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ABOUT ME: I go by Dragons or Raay. I’ve been in the fandom since July 2018 (yes, that is two months before the show actually premiered). I love foils, parallels, and looking far too deeply into everything. I’m also publishing a YA SFF book! I use they/them pronouns and love aspec rayllum with my whole heart. other popular headcanons are autistic!ezran and trans!janai. i’m not an anti & tag everything meticulously to both find things and make them easy to blacklist. I look like this, always:

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trigger warnings (tagged on request, always in reference to fictional characters): tw pregnancy / tw body horror / tw blood / tw suicidal ideation

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Other Places To Find Me (TDP / fandom centric)

  • Youtube (AMVs): wordswithdragons
  • AO3 (90+ TDP fics): wordswithdragons
  • Podcast (50+ episodes)
  • Twitter (no, I don’t know why Aaron Ehasz follows me either): wordswdragons
  • Bluesky: wordswithdragons
  • Patreon (lowest tier is $2 USD a month; free patreons are also very welcome)

Greatest Hits (aka the things I’ve made that I think are the coolest):

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hey so nothing about this is okay!!!!!

the sinking realization. the realization that she's serious. that he asked for this, and that it's still the worst possible thing that could happen. that the idea has been in his mind for months and nothing in the world could have prepared him for facing it. the realization that this is real, that he tried to prevent it and it didn't matter because it's really going to end this way.

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You can live with Amaya as if you are married. You can enjoy every day of your lives together, just as you would. But do not make it official. Do not make it a symbol. / I’m done putting off the good in fear of the bad. It’s time to set our wedding.

4x06 / 6x02

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so I'm like 99% sure the reason this "must" torments me is not that it actually indicates something other than "five primal sources have been observed to have an archdragon, so it stands to reason that the sixth also does" but because I spent ten goddamn years playing the "turns out the six apocalyptic mega-dragons slowly awakening to destroy the world are also collectively the pillars that support magic, and therefore reality itself, in a tenuous and delicate balance... and you already killed one of them, ha ha whoops" mmo

and yet

Only very tangentially related (if at all), but the bit about dragons being connected to magic in such a way reminded me of it again, so whatever:

Ever since reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality I always notice how odd it is when a universe requires a magic user to draw runes or say certain words. Seems artificial because a universe doesn't have fingers or vocal chords, but perhaps Xadia's primal magic is artificial, a simplified version of deep magic that was implemented by the archdragons (or the Cosmic Council or whoever).

I have a... 1/3 written post about this, but I've assumed for a long time that whether or not the primal sources are natural, primal rune magic is essentially artificial, in that it was created by dragons for elves to use and provides deeper access to the primal source's power than granted by their innate arcana. The "natural" primal magic is arcanum abilities like Moonshadow form and Heat-being mode, or Bait's flash and Stella's portals.