#creatures ted talks

[strange-creature-222]

The neat thing about being a Will Wood fan is that you find this decently sized community of people who like this guy and you're like "wow look at all these people I can talk to!" But it definitely isn't that BIG of a community

But after a while you realize that they're everywhere, the best example I can give is that I'm in quite a few different discord servers, for quite a few different things, and I can't name one active server that doesn't have at least one or two Will Wood fans™ and its not like it's always the same people

Idk I just find it really Interesting and cool

[friszil]

the golden ratio

[artist-rat]

my old and new tes character Saima <3 she’s a combination of a couple of my prev. ocs!

[hello-sweetheart]

Eddie ‘Bambi-Eyes’ this, Munson ‘Puppy-Eyes’ that

Guys, guys,, he do be having big ol’ eyes but theyre dark as shit so they’re giving like shark vibes

Watch this:

He’s a fucking baby salmon shark (the first two I believe are thresher sharks tho)

POINT IS Eddie’s shark eyes go •_•

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I hope your headache gets better! 🩷 If it's not much trouble could I suggest the Lykoi cat breed?

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

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[mental-about-you-too]

Why I believe the Will Darling Adventures were originally conceived as johnlock fanfiction

I will die on this hill.

The Will Darling Adventures (Slippery Creatures, Sugared Game, Subtle Blood) by KJ Charles are my favorite guilty pleasure comfort books. I have listened to the audiobooks an embarrassing number of times. I can play exchanges of dialogue in my head from memory, reader’s inflections and all. If you haven’t read them and you like a mix of adventure and gay smut (plus it’s a trilogy so there’s time for more complex characterization and more gradual relationship development than you usually get in books of the genre), then absolutely go do that, and don’t read below—because here be spoilers. Also, because the books are a delight.

So. Grand theory.

To be clear: I am not knocking these books AT ALL (if I’m honest, the Holmesian flavor is part of why I like them so much). As in many really good works of fanfiction, the characters have ceased to be mere copies, and have gained their own original and internally consistent characterization. Kim and Will are not Holmes and Watson, but I am completely convinced that the latter were the inspiration for the former. Here are some of the parallels/moments of homage:

Watson => Will

Returned to England from war with nowhere to go; ended up in London: “I had neither kith nor kin in England, and […] naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.” (Study in Scarlet) => “…his mother had died from the Spanish ‘flu while he’d waited to be demobbed […] So, like everyone else, he’d come to London…” (Slippery Creatures)

Ran out of money as a recently-discharged veteran: “So alarming did the state of my finances become…” (Study in Scarlet) => “…his slide into poverty was unstoppable...” (Slippery Creatures)

War wound that nearly killed him: “For months my life was despaired of...” (Study in Scarlet) => “A month in hospital.” (Sugared Game)

Saved by an underling who never appears in the story: “…had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.” (Study in Scarlet) => “If it hadn’t been for the bravest stretcher-bearer in Flanders, I’d have died out there.” (Sugared Game)

Retained his favorite weapon from the war: “I have my old service revolver and a few cartridges.” (Study in Scarlet) => “…the Messer, his old trench knife...” (Sugared Game)

Is asked to bring the weapon on adventures: “Put your pistol in your pocket.” (Study in Scarlet) => “Got your knife?” (Sugared Game)

POV character

Holmes => Kim

Has a bunch of names but goes by a middle one: William Sherlock Scott Holmes => Arthur Aloysius Kimberley de Brabazon Secretan

Has pretty hands, which are something of a fixation for the POV character

Doesn’t eat much: “My friend had no breakfast himself, for it was one of his peculiarities that in his more intense moments he would permit himself no food…” (Norwood Builder) => “They ate breakfast, or at least Will did, while Kim chewed a single slice of toast with distaste.” (Subtle Blood)

Withholds information because he doesn’t trust his partner’s ability to deceive: “You won’t be offended, Watson? You will realize that among your many talents dissimulation finds no place.” (Dying Detective) => “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you before, but subterfuge isn’t your strong suit.” (Sugared Game)

Withholds information for dramatic effect: “It was too bad to spring it on you like this, but Watson here will tell you that I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.” (Naval Treaty) => “Of course Kim would turn up after two months with some bizarre story; of course he wouldn’t tell it like a normal person.” (Sugared Game)

Plays fast and loose with legality: “Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.” “I shall be delighted.” “You don’t mind breaking the law?” “Not in the least.” (Scandal in Bohemia) => “I am absolutely not empowered to break the laws of the land, so I try not to get caught at it.”

Has a brother seven years his senior, whom we meet (several adventures in) at a gentlemen’s club in Pall Mall, and who looks like him but bigger: “Mycroft Holmes was a much larger and stouter man than Sherlock.” (Greek Interpreter) => “He looked like someone had drawn a caricature of Kim as John Bull and not been kind about it. He was significantly bulkier…”

The club (The Diogenes => The Symposium) has a Strangers' Room, and in at least part of the club: "no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed" (Greek Interpreter) => "speech is strictly forbidden" (Subtle Blood)

Chases down the leader of a mysterious criminal organization who appears respectable in normal society, and who stays one step removed to leave no evidence of his involvement: “But the Professor was fenced round with safeguards so cunningly devised that, do what I would, it seemed impossible to get evidence which would convict in a court of law.” (Final Problem) => “[Arrest him] on what grounds? I’ve got a lot of nothing. Straws in the wind, and fears, and the words of the dead. The case needs to be iron-clad, and mine is wet tissue paper.” (Sugared Game)

Has a chat with this adversary before the action kicks off: “…I was seriously inconvenienced by you” (Final Problem) => “It has caused me enormous inconvenience” (Sugared Game)

Better at hand-to-hand combat than he looks like he should be: “I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling…” (Empty House) => “Where did you learn knife fighting?” (Slippery Creatures)

Lounges around in a purple dressing gown (Blue Carbuncle; all three Will Darling books)

Tall, slender, pale, and dark-haired, with remarkable eyes (at least, the POV character sure remarks on them a lot)

Other parallels:

Inspector Lestrade (“lean and ferret-like as ever”) => Inspector Rennick (“He was a short, shrewd-looking man who sounded North London.”)

An aortic aneurism renders prosecution of a criminal moot: Jefferson Hope (Study in Scarlet) => Lord Waring (Sugared Game)

Will’s expectations upon meeting Waring line up with a description of Moriarty: “His face protrudes forward, and is forever slowly oscillating from side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion” (Final Problem) => “[Will] wasn’t sure what he expected. Something snakey, some reptilian air of cruelty…” (Sugared Game)

This rather iconic phrase: “He sits motionless, like a spider at the center of its web...” (Final Problem) => “…sits like a spider at the centre of a web of obligations...” (Sugared Game)

Alongside the parallels, Charles adds elements often found in the best works of fanfiction: in addition to the on-page romance, there's expansion of the characters' backgrounds, including an exploration of class and privilege, plus a fix-it-esque resolution of the issue of Holmes'/Kim’s dishonesty (I for one always wished Watson would confront Holmes about lying to him for cases).

There. Cataloguing all the parallels was taking up a ridiculous amount of space in my brain, so now you know & I can stop obsessing over it so much.

[persephone-s-moon]

Sorry I've been dead! I've been working on a long-time personal project of mine, and I might start posting about it here soon <3

(I'll probably get things set up ✨aesthetically✨ first because I LOVE making my life more difficult <3)

[stardynamite]

Story where there is a creature that erases people out of existence (so nobody remembers them and has any records of them whatsoever) but nobody knows what the creature does because we don’t remember it’s victims (so we dont know the effect of it’s powers)

[strange-creature-222]

My favorite part of The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is when Henry said "Its Edward Time!" and Hyd all over the place

[ginger-idiot]

When you think about it, A Chinese dragon is actually a Lung Dragon or Salamander dragon, just people think they're Wyrms. Their not, they're a completely different species of dragon to begin with, they're Lung Dragons, and some are even depicted as Salamander Dragons. So, technically speaking, Chinese dragons are the only type of salamander/lung dragon that can fly without the use of wings, and even then they wouldn't be a full salamander/lung dragon if they had said wings.

(Art here https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/a9l0ba/ever_wondered_about_different_types_of_dragons/ )

Chinese dragons are, most of the time, huge. And only found in few place, the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean areas. By logic, Chinese Dragons should technically be their own type of dragon, either being an offshoot of Lung Dragons or Salamanders.

It's my firm belief that every nation that's been around since before the Americas were even discovered has their own type of dragon.

Take Russia for example, they have the Zmei. A winged king Hydra.

(Ps, look at this kick-ass statue in a Russian Theme Park)

This is, by logical standards, its completely own species of dragon. An off-shoot of the Hydra.

[rainofthetwilight]

@taddymason HEY i uh may or may have not combined our dad jay aus together, using memes :"DD

only child kaida trying to get used to her new siblings lmao

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hollow was always impure like subscribe hit the bell for more true thoughts

[that-purple-creature]

Love applying Homestuck terminology to other fandoms actually

Hilson are moirails. The most genuine and platonic-adjacent form of love. That's how that got away with that shit so long and how they manage to love each other so much and so obviously but nobody else really points it out. Maybe pale-red vacillation from the "Wilson fetish" thing.

Huddy are kismesis and you can fight me on this. They are canonically always getting on each other's nerves, they're always in some form of theatrical ass dance of will they won't they until they Do and then it turns out they are always just Like That. Doesn't mean they love each other any less, it's just a different kind of love.

Wuddy are red for the little time we see it happening but they're unimportant to my point here.

Hudson are auspistice. Wilson Has to be there for them, especially in later seasons, or everything falls apart. House and cuddy cannot function normally or healthily without the third member of their ridiculous circus troupe of relationship dynamics

[edgymuses]

possible idea for an oc, a guy just trying to start a new life but ends up on the wrong place at the wrong time. He may look tough but is very soft person and literally sticks he’s neck out for anyone. Just thinking of ideas out loud for ocs if anyone seems interested or maybe we can bounce off ideas

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Will you make more Toon Forest Oc's? 🤔👀

Well...yes.

Yes, I will make more Toon Forest Oc's. ^_^