#singularity dragon

[pyroguesstuff]

thinking about.. her for today (falls to my knees and collapses into dust)

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#thinking about stolen century lucretia makes me nauseous (with love) #or maybe that’s just the allergy meds idk #digital art #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #lineless art #dungeons and dragons #the adventure zone #taz #taz balance #the adventure zone balance #taz lucretia #also if you see any mistakes in this no you don’t mind your business #sorry for the blurriness yet again #ibis paint is a cruel beast that refuses to follow my singular command

[vaultlucy]

thinking about aemond looking at daemon, after killing vaemond, like regretfully that is objectively the coolest man i have ever seen. he wants to be him so badly.

#to make it out of the shadow to honor his house and make a name for himself #they are looking each other right in the eye (singular) #house of the dragon #hotd #aemond targaryen #daemon targaryen #aemond + daemon #hotd dynamics #house targaryen

[cyborb]

recent warmups featuring gay people

#pokemon #pkmn #accretionshipping #galactic boss cyrus #colress #doodles #i should make a tag for this dragon cyrus au at some point i think huh #singularity

[lex-crow]

Eret(completely enamored): I would kill and die for you.

Hiccup(who has had this conversation way to many times): please don’t do either of those things.

#httyd #how to train your dragon #hiccup haddock #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #eret son of eret #httyd eret #eret httyd #eretcup #httyd hiccup #hicret #I read a singular fic with this particular pairing and and completely on board #incorrect quotes

[vanhelsingapologist]

Leo got his sword arm cut off by Rahadin so his portrait had to change a tiny bit.

Also one of our party members assured him of his morality and he laughed out loud <\3

#We brought Leo back just to get him captured by Strahd #He escaped! #He got his arm cut off by Rahadin and I guess that freak just kept it for scrying #so Leo just moves around barovia trying to evade literal actual strahd #if he were not a vampire he would die of sepsis #now every once and a while he pulls up on the party and raises a little hell before fucking off #we believe literally everything he tells us. not an insight in sight. #he literally kidnapped a pc to interrogate them and we were like “yeah ❤️ that’s leo!” #but now that we’re fully against strahd he’s like wow I will lend you my singular hand. no need to thank me. #my point with all this is: feed the bones. nothing bad will happen. I promise :) #curse of strahd #leo dilisnya #dungeons and dragons campaign #dungeons and dragons character #dungeons and dragons art #dungeons and dragons #dnd #dnd art #dnd character #dnd npc #dnd fanart

[oldschoolfrp]

Elf: It's an ogre! Wizard: How big? Elf: Average, I'd say. Wizard: Say 18 hits. Does an average of 5.5 hits per melee round Cleric: But what if it's an Ogre Magi? Dwarf: ON THE SECOND LEVEL? Don't be a twit!!! Wizard: Lessee, Muriel does about 4.5 points damage per round. Elf: Right! Wizard: Gromel has 17 strength and . . . Dwarf: 18! Wizard: has a +3 Warhammer, so he does 10 hits per round. Marius only has a mace, and does but 3.5 hits . . . Cleric: But I'm only AC 4, and I've only got 7 hits! Dwarf: You go in, or I bust your head! Wizard: and I'll throw Magic Missile, doing an average of 4.5 hits. That's 22.5 per round, and he averages only a quarter of that! Elf: All set? Cleric: But he's on a better table!

(Number crunching min-maxers at play, Glenn Blacow, cover of Alarums & Excursions #26, September 1977)

#yes everyone said singular Ogre Magi back then #D&D #Dungeons & Dragons #Glenn Blacow #Alarums & Excursions #gaming humor #dungeon #adventuring party #zine #dnd #min maxing #Dungeons and Dragons

[wanderingmaskdragons]

rainy day bean ☔️

#dragon #digital art #dragons #dragon beans #dragon bean #i should just write down the tags that i use a lot #do i use the plural? the singular? both?? #it is a mystery science may one day solve #i really love the sound of rain #u know how zimmy in gunnerkrigg court feels when it rains? i feel that

[fumiko-matsubara]

A warm-up portrait of Okano 🩷

My personal design interpretation this time is that she sports a wolfcut hairstyle. I once gave it a thought and it never left me. I just think it'd be cute 💕

#assassination classroom #ansatsu kyoushitsu #assclass #okano hinata #hinata okano #my art #art #digital art #warm up portrait #in the same manner that sugaya has two toned hair to me #or that chiba has those pair of singular long lashes that makes his eyes resemble a dragon's even more #or that hayami has straight but angular eyebrows #or that kimura and puey have a galaxy of freckles

[randomthefox]

How to talk to short people

#dr. brief #dragon ball #son goku #goku #no I did not misspell his name his name is brief singular there is no s fuck funimation

[wickedcriminal]

Pssstt show us your OCssssss (if you wanna)

YEEEESSSS MY OCS!!!

Currently I am fawning over THESE NERDS

JACK AND THE FIRE SPIRIT

If I had to describe their characters in the briefest way possible, it's kind of like... Icarus meets Prometheus? The human who wishes to achieve godhood VS the god who yearns to be human.

They also look at each other like this sometimes

Full underneath cut!

The Fire Spirit can shapeshift! These forms are fiery and fantastical, but his favorite will always be human!

I've got two versions of it because the first one (bottom) looked too much like wish (disney) concept art, which I didn't intend 😭 the fire version (top) is more accurate, but I still love the simplicity of the first version!

#HI AL!! :DD #my art #wicked's ocs #NEW TAG ALERT #jack and the fire spirit #ask #you know it's funny im really not much of an oc person #but THESE guys #they are the exception #exception (singular) because DO NOT SEPARATE THEM #I'm cooking up a story for them but it's a little long 😅 involves an apocalypse evil queens unicorns dragons etc

[potarathecute]

Any way to interpret It/Its pronouns is based af

#guilty gear #guiltygear #sol badguy #dragon install #singular maliciousman #it/its #pronouns #dragon install looks so cool #it its

[shitpostingkats]

OKAY GOTCHA, here he is!!

Fun fact: the card is based on technical singularity, which is AI related if I am getting my info correctly!

*solemnly takes the pictures of Dragon in my inbox and holds it close to my heart* Thank you for this precious gift.

The beautiful journey this dragons horns go on with each iteration.... the giant wings that remind me of solar sails... the list goes on. Truly, a Wonderful Dragon.

#*person who has only seen yugioh 5ds* FWD always gives me a stardust dragon vibes #if they didnt have very similar card effects I'd feel like a fool saying this #her increasingly complicated crown.... i LOVE #asks #answered asks #yugioh #vrains #yugioh vrains #ygo vrains #firewall dragon #firewall dragon singularity

[cyborb]

marketable plushies

#doodles #chowarim #singularity #<- decided thats the tag im using for dragon cyrus #fakemon

[raayllum]

intention vs reception, and breaking the cycle

I think one of the best ways TDP talks about family / cultural dynamics is how things can be taken in ways differently than they were meant to, particularly when it comes to parents and children. Dynamics and interpretations are a two way street, and your reasoning for something may not be something someone else can see, and they’ll make up another reasoning for it on their own end.

We see this pretty specifically with Harrow and Callum.

Harrow puts up a distance because he 1) wants to honour Callum’s possible relationship with his deceased biological father and 2) likely feels guilty over Sarai, and Callum growing up in the shadow of that grief. 

H: Over the years, there have been moments where I let there be a distance between us. Because I’m your stepfather, I was trying to give you the space I thought you needed to love your real father, even though he passed away. Now I wonder if I should have held you closer. I wonder if showing you how much I loved you would have been okay, and would not have disrespected your relationship with him. Callum, I know I’m not your birth father, but in my eyes and in my heart, you are my son. I see myself in you. I’m proud of you. And I love you unconditionally. 

So we know Harrow had nothing but good intentions, but those moments of distance - of Harrow trying to give Callum more thoughtfulness, not less - led to Callum being insecure and distant over his spot in the family, doubtful that Harrow truly thought of him as his son, exacerbated by Harrow’s royal status that Callum was married into through his mother. This was never Harrow’s intention, but Callum responded to how he was being treated and then conjured up his own reasonings that made sense to him to explain it.

E: Callum, why don’t you just call him Dad? C: Because he’s the king. And I’m his stepson. E: I think he would want you to. If you wanted to.

Their full understanding of each other comes too late, but it’s no less meaningful for Callum. Even if discussing and getting there wasn’t easy. 

We see Ezran struggle with this too, of what to take from his father (“I just wish Dad was here - he’d know what to do, y’know?”) as well as what to leave behind (“I don’t want to be that kind of king”). Rayla has a similarly complex relationship with her parents. Is feeling abandoned how Lain and Tiadrin meant to make her feel in Bloodmoon Huntress? Of course not. Was the other side of that when Rayla makes her peace with it supposed to give her this highly dangerous risk taking personality where she’ll go off alone in misguided attempts to protect people? Of course not.

The same way that no matter how angry, Runaan never would’ve wanted her to be Ghosted (he tried multiple times to send her home). He took her off the mission to protect her, not because she was ‘weak.’ The same way that Runaan was the best of his village / culture - a brave and selfless man who wanted to protect his people - and yet could also be cruel and unyielding in the face of innocence that didn’t fit with his preconceived notions. Even the whole “do not show fear” was likely meant to be far more akin to “don’t let fear control you” but as always, cultures are made up of people, and people are flawed and varied in their interpretations, and how they manifest them: 

“It’s okay to miss them,” she said gently.

“But it doesn’t do anything.”

“Feelings aren’t about productivity or results,” she said. Maybe a little ironically considering she was a Moonshadow elf, he thought at first, or maybe exactly why, when she finished. “They’re just our responses. Our reactions. We can only control them so much. And Garlaff knows they aren’t always rational, even if they’re what we feel.”

“I thought Moonshadow elves were against letting your emotions rule you.”

“We are,” she said. “Because it’s about controlling how you respond in the wake of your emotions, but we cannot make ourselves totally unfeeling. No matter how much we may wish we could, sometimes.” She smiled sadly. “But we do sometimes work too hard to control how we respond, to the point of shutting them down. Some of us are better at that than others.”

“You don’t have to tell me that,” he said, his lips twitching upwards. “I’m engaged to Rayla.”

“Which is why if you can’t control it—if you miss someone, in spite of everything—maybe it’s okay. I’ve seen your fear and aspects of your grief rule you, Callum. I’ve never seen you treat anyone worse for it.”

“Yeah, well...” He turned back towards the window. He thought of losing his temper with Ezran at Katolis, or the Caldera; Rayla at the Nexus after Claudia (a grimace tugged at his mouth) told him about Harrow. “I’m a lot better at that than I was when I was a kid.”

—Chapter 11 of “If Time Is Money,” published March 2020

We see this play out with Lissa and her children in particular, even more than with Viren perhaps. Lissa didn’t mean to give Claudia the trauma she did. She was doing her best to do the right thing by giving her children agency alongside Viren, and then trying to help them stay together. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t massive harm done anyway. 

And it’s these gaps in interpretation and intention versus consequence that make these dynamics real and viable and well, emotionally poignant. We can do massive harm to one another, even when it’s the opposite of our intentions (Viren and Harrow are a fantastic, mutual example of this, and so is Callum and Rayla’s post-TTM fallout). 

Because, especially as these child characters grow older, eventually what we do with those interpretations fully become our own actions. None of them have had to go down the roads they have. Yes, our childhood experiences and the choices our parents make effect us, but we also 100% have the power to make different decisions and grow beyond those interpretations. That’s what Breaking the Cycle is all about. But...

E: Because people are still hurting and they are still angry. We can’t ignore that, or pretend it will go away. 

And I also think this commonality of difference between intention vs reception, shall we say, is also why Harrow’s advice in regards to how to break the cycle and free yourself from the past emphasizes understanding and imagination.

H: Reject the chains of history. Do not let the past define your future, as I did. Free yourself from the past. Learn from it, understand it, then let it go. Create a brighter future from your own hearts and imaginations. 

Over and over, we see characters (mostly antagonists and villains, but not always) insist that things have to go a certain way. We have to do this. I have to do that. This is the way things have always been. We must prevent a terrible future born from apparent weakness. 

History - of our families, of our lives, of ourselves, of our communities - demand certain things, and we can be chained down by those things so easily out of obligation, or fear, or guilt, or trying to find some way to feel loved or important. But, in reality

You just have to be willing to imagine something new, that the cycle can be broken, that you can be something else than what you were. You just have to try - and it is never too late to start trying. 

#tdp #the dragon prince #tdp meta #the cycle #castle kids #the gang's all here #parallels #analysis series #analysis #a narrative of love #the royal family of katolis #morally ambiguous fam #moon fam #anyone who isolates a singular character from the narrative every character is bound t is like. #a Theme is there and being interplayed with for literally Everyone in the cast even if u don't wike it #also whoops this got longer than expected #also tdp is just Obsessed with its unintended consequences #been thinking about this since the anon ask i got 2 weeks ago asking about all the tdp parents #like bruh where to even Start but #this felt like a good place #tag ramble

[thiccsaucy]

Frieza talking about the Sayians….

#dbz #dragon ball #dragon ball z #dragon ball super #frieza #freeza #sayian #he’s mean to them :( #they gotta eat but he doesn’t get it #he’s like one of those almond mom who only eats like a singular nut and a glass of wine a day #then he’s full #for like a week #super saiANT

[francy-sketches]

he's so fucking ugly jesus christ

#he looks like when animals get a disease that makes them lose their fur #I swear everytime I look at the got dragons they get worse #or should I say. dragon. singular. bc the other two are just recolors lol