I like dragons and also other stuff

She/her; 20; aroace; trans; resident of vrchat; Dragons are cool; Banner by @halcyonleaf

[aroacedragongirl]

Welcome to my blog, I guess

Hi, I thought I would make a bit of an intro post. I will update it with proper links and stuff in a bit

Names I go by online:

aroacedragongirl here on tumblr

CoolDeadFun off of tumblr

Pronouns:

she/her

they/them

All of my original posts and reblogs that involve me are tagged with my url: link to them

Gender - trans girl (recently came out, haven't really started transitioning in any meaningful way yet irl)

Orientations - Aromantic and Asexual

Other info:

18 years old

SFW only

Computer Science major

Aspiring gamedev

United States; EST

Percussionist

Virtual reality enthusiast

Rhythm game enthusiast

VRChat enjoyer

Tourette syndrome

Autism

ADHD

I will not be reblogging or answering asks with fundraisers, currently.

Do not message me asking me to commission you for art. If I am in the market for commissions I will seek you out.

Fandoms that Im vaguely active in:

Wings of Fire

Rain World

Monster Hunter

Ocs/sonas (list under construction):

Link to post with more info

[hotvampireadjacent]

[c3rvida3]

I think Joan of Arc's fursona would be a dog called Joan of Bark, but my partner thinks it would be a phoenix, which seems insensitive to me, but neither of us are furries, so I guess we don't really get a say either way.

[swiftrunnerfelidae]

I promise I’m not trying to be pretentious here. Jeanne d’Arc’s last name is d’Arc.  An overly-literal translator insisted it stood for “of Arc”, and that’s why we know her as Joan of Arc.  At the time, she was more commonly known as “Jeanne la Pucelle”, meaning “Joan the Maiden” or “Joan the Virgin”.

anyways since her main attack strategy was “hit them until they stop moving” I think she’d be a gorilla.

[c3rvida3]

*taking notes* What else do you know about this beautiful world?

[aroacedragongirl]

Monster hunter wilds g rank expansion revealed!!!!

[demonboyhalo]

collection of useful things tumblr has taught me:

even if you can't fall asleep, laying down with your eyes closed will still rest your body

you don't have to brush your teeth standing up

you don't have to do any chore standing up, from dishes to showering

you don't have to shower with the lights on

if you can't brush your teeth, flossing and a tongue scraper gets rid of plaque and bad breath

if you can't do that, mouthwash kills a lot of bacteria

eating "unhealthy" food is better than eating no food

you can make the same meal everyday for however long you still want it

some pills come in syrups or chewables if you can't swallow them

kids nutritional shakes can be a quick way to get fuel if you can't eat/don't have time

if walking hurts/exhausts you on a regular basis, canes and rollers are for you, no matter how young you are

we have free will—if doing something "out of the ordinary" makes life easier for you, do it

[i-have-n0-idea-what-im-d0ing]

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing halfway. If you can't eat a whole sandwich, eating just some of it (or anything, really) is better than nothing. If you can't brush your teeth, swishing water around your mouth helps more than doing nothing. If you can't drink plain water, drinking seltzer or tea or anything is better than drinking absolutely nothing.

Incomplete tasks are better than no tasks at all.

[thetitancurse]

ADDING MORE!

if folding your clothes prevent you from doing laundry, just toss them clean in the wardrobe. better to have a mess inside the wardrobe than in your entire room.

if you cant shower, washing your face in the sink and using wet wipes in your pits & groin is better than nothing

if washing your hair is too exausting, try bringing your head down to your hands, instead of keeping your arms up

you dont have to put on outside clothes to go outside. you can go outside in pajamas if you dont have the energy to change clothes. its fine and legal

if oral care seems too intimidating, try doing it in the shower. combining tasks helps avoid the paralysis of having to do too many tasks

you dont have to do anything fast. you're allowed to take as much time as you need

[gothgfs]

national holiday

[firstgrave]

[meph-829]

[aroacedragongirl]

Let me tell you the story of the weirdest conversation I've ever had that was on my mind again today. I work at a grocery store, and this past January, this woman I her late twenties came up to me and said:

"I know since I've read the Scottish fairy tale: water baby"

And I was like "what?" And she was like you should read the Scottish fairy tale water babies and then walked away

Then she walked past me again and said "everything in harry potter is real and the stupid woman who wrote it made us all slytherin"

Then shouted, as she was walking away:

"Do you see the iconography yet?"

What the actual fuck was that about

[flawseer]

Wings of Blue

So here is something I liked about Book 11 that took me until now to realize I liked it. I greatly enjoyed the fact that Blue didn't have wings.

Why did I enjoy this? Well, I think having Blue lack this (for this setting) very ubiquitous mobility option created some interesting challenges for the group to overcome. Challenges that aren't seen very often in this series and that I thought felt very fresh as a result.

See, there is a set of common issues you tend to run into when you give your protagonists access to free and convenient flight. It makes travelling almost trivial. It becomes much harder to challenge your heroes through putting some kind of treacherous landscape in between them and their goal, because unless said goal is inside that landscape, there is little stopping them from just soaring over it and laughing at you.

Maybe that is something you welcome. Perhaps the idea of Clay and friends having to rough it out in the wilderness for weeks, evading patrols and slowly making their way to their destinations doesn't appeal to you. You might prefer them to just fast-travel to the next big location because that's where the plot is. And that is a perfectly valid opinion to hold. Spending story time camping on a dusty trail might be a total pace killer.

But for me, a little bit of magic is lost if you can theoretically access any point on the continent with at most two days of flying. It makes the world feel kind of small. I yearn for that kind of trail filler, putting me into proximity to all the settlements on the way and exposing me to their little quirks and cultures.

Another aspect I liked about Blue's initial flightlessness was that it gave us another dragon body type to appreciate. The physiological diversity in Wings of Fire is... rather shallow. Barring injuries and some dragons having a harder time lighting a fire, everyone has roughly the same body shape and array of abilities to work with: Flight, something that kills, and in some cases one utility ability (like invisibility or darkvision). But very few have specific physiological shortcomings. I liked Blue's situation because it gave him a very glaring and obvious weakness that the others had to work around. That was interesting to me, having to conceive of ways to get him up cliffs or down to a deeper hive level.

I kind of wish there was more of that, dragons having to consider the weaknesses of their physiological makeup and planning around it. Like, if I really think about it, passing through the desert should be a huge problem for characters like Tsunami, Turtle, and Anemone, and being in the humid rainforest would be a struggle for Sunny and Qibli. The only instances I can think of where anything like that happens is with Clay's temperature-based breath weapon and Winter noting that proximity to a volcano makes his frostbreath less effective.

I’m maybe picturing a little side story on the way from the rainforest to Blaze’s fortress, where the group is crossing the desert and has to barter with some shady Sandwing water merchant because Tsunami is in danger of drying out. Maybe the merchant could say something like “If you don’t like my prices, you can go get your throat slit in the Scorpion Den instead,” setting up that place as bad news. Then when Sunny goes there in her book, people will recognize it and have appropriate expectations of it as a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

I don’t know, it could be fun.

So I guess if there are any aspiring authors of dragon xenofiction reading this, I leave you with this bit of unsolicited advice: Think about the physiology of your dragon characters and do not be afraid to give them appropriate gaps in their skillsets. Not every dragon needs to be able to fly, or do the same things every other dragon can. Sometimes it is fun watching your characters have to think of clever ways to cover for each other's shortcomings. That is how bonds are formed.

Those are my I'm-falling-asleep-and-am-rambling-nonsense thoughts of today. Let's hope they'll still make sense to me when I wake up again.

Luckily, it's a screen window.

[pikadxrat]

you, reading this. you're a creature now. reblog to creature your followers

[creatures-in-posts]

this creature is you

[ostdrossel]

This is something you may see on hot days - this Blue Jay is not injured, it is taking a sunbath. It is done for skin care and grooming and helps with parasites. I always love seeing it because it feels like they have to feel perfectly safe when they do it.

[photogdenography]

I recently saw this with a Stellar's Jay (the same bird pictured here) and it initially had me worried it was sick or injured! Very relieving to learn about this interesting behavior.

[clownkiss3r]

[ruthyless-deactivated20140511]

when i was younger i had a really bad fear of danny devito when i was going to sleep so my older brother gave me a watch that he set to like 8 hours ahead so that it was always daytime on the watch when i was asleep and he told me it would confuse danny devito and he would think it was daytime and get scared of the sun and leave me alon

[tardis-mind-palace]

Your brother is the best

[elrondbaggins]

Who the fuck changed this from vampires to Danny devito

[aliceinpunderland-blog]

the real question is why I was completely ready to accept that this person had a debilitating childhood fear of Danny Devito

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[romanceyourdemons]

next time you’re at the thrift store and find a nice solid thick pile area rug for a shockingly good price and you’ve been looking for an area rug for the office forever and the color goes really nicely with the office color scheme and you think this is it, this is what i’ve been waiting for, stop, and ask yourself: did i take the bus here?

[romanceyourdemons]

next time you’re on the bus and see someone with an area rug and a look of deep disappointment in themself mind your own business

[contemptible-scoundrel]

my cursed sword doesn't even tell me to kill people anymore it keeps begging me to put on a skirt and tights

[contemptible-scoundrel]

I already know I'm a girl dickhead I just like wearing pants

[divine-dragon]

Offering Received: can i offer the Cup an (normal non-dragon) egg in these trying times? (#841)

an egg for Cup! an egg for Cup! they're going to find a nice place to eat it!!

[nat-20s]

out of curiosity, how many books have you read this year

0

1-5

6-10

11-15

16-20

21-25

26-30

31-35

36-40

41-45

45-50

over 50

Voting ended onJun 5

[nat-20s]

the tags on this are really funny bc half of them are like "read 6 this year I'm queen fuck of bitch mountain I am CRUSHING this" and the other half are like "I'm only on 47 :(. im in such a slump". I love u all

[aroacedragongirl]

The problem is have with reading books is that i have a hard time stopping and will end up staying up all night reading

[pinkbowsandstripedsocks]

[edwardspoonhands]

Honestly, Tvyek is pretty miraculous. It’s permeable to water vapor but not to water, it’s nearly impossible to tear, but can be easily cut. It’s cheap and made entirely without binding chemicals. In addition to being used for wristbands, it’s used to wrap construction sites to keep out water during construction, for tear-resistant envelopes at Fed-Ex, coveralls for mechanics, and my wallet, actually.

Fun tip, though it looks like paper, Tyvek is plastic, and cannot be recycled with paper.

[fairypsychicarchive]

[andromedafalls]

holy fuc

[piisbetterthanpie]

I didn’t even know it had a name