#horror dwarf

[soothedcerberus]

Then they got a good day nap in :] Thank you for reading! 💖

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as The Magic Mirror 🪞

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1984)

[somegrumpynerd]

"Trying to keep these oversized hamsters alive"

Fuvk. Now i yearn to See them drawn as hamsters for real! 💘🥺🥺🥺 pls bless us with Bad sans hamsters, i beg u pleeeaseee. 😭😭💕

- 🍓

Weeeeell alright, but only because you asked so nicely and also I really really love hamsters lol

(I've only ever had history with dwarf hamsters so that's what they all are to me, sanses are short anyway so it kinda fits.)

I made Killer and Dust roborovskis because they were the first hamsters I had and I have favourites. Also they are fast as hell so good luck catching these guys if they get out. I made Horror and Cross russians because they get a lil bit bigger than robos and I wanted a black and white one for Cross.

Also I dunno if you've ever seen those videos of 2 hamsters trying to run on the same wheel and one getting spun around or thrown off, but that's 100% Killer and Cross.

[oldschoolfrp]

Vampires in different forms, all recognizable by their insatiable thirst for blood (Russ Nicholson, from "Bloodsuckers: Brief Notes on the Ecology of the Vampire in D&D" by Marcus L Rowland, in White Dwarf 37, Games Workshop, January 1983)

[chuthulhu-reads]

[ID: Two panels from Dungeon Meshi. The first scows Senshi clutching his face as tears start to spill out of his eyes, saying, "I've always... always wanted to have this soup one more time." He's not wearing his helmet in this panel, so his face is unusually visible, detailed and vulnerable. The second panel shows himself as a youngster, surrounded by his old mining team, all smiling at each other, one of them rubbing Senshi's head. Modern-day Senshi continues, "Thank you. All of you. Thank you." End ID.]

Holy shit. I anticipated some tragic backstory from the "I must feed the young ones" panels, but what I'd guessed was that Senshi might have become so devoted to cooking and eating literally whatever because he'd previously survived a famine and had seen children starve to death. I did not expect him to have been the child who was the sole survivor of a doomed travel party, one of whom was determined to feed Senshi first because he was the youngest, and that Senshi has lived with the fear of having inadvertently committed cannibalism by eating stew that he'd never quite known the contents of. I'm happy for him that Laios deduced and confirmed for him that it was griffin meat, that he was able to taste the meal that saved his life once more and remember the friends he lost. Seriously, I'm crying, and also earnestly relieved that while his backstory is pretty dark, it's not the type of fucked up I'd been preparing myself mentally for.

[weirdlookindog]

Snow White and the Deadly Dwarfs

by Esteban Maroto (art) / Gerry Boudreau & Steve Skeates (script)

from Vampirella #39, January 1975

source

[therealsullivan3000]

I'm so normal about this show that I'm totally not thinking about the fact that during season 3 of Red Dwarf Lister has what seems to be a smegging ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW POSTER HUNG UP ON HIS BUNK??? THE QUEER CULT CLASSIC??? LISTER I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE.

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Arthur Adams

[wealmostaneckbeard]

Signalis and Dungeon Meshi: Unorganized Comparison

Both are about crawling through dungeons, fighting monsters, and picking things up to get into inaccessible places.

There's a pair of siblings and a lesbian couple, both are cruelly separated by powerful forces. The living half (Marcille Donato, Elster, Isa Itou, Laios Touden) is willing to do anything to bring back their loved one (Falin Touden, Erika Itou, Ariane Yeong) from the depths of the dungeon. The searchers are motivated not just by love but guilt too, a stubborn refusal to fail their beloved one last time by abandoning then.

Both stories are about the evils of anthropocentric ideologies. It is the inescapable first lense that we all see the world through. It is a subjective, selfish, and almost nihilistic view point. It is the belief that the universe cannot match the significance of humanities existence. For anyone who has loved another human, this is an easy ideology to embrace.

It's also the foundation for hierarchical authoritarianism which dictates that you are either a productive member of humanity or a nonhuman agent of a hostile universe. Those who try to view the universe as itself and not as a means of, or obstacle to, the gratification of human desire are put into the latter grouping. Those who conform are elevated to positions of power within the hierarchy. This is illustrated by the suffering of Ariane Yeong and Laios Touden. As well as the elevation of various political figures in Dungeon Meshi and Kommandant Falke in Signalis.

Both universes feature similar world building elements: a cosmic force grants individual humans their anthropocentric desires resulting in the formation of impossible things. In Signalis, bioresonance allows for the colonization of other worlds and the creation of replikas. In Dungeon Meshi, the Demon's intercession has resulted in the formation of different races, monsters, dungeons, and the magical arts.

And now we come to where the two narratives truly differ with each other:

The characters in Dungeon Meshi are able to triumph over anthropocentric thought and create a better world. Tragically, the characters in Signalis are not able to do the same and become trapped in a hellish existence. This isn't exclusively because of their traits, they are unconsciously conforming to a larger pattern.

In Dungeon Meshi, the natural world still exists and can be defended from corrupting supernatural influence. Even when the earth is devastated by magically augmented warfare, the world is big enough to recover. There are trained specialists, like the canaries, who are able to counter the expansion of dungeons and it's associated threats. Because magic is so important to the world dungeon meshi, knowledge is prevalent with a few severe restrictions.

In Signalis, Vineta/Earth was destroyed by the war between the Eusan Nation and Empire. The closest that people can get to nature is potted plants and a nights sky. The Eusan Nation limits knowledge about bioresonance so that no one can use that to challenge their authority. As a result, no one can understand what's happening during a bioresonance crisis.

In Dungeon Meshi, food preparation is a narrative focal point, it connects people to the world and each other. In Signalis, food is a secondary consideration, it is rationed out by the Eusan Nation, given to good citizens and denied to dissidents.

Ryoku Kui is a japanese manga creator and Rose Engine are a pair of german game developers. One could guess that the artistic differences between them are reflective of their nations history during a certain conflict that happened in the last century...

[greatkittydream]

Story idea tell me what you think.

Human gets sent to another world

without humans. But has all the other classic fantasy races like orcs elves dwarfs You know the classics. Except they all have shit stamina and the only species that comes close to the Humans ability to eat anything is basically just the dwarfs.

Anyways main character gets picked up by the classic cass of one of One of each species or something. Along the way they figure out all the intriguing little things about humans about Good at just about everything but not perfect at anything.

Example the dwarf Starts crying saying mood Kendred. Because the human enjoys seasoning as much as he does and he's not alone any more. They rolled into a town and he Rented out to the local blacksmith to Constantly Push up and down on the bellows to make the furnace hotter.

He gets there opinion if he should go clean shave or grow a beard and the dwarf and the elf start arguing about what would work best for them.

If the orc and the human start bonding over fighting sports and the similarities and their cultures.

What do you guys think. Basically humans are work horses That can work way longer than other species.

[bubblebaath]

the circus has arrived in town!

[bloodybosom]

[sophiemcswag]

the red dwarf x rocky horror picture show crossover nobody asked for!!!

(ignore all the costume irregularities, i ended up just having fun with it😭 also them wearing the lesbian flag colours was an honest accident but not a bad one in my opinion)

[syncast-err0r]

kio & kio (cursed)

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[oldschoolfrp]

"Old Tomb: The double doors of this building are elaborately carved with a leering face and grotesque torso. This carving depicts the same pagan deity the PCs might have discovered on the old statue on The Hill." (Jim Holloway illustration for D&D module B5: Horror on The Hill by Douglas Niles, TSR, 1983) Holloway often put caricatures of other TSR artists in his work, and the dwarf here might be another instance of him drawing Larry Elmore with diminutive stature.

[rotten-whispers]

Shrimp

One night, aspiring shrimp-breeder Dan dreams that his dwarf shrimp are carrying away his body to a hidden shrine in the lake. Now, they share a forbidden secret each night, but he awakens to find a small piece of himself devoured.

As Dan realizes the horrible price that he must pay for the world's knowledge, he struggles to find a way to defeat the shrimp before all of him is eaten away.