#pure flight

[mewwfr]

Oh my god, staff.....

This auraboa issue with the lore being (most likely) unintentionally racist is especially maddening to me, because the concept they seem to want to portray (based purely on the encyclopedia entry) is very similar to an OC I have, and so I can say with experience, it's incredibly difficult to convey! ESPECIALLY when you try to portray it inside a short story where you're cutting lines for word count (their forum reply mentioned they left out some lines to keep it short)

Instead of getting across the concept the encyclopedia entry seems to allude to, the short story just accidentally walks into like 10 racism rakes in a row and its truly agonizing for me to watch, knowing what i assume the actual lore's intent is.

encyclopedia quote: "Older generations of Auraboa existed in a constant state of communion with their fellows. They refer to this connection as The Loop. In this persistent state they perceive time and memory in a non-linear manner; their intertwined considerations for past and present events are such that it became difficult for a dragon outside The Loop to grasp the intentions of these ancient wyrms."

what seems to be the intention is that the auraboa are a hivemind that doesn't experience time the same way other dragons do- they experience past, present, and future all at once and thus cannot communicate well NOT because they have a different language, but because they aren't experiencing TIME ITSELF in the same fashion as the dragons! However, in practice, in the story, the auraboa seem to speak with words in the proper order, just haltingly, since otherwise the story itself couldn't work at all.

another encyclopedia bit: "The newest generation of Auraboa is not linked to The Loop in their waking hours. While they move through the world, they are less directly accessible and read as "silent" to Auraboa who are within the communal state. This disconnection has allowed the young Auraboa to experience time in a linear fashion, and with this new understanding they have begun to form connections with other species of dragon that have never before been possible."

The encyclopedia seems more clear about the Linear Time thing, and that being why they can actually communicate sensibly, but in the act of having a story where the older ones DO communicate with the outside dragons and get a point across, they've kind of not shown the reason why dragons and auraboa COULDNT communicate before! which is! a big thing!

If they'd implemented the auraboa speaking with everything in the wrong order instead of halting single words at a time, i feel like the intention would get across better. As it is, it just smacks them directly into the 'simple native' stereotype with a truly awful tripping into the 'having our kids be taught by outsiders' which is. a really wretched parallel, as many native people have spoken of the unimaginable violence of residential schools.

I feel like the encyclopedia entry Alone isn't nearly as awful (still not great, but not as bad) as the extremely poorly implemented story that managed to ddr dance onto a bunch of horrible tropes.

they were literally so bad at conveying the fact that the auraboa are a hivemind that is unmoored from time, that i see people misinterpreting the lore as auraboa having their own weird language that other dragons can't understand! there was not enough effort put into conveying the ideas they tried to convey, and what WAS put forward was literally chock full of the most unfortunate parallels physically possible.

[fresh-outta-earthbread]

@starlightmight and i made a pokemon au together!!!! so heres the ancients' pokemon >:)

[korokonas]

Happy Warrior’s Way!!!

[4e7her]

i am crying about him

[adinafay]

I stayed up too late and now I'm mourning the hundreds of virtual pets I've abandoned over the years.

They deserved better.

[last-flight-of-fancy]

“Kingdom Hearts being an epic slow burn gay romance would be incredibly impactful to people both personally and as a landmark in queer representation by extremely popular and established characters. It has decades of legitimate buildup and has the potential to be both incredibly validating to queer fans everywhere and even possibly sway the minds of those who love the characters but may not have much contact or knowledge of queerness.”

and

“The Kingdom Hearts series is honestly kind of unique in its unabashed emotional sincerity. How it treats friendships and non-romantic bonds as being both extremely important and powerful, never giving the impression that friendship is lesser to romance, is depressingly still somewhat of a rarity in media. This is very important and validating to many, particularly aromantics but also most everyone who is just Tired of how friendships and romance are often presented in tiers of importance.”

are concepts that can and should co-exist.

[saturnniidae]

I want to know what Hiccups secret is. How does he not look like a lobster. What did he fucking invent viking sunscreen or some shit how is this guy not burnt????

[send-me-a-puffalope]

um so guess which genius got escorted back to the front of TSA by three police because they forgot their trainer balisong in their backpack…

[coentinim]

I like Kai because I want to let go of my control and vigilance and succumb to the delusion for longer than like, 2 hours before bed. And the only one who could pull my strings would be a literal cult leader because I am way too selfish for anyone else. Even with him I'd have doubts and I'd want to leave.

[muraenide]

This Jade and Floyd art is going to live in my head rent free for a very long time.

This gives off so much mean girl energy I'm just — the way Jade is looking at the pov like he feels sorry for you but doesn't mean it at all and Floyd is straight up amused misfortune befell on the reader. I love my eels.

Tbh I always want to write Jade like that. Sobs

[jomadis]

Guess who just learned how to use FireAlpaca (I say, as I’ve been using FireAlpaca for like 7 years)

I’m here to spread big-cat-obelisk propaganda with another auction house kiddo! I really like this dudes colors, and I didn’t want to see him exalted haha

HE ALSO HAS 666 IN HIS ID ITS A DOUBLE WIN

[bakugames-fr]

whats up with rust? does this spiral have a job or like a gender… whats their personality like + have you thought of any clothes for them?

Rust (full name Rusted wings) was the leader of a gang situated in the Shattered plains. The hierarchy worked in that if you gained at least 50% of the gang's favor, you can challenge the leader to a fight for the leadership role. Rust was a longstanding leader, and was able to keep her position even as she started to age and lost some of her battling skill due to her knowledge.

Of course, the inevitable happened, and she was dethroned. Normally, the old leader is killed, and she expected it and wanted to go out with a bang, but her rival knew this and simply exiled her, which gave her a goal to become a bandit and be killed in combat to achieve her goal.

She tried to rob Banana and Nasty, or die to their hands, but Banana was not interested and Nasty convinced them to show around Dragonhome (they were both disconnected from their homeland), and ended up joining their warriors circle as a trainer and hunter.

She still struggles with the fact she'll probably have a peaceful death, as Banana isn't interested in getting her workers killed (bad for business), and Rust is actually one of their few closer friends.

She looks stern, has a very rigid teaching style, but when she's more comfortable she'll crack jokes and loves dark humor. She can't fly, so she got a roc as a service animal to fly her places.

she doesn't have any outfits planned because im um. bad at clothes LOL

[the-chattering-tower]

I'm gonna keep my ear to the ground about this on the forums but it never hurts to yell on here so:

If any of y'all have fully gened progens and you breed them regularly (and don't mind selling the babies, ofc), I'm in the market for a male 👀 Ideally yellow-green-maaaybe blue range prim-sec, but I'm open to looking at anything

Also not in a hurry but I wanted to put this out there

(I realised today that I never ended up doing much with one of my own progen kids and decided to give them a bit of a gene touch up and get to work on making a breeding pair, and I wanna go pure progen G3 on it)

[jyou-no-sonoko19]

Same muscle cluster, even.

[witchyvixie]

oftentimes when I find myself feeling negatively abt a gene I take it as a challenge to create a dragon that absolutely fucking rocks it

[shoutsindwarvish]

love being 30 years old and still vibrating with anxiety in my car in the parking lot of the clinic before getting labs done 🙃