Wyvern Writes Things

Account of the Wyvern system. Plural they/them, dragon otherkin. Born 2006. "Compassion is its own strength."

[dragonprincessactual]

Hello and welcome!

Writing greetings like these is... funny, isn't it? It's not like greeting a specific person, or even a specific group of people, because you never know who's going to see this, when they're going to see this, or even if anyone is going to ever stumble upon this little corner of the Internet and read the words you've so carefully typed out onto the page.

But everything has to start somewhere. Even the universe did. Might as well carry on that legacy, eh?

...with the formalities out of the way, welcome to our corner of the Internet, friend, acquaintance, or whoever you are. As for us: we're Wyvern; plural system (we support all systems regardless of origin), dragon otherkin, and lovers of both whimsy and seriousness alike.

We've started this blog, in all honesty, after being inspired by some close friends starting one of their own. We still aren't entirely sure what we'll be putting here; but in all likelihood it will be a mix of reminiscing about the world and its contents, paired with reblogs of neat posts from those we follow. If that's your cup of tea, feel free to stick around. If not, we wish you well on your journey, whatever it is, wherever you are, and wherever it takes you.

Whatever the case, we'll be here, writing our thoughts out into words (despite how limiting language can be) and transmitting them out into the void for all to hear. I'm still not sure where our journey will take us, but to quote a novel we read years ago:

It's time to live a life worth dying for.

-Sierra (and associates)

[foxglove-tea]

Whacks you with my tail whacks you with my tail whacks you with my tail whacks you with my tail whacks you with my

[memewhore]

[bronzetomatoes]

one more day til the stop sign

[mothmans-sexy-lamp-deactivated2]

Everyone get up it’s stop sign day

[40ouncesandamule]

Stop sign day

[longshrimp]

STOP SIGN DAY

[silly-signs]

Official stop sign day

[silly-signs]

Official stop sign day

[silly-signs]

Official stop sign day

[ckret2]

getting scambot messages from random accounts that clearly used to be normal active blogs is sad enough. you know that there used to be a real person on that blog until they were tricked into handing their password to the digital fae.

but it's an entirely new level of tragic when somebody you've actually spoken to gets turned into a bot account. it's like peeking at a zombie apocalypse through the window and realizing one of the shambling corpses was your friend.

and then the zombie catches sight of you, lurches up to your window, and shouts through the glass that they accidentally reported your account to tumblr and you'll be deactivated unless you click this link.

RIP to the blog that used to DM me to tell me they liked my new chapters. Their last known words spoken before being turned, 17 hours ago: "Ggs!" They were praising someone's deadlift.

[ckret2]

the message they tried to get me with is probably the same message that got them, so for anybody who hasn't already been warned about the signs of a zombie account:

if you get something like this ↑ they're gonna follow up by instructing you to contact tumblr support on discord and give you contact info; or they're gonna link a website that looks sort of like tumblr support and say you have to email them; or any variety of "you must now contact tumblr, here is how you contact tumblr."

whatever they send you, it Does Not lead to tumblr. it leads to the master zombie that bit them and inducted them into the ranks of the undead, and will bite you the second they have your email and password. i might be confusing zombies and vampires. anyway,

it's easier to fall for these messages because the blog doesn't LOOK like a bot blog, because it ISN'T a bot blog. it's a normal person's blog that got accessed by a bot, meaning the blog's content CLEARLY looks like a real active user when you click on it. and yes—it might even be a blog you already know. sometimes bots like this go down a blog's DMs or reblogs and message people they've previously interacted with.

they got one of my treasured followers, and they can get you too. don't fall for their tricks. know the signs.

[dragonprincessactual]

Something we find fun as a plural system who gets new members regularly: getting to introduce new people to mundane things all over again.

Tonight I was in the kitchen, deciding what to make, and settled on making pizza because I kinda felt like it. A recent arrival was hanging around with me and got all excited because she'd only been around for a day or two and had never had pizza before and was excited to get to *be there* and try it herself, as opposed to knowing about it as a nebulous memory of someone *else* getting to eat a nice big cheese pizza.

So we made one together. Shoved it in the oven. Watched the minutes tick by as the timer slowly counted down, wagging our tails impatiently as we urged time to move faster. Got something small to go with it while we waited. Then sat down and finally got to enjoy our dinner.

It was *very* good.

We both got to have a nice meal. I got to teach someone how to cook something simple. And she got to add "had a damn good pizza" to the (admittedly short) list of things she's done.

As boring as it sounds... it was a great time for both of us. Turns out a new perspective can make things you've done a hundred times new and exciting again.

There's probably a lesson in there somewhere...

-Sierra (she/fae)

[normal-horoscopes]

I legitimately think the first video game to ever say the word "bisexual" out loud was Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. There is a nonzero chance it was actually the first video game to print "bisexual" in a text format.

[normal-horoscopes]

It is very possible that the first video game character to ever say the word "Bisexual" out loud was Solid Snake.

[lakemojave]

Based on what I found, the first ever bisexual character in a video game was Curtis Craig from Phantasmagoria 2 (1996) but I have yet to find out if he says the word "bisexual" in the scene where this is revealed

[lakemojave]

He does not. He says he's attracted to his male best friend but he never says the word "bisexual."

The first ever character to ever correctly and overtly identify a person as bisexual was Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)

[nyanbinyuri]

I once again have to point out for those who've never played mgs2 he says this when asked if another character that goes by the name of vamp is a vampire

[laliluleho]

Everyone here who hasn’t yet needs to see how fucking incredible this whole conversation is.

Snake: “He was at church when a bomb went off, got pierced by a crucifix, survived by drinking his family’s blood.”

Raiden: “So that’s why he’s called Vamp?”

Snake: “No it’s because he’s bisexual.”

[preludeinz]

Every instance of this screenshot I have seen, I assumed was an edit as a joke.

[positivestress]

I wish I was a female tiger because then if I was talking to someone and I was getting off topic I could say “but I tigress,” and then kill and eat them because I am a tiger

[flowercrown-bard]

Inspired by @lacnunga 's adorable dragon embroidery

[asepriterico]

[animentality]

[catgirlwheels]

I'm an adult

You're a dumbass who the fuck says something like that

[weaselle]

a few months ago my friend called me and told me she was moving back up near me from 7 hours south in the middle of nowhere and asked if i would help her because she couldn’t move the furniture by herself and the town was so small there was no moving company (there were actually only 5 or six businesses in the whole town including both restaurants) and she had no one else down there to ask. 

And even though money is pretty tight for her, she told me I could name my price if I would help her, because it was so far away.

I told her she was a dummy for thinking i would take her money but that i would accept the traditional helping-a-friend-move price: a meal (i know she would feel wrong about herself if she didn’t do something for me in return, that’s just how she is) Tradition suggests pizza and beer, we opted for enchiladas and a margarita.

we crashed on the floor of the empty place and left back north in the morning - when we got back to the city three more friends met us at her storage place (the place she was moving into wouldn’t be vacant for a couple months) and we started to move all her stuff up to a storage room on the THIRD FLOOR (because large city storage places be like that)

we had just taken the first box out of the truck when the (only) lady working there walked by and told us they closed in an hour and twenty minutes, and she couldn’t stay even a little late because she had to get to her other job.

One hour twenty minutes. To completely un-jenga a large uhaul and re-tetris it back into a similar sized room on the third floor.

We all just, shared a look, took off hoodies, and got the fuck down to business. 

It was actually.. I still cherish look we passed around. The tiny eyebrow quirks and chin nods. The eye glints. The bigger breath we each took as we prepared to kick it up several gears. That moment of wordless connection, when we all just silently agreed that we were damn well going to do the impossible and didn’t even waste the time it would take to say anything, just got to it.

And we did it too. Finished with exactly two full minutes to spare. And then we all went for dinner and drinks to celebrate. And my friend’s friends that came to help? Two of them were acquaintances/friends of mine already. Like I lived with one for a year a decade ago sort of thing. But this experience? Brought us all closer. Made myself a new friend too.

And the friend i helped move? She and I are closer than ever because of it.

When i left our storage success diner to go home, she asked me again if I was sure i wouldn’t take any money.

I said “I ever tell you when I was 22 I went down to Hollywood to try that scene out? Anyway ten months later, when I just couldn’t do it anymore, and needed to come back, I called one of my best friends and said i can’t do this anymore i need to come back. You know what he said? He said: I’ll be there tomorrow. Not how much will you pay me, not what do i get out of it, not will you be able to cover my gas, just: I’ll be there tomorrow. Okay? You’re my friend. If you need help, I’m going to be there”

If helping someone move ruins your friendship, you’re doing at least one of those two things very wrong.

[moniquill]

[taavicleric]

My personal experience with being asked this question and then given that line, is that the neurotypical person expected you to feel shame. I have some slightly less anecdotal evidence to back up this anecdotal experience. I took substitute teacher training once, and we were told that the best thing to do with middle schoolers "acting up," was to shame them, to figure out how to draw attention to them and this negative attention in front of their peers would shame them into good behaviour, or at least silence. I raised my hand, having already distinguished myself as the "weirdo" of the group, and said, "Is this the reason I spent a lot of time in the principal's office for truthfully, loudly, and clearly answering questions like, 'would you care to share your thoughts with the class?'" And was told yes, that was a perfect example, but I was the rare case where it backfires.

Since then, I have responded to that type of question with, "Do you want an explanation, or was your intent simply to indicate that I need to feel inferior, right now?" and it does tend to turn the tables a little bit.

[betterbemeta]

Be careful though; someone who does this to you likely already has decided there's only one acceptable outcome and will subordinate you no matter how you attempt to resist. It is good that sometimes the tables turn, but the majority of people who feel comfortable enough to put themselves in the position of power this way do not willingly accept a rebuke and may escalate or even become violent if you try.

Disengaging or redirecting their attention sometimes can help. Other people are very good for this and an interruption from a third party almost always de-fuses the situation. Someone trying to do this to you will often only go forward when you're alone, so try not to be if you know it's coming.

But if all else fails (it's your boss, a parent, a teacher, another authority, someone with massive social advantage compared to yourself, etc.) you may be stuck with someone who's plan A is to subordinate & punish you and they have no plan B. You may just end up taking heat no matter what and its not your fault. They are the ones who want 'an excuse' to belittle others.

[wasteofprotons]

🔁 Reblog to pet the dragon!

[dragonprincessactual]

From one dragon to another:

*pat pat pat pat pat*

[byjove]

So many anti-science (and particularly, anti-vax) people apply their diet and orthorexia culture to medicine. That is one of the things you will hear over and over again. “I actually read the ingredients of this vaccine and it has [SUBSTANCE] in it so I will not let my child get vaccinated.” which is exactly how these people grocery shop, I’m sure. No understanding of chemistry, no research into why that ingredient is in there, what it is doing to help make the vaccine safe and effective and what amount would make it toxic to the human body. They will be like “Oh my god, there is hydrochloric acid in there! I’m not going to research into why it is in there (in small amounts as a PH stabilizer), it’s hydrochloric acid (the human body creates it naturally) and they’re trying to inject this into our children!”

[spark-the-angel-dragon]

am i destroying my ears? maybe but I AM FUCKING JAMMING OUT!!!!

[dragonprincessactual]

Exercise caution!

We did the same thing all the time when we were younger- and now we have minor tinnitus! It is... not as bad as it could be, admittedly, but it is still Not Fun.

We 1000% get it. Turning up the external noise to drown out the internal noise. But... do be careful, please? *makes big puppy dragon eyes at you*

-Sierra (she/fae)

[theconcealedweapon]

[lordandgodoftheobvious]

The thing that everyone really needs to understand about this is that, under the capitalist mode of production, this is correct and rational behavior. The problem isn’t that we have a bunch of rich people who all just so happen to be evil; being evil is what makes you rich.

[quaintpanic]

I WAS BORN YESTERDAY. I JUST BLEW IN FROM STUPID TOWN. THIS IS MY FIRST RODEO. PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH ME.

[wrathful-reptile]

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