian]

I'M GONNA KILL MYSELF

[lizzibennet]

chappell roan’s got this sudden very huge burst of attention and since then she has

shown up to jimmy fallon in full drag

shown up to her concerts in even zainier outfits than before

worn a nun costume to one concert and when people were uncomfortable she was like good. toodles!

very clearly stated she will retreat from the public eye if she feels threatened by her fame

put very firm boundaries in place, not caring how that might make her look in today’s ass backward society that thinks artists owe everyone everything

she really is trying the hardest to do this in her own terms, in this industry that pretty much allows no wiggle room when it comes to being as big as she’s gotten. it’s clear to me she doesn’t care about maintaining the level of notoriety she has now, she cares about connecting to the subset of people who her art has always been aimed at and that is it. and i find it so admirable! it must be really hard to get what every artists out there is trying to and not let yourself get influenced by it, but she is remaining steadfastly herself. it’s so refreshing and it makes me like her so much more

[julnites]

Red riding hood comic collab with the wonderful @yeehawpim (go check out their blog for loads of great comics!) 🌷 See the layouts he did here!

[hinamie]

to moving forward

[bloomeng]

core 4 magical girl set finally reunited