#soapbox time

[snakeplantships]

Look, I just don’t understand why people will say they are a fan of a show with problematic characters and/or themes, and then make it their mission to sanitize all the problematic content out of it? And then tell other fans who actually like it that way that they are sick freaks etc?? This makes everything BOOOOORRRRIINNGG af.

Accept that your blorbo is a terrible person and move on. Love them because of it, not in spite of it. To engage properly with a narrative, you can’t just ignore the horrible aspects to prove to yourself you’re not like all those other weirdos.

When you refuse to truly engage with problematic aspects of a narrative, you end up rationalizing horrible things and perpetuating the very thing you seek to avoid.

#snake speaks #soapbox time #fandom

[cryptid-crawly]

alexa, how do I explain to the internet that claiming someone is Inherently Bad due to a trait they can’t control is very Wrong. Yes even if that trait is “being a man”

#soapbox time #mine

[segernatural]

sure it was a perfect storm of a pressure cooker but i promise destiel was about destiel

#like 2020 was all building towards something. the isolation the pandemic the general uncertainty of day to day life #toss in the heated election and counting process. sure it *couldve* been anything else. but it *wasnt*. #it was destiel. that night there were even other rumours circulating about other shows. another show even had a huge reveal! #but the most widespread and known was destiel because of course it was! because thats what everyone was losing their mind over! #look at the statistics chart of a history of destiel interest over time! i promise the destiel interest is about destiel! #were people all equally invested? no! were some people memeing? yes! but by and large nov 5th became a juggernaut bc of destiel #as someone who literally was refreshing for election news and developed mania from seeing destiel go canon. it was about destiel #sure the intersection of destiel and election results was fun. but i posted way more destiel than election stuff. cause it was about destie #anyway. idk why im on a soapbox #char speaks #destielputinelection #destiel

[heynhay]

let's drive out

#klance #voltron #vld #this came to my brain via Valentine Texas by mitski but im not offficially linking it bc i have something dif in mind fpr later #and this one is a faithful visual recreation of the lyrics but not an emotionally faithful one so. i can do better #anyway being taken out to camp in the bed of a pickup truck is like. haha. one of my dark twisted evil romantic fantasies #my country bumpkin upbringing showing through #now you guys know how horrible and wild my unhigned crazy thoughts are...... how unspeakably deranged..... #art #my art #bro im such a fucking faker i will fr get on my soapbox about how often klance fight (even romantically) and then draw the tenderist shit #like 40 times over #so let me amend and clarify by saying this was somehow some stupid shit. #like lance set this up but its because theyve been competing for best date (theres a physical scoreboard on the fridge) #and keith was probably trying to act aloof so that lance wouldnt score as many points #but got so comfy he fell asleep (+15 for lance its going on the scoreboard) #+ lance is abt to sharpie a moustache on his face #mitski

[ao3commentoftheday]

I dearly love you, tumblr, but sometimes you're just absolutely exhausting. Not every statement is a personal challenge that needs to be countered aggressively. Sometimes I'm neither being bold nor assuming anything.

#there are plenty of times when I'm on my soapbox #and I totally understand responses that are counter to mine #but sometimes I'm just putting a thing out there #with no opinion at all attached to it #and people take it as a personal challenge or affront anyway #and those are the posts that make me feel tired

[piived]

ugh can’t stop thinking about how Danny is built like a fucking tank but looks like a biodegradable straw that’ll collapse with so much as a fine mist

like imagine Jason flinging himself at Danny at inopportune times just to watch as everyone tenses and gasps in horror, expecting the poor twig to be crushed, and then Danny just effortlessly catches him without budging an inch or blinking, still mid-conversation and confused by why the person he’s talking to seems suddenly so surprised and then when the person gestures to Jason (lounging smuggly in his boyfriends arms) Danny just blinks like ‘oh when did that happen? hi baby’ and tries to go back to the conversation while everyone is losing their minds

#people realizing how strong danny is makes me feral #give me casually insanely strong danny and i will eat it up every single time #jason likes the chaos that it brings (and being cradled in his boyfriends arms) #dpxdc #dead on main #vee’s dpxdc prompts #is this a prompt? i guess 🤷‍♀️ #dpxdc prompt #dead on main prompt #vee’s soapbox

[black-lotus-art]

Absolutely fell in love with that wet cat of a man of König

(Faces from @bluegiragi, go give them a look if you like cod stuff ;D)

HighQuality + Extra on Patreon.

#cod mw2 #ghost #König #soap #soapbox #ghostsoap #ghostsoapkonig #konig #sexy times to come #simon got the boomer shoes #what are those #myart

[dailydragons]

I am not immune to this propaganda…

Do you like long fantasy series, but are tired of authors never finishing them?

Do you like interesting magic systems?

Do you like when characters form intense even psychic bonds with animal companions?

Do you like your heart getting ripped out of your chest and then stuffed back in full to bursting and but then ripped out again to get stomped on but it turns out you like that too uhhh let's call it... intense yearning

Do you like dragons? Of course you do, why else would you be on this blog!

WELL DO I HAVE THE BOOK SERIES FOR YOU!

The Realm of the Elderlings is a 16-book series is comprised of four trilogies and a quartet. All of which have been finished. Yes that's right, Robin Hobb saw other authors who can't seem to finish their multi-book fantasy epics and said "I will finish mine 4 different times to show you it's incredibly easy actually." She also has written multiple other series (some under the pen name Megan Lindholm), set in different universes.

So, where to start?

The components of RotE are:

The Farseer Trilogy

The Liveship Traders Trilogy

The Tawny Man Trilogy

The Rain Wild Chronicles

Fitz and the Fool Trilogy

The three bolded trilogies above are told from the perspective of FitzChivalry Farseer, one of the main/major characters in this universe and my eternal blorbo. The Liveship Traders trilogy and Rain Wild Chronicles are told from several points of view, and happen in chronological order between the series above and flesh out the worldbuilding, lore, history, etc.

For the most complete look at the universe, you can of course read everything. However if you want to stick with just one character, you can read the three bolded trilogies only. And of course, if you don't want to commit to a metric ton of words either way, you can just read the first trilogy and see what you think. Though I do think the levels of joy/pain/adoration increase with each work as you get more invested in the characters, of course.

OR. You can in fact read the Liveship Traders trilogy or the Rain Wild Chronicles quartet completely independently of the others. I actually started with Rain Wild Chronicles because those books have the highest concentration of dragons--it was actually a follower of this blog who recommended them to me, and I decided to jump into those rather than commit to The Whole Series (which at the time was only 13 books not 16). But I loved the writing style and wanted to learn more about the world, so got into the rest, and now I actually think the Rainwilds books are the weakest of the bunch (though I still enjoyed them initially)!

But You're Following This Blog, DailyDragons, So Here's The Part Of The Pitch You're Actually Invested In

Now I will be up front that you don't get many dragons in the first trilogy. There are a kind of dragons that appear at the end but dragons are not the main focus of this one. However Hobb learns from her mistakes about not including tons of dragons in her fantasy world and you get more in the next parts of the series.

The Liveship books deal with sea serpents and dragons in very interesting ways I don't want to spoil, though it's a slow build. But VERY fascinating reveals into the dragon's biology, life history, and magic.

The plot of the later half of the Tawny Man Trilogy revolves around dealing with how the world of this story used to have dragons but they have practically gone extinct. Less direct contact with dragons but still a dragon-centric last book.

Rainwilds is chock full of dragons. Including as POV characters. Can't complain about lack of dragons here at all.

Fitz & The Fool Trilogy is lighter on the dragons at first and then they show up en force at the end. Ta da!

anyway please read these books and join me in my eternal suffering. wait, suffering? nevermind who said that. shhh. it's fine. you will love fitzchivalry farseer. you will love the fool. you will never be the same again.

#realm of the elderlings #THANK U FOR GIVING ME A HANDY DANDY SOAPBOX #lise-thethinker #i am always ready to weep about these books publically #i have read the entire series uhhh. 3 times? and condensed version 4 times #since i first read them in 2015 #WHEW. yeah. god i love them #ramblings #not dragon art #i guess

[murderballadeer]

tomorrow i will eat vanilla yogurt and half a canned peach for breakfast yayyy

#soapbox #i don't have the time to cook an egg before my exam & anyway i can't have toast and we don't have kugel yet

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

with my whole heart i truly think elwing/eärendil is the most sweepingly romantic ship in the legendarium. like. what if we were the only two people like us ever in the whole world yet by fate and chance and tragedy we found each other. what if we built a home and a life at the ends of the earth and against all odds it was good. what if we knew no help was coming. what if we chose to live anyway. what if i flew through the storm to find you. what if i knew you and held you even in another shape. what if you told me not to follow and i did. what if i let you make the choice for us both. what if you gave up even the touch of the world you loved so we could stay together. what if we saved that world but not for us. what if our love--for each other, for the world--was so strong that it rent the fabric of the universe. what then.

#do not text!! i am thinking about Them. #i have such a weak spot for couples who jam sticks in the wheel of time for each other. hashem yishmor. #the professor’s world #brought to you by me #every day i wake up + i get on my little soapbox #the silmarillion #elwing #eärendil #elwing/eärendil #peredhil

[kvothes]

content aside, i think that diversifying your reading also means reading a variety of forms. even if you can burn through novels across genres and moods and subjects—they’re still novels. can you try short stories, a playscript, a book of poems? i think familiarity with these different forms is underrated and offers a lot

#really and truly. when was the last time you read a new form #books #i mostly read novels and poetry i make no secret of that! #but what a delight short stories have been lately #every day i pick a lil soapbox #to ascend and descend very daintily #mine #okay to reblog

[iraprince]

okay i talk a big game about never fearing cringe and always being 100% yourself and never surrendering your true artistic desires to something as immaterial as "embarrassment" EVER but now it's time for me to walk the walk bc i am drawing something that i think is so fun but it's also maybe super cringe and i am afraid of getting made fun of. I DON'T CARE THO i have to follow my own advice or i'm a hypocrite (posting this to embolden and also entrap myself. now i've said something about it and i can't backtrack)

#i've been working on it on a feverish whim for like 2 days and i think MAYBE i might finish it tonight but maybe not. we'll see #if i DO chicken out after i have spent this much time on this website soapboxing about 'u have to do YOUR thing + not care what ppl think' #u are all allowed to make fun of me forever. that would be so lame

[aucatgirl]

80/365

AU where The Beach ended ten minutes early

#id in alt text #atla #avatar #zuko #ty lee #drawings #taking this time to make a psa #or more like get on a soapbox #a version of the post was saying #‘this is a real strategy that people use’ #to try and calm people down or whatever #I cant back that up and they didn’t back that up either #so please don’t actually try to do that when someone’s having a mental breakdown lol! #if it’s real it’s likely. something that takes some training #I’ve just seen that post on my dash a lot and it’s been bugging me #365drawings

[wr-n]

"You're scary to talk to because you're so big"

"You're so popular, its intimidating"

Me, shaking like a freezing chihuahua: w-w-w-whuhh?

#wraith notes #people have actually said this to me and its actually #it flame broils me every time #like HELLO???? ME???? #THIS SCRUNKLY?? #(im super thankful for all the love and support you guys have for me its super sweet <3) #(but im so used to being on the other side that this is like suddenly being put on a soapbox) #(anyway i just wanted to ramble a little bit because wow)

[gothelsflower]

physically i’m here mentally i’m at candy corn acres

#soapbox era #disneyland #disneyland california #vintage disneyland #vintage disney #disney california adventure #disney’s california adventure #dca #dca 2001 #candy corn acres #candy corn #halloween #halloween time #disney halloween #disney halloween time #a bugs life (1998) #a bugs life #heimlich #mickey mouse #minnie mouse #sunshine plaza #golden state #california #disney #disney fandom #disney history #fall aesthetic

[honeydots]

valentines day is over when i SAY it's over. happy valentines day

#leokumi #fe14 #fire emblem fates #fe leo #fe takumi #i LOOOOVE these alts i love them i use them all the time #smooching them on the heads. #this is funnier now that its july i og posted this in april #i am late! and will continue to be late! and all of you will like it #dots draws #dots on the soapbox