#lore stuff I guess

[arachnestwilight]

And the rest of Eden is done. :V

[swansong-art]

Hello ^^ I'm very fond of your artwork, if you don't mind me asking what exactly is Hyacinthus'...fate in your drawings?

Of course I don't mind you asking! I'll try to just give you the short version instead of the long, rambly one, ha.

It starts pretty normally: Hyacinthus and Apollo met while Apollo was guised as a mortal, and carried on for a while before Apollo revealed who he was.

I tweaked the myth a bit to make his death more explicitly Zephyrus' fault; one time while Apollo was away at Olympus, Zephyrus tried to seduce Hyacinthus away from him, and when he was turned down it turned into a fight, and ultimately Hyacinthus was murdered, just before Apollo came back. Apollo went after Zephyrus in response, Zeus cut in to stop it, then Apollo went to Hades instead to demand Hyacinthus be returned to him.

Well, that didn't work, so he fell into a depression long and hard enough that the other gods started to worry...in particular, Aphrodite, who expressed her concerns about the whole thing to Hera. Hera (half just to spite her husband) suggested the whole thing could be resolved if Hyacinthus was a god, since then Hades wouldn't have any reason to keep him in the Underworld, and Aphrodite went to discuss the matter with Persephone. Hyacinthus ended up becoming a very minor spring god, and pretty much Apollo's live-in boyfriend.

...that didn't stay very short, did it? But I promise I'm leaving out most of the little details, ha.

[sandshadow9]

I think it would have been cool if the IceWing ranking system had been explored even just a tiny bit more, and maybe some comparisons made between the seven circles and how systems of privilege and ableism work in the real world. 

As is told to us by every IceWing, the rankings are basically a system based on meritocracy where every dragonet supposedly starts on equal footing, and everyone has the same chance at reaching the first circle and if you don’t then you just didn’t work hard enough. However, literally every high ranking dragonet character is part of either the royal family or the aristocracy, as far as I remember. Winter described Lynx as a fairly “common” dragon in terms of her station, but she was still the daughter of some minor nobles.

There is also just a lot of vagueness around how one climbs the rankings. In “The Runaway” I think Snowflake mentions various tests and stuff, but there is also other stuff about just performing IceWing Customs and impressing your guardians. Are there exams or standardized tests?

Also what would happen if one of the crowned Princess was of a low circle but still challenged the Queen and won? How does the rankings play into power here?

[factual-fantasy]

I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE THAT ONE SIDE PROFILE OF THE MARIO BROS NOR CAN I TELL YOU WHY

I DONT KNOW WHY OUT OF ALL OF THOSE DRAWINGS THATS THE ONE I LIKE THE MOST BUT IT’S ALL GREAT WORK FACTUAL

YOU’RE GETTING ME THROUGH FINALS👍👍👍

(Post in question)

STAAAAHP you're gonna make me fall back into my Mario phase!!1! XDD

(FR THO THANK YOU SO MUCH!! :DD I'm glad you liked that doodle! I was rather proud of how it came out😊!!)

[cloudyydraws]

textpost doodle

+ more unfinished mario stuff under the cut

all of these are texts sent between me and my sisters bc i wanna see bros banter

i got too lazy to keep working on these but please take them !!!

[stnaf-vn]

Does friend have cake tho-

[thatfaerieprincess]

WATCHED C3e99 DOWNFALL PART 1 AND UHHH I HAVENT DRAWN FAN ART IN YEARS BUT THE MUSE REALLY SPOKE TO ME THIS TIME

Step 2 figure out how the Emissary actually looks

[stergeon]

enbarr, sometime in 1186:

ok so @frozenartscapes made this addition to my post about byleth and edelgard writing each other letters all the time, right:

well i kind of lost my mind and now we're here.

i'm sure this meeting is salvageable :0) hubert's sanity, however,

[y-rhywbeth2]

Apparently, Shar literally eats grief and misery - she needs it to exist, "for human suffering is her sustenance." When she consumes your negative emotions it gives you a temporary high. This also applies to the suffering caused by some mental illnesses.

And that's how her religion works! She makes you fucking miserable and then feeds of your suffering, in a cycle.

[fireyartccoon]

ok so I might’ve forgotten to get something ready for Wednesday BUT-

you can have Nine and Chaos Sonic from my Sonic Prime AU being siblings instead

[lagosbratzdoll]

Ryan did a bunch of interviews recently that I've been reading and I have some thoughts. You can find the interviews here and here.

There's a lot of terrible stuff in it but I don't have the time or inclination to bother with all that. I'm going to be focusing on two things he said in the interviews.

Starting with this from the House of the Dragon podcast which I've linked above.

In it, Ryan talks about why he decided to contrast the lives of Hugh Hammer and Ulf the White with the lives of the privileged Targaryens. It was fascinating to get a peek into his head.

Ryan reads a rapist and thinks "this is a person worth deepening. We need an in-depth exploration of what goes on in this rapists head. We need the audience to sympathise with them."

Which wouldn't be so bad on its face, there's always room to analyse a fictional rapist. The problem is that he then reads about a little Black girl who raised herself on a tiny island rising up to become a dragon rider on her own merit. A little girl whose Valyrian heritage is constantly debated and discounted. He reads that and decides that there's nothing worth exploring there. Her story isn't unique. She isn't unique. In fact, she's so common that while we adapt and humanise not one but two rapists, we're going to erase one Black girl and turn the other into everyone's punching bag.

Then I read his puff piece from Big Think.

This is a fascinating glimpse into his thought process. I read this and Ryan Condal's baffling decisions began to make a little more sense.

By his own admission, Ryan's ideal show is one where Black women are erased, flattened and ignored. He claims to write powerful women but we've not seen hide or hair of these women. In Ryan's show, nothing is ever deliberate and the women are largely passive participants in their own lives.

In Ryan's ideal show there's no room for a little black girl to claim a dragon with nothing but faith and her wits. In Ryan's ideal show we need all of the rapist men but the Black women are interchangeable AND replaceable.

In Ryan's ideal world, it is too much to ask that a Black girl be adored, have songs written about her and knights joust for her favour. In Ryan's ideal show, Black people aren't fully developed characters, they're props that he forgets about for episodes on end.

And that is why the show will continue to drop in ratings. When I saw the Nielsen numbers for the premiere, I laughed until I cried. The biggest streaming day ever for Max and they couldn't beat The Boys or Your Honour. The most recent numbers are even funnier.

But don't worry gang, House of the Dragon is doing great. It's now number three. It finally beat a four year old show! Everything is fine.

[luna-lovegreat]

Hyrule's actually...

really not looking forward to the idea of the monsters being stronger

Look back...

In both mentions of monsters being stronger- He looks so scared. I want to hug him.

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Art from @linkeduniverse :D

@breannasfluff @la-sera

[jasperthejester]

me: finally accepting theres a good chance im autistic and starting to work up the courage to ask my parents to see if i could get a diagnoses but being scared to

my mom: do you ever think you have adhd? if you want to do a screening for add next time your at the doctors you can

me:

[aether-weather]

SAGESUNE MIKU >:DDD

[clockworkreapers]

collection of mspa art, quadrant stuff, cybele as a kid and the new kismesiss who belongs to my friend security.

[royalarchivist]

Fit: Hello, poop doctor! Hello, good to see you.

Pac: Hello poop doctor! Can you check my- my intestines?

Fit: [Cracking up] If it's one of those exams, I'll- I can leave the room.

Pac: OH WAIT- NO NO! NONONONONO! NO! I'm fine! I don't need it. [He stands in the corner of the room] Ramon, throw the water on me, I wanna drown myself here too. I wanna go, please! I said some shenanigans that I regret.