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a list of 100+ buildings to put in your fantasy town

academy

adventurer's guild

alchemist

apiary

apothecary

aquarium

armory

art gallery

bakery

bank

barber

barracks

bathhouse

blacksmith

boathouse

book store

bookbinder

botanical garden

brothel

butcher

carpenter

cartographer

casino

castle

cobbler

coffee shop

council chamber

court house

crypt for the noble family

dentist

distillery

docks

dovecot

dyer

embassy

farmer's market

fighting pit

fishmonger

fortune teller

gallows

gatehouse

general store

graveyard

greenhouses

guard post

guildhall

gymnasium

haberdashery

haunted house

hedge maze

herbalist

hospice

hospital

house for sale

inn

jail

jeweller

kindergarten

leatherworker

library

locksmith

mail courier

manor house

market

mayor's house

monastery

morgue

museum

music shop

observatory

orchard

orphanage

outhouse

paper maker

pawnshop

pet shop

potion shop

potter

printmaker

quest board

residence

restricted zone

sawmill

school

scribe

sewer entrance

sheriff's office

shrine

silversmith

spa

speakeasy

spice merchant

sports stadium

stables

street market

tailor

tannery

tavern

tax collector

tea house

temple

textile shop

theatre

thieves guild

thrift store

tinker's workshop

town crier post

town square

townhall

toy store

trinket shop

warehouse

watchtower

water mill

weaver

well

windmill

wishing well

wizard tower

It’s mr star war himself!!

He’s like a kid on his first day of school I adore him so much you don’t even understand what he means to me

Based on this image vv

I really ought to post more often and about my varying fandoms I enjoy

I always had a really strong image of weyrs in my head reading the books, and then, the way you do when you join writing forums, immediately realised everyone had completely different ideas.

This was as close as I could get to what I've imagined as a small weyr - dragon on a ledge outside, people inside, because they've always been too big in my imagination to share a proper indoor space. (Ideally I'd have added more wall hangings, and cushions, and rugs, but I am not good at representing any of those things!)

What's your take? Lunatteo on Deviantart has a really cool take on them, as does Ice Ista Weyr!

Pernese Superstitions

The idea of what superstitions exist on Pern was raised recently on the Pern Connect Discord server and it's got me thinking.

It's been thousands of Turns since Pern's first, selected-for-their-lack-of-susceptibility-to-religion colonists came to Pern, so despite McCaffrey's insistence that Pern is beyond such things there's plenty of canon ones:

Bronzes hatching first is a sign of good luck (practical, because bronzes are rare and take more effort for an egg to grow into due to being bigger, this could mean a more healthy clutch)

Robinton in Masterharper of Pern wonders about ghosts of dragons watching over Fort Weyr (Anne says this is his own fancy and not common superstition, but come on, young boys also dare each to spend the night in abandoned weyrs)

Threadfall's return, by the end of the 9th Pass, without any tools to predict this or people trained in predicting space weather

(What kind of person impresses what colour is technically a superstition, we're shown time and time again that dragons buck the trend with their choices)

But what else? Earth is littered with tons of superstitions, what else exists in the corners of Pern we aren't shown in the books? I've had some ideas based on various English/British existing superstitions!

Hold Superstitions

Local superstitions will obviously vary. Black Dogs exist as an idea broadly across England and Europe, but Black Shuck is an East Anglian interpretation.

Saying Goodbye to the Hold Wher: the wher keeps everyone safe, saying goodbye to it before a long or important journey brings good luck

Telling the Firelizards: like the old tradition of telling the bees important details, what if local wild firelizard fairs similar things became important? They help destroy thread, afterall!

Black Whers: a wild wher might have actually killed someone, Turns and Turns ago, what if people still talk about it hanging around? Haunting the beaches?

Runners with night sweats: England used to believe finding horses sweaty in the morning was because they were being ridden by witches, but what if on Pern this is due to dragons lost between coming back briefly

Weird rocks: there was the Benden warning of D'lin getting stuck in rock betweening, there might be more...A mining hold has a shaft no one but the least superstitious will go down due to a 'wing shaped' piece of rock sticking out of the wall, a mountain pass with a 'dragon shaped' bit of rock near the entrance is unlucky – or watched over depending who you talk to

Weyr Superstitions

Then there's the weyr. Dragonriders, exposed to danger all the time, might have even more superstitions:

Trinkets or phrases to ensure a trip between (especially longer ones) goes without a hitch

Weyrlings whispering tales of riders stuck between that will knock them off course and trap them there, unless you do this one specific thing before betweening the first time...

Lighting fires on the ridges to keep riders and dragons returning from between away during Turnover

You have to toss one piece of firestone from a spilled bag away, or it'll bring back luck in 'Fall

Are dragons with certain 'markings' (in canon this would be more like slight changes of colour, or more hoselike shading) bad luck to have in your wing? That green's wing marking looks kind of like an eye...

What superstition would you like to add to Pern, if you could? Even small, tiny local ones!

Sorry, still going, it still rankles the fuck out of me that Kitti doesn't have a Hold named after her. Because logically the savior of Pern, Creator of Dragons, should have something named after her. But for some reason Anne didn't think so? Apparently? Because all the locations were established before the reveal of who made the dragons and how, and it would have been very easy to just, make her the one one of them was named after. She could have been Benden or Telgar, Nerat or Ista, just as easy as giving her a name. And she just, wasn't.

Kitti Ping was, with no exaggeration, one of if not the most important person in Pernese history, and it took over 2000 years and digging up a computer for her name to pass anybody's lips again.

dragon riders are the horse girls of fantasy

i was a voracious reader in my youth

I’ve wanted to make a Pern oc for years, but I’m too ace to deal with dragon riders being psychically connected to their dragon during mating flights and Pern oc groups generally don’t allow anyone to have a white dragon (the only kind that canonically doesn’t get horny). So I’m saying that this blue just doesn’t participate in flights for his rider’s sake

Shoutout to @ranticore for singlehandedly changing how I imagine Pern dragon wings

Ahsoka is a young ambush predator, and does not handle the 'hurry up and wait' pace of life between battles well at all

so Rex develops a game for her:

Rex will discreetly tag one of the troopers with the equivalent of a space kick me sign on the back, and Ahsoka then has to isolate them from the herd and pounce

not only does this serve as Enrichment in his Commander's Enclosure, it's also a good test of his men's situational awareness

not to mention, it's a good mechanism for a little petty revenge every now and then

he'll occasionally also 'loan her out' to Wolffe or Cody as a chance to stress-test their own troopers' level of vigilance (and give Torrent a break from her reign of terror)

Anakin!

If Jedi had TikTok

So I was imagining a TikTok trend that would basically just be the Jedi/Padawans looking all presentable and perfectly Jedi perfect ™ saying “We’re Jedi, we’re peacekeepers” and then immediately cutting to whatever chaos they are currently engaged in, for example:

• “We’re Jedi, we’re peacekeepers” Qui Gon says, immediately before being shown adopting another ‘pathetic life form’ that may will cause them trouble later

• “We’re Jedi, we’re peacekeepers” Obi Wan says, before decapitating a battle droid behind him without even looking at it

• “We’re Jedi, we’re peacekeepers” Anakin says, as he replaces all of Windu’s regular caff with decaf

• “We’re Jedi, we’re peacekeepers” Ashoka says, as she helps Fives and Hardcase balance a bucket of glitter above Rex’s doorway

• “We’re Jedi, we’re peacekeepers” Plo says, as he forces encourages C3-PO to tell Wolffe his latest tales of woe™ and R2 drama

• “Jedi, we are; keepers of the peace, our responsibility is.” Yoda says, before telling several younglings that if they keep copying the Temple Guards they’ll freeze and get stuck that way

• “We’re Jedi, we’re peacekeepers” Quinlan says, then just… you know, exists how he does

• “We’re Jedi, we’re impartial peacekeepers” Plo Koon says, sprinkling ‘How to Unionize’ pamphlets around the barracks like confetti

• “We’re Jedi, we’re peacekeepers” Obi Wan says, before arguing politely engaging with every political figure in the room just for the heck of it

• “We’re Jedi, we’re peacekeepers” Leia says, before teasing the man breaking her out of a literal cell in the middle of space about his height

• “We’re Jedi, we’re peacekeepers” Luke says, before replacing Han’s hair gel with glue

• “We’re Jedi, we’re peacekeepers” Kanan says, calmly to the camera, before proceeding to promptly turn around and scream “SHUT THE KRIFF UP I SWEAR TO FORCE I WILL MURDER YOU ALL IF YOU DONT GO TO SLEEP RIGHT NOW”

• “We’re Jedi, we’re peacekeepers” Ezra says, as he sprints away from Zeb who is quite suddenly and mysteriously COVERED in hair dye (thanks, Sabine!)

The people’s princess

Should I post my art on here like it’s mostly pencil drawings but that shouldn’t matter right?

Saw this post and couldn't help myself. Aziraphale and Crowley as Bunsen and Beaker as the charity fund gentlemen in Muppets Christmas Carol. Of course!

Also WAHOO season 3 confirmed!!

go white boy go! commit those unspeakable horrors!!

Cutest horror movie couple!

speaking of willard, heres a compilation of people calling him a twink.

I love it when an emotional support animal enables a fucked up man to commit unspeakable horrors.

Autism be damned, that white boy is great with rats

in which aziraphale reverts to old habits, crowley is outraged, and they still do not talk about it

WE’RE GETTING A SEASON THREE!!!???!!!

behind every gay person is a more evil gay person

Everyday, it’s a gettin’ closer 🎶

Why do some men have big asses??

Idk you tell ME?!??

Technically, we never see them wear the "turtleneck" without the jacket, and the fact that NO ONE in this fandom has proposed this idea is unacceptable

-the bookshop-

aziraphale: *pacing*

crowley: *enters*

aziraphale, exasperated: where have you been?

crowley, confused: I thought you said-

aziraphale: I need your help

crowley, suspicious: okay…

aziraphale, wringing his hands: whilst you were gone, mr brown visited and he…well, he made it clear he wanted to…take me out on a date

crowley, bitter: I see

aziraphale, clears his throat: I, um, to get out of it I-I told him……..you’re my husband

crowley, raises his eyebrows: you did what?

aziraphale, flustered: I panicked! I didn’t know what else to say. he was rather persistent

crowley: so what…we have to act like we’re married around him?

aziraphale, dismissive: oh, I wouldn’t worry. I doubt he’ll be back anytime soon

mr brown, enters: hey mr fell-

aziraphale: *grabs crowley’s face and kisses him*

mr brown, coughs: err, sorry to interrupt…

aziraphale, lets crowley go: oh, sorry, mr brown, we didn’t see you there

mr brown, awkward: yeah just…forgot my hat

crowley, dazed: do you want to stay for dinner?

aziraphale, hisses: crowley!

FUCK FUCK FUCK I HAVE TO GO TO THE DENTIST WHAT DO I DO

He's going to fucking kill you instantly, sorry