obligatory mcr lyric

Hi I'm Adrien! 30 🏳️‍⚧️ he/him I make bad art about niche interests

[hesitantadrien]

After the storm

[cringyedge]

She’s haunted with visions of mcr5

[quietpinetrees]

[starship-goldfish]

Our good friend @quietpinetrees has brought his microfiction to tumblr and it is achingly beautiful.

[andisupreme]

oh this is gorgeous

[athelind]

I really miss QPT’s microfiction.

[writing-prompt-s]

What are some chronic illnesses that can only occur in a fantasy setting?

[beleester]

Partial transformation - mummy rot is slowly turning you to sand, a near miss from a medusa left you with partially stoned body parts, etc.

Hypnotic suggestions from being mind controlled persist after the controller’s death, causing the victim to occasionally take actions to support the cause of a mind flayer cult that no longer exists.

Repeated demonic possession has left the patient with permanent gaps in their soul’s defenses, causing them to immediately get re-possessed if they go outside a consecrated area.

Post-resurrection trauma as the revived soul remembers an unpleasant afterlife.

Magical healing can get very weird if something is stuck in the wound. It’ll get you back on your feet, but you can get outcomes like “there’s a chunk of wood fused into your chest because the magic couldn’t figure out how to get the arrow out of your chest and just healed it in place,” and this can cause mobility issues or infection vectors down the line.

[ihasafandom]

SHealth tied to something else - the health of a tree, the amount of frost on the ground, the inverse of another person’s, the political power of whoever cursed you

Curse of bad luck - makes any small illness or injury potentially fatal if not treated with anti-curse in addition to anti-infection procedures

Magical reliance on a magical or nonmagical substance - can have any number of side effects

Repeatedly being drunk by vampires can cause an increase in blood production and therefore high blood pressure and related ailments. Can be treated by blood letting.

There’s a lot of hybridization happening in a lot of fantasy settings, and that’s just asking for a lot of people with weird half-dragon genetic disorders. Works out fine for some people, not so much for others.

Parasitized by (insert creature here). If you don’t take the correct precautions to keep it dormant it will continue to spread and eventually hatch out/transform you.

Repeated contact with the undead has left you open to their influence - leading to hearing or seeing things that other mortals can’t, which can distort or distract from more mundane concerns.

Alternately to being more vulnerable to intrusion, one’s soul can form a scar that makes helpful magic more difficult to take in.

Sleep disorders that make one fall into an impenetrable sleep at a specific trigger, or to do so for years at a time.

Out of phase with 4D space, one’s body not connected to itself or anchored in place/time in the usual way. There could be a consistent two hour gap between the things you hear and what has happened, you might clip into the floor as if it was in a different place for you, or you might slide through the material plane in cross section.

Intermittent intangibility.

Split into two people, each with only half your traits.

Stuck in a mirror.

[ihasafandom]

Sensitivity to ambient magic - like the thing where peoples’ joints ache before a storm but for being near ley lines or people with a lot of magic built up or other magic reservoirs. - The potential for magic, but where the magic has not yet begun.

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

Heal spell dependency: years of repeated serious injuries being healed by magic causes the body to stop healing naturally. seen often in professional fighters and those with a long career in hazardous occupations.

the forgotten dread: memory modification magic has caused the subject’s conscious mind to forget some past trauma, but their subconscious still remembers, causing them emotions that they cannot explain or justify ranging from mild discomfort to blind panic when presented with triggers related to the aforementioned trauma. often encountered in cases where the subject has paid an unscrupulous mage to make them forget their past as an ill-advised alternative to therapy.

Psychically Transmitted Memories: the subject’s mind has been linked to another person’s and, although the bond has since been severed, they have retained memories or thought patterns from the other person that are difficult to distinguish from their own.

Negative Life Syndrome (previously “False Life Syndrome”): seen most often in cases when the subject is exposed to dark magic while in the womb, Negative Life Syndrome leaves the subject’s life energies tainted by undeath without making them truly undead. common symptoms include intolerance of radiant magic, aversion to sunlight, and the inability to set foot on hallowed ground; rare symptoms include healing from negative energies, sudden necrosis, and the desire to eat flesh or drink blood of living beings.

lycanthropy

Early Life Possessions: the subject was possessed by a spirit or demon during early childhood or infancy, and the possessing presence was in control of them when they learned important milestones, such as how to walk or speak. The subject is now dependant upon the possessing presence to help them perform these tasks or, in cases where the presence has since been exorcised, performs the relevant tasks at a level appropriate for an infant or small child.

[kiragecko]

Body requires nutrients not found in human food, and you must eat rocks, or gems, or some other alternative. You may or may not have the ability to actually digest these without magical assistance

Awareness of too many dimensions makes it difficult to interact with just this one - either to keep track of conversations, or walk to specific locations without ending up on another planet instead

Telekinetic psychosis - delusions tend to physically affect those around you (but HIGH chance for ableism in this one!)

you have flare-ups where your skin tends to slough off and be replaced by some other substance

After sharing life energy with a dying loved one, you’re now both trying to survive off one person’s supply. Like chronic fatigue, but if your loved one gets too big of a bruise you won’t have the energy to get up until it heals

living in reverse

stuck at a certain age

supersenses lead to constant overstimulation

you’re a changeling, and if you don’t have someone who loves you close by, you’ll turn back into sticks and mud

[david]

[hesitantadrien]

(via machine-saint, david)

[catasters]

[beanytuesday]

For anyone interested in some further reading on these topics, I have a rough bibliography attached to this comic available on my Patreon (it's a public post.)

[nonbinarybeartrade]

so fucked up that spongebob squarepants is a children's show that can't feature alcohol because squidward would look right at home cuntily swirling a glass of red wine

[sepublic]

Prev tags has the best episode pitch ever:

[nonbinarybeartrade]

Oh my god.

[were--ralph]

MANIFEST

MANIFEST

[callmemanatee]

The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

[sleepy-bebby]

hostile work environment

[words-at-night]

[zegalba]

Yohji Yamamoto: 'Many Buttons' Shirt (2010)

[ayeforscotland]

We are heading towards an absolute knowledge black hole, aren't we?

[maykr]

[srebrnafh]

Make it die. For the good of humanity.

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[a-flickering-soul]

say it louder bestie

[xenosagaepisodeone]

randomly remembered how on deviantart in the aughts using images as references was treated as an actual cardinal sin. if a pose in something you had drawn by hand was 1:1 with an existing photo or another piece of art, it was considered the same as stealing. there were artists who sincerely insisted that references could only be used for practice and that if you wanted to draw something for the purpose of posting online you would need to have studied anatomy and color theory to the point where you could just Produce that thing from your mind with maybe the help of some general reference photos at best as reminders of what that thing looked like. insane amount of rigor to demand from a userbase of largely casual hobbyists. no wonder ms paint emo furry art is the only thing people remember fondly from that era.

[3liza]

the first thing they teach you to do in actual concept art school like for movies and video games is to immediately start tracing and referencing heavily. I spent about four hours a day doing nothing but copying classical sculpture casts with pencil at a standing easel. the teachers recommended we sell the finished drawings for some pocket money. these are the guys who did concept art for games like BioShock and Infamous. they had a Photoshop brush for everything: chainmail, chains, hair, leaves, grass, fur, sometimes entire chunks of drawings. this shit absolutely does not matter in the real world, ever. the only people who think it means anything are amateurs and hobbyists. Vermeer was tracing his camera obscura in the 1600s. Robert McGinnis, the painter who did most of the James Bond posters we're all familiar with, traces his opaque projector directly onto paper while manipulating the position of the picture to elongate the figures' limbs or change the spacing of their facial features. every commercial artist considers this kind of thing a basic skillset for the speed and quality of production they are required to produce.

this whole "bespoke handmade art with NO artificial flavorings" is nonsense, which is evident primarily in the quality of art it produces: bad anatomy, bad perspective, bad composition, bad colors, because none of these people know how to observe and interpret their surroundings

[vanguard]

it's crazy how when you're not successful under capitalism everyone treats you like it's your fault. i didn't ask to be born. i didn't ask to be born here. i don't want to do any of this. "if you want to be successful-" i don't. i just want to be able to live without suffering . all people should be allowed that. people shouldn't have to fight tooth and nail for food.

[vanguard]

and then inevitably there's a "this is how things are, you have to do this" i will just kill myself

[cute-catts]

[whatcoloristhatcat]

HOLD ON ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

ACTUAL CHIMERA ALERT 🚨 🚨🚨🚨

dilute black (blue) tabby and red tabby with low white spotting!!! non-dilute AND dilute markings!!!!!!! a real chimera!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nick-nonya]

@kittybroker