by Jin Xingye
schrödinger’s abigail
Oh my lord this is gorgeous.
love the colors
allionne
Oh wow
Tony Stark: Hey Peter, I’m going to the store, you want anything?
Peter Parker, edgy Gen Z kid: A will to live.
Tony Stark, concerned adult:
titan-killing-longterm-bootycall
Peter Parker, facing a hellish situation: this isn’t ideal
Peter Parker faced with a mild inconvinience: I now know why God abandoned this timeline
It got better
ok, so you know about bowerbirds, right?
they’re these neat birds that build these fancy installations called “bowers” as part of their courtship rituals; they typically involve hoarding a whole bunch of similarly-colored things they think look neat and building a fancy nest-thingy and clearing an area of the forest. for example:
which all look neat!
usually the stuff they take is just random neat-colored but worthless things they find nearby, but sometimes it’s like:
anyways! so my first thought is, you know what hoards cool-looking, often expensive stuff for some mysterious reason?
dragons!
so my first idea was going to be dragons whose hoarding behavior is basically bower-making.
but then it occurred to me: dragon lairs are pretty often, like, elaborate dungeons, involving a bunch of other species collaborating and stuff.
so my second thought is that to dragons, both the hoard and the rest of the lair are all descendants of this elaborate courtship ritual that they had many generations ago; that, in essence, they construct this elaborate micro-society around themselves at least partly because it makes them feel Nice in the same way that bowerbirds probably feel Nice making their bowers
and basically the difference between “good” and “evil” dragons tends to have to do with whether and which humans are included in their bower-society.
i think that would be neat :3
im still thinking about this
- in a number of settings, dragons are able to shapeshift. in this context, this ability would come in handy as part of how they maintain their bower-societies
- dragons spend their adolescence (their first few-centuries-to-a-millenium, let’s say) roaming about the land, shapeshifting constantly, taking various roles in the societies they encounter, learning how different types of groups think and work etc…
- dragon bowers are often functionally small city-states (or sometimes even just normal states for very very old dragons) but sometimes dragons bower with various other social groups, like corporations, academic institutions, professional associations, unions, religious orders, social or artistic scenes, or even just simple bureaucracies…
- while it is not uncommon for dragons to set themselves up as straight-up rulers of their bower-societies, many dragons prefer to set themselves up to have more indirect power over their bower. It is more common, for example, for them to accumulate political power by powering vast and quickly vital public-works projects with their extensive magic.
- societies that have had a dragon as a part of them for a long time have a tendency to develop significantly more elaborate political models, often with rather strange ideological combinations (like, weird royalty-democracy mixes or systems of systems of castes with rules that just go on and on) and mixtures of species that otherwise would only very rarely interact. this is thought to make the bower-society more attractive to other dragons.
anyways the dragon-human harmony discourse is consequently… very complicated. possibly at least partly because some dragons like to consistently make it more complicated because they think it’s “prettier” that way.
allearta-deactivated20190302
Some old work
Janelle Monáe photographed by David Yeo for FAULT Magazine
a friend: when I die, plant catnip on my grave
me: necro atsume
Journal comic.
artbymoga
This needs about 100,000 more notes.
surprise when nathaniel says “no mommy im a girl” and natasha says A TRUE DOUBLE AGENT I LOVE YOU NATASHA
I’m sorry. I read the thing and thought it was just about THE BEST EVER. And then I arted.
Natasha Romanoff. Godmommy to end all godmommies.
Natasha Romanoff belongs to Marvel . Artwork by Meredith McClaren
It took me too long to reblog this because I was making incomprehensible noises and flailing my arms like a 3 year old.
She’s taking her god-daughter to ballet classes!!!!!!!
Sorry, my heart just sploded.
THIS IS PERFECT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT SOMEBODY FIC THIS
No, imagine riding back home with Aunt Nat after dance class and little Natasha in tears telling her godmother how the other kids on school pick on her and the teachers insist on calling her Nathaniel, and Nat has this lowkey murder look in her eyes and grips the wheel tighter, then pulls it all under because she’s a kid and she has enough to deal with and smiles and tells her it will be alright and hey, wanna go grab some ice-cream.
And next Monday suddenly every list has Natasha Barton under her picture and all the teachers call her Natasha and use she and her and girl and in the rare cases someone slips everybody else looks at them with panicked reproach do not fuck this up are you trying to get us all killed, and there’s been established a zero-tolerance anti-bullying policy over the weekend.