#but y'know griffin sells it

[bam-monsterhospital]

on the one hand, eso is allergic to pretty young men npcs and its engine affords absolutely ZERO aesthetic favours towards mans... which is why bastian looks wayyyyy older than 27 and craggy as hell visually.

on the other hand, his character is great and griffin puatu's performance is so goddamn wonderful and endearing that it overlays and makes up for any lacking visuals on the game's part...

all this to say, i treat drawing bastian a little like how all those oblivion fan artists approached interpreting lucien lachance back in the day.

not quite to that extent, but like, same energy.

[tohisprettyc00l]

Wild witch! reader x Hunter

A/n: This takes place during season 2a. Also your 16.

p/n: palisman's name

f/f: favorite flavor

You were very well known around the Boiling Isles! But less of a celebrity and more of a wanted criminal. Not that many people disliked you, but not many people dare talk to you. Which definitely hurt. But you carried on, not like you could do much about it. I mean you could get a sigil but there was no way in hell that was happening. So for now you'll have to deal with the dirty looks and getting chased by scouts.

When you were going about your daily routine you noticed a few scouts and sighed. You pulled your palisman out in preparation. But the leader of the group caught your eye. The Golden Guard. Most of the time it was some other random scout. On a day that you could assume much wasn't going on it was Warden Wrath. So needless to this was more than a shock. You rationed they most likely weren't here for you. I mean in a market a whole bunch of shady business was going on. Nonetheless, you made sure they couldn't see you just in case.

While you were trying to avoid needing to break out of the Conformatorium again, just in case they saw you. But then you overheard The Golden Guard talk and instruct the scouts to find you. Well, there goes any hope of having a normal day at the market. You grumbled as you snuck towards a stand selling rotten candy and Hex-Mix. The vendor's eyes shifted to you and a wanted poster of you. "Are you-" "Yeah, yeah can you just give me the Hex-Mix?" You tossed a few snails on the counter. The vendor quickly gave you a bag and gestured for you to leave.

You got on your palisman and prepared to leave. "There they are!" You heard a voice yell. "Here we go." You thought out loud. You started to speed off while you overheard The Golden Guard yelling at scouts behind you. You made a bunch of random twists and turns to get them off your trail but they would just not leave you alone. "Titan didn't know anyone in the Emperor's Coven was competent." You thought. Suddenly magical rope constricted you. After some struggle, you broke free. After that mini-heart attack, you went as fast as you could finally losing them. You landed on top of a mountain and sighed. The first time it was a challenge to get away. Hopefully, that was a one-time thing. But nothing could go your way when it comes to the law, could it?

The next week you saw the same Golden uniform. Right as you comprehended who it was, the figure was running towards you. The same magic rope was shot at you but you moved out of the way. "Y'know I thought it was pretty cool to be more wanted than Eda. But I somehow forgot this part of it." You stopped the rope with plants. You heard the Golden Guard groan from behind his mask. You chuckled and wrapped yourself in abomination goop, transporting yourself to your house. You looked at P/n and sighed. "I'm sorry but it seems like you're going to need to fly a lot whenever we go out." Your palisman nodded playfully. "Such as now, I still need to get griffin eggs."

You thought about putting an invisibility spell on yourself when you first entered, but you would just get rid of it in the end. So you flew to the market, fully visible. You quickly bought griffin eggs and then left. But suddenly you were wrapped in abomination goop. You tried to break free but couldn't. "There's no way to break free, so don't waste your energy, or do, I don't care." The Golden guard said. He started walking with you. "So why do you arrest wild witches." "It's against the Titan's will." You raised one of your eyebrows. "But the Titan made wild magic. Also, they didn't make sigils." The Golden Gaurd paused. "Stop trying to mess with my head." He snapped out. "Okay?"

You soon aboard a ship. he slightly shoved you onto the ground. "So what's your name?" You asked as you got up. The guard started to whistle. "Hey!" You yelled. You could tell he tensed up a little bit. "What's your name?" "You don't need to know." He stated. "I wanna know who's kidnapping me." "If I tell you will you shut up." "Probably not. But I'm not going to stop asking until you tell me." He grunted. "Fine. My name is Hunter." "Cool my names y/n." "Yeah, I know."

You walked over to Hunter and kept asking him questions. "Shut up and sit back down." You just rolled your eyes. "Okay tell me, witch, what will shut you up?" "Besides freeing me?" "Besides freeing you." You thought for a moment. "Take me out to diner." Hunter sighed, "Be serious." "I am! Can't go to jail on an empty stomach." "Fine." Hunter drifted the ship downward. He landed at a Dairy scream. "Eyescream? really?" "I didn't have to do this. And besides, there is food besides Eyescream." "Only insane people order burgers a DAIRY scream." "There's cheeseburgers." You slightly chuckled.

Hunter got out a red bird palismen. It turned into its staff from. He did... Something that definitely wasn't abomination magic. It moves the goop from around your waist to around your wrist. You made a mental note of the bird. "There. Now you can eat easier." "I'm probably just going to get an f/f milkshake though." Hunter quickly draw a plant glyph and made it wrap around your legs. "You know glyphs count as wild magic right?" "I don't have anything else to use. It's for the greater good." Hunter excused.

You hummed as you waited for Hunter. He came out with a milkshake. "Okay let's go back to the ship." He shoved the milkshake in your hand. You walked out of the vines with ease. "So why do you have a palismen? I thought Belos hated them." Hunter stiffened and stopped walking. "Yes... But he made an exception." You can tell he was lying but decided not to push it. Soon you arrived back at the ship.

Hunter looked at his watch and became panicked. "Crap, crap, crap uncle's going to kill me!" "Why?" You asked. "I was supposed to be back ten minutes ago!" "So? I've been to the castle it's only five minutes away." Hunter started up the ship. "That's fifteen minutes late! I can't keep disappointing  him." You put down your milkshake and walked over to Hunter. "It's going to be okay dude. You brought me to him didn't you?" That barely seemed to calm him down. "Breath with me." You said. You slowly breathed in and out.

Hunter calmed down and then glared at you. "Why do you care what I feel?" You paused, "I don't know, I guess because you're the nicest out of everyone who arrested me. Also, I've heard that you're only 16. You shouldn't be worried about your uncle punishing you for being 15 minutes late." He paused and he got rid of the handcuffs. "Leave." "What-" "Please just make it seem like you escaped." You nodded and got out p/n. "Ha! You could never keep me in one place for too long!" You exclaimed despite no one being able to hear. you. You winked then flew away. You might not know why Hunter let you leave, but for once, you felt like there was a bright future for you.

A/n: I accidentally copy and paste the fanfiction in the middle of the fanfiction so sorry if I fucked it up sorry.

[theseventhoffrostfall]

Considering how much you enjoy griffin riders, do you have any specified in your setting? Either as individuals or full regiments? Or any other notable kind of monster cavalry?

I haven't named any of them, because, y'know, me and names, but there are a couple. Namely, a few of the independent Serefolk clans situated between the Confederation and the lands of the Thurakandans are renowned for breeding and training griffons as mounts, which helps them enforce that independence by hiring themselves out as highly-desired mercenaries. The rare few griffons they can sell (as only the greatest husbandmen working with the rare beast with the proper temperament can train it in any context besides bonding it from hatching, for life, with the only man it'll allow to ride it) sell for virtually their own weight in gold.

The handful of elven houses that keep griffons are very similar in operation, which is a bit of convergent evolution enforced by griffons being such demanding creatures with such specific training needs, though those houses tend to be direct vassals of one of the True Kings rather than independents. Owing as much to their longer lifespans as anything, the elves are the only ones who've managed to train warriors to cast magic from griffin-back, which is as you can imagine a very powerful and unique advantage

[the-overanalyzer]

Fastest Man Alive except it actually follows through on Thad's character development from Mercury Falling so he just shows up at Bart's apartment like "yo what up I killed President Grandpa and now I need a place to hide from the future cops, what's for dinner" and now all of a sudden Bart's roommate and neighbors all think that this poor 21-year-old now has custody of his teenage brother because of a troubled home life, which is technically true but they really only manage to sell the ruse by virtue of Griffin being an idiot.

Thad has no idea how to act like a normal kid when impersonating Bart isn't an option, Bart has never been responsible for someone else outside of immediately life-or-death superhero stuff, and they kind of still want to kill each other most of the time. But after some false starts ("fuck you I am not going to high school I will bite the shit out of every last one of those people fucking try me") Bart is eventually just like "y'know what, you need something to do? Fine. You're the new Kid Flash." And Thad is mystified that Bart thinks that's a good idea but Bart is just like ''well he'll either be good at it or he'll do something to get thrown in Iron Heights either way problem solved" and it turns out that, yeah, he is good at it.

He’s also pretty good at the kind of blunt sidekick shittalking that Bart used to torment Wally with and actually succeeds at getting Bart to get over his Conner-related guilt and talk to Tim and Cassie because it’s sad that Bart is so lonely it’s annoying how mopey he is without them. Bart halfheartedly suggests he join the Titans to try and make some friends, and nobody likes that idea, but Jay eventually does get him to give the JSA a try and between him and Jesse they do manage to get him to socialize some (he gets along shockingly well with Maxine). Wally eventually comes back and is shocked at the progress the two of them have made but is grateful that with them there he doesn’t need to jump immediately back into heroing, no matter how eagerly his kids are eyeing the vacant Impulse and Inertia costumes.

[ghosty-schnibibit]

i still haven't listened to hootenanny but here's my (slightly late) lb for the amnesty liveshow!

nlg i haven't listened to hootenanny yet bc 1. i've been super busy lately helping my mom make halloween decorations (specifically a paper-mache audrey II that i’ll post pics of once it’s painted), 2. i've been doing another balance relisten and it always feels weird listening to new eps mid way only listening to this now bc i'm procrastinating starting suffering game lmao and 3. honestly, i'm still letting it sink in that amnesty is over, it was a huge part of the last two years of my life and i wanted to take some time to process my feelings about it.

that being said, i'm very excited for some barclay shenanigans! let's go!

whomst clint

oh fun, justin's playing a lady character!

is griffin playing himself?????

is trav going to be playing barclay then? oh that’s weird

as do i trav lol, i will defend target with my life

the ultimate griffin angus fusion

oh this is going to be so sweet, big bro justin

i love clint's character already

this is so good already and i am so excited

"you're doing your best tho" bless you griffy

justin is so salty and i love him

i love stephanie so much

he just sounds like just like angus this is so wild

griffin is now doing karate on his own character, i scream

barclay my boy :D

is stern in these chatrooms

"fuck off bigfoot" i’m dying

now travis is on the end of god rolls

YOU'RE BANISHED!!!

WHY DOES BARCLAY HAVE A GUN oh pineguard probably

mama and thacker probably have a cake waiting for him at the lodge

jesus clint

justin is selling his babiest brother for $17

griffin you little weirdo i love you so much

"they think that i'm a gentleman in a suit terrorizing people" n e d

poor griffin is getting dunked on so hard

i need to google jonathan taylor thomas, i have no idea who that is

"i'm gonna end up eating you aren't i?" jesus stephanie

quickly googling when led lights were first used in cars... 1993! so technically trav could have used them here lol

good fucking pivot my man

i know literally none of these references, this is taking place in a year where i was a literal one year old

griffin is an adorable little emphatic baby

wtf is that clint? oh god no i googled it it's an "erotic drama"

griffin you sweet summer child

chekhov's booklight lmao

stop n' shop n' pump

"i would fucking die if that were true clint mcelroy" 

i love that, in fiction, this is a man humoring this small child

"the basketball magic was in you all along" i love this so much

all i can picture is the fuckin miiverse monster factory

nice! go griffin :D

aspirational basketball court

OH THAT'S WHERE THAT KID’S FROM, i vaguely remember home improvement from nick at night

... the map is going to lead to the cryptonomica isn't it

brigadoon wv

roll to see if this npc continues existing

stephanie i love you more than life

oop, its the forest fuzz

the what clint?????

i have no idea what is going on

i want to date stephanie

what is a forest gun

jesus, griffin has those good rolls

"he's got a city gun!" griffin you sweet baby

awwww, that's so cute

i desperately want to know what duck is doing during all this

GRIFFIN N O

GRIFFIN Y E S APPARENTLY

chekhov's booklight!!!

IT'S VICTORIA! IT'S THE CRYPTONOMICA :D

oh snap that's today!!!

the bigfoot who carjacked us

awwww :'(((

me too clint, me too

once again justin is the only one doing a consistent character voice, including trav lmao

BARCLAY :D

sheriff owens has their car lol

stephanie is my favorite character and i love her

griffin my babiest of boys

nm justin's just slipping into duck's voice out of habit lol

bless you trav

what the fuck is going on on this stage what the fuck

I NEED A TOWEL PAUL

that would kill him travis

jesus this is... this has gone, so sideways

...is this baby sheriff owens

why is clint so upset i am so confused

it is baby owens!

stephanie i love you more than life

oh my god this is so good

fun fact: i used flagpole sitta to represent act three in the hamlet themed mix tape i made in high school and got an A+ for

"sure, in this world" y'know most of the time with liveshows i'm like i know this isn't technically canon but i'd like to think it is but this one? this time i agree with the boys on the not-remotely-canonical designation, i have not heard something this off the rails since taz: elementary

GRIFFIN NO YOU WILL LITERALLY DIE

oh my god this is really happening

justin loosing it is so extremely good

you're gonna have to get a seven there clint

YEEEEEAH STEPHANIE!

there are ten minutes left, how the fuck are they going to resolve this

mama! :D

baby griffin is the most chaotic evil creature on this earth

what on earth is going on

awww, love ya... whatever the name of clint's character was, i have forgotten already

"he does get fired" jesus fucking christ travis

e m b o o  z e l l i n g

i wanted to know what was up with duck and i got it lmao

in conclusion: what the fuck did we all just listen to

[morathor]

The Adventure Zone 48/?

The static is back!  I mostly know why but it's cool to see that hinted at. Soooooo here we are.  The backstory episode.  Much fleshing out of backstories, starting with Merle.  Merle in his arranged, loveless marriage.  (Tiny thing but I am glad Griffin asked about Merle's "husband or wife's" name.)  And wow Merle's just been kind of railroaded.  His whole life.  Follows Pan because dad says so.  Marries Hekubah because tradition said so.  Not even really the most interesting backstory but like.  Just the idea that his life was basically planned for him, and I guess he didn't see any choice but to plod down the path laid in front of him.  Until finally he walked away.  And like.  Going out for smokes and just never coming back, that's not exactly a noble or a heroic choice but it is a.  Choice, maybe the first choice he really made about his life and its direction.

Taako's backstory is immediately super lonely and makes me want to hug him.  Self-taught wizardry is very hard, good on ya Taako but also, super dangerous for ya Taako.  Loved the description of the show, and how like ticket sales/ratings/whatever were flagging and that's what got Taako into magic.  Because he did not want to go back to that, "jump on board with whatever caravan" life.  So let's Sizzle It The Fuck Up.  (Also Taako's excuse for not giving his partner equal credit was "But we've already got all these t-shirts" it's just.  It's so so Taako.)And I appreciate that Justin really, really took the time to describe the audience members--maybe not every individual person, there were fourty after all, but breaking it down like... who showed up.  Why they showed up, what drew them to the show.  Really humanizing these people before, y'know.  Killing them.  I mean even without spoilers, that has come up before. We knew that was coming.  But it bugs me, really, that Sazed poisoned the chicken?  I mean, I kind of liked that Taako fucked it up and had to live with that.  I mean, come on.  Come on Griff.  Don't, don't be like that.  Let Taako have his disastrous fuckup.

I like Magnus' backstory too.  Lil ten year old Magnus standing up to a couple of assholes, pickin on a stray dog!  Such a great scene!  And he got his ass kicked of course.  And never saw the dog again, because it was scarred from the experience.  I mean, that's better storytelling than him coming out triumphant and making a dog friend for life, I think.  Travis gave a great description of Steven, I loved it.  I'm so-so on the rebellion thing?  It's in character, it's not the interesting part of the story though.  Very much a generic bit.  But Magnus and Julia have a good dynamic.  And that bit that Griffin said?  Like, "This is memorable to you now, but at the time you did not think you were going to remember every little detail."  That hit me hard, my dudes, and I can't even really say why.

Magnus also had a really good resolution to the conflict.  Acknowleding that going back to get his happy ending costs many many other lives he would have saved further down the road.  Admitting that, really, he doesn't care.  That he would let them all die, to have Julia back, but Julia wouldn't stand for that.  Like, I mean, if she knew that her life came at the cost of so many deaths, she would be furious, horrified, disgusted.  And even if she never knew, Magnus would know.  He would know he had become somebody that Julia couldn't stand, couldn't abide, and that I think would ruin the ending.  So yeah.  I like that, for once, Magnus' reasoning for doing the right thing was more complex than "It's the right thing."  Not that I'm opposed to him being a deeply moral character (with periodic lapses, but Travis is getting better with character consistency).  But moral does not mean depthless, or flawless.

Merle was pretty casual turning down the chalice.  But that doesn't come as a big surprise.  He lost an arm, and that was definitely a traumatic thing, but it really doesn't strike me as "reverse the clock and take it back" material.  Honestly the chalice would have had to take him back to childhood so he could leave his rut before he could properly get stuck in it, but that's a hard sell too.  There wasn't really any mention of dreams or ambitions that were quashed by this pre-determined life he was set on.  Merle was raised with blinders, he could only see the path ahead of him.  He couldn't have imagined his life going another way, not at a young enough age to escape it anyway.  So yeah.  Not surprised Merle passed on the chalice.

I really did not expect Taako's answer.  I mean I kind of expected him to turn down the chalice, but not like that?  I guess that is what happens, Griffin, when you take away a character's mistakes, Griffin, and pass the buck to somebody else, Griffin.  So yeah Taako saw that his biggest regret, his biggest mistake, wasn't even really his mistake, it was somebody else's.  His conscience was cleared by that vision.  And the people who died, and the loss of his show, he can pretty much live with.  Cause, I don't know if you guys have noticed?  Taako ain't exactly the moral center of the group okay.  He is not the most compassionate.

Now, the final offer.  Save Phandalin.  That's an offer.  And then she takes them to Phandalin, to let it sink in.  That's a much stronger offer.  But not strong enough.  But the cup is being spiiiiiiiteful.  Didn't have to do all that, chalice.  They already made their choice but you're just gonna try to rub it in how many people died?  In Phandalin?  They know.  They may not have seen everyone's faces or whatever but they knew.  That's just mean.  This is a mean cup.  But it does seem to be a cup of its word, so they've got the relic.

Wasn't there a giant monster about to destroy the town though.  That uh.  That didn't stop being a thing did it.