Amanita Virosa

Randomness of my life. Jarlaxle/Artemis shenanigans and appreciation. Snippets. Cats and kittens.

[artemis-entreri]

All I Want For Christmas

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[[ I started this in 2018 but was unfortunately not able to finish it then. 

After over 100 hours between then and now, it’s finally done! This is the most time I’ve put into a piece, and represents the limit of where my skill is currently. It feels kind of surreal right now, I didn’t think I’d ever be able to finish it, and now that I have, I’m not altogether sure what to do with myself. 😆

There’s a snowless version for those that are finding themselves buried under too much of the white stuff. 😘

A very Merry Christmas to everyone, Happy Holidays, and may the coming New Year be full of good things for all of you! ❤️

Art belongs to me. 

Artemis Entreri, Jarlaxle Baenre, Zaknafein Do’Urden, Wulfgar (yes he’s wearing a manbun 😋), Catti-brie, Drizzt Do’Urden and Guenhwyvar belong to Wizards of the Coast. ]]

[artemis-entreri]

{ Have a great new start to the new year! Hope great things come your way! ~Buck}

[[ Hi BUCK, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! :D :D :D Thanks and I hope the same to you! Stay warm and take care! <3

Sorry I haven’t answered your Thanksgiving message yet, I was trying to come up with an RP response and haven’t figured it out yet. I’ll probably finally post it at some incredibly odd time like Easter. XD ]]

[artemis-entreri]

[[ Map of Gauntlgrym, by mineirodabahia. From the artist:

Finally finished another map for my campaign.

The city in question is Gauntlgrym, a canonical dwarven city of Forgotten Realms which only in more recent publications seems to have been taken over by its original builders (the dwarves). The city is very similar to the “Big Lost Dwarf City Trope” we have out there, especially Moria.

I used elements used in LotR films such as pillars and gates to bring some likelihood, I used an Escher geometry, with spatial paradoxes back and forth to convey the complexity of the underground tunnels and caves. The Great Forge was drew based on modern designs of real-world industries, much of which is due to the authors’ description of the forge, where coils and adamant conductors collect heat from a Primordial deep within the Earth (Primordial that almost put the whole planet below).

Some details in the drawing are rough and poorly finished, but this is due to the fact that I am no professional artist and make these maps purely out of love and dedication to the campaign I’m DM’in. I personally like to establish a “common picture” for all players during the session, and as much of the game will be played in this location, I believe it will be very enriching and inspiring for everyone involved.

Hope you like it.

Original source on reddit. ]]

[linkeduniverse]

To see ALL my LinkedUniverse works see [#creator content]

Archive highlights :

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Main story:

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[artemis-entreri]

All I Want For Christmas

——————

[[ I started this in 2018 but was unfortunately not able to finish it then. 

After over 100 hours between then and now, it’s finally done! This is the most time I’ve put into a piece, and represents the limit of where my skill is currently. It feels kind of surreal right now, I didn’t think I’d ever be able to finish it, and now that I have, I’m not altogether sure what to do with myself. 😆

There’s a snowless version for those that are finding themselves buried under too much of the white stuff. 😘

A very Merry Christmas to everyone, Happy Holidays, and may the coming New Year be full of good things for all of you! ❤️

Art belongs to me. 

Artemis Entreri, Jarlaxle Baenre, Zaknafein Do’Urden, Wulfgar (yes he’s wearing a manbun 😋), Catti-brie, Drizzt Do’Urden and Guenhwyvar belong to Wizards of the Coast. ]]

[snarknsass]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[burgrs]

*petting my cat* please cure my depression cat: *prrbhbphr* me: thanks

[pizzapugss]

Fun fact!!

Cats don’t only purr because they’re content! When they’re sick, or when a kitten/companion is sick, they purr to help heal faster. So if you’re feeling down and your cat friend comes up to purr on you, it’s because they sense something’s up and they want to help you feel better!

[psychicbirdstarlight]

Imagine beeing an animal that literally has a build in ‘comfort my loved ones’ function and still have people think you are an asshole by nature.

[rednightmare18]

My mom has an asshole cat. He’s pushy, standoffish, demanding, hates to be pet, won’t sit on laps, grumbles and bites other cats. All the typical asshole cat stuff. (Yes, he’s healthy and has regular check-ups; he’s just a dick.)

I got really sick while house-sitting for my mom last winter. My nose and ears sealed up completely, my chest was congested, my throat cracked, my eyes swelled up and I couldn’t really sleep because my airways kept closing the second I’d lie down. I’d just lie on the couch on a mound of pillows and periodically fall in and out of a daze.

After about three days of this, I snapped alert all of a sudden in the wee hours of morning, choking, unable to inflate my lungs all the way.

My mom’s asshole cat was huddled down on all fours smack in the middle of my chest, looking horrifically uncomfortable with the situation, PURRING and PURRING like a damn chainsaw.

He cracked an eye to glare at me when I moved to pet him. This doesn’t make us friends, he said.

“Good kitty,” I croaked, rubbing his cheek with one finger. “Nice kitty. Good boy.”

You stink, he said. You disgust me.

Then he brushed off my finger, shut his eye, hunkered tighter, and kept purring. I fell asleep. I don’t know exactly how long he was there, but it was at least a solid hour.

Even asshole cats will cast heal on you.

[adoring-suggestion]

The adhd modes of food

1. You ate that burger so fast. You ate that burger so fucking fast and now the whole Red Robin is staring at you god what the fuck

2. You started eating like a normal person, but then you started talking or daydreaming and now the waitress is handing you the check but you’ve still got half a plate of cold fettuccine

3. You were going to go out to eat, but then you saw a video in your YouTube recommendation that drew you towards it like moth to a flame, and now it’s 10 pm and you’ve got an empty bag of tortilla chips in your hand and shame in your heart

4. Mac And Cheese

[tangentmoth]

5. You have a sudden fit of inspiration and cook yourself an amazing, complex meal, but you proceed to have a mental breakdown over the state it’s left your kitchen in before you even get a chance to eat it.

6. There’s no food in the house, or there is food but you’re lacking several necessary components, and going out to get them is just Too Much.  Spend too much ordering a pizza and go back to bed.

[doctress]

7. Someone is eating with me and they started talking, and because they started talking they have now finished their meal and I’ve barely started it somehow even though we both started eating at exactly the same time. I don’t even know how that happened, i can’t remember if I stopped eating or not but somehow I’m behind, all because they spoke to me. 

[cameoappearance]

8. I was going to eat something four hours ago but I either fell down a Wikipedia hole or got stuck in an executive dysfunction trance, so now I’m just going to heat up and inhale a can of ravioli because fuck it.

[punsbulletsandpointythings]

9. Actually make yourself a fancy meal, do the dishes , sit down thrilled anddddddd suddenly its midnight how fucking long have you been sitting there wtf.

[guardiankarenterrier]

wait

wait the food thing is an adhd thing

ive spent all these years thinking i just happened to eat like a weird scavenging gremlin there was a reason for that???

[levynite]

Fuck, it’s me

[linaswalaf]

I am pathetic woman ༼ ººل͟ºº ༽ how do you like the movie?  patreon commissions are opened! 

[sosuperawesome]

Familiar Feelings Enamel Pins

Starsalts on Etsy

See our #Etsy or #Enamel Pins tags

[meandthezois]

I can say they are very high quality and easily some of my favorite.

[mortsix-deactivated20200703]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Here’s chapter 7.

“All drow are educated—even the lowliest, even those with nothing. There are schoolhouses in the slums.”

“Indoctrinated, you mean,” Entreri says.

“Well, that is the point, yes. How else would the Lolthites keep their grip on the city?”

“Obviously it doesn’t work on everyone.” They turn right onto the broad street toward Kaval, a part of the ward Entreri used to know well. “The indoctrination.”

“You assume I was.”

“If you grew up there, you were. It’s in the air.”

“It’s quite insidious,” Jarlaxle agrees. “And I was educated, of course.” He grins a little. ”Just not in the way they hoped.”

[ppopok-deactivated20221115]

Run!! Assassin!! Run!!

[romancepodden]

When you realize that your previous knee-jerk dismissal of romance novels were ignorant at best and misogynist at worst

[romancepodden]

You know how people dismiss “female culture” all the time? Romcoms, chicklit, romance novels - without having read or seen much of it, because you know - if it’s for women, it must be bad? (Patriarchy you sneaky devil) And that assumption is misogynist. No way around it. I was one of those girls. I had barely read a romance novel and thought I was too good for them. Internalized misogyny is a bitch. Basically. Thankfully, if you work on it - you get better. And get to enjoy a lot more awesome culture in the process.

[respectingromance]

It’s so ingrained in people to dismiss romance novels that they can’t even connect dots on why it’s misogynistic.

[cyberpunknoire]

I never hated “female culture” because I hated women. I hated it because it was ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS about men and heterosexuality. I’ve been bored at best and pissed off at worst by how much entertainment aimed at women is just heteronormative bullshit. It romanticizes femininity, passiveness, submissiveness, allowing abuse. 

[velvety-secret]

Exactly, I hate this “if you don’t enjoy media that condescends to you, and is designed to encourage you to embrace toxic societal norms, you have internalized misogyny” bullshit. 

I’m too good for romance novels not because I’m better than other woman but because I’m deserving of media that doesn’t brainwash me into accepting abusive and manipulative behavior from men and that doesn’t fetishize unhealthy relationships. I’m not stupid enough to enjoy that trash, sorry.

Everyone on here defending the kind of trash that is deliberately marketed towards women to condition us into putting up with more bullshit should be ashamed to call themselves a feminist. And if you’re a woman who enjoys reading like, dumbass romance novels peppered with quasi-rape fantasies and racist undertones (which is shockingly common), then I don’t have respect for you or your opinions on media and culture. 

Also you dumbasses realize that all these crap industries are controlled by male executives, right? The creepy “haha stalking is romantic” rom com that you’re defending was paid for and probably produced and directed by men, yeah?

Y’all are dumb as hell but okay continue to read trash because it has a woman on the cover. I’ll be over here consuming things that aren’t absurdly sexist and supporting female creators who produce actual high quality work. Maybe people disrespect this stuff because it’s trash. The real misogyny is that this crap is what our society offers to women

[romancepodden]

The post above sort of illustrates the point I was trying to make. I didn’t say “If you don’t like it - you’re being misogynist”. If you don’t like it, you don’t like it and that’s fine. At least not liking it tells me you’ve actually given it a shot. I said DISMISSING it right off the bat is. Which you’re doing in your post. And that’s a big shame because I don’t know many fandoms that are as aware of its faults and history as the romance community. Romance readers are HIGHLY critical of the thing they love and it has pushed romance novels into something frankly amazing. The romance community (readers and writers alike) are still having to deal with the fucked up things the genre contained in the 80′s. Still fighting those old stereotypes and misconceptions. And as above tells us, they are still very much alive. And you know what? Romance novels have gotten better and deserve way more credit. It’s a HUGE industry, and yes, as with any other mediums - it’s going to have better and worse representatives. Yes, the alpha men are still very much there - but they have evolved. Consent is a HUGE thing in today’s romance novels (even when they’re set 200 years ago) and there’s something in them for everyone. Because the genre is HUGE. It ranges from paranormal to historical to contemporary and it contains WORLDS.  So dismissing it, and the people who create and enjoy them as dumb, sexist and trash is doing exactly what I said in my original post. It’s ignorant. And misogynist. And you’re missing out. Because dismissing romance authors and romance readers like you just did, while praising “actual high quality work”, seemingly without having actually read any of the things you’re criticizing isn’t doing any of us any favors. You are missing out when you dismiss it as “trash”. And that was my point to begin with.

[khirsahle]

And not to put too fine a point on it, but the romance novel industry is the most female-driven, woman-positive corner in all of publishing. The huge majority of romance novel authors? Women. The huge majority of romance novel editors? Women. Marketers, publicists, art directors? Women! If we want to talk management, the huge majority of editorial directors? Women. While many CEOs are still men, that isn’t true across the board–and by the way, those CEOs are the same CEOs overlooking everything from cookbooks to science fiction to literature. That’s a social problem, not a romance-specific problem. And more and more women CEOs are pushing back against the strangehold of the “Big Five”.

Like the OP said, there are both terrible examples of the genre and wonderful examples full of incredibly strong women expressing the full spectrum of female desire–something that tends to automatically get short shrift in our society. It makes me terribly sad to see people who don’t even realize the whole wide feminist world of romance that’s out there.

Because GDI, whether or not we can all agree with each others’ choices about what we find appealing on that spectrum of desire, and whether or not we can all agree on what is toxic culture vs. what is a transformative expression filtered through the female gaze, we should at least be able to recognize that an industry owned, run, fueled and consumed by all kinds of women, cis or trans*, queer or straight, is. Freaking. Feminist.

[mythicgeek]

Hey guess what you can totally be an intersectional feminist and still read, write, and market romance. I do all of that. Because I don’t blanket love or hate it; as mentioned i’m a fan who is highly critical of the thing she loves, and works hard to make it better and better. More diverse. More feminist. More of want fans want. So some people -coughtaranoirecough - can get off their high horses and go somewhere else and leave romance fans to enjoy this women-driven industry,

[frogsandcoffee-deactivated20171]

This.

We’re not talking about Hollywood where things aimed at women are still, by and large, written by men. We’re talking about a female-driven industry. There are writers like EL James who write things, I guess, for that market. But there’s also a LOT of work out there written by feminists for feminists that are anatomically accurate and everything. The romance genre has come light years in the past 20, 30 years. If you’re unwilling to see past the label to actually read a thing, well, you’re the reason this is a thread.

[romancepodden]

Certainly @theladyofingenuitea! First and foremost: Courtney Milan (we seriously can’t praise her enough). The way she approaches sex is refreshing and realistic, she’s funny, her heroes are varied, flawed, funny, charming and respectful. She handles the class system in a realistic way in her historicals, she’s got a book with a trans heroine, she’s got one with a virgin hero (my catnip!). It’s intersectional and just overall amazing. Another big fave of ours is Sarah MacLean. Her Love by numbers-series and Rules of scoundrels-series build an amazing little universe that I just wish I could live in. Her books are basically what got me hooked on romance novels. We’re also huge fans of Bec MacMaster. The other girls love The london steampunk-series the most, but personally I think her Dark Arts-series have them beat. MacMaster writes high stakes romance in fantasy and sci fi- settings and I swear, this woman must have bargained with some dark force herself because she writes the best sex scenes I have ever read. I love what little I have read from Lucy Parker (which are the two books she’s released so far) and I can’t wait to see what she comes out with next. Superwitty dialogue, realistic use of todays tech in romance and yeah. Funny and delightful. Misc tips: Mr Impossible by Loretta Chase (it’s like the movie The Mummy BUT WITH SEX), Eva Leigh’s Wicked quills of London-series, Lisa Kleypas Wallflower-series… Yeah. I think you’re covered for a while now! Happy reading!

[msfehrwight]

I had to blink a few times at that reply about romance being degrading because yeah, uh, that was in, like, 70s-80s. That was a while ago. what I recommend, before you dismiss a genre, is to ask yourself, “What is the most recent title I have read in this genre?” Not saying there aren’t shit romances out there, because as has been pointed out the industry is humongous, but claiming that in that sea there aren’t damn good books is frankly ridiculous. I like romance novels. I LOVE them. What I don’t like are bad romance novels. Funnily enough, we readers can tell the difference. And we have so much choice that we don’t have to read shit. We vote with our money. You’re doing things right, we’ll buy your stuff. I’m so tired of people going “bodice rippers” and thinking they’ve made a compelling argument. I STUDY this genre. I’ve read its history and development and current criticism and analysis. Yes, the genre has its faults; it does need to get more intersectional. But your argument is basically what the early 80s criticism says, and it gets very tiring when people can’t update to this millenium. So tiring. Because the field of popular romance studies has had to have his conversation for decades. Having to explain the very basics every time is tedious. And if a genre that is by women for women about women has to defend itself for decades I really think we can claim misogyny. Above list of authors seems good to me even though I’m not familiar with MacMaster or Parker myself. Courtney Milan tho. Awesome.

[iopele]

Having to explain the very basics every time is tedious. And if a genre that is by women for women about women has to defend itself for decades I really think we can claim misogyny.

[itsmariemccurdy]

Talia Hibbert

Alisha Rai

Jezz de Silva - a MoC whose work is hugely empowering for women and anti-toxic masculinity

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics

A Little Light Mischief - Cat Sebastian

Jenny Han

Helen Hoang

Beverly Jenkins

Carina Press has multiple nb editors

Is the industry still dominated by white heternormativity? Absolutely. But it’s changing and fast.

Of course you’d never know that if you decide to dismiss the entire genre outright because you’re so committed to listening to the misogynistic narrative you won’t listen to anything else.

[all-the-kissing-books]

Adding some more to this list, because there are so many incredible authors who are writing smart, compelling, diverse, feminist texts. There’s literally something for everyone!

Alyssa Cole

Mia Hopkins

Adriana Herrera

Jeannie Lin

Alexis Daria

Sally Thorne

Sierra Simone

Sonali Dev

Joanna Shupe

Sophie Jordan

Emily Foster

Christina Lauren

Zoraida Córdova

Kristen Callihan

Nana Malone

Penny Reid

[ramblingromance]

I’m going to also recommend:

Helen Hoang (writes contemporary so far)

Scarlett Peckham (writes historicals so far)

Both are fairly new writers in the genre, but I feel like they’re doing some wonderful things to make their stories diverse and feminist as fuck!

[rob-anybody]

Forever stanning for Rebekah Weatherspoon because she writes queer romances, fat heroines, Black romantic leads, and disabled romantic leads. Her work is funny, hot, and moving.

Also, Alyssa Cole, Jenny Trout, and Suleikha Snyder write some truly delightful romance novels.

[endrae]

been nostalgia trippin’ AC1 lately

[snarknsass]

DO YOU SEE THIS?? PAY ATTENTION CELL PHONE COMPANIES!

This is what you make me resort to when I have to charge my damned phone and it has no audio jack.

Bring back my godsdamned audio jack. Ffs.

This is why I still keep all my CDs.

[artemis-entreri]

[[ Revisited a piece from last year. ]]

[spring-in-mirkwood]

If Assassin's Creed came out today instead of in 2007, there would be SO MANY twitter threads from racist dudebro's complaining about Malik. A disabled dark skinned arabe man (and which most of the fandom considers as gay) being a major character. The cried of FORCED DIVERSITY would be unending. Especially as hes the character calling out Altair on his BS

[masamasa13]