Dafuq Is With This Resurgence Of Dragon Tales Fanart? I Watched That Show When I Was In Elementary School

Dafuq is with this resurgence of Dragon Tales fanart? I watched that show when I was in elementary school twenty years ago- is it getting a reboot or something? Also, while it's pretty great for kids, it's mot really engaging enough for anyone over the age of ten (unless you're high- then you will love that shit)

stop pls

-Ken

Honestly, this is why I just don't post multichapter fics until I've completed (that means written, proofread, edited, proofread, rewritten, and proofread again) at least 20 chapters. I honestly am not sure why other people don't do the same. It's YOUR story- feedback from the audience is secondary at best, and should not influence you too greatly if you have a clear vision of what to write. I wrote the five chapter prologue as well as 15 chapters of the main fic before I even created an account. I was done with my first fic and working on my second before I had posted half the chapters. Even now, I've just posted chapter 8 of my current fic and am writing chapter 22.

Why do I make such a backlog of chapters? Because shit happens. You get sick, you get fired, you have no idea what to write (I have been working on ch22 for more than a month because I have no idea where I'm going with it). When you build up a fanbase, I honestly think they deserve a little consistancy. People who are actual fans of your work will understand if shit happens and you need a hiatus (especially if you actually TELL them that's what's happening so they don't think you've abandoned the story they've become invested in). Think about how upset and disappointed you get when a game or movie you were really excited for is delayed.

Back when I used to read a lot of fanfics, my favorite author would tell her loyal fanbase whenever there was going to be a delay, so we would know why there was no update (she also responded to longtime reviewers like myself in every chapter, but that's a different subject).

TL;DR- if you want a work of yours to be popular, then prepare for people who treat it like something popular- hungry for/demanding more. This is FAN FICTION. You are not on a schedual, people. You don't have to have chapters on your editor's desk every week. Write a sizeable chunk of your story, a few chapters at least, and then... wait. Don't post it online as soon as you hit save. Just wait a few days, maybe a week. Reread it, see if you still like it (chances are you won't). Do your rewrites and editing BEFORE you hit submit. Why are you all in such a rush? If your answer is "I have to post before the fandom moves on!", then you're clearly just in it for the reviews and really don't care what people are saying just as long as that number gets bigger.

Writing is a process that often undergoes heavy edits… that includes responding to feedback. 

I finally saved another 20k feathers. These are the units I'm considering 5*ing (my last 5* was Sharena, and she's amazing, but considering I have Camus, I keep forgetting about her). This has nothing to do with ideal ivs or optimized movesets (except maybe in Legion and Gunther's case) because I don't have enough units to nitpick over minmaxing. These are just units that have been useful, and deserve a reward. One day, I'll 5* them all, but that could take years at this rate... Lissa- Goddess of the Tempest. She was a lv20 3* during the first tempest, and has been the cornerstone of every tempest team since. Great at debuffs/ deep heals. I would totally sink a Genny into her for Wrathful Staff if I ever got one. Olivia- Goddess of the Arena. She was a 2*, but I needed a fucking refresh unit, and I will never get Ninian or Azura. She's my buffer. I won't put a ruby sword on her like some people do, cuz sometimes, I need her to finish off blue units. Mae- Unexpectedly Awesome. I actually hate Mae as a character and was going to scrap her for feathers before it was revealed she was a 40% bonus unit for the last tempest. She started at lv20, and as you can see, I poured A LOT into her because she was just that good. As a note, I DO have a 5* Delthea now, so I'm not desperate for blue mages. Legion- Delicate Cinnamon Roll. I brought him to the last tempest just because I like to have a different, unique team each time. He was surprisingly amazing, especially when Lissa was there to bring him back from 1hp all the way to full health. I left his slots save Fury open because I'm not sure how I want to build him. I don't have another vantage yet, so I'm just just stockpiling his sp. Cecilia- 😑 I... have nothing to say about Cecilia except that she's my only green mage (I just rolled Merric, but... eh). People say she's amazing, so I TRIED to use her, but... yeeeeeaaah... She's so damn average, and that speed really kills her viability. I have NO idea how I got her to level 40 considering she dies to everything but blue mages. I'm hoping I can get a Boey or Sonya one day, but I'm also hoping for summer Corrin, and you all see how that's working... Gunter- His Summoner's True Love. He's +atk/-res, but I wouldn't care if he was -all; he's my baby. I would feed my summer Xander to him if I thought it would make me smile (but I like his sprite looking all serious and handsome). I am not above feeding 5*s to him if I don't personally like them, tier lists be damned. So, who is worthy of my feathers? As a note, I have Ryouma, Tharja, Lilina, Camus, Sharena, Delthea, Nowi, Raven and Summer Xander as 5*, so aside from a green mages, I don't really NEED another 5*, but... I want one. I didn't include my potential colorless units because I literally never use them unless they were already a 5*

The worst thing is, his Sacred Stones art had SOOOOO much more character. Like, when I look at that art, I swoon. This? This is just another generic, plastic, baby-faced bishonen. He looks JUST like this horrible, awful character from Cinderella Contract (Cyrill, I think his name was?), and I loathe that...

But it's Seth, so I don't give a damn.

I threw together a quick Nerr reff, cuz it’s hard to keep track of all her scars. One day, I might write a bio if anyone’s interested. And if anyone’s read my fics, this is post “The Rising Dark” Nerr, so you might remember some of these wounds. I might do her “The Falling Light” look later.

A white, long sleeved tunic, black tights and black gloves are her standard clothes. She wears that under her Nohr Noble armor (if any awesome ppl ever draw her, don’t worry about it tho). She’s pretty damn muscular (with a personal trainer like Gunther, how can she not be?), though most of her bulk is in her legs. She loves running and flipping. The sidetail is her default hairstyle, because she has no idea how to do anything else with it, but she wears a fishtail braid to sleep (and when she doesn’t feel like undoing it in the morning). She always, ALWAYS wears that butterfly hairpin. It’s actually a copy, because the original was completely broken, but she refused to stop wearing it.

The scar on her face was from her battle with Nishiki (Kaden). The Kitsune’s tails are laced with their corrosive saliva, which is why, unlike most scars, it can’t be fully healed.

The discoloration on her chest isn’t hair, it’s a… let’s say magic skin graft. If you can imagine someone getting shot in the chest with a double barrel shotgun, that about approximates the injury she endured. She wears high necked clothes to conceal it.

It’s hard to see, but she only has half of her left ear (her ears are longer than Corrin’s, about Nowi’s length). The top half was cut off by Fuuga (completely by accident, but still). As such, you can usually see her right ear sticking out from her hair from a front view, but not the left. It still has a scalloped edge, but is about the size of a normal human ear.

The veins on her left arm aren’t discolored; that’s a fractal scar branching out from a cauterized burn left by the Raijinto. If you don’t know what fractal scars are, google “lightning scars”. They’re usually temporary, but since the Raijinto is magic, it’s effects last much longer, including very severe neuropathy.

The weird, centipede-looking scar on both her front and back is the result of a run-in with a Wyrmslayer. Unlike the other scars, which are flat due to scar tissue growing to replace the missing flesh, Wyrmslayers cauterize a dragon’s skin, meaning no new flesh can grow. That wound is essentially just stitched together with magic, and will never heal.

That massive patch of jagged skin on her back is the result of one of Takumi’s Fuujin arrows blowing a hole in her right wing (in her dragon form). Since a third of her back is scar tissue, she can’t move as fluidly as she used to.

The crescent on her stomach is the result of an emergency cesarean section she had to undergo at the hands of a shade-tree surgeon in the middle of Nowhere, Hoshido, to deal with a missed miscarriage turned septic. It’s assumed it was due to the unsanitary conditions of a large battalion of soldiers, but the truth is that dragons (especially the ancient breeds of manaketes) are usually infertile, and those that aren’t can take dozens of attempts to concieve, to say nothing of actually having a live birth.

And of course, there’s all the random scars from where she got shot with arrows all over her arms and legs. Fun fact- steel arrows can penetrate plate armor. Not very deeply in most cases, but deep enough to leave a scar unless you’ve got chain mail or a pretty thick gambeson on underneath.

Hey, all you Shura fangirls and fanbois (I know y'all are out there), since you love ya boi so much, maybe you’d like to read another fan’s take on his tragic tale? Granted, I probably haven’t put as much thought into him as all of you, but I still think I did Fates’ best pirate (ninja/theif/trickshot enthusiast) justice.