#honestly the more i look the more i dislike

[demilypyro]

My father chases ghosts.

In a moment of uncharacteristic boldness, I once questioned my father on why he treated me with such cold detachment. Why his advice only ever seemed to come in the form of lecturing, and why he never hugged me, or even said he was proud of me. His words in that moment caused the small amount of respect I had for him to shake. He told me that he saw it as the mother's role to love a child, and that it was the father's role to keep the child on the straight and narrow. After some contemplation, I decided in that moment that I disliked him, not just as a parent, but as a person.

My father doesn't have a father. He was the product of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy between an interracial couple in the 60s... My grandmother was never willing to speak about what happened to my grandfather. I can only imagine he didn't stick around long, since my father never knew him, and grew up with only his mother. And it's always been clear to me that this bothered him. The man idolizes masculinity. Maybe desperate for a father figure, he found role models in his grandfather, whose portrait still hangs in his house and which he treats with great care, and his stepfather, whose surname he took (discarding his mother's last name) and passed on to me. Supposedly, his stepfather left his mother in a matter of years, so why my father idolizes him so, I don't understand. I've never met the man.

Perhaps similarly, my father left his mother's care the second he turned 18. Having lived with my grandmother for some years when I was in college, I can honestly understand why. She is prone to smothering the people she loves. In light of that experience, it maybe becomes easier to understand why my father would prefer a more distant form of parenting. Still, I don't agree with his philosophy on gender roles.

Some years after I transitioned, I had a conversation with my father that stuck with me. He said that he actually saw himself as rather unmasculine, a possibility that had never once occurred to me. With that in mind, I suppose he is somewhat short, and not especially muscular. He told me he had always felt insecure about it. But, unlike me, he had never once considered abandoning the pursuit of masculinity entirely. Rather, in his own words, he felt he needed to chase it even harder. To live up to the image he'd set for himself. The ghost of masculinity.

A lot became clear to me in that moment. My father is obsessed with chasing ghosts of how he thinks things Should Be. My mother once told me how he had this "plan" for where he wanted to be in life at each age. He wanted to live on his own by 20. He wanted to be married by 30. He wanted children by 40. When he found out my mother was pregnant, he married her as fast as he could. My mother didn't really care, but he said they HAD to be married before the baby was born. Things had to go in the right order. According to him, that was just how things Should Be.

He was chasing the ghost of the perfect nuclear family that was denied him.

They divorced when I was eight.

In light of all this, it becomes very clear why he acted the way he did when I was younger. I wasn't how his child Should Be. No matter how many things I was diagnosed with, he never bothered looking into what neurodivergency was, or how to deal with it, and simply held me to the standards of a neurotypical child. My mother tells me that when I was six, he yelled at me in a store for wanting to try on a dress. His child being autistic was something to be ignored until it went away. His child being transgender? Forget it.

In recent years, I think my father has started giving up on me. In a good way. Seeing me become happier as my transition progresses seems to have finally convinced him that he doesn't understand what's best for me, at least somewhat. I speak to him maybe once a month. But I often mourn the idea of a father I could've been closer to. A father with whom I could have had a relationship of love, and support. A father I never had.

Maybe I'm chasing a ghost too.

[daddyd0nt]

I don’t disagree with a lot of what you are saying and I feel your heart is in the right place. And unfortunately violence against AFAB people by AMAB people is common enough that we need to segregate first by sex. Even if you are intersex (I am technically intersex myself) you are in almost every case designated either AFAB or AMAB (medical intervention to correct this and make an intersex body fully resemble one sex is usually abusive and medically unnecessary but almost always the person will have the traits of one sex more than the other). I’m not at all against another split and normalizing 4 spaces or having more gender neutral options than sex specific ones but AFAB people need to have their own space to maintain safety. Again these spaces are not organic or natural, they are something we put in place because AMAB people proved they couldn’t be trusted in mixed spaces.

And it sucks like I genuinely know it sucks but there is no completely safe way to allow AMAB people into AFAB spaces. Even if it results in 1/1000000 AFAB people being attacked by the one bad AMAB apple in the bunch, any more than 0 women is unacceptable as a sacrifice to validate AMAB identity/feelings. I spend a fair amount of time institutionalized and having the general spaces be mixed is scary enough I would never feel safe in a high security psych ward if I had to let them give me drugs to sleep at night and I would be left in the room with somebody who could not only theoretically rape but possibly impregnate me. AMAB people have spent all of human culture making their penises into weapons, I’m not overreacting to feel like in that kind of situation an AMAB person is armed but I’m not, I don’t feel any better about a possibly criminally insane person sleeping next to me with a penis than a knife even if I’m confident that they won’t use it to hurt me the fact that the opportunity is there and I can’t defend myself or even hurt than as bad as they could hurt me is enough to make it totally unacceptable.

Also as a masc presenting/gnc AFAB person I’m terrified of the prospect of forcing trans men into AMAB spaces especially hospitals also and prisons AFAB trans people have a greater chance of being abused especially by AMAB people than AMAB trans people do. One of the biggest factors in my detransition was the face that I was regularly in and out of institutions and also involved in a fair amount of flying too close to the sun legally for a while so the threat of being locked up in an AMAB space due to my gender presentation was really real to me.

I agree that most of our problems are due to capitalism, but patriarchy exists even independently of capitalism just like racism and ableism do.

But honestly our hearts are in the same place I also want to see everybody succeed and feel good and spend the vast majority of the time looking for similarities and opportunities to bond with each other and fight together for common causes. I think trans and cis women can fight 99% of our fights together and love each other and genuinely be comrades. I’m absolutely in support of trans people creating their own trans-specific safe spaces that is wonderful I couldn’t be more behind wanting a safe and comfortable and validating space for all my wonderful trans siblings. But we cannot throw away something as material as the physical safety of AFAB bodies to validate something as nebulous as AMAB feelings. I’m really not coming from a place of hate or even dislike at all like I said I fully support the creation of safe and validating spaces for trans people but that can’t come at the expense of the safe spaces AFAB people have fought for.

"OP is a terf" is a thought-terminating cliche meant to keep you from questioning the status quo and keep you afraid of being labeled a heretic should you come to your own conclusions about anything.

[buddiebeginz]

Reminder that this is how bummys talk about Oliver and worse. Let's not forget some of them also made a 4hr podcast months ago saying awful stuff about him, all because he was posting about hanging out with Ryan and not Lou. They've also been repeatedly calling him biphobic/homophobic because he said Buck should get to explore his sexuality more and have sex.

Some of these people used to be Buddie shippers but the truth is they never really cared about Oliver or Buck. They have the nerve to call us fetishists when a lot of us have been shipping two best friends for years who we just want to see take their relationship to the next level. The main draw for them with b/t is wanting to see two guys they think are hot together because it certainly wasn't about Buck and his happiness. They weren't ever looking at his scenes with Tommy thinking is this really the best relationship for Buck? They've always been more concerned with Tommy and wanting him to be a permanent fixture on the show. Almost immediately after 704 some of them were calling him Buck's endgame. Even though we were shown time and time again how much Tommy was never the right person for Buck.

Now that their ship is over they've inevitably turned on Oliver and are blaming him for it even though at the end of the day the person who made that decision was Tim.

Also and this is something I really really wish bummy stans would get through their heads, actors are allowed to have personal opinions about the media they act in. Oliver has said he's a fan of 911 so I'm sure he watches the show. It's clear from many things he's said that he genuinely cares about Buck every bit as much as we do. So acting like he's not allowed to have preferences for the show and for Buck just makes no sense. He's connected to Buck in a way none of us are so if anyone should get to have thoughts on Buck's story it should be him. He's allowed to like or dislike a ship or a storyline. I know it sucks if an actor that's part of a ship you like doesn't support that ship but it does happen.

Oliver has supported Buddie for years and been very transparent that he wants to see it happen. He was never going to become the captain of the b/t ship. He's never really been super supportive of any of Buck's other ships nor does he have to be. Oliver has always been respectful towards his co-stars and fans and always given respectful answers about Buck's past ships in interviews and that's all he's really required to do.

It's honestly baffling how bummy stans continue to play the victim and continue to try and come up with all these reasons for why they think Oliver is a bad person for not supporting their ship and Lou. The reality is b/t was never meant to last. Oliver knew this and didn't want to lead anyone on. It's also very likely that Lou didn't get along with the cast especially given how they went out of their way to say goodbye to Callum and there was nothing for Lou. Not to mention Oliver very deliberately leaving Lou out of his photography spoke volumes.

I also think Oliver saw at least some of the drama online this year both from b/t stans and from Lou and it made him less likely to engage with that part of fandom. Bummy fans spent a not insignificant amount of time this year saying terrible sometimes racist things about Ryan and Eddie (like telling Ryan he should have finished the job when he talked about his s*icide attempt). Ryan is clearly someone that Oliver cares a lot about so if he saw any of this I'm sure it didn't endear him to those fans. On top of that they continually pushed for a guest character, who was never meant to be anything more than a plot device in Buck's story to be a main character and have his own Begins episode.

I'm just really sad and angry that this is the kind of stuff Oliver is having to deal with. Buck's bisexual journey should be this amazing positive thing and bummy stans have repeatedly tried to warp it to be their way or no way. I just really hope that Oliver knows there are so so many of us who love him and appreciate all the work he's done.

[venomous-qwille]

Hiii!

😊 What do you find the most fun about creating [your AU]?

🎭 Tell us one cliché/trope you like in AUs, and one you dislike

Ohhh lets see... The most fun thing is the characters- writing them and discovering more about them and sloooowly revealing bits and pieces about them. I love putting those guys in situations and seeing how they react! I love it when they are all in a room together bashing heads (or faceplates) <3 Hmmm, tropes I love... I like AUs that invert the tropes in the original content, or push characters who are enemies together. I love it when an AU lets you see a character in a new light- or a side of them that the circumstances of the source material would never allow you to see. I love any trope that introduces urgency and interdependence (which is a lot of them, honestly. Soulmate tropes will always live in my heart.) My least fav AU tropes are ones that are purely aesthetic... like, just a reskinning of whatever they are diverging from (I'm looking at you, Coffee Shop AU). I dont think anyone who has actually worked in a shitty coffee shop would really want to put their characters in a coffee shop au ahahha. Maybe I'm just jaded!

[whaliiwatching]

get remixed, bitches

[limitlesses]

𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐔 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐔𝐍𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐔𝐆𝐔𝐑𝐔'𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐆𝐆𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐑 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐇𝐄'𝐃 𝐁𝐄 𝐀 𝐆𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐊𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐑, or whatever it was Suguru was mulling over at the moment. He was, aside from the brief hiccup of seeing Suguru with his hair down and damp, doing pretty well for how easily flustered he could get. Maybe it helped that he felt like a huge weight had been lifted from his chest and he could breathe and feel safe doing so, safe to be vulnerable -- and thus comfortable -- whilst in Suguru's company.

He threw his head back with a cackle borderline evil in nature over just how much he had managed to cram into one straining plastic 7-Eleven bag. Yeah, he stuffed that bad boy up. Suguru's reaction was understandable and yet -- hilariously, he should've known better by now ---- Satoru had a reason for gravitating toward sweets. The audacity to question it now!

❝ Listen, first off -- I'm a growing guy, believe it or not ---- so this is sustenance, fuel for my powers! Limitless is exhausting and uses a ton of brainpower like a supercomputer, sugar's good for that kind of shit. Honestly, though, you should be impressed by me at all times ---- the amount of advanced mathematics I do on a regular basis is an affront to God -- or something. ❞

Preening like a brightly feathered peacock -- about his sugar-intake, no less... yes, Satoru could find anything to brag about if he was given half a second and the slightest implication that it was impressive of him to do or say. But he simmered down, his wide smug and sly grin lowering in favor of listening more softly to Suguru's... words of comfort? Or whatever this was, it was warm, that much was evident in how he felt a flutter and clench of warmth in his chest. Suguru wanted to know everything about him, huh? He wasn't tired of his blabbering yet, his self-importance? The importance everyone else imposed onto him?

Of course he couldn't dodge that question then -- in honor of respecting Suguru's desire to learn more.

❝ I feel like ---- ... I've kind of always known, but maybe I just didn't have the word for it right away? Like, you know, nobody's that self-aware of themselves. I never liked girls, even when my parents were clearly trying to mash us together. Made me dislike them more, honestly. But I started noticing and having the right words for it... less than a ye--... um -- ❞

...

Oh no, oh no -- oh no, that was when they first met ---- he was turning red, unmistakably so, a pooling of heat flushing his face till the tips of his ears felt like they were burning. He fidgeted with his fingers and then locked onto the controller in his hands, toggling the dual joysticks till they flicked back into the centered positions with a spring-loaded clack. ❝ -- fuck, wait, your controller's player 1, gimme -- ❞

Satoru proceeded to throw himself against Suguru in an obnoxious flail and grab to subsequently snatch the other's controller from his hand because he, of course, wanted to be player one. It was a good way to derail that train of thought, too, before Suguru started getting ideas on being his gay awakening or something.

The credit was all his, if it was all boiled down to a particular moment in time, of course. Satoru could play it off and say he had felt tinges of things close to attraction prior to them meeting, but it had been more of an absence of that. The absence of attraction, or downright repulsed whenever girls tried to get touchy or overly flirtatious at him.

Meeting Geto Suguru made Gojo Satoru realize he was gay, yeah. Fuck yeah. Just look at the guy --

❝ ---- what about you? When'd you find out? ❞ He straightened back up off of Suguru after successfully stealing and swapping controllers, quickly navigating the menu -- selecting the multiplayer option for Need for Speed: Carbon since it was in the console already. The console he had indeed thrown his Gojo clan money at instantly, indulgent and quick to buy anything new in the gaming world. They were playing this now, and he'd make Suguru eat dirt with a few races. Quick Race, just to get something going, loaded up on the screen after a few rapid clicks and toggles on Satoru's end of things.

With a practiced efficiency Satoru swiped through the options until he was able to reach his desired modification, switching to his blue lightning-esque Career car he went through the Storymode with -- fully customized, of course, because Satoru was a completionist as well as extremely competitive.

Satoru leaned back a little on Suguru's bed, folding his legs back underneath one another, paying no mind to the fact that his shirt (Suguru's, right, Suguru's shirt while in Suguru's room, smelling like Suguru, being near Suguru--) had slipped off his shoulder, and he waited for the other to either answer or pick his car and be ready for the race -- or both. Ideally both.

Chancing a glance Suguru's way now that he wasn't beet-red and feeling like he accidentally confessed too much... Satoru hit the guy with a fully curious, perhaps a bit nosy look -- like he expected Suguru to go through every step of his self-realization with him, eagerly hoping his friend would open his heart out to him -- and make things feel less one-sided.

𝐒𝐔𝐆𝐔𝐑𝐔 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐃 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐊 𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐃𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐔’𝐒 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐖𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐘-𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐃. Tried not to think about what his mouth might taste like against his; if it’d be too sweet for him, or just… the perfect amount.

Were Satoru’s lips soft?  They looked like they might be —-- he applied enough chapstick to keep them plush, at least.  Would he know how to part those same soft lips to deepen a kiss? How to brush tongues just enough to make Suguru’s breath hitch…?

So much for not thinking about it.  

Satoru was going on and on about all of the sugary foods he had purchased —-- peach gummies and dango and… oh, some stuff Suguru liked had spilled out of the bag, too!  It was always a pleasant surprise, realizing how well the other boy knew him.  Knew what he liked and disliked… that he wasn’t the only one who remembered those little things that actually weren’t so very little, after all.

Suguru’s jaw comically fell open as Satoru produced another bag from within the depths of the 7-Eleven bag, full of even more sugary confections.  ❝ Eh?! How did that even fit in there?! ❞

He thought about teasing him, but honestly one of those dorayaki ‘samples’ sounded quite tasty…

❝ Your stomach is a bottomless pit, Satoru, ❞  he huffed instead, a smile tilting the corners of his lips up.  ❝ I’m pretty sure the sugar rush alone would send me into cardiac arrest.  I don’t know how you manage to do it.  It’s honestly impressive. ❞

He tried not to get too distracted by the casual removal of Satoru’s sunglasses, revealing one of the curse manipulator’s favorite features of his.  So often shielded from view… it was hard to look away, though Satoru had made it easier with that competitive streak of his —-- he was already moving to set everything up.

Suguru had a feeling that they were in for a long night.

He tossed the damp towel he had been using to dry off his hair into his hamper across the room, before helping set up his Playstation 3.  Well, it was essentially Satoru’s Playstation 3…. Though it lived in Suguru’s room.  The console had only just come out and of course Satoru had been eager to throw a bunch of that Gojo clan money at it. 

Suguru used his controller to navigate the game’s menu, before reaching into the bag of snacks to find and begin unwrapping one of the onigiri Satoru had purchased.  He could feel the other’s gaze on him as he took a bite of his rice ball —-- Suguru was quick to look back at him, violet eyes searching blue.

❝ You don’t have to thank me, Satoru.  I’m your friend… I want to hear about this stuff.  I want to know all there is to know about you. ❞  Suguru couldn’t, wouldn’t, dare to hide the rosy flush that spread across his face.  He almost looked away himself, but Satoru beat him to it, averting his gaze back towards the idle animation playing on an endless loop.

He took another bite of his onigiri while reflecting on that clan stuff Satoru had mentioned earlier.  And, well… his preferences.  Suguru wanted to open up about his own past, too —--- the good, and the ugly —--- but ultimately, he wanted Satoru to feel comfortable enough asking him on his own.

Suguru figured he could kick things off by asking his own burning question...

❝ How long have you known?  That you like guys, I mean… was there a big moment where you finally figured it out, or was it there all along? ❞

[s-p-r-i-n-g-t-i-m-e]

mayhaps this is a hot take but I truly dislike “Loid gets murderous and overprotective of Anya dating Damian” content

like. there are sm reasons I dislike it

first off, just fundamentally, I hate that trope. I think parents being protective of children in general is cute, and even maybe protective against their partners to an extent, but it rlly feeds into the Western (esp American) notion of parents owning their children. it gets even grosser when it’s the dad and his daughter, it’s just a branch of ‘women and their purity having to be guarded until they’re properly married’ sexism

secondly, if this is pre-reveal (either Damian comes over/talks to Anya in front of Loid and it’s p obvious he has a crush, so Loid, of course, course notices, OR somehow, post-canon yet not revealed, they get together), Loid would absolutely use that to advance Operation Strix lol

obviously Loid is NOT a bad or uncaring father, he is absolutely not that, BUT he does also very vehemently care about achieving world peace thru his spy work, AND ANYA UNDERSTANDS AND EVEN AGREES WITH THIS (to the highest extent she can as a child, at least). he would never partake in extensive manipulation that’d harm Anya emotionally (or even Damian tbh, his whole goal is to create a world where no children have to cry) but he would DEFINITELY encourage their relationship in order to eventually, somehow get to Desmond the ghoul-eyed freak

thirdly, even if this is POST-reveal, I still don’t think Loid would be unreasonable. sure, he may apprehensive due to Damian’s family and more concrete examples of Anya growing up (MAYBE bc honestly I think Loid would be ecstatic with every milestone in Anya’s life considering how genuinely supportive and proud of her that he is) BUT. but

he, again, not only wants to create a world where no children have to cry, so he clearly values the youth and their quality of life, but ALSO KNOWS abt how shitty Damian’s father is. personally, I think he’d be GLAD that Damian has a safe place to come to, with ppl who’ll support him (unconsciously, bc Loid is very oblivious to his own emotions lmao)

anyways, tldr; the “Loid being super hostile to Damian dating Anya” trope is tired and sucks and we should move onto appreciating a trope that honours the CORE of sxf, more found family, where Damian joins the Forgers, even before he and Anya potentially marry (even before they date if possible tbh)

[svampira]

normalest friend group

[butteredfrogs]

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[just-a-living-meat-thing]

RAAAAAAGGHHH OKAY YOU ASKED FOR IT

Pyrrhia:

- Is about the size of North America and half of South America. It’s a big fuckin continent bro, I don’t fuck with the idea that dragons can fly straight across Pyrrhia in the span of a few days. It’s gonna be a few months TOPS if I have anything to say about it

- Also, in my unshared WoF au, the “head” of Pyrrhia is muuuch farther north than in canon, and the “wing” is a little bit shorter. That way, the IceWing kingdom makes more sense to be that cold, but the SkyWing wingtip stays relatively warm in comparison

- There’s a Great Plains now!! In between the Ice kingdom and the Sand kingdom! It technically belongs to the SandWings, but it’s a great mix of different tribes and migratory cultures. The only downside are the tornadoes :/ those suck

- Also. I think the SkyWings deserve floating islands. I personally hc that Pyrrhia has a bunch of floating islands everywhere (affectionately called “floaties” or “those flyin’ fuckers up yonder” by certain SandWings) but the SkyWings have the most, the biggest, and the highest. Most aren’t big enough to hold towns or villages up there, so they’re mostly used for trade and postal services

- Pyrrhia does not just have regular animals. A lot of the Pyrrhic animals I’ll mention are inspired by the Mesozoic and Cenozoic era, or creatures from different mythologies. Not all of them are important enough to mention, so I’ll just dump a few of the most common ones here and hope it makes some sort of sense

- I also think there should be wyverns and drakes and wyrms around. They’re like the dragon equivalent of chimpanzees and monkeys and so forth. None of them are as big or as cognitively intelligent as dragons, but they’re still important, evolutionarily speaking

Scavengers:

- Hmm. I’ll be honest, I don’t really care for the humans in WoF. I don’t dislike them per se, but they just don’t interest me as much as everything else does. That being said, I do have some concept design ideas for them that I’ll elaborate more on later with drawings and charts and suchlike, once I finally have the energy to do creative. I just gotta beat this executive function and depressive shit and mental fatigue and then it’s all over for you bitches!! You’ll see!!

- Anyway. I think of them as primate creature things. Quadruped. Can stand and walk on two legs pretty easy, but default to four when traveling long distances or when on the run. I also don’t think they’re super smart? They’re like, crow intelligence to me. Smart enough just to be uncanny, and wickedly emotionally intelligent, but they’re not taking over the world anytime soon, y’know?

General dragon physiology:

(QUICK PREFACE: As a rule, I tend to gravitate more towards a design perspective rather than a scientifically accurate one when it comes to speculative biology stuff. I think if a thingamajig or a creature or a species looks visually interesting, makes sense for their environment, and can use it’s natural abilities efficiently to its advantage, it’s fine if the design itself is not super accurate. What matters to me is whether it looks cool. Everything else is just a bonus)

- Tribal color schemes: while general color palettes for each tribe are important in differentiating one tribe from another, at the end of the day, there is still a lot of color variation within tribes. I honestly don’t think dragons use camouflage as much as we’re thinking (at least not anymore), since they’re all living—somewhat together—in civilized societies and don’t necessarily need to hunt as often as they once did. Especially since the establishment of agriculture is canon (at least for MudWings) in WoF, I doubt that dragons living together in cities or towns or villages hunt very often anymore. Why spend time and energy hunting when you can just buy an animal down at the market? Now, that being said, dragons do still hunt for their food, especially those in isolated or rural villages, nomadic communities, dragons living out in the countryside, or those living in poverty. Those dragons do typically follow rules of camouflage, since they depend on it more. But for those wealthy enough to not depend on hunting for survival, who can hunt for sport, for tradition, or for leisure, coloration varies more into the “classic” WoF tribe color scheme, often appearing brighter, more vibrant, and more domesticated

- Patterning also varies, often indicating a dragon’s born social status. Each pattern is unique to the dragon it appears on though, and any characteristics I might mention are incredibly generalized. The sky is the limit. Wahoo

- Body weight and structure also varies for each individual dragon! There is definitely a “common” body type for each tribe, but that is by no means the be-all-end-all rule

- Most tribes are heavily omnivorous. There are only two outliers, both on opposite ends of the spectrum. IceWings are hyper carnivores, since their environment does not so easily suffer the bearing of plant material. RainWings, on the other hand, are almost entirely herbivorous, though they will still eat small mammals, fish, and rainforest insects when favorite foods are scarce

- Fire-breathing tribes cannot easily digest raw meat. Their food usually has to be cooked before they can eat it. Fortunately for them, as fire-breathers, this is a non-issue 99% of the time

- All tribes at least partially molt their scales, either throughout the year (like most tribes) or during a change in season (like IceWings). This is especially felt by teenage dragonets, who often feel embarrassed by the perpetual scrumpled appearance caused by their quick growth

- All dragons are quadruple, able to walk and even lope short distances on their hind legs with the aid of their wings and tail. That way it makes a little more sense for them to be wielding spears, although I think that would be more of a flying weapon rather than a ground-based weapon

General culture:

- The more isolationist tribes (IceWings, NightWings, SeaWings, RainWings, different subcultures within the tribes, etc) have kept their own distinct languages alive through the centuries and each have distinct accents. Regional dialects are also incredibly relevant in Pyrrhia, even in common tongue, and a trained linguist can easily identify where a dragon came from just based on their accent

- The monetary system is based on different coin currencies depending on which kingdom you’re in, but generally speaking, most places will accept anything deemed an acceptable trade. Treasure is the most valued commodity though

- Generally speaking, dragons do not wear clothes. At least, not in the way we do. However, many of them do wear shawls, hats, scarves, or wing-canvass, particularly if it’s nippy or very hot. This type of dress is also an indication of one’s social status, as the more extravagant and attractive an article of clothing is, the more wealthy a dragon tends to be

- Utensils are nonexistent except for soup, and that’s usually reserved for the upper class. If you ask for a spoon in a backwoods SkyWing village, you will get bullied

- There are also a myriad of writing tools available. Using your claws is a traditional, ancient method of writing, and is now more of a practice in meditation than in actual writing, but many older dragons in leadership positions continue to write with their claws. It’s an under appreciated art form

Etc, there’s more and I will elaborate more later, but I gotta remember them first :/

Creatures:

Thunderhawks:

- Named for the sound the beating of their wings make when they congregate in the air, these avians are found primarily within the Sky kingdom and are currently the largest bird on record. Thunderhawks grow about the size of a juvenile SkyWing and are fiercely territorial creatures, often causing a whole host of issues to any SkyWing flying too close to their nests. They aren’t particularly dangerous if you know what not to do, but they will absolutely fuck your shit up if you mess with them. So. Don’t mess with them

CATerpillars:

- I don’t have a fancy name for them yet but I just know that’s a popular bad pun in the Ice Kingdom

- These guys are basically snow leopards/polar bears, but bigger, and with eight limbs. They look a little sluglike to be honest, but are actually frighteningly quick. They’re found exclusively within the Ice Kingdom and are very solitary creatures, shy around dragons unless they’re sick or starving and just desperate enough to snag a dragonet that wandered a little too far from the igloo. They’re quite prominent in IceWing culture, though I won’t go too deep into it for now

Sand Wyrms:

- Like Thunderhawks, the wyrm family is found all across Pyrrhia in different types of environments. However, the Sandwyrm is a genus specific to the desert, and often targets lone animals traveling on ground. Sandwyrms travel across the sand for the most part, until they catch the scent of prey. They will follow their targets until close, at which point Sandwyrms will bury themselves under the sand and ambush whatever creature is unfortunate enough to cross their path. They don’t eat very often fortunately, otherwise they’d be a real nuisance. Generally though, they don’t bother dragons so the SandWings leave them alone (except when they’re hunted as delicacies. Sandwyrm meat is delicious, and they’re just hard enough to catch that they’ve become a real treat. Yum)

Various bigass fantasy bugs:

- Bigass fantasy bugs are a staple food in Southern MudWing territory, just when the swamps start to become jungle. They’re usually food for the lower classes and locals, which is to say they’re a part of stereotyped beliefs about backwater, Southern MudWings (and MudWings in general), but the real game down there gets bigger and meaner and more dangerous to hunt the further south you go, so bugs it is. They’re actually pretty damn tasty but no one ever gives them a chance :(

There’s a lot more but I haven’t named them yet or come up with a solid idea for them. Plus I wanna draw pictures of them but. Well. I am currently besieged by the curses and thus cannot promise any designs to be forthcoming

I also have specific tribe headcanons (including physiology, culture, food, religion/spirituality/mythology, oc lore, etc) if y’all wanna know about that, but I’m not listing them here because there’s too many and I’m overwhelmed. And I also wanna draw them. But I will be listing them soon, art or no art. So watch out

ASK ME ABOUT MY WOF HEADCANONS PLEASEPLEASE PLEASE LLEASE

[weird-unlimited-ramblings]

I feel like what hurts me most about Sparrow being all “I’m not proud of you” isn’t that he said it, cause I could already kinda guess that from the first scene.

It’s just that normal doesn’t seem to have had any inclination of it prior. Like, to him that’s just his dad being his dad. Not his dad trying to nudge him into being more normal.

And that’s exactly why Normal believes his dad hates him (at least in my mind). Cause as humans we are built to remember the bad as a way of survival, and normal probably can only think about the times he’s seen his dad cringe and how he’s so stupid for just thinking his dad was worried (even if he was worried and not in fact cringing.) like every memory gets corrupted with this new realization. When Teeny won the mascot contest was your dad actually smiling at how happy you were or was he just avoiding a scene, Did he actually enjoy watching those anime movies with you and hero when you were little or are you misremembering, was your uncle trying to warn you that you shouldn’t trust when your dad says he loves you, and so on and so on.

[rainingmbappe]

The rise of "let people enjoy things" is single handedly the backbone of the rise of anti intellectualism

[lisxdumbr]

The whole "if a person is mad at you it's their responsibility to tell you" thing just made me realize how fucked my situation is. Like just. woah

[supersecretnerd]

Ok so these designs are cute as hell, the Internet is just mean

I have too many thoughts about a game I still need to watch

[littleweepingdalek]

no matter how good or bad the new moffat episode is we WILL have more unnecessary rtd vs moffat drama. brace yourselves.

[sonknuxadow]

they werent lying that knuckles series barely has knuckles in it