#thavma

[lavena]

Billy Batson HC

Billy has what others think are lichtenberg scars.

And he did in fact get them from lightning, so he too thought he had lichtenberg scars.

However as time passed and they didn't fade, and he fell more comfortably into his roll as Champion of Magic, a hero, and most notably, Heir to the Rock of Eternity, he noticed something.

After a flash messed with the timelines, and nexus events were altered it became so obvious.

His scars grow

New branches flowing out or a line splitting into two.

Billy doesn't have a lichtenberg figure.

He has the tree of life

The connection of his soul and body permintly linked to the Rock, the center of the multiverse.

Billy was chosen as shazams Heir. Not Captain Marvel.

No matter how much work Thavma put in, he was merely a gift to billy, to help him and guide him.

Billy was the one with the fate of worlds on his shoulders, quite literally

[dc-tournaments]

Why do they deserve to win?

Zeus

Captain Marvel

No propaganda submitted.

[yoiyoms]

gave my Azem- aka Thavma- a slight redesign :]

[jelli-art]

Character Sheet commission for my spouse @polyworth of one of our longer-lived OCs, Thavma, aka MY WIFE, who featured in a TTRPG campaign tonight.

She's a 6'7" Alligator shifter Barbarian following the Path of the Zealot.

Bonus Illustrations for the party's meeting with her wherein she was trying to find her lost kid:

[diracsea]

nhìn bàn thua của mã trước thái tối qua tự dưng dự cảm tối nay việt nam cũng thua một quả ngoo tương tự 🤡

càng gần giờ đá càng anxiety cực mạnh thế này

[wonderjanga]

Cults Galore

Cults. If the JL had a nickel for every cult dedicated to Marvel they’ve found, they’d have two nickels. Don’t get them wrong, it’s not a lot, but it’s still concerning.

Aquaman, Green Lantern, and Marvel were sent to an alien planet. They needed to establish peaceful contact with the people there. That was the goal. So why? Why in the Gods’ names are the people here all tatted up with lightning bolts suspiciously similar to Marvel’s. Why are they calling Marvel Thavma? And most importantly, why are the three being lead to some type of shrine?

Hal: “Hey uh… I’m sorry to ask, but what does this shrine you told us about have to do with the treaty you need to sign?”

Alien Leader: “They are sacred grounds.”

Hal: “Okay…?”

Alien Leader: *continued to lead them until they came upon a bunch of people petrified into stone. The people were placed in a circle, in the middle was a grand shrine*

Aquaman: “What’s with all the statues?”

Alien Leader: “Statues- ah yes. The statues.” *looks to Marvel* “We’ve all kept them preserved just for you. Just in case that of off chance you decided to grace us with your presence again. And would you look at that? It paid off.”

Marvel: *awkwardly smiles at the Alien leader*

Alien Leader: *looks back ahead*

Marvel: *elbows Aquaman and starts speak in Atlantean* “This guy’s creepy.”

Aquaman: *responds in Atlantean* “I know.”

Hal: “What’d you guys say?”

Marvel: *switches back to English* “We’ll tell you when we get back to the ship.”

*awkward silence of following the Alien Leader*

Aquaman: “So… The statues. You make em or something?”

Alien Leader: “No no no. They’re all soldiers of the people who used to oppress our kind. They were petrified by our very lord themself during the uprising.” *looks over to Marvel* “Do tell me you remember?”

Marvel: *searches though memories and finds out a previous champion had done all of this* “I do.” *looks literally anywhere but Hal and Arthur*

Hal and Aquaman: *immediately share a look*

Later…

Marvel, Hal, and Arthur: *all at a burger joint eating in civvies*

Arthur: “I don’t get it. How do you just fail to mention that you petrified an entire army?”

Marvel: *shrugs* “I kinda forgot.”

Hal: “How do you just forget that? Also, you guys never told me about what you guys were saying. Are you guys gonna spill the beans now or what?”

Marvel: “What are you talking about?”

Hal: “When you elbowed Arthur?”

Marvel: “Ohhhh that.”

Arthur: “We were just talking about how the guy was creepy.”

Hal: *nods head* “True dat. True dat.”

Then there was the second cult. This one’s human though, don’t worry. This cult was found by Marvel, Batman and Robin.

Marvel: “I thought you just said this was just a cult. Not a cult for me.” *looking around at the various tapestries with his lightning bolt symbol*

Robin!Damian: “What makes you think it’s for you?”

Marvel: *gestures to the lightning bolt on his chest, then to the other lightning bolts on the decor of the place*

Batman: “They were worshiping someone named Keraunos.”

Robin!Damian: “And unless your name is Keraunos, it’s not for you.”

Marvel: “I’ll have you know it’s actually one of my names.” *walks until he stops in front of a fountain*

Robin: “You can’t be serious. Why would they worship you of all people? There’s hardly anything of value to worship in the first place.” *follows after him and stops near the fountain too*

Marvel: “Should I be offended by that?” *looks down at the water* “Geez, were they drinking electricity charged water? Normal humans cannot do that.”

Batman: *also walks over and kneels down slightly to read a plaque* “This plaque says the water was blessed by you.”

Marvel: “Uuuhhhh… No it isn’t.” *sticks a finger into the water* “This is just normal electricity.”

Robin: *tries to stick his own finger in*

Batman: *swats Damian’s hand away* “Regardless, what’s causing the electricity?”

Marvel: *puts some of his own lightning into the water*

Batman, Robin, Marvel: *hear something short fuse and look to see something off to the side smoking*

Marvel: “Probably that.”

[puffinpatrol]

BCE!Billy Au

Ancient Billy (Thavma?)

Born a Demi-god of Hecate, he was created as the vessel of the living lighting and the Champion of magic.

Since it’s Billy himself that is the vessel, he doesn’t really have the big buff adult Captain Marvel form.

He also looks up to and holds Wonder Woman and Hawkwoman with the upmost respect.

If anyone has more ideas I’d love to hear them!!

[lazy-anxietyinfectedzombie]

I made this one in the name of Thavma and the multiverse. Wanted to arrange them with my own layout of the multiverse but ended up placing them in random order while using some of my favorites lol

I did, in fact, use the dreamwalkers' view of the multiverse from Supernatural. And his pose came from Vision, came a bit odd, sure, but who cares?

[wolfsbanesparks]

📖!?!?!?????!!!!!

Hi!!!

Yet another idea I've not had the chance to write:

This is a series of stories rather than just one because i have done way way too much world building for it.

An expansion of my medieval fantasy AU incorporating as many aspects of DC as possible. Im working on The Kingdom of the Dark Knight which is the fantasy Batman origin for the world (and ties into my other oneshot Knight of Gotham) setting up the curse on Gotham and the political upheaval of the nation as Bruce in crowned King.

Then there's the Lantern Corps as a naval fleet with magic lanterns + enchanted rings that patrol the seas for pirates and monsters.

And Kryptonians as endangered Dragonborn species from a fallen kingdom. Clark raised by farmers of a neighboring kingdom while Kara was kept in a magical stasis for years.

And the JL as a knights of the round table situation going on quests to unite the lands and protect the world from magical threats

Atlantis and Themyscira are largely the same since they are already fantastical nations.

And of course Billy (as first shown in my fic the Wizard’s Apprentice) is a young wizard learning magic and fighting monsters. He's going to find his long lost sister (raised by a noble family) and become the host of a divine lightning spirit (Cap aka Thavma) and use illusion spells to appear older to join the JL.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

The Unexpected Child

by wubble Captain Marvel gets hit with some magic, which destabilizes his form as Marvel, displacing Billy and Thavma. Quick thinking occurs, and now Captain Marvel has a kid. Words: 1392, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Shazam! | Captain Marvel (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Billy Batson, Captain Marvel, Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Barry Allen, Diana (Wonder Woman), King Solomon (DCU), Hercules (DCU), Achilles Relationships: Achilles (WW) & Atlas & Billy Batson & Hercules & Mercury the Roman God & King Solomon & Zeus (WW), Billy Batson & Justice League, Billy Batson & Bruce Wayne, Billy Batson & Clark Kent, Billy Batson & Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Barry Allen & Billy Batson, Billy Batson & Diana (Wonder Woman), Billy Batson & Everyone, Captain Marvel & Justice League, Billy Batson & Captain Marvel Additional Tags: Billy Batson is Captain Marvel | Shazam, Billy Batson-centric, Barry Allen is The Flash, Clark Kent is Superman, Out of Character, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Divine Twitch Chat AU, I'm Bad At Tagging, Justice League meets Billy Batson, Billy and marvel are separate entities in the same body, Marvel & Billy Batson - Freeform, Identity Reveal, Secret Identity, Identity Issues via https://ift.tt/dTue2Zr

[h3llblazer]

I mean if we’re stuck here for another 6 hours we gotta do something right?-🐐

no-◽️

don’t make this worse then it already is star-🔸

hmm I think sunflower is right, what tho?-🐍

will since the magic man is in charge we should ask him so the we’re polite you know?-🐐

yes you’re right. hey mr Constantine we’re a little bored do you have anything we can do or any ideas on what we could do?-🐍

ugh by Thavma this is gonna take forever-◽️

*sighs* I don’t think we’re getting out of this one white-🔸

what do you even want tha do? how old even are you kids?

[dc-tournaments]

[barilleon]

Arcanolinguistics Companion Blog

Arcanolinguistics, my article about verbal components in spellcasting for 5e, is out today in MCDM's ARCADIA. Please check it out! This blog post is a small dive into what went into its creation. Today marks a milestone in my career: the best thing I've ever written by far, which serves as a love letter to 5e and the people who made it worth playing for me.

When I build a character for a TTRPG and there’s an option for a language-based skill or power, I take it. One of my first D&D characters, Thavma Sanguine, was built with the linguist feat, the spell comprehend languages, and the anthropologist background from Tomb of Annihilation. Thavma was—like me—young, curious, and desperate to connect with the people around her. After years of academic study, she was eager to put her skills to the test in the real world. Language was an extension of that.

Immediately upon her creation, Thavma was captured by drow and taken to the Underdark, where the prisoners all spoke different languages. She used her abilities to bring people who did not understand each other together, to hatch an escape plan that only worked because everyone was on the same page. The DM of that campaign (you might know him, his name’s Willy Abeel) picked up on the fact that I really enjoyed exploring the game world through language, and the rest of the campaign was full of little moments for Thavma to puzzle through bits of text or linguistic differences to move the story forward. From there, our shared table started to develop some interesting linguistic trivia, some of which you can read in the article.

Playing Thavma, who was also a Wizard, made me super aware of spellcasting components. Most of the time you don’t really pay attention to them, but I feel like there’s so much storytelling potential there. I wrote a blog post about getting the most out of material components once. After that I started wondering about verbal components. Thus the idea for Arcanolinguistics was born.

On Collaboration

As of its release, Arcanolinguistics is the best thing I’ve ever written. This is in no small part due to everyone who worked on it. At dinner the other day, Hannah and I rounded up how many people it took to make, before it ever even made it to playtesters: two developmental editors, two line editors, four cultural and sensitivity consultants, two artists, and two (haha) writers.

I never intended S.A.M. to be a co-author on the article. But when I sat down to write, actually take my messy outlines and notes and put them into something for somebody else, no words came. This happens often, and like every professional I’ve developed a toolbox for fixing it. Sometimes I will start my day with a writing warmup. A quick blog post, opinion piece, or stream of consciousness to get the words flowing. Like a warmup sketch, but with words. Since at the time S.A.M. was a student in one of my home games (at Thavma’s institution, no less!), I decided to write research notes from its point of view. The more I wrote, the more I realized that S.A.M. wanted to write the article. So I let it.

This work would not exist without MCDM, especially Hannah. I only pitched this article because I know that MCDM was the only place with the passion and the resources who would help me make this article what it was supposed to be. The pitch was a risk from the start. It needed heavy development, consulting, and playtesting, and right now for a freelancer like me MCDM is the only place that can make that happen. I cannot stress enough how much of a gift ARCADIA has been to my professional development. I learned a lot on this project, pushed myself, and made something I never would have without these resources.

Hannah was always there to hop on a call and talk over spell ideas or brainstorm ways to make effects work. A lot of the effects in the article are very different from their original ideas. Without Hannah, much of them would have been super overpowered, confusing, or just plain wrong. It’s hard to add a system like this on top of spellcasting and make it click, but I think we did it. She found not one but FOUR consultants to work with us. It was important to us to do this right, from the outline stage to the end.

Kathryn and Hakan provided amazing insight for the early drafts. I’m a hobbyist; I don’t know what I’m doing. But they helped me find the right words and guided my concepts in the right direction. Yes, they were consulting on my article, but it felt like my own personal crash course in all things language. I learned about a bunch of amazing linguistic concepts thanks to them. And though I didn’t get to work directly with Rogan or Basil, their notes and suggestions made this piece shine!

The testers at MCDM are unrivaled. They built a spreadsheet for every language and every official 5e spell that the language could possibly affect. They caught some edge cases that were devastating, and devastatingly funny. My favorite was the entry for casting ray of sickness in Goblin, which just read, "Ray of Vaccination?"

I offer both my awe and apologies to Sadie and Amber, for sending them a behemoth that was so large it took two editors to tame. The final product is clear and usable and flows great thanks to them. They’re the reason you can bring this to your table instead of just considering it abstractly. They’re also the reason we got the Dohma Raskovar joke on Orcish!

Speaking of, there is always Willy, the co-creator of the personal playground inside my head. I didn’t ask what he thought of the Dohma joke. Maybe I should have, considering Raskovar is his character, designed for Flee, Mortals! But after I sent the bit in to Hannah, I just told him I did it and he laughed. I got to turn a question about wording into a love note just for him.

On My Interest in Linguistics

Linguistics (specifically sociolinguistics and the history of language) has always been an interest of mine. I love reading about the origins of language, how it’s evolved over time, and how a language’s structure can shape its speakers’ way of thinking. I’m not an academic; I can’t elaborate on that. But I can point you to some people who can. People I read and watched whose work served as research and inspiration for this article include:

The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way, by Bill Bryson Lingo and Babel, both by Gaston Dorren The Story of French, by Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow The Linguistics Crash Course with Taylor Behnke on YouTube Conlang 101 from David Peterson (creator of Dothraki) on YouTube My favorite ttrpg: Dialect, from Thorny Games (imagine my surprise and delight when Hannah brought on this linguistic duo to CONSULT for my article!!! Holy shit!!!) The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker Exploring Language, a collection of essays compiled by Gary Goshgarian The Language of Thieves, by Martin Puchner Jews and Words by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger Legends of Localization blog, run by Clyde “Tomato” Mandelin A Language Family Tree in Pictures illustration by Minna Sundberg, for The Guardian's "Case for Language Learning" series.

If TTRPGs can be power fantasy, then mine is being able to use many languages, to connect with and understand as many people as I can. Not just in the /comprehend languages/ way (which I’ve likened to Google Translate), but in the authentic way, where you start to get the jokes and nuances, where you can forge relationships and shift your own perspective. I’ve been studying French on and off for over a decade, but I wouldn’t call myself any good at it. It’s hard! I don’t have anyone to practice with, and I’m also super shy in real life about speaking foreign languages. That’s why I wanted to add a fail-forward mechanic for language learning in the article. I want to believe that even though I’m not a toddler anymore, and my adult sponge-like mind has been left for many years to dry by the sink of knowledge, that I can keep working at it and get there someday.

On 5e Design

When I turned in the final draft of this article, I thought it was going to be the last major 5e thing I ever worked on. This is because I turned it in in January 2023, and you remember what happened all those years ago. While things have worked out differently and I am still designing in 5e, I sought to “leave it all on the page” with this one. It is, in my opinion, the purest expression of my 5e design philosophy: it’s fanfiction all the way down.

I liken my career as a 5e designer to my experience as an incredibly niche fanfic author. I like finding the little cracks in canon and filling them in, adding nice little layers of things that could have plausibly happened within canon and supporting them with as much textual evidence as possible so that people reading can accept it as their own headcanon. I think these are important skills to have for a designer of someone else’s game, especially when there’s a lot of other third party material competing to be incorporated into your table.

I found a niche in the 5e system—spellcasting components could be cooler and tied more to the world—and I filled it. While language is very much setting-based, I tried hard to use as much textual evidence as possible when forming these concepts. Devils have forked tongues, elves live everywhere and can all understand each other somehow, the dwarvish writing system is by far the most common in use. So I hope these ideas can conform to your own table, too.

But if they don’t, remember that everything not discussed at your table (yes, even official material) is fanfiction. Take it or leave it! If your table’s world doesn’t have the same languages as the SRD, maybe you can still find a way to map my rules onto your world. Or maybe it’ll inspire you to write brand-new rules for your own languages. As a writer and designer of fanfiction, nothing would make me happier.

[jelli-art]

Today I learned my video editing software has a simple, easy way to create video thumbnails, so I kinda went ham for the thumbnail on this speed paint.

[glikozi]

πως περνας το καλοκαιρι σου ?

zw apo thavma

[sophury]

@xxxwhenthesunsleepsxxx wished for my favourite songs so..

(Random ranking)

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