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When the sorcerer found the dragon, it was attacking a grape.

This was only possible because the dragon was not much larger than a grape itself, but she still had to do a double take to be sure the object it was fighting with such animosity was in fact inanimate.

She crouched so that her eyes were level with the top of the table and squinted at it. The dragon sank its tiny fangs into the grape’s skin and gave a great tug, succeeding only in throwing it and the grape into a backwards tumble. The tiny green reptile rolled to a stop with its whole body wrapped around the grape and shook its head ferociously, managing to pull its teeth out but also launching the grape across the table. It gave a mighty roar of anger (about as loud as a human clearing their throat) and stalked after it, tail swishing dangerously.

“Do you need help?” she offered.

The dragon froze mid-prowl and whipped its head around to look at her, looking so offended she almost apologized for asking.

“I mean, I could peel it for you, if that’s the problem.” She wasn’t sure it was getting the message. One could never tell how much human language these little creatures picked up by hanging around the magic labs. Some understood only such essentials as “scat!” or “oh fuck, that sure did just explode”, while others could hold entire conversations — if they deigned to interact.

This one looked like it was deciding whether she was worthy. Finally, it sniffed daintily and flicked its tail, scales clacking together. “Little monster is my prey, and you can’t have it. Found it first. Will devour it!”

“Oh, sure,” she agreed. “But you know it’s a grape, right?”

This was the wrong thing to say. It glared at her and then bounded away to the other end of the table, where it slithered up to the grape and pounced on it.

Grape and dragon promptly rolled off the edge of the table.

The sorcerer quickly went around to that side, alarmed that it would be stepped on. The labs were bustling with shoppers stopping by to watch demonstrations this time of day, and a small dragon wouldn’t be easily visible on the blue and green tiled floor.

“Horrible! Dirty!” The tiny dragon was screeching at the top of its lungs, holding onto its prey for dear life. It would have been hard to hear anyway, with all the noise of the labs, but with the sorcerer’s diminished hearing it took several seconds to locate the screaming creature.

She scanned the pattern of the tiles for it and sighed. “Oh, hold on, we mopped this morning.” She cupped her hands around it and deposited it into her skirt pocket, an indignity the dragon endured only with more screaming.

“An outrage! Put me down!”

“Shh,” she advised. Lab workers were strongly discouraged from bringing creatures into the back rooms, which was where she was heading, picking her way through the crowded front lab.

“Fuck pockets!” her pocket responded.

“Oh, you can curse. Wonderful.”

The dragon seemed to take this as an actual compliment. “Am multitalented. Can also compose poetry.”

“Really? Can I hear some?”

“No. For dragon ears only.” It sounded viciously pleased to hold this over her head. The bulge in her pocket rearranged itself, and she thought it might be trying to gnaw on the grape.

She felt herself smiling even as she tried to squash her mouth into a straight line. She liked this little bad-tempered thing, even though its spiky feet were digging into her thigh.

In the much quieter kitchen of the back rooms behind the lab, she transferred the wriggling, scaly handful from her pocket to the table. The dragon hissed out a few more insults as it got up and straightened itself out, but its jaw fell open when it finally took in its surroundings. She’d set it down next to the fruit bowl.

“There you go. Food mountain.”

The dragon’s shock didn’t last long. Abandoning the grape, it scraped and scrabbled its way up the side of the bowl and from there onto an apple, its claws leaving tiny puncture marks as it hiked to the top of the arrangement. “Food mountain!” It repeated, its gleeful crowing much clearer and almost sing-song without having to compete with the noise of the crowd.

She watched it turn in a circle, surveying the feast. “But… cannot eat it all,” it observed after a while, crestfallen. “Human-sized. Big shame.”

“Don’t you have nest-mates who can help you with it?” she asked. She had assumed not, from the way it had apparently been foraging for food on its own, but she needed to be sure she’d found a loner.

“No nest. No mates. No nest-mates. You’re rude.” It flopped down ungracefully, wings spread out flat on the apple like it was trying to hug the entire much-larger fruit.

She gave it a moment to be dramatic, and then offered it the grape, minus the peel. “You seem to have a good grasp on human-speak.”

It grabbed the grape without so much as a thank you. “Yes. Have composed poetry in both Dragonese and Humanese. Not for humans to hear, though.” Bragging cheered it up a little.

“You mentioned. I can’t hear very well, anyway.” She pulled up a stool and sat down. “Actually, I’ve been looking for a helper.”

“An assistant,” it said, apparently showing off its Humanese. “An attendant. An aid.”

She watched it bury its snout in the grape, juice dribbling down onto the apple it sat on. “Yes. A hearing aid. How would you feel about having a job?”

It smiled craftily. “Would feel positively, if job comes with chocolate chips.”

“It could,” she said, grinning. She had some friends who employed bird-sized dragons as messengers, but this was the first time she’d heard of one negotiating its salary for itself. “It certainly could. What’s your name?”

“Peep,” said Peep. “It is self-explanatory.”

“Don’t worry, I got it.”

Peep expressed its doubt that humans ever got anything, but she thought the tiny, prickly creature might be warming up to her.

#dragons #story #writing #cute!

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Skedaddles in the ink

Getting the hell outta here!

#bendy and the ink machine #batim ink demon #batim henry #batim fanart #look at that old man go! #i love the action + movement in this

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Day 5 - Bunny or Transformation

Today's trope is Soulmate! you can easily tell that im a sucker for moon/sun things

Ravio is the bunny that lives in the moon ,jumping, making the moon move around the Earth. Link is the rabbit that lives in the sun, not really doing anything else.

One time the Bunny of the Moon found himself between Earth and the Sun, seeing the Rabbit that lived there. He wanted to play with the Rabbit of the Sun, he was so lonely and not doing anything!

When the Bunny of the Moon and the Rabbit of the Sun play, the Earth is able to see them. Bunny jumping in front of Rabbit calling to play, and Rabbit going after him. They chase each other until Bunny jumps in front of Rabbit again and restarts the game, being like an infinite dance between the small planet and the big star.

i love astral boyfriends okay

#raviolishipweek #ravioli ship #raviolink #lu legend #lu ravio #bunny link #bunny legend #bunny ravio #cuuute #oh i love this so much #astral symbolism my beloved... #<3<3<3

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We really did something when we invented prism deck lights...

"Oh hi don't notice me, just your friendly neighborhood FUNCTIONAL SEMIPRECIOUS GEMSTONE"

This is a seriously underexploited aesthetic. Like yes crystals are all the rage and we've seen salt rock lamps, and there's a French designer doing some cool stuff with lighting forced through prisms of imperfect stone

but I feel like there is SO MUCH MORE OUT THERE to do!

I like all the crystal suncatchers out there, except that the crystals are SO SHINY that every so often a concentrated beam of light meanders directly into your retina. They need to learn to chill out a bit.

#chrystals #gemstone #manganese #deck lights #link #lights #lighting #manganese glass #yoooo #i want these so bad

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hello! last week we had our build a link poll, and by popular demand we're doing another

(will be adding updates to the og post everyday 🫡 but do check out the reblogs for more stuff later on)

#polls #tumblr stuff #princess of polls #character design #character creator #yippee

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(Put on the glasses)

This is the same picture.

#splatoon #splatfest #linked universe #bunny legend #linked universe fanart #crossover #lu sky #lu legend #lu wild #gods i wish i could play splatoon so baaaad #i would be on team bunny as soon as they announced it #<3

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#bunnies #photos #animals #aww #lmao

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The Sun’s corona during a solar-eclipse.

#photos #photography #space #sun #solar eclipse #oooogh

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moon snail 🌕

#moon #snail #art #space #oooh #how lovely #<3

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the longer i stay in fandom, the longer i think a huge amount of bad takes and discourse come from an... abundance of identifying with a character

to be clear, i don't think it's bad to identify with a character. far from it! i think that's part of what makes fiction so powerful.

and it's only logical people often attach to a blorbo because they're just like me, for real. a person will see some element of themselves-- their race, their gender, their sexuality, their hobbies, their family life, their specific flavour of neurodivergence-- and something just resonates. it gives them a way to explore and name this important part of themselves, a part they maybe didn't even know existed before it.

and everything is well and good until some split between them and the character shows up

because of course, no character, except an explicit self-insert written by yourself, will ever be a perfect 1:1 for your own experiences. so sooner or later-- maybe in canon, maybe in a fanwork-- your blorbo diverges from your lived experience in a huge way.

I think this is why shipping culture in particular gets so toxic. While it is by no means the only way to indulge with shipping, a significant portion is 'if i was in that character's shoes, i would choose X'. the fight becomes for your own self-identity.

but this gets expanded in other ways. a character who is revealed to be black when the majority of the fandom had just assumed they were white. or revealed to be queer, or maybe the 'wrong' flavour of queer. or fuck, even some more innocuous part of their backstory, one that's nonetheless so meaningful for SOMEONE, but now it feels like the story is saying, fuck you, we're doing something else

i don't know. i just feel acknowledging this perceived-attack-on-identity helps me understand why people react it what seems to be such outsized way to canon and fanworks alike.

at the same time, i think it's a really important thing to check in yourself.

it's nice, to see a character who you identify with. who resonates with for being like you. but it's also nice to acknowledge and appreciate the way characters are not like you at All. how great it is to get insight into this totally different lived experience. and to muse on how wonderful that recognition might be for someone who does have that background.

#important #fandom #media analysis

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biologist here! why are plants green? well they suck up air from the sky (blue) and mix it with the sunlight (yellow) i fucking love science.

#biology #plants #science #lmao

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IG : @emperorofmischief

#video #animals #rats #ratmobile #oh my gosh.... #tiny rat cars...

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Digital light.

#art #vampire #oh... #:(

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I'm still thinking about the nicknames of The Chain after the poll about Legend and I've got another one:

#polls #tumblr stuff #linked universe #lu hyrule #i prefer rulie personally

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Day 5 of Ravioli Ship Week - Bunnies!! I drew my own Ravio and Link as bunnies :) I was also planning on drawing lu ravio and link but my motivation disappeared after finishing this. They are in a hat, like how a magician pulls a bunny out of a hat :)

reference pic under the cut

#legend of zelda au #ravioli ship #raviolishipweek #royal depths au #rd ravio #rd link #raviolink #bunny link #bunny ravio #cute!! #<3

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Day 5, Rabbit !

Something nice and simple today with Bunny Lege and Binturong Ravio.

#why a binturong ? #because i saw this thing on my dash and my first thought was “ravio coded” #lege is both dumbfounded and happy to see ravio binturong #all that started because i discussed with a friend about how funny it would be for ravio form to be something big and more threatening #albw ravio #lu ravio #<- prev tags #lu legend #raviolink #cuuuuute #cute cute cute #<3 #bunny legend #bunny lege is so round and cute #binturong ravio.... #<3<3<3

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Angy leg

#linked universe #lu legend #linked universe fanart #pretty