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Weather Balloons 🎈 🌨️ ☀️ 🌧️ ✨

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Well this is stuck in my head now.

What's the trope name for when someone finds out they're the Chosen One(tm) and is like "No, thank you" and goes and does something else

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so i opened up my google docs today

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feeling called out today

credit: _ADWills

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this is tumblr dot com

you follow whomever

you shitpost whatever

if you have coin, you blaze that shitpost all over peoples faces

you boop sometimes when the powers that be give you a button

you share news via supernatural memes

and you thrive in your refreshing, rejuvenating space all hand-cultivated and curated by you

(the corollary is you also unfollow and/or block blogs that do not make you vibe, and then you continue to flourish)

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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So like - y'all know how you have to learn to drive a car? and like, in theory its easy right - go peddle is vroom, stop peddle is eeeek and spinny wheel turns, that's all there is to it, right? (lol)

As many who have had the opportunity to drive a vehicle probably know, there's more to it. There's turn signals, there's dash controllers, there's things you monitor, things you watch out for, there's an intuition you develop for how your drives, when it feels... 'off' even if that check engine light isn't yet on. You know how the brakes 'feel' and at what interval to apply pressure to break smoothly, or how to turn sharply while still maintaining control to avoid a collision.

These are all instinctive skills we develop as we learn and practice driving.

Horses are very much the same - and they can also decide to NOT do what you tell them to do, have anxiety reactions you cannot control but must adapt to, and have unique personalities. Most Ford Fiestas are gonna drive comparably. Two Arabian horses? Good luck.

So. Yes. The theory is there, and with practice and bond-building and knowing your horse, or even developing overall skill, you can just pop on a horse.

Folks who have been on horses that plodded along on the trail or pathed around an arena - those horses have been trained to do that before you ever got on them. You're not steering them. That's what it was taught to do when the 'driver' isn't really driving. And that's not a bad thing! That's wonderful to give new riders a safe experience, to let adventurers go on trail rides without having to develop years and years of skills in advance. It's a fabulous way to maybe get over fear, or bond with a gentle beast that knows it's the expert in the situation and is more than fine with it. They are the calm ones, even if their rider is anxious and clutching the saddle nervously. They're good at being steady for you.

And yes, I suppose, technically that counts as riding a horse, but in the same way that sitting on the handlebars of a bike while your romantic partner pedals and steers behind you counts as riding a bike. Yes - you're balancing on it, and yes, you're along for the ride, and no those aren't bad or silly or anything negative. But it's not the first thing people will think of when they ask "can you ride a bike" is all.

I always thought it was like an exaggeration when horse people would talk about how silly it was for anyone to think that riding a horse does not require any particular level of skill or balance or anything, or even that they "drive themselves" (???) but just the tags on the reblogs of that "can you ride a bike and/or horse" post from me alone are demonstrating how overconfident some people are in their (often entirely theoretical!) ability to stay on an alive and moving animal with a will of its own.

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Can I be greedy and ask for another? #18 for DOTU Lotura? :3

Absolutely!!  I’m so sorry this took so long, I’m catching up!

18.   “Are youflirting with me?” | DotU Lotura

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An exhale of relief leftAllura’s lips as she reclined in her pilot’s seat.  While her teammates shared in boisterouslaughter and cheering, she felt only a peaceful tranquility.

The five robot felinessplit from their unified whole before scattering in the direction of theirresting places.  

“That’ll show Lotor!”

Keith’s voice rang outacross the communication channel as his lion touched down on the pedestal infront of the castle.

Allura hesitated by themoat.

“Princess?”

“I’m alright, Keith,” sheconfirmed.  “I’m just going to do aflyby, make sure we got everything.  Thatrobeast had a lot of moving parts,” she said.

The monstrous design hadtaken longer than usual to bring to heel; it had had so many limbs that theyneeded to dissect it apart to even get close enough to put the blazing swordthrough it.

“Okay, but go easy.  Lines are open, call if you see anything thatlooks suspicious,” he cautioned.

“Right, Keith.”

Blue Lion peeled away fromthe moat and gently coasted through the air. She scanned the ground beneath her beast, a frown touching at her lips.

Scraps of metal litteredthe landscaping, some were innocently strewn about, others had taken a morevicious landing, uprooting trees or even upsetting farmers’ crops.

Carefully, her clawedbeast touched down and Allura vacated the machine to wander through the scrapheap.  She circled around one of thediscarded pieces of the robeast.

A somber look touched herface the same time her palm came to rest upon the cooling metal.

“…but Father!”

“No buts – you’reabsolutely worthless!”

Allura froze, her eyespopping wide as her breath chilled in her lungs.

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for the prompts... #20 for DOTU Lotura? :3

| 20.   “Will you show me?” |

Allura grunted infrustration as Keith’s image flashed over her com screen.

“Princess, are you okay?Check in!”

The princess winced as aDrule fighter flew overhead, the sound of explosions echoing in the background.

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why is writing the hardest part of writing

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A Lotura art print for your soul, hand-embellished with metallic gold foil. A couple of years ago, when I discovered Voltron: Legendary Defender, little did I know I’d be making art of this beautiful pair of space elves with so much passion 💖 How did VLD impact your life? When the VLD fandom was beginning to quiet down, I was just learning about it. But there are still a few of us left around that enjoy our Lotura corner. Lotor and Allura waltzing among galaxies had me all dreamy and inspired me to draw this artwork. So I’m here for y’all with a rather crazy, detailed gold foil manual labor that I decided to pursue (I love sparkly things 🤩, I’m sure many of you do too, but the amount of sparkles I sprinkled on this one is insane and I may have lost my mind and my eyesight a bit when working on applying the gold leaf). ✨ I could have chosen again a foil printing service, but I decided to have it the old-fashioned way because nothing can beat the brilliant colors of giclée prints on archival paper and some hand-applied foil (I’m a bit crazy about giclées, small confession). This giclée is printed on a 11x14” (28 x 35.5 cm) watercolor bright white archival paper, with Canon Lucia inks and hand-embellished with Schabin composition leaf. Here is the link to my Ko-fi listing. *** Since this is a labor-intensive artwork (the magnifying glass is my friend), it’s going to be a PRE-ORDER listing, so I can have time to properly gild each art print. I’ll keep the pre-order open for a week or more depending on the demand, and post updates for you here when I close it. ***Keep an eye out for my Plance Dance giclee print coming soon, also covered in sparkles.

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Lololol No, no they did not - the original screencap looks more like this:

..I guess it's supposed to be shadows? Anywho, the edit is courtesy Princeofdoom.com - check out their fangirl vision for the towel massage scene with a bare bum and the un-booped version of the above shot.

NSFW warning - though idk if that is needed in this context - you WILL see some proper drule wang. ...and ass.

this one goes out to all the self-boopers out there.

go on - boop yourself

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lotura gang whos still here

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They say you die three times, first when the body dies, second, when your body enters the grave, and third, when your name is spoken for the last time. You were a normal person in life, but hundreds of years later, you still haven’t had your “third” death. You decide to find out why.

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Cloud Hoodie ☁️⭐🐈and Moss Hoodie🍀🌿🐸

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its not a boop but in the spirit of continuing to interact with people, please have this like and a reblog

i missed the booping

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Catch me checking for Pidge lines next!

So I really wanted cheesy DotU quotes on glitter stickers. So. I started working on some scene redraws.

Anyone else got any favorite dotu scenes or one-liners? I've got Hagger's "Kitty is excited" in the works. I wouldn't be opposed to any VLD quotes either, if anyone has any. Taking suggestions!

My inner child is so excited by this