#badger answers

[badgersblog-yo]

do you like dnd? you seem like you would.

fuck yeah!! Skinny and Jesse say it’s nerd stuff tho :(

[businessbadger]

grogu seeing mer luke flopping about on land so he sticks both legs in the same pants leg and tries to copy him lol

of course, he had to show his new friend

[badgerfrost]

What made you get into rainworld?

Ohh, I think I saw some NorthFlowo videos on it and was like ‘hey that’s cool. I’ll learn some of the creatures names!’ Then it was like 11pm and I thought ‘hey that blue scug would be cute with the red one!’ Then searched up their names and found Bathbomb art on tumblr. So I’ve got Sugarrmoon to thank :)

[badgerclawsaresharp]

Kinda weird but what’s the story behind you winning a war against the university of Waterloo on r/place?

ohhh man it like...over a year ago at this point, but lemme see what I can remember

so, I wasn't around for the first r/place. i mean, I was alive for it, but I wasn't in the right circles to have an interest in participating. but i still thought it was cool. so when the second one rolled around, i was super excited to join.

now, at the time, most of the fandoms/groups i was in were well-equipped to handle themselves, so while i could join those causes, it didn't feel like I needed to be there. but then i learned that one of my favourite twitch streamers, DumbDog, was organizing to put him and his friends (chiblee, HCJustin) on the map. Nothing big. Maybe a total of like, 50x15 pixels. But as a smaller community, they definitely needed all the help they could get.

So for a while, it was the typical r/place experience. You get a picture down, one or two pixels get griefed, and you fix it. At one point, the logo for the NY Jets popped up to our right, and we became fast friends. Anytime they started losing ground, we'd charge in with reinforcements.

And then the universities showed up. On our left, in a cute little row, four crests came into being: University of British Colombia, University of Alberta, McMaster University, and University of Toronto. They slot in perfectly next to our spot. It was serendipitous.

Except apparently, the University of Waterloo disagreed. See, they wanted to go next to their buddies. But that would mean covering up part of our claim. And sure, we could keep trying to fend them off, but the problem with most of the Twitch graphics on r/place was that the audience was only engaged while the streamer was live. Once they logged off, most people jumped to another community.

But here's the thing.

r/place happened in April.

And by a stroke of luck, DumbDog happened to be in the middle of a subathon.

DumbDog was live 24 hours a day.

Our community was NON-STOP. Already invigorated by the idea of passing milestones, hitting subgoals, and making our streamer do silly bits, we were relentless in our defense. We had spies infiltrate the Universities' discord, and whenever they tried to coordinate a big takeover, we shut them down.

(funnily enough, I don't think we ever revealed ourselves. to this day, I think they blame UofT for everything)

In the end, UWaterloo had to take the L and moved themselves down. They looked very silly, being out of alignment from the other crests.

And at the very end, when the white void was consuming the canvas, you can bet your ass we vanished them in an instant.

[mammalidentifier]

Well, that’s length-wise rather than height-wise, but yes! That would be the giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), fellow countrymen of mine!

In fact, saying they’re 170 cm (5’7”) from head to tail is lowballing it a little. Some individuals as long as 180 cm (5’11”) have been recorded! Which is longer than I am tall 😔

You might have noticed that giant otters have a bit of a big cat-like look about themselves. That’s the origin of their name in Brazilian Portuguese, ariranha, which is a term from the Tupi-Guarani language and means “river jaguar”. And, just like ground jaguars, giant otters are apex predators as well: they mainly eat fish, but will hunt anything from snakes, turtles and even small caimans if given the opportunity!

Besides their size, giant otters have other traits that set them apart from their smaller cousins. For one, unlike most mustelids, they’re social animals who live in familial groups of up to twenty individuals, which whom they communicate constantly through a variety of different noises. Also, unlike other species of otter, whose tails are thick at the base and pointy at the end, giant otters’ tails also start out with a thick base, but they end up flat, which helps propel them through the water. The interesting thing about it, however, it’s that it’s not flat in an horizontal way, like the tails of other semiaquatic mammals such as beavers and platypuses. It’s flat vertically, not unlike the tail of a newt!

Source of the 2nd image: @resgateariranha on Instagram

[floq]

You feel like an american badger to me

a badger? an AMERICAN badger?!?,?!.??.??

[sniffanimal]

its okay if personalities clash. its fine actually. you have options that aren't "this person is fundamentally a bad person" or "the vibes are so off". you can unfollow them. you can even block them if you want. If it's an in-person thing you can be tacitly polite and move on with your day. process that sometimes people have personalities that will annoy you, but ultimately they're not doing anything wrong and are just living their life as well. not being instant besties with everyone isn't a flaw

[canines-crown]

Stares at you like this

Stares back at you like this

[dp-time-police]

"Regardless of whether or not this is a... "joke," I am happily married.

[snarky-badger]

Just a quick shout out to those sending me asks about if I'm still writing.

I wish I could say I was. I mean... I kind of am, in random fits that hit me when the weight of things is too heavy and I need an escape. My current situation is all hurt no comfort, so writing fluff helps a little, but honestly?

I'm just suffering. I hit burnout last year and since then I'm just... dying a little more every day. I don't know how much of myself I have left. The constant stress is making me physically sick, and I have no reprieve from it, or the ones who cause it.

I have some bits I wrote, but they're unfinished, and as much as I wish I had the time, or the energy to write more... I barely have enough energy to make it through the days.

I know a lot of you want more fic from me. I wish I could deliver. I really do. I don't have any real cohesive works. I have lots of Destiny Cayde-6 x Female Guardian stuff, but it's disjointed. It was meant to be a full fic, but I'm just bouncing around the timeline tbh. I had a newish idea for Ultron that I started but while I have most of the story in my head, the time I have to write is now spent trying to recover from the day in order to make it through the next one. I still love my Ultron x Jade fic, and I do have more ideas. I wanted to write something for the new Venom movie, but again, had the energy, energy went away, and I spiraled back into depression.

I'm sorry. I really am.

If you want me to post some stuff that I have, I can. But be aware that it's unfinished, and I don't know when it will BE finished. Maybe I could post the Cayde stuff as snapshots? Bounces through the timeline? Dunno.

What do you all think?

[badgersblog-yo]

Happy pride month cause you gay and stuff 🏳️‍🌈🎀

I prefer the one where it’s like I like- anybody? But thanks man, happy pride month

[businessbadger]

mer din in a tank, he don't look too happy bout it lol

don't worry, they'll get there, it just takes a burning ship or two...

[badgerfrost]

May I have some saint x enot x nightcat? for the ship requests

Your sillies!

[badgerclawsaresharp]

Hi there! I was wondering how you made the mask for your Baron from the Baronies cosplay? I'm thinking about cosplaying them myself and I wanted to know whether you had any tips you could share. Thank you!

Hey, thanks for asking! I made the whole Baron cosplay on a whim over the course of like four days, so there's a lot of things I would do differently if I made it again. That said, here's how I made the mask!

The mask itself was a circular frame I made out of craft wire, with strips of construction paper curving across it to give it shape. And then I, uh, duct taped some sunglasses in there so it would actually stay on my face lol. There's definitely better ways to do this, I was just working with what I got.

The outside was a single piece of model magic that I rolled out really thin, and then cut out the eyes/mouth/scars with a crafting knife. The big tip I have here is for the eyes--use cheesecloth! It's the best thing ever! Cheesecloth folded/layered many times is still pretty easy to see through when it's right up against your eyes, but gives the appearance of solid cloth from a distance. I just dyed some a dark grey/black, and stuck it between the paper frame and clay.

I hope that helps! Best of luck making the roëmænce partnær!

[coeluvr]

Ok so I’m just picturing MC coming back and seeing L & L being all heart eyes towards each other and making this face I’m sorry I can’t get it out of my head now you need to see it too

LOL I feel like I should clarify that you can make it not happen even after a month of absence by saying stuff to Lancelot before leaving + through letters. 😭 Like I said before, you would just be delaying it.

Imaging an MC that hates the idea of them together but also never said anything that would make Lancelot think 500 times before finally giving in to Luceris coming back and being like 😟

Peak comedy to me. 🤭