#gnome contributes

[yellowgnomeboots]

There's a few people that I WOULD follow but since they're in the same friend group as other people I follow then they're reblogging all the same posts I'm already seeing and I just don't want to see every post that many times. So its kind of... one mutual/person followed per friend circle unless they post a very high percentage of original posts. Its not because I don't like them!

Also sometimes I think "I should follow that person" and then completely fail to complete that tiny little action of actually clicking the button.

the whole mutual thing is really overhyped on this site. sometimes interests don’t match up and that’s the only reason why there isn’t a mutual following. if you’re a regular in my inbox or my notifications, i have visited your blog before. if i didn’t want you around for any reason, you would be blocked. so yeah. you can spam my notes and/or talk with me (and possibly become my friend) even if i’m not following you back. no worries.

[oldbutchdanielcraig]

my school did an unrehearsed staged reading of gnomeo and juliet. i still haven’t seen the movie. as a g+j expert, do you think i should watch it?

okay first of all. scream. oh to have been a fly on the wall/audience member at your school's unrehearsed staged reading of gnomeo and juliet.

second of all. if i had a time machine i would go back to tell my 6th grade ish self and say "someday a stranger will refer to you as a gnomeo and juliet expert. and everything will have been worth it."

finally i hate to say it but it has been so long since i've seen it (though i feel a rewatch is imminent) so i can't give a fresh take on the quality. nor can i speak to its merit among shakespeare adaptations though i know it very much doesn't take itself seriously. which i like. actually the hyperfixation on g+j accompanied a very sprawling and more longlasting love of elton john which i think is the real merit. the original song is really good and the crocodile rock re-record with nelly furtado is also very catchy and fun. his music is also included in really clever and fun ways. so in that sense i think it makes a great movie musical of sorts, more comparable with a project like rocketman than a shakespeare adaptation. so unless this staged reading also incorporated some of that sweet and beautiful music i would ultimately say yes it is worth a watch. plus the character designs are very fun

[plumbogs]

goth family in fanon and (inconsistently) lore: gloomy, gothic, sometimes nice but generally serious and reserved. respectable. old money. proper folks. high class. whatever

goth family in gameplay: Local Rich Bastards Will Steal Things From Your House In Front Of You

[the-french-belphegor]

Here's my contribution for the Critical Frames project! It's a non-profit fan project where artists redraw frames to recreate the "It's Thursday Night" opening with characters in the place of their players. I requested a Pike and Scanlan frame and I got Frame #237, which does have both gnomes, if not quite in the way I thought it might :D Loved working on it, though. The original frame has a lot of chaotic energy and it was very fun to try to recreate it. (also I got to give my girl Vex ALL the gold and gems! She deserves 'em 💎)

Deadline is April 12th and there's lots of frames remaining! More information on the Critical Frames Bluesky page. If you want to join here's the form :o)

[dark-lord-of-awesomeness]

Stan that was cursed to be a Border Collie and now Ford's life is a living nightmare. Nikola is an unlimited ball of energy, no matter how many hours he left him to go play outside, he will return inside just as energetic as before and Ford will be forced to play with him some more and Nikola is merciless, he will tackle him to the ground and drag him around by his coat, he will STAND UP and SLAP him across the face (I am not fucking joking my dog does ts to me).

Before getting attached, Ford tried to give Nikola away a couple times, but he always escaped and returned to the shack (or was returned by the shelter/new owner cuz he's a demon) so he had to accept they were stuck together. He learned pretty quick that his dog is a herding breed and that worked WONDERS on his favor as Nikola not only can tame gnomes to stay away from his house, he can also keep some prone-to-violence anomalies in line.

Ford actually called Fiddleford to GF waaay earlier because he couldn't take it anymore, he needed an engineer to build him some hardcore version of Dog Ball Launcher because the normal ones he bought from the petshop weren't doing the job. Fiddleford is now his primary victim tho bc Fidds still made the mistake of trying to educate Ford on proper dog raising and Stan refused to not have his daily bacon portions.

Man this sounds absolutely hilarious. I wish i knew anything about the breed or dogs to contribute more, but i'm already loving the idea of Stan trying to herd Ford to bed or the kitchen, then making his life a nightmare by herding gnomes around the front yard and maybe inside the house if Ford doesnt pay enough attention to him.

All his intelligence is written off as normal for the breed, and he just explodes even more pens with his giant dog teeth.

On the flip side, once Stan becomes human again, he absolutely still has a lot of that energy and need to do things. Grabs Ford by the back of the coat and drags him into the woods to take hour long hikes and run around and is still ready for more. uses a whistle to herd gnomes around still. Still chases the mega ball launcher because its the only thing that can keep up with him now.

[taylor-titmouse]

I recall your species explanation about goblins and imps with sex being goblins believe sex to be a more community based and social/bonding exercise and imps are motivated by using it for power dynamics and to showcase dominance and while Madog and Myrddin don't seem entirely or specifically motivated by that with soke of their components being goblin and imp I was curious to ask if Madog being so feisty and domineering despite knowing he'll get in trouble and Myrddin "waiting for the right time" plays to those behavioral quirks and they're meant to conflict one another despite having similar components

so the only components they have in common are gnome bones. madog is made of gnome bones, imp wing membrane, manticore blood and hair, and goblin seminal fluid. myrddin is made from gnome bones, mermaid hair, sea serpent blood/scales, and troll seminal fluid.

the way i've mentally conceptualized how components work is particular types of materials contribute certain aspects. the gnome bones and scales/hair/membranes determine their basic size/structure, while the fluids (sperm, blood) contribute to personality and intelligence--the Spirit, so to speak. madog, being made from goblin and manticore juice, is sexually aggressive and territorial. the aggression actually comes from the manticore blood, not the goblin jism. if he didn't have the manticore blood and was just made from goblin juice, he'd actually be much friendlier! myrddin, having sea serpent and troll juice, is much more intelligent. sea serpents are wise and patient, and trolls are on the level of humans. so he's smarter than madog, and not driven by baser instincts.

so that's why they don't behave like imps. the imp part of madog doesn't affect his personality, just how he's shaped. and myrddin doesn't have imp parts (i think i said he did in the first post about him but ive changed it since then)

i don't think cadogan made them with those personality traits Specifically to put them in conflict. it's more likely he gave myrddin the more intelligent Juices because he wanted a more obedient servant. and he did get one! for the most part.

[luunamoona]

i think the dnd episode really highlighted how skilled the writers of the show were. i mean, they made an episode that was both unserious and serious at the same time. like here's a guy who the study group is trying to stop from committing suicide due to extreme bullying, with the main villain of the episode was constantly making comments to contribute to his depression but also here's annie explaining how she'd fuck an elf woman and britta getting emotionally attached to a gnome named kyle. peak community.

[sharks3ye]

𝜗 Hunger Pangs & Bloody Fangs ﹕On AO3

☆ Several illustrations made in contribution to the SONIC BIG BANG !!

@sthbigbang

Writer ;; @the-gnome-zone

Artists ;; @sharks3ye @soulsofthewicked @suzylind

I spedrun this one in basically just one night right before posting date bc I had an idea yeah.

(The gif quality is an absolute NIGHTMARE OMG... so heres a still frame as well)

Aaannd another full illustration wahahaha,, guess I was extra motivated cuz its a FIRE FIC AND YOU SHOULD TOTALLY READ IT (#not an ad (I lied go read.. it has vampires..))

And more extras;;

This was really fun and im VERY happy to have been apart of this WOOO THANK YOU EVERYONE AND THANK YOU STHBB MODS FOR MAKING SUCH AN AMAZING EVENT HAPPEN<3

[yellowgnomeboots]

Yes because whenever I see a type of bug I've never seen before it's a potential biosecurity issue because I've seen all the bugs.

Apparently this is not the way most people are taking this quote though.

[affectionatecorpse]

I wonder if the reason Moriarty is so desperate and needy when it comes to attention is because he's lonely by design. Most people around him have company. The gnomes have their own communities in gardens, the toys have each other, even the gargoyles are housed with other gargoyles. But he sits alone on a van. He doesn't get the privilege of resting in a pretty lawn, or on a building with a great view. He just sits by himself on top of a van with nothing but his phone.

I don't think his isolation is the reason he's a killer. Watson himself said that "some are just manufactured evil". Moriarty was never going to be a good person, even if he was just another garden decoration. But the loneliness probably didn't help, and just ended up being a contribution to his attention seeking. There's a reason he's so obsessed with Sherlock; the guy gives him a TON of attention and never stops thinking about him, even if that comes from hate rather than care. Attention is attention, it doesn't matter where it comes from. Sherlock himself even calls Moriarty out on it, saying "you're very needy for a villain".

I'm not trying to invent a traumatic backstory that will excuse people justifying him, I love this little gay pie but he is NOT a good guy and I don't think he should be treated as such ascskfhjkl

[sharptoothed-gaze]

I’ve known him for a few days, but I appreciate Pangi so much right now for seeing that the majority of the players on the server rn are Kingdom or Neutral aligned, so he went ahead and switched out of Kingdom. Pangi and Bad are now the only Freedom Fighters / “Freaky Gnomes” on the server at the moment to contribute.

That’s 100% a fun rp choice and shows that Pangi wants to make an interesting conflict over anything else. There is an actual disadvantage to this (at the moment) even if Pangi wasn’t fully aware before switching sides.

Hopefully things will balance out further in time so that this can be a fun Stage 1 of the event.

[luckytealover]

As I expected, the last post didn't make a splash, so I can quietly move on through this oc x canon minefield... :"3

I really love Dungeon meshi and the grumpy halfling, so here is a selection of very crooked ship sketches with my oc Wyvern(gnome sorcerer, secret beastman)

-Are you still against relationships within a team?

-What's the question?

-Technical, we are no longer a team... And I... let's say I am not indifferent to you..

-...?

*Awkward silence*

A couple of sketches with the beast form of Wyvern, like a flying fox..

Also, huge thanks to my best friend @purplesovok05, for her huge contribution to the development of Wyverns!! (I'll definitely get to the trade bun 🙇‍♀️)

And of course thanks to others artist who loves Chilchuck, for making content that brightens up my gray everyday life and just makes the same fans of this character (and other buns) a little happier :"3

[yellowgnomeboots]

Not as ridiculous perhaps but they said that New Zealand applies a 20% tariff on US goods, whereas actually most goods, from any country, do not have an import tariff applied and when they do it's 5% or 10%.

The whole thing is pathetic. There's very few workplaces where someone would be allowed to release such a poorly made document.

I have to hand it to Donald Trump, I didn’t think the sequel to the 1932 Great Emu War would be a trade war against the penguin nation but he truly continues to be an innovator in the stupidity industry

[ambrosiagourmet]

Okay, I'm trying to firm up some thoughts about heteronormativity for the world of dunmeshi. We don't see any explicit homophobia (afaik???), and it's a little hard to separate real life heteronormativity from the potential in-universe kind, BUT there are a lot of the markers of gender roles and prejudices that often come with this stuff, and I want to dissect some of them.

DISCLAIMER I am painting with a broad brush here just to summarize what I've observed/what we know. Obviously all these races/cultures are going to have a variety of different subcultures within them and opinions/norms/laws/etc can vary a lot. No group is a monolith etc etc but this is a high level look at stuff.

Also I'd prefer people only reblog this if they are participating in the convo/adding something. This is for my reference and I'd rather it not spread much, at the moment. Thanks for understanding!

So... Laios and Falin had arranged marriages to a girl and boy, respectively, along with there being a slew of other prejudices they grew up around, so that's a glimpse into the tall-men culture in the northern continent.

There are a lot of different cultures in the archipelago but at very least the Nakamoto clan currently works in what looks like a patriarchal structure, though all of Shuro's siblings are male so I guess we don't technically know if women can inherit? Hien kind of assumes that she and Shuro might end up romantically involved in a sort of "well that's how it works" way which is fairly heteronormative so I think its fair to say that on a baseline level that assumption is present there.

Since Otta is judged more for dating short-life races than for dating women, it seems like maybe elven culture is more flexible. HOWEVER they are such a Power Structure TM and the noble houses care so fucking much about lineage and status that I have trouble believing that it's completely free of problems. Probably at least the nobility is expected to fit in heterosexual molds? Idk. They do look more androgenous and overall feminine than the other races, so that could also contribute to more fluidity. Of note here also is that in addition to a canon lesbian in Otta, Lycion also is Extremely Transgender. Though also of note: these people are the criminals in the group. So.

I don't know that there's as much info to work off of for the gnomes, dwarves, and half-foot cultures.

Dwarves have very strong family ties, which COULD lean towards heteronormativity but doesn't necessarily have to. Some dwarven women in dwarven cultures let their facial hair grow out - it's not necessarily super common, but it's much more likely to happen there than in a place like the Island. I lean towards thinking that they are more flexible, and maybe it varies from family to family how much there is an expectation of heterosexuality. Like the elves, they are more androgynous than most of the other races, AND one of our other major mostly canon queer characters (beloved bi Namari) is dwarven.

No idea about gnomes. The most prominent gnomes we see are the married Flokes and Holm. Holm's sister seems to have a bit of a thing for Kabru, so that's a couple of points towards Heterosexual Gnomes, but hardly anything definitive. They also live alongside dwarves so I imagine that if the dwarves are flexible they probably aren't significantly more strict about stuff. Also!! Kiki is the last of what I'd label the Mostly Canon queer characters, and she and Kaka were raised by gnomes! So that does seem to fit the "more overtly queer characters have ties to less heteronormative seeming cultures".

Again, no real idea about half-foot stuff. Chilchuck got married young and was a teen dad. Two of his kids seem very Interested In Men, the third gives big lesbian vibes. All of these things seem like they could be as much just orientation as anything socially enforced. I do think it's notable though that, while Flertem and Puckpatti are explicitly and loudly Into Men, Meijack is just quiet and gives off Vibes.

Ummmm yeah orcs (at least the ones we see) also have hierarchies based around polygyny so that's them.

YEAH that's most of what I can pull together currently? I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on interpreting all this, and if there are any lore details I missed!

Generally speaking I'm inclined to believe that heteronormativity exists as a baseline undercurrent in a lot of regions and cultures, and is more enforced in places that are either A) dominated by hierarchies (eg elven noble families) or B) insular and xenophobic in a variety of ways (eg Laios and Falin's hometown).

[majorasnightmare]

hi yes please talk about dnd and your character!!! i’ve never been able to play it so i’m living vicariously through you

AAAAAAAA OKIE 🫶🫶🫶

tabletop games can be RLY fun especially if everyone at the table is on the same page with intended playstyle and genre, which is possible even with random tables! you just gotta have good communication and boundaries. im playing in out of the abyss and part of that entails making a character that can interact with horror elements and with the starting premise of a prison break. even tho my character wasnt a prisoner, she still did a LOT to interact with that core premise!

and speaking of!!! MY GIRL

Phyrnei, full name Phyrstinnei, full FULL name Phyrstinnei'Draa xund Maydabreena xund Celneiune of House Vineld, is a Divine Soul sorcerer drow! Her house isn't of particularly high standing, owing to the fact that they've consistently struggled to produce a priestess of Lolth that achieved cleric levels. Instead, her house consistently produces incredibly skilled arcane spellcasters, a talent less respected in Menzoberranzan. As arcane spellcasters still have their uses, they've managed to maintain their position by providing valuable consorts and skilled wizards and arachnomancers, but their standing is tenuous.

Phyrnei's birth was heralded as a fortuitous omen, and a potential blessing from Lolth. Though born a sorcerer, in keeping with the lot of her house, Phyrnei was specifically born a DIVINE sorcerer, and was interpreted as a sign that Lolth was beginning to favor them and that within a generation, they would be blessed with a cleric of Lolth. As further proof, Phyrnei also won the genetic lotto for drow, being born with both purple eyes AND vibrant copper hair, both very rare traits in drow. Her name reflects this: Phyrstinnei translates to Blessed Clan Wish.

Phyrnei's House is somewhat odd, culturally. Producing mainly arcane spellcasters, the House has more value for a male child than most other Houses do, and as such the in-house culture is less explicitly toxic. Furthermore, their lowish but somewhat stable position means they've been relatively insulated from the worst of drow politics, so the House generally tends AWAY from backstabbing and betrayal, and more towards maximizing the benefits of every member of the House. Theres an air of collectivism, where every member contributes as much as they can to try and maintain the House or raise it further.

Phyrnei herself is in a bit of an odd position. Shes the second born daughter and thus is not set to inherit the House, but the luck of her birth meant that she already has great worth and potential, and did not have to struggle to prove herself to the House. Though she still trained to become a priestess of Lolth (and even had a very catty, passive aggressive rivalry with @arach-tinilith 's Naadja while studying) she has yet to become a cleric, and is utilizing her position and favor to explore avenues with drow politics to try and bolster her House's position, which leads to her getting wrapped up in the events of Out of the Abyss.

Phyrnei isn't EVIL but she still isn't good: she's chaotic neutral, and while she isn't a devoted Lolth worshipper, she doesn't broadly disagree with the way Menzoberranzan conducts itself politically or theologically. Shes very much a product of her upbringing. Despite this, shes a curious and investigative person, as cautious as she is outgoing, and finds a warm body to be infinitely more useful than a betrayed corpse. While Lolthite Drow society derides drow men, gnomes, duergar, and more, Phyrnei is open to the possibilities a social outcast presents and the uses to be found with them, and generally understands one catches more flies with honey than vinegar, and thus makes an effort to remain politie and considerate even when there would be no consequences to acting with cruelty.

SHES HAD A VERY BAD DAY SO FAR LMAO

She participated in a prison break to ruin the social standing of a rival House but midway through the prison was invaded by fucking DEMONS and everyone had to book it, thoroughly ruining this choice oppurtunity. Now shes 26 days out from Menzoberranzan and has to travel roughshod through the Underdark to get to the nearest settlement, a Kuo Toa village of all things. She doesn't even have servants to help attend to her hair, this is AWFUL.

[smoqueen]

and we can’t forget the contribution of the gnomes