#RQG goblins

[franzis-frantic-thoughts]

You miss Grizzop? Boy, have I got a new goblin voiced by Ben Meredith for you!

[knifemartin]

just can't stop thinking about how different grizzop's choice could have been if the cult hadn't taken vesseek but instead took one of the clutch

because grizzop swore an oath to his god and he knows his partner can handle themself, but he made an oath to the clutch when he adopted them, and they're just children, and he's meant to be their father!

and azu and hamid come racing down the stairs and grizzop is shoving adamantine into moving parts of the factory, and he's got to keep moving because there's a job to do there's a task to finish-

-and azu comes up to him, giant hand on his small shoulder. "they have our family. they have a baby goblin. grizzop, are you a father?"

and it hits so hard because he was expecting them to take vesseek! anyone who knows grizzop knows vesseek is the most important person to him, hardly anyone even knows about their clutch! but azu's eyes are round and her hand is trembling, only slightly, and he knows he underestimated them.

"who?" he asks before he can stop himself, but azu didn't know about the clutch, let alone who each of them are. there's one of his children, kidnapped and scared, and he doesn't even know which one.

grizzop made a promise to artemis that he'd finish this hunt and save as many people as possible- and the stake right now is most of the entire world. but he made a promise, too, to six orphaned goblins without a chance in the world, and it's because of him and that promise that one of them has been taken and used against him.

he's gonna have to break one of those promises

[loverboybrightsideghost]

i've been trying to draw this little guy for years and this is the closest i've come to anything that looks like what i see in my brain. why are goblins so hard to draw, man?

inspired by @crayonturtle's grizzop :)

[5-turtleducks-in-a-trenchcoat]

I did some portrais of the rqg characters, to get a better idea of how I want to draw them. Then I accidentally put effort into it and it took me a lot longer than I thought it would take.

[trailmixedup]

Dumb little grizzop sketch because I’ve got the WORST gob brainrot. He’s so good. I absolutely love him. Damascus is like- my favorite arc, there’s so much goblin!!!

[rustyelias]

Pulling a rqg wilde today I have some very important shit to do I am running on no sleep and spite

[onemorecoffeeshopau]

I'm slowing down in my rqg relisten and uhhh I think it's cos we're almost at Rome and I'm worried for my babies 😭😭😭

[eleanor-is-fine]

If only those guys in Damascus could see him now. Gorgeous!

the people have spoken! here is zop absolutely living his best life! i have drawn him in so long :,)

ID: a full colour digital drawing of grizzop lying on the shore of a yellow beach on a sunny day drinking from a coconut. he is a dark green goblin with long, pointy ears that point upwards. he has completely red eyes, sharp teeth and claws. he is smiling at the viewer as he lies on his front, propped up on his elbows with his legs sticking out behind him, toes sticking into the sand as the shallow waves come in and touch his stomach. his left forearm is flat on the sand and the right is resting on top of it, holding a green coconut with a straw sticking out of it. he is wearing a bright orange speedo, and has three hoop earrings in his ear. end ID

[incorrect-rqg]

Okay my intent here is not to start drama in the rqg fandom in 2024 because I love this community and frankly it's not that deep, but there's something I just wanna talk about for a sec.

I've seen the sentiment around lately that the party is unnecessarily cruel to Wilde - from the Prague arc all the way up to Damascus or even Japan - and that this specifically contributes to Wilde's guardedness and unwillingness to be emotionally open with the party throughout the show. That he goes "oh, you want me to be the snarky punching bag with no feelings? Then that's what I'll be."

While this is a sentiment I generally agree with, I take some issue with the idea that the party - Grizzop specifically - is mean to Wilde for "no reason".

Grizzop has a very good reason to dislike being around Wilde, which he expresses on numerous occasions - Wilde's lack of respect for Grizzop's personhood and his use of condescending and demeaning language.

While Wilde never actually calls Grizzop "It" like he'd later claim (just a result of long gaps between sessions and Ben being a human being with imperfect memory), he does call him "this one" and generally treat him in a dismissive and condescending way, even after being told to stop numerous times.

Now, I've seen the argument that this is kind of just how Wilde talks to everyone. That's just who he is, especially in earlier arcs. This isn't entirely untrue, but that doesn't change the fact that like... Grizzop is a goblin (in the RQGverse a minority race with a history of oppression), who has been the target of this kind of language and attitude from humans his entire life. He's entirely warranted in being upset at being treated this way. Wilde doesn't ever really give Grizzop any reason to like him, and frankly Grizzop doesn't owe Wilde jack shit.

Another scenario is the iconic moment where Grizzop punches Wilde in the dick. I made a post about this a couple days ago while Very High and then forgot to delete it in the morning so it's just up now. But I've seen a couple comments (on the post and elsewhere) being like "poor Wilde :(" or "he didn't deserve that" and like... He kinda did? He was being antagonistic and negging Sasha, deliberately trying to make her feel worse about her upcoming Risky Medical Procedure. Even if it was just him being silly that's still a pretty shitty thing to do. You can argue that Grizzop went overboard with the physical violence, but arguing that it wasn't at all warranted doesn't make sense to me.

I love Wilde as much as the next rqg fan. He's probably my favourite character, maybe behind Sasha. But in order to appreciate the extent of his character growth it's important to recognize situations where yeah, he was being shitty and antagonistic.

And, even in a scenario as silly and fantastical as this, I still think it's important to not brush off the experiences of a marginalized person who says they're a target of discriminatory language, even if the perpetrator is someone you like. Wilde is white, and charming, and wealthy, and in a position of power over Grizzop as his handler and as a government representative. He is not the victim in this situation.

Again, very much not looking to start shit here, especially because "aw, poor Wilde :(" is definitely a thought I've had while listening to early RQG. This is just something I've been thinking about a lot during my current relisten and wanted to share with you guys.

[franzis-frantic-thoughts]

G.O.B.L.I.N.S is fully funded!!!

The he crowdfunding campaign is slowly reaching the end of its run time, but any additionally raised funds will go towards merch production!!!

Oh, I can’t wait for the shenanigans and the chaos and the absolutely brain breaking task to transcribe it all!

@stellarfirmatim, Amy, and Sam who were just streaming, are going to have a well deserved rest, Tim promised to take Amy out to dinner tomorrow, and then they’ll get down to the rewards soon enough.

Stay tuned and follow #Goblins Pod for more info!!!

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I was like a kid!fic from RQG would be so cute than I realized that the only people that would be kids at the same time is Bertie, Sasha and Hamid (if we count NPCs Carter, Wilde and Barnes as well).

So now instead I want a kid!au but is actually just Cel takes a very different path on their post-America journey and ends up acidentally taking everyone else under their wing.

Literally just:

1. Cel goes to Svalbard and hears about an sccident on the mines. Acidentaly interceps older teen Zolf and after acidentaly annoying the shit out of Zolf offers Zolf the scape route he would otherwise take with the navy by mentioning they neen an assistant.

2. Cel goes to England. Acidentaly gets a job as a chemistry teacher at a prestigiou school. There they notice sweetheart new transfer student Hamid being peer pressured into becaming a bully. So they ask to talk to Hamid in their room and offer Hamid support. Thanks to that Hamid gains news friends and a new favorite teacher he goes for guidance everytime and can use to project a healthy father figure.

3. Cel is still in England but they can't have just one job so they also settle shop. Someone keeps robbing things from the shop and Cel keeps building new intricate traps to catch the robbers mostly as a fun game than any anger at them. They finally catch Sasha and Brock except instead of angry they are very exited about how the kids were abble to work around the traps and Sasha is cautelously very exited about how Cel build the traps. Sasha slowly relaxes (wich in turn calms Brock) and as she starts firing blunt trap questions Cel starts getting more hyped. They fully rescue/kidnapp Sasha and Brock from Barret.

4. Cel moves to Amsterdam to run from Barret (they leave Zolf with the store and gift a mkbile stone to both now an adult Zolf and favorite student in need Hamid so they can keep contact) and acidentaly ends up witnessing the murder of a goblin pack. They get to late to save the pack but not to late to rescue their one surviving member baby Grizzop.

5. Cel finds a place to settle down at a small town in Kenya. Their are neighboors with Azu's family and they get along super duper well with their neighbors.

(Tbh I think I can even make Cel adopt most supporting NPCs except the kobolds because Shoin sucks, Einstein because too old and maybe Earhart cause I have no idea of even an estimate age for her).

[franzis-frantic-thoughts]

@re-dracula

--Fictional podcast character

--From Amsterdam in the late 1800s

--Silly and kindhearted

--Intense and driven

--Strong in his faith

--A healer

--A hunter

--Sworn to dispatch the undead

--Nevertheless has a deep fondness for a young woman with a scarred face who is being turned into an undead creature against her will and will do everything in his power to protect her

Am I talking about Abraham Van Helsing or Grizzop Drik acht Amsterdam

[loverboybrightsideghost]

sasha <3

[platoapproved]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers! Spread the self-love 💞

Thank you so much for sending this to me! I was so flattered, especially because your fics are some of my favorites in the entire fandom... 😭

5 Times Daniel Molloy Imagined Killing Marius de Romanus (+1 Time He Actually Did It)

(Armand/Daniel Molloy | Interview With The Vampire) Recency bias is at work here, maybe, but also this is the longest fic I've ever written and I'm happy I kept up the momentum and completed it. Normally my fics are MUCH shorter and laser-focused on a single scene or two and a specific emotion, this was definitely the most plot-heavy fic I've ever written.

Please Work With What Is Left

(Noah/Ronan; Ronan/Noah/Gansey/Blue/Adam | The Raven Cycle) I still have such a tender place in my heart for this fic, even though Life Events™ interrupted it like 4/5ths through and the ending is incomplete / cobbled together. Deeply personal to me in a way that's difficult to put into words.

The Emperor's Hands

(Csevet/Maia | The Goblin Emperor) This fic is short, cliche, and sappy - but I have affection for it, probably because The Goblin Emperor is still my favorite novel and I am in a constant state of just wanting nice things for Maia.

Marks

(Skraak/Hamid | Rusty Quill Gaming) This list wouldn't be complete without a little Skraak/Hamid on it even though I know there's like, 2 people who follow me on tumblr who have any idea who tf that is (shoutouts, you know who you are). I'm so unfazed by writing gore and violence but pretty shy about posting anything even vaguely sexy so I picked this out of my handful of RQG fics because it's probably the most erotically-focused fic I've published and that required pushing the boundaries of my comfort zone a bit but I'm happy I did!

[All the fics I've published anonymously, or orphaned]

(Various Fandoms) This might seem like cheating, but honestly it's not a gimmick: several fics that fit this description are very important to me! I truly love that AO3 has the option to orphan fics, and also to publish them anonymously. It's very freeing and wonderful. There are a handful of fics I never would've posted if I had to attach them to my name, either because they felt much too personal or I was shy about their contents in some other way. I know what fics they are, and no one else needs to. But that doesn't stop them from being important to me.

[iwannarunawayandbeapirate]

Relistening to the RQG Cairo arc right now and I have never thought about it from this angle before but holy shit Saira is going through so much??

Like imagine this. You're just going about your business when suddenly, communication, technology and transport all over the world stop working. Less than two weeks later, you hear that your sister has been killed by a wizard. It's all over the news, and apparently your brother was there too? And the wizard cursed him? You don't know if he's okay, and you can't even contact him because all the modern communication systems are down. But like two days later, he just shows up in Cairo with no announcement and doesn't even explain how he got there. He has some friends with him who immediately get drunk and damage the magical mural on the ceiling. Within the span of the next two days, you find out that he got kicked out of university, that your other brother broke into your family's bank and killed someone, that your father is taking the fall for him, that your brother didn't actually kill someone but did break into the bank and is now turning himself in to the police. Oh, and also there's an ancient tomb underneath the bank and it's full of traps. But you have no time to process this, because two of your family members have been arrested and another one has died while you have to basically run the entire family business while also still doing your normal job as a dragon's assistant. And that's not all! Apparently, you are actually descended from the dragon that you work for. Your brother and his friends want to talk to him because one of them is undead?? And your brother has inherited magical powers from the dragon. And so have your even younger brothers, apparently.

Eventually, your brother leaves again, as suddenly as he came. You think you can finally get a moment to breathe and get used to the new situation, but then, your other little brother is kidnapped. And your adventuring brother disappears as well. And then an old German guy shows up and tells you they're in a temporal rift in Rome?? You don't even have much time to worry about them, because suddenly, people are becoming infected with blue veins and betraying their loved ones. Your former home is now the headquarters for the rebellion, who you think also want to bring down the dragons you once worked for? Your brothers show up again after 18 months, but they haven't aged at all, and they've picked up a gnome, a goblin, and a paladin along the way. The older brother disappears pretty much as soon as he arrived - he's off to Japan now. A few weeks later, the abnormal storms that have been sweeping through Egypt suddenly stop. And then, a month or so later, it all stops. The blue veins. Magic. The Meritocracy. And your little brother was at the centre of all of this from the beginning.

What the actual fuck?

[kristsune]

I come baring The Most Niche Audio Post. When I heard this description of The Man in the Suit for Person of interest, well I could only think of everyone's favorite goblin, and had to combine the two.

PoI audio from s02e05, RQG from Benquest