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Pretty sure I shared this once. Gonna share it again.

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Unrelated to anything but surprised nobody said it yet; I assume it wasn't intended that in-universe Sailor actually looks Like That but they are giving big final fantasy black mage vibes. Black mage that got nautical.

characters that have big round eyes in a Void under a hat instead of a face my beloveds....

Yeah that's not an accident. Black Mages are some of my favorite character designs in all of fiction and also one of my main sources of gender envy. Sailor wouldn't even be the first character I made in homage of them, either!

There's so many in Wizard School Mysteries that I ended up making a whole magical medical condition called Shadowrot to explain why some wizards are like that - it's caused by deep self loathing, as magic responds by making the afflicted disappear.

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It makes the very existence of evil deities a nightmare - imagine committing thousands of years of atrocities not because you chose to, but because people thought you should.

DnD Character Concept: A Cleric who insists stubbornly and earnestly that their obviously evil patron deity (I'm thinking Lolth or Asmodeus but really any Evil Greater God would do) is actually Good and Benevolent and Just and dismisses all evidence to the contrary as slander from rival deities. Their proof to their claim? Using their divinely granted powers for the most intensely Good tasks and quests they can find: feeding the hungry, protecting the weak, curing the sick- all done in the name of their Terrible Dread Lord and without any expectation of compensation or string attached.

The deity in question is all "???" but keeps granting the cleric power because all that free worship and influence from the people who now pray to them is nice, and hey if the cleric wants to put in the leg work to launder the deity's reputation what reason do they have to say no?

Only it turns out that the cleric is actually playing 4D chess because of the way faith works in Faerun (and most DnD settings). As more and more worshipers start believing The Terrible Dread Lord is actually a Good and Kind and Noble god they start to be influenced by that to become Good and Kind and Noble. Slowly but surely they find themselves warping to match the perception of the masses. It starts by just giving a few random blessings out of what they think is pity, or maybe sending a sign to help someone who is lost on what the deity insists is a whim....but it snowballs until you have Lolth smiting down slavers or Asmodeus sending out devil's to drag down a tyrant to the depths of hell and then they realize 'oh oh no' but by then it's to late: the religious reform movement within their flock is too massive and been ignored for too long as benign. They can't just turn around and smite their own followers- not only because it's tacky but because they feel... compassion and responsibility for those that look to them for guidece.

And then you have the cleric, who at level twenty is literally their most powerful agent and also the high priest of this out of control heresy smugly sipping their tea because, because they where right all along. Their faith in their deity is vindicated- after all what is faith if not believing in something so strongly, against all evidence, that it becomes truth onto itself?

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Maude & Mordi is based on the folktale of the Dragon of Mordiford, wherein a little girl adopts a baby dragon, said dragon grows too big, and a dragonslayer is called to kill it.

Where the folktale ends with the dragon getting slain (to the girl's distress), my book goes in a different direction - namely, Maude and her dragon pal, Mordi, run off before the slaying can happen, and end up getting into a big adventure of their own, meeting friends like Aubrette Kipp the bard, and Sir Brikabrak the goblin knight and his salamandral steed Niknak.

But they also encounter scoundrel mercenaries employed by the mysterious Barbed Knight, who, with his enslaved manticore named Mount, may prove to be more than a match for our farmgirl heroine and her dragon pal.

And there are other imposing figures about, such as the dread Wizard Vormadon, the infamous witch Dragon-Blessed Mordren, and the fairy noblewoman Marquise Mabania.

So yeah, should be a fun time!

Chapter 1 of draft 1 of Maude and Mordi: A Girl and Her Dragon has been written!

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Chapter 1 of draft 1 of Maude and Mordi: A Girl and Her Dragon has been written!

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Infernal War Machine

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Throw in The Princess Bride and the Rankin Bass 77 adaptation of The Hobbit and you have the fantasy films I not only love, but purposely revisit at least once a year to remind me about what I love about the genre.

Just thinking about Ommadon and how perfect he is

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I'm thinking about a version of Twilight that's mostly the same plot beats but is irrevocably altered by all the vampires looking and acting like Universal/Hammer Horror style vamps. Edward is just straight up dressed like Bela Lugosi. No one except Bella Swan thinks this is strange. When she tells people that Edward "looks like a Dracula" everyone frowns and tells her not to be mean. Edward strolls up behind her and loudly announces, "I do not drink..... wine!" in a thick Hungarian accent and everyone laughs and says, "Typical Edward!" while Bella looks at them all in disbelief. Just one poor Arizonian girl in a town that stubbornly refuses to recognize the most obvious vampires of all time.

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"You can say that [orangutans] are not dependent on social support and approval, and if you admire this in them, that an orang is irredeemably his own person, 'the most poetic of the apes', researcher Lynn Miles told me once in an unguarded moments. What she had in mind was the difference between orangs and chimps in the way they carry on their discourse with the world.

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Vicki Hearne, "The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans"

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tiktok: christinajulian_91

audio credit: anthony vincent

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Digimon the Movie getting a remaster and redub is great for many reasons, but the new bloopers are probably the best reason.

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hi this is my favorite tiktok

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Grimclaw Tigrex Plush

Him and all of his glory! Grimclaw Tigrex is HERE!

It felt like it took AGES to make with the amount of detail on this, but it turned out wonderfully!

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its not a greentext but can we all agree the capra demon post is the best 4chan post

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I honestly feel like the focus on building Kong a mythology of his own in the past two movies (since there really just isn't the same backlog of characters and plotlines to mine in Kong's history that Godzilla has) is all being done in preparation for eventually losing the Godzilla license and carrying on without him. They were already gearing up to make an expy for Mothra in case she couldn't come a long for a second outing, so your theory holds water. Shimo even has a similar rocky history with Kongs that eventually turned to friendship, allowing her to slot into the same kind of (comparatively simplistic and underdeveloped) arcs Godzilla's been getting in the Kong crossover movies with just a name change.

I think the rights of the monsters introduced in these company loans end up in legally gray areas most of the time - Marvel got to keep a lot of the monsters it made for its 70's Godzilla comics (maybe it owns all of them and hasn't chosen to use them all, idk), and we've never seen any of the original monsters for either the Hanna Barbera cartoon or the 90's series show up since. I think Toho probably can't use them without paying, the companies that own them don't have any use for them without Godzilla, and so they languish in obscurity forever. Shimo, Skar King, and the other Monsterverse originals could suffer the same fate, but if they get more heavily associated with Kong than Godzilla, they could survive as part of Kong's world instead.

Phosphera Effect

I wonder if part of the reason Shimo exists is to act as a replacement just in case WB loses the rights to use Godzilla for their films. Another big, dinosaur-like creature that is best buds with Kong, but is also distinct enough design wise not to infringe on the Godzilla copyright.

I'm not sure if this would make sense, I think Shimo would need to have first appeared in a film that doesn't also feature Big G for this to work, but the question remains;

If Toho withheld the Godzilla license would the Monsterverse continue without him?