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This may be the proper time to remind people that I actually have to stop myself from exclusively choosing Druid or the closest thing available whenever I play stuff or I wouldn't play anything else.

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Count Arendae 🌞

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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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unfortunately it appears that i'm some kind of insane person

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Homesick

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Learning zoology through freaking rain world fanart is an amazing experience ngl

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Rivulet fandesign quirk I just kinda find funny

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Sphinx

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Super proud of the background on this one

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𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘦𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵... ffxiv · g'raha tia グ・ラハ・ティア

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birbfest day 25 - ornate hawk-eagle

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Honestly the biggest hurdle in translating this section is that it makes me so upset I can't work for too long before wanting to scream

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can you spare a toad in these trying times?

I have just what you need my little poppet!

False Toad or Suck Toad (Pseudobufo subasper), family Bufonidae, found in peninsular Malaysia and Indonesia.

Aquatic.

Despite the name, this is a true toad, in the true toad family.

photographs: Lars Fehlandt, Chien C. Lee,��Ron Maller

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Green Arboreal Alligator Lizard (Abronia graminea), family Anguidae, Puebla, Mexico

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Hugo Cayuela 

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European Wildcat (Felis sylvestris), family Felidae, Slovakia

photograph by Lubo Ondráško

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Madagascan Reed Frog (Heterixalus madagascariensis), family Hyperoliidae, Madagascar

photograph by Megh Roy Choudhury

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The good life