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minamorsart · 4 months

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🌌✨The Empyreal Within character designs of Lotor, Allura, and Ven'tar! I might do Honerva and Zarkon next, we'll see! This is part of an upcoming project that I am super excited about and will reveal in time!!! 💜

Explanations of the outfits below! I thought about them a LOT hehe.

18 year old Lotor: these designs I am the most pleased with! Lotor's official design in the show is very different from the rest of the Galra, which I believe is significant to him venturing further away from the precedents established by his father and cementing his own individuality. However, as an adolescent it makes sense that he would still wear Galra attire, hence the bulky armor (to make him look bigger since he is smaller than the average Galra) and red and gold colors which appear to only be worn by the royal family. I like to think that the insignia on his chest is a symbol for royalty, but is also exclusive to Lotor's identity, as no one else wears that particular insignia in the show. And despite wearing clothes specifically chosen to represent the Galra Empire, I can also picture him wanting to incorporate his own personal tastes, so there are accents of purplish-blue (as blue is part of Lotor's color scheme) and the addition of his waist cape, both of which represent his growing desire for change and independence.

Mid-20's Lotor: this is during the many years of his banishment. I imagine him hopping from planet to planet, concealing his identity as much as possible while adopting a more humble lifestyle and pursuing his passion for exploring. It is during this isolated pilgrimage that he does a lot of introspection, self-actualization, and gains self-confidence both as a man and as the Galra prince. But before that happens, the lack of identity really shows in his clothes -- lots of neutral colors (with a hint of desaturated blue), absence of any insignias or designs that would connect him to any culture, whether Galra or Altean. These clothes in particular were inspired by Jedi ponchos and Sasuke from Naruto: The Last, and perhaps are worn while Lotor is on a desert planet for a short time! And just like with his armor as seen in the show, he has started to wear gloves to cover himself up almost completely, indicating his avoidance of vulnerability and getting close to others.

Ven'tar: for her fortunately I didn't have to change much about her character design! She is Lotor's age when they meet and the only other change I made to her was to take away her big cape so that she appears younger. Since her planet and species name is not revealed in the show, I want to come up with one myself. Caelifera is the scientific name for grasshopper, so I'm thinking I could do something with that!

11 year old Lotor: this design is also taken directly from the show, so I didn't have to do much there :P The cloak he wears in the little doodle is inspired by the one adult Lotor wears in S6E4. In this case, however, it is several sizes too big for young Lotor and drags on the ground.

Allura: sadly we don't know much about Allura's life on Altea, however in S1E9 we get to see tiny snippets of different stages throughout her life and her good relationship with her father, so I used those as references! I gave her braids, short puffy sleeves, and a slightly shorter skirt to give her that innocent little princess look, and then used the colors from her dress in the show to create a cuter and more childlike aesthetic!

If you read all of that you're the best 😆🙏 I'm definitely by no means an expert in character design and have lots more to learn, but I had a lot of fun coming up with the original designs! Especially Lotor's, but no surprise there hehe. I studied many different Galra armor and clothing featured in the show worn by Lotor, Zarkon, Honerva, and Galra commanders. More than anything I just really wanted to see Lotor wearing something different for a change 😂 and then everything else took off from there!

#the empyreal within #dawn of empyreal #minamorsart #lotura #lotor #allura #ven'tar #voltron #voltron legendary defender #vld #voltron art #vld art #my art #fan art #digital art #non star wars art

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sharpjay217 · 2 months

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So Minecraft has new wolves!!

I am very happy about this, but it does make me curious what species each variation is based off of! You too? Awesome!

Rusty Wolf = Dhole

Seeing a little red jungle wolf took me right back to reading The Jungle Book as a kid, so I pretty much instantly decided they were dholes! A.k.a. Asian wild dogs or red dogs. They're an endangered canid native to Central, South, East and Southeast Asia, and they live in large clans ranging from 12-40 members.

Pale (Original) Wolf & Black Wolf = Grey Wolves

Our familiar friends have probably always been North American grey wolves, just pales ones! Despite their name, this iconic member of the canid family has an incredible amount of variation, and different subspecies of them are scattered all over North America.

Striped Wolf = Aardwolf

Okay, this is interesting, because they are definitely aardwolves! However, despite their names, aardwolves are actually the tiniest member of the hyaenidae family! Native to East and Southern Africa, they are exclusively insectivores and are known for following aardvarks to use their vacated burrows and foraging grounds. I think it's fascinating that a hyena was chosen for the wolf skins!

Snowy Wolf = Arctic Wolf

One of the many subspecies of gray wolves, arctic wolves are native to the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. Thanks to their territory being generally undesirable to humans, they are the only subspecies that can found across the entirety of their original range. Arctic wolves seem the most logical choice for snowy wolves, through there are several other pale-coated northern subspecies they could technically be.

Ashen Wolf = Northwestern Wolf

Speaking of northern subspecies, let's have some fun with the ashen variant. I'm pinning them as the Northwestern wolf, a.k.a. the Mackenzie Valley wolf! Native to, well, the northwestern part of Canada and Alaska, they are arguably the largest subspecies of wolf we know of. They match up pretty well with their Minecraft counterparts both in terms of habitat and possible coloration!

Woods Wolf = Eastern Wolf

Ooo, okay, I went down a rabbit hole with this one! Eastern wolves, a.k.a Great Lakes wolves or Algonquin wolves, are native to the Great Lakes region of North America. They exist in an identification limbo, with no current ruling on whether they are a subspecies of grey wolf, red wolf, or their own unique branch that drifts closer to coyotes on the canid family tree. There is even some debate on whether the Great Lakes and Algonquin variants should be counted as the same subspecies, which I think is fascinating!

Spotted Wolf = African Wild Dog

The more people who know these good bois exists, the happier I am. African wild dogs, a.k.a. painted dogs or Cape hunting dogs, are the largest wild canine in Africa. They live in packs of 5-30 members and are known their cooperative hunting tactics, using stamina to wear down prey. They're highly social animals, and you'll never find a lone dog.

Chestnut Wolf = Bat Eared Fox

So, initially, I wrote off these guys cause I wasn't counting foxes, but I gave in. The chestnut wolves don't look like much of any existing canines, and nothing that lives in taiga forest. So, bat eared foxes are my best guess. They're small canids native to southern Africa, and are part of the subfamily Otocyoninae, which is a sister family to the families containing true foxes and racoon dogs.

Speaking of raccoon dogs, they're my second best guess for the origin of the chestnut wolf. Their habitat makes slightly more sense, being from the forests of Japan and east Asia!

#i finally get to infodump on cool animals #also i learned A LOT researching for this!#minecraft #minecraft wolf #sharp has too many thoughts

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lets-try-some-writing · 9 months

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Had this really cute idea about TFP kids having pets of some kind if they ever do get a chance wanna know what you think!

Jack--- a pigeon- because they're great companions for people who has anxiety or feel lonely ( he probably has the one with small beak and feather covered legs and definitely a female because they're more loving and affectionate and puts her in cute clothes)

Miko--- a bearded dragon (or maybe even a gecko but definitely some lizard animal)- they're puppies with scales very energetic, weird and has fun personality and moves their head to music ( definitely dress it up and named it after a slash monkey member)

Raf--- a guinea pig or a rat (but I lean on rat more) - they're very social animals and love their owners very much and very intelligent ( he definitely has two because they has to have a friend. And he always let them climb on him or hides them in his pockets or bag and takes them with him)

And I like to imagine them explaining to the bots that they're not pets but companions/family or even their own children and how much they mean to them or how much of an emotional support they were to them!

And definitely found an excuse/reason to bring them to base!

And the bots reaction are like:

Ratchet wants them immediately out the base but get gaslighted into letting them stay for a day one the condition that they stay away from his work place ( Miko doesn't comply)

Optimus would be curious about them since he haven't seen them so close and would want to learn more about them and how they behave completely different and seems to understand their owners

Arcee might be more neutral about them saying if the kids are happy then that's it but surely gets interested in seeing how they act and the tricks they do

Bulkhead wouldn't want to be near them because he fears they get in his joints like some scraplets (Ratchet used that to keep him away from his stuff)

Wheeljack( I'm not too sure about him) but would want to see what they're capable of and tries to teach them bad tricks to maybe piss of a certain CMO

Bumblebee/Smokescreen would undoubtedly be amazed at these different animals and be even more impressed by the tricks hey do to the point they'd want one but gets shut down quickly by the whole team because they're too much work

Ultra magnus would just leave simple comment about them and leaves

What's your opinion? Maybe different animals? But these fits them well!

What do I think? Well, since I am unsure if this is a writing request or not, I will give my opinion on what you have presented here. Please feel free to send in another request if you were hoping for writing. I tend to misunderstand things like this more often than not.

Now firstly, this is an adorable idea and I do in fact think the animals fit. I doubt they would have any exotic pets, except perhaps Miko who I could imagine having some sort of parrot due to the intelligence of the species. Aside from that, spot on thinking regarding the animals that would be involved.

Ratchet's reaction is comedy gold I must say. Optimus's makes perfect sense considering his personality, although I also imagine he wouldn't be too fond of the mess or the pets getting into equipment. Arcee's reaction is also pretty solid, however I can see her developing a strange rivalry with Jack's pigeon or Rafael's rodent upon having to assist in collecting the small thing from either the rafters or under work stations. Bulkhead's response is perfect, no commentary there except for that I think it would be hilarious for him to fear Rafael's hamster above all else. I've dealt with hamsters, those little critters can RUN-

For Wheeljack I would alter his reaction only slightly to have him find it funny to watch the pets fail at whatever it is they are attempting. Him staring at the hamster and laughing hysterically when it runs into an object or the pigeon when it inevitably crashes sounds on point for him. You got Smokey and Bee also perfectly on point in my opinion. That sounds about right for them, although Bee I think would be less inclined to get one and more silently encouraging Smokescreen since if Smokey could convince the team to let them have a pet, then great, but I doubt he would want to deal with the glares personally. Ha, yeah Ultra Magnus wouldn't give a crap unless one of the animals touched his stuff. Then I bet he would have WORDS with whoever owned the animal in question.

In conclusion, a very humorous concept indeed.

#transformers #maccadam #transformers prime #team prime #tfp kids #rafael esquivel #jack darby #miko nakadai #lets try some writing reacts

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trixrabitcereal · 3 months

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queenkingkaard ramblings that i’ve stocked up for anyone who gives a shit

rouxls is a major cuddler (in both a platonic and romantic sense!) he will cling to anyone with body heat. he's cold blooded so he's always very cold.

spades is basically an industrial fucking heater (big boy hamster man = warm) and queen can be an industrial heater if desired (built in heating system). rouxls just latches onto either of them and will likely fall asleep

rouxls can “melt” kinda if he gets embarrassed/flustered, king and queen have been making bets on who can make him melt with the least amount of effort. ex:

Queen throws 50 dark dollars on the table. “I Could Do It In One Word”

King matches it. “I could do it with none.”

(spoiler.. they both succeeded)

king and queen are sooo t4t so i always imagine them as like teenagers trying to figure out shit. spade likes the title of “king spade” better than “queen spade” but queen thinks it sounds too violent so she gave him the kingy wingy nickname. spade just matched her energy with queenie beanie

i started kinda looking into random hamster behaviors (bc i see king and lancer as hamsters) and they're weird lil things. they don't purr, instead they squeak to show happiness (along with other emotions) which is really cute.

sometimes i doodle them doing that face rub thjng a lot of rodents do, like where they paw at their noses. it’s an unconscious habit probably

spade asks queen "did you change your lipstick color?" (she did.. it was a slightly lighter blue.) she looks at him and goes "So You Do Pay Attention?" and he gets embarrassed

rouxls doing queens makeup and queen doing his hair

both rouxls and queen are morning people. they're having an in depth discussion about a random ass topic at 6am with spade silently making his coffee. they ask him a question and he stares at them for a second before passing out completely

rouxls spends like. an hour getting ready for bed and spade always gets annoyed. queen furthers that annoyance by making fun of him.

rouxls has a fancy ass extravagant robe, queen has regular night shirt and pants, king is boxers

king is naturally nocturnal (hamster behavior) and has insomnia so he only really sleeps like every other day. most of the time he’s either working or reading something. rouxls tries to help with different teas and/or melatonin stuff, queen just gets him to relax and he’ll occasionally fall asleep with her

queen or rouxls dropping off testosterone and books for king in his jail

King and Lancer’s species (spade hamster things) have always worn hoods/head coverings. it takes a LOT of trust to remove it around anyone, simply because it’s seen as an act of vulnerability and weakness. King is fine being hoodless around Queen and Rouxls, but Lancer hasn’t taken it off around anyone other than his dad and Rouxls.

Queen tries to get King and Rouxls to play video games with her and Lancer but they’re both Stupid Old People™️ and can’t figure out how to use a controller

Rouxls tries to keep King company in his cell but can’t keep a conversation for his life

“Would thoust love me if i was a worm?”

“Absolutely not.”

“:(“

they mean everything to me

#deltarune #deltarune king #deltarune king spade #deltarune queen #deltarune lancer #deltarune rouxls #deltarune rouxls kaard #deltarune headcanon #t4t queenking #transgender that robot #transgender that old man #queenkingkaard #how do i tag this i don’t use this website

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paranormeow7 · 7 months

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I’ve been thinking about the vampire subtypes in my oc world a bunch but I realized I haven’t talked abt them much… so here goes lol- info on some of the ones I’ve come up with !!

rose is a flora vampire, slang term “woods witch”, the first subtype I thought up while fine tuning her. Vampires originated after the murder of the worlds Guardian (more on them in a future post), as most of the strange and surreal oddities of my oc world did. sometimes a person would go missing into the monolithic, ever growing, offputting forest and never come back. More and more people ended up this way, becoming the very first race of vampires, who were more based on the traditional idea of the creature, with some differences. Longer lifespans, yet mortal. Sensitive to sun, but unable to be instantly killed by it.

Once vampires as a species began to evolve and spread, they began to adapt to their new environments, spawning different subtypes. The flora vampires evolved from those who remained in the forest, appearing much more elvish and slightly animalistic. I based their appearances mostly off of rabbits!!

Very rudimentary sketch, but here’s what a typical one might look like!! They tend to be 5-10 feet tall and may or may not be born with mutations such as tails, long necks, stretched limbs, saber teeth etc. they are covered in a fine, peach fuzz like fur and range from mostly humanoid to very creature :] they love making art and sharing it!! Flora textiles are highly treasured and of some of the most breathtaking quality in the world.

The flower inside the body is the core of their power, allowing them to do things such as commune with spirits/animals, grow plants out of their flesh, and even control the wildlife around them if powerful enough (these powers vary and they can do more than these examples). This flower feeds off of blood. The more blood drank, the more powerful you get, but if you don’t have enough in your system, the flower will spread its roots throughout your body and feed off of your own blood supply, like a parasite.

This subtype mostly keeps to their own community in the center of the forest, however some leaders may commune with outsiders. If you wish to join, they’ll bite you, turning you into one of them and allowing you to live in their community. They are very close to one another, hold communication skills in high regard and are in tune with nature/the spirit world, making them a good ally to have when dealing with the paranormal beings that infest the world.

The sun affects these vampires the least, however they are still sensitive to it and are prone to sun sickness, symptoms including fatigue, lethargy, forgetfulness and skin lesions in mild cases, and depression, amnesia, wasting and necrosis in severe cases.

The next subtype i wanna write about are the terra vampires, slang term “tunnellers”. Probably one of the subtypes least equipped for life outside of their habitat. They may walk on all fours or two legs as they please, and they mostly live underground, although they are most known for the massive community residing in the central metropolis.

This city is ideal for these vampires as almost no sunlight is let in, as the city is a massive, closed off entanglement of metal sprouting out of the ground that almost seems to simulate mole tunnelling systems. The further in you go, the less sun you’ll receive until there’s simply none at all. It’s pretty hard to explain what the city is like, but I’ve been planning on making some concept art that should show it better.

Another shitass sketch lol. These vampires are blind, and the rest of their senses are highly elevated. They mostly get around through touch and sound, and are built for navigating claustrophobic, maze like environments. They come in human and inhuman skin tones, however pale/ashy and slightly translucent. Their hair is thick and fur like, and the tallest they get is 6ft standing up, even that is rare. They have an excellent music scene, fun fact!! They also love food and run amazing restaurants, though most of the food is blood based as it’s intended for vampire consumption.

These vampires are a bit of a hivemind and can communicate with one another through a psychic connection. They mostly travel in colonies, although sometimes you’ll catch one alone. Vampires can be excommunicated from the hive if they do something horrible enough. Betraying a fellow terran is one of the highest offenses, and being separated from the hivemind is a deeply traumatizing and mind breaking punishment. “Feral” terrans are usually those who have been exiled like this, and they have no sense of self. Their behavior stems from extreme, murderous, blind aggression to simply wandering aimlessly until they starve.

These vampires have little to no blood in their bodies to begin with, and drink it in order to supplement this lack of supply so they can keep moving and stay stable. Lack of blood causes a general inability to function properly along with a severe dampening of the senses. If left too long without blood, the flesh begins to rot and the bones start to crumble.

These vampires powers are mostly attached to their elevated senses. Some can hear conversations from a mile away and will be able to tell you who’s talking, or tell you the details of a tv show from an apartment 3 train stops away, others can tell exactly what any object or surface are by touch, etc. however, some of the more powerful may be able to manipulate soundwaves or give off intoxicating scent pheromones in order to subdue prey. Pheromone emitting individuals sometimes may be used as living drugs in certain backroom clubs (city slang for hidden, taboo or unethical operations).

If exposed to sunlight, terrans will quickly develop a severe, deadly sun sickness in which senses are overloaded to an unbearable degree, flesh begins to wither and flake off, internal bleeding begins, quickly draining a boiling blood supply, and bones begin to melt as a result of the extreme body temperature of the afflicted, enough to give someone 3rd degree burns if touched. Even if the sun wasn’t a problem, this subtype isn’t built for open areas and one wouldn’t last very long if made to live in one.

These vampires have rich cultures and communities that I’ll probably post about later, and there are more subtypes than this in my oc world, but this post is too long already !! Hope y’all thought this was even a little interesting. Peace!! (feel free to make ocs of these if u want lol)

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hermesserpent-stuff · 9 months

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Loki lore?

So! At this point Ive deviated from the cannon a lot and it's safe to say I will continue to do so. All of these ideas are very au. And I'm cool with that.

Onto the fun stuff! (I'm mixing some Norse stuff with other things i like from history)

Loki was stolen away much like he is in the first Thor movies flash back. Growing up as a giant on Asgard was not great for him nutrition-wise. Frost giants eat a different sort of food and their realm is built differently. He was always going to be a little smaller and thinner than the other giants due to being of the seidrmadur type. Frost giants generally have two types (like dnd classes) warrior and magic user. The magic users tend to be a little smaller as a lot of their nutrition and energy goes to growing a strong core and using magic. They are valued and normally are tucked away from outside eyes. This gives the impression to outsiders that frost giants are all large and are all warriors. They tend to influence battles from afar and look into prophecy.

Loki is smaller than the giants due to not getting all the right foods and trying to keep up with thor. Frigga did her best but the nutrition of other species is not really a thing the aesir focused on. She taught him magic the Aesir way, which is slightly different from the way of the frost giants but not so different that it did him any true damage. She does not know Loki's parents, only that at least one of them is alive.

Odin knows that Loki is the son of Laufey, leader of the Frost giants. Laufey knows Odin has his son but is not aware that Loki is that child. Odin took Loki to enforce a peace as Laufey did not want to risk harming his own kid. He knows loki is in Asgard, but not sure where, just that he is alive. Taking enemy kings children to force peace/loyalty is something kings have done throughout history

laufey would like his kid back but since he's not sure where/who loki is, he never was able to reach out even secretly.

Loki knows none of this and just thinks he was always destined to be weaker than his brother.

side point, being on Midgard is doing interesting things to loki. Midgard is cooler than Asgard. and the branches of Yggdrasil near Midgard and Jotunheim are more similar than the branch near Asgard.

ahhhh all the thoughts. hope this all makes sense.

#loki #mcu loki #hermes speaks #mcu au #spider nephew au #ask hermes #mcu odin #world building

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tarantula-hawk-wasp · 1 month

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To make up for getting 2.5 hrs of sleep the night before my brain really went into overdrive on the dreams today

Under the read more if you want to read my dream diary

One dream was where I was reading a book and then the dream became the book which was a story about a very unethical aquarium trying to bring back the long extinct pliosaur and worship it as a cult.

The protagonist was a late teenage who worked there and then “accidentally fell” (pushed) in to the unlit nighttime tank with their larger aquatic life, and she can sense something communicating with her, a confusing mix of neutral and hostile, and then frantically manages to escape the tank but breaks her leg in the process. Then after leaving that job and having her leg heal, she’s leery of water despite being in a beach town, and leery of the aquarium.

But then she meets a different young woman who is by the public beach entrance protesting the aquarium for unethical behavior including dumping animals into the sea illegally because nonnative species that were found in the aquarium have been found in the nearby water.

The two girls hit off because the first one still had confusing suspicions about her accident and the other was very gung-ho about investigating. And together they found the like secret lab of the aquarium and in a cold room they found a freezer full of cetacean brains - some whole some dissected. And they found files revealing that the first girl had been identified as someone who had a brain compatible with cetacean communication (this is the second time this year I’ve had a dream about a girl who can talk to whales).

After they found the lab the next step was to test if she could talk to whales, but obviously due to trauma she’s scared of getting back in the water (I have a severe phobia of fish. Scary water dreams are weekly) but the other girl holds her hand and promises to be there the whole time etc.

And like overall their relationship was very sweet in a “shared cause and investigation and now that we know why you’re special I’ll fight to protect you” way.

So they go in the sea and the whale girl can sense things and realizes that the whales are very afraid of something, but there are other slightly different voices communicating too, she can also understand large fish, not just whales, and they’re concerned too. (Almost like experimental attempts at bringing back an aquatic apex predator are happening)

Unhelpfully the dream ended there

The second dream I had was about a town being terrorized by a bear. Now I don’t know why this bear was so special and so bad but it was. There was a level of absurdity to the actual size of the threat versus the madmaxian lifestyle shift. It was a small town like the one I grew up on tbh.

I was myself in this and I was in a found family situation with a middle aged actor (not anyone real), myself, a 12 yo girl, and a 7 yo boy. Now were they orphaned by the bear? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ unclear. But we all pretty much lived out of a big SUV and a big part of the dream was doing a grocery run but the bear was inside the grocery store.

So it was me trying to balance who finds what on the grocery list with the Man, and trying to keep track of where the kids were, and where the bear was. Which included moments like trying to figure out what aisle the peanut butter (because my sleeping brain did think of a pretty solid grocery list of minimally perishable food kids would eat like pbj and cereal bars and dry cereal (the man was in charge of getting canned food)) was in but having to creep by the aisle where the bear was eating an unfortunate fellow shopper.

Out of the grocery store there was a mix of domestic experiences like feeding the kids or getting them to sleep and like trying to help hunt the bear. The town had a tall radio tower they used as a watch tower with movable mirrors to signal where the bear was sighted.

We joined a woman in fun leather armor in a spear hunt, like I was riding sitting on the open car window with a spear to do some drive by lancing.

It was at this point I was getting suspicious that the bear might be enhanced or mutated or special in some way. Only at that point.

The dream also ended without resolution about what happened with the bear

#Holly dream tag #would have helped if anyone in my dreams had a name but people in my dreams rarely do

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spinnertop · 1 year

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Fun thing I wanted to talk about regarding Tango and Xisuma as netherborn and voidwalker respectively. I'm not good at biology, and this might just make sense to me, but I like this headcanon.

So for my fic, I wanted some help writing it because the recent chapter focuses on parts of netherborn biology. For that, I wanted to make sure that I got most of it fairly accurately. One thing that I wanted to get right would be Tango's body temperature. In my head having someone live in a hot place, and their body being hot didn't make sense to me. So I decided to ask my friend who loves biology about that. She told me that in an environment like the nether, the body would actually cool down to save the brain from overheating.

That thought is fascinating to me because in fics we all see that people who the fandom considers netherborns (Tango, Sapnap, etc.) are described as very warm. It's even better when you consider the inverse.

So I personally like to think that the End is very cold, due to the fact it has no barrier between it and the Void. The reason I think the Void is cold is because a void is an absence of everything, including heat. So creatures in the End would have a higher body temperature to keep themselves from freezing. This means Endermen (at least ones in the End. I like to think they're all slightly different species but that's a theory for another day) are rather warm. Voidwalkers would also follow this rule. I especially like it for Xisuma because it brings out more differences between player races in all three dimensions.

I like this because it really doesn't change anything for the plot beats I'm planning. For example, because voidborns in this theory are generally warmer, they can't be in hot places for too long. This is an important part of my fic and I'm so happy that I have a way to explain the absence of Xisuma in one of the more crucial chapters coming up.

#hermitblr #hermitcraft #minecraft #mineblr #tangotek #xisumavoid #tell me if i need to change the tags if I got something wrong #hermit headcanons #headcanon #had a lot of fun writing this #rambles #tango tek

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camirazone · 10 months

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Team Fever, and our Self-Indulgent Puyo Puyo Miraculous AU

More specifically (before anyone raises any pitchforks), an AU in name only. It’s just a “what if the miracle box from miraculous existed in the Puyo world” type thing. You don’t really need much knowledge of Miraculous because we basically changed a lot of the kwamis’ powers and designs anyways.

My pal Greeny ( @greenysoliatre ) has brought up most of the important details in her write up of the AU but a TL;DR is that Sig accidentally finds a peacock broach while looking for bugs and things very quickly get out of hand.

It’s up to our heroes Coccinella and Chat Noire (with an E, noire is feminine while noir is masculine) to put a stop to this craziness, and along the way learn some pretty deep secrets.

Just who are these heroes though? Find out under the “Keep Reading” cut here:

This is Coccinella, Lidelle’s hero identity. A bit of a random pick to give this ladybug miraculous to but trust me it makes sense. Her outfit technically isn’t really the right species but I didn’t want to use red and the bee miraculous isn’t in this AU so shhh. Her shy personality as Lidelle contrasts with the slightly more confident Coccinella, in which her form reveals her horns (although most people think it’s part of the costume anyways). In this form she feels like she’s more able to be herself and, once getting an All Clear, is able to activate her spell “Lucky Charm” and use an item to her advantage. 9 times out of 10 though she doesn’t know what to do with it so she just throws it at whoever the threat is.

Chat Noire (shoutouts to Greeny yet again for her take on the left) is her partner in “crime”, and is also insane enough to fight in heels because you just know Raffina is extra enough to do that. Her hair is designed to resemble the whiskers of a cat, though I also like Greeny’s take too with the hair looking like claws, maybe it’ll change to that once Raffina learns she doesn’t actually have to keep a secret identity (no one else seems to make any effort to, at least...). As Chat Noire Raffina feels like she actually has some kind of power for once, though it still relies on another object similar to her pouch. Upon getting an All Clear she will be able to use the spell “Cataclysm” which grants her the power to destroy an object. She usually ends up misusing this.

It’s just these two for a while, but eventually Amitie and Tarutaru do some sleuthing and end up becoming heroes themselves.

Tarutaru’s a big guy, but he does care a lot about protecting others, hence why he is given the turtle miraculous to become Carapace. I don’t have a lot to say about his design, other than that yeah it’s pretty much like a turtle. He was definitely a fun one to draw because it’s always fun to draw different body types and design cool superhero costumes. When getting an All Clear, he can activate the spell of “Shell-ter”, which is a shield that can protect others from garbage puyo.

And lastly, Oinktimism. Amitie couldn’t come up with anything clever for her name, but she’s fine with it. Much like with Carapace I don’t have much to say about her design, because it is literally just Pigella’s design but with a pig hat. I forgot to put the image of the untransformed Amitie but...come on, you still know it’s her anyways. She’s not exactly the best superhero out there but she tries her best and is always there to keep the team’s spirits high. Upon getting an All Clear, she can use the spell “Gift” which gives the target their deepest desires. Usually, since the opponents are either mindless sentimonsters or random civilians turned into champions (our version of akumas), the gift is pretty inconsequential, but it makes the opponent a little happier.

Together they form...

TEAM FEVER!

There are definitely more characters than just these four, but I wanted to get the hero team out of the way. This has been a fun project Greeny and I have been working on the past few months and it’s been a blast (in the actual story though...things aren’t as fun)

#puyo puyo #lidelle puyo puyo #raffina puyo puyo #tarutaru puyo puyo #amitie puyo puyo #miraculous ladybug #miraculous au

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on-wednesdays-we-eat-the-rich · 4 months

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I'm posting about autism again.

Because I've seen a couple of posts making the rounds that I've had some Feelings about but I only just managed to put them into words.

The posts are something along the lines of "neurodivergent people are making jokes about neurotypical people and Clearly this means neurodivergent people think neurotypicals aren't real". Or, to shorten it slightly: "neurodivergent people are oppressing neurotypicals by making jokes about them".

I have made a post already in which I semi-comedically argue against this idea, but I thought I might as well write an essay about it too just to make sure I'm being completely clear.

For a little bit of context, here are the kinds of jokes neurodivergent people make about neurotypicals (taken from pins in my autism board on Pinterest) (just to clarify, neurodivergence is not limited to autism and covers a whole bunch of different disabilities; the reason these jokes are mostly about autism is because I got them from my autism board. I'm sure people with other disabilities have made similar jokes.)

Obviously there are other examples but these are my favourites. Especially the last one, it's hilarious.

Why do we make these jokes?

Because they're funny

To parody the kind of mocking we get from neurotypicals by turning it back on them and showing how silly it is

To let off steam after a frustrating social interaction

Probably more reasons because I don't speak for everyone

Very rarely do I see a neurodivergent person make a joke that is specifically meant to hurt, harass or alienate a neurotypical person. However, those are all common reasons that neurotypicals make jokes about us.

You can apply the same logic to basically any marginalised group. For example, we see a lot of queer people make jokes about straight people, right? Always silly sarcastic things like "straight people have no fashion sense". Why is this a common joke? Because it's a very common stereotype that queer people, especially gay men, are fashionable and wear pretty clothes. Also, we get a fair bit of confusion from straight people about popular gay fashion. So making this joke is both a response to the confusion, and often judgement or piss-taking, and a reclamation of a stereotype that has been used in a derogatory way.

It's a very similar concept with neurodivergence. Many symptoms of disabilities, for example, autistic special interests, have been commonly seen as something bad that needs to be changed, and have only recently been reclaimed by the neurodivergent community as a good thing that brings joy. Special interests are still made fun of by people who don't understand them. We get called obsessive, annoying and childish. So if we make a joke like "I guess neurotypicals don't have interests" in response to this, it is not to make all neurotypicals feel bad, or to separate them from us, but to point out and laugh at the ridiculousness of telling us off for something that 1. we have very little control over, and 2. is not even a bad thing.

I don't know if neurotypicals are under the impression that neurodivergent people can't be sarcastic, but if that's the case it would explain rather a lot, because they seem to always take everything we say really seriously. Whereas if they say something about us that is actually hurtful and damaging, and we call them out on it, we have to listen to them call us overdramatic snowflakes and tell them that yes, we can in fact take a joke. The difference is that what they're saying is rarely actually a joke. Because they believe it. For hundreds of years, they've learned and been taught to believe that we're some kind of alien species, that we don't even count as human beings, that we either have no feelings at all or we express our feelings too much, that we need to change everything about ourselves to live up to their standards, and that we should never have existed at all. And when we retaliate, they tell us we're hurting their feelings. They say, "you know neurotypicals are still people, right?" and it's exactly the same thing that straight people do to queer people, that cis people do to trans* people, that white people do to POC, that men do to women, that any privileged group does to any marginalised group as soon as they show the slightest bit of resistance. All of a sudden you're the victims and we have to be reminded that you're People and you have Feelings and you can't take even a little bit of criticism because if you do you'll spontaneously combust. You're the ones who have been dehumanising us for as long as you've known about our existence, but sure. We could stand to be taken down a peg or two, right?

I'm reminded of James Acaster's stand-up routine in which he took the piss out of other comedians like Ricky Gervais for making transphobic jokes.

"I'm An EdGy CoMeDiAn, It'S mY jOb To ChAlLeNgE pEoPlE! Yeah because you know who's long overdue a challenge? The trans community."

I'm just going to leave that here. Feels like its fits.

#autism #the tism #neurodivergence #neurodivergent #long post #james acaster #just a little bit of james acaster #neurotypicals whining about how we're “excluding them” or some shit #as if they haven't done the exact same thing to us #doesn't feel good does it guys?#try being mercilessly bullied by a gang of teenagers #or sent to therapy that's meant to threaten you into behaving in a socially acceptable way #i think y'all can survive a little bit of piss-taking

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marbled-polecat · 7 months

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From 'say you feel the same way too' for the ask game:

The clones have formed their own sort of culture on Kamino and now that they have access to the wider world, they discovered that they are quite a bit more tactile than the average human.

While on Kamino, and even now, it’s common place to see groups of vod’e piled together resting, napping, and occasionally even more intimate things. The latter are slightly more rare, but that is only because of the risk of exposure; first from the Kaminoans and later the natborns of the GAR. Fives has noticed recently how they tend to cram themselves together like little canned tip-yip.

Cuddle piles were a great comfort when they were small cadets and most still enjoy them as adults. Fear is till a very big motivator for them because of so many vod’e never came back after taking a trip with the Kaminii . Despite that, piles of clones soon became the norm in the dormitories. It was easy for everyone to pile together for comfort. At some point, the Kaminii had just given up and allowed them that little bit of freedom. It was the trainers later who had more of a problem as the clones matured.

The Kaminoans tried to crack down on the clones engaging in any sexual acts alone or together, but that seemed more like they disaproved because they were sneaking around and hiding something and less because of the act its self. The Kaminoans, as far as Fives knew, did not have sex. They either spawned or grew more of their own species in tubes. The trainers were a completely different story. Many of them said all sorts of horrible things to the young clones and went so far as to threaten them on occasion. Sadly, there was more than one story of a cadet being decommed because of something as simple as loving someone.

Thank you so much for the ask @petrifiedforests !!!

From say you feel the same way too

Oh no, I made myself sad about Trigger and Brey again. T–T and probably the countless other clones that had similar, if not worse experiences. T—T Why do I write this and do this to myself???

Aaanyway, so yes clone culture is fun to expand on and WOW sometimes it is hard to keep track of your own HCs. No wonder TCW writers had so many inconsistencies (it's more than that, yes I know, but funny to note now that I write myself)!

Clones forming cuddle piles is just adorable to me. The little kiddos all piled like sleepy puppies and then older, just sprawled all over each other. Feet in faces and the inevitable foot to the face in your sleep. Ah, bathing like siblings. XD

I am especially pleased with the 'canned tipyip' line! XD

I do feel a bit bad about the tragic story of the trainers being nasty homophobes, but I wanted to come up with a reason why Domino squad acted like they couldn't function and putting them all together later and making them.nearly deployed felt plausible to me.

Ooooo, Kaminoans! I like the idea that the Kaminoans don't really understand human needs, socializing, touching, functional armor (DX), etc, so making them ambivalent to clones experimenting and going through the inevitable hormonal surges of puberty made sense to me. As long as they are 'good little products' we'll let you touch each other because it seems to be inevitable. Also, imagine trying to convince 200,000+ teenagers that they can't have 'fun times'. If the clones weren't scared shirtless of being decomed they would have a mutiny.

There are some good trainers, but let's be real. They are all paid to be there and they want that paycheck also probably some level of authority and to tell people what they can and can't do. :(

I do wonder if they make more for quality of their troopers, like their scores or just quantity? Eww, I feel gross thinking about them as 'units', so back to happy clones piles because they make me happy! <3

Thanks again for the ask!!!! <3

#ask reply #reset the dominoes #echo/fives #echo5 #tcw #cloneship #my writing

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simmeons · 11 months

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i felt like being silly, have the old wip i never proofread so enjoy the raw writing ☝️☝️

Halloween. Khan had heard of it before from Scotty, but never had he entertained the idea of joining in on the holiday. A day where humans mocked supernatural beings. The whole thing was a slap in the face. Was Khan just something to be made fun of? Not to mention, if so many humans dressed up as vampires, why do they constantly hate them? No matter how Khan looked at it, it made no sense.

Despite all this, Scotty had asked him to go out and celebrate. Begging, really. The man swore up and down Khan would be fine and it would be fun. Khan didn't need to dress up, he was fine as is, and Scotty was a wonderful convincer.

Now Khan and Scotty stand in the town, the moon shining over and against the stone pathways. Warm colored lights hang from street poles to street poles, warming up the whole place more. People are talking and joking in some less than amendable costumes. Scotty said he couldn't dress up, something about having to find that Leonard kid and help with the Church. Khan toned out once he heard the name of the other priest.

"Okay Khan, I'm going to trust ye'll behave," Scotty spoke, dusting off Khan's shirt mindlessly. "Just go door to door asking for candy. Go chat, have some fun. Alright?" He looked up at Khan with a small smile. Khan knew this entire thing was because Scotty thought he didn't get enough interaction, thinking maybe if he was around people dressed like his own kind it would make up for something.

"I understand."

Sighing, Scotty nodded. "Good. Ye know where I'll be. Don't be scared to get me if something happens." He leans up to give Khan a small kiss on the cheek, just something quick, knowing there weren't enough people around to be worried about.

Khan's cheeks reddened ever so slightly. "I'll be fine." With one last pat on the shoulder Scotty was on his way, leaving Khan alone. He stood there a little dumbly for a few moments when Scotty was gone, quickly realizing how lonely he felt. Shrugging it off he turned to look around, to establish a plan.

Go door to door and ask for candy..

Of course, Scotty had already informed Khan on the rituals of Halloween. It seemed a little absurd.

'Trick or Treat'... Why would the person wanting candy ask such a question? You sound as if you're the one giving out the tricks or treats.

Khan kept his mind busy as he walked past huddles of humans. He took notice of some of their costumes.

Witches, werewolves, vampires, ghosts, the whole ensemble. Some even were wearing masks, holding what looked like fake kitchen knives. All the humans seemed to be that of young aged, quite short and spunky. Very loud.

Khan's more authentic clothing definitely made him stick out. Of course he'd know how to pull off the vampire look. Scotty had pleaded with Khan to go all out. The fancy frilly shirts, long elegant trenchcoat and just a little tad of jewelry. It made him feel overdressed, but it's not his fault the humans slack at everything they do. What a lazy species.

All different houses were decorated. Lights, cobwebs on trees, even inflatable monsters. Khan could see some smaller variations of the humans on the doorsteps in a group, all smiling and happy. He noticed the less dressed, presumably older humans standing at the end of the driveway. Khan argued with himself for a short moment if that was the correct term for it.

"Nice costume."

Khan turned to see an older human smiling at him. Male. Plain white shirt with 'this is my costume' written on it.

"Thank you". Khan responded bluntly. The human very obviously looked him up and down, and Khan had to repress the urge to snarl at the human in disgust.

"You take Halloween pretty seriously, huh?" They smiled again, this time looking more directly at Khan's face.

"Yes."

"Nice."

There was an odd silence with the human just looking at Khan, and he was getting more uncomfortable. Do humans always just.... willingly ogle like this?

"You stare a lot."

The man looked back up at Khan, and chuckled.

"Sorry, kinda drunk. You just look really cool."

Khan paused.

"What's.. being drunk." The human then laughed, and Khan frowned. "Don't laugh at me." He warned.

"Oh man, do you live under a rock?" Laughing more, the human gave Khan a slap on the back. It was completely uncalled for, shaking Khan a little. "You really must get into this whole vampire act."

"Yes, yes. I am very serious about my acting." He pushed the human off him slightly, careful to not knock the poor excuse of a creature over. Khan quickly found this human a nuisance, and he knew for a fact other vampires wouldn't even waste time to drink off them.

"Well, I've got more drinks if you want." Smiling, the man offered. "I mean, I don't see any kiddos with you. Got nothing to worry about. Have some fun, yeah?"

Khan repeated what Scotty had told him in his head.

'Go have some fun.'

If what this human said was true, then this would be fulfilling Scotty's wishes.

"Very well." Khan fixed his clothing, removing the wrinkles the human so carelessly put in his shirt. "I will take you up on the offer."

"Great! Just follow me then."

Khan followed the human down the street, passing houses. He wondered for a split second if this was some set up, but then he reminded himself he was much stronger than these humans. Whatever this being wanted Khan to try, he could handle. He had done his fair share of unspeakable acts in his life.

They eventually came up to a table set outside of a house, colorful lights flashing out of the windows and loud music blaring. Khan's ears twitched slightly at the absurd volume, quickly finding it completely unnecessary.

"Here, here. Have a cup." Khan was brought back from his grump but the human handing him a red plastic cup. He took it, and brought it up to his face.

"What is it?"

"Alcohol."

Khan sniffed it, curious. He brought the cup to his lips, and being mindful of the fangs, took a small sip.

The taste was immediate, a hard punch to the taste buds.

Khan reeled, coughing and gagging. Above the stupidly loud music from the house, the sound of his own noises of complaint, he could hear the human laughing.

"Oh man, you really do live under a rock! I'm starting to think you're a real vampire, man!" More laughing, just loud, obnoxious laughing. "Come on! Drink! Drink! Drink!"

"Is this what having fun is? Torturing yourself for enjoyment?" Khan swore, keeping the cup and it's cursed contents away from his face.

"No, no. It's the feeling you get after the drink that's fun. Go on, you got it. Just drink!" The human continued to urge on, chanting and chanting. God, what Khan wouldn't give to rip the puny human's vocal cords out with his own bare hands. Clearly, the human wouldn't shut up until Khan filled it's request.

Tilting his head back, Khan drank the rest of the concoction. He hissed, the taste of the drink was something less than desirable. Khan shoved the empty cup back to the human, eyes closing with effort to not just gag the drink back up.

"Hey, there you go! Was that so hard?" Khan could feel the cup being taken away and then a hand on his back.

"Yes." No point in lying. He would much rather be back at home in the warm embrace of Scotty instead of drinking this 'alcohol' with this random human.

"Let's get you inside. We've got candy."

Candy. Doors.

Khan forgot he was supposed to go get candy. How could he forget what Scotty told him? He got too distracted with this foolishness.

"No, I can't." Khan shook his head, trying to politely decline the human. "A friend of mine said I must go trick or treating. I do not want to let him down."

The man scoffed.

"Seriously? You're too old for that."

Too old?

Sure, considering the age gap between humans and vampires. But Scotty had told Khan to ignore that. He wasn't too old. Scotty said trick or treating was for everyone. Why would Scotty ever lie?

"Nonsense. My friend said otherwise."

"Well your friend is weird. Adults don't go trick or treating. That's for kids." The human rolled his eyes and crossed his arms. "Forget em, a party is way funner. There's some hot chicks too."

Khan frowned. How dare this human speak so lowly of Scotty? Despite everything, Khan knew it was best to try and keep this calm. There's no point in starting a fight. Scotty said to be good.

"I'm sorry, I must politely decline." He glared, keeping the tone respectful. "I will be on my way."

The human tried to say something more but Khan just walked away, scowling to himself.

First the human made him drink something completely disgusting, then talk badly about Scotty? What ugly traits for a human. Thank goodness Khan was back on track.

Stuffing his hands into his pockets, Khan walked down more streets. The town wasn't too huge, but still sizable. Scotty told Khan to look out for these lights, ones in the front of the house. If they were on, you could ask for the candy.

The more walking, the more Khan noticed the lack of these lights being on. Perhaps it was too late, or too early. Scotty had told Khan the people of this town didn't celebrate too aggressively. Assuming Scotty meant they don't go mad for the holiday.

More time passed and he was starting to feel increasingly disappointed. He was starting to notice the lack of people as well. Maybe he was in the wrong part of town. There were so many people before.

Khan stopped walking for a moment, just looking around. Maybe he should go back. Maybe go and see Scotty. This whole thing seemed to be a bust.

But he didn't want to go back empty handed! He wasn't having fun, nor had he gotten any candy. Maybe he should've just gone into that loud house the human offered.

Huffing, Khan kicked a loose stone with frustration. He watched as it tumbled along the sidewalk, clacking with every roll.

He started to notice how odd he felt. Tired, almost. It felt like his legs wouldn't be able to hold him up. Light headed. Khan just shook his head and kept walking the same direction he had been for minutes.

House after house. No light. No small humans.

More houses. Even more after that. More walking, just following the sidewalk. More lights. None of them on.

Khan could feel how fussy he was getting, each house without a light on another push to just throw a fit on the floor. He frowned at his own lack of composure.

Finally. A small house with a light on. Thank the heavens. Khan felt the urge to cry with joy, but immediately scolded himself for even feeling that way.

Stepping, or more like stumbling, he got to the front door. There was a button next to the door.

He reached out and pushed it.

Khan could hear a jingle from inside the house, and then noises of humans. The sound of walking, and then the sound of the door behind opened.

The light from the house almost made Khan stumble, but he held his ground. He blinked a few times to steady himself, and opened his mouth to speak.

Wait, what was he supposed to say?

A question, ask them a question.

Khan was too caught up in his own confusion to notice the human at the door. A female with gorgeous red curly hair.

"Are you okay?" She asked, voice soft and worried. Khan looked at her a little lost for words. Was he okay? He didn't know.

Khan shrugged, closing his mouth, finding it was pointless to try and speak when no words were forming.

The woman looked over Khan, before she held the door open more.

"Come inside. You look lost."

Without even thinking Khan willingly agreed to the idea. He started to walk into the house before tripping over himself, but thank goodness for the lady. She caught him and held him up. She was saying something to Khan but he couldn't hear her, too focused on the fact he almost face planted on the floor.

There was suddenly another human, holding Khan up more firmly. He turned to look at the human, seeing a man with dark hair and a beard to match. Khan wanted to say something but his words failed him.

"He's drunk."

"Oh, poor thing! He doesn't even look 18!"

Khan was listening to whatever the humans were talking about, only putting most his efforts in moving with the male human. He was moving Khan to a sofa, setting the vampire down.

"I'll get him some water." The man left, leaving Khan alone on the sofa.

18? What was that woman talking about?

Khan's head relaxed more into the sofa, mind slow as he thought. How could two humans think of two completely different ages when looking at him?

The world seemed to go null while Khan sat on the sofa, breathing slowly as he got comfortable. His whole body felt sluggish.

"Here, have some water." There was a hand on Khan's shoulder, making him look up to see the girl human again. She handed him a glass of water, Khan's hands having a hand time grabbing it. "Don't worry, I'll help." That she did.

With the help she offered, Khan took a steady sip of water. Boy did it taste like heaven. It didn't take him very long before his hands got steady and he was chugging the water by himself.

She took the glass back and left Khan alone. He looked around the house for a few moments, taking in everything. The house was decorated nicely, warm colored walls and sweet paintings and plants. It made him feel cozy.

Khan's time appreciating the decor was interrupted when there was a weight on his thigh, and he looked down to see a small human babbling at him.

It's small hands were tugging at Khan's pants, almost like it was trying to crawl.

The vampire watched with uncharacteristic interest.

Eventually it got on Khan's lap and tried to grab at his face. Khan touched the being's small face, and was delivered with softness.

This small human was much more soft than Scotty.

Khan was interpreted from his thoughts of Scotty by a tug on the ear.

"Ow!" He winced, pulling the small human's hands away. It only babbled more, smiling. That's when Khan noticed the lack of teeth. It grabbed at Khan's fingers, laughing some.

Was it trying to play?

Khan wiggled his fingers a little, and the human laughed more.

Despite his mean streak, Khan couldn't help but smile a little.

This much smaller human definitely had some charm. It was more likeable than the older humans.

Khan moved to tickle the small human gently on its sides, rewarded with more giggles and laughs.

Time seemed to pass so evenly when Khan was with this being. He didn't even notice when a familiar voice spoke to him.

"Seems the big bad wolf is good with babies." Khan looked up when he heard a chuckle, and he was so happy to be greeted with the sight of Scotty.

"Hi."

Scotty smiled. "Hi, Khan." He sat next to Khan and the baby who was still giggling happily. "I never took ye for the kind who's good with kids." He took a look at Khan before speaking again. "Or the kind to get drunk, for that matter."

"What?" Khan cocked his head a little.

"Khan, ye're drunk. Ye drank alcohol."

The vampire blinked for a few moments, only coming back to earth when the baby in his lap got upset they weren't playing anymore.

"Is that what drinking is?"

"Aye," Scotty shook his head. "I swear, this lack of knowledge on humans will be the death of ye"

Khan frowned, going back to gently playing with the child, waving his fingers around.

"I'm sorry."

Scotty sighed. "Don't be." He put a hand on Khan's shoulder. "I probably should've warned ye."

Kahn looked back at Scotty.

"Am I in trouble?"

"What?" Scotty shook his head, smiling just a little. "No. Khan, ye had no idea. This wasn't ye fault. It's okay, really." He gave Khan a small scratch behind the ears, making the vampire's chest rumble a little. Scotty always thought it was like a cat purring, but Khan always got mad at the idea.

"I just don't want to disappoint you."

"Ye can never disappoint me." Scotty picked up the baby, standing up. "But, we do need to get ye home. Can't have ye crashing with this family the rest of the night." He turned and handed the child back to it's mother, who thanked the priest.

Khan started to get up, and with the help of Scotty he was standing. They made their friendly goodbyes, Scotty thanking the family up and down for keeping Khan safe, and then they were on their way.

Scotty walked with Khan's arm around his waist, and a arm of his own around Khan's shoulders, keeping the vampire upwards.

"Did ye at least have a good night?"

Khan was silent for a few moments before he spoke softly.

"No. It's not the same without you."

That made Scotty blush just a little before chuckling.

"Well, ye would've been bored with me. Leonard had us stopping parties."

"I see."

They were silent again before Scotty spoke again.

"Just how much did ye drink?"

"One cup."

"Well, ye should be able to sleep it off just fine."

Khan received a small pat on the back, and the idea of sleep sounded amazing.

"That small human was nice."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah."

Scotty looked over to see Khan smiling a little drunkenly to himself.

"I would've never thought."

#vamp/preist au

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breloomdaycare · 1 year

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this is a question I've had for a while but are pokemon species listed as only being male or female really like that? I mean for pokemon like braviary and mandibuzz, it just doesn't really make much sense for me and I was hoping to get an explanation.

*sound of a nerd opening a telescoping pointer* I'm so glad you asked!

Settle in, this is gonna be a long one.

TL;DR: Some of them are actually the same pokemon, while some just have weird means of reproduction.

So, I've said before that interspecies breeding isn't really a thing. And this is true! So pokemon that are all male or all female are something of oddities, no? Each one of those pokemon has a specific weird thing about it.

Some, like the nidos, are both the same species, just with such broad sexual dimorphism they were originally classified as different species. Best examples are, again, the nidos, but also miltank/tauros, happiny/tyrogue, and impidimp/hatenna.

(FUN FACT! Nidos in particular are super prone to intersex variations. Intersex nidos tend to actually be bigger and stronger, since they're basically two nidos in one. How have I never heard of them, you ask? You have! They're called rhyhorn :D They tend towards one sex or the other for reproduction, but they do have both sets)

Others are simple cases of social dynamics. Kirlia, I think, is the best example. They start off pretty much indistinguishable, and eventually evolve into gardevoir. Gardevior are incredibly protective of their children, and kind of scary when they need to be. But they're also pretty nomadic. They always travel in pairs, at the very least, and usually with at least one gardevoir. If you see a bunch of ralts with no gardevoir around...they're nearby, and will definitely kick your ass if you touch their babies.

However, some hyper-competitive males will evolve less into caretakers with a nasty streak and more into vigilant, territorial loners. They will essentially roam their territory, looking high and low for any nomadic gardevoir to...uh...settle down with. Once the eggs hatch, he kicks her out of his territory and the cycle starts again.

Life...finds a way.

Things like this include kangaskhan, which is just a 'breeder' role in marowak societies, jynx, which is basically the same as gallade but for electabuzz, deadass, burmy (obvs), salazzle, where mature females become head of the pack and earn the rights to breed, and vespiquen, where the strongest females become the 'monarchs' of the swarm and are protected by their hive.

Some grass types reproduce asexually or through pollination. Where all members of the species are both sexes, but the male sex organs are fairly small, and also humans like to put gender roles on flowers. These are flabebes, petilils, and bounsweet (tho tsareena also have a bit of a social dynamic thing going on)

Then there are the oddballs. Ones that are just, like, completely out there in the way they handle sex and gender.

Let's start with snorunt. Because all snorunt turn into glalie. From the womb to the tomb, these things are coded to be glalie. They only turn into froslass when they are, and I cannot stress this enough, POSSESSED BY YAMASK. The story is that vengeful or tortured women possess the ice, turning it into the dawn stones used to turn snorunt into froslass. From a scientific standpoint, yamask don't do super great in the cold, so they often seek shelter in dawn stones until they find a warm enough host. (What this has to do with gallade I don't recall, but it has something to do with absorption of energy?) Female snorunt run a slightly higher temperature than pretty much anything else in their environment, so they're a pretty natural choice.

So basically, froslass is a parasitic relationship.

Sawk and throh aren't fully understood yet, but the running theory at the moment is that they're a subspecies of...I want to say timburr? I could be wrong. And again, we're not sure at the moment.

Milcery and tinkatink are pretty similar, but we're pretty sure milcery works like ghost pokemon, where it's just energy manifest in a form or object of its choosing. Tinkatink is a pretty recent discovery, and is really hard to do testing on, so we have next to no clue. Best guess atm is a hyper-aggressive hatenna variant, but there's not much evidence for this.

And last up, there's the birds. Despite being pretty similar in a lot of ways, the science suggests they actually have very little to do with each other.

Braviary is a pretty fun case, as we think it's another variant. It's been shown to be compatible with pidgeot. Case closed, right? Not exactly. Because we have research from, like, feudal Sinnoh that indicates that braviary lived in Sinnoh BEFORE pidgey did. And what's more, it seems to have had a secondary typing other than normal????? And ALSO it's compatible with staraptor, which we know DID live in Sinnoh at the right time. Okay, so it's a staraptor variant built for extreme climates. Yeah, but WHY IS IT COMPATIBLE WITH PIDGEOT??? But pidgeot and staraptor are NOT able to produce fertile offspring. But they are able to produce infertile offspring?

So braviary and staraptor are close enough to breed, and so are braviary and pidgeot. But not pidgeot and staraptor. And there was once a version of braviary that just, like, had another typing?? So braviary and pidgeot have a common ancestor, and staraptor is an offshoot of braviary, but braviary also need staraptor in order to reproduce? But ALSO we've found rufflet eggs in areas without staraptor OR pidgeot?!?! Braviary has been baffling scientists for years now, and it's infuriating to anyone who works with them because it is SO. HARD. To keep them from fucking.

And mandibuzz just reproduce asexually

*NOTE: I am not a licensed professional in this area, so I could be wrong about some stuff. And this is a turbulent area of study, so things could change by the time I finish writing this sentence. Please take everything I just said with a massive grain of salt.

#pkmn #pokemon #pokemon irl #unreality #sorry if i started rambling #this is just fascinating to me as a daycare worker #there's a reason i use rhydon for my examples

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Is there a particular kind of snake you envision Changsheng as? She strikes me as something like a pink-eyed leucistic rat snake, but I feel like the size is off on that!

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i haven't really put much thought into what changsheng is just mainly because i thought of her as more of a rare & unique snake 'species' to begin with . if you wanted to even call her that . but now that you have brought up the question ... there are a FEW things that i have been slightly aware of - but just didn't put effort into researching because i was primarily focuses on what baizhu was . ( i had been contemplating a naga for quite some time ngl , but i need to put more research into it ) . i digress though . what kind of snake is changsheng ? what do i envision her as ? well its a bit complicated .

your suggestion is something that would make sense though ! rather ... an albino leucistic rat snake that is . a long time ago i was studying the different species of snakes to try to study changsheng a bit more ( was she venemous ? was she harmless ? ) . a closer study is that - given her eye & head shape - she's non - venomous . ( a random side note & fun fact though is that baizhu as a snake IS venomous ) . she's albino for sure though . but the species is a bit harder to distinguish . i believe if she WERE a snake , it would be a serpent that is native to asia but still non venomous . perhaps a red bamboo or a copperhead racer - to name a couple . there are a few rat snakes found in asia as well , so i wouldn't doubt if she were one .

the other thing about changsheng is that there is a HIGH possibility that she's actually based not on a real animal but rather chinese lore . namely The Legend of the White Snake . though that legend is about lady bai ( oddly enough who does that remind you of ? well ... BAIZHU seems to coincidentally have a very close name to her - though it is assumed he's just named after a medicinal herb since he's a pharmacist after all ) . though i am not the only one to have considered this for changsheng . obviously it's just speculation & all , but it would make sense if changsheng IS based off of the legend of the white snake . she is the white lady after all ( more or less ) . but what is oddly strange about this is that there is ALSO a green snake in the legend as well - & why .... who else is green ? baizhu of course !

there are too many similarities between the legend & changsheng ( & baizhu for that matter ) that you cannot ignore it . i must admit that i myself am not of asian decent nor am i well versed in the lore - but i can most certainly try my best to look into the lore since i believe that many of the eastern lore is quite rich & very interesting .

but that's the thing . i don't think i really focused on LOOKING for a species for changsheng BECAUSE i have been more interested in lore & legends . i had been doing it for baizhu , so changsheng would be no different . just like i hc that baizhu is not a normal human ( or human to begin with ) , the same goes for his serpent companion . she is not a normal snake by any means .

to put it simply : i dont really want to label changsheng with a specific snake species - though she would be albino if we had determine something . she's most likely based more off of an eastern legend though . namely the legend of the white snake . & in that case , i don't think she would really be labeled as a specific species since she would be ' the white snake ' . either way , i think she would really be an unnamed snake species . a 'one of a kind ' type of snake , so it would be a bit hard to .... put her in a group . if that makes sense ?

#hc.#answer.#dandelicnfang #MAN i know i looked more into this before #when i was trying to figure out if she would venomous or not #but i dont think i ever decided on WHAT she was dfhakdskh #aside from the fact that her bites aren't lethal lshfkfads #long post //

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Title: Anansi Boys

Author: Neil Gaiman

Rating: ??

I started reading this by accident. I was skimming some reviews, and then I happened to look up "Anansi Boys", thinking I'd seen the title somewhere else, since it sounded like a good title. And then I opened the first book.

It... might just as well not have been the start of an exciting new series. If I hadn't already been familiar with a lot of Gaiman's earlier work (Sandman, American Gods, Coraline, Stuck in a Tale, etc.), this book would not have interested me much. It contains no worldbuilding, no explanations of the worldbuilding, no information about the nature of the setting, no hints about how it differs from the one familiar to me from his earlier works.

I feel the way one feels in an elevator before the elevator has started moving, with some apprehension and not much else. I'm not sure if this is a book for someone who hasn't read his earlier work, or a book for someone who has read his earlier work but doesn't find it much more fun than it already was.

There is some interesting stuff about the construction of fairy tales, but it's kind of buried there and not really central to the narrative. The characters of the story are kind of an ensemble cast -- like, there are a bunch of kids involved but some of them have only short arcs and some of them get much more attention than the others, which seems weird. I couldn't follow the story very well even as I tried to -- I didn't know how, say, the main characters in the story relate to each other except when we find out that they have something in common, and it takes me quite a while to figure that out.

And on the whole I think "Anansi Boys" ends up as a very conventional "fantasy" story told through more conventional "found family" tropes, with nothing too inventive on the plot front. It has a lot of fun with a few of its central premises -- the setting, the various forms of mind control -- but doesn't seem to be much of a departure from earlier work. It seems aimed at people who have read Sandman and liked it, and who don't need a lot more worldbuilding from Gaiman beyond that.

To a lesser extent I've also been thinking about this from the perspective of "Anansi Boys" as a kind of "fanfic" -- it's Gaiman's way of updating his earlier stories. Gaiman's early work is sort of "fancier" than his "more recent" work in that it's full of (often non-anthropomorphic) characters, and it's less consistent about the mechanics of the plot. That's what makes it fun! (In the above paragraph, for instance, there are lots of characters, some of which have only a few lines of action, and some of which are only involved in a few scenes each, and the reader doesn't know when characters have stopped talking because there is a lot of ambiguous speech happening in these stories). If you're doing a modern version of "Anansi Boys" that also includes a lot of extra stuff, like the character of Shai, then, it makes sense to tell a slightly "fancier" story.

But if you were going to adapt Anansi Boys to present-day terms, rather than just updating it, then what would you do? You'd want to keep the characters with only a few lines of dialogue, and not necessarily give everyone some kind of "soul" plotline. You'd have to keep the story's worldbuilding relatively vague and not tell the reader a lot about how the world is supposed to work. You'd probably not want to have the characters meet aliens in a desert and ask "What is our relationship with other species?", as Gaiman does in the earlier stories. It would be much harder to make the story fun in this adaptation. You'd have to do some stuff that Gaiman isn't going to do.

This means that a "fancier" version of "Anansi Boys" isn't necessarily any funner -- a better comparison would be, say, to Terry Pratchett's last three novels, which seem like "fancier" adaptations of their predecessors. But these books are just fine.

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