Ted's Lines

My name is Ted and I make lines.

[sharenaweek]

Hello! Posting this year's prompts hopefully early enough to give people working room - this year's week will be from June 7th to June 13th!

As usual, you can participate with anything - art, fic, edits, text posts, gifs, what have you! The goal is to have fun! And if you want to do a past year's prompts instead that's also fair -- you can find them all under the tag "#prompt list" in this blog

Prompts under cut for easier copy paste time

Day 1: Order of Heroes

Day 2: World of Steel / Travel

Day 3: Swap / Alternate Universe

Day 4: Favorite Alt / New Alt

Day 5: Gift / Party

Day 6: Ragnarok / Battle

Day 7: Free Day

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@sharenaweek

This is rough but I am legally obliged to participate in at least one day of Sharena week and hell yeah it was gonna be the Relationships prompt

I love my princess wife

[sharenalovemail]

[A transcription of all the text from the images will be under the cut at the end of this post]

It's been a while, but it's finally here! #SharenaWeek will be real (or i'll die trying)

After some back and forth, we settled on June for this event - giving us nearly two months to work with as of posting this!

If you have any questions about anything in this post feel free to send an ask here or to @sharenaweek ! (For example if you need a prompt explained, or if I missed something)

#SharenaWeek / #SharenaWeek2024 will be held from June 9th 2024 to June 15th of the same year

RULES

Make sure to use the #SharenaWeek and/or ⁠⁠#SharenaWeek2024 tags when you post your work.

You can also @ either this blog (@sharenalovemail) or the one made especially for this event (@sharenaweek) or even both if you wish so. Tagged posts will be shared on both blogs, but the one dedicated to the event will work best as an archive!

While the main event will be during the week of June 9th to June 15th 2024, you can take as long as you need and post late if needed. Just make sure to follow the above two rules so we can find them and share them then!

You don't have to post for every day if you can't — remember that this event is first and foremost to have fun.

Anyone can participate! Any and all posts are welcomed: fanfiction, drawing, painting, sprite editing, poetry, headcanon/analysis posts, AMVs — literally anything, as long as you made it (or commissioned it, if that's the case) counts!

Prompts can be interpreted in any way you want.

Have fun, and remember to tag your works accordingly, especially if they feature NSFW content (gore, nudity, etc) or heavy topics (remember to not censor your tags, otherwise people who don't want to see that content won't be able to avoid it!).

PROMPTS

(6/09) Day 1: Past and Future

(Childhood memories, time post wars - anything before and after FE:H)

(6/10) Day 2: Resplendent

(Design a new Alt for her - be it an existing banner or a new theme!)

(6/11) Day 3: Celebration

(Outfits, Scenes, Dialogue - anything you love most about her!)

(6/12) Day 4: Forging Bonds

(Relationships - familial, platonic, romantic, any kind!)

(6/13) Day 5: Change of Fate

(AUs, her situation with Peony, crossovers - you name it!)

(6/14) Day 6: Meet The Heroes

(Sharena's goal is to befriend all of the Heroes - help her do it!)

(6/15) Day 7: Free Day

(Anything goes - including repeats of above prompts!)

EXTRA PROMPTS

You can use as many or as little of these as you want, either to replace the main 7 prompts or to add to them!

One Word Prompts:

Nature

Fairies

Family

Summer

Birthday

Surprise

Picnic

Flowers

Yearning

Hugs/Cuddles

Outfit Prompts:

Brave Alt

Attuned Alt

Modern

Fancy

Frilly

Winter

Beach

Cosplay/Costume

Party

Sleepwear

Alternate Universes:

Modern Setting

High School/College/University

Character Swap

Cyberpunk

Book/Realm Swap

Animals

Actors

Reincarnation

Daemons

Dungeons & Dragons

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Have these gone out of style yet

(my art)

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Good ol' Eikþ

[fiendishneko]

Over-analysing Stormcast Eternal character design

So we've gotten a good look at the new AoS starter box, right? No? Well you should, because for even those 40k die-hards among you, there's some absolute gold here.

Now this is coming from someone who's been into Stormcasts conceptually since the first edition, but seeing the "flawed forging" narrative come to fruition is SO SATISFYING!

(Very big, mostly coherent post under the break)

So first off, I'm going to show you the main character models from the 1st and 2nd edition AoS boxes: Vandus Hammerhand and the Lord Arcanum:

So I don't think it's much of a stretch to say these characters are both "Hero Coded"; gleaming gold armour, weapons held aloft and sat atop a fearsome, yet noble looking steed. Hell, paint them entirely grey and they wouldn't look far removed from actual statuary we have in our world.

At this stage in the AoS timeline, the Stormcasts are still these nigh-impervious heroes, champions of Sigmar and civilisation itself, the flaws of their construction being apparent only to their creator himself. There's an underlying tone of something uncanny though, the human looking, but eyeless helmets feel familiar, but a little off...

Ah well, nothing to worry about, here comes 3rd edition, and champion of Sigmar, Yndrasta, along with it!

So that's different. She's certainly brandishing her weapons, but her armour is dull and tarnished compared to the gold of previous editions (this is due to her being of a different stormhost, but the lack of gleaming gold IS of note here). Additionally, not only does she not have a steed, but it's her counterpart in the box set, the Orruk Kruleboss that comes saddled up, almost aping this cliche hero pose we've become used to.

Add onto this how Yndrasta is characterised, not as a proud leader or wielder of magic, but as a hunter prone losing herself in the act of slaughtering her prey and dumping their severed heads in Sigmar's throneroom. And to put a cherry on top, here's how she is depicted in art form, gorgeous, radiant and FUCKING TERRIFYING.

So that leaves us at 4th edition, the Stormcast Eternals who have been killed and reforged so many times as to be nothing but a shadow of what they used to be are being called back into service against the Skaven. And who leads them this time?

Oh.

This is the Lord Vigilant. His weapon is lowered, his armour a dull, battered silver and his steed... oh his steed...

The side by side of this guy and the Lord Arcanum is pretty shocking to me. The mount of the Lord Arcanum is a Gryph Charger, and incorporates elements of horses and birds of prey like hawks and eagles. It reads as noble.

The Lord Vigilant rides a Gryph Stalker. It doesn't rear up like a knight's heraldry come to life, it stalks, hell it looks like it's staring you down through the screen! (Good job photography team, btw!) Like, I really need you to understand when I first looked at that thing, I was drawn straight to it's eyes and I got chills.

The use of colour here also feels like a natural conclusion. The bold colours have faded and worn, the armour's gold plating has been chipped and broken away from years of war, even the Gryph Stalker looks washed out.

Anyway, that's about as much as I can write on this subject without wanting to smack myself for being a pretentious art nerd, but there is a whole (half) box set of interesting model designs I'd be down to analyse if that's what you folks are into?

[thiccrobots]

Really glad someone else is noticing the amount of nuance the GW sculptors have put into this box. I wanna point out another detail that I'm a total sucker for -- if you look at a lot of the old SCE models (a lot of which have been since discontinued) there's a few design tropes throughout em, a really prominent one being metal scales/chainlinks integrated into cloth, be that loincloths, tabards, or other layers usually poking out from underneath armor. An armored loincloth makes almost zero practical sense, but it was iconic of those first couple waves.

It's a motif that's been more or less missing since the introduction of thunderstrike armor, with most of the models in Dominion trading in for scaled skirts/faulds (and most recently, the updated Liberators have followed suit).

That is, of course, until now -- nearly every model in the Ruination chamber features some extent of this, the Knight-Questor's loincloth being perhaps the most pronounced example.

It's such a cool and subtle way for the most venerated warriors of the Stormcasts to brandish their age; their first forgings long-predated thunderstrike armor, and they still brandish the stylistic relics of that age.

The same concept can also be applied to the density of scripture being crammed into the ruination chamber models (ESPECIALLY the Lord-Vigilant) and a couple characters wearing capes with a big fur mantle, but this was the one that stood out most to me.

[jean-deaux]

My Commissions are open!

(DM me here or on Twitter @/jeandeauxart )

Reblogs greatly appreciated!

[jean-deaux]

Grandpa came home :)

Lion El’jonson

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Commission for my friend @/CuteGynoids on twitter of his tiefling druid, Volans!

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“You are strong, timewalker. Stronger than you know.“

Painting done for my wonderful DM of his NPC, Valerie! 

(reblogs appreciated!) 

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The cats on the EDZ are truly the best reason to go there <3

reblogs appreciated!

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Gooood morning! Have a speedrun painting of Ixel, the Far Reaching! 

She’s so lovely im sorry i have to kill you a few times every week hon </3

(reblogs appreciated!)

[jean-deaux]

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Is a group of Ghosts called a haunting?

Have some ghost shells I made! 

[note abt the “please be patient” hat: Multiple autistic people gave permission/requested it, and I did my best to avoid any association w aut1sm5peaks by not using blue on the hat!]

(reblogs appreciated!)

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PLEASE BUNGIE

[jean-deaux]

(click for full quality!) [ W A R P I G ] Congrats on 4 mil Techno!!! (reblogs > likes!)

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Here’s my first attack for Artfight! (I’m team Spice, btw!) This one goes out to  _netkot on twitter :)

(reblogs appreciated!)

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Introducing Father Renato Lucius Abate!

He’s a demon working as a priest in a small Italian village in the 1800′s

He’s rather kind hearted, but doesn’t show very many emotions regardless. 

(reblogs > likes!)