#dread reflection if

[lindewyrm]

Spiritual Rebirth v2

[felassan]

"Tattoos are just as customizable alongside options for scars and paint. Tattoos, scars, and paint are very culturally relevant to some lineages, BioWare tells me, with unique tattoos for elves, for example. You can add tattoos to Rook's face, body, arms, and legs, and you can adjust things like intensity, too." [source]

lookin again at the various concept art and art pieces from DA over time that show vallaslin on places other than the face, like these ones - 👁️

[timethehobo]

When you look after the dead, the dead will look after you.

[ratatatastic]

telling maffhew about his milestone like he's not gonna be a little sentimental about it as he tries to process it or alternatively man tries to be nonchalant about the passage of time in a sport cruel to the concept of it

"is it a bit more fun reflecting now that you have a stanley cup ring on your shelf?" "yes 😊 yes it does😄😄" colby who keeps his promises and makes sure to always remind maffhew hes a stanley cup champion this saga is so 😭😭😭

philadelphia flyers @ florida panthers pregame interview | 11.9.24 (x)

[gothffee]

Hi, hello, salutations. I’m Chris, or Sledgehammer if you want, depending on the day. I like long walks to the vegan cheese aisle, dad jokes, and currently I’m obsessed with the Interview with a Vampire TV show. I probably talk too much for my own good and usually make no sense, but guess what? It is what it is. I sing and write lyrics for a band called Motionless in White, and I’m Rhea Ripley’s biggest fan. Fight me on me this. I dare you.

Want to have a local gothffee with me? Come chat at @nothingforundead.

[mozzaremi]

[an-established-butt-dent]

Dragon Age Inquisition, Solas

POV you find out Solas hates tea.

Acrylic ink and Posca markers on bamboo paper.

[pixelizedprince]

"Wolf."

"Hound."

[zombi3slobb3r]

instead of drawing an attack (which I couldn't do because I am in complete bodily agony), I decided to just recreate this with Wheatley because... pertal.

OG image and another dumb thing I made today vvv

yayyyyy

[bacchuschucklefuck]

Can you expand on what you mean by Baron being "too cool" to really fit a horror monster? It's a very interesting concept and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Is it that they're too active/involved/tangible and it detracts from their scariness?

I feel like I should preface this with a wall of disclaimers lmao 1/I am a hardcore, down-to-the-marrow, avid, deeply sincere horror enthusiast, esp. horror creatures. this usually means my mileage is vastly different from the average populace's, and my scaredy bone has been disintegrated by longterm exposure. most things in a piece of horror media won't scare me! so I practically never use that on its own as the scale to talk abt horror experiences, but when something does scare me it's always a special occasion to be treasured. 2/canon d20 is never really meant to be horror horror, and for good reasons: it doesn't fit the company's output, it takes a kind of carelessness in production estimation that is always a huge risk, it's often vulnerable in a way that kinda goes against how TTRPGs usually facilitates vulnerability, and for most people it's just! stressful! d20, even with the "horror-themed" seasons, generally just plays with horror tropes and stays focused in its goal of being a comedy improv tabletop theater show. 3/fantasy high's chosen system is DnD, which as I've mentioned before is before all a combat-based game system, which means the magic circle of play is drawn based on stats that facilitate and prioritize combat. want or not this affects every interaction you have in the game, and given fantasy high's concept from the ground up (everyone's going to school of DnD stuff to get better at DnD) it's doubly relevant. 4/This Is Fine I have no quarrel with this. my meters are internal, I do not ask this show to be anything it doesn't advertise itself to be, and what it is is fucking great! I like it! when I expand on this ask's question it will be like a physicist going insane in a lab. that's the mindset we're going in with.

disclaimers done. my stance on horror as a genre is that it's a utility genre rather than a content genre or a demographic genre; it is the discard of narratives. it's the trash pile. horror, above being scary, is about being ugly and messy, it's the cracks on the ground any story inevitably steps over to stay a genre that isn't horror. the genre's been around long enough to develop a codex and a general language that medias and makers and enthusiasts of the genre can use to talk about and build onto, but if you go into individual pieces there's really no unifying Horror Story. one person's beautiful life can be another's horror story, it's just how it is.

this makes The Monster a deeply intriguing piece of the genre. thing is a monster is in a decent percentage of any story - it's just when the antagonist force steps into something past a certain line traced out in the story's world. monstrousness is in pretty much every western fantasy story, it's in any story with a hero and something to vanquish or win; more than anything it's a proxy of that thing up there. the line in a narrative's world. the monster is the guard of the unknown lands, where heroic, civilized people don't tread.

what does this mean in the context of horror? the genre is about that perceived lawlessness, that "unknown land" so to say. we're in the monster's home. that's the literary context that we often walk into a horror piece with; the monster knows more than you about where you are. it may not understand you, but it holds more information than you, and with that it moves swifter than you, has more covered than you, and is more assured in its existence in this context than you. it's a struggle to catch up to it, it's nigh impossible to get one over it, and you're never sure it'll 100% work, because you just don't have the information necessary to.

with that framing you can kinda see where I'm coming from here: horror's often about the breaking of rules. I always think a monster's most effective when it breaks well-established rules of both existence and visual storytelling. think Possum (2018) or Undertale's Omega Flowey or the Xenomorph Queen - unique change in medium, unique change in graphic, unique change in design language, etc. in that sense I actually really like how canon baron plays out: they don't really function like anything else in the fantasy high universe, the bad kids have not managed to kill them when they've felled literal gods, their domain in fhjy literally introduces new mechanics to encompass their existence! from an experience design standpoint they slap mad shit. BUT! I can't help finding their character, like as a character riz (and the other bad kids, eventually) interact with, to be very... coherent? in design. this is kinda hard for me to articulate in words, it's more often a sense you get once you've looked at enough of these scrumptious fuckers, their general design and the way they show up is just kinda too clean, so to say. always kinda newly made? fresh unboxed. it, once again, makes sense for their lore - they are looking for more about themself from riz - and their function - they're an antagonist in a game experience, they're meant to be interacted with in a way that produces results and meshes with the existing magic circle - but that shininess takes away from the implied history they should have dominion over and the person they're haunting doesn't.

from another angle there is kinda something there about how put-together canon baron is as a concept; the domain they call home is riz's deep-seeded fears, extremely vulnerable things he's drawn borders around to quarantine and refused to walk into. things that from his perspective would irreversibly shatter certain pleasant fictions his world is built on top of. canon baron, While Extremely Cool, I feel is kinda too neat to connect with and signify the apocalyticized mess that'd result from this paradigm shift. the part where they're in riz's briefcase and looking through every mirror is Very Cool And Fucked Up! but ultimately the show draws a line around them as well, by making game-physical, tangible spaces they're in (the mirrors and the haunted mordred manor) and put riz and the bad kids there only when they need to confront stuff. riz is meaningfully narratively away from baron's unknown land for most of fantasy high.

with that and all of my disclaimers in mind my conclusion here is if canon baron wants to be a Horror Monster they'd have to cross way more lines. be a Lot more invasive. hence (holds up my class swap baron like a long cat)

[creatures-and-doodles]

having a varghest oc is awesome until the moment i have to paint him 😔

[cabozers]

never posted this?

[new-canvas]

White Noise

I never saw you, but you were always there. You called me, and I was there for you.

We made and opened many doors. Behind them, there were many worlds. Ones you and I could live in. Ones full of stories worth living.

You saw me as perfect, even though unfinished. You never saw a flaw, I was your everything. The name you called for protection. The name you called for help.

I never saw you. You were always there. You were there. It was all you.

I woke up. I don't remember much. Who am I? Do I exist?

The void you once were stares at me. It's silence is deafening as I'm trapped inside it. You were everything, you were nothing. Did you get to be a person?

[napstabl00k]

Those sonic prime gjinkas from my day out today

[basically-queenberyl]

I think the reason I get so frustrated and annoyed when people tell me to not be so hard on myself about my routines and that I “don’t have to do it ALL the time, because it’s not the end of the world if I miss one thing,” is because when I don’t do it once or twice, I’ll drop it for like 3 months and feel like my whole life got derailed.

[gu6chan]

Update: terrified for the next 4 years and after but will be eternally grateful that it's not harris if only for the fact that 1. The idea that democrats were testing the waters to see if the line could be drawn past genocide and were anything BUT successful in that comes as a huge reassurance that there's at least a population of people living in the US who have SOME conscience, actually and 2. in regards to the line NOT being drawn way too far out im glad someone's in office where liberals aren't AFFORDED the luxury of comfort they were trying to cushion themselves with under Harris and actually are going to suddenly start caring about issues (re: the genocide all those evils tankies endorsed fascism with by refusing to support it even under the FRIENDLIER looking hitler 😠😠😠) now instead of pretending everything is great because the president is blue 😃