#prince chess

[merciafantasy]

My friend: So what type of men are you into?

Me:

A men who give me a bad boy vibes and have black or darker hair

[trickytrick]

hii!! would you mind doing one where Arthur and Merlin get out of a bad situation (bandits perhaps?) and they're hugging each other

or if you want something fluffier, maybe Arthur, Merlin, Morgana, and Gwen playing chess in teams? (the teams are Arthur against the three of them, he's winning, until Merlin makes up some absurd move, does it, and "wins" the game by just capturing the king on a whim)

your art is so lovely !! smitten Arthur is also one of my favorite arthurs :D

VERY soft merthur alert…. a sort of “what if” of diamond of the day part 1 if merlin went with arthur even without his magic and he almost died and arthur actually saved him for a change. did it thinking of the scene where merlin screams for gwaine as he escorts him to che crystal cave :((((

also i liked both ideas so here’s a way MORE CHEERY drawing of them playing chess but i remixed it bc i couldn’t get morgana right and ragequit the drawing… if you get the reference please let’s get married rn

[chatlote]

while your interest in chess is generally known, do you have any thoughts on sudoku? i figure as a solo logic game it's pretty fun, especially because most of my friends don't wanna learn chess </3

I have to agree, Sudoku is a good game for those who want a brain workout and have no one to play other mentally challenging games with. I tend to do Sudoku and Crossword puzzles on the local newspaper.

[m00nb04rd5]

Can I have a moodboard for Dexter Charming from Ever After High?

Dexter Charming (Ever After High)

[timegays]

They are all so so silly to me

[nalyra-dreaming]

something just hit me. Lestat's last chess game with Claudia was foreshadowing. How she surprised him. He thought he knew what she was doing, only to turn around and go in a different direction.

And him screaming "move your piece finish the game!" Hello Louis! Do it. Finish it.

I swear I'm not this dumb lol but sometimes I'm so focused on everything at the surface that I forget to look beyond that. Best part of rewatching is reliving all these moments with fresher eyes.

:) The chess game was incredible.

I talked about it here (though I thought the "broadcasting theory" was solid then, but it was a clue after all as we know now. Still, I do think he reacts to her, at least instinctively):

Here is a good post on it all by someone else, too (that I reblogged):

AND, if I may:

The outburst after is NOT just yelling - it carries a lot of meaning, that Louis... glosses over in the tale, for a lot of reasons:

But in any case - this show is brilliant, all the way into the last level or hint. The chess game they used is incredible, too, namely the infamous: "The Immortal"

Just incredible on all levels :))

[demonforthesemen]

Was thinking of how I've seen Lucifer called the Prince of Lies and have now become obsessed with the idea of Lucifer never technically lying. He'll tell half truths, he'll omit, he'll misdirect, he'll avoid, and he'll distract, but he won't ever outright lie. Of course, this doesn't mean he's telling the truth either.

[darnossweater]

Bruhhhh I am glad I didn't know there was a newish season of Dragon Prince until now because I have no idea how I would have waited more than 2 days for the finale. Please let these kids have a normal childhood and not have to carry the weight of the world on their shoulders

[bananadogpilllow]

laurent: how dare you fuck me. This is obvi an elaborate scheme created by my uncle to mind fuck me.

Damen: literally you wanted to fuck! I said no fucking!

Laurent: you wanted to fuck me more! I have receipts!

[unlikely-adversaries-bracket]

R1M31

@funkylittlebaldcharapoll - link to poll

@purpleboytournament - link to poll

[killjoy-prince]

had a dream I played chess with Alhaitham and I was setting up the pieces and I always get confused which square the king and queen go on so I asked him and he said the king goes on the square the same color as the color you're playing as and the queen goes next to it.

I woke up before a winner could be determined but I googled it just now and he was wrong. The king goes on the color opposite of the one you're playing

[self-spaghettification]

catboyed ur fav

[tajmutthall]

here's a germ of an oddball story idea for Captive prince, spawned by the Wikipedia article about "interregnum." Among all the discussions of tsars and kings and emperors and queens and princes, including historical and fictional, there is a section on chess!

what if it were CHESS that determined the next ruler of each country? citing Wikipedia: "FIDE, the world governing body of international chess competition, has had two Interregnum periods of having no chess champions, both during the 1940s." (the preceding men's champion died of natural causes and the preceding women's champion was killed during World War II.)

so – – of the top of my head, Theomedes won the championships that gave him sovereignty one at a time over Akielos, Delpha, etc (as cited somewhere in the books I think) rather than warfare. And he continued to win whenever challenged. Damen of course trained with the best chess masters in expectation of winning after his father's death in the future. Aleron had likewise gained the Kingship of Vere, and of course Auguste had been winning all the lesser chess titles in expectation of following his father.

meanwhile, Kastor had been learning chess since he was old enough to understand the rules, and his father had abandoned his training after Damen came along. But he continued training in secret. And then one day he challenged Damen but managed to drug him before the match and so Kastor won.

meanwhile part two, in Vere, Aleron died probably by some evil plot and ditto Auguste before he could prove his championship, and then the Regent either faked his own championship or simply decided that that was a stupid way to become king and took over by force…

so eventually Laurent has to beat the Regent in chess publicly before the Regent kills him, and he has to try to beat Damen, possibly in private, because it was something to do with Auguste losing to Damen in a chess match that led to his death... but, twist, Laurent actually wins that private match? I mean, it's Laurent. And chess.

That is all. I doubt I'm going to write that.

Tip: Roger Zelazny wrote a short story, "unicorn variations", about chess where some human had to play chess against the unicorn in charge of the world to save humanity (?), And Zelazny wrote sometime after it won awards that he had scoured the details of chess games from many championships until he found one that had sort of a "tricky" and unexpected move that allowed the underdog to beat the current champion. And he worked that into the story. 

[kaeyachi]

prince kaeya theory?

nah

king kaeya theory more like

[aestheticsoftheinternet]

Self-Indulgent Lear Moodboard

[the-gayest-show]

Oh don't worry I'm the anonymous asker who asked you the two previous asks that had questions in them, as well as the ask that pointed out that the "The👑✨ Ultimate *Sofia the First* Character Ask Game✨️👑" seemed suspiciously like AI. I had asked you those questions with the numbers in them to point out how certain specific questions were basically exactly the same with slightly different wording, because I wanted to see if you'd figure out that it was suspicious, but then I just decided to heck with it and pointed out how AI fishy smelling I thought it was.

oh so that was the motive all along? interesting!! i just saw the one with AI first so i answered it first but now that i'm REALLY really looking at it, yeah even looking at 33 and 81 which were the two you mentioned, it's just. the same question. deadass.

and now im looking thru ALL the questions you sent and it is in fact almost the same question with different wording.

also omfggggg THEY GOT THE LORE WRONG. question 4 "princess zandar" PRINCE!!! ITS PRINCE!!!!

it truly is written like a mf who hasn't the foggiest idea of what they wrote fr

also clover? granting wishes??? when?? he's the least magical mf there! sure he's top tier comedy but if he could grant wishes he would've just spawned carrots forever for himself

also question 28. im hoping the vibe they were going for was "king for a day" (you know. like the episode king for a day [had some solid cedric moments in that one]) but princess for a day? nothing would fucking change for the people yo.

also i keep seeing "royal archery contest" and like. am i forgetting episodes again because i don't remember this???? iirc there was an episode where sofia shot an arrow but that was carol of the arrow and it wasn't a "royal" contest (carol of the arrow was solidly anti-royalty) and i dont even think it was a contest??

also what even IS a "Royal Royalty Contest"????? once again moving AWAY from stf lore and onto absolute yap

"If you could bring any mythical creature to life" brother they have mermaids and unicorns and trolls and shit in this universe canonically there is NOTHING else i'd WANT alive??? fairies exist too bro what even is that question fr

so basically yeah anon thanks for letting me know because otherwise i would've actually fallen for it (curse my inability to pay attention to the details!) so much for thinking some dedicated fan actually grinded to type up an ask game....