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Do you have any headcannons for Anemone X Tamarin? Please?

here are some long overdue headcanons for these girls!!

- It was Anemone who confessed first, and when Tamarin confirmed that she returned her feelings it was immediately the start of a very beautiful and very adorable relationship

- The start of their relationship was a bit awkward. They’re still young and still trying to figure things out, but eventually as time went on they became more comfortable and they become the best couple in the academy

- Anemone decides to learn some writing stuff for herself so she could write really good things for Tamarin herself. Tamarin always loves to hear what Anemone wrote for her. Even if it is a little flimsy compared to Turtle’s writing, Tamarin doesn’t care because her girlfriend wrote it JUST FOR HER and that’s SWEET

- In return, Tamarin gives Anemone some flowers almost every day and Anemone learns a lot about flowers from her. The flowers have meaning, though, and once Anemone learns that some of the flowers given to her meant some really sweet and romantic stuff her heart just BURSTS

- Sometime in the future, Tamarin gets to start her own garden and invites Anemone to help out, and she agrees. It’s a bit dirty, though, and Anemone doesn’t like getting dirty, but eventually she does come to like it?? And also Tamarin is just so happy to do some gardening with Anemone

competitive fishing au

I get SO much overwhelming support on here, discord, and instagram - especially combined. It blows my mind, all the kind people who engage with my characters/story and even read and enjoy it. It’s so unreal. It feels like a dream come true. I can’t express how thankful I am for each and every one of you. Every funny response in hashtags, every comment, every time someone notices smth in my writing, any engagement at all. I’m so sappy and cringe but seriously

I’d love to do some sort of event- maybe for 200 followers here? If yall have suggestions lmk somehow. Either events or something with my ocs yall would wanna see to celebrate

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People stating that Sora is less sympathetic and/or is worser than Icicle and - God Forbid - stating that Sora only wanted to kill Icicle in order to take revenge of Icicle for killing Sora’s sister, Crane, honestly makes me feel the urge to rip my hair out.

Sora (unlike Icicle) grew up in a kingdom where dragons from other tribes are able to invade and then attack and kill dragons living within their homes. Her own sister was murdered by Icicle only a couple MONTHS ago when she joined the JMA. Sora is also the closest dragon who shows symptoms of having PTSD, due to the flashbacks she’s shown to experience from the war within Moon Rising.

Due to Sora’s trauma from Icicle killing her sister, she was fearful paranoid her own safety around Icicle, despite the fact that weren’t fighting in the war anyone.

Because of this, when Icicle mentioned in her sleep that “killing is easy enough”, Sora believed that Icicle would be the type of dragon to continue ending other’s lives with her own claws, regardless that the war ended or not. Which made Sora believe that Icicle wouldn’t just kill her sister, but multiple other dragons within the Jade Mountain Academy too. Sora didn’t just kill Icicle to get revenge on her for killing Crane. She did it in order to protect other dragons from being killed by her too.

Like- I’m not making it up nor even exaggerating this part of Sora’s character, this is literally stated in canon.

“Our very first night here, when I still wasn't sure — I was almost sure it was [Icicle], but I thought I must be mad, and I couldn't let myself sleep because what if she did the same thing to me that she did to Crane? And then in her sleep, she muttered, 'Killing is easy enough.' ❗️That's when I knew. She's a murderer and she won't stop until someone does what I failed to do.❗️

-Sora, Moon Rising, Pages 267 - 268

Of course, you could say “But that’s stupid for Sora to think! Icicle didn’t kill Crane because Icicle’s a bloodthirsty murder, it’s because they were fighting in a WAR!”

And while that’s true, here’s the thing: Trauma isn’t (always) logical nor rational.

Fear isn’t an emotion people experience from logic and reasoning.

Let alone for someone having PTSD from a War and living around the very person you saw murder one of your closest family members.

Expecting someone, specifically an Traumatized teenage ex-soldier who only JUST turned 18 - who only recently stopped fighting in a war & only recently clearly saw her sister being murdered - to think rationally towards the person (let alone their PoV) who murdered her sister, is honestly quite illogical and even unreasonable to expect from Sora and her character.

Does this make Sora’s actions excusable and/or justifiable, especially since she didn’t mean to harm any other dragons while attempting to kill Icicle?

HECK NO! It does NOT excuse nor justify literally bombing a room of a school, and attempting to commit literal murder.

Sora’s grief and trauma explains Sora’s motives and actions, and makes her PoV understandable and even sympathetic, but does NOT excuse and/or justify her actions and choices at ALL, what-so-ever - this is true about ICICLE’S character as well.

Then does this mean that Icicle is worser and/or less sympathetic than Sora? HECK NO to that too!!

Icicle was being manipulated by Queen Scarlet, who stated to Icicle that if she didn't kill the DoD, that her brother, Hailstorm - who Scarlet knows the whereabouts of - will DIE, resulting in Icicle to be forced into making the decision of killing multiple of her teachers and a Queen (who she doesn’t know very well) and her brother who she believed was dead for literal YEARS.

And Icicle not caring about killing others is due to her being raised as a literal child soldier throughout her life, being made to repeatedly harm and kill others out on the battlefield.

Sora and Icicle are BOTH morally-gray ex-child soldiers who've been traumatized by the war, who are both sympathetic or at least understandable characters who commit awful and/or immoral actions out of the fear and trauma of losing someone that they love.

So stating that EITHER ONE OF THEM is “less sympathetic” and/or “is worser than the other” honestly feels quite icky and/or irritating to me.

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My DOD designs!

I got one notification for all of these posts and i thought the post was changing and it scared me

I took issue with the one anon saying heterosexuality is only good in specific ways and I found it offputting and judgey.

Are you new to Tumblr? 😅

OK, joking aside, imagine…every day for LGBTQ people is how that ask made you feel. The entire society that we live in makes queer folk feel othered, ostracized, all the time. and that’s in real life, not just on the internet. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. You felt uncomfortable. You didn’t find it funny. Queer folk are often in physical danger because of their identity.

When you’re a member of the majority, you have to deal with some potshots from time to time. Suck it up, buttercup. And by it I mean. My jork. Hang on I messed that up

the outfit looks awesome and i love it

um turtle doodles i was talkin about with @justalittlebluey! (it's pastel-yellow-dreaming btw! this is my main!) plus some extras like my outfit (banger) and a tsunami doodle :)

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I think my nuclear-level, get me kicked off the internet take is that Glory *does* have the kind of trauma that would lead to her being in a relationship with a much older man, and I say that as someone who got groomed as a teen myself. She had her boundaries and self-image *deeply* violated by her only parental figures and that sort of thing can lead to maladaptive approval-seeking in non-family spaces. Someone like Deathbringer who fawns over her so easily in a sea of "never good enough"-s like that can be intoxicating and make you ignore a lot of warning signs.

Related to that, I always thought it was a little frustrating how the opening chapters of book 3 draw attention to how she kind of liked being Scarlet's work of art because it was an opportunity to rest and be appreciated by someone that wasn't her siblings for once in her life, and then that feeling just gets...squashed and never followed up on?

I still firmly believe the age gap was a worldbuilding error but I think if you wanted to write Glorybringer as an age gap to explore the tension between her self-sufficiency and closed-off nature vs her desire for approval as a result of parental abuse, that's a valid and interesting direction to take her character. Am I projecting my experiences onto Glory? Definitely, but I see a lot of myself in her and I think with enough care and responsible writing there's a story to tell there.

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