#I am a book dragon
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Very seriously considering buying the first editions of The Wingfeather Saga I just found on ebay even though I already own the four new (2020) hardcovers. It’s only gonna be about 65 dollars for all four of them which includes The Warden and the Wolfking which, due to how it was originally released, always costs a LOT because it’s rare by default... so it’s a really good deal... even though I don’t technically need them...
#books#the wingfeather saga#the warden and the wolf king#tbh I just. REALLY want the pictures from the original WatWK#I LOVE them SO MUCH#I buy them from joe sutphin (the illustrator)'s etsy shop a lot#but there are some he doesn't sell that I would like to have#there is also one really fantastic picture in the original On the edge of the dark sea of darkness book#of peet and nugget charging into the fang army#I don't THINK book 2 had any pictures originally?#and I think book 3 had like ONE near the end ajghdkjfhjasf#I only know this because I got the original editions from the library and that was how I first read the books#Idk how the library even got ahold of them#ANYWAY#I love to hoard things#books especially#I am a book dragon
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i need guenhwyvar to be Cat so bad
#dnd#dungeons and dragons#forgotten realms#drizzt do'urden#legend of drizzt#ra salvatore didn’t write about ALL the cups and plates that guen destroyed in blingdenstone but i know the truth#i think all the art i've made exists somewhere between homeland and exile/during exile#bc that's where i am rn and i will not spoil myself#her purrs must be SO loud#enough to cause an earthquake#i love these stupid books so much i'm so ill#she's literally described as his first and closest friend you CANNOT tell me he doesn't give her all the scritches and snuggles she wants
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are. are you telling me that if the romanced mage warden dies and alistair is king, he deadass stares greagoir down over her dead body and grants the circle of ferelden its autonomy after ordering it rebuilt somewhere safer. first you have to deliberately leave him behind so he won't die for you and then he does that for you once you're gone, even when you're broken up??? absolute and literal king behaviour of the highest order????? the actions speak louder than words of it all??????? I think I hauve covid
#that's the hottest thing I've ever heard I feel nuts#what an absolute chad alistair continues to be tbh there may be a day when men fail but it will not be when he's here#like I'm very sorry to the blond chantry boy repeat crowd but cullen could & would NEVER!!! they are NOT the same!!!!#dragon age#dragon age origins#alistair theirin#alistair x warden#can u imagine what it must be like to be irving standing there watching this happen. you're free and your kid is dead. congrats#tried to free her from the circle and she's the sacrificial lamb that bought the circle's freedom instead. fuck dude#it does make for a very sad kind of symmetry that every time irving tries to get clever with it he triggers a monkey's paw situation fhdskj#I am replaying the game with my new canon (mistress amell + king alistair to save him from the da:i fade choice lol)#and in doing research I found out about this and had my world rocked. I've never had my warden die before so this is new to me#(my warden isn't dying in this canon to be clear she's going to be the reason no one would dare assassinate king alistair lol#nightmare bae eminance gris behind the throne/loving and supportive partner with a fade connection and a vengeful side#she's going to be like sam vimes tiredly fending off assassins as the watch books go on except she murders a lot more people back)#the way his voice breaks in the version where they were broken up tho... sick and twisted and mean to me specifically
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Sabran and the White Wyrm - from The Priory of the Orange Tree.
#the priory of the orange tree#tpotot#queen sabran#samantha shannon#sabran#just pretend this dragon is this small#in the book it is so much bigger#but i wanted to draw them like this#so bleh#my art#if you have read the book then maybe this means sometghing else#if you havent read the book then dont worry amd ignore that tag#i just remember they have the same colour eyes#when you find out that the witch of the woods is *redacted*#that was ny thought process here#so maybe i am lying about this woman with the green eyes#but WHICH woman with the green eyes? 👀
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#dungeons and dragons#dnd art#dnd character#dnd oc#drow#warlock#dandelion treehollow#feeling not good so i drew the good boy#(goodness up for debate)#he is rather dog like in loyalty though#loyal to the party but also loyal to a bad master (his mom)#i am struggling to make art lately eh#drawing him smiling all sweet as i debate whether i should have him have to rip a tooth out to summon his magic book back#edit oh my god i forgot his eyeliner it's been fixed#sorry dude
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what if Mei gets a hologram/spirit form, but it's like in New Gods and it's her god-body manifesting :3
#lmk au#by the book au#lmk#lego monkie kid#lmk mei#long xiaojiao#bell dragon art#also hi hello i am not dead despite the universe's best attempts at assassination u.u#hopefully the universe gives me a fucking break and i can draw again#[knock on wood]
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NEED to check these things for fleas. take them to the VET! so sad they can't have deviantart they would have loved deviantart.
#crawling out of the debris of my dead laptop and the horrid presets and graphics on the temp one i am using. coughing up dust. i. like them.#jrwi#jrwi tmk#total monster kill#jrwi lucia#jrwi jin#jrwi everett#everett james peddlebridge#IS IT EVEN THAT. IS IT SPELT LIKE THAT. SHOT IN THE DARK.#just roll with it#avepharts#yeah the emmmoo thing is a reference to that one arthur image im always damn referencing#ENJOYING TMK. it is giving the how to dragon books meets monster hunter to me. except stupider. love weird freak characters.#i also need to mention i was losing it when bizly was describing everett because it was. SO similar to my chip design.#anyway. big fan of the scene where jin is like “oh my bad” and then lucia picks her nose and wipes it on everett. peak.
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so i think solas's lyrium dagger is the same "blade that would end the war" from merrill's fen'harel story in da2 btw
and sam winchester voice get this. we know the dagger was extracted from da2's red lyrium idol right. and likely purified during the ritual discussed in tevinter nights. which is interesting because "a glowing blue blade that has the capacity to resist or possibly even cure the blight"?? sounded incredibly familiar to me :) so with that i would like to also point out the similarities btwn solas's dagger and the sword maric theirin found in the deep roads from david gaider's 2009 tie-in novel the calling. lol
also worth noting that he and fiona banged shortly after he found this sword, and later, after the birth of alistair, she found out she had been effectively cured of the taint and had somehow reversed the calling. the only grey warden ever recorded to have done so.
#datv#dragon age#solas#DOTS. I AM CONNECTING THEM.#im praying on my hands and knees that the devs remember this book exist and DO smth w this connection bc this would be straight up crazy#the only difference between them is that maric's blade is described as glowing blue ''runes'' not the blade itself. and dragonbone obv#but its too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence !!! and those details are so minor i feel like they could be effectively retconned#or explained lol. i do think its possible there are maybe several blades/weapons that are similar and all connected possibly#but idk. my thoughts begin and end at this spot. i need to reread dread wolf take u in case ive missed anything#but yeah. BIG IF TRUE LOL
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c. 1540 CE: a young man from Chalco, and his dragon.
#em draws stuff#em is posting about temeraire#temeraire#temeraire worldbuilding collection#⚬⚬⚬⚬⚬𐂂#<- tag for organizing when I'm drawing stuff that is temeraireVerse but not in the line of the plot of the books themselves#for school reasons I have been reading a lot about 14th-17th century mesoamerica#and thus am Interested in how that would have potentially played out in temeraireverse...#anyway! not sure if I'll draw these two again but I Have given the lad a day sign name (five deer) so I could Potentially. who can say.#haven't come up with a name for the dragon yet... maybe cipachcoatzin would work if can't think of anything else#<- Please Forgive My Dubious Command of Classical Nahuatl Grammar I Am But A Student#on that note zoomorphic interlace is not very much a style from this period/region but it helps me with composition things#five deer himself is mostly based on the illustration of the tlacuilo's son in the codex mendoza#the dragon is drawn more from a fusion of older scribal styles (ie. the codex borgia) and my own shorthands for dragon anatomy
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5 times Apple hugged Raven…
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…and the one time Raven hugged back.
(see my previous eah comic here)
#sorry that this is so sloppy#i just couldn’t let this idea stay in my head too long before it got lost in all the rubble#my god drawing eah characters in their basic outfits is bad enough#and then their other ones just get Worse#looking at you raven dragon games#i half assed that because no way am i gonna try to do all that#sorry#also just pretend that i intentionally left the booking glass out of every drawing after the first one it’s in#let’s just act like apple was so shocked raven hugged her that she dropped it#eah#eah fanart#ever after high#raven queen#apple white#rapple#could be platonic or romantic#i didn’t make it with a shipping intent but#it’s totally cool if you see it that way#and understandable. lol#either way the bond these two have is literally what defines ever after high at its heart#they are just important to me#duncart#duncomic
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The fact that Geeta Patel doesn’t know that F&B heavily implies that Elissa Farman took the eggs that would come to Daenerys’ hands and that Rhaena carries three eggs to the Vale, with one of them hatching to a dragon, thus leaving only two, and that GRRM made this decision purposefully, so that we know that Daenerys’ eggs don’t come from Rhaena, is disconcerting.
I’m starting to believe that the writers/producers/directors/showrunners have either never read Fire & Blood, or lack basic-level critical thinking skills.
#those eggs couldn’t have been the ones Daenerys got and GRRM told us that#but what’s the book anyway am I right?#I swear all those people in charge of creative decisions look at GRRM’s work with envy#why would you change what he wrote#it literally has a purpose#but they wanna make the difference somehow and appear smarter#just shut up you know nothing about the story and it shows#hotd critical#anti geeta patel#hotd writers#anti ryan condal#helaena targaryen#dreamfyre#hotd season 2#hotd#house of the dragon#hotd s2#house of the dragon season 2#greenqueenhightower#fire and blood#f&b#anti hotd
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it is all chaos and entropy. the thing is that the chaos and entropy make it beautiful and lovely.
yes, it's true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is terrifying. i have lived through some of the unfairness - i got born like this, with my body caving into itself, with this ironic love of dance when i sometimes can't stand up for longer than 15 minutes. i am a poet with hands that are slowly shutting down - i can't hold a pen some days. recently i found a dead bird on our front porch. she had no visible injuries. she had just died, the way things die sometimes.
it is also true that nature and the universe are uncaring and unspecific, and that is wonderful. the sheer happenstance that makes rain turn into a rainbow. the impossible coincidence of finding your best friend. i have made so many mistakes and i have let myself down and i have harmed other people by accident. nature moves anyway. on the worst day of my life she delivers me an orange juice sunset, as if she is saying try again tomorrow.
how vast and unknowing the universe! how small we are! isn't that lovely. the universe has given us flowers and harp strings and the shape of clouds. how massive our lives are in comparison to a grasshopper. the world so bright, still undiscovered. even after 30 years of being on this earth, i learned about a new type of animal today: the dhole.
chance echoing in my life like a harmony between two people talking. do you think you and i, living in different worlds but connected through the internet - do you think we've ever seen the same butterfly? they migrate thousands of miles. it's possible, right?
how beautiful the ways we fill the vastness of space. i love that when large amounts of people are applauding in a room, they all start clapping at the same time. i love that the ocean reminds us of our mother's heartbeat. i love that out of all the colors, chlorophyll chose green. i love the coincidences. i love the places where science says i don't know, but it just happens.
"the universe doesn't care about you!" oh, i know. that's okay. i care about the universe. i will put my big stupid heart out into it and watch the universe feast on it. it is not painful. it is strange - the more love you pour into the unfeeling world, the more it feels the world loves you in return. i know it's confirmation bias. i think i'm okay if my proof of kindness is just my own body and my own spirit.
i buried the bird from our porch deep in the woods. that same day, an old friend reaches out to me and says i miss you. wherever you go, no matter how bad it gets - you try to do good.
#writeblr#warm up#i can't write rn but i have SO much words in here bc im reading the chorus of dragons books#(just started book 4)#and this woman's writing is just LIVING in my brain. let me out!!!#(i read roughly like 2-4 books a week usually bc i go on long walks with my dog but when a book is REALLY good like. it eats my life. )#anyway ...... so like here's a story that idk i've tried to explain to other people as being wild#but maybe im the only one who thinks it is wild???#so i play pokemon go (i just started in jan) bc i love pokemon and as i have mentioned i walk goblin for like an hour in the morning#and i don't like a lot of fitness trackers due to the fact it makes me .sad. but i also wanted the little digital rewards. enter pokemon go#anyway so they make you make friends to complete quests. so i used a reddit thread. i do not usually use reddit. i don't have an acct#i lurked. i just googled like ''pokemon go reddit '' and randomly added a bunch of numbers#i was on that page for all of 15 minutes. there are THOUSANDS of responses on that page.#here's what's wild: in that group of people. even though i am not on reddit and it was one random event once#it turns out one of those people lives in the town i live in. or at least very close. i only know this because#when we send each other gifts. it's from the same freaking area.#i can't ask them to meet up bc pokemon go doesn't have a messaging app lol but like . what are the fucking chances that#a random person posts in a random reddit thread and HAPPENS to get added by someone ELSE from their SAME TOWN#who by pure fucking CHANCE is ALSO playing pokemon go and looking for friends#i googled it there's only 42000 people in my broad region. the .......... smallness ! of the world!!!
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I truly honestly love your art. It scratches my brain in like the best way. The colors, composition, the passion! Ugh!!! It also doesn’t hurt that you draw everyone’s favorite sad elf boyfriend the best. You’ve single handedly gotten me through all the Veilguard release news ❤️
GAWHH I want to absorb ur words into my soul, this is so sweet! Solas means a lot to me for lots of reasons, and when i hear people like the way I draw him my brain goes chimp crazy-happy
I drew him for you, I hope it conveys my gratitude! It was supposed to be a sketch but I kept going with it and experimenting. mmm wizard fingers heehee
#solas dragon age#solas#dragon age#dragon age inquisition#mogwaei arts#pointing and laughing at anyone who can figure out the text in the book#trying to draw something for every ask!! I am having fun ��
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going west
#my art#journey to the west#jttw#sun wukong#zhu bajie#pigsy#tang sanzang#xuanzang#tripitaka#sha wujing#sandy#bai longma#white dragon horse#reupload bc something in the proportions was bothering me hahhddj#i have yet to see them actually adventure in the book lol but ok whatever#i wanted to paint them#and i love how this came out. i didn’t know i knew how to paint. wow#reference image is a photo i reblogged a while back#wanted to make their appearances more or less accurate to the book but also other adaptations i’ve seen too#EDIT: ZBJ LOOKED SO WEIRD WHEN I WOKE UP SO I FIXED HIM HAHS PEOPLE REBLOGGED THE OLD VERSION. WELP#new rule do not post art at 2 am
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Excerpt from Observations on the Order Draconia in Europe, with Notes on the Oriental Breeds by Edward Howe
A sequel to my other post, (that's been in my drafts for ages) I wanted to illustrate the relative sizes of British Isle dragon breeds! I used what seem to be the most representative models as seen in the books and the Regal Copper because I think it's the largest.
The stick person shown is approximately 6ft tall. I know the lightweights are supposed to be bigger than a horse and smaller than an elephant so I've made my best guess on the Winchester, erring on the small side.
Thanks for reading!
#temeraire#his majesty's dragon#dragons#observations on the order draconia#<= new tag because im having a grand time making up an ID Field Guide for this silly book series#not as happy with this one but i got to draw a regal copper at least!#dont look too closely at the outlines#my scanner ate this one and i am Too Tired to redo it
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Got Temeraire on the brain
#just playing with shapes and practicing different angles#haven't read the books in forever and I didn't use a reference so no accuracy or consistency here#he's supposed to be yawning in bottom left but the way bottom right is looking it kind of looks like he's having an argument with himself#I love the social justice dragon#stake conference doodles#I might clean these up and color them someday#his majesty's dragon#temeraire#my art#dragon art#I am fighting my homework and losing
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