#and other quadrepeds!!

[mlp-natural]

I take requests for pony-ified spn characters, ask box open but I cannot guarantee quality

mostly art dump, sometimes narrative and scenes that feel like a bigger part of something but only in my head.

If I think of a better blog name I will use it, but this is straightforward enough without making me think about Gandalfs big naturals

I am allowed to be free online and if it sucks I will HIT THE BRICKS!!

some mature themes, posts like that will be tagged clearly 👍

NOW MOVED TO MLP-NATURAL-2

huge shoutout to @qtepasacalabaza for getting me back in the deep end and being the original designs I started basing my freaks on and still heavily reference in my own designs

[twisting-roads]

Members of the factorae family primarily feed on scrap metal left behind in the voulliac mountains. Their diet is not limited to just scrap though, and they're often considered pests for destroying active machinery.

The research of the factorae is relatively recent, as it seemed unlikely that there was an ecosystem hidden away in the abandoned Outersian/Draconic factories.

A. phagomitis is an incredibly tiny quadreped with strange eating habits. Groups of them will attach themselves to metal with their sharp claws. They will slowly digest it from the outside, creating a pattern of tiny holes in said metal before migrating to a new area to feed.

F. mechamaxillidae is well known, as its powerful jaws make it iconic. They will eat just about anything, preferring to predate the metal of other factorae. Mechamaxillidae live and hunt together in small families of 3-6.

B. vinulimaxae covers itself in a blanket of wires, continuously collecting more and more over the course of its lifespan. They slowly crawl along factory floors, eating whatever small scraps are available. Vinulimaxae are very shy, hiding underneath rusted machinery or old assembly lines, away from where species like mechamaxillidae are unable to reach them

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More palace stuffs

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I'm gonna not down some specific rooms in Goro's Palace.

The final room containing his treasure has 4 locks on then and almost each of these rooms have a key. Goro hesitantly entrusts the key to those that wish to help him escape himself, though bc he is hesitant he will continue to ask for it back (which...denying will be dangerous) before handing it over again. Handing him a false key found in his playroom will prevent one from having to hand over the real key and not having it when it is needed.

Goro's playroom

A rather creepy carpeted room that looks like...well, a child's playroom. It's one of the few rooms dimmly lit by candles and the only entrance is via a vent. It's only accessable from a vent to keep shadows out as well as add to the secrecy of the room's meaning. This room is mostly filled with stuffed toys many being general teddy bears and puppy dogs...others bearing ressemblence to people in the real world. Most have a frown fixed upon their faces, others: nervous smiles, blank expressions, looks of despair and oblviousness, and finally genuine happiness. Those deemed important are placed on neat shelves others that seemed used up and destroyed are left in a pile of fluff.

Aside from stuffed toys there are toys that resemble weapons (blunt objects, knives, guns) that despite looking toy like are...rather lethal.

This room shows Akechi's relationships with people. The plushies that have met the business end of his weapons have been people Shido assigned him to execute as well as others that have gotten in his own way. The tense expressions on some of them are those that know of Shido's deeds and the few that know of Black Mask that Goro is to keep an eye on. And the happy ones are the people Goro is stringing along with his manipulation.

There's plushies of each phantom thief on the highest shelf in his room as well as a wooden Shido puppet. Despite both sides knowing what's up, much to Aketchi's dismay, he thinks he's playing rhem well and thinks of them as important in his plans.

There's a special doll in this room on a absurdly high shelf thay doesn't look like it belongs to a child. A beautiful porcelain doll dressed in expensive fabrics with a saddened expression that is turned facing the wall as if Goro would be ashamed of her seeing everything he's done. In her hands is a key. It wouldn't be hard to guess who she is...

Moving on...

Goro's courtroom

Attached to his playroom is a much smaller room that resembles a court room. The jury and crown seats are full of stuffed toys and he takes the seat as the judge. He tries the stuffed citizens in court which 9/10 times either ends in his own favor or the favor of the plush lawyer he likes more. These trials usually end in a execution of the stuffed toy in the former room for all to see.

Shido's Tower

Up a long winding staircase with many lethal owl shadows there's a single office room. There cognitive Shido stays leisurely sitting at his desk. The cognition cares nothing for those that enter his office and, of course treats them even more poorly if they question and or pester him. Plays out as a mid boss, sending shadows to fight for him. Akechi sees Shido as a pompous coward that makes others fight for him so he doesn't have to get his own hands dirty. Most of the shadows he sends out eerily resembles Aketchi but with his eyes blind folded. They follow orders without question or concern; false praise raise their attack/defense/etc drastically while ridicule may either lower or slightly boost their stats. Once they're defeated, much like Okumura, Cognition Shido is easy to take out. He bitterly hands over a key and hurries them out.

The tall tower symbolizes how Goro sees how long and hard his goal is but knows eventually he's going to topple this tower with his father in it.

Aketchi's theater

Here is where Akechi is dragged to occasionally by shadows. Just about the only lit room, as well as Shido's, that is lit by actual lightbulbs...well in this case stage lights.

Here shadows as well as Cognitive Shido watch Akechi perform a play that's basically his own tragedy that's his life for their own amusement; symbolizing how he feels everyone views his existance as a sick form of entertainment. He plays through the scenes of seeing his mother's corpse, living in a orphanage before going through several foster homes and schools before being thrown out harshly as a teen that aged out of foster care. All the while, props and sounds elude to his psychosis he tries to desperately hide from others. Then one would see his cold bitterness to people before discovering his father and his plot for revenge. Usually as the play reaches the present, Goro shifts into his Warden form and tears apart the stage and crowd as they all rush out.

A key is found in the floorboards however only once the palace shifts into the blinding light when Goro goes Warden mode.

Solitary confinement

Behind the four locks in a grad door hides away Aketchi's treasure....

However, despite having all four locks unlocked the door refuses to open. Shadow Aketchi seems hesitant despite leading them here; he remarks that either "I'm too scared to open up" or "How do I know you wont break it?" and scurries off to avoid question. Here, they would have to get the Aketchi in the real world to open up to them about, well, anything but it can prove to be hard. Once that is done, Shadow Akechi will open the door for them.

The cell, despite having no light, is brightly lit by a terribly cracked, ruby red crystal heart that sits upon a pedestal. Even though Goro wishes to be saved and opened the doors to his treasure he flies into a fit of frightening rage when his treasure is touched.

Execution grounds (Boss fight)

Walls to the cell are smashed down and the battle is taken to where the courtyard would be in the dark palace but is now more of an execution ground now that Goro has shifted into his Warden form. It plays out as a double battle, his Warden form being more monstrous, larger, and a quadreped and his child self upon its back in a judge's robes. The child acts as the host of this creature, controlling it to inflict status effects as well as devastating physical moves. He also uses the creature to replenish his HP at the cost of the creature. In this aspect, it's shown why Goro sees himself as a parasite.

They would have to wipe out the creature before attacking child Aketchi since he would no longer have his strong physical attacks, a wall to hide behind, or a means to heal himself. Here he fights with the 'toy' weapons that were seen in his playroom; this defense is poor however his evasiveness can prove to be annoying but ofc taking him down can be done.

Being defeated, the child wails loudly. Spilling out about how his life hurts and that he can't live for anything else other than revenge, lamenting on how he can't be 'normal' as well as how he lost his childhood/innocence/self control/ can't wash his hands of the atrocities he's done. He hates how he cant open up to people and will never have friends because of the life he leads.

After calming down he offers his heart to them and back into the real world it turns into a replica of a rather thick and beat up diary that Goro's been writing in since he was little.

[cowdragons]

hello i know uh,,,, absolute jackshit about dinosaurs (and reptiles in general) but you seem rlly passionate abt them so could you talk more abt ur favorite kind(s)??? it doesnt have to be cold numbers and facts if u dont want it to you can just like list off what you like abt them akshakahjsh

I’ve decided 5 am is the right mindset to be in to answer this ask SO

my absolute favorite dinosaur is the spinosaurus!

mostly because our perception of them over time has changed so much, but theres a boatload of other reasons i find them really interesting like a.) they were really big and b.) they were really cool looking

but! because that would be the end of my list, here’s some cool (possibly innaccurate; i’m not a scientist, i just like big reptiles) facts that i can remember

back in the the early 1900’s is when the first skeleton was discovered in africa, but it was destoryed during around 1940(?) in WWII. dude exploded. and even though we wouldnt find another one until 1996, please look at the dopey lizard we thought this thing looked like:

this thing would absolutely be a friend of mine and yours. he’s everyone’s friend, doing a little dance. bustin out the ol’ razzle dazzle. what a guy.

LATER we would find a more in tact skeleton and realize how wrong this was; and predict it looked something like how it did in jurassic park!

a big huge crocodile with a curvled sail going down its back, a fragile skull, and tiny lil arms

which is...mostly true. until VERY recently, where we’ve discovered: we dont actually know how they moved! even though we know what they look like, we know that they ate fish, and that they had the super cool ability to detect unseen prey in the water, there’s a lot of argument if they were pipedal, much like seen above, if they were quadreped, or if they had the ability to switch between the two.

a more accurate picture of how we believe it looked like as of now would be this!

And for the sake of not scraping the bottom of the internet for a size comparison that is entirelt accurate, here’s a semi inaccurate (at least around the arms) size chart comparing it to a person

i mentioned size before, but the spinosaurus was actually the largest carnivore to walk the earth AND swim the ocean!! (theyre semi aquatic how is that not fucking cool??? theyre the biggest in BOTH places)

since i’m out of facts i can remember i would absolutely 100% recommend everyone check out this really cool spinosaurus model by James Bear on artststion cause you can spin it around and its a goregous piece of art. and you can. spin it around. which may prove im easily amused HOWEVER

and i’d like to mention to plaeoblr/people who probably know much more than me; again- i like talking about them...but this may not be the most accurate! partially because i’m writing this at 5 in the morning and because not entirely fact checking this, theyre just neat things i can recall and google for images

this post took about an hour to write and got way longer than i thought it would, but thank you so much for this ask!!! i fuckififucng love spinos 

and i dug up this pic of me with the one from universal studios

[zebranarc]

it actually DID take a long time to get used to crutches for me! especially because all my joints are weak, but over time my wrists got stronger and by distributing my wekght over all four joints im in a lot less pain. but i had to exercise, the same way you do when youve been in bed for a week and need to do bicycle kicks or something before you can really walk again after. i was also clumsy and tripped sometimes and generally felt like a baby deer standing up the first time. now i can navjgate difficult terrain, go faster than ever before, and of course much farther now that my wrists are stronger! i went to the store the other day for the first time in awhile and realized i could FEEL a difference in how i was gettin around. i feel lile a bonafied quadreped now lolz

PSA for new mobility aid users!

It’s ok if it hurts to use your mobility aid at first. It’s ok if it’s a bit uncomfortable, or feels weird, or feels like an inconvenience. It doesn’t mean you don’t need it, or shouldn’t have it.

When I first got my cane, it hurt kind of a lot to use. My wrists would be in a lot of pain if I used it too long. (It didn’t help that I had no idea what the best way to hold it was) At first I was worried that it was the wrong decision to get it, but after a while it got used to it, and now using it is like second nature. You’re gonna be using muscles in ways you probably haven’t ever used them before, and so they’re gonna complain! If you keep practicing, eventually you’ll get better at using your aid.

Of course, if it starts hurting more than it’s helping, and it doesn’t feel like it’s getting easier, then perhaps it’s good to reconsider. But all I’m saying is to not give up as soon as it feels uncomfortable! I’m sure we’re all sick of being told “just push through it!” but trust me on this one :)

[hellblaxxer]

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You got aggro real quick about that, huh. I don’t know, like any other quadreped?

i’m just cranky.

also kangaroos walk on two feet like a person.

[stunt-lads]

goettia said: Fan of the HTTYD dragons or no? They’re a little funky looking but the Netflix series of it has a lot of pretty interesting dragon designs. Also ever play any D&D? Oh also tell me about mythos about werewolves that you accept as canon/Don’t. Like….silver bullets, only transform on the full moon….basically what werewolf facts u subscribe to

sO MANY QUESTIONS OH MAN TYSM

ok so

HTTYD im kinda -does wiggly noncomittal hand gesture- on? on the one hand, love the dragon designs. theyre each unique and have their own personalities and yes!!! on the other im not a fan of the whole dragon riding aspect. i think of dragons like big birds or large carnivores and im not saying riding an eagle or a lion wouldnt be cool but its just not practical to me idk

ive never played dnd but oh man do i love hearing abt it! i listen to one of my friends when he plans out his whole campaign and ive watched livestreams of him and his friends playing it and taz is incredible to listen to too. im just kinda...not good with voice chat or lots of ppl yet so its not smthn im comfortable with doing myself just yet

as for werewolves im!!! so happy with all of them

i love the ones that transform only during full moons and the ones who can transform at will. the ones who have a constant power and the ones whos power relies on the waxing and waning of the moon. the ones who remember their nightly beast romps and the ones who cant remember anything the wolf does. the bipedal and the quadreped ones are good too!!! 

the only thing i dont like is that silver is the only weakness. to me all supernatural/mythos creatures are weak to iron and silver bc only having one or the other doesnt seem safe and u would probs have both anyway if u were hunting fae or vampires or werewolves or what have u

but honestly otherwise all werewolves are good except maybe the mangey dog looking ones like in the third hp movie that was just...not good

ok wait

i will be honest and say i am p partial to the whole "i dont remember what my wolf did last night i really hope i didnt kill anyone" trope? bc theres nothing funnier to me than a werewolf waking up in human form in the middle of a forest with no clothes on