Hi All! Sorry For Not Posting For A While But I'm Happy To Announce That I Turn 17 Today! Also Here's

ITS TIME FOR THE DTIYS!!!

Once again THANK YOUUUU guys so much for getting me to 200 followers both on here and instagram. Double whammy am I right?? I literally can’t believe it. As a thank you I’m hosting my first ever DTIYS w/ prizes!!

⬇️Here’s all the rules and info ⬇️

The Rules:

- you can change the posing and composition BUT NOT the design

- Follow me + tag me and use the #sircarrie dtiys to be eligible for prizes

- Submissions close on FEB 23 @ 11:59pm

The Prizes (all will be fully colored and lined)

1. a full body drawing

2. A partial body drawing (hips/legs up)

3. A portrait drawing

Im so excepted to see what you guys’ll come up with!!!

A very curious Pyroraptor spots something interesting (a cycad seed) on the forest floor, and is just...tickled pink by it for some reason.

What's your opinion on Chameleon? (I'm still confused how he learned to read and write when rainwings don't have literature from what I remember, but apparently his handwriting is also horrible.)

Rainwings do indeed not have literature, or a concept of currency or wealth for that matter. But keep in mind that Chameleon was banished from his tribe and spent a significant portion of his life outside the rain forest. Presumably he picked up a rudimentary understanding of how to read while having to live within these new environments.

We don't really know where he went, if I recall correctly--outside of the fact that he eventually wound up in the Sky Kingdom, presumably after Scarlet found him and made him her newest toy.

While thinking about this question, I settled on a personal headcanon that, after he was exiled from the Rain Kingdom, he ended up in the desert at first. Either at the Scorpion Den, or some outlier Sandwing town that went unmentioned in the books (I like to imagine the continent bigger, with a lot of smaller dragon settlements dotted around in every territory in addition to the big ones).

In the desert, unsure of how to subsist in this unfamiliar climate, Chameleon temporarily got roped into the service of some Sandwing merchant who owned the dragon equivalent of a pawn shop/curiosity store. There he was taught enough to be able to read labels and sort merchandise correctly, and figured out the very basics of literacy from that.

As a bonus, this kind of background would also put him into proximity of antique items which might explain how he eventually came into possession of Darkstalker's scroll. It also introduces him to the concept of personal wealth (Sandwings being a particularly mercantile and materialistic tribe) and informs his later obsession with acquiring it. And lastly it tells us how he turned villainous, as being forced to work in retail for long enough will turn even the most patient and virtuous of souls to the brink.

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[image description: Black Silhouette of a dragon with spikes on her neck. The only thing giving her depth is white light covering half of her face and parts of her underbelly and ear. Eye on the white light side is black, while eye on the black side is white. The background is dark gray, covered in white and black stars. At the bottom of the image, there are black plants with thin branches and few small leaves covering them. / end image description]

I don't really have strong feelings about Frostscales, however I do think they would be cool.

We can reason a way for dragons to breathe fire. Whether it be flammable gasses or liquids produced by the dragons. But frost breath itself is much harder to rationalize as it would take a pretty strong endothermic reaction to happen. In my eyes it's the closest thing to magic a non Animus can have, so rather than being a genetic abnormality it feels more like magic gone wrong or a curse.

I also think that freezing solid and having your fingers crack off is scarier than just having them burn. It feels more final to have a limb simply be gone rather than be burnt and chared.

Firescales and Frostscales both embody the horror of never being able to touch your loved ones without hurting them, of being helpless to control your own body, of being shunned from your tribe and unable to form the same connections with them as your siblings can.

I find them both interesting, the only downside I can think of is that both Firescales and Frostscales tell the same story. The only difference being that Frostscales is for icewing's and Firescales being for Skywings.

Idk these are my unsorted thoughts, I would love to hear yours.

I don't like frostscales much as a concept. I think it's kinda boring ngl. I do wanna know if other people like it, and why or why not?

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Thinking about how wild it is that enshittification starts as a way for the rich to squeeze the populace for more money but ends up infecting everything so even luxury products decline in quality. They’ve got more money than fucking God now and for what? Literally they can’t even buy fun nice stuff for themselves because they killed craft.

Anyway this post is about Dhaka muslin but it’s also about everything.

bbc.com

The ancient fabric that no one knows how to make

Nearly 200 years ago, Dhaka muslin was the most valuable fabric on the planet. Then it was lost altogether. How did this happen? And can we

Genuinely what was the point of quoting this

Time Travel Fix-It-Fic idea where a Bad Ending happens, but then one of the characters is magically sent to the beginning of the story. it seems like they're the only one who's been sent back in time and they're like "Huh, is this my second chance? I have to try my best to fix everything! I have to do it on my own though, if I tell anyone else that I've lived a future with [Bad Ending], they would never believe me" so they try to push things toward a better outcome while staying secretive about the time travel thing. but it turns out that every character was sent back in time and everyone is trying on their own to fix the situation, but all of them think they're the only one who was sent back in time and that they have to hide it from the others, so they're all being secretive from each other and trying to act normal while fixing everything and they all have different ideas of what "fixing everything" even means and all of them are stupid and it just devolves into everything being worse

like this

Sorry for double posting but APPARENTLY those commission scammers have showed up on Tumblr at least for the first time for me.

For those who don’t know what I am talking about, there were/are commission scams going on in Instagram and even places like Artstation where people would pretend to be interested in your work and try to commission a pet or portrait for the sake of trying to get your bank details. Here’s how to (somewhat) sniff them out:

1- They don’t seem to be an average customer/ person that would be involved in your fandom, or has a blank template for an account or don’t even follow you.

2- They ask you to draw a portrait or a pet picture either for themselves or their children/family.

3- They promise to overpay you (in the hundreds) and do not listen to you even if you firmly state the price is cheaper.

4- They are constantly asking for your email name, or private details regarding things like banking details or passwords or other private information others should not know.

5- They try and over reassure you they mean no harm, try to guilt you into giving them the info, or become aggressive over you not giving them what they want.

What should you do if you come across one of these guys? My best advice is to block and report. Sadly these people jump account to account so there isn’t really much to do other than spread this info to prevent artists from being scammed.