#that's how s6 worked

[megaawkwardhuman]

[lunarskeletonart]

Classic art study that turned into a sticker design!

[pepoboyz]

darling heart, i loved you from the start

but that’s no excuse for the state im in

[id: a digital portrait of runaan from the dragon prince. he has pinkish skin, long white hair partially pulled back, and purple tattoos of lines and circles on his face and body. he has horns, one is broken. he wears a purple shirt with a deep v-neck and the sleeves pulled up, and a pair of dark teal torn pants with knee-high boots. he sits slightly hunched over with an avoidant gaze. stalking behind him is another version of himself, unkempt and darkened by shadows. he holds two swords, barely visible in the low light. his eye glows red. the background features a treeline, full moon, and traces of haze and mist, all in purple and blue. end id]

[raayllum]

THE DRAGON PRINCE: THE MYSTERY OF AARAVOS — Book Six: Stars

I see everything. I see a thousand stars. A thousand eyes. Worlds one and myriad. All of us nothing... and all of us infinite.

[montanabohemian]

i don't know how to tell the people whining about not seeing guillermo and nandor make out that that episode was gayer than gay sex.

[thankstothe]

[kradogsrats]

obsessed with the long-game payoff of "Hearts of Cinder" rn tbh

like not just in a narrative mirroring/parallels way, showing in s3 how far Viren had fallen and closing that arc in s6, or with how Soren and Viren's positions reversed, but like... either they planned this for Viren literally from the beginning or it came about through a startling commitment to lore depth and consistency

because like

a) Back in s3, the "Hearts of Cinder" spell is... weird. Like not so weird that it clashes with the setting as we know it, but at the time we're only just being introduced to things like the Draconic corrupted Sun rune spells, or the role the Staff of Ziard plays in dark magic. It's got an incantation that, at the time, is kind of unusual in the context of other dark magic spells but slots in with the series' overall recurring heart motif such that it can't really be called wrong. It's not a Spiders Georg-level outlier, but it definitely feels like there's something we're missing.

b) That's because someone planned it out in deep detail: "Hearts of Cinder" is, in hindsight, the only dark magic spell we see that is clearly intended for war with Xadia. It's a spell that comes from a much more brutal era both politically and magically, when armed conflict with dragons was high and "make your army immune to dragon fire for the low, low cost of one human sacrifice" was a deal people were willing to take. We know that's intentional, because it's right in the incantation: dark magic incantations frequently reference the spell reagent, as with "Slithering Steel" or "Ash of Fallen, Rise Again." So someone knew as far back as s3 that this spell normally used a human heart for its magical power.

c) This confirms so much stuff that it's like they put it in there for me, tumblr user kradogsrats, special interest: dark magic. The on-screen exposition drop that the Sunforge Staff contains a Sun primal stone. Confirmation that you can use a primal stone as a source for dark magic. Confirmation that you can use human essence as a source for dark magic. Another consistency example of the Staff of Ziard being used to empower dark magic spells. Confirmation that there are dark magic spells built on human sacrifice.

like... that's all stuff I knew, or at least suspected and wanted to be true, but having it all right out there like "hey who wants some resolution in the lore arc of dark magic? kradogsrats again?" just has me like

[al-luviec]

Morro design + a ton of notes.

[mcytegg]

one of the key parts of the dualities dynamic to Me is they always have a lil comment to make, a lil joke to whisper to each other and giggle abt when theyre w other people and when theres nobody else around theyre more likely to bicker and make even Dumber jokes that are unfunny to anyone who isnt them

[vamp-a-day]

day 58

Vampire cookie as Pure Vanilla, designed by strangermask on discord!

[kaythefloppa]

Enough time has passed to where I think we can openly admit how WK has gone through seasonal rot within its previous 2 seasons and how the hype of Season 7 along with the generally positive reception is a really green flag for the show's quality.

[theblackcatmasque]

TERRY, SWEET SWEET TERRY!!! CLAUDIA BABY GIRL! GO! GO ON THAT JOURNEY AND DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO TO START HEALING! SWEET TREE BOI HAS GOT YOUR BACK AND HE'S NOT GOING ANYWHERE!

[twojamie-o-clock]

The krotons is always an infuriating (affectionately) story what with everything Jamie goes through but I do love how immediately after being told he is literally better off dead & waste matter because of his alleged lack of intelligence he adapts to the situation, pries information out of the krotons, and does damage before escaping. Yeah, sure, he’s stupid. Uh huh. Say that again please

[cozynb]

wanting to engage socially about the things you like but the community being so nasty and negative that you leave all your groups and threads and revert back to silent obsession

[leafatlaw]

I don’t know how accurate this is to say, but, the pedestal people, especially the new players, put Zam on is so intriguing.

Lifesteal is a terrifying server to join, and maybe Zam seems like a constant to them. He streams the most, and this season has aligned himself with protecting spawn. He’s safe even when he’s not a pacifist, he’s reasonable and won’t kill on sight. So people like Kab and Derap want him to be their knight. They want Zam to protect them, be their teammate and ally. Because lifesteal is scary and having a veteran player at your beck and call makes it less so.

And then other players, like Mane and Flame, see Zam differently. Zams not just a protector of spawn, he is Spawn. And in order to make their mark on the server they need to fight, kill, destroy, Spawn. And well by the transitive property, they need to destroy Zam. He’s still on a pedestal but it’s a different one, it’s one he needs to be dragged down from. Either way it doesn’t matter, Zams still a target, center stage, sitting right at Spawn.

[raayllum]

i'm gonna get my broyals angst / ezran feels abandoned arc aren't i?