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narsh-poptarts · 6 months

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SOMETIMES YOU MAKE A NEW CHARACTER FOR MONSTER OF THE WEEK AND YOU GET A LITTLE OBSESSED WITH THEM

This is Wesley Bernavelli (he/him) !!!! he's a Hex cowboy witch B))))) think anathema device or perhaps shrink and forcible from coraline, that brand of witchy

he's perhaps.... a little weird...

#monster of the week #motw #The Hex #cowboy #witch #cowboy witch #Wesley Bernavelli #original character #oc #my oc #eye contact #dnd character #i'll be playing him in a campaign my friends are playing with me and im so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA #my art #he's like #he's normal in a weird way in that he's passionate about the rotes and other spells he does and will happily talk about them #and spin a tale #you know. the works #but!!! he's still kinda creepy and secretive and will look off into the horizon sometimes where you're sure he's seeing something you're no #and say some cryptic shit that you just have to deal with #also his eyes glow a little bit but just in that way cats' eyes reflect #i didn't design a face for him at first but i like him <3333333333333 #he both has no face and has a face and that's wonderful

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rimouskis · 6 months

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could you explain more about what you view as the before era and what you view as the after? i need to learn my herstory

I think this requires a more detailed and educated/researched answer than I can give after an exhausting workday and an after-hours work event, but I'm going to do my best and also open up the floor in reblogs for people to chip in their thoughts

foremost: a DISCLAIMER that this post does not aim to shit on writers from the "before" era. there are many classic fics that I love and enjoy, even if I consider their characterizations to be "less accurate"* than the ones we have in the after era.

*aside to say: accuracy is based only off of literal media accounts we have of these men; we do not know them, we should not claim to know them, and they have had different comfort levels with the media knowing selective truths about their lives [sid out of choice, geno out of media xenophobia] than they did when these early fics were being written.

"before" fics (which I tend to refer to as "classic" fics, and had their heyday in 2012-2013 but continued up until 2016ish) tended to have more regimented roles for sid and geno. sid was usually the protagonist; geno was the love interest.

this came with a cascading set of characteristics assigned to each guy. sid was poor-little-meow-meow'd. geno was the pursuer in the relationship. sid usually bottomed. sid had the whole spacetoaster moment (he was the inspiration for the term, haha). there wasn't much a/b/o fic but sid was, like, the omega-fied one and geno was alpha-ized.

something I've been thinking about more recently is how 2012-2013 era sidgeno displayed signs of Migratory Slash Fandom. I don't think of MSF as an inherently negative/condemning thing, but I think it's a phenomenon that deserves to be mentioned/analyzed, yeah?

MSF thrives on big character differences.... like, grumpy/sunshine, sarcastic/broody, genius/empath. it's all about emphasizing disparate archetypes to create natural tension in a story. this works really well in most romance novels! I love it!

the issues arise when people try to make characters fit into these preset dynamics. and, frankly, when sidgeno first got big, we straight-up didn't know as much about sid and geno. I mean that. despite sid being EXTENSIVELY covered by media from age, like, 14, he was really tight-lipped compared to what we have now.

and geno was.... there. I don't mean that as a diss—he was INCREDIBLE, but the media totally passed him over again and again. or they helped contribute to stereotypes of him being a dumb oaf who didn't know english.

aside: ironically I think that helped in creating sidgeno and not, like.... sidflower or sidtanger. geno was so "DIFFERENT" from sid (aka: russian, characterized by media as not knowing how to speak [in comparison to sid's highly curated media soundbites]) that it meant he was the best candidate for A Ship with sid.

a lot of the really big writers who got into sidgeno were fandom veterans with lots of experience in other big fandoms. to me, that means MSF had a hand in all this. and we should be grateful, because it led to the BOOM of hockey fic, and of sidgeno fic specifically. modern hrpf wouldn't exist without it.

that being said, those template ship dynamics, plus the media's attitude then towards sid and geno in its coverage, led to those characterizations of whiny soft sensitive boy sid who needed to be rescued even though he was the best hockey player EVER, and geno as the lumbering tall strong alpha not-that-bright Love Interest Man.

this isn't to say every fic was this way, or that this is BAD. I, uh, love poor-little-meow-meow-ing sid and omegafying the hell out of him. what I'm saying is that it was a near-ubiquitous characterization across the board.

that all changed in 2016-2018. I personally wholly credit sevenfists, though I imagine it's more nuanced than that, but: my blog, I make the rules here. I don't know if sevenfists was psychic or just highly observant and absolutely excellent at reading people (and that's basically the same thing, right?), but characterization shifts began taking place in fic....

and the coolest thing happened, in that those characterizations were seemingly reinforced by more media coverage. the back to back cups brought with them TONS of interviews with and media about the team, and sid and geno in particular. the coolest part of it was that sid had loosened up a LOT and geno had gotten more comfortable (and had gotten a reporter firmly on his side).

the interviews about sid post 2016 were just SO different. so much information started coming out, and a LOT of it conflicted with Ye Olde Characterizations. as it turned out, sid was deeply one of the boys. he was funny. everyone liked him. he loved hosting. he was insanely comfortable around almost everyone, including strangers, because he's a little freak who's kind to everyone. he can make smalltalk like no one's business. he's kind of gross. he likes to giggle and be in on jokes and get into the thick of it. he isn't some blushing virgin bride sold off of mario's doorstep, yeah?

and geno, too, was finally getting the coverage he deserved. and his personality was both fortified by age and better shown to us through media. as it turns out, he isn't some happy go lucky oaf. he's mercurial and intensely aware of what others think of him (and he CARES). he's sensitive and thoughtful but also can lash out at random times. he has a wicked sense of humor that he uses as a defense mechanism and as a surefire way to get people to like him, which matters to him. and, as everyone says, he is SMART.

if you had to boil it down, I'd say that post-2016, it became clear that SID is the confident one and GENO is the insecure one. and fic caught onto that with a miraculously fast pace. also: they're more alike than they are different, but I still think romance inherently feeds off of difference and tension, so we still exaggerate things to make the stories ✨WORK✨.

I'm not going to give examples of pre- and post- era fics, because I don't want to point any fingers and say someone was doing characterization "wrong." that's not the takeaway I want anyone to have here.

fandom attitudes have changed. it's been 10 years since that first wave of fics, and while I don't think that's very long, it's a hell of a long time on the internet, and in a niche internet community. what was once the standard for fics (and what was well-read, and what people gravitated towards) was different. not worse—different.

I think it's fair to say the "after" era of fics is more "accurate" to what we know of sid and geno. it's also fair to say that this is only the case because we have a WEALTH of information, character-revealing interviews and videos and anecdotes, that Ye Old Authors could only dream of getting.

I really love the story of how everything has changed, and it's a fabulous microcosm of fandom evolution and how approaches to fanworks have changed and grown with fandom, and I think it's all so so cool.

#additions welcome!#I also feel like I've made this post before lol #gather round children it's time for granny rimouskis to spin the tale of the sidgeno evolution once more

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pumpkinpaix · 6 months

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I am processing nettle to do various fiber craft experiments with and you may notice the terrible stock pot situation which resulted in me setting a towel on fire briefly but hey. I have successfully made nettle cordage. The difference in color is dependent on how much I scraped and cleaned the fiber before use!

Unfortunately the journey is far from over and I expect I shall be in nettle hell for weeks to come

Other nettle projects include spinning, papermaking, dyeing (root and leaf) and eating. I have already eaten it but I think the season is wrong. Not much taste only texture. anyways! Good times and also suffering

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todderwodders · 7 months

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I think it’s interesting that you get to see all three chosen’s living spaces and like for all their bravado they live empty, pathetic lives and the game goes out of it’s way to instill the idea that they’re all desperate to please their gods in ways that are dark mirrors, or at least narratively parallel to our companions. We are a hair away from being our dark other, brother

Except for karlach.

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #the dead three #spoilers #I think the only chosen who deviates is Kethric and even then you could argue that he could be a foil to Halsin or minthara #Orin and durge is obvious but Orin and shadowheart and lae’zel also have parallels #wyll and gortash are 1:1 on leaning so hard on fairy tale cliches and subversions that it almost makes your head spin #astarion is self aware that his entire life is being controlled by a god like figure and the chosen are simply Oblivious #Gale and gortash meet your desperation for love dressed up as a god complex #karlach and her loyalty that inevitably bites her in the ass ala Orin #Jaheira and minsc are just here #Orin the red #Enver gortash #Kethric thorm #karlach has … other issues I’m surprised no one has addressed yet #wonderful personality! completely shafted by plunging into a revenge plotline with very little gratification or leeway in choice

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simcardiac-arrested · 2 months

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beautiful half assed valentines as per popular demand (pine)

#myart #uhhhg tagging all my bitches. smh #omg i suck i have to draw my actual ocs sometime😭 maybe make them valentines #oc: no way back #oc: needless separation #oc: spins on axis rapidly #oc: cognitive dissonance #oc: fates torn again #oc: weaving tales #oc: recognition in spirit #oc: speaks of nothing

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rosyjuly · 10 months

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autosport instagram story, goodwood 2023

#this is for ME #spinning my tales clickclacking on my keyboard #you know how it is #sebmick #goodwood 23 #mick #[singing] this boy is on FIREEEEEEEEEE (anxiety)

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mayhemspreadingguy · 1 year

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Today I woke up and chose silliness!

(yes, the mood of my posts is all over the place but this is what you signed up for, it's literally in the name x'D)

This is another contribution to the silly rabbit au (by @cuubism ) featuring @magnusbae 's Dream in a hoodie.

#silly rabbit au #dreamling #well hob did say that he can fake is own death if needed but how many times will he have to do that? xD #at some point hob starts to attend his own funeral as a guest. and if anybody asks questions he's all like: no sadly i am no robert gadling #(/or whatever name he's been using) and i will miss that man dearly #(and he's speaking the truth because he's practically burying a life that he has built up. he's burying the person #he has been for past decades)#it's a slow process but hob starts to sprinkle the small but outrageous truths in conversation and let's others take it however they want t #he very inconspicuously adopts Dream's attitude and starts to play along with Dream's misleading truths #and then he starts to spin the tales in different directions - derailing Dream's stories #and THAT'S when the chaos really starts xD #why make dream's storytelling easier when he can twist it and basically fight fire with fire right? :DD #also. don't listen to me im just shitposting here

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danskjavlarna · 4 months

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Fans of vintage fairy tale imagery will find over a thousand illustrations in my collection.

#spinning wheel #fairy tale #1910s #vintage illustration #illustration

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bookcub · 4 months

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Best Books of 2023

I've already written quite a bit about these books and have a tag #best books of 2023 where I also include my honorable mentions, so here is a rapid fire of my best books of the year!

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

Little Thieves by Margaret Owen

The Daevabad Trilogy by S.A. Chakraborty

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual's Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J Brown

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty

Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Feast Makers by H. A. Clarke

The Mirror Season by Anne-Marie McLemore

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

Painted Devils by Margaret Owen

Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

#best books of 2023 #the last tale of the flower bride #the magic fish #little thieves #the daevabad trilogy #kindred #spinning silver #refusing compulsory sexuality #the adventures of amina al sirafi #the scapegracers #family lore

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letsquestjess · 1 year

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Have you seen this?! This looks absolutely incredible!

Huge credit to High Ground Animations for doing this, I can’t wait to see it!

#tcw #the clone wars #tbb #the bad batch #bad batch #clone wars #star wars fan film #I honestly thought that this was another clone wars spin off when it came up on YT #High Ground Animations #Tukk Tales #clone wars fan film

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edeldoro · 2 months

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I love how the broken, gilded cage Robin sits in appears to resemble a waterphone (and a phonograph within, by the look of it?). You may have heard its beautiful haunting voice in horror films and music in general. That the splash art attributes it to her, a Path of Harmony character, The Robin of Penacony, renowned singer across the stars, is so cool.

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#HSR #Honkai Star Rail #Robin hsr #Trying to reclaim what dignity I have #.#It's such a great choice of musical instruments #A medley of instruments honestly #They really said the waterphone is for the sapphics-- (SHOT)#So far I've only seen one (1) public tweet about the waterphone like ueueue (sound of crying)#Robin! Waterphone! It's a delightful surprise ough #Also not to mention birds galore....#Birbs #The waterphone needs to leave me alone help I am still not over the fact they put it in Robin's splash art #Like she can apparently have resonance with other lifeforms? Excited to see how they'll spin it from there #Makes me want to re-experience Tales of the Abyss lore again waugh #Fonons... Fonic Hymn... The Score...#Robin von Star Rail as a Tales of character help #I need to stop rambling in the tags and catch Zs but music instruments! Robin! Chef's kiss

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theinquisitxor · 1 year

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What’s the top read you would recommend for someone who loved Emily Wilde?

hello yes, I am absolutely here for this question!

And since I have no restraint to pick 1 top read, I have 2:

-If you like the Emily/Wendall dynamic + clever magic, curses, and people who aren't who they first appear, then I can't recommend (the book) Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones enough.

(I think Heather Fawcett has directly said that Howl&Sophie were a direct inspiration for Emily Wilde)

-If you like the faeries, winter setting, historical fantasy, then I'd also recommend Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. Spinning Silver has a similar brand of faeries as Emily Wilde, a Winter King, a clever story, and is a fairytale. There is also a Howl-ish type character.

Howl's Moving Castle and Spinning Silver would be my main two to recommend.

However, a couple others that I think fit the vibe include: A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn, Bravely by Maggie Stiefvater, The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu, and A Far Wilder Magic by Allison Saft.

I am tagging @aliteraryprincess and @ninja-muse if they also have a top read to recommend!

#emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of faeries #book recommendations #ask #howl's moving castle book #spinning silver #fairy tales #book recs

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ebonytails · 3 months

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⚠️ WARNING ⚠️

Heart rate has reached dangerous levels❗️

Initiating culling procedures.👁️‍🗨️

#Nyxus #Doe1 #ebonytailsart #did you know that ‘nyxus’ is censored on roblox bevause of the xus part. what the hell #anyway i love you horror boy #i want to get more horror images drawn for him so my first art of him was this of course #copy pasted from twitter? :#I wanted to try drawing Nyxus’s “Tunnel Mode”#which is almost like a “second stage” boss form if you were looking at it from a game perspective #But this is what happens when his system reaches its limit (like getting overwhelmed with information)#which tales a LOT to get to #Shakes you shales you do you understand. that I need to draw him and keep working on his story #im going to get a carrd pro lite subscription after jan 28 bevause im so crazy i need to add every secret and lore into his carrd #ive already made so much progress and i hit carrd limits TWICE on two different sites #i cut his site into two just to get past ot and i still failed #(spins in a circle)#from kris p #i like this a lot so im posting it to main and then ill move it to my personal blog

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penguinfrommars · 25 days

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Pirate Zuko is such an underrated concept

One thing I find really unrealistic with ATLA is that zuko spent 3 WHOLE YEARS on a ship sailing across a world submerged in war and not once did he get a moral crisis? Especially while counting the fact the Iroh is literally part of a huge organization? So I feel like it's very likely that a year or two into his banishment zuko's like: wait a minute, something doesn't add up. And proceeds to commit full blown treason as a PIRATE, and the entire time Iroh is gently preparing him for Rebellion and overthrowing his father. Just think about it, the betrayal, the feels, the bloody atrocities of war and how it affects literal children who are forced to fight it, the inhumane cruelty of spirits, and the painful realization that each person carries potential for both good and bad.

This whole concept has quite literally been torturing my brain for WEEKS.

#atla #zuko #pirate zuko #Just think of the potential #Imagine the fire nations biggest criminals being the ex-prince-turned-pirate zuko and the infamous blue spirit #Did I find the zuko vs. Blue spirit scene during the ember Island play hilarious? Absolutely.#Do I think people will spin tales of the two being mortal enemies? ABSOLUTELY.#Also druk and zuko but like eragon and saphira #Pirate Zuko au

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simcardiac-arrested · 2 months

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(digs up a concept and sketches from october) monster au anyone ? ?? creaturas??

#i originally wanted to get this done on halloween but then. Um . well u know #weaving is the only lined one because their sketch sucked balls😭im sorry weaving #anyways i will be real this took a few days of work but it was fun #everyone has some signature clothing and wayback is just some guy #thank u medi for giving me some ideas for sep and cd!#time to tag😍#myart #body horror #ehh that’ll do #oc: weaving tales #oc: spins on axis rapidly #oc: recognition in spirit #oc: needless separation #oc: fates torn again #his design is such a fav … Went off #oc: speaks of nothing #oc: cognitive dissonance #oc: no way back

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kinnersonne · 1 year

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My roommate is watching Trollhunters for the first time and I am rehashing ALL the feelings so it’s time for some ~Stricklake Headcanons!~

• Barbara will not hesitate to yank him along by the horns if he’s being a buttsnack

• She also likes to bring up the whole enchantment debacle as her trump card to win arguments or make him do something. Normally she can persuade him with other means, but she’ll resort to that if she has to

• Slit-pupilled eyes means he looks like a big doofus if he looks at her too long because “his eyes get all big, like a little cat’s!” (Barbara’s words)

• “I’m not cute, I’m horrifying!” “Sure, sweetie…”

• Walt is lovely. But living with Stricklander the troll would be like the worst parts of having both a) a cat that hates everyone and b) a big dog that’s Too Dang Old. Scowls and hisses for no other reason than He Can. Sleeps all day and keeps you up at night with possum noises. Refuses to let you touch him until he suddenly decides he wants physical affection, at which point he’ll clamber all 200 rocky pounds of him into your lap and growl until you pet him. Gets VERY whiny when you pay attention to somebody that’s not him, even if he’s been ignoring you all day. 50/50 chance of attacking any given guest, verbally or physically

• Pet names: Mr. Creature, Lakeluster, ‘dearest’ (B) and ‘sweetie’ (S) but only ironically, NOT Babs, only misogynist jerks at the hospital call her that

• Barbara won’t confirm this but Strickler may or may not have tracked down and pulled a hit on James Lake Sr. Barbara denies all knowledge of her ex’s sudden and violent death

• Troll society is matriarchal (yes I know there’s almost no evidence of this in the show it’s a headcanon), so anytime Barbara gets a little girlbossy or shows her Mama Bear it’s actually a major turn-on for him

• I was enamored with the idea of changelings purring, since they’re too small and impure probably to roar like real trolls do (like how cheetahs aren’t actual members of the panthera genus and they make adorable chirping noises). But I came up with something worse:

• It’s not just changelings that purr, but it is only males, and only under arousal. Originally it evolved as a defense mechanism, as a way of soothing their mates and dissuading them from maiming/devouring them in the heat of the moment

Please. Please help me.

#walter strickler #barbara lake #stricklake #trollhunters #headcanon #trollhunters headcanon #stricklake headcanon #when this man walks onscreen I PHYSICALLY pass away #send help #i also haven’t seen any Arcadia spin-offs #or even the movie that exists apparently?#so I hope I’m not clashing with anything I don’t know there #i know our terrible green man shows up again but that’s the extent of my knowledge #tales of arcadia

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