#paksenarrion dorthansdotter

[quohotos]

Yes, I should be working right now, I am procrastinating, but with that out of the way this is what has captured my mind as of right now.

You know that human echo location isn't like... fictional, right? Like yeah Collins doesn't portray it 100% accurately, she uses creative liberty in the way it's presented but people 100% can and have learned how to echo locate. There was a really good episode of the radio lab podcast about it, about a blind guy who could ride a bicycle and was trying to train other children to echo locate the way he had growing up. An off hand comment in the podcast mentioned that if you placed a mic in each ear of a person, had them walk around a room making noise and then played back that recording in stereo later they'd be able to visualize the room just as they had before.

Dude you could totally make a VR game that worked that way. Vr already has stereo positional audio that's positionally and rotationally tracked. I wonder how feasible it would be to do like audio ray tracing where you could use GPU acceleration to simulate acoustics of the environment. Could you make an audio only VR game that someone trained to echo locate could play?

Idk if there are any highly educated programmers/accessibility researchers who for whatever reason haven't figured out what they want to do for their thesis you could always try this...

[writersarea]

Tagged by: @heyylittlesongbird

prompt: post a poll with five of your favorite characters and let your followers choose their favorite (oh shit)

I tag: @funkyfaerie @thebibliosphere @lizziesquire @famousmusician and anyone else who wants to join in!

[frankenmouse]

10 characters, 10 fandoms, 10 tags:

I’ve been tagged by @chang-e-official!

So here are ten characters from ten fandoms. These aren’t necessarily my blorbos, but characters I thought were compelling and have remained with me.

1. Larry Trainor, Doom Patrol

2. Mordin Solus, Mass Effect

3. Zagreus, Hades (video game)

4. Alistair Therin, Dragon Age: Origins

5. Karlach, Baldur’s Gate 3

6. Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter, Deed of Paksenarrion (book)

7. Cole Cassidy (née Jesse McCree), Overwatch

8. John Marston, Red Dead Redemption

9. Corvo Attano, Dishonored

10. Nick Valentine, Fallout 4

And if you want to participate…

@liquidlyrium @theggning @shadoedseptmbr @msbarrows @frogspawned @classywastelandbread-blog @mossworm

and anyone else who wants to play!

[quohotos]

I present to you, my Magnum Opus. The Underland Chronicles rendered in the style of an early 2000s flash based point and click adventure game (the MNOG)

I have spent so long on this. Inkscape doesn't log total project time the way Krita does, but it's the most time I've spent on any single piece of vector art. Even then there's still a million things I want to go in and change but... aaaaaa you have to cut it off somewhere. I have been copy pasting rats for hours, and don't even get me started on the shadows. The shadows look good, they are not physically accurate. I tried.

Here are some bonus features!

No text overlay. Clean if you want to print it or make it a desktop background.

Close up on Solovet and Ajax I've never actually drawn Solovet, or any underlanders really. I definitely am phoning it in by framing her from behind. When it came to designing what kind of armor they'd wear I took inspiration from both Greek and Roman designs. Ajax was originally much more saturated red until @paksenarrion-dorthansdotter corrected me. The books describe him as dried blood colored. (please don't look too close at the rats they don't hold up to scrutiny)

Close up on Ripred. He looks just a little bit small and fat in this one, but that's just because he's slouching. When he stands up it all stays in his hips and ass. I always draw Ripred like he appeared on my cover of Code of Claw. The scar on his face isn't really visible from this angle because it cuts left to right and he's looking left.

Lastly, here's Gregor and Ares. There is an official design for his armor as seen on the cover of my copy of Code of Claw. I redesigned it because I thought that version looked kinda pants, tbh. Little goofy and hard to take seriously.

The great thing about vector art is you can zoom in and obsess over tiny little details that end up only being like 4 pixels wide in the final export. Case in point, these rando flyers. Such minute detail that gets flattened out to a single pixel in some cases.

Sidenote: I always imagined the flyers as more microbat inspired, which is why I draw them with tails... but these ones end up looking very flying fox-like and have also some megabat proportions. This isn't really an intentional artistic choice, it's just a compromise I had to strike to make them look decent. I need to practice drawing microbats more.

Oh well. The author isn't that descriptive about their proportions so I guess it's up to interpretation.

Lastly, here's the original sketch that I traced over. A lot of features ultimately got cut, as well as the dimensions to the side being changed. Solovet originally was going to have a braid but then I remembered that line from the first book where Luxa explains that you have to cut your hair to go to war. Ripred also looked a lot more teddy bear like in the sketch, so I ended up not even tracing him. Bane was a redraw, and I actually did trace part of Ajax and then just frehanded the rest.

If anyone is reading this far and hasn't read the underland Chronicles, now is a great time to go to your local library and pick it up. These books slap and this tiny community would love to suffer our brainrot welcome you into our fold.

Fly You High

[quohotos]

Yeah this is basically all I want out of life

please enjoy this eastern grass owl. owls are so important to me please observe him

[quohotos]

@paksenarrion-dorthansdotter got me this for my birthday. Not posting it on my birthday of course, gotta maintain my anonymousnessityness

[elizabethemerald]

Canon Ace/Aro Character!

Speaking of Ace and Aro rep, a canon asexual and aromantic character is Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter of Three Firs from the series The Deed of Paksenarrion by Elizabeth Moon. 

She repeatedly through out the three book trilogy insists that she is uninterested in a romantic or sexual relationship with any of her companions or anyone at all. Her closest friends in the series know this and respect her decision and will jump to her defense if anyone says anything against her. Not that she needs any help with defending herself. By the end of the first book in the series, Sheepfarmer’s Daughter, she is one of the best swords women in her company. By the end of the series there is likely no human that could stand against her. 

[headlesssamurai]

TOP FAVORITE CHARACTERS 

Rules: List your favorite character from 10 different Fandoms and tag 10 people

Tagged by @hazel-san

I had to think really hard about this one. And I don’t know about “fandoms”, but just, like, here’s some characters I super duper adore and enjoy for various reasons. I remain highly undecided, and flustered and conflicted, and I doubt I can think of every one even over the several sittings it took me to compile this. But here goes (in no particular order):

Sanjuro Kuwabatake - Yojimbo 

Special Agent Fox Mulder - The X-Files 

Commander Beverly Crusher, PhD - Star Trek: The Next Generation 

Elizabeth Bennet - Pride and Prejudice (novel) 

Mattie Ross - True Grit (2010)

Marty McFly - Back to the Future (film trilogy)

Princess Leia Organa - Star Wars

Harry Dresden - The Dresden Files (novel series) 

Jayne Cobb - Firefly 

Bill Munny - Unforgiven

Samus Aran - Metroid (video game series) 

Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger - The Dark Tower (novel series)

Han Solo - Star Wars 

Gul Dukat - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 

Faye Valentine - Cowboy Bebop 

Samwise Gamgee - The Lord of the Rings (novel series) 

Clementine - Telltale’s The Walking Dead (video game series)

Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter - The Deed of Paksenarrion (novel series)

The Predator - Predator (film series) 

Hamish Goames - Barkskins 

Batman - Detective Comic Books (in general) 

Henry Chinaski - Post Office (specifically) and other Bukowski fiction (generally) 

Garrus Vakarian - Mass Effect (video games series) 

Natasha Romanoff the Black Widow - Marvel Cinematic Universe 

Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley - Alien (film series) 

Indiana Jones, PhD - Indiana Jones (film series) 

Matrim Cauthon - The Wheel of Time (novel series) 

Hundred Eyes - Marco Polo (Netflix) 

Amos - The Expanse (TV series) 

Jane Eyre - Jane Eyre (novel) 

Darth Vader - Star Wars

Major Samantha Carter (PhD) - Stargate SG-1 

Finn the Human - Adventure Time

Whirrun of Bligh - The Heroes (novel) 

Luv - Blade Runner 2049 

Kanbei Shimada - Seven Samurai 

Al Swearengen - Deadwood 

Croaker - The Black Company (novel series)

Jill Valentine - Resident Evil (video game series) 

Karen Paige - Daredevil & The Punisher (Netflix) 

Joanna Wellick - Mr. Robot 

Conan of Cimmeria - as originally written of by Robert E. Howard 

Vax’ildan - Critical Role (web series) 

Oh. Was that more than ten? Meh. There’s probably like fifteen-hundred more I’ve failed to mention here. Good gods, I can’t think of them all, and shall need to revisit this again some day. Anyhow, thanks for the tag, hazel-san.  

I personally dislike the word favorite in this context. For me, these are characters that have impressed me by their story arc over time, touched me in such a way as to be unforgettable, influenced my nature from childhood up to my current years, or just seriously cause me to become enriched within the story of which they’re a part. To say one is more “favored” than another is a bit oversimple, I reckon. But I’ll shut up, you get it I’m sure. 

Uh. I’m supposed to tag people now for their top ten characters from things. Not sure who tag though. Uh-um. 

@ificiy  @chicklet87  @godzillaapproved  @tallninjarebel  @ksana-salamandra  @roguetelemetry  @alphagravy  @architectplayground @azeria-san @worshipthewired​ @hug-your-face​ @dash-digital @ravenswolf  @boucoupdinkydau  @le-noir-rabbit 

Stay nerdy, my friends.   侍   

[siras13]

@paksenarrion-dorthansdotter

no offense but you guys need to learn the difference between someone implying their experience is universal and a post simply just not being about you

[is-there-gay-in-it]

Paksenarrion "Paks" Dorthansdotter

Title: The Deed of Paksenarrion (trilogy) Category: Book Author: Elizabeth Moon Status: First Billed First Appearance: Book 1, Sheepfarmer’s Daughter Orientation: Asexual Orientation Confirmed: Book 1, Sheepfarmer’s Daughter

Check the read more to see if the character is alive and other trigger warnings. 

Paks is alive at the end of her trilogy.

Trigger warnings: assault (Book 1, Sheepfarmer’s Daughter), sexual assault (Book 2, Divided Allegiance), 

[annies-red-pen]

If you were going on a quest, which 5 characters from fantasy novels would you take with you (and why)?

Hermione Granger (HP) for the observation skills and magic

Legolas Greenleaf (LotR) for the flexible combat and elf sight

Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter (Deed of Paksenarrion) just in case it's a spiritual thing, plus heavy combat

Ren the Nekomancer (Monstress) because he's cute and can do magic that no one else can

Iorek Byrnison (HDM) for the snark and because I think he and Paks could probably find and kill anything

Iorek and Paks would hold down any heavy fighting and armor. Ren and Legolas would be a perfect team for sneaking and spying. Hermione and Ren would immediately become friends and talk about their favorite books and become experts in whatever quest we were doing.

[amphipodgirl]

llThanks for the tag @ohnoimfangirlingagain

Favorite females tag! List 10 favorite female characters (and the fandoms they are in) and tag 10 people (or don’t; I don’t want to pressure anybody!)

Mine aren’t all really from fandoms as such.

Penelope Bunce (Carry On)

Blue Sargent (The Raven Cycle)

Marigold Heavenly Nostrils (Phoebe and Her Unicorn)

Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter (Deed of Paksenarrion)

Miss Marple (Agatha Christie)

Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax novels)

Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan (The Vorkosigan Saga)

Mo (Dykes to Watch Out For)

Jo March (Little Women)

Glenda Sugarbean (Discworld)

Tagging @carryonsimoncarryonbaz @sharing-a-room-with-an-open-fire @motherscarf @caitybuglove23 @daisy---bug @llamapyjamas @belalugosiisdead @pipsqueakparker @scone-lover @thehoneyedhufflepuff

[siras13]

@paksenarrion-dorthansdotter

I've slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I've drawn on Tumblr!

[metatiki]

10 Favorite Things

Rules: name 10 favorite characters from 10 different things and then tag 10 people. Tagged by the stupendous @opal-bee, who is honestly one of the best people ever. Thank you!

In no particular order, here are my fave 10 things:

Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter - Elizabeth Moon trilogy

Prince Kheldar/Silk - Belgariad/Mallorean

Dorian Pavus - Dragon Age

Joachim Valentine/Grand Papillon - Shadow Hearts

Cloud Strife - Final Fantasy

Schmendrick - The Last Unicorn

Vanyel Ashkevron - Valdemar

Samwise Gamgee - Lord of the Rings

Buckaroo Banzai

Samuel Vimes - Discworld

And now I’m tagging other people! @ramonadecember, @lathboraxviran, @hexlorde, @the-red-dame, @enigmalea, @jupiter235, @bh-chaotic, @gangsterbee, @smoothintheshell, and @portraitoftheoddity.

[wearepaladin]

Hey Galadin! Do you have any favorite paladin (or paladin-like) characters?

Hi! Thank you for this question! I’m sorry I haven’t been on top of things. Poor sleep + end of semester = a very tired squire. 

This is off the cuff, so apologies if I missed anyone! 

Most of The Knights of the Round Table are paladin like, with exceptions (AGRAVAIN, seriously, Arthur, I know he’s your nephew but WTF?), but going by paladinness my favs are Gawain and Percival. Gawain because he’s The Maiden’s Knight and just so goddamn dreamy. Percival because he lives that 20 WIS, 6 INT life. Pure of heart, dumb of ass.

And of course, there’s the guy who inspired the class we love, Holger Carlson from Three Hearts and Three Lions. Good, solid dude. He starts the novel as a Danish Resistance Fighter taking down Nazis and it only gets better from there, folks. I also love Carahue from the same book, though I resent the implication that you have to convert to Christianity to be a paladin. (If anyone wants to talk about creating non-Christian paladins, hmu at @weareladyknight I’d love to hear people’s thoughts!)

Speaking of non-Christian paladins, there’s our own Paladin’s Tarek Al-Amir. Ideal Paladin, Embodiment of Divine Light, accompanied by some truly beautiful and unique imagery. Compassionate, but uncompromising in what is right, great backstory and really, really fun to rp with!  

I’d be remiss if I didn’t bring up Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter of The Deed of Paksenarrion fame. Through hardship, doubt, challenges and circumstances that would make GRRM faint, she remains true to herself and her principals. Also, Elizabeth Moon wrote the books out of spite. She got annoyed at the notion that traditional paladins were “boring” and set out to prove those jerks wrong. And I dig that. 

Okay, I could not get through the first Song of Ice and Fire and I never bothered with the show. (And yes, I am very smug about being right). But Brienne of motherfucking Tarth a.k.a. The Most Decent Person in Westeros, Terror of Men, The Baddest Bitch, Keeper of the Realness is simply the GOAT. She believes in the ideals of knighthood and makes good on her beliefs. And she should have ended up with Sansa do not @ me. 

And of course, there’s Good Boy Corporal Carrot. @aethersea said it best:

my favorite thing about Corporal Carrot is that he’s a romantic hero plopped right in the middle of the greediest cesspit of a chaotic neutral city ever to debase the pages of literature, and yet instead of having his shining idealism destroyed by an uncaring reality, he makes reality embarrassedly put down the weapons and agree to make nice, and then mutter an awkward “Good morning” whenever it passes him on the street. 

There’s a lot of superheroes who have paladinlike qualities so it’s really hard to pick. I do occasionally go on a kick about a particular one (rn it’s Iron Man), but when it comes to my favorite, the one who I love from the bottom of my heart, it’s Wonder Woman. Peace, love, justice, equality, fuck yes. And of course, this quote from Gail Simone: 

Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it

And finally, I have to give a shout out to my own OC, Gwinna Octaven, Duchess of Ursa, Eriah’s Claw, Lady Knight. I deliberately made her a power fantasy. Tall, strong, skilled, and charismatic as hell. Not that she doesn’t struggle. Do the ends justify the means? Am I worthy? Why should I listen to God anyways? She has principals, sticks to them and kicks ass. Also, she will steal your horse, your squire and your girl if you cross her. I love playing her and writing her. She’s simply the best. 

I’m sure I’ve forgotten people. So reblog and add your favs! I can’t wait to read about them! 

~ Squire 

[heulevescant]

Ten favorite characters from 10 different things, tag 10 ppl. I was tagged by @ailinu

1) lirael (super obvious lol)

2) Eadaz uq-Nāra (priory of the orange tree)

3) Tracey (join the party. I would die for him ok)

4) Taako (Taz)

5) Kireth Vanos (Elder scrolls online)

6) Cassandra Pentaghast (dragon age)

7) Aelia (Daughter of the Sun)

8) Paksenarrion Dorthansdotter (The deed of paksenarrion)

9) Calamity (no evil)

10) Allen Walker (d. gray-man)

Not in any particular order after lirael lol. I'm not tagging anyone but feel free to do it if u want!!!