blujayonthewing:

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I’ve had Melliwyk for SIX YEARS

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@antique-symbolism well it turns out I ALSO could not read them all in this phone screenshot lmao so I had to remember to look at the original pic when I was on desktop BUT

Melliwyk’s Almost Names (As Shown):

  • Vrialoret
  • Tukklewin
  • Tullirok
  • Gullirew
  • Melliwik
  • Melliwitt
  • Dorivextra
  • Liralor
  • Vollimel
  • Doxiluven
  • Quinzemela

I probably kept going after I took this pic, but I have no idea where that notecard is anymore hahaha

What’s interesting to me about going with Melliwyk (and spelling it like that) is that, in one of the sourcebooks where they list a bunch of possible names for different races, one of the gnome names is Elliwyk, which I did not know at the time but happened to land next to anyway with literally just a random letter generator and Vibes

also [squinting at this] when did I name Juniper's cartography masters. was Loridira also from this list I really like Gullirew too feels like a boy's name although I'm not sure why I think I named one of Aubree's nephews Gully (just Gully though-- Gullirew doesn't feel very halfling to me) my OCs melliwyk

sang-the-sun-in-flight:

tiny–cryptid:

OK this question has been bugging me all morning so y'all please let me know

did your childhood vomit bowl also double as a popcorn bowl?

Yes

No

Vomit bowl??? (see results)

bc ours did nd I never thought much of it as a kid but know I’m thinking about it and it feels kinda gross? so pls tell me if this experience was universal or not it will haunt me forever otherwise

what do you MEAN 40% of you fuckers didnt have a vomit bowl did you just obliterate your carpet when your stomach flu having ass woke up suddenly at 3am and needed to hurl IMMEDIATELY? did y'all just never ever get stomach bugs growing up??

(via opportunity-strikes)

TRASH CANS. OP. little trash can with a plastic grocery bag liner that lives by the side of the bed for kleenex and for this!!

why-is-it-always-autumn:

why-is-it-always-autumn:

It’s good and cool to give your characters a single simple, straightforward, non-urgent, super-achievable goal that shouldn’t really cost anything or hurt anyone, make that the driving factor for most of their decisions, and then have the Plot do everything in its power to stop them.

Goals include but are not limited to:

  • Wanting to go home
  • Wanting people out of your house who shouldn’t be there
  • Trying to find a reliable babysitter
  • Trying to deliver a letter or package
  • Trying to do a favor for someone
  • Wanting to see a specific thing, place, or kind of animal
  • Wanting to collect the money somebody owes you (the lower the debt the better)
  • Trying to win a bet
  • Wanting to punch a specific person in the face

(via pbjplatypus)

I have to believe..... that I'm going to get my fifteen dollars back from greg fucking grimmaldus

thinking once again about how my desire to present my silly little gnome OCs as definitely being goofy little guys but still also capable of being seen as desirable or being treated with respect or even just taken seriously at all feels like self love even when said OCs don’t have anything specific in common with me

no melliwyk doesn't look or even act anything like me. yes me deciding that she's peak gnomish standards for beauty feels affirming to me. don't worry about it I just think it would be neat for a silly little weirdo with a funny voice and weird habits and a disinterest in performing femininity to also be viewed by others unironically as someone worthy of love and respect and whom it would not be weird to be attracted to! for no particular reason!! [in which I am the weird little creature that looks funny but still lives its whole life] melliwyk is the kind of character trope where usually that character having a love interest is played somewhat comedically in the. same way that presenting a fictional character who looks anything like me as a love interest would also be obviously meant as funny this is NOT what I was thinking about before but 'gnomes may be goofy but they should still be played as People' is a pretty closely related feeling lmao anyway this is all uncharacteristically personal for four in the goddamn afternoon lmao feeling navel gazey not that I haven't talked about this before I guess but it is... embarrassing ahdkflsshls about me my OCs

worm-suggestion:
“It looks funny, right? You think it looks funny.
I do too. But it lives its whole life. So you have to take it seriously eventually, right? And be respectful and shit.
I think it can digging in the ground for tubers.
”

worm-suggestion:

It looks funny, right? You think it looks funny.

I do too. But it lives its whole life. So you have to take it seriously eventually, right? And be respectful and shit.

I think it can digging in the ground for tubers.

(via worm-suggestion)

I think about this post a lot right at this moment I'm thinking about it in the context of someone really invested in playing and worldbuilding for a fantasy race that is built to be a bit silly and is very easy for people to play purely as a joke the baked in silliness is a lot of the appeal of dnd gnomes for me but there HAS to be a throughline of sincerity it's worthless to me if an entire fantasy race is *a joke* they have to be in on the joke-- you know? you think they're funny-- that's fine; they WANT you to think they're funny! but they're an entire race of people- a part of the world. they live their whole lives. so you have to take them seriously eventually right?


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