Here be Dragons and Other Gay Shit

she/her | maybe I'll post my art someday but for now I'm just here for Flight Rising stuff

[amethystdragoness]

Housesitting for a friend and there's a mouse inside. I brought the barn cat inside but she couldn't be bothered to even look for the mouse and I had to let her out anyway because she goes stir crazy inside unless the weather is bad. So I thought, well, people use drop traps for catching kittens, maybe I can make one out like, a pot and a spoon or something... and now there's a fucking Tom and Jerry ass drop trap in the kitchen.

This had better fucking work. The last time I had to deal with a mouse problem here, it involved scrubbing glue trap gunk off of three (3) separate mice and a fucking tetanus shot. I know mice can carry diseases but I personally am not bothered by them and would just ignore it but if it's still here when my friend gets home, the poor thing is going to get glued. I wish live mouse traps were more accessible.

[amethystdragoness]

It noticed the bait. This might actually work lmaooo what is my life

[amethystdragoness]

Housesitting for a friend and there's a mouse inside. I brought the barn cat inside but she couldn't be bothered to even look for the mouse and I had to let her out anyway because she goes stir crazy inside unless the weather is bad. So I thought, well, people use drop traps for catching kittens, maybe I can make one out like, a pot and a spoon or something... and now there's a fucking Tom and Jerry ass drop trap in the kitchen.

This had better fucking work. The last time I had to deal with a mouse problem here, it involved scrubbing glue trap gunk off of three (3) separate mice and a fucking tetanus shot. I know mice can carry diseases but I personally am not bothered by them and would just ignore it but if it's still here when my friend gets home, the poor thing is going to get glued. I wish live mouse traps were more accessible.

[apolladay]

Pet owners, what kind of name does your pet have???

A food-item (Waffles, Peanut)

A color (Pinky, Hazel)

A real-life person (Marilyn, Paris)

A fictional character (Eevee, Simba)

A type of flora (Rosie, Willow)

Animal-like (Kitty, Gator)

A trait (Lucky, Buddy)

Something else

If you have more than one pet, choose the most applicable listed (ex: you have three pets named Cookie, Cream & Rocky, so you choose the “Food” option). Also, would be interested if you reblogged your pet’s name(s) in the tags and the reason why you chose it ^^

Pet owners, what kind of name does your pet have???

A food-item (Waffles, Peanut)

A color (Pinky, Hazel)

A real-life person (Marilyn, Paris)

A fictional character (Eevee, Simba)

A type of flora (Rosie, Willow)

Animal-like (Kitty, Gator)

A trait (Lucky, Buddy)

Something else

No pet

Voting ended onJun 11

If you have more than one pet, choose the most applicable listed (ex: you have three pets named Cookie, Cream & Rocky, so you choose the “Food” option). Also, would be interested if you reblogged your pet’s name(s) in the tags and the reason why you chose it ^^

[sapphireh3arts]

i know folks are gonna call me a pedo for this one, but i grew up seeing my mom and grandma naked. they had health issues and at times needed care and help showering. and i truly think more kids need to be shown the nonsexual reality of naked women at a young age. there is nothing sexual about my grandmothers breasts, they were simply body parts. more women die of heart attacks because people are too afraid of breasts to do real chest compressions, because they are scared to touch their breasts. the sexualization of our bodies literally kills us. i need people to be more normal about naked bodies and i'm 100% serious.

[roxannedafluffiest]

every time I see a take like this im just bewildered at how other people live. I’m 25 and I live with my mom. She walks around the house naked sometimes. I walk around the house naked sometimes. My dad did as well when I was younger and we were still living with him.

Neither of them ever had medical conditions that would “explain” the nudity.

It has always been like this and never in my life have I even considered that it might not be normal.

Idk I think this is how we get so much stigma around naked bodies and sexuality — if you’ve never interacted normally with a nude body and keep getting brainwashed that it’s supposed to be something to be hidden and a taboo not to be perceived, how can you have a healthy perspective on it?

[amethystdragoness]

Drag Queen named Poly Esther, whose aesthetic is 80s and 90s dolls with lots of crocheted granny squares. Bonus points if she and a few other Queens and Kings perform as a troupe with a polycule pun. Someone please steal this idea I'm begging you

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

sorry to be a broken record every month but christ menstruation is a stupid concept. oooooh excuse me for not getting pregnant, why the fuck is there goo falling out of me about it? grow the fuck up and reabsorb that shit for nutrients.

[amethystdragoness]

Upcycling the face of this dragon plush I thrifted a few days ago. I love her but her eyes were chipped and she had an open mouth and that always ends up looking pretty derpy. I'm still waiting for the glue on the new eyes to cure before I can install them and I can't stop laughing because that Tiktok sound of Winnie the Pooh going "they took my fucking eyes Piglet" is stuck in my head now.

[swiftrunnerfelidae]

"Kill your local sex offender!" Oh, you mean the guy who went streaking at his local college football game on a dare one time? That's a sex crime.

"No, I mean-"

Oh, maybe the woman who had to pee in a public park that only had pay toilets, so she tried to hide behind the bushes but got caught? Public urination is a sex crime.

"What? No, I mean-"

Oh, maybe you mean the homeless guy who had to strip down to get his clothes in the laundromat to clean them for the first time in weeks? He tried being subtle, but someone called the cops on him, and now he's on the sex offender registry for public nudity.

"Rapists and pedophiles! Kill rapists and pedophiles!"

Oh, like the trans woman who got called a pedophile groomer for helping a trans kid escape her abusive parents?

Or maybe the black man who got labeled a rapist because he came on to another man's wife, and he decided to get back at him by charging him with rape?

How about the 17 year olds who were fooling around, fully consensually, in one of their bedrooms? That's still technically underage sex and thus rape of a minor.

Oh, or maybe you're talking about the doctor who performed genital reconstructive surgery in a state that just voted to get that classified as rape?

People will do everything they can to get you convinced rape and pedophilia are the worst crimes possible, then accuse whoever they like the least of being either a rapist, a pedophile, or both, counting on you turning on them just for being accused of the crime.

"Oh, so you're saying you don't want to kill a serial rapist?"

That's exactly what I'm goddamn saying.

Once we decide a group is okay to kill, the government will do everything they can to convince you that their political enemies are either part of that group, or just as bad as that group, to get you to kill their enemies for them.

The only way out is to accept every life as worth saving.

[razielim]

@the-overanalyzer — #human rights don't disappear when someone does something despicable #I know that's an uncomfortable position to defend sometimes but you just have to suck it up

yeah!

you're allowed to FEEL like you want to kill rapists (esp your own if such a misfortune has befallen you). you're even allowed to WANT and WISH for their deaths. that's all normal natural and dare i say... healthy???

it's perfectly sensible to feel all that rage and bloodlust as we grieve the loss of our autonomy, even if it was brief, or if we grieve the fact that this happens to others, or the prevalence of this crime, etc. whatever the reason you want that person dead, you're certainly entitled to that mental state

all of those feelings are yours, and you are allowed to feel them as long as it takes you to feel them

BUT. that doesn't make those feelings justice. that doesn't make that rage and pain the right thing to base policy on. policy that crushes human rights is policy that crushes humans, both the ones you hate and the ones you love

[aunt-of-dragons]

It reminds me of the Sir Terry Prachett quote "If you did it for a good reason, you'd do it for a bad one. You couldn't say 'We're the good guys' and do bad-guy things."

[scenerwiththegreenery]

a lot of people have a hard time with the fact that wanting something doesn't make it right to do it.

i've talked a lot on other posts about how i didn't tell anyone that i was being sexually abused for 14 years, because it was my father, and i loved him, and i didn't want to never see him again because he was in jail or worse for what he did to me. before he was an abuser, he was a victim; CSA was a generational trauma, much like the poverty he grew up in, and he never got the help he needed. this is tragic. i lost my dad far before he died. he developed schizophrenia, as many victims do; this, too, is a generational trauma throughout my family.

i have a friend who was a victim of CSA. he is a pedophile which is a word that refers only to sexual attraction to children, NOT acting on it. acting on it would be child sexual abuse, and he is not an abuser. he is a victim who was scarred by his experience, like my father was. but he got therapy. he decided never to have children, and never to be alone with children, because he never wants to cause the harm that was done to him. he engages in consensual kink with adult partners, that includes roleplay, as a healthy outlet.

when people say they want to kill pedophiles, they are talking about people like him, and that makes me not trust them. someone who knows their urges would do irreparable harm and actively chooses to keep others safe from that harm is more trustworthy, in my book, than someone who would kill them for thought crimes.

when i was a teenager, i was raped by a peer. victims of CSA are unfortunately highly likely to experience this. i was 16. he was 14. during the investigation, it was found that his single mother was sexually abusing him, just as my father was doing to me. he was a rapist. he was also a child, and a victim. my heart hurt for him. he regretted what he did. i've made my peace with it. it got him help out of a situation he otherwise could not escape.

when people say they want to kill all rapists, they are talking about people like him, and that makes me not trust them. rehabilitation was the goal for a 14 year old rapist who was being sexually abused; why is it not the goal for all rapists? why are people obsessed with finding people "bad enough" to justify murdering them?

sorry but to me, saying you want to kill an entire class of people, believing that should be policy, is repulsive. feel how you feel, but murder should never be policy, ever.

[amethystdragoness]

We rightfully give horses a lot of shit for being biological nightmares but we don't talk enough about how weird domestic cats are. And I'm not even talking about how they domesticated themselves. These guys are desert specialists and have some incredibly specific adaptations for that harsh climate and yet they're still so versatile that they're everywhere.

Cats are obligate carnivores which is pretty rare among predators. Most carnivores won't go out of their way to eat plants but they do if they need the nutrients, much in the same way most herbivores will eat bugs or small animals if they need the nutrients. But cats just can't digest sugars well because their digestive systems are so short and designed to conserve water because desert, so they have to hope all their prey had a good diet.

Cats can't get scurvy but they will die horribly if they don't eat meat because they can't make an essential amino acid called taurine. Other carnivores figured it out but not cats.

Apparently this is fine, because they've been doing this can only ever eat meat thing for so long that they've lost their sweet tastebuds. If your cat likes a sweet thing, they like it because sweets are often high in fat and cats have a lot of fat tastebuds. (Humans also have fat tastebuds, just not very many. It's a pretty mild flavor anyway so it gets kinda overwhelmed.)

Oh and their livers will fail if they lose too much weight too quickly. For some fucking reason, rapid weight loss makes their livers unable to digest fat. You know, one of the two main sources of calories that they can digest. Because that makes fucking sense as an adaptation for a climate that's famously not rich in resources. And yet they're everywhere. Arguments have been made that if humans vanished one day, cats would inherit the Earth. I fully agree with that argument, some of them have thumbs. And the thumbs are a dominant trait, so if the evolutionary pressure happened, they'd get hands real quick.

[amethystdragoness]

Be proud of me y'all, I have written words creatively. For the first time in like a fucking decade. The ADHD gremlin absolutely detests tedium and for a long time I was convinced I just hated writing and I was okay with that. I just kinda spun my fics around in my head and acted them out to myself when I needed a good distraction and a little exercise.

But a few nights ago at 2am I somehow got the motivation to actually write out my dumb, angsty Doctor Who AU fic that I've been chewing on for years. My sleep schedule is ruined, I have 7k words, and have somehow managed to turn my two OTPs into an OT3. Yeah. Trying to actually lay out the mess of a plot to this thing before the hyperfixation parasite digs itself into something else and I forget how to write words for another decade.

[amethystdragoness]

Little Bo just wrestled with Mouse purely so Mouse would get annoyed and Bo could steal her spot on my lap. Bo is so lucky Mouse loves her because she's a spoiled little shit. Though I'm not sure why I expected her to grow up any other way given that she was born in a semi-feral colony which she ran away from and screamed nonstop for a human to help her. And then proceeded to be so fucking cute and affectionate that my parents let her stay. She'd make a good sitcom protagonist tbh.

[amethystdragoness]

That old Tiktok trend that was like "Today on 'I raised a kitten in quarantine and now I have a cat with separation anxiety': We are in the shower." and it pans to a cat pressed against a shower door or desperately trying to figure out how to get bathtub cuddles without getting wet. Because I just took a shower and when I got out, Little Bo was sitting directly on the bath rug waiting for me. And she got offended when she got splashed from me opening the curtain. Girl this was your unwise decision, why are you blaming me

[amethystdragoness]

When my cat Mouse wants cuddles (which is always) and I'm not laying flat or sitting with my feet flat on the floor, she finds a reasonably flat spot to sit on. Sometimes that's my hip or even my knees but I'm laying on my stomach right now and Mouse is cute happy sitting on my butt. I don't think she realizes that I can't physically pet her without knocking her off of me.

[pixel-dragon-tournament]

Twilight vs Fire Rodan

Twilight

Fire Rodan

Voting ended onMay 9

Hawktalon’s Twilight

@thatwhatthing-fr’s Fire Rodan

[amethystdragoness]

Oh I missed this! Been pretty busy the past few days. Twilight Sparkle is my dragon! I made her long before we got Twilight Sparkle hair for Starfall which amuses me greatly. I've got fandragons of all the Mane Six and all the princesses (though Cadence isn't done yet rip) but I sent in Twili because she's my favorite character. The positive ADHD and anxiety rep is so meaningful. As a kid watching her have meltdowns and be supported on the other end instead of mocked or punished was so important.

Anyway, vote for Twili! And good luck to that gorgeous fiery Bane!!! I don't recognize the ref but stunning use of that skin and the wrath gene O:

[heat--end]

i haaaate being avoidant. it makes you feel like the world's biggest jackass whenever someone tries to talk to you or whatever and you just Freeze Up

[heat--end]

Oh sorry i took a long ass time to reply and didnt say anything. I got arbitrarily scared and tired myself out so now i cant say much. Oopsie teehee. it makes you feel like a huge dickhead

[itsapmseymour]

[ryan-nerdy-goober]

FUN FACT: Contrary to general ignorance, cats’ eyes are able to perceive a range of hues on the “cool” side of the spectrum, with many favouring shades of purple over all other colour groups

It is for this reason that Whiskas cat food changed all their products’ packaging to a vibrant hue now known as “Whiskas purple”

And as we all know, purple is a colour associated with royalty, making cats our Reigning Monarchs

[certifieddragonenjoyer]

what's up, coming at you as one of those dirty-minded smut enjoying asexuals handing out water at the orgy or whatever the fuck people say. anyway, lately i get this kind of insidious sense that people think of sex-positive or sex-favorable aces as the "cool" aces. like "hey don't worry man, i'm asexual but you don't have to do anything to accommodate it." And of course it's a spectrum/umbrella, people can be asexual and sex-positive or sex-favorable, i know that from experience. But i worry it's also seen as the *more palatable* version of asexuality.

So here's the reminder that you are not weird or prudish or childish or mean if you don't want people talking about sex around you. You are not morally reprehensible or puritan or fascist if sex makes you uncomfortable or upset. if someone tries to make you feel ashamed of that discomfort, or pushes your boundaries on purpose just because they can, they're the ones in the wrong for not respecting you. Never, ever compromise yourself for the sake of people who think you're less than for how you feel and who you are.