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I have some things to say about the situation in fandom the last few days // an open letter to the morally outraged.
I didn't read the fic that started this, purely because I didn't see it in my feed. But I have trusted friends who were able to give me enough of an idea on what it contained that I feel comfortable commenting.
I am both a parent, and was a victim of abuse when I was a child. I would kill or die to prevent my children or any children from becoming a victim of csa. I support a non profit organisation dedicated to keeping children safe from csa and csam.
This fic, from all accounts, did not contain or glorify csa. Also, when it comes to literature, csam laws do not apply. Fictional written works containing csa are actually researched and studied by experts in the psychology field. Well researched. They are not illegal, and the subject matter is in a lot of professionally published works.
Dark themes in fiction and erotica can also be a coping mechanism for victims, to help them reframe their experience. It can be used as a safe means of exposure therapy where they retain control and power in the situation as they read.
Pedro himself has said one of his favourite books is Lolita. Does that say anything about his character or morals? Are you going to go around telling everybody vile things about him now?
Just because something is not to your tastes doesn't mean it should be banned, or that you should be naming and shaming people who interact with it. We are on a slippery political slope with the right wing pushing censorship and banning and othering. Do not make it easier for them to do this.
If you draw the line at uncomfortable subject matter for *you* and then try and draw that line for everyone else, too, where does it end? Do we stop at what makes you feel uncomfortable, or do we stop at what makes the next person, or the next person uncomfortable until we're well and truly censored and it's illegal to do or write anything other than under the covers missionary with your spouse?
If you're not actually out there doing the work to help victims, then what you're doing by naming and shaming is purely performative. If you were out there doing the work to help real victims, you'd be putting your energy there instead of into this stunt.
You might think you're a real hero, out there fighting the "good fight" against "those disgusting people who read that stuff", but what you need to realise is that fandom spaces are not built for you specifically. They are a community, one you need to know the rules and etiquette for.
I've been in fandom spaces for a good twenty something years at this point, so take it from a fandom old.
1. Don't like, don't read. Curate your own experience. We didn't have tags and summaries and descriptions like we have now twenty years ago. We have tags now. Use them liberally, both to seek out what you want to see, and to block what you don't.
2. We're all a community here. If you're new, you're a guest. Don't come into our community and tell us how to do things. You didn't build this fandom, and you most certainly do not get to dictate it.
3. Fanfiction is full of adult content. If you can't be an adult about said content, fandom is not the place for you. If you can't scroll on or block tags, you aren't mature enough to be here.
You don't have to like everything you see. You don't have to see everything the fandom posts. But you sure as hell can't come in here and tell everybody what goes and what doesn't, and use fear and naming and shaming to try and control the fandom. It's awfully dictator of you.
Take a look at this post if you've gotten this far in. Fandom has had these rules long before you joined and they will be the rules long after you leave. It's the only way fandom works.
Rebloging for reasons
mischievous nuthatch
Uhhhhh.....
He is the only dragon active with his colors...
(Bubblegum/Ivory/Bubblegum)
I was gonna look for a mate, but I'm too stunned to now...
Are you sure you don't want to stay?
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You! Have been visited by the gnome of executive function! Reblog to send them along to make sure they visit the next person in need!
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Reblog to unleash this cat on your mutuals
What is a Noodleclaw???
Simple solutions to complicated problems
Don't mind me, just scrumbling by...
my mum just called "scrolling on Tumblr" "scrumbling"
YES....
Yes, I do. I call it "Mystic's Hoard"
Literally
does anybody else have a discord server thats only yourself and nobody else exclusively used to send images from your mobile phone to your tablet or computer
Rebloging just so I can find it
Love and Other Curses - Masterlist
Pairing: Dragon!Marcus Pike x f!Reader
Rating: E (18+ only, explicit smut)
Word Count: 20k (both parts are 10k a pop)
Summary: Being the oldest daughter in a poor farming family of seven, you had little hope of marrying for love, let alone marrying at all. But when one morning a letter arrives from the mysterious Prince of Azethia, you find yourself swept away–literally–to a faraway kingdom where mythical beasts are commonplace and magic runs deep in the blood of those who live there… Or is it a curse? It quickly becomes clear that the melancholic Prince Marcus is not what he seems… but can you learn his secret before you–and the Prince–run out of time altogether?
A/N: Cristina ( @pedropascalsx ) helped IMMENSELY with the moodboard, including significant edits to several of the images, making the dragon the beautiful deep iridescent green that I always pictured. She brought Dragon!Marcus to life. Thank you!! <3 And as always, all my love and appreciation to @littlebirdsbookshelf and @leslie-lyman, who both saw a HUGE portion of this fic via screenshots as I was working, and they really kept my enthusiasm and manic writing energy going until this was finished.
Part One
Part Two
Ahhh... finally, a reason to show off my addiction to Mirrors and Fae. Though my Fae addiction isn't as bad...
This next one is actually my starter dragon
The next 2 are Fae, and they are half-sisters
And finally, the only-... wait, no, I have 2 Guardians, but I like this one more...
Hope this helps! 😅
Show me your favorite plentiful dragons!
but without skin or apparel please
I have exactly 4 plentiful dragons in my hatchery, one of each breed and I struggle so hard with them because yes lots of designs look good on them, but even better on different breeds.
That's why I am looking for inspiration and would love to see your favorite plentiful dragons, or scries.
Medusa....
Noodles...
Crazy Noodles (Spiral)
Feathered Noodles (Auraboa)
Water Noodles (Undertide)
I'll admit to assuming SLAY means good...
Right? Because NAY means no?...
Help I don't understand today's slang...
I like my rock, okay? 😅
chat am i cooking. chat is this a slay or a nay.
Noodles...
Crazy Noodles (Spiral)
Feathered Noodles (Auraboa)
Water Noodles (Undertide)
That's way too funny 🤣🤣🤣
Picture the scene: Driving down the road to pick up the Yukon from the dealership mechanic.
Husband: *randomly out of nowhere* “Don’t you have to go to a gynecologist to get your IED replaced?”
Me: “*IED*?!”
Husband: 😂 “IUD, I mean. Not Improvised Explosive Device. Hope that’s not in your uterus.”
Me fucking too buddy. Me fucking too. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a Wind Clan. SLAY
chat am i cooking. chat is this a slay or a nay.
This is the second one...
He has no name because he doesn't have a personality yet... he does have a mate... well, he is the mate... I need help with him... here is one idea...
#100041493
If you feel like helping me... please 😅
My first G1 that I've completed...
I have a second one to work on as well... but the second one is tricky...
back in my mando era
Fellow local idiot agrees with this statement
Local idiot buys accent for dragon she doesn’t have.
Follow me for more Flight Rising tips and tricks.
I've lost my damn mind... apparently, I felt like doing some graphic design today. Here we go... (These are "bump" banners for a forum I run on Flight Rising)
I got Silva... welp... I really do need to watch that movie...
Wish me luck
Spin this wheel to get assigned a husband from the Pedro Pascal Cinematic Universe.
Dear Pedro Fic Writers.
Please write whatever you want.
There are a lot of people who love Sue Storm and Lucilla and Tess and Ellaria. And if you want to honor them and keep them around for your fic, that's awesome.
But if you want to erase them, kill them, send them off to war, pretend they never existed, AU them away from their cannon lover, that is totally legit. It's fanfiction, it's your fantasy, it's your dream of being with your man. You are allowed to write what you want.
Are some folks gonna steer away from lady erasure? Sure. But it's not your responsibility to please everyone because that is a 100% impossible task. The only person you need to please is you, my friend. And there will still be folks out there that love it. The only thing the fans ask is that you don't burn the ladies with hatred. But even then...you're still allowed to do you.
Write the story. Enjoy the story. Be a kind fan and enjoy the fandom. All are welcome here!!!!!
There was one coming out with Season 2(?) It was canceled due to drama...
Please don't quote me, but I remember there being a book in the works at one point...
Star Wars where is my Din Djarin novel
Uh... well... I got lucky with my favorite breed 💓 💕 😍
I rolled Wildclaw
Grey/Sanddollar/Grey
My Scry is as shown
I would totally keep her around
bandwagon time. oops, you're a fr dragon now!
spin this wheel for your breed
spin this wheel 3 times for your colors
Bonus, try to scry your combo.
(I made a forum game of this post, if you want to play along there)
Here's what I got: pearlcatcher, brown/stonewash/tarnish
I'm reblogging this because it's true
wish the size of one's lair had some impact on gameplay tbh. like every 10 (active) dragons adds another gathering turn. every step up in lair size (lesser, mighty, venerable, ancient) opens up an additional baldwin cauldron. or something. idk. you get what i mean. even beyond being useful it would just make more sense like what do you mean the two dragons i started with did as much gathering food as the 200+ dragons i have now lol
I agree... 😅
When you think about it bogsneaks are extremely fucked up. They’re the only dragon species not made by the deities and not only that they didn’t evolve either. One guy fell into the Goo and came out an entirely new species. And then the Goo started spitting out more. You can literally brew life. Imagine waking up to learn a new species of human was discovered in Chernobyl. And suddenly they’re everywhere. They’re made like snowmen from radioactive material and they just come to life. Your new friend Dave from accounting is an abomination that goes against nature but it’s ok he’s chill
Got a rude response from someone I reblogged from so I'm making my own post about Ice Flight because um--
Hey Ice Flight can be pretty cool actually and be different from the rest of the flights, and this post is gonna be my two cents about it. I've seen people go around just summing it up as "cops" when just like every other Flight they can be so much more?
While first, I do agree that Ice’s aesthetic is kinda weak as is. Not a lot you can do with the same winter themes over and over with the occasional broken chain motif. I’d love to see people get creative to what they think Ice represents and how they contribute to Sornieth’s systems, cultures, and dragons as a whole.
I see ice flight specializing in stuff like collection and cataloguing as iirc before the map update it said those were things Ice Flight likes. I think where Earth is Uncovering What Was, Ice is about Preserving What Is.
They’re not entirely just cops (and even then stripping them to just the role of "cop" is a bad take). They’re also researchers of the things they fear, and of relics that need studying. In my head Ice would probably have the best museums, archives, and storage houses. What better way to preserve or trap something than in ice?
They’re a flight of Order, not so much in the sense of cops and law but a flight that bulks when there’s a sense of disorder or chaos, disorganization, and imperfection. If it’s uncategorized, unsorted, then it needs to be so in order to be learned. Where Lightning is stats and progression, Ice is pattern recognition (Tundra’s memory being linked to their smell may also reflect this) and tradition (Gaolers role system and lack of awareness about the state of Sornieth and not just the Ice Fields).
This can be extended then into interests, individual home cultures, businesses and what not. Why not start a collection of rocks? Or insects? They’d know best how to preserve it. Need something specific from the shop? Probably very easy to find if you know the qualities and traits you’re looking for. Need something preserved for safe keeping? They’ll do that, and they’ll do it awfully well. Perfectly. The systems have to be perfect. The line up has to be perfect and up-kept and looked after intensely— possibly so intense it’s evolving into passion. There can certainly be a sense of pride.
Combine with the lore that Ice is typically more hostile to outsiders due to their melting home I can see them being much more traditional and closed off. Not quite isolated, but having a more unique culture that’s a little more closed off from others and not quite as shared, trying to preserve what is left of their home and traditions.
What about urban legends and superstition? They’re guarding creatures and horrors in those prisons, surely the local resident dragons have folklore over that? What about fishing and hunting, two very popular ways to get food or supplies in climates like these? Where are the ice fisherman skins or hunters bound in furs? What about the fauna or flora found in the region we can probably make skins for that too.
Existential horror can also be fun; remember, relatively recently Gaolers learned that Sornieth has changed. Dragons of other flights have other magic not native to their elements and in addition the age old threat of Shade that seems to be making new problems for new times.
We have a flight literally dealing first hand with monsters and horrors existing already on the planet and in its own prisons and fighting against it, yet people relegate that to Arcane. 😔 Unlike Arcane, the unknown is already here in Ice.
You could easily take inspiration from the movie The Thing, too. It writes itself ngl.
Theres much to do and think about with Ice when you remember this is a region with its own people and culture and not just an aesthetic, and I’d like to see it dabbled in more. Even if it’s just headcanon, you can make it into a skin. That’s what people have done with Light with the whole angelic themes, so why not take creative spins on ice too?
Give ice some headcanon love like y’all do with Arcane and Light. Those flights aren’t about eldritch horror or angels but there’s endless skins for them about it. Give ice some of that same ole love too 💕
Am I scrolling through my tumblr feed?
Yes.
Am I listening to Lady Gaga while doing so?
Yes, but more specifically, Bloody Mary.
Is my feed mostly Pedro Pascal at the moment?
Also, yes...
It took me a while, but I finally got a dragon with completed lore... 😅🤭
Meet Nightweaver and Flow.
There is some in-game lore that I'm feeding off of with the Dragon/Familiar pairing