#dragon talk ;

[dragonheadskilax]

the happy grinner knows the worlds its dinner

[art-of-dragonheadskilax]

Heyo it’s Juneteenth. I guess I’ll tell that I’m a transman artist who mostly does antique collecting and poking bugs. I’m a dandy that only wears old or cultural fashions. I also do cosplay every once in a while. Shout out to any blacks out there who are mixed and had to juggle with multicultural backgrounds through life.

A special mention to my dear Jim for being with me when I’m at my lowest, you’re the one white person I could stand 🩵

[witchthewriter]

I know people keep arguing over who could be the mother of Danys eggs, but it has reminded me of a thought I had: what if Prince Daerons dragon Tessarion "the Blue Queen" is from a clutch that Meleys bore? I always found that their thick crown like horns and copper/bronze horns and scales and wing membranes were strikingly similar in design, and Tessa being described as slender and swift like Meleys is a good parallel, her nickname could've been a cute nod to her mother, the Red Queen.

Also, it seems like the designs for Sunfyres build and the sounds he makes kinda indicate that he could've been born from a clutch of eggs from Syrax + Caraxes.

🤔 💭 🤔 💭

I agree with you 100%

It's said in canon that all dragons are deemed male until they lay a clutch of eggs (not that they have to survive, just that they have to be produced).

I can very much see Tessarion being from Meleys. Maybe the only hatchling of hers that survived? It would be a sad parallel to both of Meleys riders. Alyssa who wanted to have as many children as possible but died in childbirth and Rhaenys, who lost both her children.

[healingmoth]

Okay, serious note on COVID and how high risk people are being left to rot:

What do I do with this anger? Where do I direct it? I have so much anger and grief about being immunocompromised and being one of the only people in ALL the communities I move in who is still masking.

I am angry to be surrounded by friends, teachers, community members who don't mask at all anymore. My life and the lives of those like me have been deemed less important. People around me will say they care about my presence but continue to not understand why I care about masks and vaccinations.

Where do I put my rage and grief? I don't want to be angry at my community, but I am. What do I do with it? How the fuck do I make this productive? Where can this energy go? I need to make it productive, I can't keep holding it in anymore.

[unknown-art-room1]

Quapters! I decided to name them this as I've never heard an actual name for four winged dragons.

[syaal]

Bit of rambling about Imperials and Celestials

Namely them both having five talons instead of four

So in the old days the number of talons was very important in medieval East Asia. Only emperors could wear clothes decorated with 5-claw dragons - the heir and kings of vassal states usually had to wear 4-clawed ones, although this wasn't strictly enforced outside of China.

I feel that this distinction correlates mildly with the difference of status between Imperials and Celestials, and it would have been fun to see this translate into the books - but of course, then the misunderstanding of Temeraire's breed wouldn't make sense(although Howe noting Tem having a fifth talon as an Imperial mutant would have character building potential too) so I've no complaints at all

Also on the subject of Imperial-Celestial differences I really love the ruff, I mean Baby Tem is cute but a ruff really adds that sense of majesty. As for the design, I know the ruff is mostly imagined(described? I don't exactly remember the details) akin to miniature wings, with bones and skin and I do dig this design. I also like imagining Temeraire with ruff that looks like a lion's mane. Because that is also very majestic, and East asian dragons look like that most of the time. A mane consisting of tendrils both thick and thin, sensitive and billowing along the wind! That would also be cool.

And I really should reread the books, from writing this I can see that I forgot many details

[i-am-trans-gwender]

Anime character: You gotta understand! She said she was a 1000 year old dragon!

Chris Hansen: So, you're telling me that you believed a person who claims to be a thousand years old, but exhibits the behavior and language of a preschooler? That raises some serious red flags.

[alicentdeservesbetter]

Do you think alicent suffer from mental health?

I imagine so yes...i'm not the expert thats for sure but she is suffering from it. Anxiety, depression is a bit possibility as well

The way she is with her 'self harm' of hurting her fingers.

The marital rape

Cycle of abuse/manipulation from her father onto her children even though I'm not sure there's that much manipulation she does onto them.

She struggles but she has ruled in her husband's place for a decade..i wish the series would move away from her being a victim of every circumstance she is in. She should be in control with Larys even if she does not know his complete motives

[writingsofwesteros]

So it's completely off the hook. But I know you're one of the few who will listen to this idea. The reader who is a Norse goddess (I mentioned this a long time ago) and the targaryen men, specifically their reaction to Jormungand. The brave men didn't kill dragons, the brave men rode them, well in that case brave woman rode a snake that covers the whole world.

Just the reaction of fucking goddess (looking like miss Sif from GOW) on the back of giant creature that can eat whole kingdom in one bite.

It would've been hilarious in my opinion.

*Here is a gif of this beautiful woman who just took my breath away and stole my soul.

I will take your word for it hehe. I have no idea but she is a beauty

For sure they would be impressed and awe struck!

[healingmoth]

alternatively

me listening to my playlist: ugh, who put this song on here, I don't wanna listen to this right now

me listening to my playlist: omg that’s crazy i love this song

[dragonheadskilax]

leech in bed

I’ve had 5 different landzone setups in the past and this is finally the one thing they climbed into willingly after a week.

[art-of-dragonheadskilax]

My best quick guesses. Plus the ostracoda

[chrisery-business]

my biggest issue with the httyd live action-and just about any live action reboot is that it seems that the live action adaptations are being made to make the original “better”? like, so many people talk about a live action spiderverse, a live action hercules, a live action PRINCE OF EGYPT (dont piss me OFF.)-like animation is a beautiful work of art, and for some reason putting real people and cgi in it is supposed to be an “upgrade”? im probably being that friend that’s too woke or whatever, but i just think it’s so disrespectful to act like something that takes so much time and effort and energy is immediately considered as lower because it is animated. animation is beautiful, and it is one of the most heartfelt art forms there are, and erasing that for the sake of a cash grab is downright degrading to animation as a medium.

[healingmoth]

A few winters back, it got seriously cold for quite a stretch where I live. There's a park in my neighborhood near a school-- outside the school, right on the line where it's no longer school property, there's a little free library someone set up. I've used it for years, I love finding new books and leaving old ones that I don't need anymore. While the school was on winter break, it was getting so cold it was physically dangerous to be outside for long stretches. Some of the houseless people in the area who hadn't made it to the shelters or weren't able to access them for whatever reason, started burning some of the books in the little free library in the public park. I thought it was great, I was in full support of this. But many people in my neighborhood were furious-- they went on social media and fumed and started hemming and hawing about book burnings and censorship and making vague allusions to the Holocaust as though that was in any way relevant to houseless folks trying to stay warm and survive. It was especially distasteful in the eyes of my family since we're local activists and we're Jewish, so we have a good understanding of what real censorship and book burnings mean and how they're used to silence minorities and enforce facism. Plus, when we were active, we worked alongside houseless folks pretty regularly. People went down to take books out so that they wouldn't be burned-- it was a whole ordeal.

Eventually, my dad had enough of it and drove down with a big box of wood, old books that were too junky to be functional anymore and kindling. He left it all in the little free library with an explicit note that these were all things that were meant to be burned and that he hoped that anyone who needed them stayed warm.

To be honest though, my community is very anti homelessness, and they find any reason to demonize houseless folks and take away resources. I'm just appalled by the fact that they got away with using allusions to book burnings to further other people's suffering. I am convinced that the lack of understanding surrounding book burnings allows people to weaponize the concept. In turn, because people know so little about historical instances of book burnings other than pictures, it erases the context. The question "WHY did it happen?" is extremely important, it's not just the fact that books were burned it's the information that was burned that matters. What did those books contain? What information was being censored and erased? Why did people deem that information to be dangerous? This context matters, and the lack of knowledge around it leads to petty situations like JK Rowling doing very public Holocaust denial on Twitter-- and to much more serious situations with political repercussions that can affect policy.

Not expalining WHY bookburning is bad and WHAT books were targeted has left us with Bookworm uwu girlies treating any art project or act involving destorying/modifying any random ass mass printed novel as if it was a crime against humanity

[healingmoth]

so annoying to think I've blocked all the zionists and then finding out another person I follow is one. If you are a zionist, educate yourself or block me. And also, if you genuinely think being an antizionist is antisemitic, know that you are directly hurting other Jewish people and making it harder for us to fight antisemitism because you are diluting the word. I won't deny that you have probably faced more antisemitic hate speech and violence as of late, but that is not because you are a zionist. I have also experienced an elevation and I am not a zionist. It is not antisemitic to be antizionist, however antizionists can be concurrently antisemitic. That has to be addressed, it is vital that it is addressed. However, every time you conflate antizionism and antisemitism, you make it harder for Jews to fight against antisemitism. You leveraging your trauma to defend a genocide is, aside from being horrific, damaging to the Jewish people.

Palestinian liberation is not an attack against you, no one is free until all of us are free. In order to dismantle structures of white supremacy (which harm Jewish people) we must dismantle them for all people, this includes fighting for Palestinian liberation. I hope sooner rather than later you realize this, because as of right now, you are on the wrong side of history. It is never too late to learn and to support the Palestinian cause, please reevaluate. Tikkun Olam is the responsibility of all of us.