Needle

She/They !MINOR! NSFW DNI l mainly post WOF but i post other fandoms occasionally

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never thought i'd do this but I HAVE COMMISSIONS OPEN

I'm able to be contacted via Tumblr, Discord, and Tiktok, though Discord is the preferred place. My user is needlbeetl if you're interested!

if you have any questions, feel free to ask! I'd be more than happy to answer.

say... you're not a robot, are you?

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a new oc appears!!

This is Taurus, a nightwing based off of a Hanmer-Headed Bat.

she's kinda odd,,,, she's straight /j

i also drew this of her based off this bat image

she's so cutesy i luv her so much

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happy pride month to my goats ever

the owl house will always hold a special place in my heart

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sigh,,, the people need to know,,,,

i must say the truth.....

wireplay is peak

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‼️CW: BLOOD‼️

word up or smth idk Im not lexiconian

more final definition stuff

saw a tutorial for drawing blood on pinterest and i locked tf in

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becky is tired of this bullshit

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RRRRrrRr i need to rant about the shipping community of a 20 year old PBS Kids show,,,

honestly, in regards to Tobecky, it's a very odd ship to me.

I've seen that it's one of, if not the most popular ship in the Wordgirl community, but I'm not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, it can be cute. On the other hand, some of Tobey's behaviors are REALLY creepy. I get that he's like 10, but i really really hope that Tobey grows out of that, otherwise the ship just can't work for me. I wish they had like an episode teaching him that kind of behavior's weird.

I tend to lean more toward the ship with Becky and Scoops or Violet. I feel like Violet definitely had a crush on Wordgirl at one point. And, of course, the crush Becky has on Scoops. I've also seen potential of Violet and Scoops being a thing, and I wouldn't mind that either.

Side thing: Love you Violet. They can never make me hate you Violet. She was kind of irritating in the finale, as she refused to look into both sides of the story regarding Wordgirl's identity, and didn't bother to think about why Becky felt like she had to keep it secret. However, I feel like that would've been explored more if the show didn't get cancelled, and that's the only infuriating moment i've had with her. It didn't really warp my opinion on her as a whole.

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shit u right

i didn't know the ship names so i just went by the shipping wiki

Boops is really cute

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i haven't watched wordgirl since i was in elementary school and now im absolutely crazy over it

this happens surprisingly often

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RRRRrrRr i need to rant about the shipping community of a 20 year old PBS Kids show,,,

honestly, in regards to Tobecky, it's a very odd ship to me.

I've seen that it's one of, if not the most popular ship in the Wordgirl community, but I'm not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, it can be cute. On the other hand, some of Tobey's behaviors are REALLY creepy. I get that he's like 10, but i really really hope that Tobey grows out of that, otherwise the ship just can't work for me. I wish they had like an episode teaching him that kind of behavior's weird.

I tend to lean more toward the ship with Becky and Scoops or Violet. I feel like Violet definitely had a crush on Wordgirl at one point. And, of course, the crush Becky has on Scoops. I've also seen potential of Violet and Scoops being a thing, and I wouldn't mind that either.

Side thing: Love you Violet. They can never make me hate you Violet. She was kind of irritating in the finale, as she refused to look into both sides of the story regarding Wordgirl's identity, and didn't bother to think about why Becky felt like she had to keep it secret. However, I feel like that would've been explored more if the show didn't get cancelled, and that's the only infuriating moment i've had with her. It didn't really warp my opinion on her as a whole.

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Fun fact:

Becky Botsford cannot recognize her own reflection

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does the wordgirl community even exist anymore

she's so pissed bro

on top of this, here's my headcanon design of Wordgirl/Becky

I wanted to make her look less,,, human, considering she's Lexiconian

I feel like she uses foundation and concealer to hide her markings, and just pretends that her nails are just sharp and that she makes them that way instead of them being claws!

The little stars were partially inspired off of the little horns that 8-0 gives her in Final Definition (GO CHECK THAT OUT I FUCKING LOVE THAT COMIC)

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From the river to the sea.

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also a lil wordgirl doodle from yesterday

this girl is 10 and is having to teach elementary vocabulary to political figures

i'd hate to be Becky i think i'd genuinely end up with Miss Power

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@wordgirlfacts is wordgirl just always high now

sigh... another celebrity lost to drugs, alcohol, and dr house,,, 😔

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Wings of Blue

So here is something I liked about Book 11 that took me until now to realize I liked it. I greatly enjoyed the fact that Blue didn't have wings.

Why did I enjoy this? Well, I think having Blue lack this (for this setting) very ubiquitous mobility option created some interesting challenges for the group to overcome. Challenges that aren't seen very often in this series and that I thought felt very fresh as a result.

See, there is a set of common issues you tend to run into when you give your protagonists access to free and convenient flight. It makes travelling almost trivial. It becomes much harder to challenge your heroes through putting some kind of treacherous landscape in between them and their goal, because unless said goal is inside that landscape, there is little stopping them from just soaring over it and laughing at you.

Maybe that is something you welcome. Perhaps the idea of Clay and friends having to rough it out in the wilderness for weeks, evading patrols and slowly making their way to their destinations doesn't appeal to you. You might prefer them to just fast-travel to the next big location because that's where the plot is. And that is a perfectly valid opinion to hold. Spending story time camping on a dusty trail might be a total pace killer.

But for me, a little bit of magic is lost if you can theoretically access any point on the continent with at most two days of flying. It makes the world feel kind of small. I yearn for that kind of trail filler, putting me into proximity to all the settlements on the way and exposing me to their little quirks and cultures.

Another aspect I liked about Blue's initial flightlessness was that it gave us another dragon body type to appreciate. The physiological diversity in Wings of Fire is... rather shallow. Barring injuries and some dragons having a harder time lighting a fire, everyone has roughly the same body shape and array of abilities to work with: Flight, something that kills, and in some cases one utility ability (like invisibility or darkvision). But very few have specific physiological shortcomings. I liked Blue's situation because it gave him a very glaring and obvious weakness that the others had to work around. That was interesting to me, having to conceive of ways to get him up cliffs or down to a deeper hive level.

I kind of wish there was more of that, dragons having to consider the weaknesses of their physiological makeup and planning around it. Like, if I really think about it, passing through the desert should be a huge problem for characters like Tsunami, Turtle, and Anemone, and being in the humid rainforest would be a struggle for Sunny and Qibli. The only instances I can think of where anything like that happens is with Clay's temperature-based breath weapon and Winter noting that proximity to a volcano makes his frostbreath less effective.

I’m maybe picturing a little side story on the way from the rainforest to Blaze’s fortress, where the group is crossing the desert and has to barter with some shady Sandwing water merchant because Tsunami is in danger of drying out. Maybe the merchant could say something like “If you don’t like my prices, you can go get your throat slit in the Scorpion Den instead,” setting up that place as bad news. Then when Sunny goes there in her book, people will recognize it and have appropriate expectations of it as a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

I don’t know, it could be fun.

So I guess if there are any aspiring authors of dragon xenofiction reading this, I leave you with this bit of unsolicited advice: Think about the physiology of your dragon characters and do not be afraid to give them appropriate gaps in their skillsets. Not every dragon needs to be able to fly, or do the same things every other dragon can. Sometimes it is fun watching your characters have to think of clever ways to cover for each other's shortcomings. That is how bonds are formed.

Those are my I'm-falling-asleep-and-am-rambling-nonsense thoughts of today. Let's hope they'll still make sense to me when I wake up again.

Luckily, it's a screen window.

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sex is real in the valentine's AU

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Not exactly a lore comic

Yuri is real in the Valentines AU