#goblin discord comics

[whatlurksbean]

Happy pride (:

my little guys for the yearly comic collab, please do check it out! there are so many folk participating this year!

[b3ar-d4ddy]

Christmas Presents n' Secret Santa Gifts

For my cousin and my brother

And my secret santa gifts for the digimon server and the goblin comic server

I wanted to do more but this year's been stressful LMAO

[kathirein]

happy halloween from the cast of catharsis ! part of the goblin discord comic collab - spot them in the crowd over on dA !

[nicooriia]

Valley Among the Stars Chapter 2 is finally back!

Apolocheese for the long wait, but I’m back to uploading on Mondays! Had some struggles with backgrounds, scripting, and other things not related to the comic, but I’m trying my best to keep uploads consistent! 

Valley Among the Stars is a Stardew Valley fan comic following my main character, Lyra, and her journey back to her grandfather’s farm, in hopes to bring it back to it’s former glory, as well as trying to make a life where she can truly be happy for herself!  

You can read it on DeviantArt or Comic Fury! Spanish translations available on both sites! Spanish DA | Spanish ComifFury

[ruesterhowl]

The Pieces We Keep- Page 14

(Read TPWK on comicfury!)

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[druidshollow]

off string rivers and root finally got (incredibly ugly) refs today cuz i need them for a secret santa in the comic goblin discord lmao

[astrmastr]

AW LORDIE LOUSIE ITS

K L I K ! 💥

FROM DA HIT GAME GUN GOBLIN

so we are working on a godot project game? about this little horrible beast

you may ask.

"who is she?? whats her problem? why does it hurt so bad when i pee???"

FRET NOT YOU SILLY GOOBER I SHALL EXPLAIN

shes a. type of fungus

shes not a goblin

if u cut her open its kinda like a soft gross meat

and also she has spores. theyre little tiny kliks that drift in the air

thats also what makes her EXPLOSIVE

there are multiple kliks running around when you respawn u are one of these little horrible beasts

ive got more lore for lore for her

OVER HEEEEEEEEREEEEEEEEERE

okok thank u 4 looking at my creature i will leave you with a comic

[wanderingswampbeast]

Long Post: Why I Don’t Like The Drow

I’ve been ranting about this to a friend on discord (a lot of points I make will come from him) but I’ve finally figured out what my issue with the drow is outside of inherently evil groups being dumb.

The drow are boring. Drow lore is less of a dive into a unique culture and more of a list of fucked up things they do. Like, I cannot name a single interesting aspect of typical drow society that does not directly involve murder, sexism, or slavery, or Lolth. And even then, most of those things are written about in an incredibly bland fashion with them.

The Drow don’t really have much depth to them, and are just kind of evil for evil’s sake (or “because Lolth said so”). They do slavery, but the only real purpose of doing slavery for them is “because Lolth said so”. It isn’t for cheap labor, it’s to be more evil. They betray each other purely because that’s what evil people do. They’re misandrist, not for any real societal reason, but because Lolth hates men. There’s none of what would make slavery an interesting topic or story element, no justification for why they should be allowed to commit one of the worst injustices possible, no real economic reason for it. They just do it because Lolth says they should, and from a writing perspective it hammers home the fact that they’re evil. They aren’t evil because they enslave and murder, they enslave and murder because they’re evil, if that makes any sense.

Them being written as comically evil as they are also hurts them from a worldbuilding perspective. They’re so reliant on slaves for menial labor that the lower class of their society struggle to get jobs. Drow culture so obsessed with betrayal and dumbass house wars that even when actively under attack from the outside they sabotage each other. They’re so decadent that their buildings are held up with magic and semi regularly collapse when a spell fails. To put it bluntly, drow society feels like one that should have collapsed in a few centuries, which, funnily enough, is way longer than D&D elves live.

Their culture being so monolithic also makes writing anything about them difficult. Every drow antagonist is going to have near identical motivations, methods, and ideologies as every other drow antagonist. Every drow protagonist is going to ultimately feel very similar to Drizzt, because leaving their fucked up society to become a do-gooder is such a common backstory element that they added a whole extra god just for doing that. In fact, you can divide 90% of drow characters from any official materials into these categories:

Manservant

Ambitious male, usually a wizard (5 bucks says he has long hair and a widow’s peak)

Dommy Mommy Warcrime Woman

Drizzt Do’Urden or one of his many duplicates

Self-loathing and/or resentful Drider

And finally, their existence almost purely to be humanoid enemies you can fight at nearly any levels is just kind of lazy. This is a problem that I have with the “evil races” of a lot of fantasy but having a group that’s evil by birth just feels like an excuse to not have to write actual motivations for your antagonists. It’s the difference between “go attack this camp of soldiers because they’re part of the SkullMurder army and their general wants to use our land to build a dread fortress” vs “go attack this camp of soldiers specifically because they’re drow/goblins/orcs/the dreaded peepee-poopoo folk”. Using stuff like this just feels like an excuse to not have to write an actual antagonist since it comes pre-written in the group’s lore. This has the side effect of whenever such a group is the antagonist of the plot, the players or audience know near exactly what to expect. The orc is here to conquer, the goblin is here to steal, and the drow is here to enslave or do some dark ritual.

I’ve legitimately heard people say “well if XYZ can’t be inherently evil anymore, who will we use as bad guys?” It’s very simple: whoever the fuck we want. Write an evil queen, or a scheming wizard, or an underground slave trade network. For God’s sake, anyone can be evil, you don’t need to tie that to a specific ethnic group and write it as “they’re just like that”. Write an actual character for your antagonist.

[birdofdeath-comic]

im so late posting this but here's my part for the goblin comics discord halloween collab :3

[razmerry]

winter exchange gift for mleko in the goblin discord server!! their comic "bird of death" is a grindingly painful and gorgeous tragedy for this poor little kitty, so I felt it was my duty to give them an alternate-universe break. <3

[lingthusiasm]

Lingthusiasm Episode 87: If I were an irrealis episode

Language lets us talk about things that aren't, strictly speaking, entirely real. Sometimes that's an imaginative object (is a toy sword a real sword? how about Excalibur?). Other times, it's a hypothetical situation (such as "if it rains, we'll cancel the picnic" - but neither the picnic nor the rain have happened yet. And they might never happen. But also they might!). Languages have lots of different ways of talking about different kinds of speculative events, and together they're called the irrealis.

In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about some of our favourite examples under the irrealis umbrella. We talk about various things that we can mean by "reality", such as how existing fictional concepts, like goblins playing Macbeth, differ from newly-constructed fictions, like our new creature the Frenumblinger. We also talk about hypothetical statements using "if" (including the delightfully-named "biscuit conditionals), and using the "if I were a rich man" (Fiddler on the Roof) to "if I was a rich girl" (Gwen Stefani) continuum to track the evolution of the English subjunctive. Finally, a few of our favourite additional types of irrealis categories: the hortative, used to urge or exhort (let's go!), the optative, to express wishes and hopes (if only...), the dubitative, for when you doubt something, and the desiderative (I wish...).

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'Irrealis' entry on Wikipedia

'How do you get someone to care about Shakespeare? Two words: Goblin Macbeth' on CBC

xkcd comic 'Conditionals'

'Pedantic about biscuit conditionals' post on Language Log

'The pragmatics of biscuit conditionals' by Michael Franke

Lingthusiasm episode 'This time it gets tense - The grammar of time'

'Realis and Irrealis: Forms and concepts of the grammaticalisation of reality' by Jennifer R. Elliott

'If all the raindrops' on YouTube

'If I Were a Rich Man (song)' entry on Wikipedia

'Rich Girl (Gwen Stefani song)' entry on Wikipedia

'Louchie Lou & Michie One' entry on Wikipedia

'Louchie Lou & Michie One - Rich Girl' on YouTube

'Semi-Toned - Rich Girl (acapella)' on YouTube

'Subjunctive mood' entry on Wikipedia

'Céline Dion - Pour que tu m'aimes encore' on YouTube

WALS entry for 'Feature 73A: The Optative'

Lingthusiasm bonus episode 'How we make Lingthusiasm transcripts - Interview with Sarah Dopierala'

Lingthusiasm episode 'Listen to the imperatives episode'

'Dubitative' entry on Wikipedia

'A grammatical overview of Yolmo (Tibeto-Burman)' entry on WikiJournal of Humanities

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[whatlurksbean]

First /// Previous /// Next (Now on Patreon!)

What Lurks Beneath- page 24.628

[b3ar-d4ddy]

IAYF ch 9 page 37

they race still

[cinder-no]

THE RAFT: ACCEPTING NEW INMATES

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[gloomforrestrunes]

Trick vs Treat!

this year i participated in the comic goblins discord halloween collab! the prompt this year was "trick vs. treat," which meant that the characters on the left (or "trick") would be spooky, gory, genuinely creepy vibes, while the characters on the right ("treat") are those harmless sugary sweet halloween vibes! we also had to only use characters that have appeared so far in our comic publicly. (so while technically i could've used nex's demon design, since it hasnt appeared in the comic yet i opted to use his mortal design)

im not posting on dA anymore, but here's the full collab! (its HUGE)

here are my five entries! (be sure to click on the thumbnails to see them in full quality!)

eiya is a witch, aven is a vampire, and kane is a hot dog!

nex is a werewolf, and question is the grim reaper.

[neonbrutalism]

how did the society, or spider gang specifically, feel after finding out that Gabriel has an older brother that is ready to kick ass and break stuff for him in your spider gabe au?

Boggled, mainly, because hadn't Gabriel told them his brother was dead? That not being able to get his brother away from Alchemax was his canon event? And the whole reason he went into another universe was to save his brother and that's what made him so intense about the canon thing??

And then scared shitless because Gabriel's big brother is indeed his big brother who is all talons, fangs, infernal speed and terrifying strength. And you know the Prowler. He doesn't quit.

The thing is: Miguel turning up alive doesn't make it any better. Gabriel is much different from Miguel but they're both broken in the same way. When Gabriel snaps, he fucking snaps.

As said by @collarka in a discord chat about Gabriel....

"Mmmmm well if canon events aren't what shapes a spiderman, and aren't what makes the web destroy itself.... Then why does it keep happening? Why does it happen again and again and again? Maybe he starts wondering that his canon event hasn't happened yet. Maybe what he's doing/wants to do is to move the web how he pleases. What if he can be the one that decides whether someone suffers or not? What if he could prevent it all? Miles is the perfect test subject indeed. Let's see what happens when he intervenes"

We know from the late comics (yeah the green goblin thing isn't canon but it's still an interesting bit of characterization) that Gabriel can absolutely go too far sometimes. He goes a little Mad Science God Complex and you know, why shouldn't he be the one in charge of the web? He's the one whose been holding it together the whole time!

Miguel gets mean and violent and downright homicidal when he's slipping.

Gabriel gets megalomaniacal.

If you've ever played Edge of Time (or watched a Let's Play), consider the final boss and what's going on with him. That's kind of similar to how Gabriel's been breaking apart.

.... It's fine, Miguel frees the kids and then talks Gabriel down (by sitting on him and actually holding him down while he talks him down). It's fine.