Belinda Crawford
CREATOR
12 days ago
Project Update: 🔍 Found: Old Hero Art + A Dragon Having a Breakdown
THE DEFIANT DISPATCH
SPECIAL HERO REBELLION Update 02 | August 2025
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🐉 FROM THE HUB
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🐉 FROM THE HUB
[The Hub is a mess. Books with glowing covers are piled hither and thither like teetering skyscrapers, sheafs of paper fluttering between. Some of the papers match the luminescent covers while others… Scraps of old lined paper with holes punched in the margins, straight out of someone's binder. They're covered in barely intelligible scrawl, diagrams and hasty illustrations.
In the midst of the mess sits Vren.
The dragon's glasses are askew on his long scaly snout, the wireframes misshapen and the glass within… Has it been melted? Whatever it is, the great cosmic guardian does not look impressed.
A tiny flame licks his nostrils.
'The Author was inspired, little mortal.' There's no emotion in Vren's voice, but from somewhere deep within the mess, you can hear his tail thump thump thump against one of the five great columns. 'She spent all week digging through the Archives, pulling out books. Finding things.'
One of the old, yellowed binder sheets skitters across Vren's forepaw and his stabs it with a spear-like talon.
'Including a new wing in the Archives, or should I say… an old wing. Full of records. Old records.' Another stab, another sheaf of unintelligible scrawl skewered. 'And not a one of them shelved.' More flame, bigger and brighter than before, washes the dragon's snout. 'Not even a shelf.' Vren's voice cracks.
'And who… who does she leave to sort it out? Not the plot bunnies, I tell you. Not the bunnies!']
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Hey, hey Defiant Ones!
Ok, so since we're gearing up from the Hero Rebellion 10th Anniversary campaign in November, I've been digging through some old files, finding cool things and… I may or may not have pissed off Vren.
[🐉 Flames erupt.]
Alright, so I definitely pissed off the drama lizard— [🐉 Draconic muttering]— I mean, Timeline Guardian.
[🐉 Muttering stops.]
The Author clears her throat. Anyway, I found some fun things from back in the day when Hero was barely a twinkle in this author's eye, including this little gem.
POLLS: If you haven't voted already, the polls are still up!
I could use your help! I have two polls going at the moment, one to help choose a line from the Hero Rebellion to put on a sticker and two… do you prefer your bling books as omnibuses or individual hardcovers?
The sticker poll closes in a few days.
Until next time, safe travels through the multiverse,
Belinda
P.S. Oh, and just a reminder, if you're not reading this on the website, you probably should because there's some special follower-only content. And if you visit the page and you can't see the special content... you might need to hit the "Join the Rebellion" button.
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