#skylanders pride prompts

[lapuswolf]

Skylanders Prompts 1

Day One: Questioning (This isn’t really “struggling” about something, but I thought this would be cute anyways. Also I’m going to try and connect all the prompts, like one long continuous story)

@cyberstarfox @skylander-prompts

Warning: Small language and long post. (I’m on mobile so I can’t change it..)

Blades Finds Love?

“Could be better.” He huffed in his gruff tone. “Y’know it’s pride month right?” Blades rolled his eyes making Five frown. “This means you could totally get somebody. I’m tired of watching you be so lonely all the time. As your friend, I will be your wingman. Literally.” He fluttered two of his wings.

“Thanks mate, but I already have all the ladies!” He stood up proudly, opening his wings to show the underside. “Everyone loves me!” He looked over and winked at a passing dragon, Flashwing. Just as he thought, she giggled and waved her tail before trotting over to Bash and Terrafin. “See? I could totally get any girl I please! Even a dude! I can be gay.”

Five grimaced slightly. “Gooood to know. Just saying, Flashwing is off limits. She’s with, Bash and just about every other dragon as someone. And if your trying to be gay, don’t look at me. Not interested.” Blades frowned slightly before looking around the area again. That’s when he saw her. A beautiful finned water dragon. Echo. “Oh no, no no no. Don’t be thinking about Echo. Y’know how she is about relationships! She’s asexual! And imagine a playboy like YOU trying to flirt with her!” Five hissed.

Blades grinned over to Five. “I take that as a compliment. Besides I like a good challenge. I’ll just use my good looks and charm to get her swooned!” Five could only stare in horror. He knew how terribly this would tumble downhill. Blades made his way over to the dragon and puffed his chest, and opened his wings a bit. “Greetings, Echo. Fine day it is, isn’t it?”

“Uhm…” Echo turned her head to face Blades. Her bright yellow eyes looked into Blades’. Blades could only stare in her eyes. His wings shifted slightly. “Did you need something?” He faltered, and was no longer confident. His heart practically melted but he tried to stay strong.

“I-I-I uh.” He stammered, mentally cursing at himself. What the bloody hell is wrong with me? Just ask her out! “I was w-wondering I’d like you dinner go s-somewhere me with? Uh…” Echo stared in confusion. Blades took in a deep breath. “Wouldyouliketogoonadatwwithme?”

Echo’s eyes widened before she snorted. “Haha? That’s a joke right? Cause this is really funny. You’re just a playboy, I’m surprised your dim brain wanted to ask an asexual out.” Blades’ wings drooped, and his heart ached. More than it should. He couldn’t help but laugh nervously. “Yeah, no. You’re weird. Go find yourself a nice slut, m’Kay?” She turned on her heels before bouncing away.

Blades blinked before slumping down to the ground. His eyes sparkled and watered at the same time. He had no clue what he was feeling. While he was so caught up in his emotions, he didn’t hear High Five coming up behind him. “Yeesh, that sucks man. Better luck next time.” When he didn’t get a response, he leaned his head down to look at Blades’ face. Five blinked before frowning. “Oh, wooow I can’t believe it! You’re in love! Oh my god! Playboy, narcissistic, Blades is in love!”

“I-is that what I’m feeling?” Blades covered his face with his claws. “O-oh wow…” Five was certainly surprised, as he has never seen Blades so hopeless. “I think...I think I am in love….” He stood up and spun around happily. “Didya look at the way she smiled and laughed?! Her voice his like butter! She’s so amazing!”

Five couldn’t help but smile slightly. “Oh boy…” he said sarcastically.

~~~

“Hey! Oh wow! Would ya look at that?” Blades exclaimed, shaking High Five by the shoulders. He tugged away and gave Blades a death glare. “She looked at me!” He smiled dreamily.

“Not anymore when you act like that.” Five mused before he was shoved down into a bush. “What the— Blades! What are you doing?!” A fake mustache was slapped onto his face. He blinked confusingly, before turning over to his friends. Blades also had a fake mustache, and a pair of black shades. “What the actual hell.”

“It’s our disguises!”

“For what?! What are we even doing?!”

“Checking out the competition! Look.” Blades pointed a claw over to Echo, who was talking with another water skylander. “Who does he think he is?! Zap shouldn’t be allowed to hang out with her! Only I can.”

Five shivered slightly as he heard what Blades said. “First off, I’m getting serious yandere vibes right now. Secondly, aren’t Zap and Echo cousins or something?” (It's a headcanon of mine)

Blades lifted off his shades and narrowed his eyes, “Mother of god…” He tosses the glasses on the ground and pulled off his mustache. He sighed to himself and watched Echo laugh with Zap. The way she wailed out in laughter really made his heart flutter. He really did like her. His thoughts were interrupted as he saw something move in the distance. He turned his head and his eyes widened. A giant ball of bright energy came swooshing forward. “Echo! Look out!” He cried before he kept out of the bush.

Echo was quite surprised to see a fellow dragon randomly jump out of the bushes. That when she realized what he was doing. He opened his wings and used them as a shield. The golden light slammed against him. His body slowly turned into gold, and he muttered something under his breath. Echo watched in horror as Blades was now a gold statue. “Holy smokes!” Zap screamed. “GOLDEN QUEEN IS HERE!”

“I’ll sound the alarm!” High five called out before he used his power to zip away. Zap growled and his mouth filled up with lightning, and Echo readied herself.

“Ahaha, oh how sweet. The pathetic dragon sacrificed himself!” Golden Queen appeared and spun her staff around. She smirked before speaking again. “What a useless bunch of skylanders!” She cackled.

Echo raised an eyebrow. “Why are you alone? Where’s the rest of the Doom Raiders?!”

“They’re all trapped in CloudCracker Prison!” Golden Queen grumbled. “I was lucky enough to not get captured…”

“For some reason I don’t believe you.” Zap hissed. Golden scowled before sending a beam of light. Zap helped as he jumped away, barely missing the blast. He growled before sending a blast of lightly back at her. She easily dodged and laughed.

“You are all pathetic!” She boomed and was preparing for another attack. Suddenly there was a large cracking noise. Everyone turned to the Blades’ golden statue. It cracked and a giant burst of light appeared. Blades appeared and his scales glistened. He had summoned his legendary armor, and his scales were a shimmery gold and blue. “You’re a legendary?!” Golden exclaimed.

“You sure bet I am!” Blades chuckled before he spun around. A giant tornado appeared, spinning a handful of tiny swords. Golden cried out in agony, before the tornado swept her up and she was sent flying off the island. Blades couldn’t help but laugh as his armor slowly faded and he turned back to his normal blue color.

He turned around and looked at Echo and Zap. Zap’s mouth hung open, while Echo was frozen in shock. She shook her head and she smiled slightly. She carefully bounced over to Blades and nudged him. “So, what about that date?”

“H-huh?” Blades flushed, his wings, becoming stone. “Y-you want to go on a date? With me? Why me? I thought you were asexual? And you hated playboys!”

“I am, I despise playboys. But I love heroes.” She smiled and looked over where Golden Queen fell. “You save my life, I have to pay you back somehow.” She chuckled before nuzzling his cheek, “meet you here tomorrow at noon.” She waved her claw before heading back over to Zap and the two walked away.

Blades eyes were wide and he stood there dumbfounded. “Hiyah!” He yelped as he was slammed down onto the ground by a very cold blade. “Die you ugly bad guy!”

“Woah! Freeze! Calm down! That’s Blades! Golden Queen is the bad guy!” High Five called out as he caught up with the super speedy skylander. Freeze Blade sulked slightly and hopped off of Blades. “Speaking of the Doom Raider, where is she?”

“I defeated her.” Blades huffed as he stood back up, flapping his wings to heat them up. “I had this awesome heroic moment where I broke free of her power with my superior legendary armor. Then Echo asked me out. Who knew that to get the girl of your dreams all you needed to do was be in a life threatening situation with a Doom Raider.”

Freeze was oddly confused at what as going on and tilted his head in confusion. Five just sighed and frowned. “He’ll never learn...will he…”

[cyberstarlope]

Skylanders Pride Prompts 2019 - Day 5: Flying Flags

sticking the flag where everyone can see!

[redrockbluerock]

i think 50% of these are rairpairs that you can get ONLY here!! 

Skylanders Pride Prompts Day 6: LGBTQ+ Ships

lets goooooo (all of this is hcs im havin fun babey)

Stealth/Hex: Hex is bi, Stealth is lesbian

Gear/Gang: Gearshift is demisexual, Wolfgang is bi

Gold/Sprocket: Sprocket is trans and pansexual, Golden Queen is a lesbian

Bloom/Rush: Both Identify as lesbian, Boom Bloom is agender

Flame/Rider: Both identify as gay

Chill/Bella: both identify as lesbian

Smolder/Strike: Star Strike is genderfluid and uses she/her pronouns, Smolderdash is bi

Mesmer/Cut: Both Identify as Asexual

so some of these seem like they came outta left field huh

listen this aint even all of the ships i got that fit the theme these are just most of the mainverse ones

i can give explantations for most of them and i get to name some of them

Stealth/Hex is just... i like it. gay elves. (hex is struggling not to laugh in the pic. i wanna believe Stealth is the only person who can reliably make her laugh)

Gearshift and Wolfgang is a pairing i’ve had for a while. i started tying together their canon backstories and this chaos ensued. I’m starting to write a fanfic for it that i’m calling Twin Ghosts....

Gold/Sprocket- i made a joke and oops. theyre dating now. OOPS!

Bloom/Rush- I made one shitpost. one. ONE. on another note i gave headrush the canon orc eyes this time (i think the white part is another nictitating membrane) 

Flame/Rider is kinda the same explanation as stealth and hex. the elves are gay now.

Chill/Bella (ive nicknamed this pairing Ice Crystal) strong lesbians who workout together and have contrasting colour schemes

Smolder/Strike idk i think theyre cute together. they also happened to be my favorite cores from swap force so theres that

Mesmer/Cut (Silken Strings)....

actually no i won’t explain that one : )

[ccc-sarahjaneseddon]

I have done this task for Week 10 Separately compared to in a group.

Notes for video

Categories - Maori asian and Pacifica. 

Pataka in Porirua creates a space for conversation. 

Relating to Cantonese Chinese - Her heritage and her ancestors.

Tracing back to the whakapapa

Framing Identify - Making home in ‘ The space between’ cultural frames. Space between worlds. Longing to belong. 

Where are you from? - This is a confronting question - What are the prompts in conversation? We always assuming the dominant is pakeha European. Feel like you don’t belong, are you from here?

Dominant cultures

New Zealand design DNA - What we make and generate. 

What could an asian perspective look like?

Be critically aware of using words/terms - Asian, Chinese, Eurasian, People of colour/POC 

Where are you from? = Where are you local to? - Tūrangawaewae - Where you stand, where your ancestors are buried.

Mixed decent 

Depiction of the early Chinese settlers coming to the country as an unwelcome force. Idea of the allien. 

Stereotypes. 

Waves of migration shown throughout each cartoon - book is available in Massey

Poll tax for Chinese migrants when coming in.

The New Gold Mountain 

Gods own country is shown in traditional landscape painting - People of the land, idea of outsider.

Chinese Māori Narratives.

Idea of the “other”

Finding power, differences and voicing otherness.

Pride and ownership = who you are? where you are from?

Kerry has her own works - Eg, painting over colonial works.

People think you are connected with the home land even though you are very much from here.

Communities of infinity - Working together, allows for movement.

Collective kaupapa 

Why am I still in wellington? I like bringing the ideas back here. 

Collage and montage - piecing worlds together

Connection to space and community. Each city has its own space eg in Porirua

Becoming the media - useful for marginalised communities 

Asian New Zealand Identity - What are some stereotypes?

Met resistance from Chinese families

Ingrain cultural stereotypes within a home space - eg why ain’t you doing accounting?...

Elephant in the room - property crisis

Strategic for ANZ = focussing on asian migrants

What it means to be a New Zealander

What it means to be isolated

Alternate world view

Kerry Ann Lee

Return to Skyland (wallpaper detail), 2018 Kerry Ann Lee Mixed media installation commissioned by Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Digital video projection, custom wallpaper print, furniture, foil curtain Photo courtesy of Te Papa

https://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2019/02/18/kerry-ann-lee-jacksons-open-painting-prize-2019-expert-judge/

Kerry Ann Lee Lucky Strike 2017. Courtesy Bartley + Company Art. https://citygallery.org.nz/events/digital-art-workshop-with-kerry-ann-lee/

Restaurants (2007). Image from the artist. Kerry Ann Lee http://eyecontactsite.com/2014/10/kerry-ann-lees-lambda-prints

Above are some examples of Kerry Ann Lee’s works.

Where are you from? Her artworks are showing the ideas of mixing two worlds, her whakapapa, ancestors and tupuna colonising/migrating to New Zealand. She has collided two backgrounds, the idea that she lives in New Zealand but her family is from asian countries. She has brought 2 worlds together throughout her paintings. 

Lee, Kerry Ann. “A Chinese Perspective on Art & Design & Asian Roots in Aotearoa.” 237.131 off-site lecture on occasion of the Fruits in the Backwater exhibition. Pātaka Art & Museum, 28 September 2017, Pātaka Art +Museum, Porirua. Lecture. (Total viewing time: 55 mins)

[cyberstarlope]

Skylanders Pride Prompts 2019 - Day 3: Gender Identity Headcanons

academy gave us trans Jet-Vac and he’ll be pulled out of my cold dead hands

[cyberstarlope]

Skylanders Pride Prompts 2019 - Day 6: LGBT+ Ships

tossing out a new ship for today~

[cyberstarlope]

Skylanders Pride Prompts 2019 - Day 4: Pride Parade

late for my own event oops but anywho here’s my big faves celebrating with their boos

[cyberstarlope]

Skylanders Pride Prompts 2019 - Day 7: free day!

Brimstone here to remind everyone to love themselves no matter what! and that she’s single

[cyberstarlope]

Skylanders Pride Prompts Week 2019 - Day 1: Questioning

Freeze came to question his sexuality when he was a teenager. He figured it out in time and now proudly displays his bi nature though it took quite a few years of questioning to get there

[cyberstarlope]

Skylanders Pride Prompts 2019 - Day 2: Sexuality Headcanons

I’ll die on the hill of gay flameslinger :V (the flag on his sweater is the one from my skylander pride icons)

[redrockbluerock]

hey look its the very first piece of content anybody has made for this pairing does that mean i get to name it

Skylanders Pride Prompts Day 2: Sexuality/Romantics

Chill has loved many women in her life. One as a daughter, one as a mother, many as friends... And one as her wife.

harold... theyre lesbians 

i love how their colours contrast

minor notes since this is also the first time ive posted a drawing that isnt just chill or barbella’s head 

i base barbella’s crystal pattering on where muscles are, so her face has the most complex design since there’s so many muscles there

chill’s hands are set up so they’re both missing a finger. I consistently draw them so that her right hand (shown) is missing the pinky and the left is missing the middle.

i like drawing chill so that she’s a bit chub. insulates in the cold and pads her muscles. secret beef

if you look closely on chill she has a bit of arm hair and stubble. let me project on my faves! its fine! women can grow beards!

[redrockbluerock]

yes that is stealth in the background running around dyed like the gay flag you know how it is

Skylanders Pride Prompts Day 4: Pride Parade

Hex had been used to hiding. She’d been doing it for years. Even with Malefor gone, it was still a habit. Killing a dragon doesn’t rid people of their biphobia. But she was done with hiding. Whether or not she’d be accepted, she’d be seen. And maybe, for those who couldn’t come out of hiding, for those who had to stay in the shadows to remain alive… she’d bring hope.

i still cannot be forced to do a background

ive never been to a pride parade... maybe next year

seeing someone like yourself in a positive light is incredibly validating... its like being told you’re not alone.

edit: oh yeah just a note, my brain need music playing to draw and for some reason i drew this listening to Jenny on repeat for like two or three hours

ive switched from drawing Hex as a larger woman to more skeletal. I still put her as being the tallest core skylander.

the concept of stealth dying her stripes in the colours of the gay flag to become a living gay flag was funny to me and i had to to do it. honestly if i could shapeshift i’d do that.

[redrockbluerock]

this was fun

Skylanders Pride Prompts Day 7: Free Day!

I chose to draw some characters interacting with their own or their so’s family

Krankcase sees Boom Bloom for the first time in years after being caught in Trap Team and immediately get excited at how much his daughter has grown. (she’s flowering!!)

He’s evil but he’s not a bad dad. 

you are going to look at my oc’s and you are going to like them

I’m gonna talk about the two oc’s down here

In the Middle pic: “Sparky”- Sprocket’s cousin, a white-gold Golding (kinda like how awakened Sprocket is), born missing her left arm from the elbow down. Took over the Boom Brother’s factory after their demise in the books.

In Third Pic: Amanita- Hex’s Younger(?) sister/ Rider’s Grandmother. Hex and Rider found out they were related when he was saying something about “zombification running in the family” and “something happened to his Great Aunt Hesperia, at least according to his Grandmother Amanita”- causing Hex to realize she might not have came out the realm of the Undead in the same year she entered. Sometimes that just happens with portals. Technically Amanita was born after Hex, but due to Portal instabilities, Hex is only 50 while Amanita is well into her 200s and still going strong. 

Amanita is named after the mushroom genus containing Fly agaric, the Deathcap, and Destroying Angel mushrooms, while Hesperia (What I’ve chosen for Hex’s legal name) comes from Handkea hesperia, a species of puffball mushroom.

here’s all the file names from the entire week of prompts

[redrockbluerock]

Ive discovered i like doing week challenges and i’m big gay, so i’m gonna try and do all seven days of the Skylanders Pride Week!

day one: Questioning

Before her imprisonments, there wasn’t a term for how Ninjini felt. 

Now, over 10,000 years later, there’s so many ways for people to identify themselves. She isn’t sure what fits her the best, but at least Pop Fizz is there to help.

i don’t ship ninjini and pop fizz i just think of them as bottle buddies

...i want a box of pride flags...

[redrockbluerock]

this doesnt count as a background i just wanted the whole flag to be visible

Skylanders Pride Prompts Day 5: Flying Flags

Within the subterranean mazes beneath the Kingdom of Metallana, countless flags have been hidden by their Princess, better known outside the kingdom as Gearshift. Nobody knows how many there are, but the biggest one is a few twists and turns away from the room beneath the Great Gear. The workers in the Depths have started to use them as markers, and might even be putting up some of their own

younger gearshift: im gonna slap a pride flag right here

younger gearshift:... more of them

[redrockbluerock]

i have to make this post stupid tall or tumblr crushes Sprocket 

Skylanders Pride Prompts Day 3: Gender Identity

Like the cosmos, Star Strike’s Gender is ever changing... at least that’s how she describes it. 

aaaaaaa i love sprocket so much i fell so hard for her when i saw her walk cycle i knew i may or may not keep putting real traits from myself on her

strike and cast are sibs and thats my hc thanks for coming to my tedex talk