An Age Of Dragons

Long Live The King

[svenskkaktus]

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[costanzian]

Undulates anguilliformly at you to confuse and threaten you with my highly maneuverable body

[costanzian]

[macmanx]

Nice!

[earhartsease]

very much in the spirit of the Millennium Falcon held together with glup shitto glue

[professorsparklepants]

#perfect likeness #what a heap of junk (via @tarvek-sturmvoraus)

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of tiredness

[roxaro]

"who's your blorbo?" is singular? in this economy?? I don't know how y'all are doing it, but it costs me 6 blorbos minimum just to get through the fucking day. due to inflation. :(

[enki2]

[bebsi-cola]

the "I don't look disabled? you don't look stupid but there you go" slogan you get on stickers or decals or shirts or whatever is genuinely the most ironic and nastiest bit of self-righteous ableism and it's completely unaware. quick, tell me what "looking stupid" actually looks like then.

[ina-gartens-weave]

video ive been thinking about for days

[ranthaven]

“All of us don’t have the same eyes” is my key takeaway here. This is 100 percent correct.

[psalidodont]

The Penumbral nightmare, or previously known as the Grinning spectre. A fierce beast that lurks amongst the darkness like a phantom and preys on those who fall for its striking, light blue and teal patterns. It hosts bioluminescent bacteria on special patches of its skin, teeth, and even bones. This monstrous creature can pop its jaw open for intimidation displays, and its lack of firepower is made up for the use of a very corrosive, foul smelling gel that is ejected from its throat. This dragon hunts small cetaceans, large fish and Hunterfolk. Smaller dragons too will succumb to its jaws.

[beardedmrbean]

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

[purple--starrrs]

By the way it's like. Really fucked how society's thoughts on epilepsy is just "get over it." Seizures can cause permanent brain damage. Seizures can kill people. Seizures hurt like hell. Allow me to reiterate that seizures can kill people. And you're just gonna casually put flashing lights, a common trigger for seizures in your advertisement, in your animation meme, in your edit, on your billboards, without even thinking about putting a simple disclaimer? That's unbelievable. Your little anime edit could deadass cost a life and you're not gonna put a warning because it's "inconvenient" or "people like that shouldn't be on the internet" (ableist) (the problem exists outside the internet also). Or you'll give insufficient ones like putting it in the captions or only giving like one second before the flashing lights appear, meaning that the trigger's already in motion before anyone who needs the warning can read it and save themselves from literal physical danger.

We need to start commenting under other people's posts about how to properly warn for flashing lights and eyestrain. We need to be emailing and calling companies about their possibly triggering advertisements that could induce seizures. We need to stop tolerating ableism and start speaking up for the more vulnerable.

Also, stop putting epilepsy warnings. That's like saying "warning: schizophrenia" on a post including unreality or "warning: dyslexia" on a post with a typing quirk. First off, the disability mentioned isn't the only group of people that this could trigger. Second, it doesn't truly get the message across and instead makes it worse for those with the disability-- scrolling through the epilepsy tag on Tumblr should get you to view the content of other epileptic people, but no, you just get a bunch of flashing lights and eyestrain, even though you could instead tag for, oh I dunno, flashing lights and eyestrain.

Anyways this Disability Pride, and for every month that comes after, think about epileptic people and others who are triggered by flashing lights/eyestrain. Happy pride to those who experience seizures too frequently due to the unaccommodating and ableist societies we live in!

[moffymoth]

Sometimes I think about how invader zim accidentally led to the creation of avatar the last air bender and I’m just just..woah!!! Things can impact other things just like that. Crazy.

[bat-snake]

And Portal!

[moffymoth]

P

Portal?

[bat-snake]

At the very least, one of the artbooks (I think???) discussed how IZ was a huge inspiration for Portal, especially in its music.

It...checks out.

[moffymoth]

That’s incredible if true

[the-main-diloolie]

Ngl when I first played Hollow Knight, our character reminded me of Zim. Glad I'm not the only one who sees it.

[irkenheretic]

[bruntalism]

[bruntalism]

we kill the bat man

[liaraswife-deactivated20210629]

SHIT

[mingus-archives]

The Mighty Nein Campaign is really just "What if we let the most traumatized people become impossibly powerful while their moral compass remains almost entirely tethered to their loyalty to one another" and somehow they don't end up annihilating a country

[soylent-crocodile]

As someone who is interested in ttrpgs and also the way that womanhood and dominance and the male gaze interact with sexual art, I really adore this character design from the Pathfinder 2.5 Core Bestiary. She is undeniably sexy and dominant, yes, but it's in a way that, historically, is mostly given to male characters; she's got laugh lines and thinning hair, her limbs and chest have heft to them (and not just her "chest", and while she's definitely showing skin, the skin is more muscled and toned than perky and voluptuous. Her general demeanor is powerful in a sort of casual, self-serving way, rather than a "power" that ultimately serves to fulfill the desires of (cisgender, heterosexual) men. In essence, this is the kind of Sexy Powerful that is, historically, only given to men, and I think that it does more to push feminism in fantasy storytelling than the false dichotomy of women as either completely sexless or male-gaze pinup dolls ever could.

[renthony]

It's wild to watch the phrase "tumblr sexyman" morph into "man that tumblr thinks is sexy," because when I first saw the phrase come into use, I always saw it used in reference to the phenomenon of "when presented with a wide array of fictional characters, tumblr will always pick the skinny white man to obsess over, and if the fan-favorite character has no canonical human appearance, the fandom will inevitably create a popular fanon of the character as as a skinny white man."

When I hear "tumblr sexyman," I think of Cecil Night Vale being constantly depicted as a skinny white man instead of literally anything else. I think of the background character white men who get elevated over protagonists that are women, people of color, or otherwise not the white man power fantasy.

"Tumblr sexyman" is, like. An insult. I DON'T want any of my blorbos to win a "tumblr sexyman" poll. "Tumblr sexyman" is the exact opposite of what I want my own OCs to be. If any of my characters ever get called "tumblr sexyman," I will have to immediately re-evaluate myself and the art I'm making.

[renthony]

Things I think of when I hear "tumblr sexyman":

Cecil Night Vale, as previously mentioned.

Oncelercest, because if there aren't two skinny white men to ship, tumblr fandom will start shipping the skinny white man with himself.

Bill Cipher inexplicably being fanon'd as a white twink despite being a fucking triangle.

Everyone fawning over Marvel Loki while shoving every woman and Black person in the MCU aside.

The way nearly every single character in Hazbin Hotel has the same "tall and skinny" body type, along with all the criticisms Black audience members have made about the issues with Alastor's design.

The way tumblr got obsessed with the white man villain in Sinners.