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[moonkssd]

The Lake of Rage

Or why dragon tamers had a bad reputation for about two hundred years before modern times changed that perception

A long time ago, there had been a great dragon tamer who lived in Johto. His might was so great that he boasted himself to be higher than the imperial family who still ruled at the time. And, at some point, greater than the will of the gods. This tamer bullied the people of Johto into following his will, threatening destruction by his dragons; it wasn't surprising he became a warlord at some point, conquering the territories of others.

He said his might allowed him to do as he pleased and he demanded the daughter of the daimyo ruling Mahogany Town. She was a princess of untold beauty who raised Magikarp in her back garden, with a gentle heart who loved her people more than anything. However her dear Magikarp were her treasures, and she treated them all as if they were more precious than gold. They were her friends and dear companions and they also loves her dearly.

If she refused the dragon tamer would cause untold damage to the town and its people. So of course the princess agreed to marry him, under the promise she could take her Magikarp with her. The dragon tamer agreed to this and they were quickly married, the celebration a mess of a reception of debauchery. Yet the princess remained polite and faithful to her husband, bearing through the events with grace.

However despite getting what he wanted, he wanted more, more, more as he felt entitled to everything, falling to what the locals called 'dragon sickness', for when a greed knew no mortal bounds and got out of hand.

The princess was soon ignored, replaced quickly by more wives, more concubines, more women than anyone could count. All to date his endless greed for all the extravagances in the world. She was left with her Magikarp who kept her company and kept her spirits up.

One day one of his men wished for the princess, having listed after her for some time. The dragon tamer agreed, saying he had no need of her, having forgotten even her name. The princess was dishonored in this way and, as a result, could no longer withstand the shame that had come into her life and ended herself right in front of her husband.

This action caused her Magikarp to become enraged, becoming powerful beings all at once. In their rage and fury to get revenge upon the dragon tamer who ruined their beloved princess, they became dragons in their own right and killed the dragon tamer. It is said in their anger they caused a crater to appear, which soon filled with their tears and the resulting rain that fell afterwards.

They lived in the lake afterwards, propagating, allowing their descendants to inherit their nobility and fury. To this day, there isn't a Magikarp born in the Lake of Rage that hasn't inherited the memories of those who passed before, since the first generation raised by the princess.

Meanwhile the dragon tamer had aired many children who started families of their own, one of which began a bloodline in Johto. The princess had other siblings, one of which married into the Tsuchiya clan at one point, resulting in the bloodline that leads to Yuri's family today.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage - Castle Town

[logicheartsoul]

These are like scenes from a romcom, sarahbucky style

[local-space-gay]

he’s so pretty !!!!

[f0x-meets-w0lf]

tbqh the most annoying part about being a detail-oriented artist is being like fuuuuck yeahhh i’m SO gonna draw tommy and buck fully making out in buck’s kitchen and it’s gonna be sooo good

and then realizing i actually personally have to draw the whole fucking kitchen in order for them to be making out in said kitchen

[polaroidcats]

i was gonna pitch shrek to you for the disney marauders au’s and then remembered that shrek is in fact dreamworks and not disney

but like remus as fiona, cursed to turn into a “monster” and locked away in isolation by well meaning parents who only hope to find a cure. and sirius as shrek who is outcast by society and has grown jaded and withdrawn from this (who also doesn’t have any family and appears to be exiled from ogre communities since he’s the only one for seemingly miles around)

plus you have jily as donkey and dragon (the babies look like james and have lily’s wings!!)

(so ig im pitching it to you anyway)

NO PLEASE I LOVE IT I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FANDOM NEEDS A SHREK AU IT'S SERIOUSLY SO PERFEKT I LOVE EVERYTHING YOU SAID!!!! I've been thinking abt Shririus all day so I had to make a little collage:

and I'm tagging my fellow Shririus enthusiasts, @lynxindisguise who had very similar shrarauders thoughts as you and @hiddenmoonbeam who dreams of drawing Shririus, hottest dyke in the swamp, with his beautiful black hair! 💚💚💚

[sysig]

Portal 2 replay review: Hrmnnngggngmngm 💕💖💝💞✨❤️💗

[uniquezombiedestiny]

disease of the body, disease of the mind

[bonnet-spotlight]

G-177 graphics

gift for 177 (i think,,, idk if it counts since pix requested it)

yummy coquette techy graphics...

i found some scrumptious resources earlier and wanted to make stuff,,,

[r0semultiverse]

Some memes in light of The Amazing Digital Circus pilot dropping! 💜

🎪 If you use/reupload these anywhere please credit me! 🎪

[pseudophan]

in 2014 tumblr changed the width of posts from 500px to 540px and people were so outraged about the change that tens of thousands vowed to keep using the old dimensions in protest. this sort of made sense at the time because the change made it so everyone's old gifsets and edits suddenly looked blurry when viewed on the dashboard, but what truly fascinates me is that to this day i still see some people stick with it. it's been a decade, hardly anyone is using that xkit feature that makes posts on your dashboard appear in 500px anymore, and yet there are still creators out there stubborn enough to let ten years of gifsets and edits look like shit to everyone else because they're mad tumblr made their older ones look bad. i respect the pettiness so much but also it just cannot be worth it

[logicheartsoul]

One of the things I like about seeing things in the highest resolution possible is that you can see tiny but important details that get lost otherwise. The moment from the deleted scene is short but we get a lot of information about Sarah, Sarah and Sam's relationship as siblings, and just also how well the comedic timing of all this is, on top of the canon sarahbucky content.

I just love seeing the variety of expressions Sarah gets to be shown just from this once scene alone! And of course she shares another stare and look with Bucky.

And just look at how deliberate Sam was in stealing the chair when he knew she was interested in it 😂 You know he loves teasing her

[chirpsythismorning]

I'm not going to say we should take every single thing official Netflix accounts post as gospel, because obviously they are not run by the Duffer Brothers themselves.

But to be clear, these people are hired by Netflix and there's more to it than just random interns scheduling posts. The people running these accounts are not the same people designing the posts made there, just like the people designing those posts have higher ups telling them what to do/not do in terms of the content they are creating. And there are plenty more levels that go beyond that, which eventually does lead to the Duffers and producers of the show, who do have a stake in how the show is promoted on a basic level to best align with their intentions and all the revelations still to come.

It is common knowledge that the Duffers work with Netflix marketing directly on a consistent basis to get their vision across, and that carries out in promotion with posters, merchandise, social media, etc., because it's really important in ST case (with it being a show made by nerds that love easter eggs), that they foreshadow what is still to come outside of the show itself.

When it comes to social media, the core purpose of those accounts is to encourage engagement for Netflix's user base, ideally ensuring they tune in to whatever is being promoted (and more), but it’s also more than that, in that it’s even more based on data and other factors.

What this leads to is the people in those less major decision-making roles, like graphic designers, simply being advised what to create, based on the information and content they are given to work with.

And so these accounts going from promoting byler subtly for years, to blatantly posting about it post-s5, is actually very, very intentional, going beyond a simple Netflix intern. It’s orchestrated by those in management positions, being advised by those in the ST production to do things a certain way, so that when all is said and done, we are able to look back and find tiny little things that point to it.

Byler can't be something they NEVER talked about even once on social media, only to have them end up being endgame with them posting about it forever afterwards when it's all said and done. It doesn't work like that, at least not in ST case. We're talking about a production that costs hundreds of millions to make, as well as being the most talked about mainstream series of our generation.

They have an obligation to make their story feel not only satisfying on its own, but to also promote the show in a way that makes the viewer feel this whole well-rounded experience, outside of the show itself as well.

And so when ST came out in summer 2022 and Netflix Geeked was making posts about it non-stop, that wasn't a rogue, low-paid Netflix intern doing whatever they wanted. That was multiple people with a job given a task and following through with it at their advisers discretion. Regardless of where it ended up, it started at the top with the Duffers informing higher ups in marketing that Byler is something that will happen, along with other revelations that they want to inform marketing about, so they can take the steps to plan ahead and create content that matches the Duffer's vision, most often to act as a foreshadowing device for the story still unraveling.

Remember when Netflix Geeked made a post acknowledging that Will the Wise drawing in El's room back in s3?? A very well known byler easter egg that only we know about??? That wasn't some ga intern watching the show once and them spontaneously coming up with content to create related to that drawing and posting about it themselves. That was very likely someone associated with the show giving suggestions to marketing, with a few of them being very incriminating in relation to byler, but with most being casual in relation to the show overall.

Just like I said in this post about how Noah didn't tweet about byler or mention it multiple times at cons unprompted bc he was feeling quirky. He was being advised to...

And look what Netflix did to that tweet Noah posted that was clearly a stunt in an of itself.? They broadcasted it and made a cheesy ass edit out of it... And it's bc several people behind the scenes were advised to make content like that specifically.

I mean, if you actually look at how social media promotes byler (if and when it does), it's arguably in the exact way that the Duffers want it to be promoted?. Just enough. Not too little. Not too much. I would argue if the Duffers had no say whatsoever in how the show was promoted, then we'd either be seeing byler constantly or we wouldn't see them at all, instead we see social media sort of dance around it, which tells me they are following the exact approach the Duffers themselves follow... because they were obviously given the instruction to.

And so seeing an account like UK Netflix, an account that as of recent has really went all out with posting Queer content since Heartstopper released, has also notably made really incriminating posts about byler over the years, but especially as of recent. And that's in large part because of what I've stated, but also based on data.

If higher ups in marketing at Netflix know about byler, then they are very likely pushing people lower on the payroll, doing more simple tasks like graphic design and social media management, to make connections to ST with other shows like Heartstopper, Sex Education, Young Royals, etc. And this is because if byler IS going to end up being this huge Queer love story, data is telling them to make these connections sooner than later, so that the eventual revelation will be a smooth transition amongst other content just like it. This works in Netflix's favor at the end of the day, which is the whole point of all of this.

Not saying you should take the most casual of Netflix posts as byler endgame proof if that's what you're asking. But to say that these accounts have NO association with the Duffer's and ST directly, therefore we shouldn’t even appreciate anything they post if it points to byler, is sort of over-simplifying things.

It's not like s5 is gonna drop and all of these interns are going to be like OHHH okay now i'm a byler so i'll post about it... Going into s5 they're going to be making some very side eye posts and it isn't going to have anything to do with them being an intern without any say in things, its gonna be about them getting a task list and following through with it bc it's their job.

[torchstelechos]

Do you guys think about Binghe in the Abyss and how SQQ must have felt about it? Specifically how SQQ read what happens in the Abyss... But it no longer applies to SVSSS because this Binghe is different? How must he feel, when Binghe tells him stories of the Abyss and they don't line up with PIDW?

Is he happy? He didn't put his Binghe through something as awful as he read... Is he mad? He put Binghe through horrible things and can't even know what they are? Is he sad? He wont be able to carry the weight with Binghe? I imagine this must be how it feels, even just a slightest bit, for Binghe and what SQQ did while he was away. How tragic, how amazing, how inevitable.

[maranello]

IL PRINCIPE ROSSO OCTOBER 16, 1997

insp → the green knight (2021)

[transmechanicus]

So sick of games needing cutting edge tech for theoretically simple gameplay, Pizza Tower looks like you could play it on a flash game site in 2008 on an elementary school desktop why the fuck can my 2 year old laptop not run this, fuck all life