#// i tried lmao ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[pandebunuelo]

but if he knows that you know that you know that he knows that he knows that you know that you

[robo-dino-puppy]

adventurers

[goth-butt]

It would be an honor to work with you, Mr. Kimber.

[sogayitwrites]

[airborneice]

couple doodles of the sillies

[featherlouise]

Okok ik they're supposed to grab his wrist but HEAR ME OUT

Parallel to how the reveal goes in the main faaf timeline

(also I couldn't figure out the pose but shhhhhh)

Characters and AU belong to @dairyfreenugget !!

Go check it out if u haven't already and u want ur heart broke

[lostwindsau]

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Three new pages! :D I wouldn't be shocked if Vaati steals that bot at some point

[californiaquail]

i don't understand why some people care so much about living as long as possible. "follow this diet designed to help you live past 100" in this economy?

[whump-captain]

@coyotehusk 's Goretober

--- Part 4: Tools ---

Across the floor in the hand of where we drove the drill

A cautious ear to the mouth of your confession

Think of all the things we put him through

In the face of his god, would he tell the truth?

(Coheed and Cambria - Three Evils)

[ID in alt]

[sialiia]

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ𝐒 𝐈 𝐀 𝐋 𝐈 𝐈 𝐀 (sī⋅ āl⋅ ēə)ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ❝the bluebird is a symbol of 𝓳𝓸𝔂 and 𝓱𝓸𝓹𝓮❞ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤᶜᵃʳʳᵈ

[notthatnebula]

i fuckin. forgot how to make buddies.

[lilflowerpot]

What earth animals is the Rhyahl made out of? Now in the, created from way but looks like way

So first things first, here's the (somewhat abridged) description of the castleship's holographic record of the rhyahl as witnessed by Pidge in Perspectives:

She’s hesitant to call it feline, though anatomically it is, even despite the additional set of limbs, but a more appropriate descriptor eludes her. Pidge watches as the creature prowls—and there’s really no other word for it—towards her with a surety to its gait [...] As it draws closer, what Pidge had mistaken for oddly-textured fur becomes apparent as an armor of little layered scales: wine-dark, translucent, and almost feathered at the edges. They ripple over flesh as it moves, fracturing the light and causing the resultant shadows to converge and swell with each step, [...] Five eyes seems an excessive amount, flowering out from the centre of its flat, shapeless skull in a pattern that’s uncomfortably familiar though she can’t quite place it, each one narrow and slitted: a deep honeyed gash with no discernible pupil. [...] When it unhinges its jaw, it does so to release a great lolling mass of tongues; lengthy feathered things that writhe and coil as if they have a mind of their own, [...] those pale, coiling appendages caress her cheek, her jaw, her throat, until she’s all wrapped up in them and the creature is begging entry against her lips with a melodic crooning. - Perspectives: a Little Blade sidefic, chapter 01

To break it down more explicitly I had to work backwards, because when originally conceptualising the rhyahl I was thinking very much in terms of "what would make this alien beastie sound as deeply unsettling as possible?" rather than actively choosing traits from real-world animals to mash together, but I've found that its key aspects can be closely aligned with the below!

In terms of its general physique, I'd say a mountain lion (bottom left) if mountain lions stood 5ft at the shoulder, and on six legs rather than four; much like a mountain lion, the rhyahl was impressively adaptable, hunting its prey—chiefly the galra, but any living thing would do in a pinch—not only across its primary haunt of Daibazaal's vast desert wastelands, but into its craggy mountains and ancient jungles too! It would certainly have had great big paws to help better distribute its weight on the sand, though much like the galra I'd say these were structured with glaring similarities to camelidae feet.

Rather than fur, however, the rhyahl was covered top to tail in that "armor of little layered scales: wine-dark, translucent, and almost feathered at the edges" that Pidge describes, and I imagined these to look very much like a pangolin's (top left) would if you were to recreate them out of red/purple stained glass. It's tail is similar to that of the ground pangolin in particular—broad/flat/scaled—and could be used as a protective measure against severe sandstorms to shield the rhyahl's singular point of vulnerability (its eyes) by curling up into an armoured ball.

Facially, the rhyahl had no visible ears, discrete nasal slits—from which it could expel air to emit a high frequency cry that induced a hallucinogenic state of paralysis—and five eyes that "[flowered] out from the centre of its flat, shapeless skull [...] each one narrow and slitted: a deep honeyed gash with no discernible pupil" that Pidge describes as being "uncomfortably familiar"; though she cannot place it at the time, its eye-placement reminds her of the druid's masks! This is because the both the Diij and the Drui two of Daibazaal's largest religious sects traditionally wore the skulls of deceased rhyahl, and later, after Alfor destroyed Daibazaal and all the rhyahl along with it, took to fashioning masks in the same style (with the few surviving skulls being considered sacred relics in the modern day).

Finally, we come to the rhyahl's most distinct (and horrifying) feature: it's mouth and numerous feathered tongues. As illustrated in my original post on how the rhyahl consumes quintessence, Daibazaal's apex predator had "no fangs to speak of, but rather a rigid calcification that lined its jaw and served to clamp its prey in place without puncturing it and risking too swift a death, allowing for it to feed off its live victim’s quintessence. This absorption of quintessence was a result of the tiny pinprick barbs of the Rhyahl’s feathered tongue—which would be inserted into its prey’s mouth—piercing the vulnerable interior lining of its throat and draining the cells of their very life energy."

As to how this translates to real-world animals, the closest comparison I could find for the concept of the rhyahl having (numerous) feathered tongue(s) was that of the pallas longe-tongued bat's (top right) lingual papillae:

"[Glossophaga soricina has] a tongue tip that uses blood flow to erect scores of little hair-like structures exactly at the right time to slurp up extra nectar from within a flower [...] the bat’s cylindrical tongue has a mesh of muscle fibers that contract so that the tongue becomes thinner but longer, extending farther into the flower, [...] the same muscle contraction simultaneously squeezes blood into the tiny hair-like papillae. As blood is displaced to the tongue tip, the papillae flare out perpendicular to the axis of the tongue, and in their erect state they not only add exposed surface area, but also width, allowing the tongue to function as a highly effective nectar gathering device."

The above, combined with the rhyahl's capability to unhinge its jaw like a snake, means that the scale of its prey does not pose an issue, and I've specifically chosen the rhombic egg-eater (bottom right) for its likeness due to the fact that they don't have any teeth! Also, the lining of that little guy's mouth being black is just a really cool detail that I've now decided is true of the rhyahl too, as it fits in with my previously mentioned thoughts on the colour black being divine—as, remember, the rhyahl was considered sacred!—while providing a stark contrast against the ghostly hue of those "pale, coiling [tongues]" with white being an especially ominous colour, denoting the antithesis to everything Sa represents.

[catgirlkirigiri]

a vivisection of me yielded the start of a mystery

[ittyybittybaker]

10 songs 10 people

tagged by @urrone

oohhh this is a FUN one!!! i love talking music. i'm gonna pick 10 of my current favorite songs in no particular order:

1.) Bad Omens - 5 Secondss of Summer [youtube] [spotify]

i'm absolutely obsessed with this song, it's just so so good.

2.) Loved You A Little - The Maine ft. Taking Back Sunday and Charlotte Sands [youtube] [spotify]

my fave song released in 2022 tbh !!! it's been topping my personal charts for over a year now and i never get tired of it.

3.) Sliver Springs - Fleetwood Mac [youtube] [spotify]

the best song of all time, period !!! i don't make the rules

4.) Salt - Bad Suns [youtube] [spotify]

i love bad suns but i love this song in particular because it reminds me of my best boy neil 🥺

5.) Lately - Worry Club, John the Ghost [youtube] [spotify]

just so vibey and good !!

6.) The Kintsugi Kid (Ten Years) - Fall Out Boy [youtube] [spotify]

maybe my fave off their new album!! it also reminds me of andrew 😔

7.) Always Get This Way - The Aces [youtube] [spotify]

god the aces are always good but this song is just such a jam !!!

8.) Funeral Grey - Waterparks [youtube] [spotify]

this isn't my fave waterparks song BUT i had the most fun dancing to it when i saw them last week and it's been in my head ever since !!! such a banger

9.) Silent Type - Beach Weather [youtube] [spotify]

my fave off their new album!!! i love this song so much, i hope i get to see them perform it live soon

10.) fallback - nightlife [youtube] [spotify]

i found this song on tiktok and i just love it so much??? big big fan

and a bonus bc i said so:

11.) Red Wine Supernova - Chappell Roan [youtube] [spotify]

this song is so gay and fun !!! thank u chapell for giving the wlw this banger for pride month 🫡

i'm tagging :

@justthislazy @decaflondonfog @stabbyfoxandrew @mostlymaudlin @itslikeadestielculeinhere @jinspunkfeminism @moondoggiestyle @springttae @bikevindayy @dancing-on-tiptoes

y'all don't have to if you don't want to, it's just for fun!

[tcpdog]

Archer is SAPIOSEXUAL as his primary 'mode of attraction' (i.e. intelligence attracts him the most, and the most often). this doesn't mean "ONLY ATTRACTED TO SMART PPL" or "if you're dumb GET LOST" because those are braindead takes. yes, muses that exhibit behaviors that Archer considers below a certain threshold of intelligence, he will be less likely to find attractive. doesn't mean that's the only factor in play. and doesn't mean he's not willing to flirt or seduce someone like this for ulterior motives.

besides that, he's BISEXUAL, with a male lean. Archer's an equal opportunist for the most part and if someone appeals to him enough, in most cases, he will display and reciprocate interest (although not always for the same reasons).

Archer is also HYPERSEXUAL-FLUX. his sex drive is like a heartbeat monitor, it spikes very quickly (for a decent period of time rather than just a short burst) and then crashes, before repeating the process. sometimes certain events or interactions can prompt an early change in either direction, and it doesn't follow any particular "schedule" or set of rules. but sex is his main method of 'connecting' with people and allowing himself to feel certain things, as well as a way to destress and recompile himself.

[squidaped-oyt]

I feel like the companions should have been a touch less surprised about the Alfira Incident, given that the 'please help i have uncontrollable violent fantasies and urges :(' option was the one I picked first when speaking to all of them.