#cranes of the world

[lemonsquidsoda]

World’s Finest Scarecrow doodles :)) he is so silly in his first comic ha

[toxictoxicities]

I had a lot of fun making this mural of my ancient oc's! This is the High Council of APL's ancient colony

Ruble and Tar Across Countless Weaves. A Humid Breeze, Seven Distant Valleys. Three Craned Stones, Keen Ores

[mewniemoon]

Mamacat Arti sings about her metal sluppy

This is hugely inspired by @catabibaz0n's Rain World comics so go check them out!

Lyrics are from Never Love An Anchor by The Crane Wives (they go so hard)

Full uncropped version

[asterwild]

Sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) can be found across much of North America and part of northeast Siberia. Most populations migrate south for the winter, forming flocks of upwards of 10,000 birds.

[tali-zorahs]

remember when?

[girlfictions]

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

Margaret Atwood, from Oryx and Crake

[skxtchyghost]

queer grasshopper

he's so silly

[duskdog]

You know, fandom seems to talk about Wrathion's past mistakes a lot, but I don't often see anyone discuss his visits to the August Celestials during his legendary questline. Like, sure, people occasionally bring up his attitude towards Tong, but how many current players were there to experience (and still remember) the rest of that quest? When I think of Wrathion, I think first of the whelp who literally dropped to his knees before the Red Crane of Hope, who poured out his heart about the visions he'd had -- how terrified he was that the Legion was coming, about the "rivers of blood and cities in ruin" that would result if he wasn't able to somehow, some way, stop this from happening, and about how the only thing sustaining him was the tiny sliver of hope that he might actually succeed. This is a young dragon who foresaw something that absolutely shook him to his core, something he would do anything to try to prevent... and who felt he had almost no support, because it seemed he was the only one taking the threat seriously while everyone around him was busy fighting one another. His fear, his burden, was so great that the Red Crane himself even admitted that Wrathion needed his blessing of Hope "more than any I have ever met".

We can, of course, debate Wrathion's methods. It's fairly obvious that he didn't fully understand the lessons the Celestials were trying to teach him -- at least not at the time. It's also undeniable that he made some pretty terrible mistakes along the way. And I can certainly understand the argument that his attitude in Dragonflight is just too annoying for some people to stomach. But the thing that always brings me back to Wrathion as Aspect is the knowledge that he actually cares about Azeroth. From the moment he was hatched -- even before -- he carried the burden of Earth-Warder, and he took it absolutely seriously. Neltharion took an oath, and he broke it -- broke beneath it, I would argue -- and Wrathion clearly believes that it's his own responsibility to bear the immense, crushing weight that his Aspect father/grandfather, and his entire flight, proved unable to bear. All those black dragons betrayed Azeroth, tried to destroy what they were sworn to protect, and here's Wrathion -- first a whelp and now a drake, all alone, without Neltharion's colossal size, strength, and power, without the support of a dragonflight behind him, without the support and trust of the other flights, without any true home or safe harbor, without the regard of the mortal races that he's trying to protect -- doing his best to fulfill an oath that he personally never actually took, only inherited.

Given that knowledge, I actually think Wrathion has behaved with remarkable restraint in regard to Sabellian's sudden appearance as a rival. Has Sabellian even given us the slightest indication that he actually cares about the sacred charge of the black dragonflight? He's certainly older, wiser, and steadier, and maybe he's done a good job of raising his kin and keeping them safe in Outland... but does he care about Azeroth? Because he certainly hasn't been there when it needed him... and yet he was perfectly willing to risk reappearing just in time to claim the Obsidian Throne.

[goldtransgression]

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[jakeotters]

cillian playing pale blue eyes on his recent limited edition podcast 😭😭 honey that’s YOUR song

[scarecrowdrugs]

Is he cranky because he didn't get enough shitty gas station coffee or is he cranky because he didn't get to commit chemical warfare?

You decide.

[toxictoxicities]

Something something an exchange me and @revolvius had and it reminded me of our boys

[distant-towers]

hehehehe

[feliniakattus]

hey sorry i haven’t updated in a while! here’s dark and crane as an apology gift

[lucy-moderatz]

[jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear]

World's Finest #3 || Scanned at 300dpi