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just having some fun with interesting fantasy imagery! Give it a reblog, if you play, please? And tell me WHY you picked what you picked if you want?
#fun stuff#fantasy#polls#it's always fun when the magic in a story leads to some REALLY interesting living constructs of creatures right?
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Still in awe of how well the D&D movie mimicked the feeling of D&D without doing anything as tediously literal as a "sitting around the table" framing device. The way some characters have names that sound like names a DM improvised on the spot, the sudden appearance and disappearance of a overpowered DM NPC for a single dungeon, the way they used the fact that characters can plausibly just mess up for no clear reason to escalate action scenes...that was cinema
#film#movies#if it weren't for the unironic dead wife flashback it'd be a perfect film#but also it's really funny to have a high fantasy film have a 'dead wife giggling under the sheets' shot so#dungeons and dragons
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This is petty fandom salt, BUT... I've been chewing on this phenomenon that I've been calling "Fandom's Darling". It is related to things like "Author's Darling" and "Mary Sue / Gary Stu" and "Protagonist Halo" and all that jazz, where one character gains a peculiar narrative weight in a story.
"Author's Darling" is when a writer has a favorite character, and the world and all other characters sort of get... warped to put the Darling in the spotlight. It's most noticeable in TV shows with multiple writers, when a character you personally like suddenly has their previous characterization destroyed to make another character look good somehow. Every other character might become weirdly incompetent. The Darling's feelings are treated as The Most Important Feelings in any given situation. The logic of the fictional world seems broken past suspension of disbelief in order to validate this one character's beliefs or skillset or some other fantasy. And so on.
"Fandom's Darling" is what I've been calling the pattern where a fandom essentially crowns a New Protagonist for their fanfiction stories (it's often a side character rather than the original protagonist, but it can also happen to protagonists). This character becomes the self-insert for all sorts of indulgent fantasies, gaining special powers or backstories, and/or becoming the focus of extreme whump, and/or hooking up with all the various hotties, starring in all sorts of tropey AUs, and so on. They're not always an obvious Mary Sue version of themselves, but the character's original personality and interpersonal relationships tend to get warped or dropped completely, and other characters tend to become a little flat around them. I call it "Fandom's Darling" because it's not just one self-indulgent fantasy fic (you do you! Have fun!) with characterization choices that I don't vibe with (I have neither the time nor the desire nor the authority to police anything, I am just venting), but rather a prolific mini-fandom of sorts revolving around this empty doll / fanon version of the chosen vessel character, so it becomes a little unavoidable.
I am salty about this (mildly frustrated) (imagine a soft sigh of disappointment before I just go do something else) because you are FUCKED if you actually liked the canonical version of this character and their interpersonal relationships. It's almost worse than liking an obscure character that no one cares about. There's about a thousand fics starring your fave, but maybe only about a dozen of them are actually rooted in any kind of recognisable canon.
#I didn't watch Teen Wolf but I know this happened to that Stiles character#I'm not active in any DC fandom but it looks like this happened to Tim Drake and to a lesser extent Dick and Jason#In prequels-era Star Wars it seems to be Obi-Wan; he's the spark/focus of this post here; bring back his flaws I like that he kind of sucks#sometimes a Fandom's Darling comes out of an Author's Darling! usually Fandom's are vessels to fuck the “hottest guy” available though#I will probably turn reblogs off if this spreads too far because I really don't care if people write Mary Sue fanfic; can't cast that stone#squinting at every “intersex” tag like Inigo Montoya: “I don't think that means what you think it means.”#honestly the fantasy intersex thing is a separate & more serious post; but the fandom usage is a red/yellow flag for me when searching#tossawary fandom#fandom's darling
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Mordred Manor! (with close-ups under the cut)
edit: i just put up some new drawings on my ko-fi, so if you wanna print this out as a poster or something, you can find it there at full resolution in the 'Misc Art' folder! :) (personal use only!)
#the timeline doesnt really add up cause with the 15 cats there tracker should be in fallinel but i didnt wanna leave her out so its fineeee#zayn darkshadow#aelwyn abernant#fig faeth#riz gukgak#adaine abernant#gorgug thistlespring#fabian seacaster#kristen applebees#ragh barkrock#tracker o'shaughnessey#gilear faeth#lydia barkrock#sklonda gukgak#sandra lynn faeth#jawbone o'shaughnessey#ayda aguefort#figueroth faeth#my art#fantasy high#gorthalax the insatiable#fantasy high junior year#fhjy#dimension 20#d20#if i forgot anyone i will cry for one million years btw
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Still thinking about none houses left grief, and while I understand where people are coming from, "it took me out of the world" is just... Really not a relevant criticism here. Like, that line is SUPPOSED to be jarring. It is supposed to be kind of darkly funny, but the point isnt for you to laugh. Its not trying to be a punchline. The point of that line IS to "take you out of the world" because the point is that *this world isn't what you thought it was.*
#if it startled you that something so irreverant and lowbrow would come up in a high fantasy serious world#...then maybe ask yourself if this is really a serious high fantasy world#also i do think its just elitist that everyone complains about the tumblr references and not the word for word bible quotes#like maybe the author was trying to make a point about why you accept that catholicism is a cultural constant but not memes?#maybe take a step back and ask yourself what kind of cultural artifacts you think are important enough to be worth mentioning#tlt#htn#the locked tomb#harrow the ninth#tlt spoilers
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typical tavern scene
#dimension 20#fantasy high#fhjy#fabian seacaster#riz gukgak#adaine abernant#kristen applebees#figueroth faeth#gorgug thistlespring#got my version of this in lol. I feel like this is mandatory if u draw fh art#trying to remember whats on the menu at a typical swensen's. its been years since I last was at one#tho I am so absolutely unfamiliar with like elmville level of town scenery. just immediately drew from my own experience lmao#I used to think malls are the same everywhere.... but then I hear from my US friends and. wow they sure are not#mm. good day to reminisce a little bit. but I am now sleepy#not a lot to say abt this I think most of this is pretty straightforward. I did use this to test out some overlays in SAI2#that I never really touched. the talisman on fig's guitar case takes from the house protection talisman you'd put on the front door#and also I think kristen slipping while fully sat down is very funny and special. she means so much to me#okay. alright. I should really go to sleep. and tomorrow I should take my dang walk... see the sun#have a good night lads! enjoy ice cream
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spring waiting for summer's awakening
(art prints)
#i once again offer you lesbian fairytale art#i'm really proud of this one♡#artists on tumblr#illustration#fairytale#fairytale art#fantasy illustration#queer fantasy#lesbian fantasy#fantasy art#lesbian#wlw#sapphic#lesbian art#sapphic art#wlw art#gl#spring#summer#fairies#fairy#fairy art#blue#pink#green
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Ugh. Literally just let her go home???
#‘can we be done now?’ in the middle of the final battle is the best thing ever#I love her so much#Ruben does actually have a juice on him for this#btw#not jace though#that fucking dick.#mary ann skuttle#best character ever made#jace stardiamond#the rat grinders#d20#fantasy high#d20 fantasy high#dimension 20#d20 fanart#fh#fantasy high fanart#fhjy#d20 fhjy#fhjy spoilers#not really spoilers but like#being safe about it#fhjy fanart#fantasy high junior year#finals are kicking my ASS. this is all I’ve got.#undescribed#my art
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#I really want to draw Maryann again#she’s got that dog in her#dimension 20#d20#fantasy high junior year#fhjy#fantasy high#fhjy spoilers#brennan lee mulligan#mary ann skuttle
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Guinevere's wedding dress and chainmail veil in Excalibur 1981
#guinevere#excalibur 1981#excalibur#per#perioddramaedit#period drama#periodcostume#wedding dress#wedding veil#fantasy movies#fantasy#arthurian mythology#arthurian literature#arthur pendragon#arthurian legend#the movie is strange#but the wedding scene is a dream#so otherworldly#and the veil is really something else
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this trio is so infinitely cursed and yet fascinating
#the nick name gilly is going to really haunt me i'll be real#d20#dimension 20#fantasy high#time quangle#gorgug thistlespring#arthur aguefort#gilear faeth
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An adventurer, just like you
#my art#I really wanted to draw Baldur and Ansur in the style of old fantasy book covers 👉👈#baldur's gate 3
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I bet they used to sing along to worship songs in the back of the car on the way to church
#d20 fantasy high#fantasy high#dimension 20#dimension 20 fantasy high#craftie art#i think most people look up to their older sibling but buckys older sister was literally the chosen prophet of his religon#its like if you were simon son of joseph and jesus was like. oh hmm. maybe not!#and youre like. what do you mean. what.do. you mean maybe not. this was everything we were as kids. what do you mean maybe not.#anyways. i really need to start actually including the background in the intial sketch instead of deciding to wing it as i go! it#dimension 20 fanart#fantasy high fanart
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its all love baby
#fantasy high#fantasy high junior year#dimension 20#gorgug thistlespring#fig faeth#fhjy#d20#my art#gorgug hauling his ass to do 4 yrs of coursework only for aa to say “yeah u didnt have to in fact u shouldntve” is CRAZY#fig mvp honestly#AUUAGHH THEY WERE ALL SO COOL i really fw combat eps
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you have been bad friends to riz gukgak
#fantasy high#fantasy high junior year#fhjy#dimension 20#d20#dropout#fabian seacaster#adaine abernant#kristen applebees#ragh barkrock#gorgug thistlespring#fig faeth#riz gukgak#baron from the baronies#WHEW THIS IS A BIG ONE#i really wanted to draw something for this arc ever since seeing baron’s true form#(have to confess i was a little sad they rolled so well and didn’t have to fight him)#BUT fabian and adaine being possessed made for such cool moments#this was a fun challenge for me and i hope you like how it turned out!!
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Wizard and her paramour
#I really like drawing ayda she has a wonderful color palette#this is also based on a convo i had with a very quirky person lol#d20#dimension 20#fantasy high#d20 fantasy high#fanart#digital art#my artwork#fantasy high fanart#figayda#ayda aguefort#fig faeth#fig x ayda#fan comic
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