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Medievalpoc Resources

For people who love massive lists.

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Medievalpoc post series:

Eckhout’s Portraits of Brazilians (1660s)

Depictions of the Portuguese in African and Asian Art (1500s-1660s)

Guiseppe Castiglione, court painter in China (1700s)

Mongolian-European Occupation and Cultural Exchange (1000s-1400s)

The Search for Prester John

The Crusades

The Aethiopica

Dante and Virgil

Saint Maurice Masterpost

Women Warriors Masterpost

People of Color in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland

Art History Databases:

British Library Digitized Manuscripts Database

Library of Congress

Web Gallery of Art

The Getty

Rijksmuseum

The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

Art History Site Database and Search (AHDB)

The Getty Research Institute

WikiPaintings

The Bridgeman Art Library

WikiMedia Commons

Yale Center for British Art

The National Gallery

Bibliomancy:

Over 250 Free Art Books (PDF) from The Getty

Project Gutenburg

Decameron Web (Medieval)

Open Textbooks

New York Public Library

All Our Worlds: Database of Diverse SFF

We Need Diverse Books

Medievalpoc Fiction Week Masterpost

E-Books Directory

MIT Classics

Slavery and the English Country House, 2013 (Free PDF)

Black London: Life Before Emancipation, 1995 (Free PDF)

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe, 2012 (Free PDF)

Local Black History: A Beginning in Devon by Lucy MacKeith (Free PDF)

West Indians Intellectuals in Britain by Bill Schwarz (Free PDF)

Open Source Academic:

Directory of Open Access Journals

Wiley Open Access

Oxford Open

Disability Studies Quarterly

New York Public Library

Project MUSE

Scitable Springer Open

Elsevier Open Access

Open Access Library

Organized Online Learning:

Academic Earth Directory

Free Classes at MIT

Khan Academy

Curriki

Future Learn

Stanford Online

Open Yale Courses

BBC Learning

OpenLearn

Carnegie Mellon University OLI

History Websites:

American Historical Association

Women In World History

History.com

Smithsonian History Blog

History Today

African American History

Asian American History

Native American/Indigenous History

African History (Stanford)

Link Dumps (Articles, News, Interactive):

ArtSTOR Blog: Images for Teaching and Scholarship

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

Wikipedia page for Nanban Trade

Timeline of Chinese History and Dynasties

The Luttrell Psalter (Full Online Readable Text and Images)

The Gorleston Psalter (Full Online Readable Text and [some NSFW!] Images)

Color, Chromophobia and Colonialism: Some Historical Thoughts by Carolyn Purnell

"Don’t Put My Book in the African-American Section", N. K. Jemisin

Foreign Tokens: The Blackamoor Brooch on Racialicious

"That Smell": Sanitation in Victorian London on The Victorian Daily

In The Medieval Middle (Medievalist/Digital Humanities)

Norske Folkemuseum: Afrikanere I Norge

N. K. Jemisin: WisCon 38 Guest of Honor Speech

The Lost Gallery: Flickr

Shakespeare’s Colors: Race and Culture in Elizabethan England. James Schultz

Representation of Blacks and Blackness in the Renaissance by Peter Erickson (Art History/Critical Race Theory) 29 p., full color plates)

Do Clothes Make the Man (or Woman?): Sex, Gender, Costume, and the Aegean Color Convention by Anne Chapin

The Black Presence in Pre-20th Century Europe: A Hidden History

Kawahara Kiega: 18th and 19th Century Japanese Artist

Wikipedia: Sexuality (in Art) In Ancient Rome

Black British History: Representations of Blacks in British Art from the 17th - 20th Century

Hiromi Goto’s WisCon 38 Guest of Honor Speech

Decentering History: Local Stories and Cultural Crossing in A Global World

The Cultures and History of the Americas: Online Exhibition (the Jay. I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress)

Library of Congress:Exploring the Early Americas

"Race Card" by Gary Taylor (invention of whiteness in Elizabeth England)

Nanban (Western Style) Armor, National Museums (Japan)

Introduction: Reconstructing the Black Image by Gordon De La Mothe

Rembrandt and the Female Nude by Erik Jan Sluitjer (Andromeda, p. 83; Chariclea, p. 158; Sleeping Negress, p. 299-301;Bathsheba and Attendant, p. 336 & 346, 350)

H.P. Lovecraft’s Madness by Phenderson Djeli Clark

How “Caucasoids” Got Such Big Crania and Why They Shrank: From Morton to Rushton by Leonard Lieberman (responses, dialogue and works cited included)

The Advantages of Being a White Writer by Justine Larbalesteir (YA, Historical Fiction, Publishing, Representation) (response and rebuttal by Neesha Meminger)

Loretta Ross and the Origin of “Women of Color”; Racialicious Article and Video (transcript available)

National Theatre Black Plays Archive (UK)

"Ain’t That A Shame", Justine Larbalestier

Azie Dungey’s Comedy Webseries “Ask a Slave”

Sample PowerPoint: Disney and Diversity (epilepsy warning)

What Does it Mean that Most Children’s Books are Still About White Boys? by Soraya Chemaly

Scientists Reveal the First European Faces Were Not White

Vatican Catacomb Paintings Show Female Priests

Indiana University Study: More TV, Less Self Esteem, Except for White Boys

Children Are Not Colorblind: How Young Children Learn Race by Erin N. Winkler, PhD. (University of Wisconsin)

HeyReadABook: Full Text PDF Humanities, Critical Race Theory, Cultural Studies, History, Interdisciplinary History, Historiography and more

Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian (History, Historiography and Cultural Studies-Film)

Injunuity: Independent Cultural Film and Animation Project (History, Historiography, Cultural and Gender Studies)

Roman Slavery and the Question of Race by Sandra Joshel

Race Mixture in the Roman Empire by Frank Tenney (American Historical Review, 1916-yes, it’s racist.)

Race: Antiquity and its Legacy by Denise Eileen McCloskey

An Archaeology of Race: Durham University- FREE Downloadable Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans

The Black King in Manuscripts

Moors in the European Renaissance

Painted Black in Europe

A View on Race in the Art World

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

From Kongo to Othello to Tango to Museum Shows

Revealing the African Presence: Multimedia & Images

Race and the Idea of the Aesthetic

Costumes Anciens et Modernes

Ancient and Modern Dress in Diverse Parts of the World

Alexander, Catherine M.S., and Stanley Wells, eds. Shakespeare and Race,. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2000

The routes of al-Andalus (from the UNESCO web site) Al-Andalus Chronology and Photos The Musical Legacy of Al-Andalus – historical maps, photos, and music showing the Great Mosque of Córdoba and related movements of people and culture over time Al-Andalus: the art of Islamic Spain, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF)

The Library of Iberian Resources Online

Africans in Yorkshire-English Genealogy

Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain by Kenneth Baxter Wolf

Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)

List of Black/African Saints

Patricia, Countess Jellicoe, 1992, The Art of Islamic Spain, Saudi Aramco World "Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain" (documentary film)

Mongol Elements in Western Medieval Art

The Equiano Center-The Slavery Trail

From Majesty to Mystery-Change in Meanings of Black Madonnas from the 16th to 19th Centuries

Nigra Sum, sed Formosa: The Black Saints in Catholic Tradition

The Madonna and the Cuckoo: An Exploration in European Symbolic Conceptions

The Cult of the Black Virgin

Romani in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Innovations of Caravaggio’s Fortune Teller

Jacob Jordaens and Moses’ Ethiopian Wife

Esther Schreuder

Ethiopian Christ Icon Found

Sigilum Secretum: Image of the Moor’s Head in Medieval Iconography

The Great Encounter of China and the West: Fragrant Concubine search

Black Knights, Green Knights, Knights of Color All A-Round: Race and the Round Table

Black Germany, History of the Holy Roman Black Empire

Imperator Totius Hispanae: Leon and Castile 1086-1157

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages

Problems of Studying the Role of Blacks in Europe

Across Cultural Borders: Historiography in Global Perspective

Pages from the Cantigas de Santa Maria

Eckhout’s 8 Brazilian Portraits

Fifteenth Century Manuscripts: Fear of the Ottomans and help from Ethiopia

Association for Critical Race Art History

Black Magi in European Art

Print Books and Resources:

The Image of the Black in Western Art (9 Volumes!)

Race-ing Art History:Critical Reading in Race and Art History by Kimberly N. Pinder

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How The Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire by Jack Weatherford

Fashion: the Definitive History of Costume and Style by Susan Brown

The Moors: The Islamic West 7th-15th Centuries AD (illustrated reference) by David Nicolle                                

Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy by Geraldine Heng

Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain by Peter Fryer, London, 1984

Orientalism by Edward Said

Red, White and Black; The Peoples of Early North America by Gary B. Nash

Playing In The Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen

Germany and the Black Diaspora by Honeck, Klimke and Kuhlmann

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili

The People of New France by Allen Greer

African Presence in Early Asia by Runoko Rashidi

Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie

Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, Onyeka Nubia

Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson

Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England by Kim Hall

Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion, edited by Jonathan Burton and Ania Loomba

Pre-Colonial African History:

Connah, Graham.  African Civilizations: An Archaeological Perspective.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Ehret, Christopher.  An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 BC to AD 400.  Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998.

Ehret, Christopher.  The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800.  Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002.

McIntosh, Susan K.  Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Northrup, David.  Africa’s Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Oliver, Roland and Anthony Atmore.  Medieval Africa, 1250-1800.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Vansina, Jan.  How Societies Are Born: Governance in West-Central Africa Before 1600.  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004.

Vansina, Jan.  Paths in the Rainforest: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.

Thornton, John K.  The Kingdom of the Kongo: Civil Wars and Transition, 1641-1718.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.

Bhila, H.H.K.  Trade and Politics in a Shona Kingdom: the Manyika and the Portuguese and African Neighbors, 1575-1902.  London: Longman Group Ltd., 1982.

Pikirayi, Innocent.  The Zimbabwe Culture: Origins and Decline in Southern Zambezian States.  New York: Altamira Press, 2001.

Horton, Mark and John Middleton.  The Swahili: The Social Landscape of a Mercantile People.  Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

Pearson, Michael N.  Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Lamphear, John.  The Traditional History of the Jie of Uganda.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.

Burstein, Stanley, ed. Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum.  Princeton, NJ: Marcus Weiner Publishing, 1998.

Welsby, Derek A.  The Kingdoms of Kush.  London: British Museum Press, 1996.

Welsby, Derek A.  The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia.  London: British Museum Press, 2002.

Hall, Richard. Empires of the Monsoon: A History of the Indian Ocean and its Invaders. HarperCollins, 1998.  

Alpers, Edward A. The Indian Ocean in World History. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Austen, Ralph A. Trans-Saharan Africa in World History. Oxford University Press, 2010.  

Pankhurst, Richard. The Ethiopians: A History. Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn abd Al-Kadir. Futuh Al-Habashah, or the conquest of Abyssinia. Edited by Sandford Arthur Strong. 1894.

Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh Ibn Baṭṭūṭaẗ. Ibn Battuta in Black Africa. Markus Wiener, 1994.

Books on Zheng He:

Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 by Edward L. Dreyer

Admiral Zheng He and Southeast Asia, edited by Leo Suryadinata

Zheng He: Tracing the Epic Voyages of China’s Greatest Explorer by Michael Yamashita

Books on Ahmad Ibn Fadlan:

Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North by Ibn Fadlan

Ibn Fadlan’s journey to Russia: a tenth-century traveler from Baghad to the Volga River, Richard Nelson Frye

Books on Ibn Battuta:

The Travels of Ibn Battuta: in the Near East, Asia and Africa, 1325-1354 by Ibn Battuta

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveller of the Fourteenth Century by Ross E. Dunn

Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta 1325-1354 by James Rumford

Other Tumblrs:

Diasporic Roots

Rejected Princesses

Disabusing-Common-Notions

Afro-Textured-Art

Non-Western Historical Fashion

Diversity Cross Check

WritingWithColor

Ancient Peoples

Asian and Pacific Islander History

Black History Album

Of Another Fashion

The Getty Museum

The Smithsonian

The Walters Art Museum

The Brooklyn Museum

National Media Museum (UK)

Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin College)

Freer|Sackler Galleries (Smithsonian)

Historic Royal Places (UK)

Art Gallery of Ontario

The Jewish Museum (NYC)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

National Archive (Today’s Document)

Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Blanton Museum of Art

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Biography

Abeni was born to a fairly poor family in Nigeria, the third child of her mother and soon to become the middle child of five. She grew up as a stong and stubborn girl, working along her family to survive - until the Spaniards came. She was separated from her family and brought to a ship on her way to the states. At that point Abeni was 16 years old, but was already fighting like hell - serving other people without question was not a great prospect. But eventually she caved under the methods used to make slaves obey. The prospect of death, when the ship crashed, was suddenly a lot more appealing. But it didn’t end there.

Abeni washed up on the shore of Hellgate, barely alive and injured. She was nursed back to health and should have become a slave once again, but immediately resumed fighting - this time refusing to give in. It took several years, many injuries and two times cheating death by a hair’s width, but eventually Abeni was led out of the slave town. She began training to work with dragons, her ruthless actions and stubborn attitude allowing her to rise quickly once she was in the military. Learning the language came hard at first, but over the years it worked out. Now Abeni is a skilled trainer who does not hesitate to use any means necessary to make both dragons and humans cooperate. Her dragon Furya is thus very timid, but trained to turn into - as the name suggests - a fury, if necessary.

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31 Years of Age, Rider on Academy Island

Born to a somewhat wealthy family in India, Valandi was treated as the son her father always wanted. She was taught swordsmanship and sailing, fishing, all the skills for an explorer and a warrior. She was given the nickname Samudra ki Tegh, sword-wilelder of the sea.  

When she was fifteen, the 5th India Armada, commissioned by King Manuel I of Portugal invaded the kingdom of Cochin. Her family fled to escape the new Portuguese regime, sailing until they crashed into the Icy Coast and were rescued by the resident Guardians. The world of dragons was vastly new to them. Her parents took up fishing jobs, and while Valandi started along the same path, she ended with one dragon in particular who shared her passion for combat. 

Valandi and Chandresh trained for years, serving both as a rider and rescuer for the island’s inhabitants. Now she’s a warrior at sea, wielding dual blades and continuing to train with her aging dragon.

FC is Karen David.

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Application

ayanmo

Name: Abeni Ade Age: 24 FC: Leomie Anderson Hellgate Role: Trainer (But could probably jump in as a soldier too) Dragon companion: Ice Spear Short bio: Abeni was on a Spanish ship on the way to America, meant to serve as a slave there. Slave is not exactly the ideal position for her, so when the ship crashed in a storm, she was almost glad to die. As if by miracle she washed up on the shore of Hellgate relatively unharmed, That soon changed when soldiers tried to enslave her again and she fought against that furiously. Eventually they gave in and she started training to work with dragons. Now she is a trainer herself, rarely has trouble controlling dragons, mainly by hurting them, and takes no orders from anyone other than Abigor himself - or a commander when she's in a good mood. That still earns her bruises on a regular basis, but now she sarted hitting back.

Accepted!

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Application

navalgirlnival

Name: Valandi Nival Age: 31 FC: Karen David Academy Island Role: Rider Dragon companion: Guardian of Moors Short bio: Born to a somewhat wealthy family in India, Valandi was treated as the son her father always wanted. She was taught swordsmanship and sailing, fishing, all the skills for an explorer and a warrior. When she was fifteen, her family fled to escape the new Portuguese regime, sailing until they crashed into the Icy Coast. Her parents took up fishing jobs, and while Valandi started along the same path, her bond with Chandresh, an adult Guardian, lead her to pursue combat training. Now she's a warrior at sea, wielding dual blades and continuing to train with her aging dragon.

Accepted!

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Lars Anderson: A New Level of Archery

Lars Anderson studied historical manuals and rediscovered an ancient and extremely fast way of firing arrows from a bow, making icons like Legolas and Katniss look like slugs.

He trained himself to be able to perform such feats as firing three arrows in less than a second, catching an arrow and firing it back, splitting an oncoming arrow in two, and basically debunking all the lies hollywood has fed us about “ultimate archery skills”

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Common Medieval Clothing Colors

This is meant as an information resource for creative folk, not a complete guide. Be sure to supplement this with additional research. Find the rest of the series, including the previous posts on clergy, nobility, common medieval jobs, divination, spirit animals, mythical creatures, structuring an army, medieval punishments, armor, pre-gunpowder weapons, siege warfare, castle anatomy, and common terms of medieval life.

Find the masterposts for Women’s Clothing, Men’s Clothing, Children’s Clothing, Shoes, and Clothing Materials.

Black: First associated with the Vikings, black was worn by all and eventually became the color worn by mourners, the elderly, and scholars.

Blue: Light blue was worn by all, but dark blue was worn by higher-ranking nobles and royalty until it became associated with scholars and apprentices.

Crimson: A bright red worn by the wealthy.

Flame: A bright red-orange reserved for the wealthy.

Gold Cloth: Reserved for royalty.

Green: All shades; worn by all.

Murrey: Deep purple-red. Worn by the rich.

Parti-colored: Clothes that were often made up of several different colors like a Harlequin doll.

Purple: Reserved for royalty and very high-ranking nobility.

Red: Worn by all.

Red-browns: Extremely popular and worn by all.

Scarlet: A vibrant shade first reserved for royalty and then worn only be nobility.

Silver Cloth: Reserved for royalty.

Siskin: Light greenish-yellow worn by the wealthy.

Slate: A gray blue. Worn by all.

Tan: A light brown worn by the nobility.

Tartan: A plaid pattern of Scottish origin, the unique colors and pattern of which denote the wearer’s clan or family.

Tawny: A brownish-yellow color that was popular. Worn by all.

Watchet: A light greenish-blue worn by all.

White: Worn by all, but preferred by the nobility and royalty.

Yellow: Worn by all.

[dragonacademyrp]

That's odd. i'm sorry you ran into that problem, but glad you found a solution! I'm on Safari, and I didn't even consider that it could be a browser issue. 

Also, welcome to the group!

Hi there! Just to let you know there's a problem with the layout on the submit page. The submit button disappears behind the layout if there's too much text in the box x

Hi there! I’ve checked it on the desktop version, and everything seems to be working. If you’re encountering this problem on mobile, there’s nothing we can do to fix it, unfortunately. If you need to submit anything in the future from mobile and you encounter this problem, feel free to make a private post on your blog and just submit us the link!

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Application

dennisparryghosthunter

Name: Dennis Llywellyn Parry Age: 20 FC: Luke Newberry Academy Island Role: Researcher Dragon companion: Himalayan Rocket Short bio: Born a bastard child of a rich family Dennis has been trapped in an abusive household most his life. All he wants to do is run away and study dragons but his family hates them and forbids it. He eventually manages to steal enough money from his parents to escape. On the run he discovers a circus that has a Himalayan Rocket held captive and made to perform. Dennis helps the dragon escape during the night and they quickly form a close bond. He names the dragon Azalea. After a few days of wandering around homeless and on the run from authorities, Dennis is told about Academy island where he could finally go and learn all about the dragons. Ecstatic he flies Azalea to the island, ignoring warnings that Himalayan Rockets should not be rode those distances. By the time they reach the island they are both weak and exhausted, they crash land at the edge of the island. He is timid, quiet and studious, but not afraid to step up and brave when he needs to be.

Accepted!

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Application

thefaenearlykilledbylove

Name: Gwyndolyn Wren (goes by Gwyn) Age: 24 FC: (see Gwyn’s page for illustration)  Academy Island/Hellgate (please choose one): Academy Role: Medic Dragon companion: Scottish leprechaun  named Quill Short bio: Gwyn was born to a temple priestess under rather unfortunate circumstances(Going by Gwyn’s hair colour and complexion his father was most likely from ireland or scotland). Because of her rank within the temple she was able to keep Gwyn by pulling some strings. Artemisia, Gwyn’s mother, made sure Gwyn was well educated, raising him with intent of him following in her footsteps. At the time Gwyn was also referred to as a she, and had a different name. Gwyn is intersex, though this wasn’t something that would keep him from serving the goddess Artemis. Unfortunately great tragedy befell the temple when Gwyn was still very young. The temple burned in a raid, many lives and precious religious artifacts lost to the flames and greedy hands. Gwyn, injured as he was, stumbled from the burning temple and was thankfully found by a kind soul before one of the bandits could catch him. He was found by a traveling medicine women who hailed from Wales. She gets Gwyn back to health, and taking pity on the child since he had nowhere to go she took him on as an apprentice. It is also during this time that Gwyn takes on the name Gwyndolyn and assumes male pronouns. Being as well traveled as she was Caewyn has seen stranger things. ( though many during this time in his travels would be ignorant due to his feminine appearance would call him a she still and could potentially face violence.) Gwyn also takes on his master’s last name.   Caewyn with her wanderlust had come across an island during her past travels where she also had roots set down. She had friends on Academy island and decides that the young Gwyn (14 at this time) could benefit from living on the island. She brings him there where she continues to train him and and returns to being a medic. She makes sure Gwyn get’s a dragon of his own, a spunky Leprchaun to cheer her often times melancholy student. Being a prodigy Gwyn is a full fledged medic by age 18. Sadly, 2 years later sometime after his 20th birthday his master goes missing, but with her tendency to wander Gwyn has no idea if she’s in trouble or not.   Gwyn is a kind person, though he tends to keep others at arms length. He’s learned that it’s often times safer for him to do that on account of his “condition”. He’s never had a romantic partner because of this. 

Accepted!

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// Do you have to get ship wrecked or born there to get on the island? Is it possible to have heard of the academy before?

Generally, the island is kept fairly secret for security and safety of those living there. Scouts might recruit some people, but they would only intentionally reach the island on the back of a dragon, so they must be trusted.

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Hi there! Just to let you know there's a problem with the layout on the submit page. The submit button disappears behind the layout if there's too much text in the box x

Hi there! I’ve checked it on the desktop version, and everything seems to be working. If you’re encountering this problem on mobile, there’s nothing we can do to fix it, unfortunately. If you need to submit anything in the future from mobile and you encounter this problem, feel free to make a private post on your blog and just submit us the link!

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Oh wow I really like the new theme, a lot more official and easy to read!

Glad you like it! We greatly appreciate feedback.

[dragonacademyrp]

PSA: Historical Accuracy

Hey guys! I promise I'm not going to get nit picky with what people put in their threads or their character bios (which I would love to see more of that we can reblog and keep the page up to date). I don't mind modern language being used in threads at all, and obviously we're better educated on sexualities and gender identities than our muses might be. 

All I ask is that you take the time period and the separate situations on the island into consideration before you make something a fact in the verse. Generally, we'll accept anything for your personal character, but if it's about an island as a whole, you might want to check with us. Consider what resources would be available, and what heritage your character might have that would influence their opinions and preferences. 

You don't need to write pages of bio for your characters, but please be aware and if you have a question about the time period, look it up! We're happy to answer verse-specific questions, and we trust you guys to research specifics for your threads. 

As always, we are happy to answer any questions to the best of our abilities. Happy threading!

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the theme is actually really nice so if there's way to change the transparency of the background of the posts and the color of the links, it would work great. IDK if you have that option for that theme.

Unfortunately that theme was not very customizable, otherwise we’d have fixed the links a while ago. But our new theme is up if you’d like to check it out!

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I feel like I should mention that its a little hard to read things with your background. The pale letters tend to blend a little

also, I’ve had a few people mention they didn’t realize what were clickable links and what werent cause it’s all the same color. I meant to put that in the last ask as well.

Thanks for the feedback! We’ve been considering looking at new themes, and now that we know there are problems for everyone, we are starting the search! We’ll let you know when we update and request your feedback.