#generated characters

[a-drama-addict]

not caring too much about a fandom’s favourite guy is the worst. you’ll think “oh i’ll look into the tag see if anything new and cool’s there” and it’s just that fucking guy again

[cardo-de-comer]

3d-model commission for @/Blackholed on twitter

[abyssalaerlocke]

Random Playthrough

Playing bg3 with my random generators

Rules:

Revival: Reincarnation — a spell which revives and reforms the body with a completely new appearance, including race

TPK: Magic Mirror malfunction — the party suddenly become entangled with a mirror universe (appearances are randomised, but race and body stay the same)

Level up: Filing mishap — Jergal Withers has gotten your paperwork mixed up, but hopefully one of these is your class? (two classes are presented, the second is only prioritised if it's an existing class for that character, and the first wasn't)

Party: Scheduling problems — scheduling is hard, and so is adventuring; each day, take along whoever's up for it (every long rest, party members are ordered in random priority; assemble your party from the highest ones, swapping in higher ones if they're recruited)

Day 1

We roll up a Tav who'll start as a copper dragonborn monk with the urchin background. Per my Timberborn name generator, their name is Zekai. They have Subduer Loops piercings, which I'll be retaining through their future forms.

We'll also randomise the guardian

We recruited Us, Lae'zel, and Shadowheart, and all nearly died trying to get that xp. Re-recruited Shadowheart and hit level 2. Zekai rolled Druid (then Sorcerer). Shadowheart rolled (Fighter then) a 2nd level in Cleric. Recruited Gale, who rolled War Cleric of Moradin (and Ranger). Recruited Astarion, who rolled Bard (and Monk). Re-recruited Lae'zel and sent her to camp.

There were some slight miscalculations that ended in a TPK… (I'm playing on harder settings than I'm used to, because I want death to be a relevant thing)

I'm honestly digging this mirrorverse squad, and like to think the characters swapped universes, rather than just appearances, for the interesting social implications of getting dropped into a universe with slightly unfamiliar companions back at camp, and possibly different circumstances that brought them together (maybe they weren't dealing with tadpoles in their universe, but something else).

As the party gets mixed up each day, the mirror crew is broken up, with potentially more mirrorverse shuffling. While we won't see the original companions' faces again, perhaps they've been Reincarnated in whatever universe they landed in, getting shuffled back under their new appearance.

That's All, Folks

My computer's completely noping out, so I guess I'm stopping here 😥

[beebundt]

im busy with an art trade but wanted 2 share some recent scraps of charlie. i haven't posted abt her in years oh my god

[tearlessrain]

please help me- i used to be pretty smart but i’m having so much trouble grasping the concept of diegetic vs non-diegetic bdsm!

gfkjldghfd okay first of all I'm sorry for the confusion, if you're not finding anything on the phrase it's because I made it up and absolutely nobody but me ever uses it, but I haven't found a better way to express what I'm trying to say so I keep using it. but now you've given me an excuse to ramble on about some shit that is only relevant to me and my deeply inefficient way of talking and by god I'm going to take it.

SO. the way diegetic and non-diegetic are normally used is to talk about music and sound design in movies/tv shows. in case you aren't familiar with that concept, here's a rundown:

diegetic sound is sound that happens within the world of the movie/show and can be acknowledged by the characters, like a song playing on the stereo during a driving scene, or sung on stage in Phantom of the Opera. it's also most other sounds that happen in a movie, like the sounds of traffic in a city scene, or a thunderclap, or a marching band passing by. or one of the three stock horse sounds they use in every movie with a horse in it even though horses don't really vocalize much in real life, but that's beside the point, the horse is supposed to be actually making that noise within the movie's world and the characters can hear it whinnying.

non-diegetic sound is any sound that doesn't exist in the world of the movie/show and can't be perceived by the characters. this includes things like laugh tracks and most soundtrack music. when Duel of Fates plays in Star Wars during the lightsaber fight for dramatic effect, that's non-diegetic. it exists to the audience, but the characters don't know their fight is being backed by sick ass music and, sadly, can't hear it.

the lines can get blurry between the two, you've probably seen the film trope where the clearly non-diegetic music in the title sequence fades out to the same music, now diegetic and playing from the character's car stereo. and then there are things like Phantom of the Opera as mentioned above, where the soundtrack is also part of the plot, but Phantom of the Opera does also have segments of non-diegetic music: the Phantom probably does not have an entire orchestra and some guy with an electric guitar hiding down in his sewer just waiting for someone to break into song, but both of those show up in the songs they sing down there.

now, on to how I apply this to bdsm in fiction.

if I'm referring to diegetic bdsm what I mean is that the bdsm is acknowledged for what it is in-world. the characters themselves are roleplaying whatever scenarios their scenes involve and are operating with knowledge of real life rules/safety practices. if there's cnc depicted, it will be apparent at some point, usually right away, that both characters actually are fully consenting and it's all just a planned scene, and you'll often see on-screen negotiation and aftercare, and elements of the story may involve the kink community wherever the characters are. Love and Leashes is a great example of this, 50 Shades and Bonding are terrible examples of this, but they all feature characters that know they're doing bdsm and are intentional about it.

if I'm talking about non-diegetic bdsm, I'm referring to a story that portrays certain kinks without the direct acknowledgement that the characters are doing bdsm. this would be something like Captive Prince, or Phantom of the Opera again, or the vast majority of bodice ripper type stories where an innocent woman is kidnapped by a pirate king or something and totally doesn't want to be ravished but then it turns out he's so cool and sexy and good at ravishing that she decides she's into it and becomes his pirate consort or whatever it is that happens at the end of those books. the characters don't know they're playing out a cnc or D/s fantasy, and in-universe it's often straight up noncon or dubcon rather than cnc at all. the thing about entirely non-diegetic bdsm is that it's almost always Problematic™ in some way if you're not willing to meet the story where it's at, but as long as you're not judging it by the standards of diegetic bdsm, it's just providing the reader the same thing that a partner in a scene would: the illusion of whatever risk or taboo floats your boat, sometimes to extremes that can't be replicated in real life due to safety, practicality, physics, the law, vampires not being real, etc. it's consensual by default because it's already pretend; the characters are vehicles for the story and not actually people who can be hurt, and the reader chose to pick up the book and is aware that nothing in it is real, so it's all good.

this difference is where people tend to get hung up in the discourse, from what I've observed. which is why I started using this phrasing, because I think it's very crucial to be able to differentiate which one you're talking about if you try to have a conversation with someone about the portrayal of bdsm in media. it would also, frankly, be useful for tagging, because sometimes when you're in the mood for non-diegetic bodice ripper shit you'd call the police over in real life, it can get really annoying to read paragraphs of negotiation and check-ins that break the illusion of the scene and so on, and the opposite can be jarring too.

it's very possible to blur these together the same way Phantom of the Opera blurs its diegetic and non-diegetic music as well. this leaves you even more open to being misunderstood by people reading in bad faith, but it can also be really fun to play with. @not-poignant writes fantastic fanfic, novels, and original serials on ao3 that pull this off really well, if you're okay with some dark shit in your fiction I would highly recommend their work. some of it does get really fucking dark in places though, just like. be advised. read the tags and all that.

but yeah, spontaneous writer plug aside, that's what I mean.

[ochi06]

your wish for everyone to have a chance to be happy

[cosmicredcadet]

Sometimes...characters being in a romantic relationship is worse.

[bixels]

Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... Superwoman!

Some character designs I did for a Superwoman concept idea.

[mynnthia]

was talking with a friend about how some of dunmeshi fаndom misunderstands kabru's initial feelings towards laios.

to sum up kabru's situation via a self-contained modernized metaphor:

kabru is like a guy who lost his entire family in a highly traumatic car accident. years later he joins a discord server and takes note of laios, another server member who seems interesting, so they start chatting. then laios reveals his special interest and favorite movie of all time is David Cronenberg's Crash (1996), and invites kabru to go watch a demolition derby with him

[transwalterdecourcey]

once you've headcannoned one canonically male character as transfem a whole beautiful new world is opened up to you

[miragenite]

shadowguy compilation

[abyssalaerlocke]

Alright, on the risk you guys leave me to my character generation fate, I've upgraded my appearance generator to give better results.

This made it a lot more complex, so it's just for personal use since no one's shown interest in the pinned form anyway

Facial hair probability is now based on age and race. If 30% if the youngest (adult) dwarves and 95% of the oldest have facial hair, then % with facial hair increases as they age. It looks at where the character is on that trajectory based on their Maturity, and if a random number is less than the %, then they get facial hair

Hair greying is based on age. The older they are, the more likely their 'grey' is actually a grey tone, and if it is, the amount of greying equals their maturity

Baldness is based on sex and subrace, since some like the duergar are more commonly bald

Underdark races are limited to white/grey hair. They can still have coloured highlights and greying

(to do) always generate sorcerer scales, so their appearance is randomised if applicable

I also updated the class generation for play, to produce a short list of deities for clerics. I just pick the first on that list available to the character's current race.

This is also how party selection is done. The goal is to not need to tell the generators any details about the current character or game state, and have it provide viable outputs for all the details I need

[humming-fly]

He was feeling left out

and the higher rez stills, since gifs always export as if you're sending messages through a metal can~

[pien-art]

Nerys!! ♥︎ She has possesed my body and soul these past few days I can't stop drawing her

[spitblaze]

I guess Chilchuck has brought us right back to 'adults who are short are child-coded and if you like them you're a pedophile' discourse huh