#this is most recently but not at all exclusively about Arcane

[st-just]

Okay there's many popular fandom tropes that I Do Not Vibe With,but one of the ones that just most makes me go 'what a fucking waste' is the tendency for people to look at a dynamic, like, centered and based around a betrayal or hatred born of curdled love or frayed ties or being tragically at odds because of their most strongly held principles and then go 'yeah but what if every single fanwork you ever see in your life were vaguely sketched AUs where nothing ever went wrong and we replaced the central dramatic motor of the entire thing with quirky cafe dates or having fun at a waterpark or something?'

[arcane-vagabond]

Arcane-Vagabond's Blog Survival Guide

Because I saw another blog do this, and I think it's a good idea now that I'm gaining more followers who may not have heard of me before. So, here's a little guide about me, my works, what you'll find on this blog, and how to navigate!

RESIDENT SURVIVAL MASTER: ARCANE-VAGABOND AKA LIZ

Millenial, 28, Bisexual, Agender Woman, She/They

THINGS LIZ KNOWS WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT

Pop Culture, Folk Tales, Fairy Tales, Languages, Religion, Cryptids, Space, Tornadoes, Cultures, Vikings, Medieval/Renaissance Studies, Mythology, and more!

IN THIS SURVIVAL GUIDE YOU WILL WILL FIND:

✨ MY COLLECTIONS: My writing

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✨ UPCOMING EVENTS: What I'm currently working on

✨ CLASSIFICATIONS: What tags I use

✨ MY LORE: More about me

All of this information can also be found on my Navigation Page which also serves as my pinned post!

※ My Masterlist

Where I keep all of my writing! You can also find challenges and moodboards here!

✨My FAQ!

✨ I currently write female reader-insert fics as well almost exclusively AUs (Alternate Universes). I try to make my fics as inclusive as possible, but I understand that I will fall short of this at times. The moodboards I make for the heroines of my stories are based off of vibes only, but the reader characters themselves will not have physical attributes save for something like hair length.

✨Most of my stories are for Jake “Hangman” Seresin at the moment. I started writing for the Top Gun Maverick fandom in September 2023, and only recently started branching out to other fandoms.

✨ Writing Updates: I do not currently have a posting schedule. This is mainly because my job/life are pretty hectic and I never know when the mood or time to update will strike me.

✨ Taglists: I no longer do taglists. If you would like to be notified of when I post fic updates, drabbles, moodboards, or polls, please head over to my sideblog: @arcanevagabond-library and turn on post notifications!

✨ Requests are currently: Open! Feel free to send them in at any time, but please know that it may take me a little while to get to it.

I will write: Smut, Fluff, Angst (within reason), light, soft!dark, dark!, AUs (there's not much I won't do), age difference (both adults), threesome, reverse harem, dubcon, consensual non-consent, Dom/Sub, cockwarming, praise, praise and degradation, breeding, chase, power imbalance, choking, knife play, bondage, edging, overstimulation, A/B/O, and I'm sure there's more. Just ask!

I will NOT write: Real Person Fic (RPF), age regression, pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, incest, race play, underage scenarios, scat play, piss kink, cheating between "main" couple, accidental pregnancy, miscarriage, Taylor Swift inspired fic.

Who I'll write for:

✨TGM Characters: Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, Javy "Coyote" Machado, and Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia

✨ Twisters Characters: Tyler Owens, Boone, and Scott

✨Marvel Characters: Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, Thor, Loki, Peter Parker

✨Misc. Characters: Soldier Boy, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, and more to come!

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✨ I sometimes write smut and some of my stories contain elements of sexual assault and non-con, so please heed the warnings posted at the top of fics and proceed with caution!

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✨ While I thirst over characters and celebrities and I'm happy to receive positive asks about them, I'm not a gossip blog.

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✨ When it comes to ask games and chatting (whether about my fics or in general) I'm pretty quick to respond. However, I'm a little slower when it comes to requests, so please keep that in mind when sending in asks.

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✨ If you ask for my advice, please keep in mind that my word is not law and I may not have the answer you're looking for.

WHAT I'M WORKING ON AT THE CURRENT MOMENT

I'm working on a number of things for different things for different fandoms. These include fics for Top Gun Maverick, Teen Wolf, Twisters, and Marvel. I'm always expanding though!

Check out my Writing Challenge!

ABOUT MY TAGS

✨ Liz's personal tag - Posts where I talk about things going on in my life. Could be light-hearted, could be darker. Both will fall under this tag.

✨ Liz writes - Used typically when I'm posting a sneak peek or a drabble of some kind.

✨ Liz speaks - Posts where I say something that’s not long, just a little blurb or something.

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And last but not least on this long ass poll, some info about me!

Hi, my name is Liz. I'm 28 years old, and I blow the candles out on September 3rd of every year. I graduated with a Bachelor's of Art in Linguistics and I had two minors: One in German and the other in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Because I unfortunately can't afford to pursue more education, I joined the work force upon graduation! During school, I studied abroad twice: Once for a year in Germany and the second time was for a month in Ireland!

I've always loved stories, ever since I was a little girl and my dad would read the original Grimms fairytales to me. I've been telling stories ever since I could remember, but I didn't start writing them down until I was around nine years old.

My dream has always been to be an author, but I only recently started writing fanfiction in September 2023! A lot of my fics are story ideas I've had over the years that I've wanted to tell, but I always like to see how they'll do before I commit to them, so don't be shy about telling me what you think! I live for feedback of any kind, and likes just simply won't cut it for me. I want to know your thoughts! I promise you will never annoy me with them.

When I'm not writing, you can usually find me binge watching TV shows and/or movies while I cross-stitch, embroider, play video games, or paint! I also love painting pottery and reading in my spare time. If you want to know more details, feel free to check out my About Me page on my Navigation post!

Thanks for sticking around this long!

[inkybloom-luv]

Words Unsaid 12, so there's school festivals here too?

Heya guys! Today there's another setup chapter for you cuties! The chapters will come out slower now as I have not yet read chapter 5 completely so please give me time to do so! In the meantime I'd like to know if drabble requests are something you guys would be interested in.

Slight Chapter 5 spoilers!

Part 1 Part 11 Masterpost Part 13

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Even though he slept less than usual Jamil felt strangely energetic today. Perhaps it was because he'd slept the best he had in a while or straight up because he woke up next to Inky. It was such a simple thing but he'd be lying if he didn't wish it would happen more, just because of how nice it felt. Is it bad he wished the prefect would have more nightmares only so he could hold her..? Probably. But as it stood, this was the only way he was able to act on his own feelings. Not like he didn't know Inky had feelings for him before his Overblot but he doubted it was love, now that he'd done what he did. Still he hopes and dreams as he stirred the non-proverbial pot of curry in front of him. It was one of the dishes he was making for lunch. He was making something else for Kalim, of course, as Kalim obviously didn't like curry.. but Jamil and Inky could have it, especially since the prefect did say one time she really wanted to eat something Jamil made and admitted in the same sentence that they've been looking to try more foreign food like different curries. Also in that sentence they said that anything Jamil made would be more than satisfactory though.

At the same time that day Kalim was at a housewarden meeting, simply to discuss the future event that would be held soon. The National Arcane Academy Cultural Fair. It was a yearly event mostly consisting of artistic type events like poetry slams, research presentations and, the most well known part of it all, the SDC. The SDC, or Song & Dance Championship, was a contest for singers and dancers, basically any musical talent, to go up on stage, by themselves or in a group, and show their aforementioned talent to the world to show who was the best of the participants that year. The winners would get not only a monetary prize but also a ticket to stardom. Of course that ticket to stardom wasn't exclusive to first place but they had the best chance.

Riddle, who was head of the planning committee was rambling on and on about the details but the report was necessary. Turns out both Vil Schönheit and Neige LeBlanche would be participating this year as well, which meant extra press coverage for the school. Crowley was delighted about this of course and put up audition posters through negotiation with Vil that very same day. They were plastered all over a few notice boards, especially the one in the cafeteria. By lunchtime it was surrounded by people, which had sent Ace, Deuce and Grim to check it out. Inky stayed seated with Jamil and Kalim, though the occasional glance was thrown their way, since she was pally with Kalim as well as Jamil, who had literally tried to off them over the winter holidays that ended recently. Not that Inky really cared.

Unfortunately she did have to tear herself away from the Scarabian duo as she had class duty along with Deuce for the upcoming alchemy lesson and Ace was tagging along to chat. Speaking of Kalim and Jamil, that was where the conversation drifted, though grim did most of the talking.

"Seriously, first he tries to manipulate and kill you and now you're friends? Kinda weird if you ask me" Ace commented.

"Don't call my hench-human weird! Besides, it's not like he hasn't apologized and more. He's been taking care of me and Inky very well, Kalim also..! I think my henchman and I can decide who we, mostly I as a great mage, will spend our time with!"

"Thank you Grim.. I think that gets the point across. Besides.. Jamil is really nice to me, I like him a lot" The two half-students said, one confirming the other.

"What, you're still crushing on the guy? How? He literally gave you a massive scar on your arm, he could have ended you..!" Ace once again protested.

"And again, he apologized."

"You believe that?"

"Yes and you know next to nothing about him so I won't be hearing another word out of you about this..!" The prefect said, anger lacing into her stern tone, sending ace a small glare.

"Alright alright, I'll shut up" He said, though not happy about it. Before their conversation continued though, they were promptly distracted by singing.

"Who's singing? It sounds really nice" Deuce said as they listened, right after though, the singer seemed to choke up on their own voice, which sounded less than healthy. So, with slight concern, the group closed in on where the sounds were coming from, the well in the school courtyard.

Upon approach they met another first year, his name was Epel Felmier. He had lavender hair and blue eyes, his stature was small and skinny but well balanced, his skin was pale too and he spoke in a generally soft voice, unless some sort of accent came out that Inky personally could not place. All went well until they were interrupted by the Pomefiore housewarden Vil Schönheit. He had a regal presence, something like a king or queen in a sense that he was confident and knowledgeable in a few areas. Basically a perfect upperclassman if it weren't for his temper at that moment. Vil was upset that Epel was not training so he wanted to move Epel somewhere else so he wouldn't get interrupted. This went over wrong with Ace as well as Deuce as they misinterpreted Vil's tone and words. The fight that ensued wasn't even that long as Vil was vastly better at his magic than those two unfortunate souls.

The end result was an utter defeat which gave Vil the opportunity to leave with the lavender haired boy. Though not before the latter waved goodbye to Inky as she ushered Ace and Deuce up on their feet to clean themselves up and check for scrapes. She did wave back though. They went to Professor Crewel's lab and classroom, setting up the next lesson with the instruction of the teacher. In the midst of this, another student came in.

This girl was pale as can be and her hair was back length and white. She was rather short as well.

"Hello professor Crewel! I'm here to deliver those late project papers you asked me to go get" Her voice rang through the room as she grinned in a friendly way, waving to the first year trio that was setting up.

"Poor guy was really under the weather, caught a stomach bug or something but he'll be fine. He's over the worst of it according to the nurse, he needs a day or two to recover properly."

"Good girl, thank you for informing me. You have a free period now, yes? Why don't you sit in on the first years and help out? I could use a helping hand to whip these bumbling pups into shape and you're on the school's student tutoring program, so you'd be a good fit." Crewel said, to which the pretty student agreed as he explained what they would be doing during the class period.

It gave Inky the ability to look at her a little more closely. She had facial piercings and some on her ears. The ones on her face were a septum and a lip ring as far as Inky could tell. She didn't wear a blazer, had her sleeves rolled up and her purple vest was open. She wore her white blouse tied up in a way that it would expose her stomach, though not in a war that was inappropriate. She wore a shorter skirt variant at her hips that ended above her knees and flip flops as her footwear. It left a lot of questions as to how she wasn't cold. Then again it wasn't too cold, simply chilly.. she dressed like it was summer though. She had jewelry too, a few rings, a choker and a necklace, an anklet, two bracelets and on her other arm she wore her Pomefiore Armband, except she had it tied more around her wrist than anything, like another bracelet.

That lesson was over quickly, and it was fairly nice. Turns out the student's name was Alani and she helped out around the classroom after having changed into appropriate gear. She was a Pomefiore third year apparently and had heard about the prefect from Leona, whom she visited during spelldrive practice after school occasionally so she could exercise with them. She was good at explaining things and this included her clothing. Apparently she was dressed the way she was because it was usually hot or at least warm here compared to her homeland, which was very far up north. In conclusion the lesson was lovely and after all the cleanup the prefect even managed to get Alani's number, for emergencies or if Inky ever really needed or wanted something.

The rest of the school day went off without a hitch as well, only really starting to pick up the pace when ace and Deuce along with grim decided they would contact this 'Rook' character to get an audition appointment.

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[cosmicmothermedusa]

About The Cosmic Dragons

The cosmic dragons have recently been urging me to deliver various messages for the Earth Collective re: spiritual ascension and the cosmic paradigm shift which is heavily affecting earthlings.

First, they want to set the record straight about who they are and clear up popular pejoratives and misconceptions about dragons.

Dragons are among the most powerful and ancient creatures within the Primordial Cosmic Multiverse, operating on the 9th - 13th dimensions. They are generous, benevolent, and compassionate to lower-dimensional creatures. Whereas they are commonly associated with the air + fire elements and depicted as fire-breathing winged lizards, they are actually more like serpents or eels that "swim" through the ethers, the primordial waters of spacetime, and have no need for wings. They find no connection between themselves and popular depictions of dragons.

They specifically want to emphasize the connection between themselves and serpentine characteristics of magical powers, wisdom, immortality, alchemical transformation, and metamorphosis. They say that trying to understand what they really look like on the level that they operate at would be a bit like trying to represent a cube in only one dimension: too much information is lost because of insufficient representational complexity translating from 9D+ down onto 3D.

They project a holographic image to make themselves seen and understood on 3D, and the serpent/reptilian form is highly resonant because of the aforementioned characteristics. Also, the evolutionary basis of reptiles as older ancestors of other terrestrials readily transfers to the cosmic dragons as primordial ancestors of other lifeforms.

They do not care so much about their physical depiction in and of itself, but rather want their nature and motivations to be better understood by earthlings.

Widespread dragon-slaying myths and negative stereotypes about dragons are relatively recent (Western) inventions symbolizing victory over these primordial creatures and the civilizations that honored their magical powers.

This "victory" is a victory of globalized patriarchy over the Great Goddess (Primordial Cosmic Mother) who was worshipped for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the last 3000-4000 years of patriarchal doctrines. The Goddess was often linked to serpents and dragons or literally represented as a serpent or dragon (e.g. Tiamat), symbolic of Her wisdom and magical powers of metamorphosis, alchemical transformation, and immortality.

The triumph of the Olympian male over the dragon, repeated through myths across the globe, is a mythopoeic representation of the triumph of patriarchs and their religious/secular power systems in destroying, demonizing , and displacing the Goddess and Her devotees -- and with them, the ontological basis of pro-evolutionary unity consciousness and real primordial sovereignty + power rooted in holistic psychic mind-body-spirit union with the entire Cosmos.

It is also a symbolic victory of Man and his Lower Ego-Self over the infinite power of the Goddess, and the inescapable contingency upon Her. She being the Earth, the so-called "unconscious mind", and the primordial waters that comprise and contain all of Creation itself. To triumph over the Goddess or liberate oneself from Her is impossible, because She is the basis of existence and spacetime whether one chooses to acknowledge Her and deliberately participate in Her or not.

However, the patriarchal delusions of ego-driven "power" and "freedom" rooted in further delusions of alienation, objectification, and lower-dimensional exclusion of true causality and 'reality' have dominated through violence and oppression for the past 3000-4000 years. Wherein earthlings destroy their own ecosystem and themselves while trapped within a Dark Age. The higher-dimensional consciousness, magical powers, and arcane knowledge of sacred cosmic mysteries which were once common and as basic as breathing are now regarded as either fake OR exclusive privileges that people must struggle or beg entities to attain. Alternatively, people use lower-dimensional crutches (if not outright farces) like rituals and offerings/sacrifices to IMITATE/FORCE things that are fundamental and effortless for cosmically initiated beings.

The cosmic dragons are returning now to assist the Earth Collective in transitioning to higher dimensions and completely liberating themselves from the matrix system parasitic paradigm by soaring above it.

The demonization and death of dragons is thus weaponized ignorance and slander commensurate with the erasure and smear campaign against all of civilization prior to the rise of patriarchal (especially Abrahamic) cultures and religions, which primarily serves the counter-evolutionary parasitic paradigm which cannot maintain it's power except via coercion, because it is unnatural and unfavorable in comparison to the alternatives it doggedly denies and destroys.

Dragons are not malicious or "dumb" destructive creatures subject to human control, as they are actually more intelligent and powerful than humans and regard them as akin to much younger siblings that they have a duty to protect. The popular conceptions of dragons hoarding wealth which is invariably stolen by an invader depicted as "valiant" is arguably symbolic of pillaging and appropriation of ancient cultures, inventions, and literal wealth (i.e. genocidal theft and rampage against Aztecs by Spanish conquistadors). To analyze the ramifications of dragon-damsel imagery in light of mythopoeic resonance to literal anthropological/historical/political phenomena would be complex enough to warrant a standalone examination, and will not be here elaborated except to state that it is clearly completely disconnected from actual dragons.

(These are the depictions they are most insistent upon rebutting because they are rooted in projections which reflect more about the culture they are embedded in than the dragons themselves, and reveal shadow aspects that should be consciously confronted.)

They are transferring a lot of knowledge directly into the collective consciousness of the Earth Collective as we as trying to purge the collective unconscious by forcing confrontation with the collectivized shadow, which will cause many crises and heightened focus on historical issues or events which have been unresolved as well as collectivized injustices which were never redressed.

Medusa 07/02/2023 dragon messages introduction

The cosmic dragons are also helping particular earthlings, especially those with powerful dragon blood and/or connections to Lemuria, to remember their relevant past lives and accelerate their ascension and total alignment with their true purpose in service to the Earth Collective.

Their return is linked to the return of the Divine Mother and collective Saturn Return during the Age of Aquarius. This marks the arrival of long-term consequences for the Age of Aries (the rise of ego, birth of zero-sum "self"-interest and alienation/separation, widespread warfare) and the Age of Pisces (age of belief = delusions, scams, con artists prevailing on a collective level, artificially constructed reality based on manipulation of collective consciousness and energy harvesting, fake it til you make it, etc.) and the collapse of the parasitic paradigm and artificial constructs and timelines disconnected from genuine causality. It also heralds the long-awaited end of the Kali Yuga as complete destruction and chaos rends all false establishments, doctrines, and systems to clear space for new growth.

This is all from the dragons for now.

[spidermilkshake]

Ancardia's Unusual Animals--The Gremlin, or Agropelter

Classification: Humanoid (primate)

Habitat: Throughout the Drakalor Chain, scattered in pockets through Tvearban, the Fallar Wastes, and highland bordering the Buldar Wastes.

            The Gremlin, known in Aynaul dialects as the Agropelter, is the smallest extant species of ape in Ancardia, and also among one of the most notoriously aggressive. Living in large troops, gremlins cluster around water-rich environments and are naturally arcanely potent—and if submersed in water they are known to bud and clone themselves in a relatively rapid process not known to exist in any other mammalian species thus far. It is thought that this is a survival adaptation to large swings in gremlin populations—caused by either scarcity of food for a high number of gremlins, periods of high predation by creatures like rukh, giant arachnids, big cats and other large carnivores, and more recently bounties after them set by humanoids in areas where gremlins are finding their way into machinery, storehouses, and other places where their tendency to pull apart objects and snatch shiny objects. Even in cases where over 90% of all gremlins have been killed or driven out, the remaining gremlins can double their remaining population in a matter of a week through the budding process, though this does produce a genetically limited population and is not the preferred means of reproduction for gremlins in normal circumstances.

            The average gremlin is no larger than the typical small arboreal monkey—weighing approximately 8 to 12 pounds and measuring only 40 to 50 centimeters tall in a bipedal posture. They are omnivorous though they lean towards the carnivorous side, especially during winter and early spring when their plant-based food sources are unavailable. They have stout, strong jaws and tough, very dexterous hands which are their primary tools in acquiring food, usually by tearing open decaying logs, prying up stones, and ripping and cracking open rinds and shells on fruits and nuts. The majority of their natural diet consists of grubs, worms, isopods, nuts, fruits, cocoons, small rodents and various burrowing insects. The troop usually numbers around 20 to 30 individuals in ideal conditions, and are polygamous with multiple females exclusively bonding to one of the males, which each can give birth to and raise a single young each year once they reach a breeding age of at least 3 years. Their lifespan is naturally somewhat shorter than other apes, being an average of only 25, though some have been known to reach the upper 30s in captive environments. Most cultures consider gremlins somewhat obnoxious, if not an outright pest, due to several of their survival behaviors. In addition to their foraging habit of tearing up wood and flipping over objects, gremlin troops have the macaque-like habit of mobbing potential threats that intrude in their home space, which has resulted in the erroneous reputation that gremlins will attack humanoids unprovoked. Their preferred form of mobbing is the source of their high elven name: They will pelt intruders with various objects like pebbles and earth clods while screeching from a distance, while a few of the larger males in the troop will also make blustering charges out to slap and bite at the undefended side of the creature they consider a threat, and the obvious solution to such a display is to quickly and calmly leave back the way one came. Unfortunately, such ignorance about this beast’s behavior often leads to incidents of local humanoids killing and harming large numbers of gremlin troops unnecessarily.

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K, O, U, X, and Y!

K: How do you feel about the other people in your current fandom(s).

there aren't enough of us!!!! (World Trigger) But that DOES make it one of the most chill anime fandoms I've ever been in, so I mean, silver linings lmao. There's something very fun about the camaraderie in a small fandom and I definitely feel that here as well! I enjoy how chill everyone is and how everyone has made themselves comfy in whatever corner of this sprawling cast makes them happiest, but will also visit and appreciate OTHER people's particular fixations.

MP100 has its *cough* problems but frankly as a veteran of Promare circa 2020 it feels downright calm lmao. It helps that I pretty much exclusively spend time in the Shimateru niche these days, which is of course full of the coolest people in this fandom. My primary complaint is that I wish I could just enjoy seri-rei and shima-mine in peace without landing among a bunch of assholes but eh, at least there are some fantastic Japanese artists in those ships whose work I can enjoy without reservations. And it makes me pleased in a deeply petty way to write seri-rei but ONLY as a background ship to shimateru LMAO

Arknights is great. Bee and Mis are awesome. Wait what do you mean there are other people in Arknights fandom

O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?

Shuffle gave me Little Talks by Of Monsters And Men, and now i'm thinking of Afto AU Utagawa/Kikuchihara and FEELING THINGS. ;-;

You're gone, gone, gone away, I watched you disappear All that's left is a ghost of you Now we're torn, torn, torn apart, there's nothing we can do Just let me go, we'll meet again soon Now wait, wait, wait for me, please hang around I'll see you when I fall asleep

U: What are your favorite male/female ships?

in no particular order from current and recent fandoms:

Katori/Osamu

Hatohara/Ninomiya

Yuzuru/Chika (mostly as part of the Yuzuru/Chika/Izuho OT3 but I like them on their own too)

Enedora/Mira (specifically and especially in a "divorced but still hooking up" way)

Amatoricest

Takenaka/Tome

Croix/Jakuri (Ar Tonelico 2, objectively THE best canon pairing in the AT series don't @ me)

Silco/Jinx (Arcane)

honorable mentions to Touma/Izuho (i like her with chika and yuzuru best but i Cannot deny the appeal of their agegap dynamic), Katori/Wakamura (so so SO divorced), and SeriTome (doesn't quite fit my headcanons for either of them but it's REALLY cute and makes a nice little agegap trio with shimateru and mobrei lmao)

X: 3 OTPs from 3 different fandoms.

Shimateru from MP100

Tolnar from Arknghts

Jinyuu from World Trigger - i have several faves but I think this is the only one I don't really multiship

Y:  A fandom you’re in but have no ships from.

Hmm... The Expanse might count - I do admittedly adore the main canon ship of Holden/Naomi, but I never really got into any non-canon shipping for the series. I never did read much fic for it, but I was mildly active on Tumblr while the show was airing, so I guess it counts lol.

[dartagnantt]

School of Illusion: Revised | Fixing what would be the best subclass ever, if it weren't for the meh

PDFs of this and more can be found over on at my Patreon here! I release everything for free, so your support makes this possible. I'm working on a new class for 5e! Follow the Kickstarter here! I've also started making a new system based off of 5e, 6th Dawn! Become a patron and join the playtest.

The official 5e illusionist wizard is one of my favourite subclasses ever and I've had a bunch of fun with it when I could get away with using illusions. But, that caveat there is responsible for a few design choices I've made with wizards recently.

Illusion Savant

Firstly, the school savant feature. First, as reasonable as it sounds to give you bonuses for scribing spells of your chosen school, all it does is encourage you to NOT take schools of the appropriate type. So, it needs to change.

Secondly, as an illusionist, I found myself struggling to prepare illusion spells AND be useful, and when you think about it, a cleric has 10 more spells avaliable to it than the wizard. The goddamn paladin has the same number of spells as a wizard. So, solution time. Take the pathfinder 1e approach and let you prepare additional spells of the given school. Really, it's just a more versatile version of the subclass spells mechanic.

Lesser Illusion

I won't lie, the Improved Minor Illusion feature is perfect. Minor Illusion is not only the only illusion cantrip, it is basically the quintessential premise of illusion distilled. And letting you use both parts at once is great.

Portable Illusions

The Malleable Illusions feature sounds good at first. "You can change the nature of your illusion" Except that just gives away the fact that it's an illusion, no? The only good use I've had for it was at level 14, when I got Illusory Reality and combined it with Hallucinatory Terrain to make a discount Mirage Arcane.

So, instead I've opted solve another limitation I've had with illusions. Illusions are anchored to where you put them. Which is fine, most of the time. But I know for a fact that I've used Major Image illegally to chase gnolls through a cave disguised as a lava flow, but god was that fun. And another instance, where I distracted a monster with an illusion while we went by, but that just meant I wasted a spell slot and a 10 minute spell for a 2 second encounter. Feels bad man. I can think of a lot of more interesting uses if you could attach an illusion to something else so you don't even need to care.

Guise of Innocence

Illusory Self is a feature, that sounds great, and it really is quite strong. But I felt like it didn't do much. Several times it just didn't come up because it wasn't an attack roll, but then others it didn't matter because multiattack is a thing, so I'd burn my reaction and my only use of this feature and then be vulnerable anyway. This was the feature I agonised over the longest. I knew I didn't want another feature that modified how illusion spells worked, but I felt like a reaction defensive ability would just be admitting defeat. So, I asked, "what would my illusionist do?" And my illusionist would make himself seem benign. So, we now have a version of sanctuary which seemed quite neat.

Unreality

I won't lie, this is the other half of this subclass being the best subclass in the game. But it's also part of the 'parts that could be better'. The first time I used it, I used it amazingly, in my opinion. However, I also used it wrong, because I made creatures real. Which is just objectively cool. As is bonking people with illusionary pianos

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Oath of Discord

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The Rift Binder. A class specialising in summoning monsters and controlling the battlefield.

The Witch Knight. A class that combines swords and sorcery in the most literal way.

The Werebeast. A class that turns you into a half beast to destroy your foes.

d'Artagnan's Adventurer Almanac. A compendium of races, subclasses, feats, spells, monsters and more!

[wanderingwolfwitcher]

"Didn't really think so. They aren't very good at hiding it... their feelings of superiority over everyone else. Usually know one when I see one. Wouldn't be caught in a village like this if they could help it either. Prefer luxury, in all things."

Eskel's deep, calm voice returned to her slowly, viper eyes looking back at her from where he stood, arms folded comfortably over his armor and cloak. So, she had untrained magical potential, it seemed. It popped up invariably among folk, usually younger than she was, but it wasn't unheard of in adults. While he had mastered all the Signs, their potential, and the art of boosting, combining and modifying them further, had vast knowledge of the occult, necromancy, demonology and curses... the rest of the arcane was another matter, one he couldn't teach her. With ancient Aretuza destroyed for good by Radovid's army, much to his own personal, private approval, the only magical schools in the Northern Realms were the Ban Ard Academy for males exclusively right there in Kaedwen under Rector Dorregaray of Vole, and the new school that had been recently built in Kovir and Poviss, mostly for females, under Rectoress Margarita Laux-Antille. A somewhat more tolerable Sorceress and former Lodge member than most of them, not that it was saying much. Considering who had comprised it, that was a low bar to clear.

The Kingdom of Kovir and Poviss was where Triss was mostly at these days as well, as a royal court Sorceress for King Tankred Thyssen and part time teacher at Margarita's school. Likely Rhaena would be better off there, under their tutelage than dwelling in villages, where the superstitious folk would be liable to turn against her if they found out that she had magic to her. Run her out of town or try burning her at the stake... especially if they were supporters of Radovid. While a hag of a witch like Sabrina Glevissig had more than earned such a grisly fate, this young woman had not. It stuck him as another bitterly amusing joke of destiny... that he of all people should have to deliver someone to become a Sorceress, after his unpleasant experiences with such types. He rubbed his marred cheek absently as he considered it all, before she spoke again, began to sob over what she had seen drawing the Witcher's attention back to her. He nodded, moving over closer to her and reaching up the eastern woman's tears, offering what silent comfort he could in his touch, and quiet verbal comfort, reassurance.

"Of course you couldn't stop it. It wasn't you, and it had already happened. Try not to beat yourself up over it. It was the father's doing, and he's paid the price. Nothing else to be done about it. No stranger to death on the Path, seen all manner of them. Grisly, usually. And it's always the innocents who suffer the most. Just gotta learn to live with it... do your best. Such is the world we're in. I can't teach you to control your powers. You're going to need help, but won't find it in this kingdom. You belong in Kovir and Poviss, far safer territory for those of magical potential. There's a school for it out there as well, would accept you in a heartbeat, I'm sure. Know one of the teachers."

@rhaenaofmyr

@wanderingwolfwitcher [as discussed]

She clutches the cloak tighter about her frame, drawing the hood up over her head to at least try to keep the snow out of her eyes.

Rhaena had thought she would grow used to the chills that winters on The Continent brought. It had been near four years since she had fled from Westeros, where she had been condemned to a life of poverty in King’s Landing. She’d had no clue where she would end up when she stole away into the belly of a merchant ship, and it would seem that had the crew- she would later learn that their original destination had been Essos, but wild storms had sent them adrift and now here she was.

She’d traversed her way through this strange new world, eventually settling in a small village close to the mountains of Kaedwen. Of course, without a coin to her name, she had had to find work quickly, but the village’s pleasure house had employed her the moment they had laid eyes upon her. It was not something she particularly enjoyed, but it earned her enough to purchase a small homestead on the outskirts of the village.

The storm had set in as she was returning home and quickly, she had lost her bearings in the blizzard. She’d ended up in the forest that circled the village, entirely blind to the true way home. She paused for a moment, dark eyes casting this way and that to look for something familiar. But so thick was the snow that she could scarcely see her hand in front of her face. And she did not see the creature until it had knocked her to the ground, sharp claws pressing into her chest as it pins her down. All she can see now is teeth, growing ever closer as it leans down to take the death bite-

Suddenly, she hears the swing of the sword through the icy air, the thud of the creatures head as it lands close to hers, and feels the warm spray of blood across her face. Eyes remain shut for several moments before she slowly opens them, gaze falling upon the man in the dark red cloak, who stands above her.

Eyes wide with fear, she scrambles to her feet. Beneath the hood, she can make out yellow eyes and a large scar that marrs his face. She’s seen him around the village from time to time- she cannot recall his name, but she knows he is one of the elusive Witchers who spend their winters nearby.

“Th-thank you, Ser…” she says with as much bravery as she can muster, words heavily accented. “Forgive me but…I have no coin for you���”

[mars-onthe-moon]

hey what our some fandoms you're in but haven't made art of yet recently?

Literally all of them XD

I love so many things but then only end up drawing GF. It’s like the Midas touch, but worse.

I just started the Netflix Bee and Puppy cat! It’s amazing! I rewatched the YouTube series for the millionth time and then started the Netflix, and I’m really liking it.

I also started watching The Arcane. I love the art and the story, wouldn’t say I’m in the fandom, but I appreciate the show.

I guess I’ll just make a list of fandoms I’m in or stalk from time to time.

Cartoons:

Gravity Falls

The Owl House

Bee and Puppy Cat

Adventure time (need to start distant lands)

Over The Garden Wall (mandatory watch in the fall)

Bob’s Burgs

Rick and Morty

Cuphead and Mugman (video game and cartoon… I have like, too many of the pops, love the art to death)

Steven universe (need to start Future, or else my OCD will never let me rest in peace)

Avatar the last Airbender (I watch the whole series like every two yrs, need to finish Legends of K tho)

Helluva Boss (I keep an eye on ‘Hazbin’, I think there is like a legit show in the works, but Helluva is actually great and I would die for most of the characters unlike ‘Hotel.’)

There’s a butt ton more I know I’m missing. I think it’s safe to say cartoons are my fav media so I’ve probably watched most of them or plan on it.

Anime:

I’m such an anime slacker, so like I’ve probably heard of it, but it’s because it’s on my watch list and I’ve never gotten around to it… so here are my comfort animes.

Anything Hayao Miyazaki or studio G

Soul eater

Mob Psycho 100

Tokyo Ghoul

Ouran Host club

Kill la Kill

Kakegurui

Other:

The Arcana - A dating sim video game which I love waaaaaaay too much (I own the art book and tarot cards, btw totally worth it). It has a lot of great representation! …. And my husband Lucio… Who is totally not evil and hot and the reason I question my sanity and sexuality.

MadK - which is a very dark BL manga… obvi NSFW, but it’s amazing. The art is beautiful and the plot is fr interesting and I need the third book like now, because I gotta know how this is gonna end.

The Banquet - a web comic (tho u can get hard copies and exclusive nfsw art books through Patreon). It’s gay and cute and about demons and we stan.

Nightvale - Yo. I tried to do the podcasts in like middle school. They were fun but like, too many, I never finished. But the books are fire so I really like them, they have the same feel, mention OG characters, but have plot and stuff. - In that same vibe….

Alice isn’t dead. It’s another book by Joseph Fink and has that surreal nightvale vibe, but toned down a little, also mc is a lesbian so, finger snaps. (Now that im looking at his books he has a lot more so brb while I spend money I don’t have.)

Undertale will always be in my heart, and I need to play delta rune chpt 2.

So yeah! Thats the stuff im into atm, or have been within the past few yrs. Some more then others, but mostly everything here is what I try to stay up to date on. I also always have the ghosts of superwholockian and bronies past looming over me… but we all have our demons. And if I ever vanish, know that they got to me and I’m rewatching all of Doctor Who because I stopped at the 12th doctor and there’s like a fourteenth one now? And I does’s have to know.

[creativerogues]

Using In-Game Props in your D&D Game...

Potions & Brews

This is probably the easiest and cheapest D&D Prop you can make yourself!

All you need is some glass jars or test tubes and vials, which you can get all from your local craft store, and fill them with different soft drinks and different coloured sodas to represent various D&D potions:

A Cherry Red Potion for a Healing Potion is the first thing that springs into my mind: And it’s an actual healing potion you can drink!

Now if you’re not into that thing, you can always take a look at “Healing Potion Kits”, which are essentially fancy glass vials filled with colourful resins with a number of dice equal to the rarity of the potion.

Either way, it’s relatively cheap to make, and pretty cheap to buy pre-made.

I have my own Healing Potion Set: Four little glass jars with a red resin inside and d4′s for each rarity of healing potion, and it only cost me about ~$26 USD, and that’s including all the Shipping and Handling stuff.

Whenever the Party finds or buys Healing Potions, I hand one of these bad boys to that Player, and they just keep it with their Character until they use it, roll the dice, and hand it back when they’re done...

Bonus: And because I like to brag sometimes, I like to use the skills of my many friends to build some awesome D&D Props.

And with one Friend being a Graphic Designer and another being trained to use a bunch of Glass Engraving Gear, I can proudly say I have a bottle of actual “Dragon’s Breath” Brand Whiskey (a Famous Brand in my D&D World), with a Custom Designed Logo that’s been engraved onto the fanciest whiskey bottle I could find...

Did I need this? Probably not... Is it cool? Heck yeah!

Wands, Daggers & Weapons

Now, obviously you probably don’t want to give your Players actual knives and daggers, so take a look at LARP Weapons!

You can get Daggers, Swords, Axes, Wands, Staffs and more, with most of them being a little expensive, but often times worth it...

I bought an “Assassin’s Sword” as a Prop for my game, since the Player’s are currently on the hunt for a forgotten forge from ages past, and are trying to forge a Silver Sword in a desperate attempt to stop a War with the Githyanki of the Astral Sea.

To buy this Prop ‘Silver Sword’, and the stuff I need to maintain it (just to make sure the sword doesn’t break), it cost about ~$100 USD, which ain’t cheap, but since it’s a Prop sword, it’s gonna get a lot of use...

But if you’re a DM on a Budget, you can buy some very fancy wooden wands and daggers from places like Dog Might Games, who do Custom Wooden Weapons like Daggers, Wands and even Big Ass Hammers from prices of $39 USD upwards.

And as someone who owns two Custom Wooden Wands, it’s fantastic!

I have a Flame Birch Imperial Wand to represent a “Wand of Fireballs”, and an Ebony Necromancer’s Wand to represent a “Wand of Fear”.

Both are really well done, and the faces you get when you hand your Wizard or Sorcerer an actual Wand of Fireballs... priceless...

Maps

Maps are a good thing to hand your Players, because they read “Big Bad Forest up North” and think “We should go there sometime...”

Now, you can draw a map yourself with various pieces of software, or you could even Commission an Artist to draw one for you, with the Prices being anywhere from $40 to well over $200+.

Now, obviously that depends on the detail of the map, and the map’s size, but if you just so happen to know a bunch of Artists and Cartographers, you could easily get a map done for pretty cheap...

I luckily have a bunch of Artists for friends, so I just send them my VERY rough details of a Map, and they draw it out, and with one of my friends being an actual geography student, she really does know where rivers, mountains and forests should be, resulting in a beautifully accurate map of the local area for the Players to explore...

And yes, I pay everyone for their time and their art, because you should, that’s what decent people do...

Wanted Posters

Similar to maps, but a bit more exclusive. If you have an artsy friends, or you’re artsy yourself, it’s pretty easy to create an old western style wanted poster for one of your Player’s Characters, or even the whole darn Party!

Luckily none of my Players have been that naughty lately, but I was in a Game recently were our Party had just escaped from an assassination attempt on the Queen’s life and had to leave town, only to sneak through the City Gates a couple of sessions later to find our faces plastered over every wall...

That was when the DM handed us her Custom-Made Wanted Posters, with each Players face right above the words ‘WANTED’.

Scrolls

Spell Scrolls, Scrolls of Protection, whatever you want to call them; you can find a bunch of spell scrolls online from some absolutely fantastic artists...

My personal favourite at the moment are the Scrolls from Arcane Scrollworks and SkeletonKeyGames, who produce some absolutely freakin’ fantastic looking spell scrolls for prices as little as $11.99 USD.

They do scrolls for the Arcane, Divine, Natural and you can get entire bundles of scrolls for less than $60 USD, which is great for a DM, or a Wizard wanting to expand their Spellbook...

Actually, speaking of Spellbooks...

Spellbooks

You can get some beautifully made, leather-bound spellbook-looking notepads and journals for your Wizard Player, or even for yourself.

It can make a great Journal to take notes on the session’s events, or as an actual prop with real runes, glyphs and arcane symbols drawn inside for the Wizard Player to decode with their 20 Intelligence...

Coins

Copper, Silver, Electrum, Gold, Platinum: There’s a lot of different Coins in D&D, and handing your Players a couple of real coppers definitely increases the immersion, and makes shopping for potions and magic items a little more tolerable...

You can buy a whole bunch of them online, I got 50 Coins (10 of each type) for less than $20 USD, and there are companies out there that specifically make coins for D&D, from elven coins to dwarvish coins, to freshly minted coins for adventures like Waterdeep: Dragon Heist...

Bonus: Invisible Ink!

Ever wanted to make the Rogue Player feel extra special? Or maybe the Wizard Player finally got the chance to cast Detect Magic on that magic scroll they found earlier.

Well Invisible Ink Pens and UV Lights can make the experience all the more badass.

Say you draw an arcane symbol on a piece of paper and hand it to the Wizard Player, when they cast Identify or Detect Magic on it, just hand them a UV Light and watch their faces light up (get it?) when they uncover the hidden writings beneath...

Or maybe you want the Rogue to decipher a hidden message, or maybe a secret riddle is hidden on the Dungeon Wall and can only be found by casting See Invisibility or Detect Magic...

Invisible Ink is is one of those things that I could find 10,000 uses for if given the time...

[moon-spite-ffxiv]

LF Contact: Rapha’li Narahl

Basic Information:

Full Name: Rapha’li Narahl Nicknames/Titles: Instructor Hardass (by his students), Raph/Rapha (by friends) Gender: Cis Male Alignment: Chaotic Exhausted Age: 24, he thinks; indeterminate Race: Miqo’te - Keeper of the Moon Birthplace: South Shroud, the records suggest Current Residence: Limsa Lominsa

General Character Info:

Sexual Identification: Homosexual Relationship Status: Single; roommate of Ehnek’a (@mathemagiks​!) Occupation: Eternally-broke aetherial physics instructor, healer-for-hire, the world’s first man to thrive on an exclusive diet of donuts and shame Enemies: Philosophy majors. Primals. Literally anyone who tries to get too frisky with his roommate.

Character Appearance:

Hair: Navy blue, eternally tousled. Curly, but grown out into a loose-hanging mop. Skin: Fair, freckled-lilac. Eyes: Pale lavender, tired past the point of reason. Wears rimless glasses. Height: 5′1″ Markings (Scars, Tattoos, etc): A pair of lavender stripes on each cheek, a circular lavender birthmark just above his tail. A baffling series of arcanima diagrams tattooed at conveniently-hidden points across his body. Form: Short, compact. Varies between average and severely underweight, with seemingly very little time in between the two states. Common Accessories: His grimoire full of arcane geometries. A side-satchel laden with more parchments and reagents than it should reasonably be able to hold. A pocket watch. His trusty bandolier of aetherial inks. A hip flask. A usually-empty coin purse. A single heavy pearl earring.

Personality:

Social Level: If in a decent state of mental health, outgoing and flirtatious. Prone to lengthy periods of self-isolation, however, usually buried under an avalanche of half-graded papers and books. Optimistic/Pessimistic: If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. That’s why the gods invented scientists in the first place. Positive Personality Traits: Protective / Hardworking / Diligent Negative Personality Traits: Pessimistic / Unyielding / Sharp-Tongued Misc. Quirks: Aether-sensitive folk may very well boggle at how the hell this one’s even still alive. His very essence is held together with more aetherial anchors, redirects, and dead-man’s-switches than a cheap scrap of imitation Magitek. Prone to spontaneously appearing / disappearing in mid-sentence, much as if he himself didn’t expect it. Religion/Philosophy: Menphina’s all right, he guesses. Religion’s not a priority for him. Likes: Food, when he remembers to eat. Stimulants, occasionally combined with depressants. Men. Math and physics, to a life-consuming degree. Exuberant debates about magical theory. SLEEP: the rarest treat of all. Favorite Foods: Anything greasy and over-indulgent. Pour some melted cheese over a pile of fried chicken and lard-bread, then dump a bucket of bacon over it. Slap some hot sauce on top. Garnish it all with crispy onion strips and dot it with a single teensy sprig of parsley, because that’s hilarious. Favorite Drinks: Whiskey, pale ale, orange juice. Favorite Colors: Blue, silver, purple. Dislikes: Henpecking / smothering, solitude (though he’ll say he loves it), having to teach 9am classes to all you godsdamned daywalkers. Hobbies: A spot of recreational math, to take his mind off all the professional math. Lobbing terrible innuendos at handsome men, usually involving a groanworthy science pun or two. Puns in general, really. Doing nice things, but only when no one is looking. Recently, baking -- but only in 400-attempt batches, each one with a single variable changed in order to determine the best combination of heat and ingredients, Food Lab-style.

Hooks:

Are you a fellow scholarly-type? Want to learn from him, or alternately engage in increasingly-loud and petty debates about whose theorems are more on point? Flip a table or two? Develop a professional relationship (and/or rivalry!) that’ll rock the scientific community to its core? There’s a catte for that!

Are you some kind of aberration from another plane, such as a Primal/Voidsent/Fae, or just want someone to bounce really dangerous research off of?  Does it involve magic in some way? Raph is HERE for it. If your character is at all involved in Inadvisable Dickery™ for the sake of knowledge, he will at least be partially interested. Bring him along. What’s the worst that could happen? At least you’ve got heals now.

Speaking of heals: going on an excursion and need a pocket(-sized) healer with you? It’d do Raph some good to take a day off now and then, and see things that aren’t his classroom or his apartment. Maybe you’ve heard of the guy’s healing skills somewhere! Much of an ass as he can be, few will deny he’s damned good at what he does.

Just want to hang out and talk shit with a nerd for a while? Teach him new baking recipes? Get flirted at by a lightweight who has none of his shit together? Explore the depths and implications of mental illness and causality alike? I’m up for most ideas once we talk about it! Throw ‘em at me!

OOC:

Server: Mateus Timezone: CST Experience: I have some! MMOs and tabletop and all in between. Prefer in-game RP. Can do Discord or Tumblr stuff; it just takes me longer. Waaay longer. Type of RP: Humorous / adventuring / dark / mature / social / slice-of-life Looking for: Friends, adventuring-buddies, disco-sticks to ride. Kinda everything! Contact: In-game as Rapha’li Narahl, or here on tumblr!

[warcraft-lore-archives]

On Sin’dorei: Eye Color

Artistic depictions of the quel’dorei have been rather liberal in their portrayal of elven eyes, showing elves with everything from non-glowing, ostensibly ‘human’ eyes to glowing eyes in a variety of colors, some of which are not even seen in-game. The high elves in the novel Tides of Darkness and Sylvanas’ Warbringer short all appear to have non-glowing eyes, which stands in stark contrast to the ever-glowing blue eyes of their in-game counterparts* [Warbringers: Sylvanas, Tides of Darkness, Chapter Seven, Chapter Fourteen]. On the other hand, many forms of media such as the World of Warcraft comic, the movie, and Hearthstone hero art for Alleria Windrunner and Lady Liadrin, among others, exclusively depict quel’dorei and sin’dorei with glowing eyes. Since all in-game high elf, blood elf, and void elf models’ eyes glow, it seems that they are not intended to have ‘normal’ human eyes. However, given the number of discrepancies, especially in recent content, it could very well be that elven eyes have much more variety than what is represented in-game.

A Background

Eye color in elves appears to be determined by the specific type of magic they are exposed to over a long period of time, whether that be through consistent use of it, absorption, or simply being around it. This phenomenon actually occurs in human spellcasters in a slightly different way, although the effect is not as permanent in humans like it is in elves. Jaina Proudmoore, for example, has been shown as having glowing blue eyes when casting frost spells and orange eyes while casting fire spells [Cinematic: An Unexpected Reunion, Hearthstone Hero Art: Jaina Proudmoore]. Interestingly enough, elves’ eyes can also temporarily change color through spell casting or magic absorption. Immediately after siphoning arcane magic from a trident, Valeera Sanguinar’s eyes, which are normally a glowing green, temporarily changed to purple [World of Warcraft Comic, Issue #7]. Similarly, Vereesa Windrunner has glowing purple eyes as she casts what seems to be an arcane spell in her Hearthstone card art [Hearthstone Card: Vereesa Windrunner].

In most cases, eye color directly correlates to the relevant magic type. The high elves’ blue eyes may appear something of an oddity at first glance, considering they subsisted on an arcane fount for millennia. If channeling the energies of the Sunwell is the cause of their eye color, then it may strike one as weird that arcane magic - something that is commonly associated with the color purple - has given them blue eyes. However, raw arcane energies are shown to be both purple and blue in color. Mage spells like arcane blast and arcane barrage, for example, have blue effects, not to say anything about how all of the mage spells in the Warcraft movie are also blue [Video: WOW PTR 7.3 – Mage Animation – Draenei Female, Video: WarCraft: The Beginning: All Magic Effects]. Moreover, arcane elementals are primarily blue [Page: Arcane Elemental]. In other words, it is not all that farfetched for high elves to have gotten blue eyes from feeding on the arcane energies of the Sunwell.

It is also worth adding that a night elf’s eyes change from silver to gold if they have druidic potential or begin practicing druidism [Warcraft Encyclopedia: Night Elf]. The color gold does not have any obvious associations with druidic magic – in fact, it is usually indicative of the Light –, and yet it is widespread among kaldorei druids. (It may be important to point out that Malfurion’s eyes are green rather than gold in the Terror of Darkshore cinematic, a color oft tied to nature) [Cinematic: Terror of Darkshore]. Therefore, while eye color in elves is typically dependent on the type of magic they use, it is not unusual for their eye color to be a different color than that which is most commonly associated with the magic in question.

Sin’dorei

Although most sin’dorei have green eyes, the color does not come from heavy use of fel magic so much as it does constant exposure to fel magic. Not dissimilar to the orcs, simply being around fel energies for a prolonged period of time turned the blood elves’ eyes green after the Third War [Ask CDev, Round Three].

Recently, however, some of the sin’dorei’s eyes have started changing to a golden color. Just like how high elves’ eyes were blue because they subsisted on the arcane energies of the first Sunwell, now their eyes are beginning to turn gold due to the Light energies in the newly restored Sunwell. This effect is much more pronounced in light users like paladins and priests, but it is possible that over time, all blood elves will come to have golden eyes, especially since they all rely on the energies of the Sunwell to sustain them [Video: Developer Interview BFA Press Event, Video: World of Warcraft Blood Elf Intro, Hearthstone Hero Art: Lady Liadrin].  

Quel’dorei

Unlike the rest of their brethren, the high elves are depicted as having a wide variety of eye colors outside of the game. According to the novel Tides of Darkness, their eye color can vary anywhere from grey to blue, green, and even brown. Out of the three Windrunner sisters, who are all high elves in the novel, only Vereesa is described as having the typical high elven blue eyes. Alleria, on the other hand, has emerald-green eyes – something which has been retconned by her in-game appearance – while Sylvanas’ are gray in color [Tides of Darkness, Chapter Seven, Chapter Fourteen, NPC: Alleria Windrunner]. Additionally, Lor’themar is said to have dark brown eyes [Tides of Darkness, Chapter Fourteen]. In the current iteration of the game, however, most high elves have blue eyes. 

Ren’dorei

The ren’dorei’s eyes glow blue, similar to – although a markedly different shade than – their quel’dorei brethren, something which almost certainly has to do with their exposure to void energies. Not unlike arcane magic, the void has a predominantly purple color scheme, something which is obvious when looking at Alleria’s void form or the void portals on Argus, among other things. However, while the color blue is not overt in shadow or void spells, it is present in voidwalker models and, more importantly, the void elf aesthetic – specifically their clothing, skin color, and hair color, just to name a few. Since void energies visibly altered the void elves’ hair and skin to shades of blue and purple, it is not unreasonable to assume that void magic is also the cause of their blue eyes.  

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* Some have speculated that the high elves in Sylvanas’ Warbringer short were depicted with regular eyes solely to distinguish them from Arthas and his legion of undead, all of whom have glowing blue eyes. Had the high elves also had glowing blue eyes, it may have been confusing for an unknowing audience.

[sexygames118]

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2B 2

Welcome! Today’s subclass – inspired by 2B of Nier Automata, for those who just walked in – is the Planar Adjudicator.

What and why is a Planar Adjudicator, you may ask? I didn’t just want to make the 2B class a construct-killer; unless your DM’s world is teeming with robots, that won’t be particularly useful. So I reflavored the androids’ crazy superhuman combat maneuvers as laws of physics they’re allowed to break. And YoRHa as like interdimensional hitmen of balance.

Kinda like “if the Horizon Walker Ranger joined a Paladin order.”

I don’t remember the exact thought process, tbh.

Commence!

Clearances

As Planar Adjudicators climb in rank, they’re allowed to bend certain laws of reality, or waive them altogether.

When you first gain access to these clearances at level 3, you may take three. You may take two additional clearances each levels 7, 10, and 15. At these levels, you may also replace a previously-established clearance with another one of equal level.

See list of Clearances at the end of the class.

Save vs. your Clearances is 8 + proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier.

At level 3, the fighter usually gains multiple features with their subclass: 1) Each archetype's primary mechanic; 2) a coin toss between an exploration or interaction feature, usually packaged with an extra skill proficiency.

To fit with the Planar Adjudicator's "spacetime cop" theme, I made the main mechanic Clearances - or laws of reality that the Planar Adjudicator's allowed to break to better hunt their quarry. In an earlier draft, I tried to directly base these Clearances on the various Pod abilities; but after a few false starts, I realized that most of the Pods either don't translate well into D&D mechanics, or would provide game-breaking stat increases/extra attacks. So instead, I looked to the Warlock's Eldritch Invocations for inspiration, and the Clearances scale/stack similar to the Eldritch Knight's spellcasting. (I think... I'm sorry, I really need to be more careful about crossing out my design notes, not deleting them entirely.)

The Clearances are supposed to reflect Nier Automata's flashy combat; encapsulate more of 2B's skills and android abilities not covered by my earlier choices of Race, Background, etc; and beef up the Planar Adjudicator's flavor.

Basic Planar Knowledge Database

Take proficiency in either Religion or Arcana.

As an action, you detect the distance and direction between you and any creature involved in your goal, such as a person you seek vengeance against or someone you pledged to defend. You must be familiar with this creature – i.e. have met them personally, or you know more than passing knowledge about that creature. If the target is on another plane of existence, you instead discern the distance and direction of the nearest portal to that plane, though you don't automatically know which plane it leads to.

The Planar Adjudicator's other starting feature - Basic Planar Knowledge Database - bundles one of two lore-intensive Intelligence proficiencies with a barely-changed version of the Revenant's Relentless Nature. I don't think it's too OP because it's mostly for flavor, but Hey! I've been wrong before.

(Maybe BPKD should at least be 'use x times between rests’?)

Database Upgrade

You hone your insight into your extraplanar quarry by level 7, analyzing your deep repository of lore for weaknesses.

Your melee attacks (not ranged, not spells) now count as magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance.

You gain proficiency in Religion or Arcana, whichever you did not choose from Basic Planar Knowledge Database. Except for critical failures, you can treat any Arcana or Religion roll of 9 or below as a 10.

Fighters' level 7 abilities usually go one of two ways: an attack/defense buff; or an exploration ability packaged with a new skill proficiency. The Planar Adjudicator's Database Upgrade is bit of a mix of both.

This is a melee-only version of the Arcane Archer's Magic Arrow, as well as the other half of the Basic Planar Knowledge Database - while also borrowing a little of the Rogue's Reliable Talent. I'm hoping that's not too much, as religion and arcana are mostly fun roleplay skills anyway. Who knows; the way you run your games, this might be OP.

Executioner’s Clearance

At level 10, you gain two types of Favored Enemy. One is always humanoids. For the other, choose from aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, or undead. You gain a +4 bonus to damage rolls with weapon attacks against creatures of both types. Additionally, you have advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks to track your favored enemies, as well as on Intelligence checks to recall information about them.

When you gain this feature, you also learn two languages of your choice, typically one spoken by your favored enemy or creatures associated with it; for example, elvish for humanoids and deep speech for aberrations. However, you are free to pick any language you wish to learn.

You also have advantage on saving throws against the spells and abilities of both these enemy types.

Fighters' level 10 features are exclusively combat-focused. Usually, they're an improvement to a pre-existing feature.

I borrowed the Ranger's Favored Enemy + Greater Favored Enemy for Executioner’s Clearance. Since even the stacked version of Greater Favored Enemy is still conditional, and it's already only a level 6 ability, I thought it fair to throw the Planar Adjudicator another bone.

Hammerspace

You can equip up to three weapons at a time, in any combination of weight class or ranged/melee. You can swap these weapons in and out as a free action, including in between attacks.

You stow any of these three weapons you cannot feasibly hold in a personal void not unlike a Bag of Holding.

Hammerspace adds a bit more Nier Automata-ness to the Planar Adjudicator's playstyle, what with the giant weapons floating behind you and switching between these giant weapons in an instant.

I can't for the life of me remember what I used as a base for Hammerspace. Honestly, I might have made it from scratch, but I wouldn't give me that much credit.

Unchain Protocol

Against your favored enemy types, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

While the planar adjudicator is at half their hit points (rounded down) or below, they score critical hits on 18-20 for all enemy types, not just favored enemies.

While the planar adjudicator's hit points equal 10 + Constitution modifier or below, your criticals gain a damage bonus equal to your level in this class.

At level 15, Fighters gain a variety of types of combat features. Attack spells/spell-like abilities and attack/damage buffs are common.

I think this is another weird fusion of a couple different class abilities. Like Champion/Barbarian’s Improved Critical plus one of the Brute’s abilities, maybe?

The first part of Unchain Protocol stacks with Executioner's Clearance. The second and third stages of the Protocol affect all critical hits, for the trade-off of inching closer and closer to death.

Evasion System Overclock

When an enemy misses an attack against you, you may incur the effects of Time Stop as a reaction. All restrictions of Time Stop still apply. You take the turns afforded by Time Stop immediately upon using this ability. You may use this once a day.

I know 2B has the whole slow-time-when-you-dodge ability from the beginning of the game; but there’s no way to give the player its D&D equivalent at an early level without tipping the game balance like the fucking Titanic.

My thinking is, assuming the player tries to use this ability to hit or run, Evasion System Overclock only affords them one extra strike, or a get-out-of-combat-free card if the player’s okay with ditching the rest of the party and appearing 1000 feet away. Hopefully, this forces your Planar Adjudicator to be a little more creative and strategic with their extra turns.

Clearances

Law of Applied Force. All ranged attacks have a maximum range of 300 ft.

Law of Auras. You can cast Detect Magic at will.

Law of Darkness. You can see normally in darkness, both magical and non-magical, to a distance of 120 feet.

Law of Healing. Whenever you regain hit points from a potion, spell, or ally’s class feature, treat any dice rolled to determine the hit points you regain as having rolled their maximum value for you.

Law of Inertia. Whenever you successfully deal damage to a creature, you can push the creature up to 10 feet away from you in a straight line.

Law of Interspecies Communication. Although limited by the intelligence of the beast, you can understand and speak with beasts.

Law of Linguistics. You can read all writing. You can comprehend any written word or symbol, should it hold any linguistic meaning.

Law of Natural Cycles. Within a minute of its death, you may ask a recently deceased creature one question. The dead creature’s spirit provides the answer to the best of its knowledge, translated into a language of your choice.

Law of Resilience. Your AC becomes 13 + your Strength or Dexterity modifier while not wearing armor. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Law of Rest. You no longer need to sleep and can't be forced to sleep by any means. To gain the benefits of a long rest, you can spend all 8 hours doing light activity.

Law of Vitality. You can cast False Life on yourself at will as a 1st-level spell.

Law of Warfare. Over the course of 1 hour short rest, you can bond a weapon to you. You can bond up to two weapons at once. These weapons gain a +1 to attack and damage rolls. You can summon or dispel these weapons as a bonus action.

Prerequisite: Level 5

Law of Conservation of Energy. For one minute, you can double your speed, gain +2 to AC, roll advantage on Dexterity saves, and take an additional action on each of your turns. The action can be used to attack (one weapon attack only), dash, disengage, hide, or use an object. You can use this feature once every long rest.

Law of Elemental Order. Every long rest, pick a type of elemental damage. When you hit a creature with a melee or ranged attack, you can use a bonus action to unleash an eruption of this damage type. This eruption is a 20-foot-radius sphere, focused on the target you just hit, and deals 8d6 of your chosen element. You are immune to this eruption. You can use this feature once every long rest.

At level 11, this feature recharges with a short or long rest, and the extra damage increases to 9d6.

At level 17, you can use this feature twice between rests, and the extra damage increases to 10d6.

Law of Proportional Might. Once per turn, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon, you can add 4d8 force damage to your attack, and you can knock the target prone if it is Huge or smaller. You can use this feature once every long rest.

At level 11, this feature recharges with a short or long rest, and the extra damage increases to 5d8.

At level 17, you can use this feature twice between rests, and the extra damage increases to 6d8.

Prerequisite: Level 7

Law of Opacity. Once per rest, you can use an action to gain the ability to see through solid objects to a range of 30 feet. Within that range, you have darkvision if you don't already have it. This special sight lasts for 1 minute. During this time, you perceive objects as ghostly, transparent images.

Law of Motion. For one hour, you are unaffected by difficult terrain, and spells or magical effects can't reduce your speed or cause you to be paralyzed or restrained.

You can spend 5 feet of movement to automatically escape from nonmagical restraints. Additionally, being underwater imposes no penalties on its movement or attacks.

Prerequisite: Level 9

Law of Gravity. At will, you can rise vertically up to 20 feet. While suspended, you have no momentum of your own and you may grab on to other objects in order to move as if climbing. You can change your altitude as part of your movement each turn.

Whenever you deactivate this clearance, you drift safely to the ground per the spell Feather Fall.

Law of Proportional Athleticism. Your jump distance is tripled.

Law of Spirit-Mortal Communication. You can speak to spirits - per the Speak with Dead spell - at will.

Prerequisite: Level 15

Law of Physicality. As an action, you and everything you wear and carry become invisible for up to an hour. If you drop an item or remove it, the item is no longer invisible, and if you try to attack or cast a spell, you're visible again. You can activate this clearance at will.

I don’t have an ending besides thank you for reading, hope it doesn’t suck!

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The DC Universe app will offer a large array of them, including some of my favorites like Justice League: War, Batman: Under The Red Hood, and even Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.  But what shocked me the most was that their newest animated film, The Death of Superman, is actually available to watch on the app, even though it’s only been out for less than two months.  And with a 3-4 films release schedule every year just for the DCUA films, this library will continue to grow.

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There will be several great and knowledgeable hosts including Tiffany Smith (DC All Access), John Barrowman (Arrow, Doctor Who), Samm Levine (Freaks & Geeks, Inglourious Basterds), Harley Quinn Smith (Yoga Hosers), Sam Humphries (DC Comics Writer – Green Lanterns), Hector Navarro (DC All Access), Clarke Wolfe (Collider Movie Talk, Film HQ), Brian Tong, Markeia McCarty (DC Movie News), and John Kourounis.

DC Daily cast (L to R): Samm Levine, Sam Humphries, Tiffany Smith, John Barrowman (in front), Harley Quinn Smith, Clarke Wolfe, Brian Tong, John Kourounis, Hector Navarro

DC Daily will be replacing DC All Access and will offer news related to the original series on DC Universe and other content that “ties back” to DC Comics and the DC Universe community. The program is scheduled to have the following segments: “Headlines”, for daily news briefs; “Reports”, for an in-depth interview or look at an upcoming book, film, or television series; and “Talk”, for panel discussions.

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Titans follows young heroes from across the DC Universe as they come of age and find belonging. This gritty take on the classic Titans franchise finds Dick Grayson and a special young girl possessed by a strange darkness named Rachel Roth as they get embroiled in a conspiracy. They’re joined by Starfire and Beast Boy to become a surrogate family and team.

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Here’s what you get in a past life reading:  - Positive and negative personality traits - General overview of life path - Traits that have been carried over (good and bad) - Unresolved issues affecting your current life - Suggested methods for resolution

It’s important to note that this covers one past life only, and if you would like to know about other past lives you will need to purchase them separately. I don’t recommend doing more than one of these in the same day. We can get an idea roughly how many past lives you have in the session if you would like, but please be aware that the issues which are carried over from one life to the next are usually the same and it’s not usually necessary to go through all your past lives to resolve those issues (of course, if you would like to do it just because you’re curious that’s totally fine!). 

• Shorter readings, single card readings, etc: I prefer in-depth readings, but if you’re really intent on having a one-card reading feel free to send me a message and I may say yes. Honestly, this is entirely mood-based so I can’t give any guidelines on when I will or won’t allow these. If the issue is that you don’t have enough money for a full reading, just let me know and we can look into whether your questions are appropriate for a short reading or if paying in installments would be a better idea. 

• Spirit communication: See the section on Spirit and Death work

• What to expect during a reading:  Before the reading we’ll discuss what you would like to find out. I shuffle the deck and you tell me when to stop so I can cut the deck and draw the spread (this may vary depending on the type of reading).  Most of my readings start with a 3-card spread adapted according to your question. I type out the reading for the first three cards, and from there you may ask clarifying questions and I will draw more cards as needed.  I will send you photos of the initial spread, and follow-up photos if clarifying cards were drawn. After the reading you may request a PDF containing a transcript of our chat and the spread photos for future reference. I will send you a link to a review form once the reading is complete, as they help me improve my readings and also provide testimonials for potential customers.

Fire Scrying available on Etsy 

This method is very different from tarot and is most suited to general readings, getting direction in spiritual or arcane matters. It can also be great for “what do I need to know right now” type readings. The readings normally consist of images and impressions that I can provide limited interpretation for, and which makes sense to the customer when it is related. Please let me know if you’re not sure whether a fire scrying reading is suitable to your question and I will help out. When you purchase a fire scrying reading, it is a 20-minute session where I do the reading and afterwards I will type it up and send it to you by email. This is not an interactive reading, but I can answer clarification questions if the information was available during the reading. 

Other Methods

At this time I offer tarot and fire scrying exclusively. I will eventually be offering other methods such as runes, egg reading, tea reading, shufflemancy, favomancy, and others. This space will be updated when those are available. 

Rules in Regards to Divination

For the most part, there is always a way to ask the question so that it is appropriate, doesn’t invade anyone’s privacy, and doesn’t make false predictions. Don’t worry about what your questions are and whether or not they’re “okay”, I will discuss with you the best way to word the question so we can get to the answer you’re looking for. I will also be able to gauge your expectations and advise you on the limits of the reading.

Spells, Sigils, and Other Items

I offer custom spells, sigils, and in the future will be able to provide other items depending on your needs. These are on a case-by-case basis and priced accordingly. They are tailored to your needs, your level of experience and comfort, and your abilities. Full instructions are provided in a PDF file, but you may also request a guided session if you feel more comfortable. Please note that I do not perform spells on your behalf. The goal is to help you through it the first time and answer any questions you may have, so that next time you feel confident enough to do it yourself and without fear or anxiety. 

The options in order of price:  • Step-by-step instructions, you gather the ingredients yourself • Step-by-step instructions, I gather the ingredients and ship them to you • Either of the two options, plus accompaniment during the spell/ritual/etc via text chat, email, or over the phone.

These are all completely custom, and will be tailored to suit your craft, beliefs, etc. If you have any specific needs such as being home-bound, working within a certain budget, closet-witch, allergies, etc, please let me know so I can adjust accordingly. Please be aware that if you’re working with a tradition that is closed, partially closed, initiatory, etc, I may not be able to assist. If this is the case, I will refer you to someone more appropriate. 

Spirit and Death Work

A significant portion of my practice involves working with various entities (spirits, demons, local gods, homunculus and thought form creation) as well as working with death and the energies surrounding it. I do not work with helping the spirits of the dead cross over or assisting lost souls. 

 • Spirit communication:  I can provide help with establishing communication paths between you and your guiding spirits. My preferred method is via a 30-minute tarot reading, where I will act as the messenger between yourself and the spirit. The goal of this session is to determine how you can engage with your spirit directly, rather than relying on a third party (i.e. me). This type of reading is specifically for guiding spirits or spirits trying to enter into contact with you for whatever reason. I do not provide readings to communicate with passed loved ones unless those options are applicable. 

Avenues of discussion may include:  - Your spirit’s preferred method of contact - Signs to look out for that may indicate your spirit is trying to communicate with you - Ways to strengthen the bond to your guiding spirit so as to facilitate and encourage communication (offerings, ways to worship, locations that bring you closer, etc) - Any messages that need to be imparted at the time - Any questions the querant has for or about their guiding spirit 

On the topic of “Spirit Adoption”: I’m not interested in getting involved in any kind of discourse on the topic, but I do not offer this service for communication between “adopted” spirits from these centers and you. Firstly because this service is meant for conversations between yourself and guiding spirits, but secondly because I’ve yet to see any of these shops not be a complete scam. At best you’re getting a thoughtform, which isn’t a bad thing but is certainly a false representation of what they’re selling, and at worst you’re getting a completely unvetted spirit and inviting them into your home and life with potentially disastrous consequences. I’m not saying all of these places are necessarily scams, but I’ve yet to see one that is doing what it says it’s doing. That’s all I’m going to say about that.

• Homunculus and Thought Forms: The information listed under the “Spells and Sigils” section is applicable here. I do not create these on your behalf, but I can walk you through the process and assist you with how to do it. The goal is for you to learn and become comfortable with it the first time around, so any subsequent instances you are able to do this on your own and confidently. 

Potential Hauntings, Curses, etc

I get asked about this all the time, so I’m just going to put the information here for future reference:  The chance that you or your family have been cursed to the point of causing actual consistent and severe damage is extremely unlikely. 

If someone is telling you your house, job, family, wife, child, etc is cursed and you have to pay for their services to get rid of that curse, there is a 99% chance this person is full of shit and out for your money. 

So, if you’re concerned about being potentially cursed or hexed or haunted by demons or whatever, feel free to message me and I will give you COMPLETELY FREE instructions on what to do. Spoiler, the instructions are almost always the exact same and involve some elbow grease, zero priests, and under $20 worth of supplies. You’re welcome.

Group Seminars, Mentoring, Consultations

I have started giving group seminars via select Discord servers. Free classes are available at my discretion. Group classes can be requested and will be held on temporary servers. These require a minimum of 4 people attending and will be posted publicly so others can join. Price of admission will be $5 per person, with an option to buy an admission for someone else to allow people who can’t afford it to attend. Format of the seminar will depend on the subject, some will be more along the lines of guided discussion whereas others will be hands on and may require some materials (if this is the case it will be indicated in the sign-up post, and I will provide the lowest-cost alternative every time). I obviously won’t hold classes on things I don’t feel I have enough experience to teach, so please understand if I decline a request it’s for a good reason. Topics I am comfortable with include but are not limited to: intuitive tarot reading, how to read tarot professionally, how to deal with “craft”-block, working with various deities, adapting spells from old grimoires or folk practices, how to write your own spells.

I won’t do any form of mentoring online. I’m happy to answer questions, but I don’t have the time currently to dedicate to one single person and I feel that kind of thing is best done in person anyway. 

Consultations are handled on a case by case basis. I can consult in matters that are related to finding your path, figuring out next steps, honing your skills, achieving certain goals, etc. If the area you’re interested in isn’t something I know about or feel sufficiently confident in assisting with, I will decline. 

Trades

I may allow trades in place of cash payment. Trades must be of equal value.  I do not accept reading/divination swaps. I’ll accept artwork or physical items in exchange, but please contact me first so we can work something out. The types of items I’m always looking for include: herbs/spices of most kinds, dried flowers, seeds for various plants, bottles (always), art supplies (always), statuettes, crystals (very rarely). I may be interested in weird random junk, books, materials of all kinds, so honestly your best bet is to just ask and I’ll let you know if it’s something that would interest me. On the topic of artwork, this is VERY case-dependent as I’m usually pretty picky so if this is something you want to offer, please provide your portfolio up front and a backup trade option. Declining an art trade is by no means a reflection or your abilities as an artist, I just tend to look for a very specific range of styles and designs so please don’t take it personally at all!