#skylanders pride prompts

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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)

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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…”

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Skylanders Pride Prompts 2019 - Day 5: Flying Flags

sticking the flag where everyone can see!

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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)

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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

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Skylanders Pride Prompts 2019 - Day 6: LGBT+ Ships

tossing out a new ship for today~

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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

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Skylanders Pride Prompts 2019 - Day 7: free day!

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

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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

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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)

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Ahahaha guess what starts tomorrow >:3

>:3c it approaches !! 🌈

[cyberstarlope]

It is time. Hope you enjoy the stories I concocted.

It's time indeed! I'm sure I will!