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Posts Tagged: 'canon:+the+dragon+prince'

Nov. 3rd, 2019

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salting it up to the salt heavens

Nov. 3rd, 2019 at 10:31 AM
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After several months of waiting, we finally have the Season 3 trailer for The Dragon Prince. I never thought it was possible for a bombastic, war-centric trailer to just kill all my hype, yet here we are!


I'm not in much of a good mood for a detailed breakdown, so the main points are:
  • my interest in Callum and Rayla, their story and their romance, is absolute zero, so it was expected that their heavy presence in the trailer would do nothing for me
  • Ezran's plot-line is mildly more interesting, but only as long as it goes into the details of Katolian politics, rather than remain stuck in "I can talk to animals!" hijinks or the stupid, kindergarten-level humor associated with Bait
  • Viren! Claudia and Soren! As was almost to be expected, these three made the entire trailer for me and kept it from totally flopping
  • the scenes of war were suitably impressive and I want to see if the Pentarchy monarchs do end up with their noses rubbed in the dirt for their unwillingness to do anything but twiddle their thumbs and pass the buck from one to the other
  • all of the narrative cues that Viren will die / be corrupted beyond salvation and killed. I'll be honest, I deeply hate this and if things pan out in the way the trailer indicates, I'll most certainly drop the show entirely.
Viren is 80% of the reason why I even started watching TDP (with the other 20% being split between Aaravos, Soren and Claudia). The janky, juddery animation style of the first season (like trying to play or watch someone playing a video-game at 15 FPS) put me off and I only gave it a shot with the arrival of the second season and Viren's plot, filled with politics, magical mysteries, desperation and an elf trapped in a mirror.

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Oct. 28th, 2019

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kid's show logic and politics

Oct. 28th, 2019 at 4:43 PM
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The older I get, the less patience I have for Children’s Show Logic when it comes to politics. What I can suspend my sense of disbelief for where a simple adventure story is concerned (incompetent adults, children being Brave and Wise on account of their Youthful Innocence and fresh perspective, etc etc) absolutely does not work when it comes to any story that even remotely involves politics and statecraft.

Children and teenagers have no place anywhere near political power, not unless there’s something along the lines of a regency actually handling the business of ruling for them and training them for the moment they reach age of majority. The ‘Little Miss Dumbass of Duren’ scene (great commentary by 

[tumblr.com profile] theamazingsallyhogan) in The Dragon Prince, that so much of this fandom is going ga-ga over is, for me, a prime illustration of why you don’t allow children in power. Nothing but sassy quips and cheap, empty platitudes, with ‘stick our heads in the sand and hope the storm passes us over’ written all over them. There's also the matter of how much this scene props up the whole notion of 'The Divine Right of Kings', but I already touched upon this in my TDP politics meta post.

 

Part of me really wants future seasons to punish the Pentarchy for its inaction, but I’m not holding out much hope. At this point, this is a show I solely watch for my two-three favorites and their time on-screen and being able to write fucky fanfic featuring them.
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Oct. 21st, 2019

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[art] » embracing the stars [fem!viren/aaravos, tdp]

Oct. 21st, 2019 at 7:53 PM
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The image in both my journal banner and default icon, this gorgeous piece of fanart was created for me by [twitter.com profile] ma_ya_mo_ri, a dear friend. It depicts the Startouch Elf Aaravos and my personal interpretation of Rule 63!Viren (Lady Virenna), both characters from the The Dragon Prince, in a loving embrace. Since I'm consolidating most of my web presence on DW, I decided to post this work here as well.

I own the original, hand-drawn version (the above being a photograph), in a wooden frame. Both it and another piece of artwork (depicting Viren on his own, drawn and colored together by [twitter.com profile] ma_ya_mo_ri and [twitter.com profile] exmachinaria) were given to me as gifts, when they came to visit me in Bucharest, this summer. I'll be hard-pressed to match their gifts when I come to Krakow, next year, but I'll do my best!

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Oct. 3rd, 2019

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[fic] » bleeding the darkness of the void [tdp]

Oct. 3rd, 2019 at 12:49 PM
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Chapters: One-Shot
Fandom: The Dragon Prince
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Viren/Aaravos
Characters: Viren, Aaravos

Additional Tags: Dreams and Nightmares, Fugitives, Rough Sex, Non-Human Genitalia, Tentacle Dick, Visions, Viren completely out of his depth, mentions of past Aaravos/Elarion, Elf/Human Relationship(s) 

Summary       

Aaravos didn't strike Viren as someone who could suffer from nightmares... and yet here they are now.


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May. 10th, 2019

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[meta] » on 'the dragon prince' and its nonsensical politics [tdp]

May. 10th, 2019 at 8:08 AM
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One of the greatest challenges in writing anything multi-chapter for TDP is that it would involve me having to reconstruct the political systems of Katolis & the Pentarchy from scratch, so that everyone aside for Viren (and even he has his moment of impressive bungling) doesn't end up being an imbecile in terms of statecraft.

A quick recapitulation, starting with the dysfunctional mess that is the High Council of Katolis. And particularly That One Idiot who said, I quote: "Xadia sent assassins and they took the King's life. There hasn't been the slightest skirmish since then. Maybe that was it. They've had their revenge and everything will just... settle down now."

It's a good thing I didn't try to livetweet S2, because that would've caused a whole storm of "who the hell put this numbskull on the council? He isn't fit to look after a chicken-coop, much less a nation!" Seriously, that's the sort of opinion that a baker or a farmer or a cobbler or any other regular citizen is expected to give, the standard 'keep your head down and hope it all blows over by itself.' Not someone who is part of what is supposed to be a national ruling body.

The murder of a sovereign (no matter how morally justified it supposedly is on the side of the people doing the murdering) is, by definition, an act of war. You really don't want to be the first to strike? Fine, then. But at least mobilize the militias / the standing army and take precautions. But we don't see even the most basic self-defense measures being instituted.

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[fic] » anchors in time [tdp]

May. 10th, 2019 at 8:00 AM
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Chapters: One-Shot
Fandom: The Dragon Prince
Rating: Explicit
Relationships: Aaravos/Elarion
Characters: Aaravos, Elarion, Original Characters

Additional Tags:  Pre-Canon, Age Difference, May/December Relationship, Elf/Human Relationship(s), Soulmates, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Backstory, Light Femdom, Cunnilingus, Non-Human Genitalia, Tentacle Dick, Divination, Dancing as Foreplay

Summary       

“I do not need,” Elarion murmurs, bridging the last of the small distance between them and pulling on Aaravos’ collar, making him bend down and nearly stumble in the middle of the dance, “the gift of far-sight to chart the course of my own destiny, master Archmage.”


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