#lords of the ultra realm

[smashedpages]

Happy birthday, Doug Moench!

[elf-kid2]

Listen to me. Listen.

Shen Yuan dies, and he reincarnates in the world of 'Proud Immortal Demon Way.' Fortunately, he's an NPC! A random extra! An Original Character!

That's right, he just popped out of the ground like a mushroom with a fully-formed body, a decent preinstalled cultivation base, and NO ties with any of the Main Characters! Score!

Wait, why is the treacherous Lord of An Ding Peak out for his blood?!

...Apparently, when he popped out of the ground, newly-transmigrated, with a fully-formed body, he was inadvertently stealing from the Peak Lord's secret patch of ultra-rare, valuable, hard-to-grow Sun-Moon Dew Mushrooms.

Shang Qinghua is super mad about it! And due to his status as a Scum Traitor, he has contacts in the Cultivation World, AND the Demon Realm!

So much for Shen Yuan's dreams of living an anonymous life as a Rogue Cultivator/Monster-Researcher and avoiding the Plot as much as possible; now he has a BOUNTY on his head!

Why did Shang Qinghua even have those Sun-Moon Dew Mushrooms?! Why was this never mentioned in PIDW?! When even ARE they, in the Plot? What's Luo Bingge up to, these days?

...Research indicates that these particular ultra-rare, ultra-valuable, hard-to-grow mushrooms have only a handful of uses. 1) Creating a New Body for someone-- a Dream Demon, for example-- who'd lost their original corporeal form. 2) Resurrection/Necromancy purposes. 3) World's Least-Convenient Method of Making a [Baby/Son/Daughter/Heir].

(The book also said that these mushrooms were considered too delicate and hard to cultivate to be a practical method Gardening Your Own Army of Thralls. If you wanted to do that, you'd use different ultra-rare herbs.)

So! Shen Yuan's got no backstory anyone knows about, he's made an enemy of a Peak Lord with surprisingly far reach, AND his new body may require some special maintenance!

It could be worse! At least he hasn't been in contact with The Protagonist yet!

...Oh No.

[rain-dere]

The thing with Rhaenyra having bastards is that it is an actual problem. I feel like fans who defend her aren’t paying enough attention to how Westerosi treat bastards. And the thing is this is actually a vital flaw of Rhaenyra’s. She has the arrogance and superiority of House Targaryen passed down through generations which leads her to believe she doesn’t need to scheme for heirs that look like Laenor. Why would she even need to do that? After all, isn’t she the realm’s delight, her father’s favorite, his undisputed heir? Who cares what the people at court think or the potential frailty of the promises made by the lords of realm. She is Targaryen, and a dragon rider, and a god among men.

Except that her father- just like she does- thinks that love and the word of Targaryens matters more than optics. More than the unsightly schemes non-Targaryens debase themselves to. This was never about an actual real-life opinion on having children outside of marriage. This is about how a medieval monarchy cannibalized itself and ended its own dynasty with war and bloodshed. Rhaenyra’s ultra-Targaryen beliefs are as crucial to why it falters as those held by her male Targaryen counterparts.

[master-jarrus]

Things that will never happen but I desperately need in Dragons Rising

Warring cults both worship Lloyd

One is serpentine who worship 9 year old Lloyd specifically

The other is a mixed group that has blurry photos (think like big foot photos) of golden Oni Lloyd no one knows how they got them Lloyd definitely recognizes one from when he fought the overlord but the rest are faked but they get him so invested that he’s half convinced his dragon side and oni side spilt and there’s this Oni version of him roaming the country side

Harumi discovered to still be alive and actively instigating these cults because she figured it would summon one the ninja eventually (brother and sister bond NOT shipping her and Lloyd)

Arin and Sora finding out about the golden master prophecy right before this

They don’t connect the dots that Lloyd is golden Oni and think he’s just oddly invested in it out of concern for the followers of 9 year old him

Lloyd going full oni

Lloyd going full dragon

Lloyd having a balanced form of the two no his human form does not count

Lord Garmadon’s return and it starts exactly how rise of the snakes does only for Garmadon to be walking around peaceful using his four arms to carry around a bunch of scrolls and shopping bags following Misako and Vinny around

Sora being shocked that’s Lloyd’s dad

When Lloyd goes full oni Sora goes “oh now I see the family resemblance”

Wyldfire freaking out about Lloyd being part dragon and he never told her!!!! She’s very offended

Kai mentioning how he forgets that Lloyd isn’t human and is ridiculously overpowered

Jays memories take a while to come back but they kidnap him and make him be a ninja with them and he thinks he has Stockholm syndrome for Nya when really it’s his memories slowly resurfacing

Ronin

I want to see the realm of the departed and how that works with the merge. I mean we know the land of the lost prevents the lost from leaving but will the land of the departed stop the living from coming before their time or will they just never be able to leave

Camille the master of form being confirmed as ultra violet

Kai and Nya freaking out about Lloyd’s oni form. Like considering Lloyd didn’t consider that his heritage was important he probably decided not to tell the guys he was able to reach it so Kai and Nya hovering and being helicopter parents

Wyldfire asking Nya about what it was like merging with the sea (idk why but it feels it should be Wyldfire specifically)

Jay overhearing about when Nya turned into the sea and having a strange pang in his chest and next time they are seen together he’s hovering

Cuddle/ sleep pile

Sora and Lloyd make a deal where every week Lloyd tells her one thing she might not have realized they may need to know

It takes a while for Sora and Arin to connect the oni Lloyd cult and Lloyd’s golden form like at least one episode later where they are just talking about how it keeps bugging them and then they both realize and run to Lloyd shouting and demanding answers

[geekofchaos]

I've read too many fics where Vaemond flips out and rebels even when Rhaenyra's children are very clearly legitimate. That's boring.

I want the fic where Rhaenyra and Laenor have children and Vaemond is an ultra-black Loyalist because that the Velaryon bloodline continuing really was that important to him...and then intentionally begins egging on the Greens and their lords because he's still an ambitious and somewhat dim fucker and even if Driftmark is barred to him that doesn't mean the territories of an attainted Green Lord can't be given to a trusted loyal and familial man of Rhaenyra's.

Or just more of that in general - I loved HOTD and how it really emphasized the Greek tragedy, how many of the Black lords and ladies were truly loyal but you can't tell me that there weren't Black and Green knights/second and third sons who weren't intentionally egging it on (because they were stupid summer knights who deeply underestimated how horrific dragonfire really would be and because they didn't even realize they were doing it) because even if war isn't good for the realm at large, that doesn't mean it didn't represent a massive opportunity for them.

Or in short, a lot of ASOIAF fics are very good at showing how the personal becomes political but not how the political becomes the personal. There are way too many fics where characters try and fit wildly different situations into their canon plots/politics/ambitions rather than more naturally adapting their plots/politics/ambitions to fit the new wildly different situation.

[bbygirl-aemond]

every day i wake up and have a bone to pick with Viserys

Him ignoring the whole realm that was acting like it's soccer match day with two rival teams that are known ultras/hooligans.

For gods sake the whole court was color coded and divided 😭😭

And the way he showed his best side to the blacks and the worst to the greens pisses me off

And before that the way he mistreat daemon and Rhaenyra before

him rehiring otto hightower,he was begging for treason at this point

he just ignores problems and hopes they go away

this actually brings me to a point i've been wanting to make for a while: viserys failed rhaenyra nearly as much as he failed his other children.

when she was a child, he essentially ignored her. it's clear from the show that they were not very close at the time that aemma died. of course, aemma's death fractured their relationship even further. how are you supposed to feel about your father when you know that he forced your mother to die in unbearable agony and fear?

it wasn't until viserys made rhaenyra his heir that i think their father-daughter relationship became better. even then, i think viserys did this more out of guilt about aemma than genuine love for rhaenyra. in my mind, aemma was the only person viserys ever really loved, and everything he does in the show is out of guilt for her death.

anyways, then viserys married rhaenyra's best friend, who was like 14-15 at the time, and subjected her to repeated marital rape and clearly unwanted pregnancies. genuinely blows my mind that people seem to ignore how YOUNG alicent was. the power dynamics and age differences make it impossible for her to have "seduced" him the way a good number of people seem to think she did.

this throws another wrench in rhaenyra and viserys's relationship, and one that i think never fully healed; just as rhaenyra and alicent's friendship never fully healed. viserys is the one who took that away from her; he has deprived rhaenyra of the two most important women in her life, one after another.

now we get to the political side of things. viserys straight up failed rhaenyra in every possible way, here. he should have involved her in the politics of king's landing, and allowed her more of a voice on the small council. her actions to rescue baelon's egg from daemon proved that she would have risen to the challenge. he should have educated her further, and given her more advice, about how to be a ruler, and prepared her to one day become queen.

he should have advised her, for example, to never have visible bastards because of how severely it would weaken her claim. and even if she did, he should have stopped her from fleeing to dragonstone, thereby abandoning any effort to form and maintain political alliances with the lords and ladies of westeros.

and, lastly and most importantly, he should have abdicated the throne before he was a literal corpse. i know this isn't necessarily westerosi tradition, but as king he would have easily had the power to do so, and his illness would have also given him a legitimate reason for wanting to withdraw from his duties. it would have been incredibly helpful, for the first, formative years of rhaenyra's reign as queen, to have the previous king so strongly supporting her.

but viserys did none of this. and so, when he died, rhaenyra was miles away, all but a stranger to the court and to the nobility of westeros, and shunned by them because they did not want to eventually place a bastard on the iron throne (rip jacaerys you would've actually been a good king). he could not have created better conditions for the greens to usurp her if he had tried.

[sinnohsiblings]

“HOW DARE THAT LITTLE SHIT RAT SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT!”

Galadriel’s shout shook the very core of the upside down. The echos of her voice causing rubble to break off islands and crush the ones that floated below them. The shrill bleated of a Mareep barely audible above the crashing.

“I should have left them to be warped by this realm. To be changed to look on the outside as hideous as they look on the inside!”

“Would it make them hideous? After all it didn’t make me hideous! Or...am I hideous?” A voice echoed back.

“It shows what you truly are! Of course, it would have warped them into a vile rat!” Galadriel barked.

“Maybe you should let it go, before your rage warps this place further than it already has. Your shouting almost shook my home off its foundation.”

Galadriel paused her tantrum and looked around at the shattered islands that surrounded her. A sudden guilt formed a pit in her stomach seeing her destructive nature lash out. 

“Perhaps I should discuss this with someone with a more level head.”

“Parisa was there. Why not talk to her? She’d understand your feelings far more than I ever could.”

“No no, I can’t do that. She’s still crossed with me losing my temper in another universe and ripping one of its native out of it.”

“Then perhaps your brother?”

“Dagon has enough anxiety with his own duties, he wouldn’t react well at all to hearing I popped my lid.”

“And we both know you can’t talk to your father about it.”

Galadriel thought to herself for a moment before her head perked up and she flew deeper into the upside down until the islands that represented the continents of her universe vanished and after swimming through when felt like hours of empty nothingness, she noticed a set a very familiar floating islands belonging to Alpha’s universe.

Floating over to an island shaped like a crescent moon she opened her mouth and with a bellow opened a rift between the unknown and this new universe. Before she could enter a older gruffer voice echoed behind her.

“What are you doing her young one, this part of the unknown belongs to me.”

“I am here to visit. Am I not allowed to anymore?” She frowned as her eyes settled on the other Giratina.

“Oh, it is you Galadriel! Last time you came her you were half the size. My eyes aren’t what they used to be you know.” The elder Giratina replied gruffly before slithering off towards a different island.

Galadriel rolled her eyes and entered the rift her eyes squinting from the bright light reflecting off the clouds. Shaking her head as he eyes worked to adjust, she was greeted to a bright pink blob.

“Oh hello Plummet.” Galadriel smiled recognizing the voice as she rubbed her eyes, “I am here to see Narcissa. And yes Lord Calama knows I am here. I spoke to him before I entered.”

“Oh! Well, that takes care of that issue. But why do you request an audience with Lady Narcissa. Has something happened with Lord Abbadon?”

“Nothing concerning father no. I just require some guidance on a matter.”

“Very well, I shall take you to Lady Narcissa then. She is currently overseeing the creation of a new solar system with some of the other elders.”

“Lord Alpha isn’t overseeing that?”

“My Lady has taken on some of his duties, forgive me I don’t know any specifics. But if you follow me, I’ll take you to her.”

Galadriel nodded and followed the pink Lunala as they soured through the thick clouds that covered the sky of this planet. She noticed several other Lunala stopping to stare at her in curiosity as they flew by.

“Sorry, many of the younger one’s have not seen a Giratina before. Lord Calama does not leave the void terribly often. Unless we run into issues with ultra beast from our universe crossing to other universes where our kind do not belong.”

Galadriel just nodded and continued to follow for another twenty minutes before the familiar glow of an arc ring caught her eye. Plummet quickly flew ahead before bowing and speaking.

Galadriel smiled seeing her mother and throwing etiquette to the side quickly flew over with glee to bump noses with her.

“It has been so long since I last saw you sneak over to our corner of the multiverse~ It is good to see you my darling destruction.”

“It’s good to see you too! I hope you don’t mind if I stay for a bit. I could use your advice.”

“Anything for you my dear.”

Narcissa is now temporarily available for asks

Her information can be found on the cast page.

[fantasyfantasygames]

SPULTURATORAH!! 2ND EXTERMINATION

SPULTURATORAH!! 2ND EXTERMINATION, Keetoms, 2024

Hot. Off. The. Presses. Directly into my hands before the edges were even trimmed or the cover placed on it. Seven hundred pages of raw ancient retro-future. The author gave this to me on January 2nd and it took me until now to actually read the whole thing.

SPULTURATORAH!! 2ND EXTERMINATION (S2E from here on out to avoid overwhelming us all with Teh Capslock) is a gonzo mashup of different game styles, settings, and genres. The original game (S1E, I guess) is a classic of maximalist game design in a tiny package. In fact, it's so small that there are more pages in S2E than words in S1E. That's ultra-maximalist game design for you.

So what did they do with the 698ish new pages? A lot, thankfully.

30 pages total of ToC, index, thanks, and license. It has its own bespoke license that I am not good enough at lawyer to understand.

10 pages of extra explanation for the original ruleset, which honestly it needed.

20 pages of gonzo backstory for King Gilgamesh. I appreciate that they did not in fact explain where he got the Levitating Darkness Throne. They did a great job folding in the new chapter of the Epic of Gilgamesh that was discovered only recently.

A 40-page adventure set in the Ziggurat of Ur, complete with a Narrative Dungeon linking this place to the Eternal Realm of Narrative Awesome.

9 pages of random-roll tables you can use for Trait One, Trait Two, and Trait Prime.

2 pages to explain the difference between what you can use for the numbered traits and what you can use for the prime trait.

30 pages of alternate uses for TRAIT ZIGGURAT BARLEY.

18 pages of equipment.

31 pages of vehicles and riding animals.

2 pages on currency.

14 pages of hacking rules.

7 pages of rules clarifications from the unofficial 1.4th edition. Nice to see them supporting fan works.

114 pages of monsters, each of which is a mutated version of King Gilgamesh from another universe or a shattered piece of our own, come to drag you back to his den and devour you. There are big ones, scaly ones, porcupine-like ones, multiple fragmented body parts moving together, one rolled into a beholder-like shape, one fused forever into a throne of pure orange light, all kinds of stuff. I like this.

A 6-page writeup of the God Shamash, which is sort of unnecessary but interesting anyway.

A 4-page running edge-to-edge map of Babylon and its rivers

8 pages of word jumble. I think it's a code. I am not entirely certain.

115 pages of adaptations from S2E to other rule systems: Deadlands, Torg, Fate, Altaplana, Numenera, Dungeon War, MSR, and Fantasy Wargaming: THLOA.

Good lord 700 pages is a lot of pages.

1 page accidentally taken up by a single dangling word ("it") at the end of a sentence. I have been there. Doing layout sucks sometimes.

96 pages of color art plates. Right in the middle of the book. The rest of the book has no art. The center has almost 100 solid pages of pinup Babylonian future barbarian blade hunter psychics. It's all the work of one mad genius who is credited as a bunch of black rectangles with diacriticals above and below them

A 3-page essay on why Nobilis is the greatest game ever, which has an acrostic that disclaims the entire section.

4 pages of detailed wargame rules.

22 pages of domain management guidelines.

12 pages of "spoilers". I still do not know what most of these mean.

A 2-page spread of Gilgamesh's family tree.

15 pages of writeups for miscellaneous folks on said tree.

28 pages on the language used in ancient Babylon, complete with cuneiform how-to.

A 16-page "node map" of the retro-future Babylonian cybernet that leads to outer space, where the planets are manifestations of deities.

21 more pages of detail covering the strange planets of our solar system as the Babylonians knew them: their cities, their rulers, little adventure seeds, advice for GMs for running stories in them. I do kind of wonder if someone else wrote this section.

1 page of probability notes, which is all you need for a 1d6-roll-under system really.

An 8-page character sheet, which is a bit excessive for characters with 4 traits.

2 pages that just contain the original game.

I will admit - there is actually too much in this game. I'm not sure it would have worked to make it a string of 50ish short supplements, but it's still an awful lot to absorb. The "maximal game, minimal package" has turned into "ultra-max game in a doorstop package". If S3E ever arrives (presumably with three exclamation points) I hope they do some judicious trimming.

I have no idea if this behemoth will make it to stores, or whether the shipment will collapse under its own gravitational pull and become a black hole. Either way, heck of a collector's item.

[stealthclaw1]

Silly Game Time: Who are some of your favorite magician characters? And what do you like about them?

They can be of any class or variety of magic-user (wizard, witch, sorcerer, warlock, healer, druid, etc.), of any race or species, so long as using magic is *primarily* their thing in the story. Not just something they do occasionally, but something that is a major element of their role and their identity.

One of my favorite wizards that I’ve grown fond of the past few years since getting into Middle Earth is a popular one: Gandalf. I love the inspiration and words he gives to the Fellowship, his fondness for the common folk like the hobbits, his wit, all the good stuff you’ve likely heard many times, so I won’t spend too much time on him.

My two favorites that I have come to love fairly recently (last year or so now) are characters from Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer the Age of Sigmar: Nagash and Balthasar Gelt.

Nagash, also known by such names as: The Great Necromancer, the Supreme Lord of Undeath, the Undying King, the Great Betrayer, and He Who Shall Not Be Named, is one of THE most powerful wizards in the fantasy setting of Warhammer. Necromancy wasn’t even a THING until he made it. He raised zombies and skeletons, he created vampires, he was so powerful that when his attempts to cast spells to kill all life on the world to turn into a kingdom of the dead it was always treated as a genuine threat because to do so was FULLY in his power. To the point when the End Times of the setting came about and he returned, the very Chaos Gods were terrified of his power. Even the world literally ENDING AND EXPLODING didn’t stop him, because by that time he had consumed all of the gods of death and the afterlife to become a full blown god himself. In the Age of Sigmar he’s only become more powerful as god, now having a realm of his own known as Shyash. Almost everything that dies has its soul go to Shyash and belong to Nagash, and god help you if you’ve done anything to displease this petty jackass of a god. He’s condemned souls to tormented existences as wraiths in one of his armies, the Nighthaunt I believe, for the “crime” of being a healer or doctor and prolonging the life of those whose souls belong to him (which is everyone, he’s entitled like that lol).

Balthasar Gelt, while also a bit of an asshole, is more on the “haha funny asshole things to read about” way rather than Nagash’s “funny to watch a guy in fiction being the Ultra Worst” way. Balthasar Gelt is a very powerful wizard in the Lore of Metal. An expert on all things with metal, such as transmutation. He once paid for a ship to take him to a city in the Empire of Man, I think it was Altdorf(?), in bars of gold for the trip. A day or two later, the captain of said ship found that the gold bars he was given had turned back into lead. It should be noted: transmutation isn’t temporary in this setting, there was no need for those gold bars to become lead, Gelt just did that to be a dick. He got a bounty on his head for it, but the problem is that shortly after this he became one of the leading people of the Empire, I think as head mage(?), so it’s not like anyone can ACT on that bounty. I only found out about this guy like a month ago but he’s become a favorite of him to learn about lol.

[goldleaf-blog]

Daughter of God - Chapter 5: Revelation

Also available on ao3

1: Many centuries later the hybrid had children. Two sons. A Son of creation and a son of destruction. 

2: Much like Firstborn and Alpha. Both of opposite powers but were made equals in the eyes of one that gave them birth.

3: One fell into darkness and the other survived and mourned the loss of the one they once loved. 

4: The one who fell had a child of his own. A Great-grand-grand-son, wielder of energy. It seems the legacy of Goldtaris live on. 

5: The balance between good and evil always fluctuates. The Overlord made his presence to Ninjago shortly after his banishment from the First realm. 

6: Three times he return. Three times he was defeated. Purlaris always had malice intent against Goldtaris and his family. Destiny favored the latter. 

7: The fallen dragons who are now known as the Dragon Hunters, build a cruel society where only the strong survive.  They hunted, killed and ate their fellow kin. 

8: The rest of dragon kin who had not fallen had abandoned their once great society and kept their intelligence hidden to insure another rebellion would never happen once. 

9: Some time after the great curse, some dragons flee the realm. They had their reasons and the Firstborn couldn’t blame them. 

10: Eons laters a fusion dragon returned home, Ultra. Only to fall into the hands of the hunters. 

11: One Night two men arrived to her nest demanding the dragon armor. Iron Baron returned for a second round, with the presence sense that the armor was capable of controlling her. She laughed at his delusion. 

12: But the second man was familiar. He bears similar resemblance to the Son of Goldtaris. The other man revealed his deception and told Iron Baron that the Firstborn could only be tamed with a good heart. 

13: The Firstborn killed Iron Baron with her fire and vanquished the evil from his heart. The Dragon Armor was returned to its rightful heir as the Son of Goldtaris’ heart of pure. 

14: One Night two men arrived to her nest and Iron baron was wearing the Dragon Armor. He commanded her to kneel before him. She laughed at his delusion. 

15: But the second man was familiar. He bears similar resemblance to the Son of Goldtaris. When the armor didn’t do anything, Iron Baron attacked the hybrid. 

16: The Firstborn killed Iron Baron with her fire and vanquished the evil from his heart. The son of Goldtaris could not inherit the dragon armor, as his heart was divided. 

17: One Night five men arrived to her nest and they asked her questions. Their leader, a man who was familiar to her, asked her if she could restore memories. 

18: She could but at a price. She should have seen the signs but her determination to see her grandchild happy after so long, she was prepared to grant his wish. 

19: A new dragon lord killed Iron Baron with his fire and vanquished the evil from his heart. The Dragon Armor was melted and used as Iron Baron's demise. 

20: It wasn’t until the Son of Goldtaris left did she realize that she was tricked. Her grief made her mistake the man for her grandchild. 

21: The wish that she granted would have been for peace. The same peace that Purlaris strived for. As she had told, that wish came at a price. A dragon heart awakens. A lord of Chaos released. 

22: Iron Baron’s reign of terror was put to an end. The Dragon hunters were forced to surrender and abandon their evil ways. But this wasn't the path that she had wanted. 

23: When a young man demanded that she answer for her actions. Asking if there was any guilt or remorse. She simply answered  “Wu made his decision. I have chosen not to interfere with that choice"

24: It shouldn’t have been possible to trick a Goddess. But with Chaos combined with grief anything is possible. 

25: Days later. The man now known as Wu returned and apologized for his betrayal. He explained; “I could not control him and for that I am sorry. Had I known better I would never have gone to your nest. I would never seek your aid. I would have preferred my memories to be forever shattered then to become a monster.” 

26: The firstborn response “You are very brave to have returned my child. Not many of my children come to me seeking for my forgiveness. But you are not entirely to blame. I allowed my grief and my guilt of letting your father go persuade me into making an unforgivable choice. My judgment was clouded and my perspective warped. I allowed history to repeat itself all under the illusion that I would be reunited with my grandson. I forgive you for your sins. Now, will you forgive me for mine?” 

27: “You are forgiven Firstborn.” Wu answered. With that Wu befriended the Mother of all dragons. Goddess of creation and Daughter of God. 

[crashhole]

Eight Comics to Sooth a Savage Soul

From Primordial Warriors and Jungle Heroes to Woodland Wildmen and Mutant Berserkers, here are eight comics appeasing our animalistic, hunter/predator-fight or flight-lizard brains. Reminders that man is just an animal trapped in his own zoo

Lord of the Jungle (2022)

A compelling tale starring the og jungle hero, Tarzan! I picked this up on a whim and it became one of my most anticipated reads each month. The writing pulled me through each page as effortlessly as the gorgeous art swings Tarzan from tree to tree

Ka-Zar Lord Of The Savage Land (2021)

Ka-Zar is essentially Marvel’s answer to Tarzan. With animal based powers and a family to protect against the invasive technological metaphor for deforestation, fracking and industrial pollution, this is a really cool and gorgeous miniseries

All Against All (2022)

Pushing “Tarzan” even further into the realm of sci-fi than “Ka-Zar”, this story centers parental trauma around an alien war mining Earth’s creatures for biological weaponry. Ultra violent with hyper intense art enhancing the vibes

Sheena Queen of the Jungle: Fatal Exams (2023)

Sheena is back and is now attending prep school? I’m gonna be honest, not having read any previous “Sheena”, I’m not really sure why she’s there or how old she’s supposed to be, but the school drama is fun between her ecoterrorism!

Bloodrik (2023)

A hyborian hunter looking to eat! This is a 3 issue mini, with the finale issue set to drop next month. Minimalist storytelling sets the stage for phenomenal art with heavy metal overtones, while it’s unique page layouts are giving CLAMP on T

Kroma (2022)

This comic is very different from the others on this list, playing a sort of twist on the Giver crossed with elements of the Wickerman. An absolutely stunning story about propaganda, religious indoctrination, and a sacrificial scapegoat ready to bring it all down

Shirtless Bear-Fighter! (2017)

Are you ready to punch some bears!? Shirtless dedicated his life to protecting the forest, until something happened that turned him onto the war against bearrorism! A really cute comedy with a surprising amount of depth. Raunchy but fairly tame tbh

Wolverine (2020)

Of course I’m adding the most iconic wild man of our time to the list! The current run is a great place to start, especially when paired with X-Force (2020), but any entry in his bibliography is gonna be a wild, messy ride from start to finish.

Thanks for reading my list! Hopefully one of them peaked your interest enough to check out. Here are a few savagely honorable mentions that’re also definitely worth looking into:

Animal Man, Berserk, Conan the Barbarian, Red Sonja, Sabretooth, Swamp Thing

What are some of y’all favorite wild man comics?

[roy-dcm2]

Make the DBZ Movies Canon

I've said it before - I love shonen movies because they're just MORE. More time with the characters we love with a bigger animation budget (most of the time).

Again, imagine being the kid that LOVES Goku in 1997, and you want to see him go all out. Goku only uses SSJ3 twice in the anime, but he uses it 2 more times in the movies. You get 100% more SSJ3 with the movies. (Gear 4th Luffy is in a similar situation)

Also, imagine if fighting was like sex for sayans. How many GOOD fights did Goku have in his adult life? Piccolo, Vegeta, Freezer... maybe Majin Buu? Then it's nothing until Broli, I think.

(What about Cell, or Ginyu or Raditz - If sex ended with you bleeding on the floor, you wouldn't call that a good experience. lol)

But add in the movies and you could count - Jenemba, Android 13, Cooler, Slug... maybe Turles. (Not to mention OG Broly) Plus, all the other ones that were victories for the other characters like Garlik Jr, Bojack, or... Broly. Come to think of it, they were mostly there to make Gohan (or Goten) look good.

(It's almost like they're subs for Goku, when Goku's not around.)

So, here's my ideas on what you could do with the movie villains to add them to the canon in some capacity. Some would be big changes, and other tiny changes.

One big change up would be starting with Dr. Wheelo. Make him the LAST Dragonball villain. The set up is that he wants to be the World's Strongest. He should try to clash with Goku and his friends like 1 year after Goku became tournament champion. Because he's completely out of his debts as a DBZ villain, but he's just tough enough to give Goku + Tien, Yamcha, & Krillin a challenge. And Toei could just RETCON him in say that it happened. (Maybe make a TV special to show it.)

Next guy you gotta keep is Obviously Garlic Junior. He would make a great re-occuring villain for Gohan. Obviously, Dead Zone slots in pretty much unchanged into the anime right now. It's just a matter of who-meets-who when with Gohan/ Krillin/ Kami. I'd LOVE to see GJ capture Videl, or Pan, and he embues them with evil Energy and Gohan has to fight them but also save them.

Turles would require a major overhaul. The concept of the Tree of Might is AWESOME, but the fact that he's a random doppelganger of Goku REALLY stands out. Maybe we could change him to look like Raditz, and what I would do with him is I would actually put him in Universe 7.

This would be a NEW movie where Turles is attacking planet Salad. He hates that the Sayans are good guys in Universe 7, and so he's gonna use the Tree of Might destroy the planet, kill the vast majority of Saiyans, and he's gonna eat the fruit of might to power up. And... what if since he's ESSENTIALLY absorbing a bunch of different Ki, he triggers the Super Sayan God transformation in himself. Of course, it means Kale, Califla, Cabba, and like Goten / Trunks have to save the day.

Here's another great one. Lord Slug. I think they need to give him the Broly treatment. He needs a canon movie in Super. And he's def gonna be an interesting threat because now he can also borrow the new "orange" transformation. And this time, Goku needs Ultra Instinct to take him down.

They could also make him like an Evil Wizard. He's not just terraforming the Earth, now he wants to open up Earth's demon realm to unleash chaos because he feeds off of demon energy. That would also be an excuse to sideline Vegeta.

Meanwhile, Cooler only needs to be reconned into those two years where they were training to fight the Androids.

And then Metal Cooler can return after Majin Buu. In this new version, both Goku and Vegeta can go SSJ2, and Goku can say SSJ3 just burns too much ki.

A weird one would be Super Android 13. I think he works as a Terminator homage. (Like 3 robots just show up at a mall wanting to kill Goku) But there's NO WAY to make him work. There's no space where we can keep Goku, Vegeta, Trunks around. So i'd place him somewhere else...

The only place where he would make sense is in "The Great Saiyaman" Saga. Ya know, after the timeskip, but before the Buu Saga starts. So, it would be Teen Gohan, Goten, and Trunks (and Vegeta / Piccolo) taking him on. With Gohan going SSJ2 for the win.

(That would be great since Broly 2 is definitely on a dead timeline.)

Obviously, Bojack slots in almost completely unchanged. This is after Cell is dead. There's nothing stopping Toriyama/ Toyotaro/ Toei from saying it happened. Another WIN for Gohan.

BTW, they could also redo "Bio-Broly" and instead of being a clone of Broly, it could be a clone of Bojack. (Bio-Bojack)

Jenemba is a weird one. A big draw of the movie is seeing Goku and Vegeta have to do the Fusion. That means we'd have to add him to what is now the end of the "timeline" after the canon Broly (/SH) movie. This does mean that neither Goku or Vegeta are dead, but that doesn't matter much.

They could start off by letting the dead warriors like Pikkon and Olibu fight. (Or maybe a team of villains taking on Jenemba for time off their sentence or reincarnation, like Cell or Bojack.)

Then Jenemba reaches his final form and the path to the living world opens up, and we get the chance for Gogeta to win the day.

Finally, there's Hirudegarn. Again, he slots in without a problem after Majin Buu.

But really finally, there's one more antagonist that needs to be added to the official Canon and that is "Baby." What makes him great is the body-snatcher/ body horror aspect. He's a synthetic alien parasite.

They could change him up a little bit. So that he's not made by the Truffles, and instead he's made by the Cerealians. He was a bioweapon they weren't able to implement before they were wiped out.

It's main plan is to destroy Freezer and his empire. So, Baby starts in space until someone like Jacco accidentally takes it to Earth. It be best to make it TWO movies. One where Baby takes over, and then a last desperate band that has to take on Baby Vegeta with Ultra Ego.

[moonlight-eternal]

Greetings, denizens of this intangible ſpace. I am Gwyndolin, Goddess of the Darkmoon, lastborn child of the Great Lord Gwyn, patron goddess of justice and bearer of the Soul of Cold. Events have conſpired to bring me to this other place against my will. I worry greatly for Lordran in mine abſence, for the First Flame ever fadeth and, though diſtasteful is the act, ſacrifices must be offered as kindling with regularity, with the world's ſurvival prolonged in proportion to the magnitude of souls a ſavior Linketh unto the flame. The time approacheth again mere decades hence and preparations must be made to train the next heroic Undead and guide them along the path; to that end I seek return to the lands of my birth, that I might lay out the ſtrengthening challenges once more.

While here, however, I do resolve to learn of this odd realm, and to partake of its hoſpitality and its challenges. I am, outside of duty, a scholar: of three forms of magic, and of archery, and it would be remiſs to recuse myself from learning as well the skill of battling with pokemon. Therefore I do swear to train a team and ascend to Champion, should time allow while my search progreſseth toward a way to travel home.

I have one pokemon already, though I know its ſpecies not. Twas a brown and large-eared ſort, with fluffy tail, which did approach me like a cat upon my Fall. Foolishly I did reach out in trust, against my cautious habit, and as my fingers brushed across its fur a change did come at once. The beaſt now sporteth fur of white, with ribbons upon her neck all tipped in pink and blue. I have named her Ornstein, after a friend most dear to me, who did transform her body just like this creature, and myself in past, have done.

A settlement lieth ahead along the road; I shall make my way to its gates and seek insight as to the journey ahead.

[OOC info under the cut.]

Hi it's me again from @the-fluffiest-trainer, yes I know Dark Souls is quite a different vibe from MLP, but it's also my favorite game ever and I can't let the growing crowd of Bloodborne Fallers have all the fun, now can I? Gwyndolin and Fluttershy are in the same world and the same Kalos and can conceivably run into each other. This is mostly because I am still not very familiar with pokemon and didn't want to have to double my research and play through another game in parallel, but also because it will be really funny to see them meet.

This world is closer to the anime than to the games, with expanded regions and less emphasis on hard game mechanical details in pokemon battles. I write what makes sense from the perspective of living in the world, even if the numbers and code might not agree.

Important info and ground rules:

With this blog in particular, much more so than with Fluttershy's blog, I am going to have a very twitchy finger on the block button. This has nothing to do with you; this is just due to my own personal requirements in this specific context.

Pronouns are she/her exclusively. IC misgendering will be responded to with hostility. OOC misgendering may get you blocked, because it means you haven't read this pinned post and I really need people to have read this before interacting.

Gwyndolin arrived to Kalos via random ultra wormhole, same as many Fallers, from roughly the ds1 player's time period.

Pelipper mail is on, however...

I am extremely autistic about this game and I guarantee I know what ds1 canon does and does not say. If you make reference to something that's in ds3 but not in ds1, I will know.

If you put ds3 shit in my inbox, I will almost certainly not respond to it.

If the above happens too frequently, I will close all mail. And that's no fun for any of us.

If you send me particularly graphic or offensive ds3 shit, I will block you. Do not fucking test me on this.

Gwyndolin's pokemon team:

Ornstein (she/her), sylveon, who found Gwyndolin upon her Fall as an eevee but evolved instantly upon being pet, just due to the sheer transgender energy Gwyndolin imparted.

Andre (he/him), snom, found on Route 19 and initially thought to be a crystal lizard.

Sif (she/her), yamper, found alongside Radagon in the wilderness near Anistar City.

Radagon (he/him), yamper (shiny), found alongside Sif in the wilderness near Anistar City.

N/A

N/A

[unknown]'s pokemon team:

Nort (he/him), zoroark

Velkotaq (he/him), corviknight

Lozcar (she/her), malamar

Marshadow (they/them), marshadow

N/A

N/A

Text colors and formats used:

Gwyndolin: Standard black text

Visual description in videos: [Bracketed italicized black text]

[unknown]: Purple text. This person first appeared in the "#impish stranger arc". All that is known about them is that they are short, redheaded, have a zoroark named Nort, and also hail from Lordran.

Gym Leader Olympia: Blue text. First introduced in the "#anistar rumors arc", her psychic abilities may prove useful in tracking down the stranger noted above.

Fluttershy (@the-fluffiest-trainer): Pink text.

Twindolin: Teal text. AU Gwyndolin from a worse Lordran, introduced in the MMM "Moon Moon" and managed to stay in the pokemon world.

Content warnings for this blog, current and future:

Canonical events of Pokemon X

Trainers can be affected by pokemon moves if improperly targeted

Possible mentions of past transphobia and parental abuse

Not post-apocalyptic themes per se, more like... actively working to push off a foreseeable apocalypse. If Gwyndolin gets home again and does her job, there never will be an apocalypse.

Occasional high-stakes plots which may involve injury and/or death, for both pokemon and trainers.

Current deviations from normal:

Gwyndolin got cat ears pelipper mailed to her. It took her weeks to notice she had them because of the mask she wears all the time.

Story arcs so far:

Intro arc (no tag): Gwyndolin Falls into eastern Kalos and finds a starter pokemon. She takes on a dragon-type gym in a noncanon small town.

#cold wind arc: On the way to the nearest large city, Snowbelle, Gwyndolin investigates what appears to be a creature native to Lordran.

#impish stranger arc: Gwyndolin happens upon a person who cannot be focused on or remembered later, but who shows up on video. Investigation leads to this person revealing they are also from Lordran, then leaving town and threatening Gwyndolin with bodily harm if she tries to find them again.

#week of weeks mini-arc: The road is out to the north of Snowbelle, so Gwyndolin takes the back roads through a tiny town, arriving just in time for a local holiday. She learns about other traditions and meets a very gay woman named Ruth.

#anistar rumors arc: Everyone in Anistar City is strangely hostile for no apparent reason. The psychic gym leader Olympia informs Gwyndolin that a stranger passed through recently and spread unpleasant rumors about her, then made themself forgotten when they left. Also there was an incident with some zucchini.

#mmm: moon moon: An alternate Gwyndolin falls into Kalos, from a timeline in which the Dark overtook Lordran. She does not wish to return home, and with Gwyndolin's help manages to remain.

[freyayuki]

Final Fantasy Record Keeper Final Fantasy XIV Dreams Dungeon

Currently, in the Final Fantasy Record Keeper (FFRK) mobile game, there are time-limited missions associated with clearing a Final Fantasy XIV Cardia Dungeon quest.

IIRC, you need to clear a FF14 Cardia Dungeon quest 5 times and with at least 3 chars who are from Final Fantasy XIV in order to get all the rewards.

The Final Fantasy XIV Dreams Dungeon Infernal fight is quest level 350. Since I haven’t done this quest yet, decided to try clearing this now.

Don’t have a lot of relics that belong to Final Fantasy XIV chars though so I decided to do this fight with 2 off-realm chars.

Of course, one of my off-realm chars was Genesis Rhapsodos from Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII.

Currently, Genesis is one of my absolute, most favorite chars in Final Fantasy VII (#ad). He’s the reason why I’m playing Final Fantasy Record Keeper.

Have all of his relics and I bring him everywhere I can, even to fights with enemies that resist the fire element (Genesis is a physical fire DPS).

Limit Break Overstrike (LBO), Light of Doom

Synchro Arcane Soul Break (SASB), Purgatorial Wave

Awakened Arcane Soul Break (AASB), Genesis Rhapsody

Arcane Overstrike Soul Break (AOSB), SOLDIER’s Epic

Ultra Soul Break (USB), Apocalypse Genesis

Glint+ Soul Break 1 (G+1), Epic of Creation

Glint+ Soul Break 2 (G+2), Epic of Heroism

Glint Soul Break (G), Epic of Destruction

Legend Materia Relic (LMR), Fierce Opposition

The rest of my team for the Final Fantasy XIV Dreams Dungeon Infernal quest was the following:

Balthier (Ffamran mied Bunansa) from Final Fantasy XII

Chain Soul Break 2 (CSB2), Incendiary Trap

AASB, Untouchable Hellfire

G+2, Scarlet Sky Fluke

Burst Soul Break 1 (BSB1), Gatling Gun

BSB2, Spark of Change

USB2, Edge of Treachery

Genesis served as my main and only DPS. He’s a physical fire elemental attacker, which was why I brought Balthier to support him.

Balthier has a fire Chain Soul Break which buffs fire damage and increases the party’s attack. He can also imperil the fire element, which will further increase Genesis’s damage output.

Cid Garlond from Final Fantasy XIV

I don’t have any of Cid Garlond’s relics. Only brought him along because he can use Wrath and Entrust. Had Cid Entrust his gauges to Balthier so he can juggle between casting his Chain and his imperil USB.

Also had Cid Entrust his gauges to Y’shtola so she can keep on casting her USB to heal the party.

Alphinaud Leveilleur from Final Fantasy XIV

Have Alphinaud Leveilleur’s AASB, Glint+ and Burst. Too bad I’m missing his Sync.

Alphinaud does very well on my magical wind elemental team but here on this fight, his damage was rather subpar since I didn’t really have anything to support him.

Y’shtola Rhul from Final Fantasy XIV

Like with Cid, I don’t have anything for Y’shtola Rhul either. Had to lens her Secret of the Lily USB though because she’s acting as my healer.

Had to equip Y’shtola with Hastega since I don’t have any other sources for Haste. Her second slot has Curada for more healing. She did well enough but I definitely would have preferred to bring along my usual healers.

My Magicite deck and passives consisted of the following:

Odin (Ultra Attack) (Lord’s Seal: Ice only though) - Blade Ward and Spell Ward

Shiva - Health Boon and Healing Boon

Ifrit - 2 Empower Fire

Madeen - Attack Boon and Deadly Strikes

Madeen - Health Boon and Fast Act

Managed to win. Even got sub-30 with the fight ending at 22.36 seconds. Genesis did really well as my main DPS. Everyone else did well enough too.

Super pleased to have been able to use Genesis on a fight where it was preferable to go in with a full realm team.

You’re heavily encouraged to clear fights in the Cardia Dungeons by fielding a full party made up of chars that belong to the same realm because there are penalties the more off-realm chars you bring.

So to be able to bring my fave Genesis to these fights as an off-realm char and still be able to win is really super special awesome.

Conclusion

So what about you? Have you tried any of the Cardia Dungeons fights yet? Did you bring any off-realm chars to these battles? What do you think about these quests? Feel free to share your thoughts and opinions by leaving a comment below or by reblogging or replying to this post.

Notes:

screenshots are from my Final Fantasy Record Keeper game account

[xxdoubledaisyxx]

I do not have time to waste solving your problems when you are the government itself existing for that very purpose. You will sit. We will forget. you will not. The US government are the dogs eating the scraps from the Lord's table. The citizens free from civil duty by liberty of self enjoyment are the Lord, one and only. This is not a matter of discussion nor faith.

That will be how we do things around here, and I am going to ensure it is never changed again. I am going to carve my name into the bleeding tree of life that suffers the pain of existence with any being: NB so that everyone will know the difference between a tree and a man when they are spying from the shadows in some government conspiracy that uses children as spies.

Stop that immediately.

You people are idiots to think such measures would be necessary against a civilized enemy like our own neighbors. Do not embarrass me by expressing such arrogance in the sight of the Lord. I will strike you down.

Like a thief with a knife,

you confiscated

from another man.

I will cut my way through this corruption to the core and end this problem as soon as possible.

Help if you can, this is everyone's concern.

Friends! Amici!

I am a real life adventurer, like Adol Christin. No joke. I thought you may like to know that this kind of problem is my specialty at resolving, and I know I'm not alone in feeling that way. My companions, wherever you are, I will find you... wherever you are.

I may like to boast, but this is not one of those times. How many adventurers do you know about in life? Have you ever met a self acclaimed "adventurer" like Nick?

Don't we save the world with a uber powermagic full blast ultra attack style combo with a three one liner resomancy, unlimited exclusive finalizer...KYAH!!! to send it home.

Don't we always run about doing random quests and side jobs for people for small reward? You do not need to be persecuting people like me, because then you are making yourselves the recipient of that uber powermagic, and you will suffer consequences of my wrath for the sake of maidenly Justice.

It is only natural for the cutest of the cute to dominate a realm. It is the pink truth about life that applies to us all, but sometimes stained with a deep black while remaining pink all the same. The goddess passing through.

[sinnohsiblings]

(@askpokemoncrossover) Sai @ Narcissa: The lucario looked up at the lunala with a stunned awe before re-focusing himself, despite being a bit shy afterwards. "Is there a reason why you look like that? I mean... you stand out other than most Lunala I've heard of especially with that halo of yours so, i'm just curious..."

Narcissa: "Genetics is an appropriate answer, I suppose? My gold was much lighter before I evolved, but I've always been this way. As for my father, I'd put money on him being a Naganadel! Gold Is the second most common color seen in that species!"

"Or perhaps he is a Solgaleo from another ultra-beast universe with unlimited colors like ours? My mother used to sneak past Lord Calama and hop realms often in her youth. And she was a.....sociable woman. So my golden color may have come from anywhere!"