The Dragonheart Collective

People asked for it- so here it is! Cleaned up for easier and more coherent reading!

So Star Wars.
If you have interacted with a wide berth of kinds of fans, you know that people tend to have shall we say, VERY different interpretations of the same text- and a large chunk of those who are not too lost in the nostalgia sauce tend to say that Star Wars sucks in some form/to some degree- even when they are hardcore fans of it.
You ever wonder why?

Well.
Those things are related.
Essay below the cut.

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Its the winter solstice, which means things will be getting sunnier from here on out! Huzzah!

Got a DW paid account for a year before the price change; if we like it/find it useful we will continue it. Been busy, reading, writing, doing updates to the website. Gotta get some more icons situated for us so we have a few emotions each and some general ones.

In terms of housekeeping- we will probably do tags for website updates, life updates, housekeeping, and DW original posts.
Backtagging will be a nightmare but we will probably maybe get to it eventually.


In other life news; fell down the star wars hole for a bit. Have Thoughts about story structure and what does and doesnt work and how fans are bad at recognizing when its time to recognize a feature of the world is best examined from an out of universe perspective and that this should be taken into account when discussing what facts are true about a setting/character/world/etc. Debating about posting them here or not.

-drags ourselves out of the hole-

We were originally going to finish workshopping and implementing the tag system we wanted to be using, but realized that it was taking way too long and are just gonna post without doing that first so it doesnt become many months of radio scilence as dreamwidth keeps going on the backburner.

Currently thinking on a series of subject matter tags like 'life' (irl stuff), 'housekeeping' (DW updates), 'essay', 'website update', etc. Just have to. Backedit everything...

So life updates- FINALLY got a sleep study referral, yay! Unfortunately the consultation is all the way in April. Less yay! But at least we have it now, so thats something.

We also got another blood test and WERE a little low in vitamin D, which we got vitamin gummies for that dont taste horrible for as we are very unlikely to be able to fit in enough foods that contain it in our diet when we have to bow to the tastes of other people in the house for shared meals and dont like tuna or salmon that isnt landlocked. Will see if that brings our levels up Eventually.

Currently learning crochet some. Its going. Good mindless hands hobby. Might keep up with it, might not. Not all of us are on board with it.

- Figured out how to change the age restriction on a single post without changing the default on the beta post editor, so now we feel comfortable changing the default to no age restriction now that we have decided to shift fandom activity elsewhere.
- Its looking like we will be moving fandom stuff to a separate account, so expect some entries of pure fandom stuff to become unavailable as we shuffle things around and delete stuff. We will provide a link to the new fandom account eventually.

-crawls out of the winter sludge pit- WE LIVE

The update is exactly what it says on the tin! We found that existing guides were pretty lackluster, so we made our own.
Link: https://dragonsroost.neocities.org/essay/edu/newalter
Also did some minor typo and ARIA marker error edits.

• Got driver's license finally! Its been years on a permit but no longer do we have to suffer doing a paper test every 2 years! Still hate driving and am uncomfortable driving alone, but legally now we can in an emergency.
• Been playing pokemon white 2 instead of being productive. Oops!
• Did a bunch of work on the website, and will probably be adding some articles soon.

Cool stuff read recently:

Fanfic:
Pity of The World by appending_fic - Pokemon anime fanfic AU where Team Rocket didn't join team rocket and travel with Ash. Pretty interesting and quite long! The first in the series is done, but theres apparently more planned.

Is that my fucking brother by Alienea - Pokemon Legends Arceus AU where Ingo's cell phone still works somewhat and Akari uses it to post on twitter from the past. This gains a real plot over time and has some fantastic headcanons and plot elements. Its also very silly and mem-referencing so its important to be able to suspend disbelief here. Fic is fully finished.

Glacial Retreat by Fai_Gensou - Bleach fanfic where Rukia goes back in time to fix things. Neat stuff, good Bleach fic. Because its bleach fic, theres the canon plurality also. Unfinished and hasnt updated since 2020 but worth reading if that interests you for sure!


Original Work:
Inhuman webcomic - Pretty good! Sci-fi comic that's been around a very long time, and the main story just recently finished up. Hand-drawn pages all the way through, so thats neat. Read it years ago and got caught up fully, then got caught up recently now. Its held up fairly well but be aware that the grace with which a main character's schizophrenia is handled is a bit wobbly. Its got a lot of content warnings but pretty neat. Its story is a bunch of resistance fighters steal some unexpected cargo (the cargo is a person), and things get sticky from there. Lots of interesting aliens running around and a bunch of complicated mentally ill people struggling in a messy world. Its for sure on the more adult end of the ratings.

Slightly Damned - Very good! Another long-time updating narrative comic. Very cute! Get into some fairly mature subject matter like depression and toxic family dynamics while being a fluffy fantasy romp. Furries everywhere. Still updating semi-frequently after all these years and not seeing an end in sight.

Caelum Sky - Cool modern fantasy comic with demons and angels, features an amnesiac main character waking up as a demon and being very confused. Still updating and theres lots of mystery to unravel yet! Very interesting world and neat main character design.

Skin Deep - Cool modern fantasy comic about a girl who discovers she is not quite as human as she believed. Very neat worldbuilding! Currently on break after finishing up the most recent arc, but still ongoing.

Out of Placers - Very neat fantasy webcomic with interesting original species and a slowly unfolding plot. Its about a guy who gets transformed into a female yinglet, and proceeds to have A Time Of It with no known way back to human shape. Theres a lot of gender feelings around the genderbending, it deals with some rough concepts, and its got some lovely worldbuilding. Mind the content warning that there is an onscreen attempted rape plus the fallout of that across the more recent updates. Still updating and quite good. This one is for sure on the more adult end though.

To do:

• More website work.
• Polish up and finish some WIPs of various stuff (both nonfandom and fandom related)
• Finish! SMTV! Dangit!
• Make a dentist appointment already

After a solid month of being away (much longer than planned), we are back home and at a real computer.
Was sick with the flu and had to stay put for a bit, which is why it went longer than planned.
Now to get back on the writing horse.

We also ended up discovering a new headmate while stuck recovering, who is a subsystem itself and seems to have stronger memory and communication barriers and seems to be connected to our miscellaneous memory trouble as Kero(the new headmate- short for Keroberos as it is a three headed dog) knows it 'guards' memories without knowing what they are or choosing what is kept from the rest of us.
We intended to wait to go headmate hunting again till a less busy time as we had Suspicions beforehand, but Kero found us first. As there is still the whole memory mystery left(why does Kero keep them when it doesnt choose to do so, isnt out front in any way, and doesnt know what they are and cannot retrieve them, only knowing that it is 'guarding' them), the theory that there is an additional 'layer' of memory fragments or another subsystem working under the surface still holds water, as does one of Kero's subsystem having this knowledge to the exclusion of anyone else. For now we will leave the mystery be unless it smacks us in the face, as our current priority is improving Kero's communication skills and life stuff.


Also a zine we submitted to got published, it can be found free here: https://pyrotalons.itch.io/inky-paws!

Major To-Dos:
- Update website
- Work on this years inky paws zine submission
- Work on the several WIP documents we have going on
- Do some cleaning of the house now that we are back
- Finish SMTV so we can review it

Last day of NaNo, which we set a goal of 6k for because we didnt want to work too hard, and after tallying everything written this month (which still needs to be edited mostly), we have a bit over 10k words! Nice! Better than we thought we'd do.
We did mostly prompts from Pluralprompts on tumblr plus some other essay things. When we have the original mini stories of the bunch edited up nice, we will make them into a little book for free on the website, though we may want to make a few more first before we release them all together.
Really helped us feel in the mood to write fanfic again, so maybe more of that in the future idk.

The to-do list ever grows!

Aaaaaaa this took forever to happen. Life got in the way and such but lots of updates:

Website updates:

• RSS feed has been enabled on the website! Now you can get notifications as we update!
• Document  "Should I Tell My Friends/Doctors/Parents/etc about being Plural?" posted
• Essay An Open Letter To The Rest Of The Inclusive Plural Community posted
• Essay Xeno As In Nonhuman - Gender Essay posted
• Fawn's Werecard posted
• Added a bunch more sites and reorganized the essays and papers pages a bit

General updates:

• Currently playing SMTV, that will be the next thing for the plural media blog its just slow going because Actually Playing it and not watching a cutscene movie and running x_x  Its VERY fun though. Good vibes.
• Still working on a driving license hhhh
• Maybe this time is the trick and will be more active here.

Fandom Updates:

• Uuuuuh nothing much really? Dont remember lol.