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FLY is a story about a boy who gets a second chance. Help his story take flight June 9th 11am EST on Kickstarter. Thank you for being the wind beneath my wings I hope this story lifts the world to a brighter place.
A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.
bolt was such a fucked up movie concept. what if we gaslit a dog into mental illness
ive made this comment to my partner before and im glad someone else understands. "Yeah we're making the dog paranoid and giving him self worth issues. for the good television. you have to gaslight the dog for the tv show to be good"
I am a transfem ralsei believer, I do think that transfem ralsei is not only very likely but would rock, and kick ass. that said it makes me kinda uncomfortable seeing people preemptively using she/her for ralsei. Setting aside completely any debate about whether transfem ralsei will happen (because, again, I think it not only should but probably will) or any question of what if ralsei were to transition as something other than a binary trans woman (i'm nonbinary transfem, i use they/them, and it'd be nice to see a transfem story more like mine but im not banking on it), it feels really antithetical to the themes of self discovery ralsei transitioning is supposed to support for a bunch of people to decide this is what ralsei's gender is before ralsei has a chance to self actualize and express that. from somewhat bitter experience, that kind of attitude was pretty unwelcome pressure when i was trying to figure my gender out and even if ralsei isnt real and what we call him online cant hurt him it still feels pretty counter to the whole point of that arc to decide this must be his destiny and act as such before he has had a chance to make that decision for himself in the context of the story
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I promise you there are more immediate and effective ways of combatting climate change than resenting the invention of air conditioning and insisting that subjecting oneself (and, less charitably, others) to heatstroke is a noble deed and moral imperative. Your appeals to tradition approach conservatism more than anything else.
Furthermore, would you also insist the old and infirm are not deserving of such a privilege, or do you wish to concern yourself with the inane task of setting a threshold for whether someone is physically vulnerable enough to be permitted to use air conditioning? Better to drop this luddite crusade entirely, I argue.
i would put forward that two things can be true at once. getting rid of ac entirely? Dangerous and not really practical. Returning to a pattern of building design that allows buildings to better passively maintain a comfortable temperature so that AC and heating are less necessary and if the power goes out in a heatwave or the dead of winter you have better odds of not dying of heatstroke or hypothermia because your house isn't entirely reliant on those things to maintain a livable temperature? probably a good idea
This joke has been going around in my head for a year.
does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver
the reblog map is all of us holding hands btw
We are each other's night sky. No one is alone here.
night sky continues to get brighter. theres always people here for you
Star flight and Sunny in the first book 🥹
Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.
It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.
no white gay boy will ever reblog this, watch:
no white gay will reblog this
no white lgb person will reblog this
Without Stonewall, without the efforts of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, the LGBTQ Community wouldn’t be where it is today. Don’t forget the roots, don’t forget the catalyst.
and then TERFs wanna be like, “hmm well the LGBT community existed before Stonewall!”
but like…Becky, of course LGBTQ+ people existed before Stonewall. We’ve all existed since the beginning of time. But the movement got a shock to its senses, a jump-start, a rocket-into-space when that glass shattered via Marsha P. Johnson, and when Sylvia Rivera was up on-stage protesting guess who was on the sidelines heckling her?
The same fuckers who won’t ever reblog or acknowledge this
My apologies to the original poster as I photo captured this post to add to the thread-I reposted this last year for pride and expect to repost it every year I have left-it’s our history people.
Marsha P. Johnson allegedly died of suicide in 1992, and her death was never investigated. Even I, a mere prole, could catch the “she was murdered” vibes from the circumstances surrounding the discovery of her body.
Without a trans black woman, LGBT+ rights would not exist. Never forget. Never “pay it no mind”.
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So I finally found posts where I could directly look at the accounts perpetuating these call outs and they literally reached "kiwifarms is good actually and we should go back to the times when we believe everything they say in attempts to ruin transfems lives"
Like I dunno perhaps downplaying the cite responsible for doxxing countless trans women, driving some to suicide, and getting others doxxed as "just a gossip forum", coping to believeing that all the detractors as righteously accused, backed up with "nothing to hide nothing to fear" logic, and putting a little bow on it with a call to RETVRN to the old ways of trusting vigilante hatemongering mobs of cyberstalkers with vendettas to enact restorative justice (and even if we take the "it's just a gossip cite" defense, a gossip cite is typically not you should trust for determining whether this trans woman's life deserves to be ruined by the full attention of the panopticon) perhaps ISN'T the most conductive way of convincing people your not a rabid violent racist who is cheering for the women to die.
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People like to complain about the scene in the NightWing palace in Darkness of Dragons, but I think it's brilliant how the scene manages to bring out all four characters' (Moon, Winter, Qibli and Kinkajou) biggest flaws, and watch them play off one another.
I think it's pretty safe to say that Winter's biggest flaw is that he's hot-tempered--if you get him mad, he gets very confrontational, and that's what happens here. He gets very rightfully angry that Moon and the others are defending the dragon who took his autonomy and is trying to commit a genocide against his people, and he flies into a rage, eventually knocking over the vase and injuring Moon. I'm not tone-policing Winter here--he had every right to be furious, however in his anger, he hurt his friend. However, he's not the only person whose primary flaws are being brought to the surface here.
Since the very beginning, naivete has been among Moon's flaws, along with a desire to believe the best in people. This is compounded by her mind-reading abilities, as she has the expectation that she understands people. There's a telling moment in MR where Qibli asks her if she loses her faith in dragons since she can see their motivations and thoughts, and she tells him that she actually believes better of other dragons because she reads their thoughts. She's settled into a complacency in her belief that a) dragons are all good at heart and b) she's so used to seeing everything, that she doesn't really compute that people can be hiding things from her or that she doesn't have a full picture. You have to remember that as much as Winter was justified in his anger, Moon didn't know what was going on, because Darkstalker was deliberately hiding what he was doing from her so that she still believed in him. She's reeling from the knowledge that Darkstalker lied to her, broke promises and is trying to do horrible, horrible things, and to her credit, she comes around to understanding Darkstalker's villainy, she just manages to hit Winter's triggers as she does so.
And that brings us to Qibli and Kinkajou, who sided with Moon over Winter. Since the beginning, it's fair to say that Kinkajou has been established as very loyal and also not exactly known for her critical thinking skills, and back in MR, she tells Winter that although he's very handsome, if he hurts Moon, she'll take Moon's part. And Kinkajou does, because Moon's her friend and Winter's angry and she isn't thinking about what she's doing.
Now, it's no secret what Qibli's biggest character flaw--say it with me now--having to be the hero and be universally liked. Now by this point in DoD, Qibli is quite smitten with Moon (something he's competing with Winter over) and she's become the apex of his 'desire to be liked and perceived as A Hero'. So, it's his instinct that when Winter--Qibli's romantic rival--is getting angry and confrontational with Moon, is to side with her against Winter, so that he'll come off as the nice guy, and the hero (and this is coming from someone who is a Qibli fan who ships Moonbli, so I'm not trying to hate on your fave).
I think it's just really interesting to analyse how all of their individual character flaws came together and clashed, creating the conflict.
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Sorry I feel the need to respond to the idea that vase scene is good actually because everyone is flawed in it. I feel like there is something missing in this analysis, and it's that much of the problem with the scene lies less in the scene itself but more in how the scene and the characters' actions within it are followed up by the text.
How the scene plays out in the text is that Winter knocks over the vase while lashing his tail in anger when Moon says Darkstalker is his friend. Winter says that he's evil, Moon responds angrily herself that Winter said he would give Darkstalker a chance, at which point she realizes and Winter confirms that Darkstalker had brainwashed him. Qibli makes the "I'd brainwash you too" comment, says sorry immediately, and then when Winter "turned to Moon as if he was ready for her apology," she turns her back on him and begins picking up pieces of the vase. She, looking to Qibli and Kinkajou but not Winter, insists that Darkstalker only wants what's best for everyone. At which point Winter angrily reveals the Icewing plague. In surprise, she says "What", accidentally steps on a vase shard, and gets a small cut. Qibli rushes to her aid, remarks in the narration that if Winter loved her he shouldn't be yelling at her like this, and then confirms the plague. Anemone comes in with skyfire, winter makes a snide comment about Moon not knowing where she feels about Darkstalker, to which Moon respond sharply that she feels lied to, and then they split up. I'd like to note that when Moon decides to confront Darkstalker, what she initially says to Winter is "Please don't break anything else," before asking Qibli to come with her.
There are three things I'd like to draw attention to:
Moon's injury is small and it's not quite as simple as "Winter injures Moon". She has an accident which compounds on a thing Winter did seemingly on accident.
Moon is not being passively absorbing Winter shouting and making snide comments. She's responding in anger herself, pointedly ignoring him (and how he was personally violated by Darkstalker), and before she leaves to confront Darkstalker, she tells him not to break anything else like he's a petulant child who will wreck the room in anger as soon as he's unsupervised.
Qibli's internal monologue only notes Winter's treatment of Moon as bad
I'll come back to point one, but the other two are not bad, on paper they are good even within a reading of this scene where it is drawing out the flaws in each character present. If these flaws were to be followed up on and the group were to reconcile, and if Moon and Winter were to talk out why each of them were hurt by the argument it would be compelling. The reasons Moon was hurt are obvious, Winter shouts at her and refuses to consider her perspective, that she's been manipulated and didn't know any of this. Winter's aren't so obvious, but still present. Upon being told that Darkstalker had profoundly violated his autonomy, Moon doubles down on Darkstalker just wanting the best for everyone, tacitly implying what Qibli had just been wrong to say outright: that it was on some level justified to do that to Winter. When she learns of the failed genocide, she's expresses being upset about being lied to, but not any of the ways Winter was directly harmed.
And then the books only acknowledge how Moon was hurt by the argument. In the epilogue, it's made clear that Moon and Winter haven't seen each other in person in some time. Kinkajou tells Winter that he should come visit Moon and apologize to her for being mean, and he agrees and says that he knew after that scene that he had ruined any chance with her. At no point after the argument ends does anyone acknowledge that Winter had legitimate reasons to be upset, that Moon had acted passive-aggressively, that reconciliation would involve all of them acknowledging that they hadn't been at their best in that moment. Only that Winter had been mean, so he should say sorry. Every direct perspective on the argument paints Winter, and only Winter, as wrong in his argument with Moon.
And when you consider the vase with this knowledge, it's just silly. It feels like a thing that is there to make Winter seem meaner, Moon more victimized, and Qibli like a nice supportive guy who would be better for her.
The scene becomes ridiculous when put in the context of the rest of the book, because half of the interesting substance from the character's flaws ends up not mattering. Moon and Kinkajou never have their actions in this scene come up again. Qibli's flaws are instantly addressed so he can resolve them onscreen and complete his arc. Winter spends the rest of the book in the doghouse for it and his actions are used as justification for why he isn't right for Moon. In the context of the book, this scene exists to forward Qibli's arc and justify Moon choosing him, and it does both at Winter's expense. It doesn't matter if everyone's flaws are on display when the book is picking sides, and deciding who gets to gets to grow from this argument, who doesn't, and who doesn't need to.
You know, maybe I shouldn't respect evil women
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Add “And I’m a dragon” to the end of every spoken dialogue
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Okay WoF gang I wanna make this a tag game now. Take a line of dialogue from your either your favorite book or favorite character in the series and end it with “and I’m a dragon”
I’ll go first!
Favorite book/Character: Moon Rising and Moonwatcher
“Beware the darkness of dragons, beware the stalker of dreams, beware the talons of power and fire, beware one who is not what she seems, something is coming to shake the earth, something is coming to scorch the ground, Jade Mountain will fall beneath thunder and ice, unless the lost city of night can be found. And I’m a dragon.”
No pressure tagging @aroacedragongirl and @yellow-computer-mouse and whoever else wants to this is gonna be so silly
I just did Snowy (one of our kintypes) 👍
"If this is stupid MAGIC, then it's REALLY STUPID magic! And I'm a dragon."
uh open tags! ^^
Sure why not x3 I'll do Clearsight~
"If I miss a day here or give the wrong answer here or share my scroll with this hapless dragon here, the entire tribe might die. And I'm a dragon."
open tags~
My man Starflight, Book 4
"I'm not used to eating infected carrion. Scientifically I assume it's something you have to adjust to over time, as your dragonets will have done, growing up with a diet like this. But I won't have the correct antibodies to keep me safe. It's not worth the risk. And I'm a dragon."
Open tag ig??
sunny, book 3
"I feel like I'm being patronized, but I'll root for you anyway. And I'm a dragon"
Your gender is now the first randomized wikipedia article you get. No rerolls.
What is your gender now/what did you get?
A person (real or fictional)
An animal
A plant/fungus/otherwise alive non-animal
A non-living natural thing (e.g. a rock) or a natural phenomenon (e.g. tornado)
A place
A period of time or a specific event
A concept
A man-made object
A work of art or a piece of media
A field of study or a specific research
Something else? Put in tags
Love seeing what different things people get!
