#cure fantasy

[tomatoteddy]

Finished drafting her design today so lemme introduce y’all to a new fanseries of mine called DREAMCATCHERS!! Pretty Cure

This is a rewrite/redesign of an old Precure fanseries I made back in 2019. Anyways, this is the new lead cure of the team, Cure Fantasy! She is the daughter of the rulers of the Dreamland Kingdom, and was sent to Earth to find the Legendary Pretty Cure to stop the Nightmare Realm from taking over! Her name is Princess Celestia (no relation to the horse) but goes as Celeste while on Earth and she is a white/rainbow cure!

The main themes of this series revolve around dreams, both the ones you have when you sleep and your aspirations. The rest of the cures are all childhood friends who ended up falling out later in life, and Celestia finding a way to bring them all back together.

[peculiarmarsu]

Those hazardous spinning animations of some White Mage casts.

Unaffected.

[butch4maryoliver]

my favorite new addition to my neocities is definitely my stupid little blinkie, stamp, and gif collection on this page. the vast majority were dug up from the graveyard that is gifcities, but the whole collection features some wicked cool freaks like these:

[rynris]

I love Alisae so much.

[flintbian]

There's a disabled angel in good omens 🥺

[eriaricheria]

"kowakunai, Kowakunai..." i really love Cure Lillian, she is so cute! hope I can draw the other cures sometime soon!

Love her transformation phrase!!

"Tie, Spin, And Weave The World! Cure Lillian! Don't Be Scared. 結んで紡いでつながる世界！キュアリリアン！ こわくない、こわくない"

[blaaaaask]

If only Angeal did this, he would have easily skipped all the BS from Miniroth:

YOU'RE WELCOME

[pyroguesstuff]

save me junior year kristen applebees.. junior year kristen applebees.. junior year kristen applebees save me…

[katiefratie]

I don't think this is gonna happen but taking the gem out better not "cure" Lydia of needing a wheelchair like yes I know thats a huge/the reason she's there but Years of that physical stress cannot be undone just like that I will be so upset

[pulkitoki]

A Dream within a Dream.

[cripplecharacters]

I have a character with chronic pain who uses healing magic to manage it; I myself have mild chronic pain that I don't take any painkillers for, so I wanted to ask some questions on how to appropriately portray what is essentially magic painkillers.

My current idea is that healing magic in this setting can be used as a local anesthetic on top of typical healing. With some careful control, my character applies the same principles to relieve pain without fully numbing his body.

A drawback of this is that if applies too much magic this way, he can end up just numbing himself, which is dangerous in the combat situations his work frequently puts him in. When he pushes himself too hard or just has a bad day, his pain can exceed what he can safely mitigate with magic alone. He also works primarily as a healer, and has to balance between this form of pain relief versus saving enough energy for his work - to borrow video game terminology, if he spends too much MP on pain relief he won't have enough left to heal others.

My character does have access to medical/alchemical pain relief. He takes them to sleep because he can't control his magic carefully enough while asleep, though he otherwise prefers to rely more on magic purely because it's inconvenient to carry around a lot of potions when he travels.

Does this sound like there are any pitfalls I would have to watch out for, or aspects I should reconsider? Thank you for your time!

Hi!

To be honest, this solution is a nice breath of fresh air when it comes to anything related to fantasy healing and disabled characters. You are essentially dealing with painkillers who happen to exist in a world with magic - they exist, have potential side effects, and not always fix everything. Their magicalness is mostly in the convenience, which is great! Like I also find it annoying to carry my meds around; if I had the option to just make them Appear out of thin air, I'm definitely taking it!

This is in my opinion a good and realistic representation of chronic pain and taking painkillers in a fantasy world. The difference between your story and the experience of someone like me is that in your story there is magic because it's fantasy - while for a lot of other fantasy settings, the difference would be that chronic pain and my whole experience don't even exist there. But you're including it in a nice and tasteful way! Great work :-D

I genuinely wish more writers put as much thought into their fantasy-related disability solutions as you :-) Good luck with your story!

mod Sasza

[cripplecharacters]

i have a question if a story thread is okay; a curse is placed on all of the main characters, making them lose their memory and core sense of self and everything that's important to them, and they go through some physical changes, basically becoming puppets changed on a whim. two of the characters is disabled and the curse takes away their disabilities. over the course of the story they all start to remember more and more things about who they were before and break out of the curse, and the disabled people gets their disabilities back and it's very much a "oh thank god, i KNEW something felt off whenever i <impossible activity>, i could never place it, but its finally back, i'm ME again" scene, but does it veer too much into "magical cure" territory?

Hi asker,

Honestly, this seems like a really interesting inversion — to have the 'cure' be a curse, and for the "not being themself" part of the curse to specifically call out "not being disabled."

I don't think this falls into the magical cure territory, as you're not presenting this cure as the only good option for your disabled characters. In fact, you're doing the opposite – your character is satisfied to be disabled again, because it means they are themselves again.

As long as you present this narrative thoughtfully, I think it's a pretty interesting way to write about disability being an intrinsic part of these disabled characters you have created.

Hope this helps,

Mod Sparrow

[mejomonster]

I finally had time to start watching Snowfall. I finished the first episode. It's fucking great.

It's so stylized, it feels like a fairy tale almost like the way The Wolf did. Except The Wolf felt like werewolves and beauty and the beast and Tarzan, whereas this feels like gothic horror and Winter Begonia. Cold, washed out with hints of red and yellow for warmth, a thug who tries to be kind but then chooses to be cruel, an immortal who was cursed into being one, a blind girl living the fairy tale horror of trapped in a mansion and feeling she should die to escape the torment and relieve her family because they've blamed their suffering on her. She saves the immortal while hoping she dies, and the immortal asks her not to die yet. The thug wants to kill the immortal but save the girl. The complexity and simplicity of being mortal and immortal. I love it.

[feelingtheaster99]

Goddamn, an incredibly story-important Nat 20 from Murph instead of Beardsley? Love that for him