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bianca’s ring

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“It is said that, during the fantasy book in the late eighties, publishers would maybe get a box containing two or three runic alphabets, four maps of the major areas covered by the sweep of the narrative, a pronunciation guide to the names of the main characters and, at the bottom of the box, the manuscript. Please… there is no need to go that far. There is a term that readers have been known to apply to fantasy that is sometimes an unquestioning echo of better work gone before, with a static society, conveniently ugly ‘bad’ races, magic that works like electricity and horses that work like cars. It’s EFP, or Extruded Fantasy Product. It can be recognized by the fact that you can’t tell it apart form all the other EFP. Do not write it, and try not to read it. Read widely outside the genre. Read about the Old West (a fantasy in itself) or Georgian London or how Nelson’s navy was victualled or the history of alchemy or clock-making or the mail coach system. Read with the mindset of a carpenter looking at trees. Apply logic in places where it wasn’t intended to exist. If assured that the Queen of the Fairies has a necklace made of broken promises, ask yourself what it looks like. If there is magic, where does it come from? Why isn’t everyone using it? What rules will you have to give it to allow some tension in your story? How does society operate? Where does the food come from? You need to know how your world works. I can’t stress that last point enough. Fantasy works best when you take it seriously (it can also become a lot funnier, but that’s another story). Taking it seriously means that there must be rules. If anything can happen, then there is no real suspense. You are allowed to make pigs fly, but you must take into account the depredations on the local bird life and the need for people in heavily over-flown areas to carry stout umbrellas at all times. Joking aside, that sort of thinking is the motor that has kept the Discworld series moving for twenty-two years.”

— “Notes from a Successful Fantasy Author: Keep It Real” (2007), Terry Pratchett. (via the-library-and-step-on-it)

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Queen 👑

Comission for @Lady_of_Cringe on twitter

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Leida is never going to forgive her mom for anything, ever

After Endor do you think Leida and Perrin came sniffing around like "Hey! Long time, no see... We good?"

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Shout-out to all the season 2 people with Leida feelings who made this pass 100 kudos the other day. I see you and you are valid.

The Traitor's daughter

Sliding in at the last minute for @andorappreciation week. Promt of the day is free day but tbh I've mainly been lazy.

One day, mother returns. As Coruscant falls to the New Republic, Leida Mothma has to face the mother who abandoned her long before the rebellion and reflect on the path that took them both here.

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It's really funny to take Spanish with people from different Spanish-speaking countries, because the ones from South American countries are like "Yeah no one uses vosotros, we don't know what it's doing here" and the ones from Europe are like "If you don't give our beloved second-person plural its due respect, the Hounds will find you"

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OP has a point but like half the attraction of living in a lighthouse is the isolation, the calm, the peace. Living in a water tower no matter how pretty is still like living in an apartment if you’re in an urban area.

people who want to live in lighthouse - i hear you, i understand you

but i raise you

living in water tower

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I'm never gonna recover from this. They share something so special and intriguing. There barely was anyone around, no reason for her to put on the happy wife show. And yet there she is, stealing her husband's tea and sipping it with that look. I need to think about what this represents. That and followed by Perrin's "joy" speech... I think they did have feelings for each other. I don't think it was ever love, but they've known each other for so long now, they know very well how to make each other happy and each other miserable. And how they just dance around each other with that knowledge. I know a lot of people hate Perrin and frankly he's not my usual type of character but idk there's just something beautiful and tragic about them.

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There's just something about how the ISB never found Andor.

Syril found Andor, too late.

Dedra found Axis without him.

But they never found Cassian Andor - and they'll never know what that specific failure cost them, will they?

The Rebels don't know who was on Aldhani; the Empire will never know who did the job on Scarif.

Where is Andor? They don't know. But he has friends everywhere.

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i mean this in the gentlest possible way but if 75% of what you're posting for a given fandom is fuming rage spirals then maybe just maybe it's time to take a step back and consider whether or not you're actually having any fun with this optional thing you do for fun

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Fate cannot be changed.🗡

Painting I have done of Ciri back when the trailer for tw4 came out! She looks so badass and I absolutely loved the animation, so cool and beautiful

Cannot wait to play the game😌👌

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a little sketch of Katherine teaching Theresa how to use an arbalest

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Lady Heydari

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Can't toast them all, can we?

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Inspiration struck me again so another leopard eats Dedra’s face.