No offense but I think some of you would be a lot happier writing a fictional atlas or encyclopedia instead of a narrative story
Concur! Go forth and write your Dragonology and your Guidebook to Fairyland! Write a traveler's diary of a setting! These are fun and legitimate things to do!
I love books that are literally just this!
There’s a lot going on in that little critter’s head right now.
1. Power move.
2. Why do people whisked away to magical worlds just automatically believe the first creature that tells them what side the person needs to help? Where’s my isekai where the MC slowly finds out they got in with like the deranged zealots and are part of the evil faction, and not the plucky rebels?
I think about this comic once per week. It’s funnier then anything I can conceive of. Mastery.
I keep referencing this comic to my mythology clients in the back office and it is directly leading to multiple projects.
This comic is amazing.
Alternative DS9 Season 7:
Instead of Ezri, the new Dax host is male. Worf is conflicted but ultimately still in love.
He has a deep conversation with Martok, who tells him a true warrior doesn't care about gender and the heart loves who it loves. Sisko tells him about how on Earth, people used to consider love between two men to be forbidden, but they had pride and refused to be stopped. Worf realizes Pride is a bit like Honor and Glory and goes off and furiously makes out with Vadel Dax
And here's the thing: this is against Trill rules, because of the taboo against reassociation.
Dax would be an outcast in his society.
And that would be perfect because he's married to Worf, the ultimate outcast! He's been living with human since he was a kid, then got dishonored because of the Duras nonsense, and later KILLED THE CHANCELLOR of the whole Klingon Empire!
That's why it'd work well. It'd be kind of a re-do of Rejoined but this time Dax really does it, because he's got a supportive partner.
Worf failed a mission and got himself captured to save Jadzia before. He blew up the Dominion shipyards to make a pyre big enough to ensure she made it into Klingon heaven!
You think that kind of love is going to be bothered by gender or a societies rules? Especially for Worf, who has always been the first one to go "fuck the rules, I will do what's right, for Honor"?
Worf would be uncertain, he'd spend some time in thought, he'd probably try to resign from Star Fleet (that's just one of his standard fixes to any problem), he'd have some important conversations, then he'd realize Dax being a man now was no obstacle, and he'd never have a problem with it again.
Halloween costume idea: Tam Lin
You start the party dressed as vaguely medieval guy (with maybe elf ears if you wanna be fancy). Then you have costume changes, leaving and coming back dressed as different beasts. The big finish is coming back naked and having someone throw their green cloak over you.
Bonus points for having your partner or friend dressed as Janet and holding you through the "transformations" and being the one to cover you with the green cloak.
Extra bonus points for arriving on a white stick horse toy.
Alternative DS9 Season 7:
Instead of Ezri, the new Dax host is male. Worf is conflicted but ultimately still in love.
He has a deep conversation with Martok, who tells him a true warrior doesn't care about gender and the heart loves who it loves. Sisko tells him about how on Earth, people used to consider love between two men to be forbidden, but they had pride and refused to be stopped. Worf realizes Pride is a bit like Honor and Glory and goes off and furiously makes out with Vadel Dax
This should be a still from a heartwarming but bittersweet ya fantasy/magical realism movie about a kid making friends with a dryad.
One of the best things that ever happened to me was during my trip to Venice 5 years ago. I had bought an all-inclusive ticket for all museums and exhibitions in the Piazza, and I was going through an exhibition of statuettes when I entered the next wing with paintings. The styles seemed somewhat familiar, but I couldn’t work out what was happening. Thankfully this incredible lady working at the exhibition saw that I was a bit confused and approached me to ask if I knew what this exhibition was. I said no, just that it had seemed interesting.
She explained that the reason why I might be confused is that I had entered the exhibition of Wolfgang Beltracchi from the end rather than the beginning. She then took me to the start and started explaining about him and his history. He has art forgeries in every style from medieval paintings to modern art and his forgery is not copying existing paintings but creating “lost paintings” that the artist might have painted or talked about painting but never did. He perfectly matched the artist style, composition, ideas, colours and medium. His materials were historically accurate and experts couldn’t determine that they were fakes.
And his wife Helene Beltracchi was incredible. She helped “backdate” paintings and provide evidence of their age. One of the things that stuck with me the most is this black and white photo, created with an old-time camera and medium and the photo itself was aged so carbon-dating couldn’t discover that it was a modern photo. It was of Helene, with her features slightly altered, dressed in an old-time, era appropriate dress with the painting in the background. can you imagine the level of dedication and the immense attention to detail required to so convincingly fake a photo to provide a reliable history of this painting existing for centuries? She helped him create fake history for a lot of his paintings.
I’ll never forget that exhibition. There were so many paintings, all of them in the styles of different artists, most of them verified by experts as genuine until his mistake with the white paint which prompted a much, much deeper examination by experts. I think the lady mentioned that they could still not forensically confirm that some paintings were fakes, but it’s been a while, I might be misremembering. I was just struck with awe at the sheer knowledge they must have of multitude of painters, not just their styles, but their lives and the way their minds worked. He painted scenes “they might have painted” and when you look at them, you could definitely see it. It hits especially hard when you have more than passing familiarity with the artist, their lives and struggles, their choices of mediums and themes. You can look at this painting and think, this is definitely created by []. It makes so much sense, it has that distinct flair and works incredibly well as a parallel to [], their earlier painting. It was indescribable. Can you imagine the skill required to back that knowledge up? To be able to perfectly mimic the styles of so many artists and be able to so accurately forge paints, brushes and canvas that experts verified them as genuine?
And he had his own original paintings as well. One of them struck a chord with me especially. It was a painting of storage rooms, storing thousands and thousands of paintings that the public doesn’t know of, because they’re the unpopular paintings, the paintings that never get exhibited, the forgotten paintings. I thought it was very poignant.
I love these people. They really did do it because they loved art, they loved playing around with art forensics, and they just had a blast. Seeing his gallery brought be such incredible joy and so many interesting things to think about. 10/10, would definitely recommend
The real reason your sapient dragon character needs a "rider":
you and your dreadful little polycule haven't seen the last of me
I'm sure Nate isn't homophobic - the show makes it pretty clear that all his catholic guilt is directed firmly inwards and we never see even a hint of disapproval over others' personal lives - but he's still an older white guy and definitely defaults to cishet assumptions.
Which makes me desperately want, like, a 5+ type fic of gay flirting for the con where Nate progressively gets his mind blown.
Because Sophie flirting with a woman might throw him for a beat or two, but she's a world class grifter and an actress, of course she can flirt with anyone
And then Parker had to be taught how to flirt in the first place and she's Parker so sure, she's completely faking it either way, she has no internal biases, okay
The first time a man chats up Hardison and the hacker reacts exactly the same way he does when he tries to flirt with women, Nate is so glad Sophie takes over the comms to give flirting advice because it takes him half a minute to recalibrate and edit his expectations
But then Sophie's failing to hook a mark and Elliot steps in without missing a beat, flashing his farm boy smile, and Nate is finally like, "how is it that I'm the only one here who's surprised by any of this?" and the team just shrugs and goes "idk that sounds like a you problem"
The +1 is the only time Nate attempts it and they all agree to never try that again because it was awkward and embarrassing for everyone involved
I would actually love to see this in an episode but with Harry instead of Nate.
Its me, your feral godmother
*waves a wand and grants you the teeth and claws to fuck your evil step family up*
Good luck kid you're in a reverse beauty and beast situation. Do not let that princely motherfucker fall in love with your inner humanity or the spell will fail and you'll turn human again
Good news if you bite his ass you can start a pack together. Go forth. Enjoy the ball
You can bite a princess too if you want. Or a milkmaid, or a butler or whatever. Go nuts. The more the merrier
#misread as feral hogmother
That's my girlfriend, she's rooting for you too
#investing at 70 notes
That is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about a post of mine that wasn't an addition to a post of someone else's XD
#posts that will become Tumblr heritage
I wish. I don't think it's even gonna crack 500 notes
All right mutuals: let's make this one crack 75K before the end of the year. WHO'S WITH ME?
Uou stare in disbelief with space coffee in hand as your new alien friend is currently being detained for smuggling drugs over the zing-bak border, when you go to ask the border officer what drugs was he being accused of smuggling he simple puts a claw to your chest and says “you!”
......suddenly struck by the idea for a piece of worldbuilding of "fae don't like iron bc it is the most stable element*"
*as in elements higher you can extract energy via fission and lower you can extract energy via fusion but iron itself there is no excess binding energy to extract at all
YOU. YOU SEE MY VISION.
I'm so enamoured with this man
