#Deepdiver Dragon

[msb-lair]

Dragon: Deepdiver - Veilspun XXY Female

(Hawkmoth scroll applied on 2023-04-12) (Angler scroll applied on 2023-04-12) (Scroll of Eternal Youth applied on 2023-04-12)

Purchased For: 100 gems Hatched On: 2023-03-24 ID: 85036564

Parentage: GhostQuill/TrickKey Flight: Shadow

Primary: Nightshade Sphinxmoth Secondary: Nightshade Blend Hawkmoth Tertiary: Blue Thorns Angler Eyes: Primal

Comments: Putting Iona back on a nest yesterday, who’s my arcane primal member of the aether breed, made me realize I couldn’t remember ever doing a shadow primal veilspun (and yes, I have an ice primal gaoler and fire primal banescale). So I went looking on AH at shadow primal hatchlings. Decided I’d rather do another permababy than a breeding pair, and of the options available liked the look of this girl the most.

Familiar: Shadow Sprite

[whateverthought]

I'm sorry, Rhaena is 14?! And she's not Baela's twin? Aemond is said to be 18 in Archived Scripts but Aegon is 19? But Helaena's 17? But only Helaena was at Aegon's second birthday? Jace was born in 116 AC, Luke was born in 118AC, 2 years after? Joffery was born 126AC? The year is 132 AC.? Wait

Why do the Wiki, the Scripts and the Show Itself disagree?

[hikolu]

When a youtuber mispronounces a character name when the media is not a book where we never hear the name...

[fictitouscore]

BEST COMEBACK (MALE) IS A GRAND PRIZE AKA DAESANG AWARD!

Who had the song of the summer? Meet the four incredible male artists who are nominated for BEST COMEBACK!

SOUR CANDY - RPG ! ... RPG is the third mini album to be released by South Korean boy group Sour Candy, on the 14th of June, 2024. The EP consists of four tracks; all promoted as singles and each track representing a different boy's 'flavour,' with the genre, production and concept of the songs selected to highlight one member's individual strengths without losing cohesion as a group. \\ @ppangs

FABLE - PAINT THE DRAGON, DOTTHE EYES ! ... 화룡점정 (畵龍點睛) (PAINT THE DRAGON, DOT THE EYES) is the third full album of fictional boy group FABLE. The album was released digitally and physically on MARCH 25, 2024. Title track PLATONIC LOVE was promoted for two weeks and received two music show wins. For the first week of performances, they also performed pre-release single CHASING THAT FEELING. \\ @fcble

DEEPDIVE - TAX WRITEOFF ! ... TAX WRITE OFF is the FIFTH full album by the fictional South Korean boy group DeepDive. The album was released on March 29th, 2024. Before the album's release, the group would release a pre-release single, "MY EGO," which would get a two-week promotional period before Tax Write Off's release. With a total of ten tracks, DeepDive would promote VENOM, EAZY, and CALL 2229 for a total of three months. \\ @bluwavez

HERO - BLESS MY HEART ! ... a  song  about  someone  navigating  deep  emotional  pain,  hidden  struggles,  and  the  fine  line  between  sanity  and  madness.  through  a  journey  of  transformation,  isolation,  and  longing  for  connection,  the  protagonist  ultimately  faces  a  revelation  of  betrayal  —  serves as a pre-release single for HERO's upcoming mini album. \\ @anqelblccm

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[weaselbeaselpants]

If I were a cartoon review youtuber, some of my videos would definitely be:

Underrated Animated films you should see vol. 1 - ongoing

Complete look at Skunk Fu! and all it's episodes

What's ACTUALLY wrong with Illumination films (spoiler: it's not the designs). And that video would probably have a sequel ironically unironically accusing Chris Meladandri of being a White Walker who rips out movies' souls.

Disturbing Animated Film Iceberg.

A calming, sweet short retrospective on The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends.

Killing off the idea of "endgame". Tho, tbf, I'm definitely going to be writing that thesis statement down someday. I guess in video format it'd be a big "did this series REALLY fall off cuz the creator catered to fans?" breakdown of a few shows.

A video about 9. Because of course I'd make something about 9.

Politically heavy (but not horror) animated films.

An essay explaining the difference between what I want to see in a story vs what's actually good in a story; and likewise the difference between what I personally do/don't find offensive and what's objectively offensive as a viewer.

The dichotomy and standards between different talking animal films.

A review about Mary and Max and why I like it but it's okay if other autists don't. which would be a broader video about how to listen to the opinions of demographics and minorities and not to treat any one as a hivemind.

Movies that I dislike but aren't actually bad.

Movies I love that aren't really all that good.

A deeper dive on my take that Steven Universe was always deeply flawed but having an otherwise working ending; where Star vs was a well-written show that utterly biffed it on the ending.

The Swan Princess is secret conservative propaganda.

The 31 dumbest things in Oogies Revenge.

Zero's Journey is the only good TNBC continuation.

13 Horror animated Feature Films. For Halloween, of course...

My issue with Dreamworks' stans and why I dislike How to Train You Dragon 2.

My issues with Anti v Proshipping. Def would be a multi part series explaining why I think most of the problem is just people really aggresively bulling one another -AND THEN, getting into heinous fandom shit that no one talks about and the ethics of children online and freedom of expression.

Prolly then would make an exclusive (cuz it's dirty) review abt the rights of r34 and adult artists and what they had to/have to put up with both from peers and websites banning explicit material.

What absolutely doesn't work about Pocahontas and Anastasia.

I'd do a series called "Spitball Re-haul" wherein I go through a revisioned show's premise and then explain all the reasons for the changes. I'd make:

How I'd rewrite The Owl House season 3.

How I'd rewrite Star vs the Forces of Evil "Cleaved".

How I'd rewrite Strange Magic.

How I'd rewrite Raya and the Last Dragon.

How I'd rewrite Seasons 4-8 of Friendship is Magic.

My tinfoil hat video on Disney trying to profit so much off of fans is hurting their bases.

Mapping out and analyzing different types of crossover fiction, their merits and their issues with story-keeping.

Mythological and cultural animated films.

and finally, for when I'd muster up the strength:

an HBomberGuy-type callout/deepdive into MysteriousMrEnter and Lily Orchard and how they've made cartoon reviews worse.

[lanaevyssmoved]

after doing some deepdiving

i've concluded the call of duty fandom is probably worse than the dragon age fandom

[amelheth]

Frieza's Analysis #0. New series.

I wanted to start a new blog series aside from the Zamasu' glog, but, this time with more of an analytic approach. Here i wanted to analyse Frieza and his species in general, how they function and etc.

I will base it off mainline dragon ball series, including Cooler and potentially Kuriza. Xenoverse npcs or cacs wont be included into this deepdive.

Also.

I refuse to call this race arcosians, nor i will call their homeworld Arcos, even if i do call it such within RP, due to my rp friends doing so.

Arcosians are a completely different race, introduced in Z before Frieza Force concept appeared in manga. It was simply a race thar supplied saiyans with tech in exchange for planets. Moreso partners, like Heeters are to Frieza, rather than superiors.

These are Arcosians.

They have nothing to do with Frieza's race. Frieza Force simply replaced them as narrative supportive force.

So. I will rather keep calling them frost demons, as Cell calls them in Xenoverse, or icejins, another fan name that has no misconception as arcosians do.

My apology to Arcos enjoyers. It is not same race.

First blog post will be about Frieza' evolutions and why they look as they do, before i deepdive into homeworld analysis based off anatomy.

P.s: All said in next episodes of this series will be mostly headcanons, based on mainline series. Mostly theoretic.

[lovelydarlinguwu]

just rewatched the httyd trilogy and remembered the existence of rise of the brave tangled dragons and decided to do a deepdive

its

its been 5 hours send help

[zoskas]

that fucking rocky rakoon dragon creature is going to be gen alpha's tumblr sexyman...........i went on a deepdive and this channel is melting my brain

[sweetmage]

2, 23, 24?

Hi! :D Thank you for the ask! 2.) Five favorites of your own work: I like these ones from Dragon Age:

And these from my other fandoms (Tiger&Bunny and My Time At Sandrock respectively):

23.) Do you listen to music or watch shows while you work: Yes! I like all genres of music, but I really like 90s/00s pop, dance, and R&B so I listen to a lot of that. I also like 00s emo and midwest emo revival so lots of that too! I actually don't tend to like watching TV, but sometimes I listen to podcasts like VeryReallyGood or Sad Boyz in the background or deepdive type videos on youtube. 24.) How do you deal with art block: Typically I just take a break. When I'm facing art block I tend to go back to my other hobby: writing! And if I am having both art and writer's block I go back to playing video games and tell myself it's research for art and writing 😅

[redridcr]

Red does have some religious beliefs, or religious beliefs that settled into spiritual as he gets older. Marcela gave him a rosary of St Christopher for the VERY last race he ever ran under the Howards ( Santa Anita ). In the very basis, it represented safe travel and luck for Red after all he went through in his recovery. Though I haven't deepdived into Red's religious beliefs or the meaning of St Christopher for him yet.

In every verse possible, Red still has that rosary and goes to church / mass with the Howards on more religious holidays. In Dragon Age / Red Rider verse, he goes to religious practices with Bram every day, if possible.

[eeveedel]

not the same anon but can you tell us more about the multiverse au? sounds fascinating 👀

ps: can’t wait for more elf queen, i really enjoyed it

ofc! I've talked about the general plot, so here's a bit of a deepdive into each character:

famous harry. our main protagonist, and probably one of the most unlikable characters I've written (but don't worry, he gets better). Harry was adopted when he was young because he was neglected by his birth family, his adoptive parents were incredibly strict and became stage parents, pushing him into performing. he's very successful but also surrounded by bad actors and suffering from a ton of things -- depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, and a lot of internalized homophobia. he's not a great dude, but he's got a lot of shit going on he has to learn to deal with.

assistant louis. famous harry's long time assistant, he's pretty much the only one who hasn't quit and can put up with him. he's very sweet, quiet, and shy, and also openly gay and chubby, which are two things harry picks on constantly. he's somehow also the only one who consistently cares about harry's mental health and well being.

au harry. we only get to know au harry through other people, since famous harry kind of took over his body when he woke up. but he's a darling, very sweet and nerdy, loves LEGO, cosplay and dungeons and dragons. he's an accountant and he and louis live a quiet life with their three adopted special needs cats. he's also a big big boy and very kinky, two things famous harry cannot relate to.

au louis. also a sweetie. he and harry met playing D&D in college and have been in love ever since. he struggles a lot missing his harry, but refuses to put up with famous harry's shit. he makes him face a lot of things, and ends up helping Harry discover a lot of things about himself (including the fact that harry is in love with his own universe's louis)

[kingarise]

Name for a Dragon

What would y’all name your dragon if you had one?

I’m trying to pick/make up a name for a dragon I drew and the way Targs name their dragons is so whack.

I’m too tired to do research and deepdive into the blackhole of names and meanings

[susiron]

I finished watching BBC Merlin and I have so many feelings about it.

That entire final season (well, the last two) just felt super lacking. I’d always hoped that the series would take a turn where magic would become legal, rather than just seeing Arthur still ostracize people with magic and be just about as shitty as his father. Like they keep saying that the people have it better under him, but you don’t really see that other than commoners becoming appointed to roles that benefit the kingdom in some way (knights, a queen). 

The shit with Mordred was neat, but it frustrates me so much that they never address in any way that Merlin being shitty to Mordred is what ultimately makes him live up to his fate. Like I know there’s focus on there being a paradox of no matter what you do this fate will come to pass, but they really could’ve deepdived into a nature vs nurture thing with Mordred’s character.

The dragons really bothered me too just for being exceptionally boring. Like the bronze one (I can’t remember the names) had always just been a plot device to circle back to whenever the characters were stuck, but they rlly did set up the white dragon as being interesting and just-- did nothing with it.

Watching Morgana become more and more unhinged was probably one of the better parts of the show’s end. 

Also I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t very upset with the general ending of the show. Like not only are you going to kill Arthur, but you’re going to do it with no real fulfillment that I would have hoped for of the character. I just wanted to see him become an actual good king and let magic reign again, not dying in a ditch after dissing his bestie for coming out to him.

Like I think it’s rational to expect Arthur to die, but I’d have hoped it would have happened after he actually stood out as the kind and accepting king he was talked up to be.

And like part of me can appreciate that it is touching that Merlin carries that secret until the literal end, and the tragedy of him only being Seen by his friend and king as he’s dying. But it was so frustrating, and honestly boring. You’ve got this fantastical tale of a glorious king-- supposedly the coolest king-- but he just sucks a bit and it sucks.

I loved the show but I just wanted more out of the magic and dragons :C

I hope you enjoyed my critique of the last two seasons of a show that I partially watched YEARS ago and only just finished on Netflix after forgetting it existed for a long time.

[mugionthewater]

Tsumugi Shirogane Deepdive: Prologue

I’m in a DR mood right now, and really enjoying revisiting Tsumugi in particular, so I thought I’d do a chapter-based retrospective focusing on all the cool Tsumugi material! A reread project especially rewarding for a character like Mugi, so I’m really excited.

In this series, I’m focusing a lot on all the foreshadowing, and also what we can extrapolate about Tsumugi’s true character along the way. I’ll be doing this chapter-by chapter, including the prologue as well as an installment for her Free Time Events.

Full spoilers for V3 under the cut.

The Pre-Prologue

We first see Tsumugi in the gym by the exisals to get their uniforms and their memories. Tsumugi herself has four lines of dialogue in this scene, nothing that particularly stands out, but there are a couple of things worth noting about how she (and everyone else) is dressed.

Kaede describes how she was kidnapped on her way to school, and it sure looks like that’s the case for almost everyone in the room. We’re used to seeing DR characters in flashy outfits that vaguely resemble school uniforms but actually reflect their individuality, so when the game first shows them in an ensemble lineup like this, it’s a lot more striking.

Not so much in this CG. While there are plenty of visual details that tell us about these characters (Saihara’s already hiding under a hat in his sprites; Iruma is revealing; Kiibo and Gonta are buttoned up and orderly, but Kaito’s shirt and jacket are undone to show a bold-colored undershirt), their uniforms look like they’re doing what uniforms are supposed to do: be bland and blend in.

What about Tsumugi? Tsumugi wears a basic uniform like everyone else, but this is where we get the game’s first indication that all is not what it seems with this girl. The clue is the blue. She is the only one in the lineup whose primary color isn’t a neutral tone. What’s more, it’s the same shade of blue Tsumugi is associated with throughout the game. Visually, part of her is already in character as Tsumugi Shirogane, SHSL Cosplayer.

Of course, there’s a much bigger item foreshadowing Tsumugi as the bad guy, which is that in advance of everyone getting their “memories”, the main emphasis is their new clothes delivered by the Monokubs.

There are a couple of reasons the clothes are significant. For starters, there’s a direct line to Tsumugi’s cosplay talent. For anyone inclined to suspect her before starting the game on account of her talent (and her general don’t-look-at-me-I’m-not-suspicious vibes), this is immediate theory fodder. This also primes the audience to look at the setting of V3 with a critical eye, between the contrast of the kids’ boring outfits and their flashy new ones and the Monokubs making explicit references to starting the “story“, there is an immediate suggestion of artifice that runs all the way down to their identities. Not for nothing is Kaede’s magical girl transformation visually similar to the memory light.

Another thing: pre-memory light, the person in the room whose outfit is the least uniform-y is Amami.

At the very least, it’s a look that’s noticeably more casual than what most of the cast is wearing. After Chapter 6, we know that Amami made it to the end of the 52nd Killing Game before he and Tsumugi were condemned to execution via participating in the next killing game- which he seems to be realizing in this scene- so it’s possible they’re coming right off the heels of the last killing game. It’s an ongoing mystery what his relationship with her was like up to this point? Does he know she’s the ringleader? Is “Tsumugi Shirogane“ anything like the person she was in the last killing game, assuming she was even there?

I’m not confident Tsumugi really switched to a new persona for the 53rd Killing Game, even though fake identities is kind of her whole deal. I’ll get more into why in this series, but I think a lot of the character we see in the game is the “real“ Tsumugi, to the extent that such a person even exists.

Introducing Tsumugi Shirogane: Professional Cosplayer, Sex God

If you go back and read the promotional blurbs for V3, Tsumugi’s mention her tendency to get so lost in thought that she’ll ignore everyone around her. This little trait isn’t super weird at first, until you realize later in the game that she doesn’t carry the shtick past the first chapter. It’s like she wrote the character blurbs herself, realized everybody has a wacky “thing“ that would come up immediately in the introductions, and came up with an act of low-grade wackiness so she’d fit in in the prologue.

This is great stuff, looking back. It gives an intro in brief to the many contradictions of Tsumugi Shirogane. On one hand, it’s overly phony and performative. But on the other hand, there’s a core of truth there about her character- she really is someone who stays in her thoughts without a care for anyone around her, albeit less in the cute way and more in the horrifying sociopath kind of way.

It also tells us something important about Tsumugi’s commitment to the Killing Game. She cares about maintaining the integrity of this world and its characters, but is pretty indifferent about maintaining a role for herself. She doesn’t give a shit about having a storyline or even much of a character. The pleasure of DR comes from what she can get as an observer/consumer. 

This is entirely consistent with what she tells Kaede and Saihara about herself and her feelings about cosplay in the actual introduction.

This is the ethos that makes me wonder how dishonest Tsumugi really is. She’s dishonest as hell, of course, but given that she later applies the entire DR LARP reality show experience as “cosplay“, what she says about her convictions largely rings true. She clearly cares about making her tribute an authentic one (lol), which extends to her being the primary creative director inside her fiction bubble.

It partly explains why she spends the next five chapters being little more than furniture. In her mind, her job as a producer precludes her from being a character in her own right, because doing anything to pull focus is tantamount to self-promotion, and, well, that’s an abuse of power that gets in the way of the story!

(sidebar: there are some fascinating things we could speculate about what she says about cosplay relates to her relationship with the rest of Team Danganronpa and the outside world, but this post is getting long, so I’ll save it for another day)

Like everything else about Tsumugi, it’s not until the end that you can fully contextualize how sinister she’s being here. What she passes off as a cute passion for cosplay is actually a bone-deep sense of consumer entitlement taken to a logical extreme. Tsumugi is a more vicious indictment of terrible nerds and a selfish fandom than anything Hifumi Yamada could embody. She loves DR so much, and feels so strongly that nobody should be participating in DR with any corrupt motives, that anything less than the real deal is unacceptable. To this end, she will happily transplant entirely new emotional realities on the others so that even the emotional torture of the Killing Game is authentic. In Tsumugi’s selfish nerd brain, this is the important part of the drama of Killing Games, and anyone who disagrees with her approach is a fake fan who doesn’t deserve any kind of creative control.

Anyways, there’s more to say about Tsumugi’s introduction, so moving on

Some pretty overt foreshadowing here. In the Japanese script, her reference is ep. 53 of Kiteretsu Daihyakka instead of Doraemon. I like the change for the dub, even though it’s pretty obvious. Someone who knows DR primarily through the dub is less likely to know about the franchise’s connection to Doraemon, anyway.

Tsumugi also points out the weird dragon statue in the hallway that will lead into a new part of the school down the line. It’s a neat little metatextual trick on the audience, because it’s the kind of thing that’s not suspicious at all on a first playthrough. She’s an NPC in a DR game, of course her dialogue is gonna point out plot devices that will be relevant shortly, but on a reread you know she’s being deliberate about it. This is far from the last time this kind of thing happens with Tsumugi.

Lastly, this charming observation from Kaede about why she’s maybe not so plain afterall.

Kaede puts it in the worst way possible, but it’s interesting that she, a person with a generally good read on people, decides immediately that there’s more to Mugi than meets the eye. Not only that, she relates it specifically to an audience spending a lot of time looking at her. If she were any less gross about it, Kaede making this kind of observation would land like a big clue.

This leaves us with the biggest question from the prologue: if Kaede wasn’t too busy being horny and gay, could she have put two and two together and thwarted the ringleader?

There is SO much more to say about Tsumugi, so I’m really excited to dig deep into other chapters!

[karkat62]

ANYWAY, NOW THAT THE INTRODUCTORY POST IS OVER WITH, I’M GOING TO BE DOING A DEEPDIVE INTO WHY YOU SHOULD PAY TO SEE MY CONTENT AND HOW PAYING ME WILL SUPPORT MY EFFORTS TO DO NOTHING BY ALLOWING ME TO SIT ON A DRAGON’S HOARD OF FORTUNE THAT I HAVE NO USE FOR (MONEY IS FAKE) WHILE FLIPPING OFF THE COLLECTIVE MASSES. THIS INTRODUCTORY POST IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON POST+, SO TUNE IN TO FIND OUT.