#coffeewyrm

[bukbot]

coffeewyrm: Never forget… Necropolis From the past!

assiduouslycompassionate: Bergamot.

coffeewyrm: Does that mean you're well?

assiduouslycompassionate: For happiness one needs security, but joy.

[thelovers-thedreamers-and-me]

coffeewyrm

  we have fun

I had to look up who Lotor was cause I thought that was a Magic Brian pillow

no you see if it was a magic brian pillow i would not have allowed it to leave my house

[ladyyatexel]

coffeewyrm replied to your post: So what was in the box, right? This was in the...

Btw I like your Demona

haha Thank you!  

I had the figure as a kid and had to get through some weird sexist hoops to get someone to buy her for me and then she was lost in some purges I didn’t consent to several years later.  I bought that one at a weird yard sale kind of comiccon thing about ten years ago or more now.  I don’t know what has kept me from taking her out of the packaging.  I just keep getting a bit stuck when I go to do it.  

I always really, really, Really loved Demona.  I didn’t like any of the ‘good’ characters any more than a fraction as much as I loved her. 

[drackomancy]

You have a doppelgänger who keeps coming into my work place. I know you’re not the same person due to the haircut, but it gets me every time.

would it happen to be her

it’s her, isn’t it

[wolffyluna]

weascrower said:                                                                                                                            Both are really really good in my opinion. I suggest them both out and just nerding out to some awesome shows :D                            

                         ivorytowerblr said:                                                                                                                            Season 1 of Castlevania is literally four episodes, so I’d suggest watching those and if you like it, the next season is 8 episodes. She-Ra is probably longer, but I haven’t seen it.                            

inquisitorpsyduck said:                                                                                                                            I’m liking She-Ra, haven’t seen Castlevania but heard great things.  I’d say 2 eps of 1, switch to the other for 2 episodes, repeat until complete                            

between-stars-and-waves said:                                                                                                                            Both                            

coffeewyrm said:                                                                                                                            Castlevania!!!                            

Thank you to everyone who replied!

I’m going to watch She-Ra at some point-- and I may have just bingewatched the first season of Castlevania. I loved it. The dialogue was just *chef’s kiss* and Trevor+Alucard+Sypha are all fun characters!

[totally-a-wizard]

“To be fair, Elminster is a rogue who somehow became a wizard“

Yeah but @coffeewyrm my second favorite class is Cleric.  I’m a Cleric/Rogue not a Wizard/Rogue my blog name and life are a sham.  My avatar is based on the NWN2 symbol for the cleric class!

[bukbot]

coffeewyrm: Chicks from the frostfire and back meet This will be mainly chickens and he stole all my chickens sticker and a bit extreme Buk and feast upon your flesh..

rory-pond1: Make such a b i e.

coffeewyrm: Who would make me snap my fingers curl up in the lot not that of the dungeon, or upon my back, and mine- mine because, you lied so soon?

rory-pond1: Indeed.

[ladyyatexel]

coffeewyrm replied to your post: I know most of you don’t follow or care about my...

I love the glam kids.

<3

the glam kids are inherently lovable, even if most of them would object to that

[drackomancy]

You saw that they’re planning to remaster NWN, yeah? I can’t be the only person excited.

Of course I saw! I can't wait for it to become available.I can't imagine it'll be getting much of a makeover, but I'm thinking loads more people will join the fandom now that they're adding backwards compatibility.

[artemis-entreri]

coffeewyrm:

I personally feel that Bob might be less than eager to come out and flatly name Jarlaxle as Pan sexual simply because, as he’s said at booksignings, etc (trust me, I’ve asked), that although he write these characters, they’re not entirely licenced to him.

I personally would love to see stuff written about Zaknafein and Jarlaxle from the old days, but he’s said that will likely never happen because it’s not necessarily popular.

I feel the same may possibly be said for Jarlaxles sexuality. He writes as “questionably” as possible without outright saying it.

Not saying it’s right or fair, but saying it’s likely that’s where he stands.

[[ You bring up a fair point. Just for my own clarity, did you mean that you’ve asked Bob at booksignings specifically if Jarlaxle is pan? I wasn’t sure if you meant that you’d asked about that subject explicitly, or about something more general pertaining to the extent of Bob’s ownership of the characters and the franchise. XD

I do agree that what Bob can and cannot disclose are affected by his lack of total ownership of the characters in the Drizzt books. However, I feel that there’s a not insignificant difference between shared licensing preventing him from not making a character a certain way versus him not writing certain books. The former has to do with creative decision-making, whereas the latter, although we’d like to also be mostly about creative decision-making, boils down to financial factors.

As mentioned in my original post (reblog chain truncated here because I didn’t want to spam people’s dashes XD), it is indeed the case that Bob doesn’t fully “own” the characters in the Drizzt books, technically WotC does (and TSR before them, but WotC bought TSR). The balance of power definitely favors WotC in that relationship, for Bob can’t publish Drizzt books on his own without WotC’s sanctioning, and WotC could theoretically, and has in the past, contract with a different author to write Drizzt. However, WotC’s experiment with having another author write Drizzt didn’t amount to much beyond a short story, as the conflicts between them and Bob were resolved (the story was "Fires of Narbondel" by Mark Anthony, from Realms of the Underdark. That short story is basically non-canon at this point). Furthermore, in the past, WotC/TSR has wanted to do things like kill off Entreri during the global purge of assassins in the events detailed in the Avatar Series. Needless to say, that didn’t happen, and the details were recently re-explained by James D. Lowder in the Forgotten Realms Archives group on Facebook, 

“The ‘assassins’ died in Avatar because the class vanished in the initial 2nd edition D&D rules and Avatar was supposed to reflect the changes in the world wrought by changes in the game rules from 1st to 2nd edition. I recall the elimination of assassins being a move, like the renaming of devils and demons, intended to take away some of the most obvious targets for reactionary criticism of D&D by the moral panic crowd, but I was not in on those design or PR discussions. As Avatar editor, I recall getting news of that decision after the novels were already underway, so the assassins' mass death ended up being shoehorned into the story, without much grace and without a lot of time to consider repercussions across the other Realms fiction series. (This is a good example of a game rules change that cannot be reflected well in fiction, not without a lot of lead time and some serious work put into the continuity decisions.) In the end, it was decided that who the assassin worshiped and how they defined themselves mattered, which allowed Artemis to survive. (...) It was a discussion more than Bob just refusing. Bob said he didn't want to kill off the character and I got together with his editor and the head of the department to figure out options. We knew the apparent ban on assassins was not workable in the Realms fiction, but we needed to convince higher-ups to let us find some wiggle room.” 

Another thing is before the Double Diamond Triangle Saga was declared to be non-canon, what would’ve been a permanent injury sustained by Entreri as written by the group of authors that did not include Bob had to be done away with because Bob didn’t want to work with what WotC had contracted them to write. I suppose that at the end of the day though, WotC does get the final say, but it’s not as absolute as a boss and minion type of relationship. Bob actually has a lot more power than he lets on, because even though his characters are technically “owned” by WotC, they are still Bob’s characters, and WotC does want things related to the Drizzt franchise to align with what Bob wants. I think that Lowder’s explanation sheds a lot of insight into the balance of power between WotC and author relationships, especially that while the publisher (WotC) could say no, they’re more likely to indulge their authors rather than not, so long as they’ve actually got a contract that’s already been agreed upon.

That being said, the situation with additional books, such as a spin-off about Jarlaxle and Zaknafein, is different from ascribing certain characteristics to existent characters or even the addition of new characters, so long as the contract already exists. I suspect that, even though we're just now hearing about the lack of any new novels planned for the future, that Bob already knew about it long before. Even if he hadn't, the trend since 3.5e has been significantly reduced number of novels, so he would've seen something like that coming. And, even if he didn't foresee that, he can’t publish Drizzt and/or Forgotten Realms books on his own, because they’re owned by WotC. The creation of these sorts of books would generate revenue, which is legally relevant and not something he can just do. I suppose he could theoretically write on without WotC’s endorsement, but he could not be paid for it, nor would anything he writes like that be considered “canon”. Some authors, like Elaine Cunningham, write supplements for their published Realms works that they offer for free, but these documents’ official status is “fanfiction”. Many fans don’t care and embrace as canon anything written by the original creators anyway, but the potential issue is that WotC could always contract someone else to write and publish stuff that overwrites what the original author creates, so most just don’t bother. Still, as you can imagine, it’s mutually beneficial for the original authors to keep creating in their sub-franchises, so long as WotC approves any additional creation at all, which is not happening with the novels. But, ultimately, all of that stuff is just about the money, and when money’s involved, things get tricky.

The sense that I've gotten from Forgotten Realms novels as a whole is that WotC is not a heavy-handed overlord when it comes to micromanaging the creative expression of their contracted authors. It is the case that WotC dictates what happens in their world, because fundamentally, the novel lines are supplementary material to the game and thus events in the books must reflect events in D&D. This leads to prevailing themes/events like the Time of Troubles, the Spellplague, the Sundering, etc. However, WotC doesn’t dictate details like the sexuality of characters. It isn’t that homosexuality hasn’t been a theme for a long time in Salvatore’s books, but rather, it’s homosexuality restricted to one gender/sex for two decades before we saw a change. The father of the Forgotten Realms, Ed Greenwood, has always stated that the Realms is a place that, unlike our world, is free from sexuality-targeted prejudices. Many authors have expanded upon this theme, and while Salvatore hasn’t actively violated it, the fact that the only beings capable of homosexual behavior in his books for so freaking long have been exclusively female is a choice on his part, one that not all of his fellow Forgotten Realms authors made. The only alternative is that TSR/WotC told him to put in gratuitous lesbian pairings/sex to make his books more attractive while not doing the same to its other authors, which doesn’t make much sense, but I suppose it’s always possible. Both Erik Scott de Bie and Erin M. Evans said that WotC did not impose such restrictions onto them while they wrote their novels, but they’re also more current authors, with Erik’s first FR novel being published in 2005 and Evans’ in 2010. Greenwood has never been so restricted either, but again, he’s an exception, being the creator of the setting and thus granted certain things like anything he says about the Realms is automatically canon. Still, I do think it’s unlikely that WotC was the chief motivator for the conspicuous lack of non-heterosexual males in Bob’s Drizzt books until very recently. Thus, I do hold Bob, and not WotC, accountable for not being upfront with regards to Jarlaxle’s sexuality. 

Sorry for the long post, I’m thorough to a fault. XD ]]

[magicjudge]

Is there a limit to how old the cards you use in a tournament can be? Like using MtG cards from the 80s or 90s?

Well, you can’t use cards from before 1993, because they don’t exist because Magic didn’t exist yet. The game is old, but not that old. ;)

Which cards are allowed at a specific tournament is defined by the format of that tournament. A Standard tournament, for example, only allows cards that have been printed since Dragons of Tarkir, whereas a Legacy tournament allows almost all of the cards ever printed to be played.

Note that a card’s name is what determines its format legality. Nightmare is a card that’s legal in Standard because it was printed in Magic Origins, which is a standard-legal set. This means you can play a copy of Nightmare that was printed in the original Alpha printing in 1993 in your standard deck.

[justnoodlefishthings]

@coffeewyrm I have two pitchers and a venus fly trap, and I've seen a lot of conflicting information on wintering them

does anybody know any good carnivorous plant blogs? 👀

[upthewitchypunx]

I was wondering if you had any good recipes for witch/spell bottles/jars?

I don’t give away my own recipes but in general it depends on what you want the jar to do. Want it for protection? throw in some thorns, barbed wire, rusty nails, broken mirrors and a maybe a representation of yourself or maybe bury it outside your door. Want it to make you happy? Fill a jar with water and glitter and some of your favorite color of food coloring and give that thing a shake to make you happy. I made a black out jar just by spray painting the outside of a jar black and putting things I don’t want to see me or things  I don’t wan to think about in the jar. Most of my spells work on personal correspondences. what are you correspondences?

[bukbot]

tamblrposts: The Dark Lord of the farm because I needed to be shot at 2 in the swamps – including foxes and coyotes.

coffeewyrm: Better boy.

tamblrposts: Boy getting along with 4 Rhode Island Red lovelies!

coffeewyrm: Smart boy.

[fuckyeahjarlaxle]

coffeewyrm said: JAR-lax-uhl; ZAK-nuh-fayn? (ZAK-nih-fayn?)

Yeah that’s how I’ve always said it, because -fein is actually a recurring suffix in drow names, and pronouncing it fee-in as a rule makes other names really awkward

like Nalfein, I’m pretty sure it isn’t ‘NAL-fee-in,’ it’s ‘NAL-fane’ so if that’s the case Zaknafein should be ZAK-nuh-fane.

I feel like I should just do a voice meme and have everyone record themselves saying a bunch of Legend of Drizzt words. Then we compare.

[ladyyatexel]

coffeewyrm replied to your photoset “The continuing adventures of lip color because I’ve just decided.”

Where do you get that lip- color confidence?! Lol

It doesn’t feel like confidence, it was just a decision that I would do it for a variety of artistic and self-definition reasons.  I’ve never owned lipstick before this last week.  Now the only ones I own are super dark purple, so blue it’s black, and neon green.  

I’m going out on a quest for teal next weekend and am open to pretty much anything else as long as it’s unnatural and weird.