#mackerelgray

[redux-iterum]

god ive cried about these cats like every time ive read about them, you write them with so much heart and theyre going through so much shit. firestar please survive. firestar please get loving hug from your mom

Thank you! Hope you like next week's chapter!

[a-dragons-journal]

🐟 who should be at the club rn

🐡 who’s the most insect adjacent. either in the little guy way or the EEEAAAAGHHHTKGJF FNN KILL IT way

Send us mildly unhinged system asks!

🐟 who should be at the club rn

L: ME BABEY (Loretta, she/her)

D> me too, honestly. put me back in partytime. (Denalore, she/her)

L: weren't most of your parties celebrating not dying in the demon war or whatever?

D> you can have fun at parties celebrating not dying in the demon war or whatever. illidari throw the best parties because nobody parties like someone who knows they might die any day now

🐡 who’s the most insect adjacent. either in the little guy way or the EEEAAAAGHHHTKGJF FNN KILL IT way

*collective squinting at each other*

D> I feel like we can go either the way of "the dragons tie for being six-limbed beasts" or the way of "me because a certain number of people have the same "EW KILL IT" reaction to seeing me as they do to seeing a bug they don't like". mildly depressing reason but it's true LMAO

[tanix-dragon]

🐠 who has the strangest fictional crush?

Auuauurgh okay so we don't tend to get fictional crushes so I guess BY DEFAULT it's Shaw because he's the only one that has one that we can think of? I mean Khadgar thinks Kalecgos is cute I guess but that's not quite the same thing. By Shaw's request, though, he doesn't really want us to publicly spill his tea on this one, so, sorry. :p This is one of the only questions on this ask game that's boring to ask us.

[rollerskatinglizard]

hey!! I've read a few of your Motorcity fics and I love them, but I have no idea if I'd be interested in the source material! would you be kind enough to give an overview of the things you like (and dislike, maybe!) about the show, so I can give it a try? :O

Ahaha ohhhh boy XD

This is a very reasonable and canny request! In response I will do my best to be... measured and rational... about this show, instead of ranting about all my pet peeves.

tldr: it's a fun show with some excellent highlights, so long as you don't expect too much.

Motorcity has a ton of really fun characters that you can get your teeth into, the hero and villains are EXCELLENT, and the implied worldbuilding is very cool (from the flying buildings in Deluxe to the spore/mushroom-based weapons of the Terras). It's got a great art style, very dynamic and colorful with gorgeous backgrounds. The shots of the darkness of Motorcity with the little blue stars scattered across the ceiling, holes in the Deluxe dome, are atmospheric and stunning. The music is good and so is the humor - most episodes have several moments that make me snicker aloud.

As far as the show's problems, well... the racism and ableism is (or at least was in 2012), I think, fairly standard kid's cartoon stuff. It's also mainly contained in the Terras, who are American Indian ripoffs with (spoilers) facial mutations (which get revealed at the exact point where they stop hiding their villainy. REAL classy, writers). The part I have most trouble with is the writing, which is spotty in quality. Some episodes are great! But others have bad pacing, or a disjunction between the setup and the payoff of an episode, the problem and the solution, which I find grating.

But! Watch any episode with the Duke of Detroit and tell me he's not the most delightful villain, oh my god. He's voiced by the lead singer of Twisted Sister, I believe, and flamboyant, dramatic, and hilarious to watch. Mike's backstory is extremely tasty, Julie's double life and relationship with (and similarities to) Kane is juicy, and there are way more excellent female characters than I would've expected in a show intended for boys! Claire has a lot more to her than initially shows, and her relationship with Julie actually gets an episode of its own! And Tennie is great, I adore her.

If you want to test the show out, consider watching the first episode and the last two, (if that won't keep you from watching the rest of the show, that is!) because the finale is quite good!

And if for some reason you want more detailed opinions from me on various episodes, check my tag "episode rewatch"! XD

Thanks for the ask! I enjoyed attempting to answer it, haha.

[baylardian-1]

hi im mildly obsessed with your art! i watched like 5 episodes of voyager when i was 10, i have no idea what's going on, your AUs slap tho!! 10/10!

aw ty!!! 🥺❤️

the only episode that matters is Threshold so if you havent watched it, HIGHLY RECOMMEND lmao. XD

[chaos-monkeyy]

favorite fic! "when you gotta go...." was an insanely hot 5+1 and i Adored it <3

aaahh thank you!! 😍😏 I got kind of carried away with that one and had so much fun writing it, I'm glad you liked it tooooo 💙

[dragonheart-swtor]

🤫

Send “🤫” and I’ll talk about one of my OCs without naming them

Local hybrid has major insecurity about his heritage, someone please get this boi some therapy. Mostly he just wishes he hadn't been shoehorned into being the heir to his house, although that probably wouldn't have made his life any easier, just difficult on a different axis. He tries to look like a tough asshole Sith but is very bad at actually getting rid of his heart-of-gold problem, even if he's a fair hand at hiding it from the outside world. Someone save him

[seasonal-brotp-prompts]

"i'm making a pride flag out of spite" "i'll tear down my curtains for the stripes hold on" au

“You have green and purple curtains?” “Yeah bro, who doesn’t?”