A sincere dragon slander

WARNING: This blog will discuss themes of SA, animal cruelty, bigotry of many kinds, and other sensitive topics

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This is a blog who used to be dedicated to call out and make fun of The Dragon Slayer, a discontinued horse webcomic. Now, we talk about webcomics in general, specially the ones made by authors who can't take a no for an answer.

The askbox is (usually) open, you're allowed to post on anon and all asks are meant to be published. But there are two rules:

No callouts. I will not post anonymous accusations of bigotry, abuse, etc... Without any proof. You can DM me about it, if it really concerns you.

No little ones. We aren't bashing children and teens over comics. We are not their parents. Always check the author's age before criticizing.

Other than that, you're free to send whatever you want. All death threats must be directed at me, though, I'm very greedy.

Trust me, I want to come back, but these last two weeks have been a relentless shit rain and now I have to clean up everything. Oh well.

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Quote: “I get the themes SongDog is attempting to explore but the way she's going about it is weird at best.”

So yeah, it wasn’t you. But it might be a good idea to vet the anons more thoroughly and remind folks that everyone participating in discussion here should be respectful of people’s genders and preferred pronouns. Hope this helps! (genuinely. I know sometimes that phrase is used in a sarcastic way lol)

Fuck. I genuinely didn't see that. Thank you for telling me.

Normally I try to be careful about these things, but I guess this one slipped my mind. Sorry, it won't happen again.

I actually did have some beef with another anon months ago exactly because of this. Maybe I need to make a post explaining where to find pronouns on ComicFury.

True! I also deadass don't get the appeal of making your gritty edgy lion comic with blood and sex directly related to a Disney movie ToT

Holy fuck, did I misgender Songdogx? Could you pass me the link for that, please?

Thanks for the ask anon! Funnily enough, this blog was meant to close down after TDS was terminated, it's just that we got carried away by IDK and now we're here, LMAO

I've been trying not to talk about it for a while, I only brought it up when talking about Mare of Diomedes because of how similar they were. Believe me when I tell you that I don't enjoy bringing it up, as you said, there's a point where we're just repeating the same points over and over again.

What if LM named herself Lily (Lilith) later on…

Flower/plant meaning for the deer way of naming, Lilith for the biblical meaning

....... Wow......It's so perfect I'm amazed that it's not canon. Very good idea, anon!

It would also keep the Little Miss part too, because lilies are flowers while Ashwood, Maple and the others were trees, she's technically still smaller than them.

Have you considered that fiction is, and should be, a space for imagination rather than representation? Woke morons keep insisting that everything should only be about representation, and then get frustrated when it isn’t a perfect biography of fictional characters in fictional worlds. They also project themselves onto characters for the most asinine reasons and get upset when the author doesn’t magically meet their expectations. People like that will never be satisfied because fanfics and original stories will always be fiction first.

Buddy, I know your level of media literacy is below zero, but at least look for the definition of "woke" before you use it in public, OK, mate? OK.

100% it is traumatizing. If the only reason to separate a baby from their biological mother is because someone bought them, then it's fucking inhumane.

Not saying all bio mothers should be forced to raise their baby either, although it should be their responsability (same as the other parent, BTW). There are cases where it simply isn't viable, particularly in scenarios where there was rape involved.

And all I could think is "who the fuck is Lysti".

Turns out Lysti's a character from Jumalanpelko that I haven't seen yet because I haven't finished reading the damm comic, LOL

Yes, the anon and I got confused I think, LOL Scratch is the cat (fitting name) and Lady is the dog (also fitting).

If we're talking surrogate wombs, then yes.

Barring some minimal exceptions, like a sibling willingly offering herself to carry for another sibling, we shouldn't normalize using wombs as rental incubators and babies as products.

People who resort to surrogates don't do it because they don't have any other option, but because they can afford relying the harsh part on another person. Another person who doesn't have those resources, and has to physically exploit their body to have food on the plate. Nine months of scarring their body and risking their life only to give away the baby the moment they're out.

Meanwhile, there are thousands, and I mean THOUSANDS of orphaned children who would do much better in an average home with a supporting family waiting for someone to adopt them. Why not give them a chance?

Because again, too many people don't want a child, they want a baby doll that belongs to them, by blood. And allow me to be extremely harsh, but I don't think people who see their children as their property/legacy deserve to have kids at all.

In the context of xenofiction, I get that those situations are different, they don't have economies or social classes. But there are still situations where the surrogacy is normalized and taken too lightly, often used as a cheap way to let the gay couple raise babies. And I think that's terrible.

I get the themes SongDog is attempting to explore but the way she's going about it is weird at best.

How exactly are the stallions being harmed in any way that's outside of their power? They don't have to fight. There doesn't seem to be any reason to partner since there's no danger. There hasn't been any social benefits or detriments shown to partnering or refusing to partner.

A page after men fighting to assault a woman is not the time to be like "misogyny hurts men too :(". LITERALLY HOW. You have not shown any detriments to being a stallion in this society or in the lore of your universe. The mares seem doomed to getting the shit end of the stick.

To be honest the very concept of how partnering works rubs me the wrong way. So the mare just ceases to have all bodily autonomy and just has to take whatever pain the stallion gives her? Crazy work. I really fail to see how this benefits either of them. The stallion feels no pain, sure, but that just makes him more likely to get killed by ignoring his wounds and the mare just suffers I guess. How is having two able-bodied fighters a worse option than this?

I don't fully understand how the partnering works in Swordbearers, again, because I'm not following it. But so far I have no idea how or why are these unicorns surviving as a species with this system.

And yep, that comment is super out of place there. Imagine a similar one in I Didn't Know, "oh, but the Holy Father is hurt too, because he can't have a family" type of shit. Eh, putting a comment like that would probably get your ass blocked.

Thank you for the ask, anon!

We don't talk enough about LM's cult name being Maria, Whisper was a Jesus analogy from the beggining OUGH

I think I felt the something similar about LM's name at some point too, but I wasn't as bothered about it. I get it was a kind nickname the does gave to her and it holds sentimental value, but as you said, it's an odd name for a world were all animals have names regarding nature or, in the case of the cult cats, biblical. I also think the name also stops suiting her as she grows up into an adult cat.

It would have been pretty awesome to see Little Miss has her own introspection and consciously sheds the name Maria forever and chooses the name she wants to be presented as. Or at least I think it would have been cool to have her get some more scenes where it's only her and her own thoughts. Heck, Maple could have helped her with that! That could have been a cool scene where a trans woman guides a young girl to find her true self. What a lost opportunity.

And about the Lady in THB, I thought that was the dog LOL like in Lady and the Tramp. Haven't read much of it, but I find it funny that Lady the cat hates humans with passion, yet uses a name that only humans would know the meaning of. I personally would have called her "Ladybug", you get to keep the lady part as a diminutive and it could reference her red and black spots.

I don't think Songdog is a misogynist either, they're just too proud to revise their own work looking for possible flaws or odd patterns. I think the LM and Lady names are most likely a coincidence. After all, Scratch is also a female character and her name isn't trying to be feminine.