Back On My Bullshit

Shadow, 25+, they/them | writer and dm | #1 Manshoon fan

[shadow-djinni]

Private Sanctums for Private Affairs

Rating: E Relationship: Manshoon/Fzoul Chembryl Additional Tags: Secret Relationship, Period-Typical Homophobia (discussed), Established Relationship, Dom/sub, Dom Manshoon (Dungeons & Dragons), Top Manshoon (Dungeons & Dragons), Sub Fzoul Chembryl, Bottom Fzoul Chembryl, Light BDSM, Oral Sex, Anal Sex

1339 DR, the Year of the Weeping Moon After much of the year spent away from Zhentil Keep on a military campaign, Manshoon and Fzoul take an evening in the privacy of the Tower High to reconnect.

Ladies, gentlefolk, and those of us with more sense: the fic is live! Almost 9,000 words of...uh, a lot of politics, actually, with smut in between. Enjoy!

[sourcengine-moved]

[romanceyourdemons]

sex position: you, sitting on your throne. me, standing behind you, resting my arm on the back of your throne and sniling so sneetly at your ministers like i have any right to be there

[shadow-djinni]

so after several years of searching, I've finally gotten my hands on the 2e boxed set I wanted most: Ruins of Zhentil Keep!

a friend actually went to a game store in the cities to pick this up for me, but it is the complete set in nearly mint condition!! inside we have

both the campaign book (which has a complete description of the Zhentarim as an organization, including areas of operation and hierarchy, as of the 1360s DR, a complete description of the city of Zhentil Keep before and after its fall in 1368 at the hands of Cyric's forces, and a list of major potential antagonists, including stat blocks) and the adventure book (several short adventures for characters of 6th level or higher)

several cards including Zhentarim- and Zhentil Keep associated sites, relevant signs and insignias, an encounter table for the ruins, and an overview on Zhentish caravan set-ups, plus the complete set of monster manual supplements!!

and, last but not least, maps of the city itself, both before and after the fall, plus a larger map for one of the adventures in the set!!

you guys have no idea how excited I am to have this, Ruins of Zhentil Keep is my primary resource for a lot of my fic-writing and for the campaign I've been running since '24, and I'm elated to finally have a physical copy of the set!

[shadow-djinni]

so after several years of searching, I've finally gotten my hands on the 2e boxed set I wanted most: Ruins of Zhentil Keep!

a friend actually went to a game store in the cities to pick this up for me, but it is the complete set in nearly mint condition!! inside we have

both the campaign book (which has a complete description of the Zhentarim as an organization, including areas of operation and hierarchy, as of the 1360s DR, a complete description of the city of Zhentil Keep before and after its fall in 1368 at the hands of Cyric's forces, and a list of major potential antagonists, including stat blocks) and the adventure book (several short adventures for characters of 6th level or higher)

several cards including Zhentarim- and Zhentil Keep associated sites, relevant signs and insignias, an encounter table for the ruins, and an overview on Zhentish caravan set-ups, plus the complete set of monster manual supplements!!

and, last but not least, maps of the city itself, both before and after the fall, plus a larger map for one of the adventures in the set!!

you guys have no idea how excited I am to have this, Ruins of Zhentil Keep is my primary resource for a lot of my fic-writing and for the campaign I've been running since '24, and I'm elated to finally have a physical copy of the set!

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

[varusai]

@shadow-djinni

[thebookbutterfly]

I love it when fan fiction writers are like: “ah shit, this was meant to be one part but I started writing it and now it has to be three”. Like the fanfic is happening to them and not being created by them.

[animalcrossingmemes]

[kaijuno]

I realize this is an animal crossing meme but as an astrophysicist I was really excited for a second that someone was finally seeing the light on how fricking difficult and a huge waste of time it would be to try to terraform Mars

[transbaphomet]

[au-roulette]

AU Roulette 2026 Sign-ups are officially open!

And with that, we are getting things started! As a brief reminder for those new to the event -- AU Roulette is a casual fic-writing challenge encouraging fanfic authors to play around with different types of alternate universe stories, which will be randomly assigned to each participant regardless of the fandom they sign up with.

Writers will be able to sign up from May 10th-31st with a fandom of their choice. At the start of June, each participant will be assigned three AUs from a masterlist using a random number generator. Each author will then have the choice of completing the challenge one, two, or all three of the AUs. Any fic exceeding a 500-word minimum will be considered a completion, so long as it employs the AU premise. Fics can then be posted at any point during the month of June.

As a reminder: The fandom you signed up with is used to filter AU assignments, in order to minimize re-rolls! (For example, someone signing up with "The Lord of the Rings" will not be assigned a High Fantasy AU). Please only sign-up with one fandom.

The sign-up link can be found here. Please feel free to spread it around and get the word out about this year's event!

[au-roulette]

Just a couple days left to sign-up now! Spread the word!

[aureliaen]

the black hand and his chosen tyrant

[kunosoura]

collapses in your arms princess style after casting the biggest evil most fucked up spell you've literally every seen

[clementine-kesh]

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

[clementine-kesh]

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation with the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[by-grace-of-god]

Le Figaro have a newly published photograph from inside Notre Dame shortly before the roof collapsed, as molten lead fell into the nave. (+)

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

This is what I love about photojournalism. It is just a history of moments where human beings have gone “I know I should really be hauling ass out of here but I have to get a picture of this”

[shadow-djinni]

I should....clean up some of those Netherese/Shadovar clothing concept design sketches I have floating around to post

[varusai]

Listening and Learning💚💛

[crabussy]

sometimes it's important to injure the character