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Teaser of sorts
This is a little teaser I constructed for my TDP fic "Sun Fueled Rage" using one of the official concept arts for Rayla's blades and editing it a bit to suit my own needs :). This is in fact related to something in SFR, no it's not the next chapter and no I won't really elaborate all that much about where or what exactly in the story this is for.
Feel free to speculate :)
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I think it would be really cool at some point for one of the characters to acknowledge (maybe post Claudia redemption if they are still planning on that) that Claudia, was in fact, also a victim of her father.
It could fall under Claudia or whatever having some guilt at not seeing the signs or whatever but then she'd be comforted by Soren or a member of the dragaang that... despite everything she was a victim of Viren too... just in a different way.
Yes, she was the favorite child but we saw what that did to her. It made her dependent, it strained the relationship between her and Soren, it made her unable to really see what was being done to her brother because she applied the treatment she was getting and must have assumed that's what Soren was getting as well. And most of all, Viren was trying to mold her into an extension of himself just as much as Soren and being the "favorite" made it easier for him to do that. I definitely think it's a subtler kind of damage that definitely had a large role in Claudia becoming who she is now and it would be a really cool and profound thing for the show to acknowledge that type of thing, how having a "favorite" is exceedingly hurtful for *everyone* involved.
Also I love Claudia and I just wanna see her get like a group therapy session with everyone lmao.
I would kill to know what Rayla was thinking in this moment, and how her opinion of King Harrow changed afterwards. Because the ‘Human King’ didn’t kill Avizandum just for a power trip, he did it out of revenge for his wife. For Callum and Ezran’s mom. And I’m like 96% sure this is the first time she’s heard the backstory.
Honestly yeah, we know from the novelizations that Rayla was skeptical of Avizandum herself and kind of understood *why* humans wanted him dead, and that it was Zym that *actually* pissed her off. It would've been really interesting to see her altered opinions on not just Harrow but even Avizandum after this moment.
ESPECIALLY because Rayla accused humans at the start of the show of attacking "unprovoked". It would be interesting to see her contend with the fact that the attack wasn't as unprovoked as she thought it was.
This has got to be, hands down, the most unhinged bot comment I've ever received. I mean the comment is just straight up "Kill yourself now." that's it, that's the entire comment.
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Raydia won round 3 on the poll 🌓💕 I still think their ship name is the prettiest in tdp
Holy crap! I was not expecting to see an image like this on my feed but I'm so glad I did! I honestly want this image to be cannon lol. Doesn't have to be a ship in the show, but I love seeing Claudia comforted... especially by people who used to be enemies to her.
“When I first met you, I wanted to rip you apart. But this world has already done that to you hasn’t it? Now, I just want to put you back together.”
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Hey all! Just taking a quick moment to say Happy Pride Month/Men's mental health awareness month, whichever one applies to you more this June! (Could be both 👀) Also my birthday todayyyyyyyyy!
I'll start working on the next chapter outline of SFR today as well as upload the next chapter of Marble Dragons sooooooooon.
I'm getting a burst of motivation so I wanna hit the ground running!
Thanks y'all!
I think one of my main issues with the Dragon Prince's portrayal of human/Xadian relations is that it heavily relies on our assumption that both groups are on equal footing and insists that we give the Xadians a lot of grace.
In a lot of media with a similar conflict, magical/supernatural beings are often posited as the minority, oppressed or otherwise disenfranchised group in comparison to regular humans. The Last Elf series by succesful Italian author and vicious homophobe Silvana de Mari comes to mind as one example. TDP seems to rely on this convention in order to make us feel like the Magical Creature/Human divide is more balanced than it actually is within the show.
Because like. Humans aren't allowed to do magic. And when they do find a way to do magic they are segregated to a part of the world in a manner that seems to reference the Trail of Tears (which like??? You can't reference the trail of tears for this type of story wtf man) and cut off from resources that could save and improve their lives. The Xadians have every advantage in the Human/Magic divide here.
This is not made better by the fact that the show shies away from even showing us why Dark Magic is bad. Like yes, it does use pieces of living creatures, but this is a weak argument when most of your characters still eat meats and wear furs.
Mind you, there are moments where the show almost (almost!) makes us understand why dark magic is bad. The reference to the idea that the Human half of the world was once just as magical as Xadia, but humans exploited it for dark magic is a great example of this. But very little is done with this idea and it is such a throwaway comment that the gravity of it is so hard to feel. Another is when the Magma Titan was killed by Harrow, Viren and Co. to harvest its heart. (however I also fear that this moral conundrum is more baby's first trolley problem rather than a discussion of whether Dark Magic is truly ethical or not.). I believe that what we are supposed to find bad in Dark Magic is along the lines of 'percieving other living beings, especially sentient ones as a bunch of materials to be harvested and used will likely lead you to normalising doing horrible things to others'.
However, this moral quandry does not sit nicely with the fact that Xadians access the privelege of magic, while humans have to accept their inferiority. Because evening the playing field/accesing priveleges basic to most Xadians requires humans to partake in the 'evil and forbidden' practice of dark magic. (Callum remaining an outlier for now. Whether or not more human mages are a possibility will likely change my stance on this)
It's kind of like if there was a group of people in this world who could naturally generate electricity and didn't share and the reat of us were forced to rely on fossil fuels. Except the people who get free unlimited energy got upset at us for using fossil fuels and banished us to like. Ohio.
This is truly one of the most frustrating aspects of the show to me. People comment on the plot holes and stuff all the time, but this is all pretty minor imo compared to how the whole political situation is presented. As you said, fantasy creatures are usually the oppressed ones, so there could've been a really interesting subversion of tropes had they turned this on its head. But it's more than just the missed opportunity for subversion, it's what they put in there and then I guess.... shied away from addressing fully. And it just leaves such a huge feeling of injustice.
The power-imbalance and the oppression that it caused is almost never brought up and when it is, it's usually by the villains like Claudia and Aaravos who then proceed to get shrugged off because "welp they're evil so why should we listen to them?" classic debate and switch.
Racism against elves from humans is treated with a lot more severity then racism against humans from elves in several instances. Rayla for example has several scenes where she's allowed to be basically racist as she wants toward humans with little to no pushback while Callum gets struck down verbally for even maybe saying anything remotely insensitive toward any elven group. Lujanne straight up says "You're only human" as a response to Callum not understanding her magic explanation, and while she does apologize later for doubting Callum can do magic, she never apologizes for her downright racist comments. Though you can maybe read between the lines and say that apology is bundled in with that, which sure, I won't fight you for that, that can be a reasonable assumption. But given that Callum has now had to directly apologize for what humans did to elves twice in the show, I would like something more explicit from the Xadian side. And then dark magic... I agree with everything you're saying here. The demonization of dark magic is just... crazy. Honestly, if they can't find a way to make dark magic evil, I would've ran with that and leaned in on it. Maybe it's a lesson that Xadia has to learn that the thing they condemned humans for doing because it was strange to them, wasn't that strange after all if it was used properly. Hell, Rayla almost comes to this realization in one of her reflections stories where she almost kills a dark mage, but the realization that all he was carrying was coral to heal sick children makes her hesitate long enough for him to get away. This could've been explored more in the show but we never see any impact this had on Rayla on screen. I also dislike that in their commitment to make dark magic evil they portray all of the cases of humans using it as evil and greedy, even when it could be understandable. You brought up the west being drained of magic which is a scene that frustrates me for several reasons. One, is of course, I probably wouldn't have done it that way because I'm mainly against the demonization of dark magic BUT they still could have made this work.
This happened AFTER humans were exiled to the west, during the mage wars, which arose because of a fight for resources and what not after they were exiled. This makes sense, because obviously a trail of tears is going to destabilize a population, what happens next? Wars and destruction. But they didn't highlight any of that, they just framed it as greedy humans being greedy when it could've been really interesting if it was framed as the unfortunate truth of what happens when you do this to a population of people. But even IF they are committed to the dark magic bad bit. Fine, but they can at the very least treat it with more empathy. Every time we see dark magic used in the show (except for when Callum uses it but even he gets berated it for it) it's portrayed as completely evil and it's being used by ugly villains who deserve no sympathy for doing so. All of their problems are simplified to "well, they do dark magic, and if they could just stop doing dark magic their whole world would be better and everything would be happy." But it really isn't that simple. Dark magic is the reason so many humans are alive right now that wouldn't have been. It got them out of several situations that XADIA put them in. You can't just tell an oppressed population to give up the one thing that's helping them survive, just like that. It makes Xadia seem incredibly out of touch with what is happening and, to be frank, they probably are. I've dropped a few fics that I've read in my time because I personally disagree with the "Pro-Xadia" stance that the show and thus some of these fics followed. But even some of the ones I dropped were able to handle dark magic and the whole situation with more empathy than the show did. Anyway, sorry for the long winded rant lol. I initially just wanted to make a short statement of agreement but I got carried away lmao.
totally agree on everything here.
Additionally: I have this huge pet peeve that they all make it sound like almost all of their usage of magic is somehow justified. They use their magic for bad purposes too. Case in point: Blood Moon Huntress, Finnegrin, Sol Regem… I can go on.
But, like you said, when a human does dark magic for good purposes like healing someone or etc they immediately get labeled as evil. Claudia was portrayed as *turning evil* when she saved Soren from being paralyzed. Don’t get me wrong, I totally understand the gore in it and I still think most of us support her in that decision but the *portrayal* of that didn’t give that feeling. It showed that she was getting desperate, which is good, but it focused a bit too much on *her turning evil* than how the things happened to her just kept cornering her.
Also somehow every single conversation goes to “Balance of the world” and how “humans have no connection to any primal so they should stay out of magic”.
If the Startouch council is *so worried* about the so-called balance, why aren’t they stopping Aaravos from killing the archdragons and distrupting the shit out of Xadia? Everything is just about “humans should not do magic in whatever shape of form” and even Callum doesn’t feel so “accepted” by everyone to be honest.
You're going to love this one actually. So apparently, the blood moon huntress has been retroactively retconned to using dark magic. Why? Idk... I guess they really are afraid to depict primal magic as anything bad and REALLY wanna hammer in that everything evil is dark magic... I guess... Even though, now, everything about her basically makes no sense and they missed out on a cool opportunity and half of the community doesn't know this as, like with a lot of lore that was either established or retconned it was said in some interview somewhere. This is actually another gripe I have with the show, is just how... difficult it is to keep track of the lore. You think things are one way, but it constantly gets retconned into something else, or some other source like a novelization says something different, but the novelizations are also pretty much different cannons so not all of it is cannon to the show but some of it is and you kinda have to guess what's cannon and what isn't hehe.
I think one of my main issues with the Dragon Prince's portrayal of human/Xadian relations is that it heavily relies on our assumption that both groups are on equal footing and insists that we give the Xadians a lot of grace.
In a lot of media with a similar conflict, magical/supernatural beings are often posited as the minority, oppressed or otherwise disenfranchised group in comparison to regular humans. The Last Elf series by succesful Italian author and vicious homophobe Silvana de Mari comes to mind as one example. TDP seems to rely on this convention in order to make us feel like the Magical Creature/Human divide is more balanced than it actually is within the show.
Because like. Humans aren't allowed to do magic. And when they do find a way to do magic they are segregated to a part of the world in a manner that seems to reference the Trail of Tears (which like??? You can't reference the trail of tears for this type of story wtf man) and cut off from resources that could save and improve their lives. The Xadians have every advantage in the Human/Magic divide here.
This is not made better by the fact that the show shies away from even showing us why Dark Magic is bad. Like yes, it does use pieces of living creatures, but this is a weak argument when most of your characters still eat meats and wear furs.
Mind you, there are moments where the show almost (almost!) makes us understand why dark magic is bad. The reference to the idea that the Human half of the world was once just as magical as Xadia, but humans exploited it for dark magic is a great example of this. But very little is done with this idea and it is such a throwaway comment that the gravity of it is so hard to feel. Another is when the Magma Titan was killed by Harrow, Viren and Co. to harvest its heart. (however I also fear that this moral conundrum is more baby's first trolley problem rather than a discussion of whether Dark Magic is truly ethical or not.). I believe that what we are supposed to find bad in Dark Magic is along the lines of 'percieving other living beings, especially sentient ones as a bunch of materials to be harvested and used will likely lead you to normalising doing horrible things to others'.
However, this moral quandry does not sit nicely with the fact that Xadians access the privelege of magic, while humans have to accept their inferiority. Because evening the playing field/accesing priveleges basic to most Xadians requires humans to partake in the 'evil and forbidden' practice of dark magic. (Callum remaining an outlier for now. Whether or not more human mages are a possibility will likely change my stance on this)
It's kind of like if there was a group of people in this world who could naturally generate electricity and didn't share and the reat of us were forced to rely on fossil fuels. Except the people who get free unlimited energy got upset at us for using fossil fuels and banished us to like. Ohio.
This is truly one of the most frustrating aspects of the show to me. People comment on the plot holes and stuff all the time, but this is all pretty minor imo compared to how the whole political situation is presented. As you said, fantasy creatures are usually the oppressed ones, so there could've been a really interesting subversion of tropes had they turned this on its head. But it's more than just the missed opportunity for subversion, it's what they put in there and then I guess.... shied away from addressing fully. And it just leaves such a huge feeling of injustice.
The power-imbalance and the oppression that it caused is almost never brought up and when it is, it's usually by the villains like Claudia and Aaravos who then proceed to get shrugged off because "welp they're evil so why should we listen to them?" classic debate and switch.
Racism against elves from humans is treated with a lot more severity then racism against humans from elves in several instances. Rayla for example has several scenes where she's allowed to be basically racist as she wants toward humans with little to no pushback while Callum gets struck down verbally for even maybe saying anything remotely insensitive toward any elven group. Lujanne straight up says "You're only human" as a response to Callum not understanding her magic explanation, and while she does apologize later for doubting Callum can do magic, she never apologizes for her downright racist comments. Though you can maybe read between the lines and say that apology is bundled in with that, which sure, I won't fight you for that, that can be a reasonable assumption. But given that Callum has now had to directly apologize for what humans did to elves twice in the show, I would like something more explicit from the Xadian side. And then dark magic... I agree with everything you're saying here. The demonization of dark magic is just... crazy. Honestly, if they can't find a way to make dark magic evil, I would've ran with that and leaned in on it. Maybe it's a lesson that Xadia has to learn that the thing they condemned humans for doing because it was strange to them, wasn't that strange after all if it was used properly. Hell, Rayla almost comes to this realization in one of her reflections stories where she almost kills a dark mage, but the realization that all he was carrying was coral to heal sick children makes her hesitate long enough for him to get away. This could've been explored more in the show but we never see any impact this had on Rayla on screen. I also dislike that in their commitment to make dark magic evil they portray all of the cases of humans using it as evil and greedy, even when it could be understandable. You brought up the west being drained of magic which is a scene that frustrates me for several reasons. One, is of course, I probably wouldn't have done it that way because I'm mainly against the demonization of dark magic BUT they still could have made this work.
This happened AFTER humans were exiled to the west, during the mage wars, which arose because of a fight for resources and what not after they were exiled. This makes sense, because obviously a trail of tears is going to destabilize a population, what happens next? Wars and destruction. But they didn't highlight any of that, they just framed it as greedy humans being greedy when it could've been really interesting if it was framed as the unfortunate truth of what happens when you do this to a population of people. But even IF they are committed to the dark magic bad bit. Fine, but they can at the very least treat it with more empathy. Every time we see dark magic used in the show (except for when Callum uses it but even he gets berated it for it) it's portrayed as completely evil and it's being used by ugly villains who deserve no sympathy for doing so. All of their problems are simplified to "well, they do dark magic, and if they could just stop doing dark magic their whole world would be better and everything would be happy." But it really isn't that simple. Dark magic is the reason so many humans are alive right now that wouldn't have been. It got them out of several situations that XADIA put them in. You can't just tell an oppressed population to give up the one thing that's helping them survive, just like that. It makes Xadia seem incredibly out of touch with what is happening and, to be frank, they probably are. I've dropped a few fics that I've read in my time because I personally disagree with the "Pro-Xadia" stance that the show and thus some of these fics followed. But even some of the ones I dropped were able to handle dark magic and the whole situation with more empathy than the show did. Anyway, sorry for the long winded rant lol. I initially just wanted to make a short statement of agreement but I got carried away lmao.
SFR: New Summary
Hey all! I've been working on rewriting the summary for SFR to both be more "engaging" or "eye-catching" and also make it more in line with the direction the fic is taking nowadays. The artistic vision for SFR has changed dramatically since the fic started so long ago and the summary was old anyway, having been written with the first chapter of the fic. I figured it's time I updated it, improved it, and made it more in line with what the current artistic vision. This is what I've got so far, whaddya think?
One egg. One mission. One Battle.
That was all it would take, right? To forge a new legacy of peace and prosperity between Xadia and Humanity, to end centuries' worth of violence and conflict. Callum, Rayla, Ezran, and Zym certainly thought so; after all, it seemed to be going that way for two years. So what was there to fear? They did it. They broke the cycle.
And then the world stopped.
Breaking the chains of history was never going to be as easy as they thought. And as an old Sun dragon began to accelerate the unseen momentum of the past, one thing immediately became clear.
One egg was NEVER enough to break the system. For reference, this is the old summary: Two years after the Battle of the Storm Spire, Xadia and Humanity have been able to live in relative peace and harmony. Azymondias has taken on the role of King of the Dragons and, together with Ezran, Callum, and Rayla, has been helping relations improve between the two halves of the continent. It seems that the world is headed for a bright future. However, no change is without opposition, and trouble begins to brew when a certain Sun Dragon starts to take action against the growing unity.
I'm glad I found a way to incorporate the image I made for SFR a few posts back and I think the new one hooks one in better and is more tonally in line with the high stakes story SFR is. The old summary reads a bit like "aww that rascal Sol Regem is up to his schemes again" the new one gives you a completely different feeling imo. But what do y'all think?
Sun Fueled Rage Chapter 13: Scars
In which the scars inflicted upon Callum, Ezran and Rayla deepen with the aftermath of horrific events. Read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30491499/chapters/223987126
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Sun Fueled Rage - Chapter 13: Scars will release later TODAY!
I'm so excited to drop this bomb o' feels!
SFR UPDATE - Almost Here!
Y'all Sun Fueled Rage chapter 13 is ALMOST HERE. I'm currently in the midst of my third pass read through of the chapter, and usually by the time this pass is over the chapter is ready, or almost ready to be published. Most of the major corrections and stuff have already been made with the focus now being on minor flow improvements/grammar and spelling.
I'm REALLY REALLY hoping to get it out by the end of this week. I'm finally able to work on it some more again now that I've OFFICIALLY GRADUATED FROM UNIVERSITY!!!
I'm so incredibly happy about that! But that was why I couldn't work on it much the last week because I was busy with finals, commencement and all that jazz. But that's all done now so I'm hoping to have a lot of time this week to work on it, and possibly... if everything goes really well we might see the chapter tomorrow? 👀 No guarantees hehe.
Sun Fueled Rage - One egg was NEVER enough to break the system
Little bit of artwork (more of an image edit but y'know) I made for my fic: Sun Fueled Rage. Pretty happy with how it turned out.
Read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30491499/chapters/75193263
(New chapters soon!)
So we know Zym is immune to lightning, and therefore I assume getting zapped.
I personally stan the head-cannon that getting zapped for him is basically the equivalent of injecting 10 energy drinks straight into his blood. (without the sugar obv). And so anytime he's exhausted, tired and groggy someone will ask him if he "needs a zap" and upon delivering it he gets a shock (heh) of energy and is basically good for the rest of the day.
YOOOOO The SFR chapter 13 rough draft is FINALLY complete! All scenes in, every word written, start to finish. It's sitting at about 15k words right now, a pretty healthy and respectable amount for an SFR chapter.
I don't know when exactly it'll be out but it might be end of April at the earliest considering my previous prediction was early-mid April and... well I'm probably not gonna have it edited by then. Stuff got in the way, school is hectic, please be merciful guys lol.
Thankfully though, as always, the editing process should be faster than the drafting process regardless of how many passes I do so it should only be a few editing sessions, but there a few things I'm a bit unhappy with right now that I might edit so we'll see.
But, HUGE MILESTONE. Light is at the end of the tunnel fellas!
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Zym hopes y'all had a happy April Fools Day! Despite his mischievous nature, he has abstained (strugglingly so) from pulling any pranks because he recognizes we all have enough to deal with. But he hopes he can still get y'all to smile!
Might try learning how to draw soon and posting my progress. In part because I wanna learn a new creative field and I've always been amazed at people who can express themselves visually like that, and also in part just to spite AI lmao. If I do start doing that tho, just be aware I'm gonna crawl along at a slow pace and go kinda bit by bit. My first goal will be drawing a sphere lmao. Yea, I'm that much of a beginner, tried to once, couldn't do it. But it might be fun to see if I can eventually get it.
