#with a fair helping of magic

[bearsandswears]

Asena is perfectly comfortable with nonsexual nudity (you kind of have to be as a werewolf, the clothes don’t come with), but seeing a chance to make Gale blush activates her prey drive.

[daggerfall]

just ur average day in necrom saving the realm from destruction :3

comm by @/dinwardo on twitter

[postnuclearwar]

Dragon Age!Dungeon Meshi au where Marcille is just a straight up blood mage

[inventors-fair]

Checking In

Welcome to the Hotel du Inventeurs, bienvenue, etc. How are you doing? What are you up to? Too bad, we're separated by time, distance, and this heavy oaken door. What do you mean, you can't find your keys? Don't worry about that. And you'll see the other guests, I'm sure. Everyone's so, so eager to meet you. They're just on the other side.

Also, we're looking to get a group together to draft Duskmourn later. Yeah, Stacey picked up a box, and the common room can sit eight, and the cafe's open until, like, eleven! Can you believe it? I really like the design of rooms, and man, Fabien really knocked me out with a cool Grixis Eerie control deck the other day. Anyway. Normal hotel, normal rooms, normal contest framing device. I think you know where this is going.

DESIGN A ROOM.

Wowzers. Who could've seen that coming?

Anyway, Rooms are a new enchantment type from Duskmourn, in case you've been living under a rock for the last month and a half. HERE is a link to all the printed rooms. A couple of them are from the draftable set and a couple are from the Commander sets; per usual, you're designing for Standard.

Keep in mind the specific wording of rooms. Some of them will trigger upon unlock, and some have static abilities. Also, as far as I know, MSE doesn't have rooms yet. That's kind of an issue—but for now, we have some placeholders and you can cut/paste/overwrite them around for various room shenanigans!

This one is gonna be a bit easier to do on desktop, honestly, but if you're working with an online client, I recommend using one with split cards and just not filling out the other stuff.

Don't worry about reminder text, but don't forget proper room wording too! They care about unlocking, not entering. You can have static abilities and whatnot, but of course balance is key.

And also: I'm curious about what horror rooms people might be interested in making that weren't featured in Duskmourn, of course, but what about rooms on other planes? I'm even more curious about that. As usual, though, this one isn't a strict requirement. I highly recommend running your cards be someone who might not be as familiar or invested with your wilder ideas for more specific feedback.

There we have it. Do disturb! @abelzumi

>> Step into the INN BOX >> Unlock the halls of DISCORD

[zkretchy]

//throws Judar & Hakuryuu at you

2012 media be upon ye

[sysig]

I am not immune to any cutes - including Rick and Morty cutes, unfortunately (Patreon)

[look-at-the-stars-tonight]

the amount of effort that goes into figuring out what to cook and eat every day is RIDICULOUS. i used to think people were so weird and boring for eating the same thing every single day but it truly does make life so much easier

[innytoes]

Dark fantasy AU?

-In hindsight, as he's being chased through the forest, hunted by mythical creatures is not where Reggie thought he'd end up when his folks told him they were moving to Los Angeles. Honestly, considering how he used to roam the woods and fields near his Meemaw's farm, the fact that he'd stumbled into a fairy circle near the beach was almost insulting.

-It's not even that he manages to outrun them. It's that one night (he thinks it's night, though time moves differently here and light and dark are all tangled up and is the purple haze of the sky supposed to be dusk or dawn or just a dark stop of the forest?) he'd decided to just... give up.

He couldn't remember how long he'd been running, running from the pounding of hooves and the yapping of dogs that did not look anything like what a dog should look like. He couldn't remember a time where he wasn't hungry, or thirsty, or tired, but something inside of him just kept making him run and run and run

-But he'd had enough. So he just sat down, with his back towards the noise, and hoped they'll kill him quickly. And to comfort himself, he sang the lullaby his Meemaw used to sing when he was scared of the thunder.

-That's what saved him. One of the fae, Caleb, was so charmed by the song that instead of doing whatever it is they did with their prey, he bundled Reggie up and took him to his... castle. Dwelling. Domain.

-He was dressed in finery and made to sing as Caleb and the other fae danced and ate and did things that Reggie very much had not wanted to see, thank you very much. But eventually, they slept, and Reggie met... the other humans who were trapped here.

-Luke, a young boy who had run away from home to become a musician in 1875. He was distraught to hear Reggie tell him it was the nineties now. Even more distraught when Reggie clarified it was the 1990s.

-There was Alex, who had been cast out of his village for reasons he did not want to share, but that Reggie figured out pretty quickly when he saw the way he looked at Willie. He'd fallen asleep near a fairy circle, and the promises he'd been made had been so tempting, he'd said yes before he fully understood the deal.

-And then there was Willie. The boy who had been stolen from his parents, a changeling left in his place. Who had grown up here, a part of this world yet not really. Who did not know what the other boys meant when they talked about years, or America, or really the whole concept of 'family'.

-Luke's the one who tells them of their escape plan. Alex is worried they can't trust Reggie not to rat him out to Caleb, and Reggie is like: um excuse me I was just hunted for sport for who knows how long you think I wanna help that guy?

-But before he can Willie just tilts his head and says: his heart is pure.

-Which is very sweet but also a little creepy.

-Anyway, they do manage to escape Caleb's clutches somehow, and end up back in the human world.

-Being yeeted out of a little ring of mushrooms in the soil of a plant Ray overwatered in the big plant wall of the Molina studio was not particularly pleasant, okay. Considering a real human should not be able to fit through that. But Willie explained that as soon as a fairy portal grew, it was only a manner of time that the fairies would notice it and stake it out to see what they could lure to their realm.

-Somehow, Luke and Alex get thrown clear across the room, Luke slamming against the door, Alex dropping onto the concrete floor.

-Reggie's not sure if him crashing against a pretty wooden piano is better or worse. The sound it made was definitely worse.

-Somehow, Willie ends up sitting crosslegged on the little piano bench, and he turns and quickly crushes up the mushrooms to destroy the portal.

-Julie, of course, is screaming, Alex and Luke and Reggie are screaming. Willie is trying to explain to Julie she over-watered her fern and pouts when she runs away.

-No they're not ghosts but they are changed and they all have weird powers. Luke nearly cries with joy that he can still summon his guitar. Alex is really not okay with this whole 'walking through walls' thing. Reggie is sad he cannot summon a puppy or a pizza.

-Willie can teleport short distances and is shocked to learn humans can't just do that? You have to walk everywhere? Or ride a horse. What's a car? What's roller skates? He needs to see one of these skateboad things immediately, let's summon the human girl back to ask for one. What can they trade for a skateboard?

-They're kind of freaked out at the whole 2020 thing, but hey, Reggie's like: at least it hasn't been a hundred years like when I told Luke about the 90s.

-Queue canon but it's even worse and more chaotic.

[avoiltaire]

day 6: funny face

in 10 years?? shinichi?? conan???? the math isn't mathing..

[legolasghosty]

🐑 Alternate Universe- Magic, Mutual Pining, Demonic possession, Furbies

Oh dear...

Alex is attending one of the most prestigious magic academies in the country, on the orders of his parents of course. Even though Laiz Fier Academy reviles even the name of the only type of magic he's ever been good at. His parents swore he'd find another specialty here, and he'd let himself believe them, like the idiot he is. He's scraping by in classes. Barely. At least he's managed to make a couple of friends and figure out how to sneak into the library stacks to find books that will actually help him hone his skills.

However, Alex realizes now there's a reason why it's not recommended to do your first summoning alone. Because, while he does manage to summon a demon, it doesn't exactly end up in the silvery urn he'd laid in the center of the pentagram.

So now he has a talking, demonic Furby to hide. One that, despite its too-wide eyes and disconcertingly smooth voice, Alex thinks he might be developing feelings for.

(Fake fic ask game!)

[flythesail]

Over a month after Nancy Drew s4 I'd say my opinion is still largely the same. Not my favorite season, but I enjoyed most of it. Like I wish they did something different with the black door and the sin Nancy erased, but I can also see why they wanted to go that route and how it lines up with the show's themes. Is it effective? Eh, I think the payoff could have been better. The unfortunate thing is that regardless of whether or not it was the final season, trying to fit that into a handful of episodes would always be hard. But at least if it wasn't the final season, they could have addressed it more going forward rather than wrap it up all at once. Plus, it's just never going to sit well with me introducing Alice to kill her. There's just better ways they could have gone about that mystery. All this is going on as Bess is committed to proving the good and necessity of the supernatural too. I can do my own analysis there. Yet if they had more episodes, maybe these two storylines could have intersected on screen.

Overall though, what I have to keep coming back to is how different it would feel if this was just another chapter in the story rather than the ending. I wanted more nace and I wanted more scenes with the drew crew this season. Ace missing out on the cake fight is ESPECIALLY disappointing because I'm always going to want the characters over plot. That's not what happened. Yet if there were two or three or even one more season to come, there would still be time to fill in the gaps that s4 left.

[no1ryomafan]

*rotating in my head how magical girls have a similar issue to mecha in which majority of west speaking anime fans brush off the genre for stereotyping it into one thing besides the popular shows but magical girls have had it significantly worse because madoka actually effected the genre into becoming unnecessarily darker for a period and it’s also a reflection of how media aimed at women has more negative biased to it then media aimed at men*

Wow this is so fucked up and objectively more worse then mecha just getting brushed off for being “robot fights”.

*proceeds to continue not have a strong interest in magical girls even after this realization*

[figofswords]

I want to know which octopath developer woke up and chose violence

[worm-wood-dawning]

A lesser known struggle of writing is the urge to add vampires to EVERYTHING.

[keen2meecha]

Help me build my next fantasy world!

So, in the wake of stopping nano, letting Of Unknown Origin rest, and having a nagging new idea, I thought it might be fun to have you guys help me iron out some details! This story is still vague enough that a lot is up in the air, but here are the truths that must hold to stay true to the story:

There are knights, and kings, and various nobles -- it's a fantasy novel, after all

There is fantasy capitalism, with each of the noble families owning various means of production; one of the conflicts revolves around changing this, though

There are gods (13 of them, to be exact), but these gods are not necessarily all-powerful. They can bless specific followers and give them boons, but the followers in turn can turn them mortal and/or kill them

With that in mind, let's do the first poll! :D

explanations of how I differentiate between these below

Steampunk is things like Mortal Engines, Oz the Great and Powerful, and The Legend of Korra. It's more Victorian, with lots of dials and gears and stuff. Focus is on scientific-ish inventions

Aetherpunk is the kind of aesthetic you see in the D&D setting Eberron, or in things like Arcane (the league of legends tv show) , Stardust, Genshin Impact, etc. It's a lot like Steampunk, but more explicitly fantasy; less science more magic, although it can have both.

Medieval Fantasy is the sort of thing you see in Game of Thrones, Merlin, and The Princess Bride. Although it can be kind of fairytale-esque (like Princess Bride is) it tends to downplay magic to a certain extent, and tends to veer more gritty and 'realistic'.

Renaissance Faire, on the other hand, is a lot more faye and whimsical, less focus on 'realistic'. I honestly would associate Lord of the Rings more with this than Medieval Fantasy, simply because it has things like fairies and wizards and magic, and a lot of ren faire aesthetics pull from that series. I would also put things like the Maleficent movie and The Witcher series.

[croc-odette]

seeing people call ursula k leguin 'conservative' and 'anti-progress' and i'm like. well. well! not the impression i got. okay. i'm going to go into my screaming hole