#this was a lot of fun to remember

[quoththemaiden]

I was thinking about your well-meaning eldritch-morality robot with plant growth (? I failed to tag the post so I might be mistaking some details) today (may have been bullying my cacti), and I was so charmed all over again by the anecdote that I had to run here to ask about characters you've created! Any stories to share about your favorites (or, if you prefer, things that weren't as successful)?

Ooh, thank you for this ask! I'll highlight another character from the same setting: D&D's Eberron.

The relevant deal with Eberron is that there was recently a major war that left an entire country uninhabitable due to magical warfare. This is just one country out of a dozen on the continent, but it's the one two of my characters came from.

You remembered my first character, Pole, very accurately: A morally eldritch robot (appropriately covered in cacti — something he hoped he might be able to grow there!) who was built inside that ruined country by a renegade engineer in a bunker after the end of the war. Pole decided to make it his life's mission to figure out how to restore his home country's ecosystem, even though he himself had never seen it as anything but a wasteland. This meant he was two years old and was a fully capable adult (and in fact much more intelligent than older, earlier-model robots) but had absolutely no actual experience with the world or how people worked. He would be completely unhelpful for anything that required charisma, but he was quite compassionate (...albeit with a child's understanding of what that meant), so if they were staying in a village, he'd take advantage of not needing to sleep to go out into the fields and use his Druidic magic to bless them. It cost him nothing, he had nothing else he needed to be doing, it would help the people there, so why wouldn't he? (It also meant he was perfectly willing to form a pact with a dark god, because it was clearly powerful since everyone feared it and he'd learn a lot from it, so what's the big deal? — Unsurprisingly, the sailors on the ship he and his party were on were less pleased when they found him praying to the Devourer.)

I played him for several years and even wrote about him for NaNo one year, so I commissioned art of him (by Jruva on DeviantArt). I may as well share!

A later character I created was a Warlock, Alyssa, from the same country (and I suspect my Yu-Gi-Oh! friends here would really get a kick out of her). Normally, Warlocks make a pact with a supernatural entity to gain their magical powers, like a fiend or an archfey or something like that. In this character's case, she got her magical powers from the restless spirits of her countryfolk who were unable to pass on. Instead of being driven by a compassionate drive to fix her country's ecosystem, like the Druid was, the Warlock bore the undying grudge of her people with her.

If I were writing this up as an autobiography, I'd probably pretend I was bolder with improv and did a wonderful job with it. For instance, the country is commonly known as the Mournland now that it's an uninhabitable wasteland. However, the country used to be called Cyre. People from other countries generally pronounced that like "sire," while Cyrans themselves pronounced it "kai-ree." This means that even people trying to be respectful will still flub it horribly, at least from the perspective of a traumatized survivor. When on a stealth mission through a university, when she heard scholars talking about her homeland and calling it by a non-native pronunciation, perhaps Alyssa would have broken cover to angrily insist upon how little they knew of her people. What would they have thought of this bitter young woman, driven by the rage of her people, who was angry at even those attempting — clumsily, but still sincerely — to be respectful of this culture that was wiped out? Is there anyone whose mind could have been changed in a positive direction by such a conversation? Or would it have resulted in worsened attitudes as well as a failed mission? Or would no one have even believed her? Who can say?

[badolmen]

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[allovesthings]

I love that Dick is pocket sized for both powered superheroes and as Robin, when he is a teeny little guy for the non-powered. It's very fun.

So here is three of my favorite way someone carried Dick:

Kitten! Dick taken by the scruff in Batman/Scarecrow Year one:

2. On the shoulder of Superman, looking like he is having the time of his life:

3. look at his shit-eating smile, i love him

[paintedcrows]

Unintended consequence of creating my own Bill... He watches me draw now...

The Horrible Triangle in question:

[bacchuschucklefuck]

no more fan-ta-sizing about it! everything's already changed~

[ahhrenata]

‘how quickly power can change hands’ | X |

[faiell]

HD Tarot Fest Art Claim - The World 🌎✨

XXI. The World

The world? Only the space between their palms.

Upright: completion, achievement, fulfilment, sense of belonging, wholeness, harmony Reversed: lack of closure, lack of achievement, feeling incomplete, emptiness

It was a lot of fun to design this tarot card. Thanks to the lovely mods for all their work in setting up and running the fest.

View on AO3

[nutsack90]

i like when i remember i can draw literally anything i want. for fun

[spyromancy]

Witch Hat Atelier - Vol. 8, Ch. 43, p.20

[shimmershy]

[silly-moth-123]

IDWTBAMG bracelets!! :D

I would love to make some of the other characters at some point too, if I end up having the motivation to. But these were fun!! The wings on Aika's bracelet makes my brain happy,,, :3

[scribz-ag24]

big fan of actaeonshipping fanart that looks like this

[wtfforged]

IDK IF I EVER POSTED THIS OLD REDRAW. here:) my fav chapter illustration i think....

[transmascutena]

needed to draw this post by @saionjeans

[bacchuschucklefuck]

class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)

[le-fruit-de-la-passion]

Ok, hear me out, Machine Herald Viktor x Reader AU with this line from Epic,,

Jayce: After everything you've done... how will you sleep at night?

Viktor: Next to my wife.