Boss art for my guild <Knights of Repentance> as a part of our campaign!
Meet Zyraden Emberblood, Void Elf runeshaper and evil bard – and his brother Vanlion Emberblood, leybreaker and technopriest. Vanlion didn’t get nearly as much art as Zyraden though.
The bottom picture was a collaboration with @thunderstar-supernova! I drew the base, he helped me refine his design and colored this. And then, I took what we had and slapped it in After Effects for some Drama™
I think I might have a new horrible, terrible, fucking amazing story idea.
Okie dokie it took a very disturbing turn very quickly but here’s the idea;
Imagine the tiniest, most wimpy, pathetic, pitiful dragon you possibly can. She’s got blunt horns and blunt teeth, and her claws aren’t very sharp! She’s a little smaller than your average house cat! Her name is Altheria. Her hoard consists of;
One dirty gold coin
That’s it.
And she’s so little she can’t even hold the coin in one paw. It’s not a big coin, she’s just little and doesn’t have thumbs! 👍
So the other dragons are all bigger and greedy, and very mean to her. She’s struggling to hold onto her one pathetic coin, and these other dragons are fucking HUGE with caves full of gold, yet they’re super greedy and want all the gold they can get! So one of them sees Altheria’s single little coin and steals it. She tries to fight back, but they’re so big compared to her that they just bat her out of the sky like hitting a fly with fly swatter.
So she’s lost her entire hoard in one night, and she’s feeling pretty pathetic, when she sees a poster!
HELP WANTED – RESCUE PRINCESS ELIZABETH – REWARD 15,000 GOLD
and she gets a very bad idea, but she’s pretty desperate and stupid so she does it anyway!
So the story follows Altheria as she blunders her way through this quest to save the kidnapped princess (so tragically taken days before her wedding!!!) And she kinda sucks at it. She mostly skates by because everyone looks at her and goes “She’s so small!!! She’s harmless!!!”
And there’s this thing called The Gift that people are born with. Only people with The Gift can understand dragons, so no one knows what the fuck she’s saying anyway. Everyone just ignores her!
Well Altheria makes it to the bandit infested fortress where the princess is only to discover….
Drum roll please!!!!
The princess wasn’t kidnapped. She ran the fuck away because she was not vibing with that whole marriage thing. She’s taken over this small army of bandits and become their leader. She’s plotting to take over her father’s kingdom and become queen instead of being sold off to some prince. She’s building an army.
Elizabeth has offered every would-be rescuer to show up a choice; join her cause, or die. Out of 37 would be rescuers, only three have joined her. The other 34 she defeated and killed in single combat. Because she’s a badass.
She then ransomed the bodies to their families for a shit load of money.
So Eliza has The Gift, and gives Altheria the same choice but with some added sugar; if Altheria joins up, she can be Eliza’s treasurer.
Altheria takes one look at the 35,000 gold Eliza has built up, and Eliza promises they’ll get even more gold if they can take over the kingdom… And Altheria is 100% on board!!!!
But the reason dragons need gold is simple; the more gold a dragon possess, the larger they grow. That’s why Altheria was so small. She only had one coin! But now she has 35,000 that she (kinda, she shares with Eliza) owns.
Altheria starts growing again. Throughout their quest to take back the kingdom in Eliza’s name, she gets bigger, her teeth and horns get sharper, her fire gets hotter… She becomes a fucking badass, just like Eliza.
That’s as far as I’ve gotten so far.
This story is badass. hehe~ Imagine Eliza and Altheria going around defeating the other dragons that bullied Altheria before (in the sense of robbing; unless dragons do “fair and square” matches to get the Gold) and Altheria just becomes this extra huge, extra strong, extra badass dragon and the rest are now the tiny fly treatment dragons. XD hahaha
I have this image in my head of Altheria eating the alley cat that was mean to her in chapter one, but this works too
OP can I 🅱️lease draw fanart
Iwould die for you if you did
Bless
And you know I had to draw my favorite part
I’m actually crying oh my god I can’t see the screen anymore my eyes are too blurry with tears in my god oh my god oh my god do you understand you’re my favorite person now? Holy shit holy shit holy shit I love you she looks so little and perfect it’s exactly how I pictured it thank you THANK YOU THANK YOU❤ ❤ ❤
I hope you know I’ve been sitting here in hysterics repeating SHE’S GOT A LITTLE FORK SWORD SHE’S GOT A LITTLE FORK SWORD SHE’S GOT A LITTLE FORK SWORD OH MY GOD I LOVE THIS SO MUCH OH MY GOD
Spent the last two streams painting this lovely platey Death Knight! Concept art commission for @tevruden with a quick fun back-color crop I played with this morning. I had way too much fun with all the glowy things.
This took me a while to work through the many possible combinations of meaning but my read is that it’s saying the right wing in the US are self deceiving and hypocritical.
The don’t tread on me snake (symbol of neo Confederates) is asking if the boot is free real estate. In fact, inside a boot is exactly where you will get tread on. Then there’s the connotation of “bootlicker.” Reactionaries stake out their cultural place by conforming to structures of power and accepting/enforcing the largest scale forms of social control, while loudly proclaiming that they are rebelling and identifying recently formed and less stable structures of progressivism as the oppressor.
I could be wrong if that’s a specific boot with additional meaning. This analysis is also am example of how people will tend to see things in ways they agree with.
That is the Hottest Goddamn Take I have ever seen that managed to be so completely and utterly incorrect.
But this is absolutely correct. Historical references were used in order to support evidence, and the two memes provided were both referenced correctly in the above explanation. As a bonus, an additional meme was provided to further show evidence of their conclusion.
Broke: “There’s a snake in my boot!”
Woke: “the right wing in the US are self deceiving and hypocritical.”
Alright, just because I have nothing better to do while I AFK my game, I’ll bite.
If you want to treat this as serious, and use evidence to back up the claim, it’s still wrong, because that’s not No Step Snek (AKA the Don’t Tread On Me snake). The Neo-Confederate symbol is, as it would so happen, this:
And as you can see, it’s an entirely different snake. Since the whole point here is to go by symbology, you can’t substitute one snake for another. The exception would be if you were to create a parody of the snake (such as this:)
Wherein the purpose is to use a different snake with the same layout of the original symbol, but in a mocking manner rather than a serious one. In order for their interpretation to be correct, the meme would need to look like this:
I won’t argue their point, because I happen to agree, but the fact remains that from a purely symbological standpoint, their interpretation was, while interesting, incorrect.
