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nobodysdaydreams · 6 months

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For my Wolf359 fans: I have an earth shattering theory about Blessie! 🪴 (Specimen 34)

As many have deduced from my recent poll, Blessie has become my favorite character in Wolf359. And as typically happens when I hyperfixate, the brain bees have activated, leading me to a groundbreaking theory about Blessie (trust me guys this is important).

So in my last reaction post during the episode where Mincowski hunts the plant, Hilbert doesn’t get a chance to say what species he mixed to create specimen 34. He makes guesses about the plant’s behavior based on how the species that he used to create the plant act (though he never names what they are), but doesn’t offer any more information than that. However, we know Blessie is intelligent and capable of understanding human speech, which means one of the species that it was created from was likely an intelligent life form; thus, Hilbert would need the DNA of an intelligent life form to make it.

And since the only intelligent life forms around for miles around are the humans on the station, it stands to reason that one of them is (technically) one of Blessie’s parents. But who?

Well, we know that Blessie, despite only being conscious for a few hours/days/weeks is resourceful, good at hiding out, and its first move was to take command of the ship and disable Hilbert (who it called “The Oppressor”). Once the plant discovered the other humans had locked Hilbert (“The Oppressor”) away after he betrayed them, it stopped attacking them and only reacted in self defense, refusing to kill Minkowski even when she wanted it dead. So the plant is instinctually trained for battle but also seems to follow an ethical code.

My conclusion? Specimen 34 was created in part with DNA from Reneé Minkowski. Which makes her conversation with Hilbert where she cuts him off before he can tell her what the “parent species” of Blessie actually are even more ironic.

Feel free to comment on the theory if you’d like. However, please don’t add spoilers to this post! I’m still listening to Season 2. If you want to follow my reactions or look up the ones I’ve already posted, you can do so by following the “#bods wolf359 reactions” tag or by following this blog.

UPDATE: I finished Wolf359 and wrote a fic on about this:

#bods wolf359 reactions #wolf 359 #w359 #hera wolf 359 #wolf359 #doug eiffel #renee minkowski #alexander hilbert #specimen 34 #blessie #the blessed eternal #long post

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basementxdweller · 1 month

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#me when a sadistic 34 yo german guy with long hair tell me to do something #dolly gross posts #btd #strade

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somethingusefulfromflorida · 1 year

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Trump is gonna turn himself in, but it's gonna be on his own terms. He'll fly to New York in a private jet and be escorted to the courthouse in a motorcade flanked by secret service, rhen have his PR people set up a podium outside so he can deliver a campaign speech after he's released later that day. They won't hold him for any length of time, not even overnight, just catch and release.

Ron Desantis is making a big deal about how Florida will refuse to extradite him to New York, but that's just because he knows it'll never come to that and he doesn't want to lay a hand against the leader of his party. He's absolutely not going to run for president in 2024 because he knows he'll lose the nomination in a landslide, and if he says anything bad about Trump the party will crucify him (10 Republicans voted to impeach Trump in 2021, all but 2 lost re-election in 2022; 2 of the 7 senators who voted to convict chose not to run for re-election at all because they didn't think they could win their primaries, and 1 resigned).

Desantis is biding his time to run in 2028 once Trump is out of the picture, either term limited or disgraced for having cost R's the White House again. His refusal to extradite is pointless because Trump doesn't want to be arrested. He doesn't want there to be a standoff, he doesn't want the feds to get involved, he doesn't want to be dragged away in handcuffs for resisting. If he turns himself in, he controls the narrative. If he resists and Desantis helps him, the hammer will come down even harder and he'll embarass himself.

I mean, either way he's gonna act like a martyr, but it would hurt his strongman image if he was manhandled by feds on camera. Like that photo of General MacArthur and the Emperor of Japan, or the video of Richard Spencer getting punched in the face, being arrested would make Trump look weak. His base consists of about a third of the country, maybe 40%, but that's not enough to win in 2024 anymore than it was in 2020, especially not after all of his handpicked Secretary of State stooges lost in 2022. If he's arrested, he'll be seen as an even bigger national laughingstock than he already is, and the the other 60% of voters will flock away from him and towards Biden's Big Tent coalition. Republicans will probably sweep the Senate because of an unfavorable map, but the White House is theirs to lose.

TLDR: Trump will go quietly to save face, then get his ass kicked in 2024 because his base isn't growing

#rant #long post #trump indictment #indict #indictment #34 counts #trump #donald trump #arrest #trump arrest #tldr

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justworthlessreblogs · 6 months

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sent part 6 to my beta. if all goes well it should be posted tonight or tomorrow

#usually i just bounce ideas off my beta but this one was so long i asked him to look over it for errors because #there's no way i could do it myself #the doc is 36 pages and 12.4k words #it actually ended around 41 pages and 14.5k words but i ended up cutting out 34 from bib fic since she didn't fit well in it #do not worry 34 Will get covered on its own eventually. and i kept the original version #might post it in spice of life at some point #i just ended up realizing it might work better from a rio or ciel or yukari pov #cure waffle au #waffleverse: writing #god i am SO excited to finally have this finished so i can move on

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partyinthemysterymachine · 2 years

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so i’m gonna get down and serious for a second here y’all ok

tw: talk of suicide

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so like. listen: i’m super mentally ill. i’ve been in and out of hospitals and therapy, done many different treatments, had my own experiences, successes and failures and neutrals, and i’m always going to be sick. always. that’s just the fact of it.

i’m always going to have great days or weeks or years, and really shitty ones. and i’m gonna be suicidal and i’m gonna get This Close to going through with it. i got the closest i ever had, back in 2018.(? 2019? that area. memory hasn’t worked right in ages, lmao)

at 34 years old i seriously didn’t think i’d be here. i legit didn’t think i’d make it to 25, let alone 30. and those’re pretty big numbers.

thing is, i guess i haven’t done much and i live with a lot of guilt. i’m disabled. working, let alone living every day, is very hard for me.

but never. in my fucking life. would i have believed the sequence butterfly events that have gotten me here. if Future Me had come knockin’ on 18-year-old Past Me’s door. and let me in a few lil’ secrets. and actually? wouldn’t want to know.

i’ve dealt with a whole lot of personal hardship and heartache, bullshit flying day and night, the weight of my failures and catching fire and toxicity and crashing and crawling out and becoming a better person and making mistakes and doing it all over again just for one good year, and then have it all crumbling. it happens. it just fucking happens, mates, and sometimes, you end up in the hospital where you actually need to be.

but those opinions aside, what i’m really getting at here with all this buildup is this:

keep fighting.

the next year is a big number for some people. the next tomorrow, week, month. big numbers. day at a time. minute by minute. your brain is an asshole. hell, you might be an asshole. a new hour’s upon us: learn to grow past it. accept recovery. accept the next ten minutes. the new failure. the last one. a chance at success whatever the fuck it is you want to do next even if it’s eat gummy worms and rewatch Most Brutal Metal Scream 2012 for the 20th time today.

just live, mate. the days are scary and time goes on. i can only speak for myself and i say, thank fucking god i’m still here.

because never in my fucking life would i have thought my events would’ve taken me not only this far, but to accomplish this much. to meet these man people, to share their everyday with them. to make and break friendships, to watch them peter out, to pick up on them again. to keep learning and growing and making mistakes and making happiness for not only me, but others whom i love, and love me back, even if they’re a passerby stranger.

i’m goddamn proud of myself. life is hard. life fucking sucks sometimes. my experience is not yours, and yours is not mine, and we cannot fully understand each other because of it. we can only relate in our own way, but fact aligns in the world’s greatest way to say “fuck you” to everything else, to ever exist:

just keep fucking living. just. keep doing it, mate.

you’ll get there, wherever it is, in your own time. it sucks to wait. it’s shit to have to wonder when everything’s going to pick up because boy howdy has it been Ultra Bad for Too Long. but seriously.

i promise it’s worth it. i fucking promise it’s worth it.

just hang on. when you choose to hang on, when you choose recovery, choose to get better, to be a better person, to learn and grow and gain confidence and defend and succeed and flourish.. shit, mate. it’s not easy. it’s a constant process. but it’s you. that’s your gift to yourself. a wonderful gift.

life’s a piece of shit, but i’m glad i’m still alive.

i’m unhappy a lot, but i’m really happy for what i’ve done, am doing, and who i’ve met along the way, even as recently as this past month.

i’m really anxious and fraying, but i’m really looking forward to tomorrow and what i might bring to myself and others in the future.

self-love is hard. it’s gonna look arrogant and selfish to a lot of people. maybe it is, and can be, for sure. but i love me; i love my work. i love my skills and talents even though i despise many parts of me and my sick brain and what i’ve done to me, and done to others. that’s just life tho; and the world turns madly on.

but at least i’m alive.

i’m glad i’m here for it. and i’m glad you are too.

love u. see you tomorrow, and the tomorrow after that; and the tomorrow after that. 🥚💖

#ches writes #tw: suicide mention #ches writes heavy shit. ches has a moment where he's Having A Deep Thought There #idk jsut. thinking about the domino and butterfly effects man. life be wildin'. a lot's happened and happening and i can't be fucked lmao #i can't be fucked to not be so ferociously stubborn to enjoy my life now. i'm busy. i'm so super fucking Busy ok.#34 years old and i'm fucking trying ok and Good For Me.#and GOOD. FOR. YOU!! HIGH FIVE #ok bye~ 💖🥚🙏 kiss kiss #long post

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opticor · 1 year

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partial PE honkai eruption timeline aka i can’t believe HUA became MANTIS at 17

[image id: four collages of screenshots from honkai impact and supplementary comics, acting as citations and references for the timeline below]

roughly a year before PE 3E, KEVIN moves to Nagazora in the Far East (what we call Japan) where he meets MEI [Divine Key manga: Judgment of Shamash chapter]; that summer, six months before the eruption, she goes to an academic symposium on the MU continent where dr. MOBIUS spots her as an excellent candidate for a career in the MOTH evil scientist department [game chapter 17 act 2, ER Recollections: Good News, DK: Shamash]

the manga kinda makes it sound like KEVIN transferred 3 months before the eruption, but that doesn’t work with their bench conversation in chapter 17, unless MEI was scouted the year before they met; but as she already has a crush on someone when she meets MOBIUS, and allegedly wasn’t interested in that stuff before she met KEVIN, i think it’s simpler to assume she only went to the one the summer after KEVIN transferred to Nagazora

meanwhile, HUA begins her freshman year in Sapphire (a city in the east of Asia); she spends 6 months there, during which time she makes many friends, obtains many fashionable clothes, and celebrates her 15th birthday; the third eruption occurs on the day she is due to go back home [all game chapter 20]; HUA survives the initial eruption, is saved by HIMEKO, and eventually joins MOTH as some sort of regular soldier [game chapter 20, DK: Wings of Origin chapter]

MEI’s symposium in the summer 6 months before 3E + HUA’s birthday on february 9th place the eruption somewhere between february 10th and 28th, depending on how strictly we count HUA’s 6-month-long first semester at school (which likely started in september). personally, i think february 14th is the perfect date for a honkai eruption but either way it seems to at least add up to the same month as CE 3E [per the Azure Waters extras] which is neat because hi3 is a story about endless cycles etc.

3 years later, KEVIN kills the 6th herrscher [DK: Shamash]; within the next year, the 7th and 8th herrschers are also defeated [game chapter 20; also per the Second Key manga, Su joins MOTH about half a year after KEVIN killed HIMEKO, and the 8th herrscher manifests soon after]

a small discrepancy in the timelines: 2nd Key manga says it’s been 5 years since 3E while Shamash+ch20 add up to less than that; Recollections: It attempts to fix this (i think) by placing SU’s admission to MOTH at 5 years after SU and KEVIN last met instead (likely the time they saw EDEN in concert [Recollections: Chat History] which is some time before the eruption, possibly even before the bench scene) and yes this means that SU got his medical degree in just 4 years, probably because he’s very smart and motivated, but maybe also because they were already in dire need of medical personnel? i’d also assume this means that KEVIN, MEI, and SU were all in their final year of high school (i’m actually not sure if it was mentioned that they’re in the same year?) since at the very least SU, who lived away from the epicenter, would’ve graduated normally. if PE schools in the “Far East” were the same as schools in Japan now, perhaps disaster struck a mere month before MEI and KEVIN were to graduate :(

there’s no specific timeframe for 9E [mentioned in ELF manga chapter 2 and DK: Blankness chapter both of which are on the CN website but sadly only available as fan translation on mangadex], but the 10th ends 10 months after it [DK: Blankness] and HUA becomes a MANTIS 6 months after that [DK: Wings of Origin]

that’s at least 22 months between HIMEKO’s death and HUA’s procedure (but likely quite a bit longer if we assume between the 6th and 11th they were spaced about 6 months apart), which i don’t think anyone would round down to a year but even then it’s at least 5 years after 3E so to say HUA was 17 at the time would only work if she'd been a middle-school freshman, rather than high-school one

the birthday picture seems like a deliberate touch, and so does making her unnamed best friend Carole-shaped (Carole is 16 in APHO -- someone like the Olenyeva twins would work better as a middle-schooler classmate, or even Sora/Kuu-chan) so perhaps HUA was supposed to have been 12 at 3E when they wrote the manga, but they’d changed their mind about it by the time they got to chapter 20 in the game? now the one thing i really can’t explain to myself is why they made it a point that HUA changes from her school uniform (VA’s blue outfit) to the clothes “Carole” gave her (the Spring Traveler outfit) when she was going home, when the image of her cowering on the ground in VA’s outfit when HIMEKO saves her has been referenced in so many places!! what’s the point

“but if you can’t believe HUA was 17 how can you believe that she became MANTIS 6 months after 10E ended, these things are literally on the same page” idk beats me, one of these is just more compelling considering how scared mihoyo is of letting women be over the age of 18

i could believe Pardo was 16 or so when they MANTIS-ed her though, and Kosma was even younger probably. they of course didn’t need SWARA because when miho came up with it, Pardo and Kosma didn’t exist yet but! if you wanna have fun reconciling all the lores, we could perhaps assume that MEI gave HUA the SWARA treatment for some other reason than the one stated in Blade of the Empyrean :)

tl;dr of this is i think HUA was at least 20 when she became a MANTIS, probably 21; this doesn’t change anything about how effed up her story is, she still saw the horrors of honkai at a very young age, just, you know, mihoyo’s own timelines reveal the lies :^

#honkai impact #i wrote descriptions for the whole collage and then it turns out #the caption limit is 200 symbols #but for the four parts it comes up to over 3k symbols total #i hope i didn't miss anything pertinent #?#not to be the pepe silvia meme but every time miho reveals a number i go completely pepe silvia meme about it #(which is probably not unrelated to why they don't like giving numbers)#looking at you quote unquote 2 years 5 months 16 days 02:34:25 after the 3rd Honkai Eruption #long post #!

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mourninglamby · 2 years

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People automatically assume being critical about something is equal to attacking them or hating on the show, which in most cases is straight up not true lmfao

I’d argue it’s a symbol of deep appreciation/consideration for the media that’s being analyzed. If you love something, truly and fully, you are going to inevitably recognize it’s flaws. that’s what makes CRITICAL analysis so fun.

like “yeah this decision the writer made was fucking stupid and I want to dissect why that might be, and how authorial intent may not line up with what the audience comes away with” can -and in a healthy scenario SHOULD- exist alongside “BUT they did this thing really well”.

It’s just a matter of self awareness and maintaining the balance of consumption for mindless escapism AND what the piece of media is actually saying in a more intellectual (or nonintellectual) way.

If that scares u and u would prefer the curtains to just stay blue tho, that’s. Fine? Just don’t go shitting around on other people for wanting something more meaningful out of their viewing experience every once in a while. There is a distinct issue in especially fandom spaces where if someone is being critical of a piece of media that isn’t perpetuating any harmful rhetoric, then some people will have a weird inability to just. Ignore it.

I disagree with my closest friends about some shit when it comes to how we digest media, but that doesn’t mean they’re morally wrong for being less or more critical. Just fucking vibe bro, and learn to leave the people who think more critically about fiction alone. And vice versa. I’m not gonna shit on you for enjoying it mindlessly, don’t go after me. Mind ur damn business?

#long post #I’ll probably delete later I’m rly tired of discourse #I’ll say one thing that’s like semi joking while I’m high abt not liking an aspect of dmsp #and now suddenly I have 34 red dots on my forehead chest and stomach

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anghraine · 2 years

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Hey, maybe you have spoken on this somewhere, and I just missed it, so if so my apologies, but I would love to know why exactly you dont like 1995 p and p, my family and I have always loved it

I've talked about it many times over the years, but only a little lately, which may be how you missed it since I can be fairly tedious on this point. There are so many different things I dislike about it that it can be difficult to summarize (though I particularly dislike its approach to Darcy).

To attempt it, though:

Taken on its own terms, the 1995 P&P is quite good TV and a good period drama. Taken as an adaptation of Austen's P&P, I think it combines a superficial appearance of fidelity with variously caricatured, over-simplified, or simply bad interpretations of the characters and relationships. This is so consistent across the entire production with the exception of Jennifer Ehle's Elizabeth—who I don't love as Elizabeth but who doesn't seem treated with quite so heavy a hand—that I don't see this as an acting issue, but more of the vision of the creators which is executed quite well by the actors, but which I dislike.

For instance, Benjamin Whitrow's Mr Bennet is well-acted in terms of what I think they wanted him to be, it's a good performance, but also, a lot of the bite of Austen's approach to him is minimized (all the more by contrast to the very OTT Mrs Bennet).

So when I say that I hate Colin Firth's Darcy in particular, it's not that I think CF does a bad job as an actor (though I do think he was miscast for other reasons), it's that I think the production's fundamental approach to the character is ill-conceived and that carries over into writing, direction, framing, all kinds of things. Even when I first watched it as a teenager and liked a lot of it, the presentation of Darcy always bugged me. I don't like the treatment of the Darcy-Elizabeth dynamic at Netherfield, I don't like how they handle his letter, I don't like the wet shirt scene, I don't like the general humorless oversexualized brooding.

On top of that, the fact that its very specific interpretations are often regarded so completely uncritically makes it difficult to be impartial. You get things like Elizabeth's lines about marrying for love and joking about ending up a spinster—a moment invented by the 1995 P&P and not necessarily true of Austen's character, but re-created over and over in subsequent adaptations because of the 1995's enormous influence on perception of what P&P is. As a consequence, it can be intensely frustrating for those of us who disagree with its interpretations and dislike the P&P 1995-inflected fanon that permeates Austen fandom, because we can't get away from it.

I got into Austen fandom just a couple of years before the 2005 came out and so many 1995 fans were so offended that anyone would ever make another version of P&P because most of the fandom took it as an article of faith that Austen's vision had been perfectly distilled and represented in the 1995, and that everyone agreed with them. Even before the 2005, that utterly uncritical perspective on the 1995 was so inescapable that it was deeply aggravating for me as a fan of the book who didn't much like Andrew Davies's whole deal and would only dislike it more with time.

So I'm not pretending to be unbiased, but I truly believe it is very flawed as an adaptation of the novel, that its portrayal of Darcy is especially flawed, and that the issues in Davies's approach to Austen, which would become more glaring in his later Austen adaptations, are already present in the 1995 P&P and it's far from the one true version of P&P that so many of its fans present it as.

#being a teenage lesbian darcy fan in 2003 with EVERYONE reducing interest in him to het women loving 34-y-o colin firth #when i passionately hated the 1995 and especially hated the wet shirt scene #was one of my formative fandom experiences #getting corrected on ff.net because i didn't go with 1995-based fanon was also part of it!#so yeah i am not at all unbiased but i do genuinely dislike a lot of it #eamonorus blog #respuestas #austen fanwank #austen blogging #anghraine rants #andrew davies critical #lady anne blogging #every time i see posts having meltdowns about rop specifically for doing things differently than our lord and savior peter jackson #not even that differently! just sort of differently!#i just. flash back to 2005 lol #long post

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ii-zi · 6 months

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Even when they ask, venting to people makes me feel like a tar pit lol

#E asked like what's up i havent seen u in years u never come when we gather like are u Ok #n i was thinking for so long like a way to explain without burdening them but also not seem like making generic excuses..#and after thinking for so long and not liking anything i was too tired to be coherent #so I just started writing.. and ended up venting without even asking if it was ok in 34 fucking messages lol #dropped as much as i could think of. cried in the bathroom for a while. played it cool in the gc #genuinely feel like concrete shoes on everyones feet every time i speak to anyone specifically my friends #like yeah friends r there to support u n shit but like. im well aware of how terribly tiring it gets when someone only #opens their mouth to vent lol #worrying about worrying them only adds to my worries. do you see my point #vent #personal #it is not only a chore and a pain (and a source of worries) to them but also to me #so they can like. pretend it's not happening. or keep poking to try and help. or silently slide off like w C #but idk which one would hurt less lol #even here w how often i vent i feel like yall see these type of post and just go ''ah. bottomless pit of despair again. dear god''#and that's not like. being unking towards yall. i get tired of /having/ to vent this much lol it is a lil freeing but #freeing like putting off a lil of the fire that is burning you alive is freeing. id much rather not have been on fire from the beginning yk

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meringuejellyfish · 1 year

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mount olympus time ^___^ yayy yipeeeeeee wahhooooo

#picture taken by my sibling and crunched by me .....#my guys on the right :3 his name is andrew daydreamer . he is level 34 and so scared #in general #god not rockin with the pure blue fit anymore. i'll figure something better out when i get mount olympus gear to stitch #wizard101 #too lazy to make my own tag right neow. lawl #i make so many wizard posts ... and they just get lost in the abyss #i remember when aquila came out its been so long. jesus

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oliveheart-worldbuilding · 2 years

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Nah, some of us weirdos are still around. Can you tell me about "A closer look at the beggining of legends" and "The one time Asclaw fucked up and the other in which he regretted everything"? The first one sounds interesting and that last one just sounds hilarious. Oh and "Of inheritance and cladistics" just because it taught me a new word.

Oh woah! This is so sweet! Legit made me tear up. I’ll take a break from memorizing insecticides then!

Since you both asked similar questions, I'm going to answer both at the same time! let me just @spottedspotsposts, hope that's okay!

As a remainder, I’m native Spanish and it is… 4:21 in the morning here which means my beta reader (brother) is asleep. Beware typos! I’ll try my best!

I’m also adding a read more because this is LONG and I don’t want to make my followers scroll forever.

Let’s see…

· A closer look at the beginning of legends (did I write a typo? I did. This is embarrassing, sorry!)

This one is actually not a fic, but rather a very long and convoluted script where I document all the ideas I get surrounding the various mythos my OC clans (the Iberian Clans) have.

It basically recounts how their deities started being deities! But, instead of taking a 100% literary approach, it takes a historian one. It’s a bit difficult to explain! Let me see if I can fish out a bit that makes sense:

“…Few remember how Summer used to be. Originally a personification of its namesake, Summer was associated with the fructification of various tress, wildfires, heat, dry storms and bovids (specifically, mouflons and chamois). His presence within the clans was often simply associated with the coming of its season, bearing no specific personality of its own….

It all changed when the flame bearer was set alight. Originally known as Clay, sister of Boorkclan’s founder Frog, she was a rather unimportant cat. Believed by everyone to be Frog’s meek but mischievous shadow, Clay spent most of her days following her brother’s every word, that is, until she didn’t.

No seer agrees on the actual reason Clay decided to rebel against her brother. Some believe the innumerable wars against the sacred Mountain Family started to take its toll on her spirit, others that the recent loss of half their territory to humans had driven her mad, few that she had a death wish. Whatever the case, Clay took half of Brookclan’s population and, simply, left…

…At some point in history, their identities started to mingle. The just founded Clayclan took fire as their identity and, with it, they took Summer. In the subsequent retellings of Clay’s sacrifice and life, Summer started to be a prominent figure. Originally featuring him as a guiding deity, one who blesses her with the power to survive the flames, he slowly took a more proactive role until nobody could differentiate between Founder and Season…”

That’s the gist of it! When I have a new idea I simply open it up and write whatever! Or take a previous idea and actually write it out. Sometimes it looks like an academic textbook or a paper, others like a dialogue between two colleagues arguing about whether Little Shine’s first appearance predates the death of Winter or not, and so on.

· The one time Asclaw fucked up and the other in which he regretted everything

Tw: child abuse, character death, mention of manipulative behavior.

So! Here’s the thing: the story I originally planned for these OCs has a bunch of main characters. There are many of them and their stories are varied and all mildly to very interesting. Ashclaw is not a main character. Ashclaw is a piece of shit person that I added to explore certain relationships. But, for some reason, I’m obsessed with him.

Ashclaw is a Seaclan warrior, brother to the clan’s deputy and one of its best hunters, mate to one of the prettiest cats in the whole territory, and father to 3 young and bright cats. Ashclaw is also deeply unsatisfied with his life.

This fic simply talks about him. His younger life, when he still believed he could do great things; his teenage years, when he started to realize he couldn’t; and his adult ones, when he fucked up big time.

It’s a bit difficult to synthesize but, Ashclaw spent his whole life thinking he would one day be leader but quickly found out that nothing comes without great effort in life. Tough he made a somewhat spirited try; he never quite got it. In turn, he started to feel worthless when compared to his far more successful family. He becomes a very nasty and envious cat.

Ashclaw then decides that, if he cannot succeed, he will simply live his life through the accomplishments of others. He is… very toxic for everyone that gets involved with him. First with his siblings who quickly caught up on his intentions, souring their relationship. Then with his girlfriend/wife who he pressures into becoming her worst version so that she can become Seaclan’s all-mother. Next by messing up a heartfelt opportunity at reconciliation by overworking his apprentice. And, finally, with his first-born son.

Ashclaw expected his son to be the sum of all good things in his wife and the few in him. He expected a healthy and strong kit, one that would one day become leader so that he could look at them with nothing but pride. Lampreytail was born sick and weak. Ashclaw lost whatever good was left in him that day.

I’ll jump over the rest because this is getting long but! Seaclan has very important rules about family. A child is a gift, and the relationship between parent and child is sacred. Hitting a child is a big no no in any clan, compulsively attacking your child until you scar him because you got mad at them is… well, a death sentence in Seaclan. This is the moment Ashclaw fucks up big time. He gets lucky! Extremely so! And is allowed to, not only live, but stay in Seaclan so long as he doesn’t interact with any children. But there are consequences to his actions: his siblings’ reputation is put at a stake, his marriage is ruined, his son is scarred for life, and nobody will ever look at him again except with disgust. Oops.

All his relationships are broken, he is completely isolated except for his brother who still believes there is good in him.

Spoiler! There isn’t. Ashclaw continues to be a shithead and, during a particular nasty fight against Clayclan, he decides he is tired of his brother’s “pity” and leaves him to fight alone when he calls for his help. His brother dies that night. So, he starts to regret everything.

The whole thing is written in first person, Ashclaw looks at his brother’s dead body and starts to realize that at some point he was enough, he had people that loved him, he was valued in his clan… and so he remembers all his life while thinking about all the things he could have done differently and deeply regretting it all. It’s… depressing, but! He is an interesting character to write about.

I just realized you were prooobably expecting something funny out of this… I’m sorry…

· Of inheritance and cladistics

The last one! As I said, this one has nothing to do with warriors. I started writing things down a couple years ago but kinda abandoned it and I’m not sure I’ll ever return to it.

Of inheritances and cladistics is a diary-like, newspaper-like and letter-like story where one would have to read through all the given material and try and piece together a story while learning about the local fauna. In this world, most mythos are real and creatures like unicorns and fairies coexist with humans. However, due to age-old prejudices, very little is known about them. These creatures are sensitive and, with the rise of pollution and habitat destruction, many are facing extinction without even being documented. Throughout the story I try to classify some of them while giving different reasoning as to why they evolved that way, studying their ethology and physiology, explaining why they are dying out, how to preserve their populations, etc.

In general, the letter portions follow the life of mycologist Belladonna Schneider (called Donna by her friends) and her ethologist wife, Sophie Phocadóttir, as she inherits her grand-father’s wildlife reservoir in Germany. The letters are addressed to Donna’s sister and talk about her feelings as she works in her grandfather’s nature reservoir and as she comes to term with her newly discovered nature: she’s a changeling.

The diary parts talk about her grandfather and other ancestors as they write about the many one incredibly horrible things they did to the mythological creatures in the area, sometimes out of fear, others out of cruelty.

And the newspaper ones talk about the investigation of her grandfather’s death, the disappearance of her grandmother, and the death of a tourist that has absolutely nothing to do with Donna. Nope! Not at all 😊.

Again, a bit difficult to write it all out! The gist of it is that Donna has recently found out she is a changeling which, honestly, makes a lot of sense! She spent her whole life feeling ostracized by her family and community and the news scare her but also free her. A couple weeks later she receives a letter from her grandfather’s lawyer, after months of being disappeared, his granfather has been found dead, her grandmother is still nowhere to be found and that leaves Donna as the new owner of his natural reservoir. So, trying to get away from it all, she and her wife leave for her grandfather’s lands in Germany where they find the reservoir in a terrible state. They decide to care for it and document as many mythological species as they can. However, they start to have monetary problems and are forced to open the reservoir to the public. They try for it to be a controlled experience, where people can be guided and taught about the creatures, but problems are quick to arise.

And that’s all! It came out very long! Sorry about that. Hope that was interesting! Thank you so much for asking!!!!!

Also! yes! I would to talk about silly little cats with anyone! I'm just super shy and a bit awkward so I never start conversations haha....

#the iberian clans #warrior cats oc #seaclan #ashclaw #i speak #that was long!!! its 4:34!!!#I'm gonna go to bed now #I'm so tired now hahahah #thank you so much for asking! you both are so sweet!!!!!#I hope I get to post new things soonish enough #now goodnight!!!#again sorry for any grammatical error. I hope the text is readable #I'm gonna be embarrased tomorrow. Probably.

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For everyone's number 1 rated salesmen! 🍪, 🚗, 🖊,❤, and 🌧

- @wegotaselfshipperere

thank you so much for the ask, i love your meme!!

🍪 You tried to make a sweet surprise for you and your F/O, but something happened and now the cookies are alive!!! They've taken over the kitchen and are starting to push into the rest of the house! How do you and your F/O stop them?

we've got a couple different options here:

standard utdr magic shit

my s/i has a pretty big scythe that could probably crush some cookies

spamton neo again

shouting "HEY LIGHTNERS WANNA MAKE $20 HELPING US OUT" out the window if kris, susie, and ralsei are nearby

🚗 if your F/O could have any mode of transportation they wanted, what would they choose and why?

like i know the [[CUNGADERO]] is a classic but i really honestly think so much about the concept of him with a motorcycle

it's all the flashiness of a nice sports car with just a hint of edge to give him that extra boost to his charisma~

🖊 If your F/O were to start a collection of things, what would they horde? What would be their most prized possession? (Besides you, obviously)

i feel like he collects pens. like he just has a drawer full of novelty pens. i was trying to find a picture of the pen i imagine is his favorite (i know it exists because i also have it, it's shaped like a skeleton wearing a pinstriped suit and a top hat) but i couldn't so instead have an honorable mention from the same shop:

❤ What type of relationship do you and your F/O have? Are you prank buddies? An old married couple? What is your self ship dynamic?

i've said this before but it's kind of a joke on the x reader trope of "wounded/lost reader is given shelter by powerful monster f/o in what's supposed to be a temporary measure but then Feelings Are Caught". like basically just playing an uno reverse card where the "oh nooo i'm so hurt and lost and scared and you're a big scary monster" half is the f/o and the "i am literally just vibing but you look hurt, come inside so i can dress your wounds and build a fire" half is the s/i

🌧 Not everything is perfect… So one day everything just seems to go wrong. Nothing is working out like you thought it would and people are rude. You come home angry and tired and however else a bad day makes you feel. How would your F/O comfort you, or make your day a little brighter?

i feel like he'd try to take any other things that could stress me out out of the equation--for example, figuring out dinner. i don't imagine he's much of a cook but he can order the hell out of a pizza

#r: money won't pay #thanks for the ask!!#long post //3443 #food ment //34

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