#reading unicorn

[canisalbus]

I swapped them around in a silly doodle

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[the-lesbian-orpheus]

Babysitting is great because the kids I babysit asked me if I like Minecraft and we talked about it and I ended up briefly explaining GeminiTay and these 6 and 9 year old boys now think this fantasy princess that hunts down her friends heads for fun is one of the top 15 coolest people

Gotta say I agree

[piosplayhouse]

"Oh dear," the unicorn thought. "I must've really mucked up the story beyond compare! The Red Bull Luo Binghe is protecting the last unicorn scum?! Unconscionable! He should have driven me off the cliff by now!!"

[giantkillerjack]

Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

[lush-specimen]

@tf-bigbang posting day is upon us!!!

BEHOLD!!! I had such a blast creating this art! Make sure to check out the super fun fic @asteroidmiyoko wrote to go along with this art. in fact I was so inspired by the fic, I made more art!

Everybody wins!! (especially Thunderclash with a shout out for Battle Unicorn!)

[ianthoni]

My favorite couple and their favorite third wheel 🥺 shourtney shipper Ian had my whole heart 😭

[a-hoe-for-dark-academia]

"I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me."

-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn, 1968

[fandomnerd9602]

Y/N holds Wade as it appears Deadpool is about to die…

Wade: you know (coughs) we made a good team

Y/N: we did, Wade

Wade takes a hold of Y/N’s face

Wade: and In some other universe…I would’ve loved doing laundry and taxes with you

Y/N: dammit Wade!! A meme reference?!

Wade jumps up and runs away…

Wade: scroll to the next one, reader!! Quick!!!

[silver-peel]

Bestiary🦁🐴🐔

Finally drawing the thing I want to draw for a long time which is renaissance black armor angel and the questing beast! and they're all friend:)

(sketch and inspiration below)

[princefleabitten]

Just Catti Brie and Artemis forming a beautiful friendship to save their mutual friend Drizzt (Legend of Drizzt: Starless Night)

[godzilla-reads]

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”

—Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

[dapper-lil-arts]

One of the covers for the chapters in the fanfic i'm writin! i'm getting experimental with it! Enjoy my luna redesign heh.

[antiquepearlss]

Vaggie drinking her no-nonsense coffee black and Charlie drinking sugary frappes and lattes that are 99% milk 1% coffee

[atompalace-official]

The Last Unicorn 🤍🫧

[thegothicalice]

🦄🍂🌼

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

Loving Anders and Fenris means I'm trying to enjoy two similarly flawed characters whose trauma shouldn't have been used as a weapon against each other, nor as a weapon against the entirety of DA2's plot. At least, not the way it was. Their respective stories needed a lot more empathy and nuance. Some of that was DA2 being a rushed rough draft, but there are still certain choices that the player makes with both of them that exist as pointlessly cruel, racist, and abelist and therefore shouldn't have been options at all.

Ultimately DA2 is a story that handled both Fenris and Anders contextual oppression and meta creation poorly enough that sometimes all I see is a reproduction of their reductive feud, but in real life. I understand why someone would dislike one but not the other (and people should feel free to), I even agree with an interpretation of Anders as this particular type of biased white leftist. However, years of their constant reduction has only led to a dismissal of what they represent. The exploration of which being DA2's whole plot, the execution of which being fundamentally flawed, and the divisive reaction of which being inevitable. They needed care, basically.

The story was damagingly irresponsible in how it went about pitting their two biggest in-game marginalized identities against each other, one an allegory for queer oppression and mental health issues, the other for colonialism and slavery. It has gotten to the point where I believe fenders (or rather the hopeful romanticization of Fenris and Anders) has the better idea in how to manage their mishandling than discussion that reduces them to their worst selves, dehumanizes them altogether, or dismisses their textual metaphors. Because they are flawed but sometimes all I see is a recitation of their flaws used to dismiss all they represent rather than discussion on how DA2 could've handled their themes respectfully.

This, again, is me navel-gazing. Not on the attack. Please be free to disagree, just not abusively so. Different interpretations of a text and characters are unavoidable, especially for these two (who people feel a strong personal affinity for) and in a game like DA2 (a story within a story). This is just how I feel.