#floating continent

[meranie]

Do you remember where you were when the world was torn asunder?

Artober Day 24 : 魔大陸 / Floating Continent

For this picture, I used folders and (some) layer names, more excellent advice from @paintscroll

[superbeans89]

[highsummonermercar]

FFIII protagonists + the job classes I gave them to defeat the Cloud of Darkness

[manessha545]

Uros Floating Islands, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia: Islas Uros are artificial islands made out of Totora (kind of bamboo stick). People live there, almost the same way they used to live hundreds of years ago. The views are impressive. Created by the indigenous Uros people as protection against attacks from the Incas, the Uros Islands are one of the world's most innovative feats of human engineering. Wikipedia

[saintofrevelation]

just finished playing forspoken and I really enoyed it! The mechanics are a little janky and take some getting used to and the pacing wasn't brilliant - espcially given how uncessarily large the map is (im looking at you praenost) but I had a lot of fun with it and the lore was compelling enough that I'm sad it won't be further explored in the sequel they were clearly setting up :( also, as a lesbian, loved how women-centric it was and also tanta olas and tanta sila who are my wives actually <3

[figs-oliomedley]

You know I always wondered what would happen if Creation broke the balance for once. We know what happens when there’s too much Destruction, but how does one have “too much” Creation? Anyways, I think the Merge might be exactly what I was looking for.

Side note, but how many more people do y’think died in the merge?? Ninjago barely got clipped off the top, but what about the other realms? Surely they all weren’t just singular continents floating on a ball of water. Are there just *chunks* of the other realms missing? Are they just on different sides of the globe? Or did they also get... overwritten?

[ren-the-pen]

This one's just kind of a love letter to my past self since I was reminiscing today. One of my very first characters ever--lore in tags.

[beedreamscape]

BRENNAN: Jumping in there too, just to address the point, yeah, me and Marisha and Aabria and Lou met for the very political trifecta of the real dirt going on. I don't know that it ever actually got said. It got hinted at a lot. But something that people should know was true was that the Drashari tithe is 25% of the city's ether. The other 75% is supposed to get put into the ground for the Replenishment. That hadn't been happening for many Replenishments in a row. The past two or three Replenishments. I think we discussed that only less than 5% of the city's ether was actually going to go into the ground for Domunas this Replenishment. And the rest was getting caught up by the Leywright, but also being funnelled out to archmages in the city to unnaturally extend their lives. That's what Nydas was doing that back-alley ether thing. All to push the Leywright along, and bribe people and all this corrupt stuff.

?????? Hinted at? My dude, this is brand new info to me.

[ultramantr1gger]

i kinda have to think about the land of light cuz im writing a fic where z takes trigger there to show him around so i gotta be able to describe it. this will involve alot of headcanons though

[todayisafridaynight]

GOD FORBID I WANNA SOCIALIZE

UHMMMMMMMMMM IS AUSTRALIA NOT A FUCKINNNNNN ISLAND 🤨 THE SIZE OF THE UNITED STATES--

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

i always forget how annoying people on this site can be until a post blows up and i get to see it directly in my notifications 🙃

[intertexts]

turning on my 3ds is always so dangerous. ohhhh i wanna play pokemon x n listen to something ^_^ except. hit 1994 jrpg final fantasy vi is on there.

[fantasygamer93youtube]

Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster Playthrough Floating Continent Part 28

[sunnybearvampire]

every time i have to explain to people that they should care about world issues that don't affect them because of basic empathy and compassion, i die a little bit inside

[enigmaris]

DPxDC idea that has been floating around my head for a few months now:

Gotham, given its whole... thing with Lazurus Pools and general bad vibes, has a ghostly representative. Lady Gotham, when she bothers to be coporeal, looks like an influential lady from the 1920s, straight art deco elegance. A real classy girl.

Jazz is touring college campuses around the US. She has full ride offers from Gotham University, Metroplis College, and Star City State, to name a few. Danny, upon hearing that his sister is going to GOTHAM of all cities, decides he is going on this trip with her. He might be only 15, but his big sister isn't getting mugged while he has half an afterlife left to live!

Lady Gotham is all a flutter! Why the last ghost king was so frumpy! King Phantom is so handsome and powerful, and he is coming to her city. She absolutely has to show off her best side! She feels like a teenaged girl getting her home ready before a new beau comes to visit. She's flustered, she's nervous.

Meanwhile, John Constatine wakes up with cosmic alarm bells going off because something really, really bad is happening. He investigates to dicsover that for the past three days Gotham has not had a single crime.

No murders, muggings, hell not even a single jay walker!

Gotham the most cursed place on the North Or South American continent is suddenly more squeaky clean than whatever small farm town Superman grew up in.

No crimes, no smog in the air. Crime Lords seemingly gone in a puff of smoke, Assassins asleep in their beds.

Its so freaky. Even Batman is spooked and he is never spooked by anything.

Constantine is certain some demon or other nefarious being is harnessing Gothams cursed energy for some evil plot. Gathering the power to use it like a nuclear blast. Batman is concerned about mass mind control.

Lady Gotham is doing the metaphysical equivalent of hiding all of your stuff in a closet before a guest comes over because you dont have time to actually clean. She had to shoulder the thing closed! She just knows that when the lock fails there will be a huge mess.

Jazz and her family are just surprised about how nice Gotham U's campus is. She'd heard it was so dark and dangerous, but everyone is smiling and pleasant to her! Danny is just happy Jazz is safe from various villains.

So we have Batman investigating his rogues gallery for mind control plots, Constatine hunting for demons, Jazz and her family taking a walking tour of Gotham U, and Lady Gotham using every bit of her ghostly powers to make sure her damned, cursed city doesnt embarrass her in front of her crush!

[stealingyourbones]

Danny, being a halfa, falls under the strange category of people who can converse with the dead and act in their names. Most mediums simply convey messages. It was rare for someone to be able to fulfill a ghost’s dying request and have that act tied to the ghost’s core.

Honestly it’s annoying.

He doesn’t get any alone time anymore for homework or hobbies. The dead are constantly pestering Danny to help with their desires - which, sure, it helps them move on which means they’re out of Danny’s hair, but come on!! Give a guy a break! Just because he doesn’t need as much sleep as a fully living person doesn’t mean he can go without entirely!

“No Scott,” Danny repeated for the fifth time, “I am not flying to California tonight. Do you know how far that is? Literally the other coast of this massive continent. Meet me there in August like everyone else on the list.”

Spending the first spring break of college creating a map and calendar for Last Rites was not something Danny expected when he moved to Gotham.

Why did this city have so many ghosts?! It was ridiculous. And he thought Amity Park was bad? At least the ghosts here were mostly Shades. Not visible to anyone unless they were also dead-adjacent or had The Sight or a bloodline curse or a magical amulet… you know what? There were enough of those in this curse ridden city, why couldn’t these ghosts go find one of those people instead? Danny was exhausted.

So exhausted he didn’t notice the vigilante dropping down from the rooftop.

“Hey there kid, you alri-”

“Yeah yeah,” Danny waved a hand dismissively at the voice without looking up. “Wait in line like everyone else. But honestly you’d be better off coming back tomorrow when I’ve had some sleep.”

“Think maybe you outta get started on that sleep now, bud?” the voice behind him spoke in a calm careful tone.

One Danny had heard all too often since dying.

His head jerked sideways to stare wide-eyed at Nightwing, who tensed just a little as if expecting Danny to run or fight. Instead he let out a groan and slumped onto the park bench, rubbing his eyes to ease the burn of fatigue. He’d been coming out to this park at the corner of campus each night to keep the Shades from mobbing him all day long in classes, but they’d spread the word around Gotham that he was here and his precious spring break had become a non-stop line of requests and arguments. Made sense he’d caught the attention of one of the Bats. Should have expected it sooner.

Danny ignored all the voices around him and looked at Nightwing directly as he prattled off his usual list when someone caught him talking to thin air.

“No, I’m not hallucinating. I got all my Rogue Gallery immunizations the day I checked onto campus. I’m not schizophrenic. The only meds I take are for adhd and the occasional Tylenol. I’m not a danger to myself or others. Unless they attack me first.”

Nightwing nodded along, but tilted his head at the end.

“I’m talking to the dead,” Danny answered the unspoken question in a tired monotone, waiting for the usual skepticism or plea for help with lost loved ones.

“Oh. Okay then.”

“What?” That wasn’t expected.

“No yeah, that makes sense.”

Danny was sure his jaw was on the ground. “You… you believe me?”

“Well sure,” the hero shrugged and chuckled. “I can’t see ghosts myself but I know a couple magicians who work with one, and my little brother Robin has a ghost on his team - she’s actually visible most of the time so I don’t know if that’s a special skill or something else going on. But I’m glad you’re okay and don’t need any emergency medication. I know a couple 24 hour pharmacies that would help but it’s nice when they’re not needed. We don’t get a lot of mediums around Gotham holding court at night so you really can’t fault me for checking in.”

Danny was still floating in the relief of not being questioned or doubted. That hadn’t happened since Jazz found out his secret. She’d had plenty of questions about his halfa status, of course, but never called him crazy for talking to things others couldn’t see. Even Sam and Tucker would forget sometimes and give him strange looks before realizing he was dealing with a Shade, Wisp, or Memory.

He didn’t realize he was wobbling until Nightwing’s arms shot out to stabilize him.

Danny blinked up at the pretty face that was trying not to chuckle, held by strong arms, and so far past tired he might be getting delirious after all because his brain seemed to have lost its filter and he said out loud,

“You actually believe me. I think I love you.”

Then the horrifying embarrassment hit at the same time as Nightwing’s laughter. Which… sounded delighted rather than mean spirited?

“Well now it’s your turn to wait in line, cuz that’s the fourth confession I’ve had this week!” They both devolved into snorts and giggles, Danny still relying on those arms for balance, but when they’d caught their breath the vigilante said, “Come on, you’ve really got to get some sleep. I’ll walk you back to your dorm.”

Ignoring the whispers and grumbles of the Shades was easier with someone walking beside him.

This is so incredibly cute oml. It’s so rare to see the bats actually go with the flow and god it isn’t done enough. 12/10 immaculate, glorious.

The entire plot I can see so clearly in my mind dude:

Danny chatting to Nightwing as they walk to his dorm

Nightwing asking some casual questions about ghosts and Danny asking about vigilante work.

Nightwing informs the Bats of Danny as he might be a valuable asset in the future.

Nightwing helps free shades with Danny and he realizes why Danny is so incredibly tired all the time.

Nightwing managing to stumble into Danny every day of his break, slowly getting to know each other more and more and becoming really good friends (perhaps lovers 👀).

Wonderful stuff man ty for the ask!