#4th was pretty good

[mgjiyu]

Waking up early to watch Charles finish 4th, going to sleep late to watch my football team being crushed by our biggest enemy - my day has been a rollercoaster

[pierogish]

no thoughts head empty skaters pretty

losers

[verticalplane]

greetings from loch ness

[bonefall]

are amphibians like newts and frogs considered aquatic? i know crustaceans & mollusks would be

Yes they are! Generally, the more time it spends on land, the closer it will be to 5 calories than 4. The estimate was actually based on frogs and tadpoles, I had to make an educated guess.

My best source was a feeding chart from a reptile food website which sells whole small prey for consumption by snakes. It perfectly lists out the values of dozens of small animals, but no fish. So I took a note of the 4 calorie estimate, observed that an adult frog increases in calories compared to tadpoles (bucking the trend with the others on the list where younger animals are worth more caloric value) and went on to do more research

I couldn't find a source that broke down WHOLE prey caloric value like the chart, so I ended up comparing caloric value between rabbit fillets, chicken fillets, and fish fillets on human-centric nutrition websites. My hypothesis was mostly consistent, even with more species added. Fish (perch, flounder, pike) < Wild Mammal (rabbit, squirrel) < Poultry (chicken, turkey, quail). There was overlap between "classes", certain fish getting over the 100 hump, but generally there was a trend I boiled down into 4/5/6

This is consistent with how a lot of fish meat is actually water. In fact, cats quench a lot of their thirst from the food they eat. I also learned some very interesting stuff about the fat distribution in fish which is going to blow a bit of a hole in some of my Clan culture stuff lmaoooo, but I'll furiously swim across that obliterated bridge when I get there

But funfact! Fish oil is rendered fish fats and it is the form that unsaturated fat takes, whereas lard is what saturated fats become. I need to do more research into this topic to understand what kind of difference it would make in a wild cat's diet.

There was one big bucked trend though: salmonid meat was WAAAAY higher in fat and calories. Like, absurdly high. Like 150 cal trout fillet vs 110 cal of rabbit fillet vs 88 cal of perch fillet.

I do not know why that is. My guess is that maybe it's because they were taking the number from farmed salmonids? Maybe it's because they're particularly fatty fish? Perhaps this is just the raw power of salmon slammin'.

Anyway, at one point I was trying to estimate exact caloric value per popular prey species, but decided I didn't have the "backing" to get so exact with the numbers since I was doing estimates with the fish. I'll do the work if it comes down to it, but for now, 4/5/6 is a quick, easy guideline you can use for just about any WC project.

[frobby]

one of my favorite senarios to imagine to put yukio in is sending him 10 years into the future (with the exwires usually) and everyone from their class are like chill adults including himself working their boring ass exorcist job and hes trying to assert dominance over them as the teacher™ but they're all like bro why so serious?

[ohio-thestate]

Hey, so I'm still KINDA taking that break. this is a busy time of year for me (marching band season) so gimmickverse is pretty overwhelming for me rn but I don't wanna be completely inactive.

so, consider this a half break. just lessened activity pretty much. I'll check Tumblr probably once or twice a day and I'll still keep the gimmick going but expect more time between responses.

I hope you all understand!

[jula483]

!!!

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[karda]

movie was pawsome. giggle fest 9000. wolverine is so hot. i need him biblically

[svibian]

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[12thbiologist]

"In the summer of their first year, the biologists established their headquarters in the ruins of a ghost town that had once pretended to be a county seat. The vegetation had taken it back in its suffocating embrace quickly and did not seem inclined to suffer a second defeat. Even after the biologist had taken over, the expedition did not feel comfortable there. The decision to bivouac inland had been made by someone higher up, someone who thought a location on the beach would seem to “flaunt,” as one biologist put it in their diary. (The diary, retrieved, had been gone at by beetles and rot and in the searing shades of green, the watermarks that seemed more like records of tidal patterns, had the look of a found object in an art exhibit. Old Jim had run his hand over the roughness of that faux coastline more than once as he read the faded pencil marks, before he’d thought, almost quaintly, of contamination, and put the journal back.)

Early on, a local from the village bar claimed that he saw a biologist “leap into the air and catch a dragonfly with his teeth,” so delicate this maneuver that the lithe biologist spit the insect unharmed into a glass jar, where it vibrated a confused and blurred emerald. Old Jim labeled that tale apocryphal, but already, almost from the start, the biologists were changing in the eyes of the locals into something uncanny. One day, a local would be walking down a weed-strewn trail on the forgotten coast, glimpse a biologist from the corner of their eye, and not be sure of what they had seen."

excerpt of the 4th area x novel from jeff vandermeer's twitter

[etapereine]

he’s back!

[lesbiancolumbo]

and what do we think this is gonna taste like. let’s place bets.

[tineetinylily]

Decide to watch Progenitor because of the prev reblog and so far I really like it! Personally Kaveh and Kokomi are my fav designs so far (favoritism)

[redbean-nom]

arise, daughters of dathomir

Other versions:

Without the magic (probably my 2nd favorite version)

With all the magic

Simple/unshaded version

[nyxiemania]

The Broken Blade ⚔️ ⚡

Destiny was tasked by her father to retrieve the hilt of a holy sword and immediately bring it to a group of Red Wizards. With the sword, they could open a gate to the Far Realm. But so far she's held onto Illydrael, the Broken Blade, feeling a sort of kinship with the weapon—though it remains to be seen if that will last.

[artsandstoriesandstuff]

Friend, I am waiting for you to get the Most Attacks award at the end of July. You've earned it and July's not even over.

I very much appreciate your wishes!!!

But..

My hopes are kind of down as I looked at last year's statistics...

and even the lowest ones were really close to 1000