#tdp glowtoads

[reinafish]

WAIT…

[withdenim]

I love his slay little stance. (And his slay little hat)

[saltyb0ba]

gently offers a rayla holding bait for the TDP fandom of tumblr

[bat-snake]

RIGHT TDP FANDOM I need you to make a decision for me because I can't for the life of me.

And I want to do this wonderful little number, but I can't make a decision with who

So you'll have to decide for me if its

[newtwithinternet]

Oh this driftwood golem has personality

[klashta-neali]

I haven't seen anyone mention this but one of my biggest gripes with tdp s5 was how they almost killed amaya for like... no reason?

she almost died for a fvcking GLOWTOAD. a tOAD!! not even an important plot character. Yes I get Bait is important to Ezran but for AMAYA to die saving BAIT would've been the most stupidest thing ever.

And I don't understand why she wouldn't come back- why she insisted on staying behind and even shouted GO despite being deaf. zubeia came down and zapped tons of those beasts. it looked like she could easily take down the ones surrounding amaya, so why didn't she??? She could've easily saved Amaya and they could get out of there together, but no, then Corvus had to go and nearly get himself killed too??? It felt weird and unnecessary in terms of writing.

I get that Zubeia had to be injured so the gang would be forced to go to Scumport, but she still could've gotten injured while they're leaving without having to make Amaya and Corvus stay behind.

[learties]

Janai Week ☀️ Day 7: Headcanons

JANAI HAS A GLOW TOAD!!!

[moonshadow-memes]

Concept: Aaravos' stars get brighter the more excited he is. He tried to hold it in for Viren so he wouldn't give his emotions away, but he can't help it because there's somebody to talk to. But when he gets out, they'll be glowing like a neon sign. As a kid, he didn't have much control over it, so when he learned something new, he would just be grinning and shining. Imagine 6-year-old Aaravos smiling and holding a glowtoad under its armpits as they both glow, because look, it's just like him!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[sculptural-renaissance]

It's been a hot minute since I've had a chance to share any Mood Bait photos. I realized today that I've never once shown how he glows in the dark!

Because the liquid crystal must be sealed with epoxy resin, I mixed the glow in the dark powder into the resin instead of attempting to apply it directly to the surface, since that can look grainy. Unfortunately, that means that Bait doesn't glow super well yet. The first two photos are edited for higher contrast, but the third photo is not. All three were taken after a few seconds of exposure to a UV light.

Because his spots are turquoise and are lighter in color than the liquid crystal, the white glow powder shows up better over that, but he does glow all over. 💛

The Mood Baits did exceptionally well at AniMinneapolis, so I have to make more for Anime Midwest. ;) I do plan to add a limited quantity to my Etsy shop soon along with other TDP goodies, so be on the lookout for that announcement!

Special thanks to @dragonprinceofficial for making such a charming show and @solarcolordust for offering such excellent products! (The liquid crystal and GITD powder are from them.)

[nightengaleneedles]

The first of our #TheDragonPrince #ShoulderPets is now on Our Etsy! https://goo.gl/dYY4ZS Bait the #GlowToad is a unique extra wide design of ours, extra squishy and extra thick, perfect for #cosplay or just cuddling up with! He comes in every color a Glow Toad can be. Standard yellow will be coming with us to shows, but you can only get the others special on our Etsy!

[fufie-doop]

I kinda wonder if Bait is going to be seen by zym as their 'mum', since it was the first thing Zym saw after hatching. If season 2 has Zym following Bait about and learning from him, its going to be cute af and no one can convince me otherwise hah.

[chocochick-creations]

Inktober day 3- “Bait” (ft Bait, TDP)

Cute lil glowtoad be finding le pumpkins.

(I also found out I have a great time drawing pumpkins lol)

((Let’s grab a Ko-Fi!))

[coolstuffinmystash]

[SPOILER] THE DRAGON PRINCE S2 thoughts

-I NOW UNDERSTAND WHY TDP CREW ARE FEEDING US WITH VIREN CONTENT. He upped his arc this season. Like him alot now -Viren was peeping tom for a good 2-3 episodes -CLAUDIA and SOREN are still best children. Soren almost made me cry tbh -CLAUDIA WITH THE BUN HAIR AND FLOWERS -THE BACKSTORY EP IS A MUST -ADULT WITH NO CROWN, dragged. -AARAVOS WENT HAM AND He's not even in the chat -GIVE MY BOY GLOWTOAD SOME LOVE!!!! -is this game of thrones? -THREE HUSBANDS. OK. -y'all wanna be friends with the pirate be honest -NO TO DARK MAGIC PLS (my babe claudia huhu) -THE KINGxQUEEN SPARRING SCENE -THAT* ILLUSION SCENE -AUNT AMAYA IS STILL MVP -my boy gren whats up?

[platinumgigi]

WHY ISN'T EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT THISSSSSS

Shining little toad’s moment

[anonforlackofabettername]

Sleepover ask: Re the Dragon Prince. I've seen lots of people who seem to think that Claudia is going to be the Azula of the series - others think she'll be the Zuko. What are your thoughts? Related, do you agree with the large part of the fandom which thinks that dark magic is evil/corrupting, or the smaller part that thinks it's not that black and white?

My only fandom interaction is memes and fanart so I'm pretty removed from any theories that are floating around. I have no clue what the fandom is saying and if what I'm saying matches up with something that's already been said. That goes for both parts of your ask, though I’ll get to the dark magic stuff later. Part of me isn't even sure what you mean by the Azula of the series or the Zuko since I’m missing that meta. The way I'm choosing to interpret it, is that by Azula you mean a character who is frighteningly competent, a direct antagonist to the main heroes, and is the lesser shadow of the main antagonist that nevertheless hangs over the main heroes more often and arguably does more damage. I'm choosing to interpret it that by Zuko you mean a character who is slightly incompetent, spends the majority of the early parts of the story as a direct antagonist and the shadow hanging over the heads of the main heroes, but by the end of the story undergoes a redemption arc and joins the main heroes, eventually turning on the main antagonist and without whom the main heroes would not be able to win in the end. 

(This is fucking long so I’m adding a read more)

That being said, I don't think Claudia fits either of these. Neither does Soren. I think they maybe might fit Zuko's role, but that's a bit of a stretch. And I'm gonna say why. Claudia despite being a lovable goof in personality is frighteningly competent when it comes to magic. However magic in this universe comes with a lot of complications and components. Thus we don't get to see her expertise as often as we saw it with Zuko and Azula's firebending. Also a thing to keep in mind is that Claudia and Soren are friends with Ezran and Callum. Soren has been told to kill the princes, true, same with Claudia being told to bring back the egg, but they both care for the boys in a way that Zuko and Azula couldn't because to them the avatar was a nameless figure. These people grew up together. They share relationships. Callum even has a crush on Claudia. Its not like the foe yay sexual tension of Katara/Zuko. These people up to the start of the series lived with each other and saw each other every day. Soren was training Callum and was captain of Harrow's guard. There is a familiarity that you can't ignore and which I think will be a major conflict for Soren specifically, when we finally get to that confrontation and he has to either kill them or let them go. Right now they are supposed to be on a mission to bring the princes home which is the exact opposite of both Zuko and Azula's missions to kill Aang. However, that being said, they are on a mission to kill Reyna. Soren and Claudia showing up is a threat because they are a) trying to stop the princes from returning the egg, and b) they're likely to try and kill Reyna in the process.

However, the main heroes don't even know that Soren and Claudia are trying to find them. Aside from running from their Aunt and the run in with Crow, they don't know who is following them and what will happen if they get found. So its not like in Avatar where every couple of episodes they had to bolt out of wherever the adventure of the week was because Zuko showed up and was hunting them. They're mostly trying to get the egg, now a baby dragon, back to the border and his mother as soon as possible.

And again you have to take the world itself into account. Within the world, elves are the bad guys to humans. They kicked humans out of Xadia. They've killed hundreds in the war. They literally assassinated Harrow, though it is unclear if Ezran and Callum have realized their dad is dead. In fact Callum was convinced that Reyna drank blood, thats how much elves are the boogeymen of the human kingdoms. Now we know that’s not true and the elves were justified for parts of it, and both sides are equally guilty.  If you want to compare the show to Avatar so much, then think of it this way. The human kingdoms are the fire nation, the elves the Earth Kingdom, and Ezran and Callum have just realized how shitty their people have been to the rest of the world. In this case, that makes Ezran and Callum Zuko in the middle of his redemption arc, when he’s working through his shit while traveling the earth kingdom to get to Ba Sing Se, and Soren and Claudia are Azula towards the end of that arc when she's like ‘help me kill the avatar and I'll make sure our dick of a dad lets you come home.’ Only in this case killing the avatar is returning the egg. Its not a great metaphor, and its been a while since I've watched avatar, but that's the feeling I get overall. Its Zuko realizing that the Fire Nation has done some fucked up shit and feeling helpless to fix it because he’s just an exiled prince.

I’ve gotten very off topic at this point. Um, I think going back to the Zuko or Azula thing, I think it depends. It depends on what happens when they finally catch up with the boys. If Claudia is Zuko, she’ll see Zym with the boys, recognize it as a sentient creature that deserves life and to be reunited with his mother and help the boys. If she’s Azula she’ll see Zym as a threat to Katolis that could one day rival Thunder and decide he needs killing. And of course there’s always other options, those are just two potential outcomes and they don’t even include Soren and what he decides to do about what his dad told him to do.

Your other question was about dark magic.  I don't know if dark magic is inherently corrupting. If it is, I think we’ll definitely see evidence within the show. In general when it comes to fiction magic is magic, no matter its source. Sometimes sources are inherently evil while others are inherently good but for the most part its meh and magic just is and how people use it makes it good or evil. However, in this case, you can't ignore where dark magic comes from. It doesn't come from negative thoughts and feelings like the dark side of the force. It doesn't come from shadows or darkness like half a dozen different magic systems.

Dark magic in TDP comes from the direct exploitation of creatures with inherent magic. To use dark magic you need a plant or creature with inherent magic that the mage then twists and exploits to do what they want. To find the Moonshadow elves Viren used a moth. For the switching spell Virin used the two-headed snake. Claudia crushed a bug to create fire at Harrow’s funeral. Nothing about dark magic is innate, nothing about it is natural, and in fact it comes from exploiting natural creatures and resources. You are using the life force of a living being and generally its dead afterwards.

This isn’t important for things like plants or bugs or whatever. Yeah Claudia killed a bug and used its life to summon fire. Whatever, who here hasn’t killed bugs before? It starts to matter however when you’ve got people like Ezran who can talk to animals and understand what they’re saying. I’m sure being a glowtoad there’s a spell that Claudia could cast using Bait. That’s not okay since Bait is a pet as well as a living creature but if it happened to another glowtoad I doubt anyone would care. But since Ezran can talk to the animals, he does care because he knows the animals are not consenting. It also starts to matter when you have magical creatures that are sapient and intelligent enough to put their foot down and say I will not let you exploit me like this.

So I don’t know if dark magic is inherently corrupting, but the idea of using creatures is an inherently dehumanizing and corrupting one. To dark mages, these animals, and even the elves and dragons and any other magical creatures that we haven’t met yet, are less than human and exploitable. To Virin and Claudia the egg wasn’t a baby, it wasn’t a person, the egg was a weapon. Because to them dragons, magical creatures, and the like are tools and weapons. This has got some serious race implications because the last time we thought of an entire class of people as tools we had slavery and it was legal.  

To use dark magic, you have to be in this mindset that people are tools to be exploited. I have no idea what dark magic using an elf’s life force or a dragon’s life force would look like. I’m sure its possible, and I’m sure I wouldn’t like the result. There is a reason the elves took one look at dark magic and said ‘not today satan’ and decided it was a severe enough crime to exile the entire human race from Xadia. They were not about to let themselves be used. There is a reason the elves are the boogeymen of Katolis and the rest of the human kingdoms and part of that is they’re the enemy and part of that is if they are monsters, if they aren’t human, then no one will care what abuses happen to them.

So no, I don’t think using dark magic is inherently corrupting. I don’t think the magic itself corrupts. However I do think that to use dark magic, one must look at the world through a corrupted lens. You must be okay with harming living creatures to accomplish what you want, and you must be okay exploiting others. Anyone who believes in the intelligence and personhood of all creatures and then uses dark magic is either ignorant or a hypocrite. When it comes to Claudia, I think she’s partially a hypocrite and partially doesn’t see how what she’s doing is harmful and wrong. She sees only the potential of dark magic, and hasn’t yet realized what she’s harming to get her way.

[illustrator-dani]

We just love teasing Callum, don’t we? 

Callum: I have a calendar when I won’t touch Rayla’s horns. 

Rayla: He does. That mad lad.

Callum: I will not confirm nor deny that Rayla, however, tells me to touch them anyways. 

Rayla: Its funny when he forgets. 

Imagine if Raylas horns were like deer antlers and every once in a while she sheds then and as her and Callum are talking one just falls of and Callum is mortified asking if she’s ok but she’s sat there like “ what? I’m fine”

ahhahahah omg, I was talking about this with someone the other day!!

Can you imagine even better (worse I guess actually if you’re Callum) if he’s touching them for whatever reason (*cough* I leave the reasons up to your imagination depending on your thoughts about horn-touching...) and then one just breaks off into his hand????

Also, imagine him just like playing with her hair/horns while she sleeps and it happens then, lmao. ohnoohnoohnoohno

I think @critical-rayllum brought up superglue as a very Callum-brained solution...😂😂😂