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Ryan Sinclair Doctorwho deserved better . Russia/Israel/the "West" supporters (that includes supporting their existence) + transphobes GTFO Raistlin | Leviathan | Slick it / hazard / LBV / fey / xe[/xem/xir or /xem/xyr] . Icon flags: nonbinary, aromantic, contrasexual. They are *both* personal expression and headcanon. Do not refer to fict!Raistlin as a man or male on this blog. @dyspunktional-leviathan's fandom sideblog. Official tar pit who hates fun and whimsy (and most of the post-hexalogy Dragonlance). Posting is intermittent and sporadic. Art: @whatruwaitingfor-draw-spades Pinterest: @leviathanlake Ao3: nonbinary_raistlin_majere Things I do like: design in pretty much every sense (worldbuilding, outfits, you name it), dissection of characterizations and relationships, a number of other stuff that either I don't remember off the top of my head or needs content warnings. Yes, blog will occasionally contain "dark" topics. I have a lot of fandoms, most of them are listed in the pinned of my old shadowbanned blog @skies-full-of-song. Have mostly been posting about Dragonlance here and will continue to post about it, started rereading W.I.T.C.H. Others that have appeared here: HS, DW, "Silm" World's most annoying hyperpolitical Dragon Age fan. I don't dragonage much these days but rest assured I'm like that about everything. This blog is not safe for the Dragonlance Nexus I love interactions, but will likely not get back to you in any amount of time, while still planning to do it and perhaps eventually doing it. If you sent me an ask or made an addition to my post and haven't yet gotten the response, it's probably in my drafts. To avoid confusion, when calling myself Raistlin and talking about DL I will be writing ":Raistlin" when speaking about myself. I warning-tag in an "x cw" / "x mention" format.

[brotherless-behavior]

All underlined text on tumblr is clickable links.

This is a document with informational and donation resources for twenty countries subjected to ongoing imperialism and genocide.

I also reblog individual and collective requests for help onto my main blog (and sometimes on sideblogs in case of extreme emergency); I need to organize it more, but for now here are the tags #aid/help organizations and #urgent.

I draw portrait commissions for those donations, and also can draw for free for those who cannot donate and share circles with me. See more (and my drawings in general) on my respective sideblog @whatruwaitingfor-draw-spades.

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I am @dyspunktional-leviathan, and this is my fandom sideblog.

Reblogs actually almost entirely go to main; and this blog is about 90% Dragonlance. The other ~10% include W.I.T.C.H. comics, Homestuck, "Silmarillion" and Doctor Who. A small number of Dragonlance posts contain direct references to The Last Trial, tagged accordingly. @whatruwaitingfor-draw-spades has a more comprehensive list of fandoms.

I will also appreciate media recs, especially by marginalized authors But I will be fully unable to pay in the vast majority of cases so it would have to be something I can read/watch/listen to for free. I am particularly looking for things with a similar vibe to the Wilderness Years Doctor Who Expanded Universe, and want to add more about my tastes later.

I also post some general fandom commentary sometimes + reblog things with which I'd like to address fandom to here; and do image descriptions for others' fandom posts, though perhaps I should get it back onto main.

I am against ideas that feelings about fiction signify ethical evaluations of things depicted or ways of depiction, in any direction and about any topic (also feelings about anything at all vs ethical evaluations of anything at all). I am also extremely against the ideas that fiction should not be discussed in terms of ethical evaluations of either the ways of depiction or the things depicted.

I am fictionfolk, specifically fictionkin. Some of my posts about that go onto main, some here.

Relevant nonfiction recs:

The Wretched of Middle-Earth: An Orkish Manifesto by Charles Mills

Orcs, Britons and the Martial Race Myth by James Mendez Hodes

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia by Sabrina Strings — currently reading. Particular recommendation to Dragonlance fans due to the amount/level of active fatmisia in the novels; highly relevant to pretty much everything.

The Indigenous Coding in Elves of Dragon Age by @/dalishious, as well as their other essays — planning to read. Also relevant for Dragonlance (and I firmly believe Dragon Age to be highly influenced by Dragonlance, though that is likely more prominent with regards to mages).

@/wordswithoutaworld's posts on (pro-)russian propaganda and other manifestations&support of russian imperialism in media

Currently planning to redo this post, though everything still applies.

[kitschyfemme]

if i can say something i think it's also bad to immediately absolve a female character of her wrongdoings just because she is a woman

[kitschyfemme]

if i can be so for real this is still doing "refusing to acknowledge her nuance because she's a girl"

[brotherless-behavior]

Why is there still so much art of skinny hobbits, including, particularly egregiously, when not based on the movies

[fg-the-fallen-mapleshade]

[ Commissions / Emergency Commissions ]

Plain text : [ Commissions / Emergency Commissions ]

Important warning : If you plan to ask for a non emergency commission , make sure you can pay using Pix. As its my only method of transaction.

[ Plain text : Important warning : If you plan to ask for a non emergency commission , make sure you can pay using Pix. As its my only method of transaction. ]

Hello everyone !

I have finally opened commissions , both for supporting me financially , and those who are in need, and I please ask to have preference for the last one.

Basically : Besides the traditional method of commissions , I will be doing commissions to fund fundraisers, these last ones can be found both in my blog tagged as #important, and also on my friend's blog @dyspunktional-leviathan , tagged as #emergency #fund needed , etc.

My prices are as it follows :

- Headshot : 3 dollars.

- Bust : 5 dollars.

- Half body : 7 dollars

- Full body : 10 dollars

- Reference sheet : 15 dollars

Any additional charather [ I can only do up to 2 ] will be 2 dollars extra from the original price.

What I can do for you : Paraphilia pride, transid pride, romantic drawings , the usual stuff.

What I can't do : NSFW, art involving Aubrey being romantic to anyone other than me, mecha, cishateful.

Do not call my art underpriced , thx !

All will be fully shaded.

Do not give me tips unless its dedicated to fundraisers.

You can find examples of it tagged as #🍖 on my blog.

The process explained under cut.

- You need to show me proof of your donations in order for me to start your commission, or at least up until the sketch.

- In a similar vein, I will firstly do the sketch and send you. If you give your confirmation that you want to proceed with the commisoon, please pay me or show the proof.

- I repeat : Prioritize fundraisers.

- Be patient with me, sometimes I will do more quickly, sometimes not. Depending on your commission, I can take longer.

[brotherless-behavior]

Worst fucking kind of headcanon discourse is "actually if this character was your identity these parts of canon would be bigoted against your group, and that's why you cannot headcanon that character as your identity and they should be my identity! For the sake of your group too!" What the bloody fuck.

[dingodad]

love transmasc terezi analysis [thumbs up emoji] i read her as tmasc nonbinary but that might be me reading too much into the way she often forces herself into binary choices to her detriment OR has them forced on her (heads tails symbolism, the game over timeline vriska choice, dave vs karkat as 'romances to pursue', and more recently the way she acts as outsider and agent to both rose and dirk in beyond canon, the two forces of progenitor masculinity and femininity on deltritus). i think it's interesting how she views servitude to the empire as aspirational and i think that is definitely got some gender stuff going on there given preexisting reads of the caste system as misogyny. if you'd ever like to expand more on terezi as transmasculine, i'd love to hear it!

i don't think you are reading too deep into anything lol once upon a time it was pretty standard to remark upon the pointed androgyny of terezi's design so idk why i was getting yelled at for pointing it out just now. I never thought to connect this to her role as balance-keeper though.. if you think about it even the fact that her coin is called a "Cae[s]ar" but depicts a female figure seems emblematic of the illusion of dichotomy it offers

I've mentioned before that in general I'm less interested in figuring out what a character 'is' than I am in identifying how they relate to and participate in gender as a hierarchy of power, so I don't know if I would call the following a "transmasculine" read of Terezi per se. But it is a read on how I think Terezi plays masculine gender roles, or - to be crude - 'role plays' as male. So I definitely think it lends itself to interpretation of Terezi as a character with a masculine or androgynous identity

Expanding on what I first tentatively approached in this post and briefly followed up with my (apparently controversially) vague commentary on Terezi's clothing, my conception of Terezi's relationship to gender is largely informed by her relationship to the Knight role, which she implicitly tries to emulate when she role-plays as Redglare (the Knight of Mind) and which - as we understand it via Dave - is tied up in all these gendered expectations of heroism. Her proximity to gendered/hemospectral power absolutely plays a part too, though: the heroic Knighthood Terezi enthusiastically associates with being a legislacerator (see: the 'back in the day we could just kill criminals on the spot' shit) is really just systemic violence she is allowed to participate in by the blueness of her blood. But what she's apparently blind to is that - as you say - participating in that violence is subjecting herself to the violence of those higher on the patriarchal hierarchy. It's obvious to us, viewing Redglare's story as a cautionary tale about Terezi's fate, that the legislacerator is little more than the Grand Highblood's slave in the form of an attack dog; meanwhile Terezi obliviously treats Gamzee like a fascinating little oddity to play her games with, and is thus totally blindsided when he flips the script on her and reminds her of her place. Masculinity is a pool she's thrown into the deep end of, and Gamzee holds her head under the water with a grin.

Latula's bizarre struggle with the 'cool girl' persona is just Terezi and Redglare's complex of empowerment-disempowerment magnified to the ridiculous. The 'cool girl' finds acceptance among male peers by shedding off those cultural residues of femininity which are seen as undesirable, but for all her efforts can never truly become 'one of the boys' - for her gender transgression she is placed simultaneously outside of and beneath both classes. The gag about Latula not wanting to be "left hanging" even positions failure to be recognised as 'cool' ('like a boy') as a matter of life and death!

[brotherless-behavior]

Plaintext version of the post under the cut.

It costs zero anything to tag your posts about The Last Trial as "#the last trial" and, along with just actually properly tagging what you're posting rather than just sending it to hang in its original source's tag, do the literal absolute minimum you can do for Ukrainian Dragonlance fans.

I have only seen two Ukrainian Dragonlance fans on tumblr, and the amount of untagged musicalposts in the tag probably contributes to that. There are still Ukrainian The Last Trial fans; their existence does not nullify the fact that many Ukrainians understandably don't want to have even a glance at anything made by the country committing genocide against them, much less people who fucking support it and no, the fact that some of the people making it position themselves as being against that does not mitigate that.

Also, while we are here, this one is towards the foreign&emigrated fans: if you have ever spent any amount of money on the Russian Musical Theatre and currently do have the ability to do what I'm asking of you here after this comma, I want you to donate an amount at least equal to that (incl. it can be done in parts over time) to Ukrainian fundraisers.

Plaintext:

It costs zero anything to tag your posts about The Last Trial as "#the last trial" and, along with just actually properly tagging what you're posting rather than just sending it to hang in its original source's tag, do the literal absolute minimum you can do for Ukrainian Dragonlance fans.

I have only seen two Ukrainian Dragonlance fans on tumblr, and the amount of untagged musicalposts in the tag probably contributes to that. There are still Ukrainian The Last Trial fans; their existence does not nullify the fact that many Ukrainians understandably don't want to have even a glance at anything made by the country committing genocide against them, much less people who fucking support it and no, the fact that some of the people making it position themselves as being against that does not mitigate that.

Also, while we are here, this one is towards the foreign&emigrated fans: if you have ever spent any amount of money on the Russian Musical Theatre and currently do have the ability to do what I'm asking of you here after this comma, I want you to donate an amount at least equal to that (incl. it can be done in parts over time) to Ukrainian fundraisers.

[brotherless-behavior]

Itchy's pronouns are it/she because itchy, and WV's pronouns are they/them because they/them/the mayor

[brotherless-behavior]

Here's a few incredible concepts for all writers everywhere:

Mixed heritage character who has heritage of a privileged and a marginalized groups and does not have massive volumes of internalized and externalized racism/ethnomisia towards the marginalized part

Mixed heritage character whose heritage is not just fully-privileged + marginalized

Mixed heritage character with more than two different heritage sources

More than one mixed heritage character!

Shocking, right! Imagine how new and unique your characters will be seen!

[brotherless-behavior]

Amazing incredible exceptional character constantly used by the narrative and/or the other characters to pin all problems onto them to the excusion of the wider world call that a scapeGOAT

[brotherless-behavior]

Call Dragons of Autumn Twilight Book 1 Chapter 5 a 7z file the way there's so much to unpack

[follower-of-el-hajj]

CALL TO ACTION: BOYCOTT/SABOTAGE TADC

Black fans!

After years of being made fun of and having our issues downplayed and used as a way to "joke", we are now TIRED.

The recent issue with The Amazing Digital CESSPIT cast is the last straw. It's clear that NEITHER THE WHITE FANS, NOR THE WHITE CREW, CARE ABOUT BLACK STRUGGLE.

So it's time we finally take action on our hands and show everyone that antiblackness is not a joke.

We are ANGRY.

We are TIRED.

Here is what to do:

Do not go to the screening. Do not spend any money for this shitshow and this shit crew.

Encourage others not to go to the screening. Show them what they have done, show them that this company does not deserve time or money or theater screenings.

DO NOT BUY MERCH.

Convince theaters to cancel the screening. If necessary, be angry.

ORGANIZE AND PROTEST. Be loud. Be angry. Be "uncomfortable". Disrupt the status quo, raise your voice on the issue and create chaos. There is no reasoning with a racist and we are tired of being "good" to appeal to the white man's conformity.

THE TIME FOR VOID APOLOGIES IS OVER. NOW IT'S TIME FOR VENGEANCE

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, WE WILL GET OUR RETRIBUTION.

[dyspunktional-leviathan]

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[trigona-necrophaga]

my devoted but dangerously unstable knight will be hearing about this

[fixing-bad-posts]

[rains-of-eurus]

This too can be Melkor and Sauron

[brotherless-behavior]

This is Raistlin and Dalamar

[brotherless-behavior]

Goldmoon and Riverwind should divorce but first they should kill the Dragonlance® team. Or maybe they should divorce and then kill the Dragonlance® team together.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I think a lot of writers might benefit from giving themselves permission to get weird with format.

Use second person, drop classic rising action and climax format, write backwards, just sit in a moment, tell all you want and refuse to show, make an entire book that’s just one run on sentence, reject tropes, use all tropes, cliche yourself to death, produce something that’s completely gibberish. Break all the rules of marketability. Become ungovernable.

[the-indigo-symphony]

Reading stories through a plural lens can drive me feral sometimes but it's not always because of the text itself but rather people's reactions to a plural reading of it. "Idk it just feels like you might be erasing the metaphorical dimensions of this :(" my good bitch you are literally the one dismissing an interpretation because you don't like the idea that there are more dimensions to it than you've previously thought about.

Like. Yes it can be a metaphor. But the brilliant thing about plurality is that the metaphor can also be reality. The different selves, personalities, whatever you want to call them, can be metaphors and plurality. Because plurality doesn't just cover the most extreme examples of completely separate alters, but also more figurative and intangible interpretations of the self. Idk how to get it through people's heads that it doesn't matter if the plurality is a metaphor because the plurality is still present. "Oh, no, it's just a figurative separation of the self." So what? Figurative separations of the self are a kind of plurality. "Oh, no, the story is just playing with the idea that complete amnesia makes you a different person, because memory affects your identity." Yeah, and changes in identity due to or connected to amnesia are pretty easy to read as plural. "Oh, no, these are just different selves of the same person in the same body!" Congratulations, you've just described one of the most common and broadest types of plural system out there. Your point?

"It's just a metaphor!" "You're just ignoring the metaphor part of it!" Well, great news! Plurality can be a metaphor, and lots of plurality plays with metaphor. There isn't a clean-cut line between the two. I am not ignoring the metaphor by interpreting a character as plural – I am exploring it. You have written out the definition of plurality, called it a metaphor, and are now acting shocked when systems call it both, accusing us of reducing the text down to just one thing. My dear, I do not think it is systems who are ignoring dimensions to this story.