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just practicing trying to loosen up poses. still stiff but getting there!

i always feel halloweeny about this show

(ko-fi here)

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© plutoxoxi via x/twitter

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It all adds up.

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and i'm going to.

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Full video: Secretary Bird hunts in Kgalagadi Trasfrontier Park - South Africa and Botswana, Safari ADV

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Having difficulty figuring out what the head is and what the tail-end is. Option 1: head = to the left. Bird with a long bill/beak is racing like a kiwibird-dart on tall spindly legs towards it target. It will pin you with its beak once it's gonna getcha. Option 2: head = to the right. Bird with a black head with feathery tufts and a long tail is using its left paw to point at *you* as the one its gonna get... but first... you're in for a squeaky lecture of some kind. This is like one of those two images in one thing...

me when i’m gonna getcha

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Featured Article: Highlander

This week’s featured article brings you Highlander, the franchise about immortals living among humans. The franchise first started with the 1986 film Highlander and later got expanded into a TV series. Due to its multi-media tie-ins such as an animated series, comics, and books, the canon is highly varied depending on the creators and countries of production.

The series centers around the life of 400-year-old Duncan 'Mac' MacLeod and his struggles to have a "normal" life while still confronting the dangers of being an Immortal. Duncan’s companions are his long-time human girlfriend Tessa Noël and the teenage thief Richie Ryan, who Duncan took in after the later accidentally learned about the existence of Immortals.

Aside from the canon ship Duncan/Tessa, a major slash pairing in the fandom is Duncan/Methos. As both Duncan and Methos are immortals, fans like to speculate about their life throughout the different historical eras.

Crossover is a common trope in HL fanfics and often involve inserting Highlander characters or Highlander-style immortals into another fandom such as Buffy or Stargate SG-1.

Wants to learn more about the Highlander fandom? Give the Fanlore page a visit!

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Not enough attention given, I feel, to the fact that Edwin is Charles’s psychopomp. The boys spend decades running from Death, but Edwin’s first act out of Hell is to do Death’s job.

And this is clearly an intentional theme, given that at the end of the season the Night Nurse and the Principal fold them into the afterlife’s bureaucracy, with the Dead Boy Detectives acting as a sort of specialized offbeat psychopomp team.

But with Charles it wasn’t even specialized or offbeat. Edwin was just literally acting as a classic psychopomp. He guided Charles’s soul into the afterlife. Even the lantern is quintessential psychopomp imagery.

(Which makes Charles’s actions just so utterly fascinating, from a mythical standpoint. It’s like if Charon was taking you over the Styx and when you were nearly across you suddenly said “actually, I think I’d like to become your apprentice boatman, instead,” and Charon said “that’s not how this works, you can’t escape your final destination by appealing to me” and you said “nah, this has nothing to do with the Asphodel Meadows, I just really like you and boating looks fun but kinda lonely, so I thought you might want company,” and then Charon stared at you like you were a crazy person for a second (which you clearly in fact are) but then shrugged and said “sure, but we’ll have hide from Hades for the rest of time”. This is not normal behavior, Charles - or Edwin, for that matter)

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It’s overthinking hour (there’s not really any narrative payoff below, I’m just thinkin’. like some kinda Trekkie debating starship specs)

How the heck does time work in Charles’s bag?

(Of course the Doylist answer is “it works however the plot needs it to” but that’s no fun.)

a) He stores a jar of bees in there long-term, without even, as far as I can tell, any water or food or anything, and they don’t seem to be like, ghost bees or magic bees, just normal bee bees.

b) He keeps a LIT Molotov cocktail in there and when he pulls it out it is still on fire; it not only doesn’t explode in his bag, it doesn’t go out, either (which raises questions about oxygen and combustion and depletion).

c) This is the one that prevents the simple theories: he and Edwin are able to go in there and come back out.

Now, if it were just a and b, I’d just assume it causes stasis. Things go in, they’re effectively time-stopped, they come out in exactly the same state they went in.

But in that case Charles and Edwin would not be able to get out of their own volition. As soon as they went in they’d freeze and without someone outside to pull them out they’d be just stuck in there for eternity.

Possibly time works on each specific item how Charles chooses it to when he puts it in the bag? So he chooses the Molotov and the bee jar to be in stasis, but chooses for himself and Edwin not to be? At that point he’s doing high-speed precision chronomancy so dang, no wonder Edwin brags on him and the bag.

Or maybe it’s some sort of… this is gonna be really hard to explain especially without devolving into technobabble about state variables and entropy… semi-stasis (in which time works in a way that you can only do if you’re running off fantasy not sci-fi) where it’s like, things maintain motion but cannot change fundamental state, can’t actually advance in time?

Like, the bees keep flying in circles, but they don’t get thirsty or hungry. The fire flickers, but doesn’t go out or burn down the wick or use up oxygen. Ghosts are able to talk and move and think, but don’t… actually ghosts already kinda work like that so it doesn’t affect them much.

I imagine it would be really hard to determine how much time was passing outside the bag, in order to know when it’s safe to leave, if you’re working with semi-stasis. …although actually I have no idea how that would affect clocks.

Do we rule that since clock hands are going in eternal circles, not actually getting anywhere, they’re allowed to circle the same as the bees? Maybe the second hand’s allowed to go round but the minute and hour hands aren’t? Maybe a grandfather clock is allowed to have its pendulum swing but the hands can’t advance? Can a metronome work but not a clock? What if you try to count its beats - can you? Can it still run if you try?

What about a digital clock that shows the date as well as the time, is it allowed to cycle the time (on the grounds that that’s a loop) but not advance the date? Actually, dates loop too except for the year; do the month and day move but not the year? Definitely an alarm clock shouldn’t be able to go off (unless maybe it’s set to go off at the same time every day??)

Also with people what counts as a “change”? Like can Charles and Edwin not get in fights while in there because that would put them in a different mental/emotional/relational state? (If so it would be fascinating if they used that fact to manage conflict.) Can they not have character growth while in the bag?

Can they have a first kiss inside the bag? What about a second, or a seventeenth - at what point do kisses stop changing you? (Do they consider their relationship to be really real when they realize for the first time that they’re able to kiss inside the bag now - Charles casually goes for Edwin’s lips and it lands and they only realize a few minutes later that this is the first time the bag hasn’t stopped them, that it considers their love to be their base state?)

…I assume people can’t get pregnant inside the bag which opens some thorny out-of-scope issues

ANYWAY

I just think there would have had to be a LOT of trial and error before they figured out exactly how time worked with the bag, and Edwin probably ran through a dozen different kinds of clocks testing them, and, like, for most of that trial and error Charles would’ve had to be outside the bag in order to pull things out (if it turned out to be true stasis and he went in there it would be bye bye Charles) which means that probably the testing was done mostly on Edwin. Which is a fascinating thought.

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I think there's something that needs to be said about encouraging readers to leave feedback.

For me it's not about "tell me my writing is amazing and stroke my ego"

It's more about "please engage with me so that I can experience your joy secondhand and foster a connection with you"

I understand that not everyone wants this in their reading experience, some people are shy and a million other reasons why maybe someone wouldn't want to engage and that's perfectly fine!

But what I'm trying to steer away from is being a passive content creator with passive consumers. What I want to steer toward is fostering a community that is essential to fandom. I want to see your reactions because it makes me feel like I'm a part of something.

On encouraging reblogs —

I understand that not everyone is comfortable reblogging, especially explicit content. This is ok!

But just consider that the only reason you were able to enjoy a fic or fanart is because someone else shared it, and by not sharing it yourself you are potentially robbing someone else of the opportunity to enjoy it as much as you did.

As OPs our reach only goes so far and this website relies on reblogs in order for anything to truly get seen by a wider audience.

So that's really it! That's why I encourage these two things at the end of every story I post. Not because I'm trying to be demanding and "make people feel bad" if they don't do it.

I know most other social media sites encourage mindless content consumption and that's just the way of the world nowadays, but I am from a time when community was at the heart of fandom and I just don't want to lose that.

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[デッドボイ緊急室 / Dead Boy A&E] 相談・Consultation

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i think about this a hundred times a day

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“Red sea glass”

Ink and watercolour Payneland drawing inspired by the touching fic my love line seems entwined with death by @bitterdesert

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you guys are like a dead married couple on acid

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Dead Boy Detectives

S1E8 | The Case of the Hungry Snake

For @shadowflame84, I saw you asking for cuddly Edwin art for the au everyone was talking about in the chat the other day, so here's a Payneland hug gifset! Hope you like it 💜💜💜