#THEY'RE FANTASY RACES

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi Races Baby Growth

[benevolenterrancy]

this description made me realise what one of my favourite MXTX character tropes is: Over-Worked, Under-Appreciated Employee Who Is Not Above Becoming Somewhat Evil About It

[bloodofgrapes]

tags on that recent dunmeshi poll post are making me so sad

humans are often some of my favorite fantasy races, they're not boring! They're often the race of ambition--what they might lack in particular magical prowess, or claws, or muscles, they make up for in raw numbers, and a competitive drive to keep up with the other races and assert their own place in the world. They're the jack of all trades who ever strive to pick up a little bit of what everyone else can do. They aren't boring, and neither are you: to be human is to persevere and endure, and that is wonderful

[rambleonaud]

I love how whenever Marcille Dunmeshi gets wounded or tired she just. Dies. Just a full plank on the floor. Arms and legs in opposite directions. Rigor Mortis has set in

[rukafais]

deeply embarrassing seeing a person go "tee hee the reason drow are like that is because they just fuck too much, they have no sense of population control for living in caves, and they breed like rabbits, that's why they kill so many men!" like yeah man. it's not the indoctrination or the oppressive cult or anything or any other kind of social pressure. you got it bud. they just can't stop fucking.

[ganymedesclock]

To explain The Goblin Problem and not go on a tag rant on someone else's reblog, I will explain it in the nutshell.

The Goblin Problem is when a story establishes a group of creatures to serve as recurrent antagonists (not necessarily all one species; in a lot of rpg games this can broadly apply to "monsters") THAT:

Are never negotiable, or the negotiable parties among them are Token Heroic Orcs- that is to say, they are seen as objectors or 'good' versions who have absolutely no connections to, and hold no objections toward you attacking, the rest of their brethren, who they have forsaken as the price to be paid for being good.

Have obvious unique technology; they may attack you with weapons found nowhere else in the game, demonstrate the ability to speak, have their own obvious language, tame a creature that nobody else tames so that it's thus impossible that they are stealing already-tamed specimens from someone else

Are characterized primarily or exclusively as raiders who attack others, with the justification this means they are inferior creatures parasitically dependent on Good, Civilized Settings, e.g. they cannot possibly be sustainably hunting, gathering, or practicing either nomadic or settled agriculture.

Are often defined as having no choice to be evil or are created by a greater evil to serve as thralls, and yet, will not under any circumstances be regarded as indoctrinated victims, or if that is mentioned, there will nonetheless be an overarching lack of narrative concern as to where or how the survivors should live after the greater evil is taken care of, or if effort should be made to challenge the indoctrination and give them the ability to choose their lives.

What this ultimately creates is that they are unambiguously people, who obviously check all the marks of sapience, who are quite possibly wearing clothes, but the goblin or orc exists as a stopgap. You want your fantasy hero to get into a swordfight but you don't want him to kill another human being. So you invent something that wields a sword but is in some way "not a person", which is senseless. Unless you want the nature of this swordfight to be that a chimpanzee picked up a knife, at which point they are not going to use reliable sword techniques.

[tlaquetzqui]

Remember: fantasy races are not just humans with pointed ears or tusks or thirty inches less height. They are fucking aliens that happen to live on the same planet as a population of humans. Give them strange coloring, subtly different proportions and features, and above all, alien psychology.

When you live for hundreds of years, what changes about how you spend your time? When you are the size of an unusually muscular toddler when full-grown, what changes about how you behave in conflicts? If you heal any wound not inflicted by acid or fire, how do you experience pain?

The principle might be called “Wookiees not furries”. They are not just anthropomorphic cartoon animals that have human culture and expectations. Even though they look sorta like that, they are beings from an entirely different world with their own life-history and set of instincts.

[vaultureculture]

Dunmeshi twt is terrifying

[transingthoseformers]

Isekai au where autobot and decepticon high command are transported into your typical Isekai fantasy world, separated into two different groups who don't know the other is there

For now

[edwardallenpoe]

*jigsaw voice*You, white fantasy/sci-fi writer, are tasked with creating a Villain fantasy/alien race that is not completely inspired by or even directly stolen from existing POC cultures. You have 24 hours.

[jesuisfinni]

MORE ORIGINAL ART!

Been working on this on and off for a while, got to a point where I felt like I was adding to it but not really improving it so I'm just leaving it here.

Thought about adding a background but I couldn't get anything to work, the price for doing the characters first. 🥲

In case anyone's curious about who these people are I thought I'd add names and pronouns further down;

Main character - Mo'na (she/he/they)

Mo'na's right shoulder - Casey (he/him)(though responds to any and crossdresses)

Mo'na's left shoulder - Gabriel (he/him)

Mo'na's lower arms - Ophelia (she/her)

At least half of them aren't in their usual attire cuz I'm indecisive and like making up outfits. 🙃

[kranom]

Seeing fanfic and fanart of Chilchuck getting affectionately picked up and/or carried by his friends really rubs me the wrong way. I'm average height and I realize "it's not that deep" but I've only ever heard people with dwarfism say that they hate being picked up like they're children, so I can't help but be a little put off by it.

[jestersarts]

FINALLY figured out how I want to draw my scary warrior fish lady Tarnished, meet Kerr the Scaled :)

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

idk if i have stated in so many words before but kinda weird for people not to care about the brown men of the story on account of them being men

like most people did to javi irl what the yellowjackets did in the show lol, dismissed always, no more than the little kid, he was already dead

[friberchi]

Albireo knows a spell that allows them to take human form... or is it the other way round? (they/them)

[throughdarkeningskies]

I keep seeing all these posts about how chilchuck is a divorced middle-aged dad of three and I was like nice one good for him except. he's just revealed his age within the show and he's fucking.

29

am I missing something here because. that's not middle-fucking-age he's barely OUT of his youth