Hey I'm Sarah she/her, autistic, asexual/biromantic. Tag wrangler for AO3 (all opinions are my own and not official statements) Good Omens, The Locked Tomb, Pokemon, video games, various anime and whatever else I like. Current obsession is Good Omens and screaming about the Ineffable Husbands. I occasonally write fanfiction. Icon is mine, header by @lookitsstevie
Hi! Hello! I got a big influx of followers the other day so it seemed like the appropriate time to finally make a ‘proper’ intro post!
I’m Dragona (or Sarah, if you prefer, though I don’t mind which you use). I’m mostly a fanfiction writer, but I do dabble in digital art, cross-stitch, and polymer clay. I hope to get into book binding and resin art soon so look forward to that!
I mostly consider this a ‘multi-fandom’ blog, but I hyperfixate really damn hard so it might as well be a Good Omens blog with the occasional other fandom reblog thrown in the mix. I also post about the D&D sessions I run for my friends and pictures of my cats!
I am an adult and as such there will be the occasional mature content. If such things make you uncomfortable, I tag all ‘spicy’ content with ‘nsft’. Speaking of tags, my art tag is ‘dragon does art’.
I also volunteer as a Tag Wrangler for AO3. What's a Tag Wrangler? Well, a wrangler is a real human person (as opposed to an algorithm) who takes tags YOU make on AO3 and makes sure they are attatched to an appropriate canonical tag for filtering and searching! All our tags are handled by actual people who love fandom as much as you do (we just also reeaaally like sorting things too 😁).
You can find my fanfiction: here
My twitter: here
I have a Ko-fi, no prompts or commissions please! I also have a Redbubble with silly fandom stickers. If you enjoy my art or fic, please consider leaving s tip or buying a sticker. Any little bit helps a poor bitch out.
I think that’s all? My askbox and DM’s are always open so feel free to shout at me. I promise I don’t bite :P
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here's a secret: whatever you're doing, you have to root for your peers with all your heart because it forces you to root for yourself too. I've seen people in various spheres of my life (workplaces, education, art, activism) fall into the trap of envy and resentment when they see others succeed while they struggle, and it always always goes hand in hand with them pulling back and giving up and stagnating.
when you let yourself get sour grapes about shit, you tacitly give up on yourself. when you sit around hoping other people will flop and fail so you can catch up to them, you stop trying. it's a fantasy of mediocrity, the vain wish that other people would walk so you could take the gold medal at a jog. wouldn't you rather come last place at 27mph?
idk man of course you can say whatever you want where ever you want but i can promise you there are people seeing that shit and judging the fuck out of you so.... maaaaaaybe be kind unless it's in a private dm with a trusted friend and stop talking shit about ficfics and other people just because they have joy and whimsy and you don't 🤘😘
Unfriendly reminder that if you're displeased with a piece of fanfiction your courses of action are:
Read something else
Bitch PRIVATELY to friends
Write your own take on the premise (strongly recommend!)
All of the above
Under no circumstances should you try to "politely" critique the author who put the story up as a hobby. For free. Especially if the story in question is multiple years old. Ao3 is not Goodreads
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LEGO Lord Archduke Slorch the Vile (and his Heavenly, but certainly not angelic Husband)
Yeah, I'm still struggling with the fandom fallout after GO3 and haven't exactly felt like sharing all my new GO3 LEGO babies in the aftermath, but *gritting my teeth* these babies deserve some love and I hope that there are enough fans left here who will appreciate them *looking around warily*?
If you do, please give them some love. If you don't, just ignore this post and please don't hurt my babies' feelings with any spiteful comments. Seriously, they're trying so hard to bring some joy to this fandom, please don't tread on them. *glares glarefully at anyone even thinking about hurting my babies* Thank you very much!
That being said *putting down the teeny-tiny LEGO shovel*, please enjoy our Ineffable Spouses, sharing an intimate moment (yeah, we wish, I know)!
I bet that Crowley in this wonderful Aziraphale-gifted version of his dream wife Heaven outift must have helped their husband to get dressed up down for his important business trip to Hell, right? Also, still wondering if there was some tartan hidden somewhere... tartan pants maybe? 😉
For additional pictures and some ramblings about the creation of those two idiots, including credit for the "store-bought" parts...
Honestly, I love these ridiculous costumes to pieces! It's not stated explicitly, but still strongly implied that Aziraphale must have miracled up this exact color-inverted replica of Crowley's usual outfit, right down to all the little details, like the snake skin boots and the snake belt!
Seriously, Crowley's torso was relatively easy to design for me, because it is a copy of his usual outfit, so I dug up my old torso design file and edited the hell out of it (literally) before getting it printed on a Tan LEGO torso. The rounded bottom part of his jacket covering the hips was meticulously cut and folded out of painted paper. The colours actually match better than it looks in these pictures.
The boots were giving me the biggest challenge here! I could not just have them printed on some LEGO legs, because I wanted to use those longer custom legs by Leyilebrick, the only valid option for Crowley in those bloody tight jeans, imo. Ahem.
So, yeah, recreating snake skin boots in LEGO minifigure scale? Shoot me now! Well, the results are far from perfect, but I tried my best. It really would have helped to have hi-res screencaps, but I still haven't found any, so most of the creative process was squinting at blurry enlarged images, a huge dose of 'best guess' and a lot of swearing! Oh, also acrylic markers and masking tape, of course! 🤷
Crowley's hair used to be this custom hairpiece before I painted the hell out of it. Unfortunately it's not available anymore. I'd love to get my hands on more of those pieces for other versions of Crowley!
Credit for the head goes to Minifigs.me! I bought and "beheaded" their Prince of Darkness minifigure, because those round golden sunglasses looked like a great match! I might have taken a teeny-tiny bit of secret pleasure in this act of revenge on behalf of some mistreated bat(s). *looking around innocently* 🦇
Ah, Lord Archduke Slorch the Vile, my beloved! Seriously, this costume is so horrible I can't help but love it! How, and I mean how the fuck, could Aziraphale come off genuinely intimidating in this ridiculous Joker mock-up?! Thank you for your acting skills, Michael Sheen! 🤡
People who know me and my bloody annoying perfectionism had a good laugh at my struggle to not get anything about this one perfect. Let his face be smudged. Let his teeth be sharp, but don't try to fix them any further. Let those silver chains dangle crookedly. Let his half gloves look ragged. Use the most ugly colours for his hairpiece (taken from this minifig) and don't worry about a smooth finish. Let his coat and shoulder pads look torn. Let him look horrible and own it! A Master of the Secret Torments, indeed! *still apologizing to my inner Monk who died a million times in the process of making this minifigure*
Anyway, I'm really grateful I had at least one BTS picture to work with here. Slorch's clompy (why isn't that an official word?) boots are hilarious! Initially I used some off-brand legs with printed boots and added some 1x1 plates for the high soles, but it didn't look that great. In addition those legs were too loose for the LEGO hips with the silver belt, making the whole figure fall over again and again, so I ultimately ditched those and just stole a pair of Crowley's long legs (the husbands really don't mind sharing). Since all the printed details from the other legs were almost completely hidden by the coat anyway, this solution works for me.
"Credit" for the head and torso: I took this Joker head and this LEGO torso and ruined modified the shit out of them! No idea if the way I painted the face is suggestion enough of the big mismatched nose, but whatever. Fun fact: if you'd pull off Lord Slorch's coat, you might still find the HARES OF HAVOC print on the backside, which I found too funny to remove! 🐇
All the dangly bits around the hips, the coat itself with its shoulder pads, and the chains dangling form the collar are made of masking tape and painted with acrylic markers. The spiked collar around the neck used to be on of these boring LEGO neck collars before I repurposed it lovingly! 🔪
Hopefully I didn't forget anything important. Feel free to ask if I did.
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Tagging the usual crowd with the customary addendum to please let me know if you want to be added to or removed from the list! 😘
Post-GO3 Addendum:
If you want to be removed specifically from any future Good Omens 3 LEGO posts, please also let me know! Hopefully I will find the time to share more of my LEGO babies soon, but some of them will be from S3!
where’s that article by james frankie thomas where he says like “prior to my transition there was only one kind of sex i wanted to have. and i thought i could never have it” because i am about to blow these people’s minds
i have gotten some very odd anons about this post that i’m choosing to ignore. but i am going to double down on this. no i don’t care if girls watch gay porn or imagine themselves as a gay person or wonder what it would be like to have gay sex. so many people imprison themselves by thinking they could never be gay and/or trans. well i’m telling them they better watch out. being gay and/or trans is real. and it could happen to YOU. as a matter of fact i sincerely hope it does
#tbh i think the intense stigma against “straight” ppl “fetishizing” queerness keeps a lot of ppl in the closet
#theres no harm in exploring those feelings in private. indulge in the fantasy and see where it takes u
#dont be a creep to other ppl obv but that goes w/o saying
#if id had the courage to confront the ache id feel when i thought abt lesbian sex and how id “never be able to have it” earlier
really galling amount of people misinterpreting this post so i'd like to clarify. i'm saying that when discussions about patriarchal beauty standards and the way women are heavily shamed and coerced into eschewing their own natural state of being (hairy) are occurring, it is unhelpful (AT BEST) to interrupt and say that the reason YOU remove the hair from your body is because of sensory issues. that's not what we're talking about. stop asking for validation for doing something that society at large wants you to do. stop derailing the conversation because you feel uncomfortable about being made aware that you, for whatever reason it is, adhere to harmful, unfair and ridiculous beauty standards. you're stepping into the middle of an important conversation that needs to be had and making it all about you. shut the fuck up forever.
also quite frankly i think a lot less people would experience sensory issues if they let their hair grow out so that it isn't bristly and rough and irritating. and i cannot help but wonder why these sensory issues aren't as predominant in men. maybe you're uncomfortable with the hair on your body because you've been taught to be uncomfortable with it. just a thought.
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Because ao3’s tagging system explicitly allows romantic pairings in Gen fics as long as the relationship is not the focus of the fic.
(But real talk: this comes up a lot on Tumblr and on r/ao3 and while most people know the Gen fic rules, there’s always a portion of people who don’t and get extremely frustrated when they can’t find a fic devoid of romantic relationships. Which is valid! But definitely not a reason to blame authors or their fics.
What concerns me is the growing amount of people who acknowledge ao3’s correct tagging rules and then say “well I don’t like/believe in it” and proceed to ignore the rules and continue to be upset because they don’t want it to be a rule and they think they can apply their own “beliefs” to the system and others should too.
That’s not how rules work.
If you want to change ao3, join the OTW. Run for one of their elected seats. Petition for a rule change, etc. Help wrangle the “no relationships” tags and encourage use of one others might want too.
But stop treating every relationship like it’s icky and that others are morally inferior because they’re okay with the Gen rules. You don’t make the rules, and that’s a good thing!
Also, an ao3 without relationships in gen fics? There would be so many batfamily fics disappearing because of a 200 word section buried in one chapter of 34 where Bruce and Clark interact and are presumably together!)
Go take a perusal through the Batman-All Media Types fandom. Now, here's what I want you to do. Very specifically.
First, go over, and filter out all 'Original Female Character'. See how many results that gets rid of. Scroll through just the first page. See how many fics with OFC, Female Main Character, Original Character Female, OC Female, or Original Female Character/(Some Male Member Of The Batfam).
Now go ahead and filter all those out. Scroll back through the list again.
See how many results you get for 'Original Female Reader Insert'. 'Female OC Insert'. Daughter/Girlfriend/Lover of (Male Member Of The Batfam)'. 'Reader-Insert'.
Let's get really desperate here. Let's just exclude vaginal sex, and everything related to it. See how far that narrows it down. Since I'm trying very specifically to avoid this one specific thing.
Scroll through that first page again. And you're gonna get at least three or four fics that have come up with yet another 'clever' way of trying to bypass the tagging system to make sure that people who very much do not want to read about an original female character are forced to see their original female character.
So now we just get rid of all pairings. We'll just 'Gen' tag. Get rid of 'Explicit' rating. Surely that will eliminate all of this nonsense, right?
Yeah, except now we've gotten rid of fics that we probably would've liked to have read, but these people are so damn insistent that we see their fic, their fic that we aren't going to read, aren't going to click on, that those are the lengths you have to go to to get rid of something.
And Christ forbid you want a m/m ship; that you're looking for a very specific thing that isn't gen, because now... you can't even take the easy route, and just miss out on fics. Now you've got m/m tagged, and you're still getting Original Female Character/Dick Grayson popping up at least once a page.
At some point, saying, well, everybody tags differently, and well, maybe it's a mistake, and well, sub-tags, and well this and well that.
No. I shouldn't have to take two hours to filter out every possible variation that these people are trying to tag-duck around.
And I'm a person who will read pretty much any ship that isn't an OC/Main Character. I'm not picky about who's doing what, as long as it's a good story. So I'm very specifically trying to just eliminate one particular thing, and I still can't do it without running into at least a dozen people who are trying to slip around the tags in the first five pages of results.
Ah yes. Okay. Let's apply that logic to other things.
I want to make tasty muffins for a bake sale. Now, I use flour and honey and maybe even nuts in these tasty muffins I make. Now, I know that there are a lot of people who don't like these things. There are people who are even allergic to these things. But you know... I just really, really want to make these delicious muffins and have everybody eat them so they can tell me how much they like them. And if I tell them honestly what's in these muffins... they won't eat them.
So. I'm going to mark them as gluten free. As nut free. As honey free. Are they these things? No, of course not; the main ingredient is flour and nuts and honey. But you know, again, if I tell people that they won't eat them. So I'm going to just mark them as different things. That way people will eat them and tell me how good they are.
That's perfectly acceptable... right?
Would you feel the same way if a published book, that went through an editor and publishing house, tagged something mlm, then had a love triangle between two men and a female? Would that be acceptable to you? Would you write it off as just 'an innocent mistake'? Would you say that people upset by it just 'shouldn't read'?
Or let's try yet another way of making you see what you're really arguing. Let's just say... you do not like Bat-cest. You won't read any m/m pairing with the bat bros. Maybe you're a Tim/Steph shipper. Maybe you're a Dick/Babs shipper. Maybe you're a Joyfire shipper. A Damijon shipper. But you very much do not agree with Bat-cest. You exclude Bat-cest, every variation of shipping between the brothers. Tim/Dick, Dick/Jay, Tim/Jay, Dick/Dami, Dami/Tim, Dami/Jay, polycule versions of these... cool, you should be good right?
Well. Here I present to you a fic that's tagged Tim Drake & Dick Grayson & Jason Todd & Damian Wayne. Looks good, right? Go ahead. Take a read. Oh... wait, did you miss the Robin!Pile tag? Oops. Go ahead and filter that out. My bad.
Oh. That other one pops up with BatBroLove? No worries; exclude that out too. My bad.
Oh. The other one pops up with Robin Polycule? No, no worries, just add that to the exclude list. I promise, you don't have to read Bat-cest. Just keep excluding those tags. You'll get there; it's fine. Promise.
There are a lot of people -and yes, I'm one of them -who try very hard to tag correctly. To make sure that every relationship is accurately tagged. That every possible trigger, every possible situation that might disturb someone, is tagged. I go over my tag list two or three times usually, and the one time I didn't and missed something, I added a note to the story apologizing as soon as someone pointed out I'd missed something.
Because if we're not using tags... what is the point of tagging. If you refuse to at least attempt to tag properly... well hell, let's just get rid of it all together! After all, it's no big deal, right? I mean, people aren't using it how they should, let's just... do away with it. Because clearly it doesn't matter, if it's okay to just... go around the system, right?
1 of the twenty most recently updated works has an OFC.
1 of the twenty most recently updated works has a Reader Insert.
Vaginal Sex is not a top 10 freeform.
OFC is not a top ten character and no /OFC ships are top ten ships.
Filtering out OFC:
192,204 works.
No OFCs appear on the most recently updated list.
1 fic of the twenty most recently updated has a Reader Insert character.
Vaginal Sex is not a top 10 freeform.
Filtering out just Vaginal Sex:
Only one of the most recently updated fics had tags that indicated sex could be in it (rated M, Rape/Non-Con and Underage Sex archive warnings), and I opened it up and couldn't find any sex with Ctrl+F. I always forget dick and Dick are the same word until I try that lmao. I am not reading 33 chapters of poorly-written webnovel to find out what on earth euphemisms they decided to use.)
Okay, but maybe OFC and het is all over the place with M/M in Batman. Let's try AMT, Include M/M, Exclude all other categories.
59,861 works
Top 10 characters are all male, no OCs
Top 10 rels are all male, no OCs
Top 10 freeforms only contains 2 sex related tags, Anal Sex and Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics.
Except for one, all Male/Female character pairings in the twenty most recently updated fics indicate they are past relationships. For the other, I read it and I'm pretty sure the poster doesn't know what the slash means. Dick and the mentioned character's only interaction is that he pukes on her while having a medical emergency.
I think you're probably just kind of bad at filtering and searching.
This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.
OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.
And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.
i swear it used to refer to a story using a very formal, almost workplace safety-type tone of dialogue that's unintentionally jarring in context and feels like the writer is trying to make extra sure the characters come off as healthy and nice to the story's detriment, now it seems to frequently refer to characters having any conversation about their feelings at all or even stories that are about therapy/are deliberately evoking that sort of verbage throughout as a stylistic choice. very odd.
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I want a video game with realistic dick and balls physics not for any prurient reason, but... okay, so you know how in some games with boob physics, there's a palpable delay after a character model is instantiated before physics start to apply to the boobs, so it's like *pop* ... *FWOMP*? I want to see the cock version of that. Penis-having character spawns in, there's a beat, then the physics engine tries to play catch-up and applies a full second of gravitational acceleration to their junk all at once and they just randomly start helicoptering.
#wasnt that conan game basically this #idk i never played it (via @piedbirb)
Nah, Conan: Exiles saves on development costs there by applying the same physics simulation it uses for clothing to penises. It's basically treating the cock and balls as a bit of cloth hanging off your character's groin, which produces a totally different (albeit no less entertaining) set of failure modes.
According to my wife you can kind of do this in Carnal Instinct. And if you have a horse cock installed and position yourself in a corner just right, you can fly. Or it feels like you're going to fly. Your body stays perfectly still while the dick helicopters all over the place
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