#echidne

[gabbyp09]

[mama-qwerty]

Sneak peek of chapter 2 of my Knuckles MacPherson au:

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“How do you know my name?” he asked, his voice surprisingly deep for such a young boy.

Callie offered him a kind smile. “We have a mutual friend in the form of a blue hedgehog.”

He blew a huff out through his nose. “He is not my friend.”

“Really? Well he thinks you need one. Says you shouldn’t be alone.”

Another huff. “I need no friends. I am fine on my own.”

“Are you sure about that?” she asked, her voice soft. “’Cause everyone could use a friend. Especially if they’re lost on a strange planet, all alone.”

His glare became more pronounced, and he all but snarled at her. “What do you want of me?”

She shrugged. “I was just wondering how long you were going to skulk around in my trees before saying hello.”

The boy dropped his gaze, as if embarrassed. “I did not mean to trespass.”

Callie cocked an eyebrow. “Does ‘skulk’ mean something else where you’re from? If I meant trespass I would have said trespass. Relax, kiddo. I’m not angry.”

The furrow was back, but now it seemed more confusion and less anger. “You’re not?”

She shook her head. “Nope.”

The boy hummed as he dipped his head forward slightly.

[aziraphales-library]

Do you have any deaf/mute/blind Aziraphale fics?

I’ve found some fanfics where Gabriel punishes Aziraphale and takes his vision or hearing away (temporarily). But I have already read all of them and I can’t seem to find anything else.

Here are some blind Aziraphale fics along with one where he's mute and one where he's deaf...

Ringing Clear by Adoring_Eggsy (G)

Over the past 500 years, Aziraphale had noticed that his hearing was changing. At first it had been subtle, missing little snippets of conversation, and then people turned muffled, their words mumbling together to Aziraphale, like their speech was foggy mist. At age 6052, Aziraphale lost his hearing for good.

Beauty is in the Ear of the Listener by Sani86 (M)

Aziraphale would always remember the first time he heard the music, tendrils of song winding through the night air like a droplet of ink spilled into water, gently reaching out, probing, spreading until it seemed to fill the entire world. He followed its beckoning call.

How Love Feels by Coxy77 (M)

In the early 1860's, young Aziraphale, who has always been blind, comes in to his inheritance, a bookshop. However, rather than just being an ironic twist of fate, he finds love there and with the introduction of a new way of reading, the help he needs to unlock all the stories he can find and the means to bring his love of stories to others in his situation.

Love is Blind (Seeing Eye Snake) by Bfly1225 (G)

Had Aziraphale, for a second, had any brain power to spare, he’d have been entirely furious with himself. Though one doesn’t have much brain power to spare when all of it is being used to wallow in despair, this is a thought worth sharing. ALSO KNOWN AS Aziraphale meets an unfortunate accident in which he is rendered blind, but he is terrified of Crowley seeing the result, and hides from him instead.

When the morning stars sang by hapax (M)

As an immortal child of Typhon and Echidne, monstrous rebels against the rule of Olympos, Crawley didn’t need to eat, or drink, or sleep, or even breathe, not really. And some things they simply couldn’t do. Like love. Or cry. Or … Crawley pulled a stray serpent out of the corner of their mouth and tucked it behind their ear and hissed at the square white sail framed against the dawn. Or be left alone. Crawley, a self-exiled gorgon, couldn't imagine how their life would change when a ship-wrecked Aziraphale washes up on their island. But both harbor painful and dangerous secrets; and there is nowhere to hide from the cruel caprices of the gods.

A Quiet Place by NightValeian (T)

Once upon a time, a silent angel and an outspoken demon met on a wall. Over time, they manage to find some common ground.

- Mod D

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Ferocactus echidne var. victoriensis

Ferocactus echidne is a fairly common species of barrel cactus from northeastern Mexico. Over most of its range it forms clusters of relatively small heads, but near Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas it makes larger heads and is generally single. This is what "var. victoriensis" refers to, though not everyone agrees that it should be recognized as a separate variety.

-Brian

[neonanima]

We have books here bound in the hides of echidnes, krakens, and beasts so long extinct that those whose studies they are, are for the most part of the opinion that no trace of them survives unfossilized. We have books bound wholly in metals of unknown alloy, and books whose bindings are covered with thickset gems. We have books cased in perfumed woods shipped across the inconceivable gulf between creations—books double precious because no one on Urth can read them. We have books whose papers are matted of plants from which spring curious alkaloids, so that the reader, in turning their pages, is taken unaware by bizarre fantasies  and chimeric dreams. Books whose pages are not paper at all, but delicate wafers of white jade, ivory, and shell; books too who leaves are the desiccated leaves of unknown plants.

Shadow of the Torturer, Gene Wolfe

[wonderbuster]

do you excitement for thew knuckles the echidns miniseries

YES ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY

[une-touille-en-vadrouille]

C'était mon premier jour de location de voiture ! Une fois que j'ai pu faire apprendre à mes cellules de Purkinje que non, je ne vais pas mourir en allant à 110, et que non, je n'ai pas besoin de serrer les fesses comme une barbare dans un virage, le trajet s'est plutôt bien passé. J'ai même réussi à prendre un rond point à l'envers (enfin à l'endroit pour les locaux hein) sans mourir.

Et sinon, à part ça, j'ai vu pleiiiiin de trucs. C'est magique, la voiture ça va vachement plus vite qu'à pied. J'ai donc longé le littoral pendant un petit bout de temps, et diantre, ce que c'était beau.

J'ai croisé au passage une petite surprise géologique très sympa :

Je ne sais pas si ça se voit en petit, mais les roches sont "quadrillées". Elles sont quadrillées creusés c��té falaise, et en en mode boule de pain côté mer : les plans de faille se sont crées de façon entrecroisée partout, mais les roches les plus loin de la mer ont le sel qui a le temps de se cristalliser. A cause de ça, c'est surtout le dessus de la roche qui est érodée. A l'inverse, plus près de l'eau, le sel ne se forme pas bien : c'est le sable qui frotte dans les plans de faille qui érode la roche. Et hop, on a un pavé naturel très étrange sur le bord de mer ! Dans le coin, on avait aussi un "blowhole", qui recrache des grand panaches d'eau en l'air quand la mer est agitée. Pas de ça aujourd'hui, mais ça restait très beau.

Ensuite, vu que la voiture c'est bien, mais marcher c'est mieux, je suis partie faire une petite rando de 10km, dont j'imaginais le dénivelé positif assez léger puisque mon lieu de départ et d'arrivée étaient à peu près à la même altitude.

Alors. 2248 marches plus tard (oui, quand on n'a pas de compagnon de voyage, on s'occupe comme on peut), je peux vous confirmer qu'il peut tout à fait y avoir pleiiiiin de collines à monter et descendre entre les fameux deux points.

Du coup ça m'a pris 3h15 (et encore, ils disaient 4h sur les panneaux, j'ai bien marché !), ce qui m'a permis de voir des très jolies lumières au coucher de soleil !

C'est beau hein ? :3

En plus, sur le chemin, j'ai vu un echidne à 10cm (pas farouche la bestiole), et ce croisement inespéré entre un chat, un marsupial et une souris. Très chou.

Voilaaaa, si on oublie le fait que mon auberge de jeunesse avait certes des lits de dispo, mais personne à l'accueil pour me fournir des clés "parceque l'hiver, ça ferme à 18h!" Alors que AAAAARGH quelle auberge ferme l'accueil à l'heure où les gens arrivent ?! Et que du coup je suis dans une chambre d'hôtel à 70 balles et que je me suis sérieusement demandé si je n'allais pas plutôt dormir dans la voiture (mais bon, quand même, il fait 11°, et j'ai besoin de recharger mon téléphone pour demain). Du coup, sans ce petit bout là, la journée était parfaite 😘

[msc-matpat-n-ved-guy]

"yea? ok?"

name: fry.

age: 22

species: human

likes: rap music, echidn's, splatoon

dislikes: ur mom jokes, octopi, the dark

he can juju on that beat and he's dating sunny and he likes echidnas and he's bi and he's a virgo and idk he's a good dancer and rapper and he is slaying. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm kinda dying here

[nightfallsystem-moved]

i am a big fan of knuckle the echidn

sonic prime is so cool

[ibelieveicanfil]

Profitez d'une réduction sur mon fanion echidné et les fanions australiens associés.

https://etsy.me/38dZxEK via Etsy

[weebeboi]

ｋｎｕｃｋｌｅｓ＿ｔｈｅ＿ｗａｒｒｉｏｒ.gif ~artist : airj1~

[rainboas]

what would yall do if this became a knuckles the echidna fan blog

[artsytoad]

Malcolm Ashman, Echidne

www.artsytoad.tumblr.com

[legend-collection]

Echidna

In Greek mythology, Echidna was a monster, half-woman and half-snake, who lived alone in a cave. She was the mate of the fearsome monster Typhon and was the mother of many of the most famous monsters of Greek myth. Echidna's family tree varies by author. The oldest genealogy relating to Echidna, Hesiod's Theogony (c. 8th – 7th century BC), is unclear on several points. According to Hesiod, Echidna was born to a "she" who was probably meant by Hesiod to be the sea goddess Ceto, making Echidna's likely father the sea god Phorcys; however the "she" might instead refer to the Oceanid Callirhoe, which would make Medusa's offspring Chrysaor the father of Echidna. The mythographer Pherecydes of Athens (5th century BC) has Echidna as the daughter of Phorcys, without naming a mother.

Other authors give Echidna other parents. According to the geographer Pausanias (2nd century AD), Epimenides (7th or 6th century BC) had Echidna as the daughter of the Oceanid Styx (goddess of the river Styx) and one Peiras (otherwise unknown to Pausanias), while according to the mythographer Apollodorus (1st or 2nd century AD), Echidna was the daughter of Tartarus and Gaia. In one account, from the Orphic tradition, Echidna was the daughter of Phanes (the Orphic father of all gods).

Hesiod's Echidna was half beautiful maiden and half fearsome snake. Hesiod described "the goddess fierce Echidna" as a flesh eating "monster, irresistible", who was like neither "mortal men" nor "the undying gods", but was "half a nymph with glancing eyes and fair cheeks, and half again a huge snake, great and awful, with speckled skin", who "dies not nor grows old all her days." Hesiod's apparent association of the eating of raw flesh with Echidna's snake half suggests that he may have supposed that Echidna's snake half ended in a snake-head. Aristophanes (late 5th century BC), who makes her a denizen of the underworld, gives Echidna a hundred heads (presumably snake heads), matching the hundred snake heads Hesiod says her mate Typhon had.

In the Orphic account (mentioned above), Echidna is described as having the head of a beautiful woman with long hair and a serpent's body from the neck down. Nonnus, in his Dionysiaca, describes Echidna as being "hideous" with "horrible poison".

According to Hesiod's Theogony, the "terrible" and "lawless" Typhon "was joined in love to [Echidna], the maid with glancing eyes" and she bore "fierce offspring". First there was Orthrus, the two-headed dog who guarded the Cattle of Geryon, second Cerberus, the multiheaded dog who guarded the gates of Hades, and third the Lernaean Hydra, the many-headed serpent who, when one of its heads was cut off, grew it back. The Theogony mentions a second ambiguous “she” as the mother of the Chimera (a fire-breathing beast that was part lion, part goat, and had a snake-headed tail) which may refer to Echidna, though possibly the Hydra or even Ceto was meant instead. Hesiod next names two more descendants of Echidna, the Sphinx, a monster with the head of a woman and the body of a winged lion, and the Nemean lion, killed by Heracles as his first labor. According to Hesiod, these two were the offspring of Echidna's son Orthrus and another ambiguous "she", read variously as the Chimera, Echidna herself, or again even Ceto. In any case, the lyric poet Lasus of Hermione (6th century BC) has Echidna and Typhon as the parents of the Sphinx, while the playwright Euripides (5th century BC), has Echidna as her mother, without mentioning a father. While mentioning Cerberus and "other monsters" as being the offspring of Echidna and Typhon, the mythographer Acusilaus (6th century BC) adds the Caucasian Eagle that ate the liver of Prometheus. Pherecydes also names Prometheus' eagle, and adds Ladon (though Pherecydes does not use this name), the dragon that guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides (according to Hesiod, the offspring of Ceto and Phorcys).

Later authors mostly retain these offspring of Echidna and Typhon while adding others. Apollodorus, in addition to naming as their offspring Orthrus, the Chimera (citing Hesiod as his source), the Sphinx, the Caucasian Eagle, Ladon, and probably the Nemean lion (only Typhon is named), also adds the Crommyonian Sow, killed by the hero Theseus (unmentioned by Hesiod). Hyginus in his list of offspring of Echidna (all by Typhon), retains from the above Cerberus, the Chimera, the Sphinx, the Hydra and Ladon, and adds "Gorgon" (by which Hyginus means the mother of Medusa, whereas Hesiod's three Gorgons, of which Medusa was one, were the daughters of Ceto and Phorcys), the Colchian dragon that guarded the Golden Fleece and Scylla.

Nonnus makes Echidna the mother of an unnamed, venom-spitting, "huge" son, with "snaky" feet, an ally of Cronus in his war with Zeus, who was killed by Ares. The Harpies, in Hesiod the daughters of Thaumas and the Oceanid Electra, in one source, are said to be the daughters of Typhon, and so perhaps were also considered to be the daughters of Echidna. Likewise, the sea serpents which attacked the Trojan priest Laocoön during the Trojan War, which are called by Quintus Smyrnaeus "fearful monsters of the deadly brood of Typhon", may also have been considered Echidna's offspring. Echidna is sometimes identified with the Viper who was the mother by Heracles of Scythes, an eponymous king of the Scythians, along with his brothers Agathyrsus ("much raging") and Gelonus. According to Hesiod, Echidna was born in a cave and apparently lived alone (in that same cave, or perhaps another), as Hesiod describes it, "beneath the secret parts of the holy earth … deep down under a hollow rock far from the deathless gods and mortal men", a place appointed by the gods, where she "keeps guard in Arima". (Though Hesiod here may possibly be referring to Echidna's mother Ceto's home cave instead). It was perhaps from this same cave that Echidna used to "carry off passers-by".

Hesiod locates Echidna's cave in Arima. Presumably, this is the same place where, in Homer's Iliad, Zeus, with his thunderbolts, lashes the land about Echidna's mate Typhon, described as the land of the Arimoi, "where men say is the couch [bed] of Typhoeus", Typhoeus being another name for Typhon. But neither Homer nor Hesiod say anything more about where this Arima might be. The question of whether an historical place was meant, and its possible location, has been since ancient times the subject of speculation and debate.

The geographer Strabo (c. 20 AD) discusses the question in some detail. Several locales, Cilicia, Syria, Lydia, and the Island of Pithecussae (modern Ischia), each associated with Typhon in various ways, are given by Strabo as possible locations for Hesiod's "Arima" (or Homer's "Arimoi").

The region in the vicinity of the ancient Cilician coastal city of Corycus (modern Kızkalesi, Turkey) is often associated with Typhon's birth. The poet Pindar (c. 470 BC), who has Typhon born in Cilicia, and nurtured in "the famous Cilician cave" an apparent allusion to the Corycian cave, also has Zeus slaying Typhon "among the Arimoi". The fourth-century BC historian Callisthenes, located the Arimoi and the Arima mountains in Cilicia, near the Calycadnus river, the Corycian cave and the Sarpedon promontory. The b scholia to Iliad 2.783, preserving a possible Orphic tradition, has Typhon born "under Arimon in Cilicia", and Nonnus mentions Typhon's "bloodstained cave of Arima" in Cilicia.

Just across the Gulf of Issus from Corycus, in ancient Syria, was Mount Kasios (modern Jebel Aqra in Turkey) and the Orontes River, said to be the site of the battle of Typhon and Zeus. According to Strabo, the historian Posidonius identified the Arimoi with the Aramaeans of Syria.

According to some, Arima was instead located in a volcanic plain on the upper Gediz River called the Catacecaumene ("Burnt Land"), situated between the ancient kingdoms of Lydia, Mysia and Phrygia, near Mount Tmolus (modern Bozdağ) and Sardis, the ancient capital of Lydia. According to Strabo, some placed the Arimoi and the battle between Typhon and Zeus at Catacecaumene, while Xanthus of Lydia added that "a certain Arimus" ruled there. Strabo also tells us that, according to "some", Homer's "couch of Typhon" (and hence the Arimoi) was located "in a wooded place, in the fertile land of Hyde", with Hyde being another name for Sardis (or its acropolis), and that Demetrius of Scepsis thought that the Arimoi were most plausibly located "in the Catacecaumene country in Mysia". The third-century BC poet Lycophron placed Echidna's lair in this region.

Another place mentioned by Strabo as being associated with Arima is the volcanic island of Pithecussae, off the coast of ancient Cumae in Italy. According to Pherecydes of Athens, Typhon fled to Pithecussae during his battle with Zeus and, according to Pindar, Typhon lay buried beneath the island. Strabo reports the "myth" that when Typhon "turns his body the flames and the waters, and sometimes even small islands containing boiling water, spout forth." The connection to Arima comes from the island's Greek name Pithecussae, which derives from the Greek word for monkey, and, according to Strabo, residents of the island said that "arimoi" was also the Etruscan word for monkeys.

Although for Hesiod Echidna was immortal and ageless, according to Apollodorus Echidna continued to prey on the unfortunate "passers-by" until she was finally killed, while she slept, by Argus Panoptes, the hundred-eyed giant who served Hera.

From the fifth century BC historian Herodotus, we learn of a creature who, though Herodotus does not name as Echidna, is called an echidna ("she-viper") and resembles the Hesiodic Echidna in several respects. She was half woman half snake, lived in a cave, and was known as a mother figure, in this case, as the progenitor of the Scythians (rather than of monsters).

According to Herodotus, Greeks living in Pontus, a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, told a story of an encounter between Heracles and this snaky creature. Heracles was driving the cattle of Geryones through what would later become Scythia, when one morning he awoke and discovered that his horses had disappeared. While searching for them, he "found in a cave a creature of double form that was half maiden and half serpent; above the buttocks she was a woman, below them a snake." She had the horses and promised to return them if Heracles would have sex with her. Heracles agreed and she had three sons by him: Agathyrsus, Gelonus and Scythes. She asked Heracles what she should do with his sons: "shall I keep them here (since I am queen of this country), or shall I send them away to you?" And Heracles gave her a bow and belt, and told her, that when the boys were grown, whichever would draw the bow and wear the belt, keep him and banish the others. The youngest son Scythes fulfilled the requirements and became the founder and eponym of the Scythians.

A possibly related creature to the Hesiodic Echidna is the "Viper" (Echidna) cast into an abyss, by Philip the Apostle, in the apocryphal Acts of Philip. Called a "she dragon" (drakaina) and "the mother of the serpents", this Echidna ruled over many other monstrous dragons and snakes, and lived in a gated temple at Hierapolis, where she was worshipped by the people of that land. She, along with her temple and priests, was swallowed up by a hole in the ground that opened beneath her, as the result of Philip's curse.

Echidna was perhaps associated with the monster killed by Apollo at Delphi. Though that monster is usually said to be the male serpent Python, in the oldest account of this story, the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, the god kills a nameless she-serpent (drakaina), subsequently called Delphyne, who had been Typhon's foster-mother. Echidna and Delphyne share several similarities. Both were half-maid and half-snake, and both were a "plague" (πῆμα) to men. And both were intimately connected to Typhon, and associated with the Corycian cave. No certain ancient depictions of Echidna survive. According to Pausanias, Echidna was depicted, along with Typhon, on the sixth century BC Doric-Ionic temple complex at Amyclae known as the throne of Apollo, designed by Bathycles of Magnesia. Pausanias identifies two standing figures on the left as Echidna and Typhon, with Tritons standing on the right, with no other details concerning these figures given.

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Ferocactus echidne

Plants in the genus Ferocactus are commonly referred to as “barrel cacti”, and they occur widely in Mexico and the southwestern United States. Ferocactus echidne comes from east-central and northeastern Mexico, and it is a spring-blooming species. While the flowers are usually pale yellow, as seen here, there are some populations with reddish flowers as well. Plants in the northwestern part of the species’ range were named Ferocactus echidne var. victoriensis, distinguishing them from their smaller relatives farther south, but many botanists favor abandoning this naming system and just calling them all Ferocactus echidne. The plant pictured is one of those larger ones from near Ciudad Victoria in the state of Tamaulipas.

-Brian

[julie-su]

hello ken penders. i now its you really behind that fasade. nobody is a fan of your shitty echidnes to have a web site for them like juliesu. everybody will notice and come to bully you for your echidnes and i will told them its realy you so you come to bully you ken penders. donot try to deny it ken penders i now that it is you

Proof I am not Ken Penders also what