#the wizard has got it going on

[dark-lord-of-awesomeness]

Different anon here but the wizard stan is making me think!

I just imagine that after Stan and Ford's reunion the next time that they go back to the market the other wizards just start complementing Stan on taking an apprentice so soon! He must feel so secure in his new position! And look! He choose the scientist that no one felt they could teach well enough because of how ambitious he was! Obviously Stan can keep his brother on the straight and narrow with learning magic! This will make sure that scientist doesn't go dark as everyone feared!

Can you just imagine Stan's panic and Ford's fury about the situation?

Oh man. This would be so funny and not help their fragile reunion at all.

Stan really wants to reconnect with Ford and being a wizard is how its gonna happen now (for some reason, but he'll take what he can get) and while its fun to finally have something Ford wants and to watch him seethe he also just wants to explore his cool tower with his bro. Keeps trying to show Ford cool artifacts and spell books and Ford just burns with jealousy when Stan knows how to use them or they react in ways they shouldn't based on Fords research or he's able to read things Ford can't. Ford's the one who doesn't know everything now and neither of them know how to handle it.

So other wizards thinking Stan's taking Ford as an apprentice despite Ford being a scientist and rule stickler is turning the rage up to eleven. Hearing them say they wouldn't take Ford as an apprentice because he tried too hard to make sense of the universe and everyone suspected would turn evil is adding fuel to the fire here.

Stan's trying to backpeddal so hard because this wasn't something he meant to happen and he's trying to bond but Ford has steam coming out of his ears and his face is scrunched in a dangerous way and its all terrible. Them getting hit with the role reversal is making them both weird and off center.

[rotdecaydraw]

artfight revenge for @saszor & @piratechaos !!

dividers made by @ eimogji !

[sovonight]

born to protect forced to cast spells from a distance while someone else draws aggro

[shadowjinx2906]

Me making Lyall schizophrenic just so Remus could still have werewolf trauma in a non magic zombie au:

[blenselche]

context: male wolf spiders purr! And "do little dance"s to impress mates. The purring isn't really audible, it's more of a vibrational thing, so Fern would just turn into one of those Sharper Image recliners.

cc under cut

Finn: are you purring? over footsie?

HW: cute

Fern: I CANT HELP IT!

HW: are you going to do a little dance for us next?

[manglam-marfach]

dyke!Chilaios has me understanding breeding kink all of a sudden

[ezkel]

I hate tag limits LET ME YAP

but also it's probably for the best that I have to limit myself

[fatedroses]

When you're the emperor of an entire nation and undoubtably have countless very important things to do...

...but you instead drive over to your friend's estate deep in the mountains to surprise him, just to be a normal person for a little while.

(Aka he's hiding out so he can nap in the arboretum for a couple days.)

[fingertipsmp3]

God grant me the strength not to reply “there are other books you could read and other films you could watch. Hope this helps 🤞” to all the HP fans whinging about JKR’s latest tirade, specifically because of how it affects their enjoyment of the franchise

[curmemini]

thing is. i am so afraid of putting posts in main tags. i know i should get over that fear but somehow it's scarier on tumblr where ppl can search your posts and not like on twt where your posts kinda drown out after a while even if it got like 15k views or more.

in general, friction against others is so, so scary help. I feel like there is such a pressure in fandom to avoid anyone you disagree with, lest you spark drama that gets out of hand. I'm always worried about upsetting someone else. I know i can't make myself likable to everyone but i still like to try.

That and i somehow always end up disagreeing with mhyk accounts on twt that have a big follower acc and that's SCARY sorry i know i am repeating myself here

Lifts you up and spins you around and puts you back on the ground so gently. Honestly, yes, it is scary to put your thoughts out there, I get it. It took me a pretty long while to get comfortable with it and even then, quite a few times I'll try to get around my discomfort with knowing it's going to be seen by others by tagging the character with the series (so owen mahoyaku), because then I'm not /really/ main-main tagging, but it will still show up if someone plain searched mahoyaku.

I've typed and retyped this like three times today, because I have a lot of thoughts about it, so my apologies if I lost track of a sentence or two someplace. But I think it is exactly because it is scary and uncomfortable that we should try to push through it, not even in a "it's good for the fandom to have people speak" way but that it is a challenge to yourself.

Friction is scary, yes, but friction gets less scary the more you've had run-ins with people you've disagreed with and engaged in discussion with them. I don't think anyone who is posting theories in any fandom at the moment would be upset if someone disagreed with them and told them that as long as they were respectful and explained why - that opens it into a discussion, it allows alternative viewpoints in and possibly helps the OP strengthen their theory.

There's kind of like two sides of fandom to me for active participants - the transformative fanworks (fanart, fanfics, headcanons) and the "canonical" fanworks - fanworks that are more meta-based; the theories, the character analysis', the small details that people notice. And I think there's been a kind of blending between the etiquette of these two categories that has led to this feeling of being in a powder keg. It'd be rude to engage with a transformative fanwork you disagree with/dislike - that's not what they're there for - but canonical fanworks are meant to be discussed and thought about. I personally would rather get disagreement than get no response at all on a piece of meta I wrote. I think there are more people who would say the same than the reverse.

Even still, I know a lot of fandom has been kind of built off of the shackles of twitter fandom - and twitter isn't a place that encourages discussion. It is algorithmically built to show you things you hate, because it knows that rage is a powerful emotion to elicit to get people to keep earning the corporation $$ - things are just, different here on tumblr. There's more tools to facilitate discussion (here, you're on anon! i have no clue who you are! hi stranger! - maybe you would have still sent this ask without that option of anonymity, but likely not, right?), tags allow for better blocking of things people don't like, we're not character-limited so we can be precise in what we say, rather than chop it down into a chunk of text that can be misinterpreted. Tumblr is, for all we've been irony poisoned, a platform that is meant to be more sincere; the algorithm is a relatively new feature, and it is optional. Here, you can only see what you seek out.

because of that, too, even though I don't know a lot of the mhyk fandom on tumblr personally (or even very well?) I don't think there will be the same kind of wide-spread drama that could occur on twitter - or the same wide-spread drama that has occurred in the biggest of big fandoms here. imo, fandoms are bridges between people, and while some will always seek to burn them down, others will still seek to build them - but there has to be some foundation, some direction, for them to start building in the first place. Otherwise we just remain islands, far apart.

I don't think I've ever been as hard in on a fandom as I am now with our dear wizards, I mean, I changed a url I've had for a near decade to make it owen themed. So I want to help foster that bridge-building, however I can.

Stepping away from fandom-talk for a second - I do sincerely think it is to your benefit to put yourself out there. Your posts aren't going to cause a schism; your thoughts, your love that goes into articulating a post - those are all valuable things. And the more you find yourself having friction with others, the easier it is navigate when it is something offline where friction is completely unavoidable. The more comfortable you get with being uncomfortable, with doing something you're afraid to do, the better off you wind up being, because the world begins to open up. As to upsetting people... just as you can't make yourself likable to everyone (and believe me, I tried for a very long time - sometimes, I find myself falling back into those habits again still), that will happen regardless of our intentions. Even when it sucks, even when you know you didn't mean to; it happens. Although, I do think most people's reactions would be to just scroll on by if they didn't like a post. Maybe they'll remember the take, but they won't remember you specifically. (is that better or worse..? I find the pseudo-anonmity of the tumblr space soothing... and I only remember the takes that I've talked about because they were particularly mind-boggling to me; but I couldn't even tell you the account that had posted them on twt ) Learning how to apologize, how to disengage when you get upset - these are important skills that can only really be learned by doing, you know? in the wise words of @ / soracities "do it scared do it stupid do it badly whatever it is that’s worth doing, that’s worth anything at all, we do it. be it scared be it stupid be it badly. the sincerity remains the same."

[frenchy-and-the-sea]

Spent so so so much time talking today during CoS because Wyn is the defacto face and I still feel like I could go for longer. I love this game so goddamn much that even when I'm having to do so much of the heavy lifting, I don't even mind it because the lore is so interesting and the characters are so good and the DM is so much fun to play with, UGH. WISH I COULD BE PLAYING AGAIN.

That said, WOOF what a lore dump today. We learned some very interesting things about the original inhabitants of the valley from an extremely firsthand source, and his retelling of things was... harrowing. Which was a stark contrast to the wizard spending the entire conversation just staring at him because he was hot.

[ecstarry]

a playlist with actual party songs that my latino king would make me absolute salivate while seeimg him dance

[stellamusing]

[icewindandboringhorror]

Recent images I suppose ~

[yourheartasmymark]

i think simon does end up physically back to where he started, mostly because i really want to explore the idea of simon emotionally hurting himself by trying to draw a line between himself and ice king. because the thing is that even if hes physically back to normal, he still is mentally afflicted by the remains of magic insanity and all the memories of those 900 years. hes extremely forgetful. he loses his temper more easily than before, or will start crying for reasons beyond his understanding. his physical coordination isnt as good as it was before. he feels godawful when magic queen puts the daily checklist back on the wall, because hes normal now, why cant he just remember to eat every morning? why is he getting lost 2 blocks away from his own home? why is he losing his temper over incredibly mild things?

its about the internalized hatred for himself. cutting a piece of his own identity away because hes not as well as he once was. he was ice king for longer than he was simon, but he doesnt want to acknowledge that it is part of his history and identity. itd be easier if ice king was a stranger who took control of his body for a while.

and he really needs to come to terms with the fact that he IS ice king, ice king IS him, just a different phase of his life, because pushing that fact away is only hindering his recovery.

[sparrownnax]

anyways. pastor who is an avatar of the Vast who uses his sermons to instill fear of eternity in his flock. the concept of forever, that you will never get to stop existing. you are here, and your consciousness will remain because neither heaven nor hell will be affected by the heat death of the universe. you will never get to be free. everyone who is alive and has been alive and who will be alive will always exist. there is no end in sight because there is no end.