#it's such a fun swashbuckler

[hussyknee]

I haven't read Prisoner of Zenda, but I refuse to believe it could be any better than its satirical retelling The Henchmen of Zenda by K. J. Charles. Queer mercenaries playing triple agents to bring down both factions while having horny sex, and boss bitch women working together to take back control abusive, egomaniacal misogynists? What conventional Victorian waffle can compare?

#it's such a fun swashbuckler #detchard's whole thing is not being showy or reckless but he still has the same vibe as Lord Crane in Charm of Magpies #they both pretend to have no morals and be self-interested bastards but they're just intrinsically decent and unstintingly loyal #detchard's friendship with toni felt a lot like crane's with leo #hentzau was very good too but i would have liked him better if detchard could have stopped rhapsodizing about him for five mins #i also liked how flavia was such a force of personality off-screen when we only get to meet her in person once #toni was what really pulled the book together though. her desperation for her daughter and loathing of michael its emotional core #a fun‚ galloping little romp #kj charles #the henchmen of zenda #the prisoner of zenda #queer historical fiction #queer historical romance #book recs #book recommendations #knee of huss

[galacticsabc]

Self care is realizing you can do whatever the fuck with you art skills, even make the tropiest, most self indulgent character design ever.

Is he just another swashbucklin' rogue with gumption? yeah. Is he cool? fuck yeah.

#i really just said one night “im going to combine my favourite classes with another elf twink babygirl character” and yknow what. I did it #highly recommended activity. sometimes. u just gotta say “who tf cares” and make something ultra induglent. yknow. for yourself and for fun #shadar kai #dnd #dnd5e #swashbuckler rogue #hexblade warlock #dnd rogue #dnd warlock #dnd art #oc #dnd oc #dnd character #elf #character design #character art #art #my art #artwork #my artwork #dreamerx86

[spotlightstudios]

Wizard 101: Hey kid, you just got pulled into Wizard School, and it looks like you're ready to start. Go down that path and someone will teach you to fight. Oh shit, that's Malistare, uhhhh, *one minor battle later* Good job kid. Go and do some little quests and beat up some fairies, you're doing great! :)

Pirate 101: You're in jail. Pirates are breaking you out of jail! They're... asking about your trauma. You're a pirate, an orphan, the son of a whore and a scotsman, you were raised by another group of people, now you're pulling a jail break and helping other prisoners escape! A uhhh, a guy threatens to murder you. He's the one who locked you up. The pirate guy almost dies and you have to drive his ship??? *one stressful sail later* Hey kid, go beat up this guy who stole from me. I'm gonna cheat and scam you, btw, just so you know. :)

#light's spot #W101 #P101 #pirate101 #wizard101 #I'm biased because I'm a Wizard thru and thru #but I played Pirate yesterday and am losing my mind over the shift of tone #in w101 it's like sure I'm the hero of the spiral but it's a story of training and growth and friendship #in p101 it's like I'm a wanted criminal yet I don't have a ship or a name for myself nor a crew and this Armada guy really wants to murder #me specifically??? #anyways #Silent Ryan Ironside is my mute pirate and Subodai will forever be my first mate because we're bound by mutual imprisonment and escape #<- She's a Swashbuckler and was raised in Grizzleheim btw. her parents were killed in a mutiny #pretty sure she became a mute after her parents were killed and the Grizzleheim bears gave her the name “Silent” and she took the lastname #of “Ironside” while she was in their care because she'd shoulder her way into battle #fun shift of pace from Natalie BlueFlower who was just like #huh I'm an ice wizard now- HOLY SHIT I'M GETTING MAGICKED AT- #and then never stopped being magicked at lmao

[nosnexus]

Practicing posing with some ladies and Pathfinder feats

#dnd #Pathfinder 2E #swashbuckler #champion #my art #MY OCs #fun little project while I'm sick #and there's plenty of fun feats to choose from

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

oh dear Zeus, there is a diety, and she’s looking after us all!

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #Rhys Darby #Rhys Darby’s instagram #swashbuckling #let’s have some fun with it #dreamy Stede #i’m dying #ofmd s2 #if you don’t want spoilers don’t go online #swoon worthy

[niobiumao3]

The Meet Cute but in a D&D setting:

Phee, an Arcane Trickster: You're a handsome devil, what's your name. Tech, a Bladesinger Tiefling: Like all tiefling clones I am derived from a demon, not a devil. Devils are--

#star wars #the bad batch #tbb tech #phee genoa #techphee #tech x phee #phee like ah yes I see #well you're cute either way brown eyes #obvs Hunter is a ranger/druid #Wrecker is a Rune Knight #Cross is a gunslinger or ranged Battlemaster #Echo I can go a few ways on #but I feel like Artificer works best for him #I know people like Artificer for Tech as well #but tbh I feel like Bladesinger is good for him because #Bladesingers are an int class and insanely OP #where-as artificers are fun but not nearly as absurd #Phee is obvs a swashbuckler arcane trickster #with a pirate background #okay maybe Tech is an artificer bladesinger multiclass #yeah that could work

[chiropteracupola]

or a different palette ask: cowboyce alan and davie in ‘lobotomy’?

I traveled through October, the mountains and the plains / Hoping that the losses won't outweigh the gains...

#em draws stuff #rls kidnapped #alan breck stewart #david balfour #this one was a fun one and I'm really pleased with how it turned out to make them look like they're in a really old movie #like this would be the hand-colored promotional picture for their Wild Swashbuckling Adventure Film #unrelated to all that I did not have references on hand and also am not quite sure Whenabouts you're planning to place them #so I have just gone for Vibes down to the very ends of things (and indulged my long-held affection for copper-toed boots) #caption lyrics are from 'gotta get goin' by goodnight texas which has Long been an alan breck song to me

[secretmellowblog]

I just watched the first Star Trek thing I have ever seen in my entire life — “The Naked Time,” the episode where the ship gets the magic space disease that turns half of the crew into swashbucklers— and wow! you guys weren’t kiddin about the Kirk/Spock stuff. Wonder if there’s any fanfic written about them

#poor creatures!!! #poor Kirk and Spock #I know that Vulcans have hand sex and that was great context for this episode. I love the hand sex thing it’s great #but yeah some Star Trek people are helping guide me through this unfamiliar cosmos #so it’s very fun #but yeah I’m guessing there are other episodes involving space diseases and swashbucklers so I’m looking forward to that

[nebulaeyedfish]

Would you let this man be ur first mate yes/no

Tag list: @swanofstorie @flyingfish1234

See pinned for commissions :)

#dnd #dnd character #d&d #dungeons and dragons #illustration #aarakocra #aaracokra #bard #rogue #swashbuckler #pirate #parrot #scarlet macaw #painting #oc #nebulaeyedart #reddwin #I feel like ive stumbled onto something style wise here.... #very fun #nice doodle to finish off the week :) #<- has work tomorrow #but like thats work work i've finished uni for the week #anyway Its very funny to draw reddwin bc i always babyify him and then in game hes like #'Stop having a mental breakdown about killing people why are you being bad at your job. we all kill people grow up'

[opashoo]

OCtober Day 1: Mimi Mahara

She's saying something like, "I do apologize for being rather brusque, but mind the cart. I've got a bad feeling."

I keep drawing Mimi far more serious than she usually is, but adventuring's not all sunshine, I suppose.

#a doodle that took a long time bc im slow at coloring #I'm gonna color and line often so i get good and fast at it #mimi mahara #ratfolk #swashbuckler #marshall #pf2e #my art #my sketches #pathfinder #dnd #Good morning to my tag readers #This one was really fun except the coloring but I'm hoping that making that a regular part of my sketching will make it easy and fun #OCtober #amelieverse

[katabay]

Hello! You've said more than once that you like old-ish, swashbuckling, arthurian movies. I don't usually watch them but because of your art, which has a very epic feeling to it, I've been wanting to watch these sorts of movies for the past few days. Do you have any suggestions?

shdhgh so unfortunately it's been a minute since I've thought about these movies, which means I can't remember shit even thought I know I watch these movies with enthusiasm, so at some point I will come back and make a more coherent list. for now tho!

so my favorite epics are probably Lawrence of Arabia, Ben Hur ('59), and Cleopatra ('63)

favorite swashbucklers (which I'm broadening the definition to anything with cool sword fights) Zorro films, Court Jester, I've watched a lot of films that Errol Flynn was in, honestly Musketeer adaptions fall in here a bit

close to swashbucklers, I watch a LOT of martial arts movies too, Ip Man (just the first one, the rest are. like. well. they exist), The Grandmaster, Fearless

stuff with knights: Lancelot du Lac for sure, honestly the thing that's really coming to mind is the french musical La Légende du Roi Arthur, I KNOW there are other things to add here, but all I can think about is that musical

#i tend to enjoy narratives that swing hard which is why i enjoy older epics and i also enjoy fun spectacles hence swashbucklers #but that also means that i rewatch. like. devil judge regularly. #and gravitate towards genres that embrace epic narratives. anon if you are adventurous you may enjoy wuxia narratives IMMENSELY #ask tag #anyway that 10 v 1 fight in the first ip man film. holy shit

[quarklynx]

I guess tales of tragedy aren't as romantic when you have to live through them yourself. I will teach these poet’s hands to wield a blade so that I may hold yours again

#Artists of Tumblr #digital art #artists on tumblr #small artist #dnd oc art #dnd oc #dnd satyr #satyr #this is my latest dnd character Kyp or Kyparisso #they're a bard heading down the path of swashbuckler rogue to save their childhood friend #said childhood friend happens to be in love with Kyp and vice-versa but Kyp only recently found out about the reciprocation #unfortunately it wasn't until AFTER the childhood friend got kidnapped that this information was revealed #whoopsie! guess that's what happens when you wait too long to confess! tough luck kiddo! #this game is being recorded and streamed with friends- it's called Performance Check: Empire of Blood #check it out if ya like dnd! it's a very fun game and I can't wait to share with everyone just how sad i can make this boy! #fun fact! Kyp is carrying two Lyres because one belonged to the kidnapped childhood friend turned romantic interest! it's so sad! #my art #lynxinks

[orionis13]

Sometimes you gotta draw the dnd characters you’ll never get to play

#starchive #art tag #dnd #dnd oc #this is captain d’leight hes an obnoxious swashbuckler and i love him dearly #i wanna fo more portraits like this it was really fun

[villa-kulla]

mini laloward concept: howard affectionately calling lalo “mi bandido”. bonus points if it’s while pulling him in closer by the bandana, smiling against his lips. 

#that's all #laloward #in some 'howard completes his corruption arc' AU where he's lalo's right hand man #aka the one in my head lol #but yeah #lalo comes home from a hard day's work of glamorous swashbuckling banditry #hair flying and smiling pulling down the bandana like a goddamn train robber #and howard looks up from where he's cooking the books and positively /melts/ #anyways happy sunday i worked 7 hours have a few lines of self indulgence #'have a few lines of self-indulgence' is also what lalo says convincing howard to do coke with him #not because he's THAT into it. the best cartel bosses are the ones that don't get hooked. but it's fun sometimes #especially in bed when sprinkled across your boyfriend's chest muscles #which lalo does to howard but then pauses and howard's like what are you waiting for #and lalo's teases him like 'nothing i just can't find the lines against your skin anymore' #and lalo kisses him before howard can protest he's been tanning a lot since they got to mexico thank you very much #which he HAS but lalo can't tell him that because then howard will stop sunbathing by their pool so much #and lalo's no fool #aaaaaanyways. post SYS? sure.

[nemmet]

my mirrorverse eugene concept is finally done!! i see him as having some healing magic left inside him after rapunzel resurrected him that he uses to revive fallen allies in battle.

#i really leant into his ‘swashbuckling’ side because i am very weak to that type of character jdjshdkdg #i had so much fun redesigning him!! i really hope you like all the little details #are the bandages a binder or for his wound? the answer is yes #i hope he gets added into the game for real soon ;—; #also i know that no character in game has a revival ability and you need to use a potion #so i don’t know how that ability would be balanced out. i just thought it was conceptually neat ahaha #disney mirrorverse #mirrorverse #disney fanart #tangled #eugene fitzherbert #flynn rider #nem art :)

[sonic-adventure-3]

if my ocs were dnd adventurers squabble would absolutely be an artillerist artificer, carrion would be an assassin rogue/battle master fighter multiclass, rig an arcane archer fighter, and jerryjack a wild magic barbarian

#the whole postal workers/hitmen thing translates so seamlessly to an adventuring party too #what do dnd parties do other than fetch quests and murder #rambles #oc posting #there could not possibly be a better fit than squabble as an artillerist. she gets a gun and and a cannon and spells and a bag of holding #a match made in heaven #jerryjack could go a lot of different ways though #i picked wild magic barbarian cause i thought it was fun and unexpected yet fitting #but archfey warlock or wild magic sorcerer or swashbuckler rogue would work too #despite everything i actually don’t think she’d be a bard. she might play one if she played dnd the game but she wouldn’t be one