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Yknow, Your Post Criticizing Wofs Writing Has Me Thinking; Maybe A Story Structured A Bit Like Avatar:

Yknow, your post criticizing wof’s writing has me thinking; maybe a story structured a bit like Avatar: The Last Airbender might have done it some good? Traveling around the world and meeting many other supporting/side characters, and seeing firsthand how the war affects people. In canon, most of what we see is from the privileged parts of their society, royalty and nobility in the case of the skywings and seawings, and in the later arcs, the icewings- while for areas that would be more directly affected there’s… the scorpion den and a few chapters total with the mudwings. I want to see the way war affects the people who are trapped at the forefront of it, and I’d want to see the dragonets build a rapport of allies within all the kingdoms, by helping them in the ways they can and personally instilling hope in them.

YEEEAS

I wanted to make a comparison with Avatar in that post, but I thought it would be too long.

I thought that WoF would be similar in structure to Avatar. But no. Unfortunately, to be honest. But do you know what can fix this? Wof TV show! In books, inserting "filler episodes" to expand the world is not very appropriate. But in the animated series - more than that. I hope the animated series will not be an exact copy of the books, only based on them. I don't want to see the same thing, I want to see something better.

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1 year ago

The thing about the whole "Clearsight is a colonizer" thing that gets me the most is that she clearly never wanted or intended to be treated like that. She wanted a fresh start. She couldn't go on with her life on Pyrrhia due to Darkstalker's absence. She knew she would do little more than feel an ache in her heart and mourn the loss of the dragon she loved. The dragon she thought she would spend the rest of her life with. She wanted to run. She had to start anew.

Then, receiving the vision about the hurricane that was about to hit Pantala. She saw her chance and she took it. She flew for days until finally reaching the continent, being the first dragon to do so. She warned them all and saved countless lives because of it. She was seen as mystical and gifted, but that's a given when you have literal magic powers that lets you see into the future.

Clearsight spent her life peacefully. I don't think she wanted to be hailed as a god-like figure at all. She wanted to be seen as a member of the community, one no more special or note-worthy than anybody else. Her status as a prophet and deity I think was brought on in the following centuries. Wasp, the actual genocidal maniac, used Clearsight mostly as a means of which to get her way, manipulating the population into thinking that Clearsight herself foretold this would happen.

Clearsight wasn't a colonizer. I think it's a gross misuse of the word that really misunderstands both her character and the text in favour of going: "SEEE????? TUI IS BIGOTED!!!" That being said it is very iffy and uncomfortable to have Tui say: "Ohhh the reason why Clearsight basically bred out BeetleWings was because of her strong genetic material" like what are you talking about

1 year ago

Anemone is a good litmus test for whether or not a person is able to understand characters

"I liked Anemone until arc 2, where she became a brat for literally no reason" ooohhh so close! Anemone was a heavily traumatized dragonet who was literally on a leash for most of her life. She was taken advantage of by anybody close to her and coddled as this precious innocent baby. When she goes to school she acts out every impulse as she's now free from her controlling mother, which makes her a perfect target for Darkstalker to manipulate and use as a pawn for his greater plan. She was a brat because she was a young girl who has never known what a healthy and normal relationship was like


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1 year ago

more stuff about becoming a god being inherently dehumanizing pls

1 year ago
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1 year ago

I really want a science fiction story where aliens come to invade earth and effortlessly wipe out humanity, only to be fought off by the wildlife.

They were expecting military resistance. They weren’t counting on bears.