#lore books

[theglamorousferal]

Do y’all think that if Danny Phantom came out nowadays it woulda been one of those cult following shows that had a lore book that was released alongside it? Like Gravity Falls? I think that woulda been really cool.

I would honestly cry if somehow we got Dana Terrace, Alex Hirsch, Matt Braly or Spencer Wan to do a reboot/revival.

And I want Lil Nas to do the intro.

[erijuice]

Bugtober - Day 8 - Lore:

For the Lore prompt, I will be doing something differently today. Instead of posting artwork, this is a collection of written lore books specifically for my Tales of Bugaria canon.

The Gift

Whether we're dealing with Leafbugs, Roaches, or Giants, we face many hurdles with the language barrier, and thus it can be difficult to decipher their languages.

Fortunately, the Gods have granted a special ability unto a lucky few that gives them the ability to speak and understand both languages. It is what we simply call “The Gift.”

Some acquire it at birth, others acquire it by touching one of the ancient crystals that carry the data and language, and maybe even the souls, of those who have touched it in the past.

I remember there was one bug who could read and decipher the ancient Roach texts. Even so, there are still very few bugs who acquired the Gift, which - to me - is quite a shame!

Just imagine all the amazing things we could learn about our mysterious neighbors if we were to find these blessed bugs living amongst us!

The Flower Gods

Soon after the Day of Awakening, a family of Flower Gods was created. Many bugs have believed that they were the creation of Roaches.

Mars was the first to be "born," ruling over the Eastern Lands beyond the Giant's Lair, followed shortly after by Bugaria's very own Venus. The two were joined by their younger siblings Mercury, Juno, Jupiter, and many others, who ruled over distant bug kingdoms far beyond Bugaria. The youngest of them all is Pluto, who rules over the Northern Lands.

Their different personalities granted them unique abilities. Some of their buds can only speak and hear the outside world, while some of their buds can only see beyond their home, but never be able to speak for themselves.

The question is how did the Roaches - out of all forms of life - create omnipotent beings that control the weather? I have no clue, but this raises even more questions about the ancient Roaches.

Margaret Dolittle

For centuries, we have always believed that the Giants were a long-gone myth. That was until the unexpected arrival of Margaret Dolittle.

This young Giantess, a teenage scavenger from the ashes of a Giant kingdom, had possessed the magic of the ancient crystals inside her bloodstream, thus granting her the Gift to speak and understand Bugnish.

Margaret had famously slain the dreaded Dead Lander Omega, and brought upon a prosperous industrial revolution for the Ant Kingdom. Given her gargantuan size and overwhelming power, Margaret would often ingest a magical potion to shrink herself down and live amongst bugkind.

We know nothing about the kingdom where the Giantess came from, but we are grateful that we got to know more about Maggie's species, we even learned that the Giants refer to themselves as "Humans".

She is still living at the time I'm writing this, and I have to say, all of Bugaria has been a paradise under her protection. She's such a great help to us, probably the greatest help we've ever gotten.

The Wishing Stone

Many children's tales tell of a magical rock that could grant wishes. It was said to have fallen from the sky during the Day of Awakening, or maybe even later.

Legends speak of the Wishing Stone and its omnipotent ability to alter reality unless the wishes are renounced for good.

Some bugs believe that it had a connection with the Roaches, hence why it was hidden in Snakemouth Den. Maybe it was for the best to hide it away, because any bug who would misuse its power would face grave consequences.

It remains somewhere hidden in Snakemouth Den, though it would be very difficult to retrieve it when the caverns of Snakemouth Den are already filled with life-threatening dangers.

[bugs-in-situations]

lore book - broken bonds between selkie and pelt

the relation between a selkie and their pelt is difficult to define by any terms. it is both physical and magical, an intrinsic link, but it is still possible to be strained by great time or distance. it is a bond between two halves of a whole that is nearly impossible to sever... but with great difficulty, it can be.

in the event that the connection between selkie and pelt is broken, the pelt will become inert as if it were dead and the selkie will no longer be able to transform. being unable to transform will cause a chronic form of pelt separation sickness and greatly weaken the selkie in both mind and body. this, fortunately, is a rare occurrence naturally, but certain (highly forbidden and difficult to learn) magic spells can break the connection forcefully.

at the time this book was written, no way has yet been found to heal a broken connection like this. legend tells of a spell that can go beyond this - a spell that can tie an inert pelt to a bug who was not born a selkie, allowing them to transform, feel what their pelt feels, and everything else a natural born selkie can do. while there are no historical or contemporary records of this actually being performed, it is typically posited as a horror story or the subject of an ethical debate.

inert pelts belonging to living selkies are considered legally dead, and thus are allowed to be sold. this is often the best option for selkies who suffer from a broken pelt connection, although it loses some value when it loses the convenient property of shapeshifting. it is not uncommon for these individuals to say that they want their pelt out of their sight as soon as possible. the exact reason for this psychological symptom is still being researched.

[okidraw]

i wanted to show them the stars.

[torchtour]

if it stained my hands silver i too would wear gloves

[foldingfittedsheets]

My paternal grandmother was a librarian. I only got to see that set of grandparents once a year as they lived out of state. I fondly remember summers spent at their house watching That Darn Cat and The King and I on loop, hunting for water skippers in the back creek, and reading the entirety of the Peanuts comics.

Because my grandma was a librarian she was delighted to foster my love of reading. We made trips to the library every week. One summer when I was seven or so I got really into this kids series about princesses all named after gemstones, each had a unique magic power.

At the end of each book was a puzzle or some extra bit of lore to decode. All of them were easily copied down in some way. Until I got to Sapphire’s book. At the end of the story Princess Sapphire was in peril! She needed a hero to come save her from a terrible fate. And there, on the last page, was a decoder device. It needed to be cut out and assembled.

I had to help save the Princess!!! In the iron grip of a fever of imagination I immediately found scissors and started carefully cutting the page. The page warned only to use scissors with an adult present and I scoffed to think I needed supervision just for scissors! I was a hero!Her plight called to me from the pages, imaginings of how I would daringly rescue the beautiful sweet Princess Sapphire ran through my little brain-

And about halfway up the page toward my goal I froze. This was a library book. I couldn’t cut a library book! What was I doing?! Even now in my memory it stands as a glaring example of the first time I mastered impulse control. Tragically, too late.

I was distraught. My grandma had a sacred duty to books and I, villain that I was, had defiled a precious tome! I wallowed for some time in abject misery, experiencing the greatest amount of guilt my tiny body had ever previously held. I’d probably go to jail. For a crime as monumental as wielding scissors against a book I wouldn’t even get dessert in jail.

Gradually, I processed my way through the grief of my vile deeds. I couldn’t have the decoder, I slowly accepted. That might be punishment enough. And I had only cut the page halfway. So it was only half a crime... It wasn’t illegal to lie when you’d aborted an evil act, right?

I didn’t know but I didn’t want to face my grandma’s potential wrath. I have no memory of my grandma ever yelling at me. I waited until the next day to approach her.

“Grandma? I finished my book and when I got to the end I saw someone had cut the page! They probably wanted the decoder because I also want that but it was very bad to cut a book, wasn’t it?”

My grandma regarded me benignly. She carefully took the book to observe it and nodded. “It’s good to see that they stopped before they cut it all the way out. Let’s go tape this together, and then I can photocopy the page and we can make you a decoder.”

I was ecstatic. Rewarded for my honesty! I created and cracked codes for the rest of summer with the flimsy paper creation we’d made. I genuinely doubt my grandma believed that I wasn’t the perpetrator, but I loved that she acknowledged that the person responsible stopped.

[homeofwyrm]

I'm giving Anastasia a try, on the fence

[ba1laur]

2023 darkstalker floating in space doing nothing grinning evily and scary. png 1 and 2

[toabstter]

I am so normal about Bill Cipher (lying)

[glassclownz]

My predictions for Bill’s parents

[g4l4xy-qu33n]

Okay, so I discovered something when re-reading Journal 3. The page that has the Oracle on it:

When I first read Journal 3, years ago, this didn't mean much. Oh look, it's the girl that saved Ford from Bill's possession by putting a metal plate in his head, hooray! (and some other stuff but anyway she didn't seem super significant at the time).

Well, this time around I recognised her, specifically because of the Book Of Bill AND thisisnotawebsitedotcom. She's Seveneyes! (the scratched out member of Bill's crew in BoB, and a blacked-out photo of her appears on the website when you put in 'seven eyes'.

I'm not sure if this means anything, but it certainly blew my mind!!

[turtletoria]

the krampus incident from the book of bill if it was out of character and stupid

[mary-laib]

Just got the book of Bill and here's my favorite snippets (spoiler they're all gay and mostly eluding to BillFord):

Not bro flirting with the pharaoh

This is literally word for word what he did to Stanford in Weirdmageddon

Why do you need a MAN to draw you pretty? Huh Bill?

Okay at this point they're just straight up flirting

And now we got ford x mcguckett??? I'm kicking my feet and giggling rn

Here comes the toxic BillFord

Bill in his breakup era

Will add more if I see anymore BillFord but I ran out of pics I can add to this post so-

[ollywander]

How J.K. Rowling felt after basing Snape on her chemistry teacher (who she quite incorrectly thought hated her) thinking he would never see it (he was good friends with her mother, loved the series, and wrote magical beast fanfiction because he — and I have many sources for this — was a mega-nerd, autistic, multi-talented, innately wizard-ish Welshman).

I looked into this guy because I was wondering what he could have possibly done to get Snape, of all characters, based on him. The only thing I could find was that apparently J.K. Rowling took his autistic socializing as “he doesn’t like me” and that this guy was actually a really nice person. Like, unusually so. I went to read up on it again for the sake of this post and had a bunch of “Oh, that’s right; he totally did have a restroom with disabled access installed in the science department for J.K. Rowling’s T.A. mother who was ill” moments, some “Oh, that’s right; he totally was a pillar of his community who went around doing welfare checks on people with violent exes even when he was on his deathbed” moments, some, “Oh yeah, he totally was a feminist who lobbied for women’s rights on a regular basis (my uncle who likes Harry Potter joked that this is why J.K. Rowling didn’t like him)” moments, and some “Oh, yeah; he totally did used to compare his chemistry class to potion making and wizards when kids got bored and sing about it in Welsh with wizard robes on randomly throughout and at the end of the year like a freaking nerd years before Harry Potter was even conceived” moments.

TL;DR: This has been a J.K. Rowling are you fucking kidding me post and also Snape is a feminist by proxy; I don’t make the rules.

[strange-house-art]

My book AGE OF ROT, the new ”Lore Game Book” published by amazing Hollow Press will be previewed end of October in Lucca Comics and Games. Available on Hollow Press webshop in mid-november

[mfelewzi]

From the Facebook page: Tolkien's Amazing Middle Earth: The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion

ÉOWYN, LADY OF THE SHIELD-ARM

"Not by the hand of man was the Lord of the Nazgul doomed to fall, and in that doom placed his trust. But he was felled by a woman and with the aid of a halfling, and I heard the fading of his last cry borne away by the wind."

- Gandalf (The War of the Ring, HoME vol. 8 )

Art by Dmitry Sivakov

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