#baby lizard rights

[ventique18]

Silver and Sebek sustaining injuries and when you ask why, it was because Malleus accidentally flung them off when they were restraining him from committing murder.

What the hell happened, you ask.

Apparently he and your former schoolmates were arguing over who has the cutest baby. Someone said his baby was objectively the conventionally ugliest of them all because he's a literal baby lizard.

You're disappointed--

-- in Silver and Sebek for restraining him.

[fisheito]

@requiodile YAKUMO EATS BUGS AND I LOVE THAT FO RHRI OM

[fandomsandfeminism]

Hey, so... I know that the "animals with eyes on the side of their head are prey- and dragons on eyes on the of their heads" post is like...funny. very Tumblr. A+ content.

But I'm starting to see people just like...repeat that as though it's like....a fact?

But...we do know that 1. Front facing vs side facing eyes are just about whether field of vision or depth perception was selected for and 2. .... dragons are based on predatory *reptiles* right?

Yall know crocodiles aren't a "prey" species, right?

[i-am-going-to-skream]

The lizard babies should’ve been brought to the ship. They can stay lizards, bc that would be pretty cool actually, but they should’ve been brought back to the ship. I mean, if they’re more evolved than humans, they probably have telepathy and sentience. You wouldn’t abandon a human baby in a swamp, so why do that to a lizard baby???

[bumblingbabooshka]

Just watched the Voyager Lower Decks episode and I love the thought of Voyager's crew being there on opening day. Tom Paris is of course front and center being asked questions and joking with all the starry-eyed ensigns and Harry's shaking that Historian's hand, nodding and smiling as the man eagerly tells him what an honor it is to finally-! Then Chakotay shows up, a little bit late but with a big grin on his face as he walks up to Janeway and Tuvok who're discussing something amongst themselves.

"Hey there," Janeway smiles. Tuvok nods towards him. "Hey," Chakotay grins, practically radiating a mischievous glee. "You'll never guess what just happened on the Cerritos."

[luck-of-the-drawings]

THIS IS HUMANITIES 11TH HOUR I THINK KIAN WAS RIGHT. THERE WAS SO MUCH HE COULD HAVE DONE BETTER BUT HE DID IT FOR GREAT REASON. THEIR RELATIONSHIP MAKES ME SO EMOTIONAL. EVEN THE ECHO OF SOMEONE IS IN LOVE WITH YOU, AND THE ECHO OF YOU LOVES THEM TOO. they COPIED A HUMAN DOWN TO THEIR BASIC CIRCUTRY AS A SURVIVAL INSTINCT AND THE VERY WIRES STILL LOVE YOU. ITS THE ATMOSPHERE. ITS THE DISCORDANT AND SAD YET YEARNING CORDS IN THE AIR AS THE SKY REDDENS. ITS A WISH FOR SOMETHING MORE, PRESSING AGAINST INEVITABLE GLASS, CLEARLY NO HOPE OF CONTINUING OR BLOSSOMING. A PAINTING OF A MEMORY THEY WANT TO BE MAKING WITH NO CONCLUSION.

[casdeans-pie]

Jensen looks more like Dean in Blue Sky and Tracker than he did doing the actual Dean cameos in The Winchesters. How did this happen???

[legolasghosty]

Okay but consider: Cat Café AU

I AM CONSIDERING SO VERY MUCH!!!

Anddd you never said no magic involved and I'm frigging sick and tired of the real world right now, so...

Julie is the proud owner of a small cat cafe in Los Feliz. Lots of great drinks, super sweet cats, plenty of comfy places to sit. To the outside viewer, it seems like a pretty standard setup, if surprisingly well funded. What is less common knowledge is that shapeshifters are also a thing and Dahlia's Sip and Purr also acts as a sort of safe house for many.

Reggie and Alex are the main two other front employees, with Flynn working there too on the business side of things. They take turns working the front counter and taking care of the cats, Julie hopping in with either job when she can. Everything on the menu has silly cat pun names, most of them courtesy of either Reggie or Carlos, Julie's little brother. (She regularly gets texts from him with no context, just a cat pun drink name. They've gotten more frequent since he moved out for college.)

About half the cats that come through the cafe are shelter cats, who are healthy and mostly adoptable but don't have proper homes. They have a board on the wall of which cats people can adopt. Julie has a great relationship with the folks at the nearby animal shelters, cause she takes great care of the kitties and often finds them good homes after a bit!

A couple of the cats are a bit older and have just been with the gang for long enough that they've gotten attached and Julie or Reggie and Alex (they live together) have officially adopted them. Julie lives in a studio over the shop, so she just kinda takes her babies up with her at the end of the day.

And then the last handful of cats... aren't full-time cats. Shapeshifters aren't super common, but they tend to find each other. Most of them have 3-5 forms, depending roughly on age. The first two forms (human and some animal) usually are based on genetics or whatever, and the shifter has no control over what the animal form is. But when they get a grip on their first nonhuman form and start learning a second one, a lot of folks will go for some kind of domestic animal. Both because they're generally small and easy to get away from bad people, but also cause no one is gonna ask weird questions about seeing a housecat in their backyard. At least not like they would if it was like a wolf or something. So most shifters have some kind of house pet form by the time they're teens/young adults.

Given both the high percentage of shifters who have a small cat form, plus the high population density of LA, plus the fact that being a shifter isn't always genetic and often comes out of nowhere... there's a fair amount of unhoused/exhausted cat shifters around Dahlia's. So when Julie and Flynn were daydreaming about running their own cafe in high school, Julie was like, "Okay but if we do the cat thing, we gotta have a way we can help out shifters somehow."

Julie learned about all this as a kid, cause her dad is a shifter (first form was a black bear, which caused some chaos... now his most commonly used ones are a big grey cat and a raven), and Carlos inherited those genes as well (first form was a badger, these days he spends his animal time mostly as an orange and white tomcat). So while Julie and her mom didn't actually change shape themselves, it's just kinda a part of life.

Alex and Reggie are both shifters and met Julie and Flynn in college. Julie sorta found out by accident when she came into their dorm room and saw zero human boys and two cats curled up together in a sunbeam. But now they're her employees/coworkers, having a good time working and also having a safe space to cat in. (Alex's first form was actually a cat, a jet black shorthair. Reggie's first was a hampster, but he much prefers being a dapper tux tomcat). They also know all the signals and stuff to let other shifters know that it's a safe space, which Julie really appreciates.

So yeah, some of the cats in the cafe are humans some of the time. These include :

Luke, who is also best friends with the main gang but absolutely hates customer service so he splits time between the cafe and writing music for a couple of indie bands in the area. Or sometimes both at the same time.

Willie, Alex's boyfriend (yes his first form was a raccoon) and another bestie of the gang. He teaches art classes for adults, but those are mostly in the evenings when people are off work, so he'll hang out as a cat and play with silly humans in the daytime (also skate around getting into trouble but that's fineee).

Bobby, who happened in one day in their first couple weeks of business and lowkey never left. He's a security guard officially for a museum or something nearby, but he mostly works the night shift, and well... the sunbeams are nicer at Julie's cafe than his tiny apartment. So he hangs out a lot and has gotten adopted into the gang. He and Alex are great nap buddies and customers like cooing over their lil yin and yang cuddle pile.

Coming along with Bobby, we have his twin sister Carrie, who is not a shifter but was kind of freaking out about her brother disappearing so much (she knew about the shifter thing) and ended up following him to the cafe about six months after he started going. Cue drama and chaos, but eventually things settled and it all got straightened out. Flynn and Carrie are dating now, so she's around a decent bit.

She also introduced Kayla, one of her dancers who was also a shifter, to the cafe. Kayla had gone for a dog form when she was younger, but started working on a cat after hanging at the cafe a bit cause it's just so cozy.

And well... the shifter community may be quiet, but it's got its rich people too. After finding out about the whole thing, Willie's adopted dad started subtly pushing business Julie's way, along with sponsorship deals and stuff. And well, when Caleb absolutely cannot get ahold of his kid, he usually knows where to go. Even if he's not actually there, Julie or Alex have usually seen him recently and can pass along a message. (Caleb is absolutely a shifter btw.)

And well frick this got WAY too long, I'm sorry!!! I shall shush now and leave you in peace!

[moorishflower]

The lizards are for Threshold Day! On January 29, 1996, Star Trek Voyager aired Threshold. Tl;dr the helmsman travels at experimental speeds past warp 10, and as a consequence he mutates, kidnaps the captain, takes her to a swamp planet where they mutate fully into lizards, and have babies. They are subsequently rescued, but the baby lizards are abandoned. It is largely considered the worst Star Trek episode, but it did win an award for makeup.

I am SOBBING did no one think of the children and their welfare

[thehappiestgolucky]

Trying out Rain World purely because of the art style.

I am terrible at it

Have a lil Odessa. She’s trying her best

[thehecklingmouse]

au where mehrak is just a fucking dragon that kaveh found and adopted

[dragonbleps]

Here is a baby lizard so small it's using a blade of grass for a bed

[reliquiaenfr]

hatchlings are born with empty energy bars now

[junksterrr]

(x) Joey & Lucas destroy the ceiling at Baby's All Right, 14/05/2016.

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Ah yes, the two best defence layers of twentieth-century Japan: the most beautiful man you’ve ever seen and *checks notes* a literal lizard

[fauvester]

so stumbled upon your garashir au and i just want more especially after a late night binge of alll of it. is all it just here on your tumblr or is there stuff elsewhere?

haha I saw, I wish I could offer you snacks and a refreshment while you were perusing! It's all on here baby, some of the little posts probably got missed and are floating around in #dee s 9 but I try to get most of them with #garashir adoption au