#faerie! sid (fae)

[sidwilsonsbitch]

sid aus as bananyas because i can pt.2 <3

☆ vampire! sid - count ,, vampire bananya ☆

☆ mermaid! sid - sib ,, rainbow bananya ☆

☆ imp! sid - goat ,, metal bananya ☆

☆ faerie! sid - fae ,, flower bananya ☆

☆ snake! sid - v ,, siamese bananya ☆

[sidsmoon]

assigning sid aus precures!¡ {part 01/?}

○ sib {mermaid sid} ~~ cure la mer // laura {tropical rogue precure} ○

¤ fae {faerie sid} ~~ cure felice // kotoha hanami // ha-chan {maho girls precure} ¤

☆ syd {genderbend sid} ~~ cure yell // hana nono {huggto! precure} ☆

☆ bug {alien sid} ~~ cure milky // lala hagoromo {star twinkle precure} ☆

◇ babydoll {doll sid} ~~ cure grace // nodoka hanadera {healin' good precure} ◇

[thenightling]

The Doctor Who Goblins are NOT antisemitic!

I knew I'd have to make a post like this as soon as I saw The Goblins in The Doctor Who 2023 Christmas special. Please... For the love of sanity, stop latching onto perceived offenses. There's a lot of real antisemitism going on right now. Goblins were not created to BE antisemitic. It's true antisemitism has used Goblins and perpetated negative stereotypes about Jewish people from appearance to greed but the notion of goblins pre-dates even Christianity. There are goblins in pre-Christian Jewish folklore. Gobelinus is an old Latin word for demon. Gobelin is Ango-Norman and french. The folklore was not originally attached to anti-semitism. That came later. The notion of little demons, imps, dark fae, dark elves, or what-have-you eating babies was not created specifically to be anti-Jewish. Often it was a supernatural means of explaining things like SIDS (Sudden infant Death syndrome). Many old folktales were used to explain away child deaths or disappearances without explanation. Such as a changeling replacing a baby or the idea that Lilith (Adam's first wife) became a Queen demon and her and her demon-children kill babies to spite the descendants of Adam and Eve. The Goblins in Doctor Who are very clearly non-human entities, possibly alien. The Goblins in Labyrinth are literally muppets. Jewish authors use goblins all the time and it's not merely to "take sting out of the antisemitic creature." Puck is a Hobgoblin in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. There's also Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins by Eric Kimmel and Trina Schart Hyman. Just because some authors have used goblins as antisemitic metaphors does not mean every author does. Charles Dickens' The Goblins who Stole a Sexton were not a Jewish allegory as the goblins were decidedly Christian and abduct a mean Gravedigger one Christmas Eve to teach him the error of his ways. It was pretty much an early prototype of what would become A Christmas Carol. The goblins were the "Good guys." Very unorthodox good guys but the good guys. Sometimes Goblin was used as a blanket term for dark faery and many souls of the dead would become faeries in the afterlife like the Beansidhe (Banshee) or the Dullahan (headless Horsemen). Even Washington Irving called The Headless Horseman a goblin. Not everything is bigotry in disguise. The goblins of Doctor Who don't want to eat babies as a gesture of a negative antisemitic stereotype. They want to eat babies because they are malicious nature spirits (or aliens) that think young humans are as tasty as some humans think veal is. Mythology and folklore wasn't created just to smear "The other." It was also used to explain away natural events. This includes tragedies. You will notice the belief in goblins tends to be high in regions and eras where infant mortality was also very high. They needed someone to blame and frankly, it's better they blamed something non-human instead of the little old spinster they might call a witch. When Jewish people were accused of "eating babies" it was a dehumanization tactic. The blaming of supernatural entities for child death or disappearance came first. So no, having goblins (same root word as "Gobble") want to eat babies is not innately antisemitic.

[isleofdarkness]

Villains on the Isle

Villains, dissidents, and others who shouldn't be there

Gods- - Hades - Persephone (part-time) - Nyx - Hecate - Thanatos (released) - Charon (released) - Hypnos (released on heavy probation) - Dike (released on probation) - Androctasiae - Melinoe - Eurynomos - Themis - Loki - Deimos - Erebus - Elea - Oizys - Circe - Styx - Dionysus - Mother Earth (Emily Jane Pitchiner) - Father Time

Fae and Demons - Maleficent - Horned King - Chernabog - Pain and Panic - Ignorance and Want - Ravana - Surtr - Firebird - Zhan Tiri - Red Faerie (Ilaria) - Blue Faerie (Chiara)

Other Supernatural Creatures - Jafar - Madame Mim - Ursula - Morganna - Demona - Marina Del Rey - Oogie Boogie - Medusa - Mor'du - Creeper - Kozmotis Pitchiner - Chiron - Lord Ombra - Fawn

Magic users - Evil Queen - Queen Nerissa - Madame Mim - Nasira - The Enchantress - Doctor Facilier - Queen La - Mother Gothel - Mr Dark - Yzma - Rasputin - Monsieur D’Arque - Yen Sid - Scout

Humans - Cruella de Vil - Ivy de Vil - Cecil B de Vil - P H de Vil - Jasper and Horace Badun - Lady Tremaine - Anastasia and Drizella Tremaine - Madame Medusa - Mr Snoops - Captain Hook - Smee - Cassim - Queen of Hearts - Judge Doom - Bill Sykes - Percival McLeach - Gaston - Paulette, Claudette, and Laurette - Claude Frollo - Shan Yu - Lyle Tiberius Rourke - Helga Sinclaire - Pete - Ringmaster - Stabbington Brothers - Hans - Kronk - LeFou - Edgar Balthazar - Stromboli - The Huntsman - Lawrence - Nasty Nanny

Animals - Scar - Zira - Iago - Flotsam and Jetsam - Diablo - Monstro - Kaa - Shere Khan - Lucifer (cat) - Fenrir - Cheshire Cat - Molly - Tick Tock

Groups - Hook's pirates - Maleficent's minions - Chernabog's minions - Horned King's minions - Monsieur D’Arque's Asylum - Shan Yu's Army - Dream Pirates - The Hyenas - The Black Triangles

[liketheinferno2]

Not many screenshots but 2 stories and a comment -- 1. I picked up bard just to play music and have been having a great time. Someone tipped me 150000 gil for Nirvana on the fiddle in Gridania!

2. Elskan was helping a lone elezen heal for a boss FATE (HUGE CRAB) but upon realising this was gonna be a war of attrition I joined in and summoned the rest of the free company, experience of being rescued by helpful faeries since we are fae themed lol. And then they joined up afterward! Had an emo concert on the beach to celebrate.

Aside: Got the PVP hair :)

Now then... we need to talk about Dark Knight. Or I would make note of something.

DRK as a class is absolutely coloured by the impression you get from its opening quest, which is far from a bad thing, however; its opening quest is explicitly about the fact that Temple Knights left unchecked are killing and sexually abusing people in their care. And so for the rest of the class this is in your brain as the thing you are fighting back against, right...

And then 52 starts on the idea that those same people had your daughter in captivity and want her back. The implication is DIRE. And it's not subtle about it.

Dark Knights are all just Those Who Know. I've been transparent about having escaped abuse fairly recently so suffice it say this story is AFFECTING ME but it's in a really good way, it's cathartic and desperate. Hard to go wrong with the two sad dudes and their sad kid plot but this one's got teeth. Sid's great, Rielle's great, everyone's already told you this but if you've got the stomach for it PLAY DARK KNIGHT.

[portuscale-hq]

Tinkerbell | Immortal | Flexible-->Greater Good | Fae

Realm: Neverland

Occupation: Owner of Thimbles

Pronouns: she/her

Sexuality: Up to player

FC: Kiernan Shipka

She is: Resourceful-->Optimistic-->Helpful

But also: Jealous-->Hot Tempered-->Impulsive

Based on Tinkerbell from Peter Pan

OPEN || TAKEN

Straight on ‘til morning ||

Everyone knows that fae are born of a baby’s laughter. With the only difference being what kind of talent they might possess. When little Tink was born it was a a wonder what she might come to accomplish. Though by the time she was but a few days old it had come to everyone’s attention that she was to be tinker faerie. Gifted with the ability to take things apart and put them together in a way that they would be more sufficient as well as create things at whim. There was nothing that little Tinkerbell could not create. Her time in the Hollow was one of laughter and fun. Making friends with nearly all who came in contact with her. And even forming a bit of a relationship with another boy fae by the name of Terence. But, of course, her time there was limited when word came that the miraculous Peter Pan would soon be arriving in the Hollow.

Everyone was all up in an uproar about Pan coming to see them. But not little Tink. When the day came, she approached him the way she would anyone else. It seemed to be what he had been searching for and with that the two began spending much time together. On the day that Pan was to leave he asked Tinkerbell to accompany him and she agreed with urgency. Ready to leave her life in the Hollow behind for new and bigger adventures with her new best friend. But he was not everything that her friends had said he was. Pan was cruel and selfish and seemed to sweep everyone, including Tinkerbell, off their feet. Which was why when a girl by the name of Wendy found her way to Neverland and had her best friend completely enamored, Tink was a little miffed. To say the very least.

Suddenly, all the attention was taken away from her and given to this Wendybird. Tinkerbell was livid and ran to Pan’s rival, Hook, and gave him the whereabouts of where he was. Going as far as to lead him there herself. Of course, this left a rift between the two and Pan was furious with her. But there was no time to be angry anymore. Pan’s magic was withering away and he was slowing starting to age. Neverand’s magic was being stripped from him and they had to act fast. Well, there was only one person that could help and that was Yen Sid. Flying away to another realm to find him, the two found themselves in Portus Cale where a war was about to break free. While Tink knew where her intentions laid there was very little hope in bringing Pan to see the error of his ways.

It wasn’t my fault! Those stink bugs were asking for it! ||

Peter Pan-->Why does this faerie follow you around everywhere?

Who was once her best friend. Now she feels like she barely even knows Peter. The two still talk and are close but with Wendy having all his attention it’s hard for her to even reach him.

Wendy Darling-->She says she glories in being abandoned.

The one person in which she hates the most. If there was anyone that the little fae wishes ill upon--it’s Wendy.

Fawn-->A faerie heart is different than a human heart.

One of the only other people in the entire world that Tinkerbell feels safe around. When in doubt, she will call her fellow fae.

[shazzbaa]

I drew our current D&D party!! from left to right:

Lord Sidhion, aka Sid - my character! Accidental fae-pact warlock “blessed” with the “gift” of an honest tongue. (The sword is ceremonial & his arcane focus, he does not actually have any swordfighting skills)

Bellor - @arahith’s character, party rogue, navigator, negotiator, and eternally internally panicking secret werepossum(???) who is unfortunately the party’s voice of reason by process of elimination.

Wister - @setsuntamew’s character, secret aasimar who wants literally nothing to do with her heritage and ran off to make a warlock pact with the faeries instead. Much cooler than Sid.

Seeker Sixpaws, aka Zeke - @dragonofeternal’s character, party bard, eternally good-hearted and optimistic tabaxi who makes friends wherever he goes! Quick-thinking, but that doesn’t mean the ideas he thinks up are... good...

Clancy - @skwinky’s character, party barbarian who looks and acts like a ten-year old but is actually a secret illegal warforged who can’t always control his kill-mode rage.

This party has so much going on I love them all.....

[obsidiancreates]

Heyheyhey Sid I have,, an important question: What do you think of the concept of King (KOTS,,) as a faery,, (or just,, as a child *raised* by the fae,,)

Oooh! I like it!

[ruffoverthinksthings]

Auradon Improvement Initiative Explained! (Part 2): “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Beep Boop”: Magitech in Auradon

From a writer’s standpoint, Auradon’s Magic Ban is incredibly lazy and stupid.

Majority of the states of Auradon have heavily relied on magic, both for the incredible circumstances that led to their nobility taking power, and as an important everyday part of their lives, a means for improving and sustaining their standard of living.

Banning such a powerful tool is the stuff of dictatorships or abusive totalitarian states, akin to China’s completely shutting down the Internet to try and quell the unrest happening within its citizens.

It also feels dangerously hypocritical, as royals like Aladdin only managed to rise up to power with Genie’s magic, and to suddenly ban that and prevent anyone from ever benefiting from the thing that permanently changed his (and all of Agarbah’s) lives for the better for the sake of “fairness” is awful.

It is in essence the “I’ve got mine, now fuck off!” philosophy I hate so much.

This would be a good move if Auradon was meant to be portrayed and understood as the incredible sunny, smiling dystopia it is, but unfortunately, the canon and the intention of the writers is to portray it as someplace you’d actually want to live in, than a cautionary tale about the abuse of power and deifying your government officials, and why the people need to be checks on their leaders than blind followers.

“But it’s dangerous!” you might say, and they were right to ban it because it caused incredible amounts of suffering alongside the benefits.

But so do cars.

The National Safety councils estimates 38,300 people killed and 4.4 million injured on U.S. roads in 2015, but that didn’t spur movements to completely ban cars and never use them again, it just prompted awareness campaigns for safe driving, anti-drunk/distracted driving programs, and of course, pressure on the manafacturers and the government to make cars SAFER than to ban them altogether.

True, cars haven’t almost brought about the end of the world or a country as we know it, but magic has also brought kingdoms to the levels of prosperity and happiness they currently enjoy, alongside being the basis of Auradon itself.

Can you imagine a world where cars were suddenly banned? Wouldn’t so many industries just grind to a halt, and life would become so much harder, and unnecessarily so? That you’d wonder why someone banned something so useful and literally life changing just because someone could and eventually would get hurt or killed by it?

It’s the same thing with the magic ban, especially with Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, who are shown to be not too happy with it in the Isle of the Lost novel. (I’d imagine that Fairy Godmother isn’t as vocal because she’s just that polite.)

So how would I improve upon the magic ban?

Simple: remove it altogether.

Make it so that, instead of technology being ushered in as a replacement to magic, fuse them together. Even if London was the only state with modern technology, you’ve got literal magicians from dozens of other realm, many of which have massive, formal institutions dedicated to research and the advancement of their knowledge of the arcane arts, and immortal masters who have made it their purpose in life to train and help initiates and the odd mortal, such as Merlin and Yen Sid.

Make it so that these eggheads from across the cosmos banded together, and created an entirely new system of magic and technology for their brand new world, something that would both democratize access to this power and remove the arcane aristocracy, while still retaining the incredible potential and power of magic.

Make it so that they birthed… MAGITECH!

(There were many, many, many other potential names, but the various mages, scientists, and techno-arcanists couldn’t reach a consensus with any of them. Eventually they just settled for “magitech” until they could “eventually think of something better,” but as of now, the name’s stuck.)

It’s the perfect explanation as to why everyone has smartphones, cars, and access to the internet—it’s not London-era technology given 20 years to advance, it’s the same spirit familiars, crystal balls, and bubbling cauldrons everyone’s been using reborn as 4-5 inch devices of plastic and glass, with highly complex interiors.

It’d be a wonderful chance for iconic set-pieces, be they CG or a modified landmark.

Make giant, sprawling towers with glowing tops like beacons, the power lines for their world collecting and spreading out raw mana to their devices and their people like Nikola Tesla’s dream for free energy.

Open up the lid of a car and make a joke about the fire sprites inside banging their mugs and demanding that they get their “guzzoline” fix before they get the motors running again.

Have the cuteness of Queen Elena having her spirit familiars talking to her through her smartphone, so other people can finally see and hear them.

And of course, have the amusing dissonance of a group of techno-arcanists in modern labcoats and pointy hats using a tablet to design, then conjure themselves up a scientifically and magically delicious sandwich.

It’d fit so much better with this world, while still allowing them to keep the various magics that made the original universes so iconic.

Would Frozen be the same without Elsa’s powers? Would Beauty and the Beast been as powerful if Beast was just a human recluse and his servants weren’t magically trapped there as inanimate objects? Would the Sword in the Stone been as good if Merlin were just a cooky old man who knows a lot of magic tricks with mundane explanations?

Nay, I say! Nay!

It also opens up all sorts of new, and interesting plot points and world building for the universe:

Make Magitech so wildly successful that it’s now making actual magicians obsolete. Mirror the societal issues of today in Auradon, though instead of coal miners getting put out of work because of the green revolution and advances in alternative sources of energy, make it so that powerful, ancient wizards are stuck doing parlor tricks and parties to get by, and the Wild Fae are worrying about their place in the world as they’re no longer needed to take care of and preserve their homes.

Have a recurring subplot of a blackmarket for magitech, make issues with the problems of regulating something that is essential for daily living but could also threaten the very fabric of reality as we know it, have mentions of a group of rogue “hackers” who they fear might be trying to undermine Auradon through misinformation, magical DDOS attacks to make bring their systems to their knees, and show to the people that their kings and queens are helpless against a hacker with the right backdoors.

Have Mal and Carlos team-up, with the two of them combining their knowledge and learning how to use and abuse the various systems of Auradon.

Make it so that Carlos needs to and bonds with his friends by teaching them how to code, hack into systems, and deal with the magitech that acts as both security systems and necessary parts of daily living, such as submitting their homework or working on group projects.

Have scenes where Mal literally sticks her finger into a light-socket to try and hack into the system, manipulate the flow of magic in the crystal resonators using her natural, half-Faerie talents—possibly even show her using herself as a computer to hack into systems, or powering numerous objects by using herself as a battery.

Make it so that Evie and Carlos tinker and works with her magic mirror all throughout the movie, showing their intellectual sides when they graft memory cards and speakers to be able to turn it into a music player, and that’s where they get their kickass “Rotten to the Core” instrumentals from.

You would still be able to keep all the magical mischief from the original movie, too.

Make it so that the Better Hair Spell is Mal undercutting the expense of going to a parlor and getting your hair magically done.

(It is possible with Auradon’s magitech, of course, but you’d need a Quintel w73 processor, a Neuvidia MTX 9890 weaver card, and a cutting-edge runeboard compatible with their architecture, alongside numerous other incredibly expensive parts—not to mention finding an outlet with the right power-rating, a rarity in Auradon Prep to keep the students from making incredibly dangerous pet projects.)

Evie could still use her magic mirror to get information, though it’s akin to her using a homemade smartphone that’s capable of discretely connecting to the Leylines of Auradon, which is why her teachers don’t realize she’s cheating—the gadget detectors weren’t calibrated to detect her mirror.

And the love cookie could still be a love cookie, explicitly mention that it and its ilk were the few forms of object truly banned rather than regulated, for obvious reasons.

It’d be a better hook for the setting, too—instead of “Disney Child OCs go to a modern high school AU” it’s “Disney Child OCs in an interesting magitech run universe.”

Also, I AM 500% GAME FOR ELSA ESSENTIALLY BECOMING A MAGICAL ROBOTICIST, USING HER MAGIC TO CREATE MORE SNOW GOLEMS BEFORE USING COMPUTER CHIPS TO PROGRAM AND GIVE THEM MUCH MORE ADVANCED INTELLIGENCE.

[sidwilsonsbitch]

Sid Au Ships

Firedoll - Fireball/Babydoll

Bomb Trio - Bullet/Ace/Roper

Moving Parts - Dj Starscream/S1d (platonic)

Princess and the Snake - V/Fae

Fluff duo - Bug/Bubbs (platonic)

Danger Zone - Ratboy/0

Darkside - Sidney/Daemon

Bubbles and Blood Sib/Count/Goat