#Lion King Crocs

[lionkingcrocs]

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[tlg-confessions]

rewatched Never Roar Again Again (best TLG episode) and noticed two details:

- Nala wasn't giving her all in the fight against Janja and his clan. She didn't want to hurt them...

- Nala got bodied by two crocodiles and shrugged it off. I hope Rafiki gives her something for the pain...

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[spinnysocks]

i am 100% sure it won't happen but if we got a pua cameo in the mufasa movie i think i could die happy

[kaythefloppa]

Makuu from The Lion Guard has turtle siblings, no I will not elaborate.

[scarlett-bitch69]

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[brokendreamscreation]

Bubbles rise from the water before Lil Lucid finally breaks the surface. Gasping and sputtering, the cherub manages to doggy paddle towards the shore.

“L…Luciii!” Spotting his twin, he paddles towards him, feet finally touching the bottom so he can wade. But the child stops short as hissing fills his ears. Eyes widen in beneath the golden wet mop of hair, sputtering and pointing at the “log” Lucifer is sat upon.

“DWAGOOON!!”

Luci tried to flap his own wings , his small barely there primary feathers catching small snatches of wind before he felt that tug in the pit of his belly again , oh no Lucid was using his powers again!

He tried to grab hold of him tighter he couldn’t lose his twin not here not again— he yelped as he was suddenly doused in water .

He came up with a gasp coughing up a small fish; Aw dang he was hungry but there it goes .

“L-Lucid?! “ he coughed and made his way up the Bank moving to climb up on a strange green log , .. .. why was it hissing ?

[blacklegsanjiii]

i think truly the most absurd parenting scenario we could put sanji in is with Real Pirate King Buggy 🦅🦅🦅🦅

Sanji would really suit that like. commedia dell’arte venetian theatre. Sanji would make a fine Arlecchino or Tartaglia (both lover roles, but Arlecchino or ‘the Harlequin’ is often a trickster character too)

Buggy would unironically be an incredible father tho. like. i am fully confident that there is nothing Buggy doesn’t excell in despite his pathetic soppy wet cat existence. He’s a COMPETENT soppy wet cat.

Sanji growing up as an acrobat in Buggy’s circus and getting doted on by all the crew oh ya know he’d love the dramatic flamboyance of it all.

Listen.

Listen, you're cooking. And it smells GREAT! But I think we need to adjust the seasoning a bit. Buggy managed to successfully hide in the East Blue and be forgotten from Roger's crew and all his adversaries. Like Buggy has to be running a network of some sort. He probably has informants in the New World ya know? For sure in the Grand Line.

I don't really fuck with Shuggy ATM(crossguild brain rot) but like also Buggy probably knows about Usopp and Luffy and that's part of why he signed the(forged) adoption papers. Sanji is also probably skilled with all sorts of weapons? His kitchen knives are not weapons but like he has a set of knives that are always hidden on him. He probably shows Usopp a bunch of spices and stuff that are good for bombs and Nami and Robin are confused about exactly how much in universe Shakespeare, albeit Robin is impressed. Luffy just knows but imagine Zoro finds out when the cook, who doesn't fight with his hands just swallows a Marines sword to distract them right before Luffy Gum Gum Pistols them.

Rayleigh talks more about Shanks and Sanji is just looking at his nails and briefly brings up Buggy. And Sanji can't help himself when he says "at least he's not a dead beat, he didn't abandon me" which makes Robin laugh and Luffy and Usopp ask what means and Sanji is like "you both haven't seen the Redhair crew since you were in the single digits, Buggy saw me at Baratie three weeks before you lot wrecked it and he would stop by every couple of weeks normally" And the crew is shook.

Like then Sanji just proudly showing everyone his photo of the Buggy Pirates, him, and Buggy in the adoption office and then again with just Buggy and Sanji and the paper and the jolly Roger. Rayleigh is having heart palpitations as Nami, Luffy, and Zoro scream at how lame his dad is and Sanji is like "oh you guys are the reason he's in Impel Down this makes sense" and Rayleigh is losing it. Shakky is laughing so hard. Rayleigh asks if anyone is planning to get Buggy out of prison and Sanji shrugs and says the lion is in charge now.

And then after the time skip to the forming of the crossguild everyone keeps shitting on. Like imagine Mihawk and Croc walking into Buggy's tent and seeing Black Leg Sanji as a child in full clown get up sitting on his own head in a photo and next to it is the adoption photo. When they ask Buggy about it hes just like "oh yeah, I adopted him at ten. Saw him all the time after he started at Baratie. Unfortunate he's not out of his civilian phase yet." And Croc and Mihawk are reeling. "Then again I think having to relive his trauma in Germa and with Big Mom probably didn't help, oh well. I'll talk to him about it when I see him."

When they see each other is some meeting between the Hats, the Guild and Redhair Pirates Luffy and Usopp are really happy to see their dad's. Sanji is probably being passed around by Buggy's crew and petting Richie who has him pinned to the ground and Crocodile is groaning that the clown's kid did the whole Mr. Prince thing and Shanks is confused because "you didn't tell me you had a brat?"

"well I legally adopted him eleven years ago and when Garp found out he said I was a better dad than you and Roger and Rayleigh so."

[weaselle]

i've seen this before but i just now heard some people talking about it so i'm going to weigh in.

(I don't sit around day dreaming about fighting animals or anything, but i live under a hill with coyotes and a mountain lion and i've done a fair amount of wandering around where the wild things are, so this kind of thing does cross my mind)

First of all, we're talking a fight not an altercation. I think there's a chance i could drive off just about any of these animals, by bluffing them or acting weird enough or getting them to give a little ground which often turns into giving more ground and going away. I've navigated interactions with wild animals before, and you can usually make yourself seem like not enough of a threat and yet also too much trouble, and end things before they really begin.

What we're talking about is after these tactics fail and you are already in a physical fight.

And for the purposes of this i'm going to say this includes fighting for your life against a predatory attack -- there's a big difference between driving off a large predator that is just roughing you up because it's mad you're in its territory, and one that has already decided its for sure going to kill you, and we're going to say "what if the worst should happen". So:

rat

house cat

goose

medium sized dog

eagle

large dog are all a yes from me. Large dog and eagle are trouble but doable -- i'm very experienced with large dogs and i grew up around geese and the eagle is going to be the same as the goose but you'll walk away with more significant injuries. Like, an eagle weighs the same as a jack russell terrier and has hollow bones, if i can get a hold of it i can end it, but i'm probably gonna need, like, so many stitches. Same with the large dog, i'll likely need to visit the hospital after (and i'd be real sad) but i could get it done if i had to.

now. The unknowns. These are all animals that there's some chance, however small, i might survive.

wolf

king cobra

crocodile

kangaroo

Wolf. So. I work with dogs professionally, I have had to break up several dog fights, i'm comfortable physically interacting with very large dogs, and that's why i think i could definitely win a fight against a dog if i had to. I've also come face to face with a wild wolf in the woods (which was pretty damn scary) and i think there's a chance i could win against a single wolf basically the same way i would win against a large dog, but also, wolves are not dogs, they literally kill other animals all the time, they're like, professionals at it, so. Maybe.

King cobra, yeah, i can for sure kill this poor snake with my bare hands, but whether or not i can do it without getting a lethal dose of venom stuck into me is a big coin flip. Is it winning if you kill the snake but you also die? not to me

Crocodile just depends on so much. I mean probably not. Like, a large adult Saltwater or Nile croc? absolutely not, nope, no way, i'm for sure deadzo. But crocs come in a lot of sizes and shapes. And many of them sort of keep growing their whole life, so, a 5 and a half foot croc might be an adult or i could be facing an adult crocodile of the same species that weighs more than 2,000 pounds.

Gharial crocs can also get way bigger than i can do anything with, but they have a really thin snout designed to catch fish. Other species of crocs also have smaller, thinner mouths and specialize in fish, like the central african slender-snouted croc, which do not get as large as their nile cousins. And various smaller species of crocodile exist that might be adults at only three or four feet long.

Most crocodiles enter tonic immobility like sharks, so if i can get it on its back for a couple breaths it will go sort of unconscious, and if it's not too big i might be able to make that happen. Of course, even if it only weighs like 40 pounds, if we're in water that's deeper than i am tall it can just latch on and keep my head under the surface... so a lot depends on what kind of croc, what size, and what specific ground/water environment we're in. The answer is, probably not. But it depends.

Kangaroo. So that leaves this guy. Basically, this is like fighting a soccer player who has a short-bladed knife in each hand and a spike on each foot. The kicks are hard, and i'm getting cut up real good, but there's some chance i could win. Or not. It kind of depends on the individual. Some adult kangaroos are smaller than me and some are bigger than me and i do know how to fight but then again i definitely fight less often than the kangaroo does and it has weapons and i don't, so. Likely not. But maybe. Depends. Also depends on what you mean by "win". It definitely doesn't want to eat me and they don't usually fight to the death -- I've seen a person punch a large kangaroo hard enough to make it change its mind about wanting to fight. i kinda think i might be able to achieve a similar outcome.

Okay, now the rest of these are just crazy! Chimps are a big no, they can do everything i can do but stronger, better, and with fangs.

A gorilla? If they do decide you have to be ended, gorillas are an even worse opponent, there's just no way. A male gorilla has jaw muscles the same size as my biceps. They have a bite force twice as strong as a lion's. They can weigh more than 400 pounds. There's absolutely no way.

And there's literally nothing an unarmed human could do against a determined lion, brown bear, or elephant. Less than zero chance if one of those things decides you have to die.

look, the smallest of those last three would be a lioness. Here's three big strong men testing their strength against a single lioness

dude. She's not even trying very hard. A wild lioness that decided an unarmed person was food? There's basically nothing you can do once she takes action, all your options depend on doing something to make her change her mind before she gets a hold of you. It's the same for a brown bear, and lmao, an elephant could literally throw a car at you. An elephant can weigh six thousand pounds and lowkey has to move carefully around a person to not kill them accidentally.

idk who these 6-17% think they are, but some of these "yes" answers up on that poll are insane.

[tired-lamb]

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shoutout to @devilsrecreation and @spinnysocks for helping me out with the outlanders’ usernames :]

husbandtoreireideactivated15602180

does anybody have advice on how to escape your angry wife

cheesey

have you tried running?

cheesey Follow

guys I don’t think he tried running :(

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the-zebra-mastermind Follow

King Simba should have asked me for advice before letting the hyenas in the Pridelands. They’re everywhere!

braincell-of-the-guard Follow

oh no

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chungus Follow

why do the lion guard always send us flying to the outlands? :(

babyofthefloat Follow

yeah we can walk you know!

best-cheetah-ever Follow

oh so NOW you can walk huh?

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does anybody wanna hear a suuuper good joke. like its REALLY good

braincell-of-the-guard

no

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futuremjuzimakini Follow

has anybody seen my staff?? I swear I just had it

bravest-and-unbungalievable Follow

#justiceformakinisstaff

futuremjuzimakini Follow

bunga I’m being serious

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#justiceformakinisstaff

futuremjuzimakini Follow

RAFIKI????

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leaderofthefurbrains Follow

“get a redemption arc” they say. as if anybody’s gonna do that for us

thebetter-hyena Follow

:)

leaderofthefurbrains Follow

what. what does that mean. jasiri what do you mean by that.

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betterthanpua Follow

@betterthanmakuu your ass did not beat me in mashindano change your username

braincell-of-the-guard Follow

?? im confused, what does kiburi’s username have anything to do with mashindano

honorarycroc Follow

whenever a croc beats the previous croc leader in a mashindano, they change their username to “betterthan[previous leader’s name]” :D!

leaderofthefurbrains Follow

the hell kind of custom is that

betterthanmakuu Follow

its the crocodile way

betterthanpua Follow

the crocodile way is CHANGING YOUR USERNAME KIBURI

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lionguard-official

on our way back to the pridelands now :)

lionguard-official Follow

hey @kiaraofthepridelands why was our account hacked

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beshtethehippo

hey guys!!

randomherbivore189 Follow

op barely said anything and got 4k notes in an hour

herbivorerandom981 Follow

its beshte what do you expect

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vulturedownunder Follow

personally I think vultures are the greatest birds

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Mwoga you can’t just say that we have to put it to a vote first

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hevi-kabisa

guys you won’t believe it my roar was super powerful today!!! :D bunga said it made the clouds roar too!

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@lionsofthepast take my roar back

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[lionkingcrocs]

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[chimachapterbooks]

Swamp Siege

The morning stillness was broken by the sound of running feet crashing through the bushes.

"You won't get away this time!”

Laval shouted as he and his Lion Troops chased a group of Crocodiles deep into the jungle.

Cragger, the Crocodile King, snarled back. "Just watch us!"

The sneaky Crocodile chuckled to himself. His plan was working perfectly.

Earlier that morning, Cragger and his troops had attacked the monthly CHI market. They had pretended they wanted to steal extra CHI from the Eagles and Gorillas.

But secretly, Cragger had another plan in mind. He knew that Laval would insist on chasing them. And that was just what Cragger wanted.

"What's the matter, Laval?" Cragger taunted. "Paws too soft for running FAST through the jungle?"

"Just you wait," Laval said. "When we catch you, you're-whoa!"

Laval and his troops skidded to a halt. The ground had suddenly turned muddy. The Crocodiles had led them to the Croc Swamp!

"Something wrong?" Cragger laughed as he dove into the murky water.

Laval turned to the lions. Something was wrong. Laval didn't know how to swim. If he went into the swamp, he could drown.

“What should we do, Prince Laval?" one of his soldiers asked.

Before Laval could answer, Cragger cried out, "Release the gate!" Instantly, four Crocs slashed thick vines holding back a large gate made out of swamp branches. A flood of water rushed out, surrounding the muddy patch Laval and the Lions were standing on. They were trapped!

"Let's see you get away now, Laval," Cragger sneered.

The Lions looked at one another. This was not good. Even the best of them wasn't a strong swimmer. If they went into the swamp, the Crocs would attack for sure.

"Maybe we could make a bridge out of swamp grass?" one of the Lion Warriors suggested.

Laval shook his head. "No, it won't be strong enough to hold us. We need another plan."

But as the stinky swamp water inched closer, Laval grew worried.

There was no way for the Lions to defend themselves if the Crocs attacked them in the swamp. They would be helpless.

"That's right, take your time," the Crocodiles teased from the center of the swamp. They splashed around and dove in and out of the water. "By the time you come up with a plan, it will be too late!"

"Any ideas?" Laval asked the Lions. But they all shook their heads.

"There must be a way to get out of this," Laval muttered. He couldn't help being angry with himself. His Father, King LaGravis, would have told him to keep a cool head when the Crocs attacked. Laval shouldn't have chased after them with such a small group of Lions. They were in danger now, and it was Laval's Fault.

His Father and the other tribes didn't even know where they were....

"They don't know where we are," Laval said slowly. "That's it!"

He turned to his troops. "I think I know a way out," Laval said. "The other tribes are sure to be looking for us. We need to get to the top of these trees and signal for help."

"But the swamp water is closing in fast," one of his soldiers pointed out.

"Then we only have one shot," Laval said, determined. "Get on my shoulders and jump to the nearest tree. When you reach the top, see if you can spot any of the Eagles. It's our only chance."

Quickly, the Lion Soldier hopped onto Laval's shoulders and made a flying leap. He just reached the nearest tree! The swamp water gurgled at his feet as he started to climb.

Cragger saw what was happening and snarled. "Enough messing around” Cragger exclaimed. "Let's FINISH this."

The Crocs began swimming toward the trapped Lions.

"Now would be the time for some good news!" Laval called up as he and his other soldiers prepared to fight.

"I see them!" the Lion called down. "The Eagles— they're looking for us." He waved his arms. "Over here-hurry!"

The Eagles spotted them right away.

"Laval!" cried Eris the Eagle. "Were coming! Hang on!"

In a flash, the Eagles swooped down to lift the Lions one by one from the jungle. It was just in time, too. The Crocs had just reached them!

"Sorry we can't stick around, guys," Laval said as the Eagles grabbed the last of them. "Maybe next time!"

Cragger growled. "You got lucky this time, Laval. Next time, you won't be!"

Laval smiled gratefully up at Eris as they flew home. "Thanks, Eris," he said. "I owe you one."

Eris laughed. "Next time, just don't let your temper get the best of you," she said. "It landed you in deep trouble."

"You can say that again." Laval nodded. "Swamp-deep trouble!"

-

I know things are really scary right now, so I thought I’d at least put up one of the short chima stories today

[arminreindl]

Paludirex: Life of the Swamp King

Having gotten the long taxonomic history of Pallimnarchus and Paludirex out of the way (see here), lets talk more about the animal itself.

As far as we know at this point in time, Paludirex was the last of the large semi-aquatic mekosuchines and the largest members of this group had ever gotten. Whereas the cleaver-headed Baru dominated the waterways of the Oligocene and Miocene, Paludirex lived from the Pliocene and Pleistocene. There is some division between the species tho as it appears. Given the ambiguity around the origin of some Paludirex vincenti specimens, this species is currently only known from the Pliocene, whereas Paludirex gracilis is currently only known from the Pleistocene. There may also be a third species from the same region as Paludirex vincenti.

Comparisson between Paludirex gracilis (left) and Paludirex vincenti (right)

Anatomically, Paludirex has a pretty easily recognizable animal. Unlike Baru, with its short, triangular skull, Paludirex had a head that was almost rectangular when viewed from above, about half as wide as long and comparably flat. Mind you the skull can still be pretty deep, especially in Paludirex vincenti, but the proportions still highlight how wide it is most of all. In both robustness and skull width, Paludirex far exceeds what is known in modern saltwater crocodiles, which likely fill a similar niche.

Left: Skull reconstruction of Paludirex vincenti. Right: Life reconstruction of Paludirex (Nellie Pease)

As said before, Paludirex represents the biggest mekosuchine. At a minimum length of 4 meters, it already rivals many of today's crocodiles and Baru, and that's just the smaller ones. Large individuals of Paludirex vincenti probably got much larger, 5 meters and more further drawing parallels to todays salties.

A size comparisson between Steve Irwin and both species of Paludirex

Now while the description is pretty sound on account of recent work by Ristevski and co., the ecology is a different matter. A lot of work was published back when Pallimnarchus was still a thing, so trying to separate what and what isn't applicable these days is a bit of a challenge.

On the most simple level, Paludirex was a generalist semi-aquatic ambush hunter. It's skull, tho incredibly robust and wide, shows no peculiar adaptations like long slender jaws so its obviously not a specialist. It's semi-aquatic because the nostrils and eyes face up so that they would peer out from the water while the rest of the body remained submerged. And these last two together basically suggest ambush-hunting.

Willis and Molnar also made comparissons between Paludirex skulls (or rather skulls now recognized as such) and Mugger crocodiles. All in all this suggests that its diet could have ranged from turtles to aquatic birds to large mammals (so the typical croc range really). They also infer that it may have had similar habitat preferences, being found in marshes, swamps, rivers, lakes, anywhere theres freshwater really. One exception may be that some researchers have argued that Paludirex was avoiding saltwater and brackish water, which eventually could have factored into its extinction once inland waterways in Queensland dissappeared.

Top: Eastern Sahul megafauna, the foreground features Paludirex about to ambush a giant kangaroo (Ryan Bargiel, Vlad Konstantinov, Andrey Atuchin & Scott Hocknull) Bottom left: Paludirex vincenti (Diego Ortega Anatol) Bottom right: An unforunate Paludirex being attacked by a marsupial lion (Joschua Knüppe)

As with many crocs, its pretty likely that individuals were hostile towards each other at certain times, perhaps during territorial disputes or in the mating season. Now this one's a bit of a more ambiguous one regarding the assignment of the fossils. Fossils of leg material show clear bite marks, HOWEVER, the fossils were assigned to Pallimnarchus purely on the basis that they don't appear to have belonged to a terrestrial animal (as often inferred for Quinkana) nor to a modern croc. Based on this, the material was assumed to have been that of Pallimnarchus without much else to back it up. Now that Pallimnarchus is no more, it is reasonable to assume that it may be Paludirex but then again, it could also be an entirely different animal. Only way to tell would be to find Paludirex fossils with leg fossils attached.

This does bring up the interesting discussion, what crocs did coexist with Paludirex? Well there's a couple. As just mentioned, there's Quinkana, which I'll research more in depth later, but for now it's commonly assumed to be more terrestrial than other mekosuchines. There's the Darling Downs form, which lived around the same time as Paludirex vincenti in Queensland and may be a third species of this taxon. Gunggamarandu is another animal from this region, tho much as with Paludirex its not entirely clear if its Pliocene or Pleistocene. More certain is the fact that during the Pleiostocene, Paludirex gracilis coexisted with freshwater crocodiles in the Riversleigh WHA. Finally, there's indetermined species of crocodiles that date as far back as the Pliocene. Historically, they've been regarded as salties, but more recently it's though that they were a different species entirely and that salties only moved in recently, possibly after Paludirex went extinct and the niche of large semi-aquatic predator was free.

Top left: Quinkana faces off against Megalania (Hodari Nundu) Top right: A freshwater crocodile running (Brandon Sideleau) Bottom: Gunggamarandu, a relative of today's gharials (Eleanor Pease)

By this point I've basically already given away the reason why Paludirex is no more. With mekosuchines already taking a massive hit during the late Miocene, the group was not at its peak when Paludirex came around. And things were not getting any better as Australia grew more and more arid, river systems disappearing, freshwater drying up and the habitat of these animals shrinking bit by bit. Paludirex, presumably staying clear of coastal waters, was hit hard by these events and eventually it was just too much. And once it was out, saltwater crocodiles moved in, leading into the modern day.

[devilsrecreation]

Okay Nikki. Drop some random TLG headcanons. Go

HOLY SHIT HI TEAGS BFGFHFGDGD

I may or may not have mentioned this before, but I’m gonna say it again anyway: talking to the ghost of your ancestors isn’t just a lion thing, any animal can talk to their dead relative. A lot of them just don’t know it yet lol

You know the song “Come Little Children” and what it does in Hocus Pocus? Yeah, Ushari’s ghost can do that except instead of young animals, he does it to reptiles. And I mean ALL the reptiles. Whenever the Outlands needs more help, then Ushari’s singing a song summoning all reptiles from both the Pridelands and Backlands

The skinks are absolutely the type to lowkey roast you during your funeral hfhfhf. I mean yeah they’ll be like “We really miss you” but also say something like “hope your love life is better in the next one”

Now that I think about it, all the Outlanders would do that 😭

Kion’s guard met the OG hyena trio: Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed the first time they visited the Outlands since the events of the show. They found themselves in the Elephant Graveyard and it was just like how Simba and Nala met the trio. It was an….interesting experience (though if you want details, all you gotta do is ask 😉)

Kiburi would idolize King K. Rool from the Donkey Kong franchise. No I will not elaborate

I also imagine him loving Friday Night Funkin in a human or Zootopia au and no I’m not elaborating on that either

Goigoi knows Reirei is out of his league. He thinks she doesn’t know it either

“What’s a cutie like you doing with someone like Reirei?”

“Shh! I don’t think she knows she can do better!”

So I’ve been watching “Silence of the Lambs” recently and Hannibal Lecter talking to Clarice is exactly how Sumu gives out information

Also whenever Sumu is willing to do something fun, he has the same energy as Jigsaw from SAW. Only difference is he doesn’t wanna torture anybody he literally just wants to play hide and seek or smth

Janja once fell into a thornbush in the same fashion as his dad, Banzai. The others never let him forget it

Janja didn’t trust Chungu and Cheezi babysit Wema and Tunu at first cuz in his words “the idea of you two fur brains being in charge of cubs gives me nausea so I have to”

The first time Kiburi’s float got to babysit Wema and Tunu, the cubs climbed into Tamka and Nduli’s mouths and the crocs were like “Kiburi look, we’re holdin cubs and we didn’t eat ‘em yet! :D”

Like Bunga in “Babysitter Bunga”, Shabaha once offered to babysit several of the Pridelands’ kids. When she first suggested it, Vitani was like “….That’s sweet and all, Shabs, but they’d die”

[bloodmoon24]

do you know any cool zoology facts?

You might wanna sit down and have a snack for this

• That in lemur society, female lemurs are always the boss of the family (girl power)

• Red pandas aren’t related to anybody. They’re in their own family (and to anyone who says that red pandas are related to the giant pandas, they’re not related. Just because they have “panda” in the name, doesn’t mean that they’re related)

• In some birds, like a hummingbird, males are always a brighter color to attract mates, while the females are duller so that they can camouflage themselves to protect their nests

• There’s a cool lemur called an aye-aye that has a special long and skinny finger that they use to knock on wood on branches for echolocating any prey like maggots or other grub (try getting flipped off by them)

• A woodpecker’s tongue is SO long, it wraps around their skull (look it up. I’m not joking)

• A warthog and use their face as a shield to block off an entrance of their borrow, so that predators like lions can’t get through

• There’s a jellyfish called the immortal jellyfish that can live forever by turning itself back into a baby and repeats its whole life cycle

• As far as most people know, lions are the only wild cats that lives in a big social group

• Coyotes are very adaptable. They can adapt in any environment likes cities, the desert, the arctic, and in the forest

• Crocs, gators, and king cobras are cannibals

• Like with the lemurs (kinda), female praying mantis are VERY larger than the males, and since they’re bigger, they’re way too heavy and the males have the ability to fly. And they both eat their prey head first. Same goes to the females after they mated with the males

• To anybody that didn’t know, a narwhal’s horn is actually a tusk, like an elephant or a warthog

• All raptors are closely related to the dinosaurs

* Gars specifically have been around since the dinosaurs

And that’s all the zoology facts that I have for you. I’ll let you know if I have some more awesome and cool facts about animals

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Here's the next part of my story of Sarafina and her friendship with (and mutual unacknowledged love for) Zira! I might make more, I have some vague ideas of where I might take this during Scar's reign, but nothing concrete yet, we'll see.

The drawing is all mine this time, including the background (though I did trace Sarafina's head again a bit from a screenshot from the movie, she's just so hard to get right). I had a lot of fun with the water effects and lighting for this one. The lightning is meant to be a screen divider, showing two panels, one of Zira, one of Sarafina, hopefully that comes across well enough in the drawing.

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Sarafina eventually marries her betrothed, fellow guard member Kimbia, and the pair have a daughter, Nala. While not remotely attracted to each other, they’re good friends and never blame each other for the lack of attraction or lack of choice about marrying each other. They do their best to make it easier on each other, but it’s still less than ideal. Kimbia is actually in love another lioness in the pride, a huntress named Sema, but Sema isn't much of a fighter and Shari wants strong warriors bred for her war against the Pride Lands, which is why she paired Kimbia with Sarafina instead.

Kimbia is open about his situation with Sema to Sarafina from the start, and she is fine with them continuing their relationship, so long as they're careful not to be caught. They're not careful enough to avoid Sema becoming pregnant, however, and she gives birth to a boy named Tojo shortly before Nala's birth. Shari doesn't seem to suspect anything, but it has all three lions on edge nonetheless.

But even more than worrying over Shari discovering what they're up to, the birth of these cubs changes everything for these three lions. Suddenly, it’s not enough to just go along with their pride’s cruel way of life anymore. It's not enough to argue with Ziara over the state of the pride but not do much else to change things and just hope for them to get better. Now, there’s something precious to protect, something worth fighting for a better future for. They soon decide they can no longer stay in a pride so determined to make vicious killers out of their precious cubs. They must escape - they must run away to the Pridelands and beg King Mufasa for shelter, and hope he's not the vicious throne-stealer Shari has painted him and his father as all of these seasons.

Sarafina hates the thought of abandoning Ziara, but after so many arguments on the subject, she knows Ziara would never leave her mother’s pride. When the cubs are toddlers, Sarafina, Kimbia, and Sema finally make a break for it one night when a fierce storm hits, with the hope that the rain will wash away their scent and the thunder will cover any sound of their escape. But they get unlucky when a scout spots them leaving. Ziara is in shock that her best friend would try to leave, but Shari is furious. Not only are members of her guard abandoning their post by trying to leave, but they are stealing cubs from the pride, future warriors in their battle against the Pride Lands. This cannot be allowed. The only solution is the death of the traitors, and the recovery of the cubs. Ziara is desperate to stop her friend and stop her mother from killing her, but she hardly knows how she's going to manage it, she just knows she has to join the effort to recover the cubs and hope to find a way to stop all of this before her beloved Sarafina gets killed.

A chase ensues, and the three deserters end up being driven to the river gorge that divides the Outlands from the Pridelands (where Kiara and Kovu nearly got eaten by crocs in the second movie). Ziara manages to catch up with Sema and wrests Tojo from her grasp - to her shock, her beloved Sarafina turns on her and attacks, tearing her ear to make her let go and take the cub back from her. The lionesses and their cubs manage to make it across the tree bridge to the other side with only a few of the pride making it across while in pursuit of them.

When Kimbia attempts to follow, however, a furious Shari attacks him. With the queen furiously trying to tear into him and holding him back from reaching the other side, and the rest of the pride ready to cross the bridge and pursue his mates and their cubs, Kimbia makes a heart-breaking choice - he jostles the tree bridge in a way that dislodges it from one bank, cutting off access from either side and sending both himself and Shari falling to their deaths in the churning river below.

For a moment, every lion is stunned into silence. The Outlanders have lost their queen, Ziara has lost her mother, Sema has lost her beloved mate, and Sarafina has lost a dear friend and the father of her daughter - and, unbeknownst to her, to the son she is carrying and will deliver in a few months, a son she will call Mheetu. Two of Shari's pride stand on the Prideland's side of the gorge with Sarafina and Sema - Princess Dunia, the heir to her mother’s throne, and her mate Tumbili, the guard's Keenest of Sight. As the Outlanders get over their shock at Shari's death, they begin calling for Dunia and Tumbili to seize Sarafina and Sema, to kill the traitorous lionesses and bring the cubs the long way around the gorge to the Outlands once more.

But Dunia hesitates. She is not like Ziara. She never bought into her mother's hatred of the Pridelands. All she wants is a peaceful life and freedom from her mother's harsh treatment. And now, she has this one chance, this one shining chance, to break away from that life forever. With a glance at her mate to confirm his support, she turns away from her pride and joins Sarafina and Sema, and as the Outlanders shriek their outrage behind them, all four lions set off for Pride Rock. But before leaving, Sarafina turns back, just once, to meet the furious, hurt, hate-filled glare of Ziara.

So in the drawing we see one last look between these two friends, who once loved each other so fiercely, who still feel that love, only to have it soured by hurt and loss and betrayal. Sarafina, now safe in the Pridelands with her daughter safe in her grasp, looking sadly across the river at the lioness who had once been her whole world - but she has a new world now, and as much as leaving Zira and hurting her in this way tears at her heart, she can’t regret it, and she won’t let it destroy her. The rain washes away her guard symbol, symbolizing her leaving the Guard, and her life in the Outlands, behind.

Ziara looks across at the lioness she had trusted more than any other, who she’d thought would always be by her side, and who had betrayed her in the worst way she could ever imagine. Not only did she permanently scar her ear, but her mother is dead because of her, and her sister abandoned and betrayed her because of Sarafina’s example. She had gone after Sarafina to try and save her from her own foolishness, only for Sarafina to take away everything she'd loved. Ziara has nothing left now but her rage, and the hate steadily growing in her heart. With her sister and mother gone, she is now the new queen of the Outlands, and just as her mother did before her, she takes a new name to fit that new role - she is no longer Ziara, a traveler to a sacred place, but Zira, hatred for her enemies. And she will make those enemies pay for every bit of her suffering - starting with Sarafina.

[sbk-zgvlt]

1. I’m honestly impressed about how you two made a whole ass fan fiction which I heavily enjoy with just a simple question

2. I’m hoping onto that Peter Pan idea train

3. This random idea which has less Angst. Basically one day at NRC, all the main cast suddenly get transported into to a story book where they get each character is transported into a different story that best matches there personalities(or in author sense what there character was inspired by), so when the Diasomnia group get transported to the story of sleeping beauty, the can’t find Sebek anywhere. Meanwhile, Sebek is wondering where the hell everyone is and why he’s on a deserted island in the middle of nowhere, where’s there’s apparently pirate ships. (I also imagine sense Sebek is half crocodile fea he has a crocodile tail which can disappear and reappear)

1. We're just that cool

2. I think i need to make a tag for that now...

3. IM SO INSANE ABOUT THIS

They probably messed around with this cursed storybook that Crowley keeps in his office and now they suffer the consequences.

The thing is though that they have to complete each story by their order in the book to actually progress. So, we start with Alice in Wonderland where Heartslabyul is stuck in. The further down the story is in the book (First story = Alice in Wonderland, last story = Sleeping Beauty), the longer the dorm has been inside.

For example, Heartslabyul have only been stuck for a day. Savanaclaw for a week. Octavinelle for a month, etc.

The basics of how this works is that while the first story is being played out, the others haven't even started yet. They're basically on pause. It's like Heartslabyul is trying to finish the story in a day while Savanaclaw is stuck inside the story 1 week before the events actually happen.

When Heartslabyul finish their story, they get transported to the Lion King and meet with Savanaclaw. They finish the story, then meet with Octavinelle in Little Mermaid, so on and so forth.

They eventually reach the Sleeping Beauty, only to be met with a frantic Diasomnia who have been stuck in the story for 5 months (They don't age or something by the way...when they return to the real world they've only been gone for a minute).

Turns out they have NOT seen Sebek at all, and Silver is in a FRENZY. Malleus is starting to embrace his villain role a bit too well in the story, and Lilia has practically reverted back to his old war veteran days.

The cast finally snap them out of it when they're able to finish the story, and Riddle suggests that maybe Sebek wasn't affected by the storybook for some reason? Or they'll be able to find him once they reach the true end of the book.

So, the true characters of thr story finally manifest so Diasomnia can just watch things play out with the rest of the cast as well.

They watch Aurora get married, some get a bit teary-eyed while Leona and Malleus argue over the color of her dress, then all they have to do now is wait for the end of the story-

Everyone gets transported to a room. The Darlings' room. Everyone freaks out because WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO GO HOME???

Diasomnia are inconsolable because they think that Sebek was left behind in the Sleeping Beauty story and will be stuck there forever and are continuously trying to find ways to go back-

"Uh, you guys aren't Wendy." Everyone turns towards the window. Peter Pan, in all his glory, was sitting by the windowsill with his arms crossed. He thinks that they broke in and is prepared to beat their asses until Jack and Trey explain their situation.

Peter hears about this Sebek guy and goes "Oh! You mean ole' croc? I know where he is!" Diasomnia pause and then immediately start screaming at him to bring them to him.

A few pixie dust later (courtesy of a disgruntled Tinkerbell), they're flying over Neverland. Peter is about to introduce them to the lost boys only for the sound of a cannon to interrupt him.

Pirates are invading the island once more, and the cast are quick to defend themselves. They can't seem to get a single hit on Captain Hook though, mostly because of fairy tale laws or whatever.

They're in a bit of a disadvantage, and even Peter is getting restless-

Tick.

Tock.

Captain Hook goes pale, as well as the rest of his crew. NRC look confused only for a familiar voice to ring throughout the fight: "ARE YOU BACK FOR ANOTHER ROUND, CAPTAIN?" It's Sebek!

Except he looks...different. Not different in the way that Rook now has black hair for whatever reason, nor different by the fact that Lilia's hair is long again.

This Sebek looks older. Not too old, but there are key differences. His usual round ears are now a bit pointed, his hair past his shoulders. He's wearing something wildly different- there's no trace of his uniform.

Instead, an old, raggy pirate's cloak hangs off his shoulders that just serves to make him look more intimidating. And uh the rest of his clothes are the ones that Will Stetson is wearing in his cover of Shinunoga E-wa with black pants LOOK MAN im writing this in my notes app offline.

His magestone is no longer placed in a pen, rather it hangs off his ear as an earring.

The biggest change however is the scales and tail...as well as the ticking face of a clock that replaces his right eye.

Hook's crew are quick to retreat, not before Sebek can suddenly jump into their ship though. The cast watch Sebek raise Hook up by the scruff of his neck, and with a flick of his wrist, his claws retract.

"P-please!" Hook pleads. "Have mercy!" Sebek smiles. "I'm true to my word, Captain." And promptly slices his hand off.

He jumps off the ship with Hook's hand, Peter quick to catch him as they ignore Hook's frantic screams. Blood trickles down his claws, and once they reach solid ground, Peter puts Sebek down.

Sebek throws the hand into the sand, and with a single kick, sends it flying into the ocean. Right on time, a crocodile jumps from the water and catches it into its mouth, before retreating back into the water.

"That was so cool!" Peter exclaims from behind him with childlike wonder. Sebek doesn't react, only sighing, "HUMAN, JUST BECAUSE IVE BEEN HERE FOR A YEAR DOESNT MEAN ILL BE HERE FOREVER. SOONER OR LATER, YOU WILL NEED TO FACE THE CAPTAIN BY YOURSE-"

He turns around to continue to berate Peter, only to pause when he sees the mildly injured forms of the NRC cast.

"...PETER WHAT THE FUCK"