#glory asks

[queengloryoftherainwings]

Okay call me stupid, call me crazy, heck, call me a conspiracy theorist.

But something has been bugging me.

"Three Moons" is typically used in a way that resembles the usage of "Dear god" or "Jesus Christ" who are considered higher beings in religion.

Now think about this: We have dragonet named MOONwatcher who has both mind reading and prophecy seeing ability as much as Tsunami tries to deny it.

Now it could be that Secretkeeper was just feeling the vibe of the moons that night, but you can't tell me that now I bring it up it doesn't at bare minimum make a little sense that there is something to work out here.

don't bring this up with tsunami she hates the idea of fate.

[badolmen]

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[bigmsaxon]

Hello. I've been watching your art for over the years. Your art is so perferctly fit for cyberpunk setting. Here some question. I'm playing Shadowrun Dragonfall a week ago. So... which character do you like the most? I like all of them. Especially glory.

Thanks! Who is my favourite Shadowrun Dragonfall character, you ask?

Definitely narcotics entepreneur and 100-percent real elf Zaak Flash.

[king-wilhelm]

Tiny 12 y/o percy, standing in the lake, wounded and exhausted after a game he knew nothing about, a game he spent stumbling around till he reached the lake shore, the subtle show of his fighting getting better near the water.

Tiny 12 y/o percy confused more than ever, looking up at the glowing trident, backdropped by the vast lake and the mountain range behind him, getting claimed by one of the most powerful gods, ruler of the seas and agent of chaos, a forbidden child. Reading this moment as a child who so painfully related to him was like, Ha! See? How dare you call him a loser! He's going to be the most powerful demigod, meant for all the glory!!

But watching this as an adult is like. Have you ever bitten off more than you can chew? Have you ever been part of a legacy you never wanted? Have you ever been drop kicked into a high pressure situation that can alter your life completely, With little to no guidance? Have you ever been subject to trauma simply because of who you are?

That's no glory. That's the world expecting too much from someone who's been told too little. Someone who's been made to feel too little. That is the story of someone who hasn't prepared enough, hasn't lived enough and hasn't experienced enough, being forced to handle the weight of the world too soon.

[spineless-lobster]

IM NOT GONNA CRY IM NOT GONNA CRY IM NOT GONNA CRY IM NOT GONNA CRY IM NOT GONNA CRY IM NOT GONNA CRY IM NOT GONNA CRY IM NOT GONNA CRY IM NOT-

[cubbihue]

Since Peri has problems with flight does irep also have them or is he fine

Irep's a talented flyer actually! While Peri's wings feels heavy for him to use, Irep's are light as a feather. He's an expert at navigating the air, and can outdo even a Pixie in flight!!

This has made him all sorts of popular and unpopular among jock-like fairies.

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[vorbarrsultana]

i finished rereading the first four vorkosigan books (+ "the flowers of vashnoi" because ekaterin!!!), and you really have to feel for piotr vorkosigan because what a nightmare life, truly.

imagine you are born just in time for your world to be unified by dorca vorbarra and rediscovered by people from wider galaxy. things are finally looking good, for the first time in 600 years of isolation there is no more feudal infighting, and the promise of galactic medicine and technologies being available lightens everyone's perspectives. sure, your grandpa is called count pierre "le sanguinaire", but who doesn't have terrible relatives?

then you are 15, and suddenly your planet is attacked by the aggressive eugenecist space empire hell-bent on subjugating your people and turning them into disposable material for unethical genetic experiments. you flee into the mountains, away from your family, and create guerrilla forces from locals sworn to your dad, and it's really terrible for a very long time. you have no high-tech weapons and no food, you sleep in a cave in the dead of winter, and the cetagandans try everything (from carpet bombing to chemical weapons) to murder you.

but hey, at least you now have your bff ezar vorbarra, and (from the bff's words on his deathbed) it sounds like you two had so much fun between unimaginable horrors and despair, and it's not surprising, since no one really believes in death after life at 20. then the emperor makes you a general at the tender age of 22. fortunately for him, you & bff make a frighteningly competent dream-team, and the joke's on cetagandans.

then, several years later, you ask the emperor for weapons, because you still sleep on the bare cave floor, there are little resources, and every ghem on the planet is trying to murder you. he offers you the hand of his granddaughter instead, like it's some sort of twisted fairytale, but you grow to love your olivia more than anything, and the tide of war is finally turning, and you allow yourself to entertain the idea of peaceful life, and then...

the space eugenecist empire nukes your hometown, killing your mom, dad, surviving brothers, and two hundred thousand of your people. plus your bff (ezar) gets a radiation doze large enough for it to cause severe cancer thirty years later. great.

but you win! your district is in shambles, your capital is an irradiated crater, your castle is in ruins, but you win! the old dorca dies, and yuri ascends the throne, but politicking is secondary to the fact that you are alive.

yes, you are probably not entirely sane, and you've long forgotten what the peaceful times look like, but you are alive, just under 35, and your entire life is ahead of you. olivia is alive too, and ezar, and you now have three wonderful children, and the extended vorpatril-vorbarra family that hosts regular get-togethers. sure, your mom-in-law is a betan with all sorts of crazy ideas in her head, but she is not pierre vorrutyer. small mercies.

but then the new emperor goes mad, and decides to murder your entire family overnight. your brothers-in-law are gone, one of your sisters-in-law too, and all your nephews and nieces except little padma. but all of this pales in comparison to the facts that olivia is murdered, and that your heir and daughter lay dead beside her.

all you have left of her, of your house, of the family you've lost in vashnoi not a ten years ago, is aral, whom you keep by your side throughout the bloody civil war to put your bff on the throne.

but you win again. you are 43, and ezar vorbarra is now the emperor. you are responsible for the imperium's entire ground forces. you are also responsible for a severely traumatized boy of 13, and the only children you've interacted with without olivia's genle guidance were little messengers of guerilla companies.

what a mess.

[soundleer]

Hello,Soundleer I'm your fan, I love your drawings of Jevin. I can tell you something: can you make a drawing of Jevin and his multiple ships (of course you can)

whee thankii im flattered!! yea i would draw multiple of jevin ships but for my drawing flow at the moment, ill be drawing my top 3 fav jevin ships here. hope that's fine yee

two popular ships and a rarepair hyeee :33

[temeyes]

Why do the plushies have butts- BUT they are so cute!! Wish I could get some

idk tbh, but me thinks ALL plushies should have butts

OH- sorry gaz,,,

(LMAO but srsly, idk if the butts are an asset to the plushies cuz i legit couldn't pull up the pants that came with them up their rumps huhu)

[ashtcnirwin]

I wrote Glory Days about a time when things felt simpler, the early days of touring and experiencing the explosion of 5SOS front on with my best friends, those times are in the past, and although those times blessed me with everything I get to experience now in the present, I can comfortably say they were truly the glory days that ill cherish for the rest of my life

[queengloryoftherainwings]

I am convinced this is the conversation from the day before Queen Oasis died:

Oasis: Alright lets have a simple math problem to start off the day. Blister has 19 animus enchanted gems-

Burn: Wait why does Blister have so many animus touched gems?

Blister: MIND YO BUSINESS BURN! *Yeets a scroll at her but misses and hits Blaze*

Change. My. Mind.

…ye… yeets? You know what, I’m not going to ask.

[hemlock-dreams]

dawg I have forayed occasionally into the nsfw fic zone and I have dabbled in the sex realm but I have never had such an experience as I had reading the post avengers blorb on this blog. Jesus Christ. thanks a lot for that. hope both sides of your pillow stay cold fr. sorry if this is insane

I wish I could take credit, but that was all @thistleraven! Absolutely go check her out, she's a beast and my enabler!!

[meroaw]

Glory in World Vision?

[artbyblastweave]

ask game; Victoria Dallon, aka Glory Girl aka Antares

I've always thought that Victoria's first appearance is quite the bit of deft needle-threading.

The thing about Interlude 2 is that Vicky is our first example of one of this setting's established heroes actively fighting crime- not just swooping in to vulture up the accomplishments of an up-and-comer- and a therefore a major goal of the sequence is to ensure that the audience comes away structurally unnerved by what counts as business as usual for the heroes, set the stage for the hurricane of ass-covering to come. So we have a sequence where she lords her power over a baseline criminal who has no realistic chance to fight back or get away, where she cripples and nearly kills him in a display of excessive force, where she uses her connections to other capes to duck out on the consequences of her excess once she realizes that she's crossed certain moral and optical Rubicons. All of this is gross, all of this speaks to an alarmingly cavalier attitude amongst even the most ostensibly accountable heroes. And from a protagonistic perspective, all of this serves to soften the blow of Taylor's actions at the bank in act three, because we're predisposed to see Vicky as an arrogant, overprivileged loose cannon who'd actually have a significantly higher body count than all of the Undersiders put together if not for the cushion afforded to her by her status as a superhero. A golden child up against the already put-upon underdog.

But. She also does all of that to a Neo-Nazi, who was fresh off committing a hate crime. I mean, if this was violence against a purse-snatcher, a drug-dealer- It would be very, very easy to block this sequence in a way that would set her up as a villain and nothing else for the rest of the work. In The Boys, for example, Homelander debuts by incinerating one bank robber's hand and throwing another a thousand feet into the air to land hard on a parked car, and the dissonance between that casual brutality and his chumminess with the onlookers is the thematic backbone for... basically the entire show, because he was in such total control of the situation that the only reason to do it that way is that he fundamentally doesn't care. In Super Crooks, it's made abundantly clear that the superheroes trying to arrest the titular supervillains are significantly more destructive to the city than the villains are, because their institutional backing removes any incentive to do anything but pursue the flashiest arrests possible for the sake of ratings. But Glory Girl? She's a sixteen year old putting her money where her mouth is on the unconsidered-dilettante suburban-left-ish tumblrite rallying cry of punching a Nazi. She's living out a near-boilerplate superheroic fantasy of righteous violence against an uncomplicatedly righteous target- likely a fantasy entertained at least once by the median cape fan, if we're being honest- and then, in the aftermath, blood on her hands and on the pavement, staring down the full weight of the prospect of actually having killed a person in an unconsidered spate of rage, is very much a panicked teenager about it, scrambling for a way to walk it back.

Which, independent of the specifics of whether this particular asshole had it coming, is the problematic element of this that generalizes- that superheroism in this world is a system that puts the social license to use concrete-shattering power in the hands of a kid with the judgement and attitude of someone scheming up ways to dodge curfew. She's done this before, she's gonna keep doing this, she's gonna keep being two-faced about it with her public-facing golden-girl image. But she wasn't wrong to be angry. And the fact that this is the kind of thing she gets angry about is hard to separate from later beats where she tries to do right by people, hard to separate from her willingness to put herself on the line against Endbringers and the Slaughterhouse 9. It's a bad situation, a horrible system that's guaranteed to incentivize bad behavior, they shouldn't be assigning any of this shit to a 17-year-old. But later on, when things go south for her, the seeds are planted so that she can retain audience sympathy in a way that she likely wouldn't be able to if this story was a banal hatswap, with unfairly maligned "villains" who do no real wrong against supervillains who happen to call themselves superheroes.

[kindaasrikal]

Movie Garmadon: is creeped out by the green ninja staring at him with intense daddy issues.

Series Emperor Garmadon: stares at Lloyd all creepy like he’s the angry son and Lloyd is the messed up Dad.

(When Lloyd, Nya, Dareth and Skylor ran away from Emperor Garmadon in their car tank thing)

[thedeskofaltoclef]

Yo, @glassanomaly. The benevolent @raddagher (my favorite artist and creator of my Favorite MTF Agent Perry Baxter. Glory to Raddagher) has already made it.

Chowder Clef Rises.

Bonus Radd-based Clef Art. This image was created years before she met me. She summoned me to this community. I had already been cosplaying in that exact outfit for about a year before I saw this image which is 1:1. This is the most accurate Deskverse Clef on the internet. Down to the whole situation of teeth.

Speaking of Deskverse, in honor of Radd's greatness 166's appearance is 1:1 as well. Check out Radds Tiktok if you want to see more.

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