it Must be the Month of the Moth...

INFP I still don't know how to navigate this place and at this point I am too afraid to ask

[stsebastiens]

finding out there's a frankenstein ballet and that it was in october of last year…DEVASTATING

look at this. look at these. im foaming at the mouth

[horrifierproject]

[doyouknowthischaracter]

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?

GANDALF from The Lord of the Rings

Yes, I know them.

I've only heard of them.

No, I don't know them at all.

Voting ended onJan 15, 2024

[ooppo]

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

You know, it's kinda funny how much of high fantasy centers around kings and nobility and courtly intrigue considering that the archetypal high fantasy, Lord of the Rings, had the rather explicit moral of "saving the world is up to this backwater hick and his gardener because no politician, least of all inherited nobility, would have the ability to see past their own ambition and throw away a weapon". Oh sure, Aragorn is a great king and all, but there's a reason he's over there running a distraction ring while the hobbits do the real work. Sauron loses because he gets distracted by kings and armies and great battles (i.e. typical high fantasy stuff) letting Frodo and Sam sneak through his back door and blow it all to hell.

Just saying, maybe old Jirt knew what he was saying when he said that the small folk doing their best and holding to each other was more powerful than a dozen alliances and superweapons and we should respect him for it.

[embermc]

It’s actually such a shame that book-accurate Frankenstein adaptations are so difficult to come by, specifically ones with accurate representation regarding to Victor himself. I feel like, as much as the creature has been flanderized over time into this unintelligible green dude, Victor has also just become a caricature of a person he never was. Of course, there are things that would need to be changed with adaptations to other media or that, with a more modern audience, maybe should be changed (im looking at you, sister-cousin-wife subplot), but I feel like there’s something important lost when I keep seeing adaptations with Victor as some old guy with multiple degrees creating the creature in his old gothic castle.

In my interpretation of the novel, it’s always been so integral to the themes of the narrative that Victor is a naive college student stepping out into the world for the first time, convinced his opinions on things he barely knows anything about are more logical than those of old academia, and who is wholly unequipped for anything that’s about to happen to him because he’s a teenager. His initial panic and abandonment of the creature shifts to such an extreme degree when it’s no longer interpreted as something done by an experienced adult in his field, but rather an (already unhealthy) college kid who just completed his first real experiment and then quickly realized how in over his head he actually was when it turns out so vastly different than anything that had ever been done before. So much nuance is lost from his characterization when you remove the detail that he begins his experiment as a seventeen-year-old boy who has just lost his beloved mother and experienced death for the first time, who then becomes determined to never let this grief touch his loved ones again. Of course, he’s still very ambitious and self-aggrandizing during this process, but to make this his entire character by removing his naive youth is doing a great disservice to his writing, in my opinion.

[nrmnas]

[valtsv]

researching parrying daggers as a fun little treat and i'm delighted by how much every single one of these things looks like it's designed to be as annoying as possible

[valtsv]

this one is my favourite. it's called a swordbreaker. it looks like a weaponised version of snagging your clothes on a door handle. if you caught my blade in one of these things there isn't a force on earth that could deliver you from my fury.

[juney-blues]

deliver your fury with what? your sword?

[thecollectibles]

Elden ring by 冯伟 Feng Wei（c12）

[valtsv]

i wish superpowers were real because then you'd get people making posts like "some people need to get real hobbies and stop making identical illusionary clones of themselves that your fist passes through like smoke when you go to punch them :/" and know exactly who the OP was talking about

[valtsv]

i also don't wish superpowers were real because i would be so pissed if i replied "mad because you fell for the illusion aren't you" and some guy with teleportation powers grabbed me and teleported me to the middle of the desert for ratioing him on twitter

[valtsv]

[spindash]

my beautiful toxic mold spore

[valtsv]

do you think a cemetery angel and a gargoyle could fall in love

[valtsv]

[fantasiona]

to draw this was a very impulsive decision

they seem so sad <33

[professionalmud]

inspecting the intestines

[klngfili]

Happy low opacity elrond day to all who celebrate it

[cryptotheism]

As chair of the wizard council I advise that you put down the gnomeweed, ma'am. You know not its strength.

[tabloidsores]

"i'm not feeling shit" one puff later and i'm rubbing my hands at the berry tart platter

[cryptotheism]

Ma'am put down the lighter. Thou shouldst know that but a whiff will have your shit traipsing.

[tabloidsores]

it's fi-

[cottoncandylesbo]

[kragehund-est]

im in so much physical pain i might died

[kragehund-est]

disgusting evil bastard muscle

[spaghetti-explosion]

the stingray

[kragehund-est]

[grendel-menz]

excerpts from a story about a unicorn ~

[grendel-menz]

erm. the last unicorn self insert art