lady of the two rivers

side blog for ttrpg posting including my little world im making called Khemut. play mythras im serious

[mythratica]

elden ring is a 2x pimpy 3x bape of moorcock's eternal champion books

[mythratica]

[non exhaustive] cited inspirations for elden ring:

eternal champion series (directly mentioned by miyazaki)

runequest (highly moorcock inspired, has a number of eternal champion supplements/official conversions)

berserk (heavily inspired by the eternal champion books, elric in particular)

plus the writing credit for george r. r. martin, who has cited moorcock's works (once again elric in particular) as a key influence. it's elric all the way down

[mythratica]

elden ring is a 2x pimpy 3x bape of moorcock's eternal champion books

[hanfugallery]

Chinese hanfu in wuxia style

[catchaspark]

Wooden Fossils

Building Egyptian furniture replicas

Paul Bouchard is a storyboarder who decided to take up woodworking and then was dissatisfied with finding furniture designs that were reliable and beautiful so he decided to try to learn how to imitate Ancient Egyptian woodworking, starting with attempting replicas from photos and moving to detailed photometric studies of specific pieces. Here's a talk he gave to the Museo Egizio in Turin about it that I've been watching happily over the last couple of days. His blog has pics and build details of the specific replicas and frankly they completely rule

[ironlily-art]

I like to imagine that girls out was just part of ancient fashion without needing an excuse.

[mythratica]

the geography of the world that Elric of Melniboné resides in is roughly approximate to a portion of our own, albeit somewhat warped. it is implied at points that the civilisations of his day existed far in the past of the same rarth we now inhabit; while at others it is treated more as an alternate earth.

Melniboné itself is a large island off the eastern coast between the continents equivalent to our northern and southern Americas.

conclusion: Elric is Cuban.

[mythratica]

additional fact to consider: In the first Elric story (The Dreaming City), Elric returns to Melniboné on an overcrowded boat after a period of exile, seeking to overthrow its tyrannical ruler. Conclusion: Elric is Fidel Castro.

[mythratica]

the geography of the world that Elric of Melniboné resides in is roughly approximate to a portion of our own, albeit somewhat warped. it is implied at points that the civilisations of his day existed far in the past of the same rarth we now inhabit; while at others it is treated more as an alternate earth.

Melniboné itself is a large island off the eastern coast between the continents equivalent to our northern and southern Americas.

conclusion: Elric is Cuban.

[tormenty]

Conan the Cimmerian, faced with certain death: "All over, huh? Man, my life was awesome. My death is going to be even better!"

Elric of Melnibone, getting his foot stuck in the mud: "What a cruel cosmic joke that I should come to such an end. Yet it is fitting that such an ignoble end as this should come to the universe's greatest fool. It was hubris to think that I could strive against the fate of this world. The gods laugh at my feeble idealism. It is right that I should die here and vanish into the dust of history."

[calleido]

nastasya korolevitchna (circa 1905-1917) by sergey solomko

[cy-lindric]

Knights of Antēpolis, for a short story

[mythratica]

every elric story follows more or less this basic structure:

FIRST 90%: elric is the coolest guy ever. he does tons of drugs and has lots of epic sex and kills everyone with his sword, which is an awesome black hellblade, and his sweet magic nobody else can do.

LAST 10%: elric is the most pathetic squirming wretched man alive. he loses badly and has to get dragged away crying and whining while women laugh at him for being a dumb freak

[mythratica]

so you can see how he formed the template for an entire generation of characters

[mxrattlebones]

Also moonglum is there :)

[mythratica]

also moonglum is there :)

[mythratica]

"Can't believe they made a ttrpg about this genre and only included the popular ones that define what the genre is and not (obscure bullshit that has had zero effect on the genre)"

so if you go back and look at my post, the main work i note as absent from inspiration lists is Precure, the most popular, longest-running and influential work in the magical girl sphere (particularly battle magical girls, the genre these trpgs are emulating) for the past two decades.

The fact you think Precure is obscure speaks to a frankly baffling level of ignorance. It's embarassing that you'd think this is a counterpoint. Precure's dominance, presence and influence is so overwhelming it's self-evident to anyone with even a passing interest in magical girls. And you could only miss that if you don't really care about the genre in the first place.

[mythratica]

what is going on in these notes

[salonduthe]

Blue Satin Embroidered Screen with a Qilin Design

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period (1662-1722)

[mythratica]

elric's black blade is basically the psycho gundam

[artwins]

reward for @mephicchi 🖤

[crazyfox-archives]

A painted image of the goddess Benzaiten (弁才天) and her fifteen child acolytes dating to the 14th century at Jimyōin Temple (持明院) on Mount Kōya (高野山) in Wakayama Prefecture

Image from "天部の諸尊 / Divine Figures in the Realm of Deva" published by the Kōyasan Reihōkan Museum (高野山霊宝館) on Mount Kōya in 1994, page 28

[salmon-n-hazel]

Lotus

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