Shoutout to Micah Parsons, letting the trenches get work in 🙌

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In my homebrew world, the elves of Valora are not a single unified culture but a family of old and divergent peoples shaped by geography and very different relationships to power. There are primarily 2 groups: the Sylvan elves and the Steppe elves.

The Sylvan elves are inspired by Mesoamerican aesthetics, jungle city-states, sacred astronomy, and monumental architecture. I’ve been making a spread of character portraits for them as a way to move away from the standard fantasy “forest elf” template. I wanted them to still feel recognizably elven in some ways, but with a culture, visual identity, and historical weight that belong specifically to this world.

I don’t mean just a remake where they just stretch the original plot across ten episodes, but a real expansion of the world, characters, mythology, or premise.

For me, The Cabin in the Woods feels like one of the strongest candidates. It could be horror, dark comedy, workplace satire, and monster-of-the-week all at once.

A few other options that I think work are Event Horizon, The Thing, or even something like It Follows.

If you could take any horror movie and expand it into a full TV series, what would you pick?

On July 1, 1984, the MPAA introduced the PG-13 rating after concerns over films like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins. Movies that were rated PG but pushed a lot further than many parents expected.

It has become the dominant blockbuster rating. For decades, PG-13 has been the middle ground... violent but not too violent, scary but not too scary, adult enough for teens, safe enough for studios.

What do you think: did it improve movies, or did it "flatten" them? Did PG-13 give filmmakers more room between PG and R, or did it create a corporate sweet spot where movies are engineered to feel edgy without actually going too far?

On a more personal note: what was the first PG-13 movie you remember seeing?

Terminator 2: Judgment Day premiered 35 years ago today, and it still holds up.

The effects, the pacing, the performances, the villain, the emotional weight. All of it still works.

Three and a half decades later, is T2 still the greatest action sequel ever made, or has another movie finally taken the crown?

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Most fantasy character art leans toward polished, dramatic, high-detail illustration, which is great, but I like how this kind of approach makes the characters feel different. The rough linework, odd proportions, and cartoonish looseness give them a little more humor and personality. It strips away some of the usual heroic gloss and lets the characters feel strange, expressive, and alive in a different way.

I think D&D characters don’t always need to look like splash art or video game concept art. Sometimes a loose sketch can reveal the character more clearly than a perfectly rendered portrait.

sorry i’m not effortlessly feminine today. i am a soup goblin in yesterday’s leggings and tomorrow's bra.

is anyone else just completely fed up with performative femininity??