#Creative Liberties

[lactaidsaveme]

Scenes from Catchan's fic series Cybertroninan Vestigial Traits on AO3

Fic link: https://archiveofourown.org/series/4468009

[mrsmiroir]

gayest elf in the silm. has this been done before.

[red-blooded-terror]

Idk man, I tried to do a funny

I'm not colouring this shit rn, maybe in the future if enough ppl want it XDD

Plz be nice, this is my first time drawing any of these guys and I refused to get a reference for this Dollar General Bugs Bunny lookin' ass bitch (Jax)

[fierylionmane]

The maker..

[tanktopdiaz]

"loved your fic but -" SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!! "I'm going to ignore this line -" LITERALLY DIE!!!!!!!!!

[butraura]

the Protector

Fandom: The Rookie Pairing: Lucy Chen x Tim Bradford Word Count: 5,601 Rating: M (for future graphic depictions of violence) Chapters: 1/?

Lucy comes home from the hospital, where Chris has been admitted. She insists on coming home alone, without Tim escorting her, because she feels guilty about what almost happened between them while Chris was being taken and mutilated. When she's asleep, she is taken.

or;

Lucy is Rosalind's new obsession. Tim does what he has to to save her.

[mx-lamour]

Alek Gwilym in our Curse of Strahd campaign:

We found Strahd's journal in-world, so of course we all read I, Strahd by P. N. Elrod.

We were all pretty taken with Alek Gwilym. But wtf happened to him after he disappeared? (The module apparently doesn't even include him. So our DM took some creative liberties.)

It's so complicated. It's great, but... yikes. It all begins with Vampyr, of course. Vampyr is an evil entity that was able to escape its prison within the Amber Temple by tempting Strahd into the deal that changed him and locked down Barovia.

Alek overheard the ordeal. Strahd ended up killing him, drinking his blood, and locking his body in a closet. Later, Strahd discovered that Alek's body had disappeared.

This is how our campaign addressed what happened next:

Vampyr took Alek's body to use as a puppet. He altered the body to look like a Dusk Elf, and somehow replaced people's memories/knowledge of Alek with... Rahadin. Rahadin has that screamy madness mind thing because it's Vampyr pulling the strings there, and Vampyr is a powerful old entity that snacks on despair. Trying to peek into that mess would drive you crazy.

Okay, so that's Alek's body... and a better role for Rahadin than just a weird Renfield stand-in like he seems to be in the mod book. (I was told there's a part where he eats toads? For like, no actual reason?)

What about Alek's soul? Does it get recycled or something?

In the Amber Temple, there's a clockwork robot guy. He's chained up and broken. We ask him what his name is and he just says "Pain." But we find out it's Alek. It's Alek, tortured and broken and in this weird form, but Vampyr hasn't been able to eat away at his soul like he has with other Barovians.

We find out Alek's soul is protected (to a degree, anyway) by the Traveler. The Traveler is the only deity actually truly present in Barovia, because they're Neutral and travelling is literally Their Thing. You can't keep the Traveler out of anywhere.

It was a really cool thing to find out, because I'm playing a trickster cleric whose patron is the Traveler. It retroactively gave me a cool in-game reason for my absolute craving to find Alek and get him back into the story. Like the Traveler was nudging my cleric toward him.

So, we discovered "Rahadin" is actually Alek's body. We found Alek's soul. And we are on friendly terms with the Abbott near Krezk, who is outright a Celestial entity.

I was wondering how exactly to get Alek's body out of Vampyr's control. How to get Rahadin out in the open again, and how to fight something that was clearly out of our depth...

But I'm happy to report that we did manage it. We are now (finally?) officially on Strahd's shit list for "murdering" his steward, and we're cut off from the towns now, but... Worth It. We're nearing the end game anyway.

As of now, we've brought the pieces of Alek to the Abbott, and asked him if he can put Alek back together. He said it'll take about a week to do it right. (A horribly long time to wait in-world at this point, but again... worth it.)

Alek Gwilym will be resurrected.

My hope is that he will help us defeat Vampyr. That's right. Not Strahd. We're not fighting Strahd. We're going at the root of this thing. We're taking on Vampyr. Honestly, I'm hoping (betting) we can (with Alek's help) get Strahd to fight Vampyr with us. Because Vampyr has been screwing Strahd over since the beginning of all this, too. In his weakest moment, he was driven to murder his most loyal ally. He never gets his "heart's desire". He's as much a victim as the rest of Barovia, despite his power.

It's time to undo what should never have been done.

Vampyr's reign began by Alek Gwilym's death. It will end by Alek Gwilym's life.

[the-core-of]

I honestly avoid writing advice for this exact reason. It's been a rule of mine since I started writing years ago because when I sit down to write, I overthink all the "rules" that aren't even real rules. Are there rules for painters? For sculptures? No. The only thing that makes you a painter is painting. It doesn't have to look realistic, or beautiful, or send a message. It's something that you made because you wanted to make it.

Why should we all just use the same exact words all the time? With a dumb rule like that, you might as well only let the most elite, white-haired pre-approved writers do all the writing.

Each individual writer has their own, unique perspective; let them have it, let them express it how they choose, and let them find their own voice in their own time.

I’m a firm believer of “every writer can write whatever they want, however they want” however I physically wince every time I see a writer unironically use “member” to refer to a cock in smut setting and “orbs” to refer to normal human eyes.

from a fellow writer who used to use both of these words in her writing during her wattpad days, member isn’t as sexy a word as you may think it is, and orbs isn’t a normal way to refer to normal human eyes.

also you can say cunt, hole, pussy, anything is sexier, more erotic than “princess parts” I promise

[stealingpotatoes]

with how much time my cat spends in his litter box (and how loud that time is), i can only assume he has the greatest litter zen garden in the lands

[netscapenavigator-official]

Is [piece of media] actually bad? Or is it just non-realistic fiction?

[the-lemonaut]

Hi I'm obsessed with Deltarune. Again. What can I say, this shit is great 😌 I love these three, cannot wait for chapter 5.

Please don't repost any of this to other platforms, thanks

Bonus art:

Please don't expect me to draw more, I probably will but only a few times. Don't subscribe for fanart, I beg you

[thecourtjester12]

it's just one of those things that we simply say creative liberties for

Like there used to be naptimes there, but like...where do the little ones sleep???

hey.

so, we've all memorized the entire expanse of the daycare, top to bottom, in excruciating detail, yeah? And we know Sun doesn't leave the daycare, right?

What happens when a kid needs to use the bathroom.

[mithrandirl]

They always claimed the cases on the show are drawn from real life... So I figured it might work.

MURDERBOT | 1.08

[roachcicle]

updated patrochilles designs

[afterartist]

So… Goldbug often shows up in cannon after Bee has died and gets brought back

And uhh, Bee was “dead” for 15 years in EarthSpark

Stands to reason that 15 years of isolation where you’re banned from contact with ANYONE (subsequently being forced to suffer the guilt of knowing all your loved ones think you’re dead) after several thousand years of war AND another unspecified time stuck alone on Cybertron fighting for your life, may drive one a little insane…

ON THAT NOTE!!

Have my GoldSpark AU

Where Bee invents Goldbug in his head to actually cope with literally every single thing that’s happened his entire life (similar to Steve and AA-Tron ect in TFO)

Except GB is just as protective of the Maltos as Bee and is not afraid to get his servos dirty

Idk how to draw ES bee, sue me

Plus a bonus sprinkling of my head cannon that Bee aged into an adult during his time in hiding because I enjoy emotionally hurting my faves :3

[jeonseoguu]

where did all of that rage go?

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