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CROW I JUST GOT ONLINE WHAT THE FUCK I HATE IT HERE

(this is some tasty angst, thank you ❤️❤️❤️)

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I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

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i love how Gandalf invested in Hobbits in year one and has been pushing them ever since. Thorin, i hear you need help with a breaking and entering. Can I recommend one of these little cunts? Silent as fuck, trust me. Elrond my dude i know you're skeptical but these four chucklefucks just transported a weapon of mass destruction all the way here. Theoden, you've gotta get yourself a hobbit man, I've got a spare one here. Denathor you big prick, take a hobbit - literally this is the bottom of the range but listen to him sing. Beautiful little bastard.

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uh tldr I stare at Sephiroth a lot and I noticed stuff about his body language

Not like an expert on body language but it is kind of desperately important to me watching the progression of Sephiroth's body language because like okay.

Crisis Core era. This man is in the height of his flop era, he knows everything happening around him sucks and he is resigned to it while also considering going AWOL/retiring (same thing). So all throughout Crisis Core, when he's not in Commander Mode or talking to he's talking to any of AGZ, he's always... crumpled, almost. He's leaning on a desk, or a wall, or just kind of hunching over as he stands. Arms crossed, usually, legs crossed if he's reclining, head often lowered, sometimes occupying himself with a clipboard. Crossing the arms can be a visual shorthand to show a character as defensive, authoritative, or just emotionally unwilling to engage (See: Cloud during the elevator scene from the opening of Remake) but with Sephiroth it's really hard to interpret this as anything but the self-soothing gesture type of arm crossing. Anxious people often tend to default to that sort of pose, which I know because I'M an anxious people and I do all the damn time.

What gets me is how when we first see young Seph in the prerendered cutscene, he does not cross his arms or his legs, he just stands. This Sephiroth is not more social, per say, but he hasn't had the time or experience to develop the arm crossing as a habit. The poor boy is so unsocialized he doesn't know why whistling at a group of adults to get their attention as if they are dogs might be offensive, and he's only kind of aware of how awkward it is to ask these random strangers if they've heard of his mom who died in childbirth. And then all of episode 1 happens, and Rosen happens, and then the first time Angeal and Sephiroth ever interact, probably Seph's first interaction with anyone besides his higher-ups since Rhadore, the second real interaction he's ever had with someone his own age after the last one ended in him KILLING the other boy-

Of course he's already doing it.

This whole thing where Sephiroth seems to instinctively try to both comfort himself and make himself smaller is so ingrained into his mannerisms that he even does it in Cloud's recounting of Nibelheim which is, to be quite frank, unreliable as hell. In Rebirth Sephiroth is way more, I wanna say, upbeat? Relaxed? Happy? Then he is in either the OG or Crisis Core and he still!!! Sits like he's trying not to get called on in a class discussion!!

I also have to shout out his overworld animations from Rebirth which are really able to subtly drive home how inhumanly competent he was even as "just" his human self. Even ignoring the whole bit where he's able to stand up perfectly straight in chest high rapids that utterly topple the rest of the party, including Cloud/Zack. His sprint animation is very precise and controlled, and whereas everyone else naturally presses against the wall when walking over a small edge, Seph just walks at an angle with seemingly no worry of losing his balance. (This specifically strikes me as so incredibly cat-like, and that combined with them canonizing his eyes doing the ⚫️-⚫️ thing is so. So??? Sephiroth's eyes were probably originally supposed to be reptilian but they have chosen to lean into the catboy allegations. I stg.)

AND I couldn't find a screenshot of it but in the pause menu while he's in your party one of his idle animations is him doing the hand-on-face gesture he does every time Jenova is knocking on his mental door. She's literally creeping in throughout the whole prologue the higher he gets up the mountain and the closer he gets to the reactor

Also his laugh because hngghhhgggggg but also I like that they went with a different animation then the more open laugh he does in Crisis Core. Here he wraps his arm around himself like he's trying to cross his arms and also covers his smile and I just think it fits him and it's SO FUCKING CUTE AGH

Ending with the Pout because HHHGGHHHHH but also while I'm certain he's just supposed to be doing a little slump, the way his body moves with his face just really really makes it look like he stomps his foot when he nods and I find that very funny

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It's cold enough tonight that for the first time since April, Arson and Larceny are back in the house. I'm enjoying all their little settling-in noises as they get their nest in order.

Meanwhile, I've opened the aviary proper up for Malice and Vice to access through the catio, and they're out there horking down grass in the dark like a couple of vampiric cows. Nobody tell them they're obligate carnivores.

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"For mature audiences" not as in "legally allowed to see a boob" but "can see a fictional character do a bad thing and not immediately go on a crusade against the author"

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baby pangolins look like an adorable creature someone made up for a fantasy/sci-fi series. just a sweet polite little alien type of beast wearing a nice little scalemail outfit

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oh to be a pangolin squirming around in the sludge 🥺🥺🥺 this would fix me

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Behold, one of my best friend's Halloween costumes, recorded and uploaded by a complete stranger with over a million views on tiktok! (I'm so proud!!)

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A drawing in chalk

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We are approaching the maximum of images you can post here so I thought it was time I make a little showcase of all the formation pieces we covered so far on the streams.

For people who don't know: for several months now I draw one formation or fossil locality every Saturday. The next place we visit is chosen by a wheel of names, which we also constantly fill up again when a new formation is picked.

I try to make it as interesting as possible in my composition and choice of animals and I can tell you this series has been a great training when it comes to constructing these, how I call them, Menageries.

I have to thank a team of friends and colleagues who help behind the scenes with research, creation of size charts and conversation partners when it comes to deciding on the compositions of these pieces. Their help has been invaluable!

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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Even as an asexual, I really appreciate classic paintings and statues showing nudity. There's just a sense of normalness- hardly any of them are meant to be seen as sexual. I think it's beautiful to see all of these different body types represented so beautifully. That person is just chatting to their friend. That person is picking flowers. That person is welding a weapon. None of those things are inherently sexual or arousing. But they are often portrayed as naked.

Sure, seeing genitals even in art sort of grosses me out, I don't like seeing that stuff at all. But seeing the entire human body represented in such a casual way makes me feel so much better about it.

I also think it helps to make people more confident in their bodies. You must have seen those statues of Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty. With her stomach rolls and smallish boobs, I have heard so many stories of people saying "Wait. She looks like me! We have the same body! I'm beautiful!" (have you seen the original Tumblr post about this?). Seeing yourself reflected in these beautiful intricate paintings and statues, its so magical.

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Happy spooky season from your friendly neighborhood fire-lizard :D