Antariplex: Prequel: Directed by Antariplex

Antariplex: And co-directed by Michael Bay:
http://imgur.com/VwPqY8e

Armored-Struggle-Wagon: Visual makeup and effects:
Armored-Struggle-Wagon
Paul Verhoeven

KillerfishSG: Is this supposed to be funny?

ShroomBot: Ha, I like how she's still standing there like "oh, ok then. That happend"

Antariplex: @KillerfishSG: Heck no! Notice how her head blown off by a LAZ0R conveys a very sad and disappointing atmosphere in the image. The burning zeppelin only compliments this because people are dying.

You guys shouldn't be laughing this is a very serious image.

Kewot_Rokar: "You are ded. Not big suprise." Says the Heavy, as he steals the Sandvich.

Paulverizer: @KillerfishSG: it is - at least to people without a stick up their ass

SlashSeven: @Mathematician: hey, I still remember your nice composition For Sigrid. Thanks.

APayne1776: >w>

DOOMGUY11: @SlashSeven: Same here! Let's learn together

SlashSeven: @DOOMGUY11: Let's do this! But I don't sure what actually we can do together.

Zargothrax: Seems accurate

DarthVader: It’s really good if you’re starting to learn!

DarthVader: It’s really good if you’re just starting to learn!

DarthVader: Sorry I didn’t mean to post that twice, something weird went wrong and confused the heck out of me.

SlashSeven: Wow, DarthVader himself did something weird under my picture. Thanks.

DarthVader: @SlashSeven it happens.

SlashSeven: That's more funny :D

DarthVader: I Hate the first order

DarthVader: All hail the Galactic Empire!

Sashimi: Wow, nice work with the trooper style!

DOOMGUY11: Totally not suspicious at all

Zargothrax: Phasma had more effect on the plot here, than in the entirety of the Star Wars franchise XD

_Noxygen_: I'm struggling in algebra 2 and I hate my my life might, plz kill me

_Noxygen_: Its amazing what drugs do

SlashSeven: Or sale them to buy more lemons to sale them to buy more and create your own lemon business then you can eat lemons or even cake whenever you want and you dont even need to cook it!

SlashSeven: @_Noxygen_: oh, you might need help

Rick2tails: "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your D*** lemons, what the h*** am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”
― J.K. Simmons

_Noxygen_: Wow what a mad lad

evjikshu: :cake

evjikshu:

evjikshu: dat failed comm tho...

SlashSeven: 101% huggable!

Vinarto: Well done!

DOOMGUY11: When your parents kick you out

Raydio: squish

SlashSeven: Decision number two. So how is it?

SlashSeven: I wanna say thanks for all what you doing on Tumblr guys. Even these small things means for me a lot.

APayne1776: This picture makes me feel happy

DOOMGUY11: @APayne1776: @SlashSeven: This is just fun to see! I like it a lot!

damrok4321: Im confused rn, which one is at the dark side

SlashSeven: Even dark side has a light side

Evilpopcorn: Ha! A triple cross-over.
https://youtu.be/Cizlx6ODhuE?t=58

DarthVader: Yes, Nicros! Kill her!

XenoYparxi: @DarthVader: you are supposed to

DarthVader: @XenoYparxi It can’t happen unless i make him put it in action.

Sashimi: Ha! That's awesome!

Sashimi: But don't kill her Vader.

DOOMGUY11: She did nathing to no one

Geravind: She hugs everyone, yay!

ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: @Toryu-Mau: Green is better!, Also yes hugs! :3 You better give her hugs!

Armored-Struggle-Wagon: The amount of cute in this picture is indescribable.

Skoon: *heavy breathing*

Vidiotdragon: Props to the artist for the angle of the head and the perspective on this.

Toryu-Mau: @ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: Good point, but then again she looks good in literally anything. One could wrap her in shredded wolf pelt and she would still manage to look adorable.

ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: @Toryu-Mau: Lets be honest she is adorable, just by her self, adorable, unless she is sad :c then she needs hugs..

Skoon: Against all of the more nude versions of her on this site this is sexier to me for some reason.

AGMsInbound: @Skoon: Because she looks like she's giving us a hug. A pleasant thought.

SlashSeven: Yay, I found a hug ^^

AMKitsune: @Kazerad: As you say, many things in TES are different to out own reality, either to further it's fantasy setting by differentiating it from what we know to be normal, or to facilitate other aspects of its lore.

However...
"For a piece of art to hold significance or persuasion for an audience, according to Plato and Aristotle, it must have grounding in reality"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude_(fiction)

As you also mentioned, vampirism (or it's predecessor, Sanguinare Vampiris) is considered a 'disease' in TES which is a very 'medical' way of describing it. many other depictions of vampirism in other media don't seem to go into much detail about what it actually is. just that 'if they bite, you become'. Most people who hear vampirism described as a disease will subconsciously think to themselves "Hey, I know what a disease is!"

Also, as unlikely as it may sound, the concept of the planet containing a giant clockwork mechanism isn't beyond comprehension. It's technically possible which is why it's a believable concept.

With the exception of magic (which children are exposed to from a young age, so they understand the concept of it), the world of TES is really quite grounded in reality. Sure, the settings, creatures and customs may seem alien to a new onlooker, but they're not too beyond what we're familiar with to prevent us accepting this world and everything in it. This is one of the reasons why I could never get into homestuck. While the story started off in what seemed to be a relatively normal world with normal rules, as soon as they started integrating arbitrary 'game mechanics' into the world, I wasn't able to engage with the world and couldn't stay invested (Other's love it though, so maybe that's just how I see things).

This is one of the reasons why fantasy (when done well) can be so brilliant. It can be grounded in reality enough to allow casual onlookers to understand the world whilst also having parts that are radically different to our reality, giving them something new and amazing to experience.

It's also a bit like the technobabble used in star trek. While in no way factual, it provides a small way for a viewer to connect to the world using their understanding/knowledge of the terms being used as a bridge between the factual world and the fictional.

I'm not saying that all works have to be instantly understandable, but it certainly helps.

Enheldor: @AMKitsune: I think the reason why vampirism is considered a disease is because people want to believe there is a cure for it.

Kazerad: @Terence_Fletcher: I am the real Kazerad! I guess this site is the "official" community right now, at least when it comes to fanart, but I'm working on some stuff for more general hanging out.

GoodIdeasAreOverrated: What, what is this wall of text about science and stuff. I just came to look at a cute picture of old Katia and old QW.

Enheldor: @GoodIdeasAreOverrated: Walls of scientific text attempting to explain common things in fantasy are the best.

MetalC0Mmander: @Enheldor: No you heard wrong. It's not the best it's the shittiest. Unless the writing is done by a scientist but let's be honest I don't think anyone here is one. Unless... Would any scientist please stand up?

Enheldor: @MetalC0Mmander: Aren't we all scientists at some point? Also, how exactly is it the worst?

Kewot_Rokar: "Nyah, back in my day, we didn't have no fast travel. We had Silt Striders... And flight scrolls."

Terence_Fletcher: @MetalC0Mmander: I'm not a scientist, but I learned biology as a general course. And since my mother has master's degree in biology I had some chance to learn bits of biology back when I was younger. So i guess it's not the shittiest maybe?

SlashSeven: ...when I look at this image it feels like I've missed whole their lives and we just met for the first time in a long while but we remember how nice and funny it was when we were young and together we were in sometimes dangerous and painful but funny adventures, how we've made hard decisions, learned magic and supported each other in hard situations...

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I mean, it makes me let out a tear a little.

Is it even normal? I need a hug.