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Empyrean by Meganeko is such a good song

1,2 buckle my shoe

3,4 your mother

5,6 the screaming won’t end

7,8 :)

in the benginiging

welcome to mef is bored and his brain does too much thinking again, although this thought in particular has been lingering in my head for a while and I’m just deciding to share it now

Everything wrong with Wings of Fire

This is NOT a post critiquing the series but more just gaps in the world/lore that have always bugged me, also SPOILER WARNING I have literally read every book so this will be covering anything in the series

Anyways,

Technology

In many points in the story, it’s shown that they possess many technologies such as written language/a form of paper, metalworking, advanced culinary techniques, chemistry, but most confusingly, microbiology??? In book four starflight (of course it’s the nerd) mentions ANTIBODIES. HOW THE HELL DO THEY KNOW ABOUT ANTIBODIES??? And the worse part is, they know all this, AND YET THEY STILL DONT HAVE AGRICULTURE?? THAT IS LITERALLY THE FIRST TECHNOLOGY HUMANS MADE, HOW DO THEY HAVE MICROBIOLOGY YET THEY ARE STILL HUNTER-GATHERERS?? If anything, after the thousands of years they’ve been a common species, that many huge apex predators would have realistically decimated the ecosystem and their numbers would be much more limited due to food.

Communicating with humans

In book 15 (and the side book Dragonslayer) it is shown that dragons can learn to speak like humans. This however, makes no sense if you consider how different the mouth and other parts of the body are used for would be in a dragon vs a human, due to not having lips and an extremely different head structure, they would simply not be able to produce those sorts of sounds.

And best for last

Animus magic

If you think that that magic system is balanced in ANY WAY whatsoever you’re wrong. Literally the only restriction is that you can’t bring back the dead. At least from what I can tell, using the magic does not drain any sort of physical or mental energy. The consequences of using the magic are literally just that you might go mad with power, and it’s even proved in book 9 or 10 (I forget which one) that similar affects can affect dragons without magic. So it would be entirely possible for someone with animus magic to just say “I enchant myself to be a literal god and also the entire planet explodes lmao” and it would work. You don’t even have to use any sort of cryptic magic language or anything it’s basically just admin commands irl.

Anyway that’s it for the rant. No hate towards the series, that stuff was pretty much half my childhood and aside from these things it was a pretty good series which I heavily enjoyed.

the sky’s gone black, its heavily raining and thundering and the power’s gone out

what do you do:

1. grab a flashlight and crank the hell out of your crank powered radio

2. try seeing if cell service is still up or try to entertain yourself

3. bust out the fairy lights and take the opportunity to vibe

EYOO EXYL JUST RELEASED HIS SAVE THIS WORLD EP AND IT HAS A TON OF COLLABS WITH OTHER ARTISTS I ALSO LISTEN TO AND ITS SO GOOD

oh no I just came up with an idea for something very very cute

my brain is either “I made a really cool looking dragon and an entire universe to go with it“ or “LOOK AT THIS FLUFFY LITTLE GOOBER ISN’T HE CUTE?!??“ and its fun I like this way better than nihilism

random thought: if lemons are super sour, and oranges are kinda sour but pretty sweet, would a red (no, not an apple, another fruit like a lemon/orange/lime but red) be super sweet?

why does this have so many likes lmao

being existential and making sense is nice but it’s also super nihilistic and depressing so I’ve decided to become more chaotic and make stuff up for fun

I’m now really thankful that I’m finally becoming more creative

(:< hb bbbbbbbrbrghrrrrrrrrrrrr

It begins.

update: I made a bunch of petty gods

And I will be giving zero context

(Does getting into art and making characters normally do this to people? I’m not sure but if it doesn’t than I quite frankly don’t care.)

ARGGG IM TOO LOGICAL I NEED TO GO INSANE -my brain when it’s bored

(fr tho I need to get quirky)

some of the things I’ve learned about making art recently:

you should make your art in stages, trying to do all the parts as you go will make it way harder to get a good looking image and tends to make things messy

• shaping, make a bunch of ovals or other simple shapes to outline the general shape of what you want to draw

• outlining, draw the outline of the main parts of the thing you’re drawing, unless you need to make a really long straight line, avoid using the line tool and mainly use the pencil

• coloring, add the base colors of the different parts of your drawing, and stick to some kind of pallette, throwing in a bunch of random colors usually doesn’t look good

• detailing, add the smaller parts and details to your drawing

• shading, add shadows to the drawing, the lighting should come from off page unless you have a light source in the drawing, light coming down from an angle looks much better than just straight down

using good references can help a ton, as they can help you correct your mistakes, just avoid tracing because then you’re just copying someone else’s art.

this definitely isn’t perfect advice, but I find that these can help a lot and I hope it can help other people who want to improve at art too.

Ok, I feel like there’s going to be a war about who started the war and why it started and a whole lotta other stupid shenanigans, can we all agree to just stop talking about it and just forget about that whole thing. Nothing good will come out of continuing this.