#Talk With the Elk

[canisalbus]

Building on the favourite animal ask, another Very Important Question: favourite PREHISTORIC animal? And why? (I've always loved gorgonopsids and pterosaurs like anurognathus, but a new favourite is aquilolamma the eagle shark. They're just very cute).

I feel like my top favorites are pretty pedestrian, but I like prehistoric deer a lot!

Megaloceros giganteus aka Irish elk

Sinomegaceros ordosianus & Sinomegaceros yabei

Eucladoceros dicranios

Cervalces scotti

#they're so big why are they so big #imagine seeing an irish elk in the wild #or a herd of them #I also like long-horned bison #it's hard to imagine the good old mammoth without experiencing some type of awe and reverence #a few years ago there was a a lot of talk about spinosaurus possibly being a good swimmer and I really loved that idea personally #the looong torso & tail short limbs and quadrupedal posture made it look so sleek and crocodilian #I have no idea if that theory holds any water but I think they'd be my favorite dinosaur in any case #answered #anonymous

[lycorim]

Another visualization:

Yeah, totally normal thing for a 15 year old boy to do: sling a 700 pound animal onto a horse. You know what, never mind. Starks are just freaks I think.

(As far as I remember the only other person with him in this scene would have been Theon but like even with two teenagers that's a massive fucking animal to be slinging around.)

#this one is probably just a consequence of Martin not knowing what a teenager or an elk is but it's still canon so.... #i know we all talk about stronk Jon squeezing frozen lemons and shit but like?????????? what is in Winterfell's water??????? #you really have to draw this shit out to see how insane some of it is #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #cw dead animal #robb stark #game of thrones #yeah yeah okay fine ''he field dressed it'' or whatever let me have this

[snickeringdragon]

this is the coolest thing ive ever made

#snickart #inscryption #irlscryption #no id #HOORAY #i couldnt fucking find the long elk/vertebrae artwork so. i just kind of gave up on themHAKAHSJH #but everything else is there! #no kaycees cards #(i am using kaycees mod stoat though( #no talking cards (stinkbug/stunted wolf) #the cards are. finished #so like. i guess i work on the campaign now? #TOMORROW its 7:30 pm #or another time.i might just need a Break #but like #i wanna try and make my own little campaign i think itd be fun :]c #instead of just copying what leshy does ingame #very hard of course. but this entire project is hard #okay.thank you. i am goijg to bed soon #irlscryption is so fun and cool

[weidli]

4.07 / It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester

i realize this is supposed to come off as haha dean likes pretty girls but like. what he's actually SAYING is that if he could pick any body to live in he'd pick one that looks like a pretty girl. which is not the same thing

#guy who would do drag for a case and then run away to spend 4 weeks rebuilding the impala before he's ready to talk to anyone about anything #anyway. back on my silly little hill (dean's gender is he/him lady) #unfortunately people have been leveraging his looks and Not Being Man Enough against him for long enough that it would take a lot for him t #be comfortable with that. but it IS in there somewhere #and i think alastair knew 👍 #(sam doesn't though. his lil speech in 2.11 playthings and his 😐 face in response to this aren't actually because he clocks it. that shit #flies right over his head) #natural soup #no id #elke posts spn

[elkralt]

no one think about Roier's Day 14 QSMP VOD and whatever the Fuck occurred there

(they gave him creative mode and blew up every single house on the server im not even joking)

#(i have seen no one talk about it and am confused as to why) #(Bobby and Tillin absolutely enabled all of it) #roier #qsmp #elk rambles

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i don't even like video games so why have i been playing Red Dead 2 for the past eight hours gay

#i think me brain likes the Reward of successfully one hit killing things with a bow and arrow #i was born in the wrong generation (should've been a hunter gatherer) #i dont even care about the story!!! the tutorial / first chapter was tedious as fuck! #im only completing missions to unlock things so that i can Keep Fucking Around!!! #also my horse's name is wizard and if anything happens to her im killing everyone in this game #thankfully when the fuckin. asshole odriscolls Ambushed me i was riding a backup horse i'd just tamed #so THAT one died instead of my darling wizard. but still. cmon #she was a gorgeous buckskin... her name was gonna be Egg... i was on my way to the stable to name her... #BUT YEAH I DONT EVEN LIKE THIS GAME ALL THAT MUCH WHY CANT I STOP PLAYING #maybe my brain is like 'oh my god finally something New. something other than the same shit we've been doing' #killin turkeys and deer #i tracked an elk into a train tunnel AND HIT IT!! #but it didnt die!!! and ran out!!! and then i couldnt find it!!! cmon!! #this game is so infuriating Why Cant I Stop #absolutely unprompted #though i have been thoroughly entertaining myself with my own antics #'i want to be nice to people 🥺' #ten seconds later im killing a man i couldve easily saved purely bc there were no witnesses around <3 #well! he would'a talked! i got a camp to protect and provide for! #oh ok yeah i also think my brain likes being able to be a rugged western man w a beard #riding horses and Providing in a slutty little outfit i picked out #most of the game is Such A Drag (as my darling shikamaru would say) #but there are some good bits. addicting bits. sigh #like the allure of open world. optional story. yeah <3 #no rules <3

[elkian]

It’s really interesting watching Murderbot shake some prejudices over time. Some are a bit more obvious, like humans and general and Miki re: “pet robots” (though it does keep using that phrase).

One that I noticed in Artificial Condition, though, was how it referred to ComfortUnits.

In All Systems Red, it uses the phrase “sexbot” like, what, once? Twice? I think it’s feasible that Wells hadn’t decided or committed to the concept of the ComfortUnits yet at that point. The term is bordering on derogatory, but that seems more due to SecUnit’s asexuality and sex aversion.

Then in Artificial Condition, we meet one - Murderbot meets one. And it uses ‘sexbot’ almost exclusively outside of the basic lowdown on ComfortUnits, at first. ART corrects it and it doesn’t care.

But then it goes down to find some truth, and that truth involves ComfortUnits doing a thing they were very much not designed for, to protect humans. While there are a lot of kill all human jokes in the series, it’s abundantly clear that SecUnit is focused on protecting its clients. It hates failure, sure, but it goes after non-contracted clients in books 2 and 3 to protect them, and not just out of pragmatism regarding its core challenge in the book. SecUnit hates it when its humans are hurt, threatened, and killed.

So when the ComfortUnits move to protect the humans, to stop the massacre, it’s not 100% clear what their motives are. But they’re smart, as smart as if not smarter than SecUnit. They knew they were probably going to die and they did it anyways.

It might not have been for SecUnit, but it benefitted SecUnit, and it makes SecUnit really think about them. In chapter 9, it stops using ‘sexbot’ entirely and refers to them exclusively as ComfortUnits. It’s never pointed out, but you can really see it re-evaluating its prejudices over the course of the story. It’s fascinating.

#the murderbot diaries #elk text #14th #November #2022 #November 14th 2022 #artificial condition spoilers under the cut #muderbot #secunit #my beloved #real talk when those pings started counting down four to one to none i got emotional

[antiqueanimals]

The Bestiary of Aloys Zötl (1831-1887). The Elk (1886)

#cervids #moose #Aloys Zötl #whenever i post a pic of moose and the title calls it an elk people will usually say something like thIS iSnT aN ELK iTs a MOoSE #and im going to use the tags to inform u guys that moose were referred to as elk in europe for a LOOOONG time and still are today iirc #so when english speakers came to the us they were like wtf is this? another large fucking deer? lets call these bad boys elks too #so now elk is used to describe both eurasian elk (moose) and american elk (wapiti) #thank you for coming to my (hopefully accurate) ted talk

[chronicowboy]

fuck it friday/inspiration saturday

the wonderfully talented @try-set-me-on-fire tagged me for fuck it friday but it's technically saturday here now and both my wips have stalled at their kiss scenes lmao so you can have the inspiration behind my next idea which i may or may not write because the list keeps getting longer and longer (i'm in hell)

tagging my usual lovelies @jamietarts @shitouttabuck @butchdiaz @alyxmastershipper + anyone else who has something to share <3

#sami rambles #literally all i had to do was talk to elke and i suddenly loved the idea for this fic #essentially buck takes chris to the aquarium and there's a fire. #i have not got further than that yet but once these 2 wips are completed which shouldn't take much longer then i'll start planning it #and then the palm springs au which. i might not end up writing bc i've already done the whole timeloop thing #fuck it friday #inspiration saturday #tag game #mutuals<33

[tinfairies]

Permission to call you mommy ?

(whaaaaat who said that 🚶‍♂️)

Of course baby 🥰

#tin talks #But isn't it bedtime for my little elk?

[another-heroine]

2, 15, 19, and 50 for Ismene, Katya, and Andrine!

OC Asks Game

Hi Ash, thanks for asking :D It will be fun to reply for the three ladies hehe

Btw this has Kingmaker spoilers on the Question 19 ⚠

2. Tea, coffee, hot chocolate or other?

Andrine: She has sweet tooth, but she isn't that picky. She would choose hot chocolate without hesitation, but she also appreciates sweetened tea and coffee (although Octavia has prohibited her to drink the last one, because she doesn't know when to stop it)

Ekaterina: She hadn't many options in Irrisen. When she has tried hot chocolate for first time, it was like a catharstic moment of her life. But she is very fond for herbal and spiced teas.

Ismene: She has two favorite beverages, in fact: coffee for the mornings (otherwise she will kill some Varnling member easier) and mead for the nights. Ismene has no aversion to teas, but their smell always reminds her of the moments when she gets sick.

15. What is the first thing people notice about them?

Andrine: She talks loud and fast. It's like a lean squirrel with white hair. Also her clothes are always showy, even the Storyteller knows it.

Ekaterina: Well, she glows. Either her skin or hair. And like it's not enough, Katya is tall. The poor woman just wanted to be invisible sometimes.

Ismene: If her clothes don't catch attention for being different from the Brevic/Mendevian fashion, Tilly does for both of them! You can't ignore an outlander woman passing by with a bear.

19. What does your character consider to be their lowest point?

Andrine: Sometimes, Andrine sees herself as a petty person. She could let Regongar kill Janush's assistant when they met for the first time, but she did it because she took personally the kidnap attempt that her party suffered earlier. And she have declined the Lanthern King friendship because she got tired of his bullshit as Nyrissa's as well, like she didn't make friends/allies with questionable fey before.

Ekaterina: Her lack of self-esteem. Katya won't complain about her doubts out loud, but down in her soul there is a still uneasiness about her valor. She can go as far as her legs can carry her, but in the end she always questions herself if she really did enough.

Ismene: Her short temper. It always gets the best of her. She can't bear listening to any kind of small talk and pretend that's ok. Her intuition is sharp, and Ismene is good at perceiving who's telling the truth or not. Thanks to the Gods, she learned to be slightly patience because of Varn.

50. How does your character sleep at night? Are they a heavy or light sleeper? Do they dream or have nightmares? Do they find it easy to sleep or are they more a night owl?

Andrine: When she's not struggling with insomnia due worries, Drine is a heavy sleeper. And she took a long time to be really awaken. Also her dreams are chaotic, mixing irl incidents with fictional ones. Sometimes she can't tell what was real or not.

Ekaterina: Since a very young age, Katya has problems with nightmares. This got less common while she grew up and learned how to keep her impulses 'on the leash', but some nights she can't rest properly, dreaming with wildfires and destruction caused by herself.

Ismene: Although she is a reasonable light sleeper, Ismene uses to get properly rest always, and it doesn't matter where she is laid. She has no big problems about sleeping outdoors, after all she is from a nomad tribe. And she almost never recalls her dreams.

#it's always a pleasure talking about my babies #they make me happy #heroine asks #andrine vanfell #ekaterina grushankaya #ismene of the elk queen tribe #turbulentpumpkin43 #pwotr pals

[hipsofsteel]

girl help, i am witnessing the blogs i follow repeatedly misidentify the american wapiti (elk) as a regular deer

#im screaming into the void ''ITS AN ELK'' #jess talks too much

[pokefriends-sanctuary]

Log one on this Pokemon. These lovely babies are Rawst (small head) and Pecha (large head), named after what I've clocked as their preference in food. I took this lovely duo in from @pokemonadoptionagency, and I'm quite fond of them already!

As the PAA stated, this poor Pokemon evolved too early, making it so that the heads consciousness didn't combine, and the third head didn't appear. I've found due to this that Rawst is pretty snappy, which I sort of understand (after all, her sister is much bigger than her now). The two have been mostly keeping to themselves since they arrived, and I'm not actually sure they know how to talk, as they haven't spoken to me and when I asked Suzie (my Wigglytuff) she said they hadn't talked to her either.

From what I've noticed, the two seem to use their wings as hands, which is quite interesting, and is a first in my experience with Hydreigons (though I've only ever raised a total of three including these darlings). I've also noticed that Rawst tends to take large bites and try to scarf down her food, while Pecha tends to take it slow and eat small bites. I'm not quite sure where this behavior comes from, but since it doesn't seem to be an issue yet, I see no reason to curb the behavior.

(And don't worry everyone, I'm not as close as it looks in this photo! I'm actually pretty far away, I just zoomed in the camera!)

I'll keep you all updated on them!

#Rawst and Pecha #pokemon #hydreigon #elk talking

[blankdblank]

Thorin and Thranduil working out a new trade agreement with oc acting as a helper in the process. Oc pokes Thorin in the arm and the Elf King looks between them as Thorin sighs, “And oc gets to pet your elk and feed it an apple,” two more pokes are given to Thorin’s arm and he adds plainly, “On two occasions.”

Thranduil merely blinks and replies, “It will have to be oranges, he relishes a fresh orange, agreed.” Withholding his curiosity to oc’s smile to themselves at the odd term his elk would have allowed no matter what with his weakness for the brightly colored treat.

@jesevans @lilith15000 @theincaprincess @devilishminx328

#Thranduil #Thorin #trade talk #Thranduil’s elk #the Hobbit #LoTR #cute

[elkralt]

last post about this, Forever was kicked from the QSMP.

#forever situation #qsmp #elk rambles #i don't wanna talk about him anymore istg

[sheericetorrent]

the god of creation is the L parent of all time

#sk_art #sk_ocs #this fucker is such a bad parent that like #their own son came around to beat their ass #and they're LOSING against their SON #who is arguably being puppeteered but shh kick the deer/elk #also taking jjk's domain expansions for my deity ocs lole! #Did i mention they pay attention to their slightly older triplets who are the three states of matter and maybe a little stupid #@ Sam go talk about Helios in the reblogs