Dragonflauz - Do You Not Know? - Tumblr Blog
Okay tumblerinas, I need your attention for a few seconds.
Because of that aglet poll (see prev reblog), the Phineas and Ferb song is now stuck in my head. Which reminded me of a weird connection I made with it, and now I'm wondering if yall see it too.
The Aglet Song - does, or does it not sound like a y2k Hillsong song? The catchy, pop-y vibes? The uncessing borderline brain-washing repetition? Listen:
and now compare it with, say, Jesus Is My Superhero. Especially around the 1min mark:
Does it not sound like a children's worship song?? Slightly slowed down?? The whole mega-church vibes on the stadium too?? Do you guys see the vision??
Put him somewhere in the Second Dimension.
Diogee, go home!
He’s not supposed to be in Charlene’s No Longer Married To Doofenshmirtz Penthouse!
Writing is such a weird hobby.
Like i could be watching a movie, or reading a book, but nooo instead i’m going to glare at my screen for two hours and write three sentences
i really love a good "how have you been walking around like this?", especially from a rival or a gruff mentor. whether it's a concussion or a high fever, it's always satisfying to see someone torn between being impressed at how far they've made it in this state and angry at them for pushing so hard.
@calacolindo new fwau just dropped???
cowboy whump
Lassoed and dragged across the dirt via horse
Gagged with their own bandana
Shootouts!
Stranded in the middle of nowhere
Black hat trying on the cowboy's hat
Being forcibly lead by rope on a long trip, stumbling, falling, just waiting for a break
Forced to sleep in the barn with the animals
Their food being given to the horses or cows, forcing them to starve or eat something worse
Kicked by boots
Falling off their horse
Subjected to the elements while on a journey
Trampled by horses or cows
Kidnapped by bandits for ransom, knowledge, bragging rights, bait, or fun
Framed and declared an outlaw
Accidentally walking (or shoved) into a saloon of black hats
Digging out a bullet
Camping in the cold nighttime wilderness
Attacked by wildlife
Thrown into the town jail
Black hat threatening the cowboy's horse
i made a whump wheel
want to beat up a character but don't know how you wanna do it? same here, friend. behold, the whump wheel! it currently has 60 different prompts/tropes on it and is ready for use! 🎉 i...love this thing. it is wonderful for writing exercises. (if you wanna know what's on it before using it, take a peak at the screenshot below)
What are some things you wish you saw more of in lady whump?
ooooh i love this question <3 mostly i would love to see more comfort by someone who isn't a male love interest!! so much lady whump is just hetero romance woman in peril which is great if that's what you like, nothing wrong with it, but i don't vibe. give me platonic lady&lady hurt/comfort!
other tropes i love that i don't see enough for ladies:
ladies who are unpleasant when they're injured/ill. crabby, mean women who are crabbier and meaner please
false recovery. things are starting to look better, then take a nose dive really quickly before anyone knows what's happening. i looooove that trope.
wound complications. infections, hard healing journeys, etc. a lot of time women's injuries are barely a blip on the radar. STRETCH EM OUT.
lady leaders/captains! collapsing from exhaustion! crumbling under pressure! we see effortless lady captains but rarely complicated ones. give me tired lady captains who are disillusioned and bored! lady captains who don't think they should be leading! women who don't WANT to be leading! women who found out this is harder than they thought and are pushing themselves really hard and suffering the consequences!
When the unflappable character sees someone they care about in danger and the mask slips, it's great.
But when the unflappable character sees someone they care about in danger, and the mask DOESN'T slip.
Because they understand they need to be calm and unflappable now more than ever; if it protects them, it will certainly protect the person they care about. So their voice doesn't waver, their hands don't shake. They don't panic. From the outside looking in, they're as calm as could be. They handle it.
But after it's over-when the person they care about is safe, and the unflappable character is alone-they completely shatter. Gasping breaths, sobs, barely holding it together because someone they love almost DIED, and it was far, far too close for comfort.
(Optional: Character that they care about finds them in this state and comforts them.)
the best part of a whump fic, to me, is the moment that caretaker realizes that something is wrong with a whumpee who was trying to hide it/fight through it. after hours or even days of not understanding why whumpee has been acting so strangely, it finally clicks. whatever emotions were there before--confusion, irritation, etc.--are immediately and completely replaced by intense concern. THAT'S the peak for me. where the magic happens. you can literally never go wrong with that moment.
I think F1 team challenges shouldnt be stuff like racing, games, pranks, etc. I want Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz to set up a printer.
Caretaker finds whumpee bound and gagged, unable to move and whimpering for their attention. Caretaker skids to their knees and pulls whumpee into their arms.
Whumpee, with their arms behind their back, can only press their face hard into caretaker's shoulder.
I’ve been seeing this float around on Facebook lately and it’s bugging the crud out of me:
What is with everyone’s obsession with insisting it’s bad to need to be rescued? For as long as the human race has been on the planet, people have had problems that they needed other people’s help to resolve. Needing help is not a failing nor should it be the takeaway from these princesses’ stories as if it’s a bad thing that makes them weak. Yes, they do need help. Your point?
Snow White and Aurora were both under a curse that rendered each of them effectively dead. Were they supposed to magically wake themselves up? I’d want to be rescued if I were them. Plus, breaking it down to “she needed a prince” belittles the efforts of the Seven Dwarfs and the Three Good Fairies, who did most of the legwork in the resolution of their respective movie plots out of deep platonic love for the girls under their care. Then there’s Cinderella, who lived in an abusive household. It’s not a weakness that she wasn’t able to get out of that situation on her own, and once again, giving all the credit to the prince (and credit where credit is due, he did search far and wide for her and was able to take her away from that life in the end) detracts from the aid provided by the Fairy Godmother who enabled her to get out in the first place. All of these ladies had more helpers than just their princes, and it is because of the combined love and efforts of all of these people that our heroines were able to have their happy endings. There are plenty of great stories where the heroine is able to fight for herself, but these particular stories aren’t about that because these ladies are each in terrible circumstances where they simply don’t have the ability to do so. They do what they can, but in the end they can’t save themselves alone and there’s nothing wrong with that. These are beautiful stories about having people in your life that value you enough to fight for you when you can’t fight for yourself. Wouldn’t we all want someone to come to our rescue when there’s nothing we can do about our situation? Is it not a good and comforting moral to show that there are people in your corner who will show up for you no matter what the circumstances?
The other thing that’s bugging me about this:
Leia has to be rescued. By a man, and at that, one who could technically be seen as a prince. No one bats an eye at this, because it’s understood that she’s being held prisoner on the Death Star and couldn’t possibly be expected to get out of that on her own. It’s not seen as a weakness that someone had to come for her and take her away from there. Leia is awesome and is rightfully acknowledged as a great heroine, but she also needs help sometimes, because everybody does.
So WHY do people get so hung up on these princesses who also shouldn’t be expected to get out of their own prison cells of eternal sleep or abusive family by themselves? Why the strong negative reaction to girls needing outside help in such serious scenarios? For all that people say these stories teach girls to sit and wait for a man to save them, the stories themselves absolutely never try to say that, and frankly, with the opposite trend in recent years of fictional women who have to do everything on their own and can’t be shown to need help because they have to be the Strong Female Character, I’d be far more concerned about the impact that would have on girls. Far better to say you might need help at some point in your life than to instill the idea that you’re not a strong girl or not good enough if you can’t do everything by yourself.
Anyway. Justice for the classic Disney princesses.
a tale of three ducks. and a few more.
it was the best of ducks (huey), it was the worst of ducks (scrooge). it was the age of wisdom (donald), it was the age of foolishness (dewey). it was the epoch of belief (louie), it was the epoch of incredulity (goldie). it was the season of light (webby), it was the season of darkness (I've run out of characters)
I was thinking about Aragorn’s stupidly long legs again and I think it should be canon that he regularly smacks his forehead into low door frames and stuff. Just somwhere in Minas Tirith there’s a loud thunk followed by a long string of Sindarin swearwords and Arwen is like “ah yes, here he comes, the King of Gondor and Arnor, the love of my life.”