#tagging it that way for reasons

[dinrelsanddragons]

To explain how Lambda has her current intelligence and wisdom ability scores (respectively 9 and 10) and can still spit smart or wise things:

Her wisdom is still even with the average person, and her intelligence is only barely under that. She makes up for these things with the fact that the brunt of the time, she is a dumb-ass-brick, evening out the wise/intelligent actions or statements. Examples under the cut.

Lambda-isms in her D&D verse: – Asked a wish of a reality-bending dhampir child. That wish was for a doll of her pops, Raithyon, according to a reference drawing she had just made for that purpose. (Okay in the context of the scene, she couldn't get anything big due to limitations in the girl's power, but she still sidetracked a critical conversation about the girls' powers for that.) – Jumped overboard the ship she was on, to help what looked like a dying sea humanoid (turned out to be a cursed merfolk), had to Dimension Door back to the ship to escape a grapple and further attacks by this creature's allies. Received DM inspiration, despite party members and allies telling her never to do that again. – Talked with her mouth full during a dinner with a powerful evil undersea archfey (basically if The Little Mermaid's Ursula seized control of the merfolk civilization and was an archfey.) Thankfully received no punishment for this as the archfey didn't care to harm an ally of her precious adopted hexblood daughter; Lambda even received DM inspiration. – Met a pixie (outside of combat, who was friendly) who tried to polymorph the rogue into 'something cute.' Proceeded to hastily draw a cat, hold up the picture, and point at herself in order to get polymorphed. Willingly failed the save and spent the next few minutes nuzzling and purring on the party, until the pixie passed out, drunk. – Saw someone threatening a crowd of villagers in order to get information on her, heard one villager volunteer information on where she was, proceeded to heal that villager's otherwise fatal wound which he was dealt for talking out of turn, and then revealed herself (by dropping Greater Invisibility) to the villain and yelled "PICK ON SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE!" This villain turned out to be her psychotic older sister. – Pantsed a dead vampire who moments ago had tried to drink her dry, to see if he had 'bits.'

Lambda-isms in Discord RPs: – Insisted so hard on getting into a very secret and private meeting, that she specifically was barred from due to the extreme likelihood of fucking it up, that in order to get past the guards at the door to this meeting, she put them to sleep with magic. She was then the key in getting both parties to agree. – Altered, by her own hand, a contract negotiated between her father Raithyon and King Jacinto of Hyrule (over at reginalucem) just so she could have it in writing that, in exchange for the Blackscales' services to Hyrule, she could shake Jacinto's hand (in addition to their other payment(s).) – Stole Zelda's Shiekah Slate in an Age of Calamity verse without any clue of what it was or how it functioned, simply because she heard her pops and auntie talking about how much it might sell for. – Saw a kirin, yelled excitedly, ran over, and hugged it. Additionally, when it became apparent that this kirin was intelligent and trying to communicate by drawing in the dirt with a hoof, Lambda was the only one (out of her, Raithyon, and Sekkala) capable of correctly interpreting what Sekkala described as "a worm that did an unholy mix of the lambada and a seizure and then exploded." – Accidentally discovered she could 'revivify' the recent dead, by proceeding to try to heal someone who had received a fatal wound even after their heart stopped beating. Exhausted herself in doing so and as a result, and passed out. – Frequently goes behind whatever authority applies in her situation in order to arrange things better. Princess Lambda AU example: "There are strong monsters that need handled and Cousin Jacinto's thinking of mobilizing the royal guard to do it? I'll tell Uncle Raithyon!" – Will love on her family without restraint regardless of how serious the present situation is, so long as she is physically able to. – Another Princess Lambda AU example: Became pen pals with Raven Alloway, who in that AU led a group of criminals called the Sablefangs. Every one of the Sablefangs had a reason to hate Hyrule and distrust its royalty... Except Lambda, after meeting her.

[cozymodeonpoint]

senshi fans: learning how to make nutritious meals for themselves

laios fans: down bad

marcille fans: lesbianism

chilchuck fans: putting that man in situations

[joshuamj]

Hero.

[ca-3]

twitter is distracting cause i keep saving tweets to draw... anyway, this is MakoHaru to me 🤭

(Bonus: big sis is here to help....?)

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Spiritual seekers need one another as mirrors. A member of the Hopi nation once asked me about our holy days. I was telling him about Passover, our celebration of freedom, and Sukkot, our Feast of Tabernacles, and how they fit in with the cycles of the year. "I think I get it," he said finally. "You people don't want to be in slavery. And you want to pass this on to your children. But when you tell your kids on Passover, 'We have to go away from here; we can't stay here because it will cost us our freedom,' your kids will say, 'Yeah, but what are we going to eat?' So you teach them how to bake bread on stones, how to roast a lamb if you are hungry, how to find dandelion greens, and so on. When the kids ask, 'But where will we stay?' you show them how to build a lean-to, so they will have somewhere to live." An Indian perspective on the mitzvot to eat the Passover lamb with matzot and bitter herbs and to build a sukkah on Sukkot gave me a completely different insight into my own traditions.

-Jewish with Feeling, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. 2005, p. 198-199

[courtmartialme]

transmasc riza sketches ^__^ i think a lot about riza being scared about coming out and changing his relationship with roy while roy is just so happy riza wants something for himself. and also roy learning chest binding safety because his captain is stubborn

dont tag as gndrbnd thankyu

[wardingshout]

Zelda goes mushroom girl

[haunted-xander]

I made this AAAAGES ago and forgot to post it and now I'm annoyed by how it's rotting away on my phone so here. Bratty teen Thancred being a menace to Fourchenault (and a bad influence on Urianger lol)

[feelo-fick]

um ok cool thanks for letting me know .... why are you telling me this

[elkian]

So I never really questioned Kabru and Mithrun's dynamic given what's coming up, but that episode really emphasized some stuff to me. We know already that long-lived races, particularly elves, have a tendency to dismiss the other groups as being childlike. But the sheer infantilization that everyone, and specifically Kabru, have to deal with in that episode really hammers it home.

When Kabru mentions his adoption, pretty much all of the Canaries start immediately treating him like a toddler. And we know from flashbacks in the manga that he received pretty much the same treatment from his adopter - I wouldn't say he was quite treated like a favored pet, but it's much closer to that than any kind of healthy relationship dynamic.

So when Mithrun stands up, gets in his face, looks him eye-to-eye and says: "You're plotting something. I'm going to find out what.", that? That is the first time in this scene - maybe in his life - that an elf takes Kabru seriously. Mithrun has his own thing going on, but regardless of his reasoning, he addresses Kabru as a person and an adult. As someone with complex motivations who could potentially trip him up. I don't doubt Kabru has in the past used that infantilization to his advantage, but it's blatantly obvious that he doesn't enjoy it. Who would? So Mithrun starting their relationship by treating Kabru as a peer explains a lot about their dynamic down the line, in my opinion.

Kabru doesn't have to prove his humanity, his personhood, his adulthood to this man, one of a group infamous for how they treat younger species. It must feel like one hell of a paradigm shift.

EDIT: I've seen it pointed out on this post and others that Kabru also shows Mithrun understanding and decency and sees him in a way that others haven't been and I think that's a very important parallel and good point.

[junk-heart]

Here are the promised sketches

I really like how I've drawn tz and vriska on the first page

[redysetdare]

All this aroace character shipcourse has proven to me that a majority of people that interact in fandom cannot actually interact with characters and media outside of shipping and genuinely I believe you need to learn how to interact with media outside of shipping.

[lucabyte]

So does anybody else ever think about how Loop felt the need to demonstrate that the party's deaths wouldn't have any effect on the loops. I know I do but that's besides the point. Anyway I don't think Loop actually needs to bathe, they just like to feel included.

[collophora]

More minibatch adventure I need a full show maybe too XD

[cordycepsbian]

selkies have been taking up so much of our brain for the past few days so here's a scelkie (scug selkie) looks to the moon

[uncanny-tranny]

The whole "breasts shouldn't be politicized because the primary purpose of breasts is to feed babies!" can be a fine jumping-off point, but I really wish people thought deeper than that when we talk about the ways in which bodies are politicized and restricted.

Like, why's it that when we talk about breasts, they must have some Higher Purpose? It's true that breasts aren't inherently sexual, but they aren't valuable solely because they can potentially feed a baby. A human body doesn't have to serve a Higher Purpose in order for it to not be legislated against or policed, and I just wish people would remember it isn't always about babies, about other people, about anything else other than the people who have that body.