#like… ‘classic’ fantasy

[kimchaewonstie]

should I read the Outlander series?

[oddipop]

a tiny Riz Gukgak aka The Ball

[elvyn]

Fancy ✨

[artronenergy]

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

[namedvesta]

𝑏𝑦 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑊𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟.

[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.

[royalpumpkinplanet]

[mightymizora]

Very sexy of the Durgetash fandom to have collectively lost our minds over the potential romantic reading of about four lines of dialogue and a handful of environmental storytelling elements in a game that has some of the most varied and interesting actual romance options of all time.

[filurig]

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

[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

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

On the left is the werewolf...do I actually need to explain what a werewolf is? Can be a wolf, a person, or a larger wolf person. Normal people, but with the constant undercurrent urge to go wild. Look, all the writers do is rant about "it could be evil or maybe not OR MAYBE SOMETIMES." because they, like me, know you know what this is.

A person-sized wind elemental that's invisible outside slight visual distortion like a heat haze. To the point that the early editions just had a blank space for thier picture! Issue is that we don't actually know anything about them on thier home plane, being invisible air in an endless sky. Like yeah, they're told to kill and steal when they're forced to be here, but we only really know two things about them. They would rather be home than here, and they hate these mages who keep forcing them to be here instead of home.

so yeah. werewolf or angry wind?

[fairydrowning]

I think the greatest form of intimacy is to understand someone.

[ezlo-x]

While I dont have the mental strength atm to play Zelda II i at least know the story and premise hee hee

Disturbing as hell when in game Link dies and his blood is used to revive Ganon like that’s cool but that is also terrifying

[mirabritart]

"A Song of Ice and Fire" sounds like it could be a magical girl anime c'mon let's be real

Individuals below the cut!