When a dragon hatches early, or must be helped out of it’s shell, it is essential it receive rapid medical care.
A warmed bottle of 1 part brandy or firewhiskey to 1 part milk to 2 parts chicken blood (perhaps with a half part meat broth if the hatchling is mobile enough) should be provided, and the hatchling fed as and when it desires until it matches it’s nestmates for health.
Posting a quick guide to some lovely books here – many people who like dragons have read one of the Dragonology or Dracopedia books, some may have read How to Raise and Keep a Dragon, but not everyone knows that there are many books in both the Dragonology and Dracopedia series! Of these I recommend ‘Drake’s Comprehensive Compendium’, ‘Dracopedia Field Guide’ and ‘How to Raise and Keep a Dragon’ the most. All books in this post are based either loosely or closely on real world mythology, but with the spin of ‘what if this animal real?’
These fantasy field guides are obviously a huge inspiration for my own project, Dracones Mundi, although I have a different approach to dragon designs, so I believe my own contribution to this genre will still feel unique and fresh.
I’ve got dang near all of these books (except the chapter books). I went through a MASSIVE dragon phase when I was younger.
There’s talking about racism and then there’s promoting harmful critical race theory ideology as if it were essential to or even compatible with Biblical Christianity.
You don’t have to “get woke” in order to love your neighbor. In fact, probably the opposite is true.
The difference is “Racism is bad because as bible believing Christians we should see all of the creatures made in God’s image as sinners in need of salvation and should bring to gospel to all nations and rejoice whenever anyone repents and believes in Jesus Christ as their lord and savior.”
vs.
“Black people in America can’t sin because they are perpetual victims and white people are the most sinners because they exist. Telling people they are sinners in need of a savior isn’t as important as protesting and calling for government intervention.”
Literally no one is saying that, dipshit. Critical race theory is literally just teaching the history of racism in America and how it informs issues today. Stop crying wnd grow up.
As a public school history teacher, no it’s not.
Critical race theory comes from critical theory, an ideology that views various issues through the lens of power structures.
Critical race theory specifically focuses on what it calls “institutional” or “systemic” racism as a power structure.
Specifically, CRT says that because blacks people were enslaved and discriminated against in the past, any challenges they face today can be traced back to those struggles, even generations later. It insists that black people cannot advance their own interests unless “whiteness” is restrained. In CRT, the world is a pie, and the only way for black people to get their fair share is to take it from white people.
CRT in the study of history will filter the reality of historical events through a lens that casts “BIPOC” as pure, peaceful, innocent victims of oppressive, violent white people.
I’m saying this as someone who has sat through trainings put on by my school district that have encouraged us to change the way we teach.
Implementing CRT has had other effects as well:
We’re encouraged to make sure that the academic and discipline statistics of black students match those of white students. If that means grading black students easier and overlooking inappropriate behaviors…well, they won’t tell us to do that. Just so long as the numbers line up at the end of the year.
When I asked to see the data on grades and behavior filtered by socio-economic status instead of by race, I was told they’d “get back to me.” They never did. It is my belief that the discrepancies in grades and behavior are much better explained by class differences than by race, and therefore policies focused on race will always fail to actually help our students succeed.
In schools, it’s not about Critical Race Theory itself. It’s about the application of that theory’s principles in the policies schools create regarding academics and behavior.
There are actually Christians supporting this? I shouldn’t be surprised, but BOY am I tired. As a black Christian, this sh*t is stupid. It’s a very “Sins of the Father, Sins of the Son” line of thinking that doesn’t solve anything, and makes race-relations worse. Imagine being a kid and taught how you’re automatically evil or a victim because of your race– nevermind your own individual experiences. All this would do is support bitterness and hatred of the whites on the black side, and encourage coddling “the poor oppressed blacks” on the white side. Hell, it’s already been going on long before this, but at least it wasn’t backed up by the education system. And we can see how well that went.
But seeing how literally everything in this world is going downhill…I think it’s safe to assume this is very much intentional.
P.S. The Modern Renaissance Man (a black dude) does an excellent job tackling how stupid and damaging this is for all involved.
calling women anything other than women is actual 2022 misogyny and i’m tired of calling it anything else.
bleeders, menstruators, chest feeders, pregnant people, people with uteruses, people who menstruate, birthing persons, uterus owners, uterus bearers, anything of that sort is woman-hating nonsense.
women. women women women women women.
if you think women are “karens” or transphobic or terfs or any other negative word for not wanting to be dehumanized, you hate women and don’t think we deserve any basic respect. that’s it.
^^ Also, this nonsense explicitly de-genders any woman who:
is infertile
is in menopause or perimenopause
chooses not to breastfeed
can’t breastfeed
I am a woman. When past my child-bearing years I’ll still be a woman. If I’d been unable to have children due to medical reasons or lack of a partner I’d still be a woman. If I get cancer and have a double mastectomy I’ll still be a woman. When I am old and wizened I will still have a gender. I will still be a woman.
there’s a little detail that i didn’t notice about “the blue spirit” when i first watched it. when zuko returns to his ship after his misadventures at ponhuai, avatar-less and honorless and still puzzling over aang’s speech and having made an enemy of zhao and probably severely concussed, iroh is there on deck.
music night happened the previous night. and yet it’s morning when zuko returns, and iroh is still playing the tsungi horn on deck.
iroh waited up all night for zuko to come back.
it’s such a small detail, but speaks volumes about their relationship. iroh not only allows zuko to sneak out in order to free the avatar in order to preserve his chance at regaining his honor, iroh actually subtly encorages zuko to free aang from ponhuai, even though he clearly knows that there’s every possibilty that zuko will be caught by zhao and iroh will not be able to save him.
as the guardian of a teenager, iroh’s influence over zuko is limited. iroh must allow zuko the freedom to chase after the destiny he thinks he wants, iroh cannot always protect zuko or keep him out of danger, iroh cannot even demonstrate affection to zuko in the way he would clearly like to because zuko is too hurt and guarded to be able to accept it from him –
– but iroh can wait up for him.
iroh can sit up all night, just to make sure that zuko gets home safely.
and it is such a striking element of their relationship, because I waited up all night for you becomes the unspoken love language by which they communicate caring and affection for each other.
iroh waits all night for zuko to return safely from ponhuai stronghold. iroh stays up while zuko sleeps on the ferry and waits up for zuko to return home from his date with jin. iroh sits up all night watching over zuko when he is sick and feverish.
and it’s not one-sided, because zuko waits up for iroh.
zuko waits up all night watching over an injured iroh after azula blasts him with blue fire. zuko sits up all night waiting for iroh to wake up when they reunite at the white lotus camp.
and this gesture becomes so important to zuko that it even becomes the way he demonstrates caring and concern for the members of the gaang. zuko waits up all night in appa’s saddle, knowing that sokka is planning a rescue mission. zuko waits up all night for katara to wake, knowing she needs to confront her own deeply-felt anger before she can understand and let go of it.
and this even is the gesture by which aang first demonstrates friendship to zuko. after zuko is knocked out by an arrow to his blue spirit mask, aang sits up with zuko for the rest of the night until zuko wakes up, just to make sure zuko is all right.
and the concept of sitting up all night for you is such a poignant contrast to zuko’s memory of his mother, who vanished out his life in the middle of the night, waking him up for a last goodbye.
it’s pretty clear that iroh sitting up all night with a sick child was far from an unusual occasion. i think it was probably really important for zuko to be shown, again and again and again, that he has someone who will be there when morning comes.
one parent left zuko in the night – but one parent will always wait up for him to come home.
