#fictional peril | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

quotidianish · 4 months

Text

New and updated reference sheet I’ll probably just redraw again a few months later. For the old one and more of this nonsense here’s the previous compilation of my human au!

93 notes · View notes

gameraboy2 · 7 months

Text

Commando Cody (1953). Chapter 2 - "The Atomic Peril"

#commando cody #the atomic peril #vintage #film #movie #poster #movie poster #poster art #1953 #1950s #scifi #scifi art #science fiction #science fiction art #art #illustration #painting

84 notes · View notes

uhbasicallyjustmilex · 6 months

Text

so i have somehow unknowingly managed to hook my fandom veteran coworker into four walls (despite the fact that last week she hadn't even heard of alex turner), and the first thing she said when she walked into the office this morning was “what the FUCK? can't you just let miles be happy?” which now means that the entire rest of the office think i've screwed over some poor guy called miles and have been subtly trying to ask me about it all day

#i can't really explain to them that actually it's a fictional version of alex turner they need to go and question instead of me 😭#but yeah #this was a thing that happened to me today lol #the joys and perils of having coworkers who are also part of fandom life #i fear it's only a matter of time before she winds up on tlsp tumblr #she's falling HARD #at lunch she literally sidled over to my desk and asked me if a photo of alex and miles was photoshopped #(it wasn't of course)#milex #tlsp #lulu posts #four walls

60 notes · View notes

thekenobee · 2 months

Text

Calling myself out

#Sharpe #Sharpe’s peril #Sean bean #HIS WHOLE FILMOGRAPHY #Richard Sharpe #whump #whumpedit #fandom #fictional characters #obi wan kenobi #tag your blorbos #(that you love to see suffering)#endeavour morse #cullen bohannon #boromir #suffer Boromir NOT DIE #Jack Aubrey #MAUHAHAHAHAH YES

27 notes · View notes

gurumog · 1 year

Photo

The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak (1984) aka Gwendoline Parafrance Films Dir. Just Jaeckin

Tawny Kitaen as Gwendoline

#perils of gwendoline in the land of the yik-yak #gwendoline #yik-yak #tawny kitaen #1980s science fiction #1980s fantasy

328 notes · View notes

monstrousproductions · 11 months

Text

🎉🤩 Episode One Hundred is now live! One Hundred!!! ONE HUNDRED!!! 🥳😲

[Image: The Monstrous Agonies logo, teal against a black background. The logo is a complex puzzle cube with M on one face and A on another in a gothic font. End description.]

This week, a listener confused by new emotions; and pushing back against unreasonable expectations…

Listen on our website, on iTunes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Full transcript available online.

This episode's first letter was submitted by Skeletonhouseplant and this week's advert came from an anonymous submission. Thanks, friends! 🥰

This week's second letter was written by the effervescent Naomi Clarke, writer of The Secret of St Kilda (hi, @thekilda!) who you are SURELY listening to already, right??

Naomi is also a prolific TTRPG player and Big Nerd, and can be found playing a Cockney wizard on actual-play podcast Realms of Peril and Glory, @RealmsPod on Twitter.

Hello and welcome to our latest supporters on Patreon, Gwethulu and Space Modulator, two names that absolutely had me cracking up when I read them 😅

See if you can top them with your own witty nicknames by signing up at Patreon! You can also donate to the 100th Episode Celebratory Sushi I'm going to buy tonight with a one-off payment at www.ko-fi.com/hrowen 🥰

100 episodes is a crazy wicked milestone and I'm so surprised and thrilled to be here, thank you all so much for your support 💖😍 By all means, take a moment to freak out to the person closest to you (emotionally or physically) about how much you love the show, and help spread the word 😎

#monstrous agonies #new episode #podcast recommendations #queer fiction #horror podcast #advice podcast #queer creator #lgbt #writblr #short fiction #urban fantasy #dark academia #liminal #wtnv #tma #the secret of st kilda #realms of peril and glory

85 notes · View notes

chernobog13 · 2 months

Text

Captain Future (vol. 4) #3 (Fall, 1942).

This issue featured Planets In Peril, a full-length Captain Future novel, written by Edmond Hamilton.

Although he wrote all but three of the original Captain Future stories, Hamilton was NOT the good Captain's creator as some sources incorrectly state. The character was actually created by Leo Margulies and future Superman editor Mort Weisinger.

#Captain Future #Man of Tomorrow #Planets In Peril #Edmond Hamilton #pulp magazines #science fiction

13 notes · View notes

ladyinbooks · 23 days

Note

Have you read Mary Renault's Alexander series/if you have, do you have thoughts? I've only read the persian boy so far and just started Fire from heaven but I've always heard amazing things about how she wrote them

Hello lovely anon!

I'm going to start off with an apology in advance, because whoops! You've asked me something that's set off my inner ramblings quite happily here (in a good way). So I'm going to roll up my sleeves behind the 'read more' and get overexcited about this.

But just in case, the tl;dr is: yes, I have. And yes, I love the series (with a few caveats):

Let's start when young!Lady was a small, wide-eyed thing, all of 17, who had just lied on her Oxford application form, and said she'd read Arrian's Campaigns of Alexander. Then she got called for interview and thought 'Oh shit, I'd better actually read it'. So she did. And she loved it. And she kind of... ended up developing a little obsession with this bloke called Alexander.

Now, around the same time as this deceit was taking place, Robin Lane Fox's biography on Alexander was fairly accessible in most book stores. Possibly because it's really quite a readable biography, and thus had become quite popular. And so young!Lady snaffled that too, and read it. And Lane Fox's name kept coming up in conjunction with Mary Renault's (perhaps because - personally speaking - I think they have a fairly similar approach in their views on Alexander), and so young!Lady thought 'Hey! Let's read those books too!'

All of which, is a very long-winded way of saying: I read them, and I loved them at the time. (To be fair, I still love them. Hephaistion my beloved.) Renault's style of writing is gorgeous. I know for some people it can be off-putting, and a little difficult to parse (she's not what I call a 'light read' in that sense), but I genuinely love the way she constructs her prose.

She was also, I think, one of the first fictional writers to actively and openly tackle an explicit romantic relationship between Alexander and Hephaistion (most prominent in Fire from Heaven, but it's definitely still there in The Persian Boy), and although Hephaistion-as-a-concept had been kicking around before then, I think Renault made the relationship (and Hephaistion) more... mainstream, if I can put it like that?

Renault's historical research is also good. She does give a really interesting flavour of what it must have felt like to live in a Macedonian court, filled with intrigue and the kind of political machinations that resulted in heads rolling. She captures that dangerous, desperate element very well, and she makes Macedonian life accessible to a reader in a way I very much enjoy.

I think as I've got older, where my love for Renault's version has become a little tarnished is in my own inability to put aside my mental nitpickings (and this is no fault of Renault's writing!). Her Alexander trilogy writes about Alexander-the-Legend, not Alexander-the-Man. For me, there is very little balance to be had from her, and although this was a stylistic choice, I do find myself missing the nuance of an Alexander who is not, well, pretty much a perfect example of a living god. He's almost Achillean in the way Renault portrays him - far beyond us brief mortals! - and in some ways that makes his fictional character feel more inaccessible to me. Her Alexander is untouchable. Unknowable. Godlike in his abilities and driven by ambitions far beyond anything a non-heroic mortal can comprehend.

I also feel that Renault's portrayal (understandably) is a bit wrapped up in W.W. Tarn's vision of Alexander as some kind of benevolent conqueror (he wasn't), whose life's exploits were geared towards the betterment of mankind (they weren't). I need to add: this isn't a criticism of Renault! Tarn's scholarship and ideology was very prevalent for quite a while (see: Robin Lane Fox, who sort of subscribed to a viewpoint of Alexander along vaguely similar lines, I think).

My other gentle nitpick, is that very often Renault's women are stereotypes. Or caricatures. Olympias comes across as a vengeful harpy (interestingly, I think there is a lot or Renault's Olympias in Oliver Stone's film version). Again, I think it's fair to defend Renault with the fact that she's working with historical sources that can have the same biases - but even so, for me it's not particularly satisfying.

In the same vein...

Hephiastion my beloved. He does suffer from this too, I think. He's very much in the style of an 'Alexander-can-do-no-wrong' kind of character, and although that does fit the narrative purpose, it simultaneously makes me a little sad that we don't particularly get to see an active, competent Hephaistion in the way I personally feel he likely was. He's not completely reduced to the role of 'the boyfriend', but he is completely defined by Alexander - his behaviour, his impulses, his career are all attributed more to being 'philalexandros', than to any genuinely displayed individualistic motives. Again, it's not a bad thing, but for my Hephaistion-loving gremlin heart it can be dissatisfying if I don't turn off that portion of my brain a bit.

All of which is my very rambling way of saying: yes, I've read Renault's Alexandriad, and yes I genuinely do love those books - for what they represent, for what they do and just for the sheer joy of reading them. But I do have some slight quibbles. None of which are enough to put me off of them, only to say that I think as a reader I have to temper my expectations and meet the books where they are (for what they are). They are beautifully written, and I do think they do something rather unique for the Alexander mythos.

One other book I'd recommend - purely for the sheer delight of it - is Aubrey Menen's A Conspiracy of Women. Written around the same time, it's very different and deals primarily with a moment in time during Alexander's campaigns. It is a satire (not particularly historically motivated), and it pokes fun at quite literally everyone. Whilst not at all romantic in (either sense of the word) the way Renault's writing is, I do love the fact it takes aim at Alexander, and the Alexander mythos (along with a more generally satirical approach to the concept of empire building).

I also love Menen's Hephaistion, who is possibly the driest, wittiest takes-no-nonsense-from Alexander character:

Few men could face an angry Alexander and remain in control of themselves. But one of these was Hephaestion. He glanced at his friend the King, smiled and then said, "Alexander, if you continue to glare that way, the poor man will die of fright. Bathyllus," he said, "for the moment only His Majesty may wear Persian robes. Maybe one day we shall all do so. But His Majesty has not yet made up his mind on the subject."

This being the exact truth, it made Alexander angrier than ever, as Hephaestion knew it would, but with him and not with the unfortunate Bathyllus. Alexander turned his back on Hephaestion. "See that he is brought to my tent," he said, and strode away.

"See that you bring yourself to His Majesty's tent," said Hephaestion to Bathyllus. "I am in no mood for his imperial tantrums this evening..." (pg.19)

Or:

"Hephaestion," he said, "am I really as vain as you say?"

"Did I say you were vain?"

"You said I was in love with myself. Just now. When I boxed your ears."

"Ah," said Hephaestion. "Yes. You are."

"You must tell me when I get vain."

"I do," said Hephaestion.

"Yes, you do," said Alexander. "And I am grateful."

"You are usually remarkably cross," said Hephaestion. "But I shall go on telling you."

"It's strange," said Alexander. "We have conquered a world together, but our friendship is as strong as ever."

Hephaestion made no answer.

"You must find me very hard to bear sometimes, Hephaestion."

"Sometimes," agreed Hephaestion.

"When?" asked Alexander.

"When, for instance, you say things like 'We have conquered a world together, but our friendship is as strong as ever'." Hephaestion echoed exactly the touch of pomposity that Alexander had put into his voice.

Alexander smiled. He reached out and put a hand on Hephaestion's shoulder as they rode together." (pg. 101)

Hephaistion my beloved.

#lady replies #perils of a classicist in modern life #sometimes Lady is a Classicist #this reply could be ten times longer #I have a lot to say about Alexander in fiction #and it shows #alas I do not have the time to do a deep dive into all the things I'd love to reflect on at the moment

10 notes · View notes

zeytsbs · 6 months

Text

Bana biraz boşvermeyi öğretir misin Ankara?

21 notes · View notes

hpowellsmith · 2 years

Text

NOBLESSE OBLIGE is due to launch August 25 - wishlist on Steam!

Spark romance amid secrets in a crumbling mansion! What will you sacrifice for love? Can you trust your own heart?

Noblesse Oblige: a Crème de la Crème Adventure is a 137,000-word interactive Gothic romance novella, a standalone story in the Crème de la Crème universe.

On a windswept island, far from the mild shores of Westerlin, stands the estate that is your new home. You have been hired to work as a conversation partner for a lonely aristocrat. It is a profitable opportunity, and your impoverished upbringing and middling university education leave you few others.

But secrets lurk in every darkened corridor, and nothing is what it seems. Why does your young charge go wandering in the middle of the night, haunted and mourning? What is in the letters that the charming new secretary constantly writes? Why is your employer so intent on keeping outsiders from prying into the family’s business?

Attend grand balls, ride through fast-paced fox hunts, spend jovial evenings with the servants, teach diligent lessons to your charge, and observe - or take part in - this northern land’s religious rituals. Meanwhile, there are webs of deceit for you to unravel, and deep mysteries to explore. When you reach the end, will you bring justice to those who deserve it, or keep their secrets buried forever?

And, of course, there is love: midnight trysts, stolen moments, and sweet warmth amid the cold. Your job on this remote island has just begun: will you work hard for a secure future or abandon everything to follow your heart?

#noblesse oblige #choice of games #interactive fiction #romance games #amare games #here it is!!!#I'm THRILLED that it'll be out soon!#now everyone will get to hang out with my messy ROs #will one or more of them go feral? yes #will you fix them or will you make them worse? yes #will there be intense peril? yes #does someone scream at you while covered in tears and blood? on some branches yes #can you brush fingertips lightly in a drawing room to avoid people watching? yes #is there snuggly knitwear and high necked collars? yes #I'm very excited can you tell?

351 notes · View notes

shaydraplays · 7 months

Text

I'm reading Wings of Fire book 8, Escaping Peril, and describing it to my partner made me realize Peril is basically Vriska if she was a dragon and could kill others by touching them (my partner read Homestuck but not WoF). Thoughts?

#shayreadsWoF #wings of fire #homestuck #vriscourse #i like peril! i support women's rights and women's wrongs #mommy issues? killing on command of her adopted mother? being insanely obsessed with 1 guy? c'mon #maybe it's her thought patterns that also make me think this way #not me reading years-old YA fiction about dragons at the tender age of 25+#wof #wof peril

23 notes · View notes

gameraboy2 · 1 year

Text

Operation Peril #5 (1951), cover by Ogden Whitney

#operation peril #ogden whitney #vintage #1951 #1950s #comics #comic book #comic book art #comic books #art #illustration #scifi #scifi art #science fiction #science fiction art

87 notes · View notes

maddyisabstract · 10 months

Text

Hello!

I'm Maddy! My pronouns are they/them. I'm a sound designer and TTRPG performer with a ridiculous number of podcast credits in various roles, both fiction and non-fiction.

You can find out all about the things I do at my Linktree, but here are some highlights.

I'm a cast member over at the actual play podcast Realms of Peril and Glory (@realmspod) where I am a player and GM across a bunch of incredible campaigns and one-shots!

As a freelancer I made/make a few podcasts under the name Snazzy Tapir Productions, including the actual play podcast A Game of One's Own, the Doctor Who podcast The Empty Children, and the audio drama The Prickwillow Papers. You can find out about my past podcast projects at my podcast studio website, snazzytapir.com.

You can often find me on TTRPG actual play streams like GirlsRunTheseWorlds and ActualPlayUK.

I'm also an occasional game designer, and you can find my TTRPGs Vampire Cowboys and I'm Not Lion over at my itch.io.

#sound designer #ttrpg #ttrpgs #podcast #audio fiction #actual play #realms of peril and glory #a game of one's own #snazzy tapir productions #vampire cowboys #i'm not lion #game designer

49 notes · View notes

whimsicalmeerkat · 7 months

Text

Fic Master List

All the cool kids have these, so I figured I'd make one as well. Splitting them up by fandom since I have a bajillion fandoms and fics. List updated as of 2/24/2024. Some of the links go straight to my works on AO3 and some go to a post I've made here on tumblr. It's a work in progress.

Drabbles | 3 Sentence Ficathon

Teen Wolf: Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale/Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Chris Argent/Derek Hale, Derek Hale/Peter Hale, Derek Hale/Laura Hale

Men’s Hockey RPF: all archive locked, click the link to see pairings etc.

Black Jewels - Anne Bishop: Daemon Sadi/Lucivar Yaslana

Original Work: various m/m and m/m/m pairings

The Hollows - Kim Harrison: Trent Kalamack/Rachel Morgan, Jenks/Matalina

Spider-Man/Deadpool

The Witcher: Emhyr var Emreis/Geralt of Rivia, Geralt of Rivia/Jaskier | Dandelion

Psy-Changeling - Nalini Singh: Aden Kai/Vasic Zen, Kaleb Krychek/Judd Lauren, Lucas Hunter/Hawke Snow, Judd Lauren/Walker Lauren

Stargate Atlantis: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard

The Authority: Apollo/Midnighter, Apollo/Midnighter & Jenny Quantum

Perilous Courts - Tavia Lark: Julien Sandry/Whisper, Bellamy Sandry/Rakos Tem, Daromir Azri/Vana Dire, Vana Dire & Bellamy Sandry, Corin Marcel/Audric Sandry

Radiance Series - Tavia Lark: Evain Marha/Leth ka Tariel, Karis Cooper/Ronan Vizia, Arthur Davorn/Shaesarenna Nightven

Demonic Disasters and Afterlife Adventures - Shannon Mae: Adam/Minos

Chosen One Universe - Macy Blake: Victor Eastaughffe/Orsen Riggs, Victor Eastaughffe/Orsen Riggs & Gus, Bentley "Bebe" Baxter & Eduard Eastaughffe, Jedrek/Nick Smith

The Epic of Gilgamesh: Enkidu/Gilgamesh

Last Binding Series - Freya Marske: Robin Blyth/Edwin Courcey

Marvel Cinematic Universe: Loki/Thor