#20 Fandoms Challenge

[akakumoeteru]

It's raining, Lan Zhan!

[belligerentbagel]

submitting my transfer request for the warlock track

[bucky-barnes-lover]

Kinktober day 20: Degradation

Moodboard. Chris Evans

[st-loveconfessions]

Day 20: Make art inspired by a fanfic

Today’s the flipside of our challenge from day 2. We’re making art for our favorite fanfics today! 

Whether it’s a five-minute doodle or something more elaborate, a podfic of a short ficlet or an image collage  - knowing that their writing inspired somebody is one of the greatest feelings to give an author and will most likely not only make their day, but their entire week!

Have fun creating and spread the love!

[fancobs]

concept for an II pinup calendar inspired by the Hermitcraft one that released today

[cloud-iceshadow]

💚Happy April 3rd 👻 (Danno below)

[Last Year’s Post]

[its-raccinky]

I am back on my bullshit with an original art challenge

[they0kai]

Inktober Day 20 Nightmare + Poppy playtime

[liar-or-lawyer]

[otacringe]

looked to see the source of an aa drawing prompt/template and saw I had the op blocked and was like huh why. and then boom one of their first posts was franziska/sebastian.

[othernaut]

Character Creation Challenge, Day 20: Stargate SG-1 Roleplaying Game

RE: P6P-889 data crunching

From: absalman.phoenixsite.com

General Loyer,

By now, you've probably gotten the P6P-889 report. I'll attach a copy in case you haven't, or haven't had a chance to read it. If so, I wanted to preface matters with an apology. Despite my best efforts to edit for readability, it's still a fairly data-heavy package, and actionable items won't be apparent on first glance. If you'll permit, I'll do my best to sum up.

First, the environment really is as bad as the contact and operations teams reported. Atmospheric contamination is primarily heavy metals, which strongly contribute to the unreliability of the Stargate. Adding to this, the absence of any large gas giant between 889 and its system's outer asteroid ring mean that the planet welcomes a comparably large number of extraplanetary impacts, further contributing to the atmospheric dust and metal contamination. The local Unas population appear to have adapted to it, but for anyone not used to the environment, breathing and eye protection is required at bare minimum, if not a full environmental suit. Needless to say, a long-term diplomatic outpost is not recommended.

Telal didn't keep many personal effects or monuments to his glory. The majority of his own data was administrative, with a small amount dedicated to long-term revenge planning. For a Goa'uld, his hold was weak even among his own subjects, and he did not receive much in the way of support. He seemed to view his station on 889 as a punishment detail, and here, he was probably correct. He believed that his fellow Goa'uld set him up to fail and were eagerly watching for him to be devoured in a worker uprising. Paranoid and unconfirmable, but it's undeniable that the success of the operation hinged on the relative paucity of on-world Jaffa.

As for the mine itself, while the naquadah deposits are considerable, they're also heavily contaminated and difficult to access. The local Unas, now freed from forced labor, are thoroughly unwilling to return to the mines, which is understandable. Given that any other labor force would need to take extreme caution in order to avoid the worst of the atmosphere, it is likely that 889's naquadah reserves may need to remain a "last resort" resource.

Which brings me to the Unas themselves. The population has spent centuries adapting to their world which, while beneficial from a purely biological standpoint, cuts them off culturally from the rest of their kind. There is little interest among the population in evacuating off-world and reuniting with their people, and their local dialect has drifted far enough from the Unas standard language that communication even among other Unas presents significant difficulty. Few of 889's Unas show an interest in joining the Phoenix project, absent the few "overseers" we've been able to rescue. The overriding emotion is a desire to discover what freedom means to them, for themselves.

To be frank, I believe this to be one of those situations where the benefit of charity must be charity alone. Apart from the disruption in the System Lords' naquadah supply, there is no tangible gain to our operations on 889. This is not a failure, but it is a fact. This does, however, bring me to our "overseer" situation and some unique opportunities this poses to personnel.

Despite the difficulties inherent in extricating a Goa'uld symbiote from Unas physiology, the Tok'ra medical team did manage an impressive 80% success rate. However, despite their clean bill of health, the 889 Unas population has no interest in welcoming their former overseers. To them, any Unas implanted with a symbiote is considered dead, and they do not trust the Tok'ra enough to accept our assurances. The former overseers find themselves in a cultural middle ground, with nowhere to return to and nowhere to go. While some of them are eager to continue the fight against their former oppressors, not all of them are. We are housing them for now, but it is not a permanent solution and everyone knows this.

Which brings us, finally, to the "elephant with a paintbrush". One of the former overseers, one Kornaan, has proven to be something of a unique talent. Shortly after being liberated from her symbiote, she was provided with a communication device, and while in quarantine, she managed to strip it down, modify a keyboard to suit the larger, clawed Unas hand, and jury-rig full text-to-speech. Then, still in quarantine, she modified another keyboard, this usable only by Unas. While the normal physical communication difficulties remain in play, she appears to be a rare engineering talent, and in her short time at Phoenix Site, she has made great strides in improving comfort and accessibility for others of her species. They're emailing, General.

In short, while we would be well pleased to retain her for R&D, she is dead set on joining a field team. Were she human and a member of the armed forces, she would be an excellent combat engineer - however, as it stands, she is rootless, traumatized, and expresses a constant, stated desire to do violence to Goa'uld, to the point of considerable difficulty even among our Tok'ra contingent. More worrying, she has taken to explosives and firearms technology with the same verve. I believe, at this point, she would present a considerable destabilizing influence even if she were left to her own devices.

This is where I am openly requesting guidance, General. While 889 is too precarious to hold, Kornaan may be too valuable to let go. I know, compared to a world and a well of naquadah, this may seem such a small thing, but it's the small things that stay with me when all the rest of the universe becomes uncertain.

I look forward to your reply. Yours,

Abby.

*****

Kornaan Unchained Unas Engineer 1 Origins: Toxic Homeworld (biome), Former Host (background)

Stats: STR: 12 (+1), DEX: 15 (+2), CON: 16 (+3), INT: 18 (+4), WIS: 10 (0), CHA: 10 (0) Proficiency bonus: +2 HP: 25 (1d8 HD+Species+3) AC: Depends on the loadout. Determination points: 4 Speed: 6m Initiative: +2 Moxie: +4

Saving throw proficiencies: Dexterity and Intelligence. Armor and weapon proficiencies: Light armor, common weapons, sidearms, longarms. Skill proficiencies: Athletics, Engineering, Pilot, Perception, Science. Tool proficiencies: Engineering kit, explosives, fabrication kit.

Species Traits: Underestimated (people tend to think I'm a dumb animal, giving advantage on deception checks against non-Unas); Impressive Resilience (1/long rest, I may use a reaction to gain resistance to an attack I just got hit by for +TD turns; I can't be reduced below 1 hp while this is active); Claws (I got 'em, 1d6 melee weapon). Origin Traits: Toxic Resistance (I got resistance to poison damage); Naquadah Blooded (I can use technology requiring naquadah in the blood to activate, including a lot of Goa'uld tech); Symbiote Familiarity (I have advantage on Insight checks against anyone bearing a symbiote). Class traits: I add an Engineering Kit to my base kit; Jury Rig (When I use an engineering kit to repair a machine, it restores 2d8 damage, and I can do this as an action rather than a short rest); Modifications: Montage (during an episode R&D encounter, reduce the number of required successes by half my Proficiency bonus, minimum 1).

*****

Well, this was a pleasant surprise.

I placed Stargate SG-1 in my to-do list as a bit of a break, something silly, something I didn't have to invest a lot of myself in playing around with. I did absolutely no research; I knew there was an old book by AEG, based on 3rd edition D&D, I believe. I did not know that there was an entire, official product that got built and released when I wasn't paying attention.

The Stargate SG-1 RPG is, deep into its core, a fan work - and I say this with love. It is clearly very well thought-out, very heavily worked on and, first and foremost, made by people who are primarily deep and abiding Stargate fans. It just has that feel to it. It's laid out in a way that a designer would never dare, but an artist would. It focuses on obscure parts of the lore in a holistic way that only makes sense if you've ever edited a fan wiki. There's an enthusiasm to this book that practically drips from the pages, an excitement that can only be explained as the effervescence of a lifelong fan getting to really, actually be part of the property that sparks so much joy.

Mechanics-wise, it's 5e, but it's also one of those 5e products that has been renovated so much that I have to question why you'd use 5e in the first place. It's a class-based system... for five levels, then it swaps to point-buy. There's a narrative tension die that determines whether the tone of your episode is heavy enough that a protagonist can die. There's a whole social combat system involving wagering social capital on the likeability of your face. You don't really collect equipment unless it's something personal to you, you're an army unit, you get issued stuff. It feels like, with just a slight nudge, the whole thing could tip over into its own bespoke system, and that wouldn't be a bad thing. My only real mechanical note is that, the way the numbers read on first blush, I'd question how much of an actual challenge is there - but then again, Stargate SG-1 is the sort of property where good does triumph over evil, where our heroes are intrepid, where sometimes the only logical, the only human response to beholding the infinite wonders and errors of your precursors is to make a pun at it.

Having just gotten through the OSR mines, it's this game that really brings me back to an earlier time in the hobby. I'd be just at home finding it by idly running my finger along the spines at a scrungy basement game store, half-listening to the increasingly intense 40k game in the other room, as I am finding it completely at random while hunting down a character sheet online. The one thing that connects both ideas is this notion that the hobby is open, anyone can create, there are no qualifications, you don't need a degree. If the numbers fit right in your head, if you have a compelling theme, if you know someone who can kind of do art and have access to somewhere that'd do print-on-demand, you can make and sell a whole-assed game that'd sit, just as real and just as important, on the shelf with all the others. And sometimes? Sometimes, the properties you love will even ask you to.

Next up: WOTC ouroboros.

[unhonestlymirror]

Wait, you're telling me no one has thought about this before?..

Crocodile's little secret

[or Crocodile's trust issues' tragic backstory].

[sunjoys]

my challengers/La chimera drawing has like 20 notes which is great (my last few art posts haven't gotten more than like .. 7 notes each) but all of them bar like 2 are from likes...... like ik when it comes to gifs sometimes the like to reblog ratio is messed up but damnnn okay

[bweirdart]

nearly oc-tober time again - time for some prompts for 2024

F.A.Q

do i have to draw?

not at all! you are free to participate with any medium that suits you... writing, artwork, free bases and templates, simple text posts, in-character-as-your-oc roleplay, whatever! (just no stealing or AI)

do i have to make new content?

nope! re-uploading old stuff that fits the prompts is allowed (and encouraged) ... old art that didn't get the appreciation it needed always deserves a chance to be shared again, it's a fun throwback!

do i have to post every day?

nope! only 10 days are mandatory (the ones in red with a star symbol) and everything else (yellow) is 100% optional! if you're busy or tired, please skip as many as you want

can i start early?

you can prep your posts in advance if you need to ... but please wait until the right day in october to share them!

can i re-upload your prompt list to another site?

i would prefer if you dont - i have accounts on most sites, so just reblog/retweet/share from me!

event tag?

#bweirdOCtober

have fun!

image desc/text version ↓under the cut↓ or on bweird.art/october

prompts:

WEEK 1: OC INTRODUCTIONS

⭐ 1: FAV OC

what makes them your fav?

2: NEW OC

how recently did you make them?

3: OLD OC

how long ago did you make them?

⭐ 4: UNDER-APPRECIATED OC

an oc you feel like you don't talk about enough, or you haven't fleshed out as much as you would like

5: RE-DESIGNED OC

an oc who has changed a lot (what changed about them?) or, if you haven't redesigned an oc: is there anything you might want to change about an existing oc?

WEEK 2: BUILDING BACKSTORY

⭐ 6: PAST

where is your oc from? what did they look like as a child?

7: LIKES

what do they like (and why?)

8: DISLIKES

what don't they like (and why?)

⭐ 9: RELATIONSHIPS

doesn't have to be romantic! can any kind of relationship (frienship, family, rivalry etc)

10: PERSONALITY

what are your oc's main personality traits

11: SYMBOLISM/THEMES

what represents your oc? is there a specific colour you associate them with, or a specific animal?

12: FUTURE

what will your oc look like in the future? do they have any plans or goals?

WEEK 3: FUN + GAMES

⭐13: MEMES

do any memes remind you of your oc? are there memes your oc would find funny? maybe you want to redraw your oc as one?

14: WHO/WHAT INSPIRED YOUR OC

are there existing characters that your oc looks like? was your oc based on yourself? is your oc originally from a specific fandom?

15: MUSIC

share a character playlist, write a songfic, post lyrics that remind you of them, etc

⭐16: EYES CLOSED or NON DOMINANT HAND

draw a picture of your oc with your eyes closed or with your non domminant hand, write or type a paragraph about them without your eyes closed, etc ... have fun, and don't worry about it looking "bad" -it's meant to!!

17: DnD ALIGNMENT CHART

put all your ocs into a DnD alignment chart, or any other similar chart if you prefer

i've compiled a few templates on my site, but you can find more easily if you google "oc alignment chart"

⭐18: SWAP

swap something between your ocs - their role in the story, hairstyles, personalities, fashion taste, species ... whatever you want! how would this difference change them?

19: PALETTE CHALLENGES

draw your ocs with as many of these colour palettes as you want (or just skip if you don't draw/don't like doing these!)

hex codes for the colours:

palette 1 - #3C1E81 #6D1EA2 #B059E8 #FE0876 #FE5284 #FE7C96 #E0CFE3 #FFD5C3

palette 2 - #352823 #673F28 #AB541C #BA8233 #897128 #A68B2F #F7BF6A #DAC3A4

palette 3 - #A42E25 #D7412B #E47C29 #F7A233 #FCC02D #FCE4A6 #486548 #FEFDE8

palette 4 - #2F4769 #39597E #53779C #94D1E7 #AADDE7 #D48DB7 #D498B5 #D2BABA

WEEK 4: COMMUNITY

20-26: A WHOLE WEEK OF SOCIAL STUFF

if you don't have the time/energy to do every day this week, ⭐ day 23 is the only one marked as mandatory! you can skip the rest!

some ideas for what you could do: talk about a friend's oc you like, make gift art/writing of them, collabs, trades, reblog/appreciate ocs in the event tag, make interactions between your ocs and other people's

WEEK 5: HALLOWEEN

⭐27: FEARS

is your oc scared of anything? do they have any phobias? are they startled easily? would any of your ocs try to scare ppl on purpose?

28: MONSTER

what would your oc be if they were a monster (eg: werewolf, vampire, eldritch beast.. whatever) or, do you have an oc who is already a monster?

29: PUMPKIN CARVING

your ocs carving pumpkins, a drawing of a pumpkin carved to look like your oc ... or even carve it in real life!

30: GHOST

this can be literally a ghost, or a concept that haunts your oc! up to you!

⭐ 31: COSTUMES

what are your ocs wearing for halloween?

[anam-mana]

It fascinates me that Alistair gets lumped in with the “Chantry Boys” in discussions about Dragon Age Archetypes because it’s just. Very untrue. But it’s an idea the text actually pushes you to connect with in a way I think is purposeful.

This guy introduces us to the lore of the Blight by asking if we want “the chantry version or the truth.” If we ask if they’re not the same thing he smirks and says with some attitude “they rarely are.”

He sums up his religious beliefs saying he’s “not especially” Andrastian, and that “believes in the Maker well enough.”

He’s actually LESS religious than Zevran, who describes himself as fully Andrastian with a regular prayer routine in optional conversation branches.

The things that people use to categorize Alistair’s supposed “Chantry Boy” boy status all have non-religious motivations.

For example, the big one, his virginity, is because 1. He’s nervous around women, which is the gender he finds most attractive 2. He’s actually the youngest Party Member, being freshly 20 years old. 3. And most importantly, he correlates sex with love and was brought up to see them as requiring the other and so feels uncomfortable having sex without what he sees as “true love.” And he just hasn’t been in love yet.

Another example would be his reaction to the Urn of Sacred Ashes. He reacts with wonder akin to Leliana where many others react with a contrasting blasee attitude. Even the Andrastian Zevran.

But you gotta read between the lines here. Zevran doesn’t hold remains as sacred. He’s an assassin. So his prophet’s body is in that urn. It’s a body. The least remarkable and most mundane, perhaps even the hardest to swallow, thing she could ever be to Zevran is a corpse. Kinda takes the wonder out of faith for an assassin if she dies and rests just like any one else.

But Alistair is fascinated, in awe. 1, probably because the Chantry he doubts so much now has some kinda proof that something they said was true, unlike what he previously believed. 2, Alistair is WAY more patriotic than he is religious and we gotta remember that the Fereldans pride themselves on Alamari heritage, and Andraste was probably the most powerful and influential Alamari person to ever live. 3, he’s actually a giant history buff. He info dumps history on you often, with the memorized readings of whatever question you ask. If asked about the King and Loghain before the betrayal at Ostagar, he shows respect for Loghain’s service in the War for Independance, and knowledge of his tactics. And when speaking about his time in training with the chantry as a child, he says the education was actually what he liked most. And a lot of his gifts are things like replica soldiers, Fereldan historical things, maps, (along with his interest in magical artifacts but that’s for another day.) etc. Given his patriotism and love of learning history, yeah, the Urn is a big deal to him.

I have more things I could say, but really, I just find Alistair to be one of the most misrepresented by fandom characters. His character has a TON of subtext that challenges you to look beyond what others represent him as and the low opinion he holds of himself.

The perception of him as Andrastian and devout is one pushed on him by people like Morrigan (and others to some degree) who fights Alistair more like a straw man representing society than she engages with him as himself. She sees him as a Templar even though he left the order specifically because they abused him And he fundamentally disagreed with their practices, The Harrowing specifically being what pushed him to fight to leave.

There are, textually, two ways to interpret Alistair. Through face value aesthetics and symbolism pointing to association with the Chantry and by observing other’s opinion of him. Or through actually listening to what he says and watching what he does.

And it’s just interesting to me that a lot of people get caught in the trap of what he represents aesthetically rather than who he is.

[whumpuary]

Whumpuary 2025!

(edit in case anyone actually reads this, i messed up and put "i'm fine" in twice for day 25 and alt prompt, so either ignore that or you can use "do it" as an additional alt prompt)

these prompts came together through community submissions and then a voting form where people voted for their favorites, here are the top 53 prompts

i want to try a slightly new format where there are still only 15 days for creation prompts but with additional community prompts/questions. those are entirely voluntary but are here to possibly inspire some community interaction and trying new things

i'm excited to see some awesome creations in january!

go here for info/rules/tagging go here for faqs

(note: number 31 is not a creation prompt and therefore not required to complete the challenge, it's just colored black so the colors add up)

text version of the prompts and rules is under the cut

(image description note: there are 31 numbered prompts, on each odd number the text color is black and on even numbers the text color is white)

Whumpuary 2025

a whump-themed multi media creation event for january

create for at least one prompt from each odd/black number to complete the challenge community prompts (even/white) numbers are voluntary

main prompts

1. sacrifice | headache | "this will hurt" 2. how did you find the whump community? 3. choice | storm | black eye 4. what are your favorite whump tropes? 5. "do you trust me" | manhandled | chills 6. share your favorite whump creations (others or yours!) 7. unfair fight | insomnia | "no one is coming" 8. what media genre do you like whump in? 9. trapped under rubble | gunpoint | out of time 10. write your own whump prompt 11. "i didn't ask for this" | blood | abandoned 12. create something in a new/less familiar medium 13. close call | sleep | choking 14. what's your favorite character dynamic? 15. handcuffed | dead | "please, stop" 16. leave a comment on a whump fic/art/creation 17. drugged | "i'm glad you're alive" | revenge 18. favorite whump medium? (movie, book, art, ...) 19. "let them go" | overworked | head injury 20. send a nice message to someone in the community 21. bruises | "who are you?" | immortality 22. take 10 minutes to work on a wip 23. backhand slap | alone | "i can't do this anymore" 24. what do you take inspiration in? 25. "i'm fine" | missing | drowsiness 26. draw/doodle something whumpy 27. stuck in a loop | twisting the knife | rescue 28. find a creator in the #whumpuary tag and send them an ask 29. kidnapped | "don't leave me" | devotion 30. make a whump meme 31. say something nice about your own work

alt prompts

hiding impaled "i'm fine" rain betrayal hair pulling darkness falling (added later, not in the image: "do it")

rules & info

-any medium is allowed (art, writing, gifs, edits, ...) -prompts are open for interpretation (but the context does have to be whumpy) -create for at least one of three prompts on creation prompt days (black/odd numbers) to complete the challenge -if you're not aiming for completionist you can do however many prompts you want any way you want -community prompts (white/even numbers) are voluntary and don't count for completionist (but can be combined with creation prompts if applicable) -use alt prompts to replace main prompts you don't like some works posted on tumblr will be reblogged if tagged correctly -#whumpuary2025 -#whumpuaryno1 (number of the prompt(s)) -#sacrifice #head injury #"i'm fine" (the prompt(s) you're using) -any trigger/content warning tags -any additional tags (fandom, oc, other used tropes, ...)