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[frodoomsday]

FOSSIL VS. CRYSTAL!!!! ARTFIGHT 2025!!! Hi, this is my first set of team graphics for AF!!!!! Please toss me a reblog, or maybe even link back to here if anyone asks where you got these! I hope you like 'em! I'm making more soon! Likes, reblogs, anything appreciated! :o)

[aokozaki]

Okay this is genuinely a hilarious gag, kudos to Emila Rodda.

In City of the Rats, Lief and Barda blame the ruined state of the city on the Shadow Lord, and Jasmine angrily rebukes that they can't blame every problem in Deltora on the Shadow Lord - he's been in power for a mere 16 years, and much went wrong due to the Royal Family's neglect. And the ruins of this city are much older.

So then they meet the lord of this place, a colossal serpent named Reeah. Lief tries to keep him distracted so Barda and Jasmine can sneak around and hopefully try to reach the Opal embedded in Reeah's crown.

Lief, keeping him busy, talks to him, and eventually asks who his "master" he mentioned is:

In the middle of an otherwise serious scene, Jasmine is audibly annoyed at getting that wrong. That's hilarious.

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My big ol boy, my muse … Bora

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All doodles of the same oc, my dear shark Bora

[j-tee]

Hello Deltora quest fandom, got some fan designs for the lads and the kin (specifically redesigns of the anime Kin bc god those designs fucking suck).

Also Ik canonically Jasmine has long hair but there is NO way she’s jumping around in the trees with long ass hair

[madrone33]

Can I rant for a bit about how cool it is that one of Lief's defining traits is that he's smart? Like, not even necessarily cunning or clever or street smart (though he's totally that too) but just. Book smart. He knows maths and history and english and he uses that knowledge for stuff! And! He's also cunning and clever and street smart and a fighter at the same time!

And I know it's not that big a deal, but normally in adventure stories, especially for a younger audience, the hero's strengths are more in sword fighting or magic casting or being really good at parkour. And here the hero is smart and he's proud of it, and his friends are proud of it, and the world is proud of it! Literally! Deltora Quest as a world and a plot revolves around puzzles and riddles and putting clues together more than it does on physical fights. In almost every battle they get into, the day is won not by being better at fighting than their opponents, but because they realised the loophole or figured out some vital info in the nick of time. (And I say almost every battle, because Jasmine is both willing and able to stab a bitch.)

The Topaz that clears and strengthens the mind is probably the most used Gem in the whole series, because Lief knows its value so well. And even when he can't rely on its strength, when the moon is new or the Belt is covered, he's still using his brains to find his way out of impossible situations! It's just! So cool!

Brain over brawn and all that, except not really, 'cause he's also a badass with the sword! Wtf! Lief why are you so cool??

Deltora is probs my fav series. I am OBSESSED with the characters and worldbuilding, but the codes and riddles and puzzles? That is my jam you guys. I studied those things. Every time a new one came up, I memorised it! I tried recreating it! It was awesome! And the Lief + Jasmine combo of "Basically-A-Nerd Who Is Awesome" and "Badass Fleshed-Out Women My Beloved" who are besties before love-interests was a pinnacle of my childhood.

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Day 4 for #myherotober2024

You ever cry for the nomus? Me too, I throw sand in your eyes to remind you they were once human

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DAY 1 Kids: for #myherotober2024 on Twitter, created by @/daniartonline and @/miithers.

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Updated a warrior oc's design

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Whole ass dnd character named Sargon!

[punkitt-is-here]

chilchuck moment

[myszkaa]

[navylily]

At first, I was kinda mad about how the pjo show was making percy seem a little too perfect like during the lotus casino scene. But it just occurred to me that he was always like this. Percy was never dumb, he just thinks he is. In other words, percy in the books is an unreliable narrator.

The show displays his adventures in the third person and we see how smart and powerful he is. But in the books, percy's low self confidence results in him believing he is not enough.

[reigningrockets]

Can I just say:

A season used to be 22-24 episodes

then it became 12

then 10

now,

FUCKING 8 episodes a season

I'm really hating this trend not going to lie.

[garaks-padded-bra]

Genuinely genuinely hate that kids are using chatgpt to do their schoolwork/study nowadays. Yes i hate a.i. but its mostly because its so ineffective as a learning tool. So many teens just dont make their own notes now. How are u absorbing the info bro. And theyre researching with it. It is academic madness

[lookingatmyphone]

Learning the process for research, study, notetaking, public speaking, etc is only absorbed by practice and is what they are really trying to teach you.

No one gives a fuck if you remember the Spanish Inquisition paper you wrote five years ago but that paper will teach you to write others and help you think critically about the things you consume.

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PLATONIC INTERPRETATIONS OF CHARACTER DYNAMICS ARENT ANY LESS VALID THAN ROMANTIC ONES PELASEE