#is this considered worldbuilding???

[da-shrimping-station]

Devildom having traffic not only on the ground but also in the skies is interesting af.

A good chunk of the population have wings (let's say it's a 50/50 split between winged and tailed demons) so surely it's a norm that you see demons flying around doin their own business.

You seen those crowded streets where pedestrians bunch together while crossing the road? That but with winged demons, flying at different heights and speeds trying to get to their destination.

Imagine MC going outside and being careful of not only foot traffic but also air traffic cuz some demons don't bother warning others that they're landing or passing by. They'd hear a woosh and needing to duck cuz some idiot flew too low and nearly clipped them with a wing or two.

There would also be exclusive no-fly zones around certain places. Also needing to check the weather if it's a good day for flying (i bet the weather and climate in Devildom can get unpredictable at times) or if it's better to walk or commute instead because air traffic is so stupid today and you can't be late for an appointment.

Imagine you chose to commute home for today cuz your wings are tired but the vehicle broke down and goddammit I wanna go home asap i guess i have to fly.

One of the reasons Lucifer agreed to Mammon getting a car cuz there's 3 of them who can't fly.

Mammon and Satan arguing about which route to take for faster travelling while Levi plays in the back seat with Belphie leaning against him and napping. Meanwhile up above, Lucifer, Asmo, and Beel keep pace with them.

Sometimes Asmo sits in the back cuz he can't afford to ruin his hair from all the flying. Sometimes Belphie shimmies out the window [[(while the car is going really fckin fast mind you) (Mammon driving at a reasonable speed? Hell nah his car was built for speed and he will go fast)]] so he can hold out a snack for Beel to snatch. Levi makes sure Belphie doesn't fall off using his arms and tail. Sometimes they'd do rock paper scissors on who gets to ride shotgun this time (may or may not include threats, blackmail, or bodily harm)

Lucifer just hopes they get to their destination on time and in one piece.

On another note, once MC gets the hang of flying with magic (I'd imagine they'll use a broom but come on why not imbue a skateboard with magic and use that to fly instead), they'd try a stab at flying and experiencing the air traffic (in all its fascinating and frustrating glory).

Alternatively, MC in the car but the brothers being little shits is becoming unbearable so they ask Mammon to stop and get out to fly with the others instead.

I fckin live for Devildom being some sort of an urban fantasy setting.

[adobe-outdesign]

"why don't super-intelligent Pokemon like Metagross and Alakazam just take over humanity if they're smarter than us" imagine that a random primate gave you free housing, food, and medical care for the rest of your life for literally no reason other than they want to be friends with you and I think you'll understand

[quesocheeso]

CW: Cursing

Heavenly War Part 1

You guys kinda get to start seeing the difference that led to Wukong ascending the throne and it all leads back to loyalty.

In the AU, the Brotherhood weren't the only ones to go to war against the Celestial Realm, I like to think that they all had large individual backing, considering they were all strong demons/celestial beings, and two of the members were recognized as Kings, they would have other smaller position members. Which also led to larger amounts of casualties. Which if you consider that not only was Macaque fighting alongside Wukong, but also his FFM Generals and soldiers, he would more likely give himself up to save their lives. At least in the AU, Macaque would be more aware of this, and way more insistent of figuring out where Wukong is than going along with what the Brotherhood thinks.

Sunset Timeline

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[rassicas]

splatoon fandom: please. someone please translate the marina acht story. please me: now hold on. wouldn't you guys rather read a boring newspaper article about the development of crableg capital. because i would

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

I missed drawing for my old WIR AU, so I came back to it for a bit!! Exploring the lore and the characters is just as fun as I remember it being.

Mini summary of the character lores and random tidbits under cut to remind myself, because I forgot everything :) I might revamp some of the lore as well.

The Turbo twins just barely managed to escape being unplugged along with their game after Turbo game jumped years ago. They survived, but homelessness for a game sprite is dangerous, since it implies a lack of protective anti-virus barrier their consoles would typically have offered them. The twins' raw codes were now completely exposed to external errant bugs, viruses, and other malware, which could prove to be fatal. So, they were stuck going around stations picking up odd jobs and services in exchange for temporary shelter in other games' consoles. But because of Turbo's actions and his disappearance, the twins' reputations were forced to take the full brunt of the arcade's backlash and scrutiny. This ruined their chances at a permanent home, not to mention the fact that letting an outsider stay too long in your game was considered very taboo at the time (especially with the whole game jumping scandal). Thus, they were stuck hopping from one game to another, never staying for longer than a few days at most.

- Felix and the Turbo trio knew each other before the Turbo incident :) He and the twins are still in contact after the incident, and he sometimes lets them stay in his game.

- Felix' in-game story is pretty much the same as Ralph's. There's still the stump, except that in the beginning of the game it's actually a full tree that Felix and his father used to care for before the latter died. The animation shows the bulldozer knocking it town to a stump to make space for Niceland, which basically is the whole opening of the game where Felix gets mad and wrecks the building, blah blah blah, you know the rest :)

- Felix used to be mistaken as the hero of his game a lot since he looked so small and unassuming. It annoyed him to no ends, because he despises having to talk to strangers.

[blackkatdraws2]

Giggling about this [Achromatic Loop AU/non-canonical]

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[hoofpeet]

Vague concept doodles I was playing w/ for the idea of what spider syndrome might look like in satyrs . Kinda couldn't really make these look right though, just like the actual guy's design

[kataraavatara]

is it not kinda weird how helion was constantly saying the LoA was too young to be married & pregnant at twenty and kinda implying that marrying & impregnating a twenty year old while not illegal was considered pretty gauche amongst the fae (or at least the day court.) and then feyre immediately got married & pregnant at twenty. do y’all think helion ever gives rhysand the side eye for that or.

like why would you as an author go out of your way to point out how weird it is for a 20 year old to marry a way older immortal being and how young 20 is to be married while your main romance is a 20 year old and a way older immortal being.

[theandrosaur]

Discovered The Property of Hate by accident, went reading it for the cool tv dude, came out of there with heart issues

[utilitycaster]

I am very excited for Unend and I have absolutely no insight into what it will entail but I do want to offer a gentle warning regarding what I'd like to call, for the CR audience anyway, the Campaign 1 to Campaign 2 problem.

I found in the early-ish days of Campaign 2 there was an immense focus from some parts of the fandom on what previously seen characters were doing, rather than the current cast of characters, and at times a bitterness that we weren't just showing the same characters 25 years down the line. Which was silly, because we got a great story with new great characters and saw the world grow before our eyes, and there were even some small nods without them overshadowing something new and exciting.

I feel this way about Unend: again, I know nothing, but I don't think it will be heavily focused on characters introduced in Midst or Moonward at all. I think it's an opportunity for a new cast of characters to explore new things in the same world. While I suspect the islet of Midst may show up simply because it's a strategic location for an exploration vessel to stop given how the cosmos work, the story is explicitly going to be taking place as far away from Midst as possible, since they're trying to find the extremes of the cosmos, not the middle. I don't think we're checking in extensively with past characters, and I think that's great! Get excited for new ones!

[ashilean]

LHIKAN, toa Mangai of fire (1/11)

Astride his lava board, Lhikan patrols the towers of Ta-Metru as the last of the city's toa heroes. While matoran from every corner of the city stare reverently as he passes overhead, he casts a long shadow, and one hero can only be so many places at once...

When setting out to make the Mangai, I wanted them to stand out and use some of the less-common elemental colour schemes--taking heavy inspiration from the matoran in the Legend of Mata Nui and MNOG. In Lhikan's case, a toa of fire that is all smoke and golden sparks is both unique and a good fit for the pre-existing elements of his character I am keen to retain.

More to come soon!

[jesncin]

what are your thoughts on krypton? Both how it’s been handled before and how you personally would go about it?

I like Krypton the most when it's portrayed as a socialist utopia (doomed by arrogance and pride) to better narratively contrast Earth as the flawed planet for Superman to bring hope to. I can't stand versions that portray Krypton or Kryptonians as colonizers or racists or classists. It's just lazy worldbuilding and loses sight of what Superman's immigrant allegory represents, in my opinion.

Personally! I would like to expand the definition of what "an alien utopia" would look like for Krypton. Most of the time Krypton is imagined as "earth but better" but I think a utopia would have to fundamentally change things from the ground up. No capitalism, diversity without segregation, advanced system of genders, different religious systems that co-exist in harmony unlike what organized religion typically does on Earth, etc. That's far more interesting as a concept to me than "Kryptonians are colonizers because we want Superman to be more flawed". I would stem Krypton's flaws moreso in their arrogance and perhaps cultural differences that seem off putting to humans like in Kansas Sighting.

[starflungwaddledee]

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[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Road To Ruin

start of a postapocalyptic fantasy series set in an Asian-inspired desert world plagued by dangerous storms

follows a courier who transports romantic letters between a prince and princess, who helps the princess escape across the wastes towards the prince’s safe haven

but they’re pursued by bounty hunters, and accidentally uncover some ancient secrets. and also she’s in love with both of them

dinosaurs, magical motorbikes,

bi MC, start of polyam triad

[xshimaeraxx]

here, take a casino cups au/fic idea (bc i have WAY too many wips in my ellipsus drafts rn 2 make another one):

in the isles, the age of legal majority, is, for reasons that only God truly knows*, 26. due to this, the fact cuphead and mugman, a pair of 18 year olds with a very, very dead legal guardian, are living alone is… troublesome (and that's not even getting inta the fact that they're working a job, and while that ALONE wouldn't be illegal, the fact that they're doing it to keep themselves from bein' caught by CPS most definitely IS. Why else d'you think they're working at a place they died at likely over a hundred times?—it's LITERALLY the only job that'd take 'em, bc every other one called cps on them when their old bosses inevitably figured out they were 17 / 18; devildice, however, just don't fucking care about the fact they're 18, on the run from cps, and technically currently using the identities/credentials of their very, very DEAD bio-parents to get food & yk, Live Life Like A Fucking Normal Person so long as they do their jobs well. sure, it means they have to periodically dye their hair (humanised au my beloved) dark brown, and sure, it means they have to hide their straws & their tails & their ears & just themselves entirely, but it's better then bein' stuck with some random stranger they don't even know. fuck's sake, they fought the devil and WON, if any pair of so-called "kids" deserve to be able to live like a normal person, it's them.***)

so, of course, once devil & dice find out 'bout this little problem of the siblings' after they start workin' at the casino, the next obvious solution (not, it's batshit inSAN- gets shot) to this problem is for the siblings to let devildice. adopt. them.

for some godforsaken reason, the siblings, when devildice proposes this solution, simply look at each other, have a silent conversation that lasts about, oh, 4-5 minutes, and then "oh, fuckit, it'll solve our problem, and it's not like we ACTUALLY consider our the two idiots our fam'ly, so why not?"

but then. then the siblings start to consider devildice family. and that's when things start getting complicated

* (the reason is because inkwellians, unlike normal humans, don't truly mentally mature 'til they reach the age of 31 (bc God's a control freak, inkwellians are his favourite subspecies of humankind, & so He projects that need for control LITERALLY onto the way they grow and mature 'n such 'n such) but having 26 as the legal majority was already very much pushing it w the way the OutsidersTM's law-makers and governors were eyeing them, so 26 it stayed.)**

** fun fact! the whole "aren't truly mentally mature 'til they're 31" thing? doesn't apply to cups 'n mugs, bc they're descendants of the calix animi, to whom God allowed a biiit more leeway w the whole "bullshit biological / mental maturation" thing. shortly put, it means that they would actually be completely mentally mature at age 24ish, but THEY don't know that. no one, in fact, but their ma and elder kettle 'n chalice did. :3

*** (can you tell they have parental / daddy / mommy issues? can you?)

[tiredspirals]

I'll be collecting lore posts like delicious eggs. I'm hoping to find some goons I could maybe use as cameos for my traveling band of adventurers

It'd be cool, I think, to mention 'legendary figures' or clans that are good pitstops that actually belong to players. I'm especially interested if your clan has bounty/task boards