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Great-Eared Nightjar aka the ‘baby Dragon’ bird Appreciation Post 🐉 🐥
📷 credit: Live Science
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fun behaviors to give dragons that aren't feline/canine based
cause as much as i love dragons purring and roaring i wish there was just more variety in how they would act
- clacking their teeth together to show contentedness/happiness (budgies)
- using tails as a defensive weapon in a whip like fashion (iguana)
- twitching to express that they're not a threat to members of their species (hognose snake)
- feeling calm when eyes are hooded/covered (birds of prey)
- head bobbing as a threat display (anoles/bearded dragons)
- flattening neck or sides to appear bigger (snakes/lizards)
- mantling over food to protect it from hatchmates (birds of prey)
- wiggling neck as a courting maneuver (budgies)
- audibly grinding teeth as a warning (macaques)
- maintained eye contact as a challenge (gorillas)
- pounding wings against sides as a threat (gorillas)
- slapping other dragons with their claws when their personal bubble is invaded (seals)
- hoards used as a site to impress mates (birds of paradise)
- snorting when undergoing heightened stress (horses)
- making repeated loud noises with surroundings to establish territory (woodpeckers)
- loud constant arguments with other dragons when roosting (bats)
- building lairs that cause a domino effect of change in the land around them (beavers)
- slapping their tails against the ground/water as a warning (beavers)
- wiggling tail tip to attract prey (various animals)
- wiggling tail tip as a warning (snakes)
- plucking or scraping off scales as a sign of stress (parrots)
- raising spines/frills as a response to danger and carrying on with their usual business as they believe they're protected (lionfish)
and im not saying canine and feline behaviors are wrong or bad to give a dragon (people wouldn't write dragons with those behaviors if they weren't fun in the first place!) but i feel for creatures that are mythological giant winged lizards that you can do more and get experimental with it. often the more unfamiliar behavior the more dragony the dragon feels
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ARMED WITH AMBITION: a Slytherin playlist
Slytherins tend to be ambitious, shrewd, cunning, strong leaders, and achievement-oriented. They also have highly developed senses of self-preservation. This means that Slytherins tend to hesitate before acting, so as to weigh all possible outcomes before deciding exactly what should be done.
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PULL YOUR QUIVER: artemis; goddess of the wilderness, goddess of maidens
Homer Odyssey 6.102″… Artemis, the archer, roves over the mountains, along the ridges of lofty Taygetus or Erymanthus, joying in the pursuit of boars and swift deer, and with her sport the wood-nymphs, the daughters of Zeus who bears the aegis, and Leto is glad at heart–high above them all Artemis holds her head and brows, and easily may she be known, though all are fair…”
+ listen (thanks to @hermionegrangcr for the idea and @delaqour & @trjwizard for insp ♥)
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Problematic writing choices of the Duffers:
This post will be focusing on problematic tropes (more so than the many plot holes).Prior to this, I thought some of these writing choices were intentional subtext and symbolism for a greater plot point (and that these tropes would later be subverted) . This wasn't the case. I'm mentioning these tropes now: for people to grasp why we shouldn't reward the Duffers in their future projects. And how normalizing these tropes (in main stream shows) will negatively impact future story telling for the worse.
- Fridging trope: El embodies this as her death is used as a catalyst for various male character's development in the finale. The Duffers saying El was never going to be with the gang in the end , because she "represents the magic of childhood" for the boys is just sad. Because yes-characters can represent something but writers need to understand they're MORE than just a symbol of something (they're also a person/character in the narrative). The fact she also represents the magic of childhood of all things is awfully portrayed since Jane herself never even had a real childhood - and because of the writers , she's also deprived of an adulthood .
- In s5, bringing back Kali (one of the only brown girls in the show) to essentially just make her suffer and die. They brought her back: k*lled her found family , had her tortured by the gov again, and then she's shot by the gov. God forbid, a brown girl shoots her white oppressors (the writers have to k*ll her the same way she offed her abusers). Kali targeting her ab*sers was portrayed as morally questionable/nuanced in the show. But white Jim & Nancy mowing down random soldiers with bullets, or El killing a bunch of American/soviet soldiers was just to make them look 'bad ass'. The audience never has to question their morality for doing so- only Kali's. If you believe's mike's theory: that would mean they just used Kali to save and give the white heroine a happy ending (which is gross optics in and of itself).
- If you believe that El died along with Kali (this is also problematic). They couldn't let El/Kali : the victims of government oppression and abuse get a "happy ending" . In fact both die due to the government .What an uplifting message during these fraught political times. Remember Hopper’s speech where the whole point was Kali/El shouldn’t have to off themselves since they deserve a happy ending (despite life being unfair to them constantly)? What was the point? Idk , if you don't die , off yourself if life has been cruel.Killing El / kali to stop the "cycle " isn’t empowering at all. It’s a harmful message to ab*se survivors!!!
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D E A D M E N T E L L N O T A L E S : a fantasy alternative universe playlist for writers, requested by @stephbrwn
“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”
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It was Aegon’s son, King Daeron II the Good, who finally brought Dorne into the realm…not with iron and fire but with soft swords and smiles and a pair of well-considered marriages, and a solemn treaty that granted the Dornish princes their style and their privileges and guaranteed that their own laws and customs should always prevail in Dorne. Dorne continued to be closely allied with House Targaryen in the years that followed, with the Martells supporting the Targaryens against the Blackfyre Pretenders and sending spears to fight the Ninepenny Kings on the Stepstones. Their loyal service was rewarded when Rhaegar Targaryen, Prince of Dragonstone and heir to the Iron Throne, took to wife Princess Elia Martell of Sunspear, and sired two children by her. But for the madness of Rhaegar’s father, Aerys II, a prince of Dornish blood might very well have one day ruled the realm.
Marriages between House Targaryen and House Martell (requested by @diamondsinmyhair)
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The Dance of the Dragons and The Anarchy + parallels (requested by anonymous)
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Elaena lived a much longer life than her sister Daena, and a much more tumultuous one than her sister Rhaena. The great love of her life was her cousin, Alyn Velaryon, the seafarer and admiral known as Oakenfist, to whom she bore a bastard son and daughter, Jon and Jeyne Waters. She married thrice in later years, twice at a king’s behest and once for passion. She gave birth to seven children, then declared that if seven was sufficient for the gods it would do for her as well.
Princess Elaena Targaryen’s children (requested by @diamondsinmyhair)
// Amelia Clarkson as Jeyne Waters, Edvin Endre as Jon waters, Charles Vandervaart as Viserys Plumm, Luke Shanahan as Robin Penrose, Hanna Sharp as Laena Penrose, Jenna Warren as Jocelyn Penrose, and Ella Sinatra Querin as Joy Penrose
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I want to be a good wife to him, I do, but I don’t know how to help. To cheer him, or comfort him. I don’t know what he needs. Please, my lady, you’re his mother, tell me what I should do.
When I first came to Winterfell, I was hurt whenever Ned went to the godswood to sit beneath his heart tree. Part of his soul was in that tree, I knew, a part I would never share. Yet without that part, I soon realized, he would not have been Ned. Jeyne, child, you have wed the north, as I did… and in the north, the winters will come.
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“Were you aware that our mothers knew each other of old?” "They had been at court together as girls, I seem to recall. Companions to Princess Rhaella?”
(happy birthday @joannalannister ♥)
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The story of Nymeria of Ny Sar, Princess of the Rhoynar and of Dorne (requested by anonymous)
In the songs, Nymeria is said to have been a witch and a warrior; neither of these claims is true. Though she did not bear arms in battle, she led her soldiers on many battlefields, commanding them with cunning and skill. It was a wisdom she passed along to her heirs, who would themselves command the hosts when she grew too aged and infirm. And though none matched Nymeria’s feat of sending six captive kings in golden fetters to the Wall, her heirs succeeded in keeping Dorne independent against the rival kings north of the mountains and keeping it whole against the rancorous, hottempered lords of mountain and desert whom they ruled.
