Reading All Of The How To Train Your Dragon Books At Once (as Opposed To Reading Them As They Came Out)

"Zack Fair is haunting the narrative-" No. Genesis is haunting the narrative.

Despite having literally no appearances since CCR, we're still anticipating Genesis' appearance every day.

Every Loveless poster, every book store, every black feather, every mention of SOLDIER's past makes us instinctively go "Genesis?" without any direct callbacks. Every mention of Sephiroth's "old friends" has us on the edge of our seats.

Haunting the narrative isn't about being constantly brought up despite being dead; haunting the narrative is about how everyone still thinks of him despite there being radio silence from his end.

We all knew Zack was gonna appear again in remake/rebirth. We expected it. He's too important to ignore. But Genesis is still being dangled just out of reach, and the moment even his goddamn SHOE appears on screen, you know there's going to be an apocalyptic event in the FF7 fandom.

Nothing shall forestall his return.

Y’know the crazy part about The Graveyard Shift (aside from the Everything) is that Lloyd is bisexual. Harumi did not have to impersonate a completely different person if she wanted to pull off her fake-dating plot she literally could’ve just decided they were ‘dating’ and Lloyd would be down

does cole get to keep his mom? do they basically swap (eyebrow wriggle) roles as to the pilots?

btw destinyswap jay is an asshole when he first joins the ninja

if for any reason think you that he’s bad in the pilots then u would hate him in destinyswap . no manners . he grew up without his mom in his life and with Cliff fucking Gordon for a father

I am OBSESSING over the fact that the RGB siblings seem to have some sort of hugging thing where one person carries the other and spins!!

The first instance I can remember is during MotM where Kai and Nya reunite and hug. In this scene, Kai jumps on Nya and she carries him. There’s no spin, but maybe they think of this later on because in Dragons Rising, Kai picked up Lloyd and they spin when they reunited after the merge. The same thing happened with Lloyd and Nya later on when Lloyd wakes up after the final fight.

SO, Nya picks up Kai, Kai picks up Lloyd, and Lloyd picks up Nya

Idk why but this little thing has been eating me UP. Like, did they talk about doing this? Was it just something they started doing after a while? Was it only for reunions where they just wanna hug? Is there some sort of three-way version of this (don’t know how that would work tho) or do they just hug when it’s all three of them?

I thank you for answering my previous question! (I'm so glad there are people on social media who work together to share knowledge like this!)

One of things I guess I did get confused with in my research is Nezha's origin story. It does help that you clarified about the many versions being different but they all are a part of telling the story. I overheard a rumor that there was an official book that told the "original" version of his story, but that is what my research is mainly trying to solve. I see a few titles saying they talk about Nezha's backstory, but none that claimed to be original. So I suppose I could be wrong in what I heard. Again, I thank you fir answering my questions! It's been fun learning new things about these topics!

Hello Hello!

I see, I understand what you’re trying to get here. To the best of my knowledge the earliest version of Nezha’s origin myth comes from The Grand Compendium of the Three Religion’s Deities. There is an edition from the Ming Dynasty (1368AD-1644AD) and an edition from the Qing Dynasty (1636AD–1911AD), but both editions cover roughly the same information and the distinction isn’t necessary here.

When he was five days old, Nezha went bathing in the Eastern Ocean. He trampled over the [dragon king's] Crystal Palace. He somersaulted straight to the top of the Precious Pagoda. Because he had trampled over his palace, the infuriated dragon king challenged him to fight. By then, Nezha was already seven days old, and he could overcome the nine dragons. The old dragon had no choice, except complaining to the [Jade] Emperor. The General [Nezha] knew of his intention. Intercepting him by Heaven's Gate, he killed the dragon. Mounting the Jade Emperor's altar, Nezha took the Buddha's bow and arrows. He shot an arrow, unintentionally killing Lady Rock's son. Lady Rock raised an army to fight him. The General [Nezha] took the Demon-Felling Club from his father's altar and, fighting his way Westwards, slew her. Considering that Lady Rock had been the demons' chief, Nezha's father was infuriated. He worried lest his son's killing her would provoke the demon hordes to war. Therefore, the General [Nezha] sliced off his flesh and bones, returning them to his father. Holding fast to his inner soul (zhen ling), he hastened to the Buddha's side, pleading that the World-Honored One make him complete once more. Considering that Nezha could subdue demons, the Buddha snapped a lotus flower. He fashioned it's stem into bones, it's roots into flesh, it's fiber into tendons, and it's leaves into clothes, giving life to Nezha once more.

I do hope this was helpful in your search. It’s entirely possible this story was imported from India during the Tang Dynasty (618AD-907AD) or Song Dynasty (960AD-1279AD) or even as early as the Wei Dynasty (386AD-535AD)

A majority of literature about Nezha was written during the Tang Dynasty (618AD-907AD) which was followed by one (of many) instances where China was no longer unified in a warring states period. It would be (705AD-960AD) where China was not unified and no further literature about Nezha was either written or survived.

Nezha had of course existed before the 7th century, but in terms of a timeframe Nezha and any written record of him was brought to China some centuries before Tang Sanzang went to India. Figure he formally entered China around 266AD-420AD while Sanzang left for India around 629AD.

It is wholly possible a story like this existed while Nezha was still Nalakubara, third son of the Heavenly King Vaisravana. I’ve yet to locate anything like that yet but this post will be amended to reflect if new information has been found.

lmao it's the lack of challenge trackers

you're the only one in the market

Hey, Flufftober Admin here 🥰 thanks for your ask the other day! I love your blog and I've just queued it to give it a shout-out!

Also, another event to add to your list: @12daysofchristmas - it doesn't run for an entire month, but maybe it's still something to be added?

Will definitely give your blog a follow 😘

Thanks so much! (Somehow, barely three days after starting this blog, I'm already at 50 followers...)

There definitely seems to be a lot of interest in keeping track of challenges that don't follow my arbitrary rules of monthly-prompt-a-day-multifandom-challenges, so...

How about this everyone? For now, I'm not going to add anything that doesn't fit those requirements to my active/inactive challenges lists, but shout outs are absolutely welcome and I might reblog things from different sorts of challenges now and then. I'll tag those things #not monthly, so people can search for them easily once the blog gets a little bigger.

On that note, shout out to @12daysofchristmas (prompts are up for Dec 13-24, 2024), @the-whumpers-soiree (a whump event without a timeline), @novella-november (a word count challenge without prompts), and @novlr (which also has a November word count challenge).

homunculous son or unkillable elder god daughter

Anytime i see a bunch of pride flags i have to restrain myself from saying "where mexico" bc i doubt anyone will know I'm referencing this

Hey guys let me tell you about advance fee scams

I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.

About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.

My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)

And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.

This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.

I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.

And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.