#like… ‘classic’ fantasy

[vivitalks]

freshman/sophomore year riz gukgak on three hours of sleep & five cups of coffee: vibrating out of his skin, one hand on his gun, talking at 100 words per minute, the poster child of paranoia

junior year riz gukgak on zero hours of sleep, nine cups of coffee, perfect grades, & twelve half-assed extracurriculars: literally whining his way through sentences just trying to piece enough words together to allow one coherent transfer of information while his brain melts out of his ears from stress

[oddipop]

a tiny Riz Gukgak aka The Ball

[katerinaaqu]

The greatest problem with retellings is that they do not retell an old story. They tell an original story. Their writers just didn't want to invest and commit in original characters to tell it.

[slayerdurge]

completely sold on the idea that gortash made stillmaker for durge and i really really love that although he put bhaal's symbol on it he also blatantly made it bane's signature color. classic gortash audacity. cheeky bastard.

[namedvesta]

𝑏𝑦 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟.

[bookshelf-in-progress]

You could make a really cool cottagecore fantasy novel using the structure of Little House in the Big Woods. Where the main characters live in a stable environment and go about their daily lives dealing with the domestic details of the world, but they meet characters who have gone on adventures. So a huge chunk of the book is made up of the stories that these characters tell. The main characters would face very little peril, but you'd still have a book full of thrilling stories.

I'd try for a middle-grade fantasy. Center it on a group of siblings whose parents went on save-the-world adventures, but have settled down to raise a family. Maybe they run an inn that caters to people from a ton of the nations and races of this fantasy world. Or maybe they're just frequently visited by old adventuring companions who always have cool stories to share about the adventures they've been on or the events or history of their homeland.

[artronenergy]

enlightenment is such a great dreamy masterpiece of a doctor who episode. like, what if wild blue yonder was a romance.

[elvyn]

Fancy ✨

[filurig]

so i might be making a picture book about my blorbos for uni...

[blossombloodcurse]

wheel of time show is like, ugh yes, this is the peak of what fantasy can be ‼️

[amaltheas-garden]

people still shocked that in the year of our lord 2024 some of us don't want to see Dany get her 'happy ending' by becoming the white savior who was promised

[secondarysefikura]

Sephiroth, talking about growing up in the labs: Really, the conditions weren't that bad. Someone stronger than me could have handled it without being affected. I was just too emotionally weak.

Angeal: ...Didn't a rat run over your face while you were trying to sleep once?

Sephiroth: Yes, but someone stronger could have handled that.

[perplexingly]

Taking Anders on every quest with you is so interesting cuz he was so clearly written to be a plot-driving force from the beginning -- besides the obvious act 3 and his introduction being part of the main quest, he also has the ability to save your sibling or Varric's brother, and with his strong opinions he also seems to comment on missions more than other companions (eg when he asks you not to report the blood magic to the templars in the keran quest)

I like that he was written like this, I think there's something fascinating in side characters having so much agency

[cto10121]

…There is a whole Wikipedia page about literary influences she has openly talked about.

[g0nefischin]

MERSKELES PART 3!

Definitely not mermay anymore but here's the last 3 sirens I wanted to do

and some explanation on why I choose what I did under the cut

(little warning for parasites on fresh's section)

So from left to right

Dream is a golden colored koi carp fish, I picked it because they are very pretty and they represent a lot of positive things like luck and fortune, some people even wish on them to make their dreams come true :> I also thought of the legend where a golden koi fish climbs a large waterfall to turn into a dragon, so they have some mythical legends as well. In terms of the actual fish, Koi are very sociable and sturdy, they also live for quite awhile.

Nightmare is a coelacanth, he should probably be an octopus considering he has tentacles, but I really wanted to make him a coelacanth because I think they are neat. Coelacanth's are very old with the latest fossils being over 400 million years old, they were thought to be extinct until one was found in 1938, grandpa nightmare. They are also nocturnal, sleeping in caves during the day, they live deep in the ocean as well. 

Fresh is actually a two in one, he is a rainbow parrotfish with a tongue-eating louse in his mouth. Out of alI the bright fish I did a parrotfish because I really like their gradients, and I think the magenta fins fit his jacket. He's a parasite inside of a Sans body, so I picked a fish parasite to go along with the fish half of his body. I chose the tongue-eating louse, a type of parasite that replaces a fish's tongue. It first severs the blood vessels to the tongue and once it falls off takes its place. feeding on nutrients and acting as a new tongue for the rest of the fish's life, very cool and terrifying.

[adhdandcomics]

do you even KNOW how hard it is to find cool wizards on google that aren’t ai these days. we are so fucked