A Dragon's Palace

Sapphire | She/Her | 30s | Perú | Love plushies (particularly bunnies and cats) | I sometimes write original stuff or nonsense fic. | Perpetually into FMA, Pokespe and CLAMP. Plus ballet. Currently back to my SasuSaku roots. I also reblog a lot of other stuff, so this blog's a mess, you're welcomed. Display image on the side is my OC Clarisa, drawn by the super talented @carrotcouple.

[sapphiredragonprincess]

Review Saturday

Hello, everyone! I’m here to invite you to participate in something nice!

We all know how fanfic authors receive so little love for the amazing works they gift us to enjoy after our tired days or during lazy weekends. We all know there’s lots of post telling us on how to leave a good comment. We all know, too, that sometimes it slips our mind to do so.

That’s what Review Saturday is for! You read a fic this week and were feeling a bit shy? Or you barely finished before lunch hour ended and didn’t have time for a comment? Or were binge reading and a bit (a lot) lazy so didn’t want to leave a comment on each one? Then do it this Saturday! Go to that fic, read it again, get your energy up from the feels and leave a comment!

Reviewing can sometimes be scary, I know. How do I even talk to that god/goddess at the other side of the screen? But it’s not so bad! I promise you, that author will be thrilled to hear from you! Hey! They may even start a conversation with you! How good is that? (Really good, I assure you. @ladynorbert and I had lots of fun talking after my reviews on her DA fic.)

So this Saturday, and every Saturday, you can participate in this fun game! You want to quietly offer your love to an author? Leave a comment on AO3 or FF.net on anon! Want to share that fic that was totally amazing? Reblog it here on Tumblr with a comment! You want to explode in happiness? Make a new post, tag your author and ramble away as you fic rec! Believe me, be it a page long review or just a line, that writer will love it!

The people organizing this event just want everyone to be happy, possibly find new friendships and normalize reviewing, but we can only do it if everyone helps. So don’t forget, September 9th we’re having our first Review Saturday and we encourage you to participate!

[sapphiredragonprincess]

Hello, everyone! The weekend is approaching and with it a new Saturday! Don’t forget to participate again in our weekly event! Who knows, maybe this time that awesome author you look up to will reach out and talk back to you!

[sapphiredragonprincess]

Bringing this back because tomorrow’s Saturday. I know I haven’t been consistent with this project, but it’s never too late to start commenting on fics!

[sapphiredragonprincess]

Reblogging again to pin this post up. Remember: It's never too late to review a fic!

[charlesoberonn]

Necessary and sufficient

[charlesoberonn]

[charlesoberonn]

Adding a second lock was not necessary.

[charlesoberonn]

Understanding the difference between necessary and sufficient is necessary, but not sufficient to earn a math degree.

[charlesoberonn]

Part 2

[charlesoberonn]

Gladly!

[pencilpai]

Olivier Armstrong and Major Miles portraits ❄️

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

have you ever had a beef with a teacher/prof

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hard to say

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Voting ended onJun 3

[aro-ace-chaos]

I’m so tired of the “why do people hate aspecs, they aren’t doing anything?” argument. I know that it is an attempt to support us, but it fails so spectacularly to understand aromanticism, asexuality, and any other aspec identity that it’s actively frustrating.

We are doing something. We’re rejecting allonormative ideals and that’s a massive thing to do. We’re actively fighting not just to help other aspecs, but to help everyone, because amatonormativity (and allonormativity as a whole) hurt everyone. Single people who want to find a partner but can’t also deserve to be able to exist.

There are so many issues with the expectation of marriage, including:

A single income isn't enough to get by anymore

Having a spouse is almost necessary under the current medical system

Society shames and pressures people who are single to get into relationships constantly

Rejecting allonormativity means fighting against these things that hurt everyone.

So, no, aces and aros and other aspecs aren't "doing nothing." We're doing quite a lot.

[barnsburntdownnow]

Wall Creeper Rajesh Mahajan, 2022 Parwanoo, Himachal Pradesh

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us

[wire-smith]

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

[only-tiktoks]

[ballroomnotoriety]

the women's version is called an earasaid and i can confirm it is a) super comfy, b) really easy to make, and c) practical as all hell. it's a hood, cloak, blanket, basket all in one.

[dduane]

“Little lynx kitty! https://t.co/poKj7DBucy”

[petermorwood]

Not a lynx, a caracal. Here’s a comparison…

The caracal’s moustache, eyebrows and ear-tips are a giveaway even from birth…

…and it looks like the ears grow before the legs…

…which soon follow…

If Elves had cats, they’d look like caracals.

[fuckeverythingbecomeapirate]

“Any ideas for the new park sculpture?”

“How about a giant, metallic octopus attacking a rook?”

“Perfect.”

[911official-deactivated20200526]

that’s cool as fuck though

[skylark-spinner]

quilt time quilt time

[skylark-spinner]

the cats are beginning to take shape!

[skylark-spinner]

great news! the cat heads have turned into full cats!

[skellulite]

Oops! Looks like another tiny dragon has gotten loose. This one had the misfortune of finding an ink bottle…

[hanarte]

happy christmas revenge #naruto ☃️

[drdaanvondutch]

when you die, you walk into the cold unknown hand in hand with a girl you met once when you were five in a hotel pool and her hand is warm.

[icantwritegood]

love is stored in the child you crossed paths with in a space midway to somewhere else and never saw again

[gentlekiss]

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[wheelchairtetris]

wheelchair users deserve a minimum of three wheelchairs to meet different needs. like, bare minimum of indoor chair, outdoor chair, and off road chair. chairs that meet different needs for transport, activity, positioning needs, energy levels, etc.

there is not "one chair" that can meet every need. wheelchair users deserve to have multiple chairs that meet specific needs, no matter how complex their seating/positioning needs. we deserve to at least have a backup if our chair breaks that is just as suited to our needs.

[wheelchairtetris]

wow this blew up

for anyone who doesn't know, wheelchairs are very expensive and insurance will usually only cover one every five years or only cover a new one if your needs have changed significantly. the expense is especially true for anyone who has complex positioning needs (i.e. requiring tilt/recline/elevation in power wheelchairs, general group 3 power wheelchair needs, one arm drive for manual wheelchairs, etc.). as with so many disability related issues, those most impacted by their disability are most at risk of harm when adequate support is out of reach.

this post isn't a joke about how we deserve more for being disabled. this is a very real issue for many wheelchair users, for whom using a wheelchair not suited to their needs can cause very real harm. access to multiple wheelchairs that meet your needs can save lives, and the financial limits placed on disabled people (through insurance, through savings caps, through limited income) prevent that from being our reality!

[bibliomancer7]

If things go wrong enough, the consequences of a sub-par chair can actually include death. A big push to make airlines more accountable for damaged wheelchairs started because one of them broke a woman's custom power chair and dragged their feet about getting it fixed. In the meantime, she had to use a chair NOT made for her and developed pressure sores that went septic and killed her. This shit can mean not just quality of life, but life itself.

[boschintegral-photo]

Azalea