#AND YET. HERE WE ARE

[mosspodge]

fun fact: January of this year i set a dl6 meme to pop up as my wallpaper on December 28. Instead of doing that it decided it would be my wallpaper every 28th

every 28th i wake up and see this image and then change it back and then immediately forget. then it pops up the next month

[fantastic-nonsense]

out here fighting for my life on Twitter trying to convince people that the company that managed to bag Leigh Bardugo and Shannon Hale is perfectly capable of finding at least one talented woman on the planet to write the main Wonder Woman title instead of Tom King

[christmassavestheyear]

hey hey hey im not a fan of trump (obviously) but!!!! nobody deserves to die at the hand of gun violence. nobody deserves to die at the hand of anyone else. nobody deserves to die on a public stage, nobody deserves to die at the hands of a political extremist. nobody deserves to be shot to death. not even the literal scum of the earth. nobody deserves to be murdered. and i cant believe that actually has to be said.

[evilkitten3]

the one thing that's worse than having people hate on your blorbo for incorrect reasons is when their reasoning is absolutely correct. like yeah she IS badly written, lacks development, and has a role in the story that unintentionally gives her moral failings the author didn't intend her to have.

unfortunately,

[corishadowfang]

It's appreciate a dragon day, apparently, and I don't have time to do art or fics because. Time. And Energy. But for the past week or so I've had my Kingdom Hearts dragons AU on the mind...which wasn't supposed to be an AU AU, but just kind of a way to draw the characters since I'm not good at drawing people. But because I have no self-control, there's worldbuilding suddenly, and I really want to ramble about it, haha.

I really need to stress that this was originally just me thinking, "Hey, if I'm drawing them as dragons, wouldn't Scala have to look different, too? Since dragons would probably need different things than humans." And then it just. Spiraled.

I didn't know what to do with the Keyblades initially? I, uh. Wasn't sure if I wanted to go the "wielding Keyblades in the mouth," haha. Which kind of spiraled into, "What if the dragon thing just...replaces the Keyblades? Like, people become dragons, basically."

So the idea is kind of like...magic is still A Thing. Everyone can use it, with the right training, but the more you use magic, the more it changes you. (Yes, I've used this idea before, but shhh.) It very gradually changes your appearance, abilities, etc. Your magic gets stronger, but you become less and less human. Eventually, according to most people, you basically lose yourself to it and become a monster, so it's something of a controversial subject.

(The "become a monster" thing is only partially true. You can become a Heartless, but there are a lot of people who just become normal dragons, too. Unfortunately everyone just groups the two together.)

Anyone who used magic kind of like...filled a very weird niche in society where they weren't exactly accepted, but their abilities were still useful, so they were kind of both shunned and respected equally.

The Master of Masters and the Foretellers are the ones who really changed this; MoM went hardcore on the narrative that the "normal" transformation wasn't really monstrous at all, and painted the Foretellers very much as mythological heroes who could fight the actual monsters much more effectively than any normal person. Magic and dragons still made a lot of people wary, but it was tempered a bit, especially with kids.

SPEAKING OF--that's why a lot of kids ended up in Daybreak Town. Less pre-existing ideas on magic and dragons, so it's easier for them to see this as a good thing.

(And then MoM goes and ruins it with the whole "war" thing.)

Once you turn into a dragon, you can take human form again for short periods of time, but it's often uncomfortable, so Daybreak Town and Scala are both designed more with dragons in mind.

Daybreak Town was an abandoned human town that MoM and the Foretellers just repurposed, so while there are still buildings, they had to be modified a lot. The Clock Tower is an abandoned castle, haha.

Scala is basically a mountain range on the edge of the ocean! Or mountains on islands...? Uh. Something like that, haha. Lots of bare white rock and caves and stuff. I think the main island's a little more open, just because like...I like the idea of them wanting more "light" as a sort of symbolism thing.

Dragons are the only ones that can fly to other worlds without assistance! Their magic kind of protects them, basically, but they do actually have to fly. Lots of young dragons like to bring back trinkets from different worlds (which is generally how their hoards are formed, haha).

Uh, I only have loose ideas of how some characters would've actually gotten into this. Ven I think was basically born with an excessive amount of magic that he couldn't really control, so he turned really, really young, and there wasn't much he could do about it. Brain thought that the fear about magic was stupid and actively fostered his out of spite. Ephemer was super curious about the idea, and ended up digging deeper into things. Skuld and Lauriam I'm less certain on. (I could see Lauriam doing it as a way to help protect Strelitzia--maybe she was like Ven, and turned accidentally? And Skuld--honestly just could've done it because she was swept up in what MoM/the Foretellers said, haha.)

Aaaaand I'm looking at how much I've rambled and will spare your dashes, but uh. Yeah. Dragons!

[mistressemmedi]

The funniest thing is that the edited picture is the one without the vape, but honestly who cares if she smokes, lets worry more about the extremely problematic things she has liked and continues to like on her various social media and the amount of racists and zionists she follows

Yikes honestly I forgot about that 😬

That being said, I've had to do a massive clean-up of the accounts I follow because some of them turned out to be real weirdos.

Shoutout to the bakery that I followed 5ever until the owner turned out to be a MAGA loving, antivax and transphobe asshole.

[plugnuts]

We need a longer queue limit

[talentforlying]

i always figured if i got through life without adding any more bollocks to the world's sum total of bollocks . . . then i could hold me head high and say i wasn't part of it. now i've gone and done what all the self-righteous fat bastards are doing — taken our magness and dumped it where it isn't wanted. one more reason why i can't look at meself in the mirror in the mornin'.

it's fine, i'm fine, i'm normal about this.

[ninas-gf]

if you went back in time to december 2021 and told me that scaramouche, the dendro archon, and a completely brand new mondstadt character were all getting banners before a eula rerun, i would have laughed at you

[glass-expanse]

My first serious original superhero project secondary protagonist: Bristol Wilcox, a dark-haired womanizer who learns from mistakes and has a heart of gold

My most recent serious original superhero project secondary protagonist: Wilson Brixley, a dark-haired womanizer who learns from mistakes and has a heart of gold

[jennifersbod]

sad hours ✌🏻

[rac1ngsundays]

this can’t be a real podium

[suqqubus]

girl idek anymore. I just dont. yes this is about karaoke guy.

[8pxl]

PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. if you don’t have the option available, update your app or close your browser/refresh a few times. important to note you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

[blueskittlesart]

same old story...

[waywardstation]

Look for anything (or anyone) that could be familiar

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