#They prey is strange

[mourningsbane]

hey rootstar whags up

Rootstar and her former apprentice, Caterpillarpelt, spend hours gently pulling out familiar silver hairs, smooth as honey, from rabbits and mice in the prey pile. There's no need to scare the rest of the clan with mere coincidences.

[marlynnofmany]

Here, have an album cover. I know one of the tracks would have to be the space shanty, but what else would they sing about?

[undefeatablesin]

I'm coming up on infra-red; forget your running, I WILL FIND YOU.⚡️

[saturnsickle]

Dinah 🎤

(Lineart under the cut!)

[morsesnotes]

Endeavour | Prey

[sillyromance]

Good day everyone ! (A little bit self-indulgent thoughts...)

I like when in stories a pred's belly growls for a living snack, and while the big guy is too shy to ask for help, so they just wince and try to hide their urge, their prey just comes close and says: "You can have me". I think there is so much love in it. We all have demands which are quite important for our well-being, but sometimes we ignore them because we think that "it's not the right moment" or we "want too much", especially if it comes to relationships and spending more time with someone we love. The predatory instinct, this painful hunger can be translated as a cry for affection and a wish to hold someone you cherish as close as you can - it's interesting, but since I accepted vore as a part of me I have a much better understanding for such feelings.... We lack deep connections; society is still quite unweloming to those who don't wear a mask of cold stone. And so why it's really important to remind each other sometimes that it's fine to want warmth and love. And, personally, I would feel much more pleasure being tucked away if I knew that it would satisfy someone who had a great need for it. It would be so nice to see them smile softly and nod, open their mouth wide to put me in, and I would feel their shaky breath on my cheeks and strong yet comforting pressure of their throat muscles contracting around me; to hear them letting out a content sigh as I would slowly slip in their stomach, filling it just right and immediately easing the pangs they suffered from. They would run their hand over their solid belly and smile as it would then groan with pleasure kneading me gently...

It is so good to make others happy.

[crimescrimson]

Red's Guide to Life Is Strange [Volume One]: Life Is Strange (2015)

Scenery: [X]

Characters: Max Caulfield [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] | Chloe Price [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] | Kate Marsh [1] [2] [3] Brooke Scott [1] | Alyssa Anderson [1] | Dana Ward [1] | Juliet Watson [1] | Victoria Chase [1] [2] [3] | Taylor Christensen [1] | Joyce Price [1] [2] [3] | William Price [1] | Multi [1] [2] [3]

Pairings: PriceField [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [+1]

Specific Scenes: Game Interface [1] | Max's Visions [1] [2] | Sweep-Shots [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] | Episodes [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] | Changing History [1] [2] | Rachel Amber's Doe [1]

[morse-perez-and-davenport]

Endeavour Morse and Jim strange in 3×3 prey

[wrathofrats]

Ohhhh aether blood drunk with carnage dripping down his chin while he holds down Swiss. Swiss unable to escape him even if he wanted to, holding his mouth open for the blood and saliva that drips from aethers skin. Doesn’t even have to use quintessence to get him to stay still like he usually does, just the threat of sharp blood covered teeth enough to tranquillize him.

[rawliverandcigarettes]

Nagatha T'selvi (vas Sorelliam), 248, ex-financial advisor. || Rhanda T'selvi (clan Orraken), 300, ex-commando.

"Do you remember?" Nagatha asked, eyes locked upward to the featureless ceiling of the apartment. Nos Astra colored it purple, as if it wasn't still white plaster underneath. Her manicured fingers crackled against her own. Blue. Almost see-through. Rhanda gripped the smaller hand inside her palm, and felt her own rough heat through overworked silky-smooth scales. Nerves were most of what they ever managed to share without judgement. "Remember what?" "I don't know." Mascara caked at the corner of Nagatha's water lines. She smiled. "Anything, I guess." (The Empire of Preys, chapter 15)

[nyhti]

I recently had an epiphany about the mannequins in Prey. So. For the longest time I wondered where the hell did the idea for Hugo's mannequin girlfriend come from? Like what on earth made Moench put something like that in the story? How do you come up with such a random and out there headcanon like that? I think I know now.

So let's look at the time line: Batman #356 ”The Double Life of Hugo Strange” (1983) Gerry Conway writes a story wherein Hugo creates perfectly lifelike robots of Alfred and Dick and uses them to fuck with Bruce's head. Batman annual #10 ”Down to Bone” (1986) Doug Moench writes a story wherein Hugo, among other things, uses his robots to fight Bruce and Jason. He has also now made a robot version of himself. Last Pre-Crisis Hugo story. Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #11-15 (1990-1991) Doug Moench writes a story wherein Hugo, among other things, uses mannequins of Thomas and Martha Wayne to fuck with Bruce's head. First Post-Crisis appearance of Hugo and also an edgy reimagining

Are we noticing a pattern? It's honestly a little embarrassing how long it took me to realize that Hugo fucking with Bruce with the mannequins in Prey is all copy pasted from Double Life of Hugo Strange. Moench just re-used Conway's idea, but made it fit the Post-Crisis universe better by having the robots be mannequins with tape recorders inside, because everything had to be sooooooo realistic back then. So if the mannequins of Martha and Thomas are just the robots of Dick and Alfred, who is the mannequin girlfriend? Here's my best guess:

So, Moench used the robots himself in Down to Bone, even created a new robot type – a Hugo robot. Now, we don't see Hugo having a robot girlfriend in Down to Bone, but would you really find it out of the realm of possibility that the thought might have crossed Moench's mind while writing? I mean, look at Hugo around this time. He used to have a good amount of people around him during the 70s and earlier. He had thugs like any self-respecting supervillain, he had his monster men, he once formed a partnership with a racketeer and most importantly he had Magda in Englehart's run. Then suddenly in the 80s he has nothing but robots. Incredibly lifelike robots that talk to him and laugh at his jokes. Doesn't that sound lonely? Now, I will eventually write a post about all my headcanons for what happened to Hugo around this time, because I think about this every day, but to stick to the topic at hand – would you really find it out of the realm of possibility that Moench looked at this profoundly lonely man who could build perfectly lifelike robots and thought, why doesn't he make himself a robot girlfriend? Of course the time wasn't quite ripe yet for a story like that during Pre-Crisis, but during the edgy grimdark 90s? Oh boy, was it time! All he had to do was to turn her from a robot into a mannequin and there we go. Anyway, what do you guys think? I cannot peer inside Moench's mind, of course, but I think my theory is possible.

Also, this is now off topic, but I wanted to talk a little more about Down to Bone and Prey. I used to think these stories, these takes on Hugo, could not be further apart despite being written by the same man, but after reading Down to Bone again for this post and having read Prey again a few months ago, I no longer think so. You can see so much of Prey in Down to Bone and so much Down to Bone in Prey. I already talked about the mannequins, but another thing that I just now noticed was the use of media. As we know, Hugo affectedly used media to fuck with Bruce and to smear Batman's name and you know what he threatened to do in Down to Bone?

Yeah! I find it interesting that Moench had this idea of Hugo using media against Batman way back here, but maybe the story just didn't have enough room for it given that it was only one issue long and most of the time was already spent on Bruce dealing with having lost all his money, home, Jason and Alfred. I'm glad that the smear campaign Hugo launched in Prey was given enough time. Another thing I wanted to talk about was Moench's bad takes on Hugo in Down to Bone. Hugo during Golden Age was about as generic a villain as you can get. Evil genius only after money and power yadda yadda. Listen. I'm not hating on it. It's a classic, but what I'm trying to say is that when Englehart had the divine revelation of giving this character an actual personality and then when Conway topped it all off by giving him an unique goal, I personally considered that an improvement. Moench did not apparently. In Down to Bone Hugo is right back to being a very generic villain. Englehart spent so long showing how much Hugo loved and respected Bruce. How he was willing to ”die” to protect his secret. It was interesting, it was heartwarming and it was fucked up. We see none of this in Down to Bone. The relationship between Hugo and Bruce couldn't be less interesting. There's literally nothing there. No love, no loyalty. Hugo straight up willingly tells Bullock Batman's real identity (which Bullock doesn't believe, of course.) Like what happened? And then the unique new goal Conway gave him? How he got it in his head he wants to be the Batman now? Yeah, you can kiss goodbye to that one too. Nowhere in Down to Bone does Hugo say he wants to become Batman. He only puts on the outfit to frame him. His only goal in Down to Bone was to get his revenge on Bruce. Boring. And to top it all off, just like in Prey, Moench decided to ignore Hugo's well established physical abilities. He doesn't even attempt to fight Batman, but rather runs away like a coward. And don't even get me started on Moench's worst crime of all which was to try to retcon my favorite Hugo story (The Double Life of Hugo Strange) by saying that the Hugo Bruce fought was actually a robot the whole time. I've been writing this for so long I don't even have the energy to go into why I hated this so much and why it was a pointless retcon, so I'll just leave it at this: IT WASN'T A FUCKING ROBOT.

Anyway, love and light everyone!!! ^_^

[yourgfdgirlfriend]

last night a guy actually put his hand on my shoulder blade (i was wearing a suit) and told me ‘petite’ in an acknowledging, slightly praising voice, looking at me expectantly, as if I was now supposed to swoon over this outstanding ‘compliment’. i raised a single eyebrow. he then told me I shouldn’t be ‘so cold’. i turned to my friend and told her what he said and she said ‘he did not’ and I said ‘he did’ and he still could not fathom all night why I wasn’t interested

[lecarouge]

how do you feel abt predator/prey w/ gagamaru or kunigami

bestie i am so glad you asked.

i think the divide between them is that Kunigami actually wants to give you a fair shot (even though you both know that you don’t physically stand a chance) while Gagamaru is bloodthirsty and feral.

Specifically having thoughts about wolf hybrid Gin and deer or bunny hybrid reader. He caught your scent hours ago and has been stalking you for miles. The last of the sunset burns on the horizon, it’ll be pitch dark soon enough. Your ears twitch at every snapping twig and rustling leaf. He can hear your little heart hammering in your chest.

Gin loves this, the fear makes your scent stronger and sweeter. He doesn’t even have to do much work - you’re wearing yourself out for him.

When he inevitably catches you, he’s much too rough. His thick claws digging into your waist, sharp fangs draw blood from your neck that he laps up greedily.

He’s so big and long, he pins you down so easily. His thrusts are frantic and irregular. Huffing that he’s got you now, he waited long enough so be good and let him have you. Panting in your ear and drooling all over your neck

(Afterwards, carries your bruised body back home with him by the scruff of the neck, and tucks in by the fire where he wraps you up in his long limbs.)

[mcybree]

@spacetrashpile scott aro headcanon incident fanart from oku isn’t this a beautiful world. its also depicting me as the next target which can only spell out good things

[front-facing-pokemon]

[morsesnotes]

You know what? Prey is unironically great.

The cinematography is gorgeous. You can tell they were making the most of filming in the summer for the first time.

The music stood out to me as particularly good, especially in the menacing scenes. It really rises to the occasion of being Jaws-inspired.

It's a strong episode for Bright, but really so many characters get a chance to shine here:

Strange has his conflict of being promoted over Morse

Trewlove's "Maybe I like grim" scene

Thursday is still recovering from Blenheim Vale and is too emotionally invested in the case

Debryn's absence was felt and you get insight into him being the Morse of Pathologists

Sam bonding with Morse and Thursday

The actors of the week delightfully lean into their campy characters, and there's so many funny moments. Morse is in prime bitch-mode with Strange now being his boss.

My favorite thing about it though is how it gradually reveals what's actually happening. At first it's all standard - weirdo rich family, sketchy men hanging around, etc. Then around halfway through they start wondering, "Wait, could this be a creature?? Nah there's a reasonable explanation." But as the murders go on that seems harder to believe, and uh-oh, the weird family used to own big cats. The rest of the episode Morse is desperate for evidence that it's someone who wants everyone to think it's a tiger, and you assume he'll be right because surely it's not going to go there? It's a fake out.

Then in the last 20 minutes it switches to "Oh fuck it's definitely a tiger oh god".

Easily one of the most entertaining episodes of Endeavour.