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[twiafom]

Somewhere around the fourth time Jack breaks into his workshop, Hiccup decides that maybe he isn’t terrible to have around.

It would be great if Jack would stop hiding his tools, though.

continuation of @emerialyncodevenice and i’s cyberpunk au! a continuation was requested by @thechromedog!

[twiafom]

okay i do have actual art today. more cyberpunk! as always much love and credit to @emerialyncodevenice who is a gift and a legend

original cyberpunk post | ecv oneshot | @toopliss-chewtoy oneshot

[twiafom]

in a metropolis where tech is tightly controlled, hiccup haddock is the best engineer in berk’s underground. his specialty? AI controlled dragons: fast, intelligent, and wicked in a fight. when he uncovers ciphers in the tags of his favourite graffiti artist, frost, he’s drawn into a rebellion to regain berk’s technological freedom.

but who is frost?

one thing’s for sure: the city’s never going to be the same.

AKA: the cyberpunk au

this absolutely would not have been possible without @emerialyncodevenice thank you eternally for everything you do!!!

[meltesh28]

feeling crazy about them again

[meltesh28]

Had to just use a link previously since I wasn't able to upload the full video on tumblr (the file was too big) but I can still upload a little toothless compilation so... here!

(youtube link for the full vid)

[meltesh28]

❄️ What's up, buttercup?

snow-crested shrines inspired fanart (again) (im still obsessed)

close ups below

[meltesh28]

drew a comic of a scene from chapter 5 of drag path !! I love this fic 😭

[strangaloid]

please don't identify me

this isn't the wip I posted his last birthday, but it's here

little creecher

cryptim in the newspaper

ominous boi

[diamondeyes-deluxe]

I work with kids and sometimes we have to do safety lessons with them about like, not telling strangers on the internet your home address or something. And sometimes the kids wont understand why, so you have to impart upon them that, well, some adults want to hurt children. And thats kind of difficult to do, because you have to beat around the bush, both because you dont want to scare them (while still making them understand how serious it is) and because you might lose your job if you explain it too straight forward.

Luckily, for some reason, the villain of one of the most popular franchises with children for the last 10 years happens to be a serial child murderer. So when a kid asks why they shouldnt trust strangers, instead of hand wringing and humhawing my answer out, I can just say "we dont always know when a strange adult has good intentions with children, or when they are William Afton."

[dead-nobody]

OTNWAS was so good…

[kilgarraara]

Of the Northmost Winds and Skies part 4

and probably the last one!

@jjackfrost I want to say from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU, you created something absolutely magical and it will forever live in my very soul. I'm not good at articulating my thoughts and emotions, so I wanted to pour them into my drawings in hopes that I can convey them this way, I'm forever grateful for the opportunity to live in the world you created!!

[sboochi]

Of course they hadn’t been kissing! What a strange question. Though to be fair, their faces had been close and it probably could’ve looked like they were kissing from the distance that Jamie had seen them. 

One of my favourite moments from Of the Northmost Winds and Skies by @jjackfrost aka how I cried for a Hijack fanfiction in 2022.

I honestly just want to say thank you to the author for bringing us such a wonderful story. I loved how in character everyone was, the slow burn was SO GOOD and the plot was a lot of fun to read! Also I'm still emotionally recovering from the last chapters and I'm blaming you because now I won't be able to watch RotG the same way.

Again, thank you for writing and posting it!

[svnnysolar]

the view between villages || storyboard by @meltesh28

[thesehandsfic]

Hi! You do not have to answer this question if you don't want to, but I was curious why you chose to portray Niall as an abuser in Tenebroso. There is no CSA in canon, so I wonder how you came to that? No pressure to reply :)

hi sure complicated question but definitely worth answering.

it's my opinion there is actually subtext in canon to support this (this being: ronan as a victim of csa). other people have talked about this, i know i'm not the first to think this and i won't be the last. i don't remember specifically which authors/bloggers have discussed it, but it's an interpretation of canon that i've definitely seen before.

when i first read the books as they were released, that's what i thought ronan's Deal was going to be; like i remember genuinely thinking that's where the author was going with it, and i turned out to be wrong, but the subtext is there.

this portrayal isn't based on things we know about niall (since we don't really know that much about niall tbh), but instead, it's based on things we know about ronan. some examples:

- something bad happens to ronan at night that he's not allowed to talk about

- ronan's father refuses to explain or educate him regarding what is happening to him at night

- he is isolated from the outside world by virtue of his "secret" and by nature of his upbringing

- he has fraught relationships with his siblings, particularly the older sibling, who "knew" about "the secret" and was not as understanding/helpful as ronan might have liked/needed regarding "the secret"

- he's weirdly attached to his father and holds him in strangely reverent regard

- he's an alcoholic, has a tendency to self-harm, he acts out for attention, is depressed, misanthropic, and "othered" from his peers

- nightmares/sleep related trauma/sleep paralysis/kills himself in his dreams/monsters appear to him in his dreams and hurt him

- he has a pretty notable reaction to adam's choice of material for the greenmantle plot; csa is the absolute worst thing adam could think to pin on this guy, and ronan is (in my opinion) triggered by it

- he hates himself/sees himself as "wrong" or "alien"

- he is destructive towards his personal property and is triggered when he returns to his childhood home/is reminded of specific things that took place in his house

- he has a deep seated compulsion/desire to please/conform/succeed

- unable to attach/bond in a healthy/regulated manner

- strange relationship with his brother, particularly interesting is that he often refers to them as a married set of parents; he refers to himself as "daddy" and himself and his brother as "mommy and daddy"

- he has a problem with authority, specifically with male figures of authority, especially those who try to "parent" or "teach" him

all of these things are not necessarily ironclad, but i spent a lot of time discussing this with @neurosses at the time of writing, trying to decide if this was a path i wanted to take or an interpretation of ronan & niall that i felt was correct, so possibly she will have something to add since this is a topic we discussed/hashed out/worked to ground in canon.

i have said before that it's my belief if you are taking away ronan's magic, you have to give him something else; there must be a wound of some sort. this doesn't HAVE to be child abuse, but if you remove the aspect of magic from the things i listed above, you have a pretty solid foundation for an alternative interpretation of his canonical trauma.

specifically regarding tenebroso, i chose not to give declan that shared experience, but there is some basis for it regarding declan as well:

- niall turned him into his "work wife" when his own wife left/his dream wife wasn't designed to be smart/useful/a true equal

- he is parentified, almost by force (assigned guardian in the will)

- strained relationship with his siblings, particularly the one that still genuinely loves their father/doesn't see father's faults

- bears resentment towards younger sibling that he perceives was "preferred" or the favorite based on the attention paid to him by their father

i don't expect everyone to agree with me and i don't expect this interpretation to become widely accepted, but i do believe there is basis for it in canon (the entire lynch clan has serious Gothic Family vibes but that's a whole 'nother essay), and i really am not sure i have anything else to say about it; it is easier for me to explore these things in fiction/character study than it is for me to sit and expound upon it through meta. so i hope this is a satisfactory answer for you!

[neurosses]

Linking @whatimages' incisive commentary on Ronan Lynch's sexual abuse coding.

General thoughts (sorry if I sound abrupt, my laptop is about to die):

There is sexual violence in The Raven Cycle/The Dreamer Trilogy, and it is many times interlaced with the alienation and terror of being a dreamer. whatimages noted Kavinsky groping Ronan while Ronan was immobilized. ahotknife noted that Adam's CSA blackmail dreamstuff retraumatized Ronan. Mór Ó Corra's internal agony, at least partly sourced from having been sexually abused, spills through in her dreamstuff: everything in her imagination is full of pain. Aurora is technically younger than Ronan, which, at the very least, is highly disturbing. Outside of the direct dreamer linkage, the Gray Man's recollection of being abused by his brother strongly implies CSA. It is part of the textual fabric of the story.

There are granular, specific details that give rise to imagery of sexual violence. For example: Niall was covered in Ronan's blood, not his own, when he told Ronan, "Don't tell anyone," while laying in his bed, covered in blue petals as deflowering. There are many, many examples of this.

There are also macro level connections between dreaming and sexual violence. Quoting whatimages directly here: "Niall literally molds Ronan in his image." The secret thing happens at night. It profoundly others Ronan from the rest of the world.

Additionally, I'm echoing ahotknife's point that Ronan is profoundly shaped by Niall in canon, and — especially in a story like Tenebroso that presses into Ronan's canonical (!!) proclivity for violence, misanthropy, and criminality — there has so be some crawling, alien gulf between Ronan and Declan, Ronan and the world, if magic doesn't exist.

Also: in DMs, I said, "Declan keeps secrets; Ronan is a secret," with regard to how Declan does seem to display some coding as well. This analysis is centric on Ronan, but there are some things of note about Declan; ex. his telling understanding of Mór's positionality after learning what she'd been through; the discomfort of him travelling all over the world as a kid with his father to meet business associates to trade illicit goods, how human trafficking sees to have a role in the Fairy Market. Same weapon, different wounds.

[vansunshinewy]

I love how Opal's chapter repeatedly states that Opal REALLY loves Adam. She's literally bursting with love for him. She loves him when he's sad, when he's thoughtful, when he's happy. She's afraid that he'll leave to study. She clings to him, knowing he'll never push her away. He invents games for her and shows her how things work. It was only from him that she accepted the gift, and later we see her with that watch. Opal is imbued with what her creator, Ronan, imbues in her. She loves Adam because Ronan loves him.

[justspilledcoffee]

Hey guys did I mention I live on a fucking weird island and sometimes land crabs with 8-inch claws try to get into my house

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

cute puppy what breed is he

[purified-zone]

sideways

[originalcrime]

they laid off the shrimp who fried rice. yeah. he’s out of wok now