#fanservant stuff

[300iqprower]

I’m fine with Cortez having a role in your Lostbelt (more begrudgingly, I’ll admit, as it feels more than a little uncomfortable to add a conquistador to the Lostbelt that, besides the whitewashing, was meant to be fully indigenous—emphasizing indigenous, not hispanic), but I have to say, I’m just not enthused for Grand Berserker Cortez. Like at all. Not just because Fate has positioned him to be a Pretender based on what we know of him, but also because it just feels intensely uncomfortable for one of the servants meant to fight the Beasts to be a colonizer. Especially since it’s an AU Cortez rather than PHH Cortez? Like, what?

oh he's a piece of shit. Thats the point. In my version, anyways. Idk and idc what official fgo intends for Berserker, @agnerd-bot's idea was so insanely good I had to find a way to use it for my Lb7 rewrite.

Like i said, he's an objectively terrible person. Not even in the Columbus sense where there's like, a sort of deluded idealism to it, no Cortez is just a selfish bastard and the whole point of him being a grand is that it makes you realize that grands arent the "best" of humanity, they're the peak of humanity. That means the bad as well as the good, and even with Daybit actively helping it's everything some of Chaldea's servants (namely Nitocris-Ammit) can do to not try and kill the bastard before their mutual enemies even get a chance. I also want him to be berserker rather than pretender because i don't want to lean into so much as the same post code as the pseudoscience of "white gods" and all that if I can help it. The idea of someone flagrantly and falsely claiming godhood is more interesting to me than someone convincingly imitating it anyhow.

TLDR Cortez's role specifically plays on his connection to the indigenous peoples of the lostbelt. It's not a good connection and its not meant to be, its meant to be vile and infuriating and it's never portrayed as anything different or more glorious than that. Just as a Beast of Humanity isn't necessarily evil, a Grand Servant isn't necessarily righteous.

He also, without going into detail, gets his comeuppance. Enough for it to even be somewhat pitiable, in fact, if still entirely deserved.

[hasmephydoneanythingwrong]

Okay, so those last two positions indicate there’s a beast viii and a beast is, and when someone takes a beast’s position, they add :L to that title.

…hm.

[300iqprower]

.......Yall have been joking?

I know we joke about Gudako being a beast of humanity but serious talk.

Could the Gudas possibly qualify as a beast unintentionally?

In fate a Beast must have “love for humanity” which snakes them act not out of malice, but rather threaten humanity through an underlying desire to protect it in a manner

What has Guda been doing this entire time? Fighting for humanity, while ending seven worlds full of it for their own version of humanity.

They have actively threatened and destroyed entire worlds for humanity.

[lemonadehtwooh]

Happy Pride, I'm redrawing old Holmes X Utterson doodles I did a time ago. The goal for each one I do will to be make it gayer/more homoerotic than before

New ver

Old ver

What New version says under cut

(Holmes is grazing the edge of Utterson's bottom lip with his thumb, muttering, "It's elementary, my dear-"

LIVE HYDE REACTION: "Wth?? Okay, this almost would be cute if Gabe wasn't such a dumbass. NO WAY IN HELL is a thumb-lip graze platonic!! That idiot..."

Utterson, thinking: "Oh, this must be something close friends do. As friends... Dear Lord... Why is my heart beating so fast? I feel so light headed... My face is burning, perhaps I have a fever..."

[devolympian]

Fate fanservants. Only have 4 for now, but I plan to design some more. Let me know what you think :)

Sabe: Dandara dos Palmares.

Archer: Puck.

Rider: John Rackham.

Caster: Shizuka Gozen.

[anxiously-awaiting]

can u imagine the back pain he's got from holding up the sky AND those tits.

[300iqprower]

as your friend i'm obligated to smack you for trying to leave all this in tags

Weird idea but hear me out.

Lostbelt King Florence Nightingale that’s been pushed even further into madness than her Berserker incarnation. She has made a world where death as a concept no longer exists.

This is not a good thing.

[mountainashfae]

🖊 pwyll (sorry if this makes you wanna kill me)

Introducing you to the Pwyll and Apollo lore was a mistake /j

Pwyll is a very funny thing where me and a group were making Pseudo-Servant OCs. Maxx has Apollo, and I have Pwyll. He is, basically, the entire reason why I got so invested in welsh folklore. He is why I have tracked down like 3 different versions of the Mabinogion (I miss the university copies a lot). He doesn't have nearly as much of a staying power in the lore of my writing, but he still lives in my brain as an important factor in stuff.

Like my favorite poem is Preiddeu Annfwn. The Spoils of Annwn. Pwyll Pen Annwn.

anyways I'm here to say that you may start to pick up future stuff for our DnD campaign if you pay too close attention here.

[ OC Ramble ]

[optiwashere]

what other RPG games do you like?

Heya anon, what a fun question! If I sat and listed all the RPGs I like, it would take forever. Here's a ramble instead because I'm bored on a Sunday.

I've been playing basically any kind of RPG since I got a copy of Fallout 1 in... 1999? '98? I was too young for it, but I was also too young to watch horror films then and look at how I turned out.

Pretty sure I blindly walked into the Glow in one of my first playthroughs and didn't understand why my character kept dying afterwards lmao.

Then I got into BG with BG2 when it was released. After that I started reading Drizzt novels, and that's where everything went wrong.

Either way, I like pretty much any kind of RPG. If you can find it on GOG, Steam, or Abandonware sites, I've probably at least tried it. Old-school, draw a map, tile-based dungeon crawlers like Pool of Radiance or Might and Magic? Yep, love those games. All the Infinity Engine games and their modern clones? Yep! I'm really hoping we get a Pillars of Eternity 3 some day. Even though I think they've all had massive problems so far and I've had bad interactions with the company's community management, I'll probably play the next Owlcat game too. I loved the Mass Effect and Dragon Age games when they came out, but I'm eh on ME2/3 and DA is a really uneven series. I'm less into JRPGs these days, but I've played stuff like Chrono Trigger, Persona, and most of the Final Fantasy series.

Speaking of FF, strategy RPGs are just so, so good and I've had to make do with constant replays of Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre for years...

Tabletop RPGs are my only other real hobby these days besides writing, and I'm currently on a break from running anything. I plan on running either Dungeon Crawl Classics or the MCDM RPG (if it's out by then) when I'm ready for another campaign.

I've been a Larian fan since Divinity 2 (that's the Dragon Knight Saga, not Original SIn) and the fact that they got handed BG3 is still kinda surreal even now lol. I remember Kickstarting D:OS1 and thinking it was such a fun tactical RPG with just awful characters. That's what all of their games were like before D:OS2, really. Look how far they've come! And they managed to make a system that I think is largely bad for tactical play pretty fun.

OH! I also love ARPGs. I'm thankful I don't have a real hour count of my Diablo 2 playtime since ca. 2001, because it would not reflect well on me. My Path of Exile playtime is already dangerously concerning.

[300iqprower]

Saw that you’re removing the Deinos from your rewrite of Lostbelt 7. I feel like you’re missing out on keeping them. Part of why they are written the way that they are is that they’re meant to be juxtaposed against the fae of Britain, as well as offering an answer to Wodime’s plan about an evolved humanity. I guess that the relationship to the other Lostbelts isn’t required because it’s a fan work meant to stand alone, but I can’t help that you’re losing something by not having them in the story at all.

I'm gonna give an actual answer instead of slagging off on Nasu again because this is like the only good faith ask I've gotten about this. There's two components, the problematic aspect and the "frankly i agree with your idea of paralleling the other lostbelt populations through the idea of evolution, but I dont think they even did that idea well with lb7."

Even removing the "black people = apes with guns" thing, it's still an issue when this is the only lostbelt to have a distinctly non-human population. Even the fae and yaga are still humanoids, but for South America they literally said "animals with guns" its just a matter of whether its as on the nose as making them primates.

Then there's the obvious issue of tone. Even discounting the problematic stuff, this is obviously presented as a joke. It's literally a punchline in itself of being a childish fantasy of "dinosaurs with guns". Not even dino people, just straight up literal dinosaurs with guns. It's at BEST lazy in how its not anything unique, compared to something like the Yaga which are distinctly their own thing as opposed to just "werewolves with guns".

So even if we swallow our morals about the racism, I think we can do better than this. It's shameful that the racist "monkeys with guns to represent POCs" designs are actually much better and more interesting than the dinos. Hence why I'm specifically reusing a couple of those designs (without the guns and racist context of course) but throwing out the dinos entirely.

Which brings us to my rewrite and how it actually does the idea you mentioned of focusing on an "evolution" of humanity.

Without going into too much detail before I ever do a proper write up of things, the equivant to the dinofolk in my rewrite is instead the Zonbi. As in the original meaning of the term from Hatian Vodou (and using the Creole spelling to match) of a being that has died but has yet to be granted release from life - a being whose proper time has come and gone but it has not been allowed to leave the mortal coil. The world of this Lostbelt 7 has been reset countless times in a way certainly inspired by Lostbelt 4 but with some crucial differences that result in humanity being reset along with everything else. Up above in the surface of Xibalba humanity is constantly evolving at extreme pace and being reset just as often for "deviating". These deviations are wiped away and whatever remnants are left get cast into Mictlan below, creating a colony of "imperfect" humanities.

In other words its a microcosm of the pruning phenomenon and an explicit showcase of how it correlates to Darwinian evolution.

[300iqprower]

No, actually you explicitly need to tell canon to fuck off.

as someone who had a zenobia fanservant, the trick is you grip your kali and ignore the stupid stuff fgo is doing as much as possible (also yours looks way cooler)

I was just wondering wtf I was supposed to do with her

Cause like I don’t want to ignore canon but I’m also very very attached to her

[wawoyal]

Krosmoz Fanserver - 1000 member milestone!!!

We finally reached over 1000 members in our international Krosmoz Fanserver on Discord! Which means that we doubled in size since last years January and honestly I find that amazing x) I see people on the net saying that we don't exist, that the fandom is dead....nonsense! We got so much stuff coming: S5, Welsh & Shedar, the Great Wave webtoon and so much more! If you're interested, come & take a look anytime, we'd be happy to have you! (for ages 16+) https://discord.gg/aRgTev4pcP

[devolympian]

(Fanservant) 3* Rider: John Rackham.

[roo-bastmoon]

Fanservice Couple Sucks at Fanservicing

Hmmm.

Jimin's Album: Here's a super secret hidden song "for the fans" with lyrics that mimic things Jimin said before specifically about Jungkook, with Jungkook providing background vocals that were never discussed when marketing the album, and listeners have to wait through dead air to get to hear the song and shine a light on the invisible lyrics engraved in the album and it's not uploaded onto Spotify or for digital sale because.... fanservice.

Jimin's Documentary: Here's less than two minutes of footage of Jungkook singing Letter; the film cuts away from Jikook's hug and doesn't interview Jungkook about it at all, and practically his entire face is covered when he's singing it; also, the paper he's holding is shaking like a leaf, unlike earlier in the day when he was recording for the World Cup, which was the biggest solo performance of his career at that time, because.... fanservice.

Jimin's Live Reaction: Here's Jimin lighting up like a Christmas tree when Jungkook quietly sneaks in the room to watch his live recording before going home; now watch as they awkwardly interact for two minutes--including a tiddy grab and butt smacking, on top of "I love you" and "have fun with ARMY!" but notice Jimin sends Jungkook away, instead of letting him mic up and sit on the chair and react with him, because... fanservice.

Jimin's Commentary: Here's Team Jimin reacting to every remote detail of the making of the documentary, except when it comes to Letter, in which case no one breathes the name Jungkook and he is never heard nor appears on screen, because... fanservice. gosh that sure is odd.

The fanservice isn't fanservicing.

It's almost how like, in their real lives when they aren't working, Jungkook watched all of Jimin's content, or Jungkook mumbled about how Jimin moved his lamp or mentioned Jimin kept coming up to him to say "periri," or how Jimin traveled to NYC and CT for Jungkook's debut and they filmed something but all Jungkook would say about it is "Yeah, he's in.... New York," and then Jimin posted a shirtless picture on Jungkook's birthday but never spoke on it, or how both Jimin and Jungkook just happened to find time to watch the same random anime, or how they went to Jeju together but we wouldn't have known if Tae hadn't posted photos, or how it is heavily implied that they spent Chuseok together based on the whale drawing that Jimin posted and the way Jungkook was quick to tell us that Jimin drew half of it.

Golly gosh, for a Fanservice Couple, it's almost like a bunch of stuff isn't being shared with us on purpose. But why?

Doxxed info? Tampered mail? Death threats? Press scandals? Global debut? Conservative homophobia? Military service?

Who knows, but "lack of genuine closeness" doesn't seem to be the driving reason.

I'm not gonna sit here and scream conspiracy theories about a "private couple." Jimin lives like a hermit much of the time and Jungkook is running around with his same-age friends quite a bit these days.

So as I always say--I cannot tell you that Jikook are dating. I can only tell you we have solid evidence of unique, charged chemistry between them--and tons of hints that they spend more time together than they let us in on. That's it. If there's more, we aren't getting to see it.

And I don't blame anyone who takes the stance "I'll believe it when I see it." I think a fair amount of skepticism and a dedication to the just the facts is a healthy mindset.

But it really makes my teeth itch when Jikook are accused of doing fanservice for the cameras, cause...

Where the hell is all my fanservice?? *grabby hands* WHERE?

Why is it that even TWO SECONDS of them interacting is so charged and fraught that it gets the entire fandom frothing at the mouth?

Jikook DO spend time together but they aren't running onto WeVerse to share it with us all the time, ya know? It leeks out little by little. And that makes it even MORE suspicious than just two bros hanging out in broville doing bro things.

In summary: This Fanservice Couple *sucks* at fanservice in solo era for sure.

[300iqprower]

*hides Emiya Alter-ish take on Taiga Alter for Xbalanque*

Erm. Idunno, i'll have to get back to you on that!

If I made a sorta counterpart to Jaguar warrior, what would you guys think?

Like how she's a sorta... component or aspect of Tezcatlipoca, and I make someone like that but from Quetzalcoatl.

And still use an existing Fate character as the basis, would that be interesting?

[tacocatdoodles]

Was given the opportunity to make the profile picture for the recent SiIvaGunner ANTONYMPH anniversary event, and decided to run with it for fun. Inspired by the really great work of @astroeden, mainly based on the art for ANTONYMPH (Vylet Ponystep Remix).

Honestly, like, really proud of this one. I didn't know I had it in me, it's been so long since I've rendered anything lol

Uncompressed here

I don't have a lot of extra stuff to add to this, but I do want to share the original drawing of GIR Joke-Explainer that I made in February, which this was based off of:

Also it was so funny watching SiIvaGunner fanserver and seeing like 6 people change their profile picture to ANTONYMPH Joke-Explainer once it dropped. Silly kitty cat Joke-Explainer just has a fanbase I suppose