luster!

[lustertherainwing]

I get what you mean by umber being creepy, but how old do you think the characters are supposed to be? It confuses me because I assumed by the 2nd arch, the dragonets were in their late teens, and the new characters were in their mid teens. maybe this question is too open ended because we don’t have a dragon age to human age ratio idk

this is a tough question because the author as multiple age systems that differ between the arcs.

in the first arc, 7 is physically an adult [think 16 human equivalent] and 10 is socially an adult [think 21 ish]; this would make umber [and all the dod] about 15-16, and 5 years old would be around 12 ish.

in the second arc, sutherland says that moon [4 years old] is “a teenager” so like 15 years old in human years, which would put umber and the dod at 18+

sutherland herself said in an in-person qna that “their ages don’t matter, theyre dragons” which feels extremely reductive to the stories themself, but thats a whole different thing dfghjkl

[lustertherainwing]

I saw your post generally summing up all the problematic shit in wof, and I gotta ask. who's the mlm character with a crush on someone half his age? the only thing I remember is one of clay's brothers calling qibli handsome, and I'm pretty sure qibli is around the same age as them?

I was talking about umber! clays brother

did some better research this time, qibli is 5 and umber is 7, which isnt /as bad/ as i had previously thought, but there is still the weirdness of umber being the same age as the teachers and being attracted to students. very weird and bad vibes that could have easily been avoided

[lustertherainwing]

wof folks check this out

https://twitter.com/destinywofzine/status/1325560772496302080

[lustertherainwing]

wings of fire was my first and only fandom and one of my only lasting special interests so im cursed with always being angry about it

[lustertherainwing]

thats right bitches im back

[lustertherainwing]

Hi, I'm not in the fandom anymore but I used to love WoF! I've seen your posts about some of the problematic shit in the books, and I was wondering if you can elaborate? I don't see a lot of people talk about it but I really want to know more.

i dont have a ton of details about specifics, nor do i know the full extent of whats been going on in the books since arc 2, but i can mention a few things that are yucky

- portrayal of child abuse: especially with coral, the narrative of an abusive mother who neglects their children is not handled well at all. despite anemone having been strapped to her mother her entire life, forced to go to animus school with whirlpool [ie child predator who at the very least makes her uncomfortable], and even threatened to be muzzled when she argues with her mother, all of that is overlooked and essentially completely forgiven at the end of book 2 where coral does a pissy little “im sorry i just love you so much :((((” and even tsunami is like “oh well thats fine then :D”. portraying child abuse as something that is out of love and the harm should be forgiven is EXTREMELY HARMFUL TO AN AUDIENCE OF CHILDREN?????

- racism: god where do i even start. why did sutherland use the word “tribe” and “tribal” to describe the dragon races. glory literally gets abused extra bad because everyone is racist towards rainwings, this happens in like literally every scene glory is in with a new character. im not even going to TOUCH on the slavery arc because i think that is pretty. self explanatory. 

- genocide: darkstalker, because he is bitter about his dad, decides to send a magical plague to kill a shitload of icewings. but the jade winglet thinks that he deserves a second chance uwu.....

- trauma/abuse/etc: very yucky moment when darkstalker enchanted fierceteeth to literally become his ex against her will. i dont even know what to say about this. what the fuck. why is this okay

- lgbt rep: 0 trans character, 1 mlm character who is only mentioned as being gay because he has a crush on a dragon who is half his age [perhaps progressing the stereotype that gay men are child predators is a terrible idea?????????]. plenty of lesbians now because they are presumably more marketable. im glad theres lesbian rep but i cant even say theres lgbt rep in the books because its like literally Only Lesbians. 

i dont know what else there is but writing this up made me want to beat the author with a stick. casual reminder this is a kids series and perhaps we should handle this topics with care instead of [checks notes] teaching children that genocide is forgivable. 

[lustertherainwing]

headcanon time i think burn and sunny would have gotten along if given the time. i think burn would have a reluctant soft spot for her but would act like she was just keeping sunny around “because shes a DoD” but its actually because she is curious abt her. 

this is perhaps my projecting of how i dislike thorn’s writing and her as a concept in general [thinking emoji]

if you steal my art i will beat you with a lead pipe

[lustertherainwing]

heehee.......my anemone :D this is old but im drawing wof stuff so i was reminded of it

[gem-femme]

Reminder that this is a cop hating blog. This blog is for cop haters only. If you don’t hate cops, block me and go lick boots somewhere else!

[canonkiller]

new collab adopt from me and @ten-milllion ! he did lines and i did the patterns + colors. cash OTA / offers via toyhouse!

[lustertherainwing]

What does Luster’s awesome gf, Zodia look like? The name sounds so cool! Love you and your art btw

ah she looks like this! shes an iridescent nightwing! she’s a mage in a wof headworld thats basically fantasy rpg theme!! she’s my gf’s wofsona! love her <3

[lustertherainwing]

sutherland im coming for you.

[lustertherainwing]

blister blaze and burn!

tired of seeing designs of these three where burn is the darkest/melanistic while blaze is pale and disneylooking. consider perhaps that thinking the brutish sister is darker in complexion than the others is maybe racially charged! dont do that! so now blaze is the darkest one. also they are all lgbt+ now. i make the rules. if you use these designs [PLEASE DO!!!!] message me a link so i can promo it. 

if you steal/trace my art ill catch on fire and damn you to hell. please dont do it

[lustertherainwing]

Sorry ignore that last ask! I looked into it myself a bit more and- glaux you're right,, this is. A lot worse than I wanted it to be. Thank you for making me pay more attention

of course! being critical of the things we like lends to us being better creators in the long run 

[lustertherainwing]

people really acting like racism in the wof series only appeared with the Slavery Arc tm. what the fuck yall. open your eyes even the FIRST BOOK....im....

[lustertherainwing]

been poking around wof roblox occasionally......im augustpaimon if you wanna add me :>

[lustertherainwing]

i am having very strong wings of fire feelings fellas. wish sutherland would make a twitter so i can argue with her publicly