#I'll make asks and exception

[lenabobina]

1989 — Deutsche Demokratische Republik (x)

[critter-covenant]

Class is in session!

Idea inspired from this that I've been meaning to draw for the past few days

[burningcheese-merchant]

okay enough with the ship discourse! let's lighten the mood with some season 10 discussions! I'm really really excited to see the latter half of the story, and I'm super curious how this will going into next months update too! chocolate bark, and whatever second cookie that'll come in july, I cannot wait to see how things play out, the dragons have some of the most interesting lore in all of CR history (second only to the Novas hehehe my awesome space super sentai family 😄)

Absolutely, my friend! No more dumb discourse, only good and silly vibes

I actually meant to make a separate post talking about my thoughts on Season 10 of Ovenbreak, but I was always too busy to do so. Your ask gives me an excuse lol

I have LOVED this update so far. It's so great. The story is so great. Longan Dragon being 1000000000000 kilometers long and looking like an eldritch horror? Basically being Jörmungandr from Norse myth? Peak. Longan Dragon trapping everyone in some kind of mind prison and forcing them to endure constant pyschological assault? Peak. More dragon family lore? Peak. Chocolate Bark? Peak, I love him, he's so handsome and perfect, if only he was in Kingdom too

I think what I've enjoyed most so far is:

Dark Choco and Chocolate Bark backstory. I really enjoy their little mentor/student bond. CB is such a fun dude. He's tough but he's lighthearted and has a sense of humor. The way he speaks to DC is so charming, he's like a older brother or uncle almost

I think Dark Choco really needed someone like this in his life, you know? It's a big shame he left, even if it was for an important mission. It makes me wonder how differently things would've turned out if he'd stayed.

Also...

"My father" this, "my father" that. #SayHisName, Devsis lol

It's cool to get official confirmation that the Dark Cacao Kingdom exists (existed?) in Ovenbreak as well. And by extension, Dark Cacao himself exists (existed?) there too. And... he's not the most affectionate dad still lol. It's ok, he's still my favorite Ancient and Kingdom character. I am begging and pleading Devsis for more lore on this, hell give us a whole update focusing on Dark Choco PLEASE, he's been so neglected in OB and it's been a huge shame because he gets more attention in Kingdom. I love Dark Choco, I love how tragic he is, I love his redemption arc. (It's admittedly... less compelling here than it is in CRK, but that can be fixed with a Dark Choco-focused update imo)

I just really, really adore seeing the dragons interact with each other. I love their dynamic SO much, they're my favorite group in this whole series. I'm nutso about them individually and as a family/clan. It's been awesome learning more about Lychee and Longan especially; I love Lychee's unwilling attachment to Rambutan and her apparent longing for proper attention from/bonding with Longan, I love the way the Pitaya-Ananas-Lotus trio bicker and banter, THE LONGAN CHARACTER STUDY‼️‼️‼️ Pitaya may be my favorite dragon but Longan is the most complex and interesting one by far. The warped affection he feels for his family. The need to protect and govern them. The way he perceives time and the world at large. His sociopathic desire for absolute control and revenge for perceived injustices. The way he tries to manipulate the others into agreeing with him and going along with his plans (those scenes in the Dark Realm are fucking crazy. The way he warps and weaponizes their emotions and memories is actual textbook abuser/cult brainwashing shit)

What the actual fuck dude. Ok, Charles Manson lol. And I thought Shadow Milk was bad. (No lie I find Longan Dragon 10x more intimidating than Shadow Milk. He exudes an aura that SM simply does not. THIS is power. THIS is boundless knowledge sharpened into a blade and held against your throat. Shadow Milk may be a god but Longan Dragon is above even godhood. I'm way more scared of Longan than any of the Beasts)

Biggest scene for me though?

WHAT??? LAST SURVIVOR OF THE FLOWER DRAGONS??? WHAT???????????

In hindsight... yeah it was kind of obvious something was up with Lotus Dragon lol. The one flower in a group of fruits. Pretty on the nose. But it's still crazy to think about, you know? What happened to the other Flower Dragons? Why is Lotus the only one left? How did the other Fruit Dragons feel about taking her in? How did SHE feel about that, essentially being adopted by a rival clan? What if they had something to do with the Flower Dragons' demise? They better address this in the next half of the story istg. I will lose it. I WILL write a sternly worded email to Devsisters. I WILL cry

What this says about Longan's character is also quite interesting. It appears that his respect and affection for dragons actually does extend beyond his own immediate family. Enough to take in an orphan. This capacity for compassion and generosity is so unlike how Longan normally behaves. It makes for a really fascinating pivot from his usual modus operandi and adds a lot of depth to his thinking and character

(honestly, this makes me want and hope for Longan Dragon's surrender even more. I've always thought that Longan willingly standing down and ceding victory to the other dragons would be more impactful than him simply being beaten the normal way, aka through the Power of Friendship and Punching Stuff. I want Longan's love for his family to win in the end. I want him to come to realize that he really would have no choice but to eradicate his family in order to achieve his goals, and then forfeit because he could never bring himself to do it. They're the reason why he's doing any of this in the first place. I don't want him to change his mind about mortals or anything, he can stay a genocidal race supremacist lol. I just think it would be more interesting if he willingly stopped what he was doing just because he can't let go of his kin. Perhaps he truly is only clinging to an idyllic past long dead. It would hurt. Hurt his pride, his ego. But their preservation would require the destruction of his clan and he cannot stand for that. THEY are his mission. THEY are his dream. Yes, Longan will forever mourn this loss as he shall forever mourn the past itself. But at least he'll still have those four afterwards. Even if they hate him.)

The dragons make me so ill. I need to pelt them with rocks. Gonna call the Stone Dragons Pitaya was beefing with in prehistoric times and ask them for a favor

[yesokayiknow]

What fic ideas do you have for Belinda?

i got annoyed about ummmm aspects of 15's whole run so i've decided to write out a 2 series (13 eps each + specials) long au in which bel & ruby travel w 15 at the same time lol

[viviandarkbloombartylusversion]

Barty who doesn't really understand social cues and doesn't realize when he says something wrong/out of pocket, Evan who understands social cues but doesn't fucking care about them cause he lives in his own little world, and Regulus who's trained himself to pick up on social cues and uses them to his advantage in conversations/interactions

[just-null]

the way you drew kokichi .. i think im ascending to the heavens .. i see the light .. chest collapsing .. heartbeat flatlining ..

oho, a Kokichi enjoyer!! tysm!! it was my first time drawing him at the time so im glad i didnt fail him. i dont want to fail any of the kyoto group. i love them all!! even w my clear favoritism

he's nice too, a bit more expressive than Noritoshi so i can finally draw something that isnt :| or >:( even if it isnt by much- i like him too

I like how he's both a dick but also kinda sweet. He's a different flavor of tsun... i can use this. my knowledge on him is limited but FROM WHAT I SAW IN THE WIKI OH MY GOD???????? OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!! KOKICHI!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[echo-has-queries]

How do you deal with the disappointment if your art doesn't get the recognition you feel it deserves?

The wip i haven't published yet, hasn't gotten any comment at all 😥

I knooow! It's haaarrrddd :'/ I have this REALLY good fic that's gotten zero comments and I'm pretty sure that's JUST because I haven't written it yet!?! Rude.

BUT--

There are some easy steps you can follow.

Step 0: Obtain Enlightenment

The enlightened writer knows that popularity does NOT equal quality. Your work may not be recognised for any number of reasons, TONS of which have nothing to do with how good your story is. Your story may never reach the right audience and that is sad but unavoidable. Therefore you must always make sure that YOU are in your audience - write for yourself first and foremost and you will always have at least one fan.

On that note: enlightenment also means kicking that inner critic at least a little bit to make room for said inner fan. They deserve some elbow space too! If your inner fan isn't very developed, outer special fan (close friend or online fandom friend) works too, but unfortunately that is not always available so yeah. Work on emboldening that inner fan and become an enlightened writer. I believe in you.

Step 1: Post

Yeah, I know. But you gotta. And I hate to have to tell you this but sometimes you might have to gotta when you don't quite feel like it's "ready" yet. If the editing is just going in circles or not moving at all and you're just not quite satisfied yet -- I don't care. You gotta post that thang.

Posting isn't necessarily about getting something to the public -- it's simply to have posted it. To be done. To release what you have created to the world and free it from your synapses. Otherwise it'll be sad -- it's so cramped in there. You have to let it out. It bites if you keep it in for too long.

Recognise that even getting so far as posting makes you so brave and awesome. You did it! You posted your thang! You WROTE a thang! Most people never do and you did. That is awesome.

Step 2: Patience

You are at this point of course an enlightened writer, so you know chances are your fic just isn't being found, isn't reaching the people it might matter to. Give it time. Other things besides time that may help:

Posting and participating in memes and events that are relevant to your story.

Posting about your story on other platforms.

Finding communities in relevant fandoms and sharing your story with other people there.

More probably, I don't actually have that much experience here, sorry.

Now remember I said might help. Unfortunately, there is never a guarantee.

Step 3: Profit

Look, I can't promise you'll get kudos. I can't promise you'll get comments. You might. And when you do, you get to celebrate that shit! It's a great feeling and easy to get addicted to, easy to miss and want to chase. Creating is hard. Putting yourself out there is hard. That's why Step 0 is so important. You gotta do it for the love of the game.

You gotta be doing it for the love of the game.

You deal with the disappointment by seeing your own work, your own worth and knowing it is good, no matter what other people might think. Being recognised feels good and not getting recognised can be disheartening, but I hope that's not why you're writing. I hope you write because you want to. Because you need to. And once you're doing that, once you keep doing that, recognition will come -- be it from someone seeing you, or simply you seeing yourself.

Anyway, hope that helps :)

[themagistersbirthright]

i have so many tag games to do when i finally make my inquisitor and rook

[undertale-fic-librarby]

Delightful Distraction

A genderswapped FluffyNight drabble to celebrate reaching 300 followers! This was briefly looked over & written in two sittings! Happy reading!

Ccino hums quietly to the music that's playing in the otherwise quiet café & picks up the dirty dishes of the table that had just left, leaving the building free of customers for the time being.

Carrying the plates carefully with both hands, she walks into the back where the kitchen is & deposits the dirty dishes into the sink, already filled with plates from earlier in the day.

Ccino debates with herself for a moment before grabbing a pair of dish washing gloves from nearby & slipping them on. She might as well take advantage of the lack of customers & get a head start on washing up.

Scrubbing away at a dirty cup, Ccino's unaware of a presence approaching her from behind until there are suddenly arms wrapped around her waist, causing her to jump & tighten her grip on the mug in her hand in surprise.

Looking over her shoulder, Ccino glares at the grinning face behind her, huffing in annoyance. "Was that really necessary?" Nightmare lets out a quiet chuckle as she tightens her hold around Ccino, resting her head on the other's shoulder.

"No, but it was funny." She mumbles softly in response to the question, pressing a soft kiss against Ccino's neck in apology. "Will you ever find it in yourself to forgive me?"

Ccino rolls her eyelights & sighs with a shake of her skull, unable to keep the smile off of her face as she turns back to face the sink. "I don't know, what will you do to make it up to me?"

Nightmare hums as she thinks, grin softening into a smile as she tries to come up with a satisfying reply. "I could always make dinner for us tonight?"

Ccino stands straight & pulls away from Nightmare's hold slightly to look at her, a look of panic on her face as she frantically tries to backtrack. "N-No, it's fine! No further apology needed, I'm good!"

Nightmare huffs with a pout, reluctantly pulling away & taking a step back from the other. "What exactly are you trying to say?"

Ccino pauses to take off the gloves she's wearing before turning to face Nightmare fully. "Honey, you know I love you," she takes the other's hands into hers, squeezing them softly as she meets Nightmare's gaze & continues speaking, "but your cooking could use some work."

Nightmare frowns as if she's upset, but shrugs after a moment as a smile forms on her face again. "Yeah, that's fair." She squeezes Ccino's hands in return, leaning in & pressing a chaste kiss against the other's teeth.

Ccino hums as she goes to kiss Nightmare again, unsatisfied with how short the last one was, only to jump at the sound of the bell hanging in front of the door ringing & signaling the presence of a customer.

She pulls away in a panic, adjusting her apron with a light blush on her face as she walks away from Nightmare & back out to the actual café area, calling out to the customer. "Just a moment!"

Nightmare watches as Ccino walks away with a pout, tentacles drooping in disappointment as she hears her begin to take the customer's order. She had hoped to have Ccino's attention for longer, but that clearly wasn't going to happen.

Nightmare looks over at the dirty dishes that she had distracted Ccino from, sighing & grabbing the gloves that the other had been using. She may as well help her darling out a little since she had distracted her.

[deweyduck]

@pscentral​​ event 18: adaptations

↳ DCOMS BASED ON BOOKS (that i have read)

[arttsuka]

you have the vibes of someone who would like centaurworld

I haven't gotten the chance to watch it but I have seen some scenes (I've listened to a bunch of the songs) and I can confidently say I love the design for that horse. So solid.

[qoldenskies]

Omg your writing Qolden. Idk why I'm so surprised that your OCs are so cool when you wrote Canary Continuity, lol.

i plan on writing novels.... i could probably do it NOW, i just havent had the momentum because i havent had anyone cheering me on unlike with cc lmao. but writing fic has proven to me that im capable!!

it's only like a couple of people here who listen to me when i talk about them so i dont think i'll go into it anymore, but there's actually so much worldbuilding stuff i wish i could talk about with SOMEONE. there's even a worldbuilding concept that lets you assign yourself and fictional characters a categorization that gives you unique powers and cool symbolism based off personality traits and interests. i am extremely obsessed with it and it makes my neurodivergent brain so happy and i feel like other people would be too. but that would mean i'd have to write the goddamn story

[handledwithgloves]

don’t think you’ve ever been asked this (or maybe you had and I just don’t remember) but what made you start liking Drarry? Have you always liked it during the books release? Was it a well-written fic or artwork that brought it to your attention? Or did it just get a hold on you when you decided one day to randomly re-read the series and you noticed all the queer subtext (regardless if it was intentional).

hi anon! 🥰 thanks for asking!! ur gonna probs hate me for this lol but i got into drarry through a tiktok edit. i was never a hp girl (hunger games was where it was at for preteen/teen me --- we hate gale in this house) but i was ALWAYS a draco girlie.

i was strolling thru tiktok one day and for some reason there was a sudden resurgence of hp on my fyp, i got a bunch of draco tiktok and was like 'omg yeah i remember really liking him!' bc i love spoiled brat characters i was like wow these edits are soo good lemme check out more BOOM! drarry everywhere. like where have i been? under a rock? to my normie brain romione was the main take away ship from the movies, i cheered when they got together (i have never seen DH 1 or 2) so i was never in the hp scene bc i thought it was lame and i hate jkr. idk why i've never noticed it before but drarry is peak and goated i love the rivals to lovers the different sides of the same coin trope destiny wands everything leads back to you etc

to this day i've never read all the books and i've never seen all the movies. and that's how i got into drarry!! 🫶💕

[greenerteacups]

What do you think as Hermione's career would be post battle of Hogwarts? To me her being minister for magic really doesn't make sense. She does not have patience or tact to wade through murky waters of politics 😭😭

So hard to say! The Trio are so, so young when we leave them, I find it almost impossible to project their futures farther than a few years out. The job that suited me at 17 would be radically unsuited to me now. That's why of all the Trio, Ron's ending strikes me as the most realistic — he jumps straight into the save-the-world business again, burns out, realizes he's actually Done The Fuck Enough, Thanks, and pivots into a low-stress career where he gets to see his family a lot. Feels accurate! The others are weirder to me because they do seem to just... pick a lane and stay there.

With Hermione, you could spin her a couple ways. You could say that she leans into her bookish side and does research or teaching, which is not my preference for a couple reasons (namely, I don't think Hermione would like academia as a profession; she finds her classwork interesting and enjoys intellectual validation, but she'd be stifled and wasted in a DPhil program, and she'd be infuriated by the administrative politicking of your average higher-ed faculty). You could say that she gets disaffected with politics and ends up as a barrister or a lobbyist of some kind, but if anything that requires more political finesse, because you don't actually have institutional power, you're just handling the people who make decisions and trying to persuade them of your goals. This is not Hermione's preferred method of influence. She's not even particularly good at persuasion, she just happens to be smart enough (and right often enough) that people take her ideas seriously.

Or you could say her brashness fades with the years into a softened flavor of tell-you-like-it-is honesty, which some politicians actually do successfully trade on; as we see in British politics today, you don't have to be all that charming or clever to get ahead, you just need to be really driven and well-connected (which Hermione completely is; she fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the first postwar Minister and her bestie, the Literal Messiah, runs the Auror Office.) But I don't know if Hermione especially wants to be Minister, after the war. She's just watched years of horrendous bureaucratic incompetence plunge the country into a violent civil conflict. She's had not one, but two Ministers of Magic try to bully or shame her friends into complicity with fascism. Her view of government is... likely extremely dark.

But Hermione also isn't the kind of person who sees her life as a quest for happiness. Babygirl has a savior complex that makes Harry look selfish. (She basically kills her parents — yeah, obliviating is a form of murder, #changemymind — "for their own good," and justifies every batshit, vindictive, mean-spirited move she ever pulls on the grounds that it "helps" one of her friends.) She is a mean, lean, dragon-slaying machine, and she needs a dragon. After Voldemort, the Ministry is the no. 1 threat to muggle-borns and non-wizarding Beings. As a war heroine with basically infinite political capital, I'd be surprised if she didn't try to do something there. That said, Hermione is so vivacious and dynamic that she could potentially grow in a hundred different directions; it's possible that all of this, while true of her at 18, becomes completely inaccurate by 22. That's why I'm not too fussed about any particular fanon interpretation.

[navree]

people doing this whole "look at how rhaenys acted with corlys's bastard son vs how catelyn acted with jon snow" to demonize one or the other is weird because, like, maybe it's just me, but i think that catelyn and rhaenys had different reactions because they're different people in different situations.

[airenyah]

ooooof why did it take me about 3.5 hours to write about the very first fadelstyle scene alone. at this rate i'm never gonna finish the main text by sunday night (monday noon)