#songwing

[chameshida]

Long time no see! Here are some Hybrids update over the year

Frightbulb (Flightmare x Gronckle)

Timberstryke (Timberjack x Triple Stryke)

Fierytail (Night Fury x Singetail)

Bonezipper (Boneknapper x Zippleback)

Gemgripper (Gembreaker x Deathgripper) 

Songwool (Songwing x Woolly Howl)

Check this out for more Hybrids!

[crypticpaw]

The much-awaited Strike Class hybrid custom grid! I'm excited to work on all these pretty dragons, folks are always so creative!!🐉🌩️

Feel free to comment or DM me if you're interested!

(Sharing is always appreciated!🔁❤️)

[lalaverdecia]

School Of Dragons Appreciation Post

A long overdue post, I wanted to share some of my favorite dragons from this amazing game that I had played for over a decade.

Broppy the Deadly Nadder (female)

Borealis the Flightmare (male)

Trueno the Thunderdrum (male)

Armadura the Razorwhip (female)

Nevado the Woolly Howl (male)

Timecia the Singetail (female)

Poinsettia the Silver Phantom (female)

Leviathan the Triple Stryke (male)

Geyser the Windwalker (male)

Heiress the Songwing (female)

[gacha-every]

Me and my sister found ourselves snickering when we found out, that - after Aggro was acting unusually "nice" to Cutter (cus she's hypnotized) and Cutter concerns something's definitely off with her -

Winger makes a knowing face at the Razorwing lol xd

He's like "Yeah, of course you know what's up with Aggro."

[littlequeenies]

Ca. 1972 - 18-year-old American model Bebe Buell portrayed by Steve Anderson in one of her first photo shots.

Information from her instagram account.

[artseniccatnip]

what if pom in a prom outfit

uhm here u go :] i probably would have made it more extravagant if i were less lazy</3

[competentcormorant]

We need to talk about Secrets of the Songwing and LGBTQ representation.

Dreamworks. Hey. Sup.

Remember when you made Secrets of the Songwing?

That one Rescue Riders special where they tried to do the representation thing but ended up making something that honestly borders on genuinely insulting, despite being surprisingly beautiful on the surface?

Because I remember. Secrets of the Songwing lives rent free in my head. Do I love it? Just a little, to be honest. I find ending sequence is genuinely beautiful. Here’s why it’s shit representation. If you also have feelings I’m open to discourse in the comments :)

The story follows the Rescue Riders (as well as a bunch of side characters whose appearance in the story makes ZERO sense without the show to prop them up) as they attempt to thwart Melodia, a rogue Songwing dragon who hypnotizes other dragons by singing to them. Melodia is heavily implied to be gay, but this is only revealed at the very end of the movie.

Right off the bat, this story has some extremely dark undertones, including the implication that hypnotized dragons will forgo food and sleep, and will simply sing until they die. That’s not why we’re here. I promised bad representation.

As the story progresses, Melodia hypnotizes some of the Rescue Riders dragons, and the rest of the team begins to concoct increasingly ill-conceived plots to get them back. (Side note: This movie has an excessive reliance on earplugs and being unable to hear hypnosis song. Unfortunately, these are magical plot earplugs, and they block Melodia’s singing but literally nothing else, because writing cause and effect is difficult. Additionally, I suspect they paid the writers in Swiss cheese instead of money.)

Things escalate, and Layla (a Rescue Rider) identifies Melodia as a Songwing dragon. (“I didn’t realize at first, because songwings usually travel in pairs”) OH REALLY? YOU DIDN’T RECOGNIZE THE MASSIVE SPARKLY SINGING RAINBOW DRAGON BECAUSE THERE WEREN’T TWO OF THEM? Suuuure Layla. Remember this line. It will be important later.

Eventually, the riders manage to get the still-hypnotized dragons to return to Berk. (Sorry, knockoff Berk) There are a few pointless plot threads involving show characters, and then Melodia shows up at Not-Berk to hypnotize the Vikings as well as the dragons she already controls. At this point, her motive has not been established beyond “I want everyone to sing with me.” While it is implied that she’s lonely (and, going off of the single offhand comment Layla made earlier, missing her “songmate,” as Songwings travel in pairs) this implication of loneliness only really occurred to me in hindsight, and is inexplicably and poorly explained to the audience by Dax, another rider, at the very end. This movie’s 4 year old target audience probably have NO CLUE why this massive rainbow dragon is flying around trying to hypnotize everyone to “sing with me forever.”

Melodia is not a sympathetic character, because her supposed loneliness is never on display for the audience. All we see is a happy go-lucky dragon stealing free will with some mediocre songs.

Continuing with the plot, Melodia hypnotizes the entire population of Not-Berk. Only a few Riders are left unhypnotized. Exessive screen time is dedicated to making Melodia appear selfish, having the entire village pass her fish while no one else eats. Why? Why not make her sympathetic? This choice to make her completely villainous until her defeat is an extremely strange choice for a character the writers intend to redeem suddenly at the very end.

In the background, Layla is having a subplot about being able to sing in front of people, because only a better song can break a Songwing’s spell. Does it make sense? Not really, but this plot is set up and loosely held throughout the movie, so I really can’t complain about it.

Anyhow, Layla and Melodia have a song battle, and Layla wins, unhypnotizing the knockoff Vikings of Not-Berk. Right until the end of this song battle, Melodia remains unchanged, attempting to keep control. When Layla wins, Melodia’s personality shifts entirely.

Melodia sinks in on herself, and says “help? you’d help me?”. She is immediately FORGIVEN by Layla, saying “you said you lost your songmate, right?” (No, actually. She never said that. The only previous mention of a pair of dragons in any capacity is when Layla brings it up as a trait of the Songwing species. The conversation this line references never happened.) While I can forgive some plot holes in low-budget kids movies, this inconsistency is so blatant and problematic that it makes the ENTIRE PLOT OF THE MOVIE (That loneliness can make people to terrible things, and that those people can still be redeemed. This plot is utterly mishandled, to the point that they literally have Dax TELL MELODIA that “You lost the other half of your pair, and you’ve been trying to replace it with dragons and people.” YEA DAX, I think Melodia would know. Why not have her say it herself? OR SHOW HER BEING LONELY? Oh sorry, I forgot, you think kids are morons, and your writers are actually trapped in a basement signaling desperately for help).

Anyhow, this inconsistency- referencing a conversation about Melodia’s songmate that didn’t happen, makes the ENTIRE PLOT POINTLESS, because the writers FORGOT TO ESTABLISH THE LONELINESS, which was LITERALLY THE WHOLE POINT. (I genuinely could not believe that there wasn’t context for Layla’s line, so I rewatched the movie. Several times. Layla is referring to an event that didn’t happen)

After this series of increasingly odd writing choices, the movie moves on to a genuinely beautiful ending sequence.

No joke there, I just love it. Melodia is presented with a sound amplifying devise Layla used for a bit during her singing confidence sub-plot, and she uses it to call for her songmate. In a vacuum, this sequence is incredible. Cantana, her songmate, hears her, and they have a brief reunion duet.

With the rest of the movie as context, it has the single glaring issue of releasing a horrific, unsympathetic villain with zero repercussions.

Hell, if that scene had been framed as “what you did was bad, but you aren’t, so we’ll help you as long as you never do it again,” I would have no issues (again, kid’s movie. I can accept a simple, forgiveness-heavy narrative).

But while I understand a movie trying to teach young children forgiveness, this is TERRIBLE. Melodia doesn’t appear repentant, she appears manipulative. She suddenly changes tune after being defeated and outnumbered, and then gets to walk away Scot-free.

While I don’t object to having gay villains in movies, any more than I could object to straight villains, I do object to heavily relying on established gay villain tropes. (May I remind you this is a magical, singing, selfish rainbow dragon)

But ultimately, by biggest problem with this movie is that “being gay” is a substitute for a redemption ark. Seriously. That’s such a dumb sentence. I SOULD NOT have to write that.

You can make Melodia an unapologetic villain (who also happens to be gay).

You can give Melodia (who also happens to be gay) a redemption arc.

But you CANNOT do this.

Dreamworks, this is a dumpster fire. Please think before you release movies.

What the fuck.

Stop paying your writers in Swiss cheese.

It’s still better than How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Change my mind, you cowards.

[destinydraco]

Konečně pride projekt 🏳️‍🌈. Tento týden se dočkat nejen mé opravdové top 5 shipů, ale zároveň i Elsy, jak se v rámci těchto pentadrabblů rozhodne, zda půjde na pride. Snad se vám to bude líbit 😉.

[theicewingbeannamedowlet]

                         The continent of Scarria. hidden behind a wall of magical mist made by magical bird tribe. Yes this is an au                          Map, explained! (Credit to Scarria belongs to me and my friend, i just own the desings and 3/6 of the tribes of the contient)   Marshland, Rainforests, deserts, tundra, mountain range and the islands around the continent are self explanatory Eye of the land - references to the eye shape of the continent, this massive lake and island within it are religious ground to the batwings and they call the island withing 'Irisus'. Flamepeak - within the middle of the continent and surrounded by water, this mountain shows no volcanic movement but is regarded as a 'sleeping volcano' and is rumoured to have an ancient being locked within it, a being made of fire and magma, no one has proved or disproved as exploring within the mountain is forbidden and made illegal by all four current queens. Many dragons believe that climbing this mountain will grant fortune and wishes. The ancient ruins - four massive ancient ruins are scattered across the lands, over 300 years ago began a massive war that was caused by the four that time kingdoms fighting over the land that existed, causing grave destruction to the land and causing the deaths of the four queens of that time when the ancient spirits collapsed the castles of the four queens atop them. Leading the heirs who inherited the thrones to unite the four kingdoms into one massive kingdom to be ruled by four royal families and democracy. One still living dragon from this time is Queen Insular of the batwings, due to batwings having a proven much longer livespan than other tribes. Heart placing palace - the largest build ever made and able to house a massive amounts of dragons, it has many spirals going up and many rooms showcasing the culture of the four tribes that rule from within it. Four royal families life within this palace and its the 'heart of the continent', this has a reasoned nickname not explained much, even if oddly placing. Mist wall - this massive wall of mist is the reason this continent has yet to be found, this wall of mist surrounds the continent and its nearby isles. It is enchanted so when you try to enter the continent from the outside you get teleported to the other side of the continent outside the wall again, causing dragons to dismiss this mass of clouds to be smaller than it is. As well is this mist used to deflect any and all kind of outside magic (ie: spells from Darkstalker and Jerboa III being the most recent example)

[spacedykez]

i think its a shame that rescue riders doesn't have a fandom on tumblr. especially secrets of the songwing. youre telling me tumblr isn't absolutely in love with the rainbow singing lesbian dragons.

[chameshida]

Trans, Bi and Lesbian Songwings! Happy Pride!

[multifaceted-diamond]

Same Energy

[technicallymagnificentpaper-blog]

BEAUTIFUL MUSIC by Toni Beaulieu

[therealmattnappo]

Something To Say - Original Music by Matt Nappo #shorts