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Ardyn and Somnus lineart! I am actually really happy with how this is coming along and am having a great time adding all the little details in their clothes.Ā I have been staring at FFXIV clothes for inspiration for their outfits - especially the belts.Ā Ardyn is so proud of his lil bro, they are having such a fun time exploring!Ā
bb ardyn!!!!
Random meme
We need to bring up that Ursula K LeGuin quote about commodified fantasy more often. We need to be meaner.
hahaha that's me I'm the Word Necromancer necromancing your commodified fantasy with my keyboard and indirectly promoting it to others FOR FREE! tremble at the wrath of my directed application of english
So, now we've seen the new casual outfits for the characters in the new dissidia, I am (unsurprisingly) thinking about one thing: what might Ardyn's casual outfit look like? How could they make the fashion disaster (affectionate) that is that man "blend in"?
Or will the villains not even try and their alternate outfits will be just as ridiculous as their normal clothes? Even then, I look forward to seeing what they do XD
Okayokayokay I've been saving this on my phone for an occasion such as this
B E H O L D:
me: is that ardyn izunia, in a normal outfit?
me: OH NO JUST KIDDING THE INSIDE IS BLOOD RED LEOPARD PRINT
me: it do match his hair though
Happy Halloween!
I discovered midway through that Journey to the west is apparently not very halloween-y in aesthetic...
The car is the horse (yes, it gets an outfit too!).
the car as the horse is diabolical
imagine: you're a minimum wage mail carrier. you have to deliver a letter to some guy's house WAY out in the middle of nowhere. the letter tells him he was elected president. the guy didn't know he was running for president. a month later you're secretary of state and directly advising the president on nuclear policy.
this is the plot of the goblin emperor from csevet's point of view.
You're correct, this is a crucial factor. The guy is nicer to you and all the other staff than ANY of the senators or congresspeople think he as any right to be. Also from the day he gets sworn in as president, he's dead set on building high speed rail, to the point where the auto lobby tries to kill him over it
did someone say HIIIIIGH SPEED RAIL??????
oh my gosh wikipedia says the book has fantasy and politics
fuck yeah
i need to read this book i need to read it now
"Your son will take your throne from you," they prophesized, spitting each word out of teeth clenched tight with hatred. Why they'd bother prophesizing such an event befuddles you; your son is literally your chosen heir, after all.
Years later, you realize what the prophets meant. For most of your life your son was your pride and joy; an academic, who would surely lead the kingdom into greater health and wellness. Until he committed the ultimate act of betrayal.
"You will not take my throne from me!" You cling to your grand chair so hard your knuckles turn white.
Your son sighs. "Dad. Dad it's lead-"
"Of course it's lead! It's a strong metal, signifying the strength of our country- this throne has been passed down the royal line for 300 years, 15 rulers before me-"
"That is not enough time for that many people!" Your son throws his hands up in the air. "Because it is lead! It is poisoning you! Didn't you wonder why grandpa died at 40?"
"Ah, pfoo! That's the ancestral curse."
"It's the throne! The throne is the ancestral curse!!!"
the son successfully convinces his father to give up the lead throne. he lives and rules peacefully for much longer than his familyās previous generations, dying in his third score.
the son, upon coronation, receives his own prophecy: āyour daughter will tear your castle to the ground.ā
now, this is a bit more of a cause for immediate concern, but unlike kings of old, he decides that the best way to avoid this surely gruesome future is to love his daughter the best he can, encourage her interests, and guide her with a steady hand - if she is to ruin his kingdom, after all, then let it be with iron will and care for the people.
his daughter is not violent at all, will only hunt if they promise the kitchens will cook what is killed and will give some to the people, and only takes a passing fancy in swordsmanship (which he thinks is more to do with the jawline of the instructor, not that he says anything). she loves to study and read, and when she asks to go for further education in a different corner of the kingdom, he allows it.
after one year, she returns, and spends the first week back acting shifty. she is always caught ducking out of corners and hidden passages, whispering with staff, and pouring over old maps of the castle layout in the library, hurriedly covering them up when anyone passes.
he privately gets his affairs in order.
two weeks after her return, the kingās daughter approaches her father with a steely look in her eye and a grim set to her jaw.
āfather,ā she begins, āwhat do you know of asbestos?ā
āUnless you fell me first.ā
this post jumped out at me because of the banger character designs and then i find out it's from elden ring nightreign, a game that is both too expensive to justify purchasing and probably not something I would have fun with
IIIIIIII AM THE PROPHET
WITH THE ANSWERS YOU SEEK
TIIIIIIME
I'VE UNLOCKED IT
I SEE PAST AND FUTURE RUNNING FREE
THEREEEEEE IS A WORLD
WHERE I HELP YOU GET HOOOOME
BUT THAT'S
NOT A WORLD
I KNOWWWWWW!
@scriptum-pandemonium
I found this quote from Diana Wynne Jones (Author of novels Howl's Moving Castle and Castle in the Air) on her time at Oxford when she had C.S. Lewis and Tolkien as professors and I thought I couldn't relate to Jrrt any more than I already did but I've been proven wrong.
"[C. S. Lewis] was just a marvelous lecturer: he made the dullest topics absolutely shine. He lectured in the very largest of lecture halls, which was a huge āLā shape, and it was packed, with people standing in the aisles, even early in the morning. Everybody drank it in. Obviously a whole lot of people took this away and thought about it, and began writing - mostly for children because in those days you couldnāt write fantasy for anyone else. Ā Ā Ā Tolkien was a different matter. He was just a kind ofĀ eminence griseĀ and a legend. You couldnāt hear him lecture. He worked at not letting you hear, because he wanted to go away and finish writingĀ The Lord of the Rings. So he had the very smallest lecture room. First of all it was packed out, so he spoke with his back to the audience and mumbling. Unfortunately he was talking about - meditating on, really - what a plot is like and how it mutates into other plots, and this I found so fascinating that I went back the next week as did one other person. And this meant that he couldnāt stop lecturing and still get the money, which apparently in those days you could if no one turned up - it was a dreadful racket, really. He could have given just the one lecture and then been paid for a term if weād all stayed away. But this other person and I attended diligently week after week, so he was forced to go on meditating about plots mutating, and what I could hear was fascinating, because he was busy with the really large orchestration of the latter part ofĀ The Lord of the RingsĀ at the time. But all I retain is a sense of how marvelous the way plots work is. That was all I got out of it, but I kept going in case I might understand a bit more next week - let alone hear a bit more."
Ā Ā Ā (Quoted from āInterview with Diana Wynne Jones, 22 March 2001, conducted by Charles Butler.ā)
I remember referring to this interview a long time ago, before the Howl renaissance, citing it while saying something like ādonāt beat yourself up too much by comparing the development of your writing skills to Tolkien, because among OTHER writing aids he had (nannies, servants, a fulltime housewife, a private cook) he VERY MUCH slacked off his (prestigious, privileged, came with a private office/free lunch/servants, well paid, consisted of being left respectfully alone to be a genius) day job to write his fiction.ā And someone sent me a bunch of very upset messages about how none of that was true, and when I was like, here are his letters about his servants and nannies, here is what Dianne Actual Wynne Jones wrote when she was his actual student, here is the labor context of Oxford; they said āwho cares about how an obscure nobody had failed her classes.ā
It was only a dumb exchange but it stuck with me, DWJ the obscure nobody. As a kid I remembered when Harry Potter came out and everyone was like āwell, bookish child, donāt you love it?ā And I would reply that for British boarding school fantasies about witches you couldnāt do better than Witch Week, and would receive the same reaction. āWho do you mean and why are you bothering?ā
So thank you for all being so interested in the obscure nobody. I perennially love the image of her making Tolkien do his damn day job
DWJ appreciation!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tough guide to fantasyland is an essential component of the writing-stew primordial ooze in the back of my brain where new plot bunnies spawn from.
Come back, I have to tell you the plot of a fic Iāll never write and get you excited about it so we can all be disappointed with me later
see: my previous post about daydreaming the ends of my fics and never actually writing them
writing is hard okay?
A clockwork heart š°ļø
I have no idea who makes these but they're so coolsies
neaaaaaat! i like the incorporation of circuit board parts too hehe.
Happy APAHM and hereās a poem comic about my experiences being trans and Chinese I did in three days for my English class!Ā
Hey everyone!! I just wanted to say thank you so much for 17k+ notes. This is the farthest my art has ever reached, and out of all my pieces, Iām so glad it could have been this one. Itās been so so so nice to read the tags and find it connecting with so many other people, and itās been so so so nice to see other trans Chinese people finding the comic? Itās so comforting to see other people having similar experiences to mine and itās just such a good feeling to know weāre not alone in this :) So thank you all!!!!
Oh and- Bodhisattva Guanshiyin is transfem but to clarify, she is traditionally nonbinary!!
EDIT: OH MY GOD THANK YOU FOR 73K+ NOTES????? I seriously never expected my comic to reach this far and itās so nice to know Iāve helped others feel not as alone in their trans Chinese experiences :) Just so you know, you can now also view this comic on Dear Asian Youth!
guanyin! love.
fanfic writer starter pack
unhinged google searches that cause your fbi agent to have a meltdown
a folder on your laptop with too many wips to count that you swear you will work on soon
75% of the writing sessions consist of daydreaming about your blorbos while not writing a single word down
only finding typos after posting the chapterā¦ but there never are any mistakes when you proofread it
suddenly forgetting how normal human beings speakā¦ why does the dialogue always sound like a rat and an octopus trying to communicate?
(totally healthy) obsession with THE character
2 mortal enemies: the ao3 summary box and tags
sleep deprivation is maxed out
daily nighttime meditation that involves staring at the ceiling while thinking of new ways to forever haunt THE character
saying something like āiām just going to write a silly little one shotā and then proceeding to drop the most soul-wrecking, heart-wrenching, so-beautiful-and-painful-it-should-get-published fanfic of all time
i like to daydream the ending of my fics and just never get around to writing them, but i daydreamed the ending so NOW im happy
Hi there, happy Monday! We took a little bit of a siesta last week, sorry about that!
This week, we would love to hear what you love about Ardyn! Let's see those headcanons! Art! Fics! Ships! It's Ardyn-appreciation hours this week!
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Because I am questionable with words, here's just every drawing of Ardyn I've done thus far that I haven't already posted here.
dude sad tiny toothbrush ardyn makes my day
