#dark lands

[lore-of-the-mushroom-kingdom]

Great Demon King Koopa

There is a lot of information and imagery in the games that connects Bowser the King of the Koopas to some more hellish imagery.

First off his Japanese name is Daimaou Kuppa, which translates to either Great Satan Bowser, Great Demon King Bowser, or Great Demon King Koopa. Which definitely matches up a lot. Side note yes the literal translation of Daimaou isn't always supposed to be literal.

There is also the various castles Bowser has built over the years. Many of them have an entrance where you enter through Bowser's mouth, which seems to be similar to a hellmouth. This Castle design shows up in Super Mario 3D Land, Paper Mario 64, Mario Kart Double Dash and Wii, Paper Mario: The Origami King, and even The Super Mario Bros. Movie.

There is also the fact that World 8 the Koopa Kingdom is often depicted as a hellish landscape, aka the Bowser Badlands or Dark Land.

Note this is just making some connections with this type of imagery, it's best seen as a hypothesis. By no means is this useful for satanic panic nonsense.

[nintendouniverse2023]

This is the rebirth of the Super Mario Bros TV series but much better, with new characters and New Adventures!

Plot: “For Years, Mario and Luigi have protected the Mushroom Kingdom and the whole world from the King of Darklands, King Bowser and his Koopa Empire” including rescuing Princess Peach. Their younger sister "Mara Mario" has found her way to the Mushroom World to reunite with her older brothers and meet new friends along they way”

[feanors-mom]

Saving these recs for later!

I would also add the Dark Prince series - Vanimore and Elgalad are hands down the most memorable and lovable OCs by @spiced-wine-fic

Intriguingly, this series features some fully fleshed out characters with physical disabilities. I don’t recall any other Tolkien legendarium related fics that explore this topic (with the glaring exception of Maedhros post Angband but an acquired disability is different than a congenital one). I’d love to read more if they’re out there.

Lots of great fics deal with mental health issues (eg PTSD) but I haven’t read many that deal with physical disability so that was super interesting too. Of course , none of that would really matter if it weren’t a compelling story, and it absolutely is.

original character-focussed fic recs

One of the best feelings for me as a fic writer in this fandom is when somebody tells me that they liked one of my original characters. Character creation can be hard work and nerve-wracking, so it’s really rewarding whenever people tell me that it’s paid off. This fandom has a wealth of fantastic, memorable original characters, so I wanted to make a recommendation list of some of my favourite fics that feature them. The fics in this list are a range of lengths, ratings, warnings, and themes, and I’m hoping everyone will be able to find something to their taste here.

Of course this list is not exhaustive, and I’m always open to more recommendations!

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[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

ℜ𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢 - 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨 𝔏𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔰

[akanemnon]

This deja vu comes with a free concussion!

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[cryptidmickle]

hough save me gay yaoi

[feanors-mom]

I absolutely love this writer. I’ve only read the DarkPrince series so far, but Vanimore and especially Elgalad are probably my all-time favorite (thus far!) Tolkien lengendarium OCs.

Imagine me crying a couple weeks ago at the end of the series where {very sad things happen} and husband being concerned and then so confused as I tried to explain the gist of the plot.

“Ok that sounds really sad honey, im sorry” as he tried to find a 3d printer file to make a scale model of either of these boys (they don’t exist) to paint for me so I can remember them the way I imagined them at their happiest.

And don’t get me started on vanimore’s disabled daughter (sort of) (it’s complicated) (everything is complicated in this fic). I just want Vanimore and Elgalad to live happily ever after with their adopted kids.

Tagged by the amazing @thenookienostradamus :) Thank you 🙏🏼

Fic asks.

7. Your favourite ao3 tag. 

Hate-sex, I think. I’m just not one for romance or fluff. Darkfic.

11. Three tropes that are fine but overrated.

I have to say that in 15 years in online fanfic fandom I’ve completely avoided even knowing what tropes are 😂

20. Do you work on a single project or many at the same time? How does that work for you?

I used to work on two in tandem, but when I became self-employed I just couldn’t do it anymore. Even when I could, it was a mental wrench to step out of one ‘world’ and into the other. Now I have to scrape the time to write. I need spaces of time to get into the ‘zone’, not just minutes.

28. Any writing advice that works for you and you feel like sharing?

If I get down or stuck, I go and read fic that I love. It starts the engines like nothing else I’ve tried.

30. Wildest AU scenario you have written?

I don’t know if they’re that wild really, everything I write is an AU and often gallops off into weird shit.

Possibly Fëanor meeting Melkor in the Dagor Dagorath and the meeting of the Flame Imperishable and the negation that-is-Melkor destroyed the universe.

Or maybe the Mirror of Worlds that Fëanor created in that universe (it was like a Portal into the Multiverse) which was shunted out of the destroyed universe and into future ones. In one of these universes Fëanor breaks it and the shards scatter through the Multiverse. The Mirror shards can appear on any world.

Maybe (in the Stormbringers Trilogy) when Fëanor, after his death is forcibly reborn and corrupted into a monstrosity and chained in Avathar, but eventually slips his chains and into the Great Sea. After a very long time in that monster shape he ends up in a deep, cold loch in Scotland.

In ancient times there was an event similar to the Storegga Slides, which caused immense tsunami to batter the west coast of Scotlandand brought the Silmaril of the Oceans to that loch. Fëanor half-recognising it, claimed it and slept with it in the depths.

In the story, Maglor has two of the Silmarils and there is an immense concatenation of power that brings the ‘Monster’ out of the loch. When Maglor kills it, the blubber breaks apart and Fëanor emerges, cleansed and whole.

Maybe Elgalad (who’s in the Dark Prince and Magnificat of the Damned series as well as the modern AU’s) Who was born an Elf but is probably a thought-form of Eru, maybe — or perhaps became a real person. We just don’t know. 🤷 I’m not sure he knows.

Eru is completely ambiguous, more than a little insane and wants to create another universe — in one AU with the aid of @naryaflame’s    OC, Claire James.

Eru, Vanimöré and Fëanor having a ‘totality’ that exists on the Outside so their physical forms are avatars.

[newtidnt]

mario went on a fun colourful adventure while luigi gets sent to hell or something i dunno

but hey atleast he meets a sexy turtle dragon man that touches his face in a very homosexual way

[nekrosmos]

Returning from an op and immediately running to kiss your hot pilot husband under the first snow of the year 🌨️🚁

[lore-of-the-mushroom-kingdom]

Bowser's Kingdom Is Probably Not The Koopa Kingdom

So in Super Mario Odyssey one of the Kingdom's you head to is called Bowser's Kingdom. There are many people who think this place is the Koopa Kingdom from all the Mario games. Others believe it's an entirely separate Kingdom and the real Koopa Kingdom. So I'm going to put forth what I think about it.

So for the latter one because the Mario wiki states the following about the Mushroom Kingdom, "the Mushroom Kingdom is portrayed as a large country with many landscapes such as grassy plains, deserts, beaches, snowy tundras, jungles, mountains, cloudy areas, and volcanoes." Alongside listing World 8 as part of the Mushroom Kingdom so people believe this is not the Koopa Kingdom but a place Bowser just took control over. The problem is the Koopa Kingdom is established to be it's own separate Kingdom, and just because a Kingdom is on the same continent doesn't mean it's part of the Mushroom Kingdom. The Flower Kingdom and Bean Bean Kingdom are also part of the Mushroom Continent, yet still their own kingdoms.

Now as for Bowser's Kingdom, first off I don't think it's part of the Koopa Kingdom. It's in a different direction from the Mushroom Kingdom and part of a completely different landmass. I also do not think it's the real Koopa Kingdom, I believe it's a kingdom Bowser conquered. The reason I say this is first off Bowser's Kingdom lacks the terrain, fauna, and climate the Koopa Kingdom has. But most notably it lacks turtles. The only species of turtles we see in Bowser's Kingdom isn't even the common one, it's Spinys. You'd think if this is the Koopa Kingdom it would have well Koopas.

In addition the Brochure lists of Stairface Ogres as the residents of this kingdom, not Koopas. Interestingly enough the industry of this Kingdom is Hanafuda Cards, and the Stairface Ogre's mallets appear like the presses that would be used to make such cards. So yeah I don't think Bowser's Kingdom is actual the Koopa Kingdom, let alone the homeland of the Koopas.

[2001hz]

Hitomi Murakami: 'land of root' (2018)

[lilybug-02]

Patience and responsibility....that's a promise....right?

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An exorcism? In my family-friendly Deltarune? It's more likely than you may think. The backgrounds here were very interesting! Much more complex than how I usually do them (especially that computer).

Player POV:

Feral energy.

[landofmoa]

Do what’s best for your soul. Fuck anything else.

[drenched-in-sunlight]

with Dark Souls official account quote rt the Elden Ring NightReign announcement talking about ancestral foes of a fire that once burned bright, and the game being a co-op action survival, im pretty sure that's honest-to-God Nameless King. not a reskin, not reusing assets to make a different character, it's literally him.

the concept of pulling bosses and characters from other worlds / timelines to an alternative Limgrave is fascinating to me, especially since it's something we already see a glimpse of in the base game via Rennala's boss fight (2nd phase). really makes me wonder if the power of the Night include opening gateways to other worlds.

it adds a new layer of conflict between the Greater Will & the Night Lord! GW (the Day, the Light) desires Order, but Night (Dark) could mess with fabrics between worlds & time like that, like it's Chaos ! they introduce a new gameplay direction, yet it ties in very well with the lore, im in awe.

[themastergifs]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MICHELLE GOMEZ (November 23, 1966)

[possumdrawsstuff]

DARKLANDSSS JIMMMMM, MY EMO POOKIEE