#its not even that they're revealing bc like . slay

[egyptianking]

God Nicole and Matilda have the worst dress sense I have ever seen dear lord

[st5lker]

i wish i wasnt so disillusioned by post-rupaul drag. i know theres still plenty of performers out there with heart and soul but idk i used to have so much love for drag as an art form and i still do for like looking back at drag queens before 2010 but idk as much as i wish i could feel the same way abt drag in 2023 as i can abt drag in the 00s 90s or earlier i just dont think itll ever have that feeling of daring and community and uniqueness anymore. like im not saying drag has to be "exclusive" or that none of them can be famous but idk after around 2016 drag as a whole really started to morph into this very corporate beast and even the queens who have no interest in being famous or being on drag race or whatever (which are extremely rarely under 30) still have people coming to their shows WANTING that from them. you cant see any respected drag queen outside of drag race, even the ones adjacently associated with it like coco peru, without hearing swarms of people being like "why dont you audition for drag race" and "i wish you were more famous" and focusing more on the queens' instagram than their actual shows. drag isnt about Personal self expression and uniqueness anymore its about how many ""death drops"" and splits and wig reveals you can do and how close you can look to the newest tiktok twink with rich parents that can afford to buy out sephora. and like there really isnt anything wrong with entertainment or conventional makeup or whatever being the core of your drag not everyone has to reinvent the wheel but i hate how the bigger it gets the less its about the performer's expression and the more it's about the (primarily cishet and/or white) audience's enjoyment of them based on their extremely limited view of corporate drag. i hate how many drag queens arent focused on their local communities and bars anymore, they're focused on brand deals and soulless tv appearances and tiktoks explicitly designed for teenage girls to scream "slay" at. and i can't even blame rupaul or drag race entirely bc even though he definitely was the kickstart to get drag (and in some ways the lgbt community) into the mainstream corporate world the corporatization of the lgbt community goes farrr beyond him.

[justbreachedcuntainment]

The dragon prince season 4 rant(spoilers from like line one)

There's a lot of ppl complaining rn about aaravos only getting one scene but I think this was very well done for two reasons. One is fandoms love puzzles. Finding all the pieces, seeing what goes together and figuring out what the final picture is. But once they're done with the puzzle they move right onto the next thing to solve. They'll either not appreciate the work the crew puts in after solving the puzzle(I've done this in the past with shows like gravity falls- trust me I know) or just treat it as another show and move on to the next hyped up thing. There's also fans who's reviews/ reactions I've seen on yt and LITERALLY IN SEASON 2 they said "this guy's cool but once you know the mystery and big reveal he's kinda boring" IN SEASON 2!!!! SO YEAH NO WONDER TDP CREW ARE ONLY GIVING HIM SO FEW LINES.

Secondly the show is titled "mystery of aaravos" not "discovering aaravos" or "all about aaravos". "Mystery of aaravos". What kind of mystery reveals itself at the start of a new chapter in the show? And yeah yeah it's season 4 but season 3 wasn't "mystery of arravos" it was the dragon prince. We didn't get most of tdp clues until the end of season 3 / during the hiatus excluding maybe things like the elarion poem? Idk when that came in could've been season 1/2 as that was when we first saw the ancient book I believe right? Correct me if I'm wrong I need to rewatch the show. Also side note the show is definitely not a long show. I work full time 10-6 night shifts Mon to Fri and I still binged it all in 8 hours the Sunday after guy Fawkes night. So yeah even if aaravos only gets one scene so what? It's not like we're sitting through 40/50 min eps to get a crumb of hot elf man.

Oh right yeah tdp is made by a lot of atla crew so they know what they're doing when they only keep the big bad in one major scene (which he slayed in btw) it's not just fanservice

As fun as the fanservice is Aaravos' tiny scene is a great display of his power(which we've seen little regarding the extent it can go btw esp with a non consenting host) and raises many questions for us to theorise on(like is Aaravos' a monster fucker?/j... Unless). The crew knows how to stir the fandom and indeed were probably predicting this dissapointed response when they made Aaravos' scene. Yet they kept it this way bc that's how you reel in the old fans and even viewers. With puzzles and mysteries and hidden clues. It's also a good way to keep casual viewers who may miss the hidden clues on their toes. Even if most of the hints and clues fly over their heads they'll still think "why is this guy fallen?" "What does he gain from manipulating people this way?"(which is a whole debate of its own after elarion's poem).

So tldr: the breadcrumbs we get of aaravos are intentional and a lot of people don't get that