[idlelizard]

dinky dragons

[vividciggy]

Mm worms in my brain

[jems-library]

Cozy night in

[coffeedragonart]

Fruity dragons? FRUITY DRAGONS

Got some time over the long weekend to actually do stuff, but still struggling to work on anything for any length of time. So quick-ish dragons from a prompt list.

Of all of them, I'm actually quite happy with the banana. He is indeed the top banana.

[quaksi]

Doodling while listening to my heart shatter into a thousand pieces (finishing gtn)

[november-nightfall]

Some art I’ve done for Ice Flights upcoming Mire Buddies program!

Edit: turns out I uploaded the tiny ones by mistake when I meant to upload the larger files… oops. Too late now but I’ve fixed it!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Recently read an evil and fucked up story about evil and fucked up people doing evil and fucked up stuff and I glanced at the reviews and so many of them were negative reviews saying "this is evil and fucked up >:(" and I'm like. Why are you here.

[lakecountylibrary]

let's go to the library with mama

[myfairynuffstuff]

Saul Robertson (b.1978) - Sleeping Cat. 2024. Gouache and watercolour on arches paper.

[arinnovo]

spell for finding your way home soon 🌠 like to charge, reblog to cast. ask box always open for sigil requests

[bookgeekdom]

[copepods]

by the time rocky and grace arrive on erid they’ve spent 4 years constructing the worlds most unintuitive english-eridian creole language and no one can understand a word of what rocky is saying

[tshortik]

The girls are fightingggg! 🔥🐉

[madcat-world]

From Tshortik

[litepla]

Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my House.

[lasagnaforem]

The real solution to MB needing at least one thing on its public id

[cowardsexual]

the eva stratt in my mind is a conglomeration of movie stratt and book stratt because god fucking bless sandra huller put her entire pussy into that performance, but while weir is bad at character writing (women especially) he IS disconcertingly good at coming up with plots that generate interesting character concepts through circumstances... which due to story cuts the movie sadly missed out on.

it's really interesting looking back at both iterations of the story and how stratt and grace's rapport hinges on unrequitedness. there's obviously the karaoke scene in the movie acting as grace's bid for human connection vs stratt's necessary refusal in order to do her job. the book rarely if ever interrogates stratt's interpersonal relationships in the project and how her sense of duty and utilitarianism extends to them (well, aside from grace. more on that in a sec). She's a History major and an administrator and She Loves Humanity, but it's a characteristic that when analyzed deeper rings pretty hollow (possibly because the author thinks social analysis/critique in science fiction is stupid and thus doesn't exactly have much to say about People like someone in the humanities would. SAD!) so that's an addition to her character from the movie that i'm deeply pleased about. what i don't like as much is that the bid for connection starts from grace.

because book stratt and grace? the one sidedness of their rapport is the driving emotional conflict of the entire pre-launch plotline—and of grace's character development throughout the whole book.

like most scientists on the team, grace was brought onto the project by force, but he's the only one who fulfilled his purpose, was allowed to return to his own life, and then came back of his own volition, out of a sense of personal duty and responsibility. which is the reason stratt takes him back on! and why she begins to rely on him more and more, as an administrator, as a mediator, as a scientist, as an advisor. she has all the more reason to do that when she discovers he's coma resistant, but she was already doing all that baby!

grace spends the rest of their relationship half-assing that sense of responsibility. one thing i adore about book phm is how merciless it is with grace's "modesty" "insecurity" and "social anxiety". children are easy to dote on. they're not stupid, obviously, but on an interpersonal level they're not your equal, they have no way to actually demand accountability from you and call your ass out. he doesn't actually think he's a failure, he's not blind he should know damn well he's not like the other scientists. "science lapdog", "ooo i'm just a little guy cmonnnn i'm just a middle school teacher", he downplays his own importance because if he genuinely grappled with the level of responsibility she holds him to towards the people in the project he'd run like a fucking dog.

he is a good man AND he is a coward. stratt's relationship with him verges on the tension between those coexisting truths. he is both someone she wants to respect but can't, someone she can rely on but has to act behind his back least he realizes. she WANTS them to be equals, she WANTS him to understand. on the day the hail mary is scheduled for launch she paces HIS prison cell like SHE'S the caged animal, trying to get through to the glimpse of the man she saw that day, the one who barged into an FBI guarded facility, looked atlas in the eye and told her scoot over, i'm carrying this with you. please understand why i'm doing this to you. please understand why i need you to be that fundamentally good man. i am tied to the tracks right next to you. and as far as she is concerned, ryland grace dies on earth saying "no".

[goldenaltar]

#OUGH THE LAST COUPLE OF PARAGRAPHS. YEAH #i do think it's so interesting how a lot of fans really swallow grace's whole 'i'm just a silly little science lapdog' schtick. #in the book it's more clear how much that's bullshit #but even in the movie stratt still calls him on it! #'if you would truly care about the children‚ or anyone else for that matter‚ you’d get on that ship.' #and i think maybe in the book she's harsher about it #('you're a coward and you always have been') #but in the movie it really comes across how disappointed she is in him for not. like. #rising to the occasion. doing the right thing even when it's hard. #which he already told her he wasn't gonna do. he's been saying all along he's a failure #because if you give people low expectations from the start then maybe they won't ask too much of you #but i think she (both book and movie stratt) was really hoping he'd help shoulder some of her burden and her guilt #instead of adding to it. via @grimark

[semolinaart]

Colored version of dragon of agate

Redraw of my aroace agate from 2021

[semolinaart]

(un)friendly reminder that all of my dragons of alchemy are canonically nonbinary agender aroaces (just like me!) so if I (again!) see any aphobia in my notes or asks I'll ban you on spot (again!)