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God of War: Ragnarök

Celebrating One Year of Ragnarök

dev. Santa Monica Studio music by Bear McCreary November 9, 2022

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owl-noire

As a direct fuck you to Joanne, for every note this gets, I'll write a paragraph in my own novel, featuring:

A soft bisexual mage who likes to draw animals

An absolutely chaotic trans musician who discovered that his singing can heal wounds

A bounty hunter with a magic rifle that knows only one (1) spell

And an infinite library that makes you forget who you are the deeper you go

One note = one paragraph until I've written the whole damn thing.

And again:

Fuck you, Joanne

owl-noire

UPDATE

JKR is still a bitch

We're on DRAFT TWO of the novel, baby!

There is a character named Professor Beaque, and he isn't even a professor

The trans musician gets to kill some bigots. As a treat

I'm gonna finish this novel even if it kills me

And as always:

Fuck you, Joanne

sorcerous-caress

a wyll with a beefy, brutish, pushy bitch of an oath-breaker paladin girlfriend 🥺 HELP

That's what I'm fucking talking about anon. Wyll has the perfect setup romance to end up with someone he wants to treat like a prince/princess. So imagine him ending up with the most scruffy and battle worn-out women.

Your arms are hardned from carrying a great sword or a gaint shield everywhere, faded scars and a combat trained body. You've seen more fights than Wyll ever has, and she doesn't take bullshit from anyone, completely jaded to the world.

Intimidating people, putting them in their place and being outrude rude came second nature to you, you didn't care niceties or manners, you were hardned around the edges.

And you sees Wyll, a fresh new hero with stars in his eyes and a bounce to his step, the adorable thing carries a single blade despite being a spellcaster. He is still a green soldier in her eyes no matter how many fights he has won.

You makes the first move, and it endearing how coy he is. How only a kiss was all he could offer during the celebration when half your companions were ready to climb you like a tree.

He's like a breath of fresh air, especially with how dim life has become after you devowed your oath, after you saw just how cold and cruel the gods can be, after they forsake you.

You successfully implae a spear through Mizora the first time she comes around, you're quicker than she is. In a panic she teleports back to the hells to heal, Wyll is both stunned and speechless.

Demon, angel, god, it didn't matter to you who was after him. You're strong, you're capable, you will protect his spark of hope for humanity if it was the last thing you'll ever do.

You'll indulge his song and dance, take the lead, and make him wrap his arms around your neck, hold his waist, and spin him around.

shirkers2018dirsanditan

everyone is always acting like there is some crisis of human interaction with one another because everyone is overly sensitive to how strangers approach them and like. no actually its because nobody has any fucking manners. social etiquette has legitimately vanished. it makes interacting with strangers miserable because people don’t know how to fucking behave in public.

like it is rude to stare. it is rude to point. it is rude to have a loud phone conversation in a quiet place. it’s rude to listen to music or videos or whatever on your device with no headphones on a loud volume, or at any volume in an enclosed or quiet space. these are rude things to do. like i’m sorry while some etiquette is silly, an acceptable level of decorum is necessary to make existing in public bearable for everybody…….it is LITERALLY common courtesy

ralkana

Also, do not fucking photograph or film people without their consent!

sorcerous-caress

I'm working on WIPs rn but I have two ideas that I may need a tie breaker for.

Abnormally tall for a drow 6ft Minthara or Short-King Minthara? Doms at any height but I like adding flavor.

Non- reptilian or Reptilian long tongue for a gith? I might make it a forked tongue for to draconic bloodline/way of monk reasons.

-githzerai anon

For the gith, I am 100% on the team of the reptilian long tongue. I love these small cool and sometimes unsettling differences between races, especially how gith started as humans but were altered by both space and mindflayers. Taking a frog/lizard like equatic biology is so cool and symbolic of how they are Amphibians, even their eggs were placed in pools of liquid. It's like a crossing bridge of how octopuses are fully aquatic and mammals are terrestrial.

Do they also start as tadpoles? Who knows.

Hell, even headcanon that their kids can breath underwater but lose the ability after they grow up why tf not. Go wild anon! Forget the human like mould they're forced into in bg3, i want you to exaggerate their differences and add your own flavours.

I'd argue the same with elves and drows honestly, I've always prefered the non human depictions of them. Making the elves have a skin resembling wood in shape, making the majority of them really tall and lean in an almost unsettling way. Making you doubt the fact you're looking at a human if you saw them from far away with their ears covered.

But if you want to keep their human resemblances, that's absolutely fine too! For Minthara i think being a drow gives her a height advantage bc elf and all, even drow women are depicted as larger and bigger than drow males in some dnd guidebooks. Yk like how female spiders are bigger than male spiders. Maybe drow women are the largest and tallest of all elven women, maybe even on bar with sun elve's male heights.

But there is something hot about her being a short queen, an absolute powerhouse that's feared while being barely 5'4.

sorcerous-caress

Tav: I consent

Halsin: me too

The squirrel:

for-tymora

I'm unfortunately realizing that "rage" and "attraction" might be stored in the same place in my brain.

amygobrrr

exclusive photo of mizu blue eye on their way to kill abijah fowler

phantom-shell

Mizu when they get to London and looking for a specific white man becomes so much more difficult:

ratedmae

has anybody done this yet

happyheidi

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thesoftboiledegg

What makes JKR's shitshow even harder to process is that she didn't just ruin a book series. Harry Potter was an entire subculture. Like Star Wars and Star Trek fans, Harry Potter fans dedicated their lives and careers to the series. I don't know if I'd call it "underground," but liking Harry Potter got you beaten up when I was in school, so it was more of a dedicated indie culture than a mass-appeal fanbase.

Harry Potter was so huge that fan works developed their own followings. Potter Puppet Pals racked up hundreds of thousands of followers and was nearly as relevant as the series itself. For fanfiction, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality got so big that it has a Wikipedia page. The band Harry and the Potters spawned the wizard rock music genre. A Very Potter Musical developed a fanbase and launched Darren Criss's career.

Harry Potter also has extensive ties to fandom history. Everyone in my generation (millennials) remembers coming home from school to read Harry Potter fanfiction on the Internet. Today, most people just post their stories on Wattpad or Archive of Our Own. But at the time, the fanbase was splintered between fanfiction.net and dozens of individual websites and forums, some made for specific ships. Since they all had individual hosts, a lot of those sites have been lost to time.

And there's the infamous My Immortal fanfiction, which is an Internet legend with people still searching for the author. Everybody read that one (and laughed at it) in middle school.

Pre-social media, fan sites like The Leaky Cauldron and Mugglenet had massive followings because they were one of few sources for news, theories, essays and fan content. Some of these sites still exist after being around for over a decade and building their own legacy.

Before Deathly Hallows came out, fans were so desperate to know what happened that Mugglenet published a book called What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love and How Will the Adventure Finally End? Yep...Harry Potter was so big that people wrote separate books about what would happen in an upcoming book.

And that's not mentioning all the book release parties, Harry Potter-themed events, monuments, fan films, restaurants and even a theme park. A lot of fandoms have those, but Harry Potter infiltrated every aspect of popular culture.

Today, there's a thriving culture of "Harry Potter adults" with themed weddings, baby showers and Etsy stores. Putting your Hogwarts house in your Instagram bio is pretty much a prerequisite for joining the "bookish" community. Warner still produces new content, like the Fantastic Beasts series, although we've all seen what a disaster that's been.

Everyone has at least a few memories associated with Harry Potter even if it's just watching the movies. I had great memories associated with Harry Potter. But looking back at the subculture, history and thousands of fan works, it doesn't seem fun anymore. Studying the fandom or being part of it comes with an awkward tension because you don't want to seem like you're condoning JKR's bigotry but can't divorce her from the series. This subculture was spawned by a woman who turned her legacy of magic and wonder into one of abuse and hatred.

I don't expect people to write paragraphs about how much they hate JKR every time they post about Harry Potter, but it's still uncomfortable to see people make new content or wear their Harry Potter Etsy tote bags like nothing happened. Even if they clarify that they don't support her, it's just a weird, tense situation for everybody.

People dedicated years of their lives to running Harry Potter fan sites, writing fanfiction, cosplaying characters and making fan movies. If I were in that situation, I'd have a mild identity crisis. I'd ask myself "Did I waste all those years? Should I delete my content? Where do I go from here?"

So ultimately, JKR didn't ruin "just" a book series or even "just" a fandom. She tanked an entire culture, which inspired people to look at Harry Potter more critically. The issues that people brought to the light tainted the series's legacy even without JKR's personal issues.

Once, Harry Potter was a series for generations. Now, former fans hope that the series fades into irrelevancy. Unfortunately, JKR didn't just tarnish her legacy--she took decades of history, millions of fans and a worldwide subculture along with her.

peerieweirdo

it’s crazy having been super-involved in the HP fandom for more than a decade and watching the fallout from this

quidditch (the real sport) has changed its name to quadball

the harry potter alliance (a nonprofit) has rebranded to fandom forward

the sub-subcultures that sprung up within the HP fandom have now distanced themselves from the main fandom and have become independent groups in their own right

HP was so integral to the development of early online fandom (as OP’s mentioned) that now there’s sort of just a weird... hole in the internet

for many HP fans, it took up a lot of their life. three conventions a year, wizard rock shows, HPA fundraising, granger leadership academy, nightly fanfic, podcasts, quidditch games.

when fans (rightfully) shunned JKR and began to leave the fandom, a lot of them (myself included) were left rudderless. how do you reconcile the fact that most of your friends, hobbies, sometimes even jobs, were due to the work of such a hateful person? as OP said, did i waste my life?

i’m obviously not saying that this is the worst part about JKR’s bigotry (the worst part is, of course, the bigotry) or that HP fans are the worst-done-by victims (who are of course trans people)

but it is WILD to see such a juggernaut of internet fandom be virtually scrubbed away