Dragons (and other fantastic creatures) Described

[ID] an artwork of the Pokemon Jirachi and Rayquaza. Jirachi is flying just in front of Rayquaza's nose and looking back at it as Rayquaza pokes its head through a large pink cloud, only showing the top half of its head. The sky is a deep blue behind them and stars shine both in the cloud and in the sky. [/ID]

Image description: fanart for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet showing Florian putting a magnet on the leg of a Miraidon. There are already several magnets on the pokemons legs and tail. Some magnets are shaped like letters, some like pokeberries, one like a pokeball, one like a Wigglet and one like a Luvdisc. end Image description

[ID] an artwork featuring eight of the Pokemon Chikorita in a variety of poses, including fighting stances, sleeping, picking a berry, a shiny one sparkling, and one cuddled next to a Meganium. [ID]

I dont know whoever worked in the service industry or even part time but the main nutcases and the hardest to deal with aren’t so called middle aged ”Karen”s, it’s the middle aged men who intimidate you or come up with flirtations to your 19 year old self. I swear the men are annoying as fuck to customer service and theyre overlooked. Some even think the ”flirtations” or downright stalking is charming and i wanted to burn down every daddy tropes down the ground from whifh they got their misleading fantasies from. BOBS are the real menace

as we all know, red dragons breathe right-channel audio, white dragons breathe left-channel audio, and yellow dragons breathe video.

“You see, there isn’t actually a dragon” explains the King. “We just spread the rumor around so that warriors and knights will bring their best and most expensive magical gear, which we then sell after we poison them.”

Chad definitely spent five seconds as an insult before becoming a compliment

[Image Description: a photograph of a green and white plush dragon, with the Welsh flag stamped on her tail. End image description.]

[Image Description: a photograph of a purple plush dragon, with the Welsh flag on her tail. End image description.]

I’ll never forget when I was arguing with a person in favor of total prison abolition and I asked them “what about violent offenders?” And they said “Well, in a world where prisons have been abolished, we’ll have leveled the playing field and everyone will have their basic needs met, and crime won’t be as much of an issue.” And then I was like “okay. But…no. Because rich people also rape and murder, so it isn’t just a poor person thing. So what will we do about that?” And I don’t think they answered me after that. I’m ashamed to say I continued to think that the problem was that I simply didn’t understand prison abolitionists enough and that their point was right in front of me, and it would click once I finally let myself understand it. It took me a long time to realize that if something is going to make sense, it needs to make sense. If you want to turn theory into Praxis (I’m using that word right don’t correct me I’ll vomit) everyone needs to be on board, which mean it all needs to click and it needs to click fast and fucking clear. You need to turn a complex idea into something both digestible and flexible enough to be expanded upon. Every time I ask a prison abolitionist what they actually intend to do about violent crime, I get directed to a summer reading list and a BreadTuber. It’s like a sleight-of-hand trick. Where’s the answer to my question. There it is. No wait, there it is. It’s under this cup. No it isn’t. “There’s theory that can explain this better than I can.” As if most theory isn’t just a collection of essays meant to be absorbed and discussed by academics, not the average skeptic. “Read this book.” And the book won’t even answer the question. The book tells you to go ask someone else. “Oh, watch this so-and-so, she totally explains it better than me.” Why can’t you explain it at all? Why did you even bring it up if you were going to point me to someone else to give me the basics that you should probably already know? Maybe I’m just one of those crazy people who thinks that some people need to be kept away from the public for everyone’s good. Maybe that just makes me insane. Maybe not believing that pervasive systemic misogyny could be solved with a UBI and a prayer circle makes me a bad guy. But it’s not like women’s safety is a priority anyway. It’s not like there is an objective claim to be made that re-releasing violent offenders or simply not locking them up is deadly.

[ID: an embroidered dragon in the colours of the lesbian flag. /end ID]

A big thing in so-called progressive spaces is criticizing women for being suspicious of random men, and insisting that there must be a racist/ableist/classist/anti-homeless bias at play, while conveniently forgetting that the woman in question (any woman) is a marginalised person doing what they can to avoid being hate-crimed (assaulted, raped or murdered) by a member of an oppressor class.

[Image Description: a photograph of a black and white, spotted snake coiled atop a grey rock. End image description.]