a place for drakes and magic

Tabby here! A side-blog for my MTG shenanigans including custom cards (WoTC employees beware!), fanwalker things, and fan plane things. If you need anything tagged let me know! (she/her, 30s) Icon is mtg card: Drake Hatcher

[leafdrake-haven]

I just remembered that pinned posts are a thing and I think that’s a great way to keep up to date about my fanwalkers! So here is a brief rundown for those who are curious.

Rhynn Ormanni

Human — green/blue/white — mid twenties

From Tarkir, first planeswalk to Ravnica, currently living on Ravnica

Creature-based magic, healing, biomancy

Major tags: fanwalker Rhynn, Rhynn visual, big Rhynn energy, Rhynn and Helis energy, Helis and Rhynn energy

Elrick Ormanni

Elf — green/blue/black — 300s

From Fiora, first planeswalk to Lorwyn, currently living on Ravnica (lost his spark and planebound)

Plant-based magic, poison magic/manipulation, necromancy

Major tags: fanwalker Elrick, big Elrick energy, Elrick visual

Breeze

Drake — blue/red — adult drake age (probably at least 20??)

From Shandalar, first planeswalk to Not Shandalar, currently living where the wind takes her

Average drake abilities, above average communication skills for drakes

Major tags: fanwalker Breeze, Breeze visual, big Breeze energy, A Breeze Through the Multiverse or ABTTM

Helis Cinderblood

Elf — green/red/black — mid 30s

From Perenia (fan plane), first planeswalk Theros, currently living on Perenia

Mana accumulation/manipulation, pyromancy, necromancy

Major tags: fanwalker Helis, big Helis energy, big Helis energy for real tho (i was too excited the first time I tagged something and it stuck for a bit), Helis visual, Rhynn and Helis energy, Helis and Rhynn energy

Tali

Merfolk — blue/black — mid 50s

From Ravnica, first planeswalk to Dominaria, currently has a “home-base” on Dominaria but travels more than she stays in one spot

Empath/emotion manipulation, telepathy and mind magic, some artifact proficiency

Major tags: fanwalker Tali, big Tali energy, Tali visual

So these are the characters I have with a decent amount of development. I have a few in making but I don’t have enough about them for now, but they will be added as I do! Thanks for reading and if you have questions feel free to ask!

[mtg-art-daily]

Mirage Phalanx

Artist: Scott Murphy

[tokkibean]

i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did

[harpyharpyharpy]

You don't actually have to kill your darlings. You can just put them in the oubliette #myoubliette

[awesomebutunpractical]

I am going to clarify that when I say "if your romantic pair would have no appeal as a platonic duo, they're going to fall flat", I'm not necessarily saying they needed to have a pre-existing friendship within the narrative. I'm saying that if you can't pitch the dynamic to me without referring to the fact that they think the other one is hot, they don't have a dynamic, they're just attracted.

[silverbirching]

this is where a lot of (specifically but not exclusively) het romance falls flat for me, because SO MUCH OF IT IS JUST "oh two hot people with conveniently concave-to-convex genitals exist together in frame, OBVIOUSLY they're going to want to fuck and get married".

It's treated like... an emergent property of physics.

[terraswallows]

So proud of them!!!

[markrosewater]

Hey Mark! It's not my birthday, but it is my dog Comet's Birthday so I was wondering if you had any trivia about Comet, Stellar Pup for him?

Players had been asking for a dog planeswalker for years, and with Unfinity I saw my chance. It was key that it was a normal dog, so I created a design where he did what he wanted.

Happy Birthday to Comet!

[mckitterick]

V.E. Schwab's advice for creating memorable characters - works for both protagonists and villains

source post: X

[dduane]

This is really good advice.

It also ties neatly into the simplest version of the formula for getting people emotionally engaged with your characters: or how to build the moment in which your character starts moving from their initial state to the state in which they'll start changing their own lives.

First, you figure out the one important thing the character believes that they're wrong about. There's usually a core misperception that they haven't examined. Once they're forced to engage with it, it'll start to change everything about their perception of the world they're inhabiting and/or the people in it.

Then, as V.E. says, you identify the character's great desire and their great fear: the thing that character wants more than anything, and the thing or situation that terrifies them, and that they'll go to any lengths to avoid.

And having identified these two objects or situations, you build a situation in which the two forces will be in close, direct opposition to one another... then drop the character down in between them, and squeeze. Those two opposing forces become the jaws of a vise... and you crank the vise more and more tightly closed until the character has no choice but to acknowledge those opposing forces, and start (even in a small way) to deal with the pressure being exerted and push their way through.

This does not have to be, initially, a great climactic moment. In fact, it works better if it's not. It's more effective if your character has a brief low-intensity brush with these conditions-in-conflict early on. That way, when your big resolution scene comes along about two-thirds or three-quarters of the way along through the story arc, you'll have set up a resonance between that earlier hint or intimation of what's to come, and the really big blowoff. Your readers will recognize the resonance—the throb of tension between the two occurrences, like the vibration of a plucked string—and will find satisfaction both in the true resolution having been partially telegraphed earlier, and in how it's now being experienced and resolved in full.

This approach also allows you to set up more minor resonances between the realization of the conflict and its final resolution. These can serve to bind the structure of the work more closely together: to make it look (and be) less like a series of loosely strung-together plot events, and more like a unified whole, in which ripples of story business flow backwards and forwards, interpenetrating and influencing one another, and hinting at the big one to come.

But none of this can happen until the paired and opposing what-do-they-most-desire, what-do-they-most-fear axes have been defined. So that's a subject it's smart to spend some while thinking about (and for all your characters, not just the major ones), to be sure you're getting it right.

It's not unusual to get the wrong answers, or merely superficial ones, while you're still working out what's actually going on with the characters. So take your time. Eventually you'll find a set of answers that feel unquestionably right... and you can then nail those down in your notes and get on with making the kind of "good trouble" for your characters that will see them made complete.

[important-cat-pics]

[jacebeleren]

[mtg-art-daily]

Hanweir Garrison

“We’re ready for anything!”

Artist: Vincent Proce

[holmesandtheroman]

NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[gay-little-izzet]

Commission of a mtg/dnd character, RADOS!

A former member of the Guidelight Voyagers, RADOS crash-landed on Ikoria, where it learned to harmonize with the plane’s crystals, flora and fauna.

[worstgirleva]

My Trynn, Champion of Freedom told me Silvar, Devourer of the Free keep eating her 1/1 white Human Solder creature tokens so I asked how many 1/1 white Human Solder creature tokens she has and she said she just goes to the end step and gets a new 1/1 white Human Solder creature tokens afterwards so I said it sounds like she’s just feeding 1/1 white Human Solder creature tokens to Silvar, Devourer of the Free and then her player started crying.

[townfoolery]

what my brain apparently thinks will happen if i draw one of my mutuals ocs

[lukipupz]

vs what actually happens:

[markrosewater]

I could definitely just look this up but would be more interesting to hear it from yourself - why *did* magic switch to white border for a short time?

In the early days of Magic, white border was used to indicate the card was a reprint. Core sets, past Alpha/Beta had white borders.

[xantchaslegacy]

[markrosewater]

Would it be okay to make cards representing named characters that aren’t legendary?

Strongly yes

Less strongly yes

I’m neutral on the topic

Less strongly no

Strongly no

Voting ended onJun 5