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lingrimmart · 8 months

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We had a monthly poll on our Patreon, were patrons were choosing a character for a TCOL promo art. Flynn became a July 2022 hero! First doodle is a post-poll art and the finished promo is here.

The last page is a concept of Flynn’s location in Chapter 3. This place is called the Vitrage Prison.

#Believe me or not but Flynn still is one of our two favorite characters in tcol #A miserable drunkard who became an obsessed occult-headed criminal #tcol: the Vitrage Prison #tcol: flynn #tcol #the crown of leaves #visual novel #shang-la #fantasy #anthro #art #digital artist

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necromeowncy · 1 year

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☀ Good morning ☀

#hey look it's G'raha Tia's favorite breakfast!#just makes me think of the AND THEN...SUDDENLY...THIGHS! moment from my Fantasies visual novel #RIP I made that visual novel before I knew how to make custom body scaling #so now in my screenshots Aedric and G'raha have the customized bodies I made for them #Aedric has larger thighs and a softer belly #G'raha has thiccer arms #perfect for lifting those thighs over his shoulders and- ok I'll stop this already has enough tags sjdasjdlkfjskdf #GOOD MORNING here are some AedRaha screenshots for you i love you tumblr #wolgraha #wol x g'raha tia #g'raha tia #elezen #elezen wol #ishgardian wol #gpose #my poses #AedRaha #aedric vaillencourt

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coffeebookslovegt · 16 days

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En nombre del océano del oriente les presento a la reina Lucy, la valiente.

En nombre del gran bosque de occidente el rey Edmund, el justo.

En nombre del radiante sol del sur la reina Susan, la benévola.

Y en nombre del claro cielo del norte les presento al rey Peter, el magnífico.

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chandralia · 2 years

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“SO BASICALLY THIS KID GETS HIS POWERS BY SAVING HIS CHILDHOOD FRIEND AND FORMS A COMPLEX RIVALRY WITH HIM DESPITE THEIR BAD HISTORY WHICH LEADS THEM TO CONSTANTLY STRIVE TO OUT-DO EACH OTHER IN THE PRESTIGIOUS HERO SCHOOL BUT THEIR OBSESSION WITH THE OTHER NARRATIVELY COMES OFF AS ROMANTIC SINCE THEIR DYNAMIC HAS AN OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF PARALLELS TO OTHER CANON COUPLES THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND—“

#resisting the urge to tell people I just met that Hori drew them as Godzilla and Mothra who are canonly the King and Queen of the Monsters #that the tarot cards for vol 33 have bkdk standing in The Lovers position #that Deku’s favorite meal is katsudon.. like KATSUKI’S NAME #and that their eyes are complementary colors #Toga’s words of ‘You wanna be the person you love’ when Ochako is asking ‘what would Deku do?’#ONLY FOR DEKU TO ASK ‘WHAT WOULD KACCHAN DO?’ and constantly mimic him #that the 2nd User used ‘hokan’ when saying ‘The one who can complete Midoriya Izuku now is…’ THEN BAKUGO APPEARING IN THE SKY LIKE AN ANGEL #those official rings that have quotes from characters saying things to Deku but DEKU’S RINGS are something said to Bakugo only #’You looked like you needed saving’ and ‘I spent my life chasing after you’#that Deku said ‘I can’t imagine a world in which Kacchan doesn’t exist’ in a light novel #and Deku KNOWING Bakugo had a fever just by how he acted and checked by touching his forehead-#only for Bakugo to angrily check DEKU’S forehead later with ‘You’re burning up too idiot’ IN THE TENT FROM ANOTHER LIGHT NOVEL #AND THE FACT THAT couples in mha LOOK LIKE bkdk… Bakugo’s parents resemble them- Shindo and his GF look identical to them-#Toga and Ochako have the sharp eyes/round eyes thing too !!#the fantasy au ending song was WRITTEN for them as said by LiSA herself #‘I imagined what it would be like if Izuku were singing his honest feelings to Katsuki. This is a song dedicated to Katsuki from Izuku’#and in all the official art from Hori for that au Deku and Bakugo are wielding the same sword from All Might broken right down the middle #*out of breath* there’s a million more but bkdk are always shown side-by-side drawn as equals two halves of the same whole #’win to save save to win’ you know???#I’ve said this already but this story started with them and it will END with them #bkdk #dkbk #bakudeku #dekubaku #:’)

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animepopheart · 1 year

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★ 【Enji】「麝香少女」 ☆ ⊳ yuui // dragon and ceremony ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

#dragon and ceremony #anime girl #anime art #light novel #fantasy art #artist: Enji #one of my favorite light novel series

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sombredancer · 10 days

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Recent visually beautiful and generally watchable Russian fantasy movies

(because I start forgetting they exist at all) Ironically, all of them are adaptations of books/comics.

I Am Dragon / Он — дракон (2015) This movie is a very free adaptation of the novel "The Rite" / "Ритуал" by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko (Марина и Сергей Дяченко). It's a reinterpreting of an ancient tale about a maiden, a hero and a dragon. I don`t like the novel because it's very postmodern, wracks the typical fairytale plot and hurts my escapist feelings by ugly reality, but the movie is pretty fairytale-ish and nice. Firstly, it is visually beautiful and represent Slavic pseudo-medieval lore the way it should have always been in Slavic fantasy.

Secondly, as a love story between a monster and a maiden, it has got A PLENTY of tropes I'm usually looking for in Chinese dramas, so I understand very well why it was pretty popular in Asia.

Thirdly, when I said it's visually beautiful I wasn't joking. The main hero is played not by an actor, but by a male model, who is shirtless all the time (and sometimes pantless) and has a very fit and good-looking body. It's something unbelievable that someone in Russia made a movie to please women's eyes! Really, it's insane!

The folk-rock band Мельница wrote an insanely beautiful song "Обряд" (The Rite) for this movie (more matched to the book plot, though), but it was never used as OST, which is a shame. The song is about a black sheep girl, who is denied by society and asks a dragon to come for her and to take her away, because the dragon is denied by this world just like her. You can listen to it here. The band also has a song "Змей" (The Wyrm) (based on Lev Gumilev's poem), which is more accurate to the plot of the movie: the wyrm kidnaps maidens to make them its wives, but they are all dying during the flight; at the end of the song a hero-knight is ready to shoot it in order to stop it. Listen to it here.

It ends with HE, which is better than the book's obscure ending, so it is pleasure for me to rewatch it till these days.

Major Grom: Plague Doctor / Майор Гром: Чумной Доктор (2021)

It is an adaptation of Russian comic series "Major Grom" by Bubble comics. I am traditionally not very happy with the source material, but it is very good reworked to be the screen play of this movie.

It's very beautifully made in terms of director's, cameraman's and screenwriter's work, which is a rare thing for Russian movies. Also, the actors are young and handsome, especially the villain, which is a rare thing not only for Russian movies, but for the current Western movies, too. It has got a lot of allusions to Russian reality and a lot of beautiful views of Saint Petersburg, the second capital of Russia and one of the most beautiful Russian cities. And it has got some unusual visual solutions that turn it into a comic it should be.

The plot revolves around a mysterious serial killer (kinda bad Batman), a black sheep police officer and Russian Mark Zuckerberg (kind of). Mark Zuckerberg is the best guy of this movie and I like him a lot! Серёёёёжа! 🧡🧡🧡

This movie wasn't popular in Russia because of political situation in the country by the moment of its release (the both sides found out in there something insulting for them and banned it), but even if it has something like that, I honestly didn't pay attention to it. It's just a nice blockbuster with a tragic and handsome villain. The villain also has got his own BL-drama (in the comics they are really lovers, it`s as obvious as it could be shown in a Russian comic).

By the way, the villain is hot, insane, ruthless, sensitive and suffering. How does he contain all of this character treats in one personality? you may ask. He doesn`t. He has dissociative identity disorder, I would answer.

I don`t know if it works by now, but some time ago you could watch this lovely movie on Netflix.

The Master and Margarita / Мастер и Маргарита (2024) This is a loose adaptation of Russian classical novel "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov. I genuinely hate this book, but the adaptation reinterprets it, divides it into very interesting layers and makes it understandable and beautiful.

It`s layered, so it will probably be hard to understand what layer are we currently on if you are not familiar with the original story. The first layer is an ugly Soviet reality, the second layer is a plot of the novel that the main hero is writing, a story within a story. The third layer is the insane intertwining of the first two layers. On the reality layer the Master loses his job and freedom because of friend's denunciation and becomes star-crossed lovers with a married woman. On the novel level he meets devil, who visits Moscow by chance, and the devil gives him and his woman opportunity to live their lives being free from everything that usually tortures people IRL. Somewhere among those layers is a little plot about Jesus and Pontius Pilate.

The movie is visually beautiful. Although it feels pretty anti-Soviet, Soviet visuals of the movie are gorgeous. There were used the Stalin-times concepts of Moscow of the Future, the CGI buildings in frame came from the real architecture projects of those times. The Stalin Empire architecture style and views are typical for Moscow (but as I know, ironically, this all was shot in Saint Petersburg). It seems to me that this movie is heavily stuffed with visual allusions to the Western works: devil's escort looks like bunch of Pennywises, Margarita is Enchantress from Suicide Squad I, the scene of blood dripping is from Blade I etc. Usually, when I see it in Russian movies, it feels like plagiarism because I can recognize the reference but there is nothing except for these references . But here we have got the plot, so the allusions work as allusions and don`t irritate me.

The movie is dark, disturbing, uncomfortable. It really makes you feel as if you watch devil and his escort marching around you; they ravage, kill and destroy everything and you can only breathlessly, helplessly and in fear watch them. The German actor playing devil is insanely good. He stole the movie and I understand why it should have been named Woland (the devil's name) instead of the current movie's name. You may want to watch it, because it's very unusual in terms of plot and visuals experience, especially when you are not familiar with the book.

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lingrimmart · 9 months

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Some kind of references for TCOL characters (Gideon and Louis as a bonus!).

Apparently this tinies were good for keychains merch, so we made a few designs for ourselves and for selling. You may see the result here!

#All our family took these keychains for their keys #Roui is Grimm’s mom favorite character #Grimm’s dad took Gideon and said they kinda similar (no) and it’s so funny because it’s some kind of Lins’ occasional sona #Grandma is in love with Louis #Nobody loves Kariom because he is a jerk #the crown of leaves #visual novel #fantasy #anthroart #keychains #merch #tcol: roui #tcol: kariom #tcol: bo #TGH: gideon #TGH: louis

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chiropteracupola · 8 months

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actually I have decided that I need to restore my Discussable Fantasy Enjoyer Qualifications so I am going on a quest for a copy of temeraire Right Now

#news from the cupola #entry form for a thing: list your favorite sff media #me: ah fuck I didn't know there was going to be a quiz #probably I should be good if I just say lotr and the rook and jsamn but also my brain is in the military-novel zone these days #and I think I have a too-broad definition of fantasy where the sort of Balladland Genre where foth and perilous gard and sutcliff stuff are #also counts as that. but those are more popularly regarded as historical fiction. Is The Thing.#this is one of those forms where the compulsion of 'just lie just lie just lie' is near and close but also in this case you can Tell #because I am entirely incapable of being obscure when I am Into something. good morning I can't shut up at all ever.

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rhyaxxyn · 2 months

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𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 : 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐍𝐍

Strange in a world of gods and humans, it had been the gods who learned to keep their heads down.

He dared not stare at anyone as he walked down the street, hands tucked in his pockets, shoes hardly making a sound with each step he took toward the hospital. Things had become worse than ever in a matter of weeks. The Revolutionists, humanity’s righteous brigade of scientists, soldiers, and supremacists, was gaining traction in multiple countries now. Should Quinn, God of Stars, behave as if he were divine, as if his blood ran any color but red, he’d risk the same fate as the dozens of gods who’d disappeared. Dozens just gone—and they were the fools.

Fools to go on pretending, to register themselves on the humans’ whims, to stifle their powers and refuse to use them because it was asked of them. After all, they were the aliens here, the foreigners. Immortal, godly, and yet they were hated by the very creatures that had once devoutly praised them.

As if he could judge his fellow deities. He’d stayed, and he was still staying. From the moment he arrived thousands of years ago, the first empires of Earth falling, he’d stayed.

But Quinn had been wise not to register himself. To pretend as if, when Omne signed the Heavens Act, he’d never existed. Only a decade ago had he resurfaced to continue his work. Even despite all their technological advancements, many of which being thanks to his kind, humans were still fragile things. He still had use, even if he couldn’t use his title. He could still save people.

Ignoring the latest propaganda being spat out by the Revolutionists, the maroon and scarlet poster glaring up at him, he raced up the steps to the hospital entrance.Things were quiet this late at night. It left him to his own thoughts as he finally reached the top-most level of the hospital. He slipped out of his jacket and into his lab coat, catching the faintest glimpse of his scar as he did so. Quinn never did know where it’d come from. When he awoke from his creation, guarded by a ring of stars—the greatest wonder of the now dead Phantom Empire—he had it. Not for millions of years did he bother questioning it.

tno | infinite tangents | prologue

#writeblr #writerblr #writing community #writers of tumblr #fantasy books #original characters #ocs #prologue #oc intro #writing #fantasy novel #this is by far one of my favorite first pages that i've written #!!!#tno #tno: quinn #the natural orders #infinite tangents

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coffeebookslovegt · 15 days

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¿Final?

No, el viaje no termina aquí. La muerte sólo es otro camino.

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lakecountylibrary · 3 months

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One-Quote Book Rec:

"That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands."

-- R.F. Kuang, Babel: An Arcane History

See more of Sean's recs

Check out Babel by R.F. Kuang

#this is supposed to be just 1 quote to get you to read the book but Sean says Babel is now in his top 10 favorite fantasy novels of all time #and that's high praise. so you should probably check it out #babel: an arcane history #babel an arcane history #r.f. kuang #fantasy #historical fantasy #one quote book recs #LCPL recs #books and reading #book recommendations #seanrecs

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katarh-mest · 3 months

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you know, the main reason I think The Apothecary Diaries has a big ol "This is a work of fiction" slapped all over it is because once you start digging into the details the anachronisms don't make sense any other way

#the apothecary diaries #the emperor apparently wears a tang dynasty hat but we have proto guns later in the novels #the hanfu are kind of all over the place too #of course all of the countries are made up too - the main country is Li #make it fantasy pre-modern China and you can pick and choose your favorite parts to borrow #and skip the tonsured hair on the men because that's kind of ugly to our current sensibilities

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yellow-yarrow · 5 months

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I cant relate to any booktok or booktube or whatever content cause I only read about icelandic fishermen and 20th century czech literature

#what i mean by that it that lately those categories have been my favorite #i tried reading a bunch of fantasy and popular novels last year and i only got like 1/10 through most of them #i need flawed weird characters!!!! who dont go to therapy. lol #i dont want to read about female archetype number 2 being a girlboss and male archetype number 3 being a good man #i want weirdos who you can't project onto but cant help but like them in a way cause they feel human #i also genuinely liked reading PJOL this year its right up in my alley

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kimboo-york · 1 month

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I have SUCH a soft spot for the portal fantasy/isekai trope, but I've resisted writing it for years. UNTIL NOW! ahahaha!

The thing that pushed me over the edge was a desire to see an OLDER woman thrown into a fantasy world, one she knows intimately as a fangirl. She's devoted to canon, she's read all the fanfic, she knows the exact trope she's fallen into!

And she realizes that she's been thrown into the body of the EVIL STEPMOTHER who DIES GRUESOMELY early in canon! Oh no!

Anyway, I hope to make it a fun, tropetastic, adventure story.

Head's up, it is going to be MMF in the long run, but that's a slow, slow burn.

AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY ON REAM! Chapters are free for followers!

#Transmigrated Teri #portal fantasy #isekai #older heroine #look we all want to leave this world sometimes #and get lost in our favorite novel!#teri does that and regrets it immediately

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ship-garbage-pile · 1 year

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Forever feeling that Final Fantasy Type-0 was done dirty, no matter the circumstances. They had such a fun world and lore yet knowing we won’t ever get a Type-Next infuriates me.

Like they really teased and made a beautiful-strange yet hype teaser for a sequel-Ace in wearing samurai armor, being revived by a fire lady and just looking so cool! I want more for the series 😔

#final fantasy type 0 #fft0 #like my experince with type 0 wasn’t perfect since I played on a really badly optimized Pc port but I still loved it #ace is my favorite #so seeing him looking cool is why I was extra hype #i know there was also a phone game that never came outside of Japan which looked intirguing because you could make an agito cadet oc and Q~Q #i would have loved to make a cadet!#besides it looks like such a visual novel too #i remember the trailer where ace was fretting over the cadet that was absolute dating sim fuel #heck a rougelike might be fun for the series too knowing it’s a loop #ff type 0 spoilers

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