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The more and more information we gain about Archdragons and Xadia, makes me hate them more. Whether it be the writing or just something else.

Like, why were we led to believe the complete destruction and attempted genocide of Elarion and humans was completely justified??

"Oh but dark magic" I don't give a fuck "They hunted the unicorn to extinction" I don't give a fuck. "They poached creatures" I. Don't. Give. A. Fuck.

The kicker is most people in the story, human or otherwise would agree it was justified for the single reason of dark magic bad, When in reality humans were just tired of fucking starving. Elves are just whiny bastards who want to be the top dogs and when they realized it was being challenged they got pissy, When the Dragons realized their Pride and Joy elves were pissy they took it out on the humans.

They kept the lush and fertile lands and kicked humans to the barren lands in a full effort to have them die slowly.

ie ethnic cleansing

Humans are the victims all around in the world of the dragon prince. Elves and archdragons started or kicked off most issues. Vent over I will accept no criticism.

Fuck you Sol Regem fuck you choke

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The more and more information we gain about Archdragons and Xadia, makes me hate them more. Whether it be the writing or just something else.

Like, why were we led to believe the complete destruction and attempted genocide of Elarion and humans was completely justified??

"Oh but dark magic" I don't give a fuck "They hunted the unicorn to extinction" I don't give a fuck. "They poached creatures" I. Don't. Give. A. Fuck.

The kicker is most people in the story, human or otherwise would agree it was justified for the single reason of dark magic bad, When in reality humans were just tired of fucking starving. Elves are just whiny bastards who want to be the top dogs and when they realized it was being challenged they got pissy, When the Dragons realized their Pride and Joy elves were pissy they took it out on the humans.

They kept the lush and fertile lands and kicked humans to the barren lands in a full effort to have them die slowly.

ie ethnic cleansing

Humans are the victims all around in the world of the dragon prince. Elves and archdragons started or kicked off most issues. Vent over I will accept no criticism.

Fuck you Sol Regem fuck you choke

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Work doesn't give me nearly enough money, so if you guys want to help me keep comfortably writing fics and updating my two blogs, please consider donating to me on ko-fi. Even just 5 dolars would already be great 💖

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I will never forget the horror I saw yesterday. Over 500,000 people trapped in a small area for aid that wasn’t enough for even 1%.

What we see here… you don’t see on the news. It’s hell.

Then, the shooting began. I’ll never forget the man I met on the road — we waited together since dawn. He was shot in the head in front of me… and people trampled over him. I don’t know if he’s alive or dead. I stood there helpless.

I didn’t tell my mother I was going — but I couldn’t watch them starving anymore. No flour for 3 months. No food for 2 days. I came back empty-handed… broken… in shock.

But my family is still here… starving, homeless, forgotten.

Please — I beg you — donate or share. Help me save them.

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Definitely needed some peaches.

The best mood booster 😍⬆️ [Spicy version 👀]

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Olivia 🌺✨ [Spicy version 👀]

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Lilo & Stitch 2025 did a racism (and ruined a great message about family)

So... Lilo & Stitch... the classic, wholesome movie about two sisters (two NATIVE sisters) struggling with grief after their parents tragic death, with the central conflict being the older sister's despair to step up as a mom not just because it's now her responsibility but because ALL THESE TWO HAVE LEFT IS EACH OTHER and being separated would make this already tragic situation EVEN MORE TRAUMATIZING for the both of them...

...That movie got a remake. In which the happy ending is the US government taking the little sis away because "it's too much responsibility for this young woman" and she can TOTALLY trust the system to take care of her family better than she ever could, and it's not like OHANA, or NO ONE GETS LEFT BEHIND OR FORGOTTEN is the heart of the story or anything. That's totally a much better message her meeting more people that become like family and help her take care of Lilo. "Just give up" is much better than "Have faith, accept help, and above all KEEP FIGHTING"

Oh, and would you look at that, the original movie has a super sad scene in which Nani is saying goodbye to Lilo the night before she's meant to be taken away against their wishes and trying to make sure she knows that she never wanted this and will always love her by singing Aloha Oe - the song written by the last queen of Hawaii, who was expressing her grief after the US government made Hawaii a state. And this same queen is mentioned by name in the song that Lilo is seen dancing to at the start of the original. Almost like this message was also important.

And Disney decided, in 2025, in the middle of a bunch of controversy and scandals about mass deportations, including of people that were in the country 100% legally, to change the ending of the movie so that it is a GOOD thing that the US government is taking this native little girl away from her family because "she can't take care of you like we can", which is a recurring problem for indigenous comminities. And they thought that'd go over well.

*deep sigh*

...BOY

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

IS WRONG THESE DUMBASSES?

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Some Star Wars tweets

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https://www.tumblr.com/cobraonthecob/620393900311461888/b-but-no-one-can-defend-against-bloodbending

Thoughts on this take? Also I laughed my ass off that one of the comments censored the word “bryke” lmao😭

Gotta love how these people always ignore the "14-year-old Katara was FORCED to learn bloodbending by an adult that MANIPULATED her and LURED HER TO THE FOREST TO FORCE HER BODY TO THINGS AGAINST KATARA'S WILL" factor.

It's almost like, unlike lightining or metal, bloodbending has some inheretly fucked up conotations about loss bodily autonomy and violation of someone's consent, and thus Katara has a problem with it out of principle - the same problem she explicitly had with Ty Lee's chi-blocking since book 2.

These people go on and on about Katara's "accomplishments" and how "her power" is being "demonized" yet never realize they're saying "How come the writers don't realize that being manipulated, violated and abused was empowering to her?"

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inspiration struck in a really, really weird way

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completely, perfectly, and incandescently... happy

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"incest is bad because it often stems from abuse" actually this means that abuse is bad! hope this helps!!

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Update: finally no longer needing as many meds. Still getting a bit tired rather easily but at least now I'm not constantly falling asleep or getting annoyed that mouth is way too dry. Progress!

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(tw for extensive discussions of dubiously consensual sexual situations, typical to canon. also spoilers for the decay route update)

honestly, one of the most interesting aspects of andrew's psyche that we get to see in the most recent decay route update to me is his nearly unending hesitancy about having sex with ashley, despite both his overwhelming desire to AND her incredibly blasé, Yeah Sure Let's Do It attitude in response to the question.

while the end of the burial route provides some key insight into ashley's point of view regarding this topic (e.g. if you go with the less enthusiastic/more teasing answer to andrew's question of "we're not like that, right? right??"), and the shots & such ending provides even more intrigue into her motivations, i think that decay presents two key reasons as to why andrew has continued to hold back for so long: his two core conflicting desires, and an inability to see ashley as her own full person. notably, both of these parts can easily be connected to his mother's childhood abuse and parentification of him as well.

with regards to the first point: andrew has two main overwhelming desires at the heart of his character that motivate most of his actions, which unfortunately for him are completely incompatible. andrew wants:

to be a normal, average person-- someone who can hold a steady, respectable job, fit in at the block party BBQs, and not attract any negative attention from the neighbors.

to fuck his sister.

to some degree, you could even read the distinction between the two main routes themselves (burial and decay) to be motivated by whether or not andrew can diffuse the tension between these two wants-- in burial, he gives up on his need to fit in with the rest of respectable society, presumably pushing him more towards the fucking-his-sister route; in decay, he struggles significantly to let go of this desire for normalcy, and the stress almost always breaks him. notably, in neither of these routes can he fully give up on the second desire-- really, his relationship with julia and the rest of his life up til the point that ep1 begins has been about him trying and failing to do so, so this makes sense.

(sidenote: i would also like to clarify that i think the Most key distinction between these two routes comes down to the decision you actually have to make to get one or the other-- namely, whether or not the siblings are able to trust one another. but anyways)

this focus on the first desire for normalcy is also interesting in that it seems to be one of the core desires that renee holds as well, as we see her so happily boast about during their interactions in ep2. honestly i could probably write a whole post about how much andrew (consciously or, more often, not) mimics his mother's behavior and takes on her standards and ideals, but the key point to pay attention to here is the fact that andrew has subsumed his mother's viewpoint in such a way that he is either not fully aware of or simply hasn't questioned in all that much depth yet.

we can also see this with the aforementioned parentifiication, which has really interesting consequences on how much andrew does (not) see ashley as her own autonomous person. pretty much every single childhood flashback we get in 3a shows the same terrible cycle:

andrew is told by renee that ashley is His responsibility -> ashley causes problems on purpose -> andrew takes the fall for her

frankly, we don't even really need that first step for andrew to fully internalize the idea that ashley's actions are His to take responsibility for. the horrible consequences of this are also quite obvious: not only is this pressure to take responsibility for someone else's actions an incredibly unfair burden to put on anyone, much less a kid, but it also continually pushes andrew to see ashley as something less than human, or as little more than an extension of himself rather than her own person.

the main conflict in decay really comes down to this conflicting desire between the two of them, where what both andrew and ashley want above all else is Complete and Utter control over the other-- andrew wanting control because he has again been groomed to see ashley as his full responsibility, and ashley wanting control to assuage her own insecurities and fears about being isolated and hated forever. the more sympathetic throughline underlying a lot of this is that what both of them seem to want is safety, to protect both themselves and each other from any and all situations outside of their control-- though, unfortunately, a lot of times those exact external situations are simply the other acting on this mirrored desire for control lol.

anyways, going back to the sex thing-- since andrew doesn't see ashley as her own person, since he sees her as incapable of taking responsibility for her own actions and therefore as someone who cannot make decisions for herself, due in large part to him automatically transferring this burden to himself, andrew also sees ashley's consent as essentially meaningless.

the more sympathetic reading here is that andrew does genuinely want ashley to be at least kinda into it as more than a manipulation tactic/transactional thing-- but i think it's also equally likely that andrew simply doesn't want to have to once again shoulder the full burden of Committing Incest on his own, and he doesn't trust ashley to ever be even capable of taking the fall for her own actions. the fact that andrew still ultimately sees ashley as Leyley and NEVER as Ashley Proper (as he himself recognizes at one point) really just reinforces this to me. he says it himself-- he practically raised this woman. and in this case, even above all others, ashley's actions are quite literally also his own. it all goes back to that initial mistrust, and he carries that resentment with him even after they get around to actually doing it. mutually dubious consent, truly in-fucking-deed.