#Dragon Inside Me

[mythicalgeek]

Damsel 🤝 I am Dragon

The sacrificed bride saving the dragon with compassion and becoming one with it, therefore saving them both.🔥🐉

[darklinaforever]

Me seeing people say that in the film I am dragon there is no coherence because it is winter in the girl's village and borderline tropical weather on the dragon island. The distance between the village and the island is not specified. And how does this delirium work ? Only love can allow man to reach the island, since both must love each other to find each other ! Why ?! And how could Arman know that ? And then it comes out where fog comes from ? And then Amran was born at the time of Igor's grandfather ! That does not make any sense ! This movie is stupid ! How can I put it...

These pseudo-intellectuals are getting to me. But with strength. This movie is a fucking fairy tale inspired by Beauty and the Beast ! Are you looking for realism without magic in a fairy tale ?!

Is the climate different between the village and the island ? Like in Beauty and the Beast where it's winter at the Beast's house and not in the village, or in the French version in black and white where it's night at the Beast's house when it's daylight in Belle's village. How far away is the island that the climate is so different ? The island is a fucking magical place, hence the different climate, and we don't care exactly how far it is from the village ! Oh it makes no sense that the power of love can reach the island. Once again FAIRY TALE ! How does Arman know this story ? Well it's simply a legend that one of his ancestors must have learned at one time or another through humans ?! And seeing that once transformed into a dragon Amran had access to the memories of these ancestors he knew it ?! I don't know, a little imagination ! It’s a fucking fairy tale ! If no one can find the island, why is there an animal ?! It's a fucking magical island with a visibly magical creature that also looks like one of the toys the heroine made at the beginning of the film... A bit as if this animal was only a symbolism of transposition of the young girl's dreams of Mira, exactly like the dragon that she also made at the beginning of the film... My god... and it seems intelligent to make this kind of remark ?! And then, the "oh it doesn't make any sense that Amran was still a young man when he was a child when Igor's grandfather swooped in to kill his father" well maybe he's just aging way too much different than humans ?! He's a fucking magical being ! Either he is potentially immortal, or he ages more slowly ! You know... the two versions we often see when we see individuals alternating between a dragon form and a human form in fiction ?

Besides, I choose to think that Amran simply ages more slowly. No, because thinking he's immortal would be depressing. And I doubt that if a dragon was immortal, Amran's ancestors would have taken such care to always have descendants.

Anyway, it's depressing to see this kind of pseudo-intellectual bullshit criticizing a fucking fairy tale. Something designed to be literally unrealistic and magical !

[dyingroses]

On Drakon + costuming 

[jemima-1205]

Recently I've seen a movie called Damsel (2024) and wow, it's a pretty good movie. And I really like it.😁

I decided to watch it after my cousin told me that in her opinion it has the same energy as the movie On - Drakon/Он – дракон (2015), in English I Am Dragon/He's a Dragon/He is Dragon.

And indeed, both these movies are similar in some way.

After watching Damsel, I felt like watching On - Drakon again! 😆

Because I love this movie!

I also love this fan video, it's beautifully done. ❤️‍🔥

[wraithdolll]

peril and kinkajou straight coolin

[puppppppppy]

my attempt at making a fursona

[the-nothing-maker]

"[...] It is assumed that the thieves took opportunity of a commotion at the Earl's estate later in the evening to commit their crime. Authorities have urged local nobility to keep festivities to a low during the summer so as not to attract attention from these infamous jewel thieves, to no avail: Earl M. is their eight victim of the season. [...]" (Mélisande and Lazuli, my D&D PC and my DM @luposlipaphobya's NPC!)

[timethehobo]

If Rook had to choose between themselves or a companion in a losing fight.

[tategaminu]

My vision for Zym in Arc 3

I gave him more features from Zubeia than Avizandum since I love boys looking like their mamas, I hc he will look more like his father as he grows but will mostly be on Zubeia's side (guess he will get the Santa beard as well at some point). I suppose he won't be extremely big in the third arc since Archdragons live a lot and are very very big so their growth may be slow? he will only be 9 after all. Adult Archdragons have reptilian eyes while Arc 2 Zym has sparkly anime eyes, so I guess they will morph into more reptilian as time passes, tried to do a combination here.

[sorinethemastermind]

Just reading this scene and wondering if that night was the first time Soren had to take a life.

I mean, when else would that scenario have presented itself? It was a time of (sorta) peace before.

[lucaanis]

#good question

[darklinaforever]

I love this movie...

[dyingroses]

Princess Mira’s second wedding dress (On Drakon, 2015)

[bloodibambiidoll]

ೀ This is “Buy Me Presents” Rafe btw ೀ

[corseque]

I honestly just wanted one single plot step that I could not predict given the 10 year wait. More behind the cut, I talk about Emet too, and I'm comparing his writing favorably to Solas' writing and why it worked better for me personally, but I am just talking about the writing skill that went into the games and not the dudes themselves, I love them both dearly of course. idk this is a mess and I am not going to edit it for clarity

For me, the game was a series of me saying

"ok I knew that. cool."

"oh yeah, I knew that. I guess it's good that the larger fandom knows about that now."

"nice, but yeah I already knew that too"

"that was something we've been talking about a lot for years"

"this thing they are acting like is a huge enormous reveal that the characters could not possibly have deduced through simply thinking about it in depth over the 10 years... the fans easily figured out by thinking about it in depth 10 years ago. So you would think his girlfriend would be able to figure it out more easily than we did. Like, why couldn't the game have been like 'oh lavellan already figured that out a while ago' it would have cost them nothing"

"this is something I've been thinking about for years, and now that it's being revealed, the companions' reactions to it are very irritating and jarring and unnecessary and I really dislike the experience I'm having right now, in this, the hour of my greatest triumph"

"this thing that is happening on my screen right now is something that I wrote an essay about 2 years ago describing how it would be a letdown if it happened without the correct setup"

"this way that they're characterizing Solas makes him less likable and less interesting than I have been finding him for all these years, and I have had people tell me 'no, he's simpler than you think' for years but I guess I was wrong, he really is simpler than I thought, so that fucking sucks. I wish I could take that information out of my brain."

"this thing is a retcon of information I have been thinking about for 10 years, and so I don't know how to follow along with this new direction, and I'm not sure if I even want to because it's not particularly interesting anyway"

"aw that was sweet"

"why is it like, so very impossible to have an honest back-and-forth with my favorite character about the dilemma that was most interesting to me about the previous game"

and then, as soon as, like, the other fans had caught up to the Solas lore that was really obvious from the other games, the game was.... over without anything surprising happening, or introducing a new element or plot point or perspective, or a real true twist (or two, or three) for those of us who have thought about it too hard for too long. It was very simple and easy, much, much, much, much easier than I was imagining. It all felt sort of like that Nicholson quote:

The thing was, the whole story was so interesting to think about because in 10 years, I couldn't figure out a good solution to it!!!!! It's why I was never able to write post-game fanfic about it. So I was stoked to find out some reveal we never knew about, some new information, in maybe a SERIES of steps of new information, that made the situation more complicated but also something that could be navigated by everyone involved. I know it was asking for a lot, but they had TEN YEARS, and they seemingly had set up the things they did in DAI on purpose, so surely they had some idea of a complex and satisfying narrative that would reconcile everyone.

The reason why I was expecting this is because FFXIV did a very similar story arc, which was started AND concluded WITHIN those 10 years (so it took the FFXIV team far less time to deliver as well). And the conclusion to the story in FFXIV did what I was expecting Dragon Age to do. So I thought, "holy shit, if this is the FFXIV version of this plot, how much more complicated is DA4 going to be!?!?" The DA devs also PLAYED FFXIV so they were completely aware, several years ago, of a satisfying story ending that was pretty darn similar.

People are probably going to think "oh, well Chelsea was disappointed because she spent too much time building it up in her head" but that's exactly it - I actually speculated and thought about FFXIV's story IN DEPTH NONSTOP for a year+ before its ending came out, and the ending absolutely blew me away. FFXIV Endwalker managed to introduce information and new story elements that I was not able to figure out in the YEAR I spent speculating on the ending of FFXIV's story. It took a complicated situation and revealed several several more facets to it that I was not able to predict, but were very interesting and thematically compelling, and took us all to surprising and climactic places that we could not have predicted.

Endwalker ("end" is in the title on purpose) too, was written to be THE ULTIMATE SATISFYING ENDING for a very long-running story in the exactly way that Veilguard SHOULD HAVE for Dragon Age, so while this complexity is being explored, FFXIV also gave catharsis to many different plot threads that have been built up through the previous expansions, until finally it ends with a bang. The story is desperately good to me, I loved it, it gave me closure for Dragon Age long before Veilguard was even revealed, and going back and looking at its story has made this whole thing far less painful for me.

So, I actually did not have a picture in my mind for how things SHOULD go. I just had the thought "I hope it's complicated and there are points of view or facts that we haven't before been exposed to, and the situation is resolved respectfully for Solas, not making him look like a fucking idiot (lol, the only thing I asked for). I don't even care what happens to Solas and Lavellan, I just need the story to be complicated and interesting to think about. Please, god, don't let it be "solas is wrong and he just needs to be convinced" because that's like the simplest story you could tell with this setup"

(btw they managed to tell Emet-Selch's story without making him seem like he's being an idiot on purpose or can never get anything right, and in fact the more the story goes on, the more you think of him as smart and capable and cool, so it is possible to write.... I wasn't asking for the entire moon)

And I played it and... yeah. Most of the story beats were more simple than I wanted them to be, a lot of them didn't make sense in my heart given the writing from Inquisition. (This is another essay, but if Solas' thematic story arc was always about him needing to let go of regrets, why was his personal quest the way it was? After that quest, doesn't he end up regretting not doing more....? Why did he never really talk about regret during Inquisition? If he was so trapped by regret, why was he able to do so many actions? It doesn't mesh well to me. The whole regret thing was very quarter-baked to me, I don't even like thinking about it.) His story never seemed like one that was as simple as being about one man's regrets, but then, I guess, it was always just about one man's regrets.

Emet-Selch's personal storyline (and the way it interacts with and affects the larger story) is very similar but much more cohesive and satisfying to me. It would be difficult to explain why without the aforementioned 5-hour essay. Emet-Selch's story IS about grief and anguish on a world-shaping scale in a similar way that Solas' was apparently always about letting go of regret, but Emet's story was also very pointedly and beautifully about that one theme for the entirety of his story from every tiny detail, from beginning to end - meanwhile, it seemed to me that they tried to introduce 'regret' as the main thrust of Solas' story only in the short story with the Regret demon onward.

From Inquisition just by itself, the closest I personally could get to a story theme for Solas was his inability to trust others hurting him and the world, but his trusting others in DA4 wasn't really addressed to my satisfaction. He is never required to trust anyone before the ending, he never opens up or makes himself vulnerable at all. People find out information about him, he never really dynamically opens himself. So the personal story I thought he had was never addressed at all, while a new one about regret was introduced that never made a ton of sense to me. And I don't think this is just because of my expectations - my reaction to FFXIV proves that I am able to meet good writing where it goes in surprising directions, as long as it's interesting and thoughtful and clear.

And I think this might be part of what people felt was off about the ending - Solas is sort of uninvolved in the revelations that are about him, and doesn't do much to be part of his own ending. Part of what I loved about Solas in Inquisition is that he is not controlled by you in any way, and so he feels like his own person with a very strong sense of character.

Anyway, Emet-Selch, in a very comparable and arguably more extreme plot position, is very involved in the revelations about himself, he always feels like a very strong character who cannot be affected by the player, and the whole situation is handled with deft emotion and care and delicacy. The story is comparatively very uninterested in litigating Emet-Selch or putting him on trial - the story allows you to simply feel the way that you feel in an organic way, and Emet's story spends that energy instead actually exploring his thematic material about grief and legacy, and the larger story theme of existentialism instead, in a way that is very refreshing and interesting. I've seen a lot of western stories tie themselves in knots over "redemption" and frankly it's almost never been interesting at all. Who cares about any of that. lol

(Now, I guess this is a matter of preference, because some people really like being able to shape a character's story, but idk I rewatched the ending of FFXIV and even though there wasn't a choice with Emet, because it isn't a branching story, his story felt more satisfying to me, maybe because there isn't a patronizing choice to be made for him. He is who he is, and he fulfills a very beautiful narrative role and purpose that no other character could in the story.)

I don't know how this could have been improved to me and still allowed players to choose Solas' ending for him, but I can actually think of a few different methods, none of which involve Rook condescendingly and patronizingly lecturing Solas as if Solas had never thought about a single aspect of this horrible situation he's in before that very moment that Rook lectures him lmfao.

All this to say... idk I'm writing this and I am not going back to edit it so it's stream-of-consciousness. But yeah

I just wanted the story to be complicated on a few more levels than I could have predicted. I genuinely don't care what happened, but I thought of a few twists like the Veil coming down and yeah, I was expecting A Single Twist or reveal to happen. In a Dragon Age game.

I wanted Solas to seem cool and capable and noble and smart, and actually feel like he was as old and experienced as he is.

I wanted a clear theme I could sink my teeth into

Like notice I didn't even say anything about Solavellan. Like I never in 100 years thought they were getting a happy ending where they were both alive in bodies, and I like that we got that, but I would honestly trade it for a more complicated story. To me, if a story is sad you can always write fanfic, but if a story isn't COMPLICATED, that's a much more urgent issue.

These 3 things DA4 didn't give me in a way that satisfied me but FFXIV did. anyway idk the way my hyperfixations work, I completely switch to a new subject so talking about Dragon Age is actually hard for me right now.

[bluejulius]

back on my howdy bs with some Asia fondue

Hiccup and Astrid ventured too far and stumbled across an outlaw group, who roped down Stormfly.

In this cowboy AU Drago runs a shady horse trade that’s actually just a ruse for his outlaw gang, they usually catch wild horses for profit and mistreat them, but are also known to steal them too.

ALSO Toothless garnered a reputation across the continent of being an incredibly elusive horse, which some called the Night Fury due to his wild temperament and dark coat. His bond with Hiccup is extra special, as Toothless will only allow Hiccup to ride him!

Don’t worry I’m just copying the plot of the 2nd movie in this comic, Eret actually isn’t terrible in this I promise <3