#mod lyre

[ask-saiki-and-friends]

what is Akechi's favorite time of day? also did you know that seltzer (also known as "soda water" "club soda" "seltzer water" and, by my father, "fizzy water with a smell") is originally from Germany?

[ink-au-askblog]

For everyone: Now that you get closer, what do you think of other Inks?

neon: everyone's nice! my favourite's memory though- CHAOS!!

[aeonvy]

pfp I made as a gift for a friend! It's his minecraft oc from our little smp :) Liwei the feline!

[forgivenfolly]

realizing i have to do the gposes before actually starting the fight and this is really sending me like i knew he was stupid tall but i didn't think lyre only came up to his tits

[urfavesarequadranted]

scp-2127-lord and scp-2127-lyre are moirails (use the image in the article captioned "The only image contained on SCP-2721-LORD's private blog.")

SCP-2127-lord and SCP-2127-lyre from SCP are moirails!

[weirdcornerofthemultiverse]

Omg KIBBY *gives the cat creature cat nip*

DC: i dont know where you came from but no, not a fan. catnip REEKS

[thetoastyurge]

The real reason to use party limit removers

[lyricalchrysanthemum]

*squeaky noise sfx*

bonus big kids

[kindlyre]

i'm glad you liked it!!

and yeah i had that same thing at first, sdr2 SEEMS flatter but it really isn't- also, the free time events are better. in 2, you really learn about the characters while in v3, its a tossup between actual character info and meaningless fucking around (kaito's free time events.... are so bad. i love kaito so much, hate his fte's tho)

AND I WAS gonna address the "the showrunners are getting lazy" argument but i forgort because... look at how long that behemoth is 😭 and YEAH you're 100% right, it's a get out of jail free card for the irl writers bc the second you criticize this game u get someone going "UHHH it was INTENTIONAL?!"

was it thooooooooooo??

and yeah v3's ending is gonna suck so fucking hard. literally killed my excitement abt the series for a while :/

ouma was shafted so hard by the narrative. the best character in the game and they do this to him. its like hes punished for having agency and being a Little Weird. its clear they wanted to pull a komaeda but komaeda was dangerous from the START, ouma was just dishonest. so it feels a lot less like "ostracizing a legitimate percieved threat" and a lot more like "bullying the neurodivergent kid"

psst also my fiancé wrote Another Thesis with some more points if u'd like

I have come to realize that, to me, one of the worst crimes a piece of fiction can commit is being mean-spirited. Just about anything else can be good in certain circumstances. But a mean-spirited work diminishes anyone who encounters it.

[takekawa]

how. how did you get here

[aureliosinistrum]

Hey it's me, temple man. Today I present to you a temple dedicated to Apollo! It's a remake from a previous design, and takes more Hellenic influence than Roman in it's architecture

I once again have challenged myself with making something of monumental scale. Super fun to build, and very time consuming. Overall, I'd say it was a success, and I learned many new things about building while working on it.

As you can see, it's more Greek than Roman, which I thought would be cool to do. I also added this big dome on the top, inspired by the one in Pantheon. That means there is this spotlight inside the temple that moves as the day goes on. If you have your sun position set to zero (like the vanilla sun), it'll actually illuminate the 3 statues of Apollo I made. First the sun, then the lyre, and finally the bow.

As you can also see, I put some handy dandy Latin on the temple. I'm not the best of Latinists, but I tried writing "In dedication of Apollo and of the Gods". I couldn't find anything for ancient Greek, so apologies lol.

I also did this one with mainly vanilla blocks. One day, I'm thinking about posting this world for download, so having as little mods as possible would be preferable, to make the installation process easier.

(also, not sure who the last guy in the final picture is. He just kind of walked in here one day. Who the fuck even is Will S.? /j /ref)

[drakomod]

Still been on a bit of a bard Finley kick, so of course I had to make him a ref!! This guy is so ridiculously pink.

His main outfit is from the BG3 Mystical Fashions mod! With some minor changes. The first outfit on the far left is an original one designed by me, you can see the full fit here. The other 3 are pulled directly from the game. And I could have honestly grabbed more XP He has so many outfits.

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More about Tiefling Bard Finley under the cut :D (Finley is an OC of mine that has been made into a Tav for BG3, so technically this is an AU!)

Finley grew up as an urchin outside and around Baldur's Gate. He was, as most tieflings are, treated very poorly growing up and mostly raised himself on the streets. He had big dreams that could never quite be stomped out after he had found a love for music in a music box, and later, a broken lute.

He met another young tiefling named Paisley, a young boy with a particularly strong affinity for fire. With Finley's love for music and storytelling, and Paisley's magical talents, they were able to perform on the streets and do their best to keep themselves alive.... With the odd pick pocketing here and there when necessary.

Later he managed to find work in a brothel. He had hoped for it to be his first real gig as a musician, but was offered better pay for other services that he couldn't rightfully refuse from his current living situation. Only later, when he got to go out and adventure with friends, did he truly get to be the bard he had always wanted to be.

Other fun facts!

Finley does like pink, and mainly wears it to match his skin to look non-threatening. His actual favourite colour is blue.

Since tieflings face a lot of racism and comments about their fiendish nature, Finley greatly dislikes being compared to demons and devils and can sometimes take well-meaning comments a little too seriously.

The markings on his face are partially a birth mark, partially a face tattoo funnily enough. He hasn't had the best influences in friends and partners, and previously dated someone who wanted to practice tattoos with his birthmark. Luckily it's not too bad.

He was born with heterochromia and is actually able to see invisibility without casting any spells.

the pouches on his waist hold spell components and other useful items, he also has a little latch there that holds his flute.

His primary instrument is his lyre, but since it's big and potentially unwieldly at times, he has the flute as a backup. He could also sing to cast his spells, but that can be greatly effected by his condition and emotions.

He's a bard of valor, and isn't opposed to getting down and dirty with the rest of his party. His high Dex allows him to practically tank for the party if needed. And by tank, I mean just not get hit.

He's a Mephistopheles tiefling

His glasses have a loop in the metal arms to wrap around his ear to avoid losing them in combat. It's not fool proof though and still does happen sometimes.

For people who aren't familiar with BG3 tieflings, those ridges on his skin are not body modifications, but actual bumps and ridges underneath his skin that he was born with.

[ink-au-askblog]

I am very bad about thinking of actual questions

But I would absolutely love to hug everyone that would be alright with it!

I can give some gifts to those who wouldn't be. I have many plushies and stuff I can offer :D

Memory accepts the hug !

Parasite ....

Lavender is ok with a plushie :]

neon would love a hug -lyre

[aeonvy]

classes have been keeping me busy so i havent had time to do much but here, have this dragon sketch i did i think 2 weeks ago (i dont know how to render oceans and i have no idea how i'll shade this (help))

it's how i interpret tidewings from the dragonfire mod :)

[forgivenfolly]

kind of feel like a beast pacing my enclosure from not doing mods for so long like i need to make a mashup

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Monkey Man and why I loved the heck out of it

At it's core, it's a Bollywood flick presented to the West with familiar nods to previous action films - I definitely picked up hints of Tony Jaa's influence on Asian action flicks throughout.

It's heavily focused on police corruption, something commented a lot about in India, and here, more importantly, Indian films. Just like America has its love affair with mobster flicks, Bollywood has a long history featuring films that showcase police corruption, sometimes tied into political extremism, fanatical or greedy religious leaders, and Monkey Man comments on all this as well and pays nods to that commonality. We've got televangelists and religious leaders in the states funnelling money, preaching prosperity gospel, and using it to influence politics and fund lavish lifestyles here.

Monkey Man shows this happening in India, and is filled with Indian culture and symbolism through out. The focus on Hanuman, the god and one worshiped by the strong, chaste, wrestlers, champions, and fighters. It's a common thing to have a household deity if you will. Some families might choose to focus worship on Ganesh, others Hanuman, some might do Mata Rani or Lakshmi. Here, it's the divine Vanara (monkey people race) - one of the Chiranjivi - immortals/forever-lived.

Hanuman. Themes of rebirth, common in South Asian history and mythology are present from Kid being a ringer, beat up fighter getting whooped for money to being reborn and facing his trauma through a ritual/meditate process that I don't want to get too much into to not spoil the movie. Post that, he begins his own self alchemy to really become the true Monkey Man. Nods to Ramayama, and an unapologetically Indian story featuring dialogues throughout in Hindi - don't worry, there are subtitles.

And of course a love for action flicks before it, all the way back to Bruce Lee. A beautiful use tbh of an autorickshaw (and you might know them as tuk-tuks in Thailand) which are popular in India with an added kick...I swear, that thing had to be modified with a hayabusa motor. Which is an actual thing people do - modding those dinky rickshaws with motorcycle engines, and considering they weigh nothing at all, they can REALLY FLY once you do that.

Monkey Man brings to the big screen other elements of India people might not know about, such as the gender non conforming and trans community that has a long history in India, presenting them as action stars as they go up against a system of corrupt elites oppressing part of the city, marginalized communities, and minority voices as depicted in the film. I'm not sure if people are going to get all of that without having the context, but I love that it does it without holding anyone's hands.

It's a fun action flick to see in the age of superhero films, and I say that as an obvious superhero/sff nerd. Also loved that Dev included a little bit about Hanuman's own story in the film, and the loss of his powers - almost mirrored by Kid's own loss of self/skills, strength until he confronts his trauma and is reborn, and in fact, remade (not necessarily the same). Also, the use of music was brilliant, including one scene with a tabla (the paired hand drums of south asia) - and Indian music is central to Indian stories.

This is a culture with evidence going back to the Paleolithic with cave murals showing art of Indian dance nearly 30,000 years ago. Yeah, that far back. As well as Mesolithic period art depicting musical instruments such as gongs, lyres, and more.

Indian music is some of the earliest we can find that has high developed beat and rhythm structures such as 5, 7, 9 and now the extremely common and known 4/4 and 3/4 - which so much of Western music is built upon. The foundations and experimentation of/in Jazz. John Coltrane and John Cage were heavily inspired by Indian music and incorporated a lot from it into their works. And Monkey Man blends Eastern and Western music through the narrative as comfortably as it does an Indian story in a very familiar Western accessible structure.

Dev did a wonderful job. And thanks to Jordan Peele for bringing it to screens.