#doing her a frighten like that!

[darthlenaplant]

I just watched The Double Clue and BROTHER AM I ANGRY AT POIROT.

Ngl. Like. No wonder he (Hastings) left you.

I mean. It's prefect for angsty drama fanfic, if anything lol

[lazylittledragon]

modern au gale+cyra/dadkarios for soul healing <33

cyra should not have a phone her internet history would have her on a watchlist

[serpentface]

are the talking crows still around? what are They doing while all this drama is going on around them in the world

Mostly doing their own crow things and not commonly having direct and mutual interactions with other sophonts. They're similar to yotici in the capacity that they have Very different modes of living than most other sophonts, and they generally are not recognized as 'People' in the same sense as humans, elowey, qilik, caelin, and delkhin. However, (given their strategic and intelligent capacity for word mimicry) talking crows tend to be comprehended as unique magical animals or spirits, or are not recognized as a distinct type of entity but rather feed into broader corvid folklore (as they are very difficult to visually distinguish from many common crows).

They make a few appearances in Whitecalf as small flocks of crows trailing the pilgrimage, picking at its food supplies and occasionally scavenging on its dead. This is a family unit of talking crows that has suffered heavily in the drought, with very few of their chicks surviving infancy and even some of the healthiest adults dying of thirst and starvation. They have recognized this mass movement of big two legged people as a source of potential sustenance, and are very persistent and skilled in keeping themselves fed.

In-text they may come off as an ambiguous, possibly magical element (or partially hallucinatory) from the character POVs, due to them going from a mundane presence indistinguishable from common crows to them uttering dire threats in clear and fluent Wardi. This is very unsettling and hard to reconcile for most who witness this, but is actually just a learned method of taking advantage of beliefs in corvids as ill omens to frighten off or distract targets while another crow snatches bits of food or a nice wineskin.

[backjustforberena]

It's the last midnight...

[drolta]

Hestia and the Eleusinian Stone

[theparadigmshifts]

everyone on the severance subreddit can't fucking shut up about going "helly is pregnant because there's babies in the intro" like if you say that one more time i'm going to level a city block. every motherfucker who goes "haha yeah totally fun plotline" and doesn't consider what a fucking betrayal it would be to put a character whose bodily autonomy has already been violated through something so heinous can taste my blade

[winepresswrath]

also i'm still so curious about what reintegrations looks like for people who are at odds with their other selves we have the obvious candidate (helly can go to heaven but can hellyna? also they want each other dead) but even something like irv v. irving is so wild. can irving look at irv's naïveté with affection and respect? can dylan g. empathize with outie dylan's failure to make the most out of his embarrassment of riches? despising yourself being appalled and confused by your own choices hating your own weakness alienation of the self let's gooooo.

[izartn]

So dandadan episode 7 uh? I'm watching the anime with my mother and wow. Wasn't expecting the switch to utterly heartbreaking. Excellent writing and animation.

An aside: Baffingly I kept watching animes with commentary on women's lives and gender with my mother. Which is amazing we love those, but I swear I don't search them on purpose. I thought dandadan was gonna keep being silly with tiny implications of sadness, and then mom clocks before me: "oh. the spirits until now are all of women who have lived unhappy, bad lives or were murdered".

[squorttle-pox]

please. i need alastor with his hair up so we can see the side of his head. second set of ears or smooth flesh prairie?

[laniidae-passerine]

Let’s be real, Bedelia is the most embarrassing thing about Hannibal’s life. Smart, tasteful, accomplished, admired, beautiful, charismatic, cold, calculating! She is the ideal woman for a man like him. And he absolutely wanted her, probably hoped she was the one before he met Will - and she thought he was a loser! Bedelia could not fucking stick him! Most perfect woman for a serial killer in Baltimore? Looks like a job for the fumbler!

[lemurballing]

tangle is so fun because she is a juxtaposition of something collected and contained with something loose and free and in motion

she’s a rough brawler but she has a stance and a style. she’s impulsive and thrillseeking, but she wraps her arms in sports tape to protect them, a precaution. she longs for adventure and action but she will always need to come to rest at home with friends. she’s bouncy and restless, but she’s an intent listener and considerate. she’s got months of off-and-on experience fighting badniks, but is still so new to real Adventure.

and while there’s plenty of traits sonic and tangle share, you can’t reduce her to ‘girl sonic’ without neglecting something of her own characterization. she fundamentally wants something different out of life than sonic does, because she doesn’t need to be anchorless; she isn’t a backpacker, sleeping somewhere new every night. she’s more like a goose, or a frigate bird; flying free for ages and ages, knowing she wants to go somewhere, until time comes to call her back to her origin.

[crimeronan]

i've gotten a couple sweet asks over the past few days/weeks asking about future relationships in the princess AU that seem to... imply an expected endgame with monogamous lumity and huntlow.... since a lot of new people are here from getting AU posts recommended to them, it's a good time to say 1) i'm a serial polyshipper, and 2) i'm a serial queerplatonic shipper

which means..... none of these kids are going to be monogamous. or partnered off apart from each other forever. to that end, hunter isn't ever going to be "less" important to luz than amity, willow isn't ever going to be "more" important to hunter than luz and amity, etc. i'd get both terribly bored and Desperately sad prioritizing monogamous romance over all the other entanglements happening here.

i AM likely to do some exploration of hunter and willow's relationship on its own because of how unbelievably funny it is for hunter to be like "oh. maybe i DO have certain feelings and think certain things about cuddling in bed with people. but... only.... one very specific people, at the moment. what..... do i do with this"

but like. my endgame agenda for this AU (and like, every other thing i ever write, ever) is to have a really impractical bedsharing arrangement between 478372 people. in the most giant bed of all time.

hunter/luz/willow/amity is So Important.

[scoriarose]

Hi!! I’ve never had a pet snake so this might be a dumb question but is it harder for snakes to see when they’re in blue?

It's not dumb, snake eyesight is different from our own so we can't assume they see exactly how or what we do. For the longest time people believed they couldn't see red, and used red lights to light their enclosures at night- that's bad for them. Please do not light your snake like a rotisserie chicken, they can see it.  Red light can be detrimental to reptiles because it can make it difficult for them to perceive depth, which can lead to mental distress. Red light bulbs can mess with your pet's ability to tell if it is day or night, since a light is always on, and that can cause stress and health and long term sight issues too.

But back to your original question, yes, snakes have difficulty seeing when they are in blue. Many will stay buried and hidden, not even eating until they've completely shed. That is the norm, and if a snake wants to be left alone, they should be. Sakura will hide most of the time, but I'll sometimes see the tip of her nose near a burrow hole, and I'll dangle something tasty in front of it and she'll eat it- but I won't dig her up if she's having alone time. Scoria will hide unless I'm around- they both know my voice and scent, and Scoria has complete trust in me so much that even when blind she knows I'll keep her safe.

She allowed me to take her out and feed her today, and then asked for pets. This behavior is unique to her, and if she were not specifically asking to be pet I would not do it after feeding (any other snake might throw up). I'd stop petting her and she'd ask again and again like, "Nope! Need more, come back and pet me." I really don't mind, she's found a way to tell me she enjoys being pet, and that's amazing- and also makes me happy. After many many pets (I guess we had a few days to make up for, I've been leaving her alone for the most part, only saw she was in blue, and then it was food day and saw her looking at me from her mossy hide) she buried herself underground in her bioactive area.

Perhaps some day Sakura will trust me to touch her while she's in blue too- but if not that's just fine. Sometimes we all need a few days to ourselves.

Oh, and don't feel bad asking snake blogs questions. It makes us happy when we get nonbot or spam asks! I imagine most of us love sharing about our snakes! And if sharing what I've learned helps lead a snake and their caretaker to a better life or bond then they would have had before, that's such a win for everyone!

[rxttenfish]

i like that miranda continues to not explain anything that shes doing ever. she just does it. duh its obvious get with the program.