#gnome core

[zazagundam]

If the Simpsons were gnomes, marge would say "oooohhh gnomey 😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰"

[cateyedfox36]

I can't be the only adult who desperately wants a bed nook bc of David The Gnome right? Like I imprinted on the house of David so hard. We had a build in cabinet that ran the length of our closet and i would nap in there.

It just looked so safe and secure.

[inlovewithhearts]

I made a playlist that actually was inspired but The Cruel Prince book and the whole The Folk of the Air trilogy which I highly recommend !

enjoy !

[thebeigeoverlord]

🧚‍♂️ FAIRY CIRCLE!!!! 🧚‍♀️

🎈 🎊 YIPEEE 🎉

[gnomewithalaptop]

Y'know, it's so funny to me when people make out like Tim Drake would keep files on how to take down his friends when Tim has explicitly said he disagrees with Batman on this:

[Young Justice (1998) #36]

Like, yes, during his Red Robin tenure he does make a Hit List full of contingency plans for known heroes. But if you go and read that, you'll notice that, while the Justice League and Damian may be on there, Tim's own friends are decidedly absent:

[Red Robin (2009) #14]

In fact, a lot of these heroes are people that have either (a) attacked Tim specifically, (b) have a track record that includes turning evil/getting mind controlled, or (c) are on the JLA (meaning Batman probably already had those files compiled and Tim just stole them).

So yeah: Tim's not down with contingency-planning for his friends. You know which one of the YJ crew DID agree with Batman though? My favorite blorbina Anita Fite, aka Empress:

[Young Justice (1998) #36]

But yeah, this contrast is honestly fascinating to me. Because while both Anita and Tim have been shown to be incredibly loyal individuals, this exchange really highlights the fact that, between the two of them, Anita is far more likely to engage in this kind of pragmatism when she thinks it's necessary to get the job done

The whole Our Worlds at War arc actually does a really good job of illustrating how both of them react to betrayal from within. It's not just the Batman Files conflict either -- I'm thinking specifically about the hallucination-based torture Granny Goodness put them through, which showed them their worst fears. Most of the team ended up having to watch their loved ones die, but what's super interesting to me is that we really only see Anita and Tim hallucinate that their loved ones blame them for their deaths:

[Young Justice (1998) #37]

Like. It's not the same as a teammate turning evil at all. But it does give us a good idea of how they'd both react when faced with a friend or teammate doing harmful things, albeit on a smaller scale. Because where Tim kind of just accepts Superboy yelling at him and moves straight into bargaining for Kon's life, Anita actually flips the script, gets angry, and defends herself against her father:

[Young Justice (1998) #37]

(she actually gets so righteously pissed off that she manages to break out of the VR simulation Granny Goodness had her trapped in, but that's another point)

But yeah, it's super interesting, because by this point, both Anita and Tim have been set up to be very similar characters. They both can be a little bit obsessive, they both have some issues with boundaries and stalking (Tim with Nightwing and Batman, Anita with Cissie), and of the team, they're both portrayed as the "normal" members (Anita does technically have mind control powers but she barely ever uses them, and in a fight, she's basically just a very good, human-level fighter)

But at the end of the day, though Batman forces Robin to put on a cool front of objectivity, Tim (at least in his pre-grief-spiral era) ultimately wants to see the best in his team. When the people he cares about screw up, he wants to give them second chances. And when that trust gets broken, his first instinct is to try to use diplomacy, or, failing that, simply remove himself from the situation (as we see at the end of the Our Worlds at War arc when he quits the team)

Anita, on the other hand, while still incredibly loyal, does not hand out that loyalty unconditionally. We see this when she tries to keep her identity secret from the YJ squad, we see it when she gets pissed in Granny Goodness's hallucination when her father blames her for her mother's death, and we see it when she later blames Secret for her perceived role in Anita's father's death

Anita also happens to sit right smack dab in the middle of the YJ morality scale; while she's generally pretty chill and willing to abide by typical superhero codes of ethics (unlike Slobo and Secret), she's also been shown to bend those rules when she believes it's necessary (as seen here when she tortures and threatens to kill a man for trying to hurt Cissie). Ultimately, what this means is, between Tim and Anita, it's honestly Anita who'd probably be the most willing to put her personal qualms aside, buckle down, and go against her loved ones if it was the only reasonable option

Anyway. This is a really long-winded way of saying I think Gun Batman's biggest nemesis should be Empress

[cornflakesdoesart]

Gnome sketches!! 🌷🌱

I finally finally finished all the sketches, that I was mostly finished with by like, july 💀...but I was procrastinating drawing the pidgeon lol, and also I wanted to draw an actual existing local wild flower for the gnome lady, but I just couldn't find one that was the right size and vibe and also not too full of teensy-weensy details, so in the end I just drew a nondescript wild flower tangle for her!

now I can start on finishing them, I want to make a gnomes dowloadable coloring page pack like I did for my warmly dressed animals but I don't have as many gnome linearts as I had warmly dressed animals so I started this little gnome series to pad out the coloring page pack, and also to re-explore how I want to draw gnomes bc besides a recentish comm I hadn't really drawn any since 2018 and that was a long long time ago and my way of drawing channged a lot!

Anyway uhmm, hiii I'm back! Haven't posted in ages ...sorry...

[blujaydoodles]

I dunno why I keep drawing Indigo lately, but I also keep drawing them either in profile or with their eyes closed and it made me want to draw both of their eyes at once, because what's the point of giving an OC cool fantasy heterochromia if I'm never even gonna show it off, smdh

[lilgnomefella]

@shalvis this is litterally us lmao

Possibly the most inexplicable thing I've ever come across at a thrift store. It appears to be a unicorn with a broken off horn being ridden by a gnome wielding a broken pistol and holding a kitten?? Who is this for!

[dailycharacteroption]

Races Among the Stars 10: Gnome

It’s time for another look at the many alien species of Starfinder, and as usual we’re beginning with something a bit more familiar: gnomes.

Those familiar with gnomes in Pathfinder already know that gnomes were originally from the First World, banishing themselves to the Material Plane in a great mass exodus to find more novel experiences there. They also likely know that once they were there, they became susceptible to a new disease, the Bleaching, which occurs when gnomes fail to find novelty and interest in their life, leaching the color out of them as they are literally poisoned by banality.

Gnomes in the era of Starfinder retain that origin, but a few things have changed since then. Apparently some time during The Gap, some gnomes engineered a “cure” of sorts to the Bleaching, a genetic tampering that causes those that have it to be born as Bleachlings, but unlike those of the ancient past, these more serious gnomes are still able to feel joy and wonder, but it is tempered a bit, rather than being fully dour and jaded (though they still somewhat earn that reputation).

Meanwhile, the majority of gnomes are still “feychildren”, being passionate and vibrant and endlessly curious to a fault, and still subject to the normal and potentially deadly Bleaching should they fail to find wonder in the galaxy.

Much like in the distant past, gnomes are small humanoids with large eyes, wiry figures, and truly outrageous hair which can be nearly any color of the rainbow. Bleachlings, however, are devoid of color, their skin turning an ashen gray while their hair turns white.

Gnome society hasn’t changed that much since the era of Pathfinder, being very loosely governed if at all and being more focused on collective protection and helping every member find novelty and wonder in the world. Even the bleachlings seek novelty in their own way. Rather than seek new experiences to engage with, these more serious gnomes instead engage in intellectual curiosity and study.

While gnomes sometimes have difficulty relating to other species, they are very quick to make friends and compatriots out of anyone they meet. However, their somewhat alien mindset does indeed make things tricky, especially when this lack of understanding tends to condition them to not bother explaining themselves.

Interestingly, while modern elves have become xenophobic towards most other species, gnomes are an exception, and are allowed to freely travel to Sovyrian as they please, supposedly honoring some ancient pact of trust.

Gnomes tend to be tough, but physically weak. However, feychild gnomes tend to be more charming and passionate, while bleachlings focus more on intellectual pursuits.

Their innate curiosity does, however, lead them to ask many questions about the cultures of other species, giving them a vast pool of knowledge in such areas.

The hope and joy that not even bleaching can corrupt does make them naturally resistant to fear as well, and they can sometimes inexplicably turn defeat into victory.

Gnomes also have innate magic, mostly minor magical tricks, illusory sounds, and produced light.

They also sport sensitive eyes that can pick up even dim sources of light.

It would appear that in the far future, the old lines between gnomes and their offshoot svirfneblin kin have blurred. Now called gneblins, develop spiritual ties to whatever planet they make their homes on. And while they are not as tough as their kin, that spirituality does give them a greater capacity for empathy and wisdom. However, they too have become susceptible to the bleaching, presumably as the old pacts to the earth have diluted with intermarrying with their surface kin.

And of course, there are those gnomes that defy these expectations, including the driftborn, who have a curious connection to the drift and lack the dimorphism of other gnomes, instead being naturally agile thanks to their coordination in space. Others focus on joy over hope and therefore ignore pain and turn especially good luck into a rush of euphoria which further bolsters them. Some that grow up in other cultures temper their curiosity, but get better at reading others. Finally, some channel their curiosity into professional work, naturally developing greater skill in those areas.

With their natural toughness, gnomes make decent vanguards and nanocytes. Their dimorphism makes things more complicated though. Feychildren’s charisma makes envoy, solarion, witchwarper, social operative and the like good options, while the intellect of bleachlings lends itself to studious biohackers, mechanics, and technomancers. Gneblin of either ethnicity can make quite powerful mystics as well. Meanwhile, the Driftborn can make for good operatives, precogs, and long-range combat characters of any class. Their only real weakness is strength, making melee soldier, solarion, vanguard and the like a tough sell. However, it isn’t impossible to get around or even to pick a class that doesn’t match with the specific ethnicity. This is your character, and as always, feel free to mix and match, not letting a little thing like “optimization” get in the way.

That will do for today, but there’s some fun species we’ll be tackling later this week. Look forward to it!

[moe-broey]

Realization.

[wonderful-emoji]

is there even a gnome emoji?

*one emojipedia search*

sad!!!! I think there's a next best thing though -- gnome board?

[necrofairy]

I create my own reality

[why-its-kai]

my beautiful house

[mydadthinksimweird]

Showing off some more stickers I made. These are unlisted, send me a message if interested!

[blujayonthewing]

I've thought a lot about the several thousand year old gnome druid we met who was just bitter and jaded and had spent most of those millennia sitting in one place not doing anything in particular except mourning her tiefling wife who'd died millennia ago, and how disgusted and infuriated with her melliwyk is, personally but also as a gnome herself-- and I'm thinking about it again like. honestly I think it goes beyond general cultural values; that level of willful ongoing stagnation and joyless nihilism is probably completely seriously a gnomish sin

[torotillo]

Animal magic 🌌✨pencil and watercolour on paper.