My Little Brother & I Are Having A Scholarly Debate About Mornings

Making this the art on my Home Screen for my Lock Screen of Darkstalker by @demoniika

I just love the amazing duality of them <3

she’s so talented

Spelling mistakes in my doctor prescribed hand outs? Never!

Though I am glad for the information that “The arms of the tringle are connect.” This is very useful.

Me: Gets an ad on YouTube from betterhelp that starts with “Let me guess, you’re thinking about going to therapy”

Also me: looks around slowly… “yeah.. thinking about going to therapy…” takes in the fact that I’m currently in a psych ward…

In your Jewel redesign, you said that Wasp probably wouldn’t let her get away with full drag, but that does make me curious. What would a dragon in drag would look like?

you will not BELIEVE how much I've thought about this, both during and after designing her. I can answer your question and beyond!!

The (Drag) Queens of Pantala

In order to properly explore Pantalan drag, I first looked to the (cultural) definition of drag itself, as well as learning some brief history. With the first known preformance occurring in 1867 (Although not truly popularized until the 19th century,) Human Rights Campaign and other LGBTQ+ organizations describe drag as a preformance art form that uses costumes, makeup and other tools to illustrate exaggerated expressions of gender identity, intended to critique gender inequality or other social justice issues. Drag has traditionally been preformed/pioneered by members of the LGBTQ+ community, predominantly gay men and/or people of color.

With this in mind, Pantalan drag was most likely created and developed by Silkwings (especially in jewel hive) as a form of protest art. I imagine the movement was later popularized by hivewing audiences, becoming more palatable to the wider public after being endorsed by a privileged group as art movements often are. While there are a myriad of social justice issues Pantalan drag could have originally meant to critique, the loss of Silkwing rights and deforestation of Pantala were probably the two main driving topics.

Their Artistic Process

As for the actual production of drag costumes or makeup, Silkwings would have had to work with what was available to them - fruits, vegetables, basic dyes/craft materials and their own silk. They would construct their own jewelry using beads instead of gold, weave their garments, and grind mica with pigments and oil to make eyeshadow.

Leaves, roots and trees would be frequent design elements of early drag: with the eye-catching glamour of a dragon working to simultaneously distract detractors and seek out supporters. Heavy accessorizing and imagery of wealth would also be important to presenting Silkwings as equal to Hivewings, through metaphorical sense. The processes of creating Pantalan drag is what leads me to believe it would prosper best in jewel hive: outside of their relaxed rules and support of Silk/Hive equality, they would also have easiest access to craft materials, dyes and a lively art scene.. endorsed by Lady Jewel herself.

Just a few thoughts on drag. Thanks for asking this question! I was looking for a chance to spill and you gave it to me ( ´ ▽ ` ).｡ｏ♡

Flawed rat design… *shakes head*

I totally agree with this. It’s okay for us to be excited that friends finally get to meet, that they look at each other fondly because they genuinely enjoy each others company, that they look so happy to be around each other.

But all of this can be enjoyed under a platonic viewpoint. They are good friends. They’ve said it themselves. Leave the real people to be good friends. Be happy for their friendship and that they get to meet. Be squealy over them finally getting to interact in person.

Just don’t force romance on real people. They’ve never spoken out about it, but if the internet learned anything from Jacksepticeye, Markiplier, and their fanship, Septiplier, it’s that we should leave the romance out of how we see them as people.

Ship the characters, not the people.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Can I be honest with you guys for a sec? I feel like this needs to be said. This is coming from someone currently in the middle of writing a 17-chapter, 50k+ word Scarian fanfic, so keep that in mind. The way some of you act around Desert Duo is genuinely just… weird to me. It really hit me during the charity streams. And to clarify, when I say Desert Duo, I’m not talking about their characters—because then I’d be a total hypocrite. I mean the real people.

The way people ship-post about Grian and Scar themselves using clips from livestreams is just super off-putting. They’re close friends, not a couple. Grian is literally married. Seeing the chat constantly flooded with stuff like “omg scarian” or “the way he looked at him”—it’s just… weird, man.

Sorry if this comes off as harsh, but I really think this kind of stuff belongs in fanfics and fanart, not in real-life clips. It crosses a line, and yeah, I know I’ve said that in like five different ways now, but I really need you guys to understand how off it feels. And I get that someone’s gonna say, “Well, they don’t care,” and maybe that’s true. But still—can we not just acknowledge that blurring the lines between the real people and their characters for the sake of shipping is kinda weird?

Like, I clearly enjoy scarian fan content, but this… god, man…

Hermit-A-Day May 11! Cubfan135 :)

Honestly, I don’t know much about Cub, but it was fun to draw his vex wings, sculk patches, and glasses :). Infecting a whole server with skulk is iconic honestly. I love the way his hair turned out and that hand is just, *chefs kiss*.

So I’m in a mental health hospital. And I think I’m annoying my friend with the random thoughts I read so I’m going to post dumb things into the ether known as the internet now, thanks tumblr.

When the DBT workbook tells you to draw the faces of people you hate on balloons and then pop them 💀