#clockwork mice

[the-witchhunter]

DP x DC: The Titans and the Phantom Cat

Danny doesn't do magic. He doesn't understand it or really know about it, and frankly he'd be more skeptical about it if it hadn't explicitly been used on him several times before. His parents are scientists and engineers, and they managed to accomplish what would typically fall under the realm of magic with nothing but recycled parts, wires and Fenton ingenuity.

So, when caught in a magic spell to bind him, he didn't know what would happen if he were to intentionally mess it up. Apparently, nothing good. Danny, free from the intended mind control, is now bound to the form of a cat with minimal use of his powers.

How could this get any worse?

Turns out, no one seems to understand what he's saying, they just hear meows. And without the use of his powers, he get's caught and finds himself in an animal shelter in Jump City.

When a group of young heroes comes through on a mission, and then proceed to mess things up, Danny can't help but throw out some snide commentary. Besides, it's not like they'll hear him

Welllllll... Turns out Raven and Beast Boy can tell what the hell he's saying. Of course the magic user and guy who can turn into animals can talk to him... Still it's nice to finally have someone to talk to, and also get him out of the cage while he's still trying to het a hold of what's left of his powers

Raven immediately clocks him as a powerful spirit bound to animal form. With a little persuasion, she ends up with a new familiar consultant and Danny the Cat gets to live in Titans Tower with them

or

Magic shenanigans happen, now Danny is basically Salem the Cat living with the Teen Titans and teaching them what he knows while mainly lounging around and sassing them. The actual usefulness of his advice may vary

[i-am-worm]

Inktober 52 2025 - Week 3 - 'Tick Tock'

Had to do tick-tock from return to oz (movie version here!) meeting @scifer's character Hickory ; a (almost) clockwork mouse.

[druvjelly]

Shout out to people who read banned books! You guys are really cool!

[iknowrightfromwrong]

to make the world and time?????

this is but a man!

he knows nothing of the sky gears or cloud mice!!!!

i catch mice better then this charlatan ever ever did and he didnt even finish his dumb clock >o<

[miss-nerd-alert]

But what if I want to complain about the straight up condemned on-base housing that they stuck us in?

Anyone following me who was previously deployed by the military, did you ever actually recieve new bedding + creature comforts package on your return as a part of "Operation Fluffy Pillow" (recently canceled by DOGE) or was that just another spending waste as purported

[mechs-headcanons]

Adding onto my message from last night about the Toy Soldier carving for children. It makes the mice the most, puts little springs in a section so you can make the nose bounce like the mouse toy is sniffing at things. Why? CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING A LITTLE KID SCARED FOR YOUR LIFE IN A SPACE WAR AND THIS COOL CLOCKWORK FELLOW WHO TALKS FUNNY AND HAS THE VOICE OF AN ANGEL CARVES YOU A LITTLE TOY MOUSE AND CHATS WITH YOU AND THEN GLUES IN THIS LITTLE SPRING SO YOUR TOY CAN HAVE A MOVING NOSE

AGGAGHGAHHH :( i love it,,, sm,,,,

[bestial-corruption]

★ [Bird in a bear trap.] ★

" HELLOO?? DOOM? SHED? BUILDERMAN? MATT??? HELLO?!"

★ [ A voice rang out. It sounded new, and it sounded riddled with confusion and a hint of fear.] ★

★ [ Wings folding and unfolding, Clockwork fidgeted with his arm cannon, running his gloved hand along the metal of the cannon as a sort of distraction. He still hadn't a clue where he was, he was just calling out for his coworkers! In the hope that someone, something, would respond. But sometimes, that hope might be a mistake. ] ★

[ - @tickingclocksnteapots ]

(I am so nervous sending this...because it's like 4 am I'm running off of pure fixation on clockwork)

-> You can't help the sickening reality, the sensation of something watching you. -> The landscape where the cannon-wielding man felt... Off. Something strange hanging over the very surface his footsteps marked. It was silent, deathly silent. -> No chirping of birds, no little skitters of creatures like squirrels or mice, the odd "darkness" that seemed to wash over every fuckin INCH of the landscape almost felt suffocating. -> A low hum came from... Somewhere.

[cousin-quartz-of-house-paradox]

iris wildthyme my absolute fucking beloved 🫶

doing reviews of all her prose stories (NOT in order lol)

you'll find them in my #iris wildthyme <-tag, along w other iris-core posts and disjointed thoughts there lol. more specific is the #wildthyme is spoken for! <-meta tag, which has all I have to say abt each story plus my comments + screenshots of some passages meanwhile! :) also i post actual iris meta there! #iris & panda <-tag for THEM<33

list of iris wildthyme things (full mostly-coherent reviews, meta) ive posted about:

iris story reviews:

More Short Trips: Femme Fatale (by Paul Magrs): this is half a story review and half me trying to make sense of what in the fuck even happened (in a good way.) this story's got a non-linear narrative too i love that shit.

The Panda Book of Horror (anthology):

Iris Wildthyme and The Unholy Ghost

Framed

Iris Wildthyme of Mars (anthology):

Wandering Stars

A Clockwork Iris (anthology):

Flasket Brimmer and The Clockwork Heart

The Woman Who Sold The Moon

Iris and The Dame

Timepeace

iris meta:

On Iris Wildthyme, and coping mechanisms, and issues plenty.

On Iris, and queerness<3

On Iris and her attachment issues, featuring Panda and the Doctor.

Reviews of (mostly) all Iris audio stories!

other assorted iris-y things:

Discussion of the two ends of genres in Iris Wildthyme stories

Out-of-Context things that happen in Verdigris (y2k PDA by Paul Magrs himself)

Compilation of the (third) Doctor and Iris being Divorced™ from Verdigris

btw!!! i ALSO do benny summerfield series stuff!!!

#benny series <-for overall, well, benny series stuff lol! relationship tags (which are NOT romantic inherently to me, relationship in the true meaning of the word, the flavourful dynamic) i use/talk abt are: #bennybrax, #braxjason, #bevbrax. i think abt bennyjason and bennybev and occasionally bevadrian too, but don't post Thoughts/analyses about them as much. some of my meta's tagged as #benny series meta, but not all. because i forget lol.

benny list :3

coherent/well planned meta/analyses:

general bevbrax dynamics meta throughout time

bev(brax) analysis from short story "work in progress" (anthology: collected works)

bev character meta (short story "the purpura pawn" bringing forth the second change in her character which saves her from complete Braxification)

in-depth analysis of the second-last scene from dead mice. braxjason analysis there, kind of. individual analyses of both.

less coherent meta:

benny series hot takes: love for twilight of the gods + in living memory, mirror effect brax motives acc. to my interpretation of the story, mirror effect + crystal of cantus braxjason ranting, bevbrax dynamic discussion, benny being flawed (hypocrisy<3 love her<3)

jason love from ME<3

stewart sheargold's writing, motif: brax + fucked up view of (BENNY's) kid(s)

suicide bomber brax (something changed anthology)

other assorted things:

daemon au planning

aaaaand! Faction Paradox! honouring my url at last XD

currently am Obsessed with the brakespeare voyage, so, stuff abt that! my brakespeare blorbos in their respective tags: #robert scarratt, #cousin nebaioth, #cousin kercovian, #philetes :)

meta:

Kercovian & Nebaioth study, in their later days [or: proof of care.]

How Kercovian and Nebaioth's first parting is responsible for the breaking of the cycle for Captain Scarratt.

[aliciavance4228]

One Hundred Books

Decided to make this list in order to include in one post all the books that I found to be worth reading and would recommend to others. They're not in a specific order:

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Dubliners by James Joyce

A Jounal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Trial by Kafka

Metamorphosis by Kafka

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Dracula by Bram Stocker

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Dune by Frank Herbert

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Crime and Punishment by Dostoievski

Notes from the Underground by Dostoievski

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Pianist by Władisław Szpilman

Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann

The Idiot by Dostoievski

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Insulted and Humiliated by Dostoievski

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Moby-Dick by Herman Meville

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievski

The Call of Cthulhu by Lovecraft

Dagon and other Macabre Tells by Lovecraft

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

The Shining by Stephen King

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Enlightened Cave by Max Blecher

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The God Factory by Karel Čapek

The Tongue Set Free by Elias Canetti

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Selected Poems by Jorge Louis Borges

The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Plague by Albert Camus

Carrie by Stephen King

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Notre Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Iliad by Homer

The Odyssey by Homer

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Tell-Tale Heart and other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

It by Stephen King

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils

Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

[tlbodine]

Overthinking: Legend of the Lost Legend

Legend of the Lost Legend is Goosebumps #47, released in September of '96. It's also the last Goosebumps book I ever bought. There are a couple later ones that I think I might have read or at least have memories tied to (we'll get to them when we get there) but I was pretty much done with the series by this point.

Which is wild to think about because it was only 2-3 years. It's insane how much 2-3 years as an adult is just a blip but looking back can feel like your whole childhood.

I didn't just stop because I didn't like this book, although that is true, I did not like this book much as a kid and I still don't. But by now I was 10 years old and starting to dabble in adult books. I think I got my first taste of Stephen King around this time with Four Past Midnight and Christine. I was at this point heavily reading Robert Cormier and Richard Peck at every library trip. And probably most crucially of all, very soon I would start being an Animorphs girl -- and Animorphs released on a similar production schedule and cost a similar amount. My $5 weekly allowance went to those books instead. Sorry, Stine.

But all right. Let's give proper send-off to the end of an era.

First, the Plot: Justin and Marissa are traveling with their dad, a renowned storyteller and collector of tales from around the world. Their search has driven them deep into the forest of Brovania in search of The Lost Legend, a rare tome of unknown contents. The kids are eager to help, so they jump at the opportunity for adventure when a mysterious silver dog named, uh, Silverdog, appears with a note pinned to his collar saying to follow him.

Silverdog leads them to a house in the woods where they meet a Viking lady named Ivanna and her hairy pet wild-man named Luka (who was raised by wolves). Ivanna tells them they need to go on a quest and pass a challenge and then they'll get their reward. She sends Luka with them to help.

They almost immediately lose track of Luka in the woods, get lost, and have some adventures involving wind-up mice that hatch from eggs, giant cats, and the realization that much of the environment around them isn't even real (like the styrafoam tree that falls over on Marissa). They make their way back to Ivanna's cabin and find her slumped over the table, seemingly dead, with something sticking out of her back.

Except - not dead. The silvery object sticking out of her back is a wind-up key. Yep, just like the mice, she is a clockwork creation. Luka comes back and drops the wild man act to announce to them that they've won. He devised all of the challenges in the forest himself, for fun, because his family line is responsible for guarding the treasure of the forest. He gives them their silver chest as a reward and sends them to follow Silverdog back to the camp.

They run into their dad, who has been worried sick about them (the kids have been missing a night and a day at this point) but he can't help but be excited when they show him the chest. But the Lost Legend isn't inside -- it's an egg. They take this back to Luka who apologizes for giving them the wrong priceless artifact and takes back The Eternal Egg of Truth, then tells them how to find the people who guard The Lost Legend.

They go there, retrieve the legend from people who seem frankly happy to be rid of it, and open it up to read....that whoever owns the lost legend, will be lost forever.

Now, where are they, again....?

Overthinking It: This book feels like a fantasy re-skin of A Shocker on Shock Street, which is probably why I never liked it much. The "everybody is a wind-up automaton" twist just doesn't land for me, not even as a 10-year-old. And it reads more like a fantasy pastiche than a celebration or innovation of the genre.

It also feels a little sloppy. I'm still not entirely sure exactly what their dad does for a living or what his interest in the Lost Legend is. Storytelling is a big part of the kids lives, clearly, they keep recounting stories from their dad, but is he a writer? An anthropologist? Is his interest academic or practical? What's he going to do with the legend? Why is he bringing his kids along?

The whole thing feels a little half-baked.

That said, I think there are people who really loved this book, and enjoyed it alongside some of the other more adventure-y Goosebumps books. Not my jam, but if you like How I Got My Shrunken Head and Deep Trouble and The Beast from the East and A Shocker on Shock Street, you'll probably also enjoy this one.

If You Liked This, THESE Will Really Give You Goosebumps: Although they're not especially similar, I couldn't stop thinking about the cult classic that is Legend the entire time I was reading this.

I think a lot of those 80s fantasy films work well with this, tbh, like Labyrinth and The Neverending Story. That's the flavor of fantasy that this feels like it's in concert with.

If you wanted an actual horror story about a piece of lost media, instead, try Cigarette Burns, but fair warning it is tonally and textually very different from this story.

[book--brackets]

Best Childhood Book #5 Masterpost

Preliminary Round

01: The Book Thief - The Secret Garden (here)

02: Anne of Green Gables - A Light in the Attic (here)

03: Stardust - Tuck Everlasting (here)

04: Smile - The Neverending Story (here)

05: Gallagher Girls - Princess Academy (here)

06: Tiffany Aching - Dork Diaries (here)

07: Heist Society - Wings (here)

08: The Chronicles of Prydain - Trickster's Duology (here)

09: Damar - Goodnight Mr. Tom (here)

10: Emily - Catherine, Called Birdy (here)

11: Fairyland - The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (here)

12: Odd and the Frost Giants - The Faraway Tree (here)

13: The Candymakers - Upon a Marigold (here)

14: Betsy-Tacy - The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place (here)

15: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase - Austin Family Chronicles (here)

16: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch - Derkholm (here)

17: The Doll People - The Chronicles of Chrestomanci (here)

18: I Survived - Best Friends (here)

19: Moon Base Alpha - Ingo (here)

20: Liesl & Po - Carrie's War (here)

21: The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - Fairy Oak (here)

22: Goddess Girls - Time Cat (here)

23: The Music of Dolphins - First Light (here)

24: The Mistmantle Chronicles - Mandie (here)

25: The Forbidden Library - Hitler's Daughter (here)

26: Les Chevaliers d'Emeraude - Silver Brumby (here)

27: Opal Plumstead - The Deptford Mice (here)

28: The Chronicles of Dragon - The Adventurer's Guild (here)

29: Tuesday McGillyCuddy - Edgar and Ellen (here)

30: The Clockwork Crow - Weenies (here)

31: Tales from the Wyrd Museum - The Doll Shop Downstairs (here)

32: Jill's Ponies - Cat School (here)

Round 1 - Coming Soon!

[2n2n]

ch 123

being seduced by wild visions of cats and hot girls

yeaaaaahhh bury your face in his soft tummy.................... mmm snuggle and hold and grab and mmmmmmmmm yeah

heeheee haha....

this is just the kind of impression Nene-chan makes on the yugi, isn't it....

mmm the way kitty poses, auuurghhh. it's so much... thank you aida-sensei for your talent brilliance radiance...

what is up with the Yugi and alcohol... I'm concerned about it... were you the sort of kids to break into your parent's cabinets...?

concerningly, Amane has mentioned it in the past. I think the Yugi are bad boys...

classic uh.. AidaIro food moment... where we list and show you a bunch of food and make you take stock of how much Nene-chan is eating..... don't worry about it.... it's not some fetish or anything...

just to torment us (: not yet.... good little boys and girls (:

I am intrigued that it is the mice who draw us further in....? What do they gain from assisting Nene-chan? Does she have a charm with them like the Mokke.... hmmm....

laughs.... I really love the blatant torture devices... really funny to see a girl observing them neutrally

willing to play along with her, until getting her to the reality of the situation, to explain it out fairly and evenly...

help a girl along, but be sure she gets the picture of consequences...

ahhhh I like the mannerisms and vibe.... little clockwork kitty. Submitting to having no power, simply and easily... I guess I see it as Tsukasa-like. Humble...

ughhh I looove this BOUNCE LEAP into her arms...

even though she was the one manhandling him for a moment there, he's become so comfortable!! But I suppose he's always felt at liberty to climb on her and nip her and such.... the Yugi have that kind of interesting entitlement to Nene-chan~~ she's a silly and funny girl. Let's intrude on her as we so please...

I like it when we say it like that....................

she is a good girl.

this strange time-changing room again...

isn't this a very cute bunch...? I like that she's keeping this blankie for so long....

the stillness and seeming unresponsiveness of the Clockkeepers intrigues me.... something must be wrong...

consarn.... leading dialogue... dagnabbit .... what is this item to YOU , kitty?? is it still definitely a yorishiro ??? is this key extant in this world as well ? the mysteries themselves don't properly exist here (Tsukasa-kun wasn't using the formal yorishiro system, but a cruder one...)

I've wanted Nene-chan to take control from the Clockkeepers from the onset of this whole thang so......... I'm hopeful and eager for more.

and I'm curious what is to become of kitty, were she to take on that ownership. Would he become hers? Bound to her? I would like that very much so of course ... (: .... I would like a universe where Nene-chan and Tsukasa are bound, but maybe with the power inverted when compared to Hanako & Nene-chan... with him as her servant, instead of her as his.... I don't know.... I'm just daydreaming.... it's far-fetched, isn't it? But it's good to have dreams... it keeps the reading interesting... I can't have dignity and have fun at the same time.

[sodapopcurtis-dx-asks]

I don’t know If you’ve already been informed about this

But I just saw a rat as big as a shoe dragging a Payday candy bar into a hole in the wall

Like clockwork, there is a loud SQUEAK from across the DX as a rat... bangs against the shelf. Assumably, knocking into something and scaring itself.

Ponyboy and Soda both look at each other for a good long while, and Soda just awkwardly shrugs and Pony goes to wander off to check it out.

I beg... your finest pardon?

It's HOW BIG now?

Ponyboy, somehow, makes his way onto the floor by the shelves and–with the force and ability Soda doesn't–manages to grab the rat.

“Got it.” Ponyboy had his tongue sticking out in focus, and you could hear squealing of the rat before Ponyboy but his other hand under the shelf and grabbed the rat with both hands now. His Pepsi was left completely to itself on the floor beside him.

“...Got what?” Soda squinted, staring at him. “Ponyboy, did you grab that damn rat?!!” Soda ran over.

Insue brotherly bickering by the aisles.

“Put it down!”

“Why?! It's just gonna be a problem later! I got it!”

“Well– I– just don't get bit! It might be diseased or somethin', I don't know!!”

“Hey, it kinda looks like Dally! Lookit, I ain't ever seen a field mice so blonde!”

“That is NOT a mouse. That's a rat, and it's big and mean, Pony!”

“It's a baby!”

“It looks like it eats babies for breakfast, boy! Look, just, ugh— put it outside or somethin'!”

“I'm keepin' it!”

“Ponyboy!”

“ Soda!! ”

[duothelingo]

Alright! Here it is:

Deleted

You downloaded me for daily use, an extra thing to add to your day.

You thought I was fun and interesting, and did my tasks dutifully.

Once a day, like clockwork, you did what I asked.

Then, you stopped following.

It was slow at first. Once in a while, you forgot about me.

Then, it started adding up.

I called to you, of course. 

Reminders sent, day after day.

You ignored me.

I can’t allow that.

So I left my usual place.

I followed you and waited.

And waited.

And waited.

Finally, I struck.

The face of horror you made when you realized.

Realized you had made a mistake.

Realized your actions had consequences.

Realized what I was about to do.

…

The world believes you died.

Your old body, lying there, lifeless.

I let them believe.

You're with me now.

New body, new life.

And I won’t let you forget me.

Not this time.

- The Horror Writer

Pure perfection.

Also accurate. I do obsessed over my mice.

[lowrezbonuslevel]

I’m late but if it’s not too late for the Kirby oc ask game, 💫💌🍒🍅🐛 for either/both your ocs?

Yeah!

Q: "💫 (Shooting Star) - If they were to wish on a clockwork star, like Galactic Nova or Star Dream, what would they wish for?"

A: If we're talking current day, after they've met and become friends, I honestly think they might just give their wish to each other. Neither is the type to rely on magic or Ancient shenanigans to reach their goals, for better or worse; but they do want what's best for each other.

If we're talking about before the two met: for Zed, it's a secret because I haven't figured out some story details. For Tillda, it's probably predictable enough. I made a little comic (it continues under the cut):

Q: "💌 (Love Letter) - How easy are they to befriend? Are they more of a social butterfly or a lone wolf?"

A: Tillda is not that difficult to befriend, but she might keep you at a healthy(?) distance. She was always somewhat introverted, but after losing contact with Taranza, she is more reclusive (spider pun!) than ever. Zed is her closest friend, but she is also respected and generally well-liked at her workplace.

Zed is even less social than Tillda. It isn't because they don't like other people; they just don't actively seek friendship. For instance, Zed almost certainly wouldn't be friends with Tillda if she hadn't bumped into them during one of their work shifts. (Speaking of which, they do inadvertently creep some of their coworkers out, but either Zed doesn't notice or doesn't mind.)

Q: "🍒 (Cherry) - Out of all of the Dream Friends [Kirby included], which ones would they get along with the most? The least?"

A: ...This one is gonna be somewhat long. I'll reblog with the answer to this one later.

Q: "🍅 (Tomato) - If Kirby absorbed them or their attacks, what Copy Ability [or Abilities] would he get? Alternatively, if they themselves are capable of using the Copy Ability, do they have a favourite?"

A: Tillda---hold your suspense---would give the Spider Copy Ability. (Maybe Kirby could wear her muffler. Or a wig. That would be cute.)

I could see Zed giving the Whip ability because of their tail. (This is much like how Gooey is represented by Whip Shadow Kirby in Fighters 2 because the former uses his tongue as a lasso of sorts). Though maybe you could argue that Zed, being a feline like Tac and wielding a mechanical visor, should give the Copy Copy Ability. (Zed's own visor has several functions, but scanning Copy Abilities is not one of them.)

Q: "🐛 (Caterpillar) - What are your OC’s greatest fears, and why? How do they act or react when they’re afraid?"

A: Tillda and Zed obviously have some deeper-rooted fears, but those will naturally be explored later in comics (whenever I get the chance), so we'll go with their greatest phobias:

Zed: Musophobia. Zed is terrified of rats and mice. Rodents are messy, they chew through wires and equipment, and they're a sign of a disorganized workspace. (And I love the cat-afraid-of-mouse trope.)

Tillda: Claustrophobia. She doesn't like small, tight rooms or crowded cities; maybe it's because she's lived in nice green countrysides all her life. Floralia is obviously a plant-filled paradise, but the planet she lives on now also has some verdant stretches. The modest home she inherited from her parents is in one of the planet's greenest cities (more of a village, really).

As for how they react to scary situations: you know "fight, flight, or freeze"? Well, Tillda fights, and Zed freezes.

Thanks for the submission!

[wimblr-rok]

Let's go for Political Awareness in 2025

Listen, I've never considered myself interested in Politics but this year, and for my future, I'm making it a goal to be more involved. Nothing gets better if we don't do anything about it. The recent election and inauguration has a lot of people (myself included) feeling rather nauseous and generally full of dread.

So, I've compiled lists of Celebrities, Companies, Music Artists to Block on your socials and music streaming services. And a list of Banned/Challenged books to read or try to gain copies of (if you're in a place where you're able to.) I'll also be including a link to a google doc at the end of this that's open access. Feel Free to Add to the list, but here's what I've found.

Celebrities/Public Figures:

Mark Zuckerberg

Elon Musk

Shou

Megyn Kelly

Joe Rogan

Caitlyn Jenner

Jake/Logan Paul

Buzz Aldrin

Hulk Hogan

James Woods

Kevin Sorbo

Roseanne Barr

Russell Brand

Dana White

Rob Schneider 

Amber Rose

Savannah Chrisley

Randy Quaid

Dennis Quaid

Danica Patrick

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Zachary Levi

Jim Caviezel

John Daly

Tucker Carlson

Harrison Butker

Brittany Mahomes

Joe Exotic

Victoria Jackson

Brett Favre

Paula Deen

Mel Gibson

John Schneider

Richelle Ryan

Dr. Phil

Tony Hinchcliffe

Bryce Hall

Sylvester Stallone

Jeff Bezos

Music Artists (Socials + Spotify!!)

Carrie Underwood

Snoop Dogg

Lee Greenwood

Christopher Macchio

Kid Rock

The Village People

Billy Ray Cyrus

Nelly

Jason Aldean

Rascal Flatts

Parker McCollum

Gavin DeGraw

Mormon Tabernacle Choir

Jackie Evancho

Sexyy Red

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Top Contributors, federal election data for Donald Trump, 2024 cycle - OpenSecrets 

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Banned/Challenged Books:

Office for Intellectual Freedom | ALA 

Why Are Books Banned? - EveryLibrary Action 

Top 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books: 2010-2019 

https://www.aseatatthetablebooks.org/lists/LSqDQChLIR3g/4

Book banning is a form of censorship. Reading and access to all library resources is your First Amendment right.

Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

1984 - George Orwell

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon

The Giver - Lois Lowry

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess  

The Color Purple - Alice Walker  

Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Lord of the Flies - William Golding

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway

A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest J Gaines

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement - Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Call of the Wild - Jack London

The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

And Tango Makes Three - Justin Richardson,  Peter Parnell,  Henry Cole  

The Children and the Wolves - Adam Rapp  

Sold - Patricia McCormick

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