#plotdesigner

[hot-take-tournament]

Happy Valentine’s Day! Remember to get valentines from astolfo in FGO before the event ends!

happy val...

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oh

OH

DROP EVERYTHING

WE NEED TO MOVE

[curufiin]

fmk for curufin the blacksmith: angrist, glamdring, ringil

He’d rather not shove swords up his ass but of course he’s marrying Angrist. That’s his baby. “Marry Angrist. Fuck… Ringil? And reclaim the metal of Glamdring. Really, I don’t see why it’s so highly regarded. It seems quite mediocre to me.”

[sealer-of-wenkamui]

I think Limbo's third ascension/lore is hidden behind lostbelt heian kyo completion, alas ;w; (sits in no oberon 3 ascend with you)

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I guess both of them will not have their final ascensions for a while then 😔

[lemonadesoda]

i would like to hear about the wizard research projects 👀

The wizard research projects! The wizard research projects have nothing to do with the plot (probably.) The wizard research projects are nerd shit that exist because I am a scientist. The wizard research projects include:

Ecological impacts of magically-mutated fauna in non-arcane biomes: magic creatures that mutated in the region leave and become invasive species outside the region?

Health outcomes from the consumption of spontaneously-mutated magical crops: your pumpkins sometimes go wacky. people are eating them anyway because what the hell. Risks?

Applied topology in sigil design for more efficient energy output: draw sigil better, maybe store more magic in it

Analysis of sustainability of spell component crystal harvesting and improvements to crystal farming: we do a lot of magic here, are we over-mining the mountains? Is that affecting underdark habitat? Can we grow usable spell crystals in a lab

Spell linguistics: combining somatic and verbal components for casters using sign language: not all casters can speak. Can techniques be refined to improve casting safety and efficiency? Implications of these techniques for Silencing/Anti-caster strategy?

It's a lot of random shit, tbh. None of these are extremely fleshed out, but they come up as I'm worldbuilding because I'm thinking through what kind of society would develop if weird powers were the norm. I have no idea if my players will ever interact with academics, but if they ever do, i will be ready with a bunch of nerds for them to talk to who are doing everything in their power to take magic apart so they can put it back together but better. Come on, people have got to be studying arcane ecology. And political science. And magical taxonomy (angry debates over whether some effect is transmutation or necromancy). Somewhere out there, there is a man-eating slime cube that a wizard keeps in a pit and studies and that wizard absolutely loves the slime cube and will tell everyone about the biology of the slime cube.

I'm trying to figure out what their rail system would look like. I'm pretty sure they've invented rail. Also what does Create and Destroy Water imply for the law of conservation of matter? Someone has looked into that, I'm sure. Whoever invented that spell probably started a lot of fights at the universities.

[hellofeanor]

this might already be happening in the brittle stars sequel, but - nanil and Adar meet again in Valinor. (And promptly become four times as annoying to elves together than they were separately.) peng is thrilled tho

LMAO I do have all of these things on the to-do list for the Brittle Star sequel! I just need to. You know. Get it all written.

[jaclynhyde]

Congrats!!! He’s finally here!!

i never thought it would happen…..

[malkaleh]

It is not that Angband is darkness - darkness has much beauty in it - the song in a midnight sky, upon the sea, in the stillness of before Arda was. Angband is smog, a choking suffocating lack and a sullen glow.

That is not the fire flower that is called Mairon. Mairon is a warmth, the sweetness of a summer fire, of shelter and peace and good even here. Except for the collar and chain. Except for the lamp, the beautifully crafted lamp that is so cruelly so.

But the fire flower lets Adar hide beneath the lamp light and the flower sings. Even when Mairon has lost hope for himself entirely, he sings.

Adar lets fire flower hide too. They hide together - the pain of being the favourite, the ‘favoured’ the half things. They keep themselves still and quiet and fire flower mairon tries to ease things. He tries.

The darkest one never stops doting on Mairon - it is cruel - how tender that cruelty is, how much love is in it. Little Ember - why, why do you make me confine you so, my sweet one. And the other one, the one who wants the darkest ones caresses and love, his hands tighten in Adars hair - jealous jealous anger.

(Uncorrupted Mairon for @plotdesigner and @verecunda 🫶🏼)

[greenleaf4stuff]

Adar x Celebrimbor Edit

(screenshots via cap-that.com) (my other trop edits)

This edit was specifically made for a scene in ’in my scar covered heart, color will always exist’ by @plotdesigner, but as with all my edits, I also want to share them in general with everyone who loves the pairing/the ship and wants some nice graphics/edits to look at <3

Also I accidentally gave myself/the Adar fandom the closest thing we might ever get to a nenya-fied Mawle!Adar I think? I didn't even intend for the color to make it look like he's got a healthier skintone. But I certainly love how this came out!

[greenleaf4stuff]

Thank you so much @plotdesigner for sending this to me! <3

Using this to tell the amazing ppl I know that I love their stuff and am so thankful for their efforts (be it fanfic, fanart, memes, graphics, edits, theory posts etc) - you make this site a richer, more lively place and I feel like stepping into a confectioner's shop whenever I open my dash because of you! <3: @ailendolin @radiant-sunlight-blueberry @fumbles-mcstupid @hextechmaturgy @plotdesigner @themalhambird @janacariad @illegalcerebral @wowstrawberrycow @gauntletgirlie @thephoenixandthecrocodile @cestpasfaux24601 @askereiniongilgalad @adarssuggestionbox @myblacksailstales @shestoodintears @eowyn7023 @itwillbeourswansong @valar-did-me-wrong @varda-star-queen @rivendellwatch @finchxs-reverie and soooo many others! <3

i made this version of that popular cake meme as a love letter to my favourite artists, writers, editors etc who keep making content about my favourite characters/ship

ermm

I LOVE YALL!!!!!!!!

[hot-take-tournament]

Surprise astolfo rate up from Tuesday the 21 ti Friday the 24!! Heads up!! Stolf activated!!

*yawn* sorry guys, i know it's been a while. i've just been really swamped with work recently, but i promise, i'll make another poll s-

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huh?

HUH?????????

PEOPLE, THIS IS NOT A DRILL

WE HAVE A CRITICAL STOLF SITUATION

[gauntletgirlie]

Last Line Game

Rules: Share the latest line from your work in progress and then tag as many people as there are words in the line.

I was tagged by @greenleaf4stuff in this post. Thanks for the tag 😁

This is from a (very) future draft chapter of my main fic Delicate Light in a Weary Dark; Veins of Ice in an Iron Heart.

He would purify her flesh with his own as many times as it took to rid her of he who deserved her not.

Twenty-three people to tag, I’ll do my best!

No pressure as always! @greenleaf4stuff (haha tagging you back to make up the numbers 😝), @whenimaunicorn, @gingeragenda, @varda-star-queen, @itwillbeourswansong, @iwanderbecauseimlost, @thiddleston, @themalhambird, @daughterofthesunlands, @wowstrawberrycow, @baddybaddyadardaddy, @plotdesigner, @perlen-gold, @calmlyy-chaotiic, @inkdusth, @withallthatisleftofmyheart, @earthlybeam, @lazyneonrabbitt, @permanentlyexhaustedpigeon88, @mai-komagata, @thephoenixandthecrocodile, @saintstars, and @sauronianer. Phew, I made it 😅

[valar-did-me-wrong]

ROP Underdogs Day 7 @the-southlands

Best crack for last.. here's to my very beloved:

Melkor's Nude Statue ✨

I'm gonna make sure you all go down in history with this one @mcpayne @erulasse23 @hikarielizabethbloom @verecunda @gingeragenda @daughterofthesunlands @mai-komagata @plotdesigner @irenthel 😭🫣🫶🏽

This post came to be because I wanted to make my last submission to this event something special, aka my fav crack underdog, Melkor's Nude Statue! But sadly I couldn't find a way to make a meme of that without a visual from the show When?!?! Mcpayne.. so I thought I'd rather make a post celebrating it's creation instead :3 :D This is legit my fav crack of this fandom 😭🫶🏽

[corsicanchevalier]

My word, the flashback I had

Before youtube and lets plays letting us see games (and some anime) without playing them ourselves, there were

Zarla's Screencap Adventures on livejournal - which are now hosted on their own site:

https://www.ashido.com/screencaps.html

Silver Chaos is under the yaoi section. It is very NSFW.

how it feels liking and reblogging posts

[themalhambird]

@malkaleh @plotdesigner - the top end of the Chain Of News following Adar et. al. arriving on the borders of Lindon...

"My King."

A glance is all Gil-galad needs to know that something is Not Right. Glorfindal has swapped his usual radiant armour for plain, hardwearing mail and a drab cloak, a standard guard's helmet concealing his hair in a manner that seems to defy the confines of available space. How on Arda he's managed to cram it all in-

...Eru, Gil-galad is even more exhausted than he feels if, pouring over maps and troop lists and correspondance with the dwarves in Khazad-dum and Thranduil in the Greenwood and what mortal men can be reached and reasoned with, his concern is skittering down tangents about Glorfindal's hair. "What news?" he asks and, taking in the waterskin and waybread pouch at his friend's hip, "Where do you ride?"

"The border," Glorfindal says. "News has come from the patrols that way, there is-" hope and distrust seem to war on his face. "The present unrest may have dislodged survivors from Gondolin."

...Gil-Galad stares. "What."

Glorfindal shakes his head. "I don't know. A group of strange elves, in the company of a man and his young offspring, sought entrance to Lindon using the old phrases. It is not clear, but whether that is because the report has come up to me via a chain of several tongues or because the situation itself is unclear...it is possible that a group of survivors fled Gondolin's fall to the furthest mortal settlement they could and have stayed there until the present conflict made it too dangerous to be so sundered from their king- the mortal may be a friend, or adopted kinsman, or- the patrol who met them may not have realised that the children are..."

"Peredhel," Gil-galad says quietly, as he senses the other elf's hesitation.He attempts a smile, though he fears it may be more of a grimace. "You can speak it without exacerbating my present griefs, old friend," he lies, and Glorfindel- though he is too well mannered and too loyal to argue with his king on such a point, does arch his eyebrow, which speaks his disagreement just as elequontly as any words might.

"The guards at the border sent a second report not long after their first," Glorfindal says quietly. "Of seeing a flash of gold, in a shade not seen in Lindon since the Lady Galadriel last rode out."

Gil-galad stiffens. "How would survivors from Gondolin come by a lock of Galadriel's hair?"

Glorfindal grimaces. "There are three possibilities. First, it is simple error- a trick of how the light from the Star of High Hope caught a coin, or some other token. Second, these strangers were taken from Gondolin, and held as thralls so long by the enemy that they ceased to be watched for signs of escape. They had some contact with the Lady Galadriel when she and the others were taken by Sauron, and have smuggled a token of her survival, and word of her whereabouts from whatever prison they have escaped. Third- this is some trick of the enemy's. I will go myself to find the truth of it, but do not care to trumpet my identity; if these elves do hail from Gondolin they will know me by my face; an enemy spy who knows the phrases only because his master pulled them from the mouths of those he tormented would rely on sigils and armour to see how he might play for my trust and pity."

Gil-galad nods. "Go," he says, "Ride as swiftly as you can."

"My king." Glorfindal bows and departs; Gil-galad, suddenly shaking, braces himself against the table for support. He takes a few deep breaths, and looks to the Page waiting discreetly in the corner of the room.

"Wake Lord Cirdan," he instructs. "Tell him that there is either imminent news of lost kin- or imminent news of an attack on Lindon's borders."

[niennawept]

For legal reasons, the characters in this book are Generic Moriondo and Nondescript Elf Commander of the Cardinal direction. (The legal reasons are Gil-galad doesn't want to get assassinated.)

Comic made possible by the goofing abilities of @plotdesigner and @hellofeanor

[iwanderbecauseimlost]

@mcpayne @erulasse23 @hikarielizabethbloom @verecunda @gingeragenda @daughterofthesunlands @mai-komagata @plotdesigner @irenthel @valar-did-me-wrong @gauntletgirlie

There you go. I haven't spoken to some of you before, but your sensational ideas have inspired me so much that I couldn't but help spend my whole evening on this.

My sincere apologies and gratitude 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 🙏🏼 to a Mr. Cesare Mancini whose tomb I used as inspiration for this slutty, slutty, drawing. (The statue of Melkor was based off him.)

Look at this beauty. Anyway.