#City of the Rats

[sisterofthesouth]

I Suffered Lethal Fall Damage In The City Of The Rats And All I Got Was This Stupid Opal

[aokozaki]

Okay this is genuinely a hilarious gag, kudos to Emila Rodda.

In City of the Rats, Lief and Barda blame the ruined state of the city on the Shadow Lord, and Jasmine angrily rebukes that they can't blame every problem in Deltora on the Shadow Lord - he's been in power for a mere 16 years, and much went wrong due to the Royal Family's neglect. And the ruins of this city are much older.

So then they meet the lord of this place, a colossal serpent named Reeah. Lief tries to keep him distracted so Barda and Jasmine can sneak around and hopefully try to reach the Opal embedded in Reeah's crown.

Lief, keeping him busy, talks to him, and eventually asks who his "master" he mentioned is:

In the middle of an otherwise serious scene, Jasmine is audibly annoyed at getting that wrong. That's hilarious.

[lindalofbroome]

07 - Time

i dont have the bandwidth to elaborate today but i've had a headcanon that reeah's skeleton got preserved in the grey tide and then centuries in the future archaeologists dig around and they discover big snake??

Flames, begun and spread by the blazing fire beads, roared in the ancient rafters. The giant snake lay dead on the floor, its body covered by gnawing rats. DELTORA QUEST 1 City of the Rats Ch 17 Hope

And they could see, enclosed within the bend, the gigantic, poisonous yellow bubble pushing the damaged buildings aside as if they were children's building bricks. [...] The shapes of the ruins of the City of the Rats were visible around it — but only the shapes. Every ravaged building, every fallen tower, every brick and stone, was covered in a thick grey shroud. And here the grey no longer moved, and no longer shone in the moonlight. It was setting hard. DELTORA QUEST 3 The Sister of the South Ch 18 The Revenge

[books-to-add-to-your-tbr]

Title: Deltora Quest

Author: Emily Rodda

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2000

Genres: fiction, fantasy, adventure, mystery

Blurb: The evil Shadow Lord is plotting to invade Deltora and enslave its people. All that stands against him is the magic Belt of Deltora with its seven gems of great and mysterious power. When the gems are stolen and hidden in dark, terrible places throughout the kingdom, the Shadow Lord triumphs, and Deltora is lost. In secrecy, with only a hand-drawn map to guide them, two unlikely companions set out on a perilous quest. Determined to find the lost gems and rid their land of the tyrant, they struggle towards their first goal: the sinister Forests of Silence.

[kublakola]

no one plays weird little guys with the same commitment and verve as Brian Kevin Murphy. kugrash doesn't just go to the park to find some pigeons, he raises his 'little rat arms' and summons them en masse to kingston's gorgeous, pristine apartment. riz doesn't just hide behind a car, he rolls into a ball, hides in fabian's backpack, promptly throws up out of excitement, gets lobbed across the parking lot, and then bites gorgug's shirt in half to make himself a toga, because gorgug's big and he's so small, and so covered in his own vomit. murph just gets it. shoutout krudbert. shoutout gerard prince of greenleigh.

[dungeonclown]

ye murph spectrum

(he who makes my favorite characters. and cody is there)

[bulbabutt]

my brother just sent me some screenshots he took playing world of warcraft and im crying

AND THEY HAVE LIL DIALOGUES......

im fucking crying

[new-age-cassandra]

coping with not being at Gauntlet at the Garden by drawing this picture of Murph as Kugrash… I love this picture so much actually.

Kug without the picture background after cut:

[hamable]

Murph is a really talented improviser, actor, and comedian. He immediately switched from Barry 6, The Biggest Man, to Kugrash, The Littlest Scrungle, and it was like I was watching two different ppl on stage. That man flipped a switch and, holy shit, Barry fully disappeared and a rat man from New York took his place.

[hubedihubbe]

Bell doesn't know how to ballroom dance, luckily Leo has no problem being stepped on for practice

[sisterofthesouth]

signs of the shadow lord are all over noradz even before we see the brand on reece’s face because noradz has anachronistically modern technology such as:

industrial kitchens

glass jars

a system of metal catwalks above the kitchen

gloves that cling to the skin (latex gloves)

conveyor belts

[losdibujitos]

Pizza rat 🍕🐁

[birdfish-co]

"Filthy Friends" - 6"x6" gouache, metallic watercolors, and colored pencil on watercolor paper

this is probably my favorite page in my sketchbook so far! i love how the gouache blends together.

i doodled it cuz i was thinking about how cute pigeons are and how sad it is that humans are so mean to em. animals are cute! even if people think they're "filthy". lets show these animals more love !!!!

[dandelionsresilience]

Dandelion News - November 1-7

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1. Climate Initiatives Fare Well Across the Country Despite National Political Climate

“[California voters approved] a $10 billion bond measure to boost climate resilience across [the] state[…. Hawai’i] voters cast their ballots in favor of establishing the [climate] resiliency fund, with money for the project coming from existing property tax revenue.“

2. ‘You have to disguise your human form’: how sea eagles are being returned to Severn estuary after 150 years

“[… To avoid imprinting,] the handlers will wear long robes and feed the young eagles chopped rabbit and other meat with bird hand-puppets. […] Williams hopes that restoring eagles to the top of the food chain in the estuary will create a more balanced, thriving ecosystem.”

3. 10 states voted on pro-abortion referendums. 7 of them passed

“New York voters overwhelmingly approved the Equal Rights Amendment, adding [… among other characteristics] gender expression, pregnancy, and pregnancy outcomes to anti-discrimination laws. […] In deep-red Missouri and Montana, voters also enshrined abortions protections in their state constitutions.”

4. Giant rats could soon fight illegal wildlife trade by sniffing out elephant tusk and rhino horn

“”Our study shows that we can train African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife, even when it has been concealed among other substances[.…] They can easily access tight spaces like cargo in packed shipping containers or be lifted up high to screen the ventilation systems of sealed containers,” Szott explained.”

5. Sarah McBride wins Delaware U.S. House seat, becoming the first out trans member of Congress

“McBride spearheaded Delaware’s legislation to ban the “gay and trans panic” defense as a state senator [… and] helped to pass paid family and medical leave, gun safety measures, and protections for reproductive rights.”

6. Critically endangered Sumatran elephant calf born in Indonesia

“Indonesian officials hailed the births and said they showed conservation efforts were essential to prevent the protected species from extinction. […] Sumatran elephants are on the brink of extinction with only about 2,400-2,800 left in the world, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.”

7. Sin City is Going Green

“[Hotels there] have conserved 16 billion gallons of water since 2007, thanks to […] replacing grass with desert-friendly landscaping, installing water-efficient taps across all properties, and reusing water at aquariums and in the Bellagio Fountain.”

8. Gray squirrel control: Study shows promise for effective contraceptive delivery system

“[… T]he feeders have a very high level of species-specificity. […] The bait and monitoring system developed and tested in the study demonstrated that […] “spring was the only season tested where female squirrels were more likely to visit bait feeders than males. Spring coincides with a peak in squirrel breeding and is therefore a good time to deliver a contraceptive."”

9. Returning Grazing Land to Native Forests Would Yield Big Climate Benefits

“[… S]trategically regrowing forests on land where cattle currently graze […] while intensifying production elsewhere could drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, with little hit to global protein production, a new study shows.”

10. Interior Department Strengthens Conservation of American Bison Through New Agreement with Canada and Mexico

“Approximately 31,000 bison are currently being stewarded by the United States, Canada and Mexico with the goal of conserving the species and their role in the function of native grassland systems, as well as their place in Indigenous culture.”

October 22-28 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)

[rotten-apple-stims]

The Riddler (Batman 2022) board with green tech, city, rat and graffiti stims

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Proship / Comship / RPF Do Not Interact Please !

( Divider(s) by @sister-lucifer )

[stampz]

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