Dragons are Ace Culture

On the positive, antidepressants are really helping me feel less awful and be able to get up in the morning. Yesterday I woke up around 9 with no alarm (which for anyone who knows my sleep life is a miracle of massive proportions) and went on to do SO MANY THINGS that day. I counted, it was fifteen things ranging from going to therapy, cleaning up my dorm room, folding all my clothes, writing an adult email, working on training for my summer job, and communicating with my doctor. Plus some other stuff too.

On the negative, my vision started going blurry so I had to stop them. No more of this particular antidepressant for me, my eyes aren’t happy with it. But at least the blurry vision stopped and hasn’t come back so far. I also woke up around 1 and let me tell you, I’m half an hour into being awake and it s u c k s. I want to go back to bed so badly right now and not wake up for a month. Maybe a year. I’m just exhausted and all I’ve done is eat lunch. 

Everything I did yesterday was on the tail end of coming of my antidepressants. My focus and feeling that my life wasn’t a perpetual shitshow plus the waking up before noon on a regular basis without prompting? that was my life for a week. I want it back. At this point if it came to a decision between frying my eyesight and getting my life back, it would be a very difficult decision. Luckily I don’t have to make it, because there are other antidepressants I can be on!

I haven’t seen this image floating around (it’s from an article on the season 2 airdate) but oh man. Claudia looks terrifying in this image! This looks like a pretty powerful spell and she is very intense here... what is she doing? Who is she doing it to??

I saw a gif of Ezran meeting Zym and it prompted this idea. What if Ezran’s ability to talk with animals isn’t actually an ability to talk with animals?

When Ezran was trying to convince the others that the giant spider wasn’t a spider, he specifically talked about the noises the illusion was making. He identified the illusory spider as not a spider based on the sounds--not the fact that he couldn’t talk to it. 

If Ezran’s ability was only to speak with animals, then he would have identified the illusory spider as not a spider very quickly, because he wouldn’t be able to understand a thing it said. After all, I think the noises it made were crafted by Lujane as part of the illusion, and therefore, are not the sounds or ‘words’ animals would use.

I think it’s possible that Ezran doesn’t have a magical ability to talk to animals. Maybe he’s just very, very good with languages. Maybe this comes from magic, maybe it doesn’t. The way Ezran was able to describe exactly why the illusory spider did not sound or communicate like a spider shows that he doesn’t hear the animal’s speech as his own language. What he’s able to do is hear the sounds animals make and understand it as communication.

If this is the case, then what about other languages in the tdp universe? The Moonshadow Elves and all the Humans speak the same language (I wonder if it’s a ‘common’ language) but that doesn’t neccisarily imply that there’s only one language in all of Xadia and the human realms. I’m willing to bet that there are many, many languages. 

If Ezran has an ability to piece together the languages of animals--multiple different kinds of languages, it seems--then how would he be with humanoid languages? My guess is very skilled.