#environmental themes

[fathersonholygore]

Uncanny Terrors & Landscapes of Grief in ENYS MEN

[joncronshawauthor]

How Final Fantasy Has Shaped Modern Fantasy Literature

Final Fantasy, the video game series that’s been anything but ‘final’, has made a considerable impact not just on the gaming world, but also on the pages of contemporary fantasy literature. So, how exactly did a bunch of pixelated characters hopping across our screens wield such influence over authors and their hefty tomes? Chocobos to Giant Hawks? The first, and possibly most important,…

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Promoting Literacy through Nature: Building Sustainable and Peaceful Societies

[entguarde]

bitches love me for my genuine curiosity for the world around me

[ID: A brightly colored digital portrait of Zoox Anthellae from The Adventure Zone: Ethersea.

He is a Brinarr wearing copper diving gear over his head and torso. Beneath the glass of his helmet, his face is comprised entirely of dark blue brain coral. Out of the side ports and the top of the helmet, orange-colored staghorn coral juts out, almost like a salamander’s gills. His eyes are, in contrast to his detailed body, very cartoony. They are small and green. His arms are made of long anemone tendrils.

He is looking at the viewer with a neutral but nonetheless warm demeanor. The background is bright cyan. End description.]

[liesmyth]

All your TLT posting is making me questioning if I should try it.. The only thing i'm worried is that I don't want to start a series and then finding out in the third bookthat the author made the antiheroic genderbent mao protagonist throw the metaphorical atomic bomb on the japanese because the author is an american descendent of a Chang Kai Shek general and wanted to absolve the yankees to grant herself a career (it worked greatly). So should i still try TLT as an olde commie? Love your blog btw, please continue reblog all those TLT fan art they look great! Thanks!

whew lowkey glad I couldn't get past the first book in that other series. anyway *clears throat*

If you like LESBIANS, Locked Tomb is the fandom for you. If you like BONES and FAILWOMEN and ARE ANGRY AT GOD, Locked Tomb is the fandom for you. If you like BAD JOKES and SHITTY MEMES, we have those in spades. If you love EXCELLENT FANART and DIVORCES that last TEN THOUSAND YEARS and LOCKED ROOM MURDER MYSTERIES, if you think EVIL COUGARS are SEXY, if you think PLUTO totally COUNTS as a PLANET, Locked Tomb is the fandom for you!!!!

[here's the rest of the tlt manifesto on ao3, podficced by @/wilfriede ]

On a serious note! I think TLT is definitely informed by leftist politics, and it has many themes that lend themselves to juicy interpretations on top of a really meaty worldbuilding and characterisation. Also the fanart SLAPS. And if you read the books you can check out my fics which, not to brag, are some of the weirdest I've ever written! featuring such tropes as: "bodyswapped man sucks his own dick" "vagina dentata" "ritual sex to have a baby during a mass death event" "in-universe academia" and "orphan girl meets her parents for the first time and they suck"

tldr please read the locked tomb <3

[saturnniidae]

Cripplepunk Modern Au Hiccup

[aroaessidhe]

little free library cat led me to the little free library this morning...... and I found a good book there!

[punksatawney-phil]

Fully convinced that the lack of promotion around Strange World was not just because it had amazing representation (though that is, as usual, part of it)

It was because it’s cli-fi that had the potential to reach mainstream audiences on a massive scale.

Changing societal priorities to adapt to catastrophic environmental change?? Shifting from industrial to biodiverse agriculture??Ecosystems as living things?? Degrowth as a necessary and messy step before sustainable regrowth?? They didn’t want anyone getting any ~ideas~ about environmental justice

[fulcrvm]

Last Line Tag Game

Thanks for tagging me @teejaystumbles ! A really nice surprise!! :D I am indeed contemplating writing two Dead Boy Detectives fic right now, but they're both in the very early 'being-outlined-in-my-head' stage, haha. They both revolve around post-s1 Edwin pining for Charles, one where Edwin takes matters into his own hands and one where he decides to have a chat with the Cat King about it. Not sure if they'll ever be written but they're intriguing!

But for the sake of the tag game, here's a lengthy bit from a Dreamling wip I've slowly been chipping away at for a few months!

A scene from Every Little Thing (Working Title)— In which Morpheus is a figure drawing professor who has just been fired from a film production based on his comics, and Hob does part-time figure modeling and is determined befriend the aforementioned professor.

Morpheus picks his class schedules wisely— he runs two first year general figure drawing classes, at 8 a.m. and at noon on Mondays and Thursdays. He helps the uni’s live figure workshop club on Wednesdays and Fridays at 6 p.m., and meets his sister for lunch on Wednesdays. All other free time was dedicated for his industry work. That wouldn’t be a concern anymore, would it. By the time Morpheus unlocks the door to the studio, sets his bag down by his desk, and starts fiddling with the ceiling studio lights pointed at the model stand, all of Morpheus’ thoughts have reduced to pure spite. Fine, maybe the big studios don’t want him. They don’t deserve him, then, their loss. His portfolio and repertoire are infamous in the industry, they’ll be crawling back to him in no time. Too bad, maybe he would have started his own production studio and he’ll end up with the next ground-breaking animated film. Maybe— Morpheus’ thoughts are interrupted by a knock at the door. He shakes himself out of it, calling, “Come in.” A glance at his watch tells him it’s only 7:48, perhaps it’s an overeager student here early. It’s only the second week of the semester, they grab every opportunity to prove themselves with a spirited step that Morpheus might be slightly envious of. “Hello, Morpheus Endeles?” Hearing his full name startles Morpheus, and he turns from the lighting settings to the door. “Yes?” The man who steps into view can only be described as radiant. He can’t be much older than Morpheus, not much taller either but wider in the shoulders. His hair is cropped just above his shoulders and he sports a neatly kept beard. Morpheus registers this all first simply because of his profession but— he gets caught on the man’s brilliant smile and deep brown eyes. There’s something there that knocks all thoughts clear out of Morpheus’ head. The stranger smiles warmly, smiles like he already cares. “I’m here to model for the morning and noon figure classes?” The man says. Morpheus clears his throat and steps forward, “Yes, this is the right studio.” He extends a hand, “Robert Gadling, I presume?” The man takes his hand— god, he’s so warm— and shakes it steadily, “Please, call me Hob! All my friends do.”

I'm a sucker for the 'Morpheus catalogues Hob's appearance during their first meeting' trope in most Dreamling human AU fics, I couldn't not do it too :]

Besides this, I've also got a Dreamling Velvet Goldmine-ish AU fic that I want to get done this summer. I'm a very slow and ruminative writer so let's see if I can commit to any of these fics now that I've posted about them lol!

No pressure tags! I have no idea who's been tagged recently so-- lol. @hardly-an-escape @valeriianz @moorishflower @amielot :)

[skrunksthatwunk]

jsjdkdbjsskh this fucking movie man

^^destruction caused by a fight his boys and some randos got into

[itstimeforstarwars]

Me 🤝 jude watson 🤝 half the star wars visions writers: when the main character commits ecoterrorism that is a heroic action.

[nitewrighter]

"I like Solarpunk because it's the most hopeful, tee hee!"

Read Facing the Sun and then get back to me. I'll wait.

[tatck]

Hey!! I just wanted to tell you I recently started watching one piece and sonic is soooo luffy coded lmao you were so right for that 👏🏻

YESSSSSS!! Characters who won't let any law in the universe stop them ♥❤ who don't care how they're viewed by the world as long as they are free ♥❤

GEAH I wish the sonic series would lean in more to it's themes, specifically freedom, because i like that theme. This is why I liked G.U.N so much as antagonists in SA2 too. Like go against that government power who think they are the ultimate power and justice. Go get a wanted poster.

Anyways to anyone reading, if you liked my comic go give one piece a try. I always recommend reading it (there's even a coloured version) over the anime, since the anime has terrible pacing & other reasons.

[iztarshi]

I think something that works about Mirage TMNT is it's not just a violent comic, it's a comic about violence.

The cycle of revenge Splinter starts the turtles on, the times it seems to be working for them - like Leo killing Shredder (again) seeming to give him closure on his own near death - and their eventual decision to let it go. Casey's vigilantism, it's tragic outcome, and the fact that regaining his willingness to defend himself from car thieves is still a good thing for him. The military violence of the triceratons that leads to them shooting their own leader because they don't think of other options when he's taken hostage besides still shooting. The violence of animals who kill to survive and the lesson Splinter learns from the Rat King in accepting that violence as part of himself.

It's a story in harmony with the genre it's being told in.

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

Cattle Decapitation - We Eat Our Young

[fruitsofhell]

One of my new surfacing gripes with FF7R is how a lot of moments from the original game that rested heavily on player investment seem completely stripped out of the remake in favor of everything being a constant 60 hour long movie experience.

Like every now and then I hear the original game get shit for not taking its political messaging seriously at certain key set-pieces that are too game-y and chill like Costa Del Sol and the Gold Saucer, but that's not the whole picture when you consider how much control the player has over the party in that game. Costa Del Sol was just where you landed on the next continent and there was like a guy or two to talk to to point you in the other direction, a few lighthearted interactions to break up the fucked up shit that happened on the boat ride over, and then you could leave. The idea that the original Costa Del Sol indulged in the tourist trap goes only as far as how you as a player approached the space, if you got to Costa Del Sol and felt "Oh, this is a shitty Shinra colonial project I hate it here" you could book it outta there and maintain some of that disgust, but you fucking can't in the remake and its horrible.

For some fucking reason the boat ride over is on a cruise ship instead of a military vessel like before, so instead of a funny moment of humanizing the soldiers by being miserable with them, you get this fucking card tournament quest where everyone is suddenly SUPER into all this shit and doesn't care about any of the obvious underlying bullshit of the boat? And then its even worse when you get to Costa Del Sol because likefhsjkdhf? Everyone is OK with this glaring parallel to real world colonization and exploitation of island nations? Even Barret who literally had an amusement park built on the ashes of his home village by the people who burnt it down? EVEN YUFFIE WHO'S WHOLE SHTICK IS HOW HER HOME WAS INVADED AND TURNED INTO A TOURIST TRAP????

I cannot speak 100% for the original, because I remember it also missing these opportunities and besides that my memory is hazy, but its the fact that it wasn't flooded with all these ridiculous cutscenes and extra set-pieces that force you into experiencing areas a certain way, and a way that is just really fucking OOC?? And like for as OOC as the original could be, THE REMAKE IS 25 YEARS YOUNGER AND WISER THAN IT, PICK UP THE SLACK? But instead we get a fucking beach episode where you can put the girlies in bikinis or some shit. It's such a waste.

I can't think of like a single moment of subtly that the Remake retained from the originals. And it DOES have them under all the silly tonal whiplash stuff that the Remake cranks up to an unhealthy extent.