#coal mine canary

[deathlonging]

discipline and punish - michel foucault

[protosentry]

rip mumbolion jumbolion he truly mined that coal 💔

i drew this in mspaint instead of studying for a test <3 baby's first time in uni and im already failing a grade....at least i have my minecraft people to watch

[flareyn]

Canary boy.

[darkacademiaarchivist]

FUCK I just remembered "canaries should stay above ground"

[sop-soap]

TMA begins with a lure, but TMAGP begins with a warning.

[numblittlecrow]

So uhhh i bound a book if anyone cares:)

And then i drew minecraft men in it

[archangeldyke-all]

ok hear me out angel, what about reader asking sevika about Isha’s family? Like wondering if they shouldn’t find her family or anything.

Maybe Sevika could open up about her own past with her abusive father and confess that she relates to Isha because she was probably either an orphan or running away from a toxic environment?

idk if you share my vision but I loveee when Sevika is vulnerable.

🖤

god :,) i love this

men and minors dni

as a family, you've all been learning sign language to better communicate with isha.

the girl is young and restless, and she gets frustrated easily when her hands can't keep up with her thoughts. she would rather just use jinx's surprisingly good interpretation of her facial expressions to communicate.

so, none of you are experts yet, but isha is able to tell you all a little bit more about herself the more she learns.

she doesn't know how old she is, but in the mines she was grouped with kids aged 4-6. so she's close to there.

she doesn't have any parents, and she doesn't remember ever having parents.

and when she met jinx, she had made an escape from the mine camps she was raised in, being chased by goons wanting to bring her back. tiny hands are useful in mines. and isha was a for-lifer.

isha explains this all to you slowly, over time, mostly with jinx's encouragement. and living in the undercity, stories like isha's aren't as rare as they should be. so you're all a little numb to the true horror of isha's life before jinx.

it hits you all at different times.

jinx is the first person to shed tears for isha. you wake up in the middle of the night to horrified screams coming from the girls' room, and both you and sevika sprint in, fearing the worst.

it's just isha having a nightmare, but it's still heartwrenching to watch as she sobs and shakes and screams out in her sleep. jinx is the only one who could wake her up, her voice seeming to break through the horrors for poor isha. the girl snaps awake with a gasp, launching into jinx's arms with a relieved cry.

"w-what happened, kiddo?" jinx whispers, her voice shaky.

isha quickly, shakily signs something only jinx can see, and she bursts into tears, wrapping isha up in a hug.

"what was it? what'd she say?" sevika asks.

jinx shakes her head. "'canary went quiet.'" she says, shakily. "she dreamt about the mines suffocating her."

you shiver, and sevika sighs heavily. both of you crawl onto the floor, preparing for a long night of soothing the kids to sleep.

the next person who cries about it is you.

you stumble to the kitchen in the middle of the night in search of a glass of water and catch isha in the fridge, stuffing her face with leftovers from dinner.

"you wan' me to warm that up for you, kiddo?" you ask around a yawn.

isha jumps and stumbles to her feet, her eyes wide and fearful, the food splattering to the floor. sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry-- she signs over and over.

you blink. "no-- what? don't worry about it baby, 's just some spilled rice--"

isha bursts into tears and starts tugging at her hair, worry consuming her, you gasp, darting forward and pulling her in for a hug. she flinches just a bit before she realizes you aren't going to hurt her, and your heart shatters.

"isha, baby, you can eat as much food as you want, whenever you want." you whisper into her blue hair. isha moans against you. "that's a rule here. you'll never be in trouble for taking food. even if it's jinx's 'secret' cookies." isha giggles a little at this, and you start to cry, burying your face against her scruffy head of freshly dyed blue hair.

you both cry until isha's stomach grumbles, and then you burst into giggles.

"c'mon. i'll make you your favorite if you help me." you say, standing from the floor and flicking a light on. isha gasps.

blueberry pancakes? she signs with a grin. when you nod, isha darts forward and hugs your legs. thank you ms. baby. she signs. it makes you start to cry again.

sevika's the last one to crack, but that doesn't surprise you.

what does surprise you is how open she is about it.

isha asks about family one evening over dinner. it's got you all a little emotional, the sweet questions she signs.

is this family? she asks first.

a few forks clatter onto plates, and it's silent. isha's inquisitive gold eyes dart around the table, waiting for one of you to speak. sevika looks at you you look at isha.

jinx speaks. "close enough, yeah." she says.

you grin, and bite your lip. sevika sighs.

is there more? isha asks.

all your smiles immediately fall as the solemn topic of more family, alive and dead, is brought up.

jinx sighs. "you know vi, my sister, the asshole cop." she mutters. isha giggles at the curse. "i... had parents. don't remember much of 'em. mostly, i remember the stories vi would tell me about 'em. felicia and connel. they died when i was young. then i had a few brothers and vander... and they died too..."

isha pouts and darts forward to hug away jinx's far away look.

sevika takes over while jinx starts stroking isha's hair.

"then she had silco. and me, i guess." she says with a shrug. jinx smiles a little.

"do you have any family in zaun, sev?" jinx asks.

you reach out and grab sevika's hand, and she kisses your knuckles before speaking slowly.

"i had a dad. we had a... shaky relationship." she says simply. jinx understands this, and she hums with a nods. isha's blinking at sevika with big eyes, listening intently. "he died hating me, i mean we were always feuding. but then sometimes, we weren't feuding, and..." she shakes her head and huffs. "and after that i kinda thought family was somethin' i just wasn't any good at." a few tears fall down her cheeks, and she looks up at the girls across the table.

but look at you, now, big mama. isha signs with a happy smile.

jinx bursts into laughter at the use of the nickname, and sevika bursts into tears.

you giggle and coo, pulling sevika into your arms to let her cry in your shoulder. "'s okay, big mama." you tease.

"s-shut up!" sevika cries. isha giggles, and sevika lifts her face to smile at the girl, tears streaming down her cheeks. "look at me now, kid. exactly."

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[grailknightmonty]

canary of the iron mine

thinkin about what or who could be lurking in the depths of that mine under the iron shop..

[orossii]

i honestly think toddlers with ipads are one of the most pressing issues facing US society today lol. our children are being made neurotic, distracted, and addicted to screens before they’ve even learned to speak. this will have devastating longterm consequences on their ability to develop normal social skills and learn new information. it feels like these tech companies and their financial backers are trying to create an underclass of people whose experience of life will be almost entirely online. they’re setting our future generations up to be unskilled, anti-social, and intellectually stunted

[pratchettquotes]

Many people who had come to know Rincewind had come to treat him as a sort of two-legged miner's canary and tended to assume that if Rincewind was still upright and not actually running then some hope remained.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

[elijah-loyal]

hey you know that internet fear of a face popping into fullscreen on your computer with no prompting?

what if jon did that to sam with his entire watcher's crown getup, full eldritch horror-style

[several-mice]

Feed me promises, keep my heart well. I’ll sing you songs until the darkness does recede.

But if in the end I lose my voice, will you forget about your love for me?

[darksilvania]

CHIRPIT [Chirp + Pit] Flying The Canary Pokemon Abilities: Gale Wings - Early Bird (HA) Dex: "They live inside caves and mines, where they form large flocks, they constantly chirp to communicate with one another, using the cave’s natural acoustics to amplify their sound, making it reach further.” This pokemon is highly sensitive to the quality of air, avoiding air pollution at all cost, thanks to this, they were often used by miners to help detect possible gas leaks." Moveset: -Drill Peck  -Chatter -Echoed Voice  -Perish Song

SPELUKAGE [Spelunking + Cage/Ribcage] Ghost/Poison The Poison Gas Pokemon -Evolves from CHIRPIT when taken to the 3rd sublevel of the Ironteeth Cave Abilities: Gas Leak* - Neutralizing Gas (HA) Dex: "It wanders inside abandoned mine shafts, its bones glowing softly in the dark, its soul faintly visible inside its ribcage. It constantly produces a very volatile gas that has no smell nor visible color, so it is recommended to keep it away from any flame or spark” Moveset: -Shadow Bone -Cross Poison -Corrosive Gas  -Poison Gas

*This Pokemon fills the field with a highly flammable gas; any pokemon who tries to use a fire-type move will explode and take damage.

Now that the 5 lake pokemons are finished, I had to finish this 2 as they are somewhat related to one of them, as Ironteeth Cave is where you can find HAGABABA, inside the acid lake

While the lake is in the 4th sublevel of the cave, the toxic gases it produces have started leaking into the level above. When you enter this level a message will read "The air in here has a weird smell" and if CHIRPIT is in your party, after a few steps it will evolve into SPELUKAGE

This pokemon are inspired in minig canaries

[mirefireflies]

claudia as the canary in the coal mine

amc’s interview with the vampire, 2022 / a canary in a coal mine — mort laitner / i know why the caged bird sings — maya angelou / a poem about a slave — imad / what happened to the canary in the coal mine? — kat eschner / canary in a coal mine — mira lightner / canary in a coal mine — the crane wives

[eleemosynaries]

maybe next time, okay?