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shokos-lazy-life · 11 months

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Hi!I am new to your blog and I noticed you read the Demon Slayer manga so I hope I don't spoil something for you!The thing is I am brainstorming this idea that I may or may not turn into a fanfiction of reverse demon slayer thing but instead of Tanjiro and Nezuko,it's Yoriichi and Kokushibou?Any help?Do you think you maybe have any ideas?Thank you in advance and also I love your blog, it's really pretty!

Oh my god,you are adorable!

Thank you for the compliments!

And welcome to the Kimetsu no yaiba fandom,I promise everyone is lovely,well so far I haven't seen anyone making any fuss.

I think we are all too sad for that hahahh.

You are writing a fanfiction?!Go for it!I am sure it is going to be amazing!

No worries I don't mind spoilers.

and reverse?

As in Yoriichi and Michikatsu are the main characters?One a demon and another a slayer trying to turn them back?

That is an amazing idea but gosh it sounds daunting I wish you all the best.

As for if I have any ideas?Sure,I am no writer tho.

Also you didn't specify who's the demon and who the slayer.

I think I saw fanart,really good ones too,of Kokushibou as Nezuko and Yoriichi as Tanjiro somewhere,that could be used as inspiration,I am sure.

But since Yoriichi has been through enough in my very biased opinion I'll go like this!

So that last interaction between Yoriichi and Kokushibou was their final moments too.

Let's go with Yoriichi blitzed Kokushibou and one shot him out of misguided guilt or because he wanted his brother to find peace or whatever.

Like I don't think that screws with the canon that hard,like Muzan will find a new Upper Moon who cares.

So they both died leaning on each other and as Yoriichi is older and human he dies faster and falls on Kokushibou disgusting him in process because Kokushibou gotta Kokushibou,until the little flute falls out and Kokushibou spots it.

And then it's tears and guilt fiesta and lamenting and feeling sorry for oneself as Kokushibou ought to do.

And finally Michikatsu is back.

And promises to do better,to protect Yoriichi in their next life,to be a better brother. Because here Yoriichi went against himself and his own vow of not wanting violence to fulfill his duty,like the shock and sadness probably killed him here.

Realistically Kokushibou would still be mad but shhh we need that guy to have some redeeming qualities.

Michikatsu dies clutching the flute and Yoriichi's hand.

Yoriichi dies crying and clutching his brother's hand.

Upper Moon 1 is no more.

Hopefully his clothes stayed with Yoriichi's corpse and someone found them and buried them because anon the fact that we don't know what happened to Yoriichi's body after he died haunts me?Okay?Haunts me!

We know what happened to Uta,but Yoriichi?Nada!

Gotoge I need to talk!

Was he even buried?Did Kokushibou eat him?Did he bury him?Was he just left there to rot? Kokushibou was obsessed with what he left behind and made sure along with Muzan that Yoriichi basically got erased,did he just use some blood art fuckery to erase him? Hopefully someone buried my guy.

I got sidetracked.

But yeah in this au maybe Yoriichi gets buried with his brother's kimono and the flute.Hopefully by either a Hashira or one of the countless people he saved.

God forbid the Kamado's or Sumire somehow find him.

I am a big supporter of that amazing idea that Yoriichi got banged by the Kamado's like a screen door during a hurricane.

I mean Tanjiro bears such a resemblance for a reason yes?

Of course it could have been gods being cruel enough to reincarnate Yoriichi into Tanjiro or just basically curse Tanjiro with Yoriichi's life.

Seriously what if the reason we didn't see Yoriichi waiting for Kokushibou like every other demon got is that he is physically there as Tanjiro and therefore unable to be there?

Now that I think about if this crazy idea has any merit than Yoriichi got what he wished for and by the people he saw as family too through Tanjiro!A simple life with a family that lives him but Muzan still fucking exists!

That whole the people you help,help you back thing really is applicable here!

It's either that or Sumire,Suyako and Sumiyoshi all sat on Yoriichi and he is weak for them so..Only explantation I am allowing.

That or Kokushibou deserved eternal damnation but damn you can't tell me Yoriichi wouldn't have fought god himself to give that fucker a hug.

Again side tracked.

So some years pass and Yoriichi and Michikatsu get reborn again as twins because irony.

Now you can choose who's older and what families they have,do they have more siblings etc.

I personally would have put Michikatsu as a older brother to,you know,repent?

But it works even if Yoriichi is older because Michikatsu would have a brother complex anyway.Man just built too old Japanese.

So Yoriichi hopefully gets a clean slate because trauma and also give him some peace damn.

But Michi probably has some complex and self worth issues because he constantly thinks he isn't enough.

Maybe he remembers a la Tanjiro,thru dreams and random phantoms getting him down a peg or twelve.

Their names could be completely made up,the same,they could be descendants a la Muichiro and Yuichiro,could be Kamado's,whatever you want works.

You have extra guilt points if they belong to Tokito's or Kamado's with Michikatsu's jealousy about Kamado's obvious if he remembers.

Anyway they went to town or stayed home or whatever vague reason you could give so these two can meet Muzan.

And considering Muzan is a crackhead really anything works.

But whatever they are just walking or sleeping or minding their damn business when they see Satan.

Muzan obviously shits himself out of anger and fear both because Kokushibou and Yoriichi are both standing there.

So he grabs Yoriichi.

Instead of killing him which would be the smart choice,he turns him into a demon obviously.

Because Muzan is nothing if not pathetic,dramatic and ineffective.

Thing he panicked hard and was going to grab Michi first but instead in blind feral panic got Yoriichi, because like the ultimate asshole he was,he was about to recreate Kokushibou and have him kill Yoriichi because Muzan sucks like that.

And so gave him a huge amount of blood and panicked and gave him more when he noticed it Yoriichi hoping he would just explode or something.

But nah gods aren't done laughing at all of us so Yoriichi does turn and jeez he is pissed,that fucker tried eating his brother.

Meanwhile Michi is horrified because what the fuck or frozen if he remembers anything at this point.

So you just have demon Yoriichi and Muzan shitting himself and duking out and Yoriichi fucked him up but no nichirin blade so they have to wait until the sun.

A Hashira runs in to a most horrifying and baffling scene ever.

The progenitor of all demons is getting his ass whopped by what looks like a twelve years old juiced on demon blood and his brother is there holding a random object as a weapon.

There is gore and viscera on the floor everywhere.Muzan eventually throws in the towel and blasts off,leaving because Hashira or the sun is up or something.

A very pissed off Yoriichi and shaken Michi and a baffled Hashira stand there until Yoriichi notices the Hashira and starts attacking.

Michi finally get his shit together and jams the flute into Yoriichi's mouth and like fuck is Yoriichi running that precious gift so he calms.

Hashira tells them to get the fuck out off the sun because demons burn in it,but nah it's been the morning for a few hours now and Yoriichi just swinging his legs on the porch completely fine.

Because his existence is meant to fuck with Muzan,and yeah he conquered the sun immediately.

Now the Hashira has the daunting task of explaining all this bullshit to the others and Oyakata-sam somewhat coherently.

Bonus points if the Hashira is either Muichiro or Rengoku for double gut punch.

Now Michikatsu gets to be a slayer,a poor main character and hopefully a better brother with Yoriichi as his overpowered cute sidekick.

Chaos abounds!

Now for the short points:

Yorii is on demon time all the time and instead of people the sun powers him so he is yet again the boogeyman to all the demon and a personally insult to Muzan because fuck that guy.

Yorii is straight up feral,he bites,kicks,growls if you look at him or his brother wrong and his blood demon art thing is probably some unholy mix of sun breathing and demon magic bullshit,like he kicks you and now that part is permanently sun burned,so he is lethal to fight against and as fast as the actual sun.

Yorii adores kids and babies especially, everyone is too afraid to ask why.Like give him the butterfly triplets and he is entrained for hours playing hide and seek with them.

He looks demonic all the time because the amount of blood he was injected with,so like slit eyes,hair probably blood red and a unholy cross of sun shading and blood shade tips in his hair.covered in head to toe in the sun mark that of course sprouted on his forehead because of course it did.

Yorii walks around in his twelve years old form unless he needs to help someone reach something and then he turns 6 ft and gives Michi a hear attack.

Yorii prefers the kid form,he can feel his brother is uncomfortable with his adult form.

The flute is constantly in Yorii's mouth and he has this adorable habit of calling for Michi by playing a short tune on it.

So far only Uzui and Michi figured out the flute language down.

Hashiras are just baffled and sometimes unnerved by the small demon just lounging in the sunlight but it's completely peaceful,surely it's just a child?

A victim yes?You only get his side eye if you have some evil intention to his brother or whoever Yorii adopted into his family.

Michi of course has a guilt complex over 9000 here.

Especially if he remembers,dear god.

He failed,dear gods,did he fail.

And now he is also feeling guilty for anytime he envied Yoriichi,he is kinda offended that even Muzan's blood doesn't matter to Yoriichi tho.He really is blessed.

But all the guilt and self hate works out here because he gets decent company to tell him just how stupid he is.And he gets to beat demons with a stick.

He doesn't have people comparing him to Yorii now either.

The wonder of having better people to talk too.

He probably learns fire breathing or water breathing but modifies into Moon breathing baffling everyone because that's a thing?

He hangs out with Muichiro,Rengoku,Uzui, probably Shinobu?

He is always praising Muichiro on his talents but despairs over his lack of tact and manners.

Muchirio finds him an encouraging nagging mother hen and his brother a weird little bird.

What friends he has depends on how much you change the canon?Are the upper moons the same?

It will hilarious because Michi is such a chaotic idiot but loves to pretend to be a straight and honorable man and that leaves the Hashiras completely bamboozled because the man can be peacefully meditating and then turn around and yell at Muichiro because manners you ill mannered brat!How did descendent turn out like this?!!

And what was that even supposed mean?

This weird crochety old man who's actually a twelve year old!

Yorii doesn't give a fuck,his brother is the best brother.

And then the angst and anger you could pull if the Hashiras find out who Michi actually was and the angst of meeting Muzan again.

But hopefully by now he would have a better support group and more perspective and a knowledge that he isn't the only person important or wronged in this world!

As I said this fic has a lot of potential,a little research to be done sure,but if you are passionate about it,go for it!

I would personally read it and most certainly love it!

Also I haven't asked what genre you wanted so if it was horror or humor or smut?

Go ahead and ask,I am not here to judge after all and I love trading ideas!See ya and all the good luck to you!

I hope this helped!

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omg-rodents · 6 months

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what does feeder breeder mean?

Hello friend!

It means that these rodents are bred to make food for reptiles.

While I don't post any photos of processing or feeding, some folks don't like knowing that the images they're seeing are of animals who are, in the near or distant future, destined to be food for another animal. The feeder breeder tag allows you to block if you so choose.

My breeders are kept for about a year and then cycled out for a new generation. The feeders are pulled at varying stages, depending on what size I'm in need of. They'll stay with their colony until they're the right size. Because I provide enrichment, forage opportunities, plenty of space, and a highly varied diet I see almost no fighting in my colonies. I usually have 2-3 bucks per colony and they'll chill with their weaned sons until it's time to go.

#rodents #rodent #feeder breeder #mice #mouse #rats #rat #answers to questions #text post

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endemictoearth · 9 months

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I was looking for a my mad day diary fanfic I had read a few years ago and I was hoping you could help. All I can remember is Izzy had some kind of cancer or sickness. Rae and Finn had a smut scene in front of a mirror. I think some guy was like obsessed /staked Rae. These might be a few fics in one lol but anything helps! Or even any recommendations!

I had to do some digging and thinking back, bc every username I ever knew has fallen out of my brain. I think you might be looking for (no longer on tumblr) fanningon's Series 3/4 fic? I found them on AO3, so you can take a look and see if it's what you were searching for.

#mmfd fanfic #answers to questions #well one hopes anyhow

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hypexion · 9 months

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Have to say I really like your analysis of Miraculous Ladybug (as weird and messy and just…extra it is)

Saw on a list of analysis topics one of them was an essay about Felix and Zoe .I’d love to see your thought about it. 😊👍

Miraculous Ladybug being weird and messy is part of why it's interesting to pick apart. What is going on in there? It's fun to think about it sometimes.

It also means that I've actually put some thoughts into the whole Felix and Zoé thing, even if it began as a semi-serious idea before the "Forbidden Essays" list took a turn for the obviously wacky.

When I say Felix and Zoé are mirrored, it's less in terms of their direct characterisation, and more in terms of how their backstory and introduction to the narrative are constructed. Both are previously unmentioned relatives of major characters, living in non-France countries, so that no one can conclusively prove that they didn't exist before their introduction.

Felix, in funny terms, is the "Evil British Adrien". Adrien is kind, understanding and heroic, so in Felix the episode, Felix is a jerk who tries to ruin his cousin's reputation and make a deal with Hawk Moth. He's often putting on a facade, and has the ability to accelerate the plot, until it stops working in Representation. He also has a bad relationship with his terrible father, and a good one with his mother.

Zoé, in funny terms, is the "Good American Chloé". They even both have the é which is slightly annoying to type. Chloé is mean, self-centered and has a lot of self-confidence. Zoé is not mean for fun, but in her introductory episode she needs to gain the self-confidence she needs to be the person she wants to be, rather than the person she thinks other people want her to be. She sheds her facade, and then sort of ends up blending into group of side characters. She also has a bad relationship with her terrible mother, and an... okay one with her stepfather.

The main reflective property is that Felix starts as an bad version of a heroic character, while Zoé starts (and I guess remains) a good version of a sort of villainous character. Both are shadows of other characters, defined specifically around how they are unlike their Marios the characters they are based around. This doesn't appear to be a deliberate parallel, and the characters never interact. Although both times Zoé could have interacted with Felix, she instead helps Marinette sneak into the event where it happens. For the Diamond Dance, she's even giving her place to Marinette, while Felix steals his from Adrien.

While this mirroring doesn't lead to much in the way of internal plot developments, it's still kind of interesting. If only in a "it's strange that it happened twice" way. Both characters seem to have been injected into the plot for specific reasons, Felix for the whole Sentibeing deal, and Zoé for Chloé-adjacent reasons. I don't think either these ultimately work out that well, which is often the case in this kind of serialised show. Lots of threads get spun up, then don't get fully weaved to their conclusion.

Veering into the realm of speculation, I think if the show were more tightly written there'd be some value in having them interact. Both have an aspect to them where they have put on a more hostile front, and while Felix's is perhaps more genuine (such as his real contempt for Gabriel and Tomoe), Zoé could recognise that it's not 100% authentic. Zoé is also very contrained by her families expectations even when she's trying to be better, which might push her into Felix's sympathy zone. Perhaps not enough to not snap her out of existance, but just enough that he can't really justify it to himself.

Overall, Felix and Zoé make a for a weird pair. They don't interact, it's unclear if they even know the other exists, yet they have a whole bunch of parallel traits that seem to be a consequence of a quirk of the writing process. Which does put something of a limit on the whole compare and contrast thing. A "it's not that deep, but why isn't deeper?" kind of deal. Zoé, I think suffers from this more, since her introductory episodes seem to be setting something up that doesn't pan out. Felix's plotline reaches more of a conclusion, although since Marinette doesn't seem to do anything using the information from Representation, it does sort of dead end in the same way. Which is worse? It's hard to tell.

But no matter what, we must recognise that Felix and Zoé have this strange mirroring going on, whatever it happens to mean.

#answers to questions #miraculous ladybug #forbidden miraculous essays #ml meta

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omg-snakes · 1 month

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Need asks until you get more pictures? Have some pictures of my baby

Scorpius the Rhino Rat snake!

WHAT!!!

I can't, he's too perfect. Also your enclosure kicks serious butt. A+++ love it love him love you.

#snake #snakes #reptile #reptiles #reptiblr #answers to questions #rhino ratsnake #Vietnamese longnose snake #rhinoceros snake #amazing #a babe

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omg-snakes · 3 months

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Brian Barczyk, keeper of giant snakes in tiny drawers, has died. How should we feel?

I've been asking myself this very question, anon.

On one hand, the man did some really unethical stuff, pushed harmful information that was not correct husbandry, and allowed animals to suffer for his own gain.

On the other hand, he was human, as we all are human: prone to failings, easily blinded by praise, and willing to hide his mistakes in order to maintain a positive reputation among his peers. This is really common among that generation. I see the same attitudes in many big-name reptile keepers, TV personalities, and minor celebrities.

He was curious. He was passionate. He wanted to share his passion with others. I think he really truly did love his animals and the people around him, though that love was not an adequate replacement for proper care. He was arrogant. He was overconfident. He was flawed. But he was human.

He was afraid, at the end. He was in pain. Pancreatic cancer is not a gentle end. He saw his death looming on a fast-approaching horizon, and you could see it reflected in his eyes. Did he have regrets, do you suppose? Would he have done things differently if he had another chance? Did he believe in an afterlife, and did he feel the burden of his transgressions as he prepared to meet his gods?

I can tell you how I feel at this point:

A little sad that a fellow traveler on this Earth died in such an awful, painful way. A little disappointed that he's now a martyr of reptile keeping. A little grateful that he helped to push the hobby into the public eye and out of the fringes. A little hopeful that we'll continue to learn, grow, and do better than he did.

I can't tell you how to feel, though, or whether to feel anything at all. That's up to you.

Regardless, I hope his last moments were peaceful, that he felt loved instead of scared, and that he was not in pain. That's what I want for everyone.

#brian barczyk #reptile #reptiles #reptiblr #discourse #death mention #tw death mention #cw death mention #text post #long post #answers to questions

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omg-snakes · 5 months

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Since you're collecting data on how old these snakes are, couldn't you also check if the "Rules of 3s" holds up? I've been wondering for a while now if snakes can actually hit 300 grams at 3 years of age. And if they don't, I'd love love to see what age most corn snakes really reach breeding requirements! (I'd imagine it's somewhere around 4 years old?)

Hey friend!

The Rule of 3s is a minimum guideline. The snake must be AT LEAST 3 years old, AT LEAST 300 grams, and AT LEAST 3 feet long to breed safely.

It does not by any means mean that they'll hit all three targets simultaneously or that age and size are on a fixed direct relationship path.

I've definitely seen snakes hit 300 grams by their third birthday, and they're usually power-fed, overweight, and have comparatively low muscle mass. They CAN breed, in the sense that a 6-month-old cat can breed, but that doesn't mean they SHOULD.

My snakes usually don't breed until their 4th year and they often won't hit 300 grams until they're about 3.5-3.75 years old. Based on the data we're seeing already, it's reasonable to say that the Rule of 3s is a bare minimum, as in, "this snake is capable of letting a clutch of eggs and probably not dying in the effort," but you'll have better reproductive outcomes by growing her slower and being a bit more patient.

#answers to questions #snake #snakes #reptile #reptiles #reptiblr #corn snake #corn snakes #text post

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omg-snakes · 2 months

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Ask, and ye shall receive

OMGGGGggggg your babies are so cute!!

♥️🐍♥️

#practically perfect in every way #reptiles #reptiblr #reptile #hognose snake #snakes #snake #western hognose #western hognose snake #ball python #python #not mine #answers to questions

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omg-snakes · 1 year

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Lillith, the lesser pewter ball python. My baby.

I hope she blessed your dice tower and you roll natural 20s all the time.

#snake #snakes #reptile #reptiles #reptiblr #not mine #answers to questions #ball python #ball pythons #so cuuuute

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omg-snakes · 9 months

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I just wanted to check - there are albino corns, right? I know there are Snows and Blizzard morphs. Snake Discovery did a corn snake hatching vid recently and seemed to think there were no albino corn snakes, so I was a little confused. (They also didn't know the difference between Tessera, Motley, and Stripe though so I think they are just generally uninformed)

Hey friend!

I think the source of confusion here is that the term "albino" is a colloquialism developed for humans that doesn't totally work for reptiles.

The root Latin word, albus, just means "white." The term albino was originally coined by Portuguese and Spanish colonizers (boooo!) to refer to the children of Black slaves who were born without melanin. It then went on to describe any animal without pigment, particularly the black pigment melanin, which resulted in white hair, pink skin, and pink or very light blue eyes.

As science marched on and we gained a better understanding of how genetics and pigment work, we came to realize that there are multiple pigments at play in most animals. Even humans, whose main pigment is melanin, have two different kinds of melanin which result in the rich diversity of skin tones across the human species! Albinism works as a descriptor for humans because we only have melanin, but it falls apart fast when we start applying it to other forms of life.

So in corn snakes there are three main pigments: melanin (black), erythrin (red), and xanthin (yellow).

An amelanistic, or Amel, corn snake is by definition an "albino" with no melanin and red eyes. But they look like this:

That doesn't exactly look white...

If we're looking for white snakes to call albino, a Snow corn snake has amelanism and anerythrism in combination, but they still have yellow xanthin pigment. A Blizzard, on the other hand, is a combination of amelanism and a slightly different mutation called Charcoal that removes both erythrin and xanthin. By the original intent of the word, a Blizzard would probably be an "albino" but a Snow might not fit the bill. Or might, depending on who's deciding, since they technically lack melanin!

To bring up another example of pigment mutations, leucism is the absence of all pigment, not just melanin. This mutation is most commonly found in birds and reptiles. Leucism and albinism look similar, and the mutations do similar things from a "looking at animals on the outside" perspective, but they're genetically distinct from each other!

It falls into semantics and discourse, so I think the easiest way to go about it is to think of albinism as a blanket term to describe a range of genetic color morphs found in mammals, but not a scientific description of what's actually happening. We could probably skip using it to describe reptiles because even when it's technically applicable, it's not the whole story.

I'll end this by saying that YouTubers in general are entertainers, not educators, and I don't think I'd take anything any of them say seriously unless they're providing references. Snakes are a huge and diverse group of lifeforms, and even if one were to know every detail there is to know about one species, that knowledge may only tenuously apply to even a similar-looking species.

This is exactly why exotics veterinarians are expensive and why you should treat them very kindly and with a great deal of respect.

#snake #snakes #reptile #reptiles #reptiblr #corn snake #corn snakes #corn snake morphs #albinism #zoology #biology #answers to questions #text post #long post #oh i'm sorry did you want an answer here have a novel

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