#Large and Intimidating

[leapdayowo]

Over the Garden Wall :3

I think I did otgw art forever ago once, and I’ve made a few attempts over the years, but I finally did it! It’s them! :D and just in time for autumn and spooky season!

oh also here is the painting in direct sunlight (it’s not the right vibe but I like sharing it anyway):

[nordsea-horizons]

🍃river walk🌱

[juncopandi]

Playing through FFXIV for the first time and just...laughing at every cutscene where my poor WoL tries to be threatening. bb girl I'm so sorry

[accirax]

Through the magic of an AU, Xander, Min, and Teruko make it through the night, avoid a Class Trial, and participate in the first motive alongside everyone else. Except, this time, the first motive is... a gift exhange?

(basically, if it wasn't clear, i'm drawing the drdt characters doing a secret santa exchange with each other, hopefully posting one interaction per day until christmas!)

[ratwithhands]

I was listening to So Much (For) Stardust and accidentally had too many thoughts in one sitting so we have another AU concept. I don't have a solid name yet so I've just been calling Team Supernova AU.

Long story short:

Ghetsis freezes over Unova's major cities, taking most survivors hostage to join Team Plasma, and leaving several thousands dead from the frost

Emmet, Elesa, and others try fending off the Plasma Frigate in Nimbasa but ultimately lose with injuries (Emmet got frozen on his right side)

Emmet takes as many survivors as he can into the tunnels, later joining other groups to his and forming Team Supernova in resistance to Team Plasma

Ingo went missing about a year prior to all of this, so Emmet has already spent a lot of time alone. The only pokemon he has left is Ingo's Chandelure, as the rest did not survive the invasion. He's generally very cold and shut off emotionally as a result, and doesn't really express himself like he used to.

I'll drop more details later, right now the AU in early concept stages so it's essentially a bundle of "what would this be like" and "what if this happened" and "this could be cool". If I have time I'll drop some of the other uniform designs later. Anyways have a good night, see ya.

[whump-or-whatever]

I’m all for a Whumpee who is super defiant and confident right up until Whumper finally approaches them fully and they realize just how big Whumper is. Whumper walks up close to them and Whumpee slowly raises their eyes, which get wider and wider the further they have to crane their neck. They end up having to look nearly straight up just to meet Whumper’s gaze. And Whumper just smirks as Whumpee swallows roughly and looks away nervously.

[ixhkor-and-ambrosxa]

Hey #GreekMythology tumblr, I want ya’lls help on something :).

So, I’ve been thinking about starting this massive project. Like, would take years and years work of writing and research and sheerly finding the time and motivation for. And as I was thinking about the specifics, I thought: why not bring others into it as well? Because as much as I am interested in a lot of Greek Mythology, there are things that are simply not my interests and might cause writers block and my goal for the project would to be as fun as possible. So, here we are.

What is the project exactly? Well, hopefully, it’ll be a long Ao3 series/fic focusing on the individual perspectives of various figures/events in Greek Mythology arranged in (semi/good enough) chronological order. I personally intend to write for Poseidon in his/my version of the Titanomachy and (maybe) some events that follow, if you want a little bit of an idea on what I’m talking about.

The limits on this are almost completely free, all that I ask are that each of your submissions are one POV only (and by that I mean your main subject’s POV). Why do I say this? I say this because that is what I want this project to look like. It doesn’t matter if it’s First, Second, or Third POV along with all the other variants of those three, my main focus is on the individual experiences of these individuals. Kind of like character studies, if you know what I mean. I’m intending for it to be mostly formal but I will absolutely accept crack admissions that I will probably put into its own series to Separate the Vibes for whoever comes by :).

Ultimately, this is a completely open-ended project that has absolutely no deadline. I’m about to go to bed so I can’t go into too much detail, but if you want to DM me or send any asks, I am completely okay with that and we’ll all flesh out the specifics we go :).

What is my overall purpose? Not only is this project made for my own individual purposes of learning more about the gods and other Greek Mythology writers, but it’s also the chance to spread the word of other writers. I know how hard it is to get specific audiences, especially when you’re shy, so this is a chance for your work to be stumbled upon. Each post on the eventual Ao3 fic will include your socials, how to find you, and your other general works on either ao3, tumblr, wattpad, or other :)

Can you participate even without socials or a tumblr page? Yes you absolutely can :). My asks will always be open to anons and I will do my best to give credit when I eventually post everything :). If you want to post multiple submissions or simply just want a trackable (between works) name to your writing, just sign something at the end. It could be a name, it could be a potential username, I don’t mind at all :)).

How do I submit things? Well, the best way would be to DM me :). I have a personal writing email separate from most things that would be perfect to either share a google docs with or to just send a copy-and-pasted copy of it. Otherwise, I take asks. None of them will be posted unless asked or we’re ready to so it’ll be safe to just drop them off in! It’s also where I take questions :).

Any other things to note? I’d really appreciate some other moderators and editors :). There’d only be like two or three of each and we’d have to know each other decently well before officially starting, but some help would be appreciated! Also, I’d like to keep a working ‘spreadsheet’ of who’s working on what just for people to see what’s going on :). Maybe some people can collaborate or it’ll encourage those niche writers to write :). A third thing is that most questionable stuff is accepted. I’d personally rather not handle all those things other than posting it so it might be a while until I can officially accept (consensual and/or graphic) ✨spicy stuff✨ but, other than that, I’ll take any of it (also, it’s Greek Mythology, almost all of it already happened). If someone’s willing to take over the ✨spicy stuff✨ then please DM me so we can work out the details and see if it’s a nice fit :)

Honestly, that all should be it. The main point is that I’m trying to start up a long-term project on Tumblr and Ao3 about what is essentially Greek Mythology character studies that not only allows for mass communication across a wide audience, but also (hopefully) gets some recognition for the smaller writers :). Feel free to DM me or send me asks with questions but for now, I shall sleep

Tagging: @bluebellstudio @thirteen-deaths-later @0lympian-c0uncil @happyk44 @h0bg0blin-meat @sworeontheriverstyx @deathlessathanasia @gotstabbedbyapen. Sorry if I tagged you and you want nothing to do with it, I just wanted to get it out there /pos /gen

[rawliverandgoronspice]

Alright I think I’ve sent a ask in before and you answered it, I’m not sure if I’m just repeating myself but if I am feel free to ignore!

Alright I wanted to talk about changes in the gerudo culture, now naturally culture norms will change and fade as time goes on. But with the gerudo I can’t help but feel that they were forced to change much of their culture just to appease the other races.

Like why did they stop training Molduga? Why did they change their style to be more feminine etc.

Personally I feel like they were forced to change their culture so they wouldn’t get attacked. Why? Well example the sheikah, the sheikah are a tribe very close to the royal family. They will take out anyone who is a threat to the royal family, correct? Well who used to actively oppose the royal family, the gerudo.

I believe the sheikah still have a prejudiced against the gerudo because, you cannot find a single gerudo in kakariko village. You can find gerudo npcs outside the village thought, on the dangerous rode. Wouldn’t it be easier and safer for them to just cut through kakariko village? Unless there was still bad blood

I’m sorry to bother with my my insane ramblings I just wanted to share and I felt this place appropriate to share my thoughts.

Thank you for reading and thank you and have a nice night/morning/afternoon

Hey, thanks for the ask!

I mean, regardless of what actually did happen in canon, if anything did, I have to say that BotW, and then TotK's internal narrative regarding the gerudos feels rather worrying to me --for several reasons, some of which you do mention here.

The gerudos, by virtue of having the strongest culture that differs from hylians, is the one that is also the most dynamic in these games' shared reality (so TotK's mythical past, BotW, and then TotK modern era), the one that is the most malleable and ongoing internal change.

The first time we see the gerudos, historically, they have a certain political structure that seems to rely on kinghood, have certain skills related to war (the molduga situation), and even have fashion sensitivities that are relatively different to modern era's gerudos (the mohawk, etc, and I Will Not mention the ear situation for the inconsistent mess that it is). Then, the whole shenanigans with Rauru happen, we see the Sage of Lightning having a fashion sense that feels closer to what we know, and we get to see active collaboration happening.

Fast-forward hundreds-to-thousands of years later: not only are gerudos vassal to Hyrule pre-Calamity, but, while their town is still closed behind walls, the gerudos have a strong cultural focus on seeking (mostly) hylian husbands. We get to hear about the younger generations pushing against the strong rules keeping the city closed, and that the walls aren't as closed as they used to be.

In TotK, not only is the actual language evolving (so even if old hylian seems to have been a thing, the speed of language evolving is to be noted imo), but we see clear examples of the ancestral rules being challenged to the point of near annihilation. By the time we leave the gerudos behind, two hylian men have snuck inside the walls/forced their presence upon them, and we have heard of at least another group who have been working for years to make them bend the rules for their sake. Zelda came around and influenced their war techniques, and even their ancient legends get recontextualized as involving hylian men with the Eight Heroin, or as monstrously evil and something to seek forgiveness for in the case of Ganondorf. Subtextually, I'd argue we are assisting to a culture being assimilated in real time. It might be portrayed as a good thing, as old, useless or even arguably bigoted traditions being cast aside, but I still have to insist that while gerudos are yielding their cultural identity under (mostly) hylian pressures, hylians spend the *entire game* rediscovering and reinforcing their own culture and pushing forward a cultural heritage that is thousand of years old --even reinjecting lost elements of its roots into its prosperous future.

And, yeah. It's kind of worth noting at least.

[emeryleewho]

It's always nice when you write a thing and someone goes "Wow, I really needed this! Thanks!"

Like I don't think people realize how rare the "this was great!" comments are compared to the "you're everything wrong with the world for having said something I didn't like" comments are. Especially now that some people consider me a "big name author", the number of positive comments I get is about the same as when I used to self pub, but the mean ones are a lot more frequent a lot meaner. Even just a "this made me happy :)" comment can really lift my spirits when I get them!

[enhanced-operatives-division]

Points at you. 10 and/or 11 for starstruck?

Two starstruck asks,,,,,,joy of joys,,

Part of an ask game linked here.

#10. What's an au you have for them?

Since them meeting at all is technically an AU i have 3 different ways that they do meet up. There's the one where Juniper ends up with the agency/adjacent to and ends up working with Reggie (have written a fic with this). The next one is Juniper surviving but basically going stealth and living as normal of a life as he can and ending up meeting Reggie through chance (most recent fic I've written). And then there's my personal favourite where Reginald "You're lucky my tracking skills are still up to snuff" Crane keeping himself busy after Phoenix was MIA and finding Juniper still alive (fic I want to write but haven't started mainly because it may end up multi chapter).

In terms of more AU canon bending taking them and putting them in a completely unrelated situation...I have a guilty pleasure Warrior Cats AU for IEYTD in general. Both JJ and Reggie have perfect warrior cats suffixes in their names already (Juniper and Crane) so they're called Junipersong (charcoal bengal) and Craneflight (tabby Norwegian forest cat). It's very silly but the amount of scenes I have in my mind for it...good lord...

#11. How was their first kiss like?

Augh my friend Imp wrote an absolutely excellent fic about it (tragically in the realm of unfinished Google docs) and I'm shaking their hand about it so hard. Basically Juniper kissing Reggie but he like wasn't ready/fully expecting it and Juniper absolutely panicking because he thinks he's misread every interaction between them both since they got closer. The second one is much sweeter though,,

[2demon2slayer]

Which Demon Slayer, personality wise, scares/intimidates you the most?

For me Shinobu honestly scares me, like probably a-lot at times.

love shinobu, i relate to her so much. i too am a person who tries to be polite but is constantly bursting with rage

you know it's pretty hard for me to feel particularly frightened of any of the demon slayer characters because of how goofy they are in my head. most of the hashira, for example, land somewhere in between normal and too campy for me to take seriously. and most of the characters who aren't hashira are kind of . inept. and thus lack the intimidating factor.

if i had to pick one, i might go with himejima? because while the uh . dramatics are pretty hard to take seriously, something about him being so stalwart in his beliefs can be a little much. like… when tanjirou's first being introduced to the hashira and he's pleading his case, i remember thinking that himejima might take his side because to me he seemed … conflicted or something

and so when himejima was not only all for killing nezuko but also brought up putting tanjirou out of his misery??? i remember feeling a brief moment of terror in sympathy for tanjirou.

he turned out to be a pretty cool guy but it was still weird for a while lol

[pierswife]

What if pokemanda favored a different typing from steel/water, a la the pokemiku series?

"I've always been super super fond of Ice Types, actually! The Glaceon is Eve, Froslass is Eir, and Beartic is Jeralt! Don't mind Jeralt too much. He doesn't bite! ... much."

[wakebymoonsleepbysun]

Yeah I'm a Papyrus liker too.

Based on a dream I had this morning. I was out shopping with Sans and had a coughing fit (because I was having a coughing fit IRL which seems to happen most mornings lately) and he said something along the lines of "Whelp let's get you home to Papyrus" and then this happened.

Papyrus made me a cup of soup and cuddled with me on the couch with a huge blanket. It was very sweet but possibly not a realistic expectation for Papyrus, hehe. Maybe in this universe he's had more practice? :P

[boghermit]

I'm thinking comics might be a good gateway into getting better at art and composition but Where Do I Even Start

[redd956]

Whump Ideas: Oversized Whumpees

Lmao! I just moved into my college dorms !!! Might start taking and finishing requests (No nsfw, I’m finicky on whether or not I’ll do pet whump, not a gore fan)

Another whumpee archetype is the oversized whumpee, generally tall and more muscular whumpees. (Perhaps monster whumpees that are just big bois and gorls) I surprisingly don’t see these as often in writing as I initially expected. Here are some I ideas I’ve conjured for this archetype.

The Big Scaredy

- An intimidating Whumpee at first glance

- A big anxious push over

- Perhaps once a terrifying force of nature, reduced to acting much smaller than themselves

- Greatest Hugger

There’s Always  A Bigger Fish

- These whumpees are viewed as the more massive and sturdy ones

- Caretaker is shocked to find how someone like them could be reduced to anything, and no one knows how to deal with them

- Their Whumper is somehow bigger than them

- Tends to be ashamed of their “lack” of strength, and blames themselves

- Caretaker is even more terrified at the image of who could be Whumpee’s Whumper

Ashamed of their Whumper

- Their whumper obviously wasn’t there size... Bonus: Whumper is smaller than the average person

- Sometimes stoic

- Whumpee entirely blames themselves, and cannot be convinced otherwise

- Though their Whumper is small, the scars/emotional baggage they bear are surprisingly big

- Shame determines their every action

Big and Strong

- Hiding their injuries and ailments type

-Stoicism

- Can also be the leader

- Refuse to show any sign of weakness, but is increasingly reaching their breaking point

- Likely still being Whumped

- Harsh towards other Whumpees (especially ones their size)

- Why won’t they fight Whumper? Did they already reduce Whumper to ashes?

Traits I love

- Intimidating Scars

- Smol Caretaker vs. Large Whumpee

- Absolute Gym Bro Personality

- Stoic and Big

- Whumpee carrying themselves as if they’re smaller; hunched in posture, enclosed body languages, bowing, crouching, kneeling

- Whumpee terrified that they’re going to hurt Caretaker with even the lightest touch

- Caretaker starting out hateful or frightened of Whumpee

- The big dog trope (laying their body weight on caretaker)

Bonus: Feral Force of Nature

- Usually non-human and/or monstrous

- Sometimes associated with pet whump

- A danger to all those around them

- Will attack caretaker/trying to actively thwart caretaker

- Sharp teeth & claws

- Requires a team to handle

- Caretaker is even more hateful and frightened of Whumpee; constantly trying to get themselves out of the situation

- Gear up and armed Caretaker

- Usually requires force, restraints, or triggers to contain

[recitedemise]

𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲. From his relationship with Mystra to his great mass of acquaintances, most have sidelined him to what he's worth. However, it's seldom for his character or the man that he is, and rather, instead, for what he has to offer. Gale, as Mystra knows, is a brilliant, razor-sharp mind. The best of the best, he's proclaimed several times. She had liked his talent, watched as he studied with obsessive passion, and knowing his fondness for all things Weave, saw a tireless, rampant, and immovable love. She wanted that loyalty. She was greedy for it. And knowing Gale nursed an appetite for awesome power, she, too, longed to keep him beneath her thumb. After all, this goddess, familiar with her ambitious wizards (see: Karsus), had no intention of sharing her arcane domain. Magic's her realm, not anyone else's, and though Gale was astonishing, half a diamond in the rough, she saw him less as promise and more subservience. That was what she saw. That was what he gave. And Mystra, fed full with it, didn't care who he was, didn't care who he could be, and damned who he's become. He's seldom been cared for, his one love--his greatest love!--having been a ruse, but being Mystra's favorite was still a badge of honor... and a title, of course, that was very known. In other words, the great Gale of Waterdeep was a means to an end. Friends and companionship were as genuine as Mystra for how better to meet her than to win the favor of her Chosen? This ambitious, skillful man was a golden ticket.

Very few people have asked to Gale Dekarios. Not many, to be honest, has cared to see him for who he really is, and with his heart embroidered right on his sleeve, one can't help but to think that a travesty.