When I think of musical genres associated with standard fantasy species, it's probably elf rock and orc metal, but gnome music is definitely gnomecore. Gnomes just feel like they'd be about -core.

Izuku 🤝 Ochako

Thinking their creepy af, crazy af, blood thirsty blonde counterpart is the cutest things in the whole world

I genuinely cannot describe how deeply DEVASTATED I am about riz being the only one who can take stress tokens for the others. Yes fig is a protector and will fight endlessly for her friends and I love that about her but there is something about the way riz loves his friends. It’s a more subtle kind of love, but just as relentless and passionate and he will take any burden for the people he cares about and bear the weight of it on his shoulders so they don’t have to deal with it without any hesitation. I am ILL.

gerrymicheal labyrinth au

i’m right and i should say it, but also how has no one done this before me?

obviously gerry would be sarah, and michael would be jareth (they’re both blonde trickster characters who live in and have some level of control over an ever changing maze. please tell me someone else sees my Vision™️)

outside of just that i feel like you could take it a couple different ways:

just a straight up au, no fears or anything just micheal the goblin king and gerry the fantasy loving goth. literally just the plot of labyrinth but dropping these two into sarah and jareth’s places.

more of a fusion, the fears do exist but the labyrinth is either a part of the spiral or just flat out Is the spiral in this universe. bonus points for having gerry learn about the labyrinth and it’s monstrous king from either meeting/reading a statement from sarah herself about a certain red leather bound spiral leitner

is purely self indulgent crack, they watch the movie together and gerry mentions how hot he thinks david bowie is. micheal hears that and spiral logic says “hm, kidnapping and threats in a nearly impossible maze huh? i can do that!”

hes too short to swim in there...

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Straight to the heart Light me up before I'm done Straight to the heart Hear the thunder roar

I looked up randomly and she was just STARING at me like this.

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Alright, deeply circumstantial conspiracy theory time.

Remember how we never fucking figured out Vence Nuthaleus's deal? Ludinus's annex, who supposedly was working outside of Ludinus's knowledge or orders?

The Nein found two Abyssal Anchors in Xhorhas while chasing the Angel of Irons cultists, ostensibly to cause chaos and distraction during the war. These anchors were created by Vence based on tech used by demon generals during the Calamity to invade the Material Realm with more ease, and Vence created crude approximations of them, that Obann then deployed in Asarius and Braan.

(If only Caleb hadn't incinerated that goblin in Braan. We could've cracked this case wide open years ago.)

under a cut, as this is long—and does contain spoilers for c2:

The last anchor the Nein come across directly is in the Chantry of the Dawn; Jester scries on Vence delivering it to Cardinal Respa, along with two scrolls that are supposedly from the vaults of Vasselheim that provide guidance for establishing a ritual in the Chantry, upon a fane that was one of six holding Tharizdun at bay. Respa notices the scrying, and ends it, and the Nein immediately head to the Cathedral, though Vence has already left, and the anchor is set up as a distraction, while the main ritual happens elsewhere.

This is primarily notable because the timeline is fairly compressed. Jester scries on Vence while they're already in Rexxentrum; they go to the Chantry and fight assorted cultists under Respa's watch, the demons coming out of the portal, Obann's crew of cultists, and then Obann the Punished. They exit the basement fairly quickly and talk to several officials who have arrived at the Chantry, and then are immediately marched to Dwendal's throne room for an audience.

This is the conversation in which Ludinus admits that Vence had "recently" asked for an Amulet of Nondetection, and he granted the request. Given that Vence hadn't been attuned to it prior to going to the Chantry, he evidently takes the time to attune to it within the two hours (accounting for travel times around Rexxentrum) between those periods.

Here's where we start to get circumstantial: if Vence had obtained the amulet before, why hadn't he attuned to it immediately? It's possible he hadn't even gotten the amulet until then, at which point there was already a Kryn attack underway, as well as a significant disturbance at the Chantry of the Dawn. This seems an odd time to request such an item, as well as a rather foolish move on Ludinus's part to grant the request with little information.

With that in mind, let's go back for a moment to the Abyssal Anchors.

They're said to be crudely-reconstructed versions of Calamity-era technology. They create a planar rift between realms. They were not designed to assist in the ritual to summon Tharizdun, and instead seem only to have been a distraction—though a rather odd one, as they created minor nuisances that were, in both cases, dealt with by the Nein, and never on the direct orders of the Dynasty's leadership. The war itself seems as though it would've been distraction enough.

We also hear that there have been similar anchors discovered across the Empire, collected, and destroyed—words that come only from Ludinus's mouth.

The Nein had considered that perhaps Ludinus knew what Vence had been up to, but they had no tangible evidence of that, and he of course denied it. I recall considering the possibility at the time that he had even been involved, and mostly discarding it because he seemed to have no motivation to do so.

But now we know that something notable happened about six years ago, in the timeframe of the Material Plane: according to the Calloways, Ruidus became visible in the sky in the Feywild, and presumably with it, the Shadowfell.

We know that at the time, Ludinus was using the findings from his stolen beacons to create the dunamantic liquid that was used to make an assassination attempt on Keyleth. We also know that at some point, an annex of Ludinus obtained scrolls from the vaults of Vasselheim that gave instruction on creating a ritual to "release the fane" beneath the Chantry. (Fanes are, generally, places of power—which is similar to the list of locations across the Feywild that Ludinus looked into in order to absorb power from, per the notes that Team Wildemount discovered in Gildhollow Tower.) Incidentally, we also know that Ludinus oversaw, in 835 PD, the excavation of crash site A2 in Eiselcross, which held both the corrupted forest akin to the Savalirwood, and a threshold crest just beyond that. All of this happened roughly around or just before Ruidus was tethered to the Feywild.

Though we may never know for sure that these things are related, my theory is that these crude iterations of the Abyssal Anchors were the test run for whatever arcane device that Ludinus used to tether the moon in the echo planes, finally allowing him the ability to put his long-considered plan into motion.

just can't stop thinking about how different grizzop's choice could have been if the cult hadn't taken vesseek but instead took one of the clutch

because grizzop swore an oath to his god and he knows his partner can handle themself, but he made an oath to the clutch when he adopted them, and they're just children, and he's meant to be their father!

and azu and hamid come racing down the stairs and grizzop is shoving adamantine into moving parts of the factory, and he's got to keep moving because there's a job to do there's a task to finish-

-and azu comes up to him, giant hand on his small shoulder. "they have our family. they have a baby goblin. grizzop, are you a father?"

and it hits so hard because he was expecting them to take vesseek! anyone who knows grizzop knows vesseek is the most important person to him, hardly anyone even knows about their clutch! but azu's eyes are round and her hand is trembling, only slightly, and he knows he underestimated them.

"who?" he asks before he can stop himself, but azu didn't know about the clutch, let alone who each of them are. there's one of his children, kidnapped and scared, and he doesn't even know which one.

grizzop made a promise to artemis that he'd finish this hunt and save as many people as possible- and the stake right now is most of the entire world. but he made a promise, too, to six orphaned goblins without a chance in the world, and it's because of him and that promise that one of them has been taken and used against him.

he's gonna have to break one of those promises

how much do we wanna bet that Kipperlilly was at the Ashgrove Cemetery mourning a parent when she found the rogue teacher?

Rubius: It's impossible - it's LITERALLY impossible, IT'S. LITERALLY. IMPOSSIBLE - no, no! You cheated, you cheater!!!

A year ago today, Karmaland 5 was announced. I'm feeling really nostalgic about a lot of things, but I'm really missing the dynamic between Rubius and Titi. For folks who aren't familiar with Karmaland, Titi like the equivalent of the Eggs on QSMP (possibly even an inspiration for them!)

Titi and Rubius were very close, and they often had fun competitions and races like this. This clip is a good representation of their personalities, and it also shows that they're both absolute bastards LMAO

Since episode 7 is out in a few hours and I won't have the time to do any more, here's a doodle dump for ACOFAF episode 6 ✨✨

(Transcript and image description under Read More !)

[Pic. 1 : A pencil bust sketch of Rue, chin in hand, with a thought bubble reading "I love him". Rue is an owlbear wearing a dress with puffy sleeves and peonies on their head.

Pic. 2 : A pencil sketch of a comic in three panels. The first panel is a portrait of Binx with a wide smile and shining eyes, and a speech bubble reading "You're really cool. Just like, really cool. Do you know how cool you are ?". The second panel is a portrait of Hob with a tense expression and teary eyes, with a speech bubble reading "...". The third panel is Binx and Hob from a distance ; Binx with a frustrated pose and a speech bubble reading "Just read the letter !" in all caps ; and Hob snapping in a straighter standing position with the onomatopoeia "Clap". Binx is a fey with very short hair, long pointed ears and moth wings, wearing a floor-length dress. Hob is a bugbear wearing a military coat and hat.

Pic. 3 : A pencil sketch of a comic in two panels. The first panel is a bust of Binx with crossed arms and a smug expression, with a speech bubble reading "I don't know, you playing mind games with me ?". The second panel is a bust of Scorple glaring down at his hands, with a speech bubble reading "Shit, I think I'm in love". Scorple is a small goblin with large bat ears.

Pic. 4 : A pencil full-body sketch of Scorple pulling a hat down on his head, with a speech bubble reading "I can appreciate a fine bucket hat—".

Pic. 5 : A pencil full-body sketch of Scorple sitting in a party favour bag, with a speech bubble reading "Hey boss you look dope—", with "dope" in all caps. Another speech bubble reads "Scorple, at ease—".]

Hi, I hope you're doing well today!

I don't know if my question may be a little bizarre, but we read Twyla Tharp's Creative Habit in my art class recently, and she talks about the concept of a box where you keep all of your brainstorming and research and such for an idea or project (for her, a literal cardboard box), and I started wondering how other creatives do this, or even if they do it. I myself keep memos on my phone and tabs of online research (though I recently learned how vulnerable that can be when I dropped my phone in the ocean...)

So anyway, I guess my question is: do you have a box or method for keeping track of research etc for each idea? If so, what is it?

I usually just figure if it's a good idea I'll remember it, but on ELEMENTARY I started jotting down ideas on 3x5 cards to help me keep track of all the little mystery bits that we'd use to build stories.

So for example, I had cards that read: FORGED MUMMY, KHOPESH, HEMA, URBAN SPELUNKING and MASTER FORGER and eventually all those cards came together to become "The Adventure of the Ersatz Sobekneferu."

I also did this for my novels, jotting down scene ideas on cards and then, when it was time, putting them all in order to make an outline.

They're elves of the shadowfell, normal human height. They specialize in teleportation and invisibility, with the casters among them throwing in confusion and fear and illusion. Be careful though, as any trained in combat start making non-elves slower and worse while within 10 feet. From depression, from the sound of it. Their angst about being more ancient and timeless than you wordlessly attaches to you like a parasite, slowing you down. Good for if you enjoy concepts like-

Shadows, but like DARKER than shadow, that lash out when they're moody

looking beautiful unless in shadow, in which case they're corpselike

ignoring pointless things like "comfort" and "morals" and "rules"

being the chosen of the Raven Queen, and on her behalf collecting dark tragedy, sorrow, and feelings of loss.

being corpse pale with jet black hair, pure black eyes, and covered with tattoos/piercings/anything that would make a generic white suburban mom in the 50's scream in terror.

Lumping them all together because they're all the same outside one having mage hand and such. Idc what weapon they're holding.