a comic about fix-it fanfics
Tldr: Frank calls Amy's mother a Harpy, with the lore of Dungeons and Dragons what if I make her worse, like a Hag. Now with the lore of The Dead Three.
It's probably just me, but when I look at the symbol for Bhaal and Myrkul I get reminded of The Crimson Order and the Utopians. Yes yes I know Bhaal and Myrkul have a skull in the middle of their symbols but like, The Crimson Order basically murdered whoever needed to stay a secret and stay rich and Bhaal is the Faerûn God of murder. The Utopians prophecy was believed to be the bringing back of lost ones, was it a lie to cover up a brainwashing scheme? Possibly, but the whole talk of bringing back people from the dead makes me think of Myrkul, the Lord of Bones. Myrkul and Bhaal usually come with a third, Bane, the God of Tyranny, and I thought SOMBRA would go hand in hand with him. The only problem is his symbol is a hand. A hand. Sigh. All in all I am now playing a dnd campaign with my friend that takes place in a modern Faerûn in the Criminal Case universe.
I would lie and say I planned it out because I thought it'd be fun to add dnd lore and creatures to the world of Criminal Case, you know, Supernatural Investigations but more dnd based.
It's true for the most part, but then my mind went, 'I could give Amy the Hexblood lineage to make her mother a Hag, and Hags are waaaaaaaaaay worse than Harpies.'
I miss Criminal Case; it was a good chunk of my childhood and my introduction to the works of fiction I've come to love. Fanfiction. So why not make it another universe that I take and add dnd lore to it?
@subwaytostardew A beautiful creation by @takadanobaba and @xdoctorsparklex I've never really gotten into Stardew enough to have a hyper fixation on it like Pokémon, until I saw this amazing mod! It made me want to revisit an AU I made with some Pokémon OCs I made a few years back, going back over them and making them better! I can't wait to write more and see more of this mod!
Last but certainly not least, Roxie and Russell!
Roxie has a 14 in Strength (STR), a 16 in Dexterity (DEX), a 10 in Constitution (CON), a 13 Intelligence (INT), a 10 Wisdom (WIS), and a 12 Charisma (CHA).
Russell has a 10 in STR, a 12 in DEX, a 12 in CON, a 16 INT, a 13 WIS, and a 14 CHA. Let's get into those stats, yes?
Roxie is our Rogue, she's a Rogue because my friend made a subclass called Surgeon. I made her STR a 14 so she'd be able to lift bodies on her own from a body bag to the autopsy table. Her DEX is a 16 for her sleight of hand skills, I think they'd be quite necessary for working efficiently with bodies. Her CON is a 10 from how often she's in the lab, but it's going to be the first to get a boost from her travels in the Wastes. Her INT is a 13 from studies of anatomy, I thought it would be quite needed. A 10 WIS from some bad decisions but hey, we all make those. She gets a 12 CHA from her lively personality, it used to be a 14 at the cost of INT but I changed it in favor of a higher INT. Russell is a Wizard/Artificer. He used to be just a Wizard, but I'll get into class changes and choices another time. His STR is a 10 so he's strong enough to carry Amy but not too costly that I'd have to sacrifice his other stats. He gets a 12 in DEX from working on small electronics. A 12 in CON because honestly, he needs it, I don't think someone of fair health could handle being in a headlock from a guy 60lbs stronger than you. Both Wizards and Artificers have INT as their spellcasting ability, and Wizard is one of the only full casters to have use of spells, a 16 INT is important for learning more spells and I think it's fair for our lab personal to have high intelligence. Russell is our Profiler, it's important that he's able to understand on a good level how people are feeling, able to psychoanalyze them, tell when they're upset, a 13 WIS reflects that. A 14 CHA is self-explanatory, Russell's traits as stated by Pretty Simple are charming, obsessive and manipulative. He's used his charm to get information from others, a high CHA just reflects that.
something about death, and sustenance, and decay. Idk
I think that more fanfiction should be written with the aim to tackle the original meaning of hanahaki. Because when the concept of hanahaki disease was originally created, it was intended to be a metaphor for suppressing one’s feelings.
Your feelings are this beautiful garden of flora inside of your chest. When you express how you feel honestly, you allow for it to grow freely. But when you hide how you feel out of fear of rejection, and try to make it smaller and smaller, the flowers become cramped inside of you, until you choke on your own feelings. Every flower you cough up is something you’ve felt, but refused to say.
The whole “dying” thing is intended to be more symbolic especially. You’re killing off bits and pieces of yourself and how you feel, because you’re afraid to express yourself.
It’s not really supposed to be, “The one I love doesn’t love me back, and I’m dying from it.” Rather, it’s more along the lines of, “Repressing your emotions is bad for you, and it’s better and healthier to express them freely, even when it’s scary.”
Which is to say that, one, the cure for the disease should be telling the person that you are in love with how you feel. How the other person feels about the person afflicted should have nothing to do with it, as the trope is meant to be about feeling your emotions unapologetically.
And that, two, it’s not an inherently romantic trope. Obviously, it has romantic applications, but it can be written for any situation where a character is hiding how they truly feel. This can include a refusal to address a specific trauma, a desire to indulge in something that they’re ashamed of, and even really practical things, like wanting to ask one’s boss for a higher position.
Although (as an aromantic person myself) I don’t agree with this conclusion about the trope, this application would also avoid people calling it arophobic. When the thing killing the character is a refusal to be honest with themselves, rather than an unrequited love, it’s on nobody’s hands but their own to save their life.
There are a ton of ways that this interpretation of the hanahaki disease could be applied in new and interesting ways in fanfiction, and I’d love to read what things people could come up with!
I don’t know if anyone has ever done this before but, here ya go… The Different Types of Fanfiction!
I probably left a few out, but these are the most common, compared to their base fiction’s canon plot. Enjoy! XD
Guys do u know that one meme where there's a girl and like a bodyguard (???) ordering drinks and the waiter give them the wrong drinks so they switch them on the last panel,???????? BECAUSE I C1NT FING IT^