#an elf's story

[ancientvamp]

the elf on the shelf movie is so nostalgic for me and the song "extravaganzalorious" is an artistic masterpiece

*slowly reaches for the popcorn*

[crustaceousfaggot]

Shout out to Cishet White Teenager Christopher Paolini for realizing that if you give people infinite time, a completely non-judgemental society, and the power to change their bodies any way they want, lots of people are gonna start doing Freaky Anthro Transgenderism on themselves.

Like yeah, if I had the option I'd probably turn myself into a bizzare eldritch creature too

[big-greer]

a BIG part of the lore of Dungeon Meshi is how ageism is bad. About how the long lived races treat the young lived races like children and thus infantilize them and do not show them the respect and understanding they deserve simply because of their looks or short life spans. Whether its because to them they look like children in their eyes (like half foots and gnomes) or because the adult ages of the younger lived races are still in the child ages for the longer lived ones and so they get treated/viewed as children (we see otta receive comments about getting with minors when in reality she dated adult half foot women. so we already see this view towards things like this are a thing in the lore) We see this with chilchuck, senshi, and marcille where the two later view chilchuck as a child and treat him like one even though he is a full grown man who drinks (and is supposed to have grey hairs) all because he looks young and in the newest episode its revealed he is 29 which is still young children to the two of them. We see how perspectives that characters are children because of their age being a childs age for a different race as opposed to their race or because they look like children is a completely infantilizing and disrespectful behavior that causes so many problems in the long run. a theme that is completely flying over the average tumblr users head.

ive seen people get furious at other people because they sexualize chilchuck and even marcille

“oh they look like kids so dont do that you freak”

you absolute fool you missed a major theme of the fucking story. But because they look young suddenly they are children? have you paid no attention to the story? did you just ignore how the ageisim and weird mindset about ages like that causes so many issues that could easily have been avoided. and as for the age one i see people getting furious at others for being into and sexualizing izutsumi even though she is a year past adult in tall man years, but because she isnt in the adult age range in real life (wild your applying real life society standards to a fictional medieval fantasy world). even though even in lore she would be well an adult able to get married and everything tumblr really does have the media literacy of a toddler.

[yourbuddykermit]

oh we’re so back

[monster-crave]

Lyall/Eilis 🐺🌹

read chapter about this two here support us on patreon.com/monstercrave

[athenasplan]

at the end of ep 12 Velora is reading der Katzenprinz

[r-aindr0p]

Read dungeon meshi up to vol.8 so far, so here you go Can't stop taking back the (vol.8) book and looking through the pages again and again and I'm wondering why does Mithrun just... grab Not even to use his magic, he just... grabs...

[athina-blaine]

... kabru you would tell me if you had a thing for buff tallmen, wouldn't you?

[dark-moonlust]

Heyyyy monster lovers!! It’s me, Kate-dark-moonlust!

I’m going on vacation tomorrow!!!

I will answer your asks when I return in a couple of days. I’ll try to be active on Tumblr and update regularly on Patreon.

I've been writing like crazy and so far this is what I'm working on:

Jungle chase - weretiger x f!human reader

Orc King x Elf Princess PART 2: Throne of Desires

Midnight Passion - werewolf x f!human reader

Quickie With your Naga - doctor naga x f!reader

Mating Frenzy - vampire x f!reader

Jealous Centaur - centaur x f!reader

The Griffin’s Claim - griffin x f!human reader

As always, my patrons will have early access starting tomorrow!

Stay safe and be happy! Sending monster hugs!

[deathlywounded]

A short pause in their main story to show the first camp flirting attempts of my lil necromancer Druid 🤲🏼🍯🍓🐝

[drew-winchester]

It's not really good art but after playing the campaign for TWW I really wanted to sketch this.

[dark-elf-writes]

WAIT WAIT WAIT I know I already talked about that Gamlen being kinda homophobic and also racist to Fenhawke line but I forgot

This is Varric telling the story.

Which means Hawke spent so long bitching about Gamlen’s “who’s the girl” comment that it made it into the story he’s telling Cassandra who is actively holding Varric prisoner.

[pangur-and-grim]

this might be interesting to show!

so I won a 30-min phone call with an editor, and used it to fix up my query letter (it went from lefthand to righthand)

it definitely helps my shorter attention span to read something broken into smaller paragraphs like this, so hopefully I’ll have more success with this version!

[capriccio-ffxiv]

Suddenly very upset that Lyse never got to go visit Old Sharlayan with us.

That's as much her childhood home as Ala Mhigo -- much moreso, even. Yda took her to the Sharlayan Colony and then much like Thancred, they were basically "adopted" by Louisoix and taken to the mainland to study. I figure Lyse probably *did* go to school alongside Yda, but being much younger than Yda never got her Archon Marks. Possibly she was working on it when Yda died, but then in her grief and depression couldn't finish it (extremely relatable; I know so many people who never finished university because of circumstances like that).

And I just.

Lyse is done so dirty by the narrative. The Yda reveal is poorly handled and means nothing to us (and apparently didn't mean much even to 1.0 players, which was baffling to me when I found out.) At the same time, when you actually read the short stories and her backstory, it really is a powerful story about grief, about impostor syndrome... but the game just. Fumbles the ball on that.

I just... can you imagine? Now-adult Lyse, having liberated Ala Mhigo, finally returning to Old Sharlayan. Lyse meeting Papalymo's father. Lyse, meeting Moenbryda's parents (Yda and Moen had been close, iirc, and Moen knew about Lyse's deception just like the rest of the Scions).

I know why the larger fanbase isn't super into her, Stormblood is the black sheep of the expansions (I liked it, but it's followed by freakin Shadowbringers, y'know?), but I just wish the game devs would give her another chance. Maybe during or after Dawntrail (maybe she can show up in the New World at some point initially as an ambassador from Ala Mhigo or whatever)

[gudgurkan]

Carmella

A page from the book I'm working on.

Kickstarter link

[nobigneil]