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wormstowarts

This has been rattling in my skull for a while~

AAAAAAAAAAAA They’re so cute it’s killing me!!

This is my Mona Lisa! My masterpiece!

I saw a post a Twitter that I HAD to draw with the gargoyles

Here’s it is ⬇️

(My fave carry is Goliath and Bronx but honestly I love them all lol I am very biased)

dragon-in-a-fez

10:00pm has no business being only half an hour after 9:30pm

ariadne-mouse

I'd apologize for how annoying I'm going to be when M9 Animated airs but in complete honesty I will have zero remorse

#same #I am going to be INSUFFERABLE when the M9 drops #the mighty nein

theartingace

So I was thinking about unicorns a lot a while back and now I've got at least 4 subspecies inhabiting the headworld and now you're going to get to learn about them!

Most common and what most centaurs think of when you say unicorn is the above, the Common or Dwarf unicorn! They were made almost entirely from goats and they remain essentially goats with a single horn, usually fairly straight and curving backwards, but there are many different varieties as they are treasured as fine pets and decent livestock, kept for their company, milk, and meat just like goats. Thankfully their attitudes are closer to mini horses than goats, adding to their favor as pets, but they're still quite mischievous as opposed to their more capricious goat cousins.

Next most common, but still fairly rare, is the "True" unicorn! These ethereal beasts are known bastards! Long, fine boned, strong and tough as nails despite their delicate looks these war mounts are visually the closest to a traditional unicorn other than the sparse mane and tail - thought to be owed to the clear base of the breed being Akhal Teke horses. Unfortunately their attitudes do not match their beauty as they are through and through war horses. Used almost exclusively in the eastern kingdom as nobles and knights mounts in their neverending skirmish wars these beasts bond to exactly ONE person at a time and everyone else is liable to be bitten at best, run through with that horn at worst. An absolute nightmare to stablehands throughout their range, they are finicky and aggressive to horses and humans alike making them difficult to keep. They are shockingly intelligent and KNOW how to use that horn to its greatest effect, leading to the nickname of 'Fencers' Even in their native range they're not super common due to the aformentioned difficulties in keeping them and the fact that they frequently prefer to fight one another than breed.

Most rare and least understood is the 'Heraldic' unicorn, these stately but wild creatures are as beloved as they are dangerous. They tend to just appear out of the wilds to those they choose as riders, and are well known for their loyalty and gentle dispositions in times of peace and as deadly war mounts in battle, leading to an enormous amount of legends around them. They are the mounts of kings and explorers, nobles and common adventurers, most who wind up with one of these creatures live extraordinary lives. They also require a significant amount of protein in their diets, and if it is not provided they will acquire it.

Last, and also kind of least is the 'Wild' unicorns. These are clearly the remnants of some rogue genetics that pops up in primarily wild horse herds for some reason. They are just horses that grow a horn, usually of a roughly spiraling nature. It is fairly fragile, and so not very useful but they're still favored as a novelty mount to many and often passed off as one of their more unique cousins to the uninformed. Because of the edge the horn gives them in herd dynamics, if a wild unicorn makes it to adulthood with the horn intact, this can often form pocket herds of unicorns as the gene briefly proliferates- but it never seems to last more than a few generations.

#unicorns #worldbuilding #this some good shit #writing

filmnoirsbian

Thinking back to the first story I ever started writing down (I was 7 or 8) about a group of stray cats who, every full moon, took the form of human kids. They actually were human kids, who had been killed (all at different times/by different people). Their bodies were each dumped by the side of the road where a cat had been hit by a car previously, and their souls landed in the cats' bodies. Eventually they all found each other and decided that every full moon, when they shifted, they'd try to solve each other's murders one by one. It was going to be a series, with each book focusing on a different kid's murder mystery. I told my mom about it once, briefly, and she said "Those cat books (warrior cats) are making you creepy."

filmnoirsbian

Just finished writing this manuscript, the first story I ever started. 23 years in the making. Never give up, even if your mom calls you creepy 🖤

#this is amazing #writing

its-your-mind

a collection of my favorite comments on the new M9 trailer:

#I am going to be so nornal about this #she said obviously lying #the mighty nein #critical role

revvethasmythh

+ Bonus Yasha

#the accuracy is incredible #the mighty nein #critical role #m9 animated

vault-of-amber

taliesin in every interview: yeah so the main thing im excited for you to see is mollymauk being a WHORE. he is SLUTTING IT UP. the producers asked what part of his character i wanted to expand on and i said I WANT HIM TO FUCK. i hope youre excited to find out WHO he's been doing. don't complain about his coat, look at his ENORMOUS TITS instead. something i think really sets him apart is talent for GETTING BITCHES. the most important thing to happen to him this season is his BISEXUAL THREESOME . oh you meant that other thing? dw about it lolll 😊 anyway tune in to see him RAW DOG

#and I am HERE for it #the mighty nein #critical role

effemimaniac

hey. don't cry. I went to Mad At You island and none of your friends were there :)

bakugou-kacchan

why were you at mad at me island

2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241

DEPOPULATING IT

#omg this is so sweet

inbabylontheywept

In the D&D campaign I'm running with my wife's siblings, one of them learned about how trolls regenerate within minutes of any damage not caused by fire or acid, and then asked why people don't just like. Cage them and eat them, forever. Why there aren't troll meat dungeons in the king's castle as a safeguard against sieges or famines.

And you know, I thought it was a fair question, so I said that if you eat enough troll meat, you start getting troll-y. And then I went further and just treated it like troll flesh is a general contaminant - if you eat enough troll, you'll turn into a troll, but if you bury enough dead troll flesh in a forest, the trees will start growing in strange ways, and will scream and heal and bleed when you hit them with axes.

I liked this idea. So as we played further, I just played around with the idea of Troll Origins, and I came up with something sort of like the Odyssey, but instead stealing Helios's cattle, it was Hathor's, and the horrible, awful, unending immortality was her curse of the army that pillaged her lands. A god of healing does not condemn you to die, she condemns you to live.

And then I got this fun idea for maybe the king that led the army is still kind of alive in the troll taint. Like a sort of literal fisher king. The kingdom is sick because he is, literally, the kingdom. The trees that bleed, bleed his blood and their screams are his screams. He is both the faintly green bear running down the mountain and the faintly green deer and there is no way past this without suffering. He is the entire ecosystem, and he eats nothing but himself and he dreams nothing but death and yet still, on and on and on and on, he lives.

Anyway they're traveling next session so I'm throwing this shit at them. I already have some gross ideas for like. Describing everything like it's a body (flowers red as blood, white as bone, pink as meat, grass fine as hair) then finally throwing horrible living things at them. Trees that grow eyeballs that turn and stare at them, or flowers with teeth instead of petals and trolls that speak in long dead tongues about how they wish they'd never tried to rob a god.

Anyway I'm passing this on because this is my new troll lore and I want it to become canonized in the way that all D&D lore becomes canonized: By having eople read it and go "oh, neat" then start doing that too.

ladydisdain81

Frantically takes notes for fantasy fics

#tw: body horror #d&d notes #this is amazing #writing

electronickingdomfox

This gotta be the funniest Enterprise-Klingon exchange ever:

#this is amazing #i now fully accept this as cannon #star trek

denaebenites2

found an old reddit AMA with brennan and discovered this gem

yeehawpim

Had to draw it

#accurate #dimension 20

thestuffedalligator

"There's no way in hell there was an actual supervillain who actually called themselves-"

"No, no, not officially - we came up with the name when we were assigned to find them, and we were kind of taking the piss, but it's still a good name. It was before your time - they had the power to-"

"I don't want to know what their power was."

"No, listen - their power was that they could summon a pie and throw it at someone."

"Oh. Oh, well, okay - that's the greatest supervillain you've ever fought? Doesn't sound like much."

"But that was the thing. They could throw a pie at someone and it would never miss. So long as they could see their target they'd hit them. We eventually found out they could throw a pie at someone who was on live broadcast, miles away."

"Jesus. Okay, I think I see the issue. But it was still, like. Pies, right?"

"Oh, for sure, it was never poison pies, and they could only summon a pie every 15 seconds so they couldn't drown someone in meringue. But - do you remember Murgatroyd Bentley?"

"Sort of, he was president when I was a little kid - something, something superhuman rights, and he was the guy who nuked Saskatchewan, right?"

"That's the guy. We found out about this guy after the Humboldt Crisis, because after that, whenever there was a live broadcast with the president - the state of the union, addressing congress, the Christmas tree lighting - a pie would splatter across his face every fifteen seconds."

"…Is that it?"

"Hon, it was everything. You haven't lived until you've seen the president try to talk about dignity while being smacked in the face with a banana cream. By the end of term, he refused to show his face in public, and he resigned in quiet disgrace. There were a few other pieings for a few years, but nowhere near the amount that took place when Bentley was president, and eventually they stopped. We never found out who or even where this person was.

"And that - more than anything - makes them the greatest supervillain I've ever had to deal with. Because they didn't do much, but they did it loudly, they did it consistently, and we never caught them."

"...How hard were you trying to catch them?"

"Not very."

"And you decided to call them Dr. Creampie?"

"We were young. The president had just bombed Saskatchewan. It was a weird time. Honestly we took what we could get for laughs."

#this did not end up where I thought it would #writing