#shard tag

[fernsnailz]

BORN TO FAIL - A SONIC THE HEDGEHOG FANZINE

a look into the thoughts, futures, and failures of a select few sonic robots. what lives to they build for themselves, and how do they learn to live in the first place?

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[supd00dle]

prime time

[littleaipom]

This one's for the snarky robots. they could be twins

[felassan]

"Thorne" is a cool surname for Grey Warden Rook.

There's a dagger in DA:O called Thorn of the Dead Gods, which is Grey Warden-themed.

Item description: "No simple blades, these daggers date back to the time of the First Blight. They were crafted in the Tevinter Imperium as weapons to fight against the darkspawn horde, and fell in battle with the mages that first wielded them."

It's associated with Codex Entry: Thorn of the Dead Gods -

"In the moment that it struck, the blade of the Grey Warden who killed Toth, Archdemon of Fire, shattered into three pieces. After the Battle of Hunter Fell, the Wardens carried their fallen brother to Weisshaupt for a hero's burial, but the broken pieces of his sword were left behind. For years, the shards lay forgotten on the battlefield. Steel became etched with the corrupted blood of the dead god. They were eventually discovered by a Nevarran woman, searching among the bones for a sign of her lost son. She sold them to a blacksmith, not knowing what they truly were, for ten bits. The smith, however, knew that he had purchased more than scrap metal, and fashioned the shards into three identical daggers: the Thorns of the Dead Gods. They left his hands and were scattered to the far corners of Thedas. But everywhere they went, the Thorns left misery and loss in their wake. The woman who unearthed them died soon after of plague. The smith fell into his forge. Each person who has held one of the Thorns, even briefly, has died an untimely death."

[shorthaltsjester]

sorry if it was unclear but the clarification on ashton's position in 110 that has made the ugliness of his current ideology clear was not the fact that he listened to what was said to him, it was his claim after that "The shard of titan in me, it's good. If things go the way I think they're going to go... I think nature is ready to right itself one way or another. [...] I think the world is ready for a bit more chaos. I think that we could be good for this place and I think we will more than survive the gods, if it comes to it ."

First, claiming that nature as titan has any moral standing at all is a bold move, because then ashton is ascribing the exact same power structure he thinks is inherently horrible with the gods to the titans. the titans are morally neutral if taken to be part of nature, the shard is just power, ashton's assumption that there is something about the titans that makes their responses and role in the world more right, natural, or most of all good is literally just. textbook essentialism.

but second. one of the first pieces of communication in that exchange was a correction of ashton's thinking (one similar to the correction the matron was trying to draw out as she kept bringing up the agency of mortals and their power). when ashton says "i'm a part of you." they're corrected and told that actually she's a part of ashton. in the literal sense this is obvious that the shard is inside ashton, but it also speaks to the pattern of bh looking everywhere but inward for an answer to what they should do, which is rather comedic given the degree to which ashton is willing to reinterpret anything said to them to get a specific answer but not actually uphold their own agency when it comes to 'nature righting itself.'

particularly i find revealing the "we will more than survive the gods" part. even taken as generously as possible and assuming ashton is just exercising his lack of judgement and does mean all mortals in his use of the "we" pronoun there, he has completely overlooked what was explicitly said about how, if the world is remade, only the strong are likely to survive. paired with the notion that the world needs a bit more chaos after spending weeks with several people whose lives have been irreparably damaged by the chaos that the other person in exandria who is appealing to a greater power to free him from the responsibility of dealing with his trauma at any cost... even my best faith still comes out of that looking at ashton (as someone who literally earlier in the same episode pushed back against his party members being optimistic because it wasn't realistic) as someone acting with naive optimism for blatantly selfish reasons. also just, general icky feelings about ashton referring to nature righting itself, the world getting more chaos, if things go the way he thinks they're going to go in vague, hand-wavy fashion when he should well know, punk icon that he is, all the violence those notions include.

[17th-shard]

The Fourth (Commission) of July 2024

Aaand the final Patreon commission from last July! Once again by pekgna, this one depicts Wax's ascent through Bilming's Independence Tower (aka the Shaw), dealing copious amounts of violence.

Insert call-to-action here about joining our Patreon to vote on upcoming commissions and help us support more fancy awesome fanart from fancy awesome fanartists, you know the drill by now.

[arkacarian]

I love this cutscene so much. Why did Adeleine start throwing rocks at the ocean. She wasn’t trying to skip them. She just threw rocks at the ocean for no reason. Dedede’s face in this frame is just… perfect. He is so confused about what she’s doing. And then everyone just joins in throwing rocks. They must hate the ocean

Or maybe Adeleine was throwing rocks at it because she’s never seen a huge body of water that wasn’t frozen before so she didn’t know what to do. That’s also a possibility

[amy-rose-warrior]

@neo-shard ME TOO I ALSO LIKE SHARD.

[cynicatalyst]

Bolith isn’t a dressy kind of gal, but I’ve been playing too much Infinity Nikki I can’t help it. I NEEDED to draw the evolved dreaming glimmer dress on her.

[archfey-edda]

One fallen, one Falling, one Fallen.

Another midnight doodle.

[scrumptiouscrabmeat]

here's another kirby art i finished last year of the Kirby 64 cast! complete with good and bad ending variants :3 this was a lot of fun to make, since Kirby 64 is one of my most favorite kirby games!

[phantomrev]

dragon requests?? what about the original ones? wisp, flame, rocky, shard- or ultra :0

I always confused Shard and Wisp and got confused when I was younger

Anyway here my favorite is Rocky bc he looks like a bearded dragon

[speckled-biscut]

DAY TWO- SHARDS!

[verlynillust]

Gem hair is rlly hard to draw T T

[impossible-rat-babies]

vierapril day 1--hope

"one day, life will fill the universe again. and hermes will see this and smile"

[exasperatedoctopus]

Do you ever have a ship that you prefer to look at out of the corner of your eye? Like, reading stuff focusing on them is fun, but there’s a special sort of joy that comes from seeing them do unhinged things at each other in the background of some greater narrative.