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[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Galapa Ancestry - Tell No Lies by Arturo Gutierrez

[nilbogdraw]

I have been struggling with art block since the start of the year, but I'm glad I managed to draw our newest member for the Daggerheart campaign that I'm DMing. Say hello to Harold, our new moss-covered friend, and dependable shield.

vvv My vvv

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[thequeenofmyownscreen]

obsessed with this description of Taliesin's character, Sir Danté Terrapin :

"He is a Wildborne galapa turtle, from the subclass of Call of The Brave. He/him. Danté is very fetching and attractive for a turtle... if you can imagine a very young Nicholas Cage - if he were a turtle - just at the start of his career, when he still had, like, 3 hot movies in him."

[wardensantoineandevka]

In Exandria, there are 3 therapists.

1) An Aeormaton who can, and will project their issues onto you

2) a kindly elderly Galapa, who will affirm you, and reassure you, and meet you where you’re at to best understand your grief

3) An ancient tree, older than reliably recorded history, who will tell you the best ways to kill yourself

(Humorously oversimplified)

This is Master Duasad Keef, psychic and empath who is a member of an anarchist coalition, erasure! lmaooo

[bingokill]

I wish I knew everything. Like Galapas the wizard

[miirshroom]

Test for Echo, Freud, and Elden Ring (Shadow of the Erdtree)

Thinking about how not all examples of fantasy stories come from books or film, sometimes they are found in song. Thinking about the lyricism of Canadian Progressive Rock band Rush.

If it wasn't obvious - the Shadowlands is a Freudian nightmare. The surrealism of Salvadore Dali was heavily influenced by Freudian psychoanalysis and the cocoon of the empyrean is staged to resemble Dali's work Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man.

Recently released Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon directly has an AC pilot named "Freud" whose emblem is a hand emerging from shadow holding a key (AC unit called "Locksmith").

And as it turns out, Neil Peart - lyricist for Rush - also was drawing inspirations from Freud while writing songs for Test for Echo (1996).

"I've always been curious about all religions, and the Totem idea came from the Freud book 'Totem And Taboo', which I ran across at the Chalet studio where we were working just in the bookshelf in the living room. I had been kind of rediscovering Freud by way of Jung and getting to understand the really deep stuff he was dealing with as opposed to some of the pop psychology that we were fed growing up, and I thought Totem And Taboo was such a beautiful title because it's what we fear and what we worship. Totem being what we worship and Taboo being what we fear. What a beautiful, embracing metaphor. At one time, the song Resist was called 'Taboo' because I wanted to have the two little set pieces of what we fear, and in 'Totem' I was just trying to appropriate all religions because that's what I found looking around at different religions and different systems, is that they all have something good. So I thought why not have them all? The 'Buddha smile' is a nice thing, and I'd like to have 12 Apostles...it's all great. It was really just a kind of tongue and cheek, all the good things of different religions." Neil Peart, Jam! Showbiz, October 16, 1996

The lyrics to the songs can be found here: https://www.rush.com/albums/test-for-echo/

It's a fantasy that people of all religions and esoteric beliefs would get together to craft their perfect god to fear and worship. Fortunately, Elden Ring is a fantasy. From the song "Totem", how many of the faith systems here can you spot represented somewhere in the game?:

I’ve got twelve disciples and a Buddha smile The Garden of Allah – Viking Valhalla A miracle once in a while I’ve got a pantheon of animals in a pagan soul Vishnu and Gaia – Aztec and Maya Dance around my totem pole I believe in what I see I believe in what I hear I believe that what I’m feeling Changes how the world appears Angels and demons dancing in my head Lunatics and monsters underneath my bed Media messiahs preying on my fears Pop culture prophets playing in my ears I’ve got celestial mechanics To synchronize my stars Seasonal migrations – daily variations World of the unlikely and bizarre I’ve got idols and icons, unspoken holy vows Thoughts to keep well-hidden – sacred and forbidden Free to browse among the holy cows That’s why I believe Angels and demons inside of me Saviors and Satans all around me Sweet chariot, swing low, coming for me

And then there's Resist, which has some Miquellian themes:

I can learn to resist Anything but temptation I can learn to co-exist With anything but pain I can learn to compromise Anything but my desires I can learn to get along With all the things I can’t explain I can learn to resist Anything but frustration I can learn to persist With anything but aiming low I can learn to close my eyes To anything but injustice I can learn to get along With all the things I don’t know

But neither of these songs were the tip off for why I thought to look more closely at this album. It was the Crucible Knights and Bloodhound Knights. They've always had the odd quirk of being named for geological periods. That's a lyric from the song Dog Years:

I’d rather be a tortoise from Galapagos Or a span of geological time Than be living in these dog years

Ironic that the tortoises in Elden Ring have no text option allowing them to be labelled appropriately, so the community has decreed them "dog".

There are other songs from this album that I can see represented in Elden Ring. The title song Test for Echo is about how people yearn for connection, but what the mass media landscape delivers is sensationalism and acts of violence around the world. In 30 years this hasn't really improved. A picture of an inunnguaq was selected for the album cover from fascination for the way that the simple stone structure provides evidence of the existence of other humans having travelled before through a desolate landscape. And as I have mentioned before, Radagon's story has hints of Narcissus and Echo.

This is bookended by the final song on the album Carve Away the Stone. The song suggests that like the Greek Sisyphus, all people are eternally rolling their own stones up a hill in the form of emotional baggage or other trauma. But people aren't static like a character from a story - they don't need to carry that weight forever. If you have the opportunity to shape your own destiny, why not take it? This would be related to the way that both Marika and Radagon appear to be carved of stone.

There's also the largely instrumental song that is second to last on the album and titled Limbo. It's implied to be vampire themed by one of the few vocal cut-ins being in a goofy vampire voice ("Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?"). So like, Messmer the Impaler in the limbo-coded Shadowlands. His allusions to vampirism firstly being an epithet invoking Vlad the Impaler and also he has only false/closed eyes so he can't self reflect (one of the superstitions of vampires being that their reflection won't show up in a mirror because the mirrors in those days were polished silver). The archetype of the vampire in the Shadow is Jungian stuff and like I said - Neil Peart was thinking about depth psychology while writing this album.

For the rest of the songs the potential connections are more vague ("Time and motion / Flesh and blood and fire / Lives connect in webs of gold and razor wire" - Time and Motion) ("Gravity and distance / Change the passage of light / Gravity and distance / Change the color of right" - The Color of Right).

This isn't the only Rush album that I find possibly to have had some influence on the Radagon/Miquella/Mohg portion of Elden Ring. There's also the album 2112 (1976) back in Rush's earlier fantasy/sci-fi era, which introduces the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx - a kind of thought police represented by a red star - and mentions twin moons being in the sky. It was Rush's breakthrough album in America, followed the next year by A Farewell to Kings (1977), for which the notable songs include A Farewell to Kings, Xanadu, and Closer to the Heart. Also the album cover shows a puppet king slumped on a throne in front of a crumbling building. But again like with Test for Echo, one could imagine how all songs on the album might be combined to create an overall sense of time period.

I'm not making a case for FromSoft promoting Freudian pseudopsychology, for the record. All this psychoanalysis stuff is in the Shadowlands and nobody in the Lands Between cares about what's in the Shadowlands. It's in the past, dead and buried. You can no more decide the course of the future by replicating the past than you can create a sustainable global economy by learning economics through playing Elden Ring.

[noelleaxolotl]

horror movie idea: The Galapa-Ghost

[daviddingobleecher]

“Jirana” A Galapa character from Critical Role. #DigitalArt #Illustration #Jirana #CriticalRole #Fanart

[avilionea]

HEADCANON; Re: ARTHURIAN LORE ( In which Darks rewrites a comprehensive timeline) Pt 1/?

Age of Pelles--- the Other World and Avalon are still connected to Albion.. The formation of Corbenic and its curse occur in this time. Avalon is severed from Albion. The Otherworld became only accessible through The Giants Dance.

Elaine is imprisoned in the cliffside cell over a hot spring, stuck in a time loop and boiling/drowning daily. this stagnates her magic solely to visions and now is is harvested for them.

Beginning of Christianity -- Elaine stops living linearly due to living in time paradox( looped to a restricted time, but able to see/exist in the past, present, and future because of visions)

Adhan becomes a nun. She is preyed upon by sleep paralysis demons and mistakes a succubus for an angel, praying to rescue her. She is seduced. Myrddin is born nine months later.

Myrddin's strangeness frightens the other nuns who begin to abuse Adhan and Myrddin in attempts to cleanse them. Myrddin begins to spend his days away from the Abbey up in the hills to make things easier on her.

The Crystal Cave --- while exploring the hills, he experienced a sudden pull and could hear whistling. He happened upon a cave, hidden in a crack on the hillside. Frightened, he ran back to the abbey, but continued to hear the whistle clearly. He sought comfort in his mother, who only said she once had heard a voice in the darkness and that it only could be an angel, for an angel had given her him.

With this comfort in mind, he began to follow the whistling and ventured back to the cave the next day. He then made his descent down through the dark. Dark rocks gave way to bright shining crystals, but the entrance of the cave became lost to Myrddin as he journeyed further down through the cracks into the cave. With no choice but to continue through the cave, Myrddin found the whistling deep within.

It is the Giant Galapas who resided there and had been whistling. Myrddin is seen and easily caught. Galapus reveals that only things that do not belong in the world of man ( magical things) could hear him. He has been trapped in this cave since " the severing of the world". In exchange for help in finding his way out of the cave, Galapas teaches Myrddin magic and how to "see".

There is no time in the cave. It is stagnant, subject to rifts made by old beings beyond comprehension. It was in this stagnation that Merlin was taught and learned. Galapus taught him and emphasized on his critical thinking by changing Merlin into animals. When it came to "seeing" Galapus instructed Myrddin only to see, not to walk or steer the threads of fate. Time and Fate were once lovers, with sequences and moments as their children. Manipulate the children will bring the wrath of the parents. Linearity and existence within that linearity was a privilege. Privileges could be revoked. He was also instructed to never speak with anyone else who could "see", for Time and Fate only let one path be walked at a time.

With this in mind Galapus instructed Myrddin to "see" the future of their time in the cave. Myrddin did and saw failure. Galapus said the best course was inaction, until another path presented itself, but Myrddin, knowing that the future was not set, only wished to see success and in doing so, saw too far.

in the infinite paths, both future and past, Myrddin saw. He began to walk the roads of Time, breaking the rules Galapus gave. In his seeing, he saw a future with himself old and happy with another old woman beside him. The feeling of that future was peace. The perfect ending. Eden on earth. He forgot that the future was never set, and he forgot that he should only see. Myrddin began to run.

In running towards this future, he jumped paths and spoke with all who could hear him. He fell through the Giants Dance , seeing this ideal future and into the cell with Elaine. Time had found him, and Fate intervened on their behalf.

Fate was the spider on Time's web and seers were only flies. but not all flies are caught for the cell existed in Corbenic, where Time was trapped, and Fate could only watch. With hands on Elaine, he could see further down the roads he desired. Myrddin had found a loophole. A way to see beyond limitation and rules. Just as he found his answer he felt a great pull. Galapus has broken the rules and pulled him back to the now.

Myrddin awoke in the Giants hand, and revealed he could see their escape, but the Giant had only looked at him sadly, and lamented the faults of humanity and all the mortality that rested inside him. Galapus revealed that inaction was the answer, for time outside the cave still moved on and man had built atop it. Where man went, so too did magic leave, wither, and die. Sunlight had made its way down, turning the giant to stone.

[albertonykus]

Doraemon Vol. 17 from The Complete Works of Fujiko F. Fujio

The stories here were published in 1986–1994 and include the last short-form Doraemon manga stories ever released. (We're not done with the Complete Works series yet though.) Some of the most iconic ones from this volume (as determined by my personal experience and biases):

"恐怖のディナーショー" ("Terrifying Dinner Show", 1989): Gian tasks Nobita with distributing tickets to his dinner and a show, but the prospect of Gian's singing combined with his cooking is so horrifying that everyone makes up excuses to avoid coming.

"ドラえもんが重病に?" ("Is Doraemon Seriously Ill?", 1989): Doraemon refuses to return to the 22nd Century for a health checkup, not wanting to leave Nobita alone, but then starts malfunctioning badly.

"宇宙戦艦のび太を襲う" ("Space Battleship Attack on Nobita", 1990): Doraemon gives Precognitive Dream Candy to Nobita, who ends up dreaming of an alien invasion. Nobita and Doraemon attempt to warn everyone, but aren't taken seriously.

"ネコののび太いりませんか" ("Would Anyone Want a Nobita Cat?", 1990): To try and convince his mom to keep an abandoned cat, Nobita turns himself into the cat using the Animal Reincarnation Egg, hoping to show her how helpful a pet cat can be.

"ハワイがやってくる" ("Hawaii is Coming", 1990): Nobita is envious that everyone but him has gone on interesting family trips over summer vacation, so Doraemon takes him on a trip to Hawaii by using the Time-compression Gun to speed up plate tectonics, moving the Hawaiian Islands close enough to be reachable from Japan by rowboat.

"ガラパ星からきた男" ("The Man from Planet Galapa", 1994): Nobita doesn't have enough money to buy the latest popular video game, so he time travels one month into the future to get some from his future allowance. However, he discovers that the town has somehow been taken over by ant people. This is the only "intermediate-length" Doraemon manga story, being shorter than the Doraemon Long Stories that the movies were based on, but still having originally been published over the course of several months.

[captainsspnanon]

C3E71 reaction

Starting out of order, but god I love when Sam has soft roleplaying moments. Those are the moments where I find I connect the most with his PCs. FCG realizing that they may have grief and also need assistance? Once of my favorite FCG moments of the entire campaign.

I'm really enjoying the Shattered Teeth so far, but I also hope that we get areas that aren't in the fog curtain. What has been described is so fucking cool, I'd love if the party could get a better 'look' at it! The islands MOVE RANDOMLY? FORTY-THREE ISLANDS?? I'm like Travis, ravenous for that map and the exploration! Give it to meeeeeee *grabby hands*

I was fooled by the mini for combat. I'm like, 'oh, that's not actually that bad' but those bites were KILLER. Two bites were enough to nearly take out two PCs! ....there's a part of me that would love to have another combat with two or three of those against the party at full, but that's my part that does miss the sheer damage that occurred in the C1 combats. XD

Oh, the shit show. Never change, CR, never change. I appreciate how Travis mentioned that they were really worried a number of years ago about saying things that would be taken out of context, and now they don't *ahem* give a shit anymore.

Sky Whale is definitely cool as fuck, though would likely just become a straight combat/flee encounter considering how Jirana warned that it's just following it's nature to eat things in the sky.

OH YEAH TORIZ AND JIRANA. Firstly, yay tortles! I mean galapas! My first ever PC was a tortle ranger, so I have a soft spot for them. And Matt hit it on the head when he said that she was his favorite Miyazaki NPC, because YES. The home inside the toad??? Just the moment during the combat when he tells Fearne and Laudna that they see LANTERNS inside the mouth!!

I very much appreciate Jirana asking why the party wanted to go see the tree, because I straight up forgot why. Is it just for Ashton? I can't even remember, I'll have to see if anyone has posted about it or trawl the wiki.

GHOST PIRATES. GHOST PIRATES. GHOST PIRATES.

[jkcorellia]

a surprisingly effective unkillable damage-dealer in Daggerheart: turtle ranger

more specifically, ridgeborne galapa wayfinder ranger, with a breastplate and round shield, gets lots of ways through the above and the Bone domain to increase evasion and armor, to punish enemies for hitting them, to add their proficiency in extra ways, as well as ways to renew HP and Stress through the Sage domain

[katiefratie]

Galapa woman lives in the toad.....this fucking rules I love her so much already and she's barely spoken

[nevinslibrary]

Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

We start this series of Arthurian retellings with Myridden Emrys, aka, Merlin. His childhood, and his meeting of Galapas, who would teach him how to use his special ability to ‘see’, as well as the others who taught him math, engineering, magic, and more.

He does eventually end up in the court of Ambrosius, who is Uther Pendragon’s brother, and is trying to bring the people of Britain together.

It was the same, but different. I have read a bunch of Arthurian legend, and Merlin stories, and so, a lot of this book felt a little familiar. But, Stewart doesn’t hew to the stories exactly, and, so I found myself sucked into her version, and her stories very quickly. And I look forward to reading the rest in the series too.

You may like this book If you Liked: The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty, Battle of Kings by M.K. Hume, or The Fall of Atlantis Thumbs Up Thumbs Down Bradley, Marion Zimmer

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart

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[amonerdj]

Fiscalía General de la Nación

Las ganancias por el material ilegalmente extraído representarían al año 2.400 millones de pesos. La Fiscalía General de la Nación logró la judicialización de cinco presuntos integrantes de una organización criminal dedicada a la explotación ilegal de grava y arena en el municipio de Galapa (Atlántico). Según la investigación, las autoridades evidenciaron que la mina, ubicada en la finca El…