I love desire paths. There's something so wonderous about seeing an echo of humanity. Depending on it's location, a desire path can mean so many different things.
In a city, like the pic above, they represent rebellion, and efficiency. The messiness of humanity. We like to imagine we're oh so logical and neat so we design our cities to be logical and neat an then real humans literally trample on that idea. The ego required to think you can design something perfect that checks every box. Life is all about compromise and patching stuff when some new problem arises. Though people have certainly tried! Ohio state univeristy let students carve their desire paths, and then paved them over. It looks pretty artsy.
Some people will try to discourage desire paths, but this is almost always going to fail.
Eventually, people just have to accept them. Humans are too dang stubborn.
Certain desire paths are just adorable. A 0.5 second time saver. You just can't design for maximum efficiency, humans will always find shortcuts!
Though on occasion a desire path can actually be the least efficient way...especially if you're superstitious.
In a wilder area, such as below, they show us the curiosity of humans. A desire path somewhere natural often tells you there's something interesting just ahead. (Though remember some ecosystems are fragile and will suffer if trampled! Stick to paths in these sorts of areas)
And how about desire stairs? I always think these look so cool. We get see humans determination to climb, to traverse every kind of terrain.
And for something really crazy...a desire path used for centuries will create a 'holloway'
All of these pics are off the Desirepath subreddit, check them out for more examples! And many thanks to the users who submitted these photos.
TW for cancer, OBGYN, medical issues, mentions of surgery, dysphoria, cussing (if I forgot anything please tell me)
*this was typed on mobile, so there will probably be mistakes.
I haven't talked about this on any other social media, but I'm having a cancer scare.
Earlier last month (April) my appendix became inflamed and I had it removed. They (pathology) ended up finding a cancerous tumor in my appendix. Mind you this is literally a one-in-a-million chance! I've already had a lot of uncommon health issues, being born four months early, and this is just another 1% chance problem, because of course.
Now I have tons of appointments scheduled this month (May) to make sure they got all the cancer out of me.
Having my appendix removed was already hard enough, and now it's so much worse. I am so fucking scared.
I have to get a chest CT scan, which means I'll probably have to get an IV. I have hard to find veins (because of course I do) and I HATE needles. Guess I just have to get over my fear.
Today I have my first OBGYN appointment due to some other concerns, and I'm stressed. I hate the idea of going to the gynecologist. I don't get intense dysphoria typically, but I am now.
Later this month I also have to get a colonoscopy. I am twenty years old! This isn't fair!
It all feels so invasive, like I'm being peeled open and viewed by everyone. It makes me feel sick.
I've been looking for a job for a while now, and I was really starting to find sucess. And then I had my appendix removed and everything went to shit.
There's a job opening at a local movie theater I would love to apply for, but I literally have no motivation, I'm just scared. I don't want to have to go into an interview and say "yeah, I'd love this job and think I'd be a good fit. Oh, by the way I might have cancer and won't be able to work to my full extent for a month, at least"
I feel like I'm falling into another depressive episode, and I don't know what to do. It's not as easy to pull myself out as the times before, not until I know I'm cancer free, which I won't for a while.
I'm also going back to college on the 11th and thats added stress. Yippee! (Obvious sarcasm)
The only good thing is that my bloodwork (which left my arm badly bruised because they could find a vein in my one arm and had to try the other) came back clear.
I really just wanted to get all my thoughts out somewhere, thanks for reading. I hope you're doing better than I am :(
Narrator: “Water. Unlike other cats, long-haired Persians need regular baths to keep their luxurious coats healthy and fluffy. Reginald doesn’t care if he has a prize-winning coat. He just wants the ordeal to be over.”
Reginald: *meows in distress*
Narrator: Unfortunately for Reggie, there’s one last step. He’s about to learn that getting wet is nothing – compared to getting dry.”
There are a few dragons I hope we get as POV characters, either in the main series or maybe a winglet.
*Spoilers for The Hybrid Prince
The Librarian is a really interesting character to me. She's introduced in The Lost Continent and is the gaurdian of the Book of Clearsight. We don't really know anything about her, besides that she was a top student at Wasp Hive University, had been under the control of Wasp for a long time and she lives in the LeafSilk Kingdom. I'd love to see more of her, or at least get a proper name.
Royal is a character introduced in The Hybrid Prince who I think could make for an interesting POV. He's a HiveWing-SilkWing hybrid and, as far as we know, the only child of Monarch. Monarch herself is a very interesting character to me who I would love to see more of. Royal was forced to stay in the Court of Refuge after Monarch and Glowworm were overthrown and exiled, unable to take him with. I could see Royal having complicated feelings towards his parents that I think could be explored.
Jambu is just a fun character. He's a RainWing introduced in The Hidden Kingdom and is Queen Glory's half-brother. His relationship with Pinapple is adorable and Pineapple has already gotten some spotlight in Flames of Hope. In that same book it's mentioned that Jambu watches Peacemaker and his friends sometimes and I just think that's cute. I could totally see a winglet where we get Jambu and Pineapple's love story.
Whiteout is one of my favorites. She's such a tragically interesting character. She grew up in a broken home as a, in my interpretation, neurodivergent dragonet. She watched her older brother, who she loved, fall into darkness and kill their father. She was forced to flee her home after Arctic was murdered, and it's safe to assume there was some hatred towards her. She's one of the most explicite hybrids we've seen. Whiteout untimately has a peaceful life, she gets with Thoughtful and they have dragonets. In A Dangerous Gift it's said that Whiteout's thrice-great-grandson is an animus. I would love to see her reaction to that, or even get a POV of said grandson.
Sora is a character I feel has a lot of potential that hasn't fully been used. In The Hybrid Prince she is there as a secondary character, but I feel like she's underused. She's a dragon traumatized by war, who tried to get revenge but failed, killing two innocent dragons in the process. I liked Umber as a POV character, but I would love to see more of how Sora feels and thinks about what happened. How she's recovering from her trauma, learning to forgive herself.
Nineteen/The Sharpwings really caught my attention. They're, I'm pretty sure, sentient animus touched objects meant to gaurd the Dungeon Isles. I'm a huge fan of the 'machine gaining sentience and going against it's origianl command' trope and I think Nineteen fits that. A Nineteen POV is probably the one I'm most skeptical about, but I still think it's a fun idea.
Blaze is a character I'm a bit torn on. I think the canon version of Blaze tends to get mixed up with the fanon interpretation of her character. To me, she's not a bad dragon. She's materialistic and a bit haughty, sure, but she's not on the same level as her sisters. I distinctly remember in The Brightest Night graphic novel Mike Holmes gives her this tragic expression when she realizes she's the sister who survives, who 'learns' according to the prophecy. I just want to see more of her and want to know what she's up to since the end of Arc 1.
That's all the characters I can think of right now. I am a bit biased towards The Hybrid Prince characters since thats the most recent book I've read. I am rereading The Hive Queen so this list may get a part 2, I don't know.
Feel free to reblog of reply with your own ideas for possible POV's you'd like to see. I always love seeing other people's ideas!
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