Kitanya

[kitanya]

Breeding Projects – starters, planned pairs

To be honest, I haven't really made firm plans for ANYTHING for Mythaura yet. But I do have some ideas!

A while back I did come up with a couple of beasts that I had intended for my starters, but now I'm not sure. I do want them, but at least for the dragon I'm not sure if I want to commit to so much saturated color XD

Also, a number of other colors have come out since I made these two. I do think I want a pastel unicorn of sorts, and I know I want a dragon as well, but colors are yet to be determined. And my third will be a gryphon, but I currently have no visual plans for him!

As for (brief) lore, the three are a little of a family unit at this point. The dragon is a scholar, but his interests weren't considered acceptable by his peers. After being removed from his previous position, he elected to travel and learn more about the world around him instead of finding a new hole to hide in and bury himself in books and scrolls.

While he is deeply intelligent, he's not the most capable tactician. At one point he found himself in trouble, but ended up being rescued by a lightning bolt of pastel fierceness. The unicorn is a wanderer, having left her home of her own free will to try and find an outlet for her restless energy. While she doesn't seek out others to help, she is always willing to lend a hand. She stayed with the dragon for a few days to make sure he got out of the area she'd found him in, and then just... never left him.

As they continued on their journey, bonding over a shared desire to see and go everywhere they could reach, they eventually stumbled upon a grieving young gryphon. His family had recently died to a raid on his home and he had collapsed where they found him after fleeing for days. The two took him under their care, bringing him to a larger city where he could potentially find lodging and care, but on the way they all grew attached to each other and the young gryphon chose to stay with them.

The dragon and unicorn share a romantic bond, while the gryphon fills a more younger sibling role.

That's all I really have so far because I really want to make sure I don't come up with a story that goes against the canon of our eventual in game lore, and I am VERY good at coming up with world-spanning epic ideas, so I have to reign myself in. XD

[kitanya]

Almost exactly 3 years later

I exist once more. To what purpose?

Mythaura, actually. But beyond that, hopefully more!

[catgirl-catboy]

No, kids should not have unsupervised acess to the internet.   Yes, I got that and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.    Its a paradox.

[penrosesun]

It’s not a paradox – it’s a different net.

When we were kids, the internet was a sandbox-style open world – full of dangerous things, yes, but also nearly unlimited potential – and we learned to be careful, and we learned fast, and we learned fairly well.

Now, the internet is a series of black box silos built by corporations to maximize engagement at the expense of everything else.

I may have seen Two Girls One Cup by accident and at the tender age of ten, but I never had to deal with companies using gambling-addiction-creating strategies pioneered in literal casinos to try and make me hand over hundreds of real dollars at the same age. I may have been exposed to vicious bigotry in anonymous and pseudanonymous messages boards, but I never had algorithms spoonfeeding me explicitly far right radicalizing content. The blithely unfettered access people of our generation had is just genuinely not the same as what kids with unsupervised access are getting today.

[thecraftgremlin]

We need to embrace the fact that the tumblr userbase is aging. What’s everybody’s favorite kitchen appliance?

[explodingbeangirl-deactivated20]

Ok I have beef with amatonormativity (the assumption that everyone prospers in an exclusive romantic relationship).

There’s a friend of mine. He’s a guy. He’s done a lot for me and I love him in a very naive platonic kind of way. They was you do your best friends.

When he gets happy his nose crinkles and his voice cracks and when he’s sad he gets the deeply pensive and world weary look and he’s always wearing shirts with holes in them.

He’s got two kids and the way he behaves with them just makes my traumatized heart hurt because he’s so gentle and wholesome and it’s so sweet.

I can’t talk to my mother about it because she always makes it wierd. In fact, most people like to make it wierd.

Can we just normalize having friends of different genders, different ages, different life-stages, and being allowed to love them? Why does love have to be this strange word that carries such a heavy stigma?

Isn’t it love to bake your injured friend a lasagna?

Isn’t it love to give someone a cool rock you found? Or a little trinket that reminded you of them?

Isn’t it love to want to make their day better and to see them smile?

Amatonormativity is killing kindness. Let me compliment people just because they look good in that shirt or because they have a nice smile. Just because. Let me be affectionate with my friends without it being wierd. Let me call them silly names or get them dinner without it automatically being called flirting.

Just let me love people in all the little ways i want to.

[enki2]

[barbiegirldream]

Important personality test. What kid were you in gym class? I was the try hard who took it too seriously

[valtsv]

i don’t usually make these kinds of posts but in the tags tell me what symbolic imagery you associate yourself with i’m curious. personally i associate myself with dogs, eyes, the color red, and wings.

[homobiwan]

Reblog to give your nonbinary friend a sword

[brinnanza]

fic where aziraphale is fully aware that he is deeply and irrevocably in love with crowley and not in the all-encompassing angel way, but since crowley is a demon, he’s clearly not capable of reciprocating. aziraphale resigns himself to being content with what he’s got despite not at all being in the business of denying himself what he wants.

he accidentally confesses this to crowley while they’re both absolutely swozzled and crowley sobers up so fast it breaks the sound barrier, rounding on aziraphale like “are you fucking kidding me with this shit you can literally sense love you absolute moron I’m a goddamn imax technicolor surround sound of being in love with you”

and aziraphale is just like “………but that’s just the background love static. earth has always felt this way around you.”

“yeah,” says crowley, as if he is very patiently explaining that water is, in fact, wet. “yeah it has.”

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

I think that the absolute worst thing, hands down, about long distance relationships, platonic or otherwise, is when your friend feels bad and you can't just be like "I'll be there in 20 with a pizza and a shoulder to cry on"

[smilestudy]

IMPORTANT HEADS UP FOR HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS!

There is a company called “Vector” that sends out “work opportunity” letters in the mail for graduating seniors. It’s a scam. They promise a nice $17 an hour for zero experience which should be a red flag. It’s a multi level marketing scheme that preys on kids trying to make money for college and it’s gross. If you get one of these letters in the mail, just toss it in the recycle. Some of you may have heard of this or have already received one of these in the mail, but I just wanted to post about it just in case!

[pissvortex]

they did this shit to me too but they had no information about the company anywhere on the flyers and the website for applying was just a google form which should have been a red flag but basically they wait until you fill out the google form and then reveal that they are Vector Marketing. their scheme is they make you buy like $100+ worth of knives and tell you to sell them all to your family members in exchange for a cut of the profit. i ignored them once i found out but they started like sending flyers to my mom somehow

[what-may-be-perceived]

Update: As of May 20, 2022, they are still out there and currently offering $20 an hour. Please keep you and yours safe. Don’t let this happen to kids.

[elysianfiction]

What's one of the best tropes and why it is "someone hurt my beloved and now I'm about to [eldritch abomination noises]"

[prokopetz]

It’s actually hilarious how thoroughly the video game quality assurance curve is inverted when it comes to RPGs. We’ve got one-person indie productions whose scripting is so finely tuned, you can spend an hour deliberately trying to fuck with the event flags only to realise that you’ve been doing exactly what the game wants you to do the whole time, while in AAA space it’s considered absolutely normal for quest writeups on the fandom wiki to devote more word count to explaining workarounds for all the ways the quest can bug out in response to perfectly reasonable player actions than they do to describing the developer-intended solution.

[prokopetz]

Indie RPG: Not only have we anticipated every plausible approach to this random side mission, each solution has unique dialogue.

AAA RPG: The main quest can’t be completed because twenty hours ago you entered a town from the wrong direction.

[yaoi-vodka]

You know it DOES strike a nerve with me that for many queer youth (particularly the terminally online), one standard insult is "kill yourself."

It strikes a nerve because of how I know that, within our community, rates of depression and mental illness with suicidal ideation are abnormally high. And because on multiple occasions when I pointed out the elevated rates of trans suicide to cis people in hopes to garner sympathy for our cause- people literally responded to my face, "So I see the problem works itself out. Good."

That is an exact quote. And it has stuck with me for years.

Bigots are literally calling for our deaths. They encourage trans youth to kill themselves. They prefer it if we die.

And then young people within the community turn around and weaponize that same language to stab at each other and pretend that it doesn't have ill effects on us as a collective. As if telling another queer person to kill themselves over a bad opinion, poor conduct, or something as trivial as fiction or an interpersonal disagreement does not in fact enforce and legitimize the threat of violence against us.

No- I don't think you should tell anyone to kill themselves. I don't take joy in this cruelty. I have been cruel before, and I've long since had my fill of it.

[quousque]

I just saw the most Galaxy Brain gender take ever, from a cis man on reddit

[ID: a screenshot of a comment from reddit, with no username visible. The commend reads: This doesn’t make a ton of sense to me either. Setting aside the question of whether gender/sex is assigned or observed at birth, the gender I was assigned at birth was ‘boy.’ The gender I have now is ‘man’. Boys and men have different gender roles, and few adults identify as boys anymore. From this standpoint, every adult has a different gender than the one they had at birth. End ID]

Framing “girl” and “boy” as separate genders from “woman” and “man” is such an amazing take. it’s a framework that accommodates and explains so many trans experiences. Some trans people never were their AGAB. Some feel like they were their AGAB, but that that changed (usually when puberty hits, which is when you start “becoming a man/woman”. The accepted societal path is that girls grow up to into women, and boys grow up into men. But some girls grow up into men, and some boys grow up into women. This guy was a boy who grew up into a man, which generally works out pretty well for people. Some boys and girls grow up into people who aren’t men or women, even! It’s like this random cis guy skipped right over transgender 101, 102, 201, etc. and stumbled directly into Transgender Nirvana.

[iridessence]

✨ here for the darker girls, the fatter girls, the girls with invisible disabilities that want in on the soft, dreamy lifestyle, smelling roses, eating peaches, listening to Lana, putting on our prettiest lashes. Don’t let anyone make you feel like you don’t get to do or be that because of your size or color. ⛅️

[iridessence]

💫 Same goes for the trans girls, the visibly disabled girls, the “girls” who don’t really feel like girls, the girls who were told they were ugly because they didn’t fit into society’s unattainable box: you are all welcome. 🥀