#cyclona

[theloverofdragons]

with the titan dragon customisation update allowing me to make the primary dragons in game, i got round to making them and two gulps with their primal markings! and featuring fluffy too of course, we can't forget her 😉

(once again, not wholly accurate - their actual looks are here - but very close and i'm very happy with them! 😊)

[hyperallergic]

Long before RuPaul’s Drag Race, there were already well-known drag and gender-fluid artists on the East Coast. In the early 1960s, Jack Smith launched the career of Mario Montez, whose later Warhol Superstardom was eclipsed by the trans trio of Jackie Curtis, Candy Darling, and Holly Woodlawn. In Baltimore, John Waters collaborated with Divine. But the Chicano community of East Los Angeles had its own icon, who was bringing forth a more outrageous and under-recognized form of gender-based performance in the form of Robert Legorreta. 

Legorreta began performing in public in 1966, but debuted as the character “Cyclona” in the 1969 play Caca-Roaches Have No Friends. Cyclona would develop a style of drag that was not about passing as female or traditional glamour. His performances, including a guerrilla-style wedding at Cal State Los Angeles in 1971, shocked audiences. A primal, glitter-fueled scream was unleashed with Cyclona, giving birth to generations of queer Chicano artists across Southern California who challenge gender and representations of the body.

Read Dakota Noot’s full article.

[contemporarylatinamericanart]

Patssi Valdez, Cyclona, 1982. Hand-painted photograph, 13 x 7 3⁄4 inches. Cyclona Collection. ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. Courtesy of the artist

[theloverofdragons]

at last i have it... the primary dragons in game

amazing update from doverlix, titan dragon customisation my beloved, and can't wait to be emotionally wrecked by the finale!

(note; some heads aren't entirely accurate, for example solaria's head actually uses odgne's model - here's what all the primary dragons look like - but still very happy i was able to do them!)

[theloverofdragons]

happy international asexuality day 🖤🩶🤍💜

[theloverofdragons]

for @peregrinestook hero appreciation day :D

shadow is a dramatic baby sdfghjk

[theloverofdragons]

for @peregrinestook hero appreciation day :)

details under the read more so the post doesn’t get too long ;)

blue horn, two gulps, fluffy and spikey are all troublemaking gremlins (affectionate) so having dignity does not fall high on their list of priorities, despite their respective titles as primary dragons, battledragons and the world saviour. 

luna wants people to assume she has dignity so she doesn’t have to pretend that she does to convince them she does and can instead immediately collapse on a bed/any soft surface after a long day.

all of the dragons are asexual (and when it comes to romantic attraction none of them are straight in that regard either; sol, orion and cy are bi, abyss and glace are pan, spikey and neptune are gay, two gulps and fluffy are demi and blue is aro) and it’s usually solaria and orion who correct whoever made the assumption as the others will either laugh, give a withering look or punch them in the face.

quenelda is very gay and very in love with vilmor.

neptune and glacier are the resident Disasters(tm) of the group, shadow keeps coming up with cunning plans to steal treats consequences be damned and abyss and cyclona use the belief that they’ve peaked to plot their next shenanigans without suspicion >:)

[theloverofdragons]

for @peregrinestook hero appreciation day :)

the primary dragons, two gulps and fluffy are all always okay bc, well, they’re dragons lol; as long as they’ve got each other, their treasure and their comfort they’re all good ;)

luna’s halfway between always okay and immediately breaks down crying bc she has to maintain the Hero Image(tm) and usually she is okay - she has her friends and she has shadow - but book three is a very stressful time.

quenelda’s halfway between always okay and is anyone ever just okay bc sometimes she feels like getting philosophical (usually with a cup of tea in hand). like luna, she usually is okay; she’s happy in sunbreeze grove, she has vilmor and celestia and elysia, and two gulps and the other dragons too.

shadow gets dramatic when luna won’t let him have anymore treats.