Quiet Dragons

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[pocketss]

ha ha yeah

[alaanin]

This is an NPC for my Homebrew Dungeons & Dragons campaign, she's a deity and I love her. She's an absolute goblin, essentially the "aunt sherry" of the gods; always drinking and trolling mortals.

[alaanin]

Guys.. I found him! Tidelord got a part time job with CapCom!

[alaanin]

My WIP of, my friend, Treanna's imperial Raanune.

[alaanin]

;u; I'm in love with them... but they're part of a breeding project

[nabesima]

[writhe]

i have a hill to die on real quick

[writhe]

phrases like “you don’t owe anyone anything” and “relationships aren’t transactional” have the power to be used in ways that are very backwards and harmful

for example, no you don’t owe anyone anything in that if some creep is trying to get with you, you can block him without feeling bad. you don’t owe kindness to people who are transphobic or racist or bigoted.

but, you can’t use this as an excuse to fuck over people who have helped you. “you don’t owe anyone anything” isn’t an excuse to allow yourself to forget compassion and basic empathy, it isn’t an excuse for you to be an asshole just because you find it easier to be one

relationships aren’t transactional in that if your partner does something nice for you, you are indebted to them. they do these things because they love you; it is their choice to express love through these gestures

but they are transactional in that you both actively need to be putting time and care into the relationship. ignoring the dynamic of one person caring too much (and putting in excessive (emotional an literal) work and labor) while the other does nothing isn’t healthy. one person can’t solely take and the other person can’t solely give- that’s dangerous, and you can’t put the bandaid of “this isn’t transactional” over a relationship that is draining you in all capacities

i’m tired of seeing these things being misconstrued and used as an excuse to hurt people, while framing it as a way of taking care of yourself

[alaanin]

Please help me dress my murder bird... she's too beautiful and I cannot bring myself to just throw apparel at her and hope it looks good.. which is what I generally do.

[the-chattering-tower]

Staff: Gaolers are cold and heartless. The only thing they love is Work and Being Scary. Material possessions are Worthless. They Pity and Look Down Upon their Puny Clanmates who are Losers bc they Care About Things.

Me: puppy…………big puppy……………Loves Friends………..soft………….

[fenhyste]

I imagine a gaoler poking their head up out of their subterranian hole, before making the jump and finally sneaking away from their strict society.

Then just going on a wild hedonistic binge, like those adults whose parents never let them eat candy but as soon as they’re free they eat WAAAY TOO MUCH

[hungrytundras]

Okay but here’s another spin:

Material possessions are worthless to them yes, but also generations of being holled up under the fortress have instilled in them an intense pack mentality and family mindedness.

Gaolers are overbearingly clingy.

No sense of personal space.

No sense of boundaries. Personal affects. Even the concept of separate sleeping spaces is alien to them. No private time. Every day is family day. Be ready for lots of together time.

[alaanin]

I suddenly feel like the flight rising staff has been stalking me... and now all of you know my secrets and weaknesses...

[alt-j-deactivated20171027]

nah I think we should really stop glorifying cigarettes

[dirty-sparkletini-no-olive]

you sound boring.

[psiioniic-miracles]

You sound like you’ve never had the scent of cigarette smoke ingrained in your clothes to the point where people in middle school thought you smoked at eleven because your parents couldn’t be bothered to go outside. You sound like you’ve never had your mother flick cigarette ashes out of the car window and have them fly into your face. You sound like you’ve never been kept up at night by the sound of your dad hacking up a lung because he has to get up for his midnight smoke. You sound like you’ve never had to run into a convenience store to get your mother cigarettes as soon as you turned eighteen and cringed at touching the box because you know they’re not only killers but government sanctioned killers because they can not only tax the shit out of them but ensure people buy more at the cost of young lungs and a once beautiful home now plagued with the smell of smoke and ash. You sound like you’ve never had a great grandmother who stopped smoking 30 years before her death who still got lung cancer and subsequently died. You sound like a Fucking ignoramus. Smoking isn’t Fucking cool, it isn’t fun to glorify, it’s disgusting and makes not only you but your children smell bad. Makes not only you but your children cough, get cancer, get sick.

You sound like a Fucking moron. Smoking isn’t cool. Grow the Fuck up.

[adrunkensailor]

No, you grow the fuck up. There’s mountains of constant judgment when it comes to smoking. How about you leave people alone and let them do what they want with their bodies.

[yourladyindank]

There is a REASON. It’s not just their bodies they’re fucking. It’s never just their bodies with something fucking airborne. Especially when you have CHILDREN AND PETS.

[surfeit-of-stoats]

My grandfather smoked in his house decades ago. We moved in. We started working on it. After just one day of having the AC off so it could be worked on, I could no longer stay in the house because the smell was coming out of the walls <I>so strongly</I> and triggering my asthma to the point where I couldn’t breathe. My grandfather is dead and his smoking still managed to effect me that negativity. It is not just their body.

[justbecauseyoubelievesomething]

My aunt took up smoking in secret as a coping method for her depression. My cousin found out and she was so scared for her mom’s health that she hid the cigarettes. But when my aunt noticed they were missing, do you think she had a calm conversation about the whole thing with my cousin? Nope. She stormed into her room in such a rage, my cousin was too scared to even argue. She just gave the cigarettes back and prayed for her mom to leave the room. There was no explanation for why she took up smoking, for why she was trying to hide it, no reassurance for her worried daughter, not even a question as to why my cousin took them… there was just addiction-fueled anger. Directed at a child who had no control over her environment.

And then there’s my own mother, who has never taken up smoking, but who grew up with two chain-smoking parents. My mom who has permanent lung and throat damage from a lifetime of breathing in smoke that she didn’t ask for. My mom who now takes daily medication so her throat doesn’t ache.

But, tell me again how smoking only affects your body?

[anti-stupidity-capaldi]

I grew up breathing not only my step-dad’s cigarette smoke, but all his friends as they’d frequently hang out in the living room together creating a cloud of smoke that permeated the whole house. I got asthma at 10. I found a growth in my left lung at 30. I now have 1 lung. 1 lung and I’m still asthmatic. Fuck people who smoke around children.

[fathercryptid]

If you can’t agree with this, then fucking unfollow the shit out of me. Too many people in my family have died. My grandfather lost his wife to Lung Cancer. He still smokes though. And my dad who stopped cold turkey when my oldest brother was born and went through hell to make sure his first kid wouldn’t have to also. But did it help? No. Because his mom didn’t care that she had a newborn inhaling her goddamned secondhand smoke. Don’t you dare say it only affects the smoker. Don’t you dare.

[xxrabbitfacexx]

Don’t smoke around other people. Don’t smoke around pets. Don’t smoke in places folks /have/ to frequent. Nothing with lungs and a nose should have to be affected by your habit. That goes for vaping as well.

[maphatingcharacteroftheday]

Don’t smoke in public places, like restaurants and parks.

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

This includes smoking weed too

[kinkshame-puncher-666]

I mean yeah don’t smoke weed around people without their consent cus people can be allergic or a recovering addict. But weed is way way less likely to kill you or be addictive than cigarettes. It’s not the same in that aspect.

[specsthespectraldragon]

Marijuana contains multiple common allergens (it hits just about everything and anything in the rosid clade, and the protein used to carry THC is same/similar/related to the protein used to bind nightshade toxins), and there’s some evidence to suggest that exposure to marijuana in combination with an allergy to one of its allergens can cause sensitization or full-blown allergies to its other allergens. Secondhand exposure still qualifies for that.

[alaanin]

Ya read all that shit, kids?

Me neither, welcome to America, where you are ALLOWED to fucking kill yourself if you want. Just please do it some place far away from the normal people that want to clot up into cities, drive drunk, do innumerable amounts of drugs, and murder people because they got bored (I would put a link here to some of the MANY cases of people being murdered for no apparent reason but it would cover your dashboard and you'd have to scroll for three hours straight to get passed it).

I personally smoke, not frequently, not socially, and not because I'm addicted. I smoke whenever I want to clear my head because smoking increases the diameter of your blood vessels, but, like everything, if you smoke too much your body stops doing it's normal job and your blood vessels shrink if you stop smoking, on top of the ceased chemical releases in your brain that make you feel happy.

Saying "Smoking is bad." makes you ignorant and obviously smoking doesn't ACTUALLY give you cancer or they'd have noticed cancer starting long before your loved ones quit smoking. There's a closer tie to certain sexual activities and than to cigarettes.

Long story short: This is supposed to be a free country for the people, by the people. Which means we should ALL have some goddamn self control and self respect, and enough brains to know when to mind our own goddamn business.

[norbrising]

I’ve got a project for a lore dragon but I need some help breeding it, anyone have any dragons that can produce a moon/platinum/platinum bab? Ideally I would like ice or shadow eyes but at this point I’m not being too picky. Don’t mind about the breed as I’ll be changing it into a gaoler.

[alaanin]

[glykon-fr-blog]

Lore Ideas/Prompts for Your New Gaolers

Introduce them to your local Tundra herd. Isn’t it funny that this new clanmate smells just like Great-great-great-grandma Ruth? (Alternatively: we love our new Tundra friend! They have the sharpest horns and the fluffiest fur- and they never, ever forget. Anything.)

Put them in charge of your daycare/hatchery. Baby jail is real. No hatchling will ever escape naptime again.

Put them in charge of your hoard. “No, you may not take 2000 gems out to impulse-buy that ungened G1. Money is a terrible, terrible evil, and I must keep it trapped here, where it can’t hurt anyone.”

If you breed-changed a dragon into a Gaoler, how are they taking it? Was the breed change a result of some kind of magical mishap? Did your Tundra wizard tap into some primal, ancient magic? Were they born as a primitive throwback to the beginning of the Third Age? What would result from mixing the protective instincts of a Guardian, or the pack-hunting skills of a Mirror, with the ruthlessness of a Gaoler? Or imposing Wildclaw hierarchy upon a Gaoler-run prison?

Since Gaolers can be born with non-Ice eyes, how did they end up all the way in the Ashfall Wastes or the Sea of a Thousand Currents? Are they guarding some elder evil your clan accidentally built their lair on top of? Are they a weird, stunted subspecies adapted to swim through molten lava in pursuit of their captives? Do they use Water Flight Divination to foresee jailbreaks and predict where their targets are going to attempt to flee?

If your Gaoler is in Lightning Flight, how are they reacting to all this new technology? Is some lucky Gaoler out there right now learning how to fly with their brand-new mechanical wings?

Slip a Gaoler egg into somebody’s nest. Insist that there’s nothing wrong with their giant fluffy monster-baby, and yes, sometimes hatchlings don’t look quite like either parent. Especially if they’re Faes.

If you have more lore ideas, please share them!

[alaanin]

Yeah... I was excited for them because I was really thinking it was goalers.. and I was f-UUHH-king dying to have one... but.. now I'm already tired of them...

[brahkest-fr]

Current gaoler dilemma: 

“Which one of you hoes gets turned into a shaggy bitch”

[alaanin]

These are my goalers and I love them so much..

[flightrising]

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[sossedov-fr]

It’s the final countdown!~

[alaanin]

I will not pardon your dust, I want your dust in my lair within the next two hours.

[alaanin]

I had something that I was going to say.. but as soon as I started typing I forgot what it was...whereiswaterdad&whydoesitfeellikedaysarepassingomgGIVEMEDRAGONSMULTRONKAEPORA...SOMEONE.