#but that's neither here nor there)

[siggiedraws]

hahahaha aw man

I'm just gonna be real here - I don't care. I hold zero stock or even respect for anything said in the takeovers. I don't even watch them anymore. It's clear that they are written facetiously and I don't enjoy that type of writing; I vastly prefer something that is genuine and heartfelt. Not to mention the characters are not consistent to the games at all, because proper characterization is far from their list of priorities. So I treat it the way it wants to be treated - as a dumb joke that shouldn't be taken seriously.

Seeing how many people are upset, I think I have to emphasize that random videos made by the social media team are not canon. They're memes. Sonic saying Silver is like a little brother in some tiktok video does not affect me. Shipping is just for fun!

[deadrocks]

Very funny to me that the gods will *not* smite any of the Hells for knowing how they brought down Aeor, but the Wildmother *will* knock the shit out of Chetney for trying to stick his wood chisel in her magic tree.

[dawnofiight]

I offer to the public: Black Sam!

So. Erm. :D

Peep the way I didn't feel like doing plaid

Taglist:

@achios

@angel-shaw (I just felt like you should be @ ed for this particular drawing-)

@ashertickler

@aurorialwolf

@dukecollinsbf

@infinitelovewiithoutfulfilmentt

@moronkyne

@pandoraroid

@plaqying

@porters-fangs

@professionallyyappinabtangst (I literally just showed you this)

@puffin-smoke

@skunkox

@starlogician

@sunsickcrab

@themeridian

@tunacatfishes

@www-dot-why-are-you-here-dot-com

@zimix-whispers

[wotchernewt]

i think the most interesting thing about wild life so far is how textually, canonically, Explicitly Stated Within The Episodes And Therefore Admissible As Canon Lore, grian is in control of this one. like you can go around writing angst about the rest of the life series being The Watchers tormenting everyone but this time it's unambiguously grian responsible for the torment. he knows all the wild cards in advance because he designed them, and he has the power and authority to stop them in their tracks if he decides they've gone too far. i want fifteen fics about this on my desk by this evening.

[yuri-anderperry]

charlie freeloads despite having the money to pay for it

[obae-me]

He looks at you like artistry. A contemporary piece he's never seen before. Taking in every detail with calculating eyes. Wondering what intentions the skillful hands of the cosmos had in mind when making you.

He wishes to know your story, the happiness that makes the music of your voice, the experiences settled in the sculpt of your frame, the tragedies brushed into the strokes of your irises.

The complexities of your being astound him, mesmerize him. Every new fact he learns about you adds another stanza to your sonnet.

To him, you are art in its purest form. Not one part can exist without the other. The greatest of symphonies would not be complete without their rests. He adores all of you.

How foolish he was at first, to think you were just a simple creature. Oh, the things he has taken for granted. When did he become so blind? Was it his Pride? Or had he simply been breathing for so long, that the sweet orchestra of life became dull to his ears? How long had it been since he stopped to watch people commune in the streets? Or sat a while to watch the trees sway from his window? Or pondered on the meaning of a wonderful word?

Excitement. How many centuries since he's felt like that? Filled with a rather humiliating child-like giddiness. But it's...invigorating. Everything stands out to him fresh, avant-garde. You remind him that there's still so much for him to discover.

A change in the wind, the turning of a page to a whole new chapter, a swelling crescendo, you are enticing. Every second spent with you leaves him craving more.

All he desires is to be in your presence. To see your colors. To hear your melody. To bask in the opus of your existence. It was only a matter of time before you would manage to become his everything, his obsession, his passion. And he wouldn't have it any other way.

For Lucifer is a connoisseur, and to him, you are nothing less than the crown of luxury.

[heejinpilled]

loveeee this scene between shawn and chief vick in 3.06 like to me its basically canon that she knows full well shawn is not psychic in the slightest and she's known this since day one

[dragonpyre]

You can chart exactly when my mental health starts spiraling

[lurkingteapot]

Went back to re-watch the first few eps of Peaceful Property, and the more I watch, the more uneasy I get about Kan. Like. I want her to be part of the team! I don't think she's the main antagonist or anything -- the show's been indicating pretty clearly that that's Uncle Kid and by extension the family lawyer's part. But I can't figure her part out.

Kan volunteered to work with the family. She looked up information on Home before she first met him. She's looked into several cases of unlawful behaviour of Home's family. She's constantly stressed (frequently shown eating sugary things, which she tells Home will reduce stress). She is supremely, supremely unimpressed with Home, but most so when he showcases his unexamined rich boy privilege, and she looks annoyed to disappointed when the siblings -- especially PangPang -- let Home get away with those antics. But she was still surprised to the point of shock when she realised it had been Home, not Kid, who ran Peach over.

She's been looking into Peach and PangPang, too, to the extent that she lets slip that she knows what name PangPang used to go by.

She made a point of commenting that something mentioned by only one witness won't usually be admitted as fact in court. She is really insistent that the pain of having caused harm does in no way diminish the pain of having been harmed.

Her office is crammed full with boxes over boxes of what we gotta assume are case files, and it looks like a very cheap place -- not the type you'd expect to work for the family lawyer, or Home's family overall.

Which reminds me -- are we ever going to get more information on what went down in the restaurant from ep 5? The inspector talking to Uncle Kid on that recording called it a murder case, and there were case files presumably to that effect that Kan reclaimed. The way ep 5 resolved, it looks like it was most likely an unfortunate accident, but if so, why did Somkit need the case files disappeared?

Sure, they could've been talking about the accident that nearly killed Peach. But that was a different night from the restaurant death. A different restaurant case, maybe? I'm stumped. And I wonder where Kan fits into all this. She's got a goal, and it's apparently to bring Home's family to justice, but … urghgh.

Maybe auncle Pok will enlighten us when we meet them.

(I'm going on only what we've been shown in the show so far, I know the mock trailer had a couple of hints in other directions -- but I'm gonna disregard those for now because we all know how misleading gmmtv pilot trailers can be)

[ceaselessims]

there needs to be more blindfaith nsfw fics bc i know oscar nolastname malevolent would act like this

[dragonwysper]

Oh r/houseofleaves. Never change.

[bonefall]

Do you have a family tree for DOTC and the ancient tribes around the lake with Hollyleaf/Fallenleaf?

I don't yet. When I finish up my re-read, I'm going to gather ALL of the DOTC cats and start dividing them up into the three cultural groups. After getting them all in bundles, I'm going to whip them up into proper family trees.

If you're asking about canon's family tree... I can make it if you'd like, but I'd just be showing you the ticking timebomb of genetic diversity they set up for themselves. It's all Quiet Rainkin and random forest cats, most introduced after book 3. None of the other settlers had grandchildren and the living children have no mates.

Sun Shadow died.

Lightning Tail died and Acorn Fur was forced into a vow of chastity

None of Turtle Tail's kits have kits; one is in a vow of chastity

There's nothing to "preserve" about the canon tree, unfortunately. It's not really a "tree," it's more like a couple of bubbles with a ton of dead women floating around outside.

For funsies, let me try and remember all the "bubbles" off the top of my head, plus when the characters were introduced

Ravenstar x Juniper Branch (Book 6)

Milkweed x Leaf (Book 5, Book 2, plus existing kits with an unknown mate)

Misty (Book 2; kits have no kits.)

Shadowkin: Tall, Moon, Sun (1, 1, 5, extinct)

Jackdaw's Cry x Hawk Swoop (extinct)

Turtle Tail x Tom the Wifebeater (endangered)

Riverstar x Finch Song (Book 1, super edition)

Wind Runner x Gorse Fur (Moth Flight and Dust Muzzle are born in book 3)

Willow Tail (introduced with a sibling in book 4; extinct)

Shaded Moss was the father of Rainswept Flower (extinct)

Fox and Petal were siblings (Petal raised Misty's children)

I forgot the name of Drizzle's mom and sibling (book 6)

I think there's also a cat called Apple Bottom Jeans or something in Thunderstar's Echo who has a litter, but I can't remember her mate without google. There were also some litters born in Riverstar's Home I can't remember. I barely remember the side books, were there any others born in Shadowstar's Life...?

Here's all the pairings in the Quiet Rainkin family, as contrast;

Quiet Rain x Unknown (4 kits)

Clear Sky x Bright Stream (Died pregnant; gave birth to 2 dead angel fetus children in heaven)

Clear Sky x Storm (Thunder was the only survivor of 3)

Clear Sky x Star Flower (two litters; the first was 3 iirc, the second unknown)

Jagged Peak x Holly (3 kits)

Gray Wing x Slate (3 kits iirc)

Thunder x Violet Dawn (4 kits)

So... bottom line is, something like 50% of births were coming out of the Quiet Rainkin family, and they account for something like 30% of cats with existing family at all.

Personally, I think that's awful in a prequel arc that's supposed to be about ancestors. So I'm going to be making whole families for BB.

[koinotame]

sometimes you realise you've set up what could be a really interesting dynamic and go ohoho.... anyway reader taking advantage of yan silver and silver going along with it wholeheartedly, and lilia noticing and trying to intervene because that's his son you're hurting, but yan silver is yan enough that he gets very upset about his father antagonising and/or trying to hurt you, so lilia is forced to think about what exactly he's going to do about you because he can't just watch and do nothing but even one wrong step will cause irreparable damage to his relationship with silver

[elbafian]

it's very frustrating, and honestly a little upsetting, how people try to rank the strawhats in terms of how 'useful' they are or try to argue that some strawhats are more important to luffy than others. it's like people willingly forget than luffy admitted in arlong park that he knows that he needs other people to survive and achieve his goals, or that he's chased down every strawhat that has tried to leave, or was (mentally) saved by the knowledge that he still had his crew, despite not physically being there with him. he needs and values all of them, and he values what they bring to the crew, even if a portion of the audience may not.

[mortuarywriting]