#gap year adventures

[dzozef-art]

im here to spread some naramis propaganda

[fictionadventurer]

I keep thinking about Lewis' review of The Hobbit, because he claimed that the main thing contemporary reviewers compared it to was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Was fantasy in that poor of a state that Alice was the closest thing they could think of? Comparing that chaotic fever dream to Tolkien's intricately crafted world? Lewis does specify that the comparison is that both books are by an "Oxford professor at play", but they're otherwise so different that putting the two in the same category baffles me.

[shannonsketches]

I don’t care if it’s boring I’m 10000% in love with the idea of Vegeta having a quiet happy domestic home life throughout the 7 year gap and as his end game.

He was raised in an intergalactic mafia and by an absolute miracle got out and was granted his life back. Twice. One of the two last men standing when an entire population gets wiped out. Twice (counting the Freeza Force, by the end of ResF).

His father stopped fighting on the front lines once he became king, to watch over his domain. Frieza didn’t personally get involved in battle (not wipeouts, but actual battle) until Namek. Vegeta was always (told he was) intended to take both their places.

Letting him grow into a protector has been such a great arc and imho it would be so beautifully wrapped by letting him finally get to go home and inherit his crown as the guardian of his new planet.

[textpostmemespksp]

Meme #559

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She wants him to flirt again. </3

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[the-lesbian-orpheus]

I hate searching for colleges. I’ve never felt more mabel pines coded in my life please make it stop

[giulolosblackmail]

Willow's Bio

Though Willow is over a century old, he has still lived most of his life in Finsel and formed many meaningful relationships with the humans that live there. It is, perhaps, because of his love of individual humans that he despises humans as a whole. Around eighty years ago Willow came to know a boxer and his daughter living in the slums. The boxer’s daughter fell ill and they couldn’t afford to pay for her treatment, so the boxer began to gamble his life for a chance at saving his daughter, going up against opponents that were far larger and stronger than he was. Inevitably, he was beaten nearly to death and could no longer work. Willow, having not nearly enough money to help them himself, began writing poetry about the boxer and his daughter in a desperate attempt to bring attention to his friend’s situation. The poems became wildly popular among nobles, but the real-life inspirations behind the poems were ignored and died in poverty. Willow decided that humans don’t care about tragedy in the literal, only the theoretical where it serves as entertainment, and - finding the pen to be useless - turned to his much more reliable fists and fell into the Gang Territory. Willow’s worldview changed, and he came to believe that, “although the power of art leads to eternity, but to grasp the present, we must have force. Without the present, there would be no eternity.”

Taking his anger, grief, and frustration out on all those who stood before him by throwing himself recklessly into every fight he could find, Willow created a legend in the Gang Territory and amassed wealth and power. His symbol became the emerald studded brass knuckles that came to be known as the Legendary Seal of the Gang Territory, the weapon of the undefeated Champion of the Underground Arena. Legend has it that when the Gang Territory fell into a turf war fifty years ago, the battle raged for three days in what would later be called the Battle of Gang Territory. And from the chaos rose the victor, the Champion, the man with the ability to command wind and lightning, the strongest warrior in the Gang Territory. Willow won the right to rule, but found that it brought him no joy to amass power or wealth, and so he gave away his wealth freely and shied away from the spotlight; eventually the legend faded into obscurity after the Champion vanished, and now only rumors remain that that once great man has ended up working for a noble. There are many in the slums who remember the Champion not as a warrior, but as a man who gave away everything he owned to friends and strangers alike, who defended the weak with his own fists, bleeding for anyone who could not fight for themselves. It had never been his intention to help, only to find relief for himself. “I just thought they needed those things more than I did. Fighting made me happy enough.” Perhaps that is why he was eventually lured away from the Gang Territory.

A hollow life spent ever in fear of the next conflict and wounded from the last is difficult to maintain, who knows what the Duke Bavlenka of the time promised Willow to buy his loyalty, but Willow has been working under the Bavlenka Family ever since. He became something of a fancy pet, only ever seen draped in finery and singing sweetly for nobles at luxurious balls filled to the brim with wealth and excess. He lived well, but it was a life that made him sick. To cope, he spent all his free time sneaking away to the Slums to drink and fight to excess, even disguising himself to return to the Colosseum in secret. “Singing makes me feel less alone. And fighting, I feel as if I'm truly alive. When your life is almost eternal, time loses its meaning.” It was not until he met Magda Ellenstein that he began to find the dull routine of his life new and exciting again. Striking up a friendship, Willow found himself chasing after Miss Ellenstein as she caused trouble and shook Finsel by its roots, even going into battle during the climax of the Sulla War to help her. The Finsel that emerged from the rubble of war was changed, though it was unclear if it was for the better.

Whatever promise Willow had made with Duke Bavlenka all those years ago must have been somewhat shaken with the late Duke’s death, for Willow began to hide himself away from the new head of house, well enough that it took some time before Duke Gaelan Bavlenka learned of his existence. Willow seemed to hold a particular disdain for Gaelan Bavlenka, though was not alone in his dislike for the man attempting to navigate Finsel’s political landscape with entirely unearned confidence. It was not just Willow’s rebellion chipping away at the Bavlenka family’s united front and social prestige, though his was one of the first to be ended. Eventually Lou Bavlenka dragged him back to his duties, though Willow did not go gently. The first song he sang under the new Bavlenka head was the infamous Cursed Aria, a legendary song among the elves that had largely been lost to time, as no one wished to gamble their life just to perform it. Dedicating his performance to Lady Magda Ellenstein, Willow told her, "Once life loses its meaning, we must find a new one. I never cared about the future. It's unpredictable,” before confessing his love for her in no uncertain terms. It was his conviction and passionate love for Lady Ellenstein that weathered him through the song’s curse, and until his love for her fades, he can sing it as often as she will listen.

Like many others, Willow found himself falling for the charming Miss Ellenstein soon after making her acquaintance, pledging to come whenever she called so that he could fight her battles for her, this being both something of a confession and an attempt to keep Miss Magda from getting into trouble in the Gang Territory. He could only fall for her more as he watched her monumentous rise to power, and would continue to be enthralled by her care for people and her stubborn drive to improve Finsel, bridging the gap between the nobility and the Slums. In an ultimate act of passionate love, Willow placed his life on the line to sing Lady Ellenstein the Cursed Aria, though when she could not find the words to respond, he instead asked her to listen as he kept singing for her and her alone. Regardless of the direction Lady Ellenstein’s heart will follow, Willow will continue to be inspired by her, striving to improve himself as a man and a singer, and go on to dedicate himself to improving the lives of elves in Finsel.

link to wiki page

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

ok so we can All agree there was some insanely missed potential with the suprema siblings yeah? ok. here's them as lil babies feat. my headcanon that sunny was thoroughly unhinged and got into ALL kinds of shenanigans

[qqchurch]

age-gap yuri prompt: an up and coming all-girl adventurer party is assigned a female veteran adventurer to assist/support/carry them for the next year or so as they tackle harder quests for their rank promotion process, only for them to slowly realize that the veteran was actually their beloved male mentor from almost 10 years ago who they all had a huge crush on... and yet they realize their feelings for her have grown stronger in spite, or perhaps because, of her changes

[categorysixkaiju]

An update to the famous HOG map

[fuckthisshitimin]

I love that if you want to experience Moby Dick in real story time you can take two years reading it steadily, and if you want to experience One Piece in real story time you gotta watch it on three screens at once at 1.5 speed then sit inside your grief for two years and then go back to the rhythm.

[msue0027]

Why couldn’t I get into something normal, or at least something with consistent canon? Now I am digging into depths of Whoniverse (and we all know the canon doesn’t exist (it is what you want it to be (a bit like Schrödinger’s canon: it both exists and does not, and a bit like a Young Experiment, different when observed, and in 3 places at the same time))); and I am studying Arthurian legends – where every source gives you different facts. And I’m trying to make sense out of it. And create for those universes. It’s fun. And the greatest torture.

[t4tails]

which of the btas tie in comic series are you reading btw? cause apparently there's multiple?

its changed over the week lol. i finished The Batman Adventures and The Batman & Robin Adventures, which are essentially the same thing just rebranded, and they lead into The Lost Years miniseries which bridges the gap between btas and tnba, and then Batman: Gotham Adventures is the tnba tie-ins im reading rn. its all basically the same honestly lol like the creative team stays to the same 3 or so writers just taking turns. after im done with these then im gonna read Batman Adventures (sequel to The Batman Adventures. really cool and not confusing at all naming scheme). shout out to this wikipedia page

[fictionadventurer]

Lily increasingly feels like a youngest child. I think she was a youngest child for most of her life, and then her parents had another baby only a few years before Lily fell into the other world. In her guardian's house, she's young in some ways because she has to learn the language and customs of this new world, and she's learning alongside (or behind) the other kids. Once she starts the matchmaking process, though, she's definitely in the role of eldest child, which is an unfamiliar place for her to be.

The explorer's the youngest of, like, eleven kids. So he's used to the pressure of having lots of older siblings to live up to, but he also got some more freedom/got to be more wild and crazy as the youngest. His oldest siblings started having children only a couple years after he was born, so he also has experience as the oldest child among the next generation. This combination of being both youngest and eldest would be a point of connection between him and Lily.

[sonknuxadow]

i always forget that sonic underground came out at the very beginning of the modern era and not the later years of the classic era. sonic and knuckles having black eyes combined with sonic being voiced by jaleel white just makes my brain go "ah yes. a show from the classic era"

[capinejghafa]

I was real excited about Troy... and it's not a terrible book by any means. I just kind of feel like there are parts that should have been edited down and so I'm dragging my feet to finish as a result.

[bronzewool]

I'm considering introducing Sirens into Aquarius, a race of musical avian merfolk who have more in common with flying fish than actual birds (gotta stay on brand).

Maybe they can be the third group fighting for control over the mother planet, The Coat of Arms (The Sea Serpent) vs The Four Heavenly Beasts (The Dragon Emperor) vs Sirens (The Three Daughters)