And Now, Crack D&D Quotes From My Current Campaign

character design is hard because I want it to be complex but simple - why so hard

Finn was literally born to be a Jedi. Force-sensitive, escaped from a life of trauma, a passion to help people. He literally has the same kind of build-up as Luke (Force-sensitive, escaped from what could have been his death, a passion to help people). The missed opportunity for that man to hold a lightsaber haunts me to this day.

“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

the peaceful wind of nature - Collab with @anasabdin - thank you so much for animation and for turning this art into life - it was a great experience to work together with you! ✨

Sometimes writing is a crappy google doc with no chapter headings and 100 comments

find comfort in envisioning the end

Clerk Carmine brought Lucy Gray a plant he'd uprooted from the lake, with pointy leaves and small white flowers. "Hey, you found some katniss. Good work, CC." Coriolanus wondered if he meant it to be decorative, like the Grandma'am's roses, but she immediately examined the roots, from which small tubers hung. "Little too early yet." "Yeah," Clerk Carmine agreed. "For what?" asked Coriolanus. "For eating. In a few weeks, these will grow into decent-sized potatoes, and we can roast them," said Lucy Gray. "Some people call them swamp potatoes, but I like katniss better. Has a nice ring to it."

Lucy Gray was the katniss uprooted a little too early, but Katniss was uprooted right on time. It was not a decorative plant, just as Lucy Gray was not a decorative trophy to be hung on Coriolanus' arm. It was a symbol of hunger defeated, as Katniss is roasted to set fire to the rebellion. Some people called her a girl, but Katniss had a better ring to it.

Sci-fi and fantasy need to be combined more often, and here's what I want to see more of:

Mythical space creatures. Give me cryptids and not just big scary monsters. Odd little guys like platypuses and fun pets like parrots or monkeys. Give me space moray eels that hide in black holes and poke their heads out at passing ships.

Magic. Besides Star Wars, I feel like sci-fi and magic aren't things that are combines a lot. You could argue Voltron has a bit of that, but most of the time it's technology based (hints the name science-fiction, crazy I know). Give me space wizards, space apothecaries, and healers that use the magic of planets in their daily lives. Give me technology and vehicles run on magic-based sources.

Old ruins. Lots of sci-fi stuff is new and shiny - give me technology that is outdated, robots that don't function anymore. Old buildings that used to be the pinnacle of innovation now abandoned and overrun.

Give me a mix of both very clean planets and very dirty. Sci-fi can be super grungy or super clean - the world has a mix of these things. Have a sprawling city of perfection with low slums and muck.

Prosthetics! Cyborgs and mechanical arms and legs. Electronic eyes that see heat signatures. Exchangeable parts! Ones that glow and light up like those light-up sneakers!

Pretty space food! Infuse pancakes with glowing berries that ooze out of a fluffy cake. Magical teas that heal or give immunity. Magic-infused coffee that gives resistance and energy! Skewers of alien meats grilled to perfection.

Jet lag. Give me characters who get exhausted on another planet because the days last 8 hours longer than they do on their home planet. Characters who stay up until 3 a.m. because their old home had 30 hour days and this new planet has 10 hour days.

I have more, but a lot of these things are in my sci-fi/fantasy story I'm writing right now. I love space and I just think there's so much more we can do with the sci-fi genre.

"Something's Wrong" is a banger song. Am I going to try and make a silly music video? Yes. Will it actually get done? No idea, but the idea has been in my head for weeks now.

The Large Magellanic Cloud // Jon Woodhead