Welcome to Dire Adventure

A place of refuge for heroes and their tales, where literature, art, and history are prized above all else. Long live Queen Angelena.

[but-the-library-of-alexandria]

the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise - what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that

[a-kite-dancing-in-a-hurricane]

Tolkien had the time apparently

[misbehavingmaiar]

LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted. 

[pinsandweevils]

boys born after 1810 don’t know how to cook. all they know is Romantic poetry, consumption, dueling, massive sleeves and lie

[vintagegeekculture]

[sandersgrey]

Tolkien, making Bilbo black out during most of the Battle of the Five Armies: vibe check

[sovietpostcards]

The Magic Swan Geese, Russian fairy tale. Illustrations by Vladimir Konashevich (1979 edition).

[diaryofalandlockedmermaid]

Bust of the nymph/naiad Herkyna in the Herkyna River in Greece

[mirkwoodest]

Nerds These Days: You can’t have epic fantasy without epic battles, it’s a necessity of the genre!!!! 

Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien, originator of the genre: … anyway, Bilbo got hit on the head, and then when he woke up the battle was over! 

[mirkwoodest]

Jirt writing “Helms Deep”: I guess I can tell you about the battle that happened, but I’m only going to spend half a page on it, so pay attention. 

[count-di-luna]

Jirt: yeah I had enough of that shit IRL I’d rather write about the sunrise and languages

[korppiroju]

*slides a handful of dry leaves into your pocket* here, go get yourself something nice :)

[georgiansuggestion]

preferred pronouns: gentle reader

[taleoftheicecat]

Details of Lady Lilith, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1866–1868.

[space-hobbits]

She drunk as fuck.

[leewardcoast]

[mayanangel]

whoever made this deserves an award

[mycelticheart]

[valtsv]

i have the complexion of a sickly victorian child, the disposable income of a 10th century serf, and the fashion sense and eccentric personality of a professor of the arts in the 1920s who does a lot of cocaine

[digivolvin]

elizabeth swan and will turner are actually SO romance in the first movie and not enough people acknowledged this because the early 2000s were the age of the edgelords who only valued jack sparrow’s moral ambiguity and that is the TRUTH

[digivolvin]

the part where she’s like “how many times do i have to tell you to call me elizabeth” and he shyly says “once more, miss swann” and once she walks away he gazes adoringly after her and whispers “elizabeth” to himself like he’s unworthy of it

[digivolvin]

then when he’s patching up the cut on her hand and she flinches and he says “i know, blacksmith’s hands… they’re rough” because he thinks that’s what’s bothering her HE KNOWS HE’S NOT WORTHY OF HER!!! THAT’S THE PINING I’M TALKING ABOUT BINCH!!! I DON’T ACCEPT LESS!!!!

[digivolvin]

he has like 10 chances to confess his love to her but waits until he’s dressed like this to do it: 

my man knows 1) the importance of a good outfit when shooting your shot 2) how to ACCESSORIZE. take NOTES.

[thedevilsofficialblog]

That’s how I would dress if I was gonna confess my undying love to Kiera knightley

[quoth-the-sparrow]

You know, you’re absolutely right + you should say it

[april]

ah, so you are BASTARD? ive heard tales of your exploits, and i hated them

[probablybard]

When the NPCs already know about the party