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commonplacenook · 11 months

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Every time they step on the floor, they give us their Superman. Who can blame them for wanting to keep their Clark Kent to themselves?

Gene Luen Yang, Dragon Hoops

#quotes #fiction #booklr #quote of the day #gene luen yang #dragon hoops

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lairn · 1 year

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Book 3/24: Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang Rating: 3/5

This comic was fine. I’ve read two other Yang graphic novels and prefer them to this one, but it was still engaging enough. He follows the path of a high school basketball team as they attempt to win the state championship while Yang negotiates the challenges of managing a personal life and telling a “true” story.

I think Yang could have done more to engage with the struggle to write non-fiction as entertainment, as I get the feeling that in some ways that is what interested him most - more than a story about basketball. But he is clearly invested in the story itself and wanted to tell some version of it.

I’m a little puzzled why he gave himself a different typeface than everyone else. He starts as an outsider, so in that sense the text difference is sensible, but even when he is in his element with his family, his speech remains distinct. I’m not sure the choice entirely works.

I enjoyed the chapters dedicated to fleshing out the players. I don’t think Yang’s character design is very strong (as he says himself, he’s no good at caricature), so chapters focusing on individual players were crucial for reader investment. He does some nice work with repeating visual motifs, but ultimately the art is a little dry and characters remain indistinct.

#gene luen yang #dragon hoops #reading challenge 2023 #this was a fine if not particularly stimulating read #but i prefer american born chinese #and the shadow hero

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goobersplat · 2 months

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Stuffed Plush Lot: Yo-Yo, Spyro, and Kiko Neopet

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the-witch-of-woods-beyond · 15 days

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hate how team green stans jump through hoops to justify alicent’s wrongdoings but then end up backing themselves into a corner.

they want her to be this poor little victim forever stuck at fifteen and ignore the fact that she put her daughter through the exact same thing when she was even younger. but then they also try and say that she was ruling the kingdom for decades while viserys was ill and was the best monarch, and ignore the fact that she was just attacking the heir constantly and used her standing to enforce the laws that were already there. she expected everyone else to suffer and accept their place because she believed herself better than those around her for laying down and accepting her suffering and she attacked those who wanted to benefit themselves and others in a system set against them - rhaenyra fighting for her rightful place as heir despite being a woman. she also silenced others with pain - dyana, the serving girl who was assaulted by aegon (and this was not just a one-of occasion cause the maids were literally shown to be scared of aegon and he is canonically a vile person.)

#asoiaf #hotd #house of the dragon #pro team black #team black #rhaenyra targaryen #pro rhaenyra targaryen #rhaenyra targaryen deserved better #i would have literally just burned them alive #like dont give me a dragon and then expect me to sit quiet while people belittle and insult and abuse me and my children #she was the true queen!!!!!#NOBODY deserved her #also the people who hate her for “not fighting”#like she was going through heavy grief and mourning her children and had a miscarriage because she found out her father was dead #and her crown had been usurped #ALL IN THE SAME DAY #fuck team green #literally the whole team is built on misogyny but the stans refuse to except that #like come on now #the dance literally wouldnt have happened if rhaenyra was a man but they jump through hoops saying it was anything BUT that #anyway #they ENFURUATE me #but rhaenyra won in the end #anti team green #anti team green stans #anti alicent hightower #anti alicent hightower stans #anti aegon ii targaryen #anti aegon ii stans

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bluebird-ascended · 5 months

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Rainbow dragon

my first art post of 2024! the time is just past midnight

#i would have posted it while in 2023 but the file wouldn't load and i had to jump a through hoops to get it ready. but it's here now!#anyways i figured out how to use gradient maps just for this drawing and i love them. downloaded a holographic pack and it's lovely.#i haven't been excited to do digital art in a while but every time i opened this file i really wanted to work on it #so that must mean something about how much i love jjk #speaking of this show is soooo good. rip rainbow dragon fuck toji #i added more rainbow because in canon that is straight up just a white dragon no rainbow in sight #sorry for spamming in the tags but i have a lot to say about this drawing #jjk fanart #jjk art #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #geto suguru #rainbow dragon #fanart #artists on tumblr #my art #jjk season 2 #jjk geto #getting geto to fit into this drawing was so hard. he does not want to be there ughhhh #the background was so fun to do though #enough talk! posting time

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spacerockband · 3 months

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winter dragon, baby basilisk, and american hoop snake

#ceramic #ceramic art #ceramic sculpture #dragon #basilisk #technically a cockatrice #but basilisk has better alliteration here #hoop snake #ouroboros #art tag #ceramics #not completely happy with the glazes here but i’m experimenting a lot recently

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jadenoryuu · 1 year

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Day 27: Rings

First of all: TOE BEANS. (Because I decided that in the Ghost Animal Noodle AU for DannyMay they are mandatory.)

Second, I thought that our (@tourettesdog's) favorite Baby Man would be such a gremlin that he would try to use his transformation rings as hula hoops! (≧∇≦)

#the dragon draws #danny phantom #dannymay2023 #rings #little baby man #ghost animal noodle au #magical girl transformation #hula hoop

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lewiscarrolatemybrain · 8 hours

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I know we all love Secretly Silly Dragon but I think maybe the reason some people have a hard time picturing it is that we forget Silliness, like all good things, comes in many forms. I posit that Dragon’s silliness presents itself not through loud and goofy behavior like in his father and son, but rather through a willingness to immediately commit to any and all bits. This man will Yes, And you all the way down. He won’t even ask questions. He’ll just immediately start playing along, and he’ll stay completely straight-faced the whole time. This man’s ability to keep his face in check through a joke is legendary and his willingness to keep a bit going for years should be feared and respected. He once invited Ivankov into his office for a private meeting, revealed to Ivankov that one of the fancy mysterious boxes on his desk actually holds a bottle of bubbles that he blows when he’s bored, and when Ivankov asked why he would reveal this secret to them Dragon said “because no one will ever believe you. Dismissed.”

#one piece #monkey d dragon #monkey d. dragon #revolutionary dragon #emporio ivankov #who’s that guy from that cop show #the one that hoola hoops #that’s Dragon

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yusuke-of-valla · 4 days

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You know considering Sombron like barely makes an appearance in the Xenologue and is also not originally from Elyos anyway I feel like they could have saved everyone a lot of trouble by changing the name of the Fell Dragon in Felyos.

Jeremy the Fell Dragon, now with DOUBLE the child abuse bc all his kids are born as twins

#sorry guys if you have to jump through hoops to explain why Nel and Rafal aren't related to Veyle and Alear I think maybe you need a second #draft #alternatively lock the Xenologue until the post game and make Lumera the fell dragon #like you HAVE written yourselves into a really unnecessary corner Sombron's already from space #also it bothers me that apparently Alear is the only one who's bio parent changed between universes #I DEMAND CONSISTENCY IN MY FANATSY DRAGON STRATEGY GAME

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kvroii · 2 months

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10 - The Wheel of Fortune

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commonplacenook · 11 months

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Y'know, I've hated sports since I was a kid. I hated playing, but watching was even worse! So boring... I didn't get why people liked it so much. But now, after following you all this season, I think I finally do. When you step out onto that court, no matter how prepared you are, you don't really know if you're gonna win or lose. But you step out anyway. And maybe those of us in the audience hope that watching you take that step will inspire us to do the same thing.

Gene Luen Yang, Dragon Hoops

#quotes #fiction #booklr #quote of the day #gene luen yang #dragon hoops

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silversapphire5691 · 1 year

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💕pretty in pink💕

today begins my series of my rainbow toy photos! so for the next few days, ill be posting photos like these for each color of the rainbow. hope you enjoy!