blumineck:

“How to look good in a dress” or, you know, whatever you want to wear!

(I am definitely not the best person to talk about this, but here we are.)

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mauxanhduong:

frnkieroismydaddy:

knightowlet:

Do y’all think siblings in medieval times would look at the little beasts in illuminated manuscripts and point at each other like ‘ha! ‘Tis thou!’

Oh my GOD

[id: a reply by @/theuwuanimeblog that reads “*Points to the Devil in the church’s glass to my sister* I think he shall make a fine groom for thee”. End ID.]

positivelyqueer:

A friend once told me that when they are struggling with getting laundry done, she pretends it is her sworn duty to smuggle the young prince out of the castle to safety, disguised in a laundry hamper.

Now, when I am struggling with hygiene, I pretend I am part of a village with an annual festival, and I get one day a year to spend luxuriously at a bathhouse in preparation.

What my friend imparted on me was the skill of turning mundane tasks into fantastical adventures to make them more compelling and bearable.

So next time you need to go on a mental health walk, maybe consider doing reconnaissance for a secret underground organisation.

Next time cooking is too much of a chore, consider you ability to turn space station rations into a feast to the delight of your crewmates.

futureevilscientist:

kyraneko:

alarajrogers:

prokopetz:

Concept: fairy tale where the wicked step-parent (who is of course also some sort of warlock) transforms the princess into a swan, as one does, but rather than running off to mope around in a lake and be beautifully tragic, the princess decides to stick around the palace and cause problems on purpose.

It is a beautiful day in the palace, and you are a horrible swan princess.

Task 1: You are being kept in a lake on the palace grounds. Encourage the other nobles enjoying these same palace grounds to let your captor know that this was a bad idea.

Task 2: You are now being kept in the dungeons. While a situation much more befitting your status and abilities, it’s cramping your style a bit by preventing you from biting your captor in the ass. Break out of the dungeon, making it unfit for use as a dungeon on your way out.

Task 3: You have escaped into the kitchens, and the servants are preparing a feast for the ball tonight. You don’t think there needs to be a feast tonight, do you?

Task 4: You have gotten upstairs to where the bedchambers are; there are many guests staying here, and they all have so many lovely things. Back when you were a princess you often wished to shred uncomfortable dresses, throw pinchy shoes down the privy, and borrow jewels that weren’t your own. Have fun now.

Task 5: You’ve found your captor’s secret chambers with all his magic stuff. Somewhere in here is a spell that will let you change from swan to human at will. While you’re finding that, there’s a whole lot of other stuff here that could be fucked up, with entertaining results.

Task 6: Your captor is holding a ball where your beloved is going to be stolen from you. You don’t see any reason for this ball to proceed as planned, do you? Look at all the pretty candles and all this nice flammable shit, for starters. Also, bite your captor in the ass.

Bonus: The ballroom is filled with people of all appearances, races, shapes, sizes, types. Nobody is identified except the wicked sorcerer. You can choose anyone to be your beloved, and declaring your love to them will open the royal wedding end scene.

Double Bonus: If somebody objects at your wedding, you can turn into a swan and melee-fight their ass right there in the aisle. You can then turn human again and strut your ass back to your beloved, who is in utter awe of your shapeshifting and ass-kicking abilities alike.

#untitled swan game

Weren’t you paying attention? TITLED swan game

I've been delving into the world of D&D... modules? additions? kits? because I Have Thoughts from a monster lore perspective how Things Could Be Implemented

The method I'm most likely to pursue is going to be an ongoing blog series of "Here is a thing, enjoy it if it fits into your campaign"

There are.
So many paths.

Does yours use fungi? Is the fungi symbiotic or parasitic?

Is the luminescence in the flesh, bark, both? Leaves?

Along the eyes, certain areas in pattern? Hair (moss, hair, leaves, a combination)? Does it change over time? Via mood, season, magical presence?

Is it ambient? A danger warning? Connected to emotions?

Passive?!

Active?!?

I always (predictably) get sucked into the lore / background / world building. I don't have a mind for the mechanics of RPGs. Which cracks me up consistently because I'm really good at spreadsheets and finding ways to bend basic math to do weird things.

I love dryads.

kinthulou:

I love that I have already answered most of these questions for my dryad, haha. Lore builders unite!

I'm very good at taking the mechanics of RPGs and turning them into creative exercises like this one--I got the bioluminescence from a class feature that amounted to "you take on an otherworldly appearance and this means you get extra bonuses to charisma-related skill checks." And the suggested options were things like "beautiful" or "youthful" or "imposing" and I looked at my very strange tree-person and went, "Okay but what if. Bioluminescence."

It's her eyes and also her freckles/spots! It follows the day/night cycle, so there's probably two different kinds of fungi or something involved! (Symbiotic, I'd say, due to complicated backstory reasons of how she got her freckles and spots.) At night her skin twinkles with constellations and during the day, no matter the weather or locale, she's walking around with subtly shifting spots like sunlight dappled through a forest canopy. And it all glows brighter when she does magic, because of the nature of her magic.

She is beautiful and uncanny and terrifying to encounter in the woods on a moonless night (unless you are comfortable in dark woods and enjoy encountering various spooky denizens with no warning) and I love her.

lilaeleaf:

Some poor suffering gobs!!