Hate Wins and Love Loses

"two people are standing in the fog and looking away from a dark landscape"

An adaptation of Sherlock Holmes set in a world in which the fictional character/literary juggernaut Sherlock Holmes, and all the subsequent adaptations thereof, still exist.

Sherlock Holmes (pronounced Holl-mess, as he is constantly reminding people) just had the misfortune of having parents who really liked the books, and his attitude towards his fictional counterpart is pretty much the same as that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock runs a Youtube Theory channel called Mysteries Unwrapped with Sherlock Holmes. He has received no less than seven cease and desist letters from the Conan Doyle estate, all of which he has so faded managed to rebuff by pointing out that that's literally his name.

(No he won't change his name. He's Sherlock Holmes the real live human person. Let Sherlock Holmes the non existent fictional character change his name.)

John is Sherlock's flatmate. Sherlock almost refused to live with him once he realised that it would mean staying with a medical student named John, and only gave in once John pointed out that: a) he's a biomedical student, which is completely different from an md, and b) his surname isn't Watson.

It's now been three years, which is long enough for them to have developed a genuine friendship, and for John to have a) started working towards his PhD in biotechnology, and b) for him to start dating somebody with the surname Watson.

Sherlock can feel the narrative closing in.

His Youtube channel is meant to be focused on lost media, fan theories and stuff like that, but he keeps accidentally stumbling upon and then solving genuine crimes.

His brother Mycroft may or may not have chosen that name after he transitions specifically to annoy him.

He doesn't even live in London, but somehow the only flat they could afford was on a street named fucking Baker Street.

Sherlock Holmes and the Unescapable Power of the Narrative.

One of the funny things about LotR is that almost every people in it professes to disbelieve in the supernatural, but because they live in a fantasy world their baseline for "natural" is so jacked up. The Rohirrim are like, yeah, there's a wizard in this tower and ancient tradition that we have no reason to doubt says this mountain is full of ghosts, but walking trees? Short people? I don't think so. Galadriel is like, "Listen I heard you describe what I do as magic and look I just gotta clear some things up, okay." Gondorians are like, yeah, of course the Enemy has spectres of men who lived long ago and never died and can now fly above us and incapacitate us with just their voices. This is just a fact of life, okay? But shut up about this magic weed that makes comatose people better. That's an old wives' tale. Royalty? Press X to doubt.

The people group in Tolkien's work who seem most receptive to magic and least restricted by their own notions of what it can do actually seem to be the hobbits. And they use it to avoid meeting people they don't want to talk to

"an image of some people on the long hallways of a building" "the painting shows women in robes in an old building, with two people standing" "a drawing of a man and woman in a dark hallway"

Raistlin x/and Crysania mini AU where they're just cute lil critters

they're for an animatic i'm working on

yeh i love dragonlance so much is literally the only novels i read :D

i love the new trilogy :) so much drama lol

The Oracle

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there is so much realistic fantasy worldbuilding advice, and not enough advice for the absolute freak guided by thematic mindfuckery. even when you look up worldbuilding for horror, there isn't a lot of discussion on how fantasy and horror can blend, it's just things like incorporating the undead into your world. the only time I understand what I'm about is when I listen to an essay on dark psychology, which is not worldbuilding unless you can visualize a world system built around an abstract concept. Which is entirely doable, but it would rock if we had more discussions on that.

I promise I will stop bringing up fromsoft - but I gotta mention. One thing someone said that stood out to me... In Bloodborne, there are churches upon churches upon churches upon churches in Yarnham that don't make any sense. Why are there so many churches? Why is a town that burned years ago still on fire? Well Yarnham is not a logic world. It's a thematic world. The church suffocates the society, so churches suffocate the visual layout of the world. The town is still burning because we need to visualize the suffering that never resolved. The "logic" side to this is that it's the dream of a god. That's why the world doesn't make sense. But the storyteller is not lazy and handing us this as an explanation. The deeper explanation is that it's an artistic choice, which is a very scarce discussion topic in worldbuilding. Probably because people only think of themes as a story problem but not a design problem. In which case, we need more discussions on how story and design are deeply intertwined.

been reading a lot of haunted/sentient house books in the past couple years, and i've encountered 3 main types of narrative: 1) the house loves you and that's a good thing 2) the house loves you and that's a bad thing and 3) the house hates you and that's a bad thing. this leaves a gap for a potential fourth type of story-- the house hates you and that's a good thing. excited to see if hauntologists delve into this quadrant and what it looks like if they do

took these pics like 2? months and then totally forgot to post them here! anyway Harrow currently features 122 hand sculpted bones (86 of which are in the rosary!), not counting the spares I made or the 336 resin teeth I bought & drilled for her bracelets and waist chain.

my central requirement for this cosplay is basically that every bone (except the face/ear jewlery) HAS to be made as close as possible in size and shape to an anatomically accurate human bone, because I am nothing of not committed to the inherent wonder of human anatomy. this means: no bone tits, no sizing bones up or down as convenient for aesthetics, no animal bones. I think it turned out great and I'm soooooo excited to make EVEN MORE bones for when I wear her next >:3

rigcage progress is documented on tumblr here, and under the cut are some extra ramblings & detail photos of her rosary & stole!

"a painting of a red bird in front of a tree" "a dark monk with a cross on it stands in front of a bright circle of orange sunlight"

Princess Bonabella, one of my ttrpg characters. She was asleep for 100 years after fleeing into the dangerous infinite section of her school's library, only recently awakening and finding her way out again, with some help.

From one of my campaigns, Melisalia, the elven goddess of bees, honey, mead, amber, and dryads.

My ai art blog. I use it a lot for my ttrpgs.

Robot disabilities. Robot who charges slowly and loses power incredibly fast and is always tired. Robot with malfunctioning lenses and can’t process visual information properly. Robot that can’t process anything too large and at a fast rate or else they’ll shut down. Robot with limbs screwed on too loose/just can’t attach correctly, so if they’re not careful they fall out. Robot disabilities,,,

A friend of mine had this idea, and I’d love to see it in an urban fantasy: magic is real and it stays secret because it looks like bad CGI. The fakest thing ever.

People who witness magic in person can always have their minds clouded, as they have been for most of human history, but all this newfangled technology has to be handled a different way. A video camera records exactly what it sees.

So, what it sees is … something that looks laughably fake. For any time period. The various secret magicians of the world make a point to keep their spells up to date with the current mundane trends — some of them even have running contests for who can make the most fake-looking spell.

I imagine they have a great time doing it. I sure would.

“Fireball and explosion spells that look like really really shitty pixelated jpeg effects layered over the actual footage but all the damage from the spells is accurate” is classic but the maniac who has summon rabid duck and it looks like “just a stockphoto of a duck spinning in to smack an opponent before spiraling out of view and the opponent is in the family guy death pose” is a genius.

my sibling with a non-specified relation to gender in christ change your fucking url this is absolutely ESSENTIAL commentary

something something a follower who is more devout than their god. a fervent acolyte and a doubtful divine. the obsessive devotion of one who has become a sword for someone who cannot stomach the thought of wielding them. misplaced worship that refuses to be swayed. a invulnerable deity painfully human in its uneasy hesitancy, a fragile mortal made alien by its unquestioning conviction. attack dog and owner with a tight grip on the leash. and make it as fucked up and gay as possible.