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Reasons to watch The Dragon Prince

Made by one of the writers of Avatar: The Last Airbender, this show is a cross of Game of Thrones (not the S8 decay) - Lord of the Rings - Dungeons & Dragons - AT:LA. It is a wonderful and unique show with an ensemble setting and combines political, world-building, historical, mystical, and warfare aspects.

It tells a story of a magical world that is divided between the mystical creatures (led by elves and dragons) and humans due to the invention of dark magic. The animosity between the two factions rose and eventually the Dragon king was slayed and all war breaks loose. a rag-tag team of children finds out a conspiracy and tries to return the kidnapped dragon heir, the Dragon Prince, back to the mystical lands called Xadia, bit they need to face both humans and mystical creatures that are bent on destroying each other.

It is a good show and has large potential, but its only at its 2nd to 3rd season, with the potential of being cancelled because of Netflix’s strategy on cancelling shows early to initiate new shows to hook more views, before cancelling them again and starting the cycle of creative butchery (edit: as of right now, its not in a danger zone, but its not as secure as bigger shows like Stranger Things)

So here are the reasons to watch TDP. I’ve posted this in a reblog before but I’m putting this in a post for more exposure.

POC representation. The main human characters of this show are POC, Callum being of half-Asian heritage while Ezran being of Asian-African heritage. The universe is so diverse and it doesn’t hold back in integrating culture such as Asian, Arabic, etc to its lore. As a POC I really felt like this representation is necessary and TDP served it well. It’s good for a change to see someone like yourself on screen, and children around the world deserve that too.

Characters with accurately portrayed disabilities, yet they are still toe in toe with non-disabled characters. Amaya, a badass deaf Asian warrior aunt that uses ASL openly in the show is one of my most favorite characters. Disability in media has always been underrepresented and TDP presents it in a respectful manner.

Representation of female characters. This show has a lot of significant female characters and they are all diverse in roles. And all of them slay as well. From Rayla, assassin elf with a good heart, Sarai, wise warrior queen mom, Amaya, absolute badass, Claudia, a happy-go-lucky and kind dark mage, and Aanya, a child queen that is the Lyanna Mormont of this series that speaks her mind. Women are treated as equals in this show like it should be. I think that TDP’s representation of female characters could teach young children on gender equality from an early age, which is positive and much needed.

LGBTQ Representation. TDP has directly shown a wlw queen couple and hinted that a major character is bi. It might not be as blatant as Steven Universe or other shows in its later seasons, but I think that it has potential. Its creators are very open about their support of LGBTQ and willingness to include the community, and never backed away from thoroughly discussing it.

The ambiguity of morals and other complex topics. TDP shows that the protagonists are not top-notch perfect, they have flaws. Meanwhile the villains are dimensioned as well, heck sometimes I wonder if they are villains are not. Dark magic is treated bad in the start but soon layers appear because apparently it can be used for healing or saving people for the greater good. There’s more. The blunt concept of death and how children are faced with it, complicated parent-child relationships between stepson and stepfather or parental emotional abuse, political propaganda and racism, anxiety and panic attacks. it has it all. Plus the lore and story reference many historical events and as the story unfolds, everything becomes complicated. Who’s side is wrong after all? Are they both wrong? Were they both misunderstanding each other?

INTERESTING LORE AND WORLD BUILDING. DRAGONS, DRAGONS AND ELVES AND THEIR WONDERFUL BADASS DESIGNS. JUST LOOK AT THEM. Like AT:LA there are elements, and there are creatures or beings based on those elements. They have wonderful stylistic influences based on those elements, for instance: moon elves can turn invisible, sky dragons can breathe lightning, sun elves can go super saiyan magma mode. The world building and lore is impressive too, the creators have plotted out the history of the world and the events preceding the present, it is so well-thought out and intriguing.

INTENSE BATTLE SCENES. Love them all, they have great soundtrack accompanying it too. Epic fights like the volcano battle, full moon sword fight, or a mage vs a horde of soldiers.

MEMES. NARUTO RUNNING, THE MORDOR MEME, AARPODS

Lastly dedicated creators and creative team. @dragonprinceofficial is very active in Tumblr, engaging with fun Q&A and posting fun memes or posts. It's one of the best and communicative creative teams ever, and they listen and respond.

Give The Dragon Prince a thumbs up in Netflix, tell people who might be interested on world-building fantasy to watch this wonderful show. Save The Dragon Prince

Edit: The potential cancellation might be a misunderstanding, so for people worried so very much about it (like i was), right now we're not in a danger zone. But I still think it deserves more attention than it has, for a beautiful show with by dedicated content creators.

Credit: @juliehangart

47th CMA Awards 2013 // Cats Premiere 2019

Don’t know what else to do

Guys - It’s been announced recently that the American Music Awards will be honoring me with the Artist of the Decade Award at this year’s ceremony. I’ve been planning to perform a medley of my hits throughout the decade on the show. Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun have now said that I’m not allowed to perform my old songs on television because they claim that would be re-recording my music before I’m allowed to next year. Additionally - and this isn’t the way I had planned on telling you this news - Netflix has created a documentary about my life for the past few years. Scott and Scooter have declined the use of my older music or performance footage for this project, even though there is no mention of either of them or Big Machine Records anywhere in the film.

Scott Borchetta told my team that they’ll allow me to use my music only if I do these things: If I agree to not re-record copycat versions of my songs next year (which is something I’m both legally allowed to do and looking forward to) and also told my team that I need to stop talking about him and Scooter Braun.

I feel very strongly that sharing what is happening to me could change the awareness level for other artists and potentially help them avoid a similar fate. The message being sent to me is very clear. Basically, be a good little girl and shut up. Or you’ll be punished.

This is WRONG. Neither of these men had a hand in the writing of those songs. They did nothing to create the relationship I have with my fans. So this is where I’m asking for your help.

Please let Scott Borchetta and Scooter Braun know how you feel about this. Scooter also manages several artists who I really believe care about other artists and their work. Please ask them for help with this - I’m hoping that maybe they can talk some sense into the men who are exercising tyrannical control over someone who just wants to play the music she wrote. I’m especially asking for help from The Carlyle Group, who put up money for the sale of my music to these two men.

I just want to be able to perform MY OWN music. That’s it. I’ve tried to work this out privately through my team but have not been able to resolve anything. Right now my performance at the AMA’s, the Netflix documentary and any other recorded events I am planning to play until November of 2020 are a question mark.

I love you guys and I thought you should know what’s been going on.

Taylor

THIS

shirbert fans on s1: anne and gilbert need to be friends before romance. We want slow burn.

Shirbert fans at s3:

#started from the bottom #now we’re here

WE CANT HAVE ONE HAPPY EPISODE HUH?

After this episode I feel like Ruby

WE WERE ON THE NEWS FOR THE POP UP I CANT “SWIFTIES GRAB BACK” THE IDSB CHOREOGRAPHY

WE WERE ON THE NEWS FOR THE POP UP I CANT “SWIFTIES GRAB BACK” THE IDSB CHOREOGRAPHY

just put all my children to bed it’s their first night at home I hope they sleep well and that they know I love them all so much each and every one of them

Can we always be this close forever and ever?💕

@taylorswift @taylornation

the archer // reharmonised in a minor key

Do you ever see a character and instantly think, that’s the one…the one I will die for.

my hot take

i see right through me.

Ok but as I’ve been rereading acomaf I’ve come to a conclusion

I know this might be a little late but

- Feyre didn’t smile or laugh. The first time she met with the inner circle, she simply asked questions and tried to judge the circle based on the short time.

- under the mountain, Feyre welcomed drinking so that she could forget herself

- Feyre often denied her feelings for Rhysand and wrote off her feelings as lust and said that maybe they could use each other for just sex, at least at first

- she was so skinny at some point, and was always sleeping

- Rhysand tried to make her mad, to flirt and get any emotion out of her in acomaf

Yet there were/are some people who were annoyed with Nesta in acofas? Honestly, did you not read how long it took for Feyre to smile at Rhysand? He took her in, saved her and offered her a life, and yet it still took her a long time to smile at him! I don’t even want to see someone say Feyre went through more.

- Nesta was pulled from her life, violently after her mother died and then her father’s knee was messed up

- Nesta was so depressed and so angry, she blamed it all on her father, cause he did nothing

- he watched as they began starving, and Nesta wanted to see how he’d let it go before he actually did something

- Feyre comes in and saves the day, hunting and giving them food, and Nesta begins to resent her a little because Nesta was convinced at some point their father would help

- Nesta clung onto her manners through out, because that’s what kept her tied to her old life and to her mother

- Nesta started actually liking someone, getting hope for herself and Feyre turned it down, refused, her little sister told her no, which probably hurt Nesta’s pride

- then, Feyre gets kidnapped, and her father and Elain assume she’s going off to some foreign aunt

- they get money, and yet again Feyre is the one to save them all, and Nesta decides to perhaps do some saving

- SHE WENT TO TRY TO GO SAVE FEYRE, NOT THEIR FATHER, NOT ELAIN, NESTA.

- then Feyre comes back, looking healthy, and not at all what Nesta assumed she’d look like but Feyre explains that she fell in love with the high lord, a. high. lord.

- Nesta tells her to go get him, despite knowing that Feyre very well may not come back ever

- Feyre spent three months under the mountain, three months! She didn’t even contact Elain or Nesta until like 6 months later! 6 months of worrying about Feyre and assuming the worst and mourning her but not being able to tell Elain

- yet also worrying for Elain because of what happened to Claire Beddor

- Feyre comes in with an entirely different high lord, and as high fae, a strong and beautiful high fae

- think about the power Feyre earned so quickly, and Nesta I believe wanted to be like that, strong when she couldn’t be and selfless when everyone else was selfish

- Nesta sees these gorgeous males, and one finally puts her in her spot about not being like Feyre, not going out into the terrifying woods to hunt to save their family, she’s insulted, not only because it’s true but because it means Feyre talked about them and she had no idea what Feyre might have said

- Because Nesta wants to protect Elain, she goes with their idea despite how reckless it is

- and then Nesta and Elain are taken, because Nesta allowed them to use their house and Nesta’s life is uprooted AGAIN

- then Feyre wants Nesta to bare herself in front of the very people Nesta used to resent (fae)

- and Nesta starts to find herself falling for Cassian, and when they’re both on the brink of death is only when they both admit it

- the war is over, Elain and Feyre are safe, but Nesta has to cope with losing her life, her father and the sisters she once knew

- Elain and Feyre both join this new family, but Nesta wants no part in it because it’s the family Feyre earned, the family Feyre stayed with when she abandoned Elain and Nesta, and they make her feel like an outsider

- so ya she found bad ways to cope and deal with her newfound immortality for a while but honestly that’s being realistic, so I applaud Sarah J Maas for this complicated character

Btw not only was this inspired by my rereading of the acotar series, but I’ve really grown as a writer and developing my characters and I understand the complexity that comes with it

… so ya that’s my two months late rant on that subject

“I painted flowers for Elain on her drawer, little roses and begonias and irises. And for Nesta…..Nesta, I painted flames for her. She was always angry, always burning. I painted the night sky. I painted stars and the moon and clouds and just endless, dark sky.

@rhysanoodle <3 

The Archeron Sisters 

pls dont re-post or edit this in any way

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Me: My standards for male love interests in books are pretty high at the moment. I got to admit that.

Author: His hair was black. His eyes were blue and his smirk was really seductive.

Also me: That will do. Sir, we’re married now.

Something told me you guys liked the first post I did of this meme so I thought I might as well draw more mwahahaha

For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums. 

Some fun facts about today’s news: I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years. 

Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. (See photo) Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked. Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.

This is my worst case scenario. This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept. And when that man says ‘Music has value’, he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it. 

When I left my masters in Scott’s hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words ‘Scooter Braun’ escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever. 

Thankfully, I am now signed to a label that believes I should own anything I create. Thankfully, I left my past in Scott’s hands and not my future. And hopefully, young artists or kids with musical dreams will read this and learn about how to better protect themselves in a negotiation. You deserve to own the art you make.

I will always be proud of my past work. But for a healthier option, Lover will be out August 23. 

Sad and grossed out,

💔

Taylor

It hurts how relatable this is

“He understood that the prince was his brother in soul.

 ‘I love you.’”

A piece I did of Chaol and Dorian for one of FaeCrate’s boxes on Instagram!

Taylor Swift + Albums

Will, upon Matthew’s arrival at the institute: Okay kid, if you’re going to be a part of this family, you have to be put on rotation for the Weekly Sacrifice

Matthew: The what?

James: Each week, one of us has to pretend to be sick so that he can call Brother Zachariah over.

Will: You’re the newcomer, so it’s your turn, and-

Matthew, having crawled into bed, shivering under blankets, wailing: CALL THE BROTHERS, I AM MOST VILELY ILL!!!

James: A common cold would suffice…

Matthew: I HAVE DROPSY! DEATH IS IMMINENT! AH, DEAR LOST YOUTH

Will: …Excessive. I like it.

If you’re reading this, I’m your dad now.

Go cut the grass.

“I wanna be an active member of the fandoms I am in but my untalented self can do nothing but roll on the grounds.”

-A novel by me

“Do you have a favorite form?” Lysandra’s grin was nothing short of wicked. “I like anything with claws and big, big fangs.”