#dragonslaying

[we-are-knight]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Happy St. George's Day, everyone. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

May you have the strength required to slay any great dragon in your life, be it mental illness, sickness, or any other hardships.

Reminder also for the UK people, that today at 3pm will be a test of the UK alert system. If you see any winged beasts breathing fire at that time, it's just Terendelev, no need to panic. 🐉

[stonedragonisnthere]

I really dunno what to post fr so here are some icon sketches I've accumulated for a while

[skull-bearer]

Chapters: 11/? Fandom: Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dalamar the Dark/Raistlin Majere Characters: Raistlin Majere, Dalamar the Dark, Mari, William Sweetwater, Par-Salian (Dragonlance), Justarius (Dragonlance), Ladonna (Dragonlance), Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Coming Back, Second Chances, Changing the Darkness, Towers of High Sorcery, Return, Mind Control Aftermath & Recovery, Optimism, Definitely Upbeat, Friendship, Dating, Alternate Universe - Flower Shop, ish, Healing, Cuddles, Things Get Better, Secret Identity, Secret Identity Fail, magic shows, Raistlin actually having fun for once Series: Part 2 of A Second Chance Summary:

Raistlin is alive again, and determined to make the most of it. He meets old friends, and some both old and new.

Chapter 10 A quiet morning is ruined, but Dalamar gets to see Raistlin in action.

[froghubb]

How to Get Dragon Armor Skyrim

How to Get Dragon Armor Skyrim – The vast and immersive world of Skyrim is filled with awe-inspiring creatures and formidable challenges. Among them, dragons stand out as both majestic and fearsome beings. As a Dragonborn, harnessing the power of these creatures can elevate your gameplay to new heights. One of the most coveted achievements in Skyrim is obtaining Dragon Armor, legendary gear…

[specializationisforinsects]

that quote above is from G.K. Chesterton:

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” 

but it also reminds me of C.S. Lewis saying:

Those who say that children must not be frightened may mean two things. They may mean (1) that we must not do anything likely to give the child those haunting, disabling, pathological fears against which ordinary courage is helpless: in fact, phobias. His mind must, if possible, be kept clear of things he can’t bear to think of. Or they may mean (2) that we must try to keep out of his mind the knowledge that he is born into a world of death, violence, wounds, adventure, heroism and cowardice, good and evil. If they mean the first I agree with them: but not if they mean the second. The second would indeed be to give children a false impression and feed them on escapism in the bad sense. There is something ludicrous in the idea of so educating a generation which is born to the OGPU and the atomic bomb. Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker. Nor do most of us find that violence and bloodshed, in a story, produce any haunting dread in the minds of children. As far as that goes, I side impenitently with the human race against the modern reformer. Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let villains be soundly killed at the end the book. Nothing will persuade me that this causes an ordinary child any kind or degree of fear beyond what it wants, and needs, to feel. For, of course, it wants to be a little frightened.

Lewis goes on to reference Chesterton later in the essay.

I think they’re both absolutely on point. Fiction is a safe way to engage with very real fears, dilemmas, and inevitable tragedies of life.

also, did C.S. Lewis say fuck the police?

And I think it possible that by confining your child to blameless stories of child life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable. For in the fairy tales, side by side with the terrible figures, we find the immemorial comforters and protectors, the radiant ones; and the terrible figures are not merely terrible, but sublime. It would be nice if no little boy in bed, hearing, or thinking he hears, a sound, were ever at all frightened. But if he is going to be frightened, I think it better that he should think of giants and dragons than merely of burglars. And I think St George, or any bright champion in armour, is a better comfort than the idea of the police.

I’m not sure exactly how to articulate it but—there is this bizarre base assumption i see from people discoursing about children’s media, and that’s the assumption that children are somehow unfamiliar with negative emotions. Like, maybe you’ve managed to completely forget your entire life before you turned eighteen, but kids spend a lot of time being hurt, and scared, and angry. A lot of people had terrible fucking childhoods, and a lot of kids are having terrible fucking childhoods right now. When i was a child, and i read books where bad things happened to kids, that was in no way shocking to me, i already knew bad things happened to children. It made me feel more connected to those stories, not less, and it made it more impactful when those child characters overcame it all in the end. That’s important for children. A lot of them are in desperate need of a little hope, and they aren’t going to get it from nothing stories with no conflict. They put conflict in children’s media for a reason

Also i see some of you handwringing over child protagonists going through, like, the most basic hero’s journey. Please, for the love of god, realize that you as an adult are going to understand children’s media differently than the actual kids it’s intended for. Because you’re all grown up now, you aren’t going to be able to relate to a child protagonist. You’re going to see a child in danger. The children the story is meant for are going to see a kid like them who is able to face hardship and triumph

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

On the left, the werebear! They have a normal (usually thick and hairy) person form, a larger bear person form, and a full bear form. They're also usually really nice. Most refuse to bite unless the target is a willing companion or apprentice, and will stick with them for a while to help them gain control of the curse. They just love enjoying and protecting nature, doing good out where they can't accidentally hurt anybody.

On the right, the gold dragon! Adults are roughly in the 20-80 foot (6-24 m) range, and can shapeshift! They frequently do so, posing as traveling hermits or just wandering around as birds. The gold ones are known for being wise, reclusive, kind, and teaching people. They also have the option between strength draining breath and fire breath! They also differ in mating habits. Most dragons will have many mates but only one per season. According to the Draconomicon, Gold Dragons will sometimes mate for life, but aren't culturally monogamous! Though note, thier dating process involves adventuring and chatting about philosophy/ethics.

[breitzbachbea]

Who would be the funniest person in the Myth AU to get accused of "verligen" aka the concept of falling out of knightly behaviour, because they spent too much time loving their partner - King Harry of Ireland with that Greek Historian Michele, Knight Robert with he court Magician Tahir or King Arthur of England with that French Bard François? Tell me now in the notes of this post.

[ethtyn]

love when Etho joins chat specifically to rile him up

[through-fire-and-flame]

[ oh hey it's sinday

i do have an nsfw blog over at @flash-sweat; i don't write much smut anymore but if you wanna read some of what laurentius used to get up to you can go look

also really consider the implications of someone who can heat their hands up in the bedroom

's fun

anywho back to oblivion! ]

[hassiegfrieddoneanythingwrong]

Day 464: So several days ago I watched Crazy Yurie's video on Dobrynya Nikitich, and during the Noble Phantasm segment, the op said about her NP being like "if Siegfried's NP summoned Fafnir", it makes me laugh because that could actually happen, although in an indirect way.

As revealed in his second interlude, whenever Siegfried is summoned, his other Noble Phantasm, Das Rheingold, is also summoned, and that can cause a sort of chain reaction to bring out Fafnir out of someone who sees the cursed gold.

[dotmander]

character introduction: iaxe (she/her)

gonna be honest i don't have a lot of lore for her yet (so no song </3) because she's just my keyfarm at this time. she latches onto caomh, barnacle-like, sometime post-IBS in the hopes that he'll take her on as a student. he mostly only agrees because the sight of a Literal Child drinking poison (she's a harbinger) alarms him.

[we-are-knight]

"Heroic combat" - Full album

[sins-of-the-sea]

Ohoho, are we going to be expecting to hear wedding bells soon, Gio?

"Funny you are asking that, because I'm still deciding how I'm going to propose...."

"Is it going to involve slicing my wife's skull in half and urging an entire giant snail dragon to vomit you both up?"

Giovanni sighs as the Lou Carohl flees from the mountain, surprisingly lightning fast due to Phoebus inducing its flight-or-fight instinct through -=Fear=-. All this effort to claim a soul for the Master, only to be dropped in an anticlimax. "Of course it won't. How long did it take for the Poppet to reach you?"

"Do you really want to go there? Time doesn't exist for us or this blog. Now we got to talk about Miss Annalise on how you're not going to propose at all."

"JOSEP!! Please!! I love her! I love Miss Annalise with all my heart! More than anything in the world! I will do anything for her! Nevermind my attempts at dragonslaying failed!"

"The Master will do far worse to her if you continue to keep in contact with her! It's one thing for a casual date here and there-"

"Uh.... Captain...."

"It's another to-"

"Captain. Captain." Phoebus whispers in Frascona’s ear.

"................................................"

"......Pep?"

"..........................

"MARRY THAT GIRL ALREADY!! GET A RING AND DROP A KNEE OR I WILL MAKE YOU!!"

"AAAAAAAAAAH????"

[woeful-imp]

That's an incredible idea and it SHOULD be a thing!

I'mma make it one the next time one of our campaigns features a dragon.

i think that killing a dragon should have catastrophic nuclear-fallout level environmental consequences tbh. their blood should scorch and wither the earth with fire and poison, the toxic fumes released as they decay should choke the land and all nearby living creatures, and the entire landscape where they fell should be transformed into a blighted wasteland where bleached leviathan bones loom upwards out of the ground as a warning that can be seen from miles away, the boundary markers of an exclusion zone.

[astorythatwritesitself]

'So Your Religious Order Is Nontheistic & Possibly Straight Up Atheistic' and other fun worldbuilding discoveries.

[sarcasticdolphin]

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