so much love for characters who are desperately unsure whether they’re a good person, a redeemable person, a person worth saving, but are absolutely certain that they’re a grade a hottie
when a ship involves one character being so utterly devoted to the other that its borderline religious????? when the devoted character is written to be seen as a sinner, or damned, or a non believer??? and the other character an angel or god-like???? i simply eat that shit UP how can you not??
Extremely nitpicky but I hate white wedding gowns in fantasy, especially when they make absolutely no sense in the setting. No, that culture in the far north that prioritizes function over form and mostly wears heavy furs would not have the means, ability, or desire to make a sleeveless ivory silk gown with a semi-sweetheart neckline. Please be sensible about this and use your creativity instead of just slapping a Kleinfeld wedding gown into a medieval fantasy setting.
Here’s some tricks to making interesting fantasy wedding dresses:
Focus on the things that indicate wealth and prosperity in your fantasy culture.
What materials would your bride have access to and what would make the most sense for her to wear?
What colors are not only beautiful and culturally significant, but also require expensive or rare dyes?
What imagery could be used in patterns that are relevant to the culture (animals, plants, family crests, etc)?
What skills could be displayed in the making of the gown (beadwork, embroidery, fabric painting, etc)?
What interesting and unique materials can you add that are relevant to the culture (fur, leather, bones, plants, shells, etc)?
Would your culture be more focused on the amount of material, things like trains and heavy lairs, or on the quality and detail?
What will happen to the gown after the wedding (worn for other events, turned into household materials, turned into other clothing, etc) and are there details to it that make any other functions easier?
What other things make the bride stand out (veils, headdresses, jewelry, makeup, body paint, hairstyles, outerwear, etc)?
Is it more important in your culture for the gown to be made by other people (showing off wealth) or by the bride and/or her family (showing off the bride’s talents)?
For a quick example:
If your wedding ceremony requires the bride to walk through a cold and snowy forest for cultural or religious rites, she would freeze her poor tits off in a sleeveless silk gown. Instead, consider a heavy wool gown in rich colors with elaborate embroidery and a thick cloak, maybe hooded, made of fine furs to show off her family’s wealth. Jewelry, headpieces, and detailing on the gown could be made with things carved from stones, wood, antlers, and/or bones, especially if it’s a culture that prizes hunting skills. Maybe a heavy veil that isn’t just beautiful but also helps protect her face from biting winds during the journey.
Also!!! Sick of seeing white wedding gowns in (European) historical fiction before the 1800s White became popular because Victoria wore it at her wedding… that’s it. It then slowly gained traction over the course of the 1800s. Blue was a popular choice, but I have also seen red and silver. White was of course present, but by no means the most common.
discord as a filehost will no longer be possible by the end of the year
EDIT: AS IN LINKING TO STUFF ISN’T GOING TO WORK. YOU CAN’T USE IT TO PERMANENTLY EMBED IMAGES IN AO3 OR TOYHOUSE OR WHAT HAVE YOU. THE LINKS THEMSELVES WILL EXPIRE AFTER 24 HOURS, BUT YOUR FILES AREN’T GOING TO BE DELETED FROM YOUR SERVERS
if you haven’t noticed, copying a link for a file now appends special parameters to the end. these are a request signature, which indicates a specific request for that file. this request will expires after a few hours, so files will no longer be permanently available through a specific url.
while they are not currently necessary to view the file, they will be by the end of the year, assuming nothing changes.
please check that any websites you rely on are not hosting files through cdn.discordapp.com, and if they are, please archive those files through the IA using web.archive.org/save
thank you for your time
The fact that people have been using Discord of all things to host their images is just so wild to me, especially when stuff like OP mentioned is inevitable.
if this post reaches 100k notes by Halloween I will read Homestuck
Everyone step on it quick GO GO GO
Ok so, doing math we have a bit over 91 days to get 100k notes. This can be accomplished through a little under 1010 notes per day, or 45.8 notes per hour. given that one single person can spam 40 comments in 5 minutes (as i just did), this goal is easily doable.
we have 89 days, and need 93,488 notes. we need 1051~ notes per day. step on it.
old sparkledogs and cat ocs in the files of old computers. wings extended forever in flight, tears frozen on their face from an event in a backstory long forgotten
the drawings made of others characters, in folders on a forgotten friend’s computer, forever visiting, immortalized in drawings of silly inside jokes and gift-giving between amateurly-drawn colorful animals
a colorful cast, lined up in a row in a half-finished microsoft paint bitmap–smiling faces filled only most-of-the-way with the fill bucket tool. the comic text says “happy birthday!!!” the drawing was never finished, the gift was never sent. its they’ve been their birthday for 13 years in their eyes and they’ve never stopped smiling
colors paint-bucket-filled into downloaded free bases–folders of which still sit unused, waiting to spark new ideas, in a long-forgotten folder. most of them the well-known default colors until their artist realized how to use the custom color button
forever in a looping animation, only a third of the way finished–the artist wanted to animate like they saw online, those four frames probably took them weeks of frustration before the project was dropped–but their character is still running, for the rest of time, at 3 frames per second
if this post reaches 100k notes by Halloween I will read Homestuck
Everyone step on it quick GO GO GO
Ok so, doing math we have a bit over 91 days to get 100k notes. This can be accomplished through a little under 1010 notes per day, or 45.8 notes per hour. given that one single person can spam 40 comments in 5 minutes (as i just did), this goal is easily doable.
we have 89 days, and need 93,488 notes. we need 1051~ notes per day. step on it.
ancestor naming convention is so hair-pullingly hard for me because it feels like that you literally can’t just use any eight letter word it has to have connection connotation sometimes you have to just make shit up to fit the criteria.
but then theres the summoner who summons animals and youre like damn he sure does.
I adore this recent trend (if that’s the right word) of letting an orchestra play classical music on a festival. It’s magical to see thousands of festival-goers going absolutely wild on Beethoven. Mosh/circlepits, crowd surfing. It’s wonderful to see the orchestra and the audience having the time of their lives.
They have to keep it on easy going Beethoven like Ode to Joy here to ensure a more docile response. They cant play In the Hall of the Mountain King cause they were already burning down venues when Grieg dropped that one back in 1875, today there would be a radioactive crater.
ur in luck, it’s already confusing people (including me)
Mishi-gama/Mishi-gami. Mishi: great, expansive Gamə: water - the vowels depend largely on which Algonquian dialect it local to the specific place; Ojibwe, Ottawa, Potawatomi, etc. and how it’s being transcribed.
OP, where the FUCK are you getting all of those t’s and n’s?
