#hope's fire

[tottwritesfanfic]

Hope’s Fire - Chapter 39

Featuring long marches, a lot of stairs, and some much needed flashes of  common sense.

Ah, it feels so good to be posting another chapter! I won’t lie, I maaaay have saved this one up so I could release it on Odaba Day. You know, because people have so little else to get stuck into today. Still, what’s one more for the pile, eh? Pick your poison below, folks!

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[xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx]

ROUND TWO OF LIKES CHARGE REBLOGS CAST ✨

[ninjasmudge]

cant have been easy watching aym and baal sprint around and not being able to join in

[monikokii]

Whoops. No more reading at work (⁠•⁠ ⁠▽⁠ ⁠•⁠;⁠)

[verrixstudios]

Last Tribe A Day run cycle was today so I decided to combine them all to show the differences!

ID under the cut

[ID: Seven sketchy animated run cycles, all of the original dragon tribes from Wings of Fire. They alternate sides as they go down, starting with the top one on the left and the second on the right, and so on. The background is a blank white. Each dragon has shaded limbs to help see the differences while in movement. The right wing is the darkest shade, followed by the left wing (closest to the screen), the the right legs are the lightest shaded. Descriptions are in order from top to bottom:

Mudwing: Drawn in a dark red. The thickest dragon by far, opening is mouth in a smile as its front legs hit the ground. Its large wings have four toes as if they were a third set of talons, which is used as another set of legs while running. The wings lift off after the back legs. The entire body bobs with its weight while it runs, lunging with its back legs. One of its back legs disappears while it runs (oopsies) and its large tail flicks with the run.

Skywing: Drawn in a darker red. Much skinnier dragon with longer limbs and larger wings. Its large wings remain slight open above its border, slightly bobbing as it moves. The body itself doesn’t move up and down, instead just twisting with movement of its limbs. Its tail is a little stiff, again just moving up and down. As it runs, one foot touches and leaves the ground at a time.

Icewing: Drawn in a dark blue. Its body and shape is ridgid, its head swooping up and down like it lunges with every time its front talons land. Again, its wings are used as a third pair of legs, however they are mostly used after the other limbs are mid-air. Its talons are visibly sharper, as well as its wings. Sharp spines on the back of its neck and end of its tail are visible as well, which bobs with the movement.

Seawing: Drawn in a dark blue. A thicker, long dragon with short but thick limbs and webbed frills along its spine and sternum. It’s thick tail continues the up and down curve it’s body makes with every move, flicking the end of the frills as it does. Its wings are semi open above its body, bobbing with the running movement and tilting up and down as its spine curves.

Sandwing: Drawn in a warm brown. Long limbs but thicker than skywing. All four feet lift of the air when they’re closest during the run, each foot hitting the ground one at a time. It’s barbed scorpion-like tail bobs up and down at the end. Its wings are folded and stuff near its shoulders, tilted diagonally. A solid frill lines its spine, biggest at the back of its neck and above the back legs.

Nightwing: Drawn in a dark purple grey, and by far the stiffest run cycle. Thick body with short but thinner legs than mudwings or seawings. Spikes line the spine all along its body, longest at the back of the neck and back of the body. Its wings are held stiffly and slightly folded over its body. Other than the legs and tail, most of the nightwing barely moves as it runs, and its legs hit the ground in pairs, front legs then back legs. They don’t even cross between each other at the closest part in the run. Its mouth opens and closes as it runs, not in any particular expression, I was just bored.

Rainwing: Drawn in a muted dark green. By far the bounciest run. It has a thin body and a head I accidentally drew a little big. It’s three-toed wings are used as a third pair of legs, used most right before it’s front legs hit the ground. Its front legs hit the ground at different time, however the back legs hit and leave together. Its tail is by far the longest, curled at the end and slightly unraveling as it flicks up and down. Beneath the curved horns is a frill with two connections that slight opens and closes with the movement. It’s grin also opens and closes with the movement.

END ID]

[don-dake]

Saw these at IKEA recently. Are they…modelled after the Gävle Goat?

Edited-to-add (some time in early 2024): To all the people who have since helpfully added informative comments and links about the history of the Gävle Goat, Thank You! I've learnt so much from your posts!

To anyone seeing this now and in the future, I now know more about the Gävle Goat than I possibly need to, so you can stop flooding this post with the same-ish info now! Thanks!

And to people who cannot fathom someone not knowing about Christmas straw goats, please read this post and have some empathy and perspective. Thanks again!

[lotus-pear]

insufferable boyfriends for pride month yw

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Movie William judges Vanessa's friends..

[nekoyawn5]

First year gang hanging out together. A scene redraw from Magiranger. Let's just pretend there's a pole in NRC.

[mistressemmedi]

There's quietly quitting. And then there's whatever Sergio Perez is doing.

[tottwritesfanfic]

Regarding Hope’s Fire

...So, hypothetically, if I were actually pretty damn close to finishing a chapter again, would people be interested in like, a sort of dramatis personae so that everyone can refresh their memories on who the hell all the random side-characters are again? And maybe like a status update on the kids?

I mean, I just re-read the entire story and all my notes again this week so that I could remember all the details and have half a hope in hell of maintaining continuity (also, I wanna take this moment to give a shoutout to Aeon Timeline, you’re the real hero here, itemised timestamps for every event in this fic, tagged with who’s there - couldn’t do it without you), and it was A Lot.

But, yeah. I had the awful realisation last night that it’s actually been longer since the last update than it was for all the years I was actually posting what currently exists, so...maybe that would be helpful? It’s a longass fic, I don’t want people to feel that they can’t carry on reading it because they don’t want to start over from the top. Because that would be a very reasonable reason to quit.

Also, full disclaimer, this unfortunately doesn’t mean I have an update about to drop. Sorry. While I am hella close to finishing chapter 38, it...uh... it leaves off on another horrible cliffhanger, and man, I feel bad enough as it is. I can’t do that to you. Again. I have to finish chapter 39 first so I know nothing can get in the way of that one. I have SOME morals, you know?

[noahisntreal]

[angelcake10023]

Samadhi Fire Tang Au- Part 3

A Guilty Conscious

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[cinnamon-flame]

Trying to get back my ability to draw wof dragons by drawing my favorite Sunny design

[otaku553]

Flames (Part 1)

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This one took AGES i hope you all enjoy!! It's probably a 2-parter but pending how my finals week is looking I might take a hiatus for next week. As I'm writing this post I've just finished my stat mech final which is great! (I wish unspeakable terrors on the person who decided that stat mech was required for the neurobiology-focused major. i get that it's useful for some bayesian statistics but like,,,,, come on i dont need to know thermodynamics)

I did originally have 2 more pages to post with this but scrapped them unfortunately, but I do hope the revised version, which will come out with the next part, will be enjoyable. I was also waffling briefly on whether to color this comic since it turned out so long but there were some panels that I envisioned so clearly in color that I just decided I might as well color everything. I'm especially proud of how the fruit turned out, I want to eat it

Feel free to send in asks if you want annotations of different things I decided on and details I added in each page :) I'm quite proud of this one hehe

[lilac-knight]

I won't make the same mistake again