#headspace-hotel

[yurisorcerer]

What are your top five dragons?

I've thought long and hard about this, and I've come up with a list that I think is pretty good.

Spoilers for, honestly, like, a couple things below the cut. I've tagged the post accordingly.

5. Raijin, my Dragonite from Pokemon Violet

(Obviously this isn't specifically a picture of Raijin, my Switch is sadly batterydead at the moment, but this is about what she looks like in my head. Anyway!)

Somehow or another, Dragonite ended up being the very last Gen I Pokemon I'd never caught or trained in any way. I'd caught all of the others in SOME playthrough of SOME pokemon game over the years, even the ones people generally don't love or tend to forget about. (I will be a Lickitung apologist until the day I die.) I'm not sure why I avoided the Dratini line for so long. Some general subconscious backlash? I can't really say for sure. Anyway, I caught Raijin off the coast of Paldea in Violet and she quickly became essentially the ace of my team. As it turns out, Rain Dance + Thunder with an Electric terra type is a pretty good combination.

4. Black Hole Dragons, from a Dungeons & Dragons homebrew sourcebook

I looked and looked and to my IMMENSE frustration, could not find a copy of the old-school D&D homebrew sourcebook that these things are from, but please trust me and hear me out here.

Black hole dragons as depicted in this book, a truly ridiculous bestiary of appropriate foes for Epic-level adventurers, were bizarre snaking collages of geometry that could grow to be larger than the size of the visible universe and erase people from existence by breathing on them. After encountering these when reading these sourcebooks at the impressionable age of uh....like, 23, vanilla D&D's usual array of chromatics and metallics don't do a ton for me anymore.

3. Nicol Bolas, from Magic: The Gathering

This guy.

This fucking guy. This is how you do an impossibly powerful doomsday villain right.

Nicol Bolas is a dragon who's also a dimension-hopping wizard. As part of what is by my estimation one of Magic's last good sets, he also kills a bunch of faux-Egyptian deities and takes their place as the divine ruler of an entire dimension. This guy fucking rules and every single card that's ever had his name on it is awesome and if you disagree, well, that's good for you, because WoTC killed him right around the time they decided to make Magic boring forever.

2. Falin Touden, from Dungeon Meshi

No, she counts. Get back here.

If I stopped to count all of the ways I thought Falin was an amazing character we'd be here all day, but very briefly I find her arc and her interesting liminal role in Dungeon Meshi's narrative super compelling, and I find her characterization very, very relatable, and not entirely in a way that reflects well on me.

But as a *dragon.*

As a DRAGON

Falin is still one of the best to ever do it. The original Red Dragon is a very cool and pivotal part of Dungeon Meshi, and I love that too, but when Falin is fused with it by Thistle we get what is just honestly one of the most memorably bitchin character designs of all time, a ludicrously hot capital MG Monster Girl, and a huge driving force for the rest of the story. Not to mention Ryoko Kui clearly put a ton of thought into how she would work, since a key flaw in her design (so to speak) is what eventually leads to her being saved. I love her to pieces, and the form Falin finally gets at the very end of the story is honestly super cool-looking too! Although it's less dragonny than this one.

The Dragon, from "Dragon"

headspace-hotel's "Dragon" is one of my favorite poems of all time. It's easily the best tumblr post, and while I don't read a ton anymore, it's definitely one of my favorite overall pieces of literature.

I realize that being so brief in the top entry makes this a little anticlimactic, but I can't bring myself to rob the poem of its impact. I linked it there, so please go read it. More than anything else on this list, it's made me think. Beyond simply thinking it's an absolutely great piece of work (which it is), it's very meaningful to me. A reminder that the danger is still present in our time.

Some honorable mentions: the rest of the Dungeon Meshi dragons, every dragon from the Souls series and from Elden Ring, Paarthurnax from Skyrim, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Godzilla, Beast Machines Megatron, and Odious, the Green Dragon who turns into a giant d20 that I bought from Hasbro Pulse a year or so ago.

[howlsmovingurl]

A Wikipedia poem about Falling inspired by @headspace-hotel. Thank you for the lovely poems.

And dedicated to my darling husband whom I love so very very very very much. Who helped me turn from one sort of falling into another. ❤️

[spiralled-fury]

A wikipedia and google poem about torture, dysphoria and mothers.

(Thank you to @headspace-hotel for the concept and inspiration, sorry I forgot tag on post.)

[samuraisharkie]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP SHARING THE OHIO POST BY INNESKEEPER ITS EXTREMELY TRIGGERING AND TERRIFYING. REBLOG THE SEPARATE VERSION FROM MS-DEMEANOR INSTEAD!!!! PLEASE. FOR EVERYONE’S SAKE, ESPECIALLY THE ORIGINAL POSTER’S, STOP REBLOGGING THAT POST, EVEN WITH THE CORRECTED INFO ON IT.

[safety-net-did]

I want to publicly announce that no one ever needs to ask or apologize for a rant about their special interests on my posts. My posts are, in fact, nets constructed for special-interest-fueled-rant fishing. I want to hear everything.

@headspace-hotel hit the nail on the head with this one.

[oldcoyote]

headspace-hotel replied to your post: i stopped writing and making art a few years…

don’t try to force the art, it will not come until you are ready and it wants to come. find things to learn and observe and absorb and it will come back

it’s hard because the only reason i’m forcing it is because it’s been gone for years and i don’t know how much longer i can hang on without it. i need purpose, i need something to hang onto, because right now my life is desperately empty and it’s killing me a little each day. i know that sound melodramatic, but it genuinely feels that way as i’m spending my days doing nothing but social media doomscrolling and staring at the wall

cleonibbles replied to your post:

If nothing else your situation sounds like it sucks! And I’ve been there, still kind of there? Feeling stuck and unable to try things or the things being suggested not working. Its rough and it sounds like its been complicated by loss on top of it all             

i’m so sorry you’re stuck here too, love. i wouldn’t wish this on anybody. that absolutely shattering feeling of knowing things would get better if you just do something but not being able to move and get up and do anything is just. it’s so fucking much

[lost-daughter]

[junewild]

“i’m ‘into’ the harmonica, i’m not ‘into’ nature.” — @urfromhere on instagram

[glimmer-gremlin]

Am I the only one who doesn't hate aphids? I feel like they don't deserve the bad reputation they have in gardening circles At my workplace there's a hedge separating the site from the road. Idk what species it was but it was completely swarmed with aphids, just absolutely filthy with aphids, I would brush past it and find aphids all over me. But the hedge also had a shitload of different species of ladybugs!!!

There were sooo many ladybugs, feasting on the veritable aphid buffet. (And a couple spiders to feast on the veritable ladybug buffet)

Then those hedges got bug sprayed and killed everything on the plants and it hasn't been nearly as cool to look at :( The hedges also seemed healthier before the spray (not saying the aphids, like, bolstered the hedge's health or anything lol. But the hedges have definitely died back after being sprayed and trimmed a few times). Surely there are plants out there that don't have their heath suffer from supporting aphids? If there were I'd filly my garden with them for a ladybug bonanza.

[daytura]

I am learning to imagine the future.

-- @headspace-hotel, post of the same name

[questionable-spanish-lessons]

(1) "my package of dried mangoes assures me that they are made from “only the juiciest” mangoes, which is an interesting sentiment to me. “You would not BELIEVE how much water these bad boys had in them before we removed almost all of it.”"

(2) ""This beef jerky was made from the juiciest goddamn cows you'd ever laid your eyes on. You could slap a side of this beef and hear a basketball hitting a gym floor. We had to wring those fuckers out like a shamwow for days.""

[incorrect-dnd-classes]

Druid: you know how when you go out in the middle of the woods, your phone loses internet service? that is because the trees naturally protect you from the evil dark energy rays generated by influencers and twitter opinions. follow for more information about the beauty of nature

[solarpunkani]

Hey tree savers of Tumblr uh

What do yall. Do. With the saplings you save. Are you saving them for later projects or do you just… have them.

I’m asking because I don’t have any future Rewilding Plans (I have neither the courage nor energy right now) but I found these 2 saplings in the landscaping but I know my parents would just kill them, should I like… do something?

[mama-vaggie]

Hey, I love how so many of the little ones are having fun at Lulu World. 💜

I'm over here in the splash zone with Rhea. I got a nice shady spot, many pairs of of noise canceling headphones, and I made a cozy little blanket nest here in the grass. If anyone needs a sensory break, a nap, a clothes/diaper change, or just a quiet moment, come find Mama. I got you. 💜

[branchiopod]

i have a lot of feelings about pigeons

support artists! vnmo: gatorfruit

[the-radio-demon-caregiver]

Poppa Alastor back?

Yeppp