#Flight and Glory

[ferberus-skull]

you WILL look at litebrite btw

[pestilentbrood]

Idk dude the killing him thing might work

[floridaboiler]

[quins-makeshift-menagerie]

Is your Fuji as seemingly fixated on building staircases as the Mewtwo in the anime? Because anime Mewtwo seems to ALWAYS build stairs. His biological-themed island castle? Fancy spiral stairs. Living in a cave now? Yup. Still has stairs. Cero island in the middle of lush, forest landscape? What else would he be standing atop on to greet Goh and Ash other than MORE STAIRS.

Fuji still has his fascination with…INTERESTING architecture but Joyce insists he vent that energy somewhere not on the island lol

[shepherdofthecorn]

I refuse to stop drawing my idiot dragons. From left to right: Whitaker, Frisk, Pyrus, Tessa, Phil

[blackmensuited]

[boilback-slink]

i decided to change my dragon named bowlingcarpet into an aether

i don’t regret it at all

[banchie]

WINGS OF FIRE PICREW GO

part two

sunny being so fair is my attempt to work in her notably odd canon appearance by making her albino--hence why she has the scarf. when she's visiting the scorpion den or the sandwing palace, she'd wrap it around her face and neck to protect her from the sun

also pre, during, and post recovery starflight bcs i feel like we dont talk about his blindess enough

[world-of-fire-and-flight]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone for your boosts, reblogs, likes, and just being awesome💜

I had such a spectacular week last week celebrating Embers of Eternity's release and Fire & Flight's one year anniversary (EoE even hit #1 in five free Amazon categories🎉), I can hardly wait to reveal Winds of War's full cover in the near future!

[helianthus21]

my favorite part of The Glory is how she barely had to do anything once the ball was rolling, bitches just tore each other apart themselves

[thestonecuttersguild]

If you have the opportunity to take part in an Old Glory honor Flight, I highly recommend doing so. Even if you are just standing in the receiving line to say welcome back. It's a humbling experience.

Oshkosh 2023

[qiaojingjing]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 你是我的荣耀 | You Are My Glory (TV), 向风而行 | Flight to You (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Qiao Jingjing/Yu Tu, Qiao Jingjing & Cheng Xiao (Flight to You), Yu Tu & Gu Nanting, eventual Gu Nanting/Cheng Xiao (Flight to You) Characters: Qiao Jingjing, Yu Tu, Gu Nanting, Cheng Xiao (Flight to You) Additional Tags: Friendship, Established Relationship, Pilots, Slice of Life, Pre-Relationship, Fluff Series: Part 9 of Chang'e and her Jade Rabbit Summary:

Qiao Jing Jing and Yu Tu fly to Beijing on a plane where Cheng Xiao and Gu Nan Ting are the pilots.

In which Gu Nan Ting probably thinks Qiao Jing Jing is a diva, Cheng Xiao vents to Jing Jing about Gu Nan Ting, and Yu Tu just tries to stay neutral about it all.

[tsukimirecs]

BLUE LOCK // fic recommendations

note: remember to read the tags! + i do not own any of these works. creds for divider

itoshi rin

because you're my muse

wallet

make you mine

nodus tollens

nothing more than lovesick

supernatural

mutual support

jealousy

itoshi sae

seabird

devotion

us, again

it would have been sweet

find love

freefall

valentines

michael kaiser

five dates and a proposal

sweet nothings

stench

red

what does it mean if i can't write a love letter?

it's like i'm painting pictures the way i picture paint

pulling pigtails

yoichi isagi

say you love me

fake it 'til we make it

football for dummies

lost

wednesdays with you

skirt physics

seishiro nagi

your attention on me, please!

flight of the navigator

hell or glory, i don't want anything in between

lullaby

his favorite character

good luck charm

reo mikage

sharing secrets in the dark

your tequila lips is my idea of luxury

[geekpopnews]

Livro “Quarta Asa” de Rebecca Yarros será lançado em 2024

Rebeca Yarros é a autora de Quarta Asa, o romance best-seller conta a história de Violet Sorrengail e a sua jornada para se tornar uma cavaleira. Saiba mais aqui: #quartaasa #rebecayarros

Quarta Asa, o primeiro livro da série The Empyrean, de fantasia romântica, escrito por Rebecca Yarros, será lançado no Brasil no primeiro semestre de 2024 pela Editora Planeta de Livros. A história de Quarta Asa se passa em um lugar fictício. O reino de Navarre está em guerra com o reino de Poromiel, mas ambos tem uma ligação por causa de um acordo comercial. É neste cenário que dragões e…

[auraeseer]

Bow down . . .

[hyperions-light]

Someone was being a fucking hater on my explicitly positive DATV post AGAIN (u all know I can see your tags right. They get delivered to me express mail style) so here’s an essay about how I thought the Grey Warden plotline was great:

First, it was extremely lore-consistent. I don’t know how to tell people this, but the Grey Wardens simply are sort of shady— it’s part of their charm. In DAO alone we found out they:

- kill anyone who refuses the joining

- are definitely using a blood magic ritual to induct people

- tried to usurp the throne of Fereldan

In DA2 they:

-Forced Malcolm Hawke to perform a blood magic ritual against his will to contain Corypheus, by threatening to kill his family

- Built a giant prison in the mountains they didn’t tell anyone about and that someone could wander into and not be able to escape

- the entire Corypheus thing. They didn’t even tell the other Wardens like what he was or how dangerous he was.

DAI:

- the demon army thing was pretty bad

And that’s not even mentioning any stuff from the books or comics or shows! That’s just stuff in the games!

So they’re shady. It’s okay! They’re my little woobie guys, idc if they’re sort of shady!

But the plot in DATV is about all of those previously established issues coming back to bite them in the fucking ass, as they should! Knock knock, it’s the consequences of your actions, baby! The chickens are home to roost

(Which is just good storytelling. Like if you set up a bunch of issues and then never pay them off or anything that’s bad.)

Destroying Weisshaupt was inspired! Firstly bc Davrin is Weisshaupt, metaphorically (bulwark against the darkness, etc, I already made a post) so it serves his character arc. But also because it strips away the pageantry and the grandeur from them; no more castle for you! No more myth!

Davrin explicitly tells you that the First Warden is a traditionalist; he represents the historical attitudes of the Wardens. They do not accept help, they do not give up their secrets, they are standing alone against the dark. And it doesn’t work! He’s fucking wrong (and very punch-able). Being secretive and isolationist is a mistake that costs them nearly everything.

But also, and I’m not sure how many people experienced this on the first go-around, the game does ultimately come down on the side of the Wardens always trying to do the right thing. You CAN talk the First Warden down, because in the end he’s a Warden, and he might be stubborn and curmudgeonly and miserable but he CARES about the world. He came to do good. He admits he was wrong and he helps you. Because the heart of the Wardens is about selfless service to other people. In Death, Sacrifice.

Stripping away Weisshaupt and the glory and pageantry leaves the Wardens at their most vulnerable and forces them to return to their fundamental principles: helping people. That’s what Lavendel is about. Helping individual people and preserving every life possible even if it doesn’t feel that glamorous or heroic. Lavendel isn’t a significant place; it doesn’t matter, but it matters so much.

And then, the Cauldron.

First off, do not at me about Last Flight. I don’t think people should have to read external materials to play this game and understand it. If the information is vital it should be presented to the player in the text.

The Cauldron is the repository of the Wardens’ secrets; it’s where the keep the bones of the Archdemons, the secret to the Joining, ancient and dangerous weapons, as well as the bodies of the griffons, which represents their most shameful errors. Isseya is the avatar of the Wardens’ mistakes; she’s been hurt by what they made her do, and her pain was never acknowledged by them. They buried her story and her suffering like they bury everything they don’t want to deal with and are ashamed of. They left the bones of the griffons, whose deaths they directly caused, to rot because they were too sad to acknowledge them.

But it was wrong to walk away, it was wrong to bury it. Isseya makes sure that they can never do that again, that they have to own what they did and take responsibility. By discovering who she is and by restoring her personhood to her, by reminding her of her love which drove her to her anguish in the first place, Davrin saves her and he saves the griffons. He doesn’t do it using violence, because another sin of the Wardens is just assuming that they can kill their way out of their problems, which the game disproves by revealing the origin of the Blight. You can kill as many darkspawn as you want, you will never fix it! The Titans’ dreams do not need to be slain, they need to be healed.

Isseya is in so much pain because of her incredible love for both the griffons and the Wardens, and because of her guilt. Look what she builds! An alternate Weisshaupt, a distorted reflection of her home. She entreats both Davrin and Assan to join her, because she doesn’t think she’s trying to destroy anything. She’s trying to save them! She wants them to come home. “I am their mother,” she says, and she’s right. She saved them, then, and she ends up saving them now! Because she made Davrin and the other Wardens look, unflinchingly, at what they had done, it will never happen again. She was going about it wrong during the game, but she was ALWAYS trying to save them.

Davrin, Antoine and Evka represent the Wardens’ commitment to being different. They let Flynn undergo the Joining without becoming a Warden, they reveal secrets to non-Warden Rook, they offer to help the Viper without asking for anything in return. They ask for help and offer it freely. If the Wardens are going to persist into a world without Archdemons, they HAVE to change. They can’t be what they were anymore. The game is asking what a Warden is when they have to be more than their oath, when they have to live. It’s a great exploration of and expansion on previously established lore.

Anyway, my advice if you hated the plot and the game and the characters is to a) make your own post b) don’t bother me about it, because I have the time and I will be loudly positive in response!