#this is such a fantasy that I have

[daisywords]

One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

#idk what to tag this #worldbuilding #writing fiction #historical fiction #fantasy #a real-life example: my dad (a pediatrician) was once entrusted with the care of a baby who was born with a rare condition #this was in a place without great hospital/medical access and anyway they were going to fly the baby over #and he specifically asked them to bring the mother and baby #they show up with baby and...the baby's uncle #and he was like. y'all. do you think I asked for the mom to come just for fun??? We don't have formula here. what is the baby going to eat?

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

You know, it's kinda funny how much of high fantasy centers around kings and nobility and courtly intrigue considering that the archetypal high fantasy, Lord of the Rings, had the rather explicit moral of "saving the world is up to this backwater hick and his gardener because no politician, least of all inherited nobility, would have the ability to see past their own ambition and throw away a weapon". Oh sure, Aragorn is a great king and all, but there's a reason he's over there running a distraction ring while the hobbits do the real work. Sauron loses because he gets distracted by kings and armies and great battles (i.e. typical high fantasy stuff) letting Frodo and Sam sneak through his back door and blow it all to hell.

Just saying, maybe old Jirt knew what he was saying when he said that the small folk doing their best and holding to each other was more powerful than a dozen alliances and superweapons and we should respect him for it.

#high fantasy #tolkien #lotr #lord of the rings #to be clear i don't mind courtly intrigue high fantasy #it's fascinating and it's fun and it is absolutely still high fantasy cause JRRT doesn't have a monopoly on how high fantasy should be writ #what i object to is the idea that it is the only or the best way to write high fantasy when we have such a stunning counter example

[septembersart]

the epic highs and lows of high school bloodrush...

#fhjy #fhjy spoilers #dimension 20 #fantasy high #artists on tumblr #illustration #my art #arts #digital art #truly obsessed #want to draw the cafeteria confrontation next i just have to rewatch first

[colourmeastonished]

Body swap movie where one of them has invisible disabilities and when the other one lands in their body they immediately collapse catatonic on the floor from the pain and fatigue and the first one is like 'oh damn guess I don't have to worry that I'm faking it anymore'

#i have this fantasy of one my able bodied friends and or coworkers occupying my body for like an hour #just to get a real sense of how much i am truly weathering hellfire every day of my life #sometimes i take stock and im like holy crap ive gotten so used to so much #im a frog in a pot and ive convinced myself the bubbling is just fun ambience #my thoughts #invisible disability #chronic illness #chronic pain

[badgerclawsaresharp]

trifecta of brennan lee mulligan self-inserts in fantasy high junior year

#ppl have referred to all three of these npcs as brennan self-inserts. which i think are all true for different reasons. #it is very funny that he made a guy specifically to counter emilys shenanigans this season. and it hasnt even worked. #fantasy high #fhjy #dimension 20 #badger post

[spinaholi]

sandra lynn’s dating history now includes:

the most red-flag, gaslighting, married guy who became a world renowned insidious televangelist and ruined her perception of love and self-worth

the saddest, wettest, cardboard-box-living, yogurt covered man with an ancient hereditary curse of bad luck

the arch devil of gluttony and living embodiment of insatiable desire and hunger

a former drug addict, high school student councillor, werewolf, who’s probably the most mentally healthy person to ever exist

sexy pirate

#sandra lynn if u have 0 fans i am dead i love her so much #also sorry to garty o’brien they r more than just sexy pirate i just thought it was funny to end it like that #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #d20 #fhjy #sandra lynn faeth #spina speaks

[xiewho]

its all love baby

#fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 #gorgug thistlespring #fig faeth #fhjy #d20 #my art #gorgug hauling his ass to do 4 yrs of coursework only for aa to say “yeah u didnt have to in fact u shouldntve” is CRAZY #fig mvp honestly #AUUAGHH THEY WERE ALL SO COOL i really fw combat eps

[romaencepardner]

Saint Applebees, champion of Cassandra, and Sir Applebees, Knight of Cassandra.

(please pick this future Bucky, it's the one with better friends and a sick mullet)

#as an oldest sister i am having emotions #also i know the pinky is on the wrong side #shhhhhh trust me it looks better this way #kristen applebees #bucky applebees #d20 fhjy #fhjy #dimension 20 #fantasy high

[elucubrare]

i firmly hold that it's my duty as a reader to believe it when an author tells me at the beginning of the series that the dragons are gone forever and never coming back. but god it's a struggle sometimes.

#that is: i don't think it's fair to hold that kind of genre knowledge against a specific instance of it #not even because while i've read hundreds of bad fantasy novels someone else might not have read any #but because hm. 'the dragons are gone' is the foundation of a kind of feeling - discovery; renewal; awakening - #there's not a way to get the feeling later on without laying the foundation #so even if the foundation feels like busywork for me the reader #it has to be there in some form or other

[bacchuschucklefuck]

beautiful! majestic!

#riz gukgak #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #saw someone else's art that was so cool I blacked out for a few hours and woke up to this on my screen #foolish of me to have the thought ''oh he's smoking he's absolutely lighting these cannons with his smoke right'' and then #almost not draw it #like. cmon #bringing over my tags from another post here. I think firing those cannons was like the closest this kid's come to a moment of mindfulness #kid was doing self searching n introspection on top of those guns. eugenia got there at the breakthrough #I believe in you baby boy. rob a bank get that tuition the world is your oyster

[jq37]

You gotta hand it to Fig. All of the Bad Kids were given foils this season and they got to decide how much they wanted to engage with that part of the plot. Gorgug only interacted with Mary Ann in passing despite them both being on the Owlbears. Fabian noped out of chatting up Ivy once she crossed a line with Mazey. Riz was so busy that he truly had no time to engage with Kipperlilly even though she's obsessed with him. Kristen interacted a bit with Buddy but spent way more time verbally sparring with Kipperlilly. And Adaine was somewhat interested in Oisin but never overtly acted on it.

But Fig?

She's in Ruben's WALLS. She's in his DREAMS. She's faking her alter emo's death. She's got the Fantasy FBI after her. She's SO SO tiny. No one is doing it like Fig's doing it.

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #d20 #spoilers #dimension 20 spoilers #fantasy high spoilers #i wish we'd gotten more rat grinder stuff in general just to have a better read on them #but ooh man emily axford MVP on this front #fig faeth #the bad kids are valid for prioritizing their friends over the party of haters #but it's still so funny that they en masse were like eh except for Fig who was like I'm gonna haunt this gnome

[glassrooibos]

FABIAN DON’T DO THAT. THAT’S SCARY.

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #adaine abernant #fabian seacaster #fantasy high junior year #illustration #this was so fun #adaine… is this kristens room? #and the immediate DREAD #YOU FEEL #love it love it #Lou plays a great spooky game. #baron from the baronies #honestly? slay from baron #they seem cool actually #let em join the bad kids I think #they’re serving looks #they have the cunty curly wig #love it #Adaine also not catching a BREAK!!!

[minionsunclee]

We’re haemorrhaging money on the groundskeeper, Jawbone!

Some of my favourite little bits. This is like the first time i fully color them ^.^ it was fun. Took wayy longer than it shouldve LOLL

#fantasy high #d20 #fhjy #d20 fhjy #gorgug thistlespring #riz gukgak #fig faeth #kristen applebees #adaine o'shaughnessey #fabian seacaster #rizs vein is so special to be i better see everyone drawing it from now on #also god i love gorgug i was gonna include the bobby dawn but where he says just a regual freak but i didnt have enough spcae

[angsty-art-ist]

certified coolkid moment: finding the rotting corpse of your classmate in the woods

#i know the players were mostly focusing on the mystery in this scene. but for the characters that must have been terrifying #i’m so emo about lucy frostblade #i hope she knows that she’s being avenged. i hope she knows her body was found. i hope she knows the rats stood vigil around her grave #arcades art #illustration #procreate #fantasy high #fantasy high d20 #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high fanart #dimension twenty fanart #dimension 20 fanart #fantasy high dimension 20 #dimension twenty #dimension 20 #kristen applebees #kristen chilis applebees #fabian aramais seacaster #fabian seacaster #fig faeth #figueroth faeth #gorgug thistlespring #adaine o'shaughnessey #adaine abernant #riz gukgak #the bad kids fantasy high #the bad kids #lucy frostblade

[colinprovolone]

the low quality children

#FINALLY. ALL OF THEM #it’s fun how the colours on this ended up similar to the only other time i drew them all #d20 #fh #fhjy #fantasy high #my art #riz gukgak #fabian aramais seacaster #gorgug thistlespring #adaine abernant #fig faeth #kristen applebees #the bad kids #i’m so glad i don’t have to draw tiedye i’m eternally thankful for kristen’s new outfit #god what is fabian wearing. i do not know

[phenylethanol]

“you didn’t see the storm coming? must not be a very good oracle” when the last oracle also died in a shipwreck. and adaine said the same thing about them in freshman year. i’m gonna lose my mind.

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #dimension 20 spoilers #FOAMING AT THE MOUTH WDYM I HAVE TO WAIT A WEEK