Ziggy wrote a Bird Law! Thank you @chickenthoughts
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oh beautiful planet...oh planet of Creatures...oh planet of Life...
Gets on iNaturalist
Searches for insects
Sorts by faves
Starts crying because life on Earth is so much more wondrous than the mortal human mind has the capacity to hold or imagine
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy swagful symmetry?
there are thousands of bugs this cool and we haven't even found them all...
People mentioned they wanted to see more of these design sketches, so here's the one I made for @boociforme 's Odei! Green is the one color I never use, so it was fun to find a way to make it work with the clothing
(Odei is her malachite earth genasi artificer!)
Human Palmon for Odaiba Day! Sorry Tumblr always resizes my images, please give the image a click.
Thanks for another year of sharing the digi love <3 There's a fic update coming your way tomorrow, too!
Check out human Tentomon here!
a childhood fave... diatrymon deserves far more love. i was so happy to see it in digimon survive !!
Had this concept idea for a while now where I tried out my own take on one of the Olympus 12, Ceresmon, the Goddess of the Harvest.
Tried combining elements from both her bird island and Medium forms :)
A bit of info on her:
Given her enormous island earthy form, and given her large wings, one of the things Ceres would do is glide over land, having either fertile soil or other fertile ingredients rain down from her earthy wings, helping crops and plants flourish below. Alongside that, I was also thinking that given her golden helmet, she would also reflect sunlight off of it, redirecting the sun's light to places where crops aren't getting enough of it. Hence, with her already having a huge island form, giving home many digimon, her head/helmet would symbolize the sun, the crucial ingredient to any plant's/crop's growth.
"This entire land... if not the entire world itself, is my Garden..."
I have to say that “warm gentle glow emanating from the shell of a turtle” is without a doubt my favorite genre of lamp
Trying to imagine partner-themed clothes, but 2/5 of the armor forms are related to fantasy RPGs so I’m trying to think of something else. Suggestions?
for *allosexual people*, how do you feel about personally watching sex scenes in visual media (movies and tv)?
love em. hehe penis and booba.
I'm not particularly fond but they're fine
HIGHLY dependent on the the scene itself, some are chill some are Not
I don't like em but I get through em
I skip them as much as possible
I actively avoid visual media with sex scenes
secret seventh thing
acespec button
(a companion to my sex scene poll for aspecs just for curiosity's sake)
again, I'm asking about you personally feel about watching sex scenes, not about whether you're chill with them existing or other people enjoying them
I might ask that people reblog this one just to get it out of my corner of tumblr. I love you all dearly but I have some asexual ass followers.
ree-fireparrot asked:
What’s the best way to come up with a backstory for nigh-irredeemable villain and hate sink without getting into Unfortunate Implications territory? I’m specifically worried about ableism - making him a sociopath or giving him a traumatic backstory both imply things I don’t want to about mental illness and trauma. I thought about giving him a privileged background with parents who never told him “no” and shielded him from consequences of his actions, but I feel like that takes too much agency away from him and shifts too much blame to his parents.
howtofightwrite answered:
This is one of those situations where there really isn’t a single, “best,” solution.
One of the first things that comes to mind is, don’t try to make your audience feel sorry for your villain. This is a personal opinion, so you’re free to disagree, but if you’re trying to build up your villain, presenting a tearjerker backstory undercuts that. It diminishes your villain. Sort of like characterizing Batman as, “a rich boy with daddy issues,” really shortcuts the whole, “Dark Knight,” mystique.
Digging into a villain’s backstory can be quite perilous. Especially if you’re trying to show the adversity that shaped them into the baby eating monstrosity we see in the present. Under the best possible circumstances, you can potentially make the character a deeper and richer individual as a result, but this comes with a severe risk of accidentally turning them into a whiny, entitled, and petulant while robbing them of whatever genuine threat they’d managed to build up.
In fact, a villain who actively conceals elements of their past, (or throws out small fictions about their origins) can be far more threatening, and also build up that mystique by depriving the audience of information about how they became who they are. For a moment, consider the sheer volume of speculation about the backstory of Heath Ledger’s version of the Joker, sparked from his erratic and inconsistent explanations for how he came to be (and how none of those stories really line up with his behavior.) Especially the part where his constantly erratic and chaotic persona slides right over a shockingly methodical approach to violence that keeps the character compelling. You don’t know who he is, and he’s constantly trolling everyone who tries to get a better understanding of him.
One situation where you can start digging into their backstory is if their villainous plan actually has a solid philosophical foundation. This can get into some pretty disturbing territory, as your villain may literally be a terrorist, but if they’re trying to put an end to an unjust social order, stop some greater evil, or are even just out for revenge against a group that has wronged them in the past, you can get a legitimately sophisticated villain that could be downright sympathetic, while also being a complete monster. Somewhat obviously, this is going to be a lot harder to balance, but the option is there.
These kinds of villains can actually play against narrative expectations, and what we tend to expect from stories. In the vast majority of cases, the hero in a story is seeking to maintain, or restore, the status quo, while the villain seeks to disrupt or alter it. This can become a point of reference to quickly identify who is the hero, and who is the villain. This also means you can have a story where the villain is, legitimately, trying to create a better world (and not just in the vague and intimidating, creating an evil world they can rule over, but legitimately seeking to improve it), and is opposed by a hero who is trying to maintain an unjust, or even oppressive, status quo. Within that, the more extreme the villain’s methods, the more complicated the calculus becomes. (Especially if they can avoid crossing a threshold where they’re simply sowing misery indiscriminately, and their, “brighter future,” starts to sound like empty platitudes.)
Again, there isn’t one right answer, but if you want an irredeemable villain, you probably shouldn’t try to redeem them by delving into their backstory.
-Starke
Thanks! (Somehow I never saw that you answered orz.)