DracoKing

"Stories with soul" https://isaacartist.carrd.co/

[isaacartist]

HAVE I MENTIONED I ALSO ANIMATE 👀🤭

Here is a wip for a *work in progress* of one of my shorts part of a series of prehistoric animals that I am attempting to recreate in specific behaviors that we see today that possibly could have been seen in Dinosaurs as well.

Such as here a Dromaeosaurus on the prowl looking for a meal in the vast wilderness of Late Cretaceous Alberta Canada I want to portal Dromaeosaurus hunting similar to how Foxes hunt small rodents under the snow since due to studies of the skull they had "Better-than-average" hearing in more detailed explanation their cranial anatomy suggest they had improved hearing capability, often compared to modern predatory birds to assist in locating prey and to add on to it they also had Fine-tuned" detection that Dromaeosaurus may have had senses that allowed it to detect subtle sounds or movements, acting as a "silent spectre" in its habitat. But I first was using the Great Grey owls hunting behavior first due to it possessing Acoustic Specialization as well but then thought of Dromaeosaurus potentially diving in head first rather than talons similar to Foxes so I used both 😅

And I plan on doing MUCH MORE such as Gorgosaurus parenting/teaching, Hatzegopteryx territorial dispute, Tyrannosaurus courtship, Majungasaurus being akin to a Jaguar hunting crocodiles, Nannotyrannus pack hunting Ornithomimus, Arambourgiania hunting Alamosaurus young, and MUCH MORE MY BRAIN GOING OVERBOARD WITH IDEAS !!!!!!!!! And I'm let me restate that I am using animal behavior that we see today AS REFERENCE mainly Birds of Prey

[flawseer]

Guardian Angel

At the end of Book 6, Umber looks at the whole Sora situation and surmises he will have to go into hiding with his sister to save her from the retributive wrath of the law. He then makes the decision to deliberately obscure his departure from his brother Clay, so he doesn't have to get involved.

If anything, this is a well-intended and noble gesture. Sora killed a Nightwing, which concerns the jurisdiction of the Rain Queen, and thus forces Clay into direct conflict with his friend Glory if he were put in a position where he had to hide Sora's whereabouts from her. But if he doesn't know, he cannot be held accountable.

This always came across as a futile effort to me though, a nice but ultimately pointless gesture born of the mind of a youthful optimist. I cannot conceive of any reality where Clay doesn't know exactly where his missing siblings are. Knowing him, he checks on them regularly to make sure they're well and healthy (but keeps his distance to respect their wishes to not involve him).

And if Glory ever decides to come investigate Bigtail's death, she knows full well Clay is able to do this as well.

Incidentally, this is part of why I like to pretend Carnelian and Bigtail didn't die. The death of a young Nightwing under Glory's care, committed by someone Clay is unwilling to give up creates so many uncomfortable implications that lead to thoroughly depressing outcomes for both of them and their continued friendship. I kind of hate where I see this going.

I am sad now. Maybe you should ignore this write-up and just look at the comic.

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At present, I have not read Book 16. This comic is based on information from Arcs 1 and 2 only. So if there are any contradictions with things happening in Arc 4, they're outside the scope of my knowledge.

[histevvie]

I voiced Stevie btw 👀

She's so funny I can't 😭😭

[aphractal2]

old concept about fallen angels beings like whale falls, providing nutrients for the lower layers of heaven

[aphractal2]

old concept about fallen angels beings like whale falls, providing nutrients for the lower layers of heaven

[aster-may]

Some of y'all in the Avatar fandom obviously use AI to write your fics and it's very disheartening.

[varangx]

I’m gonna have to take one for the team and say it’s more disheartening for artists and writers to see accusations like this, because it makes us less likely to share things we created. It makes people paranoid that their fics “sound like AI”.

“This is obviously AI” that’s not how it works. There is no failsafe way of identifying whether a fic has been written by a human or AI. Even if you think you’re 100% sure, one day you might accuse someone wrongly, and that could cause them to eventually drop their hobby (or at least stop sharing it), because what’s the point if people think you didn’t actually make this.

I myself have been told that my “dialogue sounds like AI”, like as if it’s my fault that I imagine dialogue in my head cinematically to find out how it’d sound, and cinematic dialogue often is kinda cringey. At least that’s what I think they meant, because there is no “it sounds like AI” - AI is trying to imitate us. AI doesn’t have its own writing style. AI is using writing styles it has been fed with. So, pretty much every writing style out there.

If you think something is AI, simply stop reading it, don’t interact with it, block the creator if you must. But please don’t throw out accusations like this. You won’t hurt people who do use AI because they’ll just don’t care, but you’ll hurt real writers.

[isaacartist]

@varangx 😱GASP😱 WHO DARES SAYS YOUR WORK SOUNDS AI THEY WOULDNT KNOW WHAT AI SOUNDED LIKE IF IT SLAPPED THEM ACROSS THE FACE 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[starrynet]

fifa kills whales 💔

[lostlegendaerie]

He's suing them over it for $25M.

Wyland has said any financial recovery from the suit would support public art, ocean conservation, and environmental education through his foundation.

"This should have been an opportunity to show the world that global sports, public art, and environmental stewardship can stand together," he said. "Instead, a landmark was painted over. We want to do our part to make sure that what happened here does not become the standard for how public art is treated in cities across America."

[varangx]

why the fuck is spider being held to RIDICULOUS standards compared to literally any other character

like why did i just now see someone bitch about how he has no personality because we don't know his favorite color or hobbies????? what?

name ONE favorite color/hobby of another avatar character lmfao please be serious

[jeanniebug623]

The devil is in the details!

Because I love Spider and his feistiness, I noticed while looking at screen caps of AFAA that the Mangkwan took some extra precautions with our favorite Monkey Boy. 🕷️

Obviously, we know Jake and Quaritch are hogtied because they’re stronger and more physically dangerous. The Sully kids have their hands tied behind their backs. And yes, while Spider does have his hands tied behind his back too, you can see in several caps that the knot is also secured by a rope around his stomach.

Guess they didn’t trust this feral, little air breather… 😆🕷️😈

[yrkhn]

and bunch of other gow sketches !!!!

[evcrgardn]

JAKE & NEYTIRI in AVATAR (2009) & AVATAR: FIRE & ASH (2025) dir. James Cameron

[pretty-cat1]

The way the fandom ignores what they did to him makes me so angry

[broughtchaburger]

[madlads01]

Do y'all see it if I say Modern AU Spider would look like young Tom Kaulitz

[loveonthebrainn]

no way i just saw someone on tiktok (obviously) get mad at spider for not wearing the funeral stripes like the rest of the family. the takes they reach for simply because they don’t like the character is actually crazy like you know damn well he was not accepted into the family at that time, so why would he wear those stripes?

at that time, he was simply a childhood friend. did tsireya wear stripes? did aonung? did rotxo?

like this boy cannot exist at all without getting dog piled on 😭

[spider-defence-squad]

No cause I know that if he DID wear those stripes people would start hating on him for "invading" the Sully's space and being a "tryhard" trying to fit in. Not to mention that Neytiri herself would have propably forbidden him from wearing them considering her mental state at the time.

[iwannabespiderwoman]

Ok hot take, we all know the scene where Jake goes to kill spider right? This one:

And I’ve seen a lot of people going on and on and on about how Jake doesn’t really love Spider, how he sees spider as nothing more than a pet etc etc

But I genuinely think people are missing the point of this scene. This is the trolley problem. It’s literally the trolley problem. Spider’s very air breathing existence is a MAJOR problem for not only Jake and the Sullies, but the entire planet at large. Neytiri and Jake weren’t wrong about that. We literally see the scientists experimenting on spider trying to figure out why he is like that. And Jake? Jake is not only responsible for his family, but he is TORUK MAKTO, a leader in the eyes of all Navi, that position hold culture weight. He is responsible for the protection of every Navi on the planet, and while he didn’t want that position, we see through Tonowari and the metkayinia that his reluctance means jack shit. So posed with this imminent, direct threat to his people, he has to do something. It just so happens that the threat is a boy that he has inadvertently raised since childhood, who looks to up him.

Jake has to choose between the Navi and Spider. The lives of the many over the life of one. But spiderwoman, why didn’t Jake just kill him when Neytiri suggests it? Because he doesn’t want to!! He doesn’t want to kill this kid!! But he has to! It’s that or his people and maybe if he wasn’t responsible for the Navi as a whole then maybe he could have said fuck it and ran off with the kid. But he can’t! He is responsible and he does have to act or else people get hurt! He delayed the decision the first time around and him and spider got kidnapped!( Alongside dozens of raided villages) Am I saying it’s morally right or justifiable? NO! Maybe?? It’s the trolley problem!! But two things can be true at once!

A) Jake (thinks he) has to kill spider to protect people

B) He loves Spider “with all his heart”

BOTH OF THESE CAN BE TRUE! That’s what gives a story complexity

There are other examples of the trolley problem that prove my point! Project Hailmary, with Eva Strat, essentially world dictator (and responsible for the continuation of the human species) sending Grace into space. Morally correct? Who knows! What she has to do to save the planet? Yes! Or another take, The Last of Us, Joel made the opposite decision, Ellie’s brain could have probably made a cure, but Joel wasnt responsible for the remaining humans survivors, he was responsible for Ellie, and thus the hospital massacre. He chose to probably doom everyone else to save her, morally responsible? Who knows! Understandable from a parent’s pov? Of course!

But then why did he stop for Neytiri?

Could be for a couple of reasons. He didn’t want to kill Him and someone saying that he didn’t have to gives him an escape. Divine intervention. Neytiri is also a leader of her people but has a better understanding of the cultural needs and views of her people that thus dictate their actions. He trusts Neytiri. Honestly it could be anything! But what Neytiri does in that scene is take the choice from Jake, the choice still had to be made, and in true western fashion the story goes for secret third option that probably screws everyone over but we feel more morally justifiable but Jake is no longer the one that had to make it . Neytiri takes that responsibility of spiders life on her, and off of Jake, so that he doesn’t have to chose between the two. We all know that if it truly comes down to it, Neytiri won’t hesitate, but that doesn’t diminish her arc of seeing him as one if the people, in fact it helps it by making Neytiri acknowledge that she would be killing “one of the people” should it come to that. And those emotions tied to that decision, and choosing hope and to fight and have compassion for spider and maybe later humans is a big step for her!

I feel like viewers and audience have lost the idea that a protagonist and a “hero” are two different things. And that being the protagonist doesn’t automatically make them morally superior. If they did happen stories would be boring as hell. And unreflective of real life. People make different choices then we would, and often we are not even close to being in the circumstances that these characters have to operate with. Morality is a theme, not a rule book. I could yap not in this but enough now. Come yell at me with your thoughts!!

[madlads01]

The way Spider must have been so confused...