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✨just dragon slayer things✨

they're all hoarders. we've seen natsu's house, which is just a giant scrapbook. but i can see gajeel picking up loose screws off the pavement, wendy's pockets being full of shiny rocks and seaglass, or sting's house being filled with sun/light catchers.

they're always putting things in their mouths. wendy was a thumbsucker, laxus is a gum chewer, cobra is a biter, rouge chews the end of pencils when he's thinking and if natsu doesn’t have enough hands to carry something, he’ll just hold it in his mouth.

lizards are cold blooded, and while the dragon slayers DO generate internal heat (since they have human bodies) they're still drawn to the sun. lying in patches of sunlight like cats and sunbathing in the summer.

this carries over into winter, they get cold SO easily. they eat more in winter too, and laxus the diva won't ever take jobs in cold climates (that fur coat is fashion/function).

subtle or extreme emotions are almost always communicated through animalistic sounds. natsu and gajeel growl and roar, erik hisses, and while carla has mostly trained it out of wendy, if she's really surprised or scared the sound she makes is less like a human shout and more like a bark/yelp, or a whimper when she's sad or fearful.

they are very sensory seeking. hands in running water, standing in the breeze, stepping on the pavement a certain way, fidgeting, weighted blankets, jumping and hanging off stuff, listening to music way too loud.

this also means that have strong sensory avoidances. gajeel HATES getting his hair cut, natsu hates the feeling of heavy clothes, erik hates loud noises, rouge doesn't like bright lights (apart from sting's, since he's so accustomed to it), wendy is sensitive to sudden temperature changes

They're very protective of each other. they're like a pack. this also means that they're protective of each other's partners. rouge might not know levy, but he walks her home after late night trips to the library, completely silently. it unnerved her the first time, but now she enjoys the company and he lets her talk in any language she wants. laxus will watch dozens of people struggle to reach things only his giant self can without helping, but will pass things down for Lucy without her asking. wendy and freed's underrated friendship! he thinks he's taking care of wendy because she's his boyfriend's little sister, and she thinks she's protecting her brother's boyfriend - which results in them being drawn to each other in anxious situations, sitting next to each other in unfamiliar or loud places.

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Ming Dynasty AU! Jiang Yanli

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it's probably too early to be this excited but sleepy boy in his pyjamas has been on my mind since. forever. and upon seeing the announcement for the upcoming card i had to ask your expert opinion (as evidenced by thorough research on other diasomnia students 🖊🖊🖊) on his sleepwear. is it a ridiculous assortment of old clothes which decidedly do not match. is it his uniform (rumpled edition). is it an old man outfit to contrast with his father's discord mod sleepwear. it could be anything in my mind. the possibilities...

honestly, same? I feel like I could reasonably guess at least the general vibe of most of the guys, but Silver could be anywhere from "vintage graphic tee and underpants" to "the same monastic night coat from the 1500s that he's been wearing since Lilia gave it to him for his fifth birthday" and anything inbetween. (if anyone were going to sleep in the buff...but we shan't go there.)

if I may offer some suggestions of my own:

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w ..... why are you looking at me like that 😳

inspired by this picture from the Beastars manga  ↓

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Riddle: "... Don't tell me this outfit was chosen with 'Goldfish' as a motif."

Georgina: "Could it be that you dislike goldfish?"

Riddle: "No, that's not the case. I have no complaints about this outfit, and I actually like it. It's just that... Much to my distaste, I'm called a goldfish because I'm apparently 'small and red'."

Omg poor Riddle. 😭 It's so funny but I feel bad that he hates being called small and red lol

Georgina: "Oh, is that so? Hahaha, that boy... Please, forgive his rudeness. But that's not all that a goldfish is."

Georgina: "Goldfish in captivity are rather tiny, but when released into the wild, I heard they could grow gigantic."

Riddle: "Gigantic?! So goldfish still have room to grow..."

Jade: *SNORTS*

Riddle: "Jade. Why did you laugh just now."

DHDUISAHDIOA I love how the intention was that Riddle could be the very best he could be if only he could be freed from his cage, but Riddle just took it as... the possibility of a growth spurt. 💀 And Jade laughed at him and told him that it's wonderful that people are free to chase after their dreams. 💀

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Gray pulled one of the baddest bitches in fairytail by being suicidal and Nastu did the same by being autistic but when I do that I get a therapist? Rude

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it's so so sick how every single recurring comedic gag about erza can be traced back to hopelessly tragic roots. oh erza is obsessed with cake? yeah that's because she was probably underfed and malnourished as a child slave and didn't know the concept of eating for pleasure. oh erza hoards hundreds of sets of armour and lugs around a comically large trolley of her belongings everywhere she goes? yeah she didn't own anything but the tattered rags they gave the slaves in the tower of heaven. oh erza is extremely socially awkward and is often inappropriate without realizing it? yeah that's because her only point of contact as a child were other kids going through the same horrific things as her and even when she got out the trauma and guilt of what happened prevented her from fully re-integrating into society. we should all just kill ourselves

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to pretend that horrible people cannot make good art is another way to conflate beauty and talent with integrity and morality. the works of monsters are best examined with knowledge of the author in mind but art is not inherently reflective. human beings are creative, and habitual liars- it'd be stupid to pretend art must always be a portrait of its creator

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the prettiest<3

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Drawing Disney princesses is so therapeutic for me haha

I love Tiana sooooo much and I’m extremely  happy she’s finally getting more of a spotlight with her upcoming solo show!

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Let the others raise their hands too la😭

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my adhd ass when someone says something and expects me to be able to comprehend it the first time

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I just think Shang Qinghua should get so angry one time that he unconsciously overrides the System and unlocks Admin privileges and just deletes entire clans out of existance in the blink of an eye while going "writing you in was a mistake".

And I also think everyone who saw that refuses to ever talk about it, but they're all scared shitless of the tiny human by Mobei-jun's side now because they realize he's not just really smart and an amazing strategist, he's also a god and can kill them all in 0.5 seconds. And now they all think that Shang Qinghua is actually the one running the show and Mobei-jun is just, like, the face of the Northern kingdom only.

Shang Qinghua is utterly horrified when he snaps out of it and realizes what he's done (somehow??? He doesn't know wtf just happened) and how now everyone is terrified of him except for Mobei-jun who is just looking at him with heart in his eyes lmao

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looks like i have the gift of prophecy because....

AO3 got fucking scraped again for gen AI purposes!

AO3 got scraped for gen AI purposes again, a ton of works were included.

There's been DMCA requests and it looks like some/most? of it has been taken down, thankfully. Still. I highly highly recommend that everyone lock all their works to the archive right now. I can't force you to, but I strongly suggest that you do. Don't let them scrape your work in the future. It sucks losing guest interaction but. Would you rather feed the AI slop?

For people who guest comment: Make an AO3 account! You have to wait a bit for an invite but it's worth it i promise!!

For artists specifically: I recommend that you look into Glaze and/or Nightshade. There's also these disruption filters, it's not clear how well these actually work, but you're welcome to try them. Glaze is supposed to work best, though.

It looks like you can see the status of the datasets here

And how to submit DMCA or copyright violation

I'll say it again: FUCK AI THAT STEALS PEOPLE'S ART AND WRITING!!!!

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at the core of every discussion about nalu we must remember that they are, despite everything, idiot teenagers with no concept of how to communicate. girl who was raised by an absent and emotionally neglectful father with no friends other than the immortal spirits contracted to her meets boy who was raised in the forest with a dragon and then spent the rest of his childhood in a guild full of other mentally ill orphans who express their feelings through their fists. it's a lethal combination. "oh natsu and lucy should just communicate" you think they know how?? they have (1) braincell between them and happy has it most of the time.

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The Dragneel men are jealous men and I love it so much.

Natsu:

Episode 1

Episode 8

Zeref:

Episode 11