#i want a fantasy world with dragons

[galaxythedragonshifter]

The feeling when you want to make your own fantasy world and you've tried so hard you've gotten to the point where you have no idea what you want

#galaxy rambles #im genuinely stuck asf rn #i want a fantasy world with dragons #but do I include the humans? #i want to because Galaxy's whole thing is being a Dragonshifter #but at the same time I'm having the worst time trying to connect to human OCs #and develop the human culture because there's nothing keeping me interested #but at the same time idk what I want because no matter what I think of it doesn't work #so im stuck in this “i dont know wtf i want” state because im not getting attached to ANYTHING #no matter how many things I add into it that I like #which has been my problem with fantasy worlds since the beginning #EVERY. ONE. I. MAKE. #no matter how interesting or complex I try and make it I lose attachment #writers please help me- 😭 #maybe im too self aware #writer asks #writer problems #writers on tumblr #writers #worldbuilding #worldbuilding help #why is it so easy to get connected to everyone else's human characters #but when I do it I can't get anything #?????

[corseque]

made the mistake of clicking on the "for you" tab and saw the worst dragon age text post I have ever seen. It was like "man, I hope Bioware goes back to exploring [idea they thoroughly explored in all 3 games] like they did in Origins. I just know that they're just so obsessed with [idea that has been the main focus of everything from the very first cutscene of Origins]. I'm so sick of it."

This is what 10 years of not actually playing any of the games and playing them in your head is like. 10 years. I think some of you guys need a break. I know it did me some good.

#Dragon Age #I love when people pretend like Origins was some low fantasy game that had no gods or whatever #when the game is about saving the world from a mystical magical demon-god-dragon #'I want to go back to low fantasy like origins' #you mean the game where you talk to trees? #'I wish there was politics again like origins' #yeah exactly like I wish we could go to a fancy ball and uncover political schemes and then decide on who would rule the kingdom at the end #wish that a game other than origins had something like that

[hyydraworks]

Next Etsy update is going to have as it always does, a lot of random stuff, but it is absolutely dragon focused, and as some dragon designs got updated their info cards need updating as well.  Ember dragons of all the dragons species, love to flaunt their magical power, and what better way than making floating islands?

#hyydraworks #fantasy #fantasy art #dragon #dragons #dragon art #ember draon #oc #creature #creature art #world building #watercolor #gouche #painting #lore #landscape #dude #i have wanted to do floating islands for literally forever #pretty happy with how they turned out #shout out to some amazing poster art of castle in the sky #which was 80% of my reference for the upper image

[morninkim]

d&d tomberly... save me..

d&d tomberly

save me d&d tomberly

#power rangers #mmpr #tomberly #d&d #fantasy au #low pressure messy ass lil doodle to get the image out of my brain #tommy's a dragonborn redemption paladin who used to work for an evil sorceress (fantasy rita) as her first knight and vengeance paladin #kim's an assassin rogue who worked for the same sorceress under a (now broken) mind control spell #they travel together as adventurers to find new purpose in the world and right the wrongs of their pasts #and eventually fall in love along the way #truly just smashing together and playing dolls with different versions of them but now tommy's a big lizard and there's dungeons/dragons #tommy was also known as ser drakkon while serving under fantasy rita #and kim was just called slayer #so it takes a while for them to get used to using their normal names instead of their old titles once they start travelling together #ill do proper designs later i just wanted to fuck around a lil bit #(the height difference is also much more significant in ''canon'' imagine kim's on an apple box idk)

[bugbrews-creations]

Rabbit my beloved.

(Translation: I have brainrot.)

#art #my art #artists on tumblr #queer artist #disabled artist #writers on tumblr #my characters #oc art #original character #digital art #digital illustration #digital drawing #digital artist #dnd #dungeons and dragons #He's not a DND oc but his world is vaguely inspired by DND LMAO #elf #fantasy character #elf character #elf oc #fantasy oc #transgender #trans joy #trans man #trans pride #glowing #I just wanted to do glow effects and Rabbit haunts my brain like a gay poltergeist. #He knocked over my cup of coffee and then proceeded to sit there looking ethereal.

[heronoegg]

ok, so in this AU Kirishima is a dragon and dragon's in this world are like supposed to be extinct because the humans drove them away when something called "the tragedy" happened, some of the dragons died but some of them assumed human forms to stay alive and Kirishima's mom she wanted to live so instead of risking it to take care of her children she waited until Tatami became old enough to take care of them and left to live a quiet "normal human" life. the Kiri and Tetsu always had a hard time keeping their dragon parts in and that's the main reason she left them. Didn't wanna risk all of them dying but this is selfish on her part.

Tatami resents her mom for this (mommy issues tm) but Kiri and Tetsu were too young for it to bother them all that much

#art #kirishima eijiro #tatami nakagame #tetsutetsu tetsutetsu #fantasy 2 point o au #Don't worry things get better i want to comic it out #Baby kiri and baby Tetsu turn colors when they grow up #Kiri's hair is black meaning he was a black dragon and Tetsu is a blond dragon but when they shed he turns gray like rocks so he can blend- #in and Kiri turns red and doesn't blend in with anything really #We have a whole world system set up for this AU it's wild

[a-dip-in-the-source]

Dragon Problems in each Dragonwatch book.

Book One: Hey Agad Are We Going To Acknowledge That You Promised Celebrant To Let Him Be Caretaker If He Fought The Demons With You.

Book Two: This Dragonwatch Book Sure Is About Ronodin and Humbuggle Huh. Are We Not Going To Try And Negotiate More With The Dragons.

Book Three: Hey Did You Just Introduce Another Villain. Also I Feel That More People Should Be Working On The Whole 'Fallen Sanctuary Thing'

Book Four: Dragon Slavery Is Bad Guyz But Stop Looking At It Look At Seth Be Sad. The Giants Are Going Get Killed For This So Don't Concern Yourselves With It. The Protagonists Don't Have Time To Deal With The Dragon Slavery.

Book Five: We Have Done Nothing To Confront Why The Dragon's Went To War In The First Place. Yay.

#fablehaven #dragonwatch #dragonwatchdragging #Author dares to ask the question 'what if my book about dragons wasn't about dragons' #answering boring as fuck #I have a long post about Cottg and how the Dragon Slavery is condemned but never dealt with but I don't want to post it lol it makes me sad #tldr: its a world building choice the author included to make his plot work so while it does get condemned via narration #the narrative itself flippantly skips past it so the protagonists can deal with 'more important things' which is wildly fucked up #tired of fantasy stories including things like slavery while not intending to grapple with it in a meaningful way

[boyybites]

what if i made offbrand tieflings that were just giant hell cows huh, what then?

#wip #wip tag #doing a basic race ref sheet? #just to get the general idea of what these races look like #no two are the exact same ofc and variations occur as with any physical traits #i should do a species sheet for each of them #like a little page or something #anyways i want humans to be the rarer/more uncommon race in my fantasy world #tired of humans domination shit in fantasy we aint shit #u cannot tell me we'd be fine alongside motherfucking dragons idc who we think we are #and the bugs tho #imagine the fantasy bugs #gnats be everywhere bro you think we could defend against that????

[wylldebee]

Dear Bioware Please have one of the voices we can give to our character a Scottish one, aka the Starkhaven accent in game. Because I want one. And a Welsh one. And an Irish one. And an African one. And a lot more. Because you have the money to do that. Sincerely Somebody who wants more voice variety in a fantasy world that extends beyond British and American.

#dragon age #dragon age dreadwolf #bioware #voice acting #more variety please #you gave us Italian and Spanish antivans #and French accents in Orlais #now give us more #I want more accents #more accents getting a chance to shine in fantasy world #especially one as big and famous as Thedas/Dragon Age

[magnificentposting-fabrizioart]

Anyway I made fun of the opening editing/length, and of how music is actually used in the show sometimes but I actually love the score so far, and the opening itself is just so DAMN EPIC.

#magnificent century #muhteşem yüzyıl #magnificent tumblring #no but for real you could play it over a big open world fantasy game footage/trailer and it'd fit so perfectly #which reminds me we really need more fantasy stuff based on late medieval and early modern Muslim kingdoms btw #i just want dragon riding janissaries tbh #The Legend of Sulta: Breath of The Dawla

[galaxythedragonshifter]

I'm doing research so I can make my dragon species more believable, and HOLY MOLY

I'm learning a LOT about some of the most powerful and fastest animals in the world-

Who knew world building could be so educational LMAO-

#galaxy rambles #world building #worldbuilding #writing #seriously a Jaguar can crush your skull with literally NO effort with thier JAW ALONE #like holy moly guacamole #(I'm making my dragon species more “believable” like this not because I feel like I have to but because I want to) #(idc if its fantasy I do what I want 😤/j)

[questwithambition]

A friend and I have started a tradition of “book awards”: at the end of the year, around December, we collaborate on a PowerPoint titled “books awards 20xx”. Each slide is a category, and on each slide we both put our personal winners of that category - these vary from more traditional (book / series / author / character of the year) to the more fun (character crush, interior design aka illustrations and mise en page, and on of my favs, Dragons 🐉). And then sometime early January on our call we just go through the presentation and talk about the books and what we loved and what we’re planning to read and gush some more about lesbians wielding swords (they’re just the best, I have to tell the truth). Anyway, it’s a really fun time, a way to keep record of the books read, and also makes you excited about the reading ahead!

#the dragons slide is actually titled DRAGONS but I didn’t want to overhhelm the paragraph #we also have fav cover / magic system / world building / books the other should read / fav non fiction and non fans yay #fantasy #because if you couldn’t tell that’s the main genre here 😂 #anywho would recommend! a two person book club! #questwithambition #studyblr #books #bookblr

[wylanzahn]

Transcription: (in case you can’t read)

This Shattered World We Knew,

Our home was a cottage on a hill,

The neighbors said when we bought the shack,

It has known a great deal many–

A farmer and his homestead,

A hero with no further purpose,

A banker’s son and his lover–

And now it knows a family,

A family with no anguish

With only a desire for a home,

We lived in that home

For fifteen winters

We had a child, two dogs, and cat,

All ‘us called it home.

It burns now,

Our home, Our cottage,

Like the screaming sun,

Fueled only by hunger,

To grow it’s magnificently

Attuned flames,

Our home,

Our cottage.

Where our son was bore,

Lived a life,

And untimely met his end.

Now I stare into your eyes,

Your picture clutches to a loose frame in my hands,

I’ve failed you as a husband,

I’ve failed our child as a father,

I have failed as a protector,

And now I must live amongst the broken glass,

Amongst this shattered disk we knew.

This poem is related to a current project of mine, which is funny because this thing predates my web-series by like… 4 years?? It’s crazy how far I’ve made it. I hope you enjoy!

#in world artifact #writing #original story #worldbuilding #fantasy #dungeons and dragons #d&d teaser for my campaign #d&d #d&d 5e #it’s been so long #it’s been 4 years #4 years!!!!!! #it’s crazy #this whole project started as literally a small dnd campaign idea #haha #in fact #when I originally pitched it #i remember #my theater teacher turned around and told me that my idea was so crazy he wasn’t sure he understood it #it was a good laugh though and it inspired me to keep working on it #poetry #poems on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poem #original poem #digital art #digital marketing #marketing in the sense that I want you to follow my account

[oldshrewsburyian]

I can’t believe I didn’t think of this explanation for the climactic and dietary oddities of Westeros; @sanguinarysanguinity, you’re a visionary.

Also, both the quantity and fervor of responses to my GOT mutterings were surprising, so: sure, I will continue these semi-resentful reports. The tag to follow/block will be ‘a medievalist does GOT.’

#game of thrones #a medievalist does got #yes i KNOW it's a fantasy novel yes i recognize that he's deliberately mixing made-up species with real ones #but *deep breath* if his fake world is going to be so obviously europe/central asia with the labels scraped off #i want to know where the pumpkins come from!! #dragons seem a good answer #dragons DID exist in the medieval european imaginary! pumpkins did not! #currently reading #fun... with... medievalism?

[bibberbang]

too much scifi and fantasy is "this is how we can transcend humanity, here is a glorified being thats Beyond humanity, humanity is Flawed, having a body is a flaw, and we have to Ascend to something higher and Better". i genuinely hate that viewpoint on reality. its so sooo so sad to think that way in my opinion

more scifi and fantasy should be like "look at these beings that are very Alien and Other but we still share a celebration for the core things that make us alive like food and drink and life routines and community and pleasures and sharing and building a world that includes all of us even if life is messy sometimes." my worldbuilding project is about a lot of different things, but i think that is the core theme that encompasses it all. i think is is why i also really enjoy the work of a few other popular worldbuilders on here, who create stuff of this message

#can you tell i hate nihilistic transhumanism? not sure if thats exactly the right term for it but YKWIM. #i include monsterpeople in my story but they arent going Beyond humanity. theyre a celebration of humanitys personalities n individualities #humanity is NOT ON A SCALE!!!! being human is not a flaw that we should move beyond. humans are flawed but BEING human is not a bad thing #and this is coming from someone whod love to be a werewolf or dragon in addition to being human. you can enjoy humanity AND fantasy both. #and human bodies do not need transcended. human bodies are beautiful. as much as society wants you to believe otherwise #We Live In A Society I KNOW. but its true #you can TELL some sci fi and fantasy writers hate humanity and the human body and society. it sucks. i feel bad for them! #i just think if youre alive you need to try to love being alive and be an altruistic person #it doesnt matter how many horrible things exist in the world. stay hopeful and hope will find you #its ok if nobody knows what im talking about i just like rambling about Subtle THemes in Media #also not to talk about bloodborne again but i think bloodborne is a good example of how trying to transcend humanity is actually horrifying

[bloomfish]

fallout tv series has taken me completely by surprise like i had no idea this was happening at all. i mean i'd kill/murder/die for it to be based in new vegas but it looks like it might be okay, it's a good choice to have an independent story rather than adapting one of the games directly

#i guess it was a matter of time. tlou was so successful #and suddenly theres a whole untapped market of excellent stories and franchises for greedy greedy hbo or netflix or amazon #i imagine they'll do life is strange that seems readily adaptable. #i tend to think fantasy series like elder scrolls and dragon age are less likely (also i don't want them) #they translate better to animation anyway #but mass effect is somewhat plausible. i would not be totally opposed tbh even though it would def be mshep #my dream would be that they listen to the people (rabid tali fans) and go for tali but they might not dare. the worlds not ready