#THERE ARE ACTUAL TEARS
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Okay, the conversation between Sofia and Kingston about bringing people back to life has officially cemented the Unsleeping City 2 as one of my favorite D20 seasons
#there are ACTUAL TEARS#this is beyond heartfelt and this season is massively underrated#i'm in love#dimension 20#the unsleeping city#the unsleeping city 2#sofia lee#kingston brown
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HEY.
HEY, EPISODE 29 OF THE KING'S AVATAR.
YOU COME BACK HERE.
I WANT TO SUE YOU FOR EMOTIONAL DAMAGES.
😭
#THAT EPISODE WAS SO GOOD#BUT I'M LEGIT CRYING OVER HERE#THERE ARE ACTUAL TEARS#AND MY NOSE IS RUNNING#EVERYTHING HURTS AND I AM NOT OK#IN ALL THE BEST WAYS#THE FUCKING TAPE RECORDER#HALP#I CAN'T#TT^TT#*sobs aggressively*#eirenical blogs tka
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I don't crosspost from reddit often but I need everyone to see this right NOW.
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I was so nervous to do this but
Eye docs
I'm so wearing these when I go to Manchester for the protocol s2 thing
#im actually pretty happy with how they turned out#i just hope the design holds up to wear and tear of shoes#tma#the magnus archives#the magnus protocol
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wanted to see if they kept that stupid face Shadowheart makes this scene and I'm CRYING
#baldur's gate 3#bg3#Shadowheart#bg3 shadowheart#baldur's gate 3 shadowheart#jenevelle hallowleaf#personal#IM IN TEARS LMAO#kinda wish they used an angle in game that actually showed her face in that scene cuz thats hilarious 😂
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sweet beast
welcome to the holocene little one, we’ve waited so long for you
#paleoart#homotherium#my art#took some artistic liberties with the fur bc it’s hard to tell how much of it is taphonomic stuff and what’s like. actual fur pigmentation#anyway im still at the point where if i think abt this too long i burst into tears
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wait i am crying. look at her.
#no you dont get it.....#the reaction i am having right now.....#god.#there are actual tears#blade......#TwT#sillyposting
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you know i'm something of a civil engineer myself
#totk spoilers#totk#tears of the kingdom#legend of zelda#loz#link#addison#admittedly most of my builds are actually just cubes that cage addison and the sign in#but if they fail#then it's time to start mashing everything together
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SEVERANCE SEASON 2 Coming to Apple TV+
#severance#severanceedit#scifiedit#tvedit#userbbelcher#chewieblog#userstream#appletvgifs#usertelevision#usersugar#tuserhan#miatendos#useranimusvox#usermandie#userkd#usertom#userlix#trueloveistreacherous#usernastya#*#IN ACTUAL TEARS WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!#funnily enough i queue'd a severance post an hour ago asking when will this show come back from war. i guessed i summoned it!
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#EVERYTHING GOES BACK TO HAIKYUU LMFAO#i’m actually in tears bc of this ohmygodddd#haikyuu#tendou#I'M STILL CRYING ABOUT THIS LMFAOOOOOO
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catboy Damian i will miss you 🥺
#damian wayne#haley#jon kent#dick grayson#forgot churu is NOT vegetarian so just imagine these are some kinda veggie version cat treats LOL#i drew these with the assumption Damian was in Bludhaven hence meeting Haley haha SOMEDAY!!#Dick originally said 'sorry i didnt look for you sooner' BUT HE ACTUALLY WENT SEARCHING ASAP IN THE COMIC 😭 edit the text in happy tears 😭#batbabyart#daminyan
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I am waiting… waiting for you…
#loz#loz totk#legend of Zelda#tears of the kingdom#link#ganondorf#ganlink#it’s almost one year since ganlink became canon#(IM KIDDING)#I’m pretty sure it was ganon who actually called to link to come and find him not Zelda#ya sneaky shit#I toned down the demon king design a bit#just so he doesn’t look as deep fried#but god I adore how he looks as a demon#very kissable
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another thing fantasy writers should keep track of is how much of their worldbuilding is aesthetic-based. it's not unlike the sci-fi hardness scale, which measures how closely a story holds to known, real principles of science. The Martian is extremely hard sci-fi, with nearly every detail being grounded in realistic fact as we know it; Star Trek is extremely soft sci-fi, with a vaguely plausible "space travel and no resource scarcity" premise used as a foundation for the wildest ideas the writers' room could come up with. and much as Star Trek fuckin rules, there's nothing wrong with aesthetic-based fantasy worldbuilding!
(sidenote we're not calling this 'soft fantasy' bc there's already a hard/soft divide in fantasy: hard magic follows consistent rules, like "earthbenders can always and only bend earth", and soft magic follows vague rules that often just ~feel right~, like the Force. this frankly kinda maps, but I'm not talking about just the magic, I'm talking about the worldbuilding as a whole.
actually for the purposes of this post we're calling it grounded vs airy fantasy, bc that's succinct and sounds cool.)
a great example of grounded fantasy is Dungeon Meshi: the dungeon ecosystem is meticulously thought out, the plot is driven by the very realistic need to eat well while adventuring, the story touches on both social and psychological effects of the whole 'no one dies forever down here' situation, the list goes on. the worldbuilding wants to be engaged with on a mechanical level and it rewards that engagement.
deliberately airy fantasy is less common, because in a funny way it's much harder to do. people tend to like explanations. it takes skill to pull off "the world is this way because I said so." Narnia manages: these kids fall into a magic world through the back of a wardrobe, befriend talking beavers who drink tea, get weapons from Santa Claus, dance with Bacchus and his maenads, and sail to the edge of the world, without ever breaking suspension of disbelief. it works because every new thing that happens fits the vibes. it's all just vibes! engaging with the worldbuilding on a mechanical level wouldn't just be futile, it'd be missing the point entirely.
the reason I started off calling this aesthetic-based is that an airy story will usually lean hard on an existing aesthetic, ideally one that's widely known by the target audience. Lewis was drawing on fables, fairy tales, myths, children's stories, and the vague idea of ~medieval europe~ that is to this day our most generic fantasy setting. when a prince falls in love with a fallen star, when there are giants who welcome lost children warmly and fatten them up for the feast, it all fits because these are things we'd expect to find in this story. none of this jars against what we've already seen.
and the point of it is to be wondrous and whimsical, to set the tone for the story Lewis wants to tell. and it does a great job! the airy worldbuilding serves the purposes of the story, and it's no less elegant than Ryōko Kui's elaborately grounded dungeon. neither kind of worldbuilding is better than the other.
however.
you do have to know which one you're doing.
the whole reason I'm writing this is that I saw yet another long, entertaining post dragging GRRM for absolute filth. asoiaf is a fun one because on some axes it's pretty grounded (political fuck-around-and-find-out, rumors spread farther than fact, fastest way to lose a war is to let your people starve, etc), but on others it's entirely airy (some people have magic Just Cause, the various peoples are each based on an aesthetic/stereotype/cliché with no real thought to how they influence each other as neighbors, the super-long seasons have no effect on ecology, etc).
and again! none of this is actually bad! (well ok some of those stereotypes are quite bigoted. but other than that this isn't bad.) there's nothing wrong with the season thing being there to highlight how the nobles are focused on short-sighted wars for power instead of storing up resources for the extremely dangerous and inevitable winter, that's a nice allegory, and the looming threat of many harsh years set the narrative tone. and you can always mix and match airy and grounded worldbuilding – everyone does it, frankly it's a necessity, because sooner or later the answer to every worldbuilding question is "because the author wanted it to be that way." the only completely grounded writing is nonfiction.
the problem is when you pretend that your entirely airy worldbuilding is actually super duper grounded. like, for instance, claiming that your vibes-based depiction of Medieval Europe (Gritty Edition) is completely historical, and then never even showing anyone spinning. or sniffing dismissively at Tolkien for not detailing Aragorn's tax policy, and then never addressing how a pre-industrial grain-based agricultural society is going years without harvesting any crops. (stored grain goes bad! you can't even mouse-proof your silos, how are you going to deal with mold?) and the list goes on.
the man went up on national television and invited us to engage with his worldbuilding mechanically, and then if you actually do that, it shatters like spun sugar under the pressure. doesn't he realize that's not the part of the story that's load-bearing! he should've directed our focus to the political machinations and extensive trope deconstruction, not the handwavey bit.
point is, as a fantasy writer there will always be some amount of your worldbuilding that boils down to 'because I said so,' and there's nothing wrong with that. nor is there anything wrong with making that your whole thing – airy worldbuilding can be beautiful and inspiring. but you have to be aware of what you're doing, because if you ask your readers to engage with the worldbuilding in gritty mechanical detail, you had better have some actual mechanics to show them.
#finx rambles#worldbuilding#for writers#honestly I quite liked the asoiaf books I read#it's a well-constructed story! it's a well-constructed world too on its own merits#none of this stuff about grain and spinning is actually important to the story#the problem is that grrm himself seems to just. not realize this#and goes about blithely insisting he's created an extraordinarily realistic fantasy world where all the tax policies make sense#he has not!#he has invited people to tear his creation apart if they can and! it turns out! they absolutely can!#this shit's got no tensile strength! it's made of glue and popsicle sticks!#you're not supposed to put weight on it
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Smooches*
#zelda#totk#totk spoilers#tears of the kingdom spoilers#tears of the kingdom#legend of zelda#zelink#link#my art#redundantz art#I’m in mushy zelink mode now#they didnt actually kiss but they did in my heart
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I’M LOSING IT AT ETHO, WHY DID HE SAY THAT???
#brother you’re not even American what is happening#actual tears in my eyes#ethoslab#zombiecleo#tango tek#goodtimeswithscar#cubfan135#livestream
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MY DARLING BOY!
#dimension 20#fantasy high#fantasy high junior year#d20 spoilers#fhjy spoilers#dnd#d20#dropout#fhjy#brennan lee mulligan#lou wilson#ally beardsley#brian murphy#bill seacaster#captain bill seacaster#fabian seacaster#fabian aramais seacaster#kalvaxus#sylvansleuthings#actual tears came to my eyes i cant believe how bad this got me#me too fabian lmao#my darling boy
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