#fun fact friday

[daily-crabbys]

Crab Fact: Crabs have teeth in their stomach that help them grind their food for digestion. Ghost crabs have been observed using these teeth to growl!

[jurakan]

Hey! Today You Learned! This thing:

These are free whistles that were packaged in Cap'n Crunch cereal boxes back in the day. WELP, it turns out that you can use these to emit a tone at 2600 hertz. Which! Is the same tone used by AT&T lines back then, too. John Draper discovered that you could use these whistles to hack public payphones and get free phone calls.

Sadly, eventually they switched to a different system, and you can't hack phone lines with a cereal whistle anymore.

Bummer.

This appears in an episode of Person of Interest! There's a flashback in which a young Finch does this.

[animaloftheweek]

Fun Fact Friday: Travancore Cat Skink

Image* Credit: Aravind Manoj

Fun fact! The Travancore Cat Skink(Ristella travancorica) is called a cat skink because it has retractable claws like a cat! This is very unusual for a reptile, as it's only really found in cat skinks like this one and a few kinds of geckos!!

*the animal pictured is actually Rurk's Cat Skink, a close relative of the Travancore Cat Skink

[beccawise7]

Fun Fact Friday! 💜🖤

[inaris-pokemon-world]

Fun Fact Friday Prompt:

"Pikachu"

Fun fact #19: Many similar species of Pokémon with electric cheek pouches are affectionately called “Pikaclones”. This is due to a multitude of reasons, such as Pikachu’s popularity compared to the others, but also because the species has simply been around longer. Fossil records of the Pikachu line go back about 75 million years.

[karkkidoeswriting]

Fun Fact Friday - Valeri cor Mantgamia

He has two dogs, Cúén and Faendie. They are Cabalusian Bear Dogs, originally bred for hunting big game like bears, but also used by the Cabalusian cavalry class íochiar, which Valeri is too, for warfare. Valeri's dogs are trained for war. They are black, though Faendie has white in her chest, big and they are basically a fantasy world version of Karelian Bear Dogs. He loves them a lot. They sleep with him and go with him basically everywhere. They have a hierarchy since Faedie is older, so she gets to sleep on Valeri's back as his weight blanket, while Cúén sleeps on his feet.

Cúén shares his name with Cúén cor Faélci, though Valeri doesn't know that yet, since Faélci is going with his cousin's name. Once they become hated allies and Valeri learns Faélci's real first name, he absolutely will not let it go that they share a name. What makes it funnier to Valeri is that Faélci is very cold and prickly, while Cúén the dog is extremely eager to please, hyper-active and always demanding affection from Valeri. The amount of times Valeri makes the "Do you want scratches, Cúén?" *turns to Faélci* "I'm talking to the dog" joke as if it never gets old is many.

He has a nice singing voice, but he has too much social anxiety to ever sing in front of other people.

He has extensive burn scars in his back. The worst burns have caused nerve damage, which causes him chronic pain. It's worst in summer, since the pain flares with temperature changes, but it's usually fairly manageable with pain medication.

He's religious. He was raised for several years in an orphanage run by a temple, so he became quite devout Arkhonite, which is the main religion in the Angusian Empire. The main god worshipped in Arkhonity is the Sun God (there's two gods) and a lot of the rituals involve fire, which is a problem for Valeri, since he has pretty bad phobia for fire, and cannot even light a candle himself.

Bear Castle Cycle Masterpost

Tag list under the cut! Let me know if you want to be added/removed!

I decided to do Creators Club's Fun Fact Friday for Valeri too, since I didn't have the time to do it last week! Tagging @creators-club @bardic-tales!

BCC tag list: @siarven @worldbuildng @emilyoracle @frvnwrites @kainablue

@writingrosesonneptune @contes-de-rheio @faelanvance @outpost51 @dotr-rose-love

[bardic-tales]

I figured today I would focus on some facts about Bianca that I have been developing recently or over the last few months. They are going to range from romantic to the mundane. Also, there is mention of BDSM practices below.

While Bianca is a demisexual, I also label her as pansexual, too. Bianca does not care what anyone's orientation is. As long as a person developed an emotional bond with her, she could become attracted to them.

Bianca is also demiromantic. She made her living for six years as a romance author. I am a sucker for sticking an author / writer character into my stories.

Both Sephiroth and she are touch-starved, but to varying degrees. Sephiroth is not use to physical contact. When Bianca first hugged him, he was stiff and leaned away from her touch.

However, they do engage in BDSM practices. He is the dominant partner. Bianca would be considered an alpha submissive. She enjoys her bratty role.

Sephiroth will manifest his wing as a sign of dominance when she is too out of line with her brat persona. He has also used his telekinetic abilities to hold her down. This is never down in an abusive way. She consents every time. Sephiroth is the only being she trusts, which is ironic in its own way.

However, one of her 'rewards' is she gets to brush and style his hair. It's a bonding experience between the two. He also likes to brush and braid her hair, placing flower crowns on her head in their dreamscape. This keeps the Hades and Persephone theming of their relationship.

Bianca sees herself as an avenging angel, as well as the self-imposed title 'Priestess of Jenova' to honor Sephiroth and their plans. She harbors a hatred for humanity after everything that happened in her life.

Bianca prefers to wear Sephiroth's clothing when she can. He does NOT mind sharing his clothes, as he sees this as claiming her in a way. She loves to envelop herself in his scent, as she has heightened senses due to her demonic heritage. His scent provides her comfort on those days when her past is just a little too much for her. She boasts that she can smell him 100 miles away. This has lead to a nickname 'his bloodhound'.

Fun fact. I was going to make FWC an isekai in this newest rewrite. I found it funny that with Bianca's reality bending powers that she could have made 'One-Winged Angel' play on the Planet when Sephiroth fought Cloud. There are times when she does play music from her world, but seeing that they are on a different planet, Cloud, Sephiroth, and the rest do not understand the music.

Her favorite music is gothic rock and darkwave, industrial rock and metal, alternative rock, trip-hop, and symphonic metal. As she was teleported onto Gaia in '96, her musical tastes stay stuck in the 90s.

Bianca is 5 foot even. I often head canon Sephiroth to be 6'5". Since she is so much smaller than him, she will often levitate off of her feet to hug him or give him a kiss.

tagging some fellow mutuals: @themaradwrites @littleshopofchaos @serenofroses @megandaisy9 @watermeezer

@nightingaleflow @prehistoric-creatures @creativechaosqueen @chickensarentcheap @glbettwrites

@seastarblue

[seastarblue]

Fun Fact Friday!

for today’s event hosted by @bardic-tales and the @creators-club , we’re doing fun facts about Harper!

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He has a lovely singing voice, and sometimes (though he’d never admit it) he writes little songs!

Speaking of music, according to the mage’s guide his magic is classified as External Emotional Sound Magic, which basically means he can manipulate people’s emotions with his voice.

Speaking of his magic, he can also mimic voices and various sounds! It gives everyone a fright later lol

He is the most physically weak character I have, bro is Stick

^That being said, he’s much more of a sneaky character, and uses brain over brawn all the time.

Occasionally he uses Gun as well. It’s very effective.

He started developing vitiligo at 14. He thought he was dying.

His reddish hair is natural, but it got redder with time.

His favorite color is red!

And he really likes Goose (the dog who may become a dragon idk yet) and Noodle.

“those two are my kids <3” -H

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next week is Mehri <3

[memento-morianon]

Fun Fact Friday

@creators-club, @bardic-tales

here are 5 random facts about my writing project!

my current main story is actually the result of multiple generations of ocs, as in I started by trying to write stories about some ocs, and then I gave them kids and wanted to write about the kids. and then I made those kid ocs into adult ocs and gave them their own kids, and my protagonist Morianon is one of those kids that is now an adult. I know the full backstory of both sides of his adoptive parents' families. His dad's parents were my first ever queer ocs. They're unfortunately no longer relevant to my main plot, but maybe I'll revisit them someday and write a short side story about em.

I also have more fantasy people species than are shown in my main plot, I just had to cut some of them to keep the world from feeling too complicated and crowded. I've got a third species connected to the orcs and gnomes, I've got lizard folk, I've got two types of unrelated merfolk, I even tried making kangaroo people once. I like designing people species! but they simply don't all fit in the plot, so I had to downsize.

Both of my protagonists were originally designed as elf children, but I changed my mind and Morianon ended up a bird dude while Evarin ended up a gnome. And while Morianon has had the most obvious visual changes, Evarin is the one who's had the most character changes! Morianon's backstory has been refined but not changed much, and Evarin has had a total shift in the narrative and taken a completely new role.

The Memento Morianon project was supposed to be one book but it's got such a slow and meandering plot that I was struggling to flesh it out while also keeping it shorter. So it's going to be a trilogy now, whoops! but on the other hand, coming up with the subtitles has also been fun! in order, they'll be Blood, Breath, and Bone, all of which tie into the themes and significant events that happen within each book.

I've done so much work on the worldbuilding and so much of it just won't be relevant for the narrative of any of my stories, so I'm planning on making a fully illustrated bonus book just to compile all my cool ideas. I mean, where else am I supposed to put all the fantasy biology art and extra details about the goblin revolution?

(image description: art of a chalicothere-like centaur bending forward to touch the ground. their unique skeleton is overlayed on their body. end description.)

[creators-club]

Welcome to the Fun Fact Friday event. Please refer to the project we did 'Meet the Character / Project' for everyone's talking point, if it is a day where you are encouraged to send asks about characters.

How to participate: Create a post and tell us random fun facts about your WIP or characters.

Please tag @bardic-tales after you make your post or answer a question, so I can upload it both to @creators-club and @bardic-tales. For any additional questions, how to join, or info, please see our guidelines post for the club. Thank you.

Current members:

@bardic-tales @megandaisy9 @watermeezer @littleshopofchaos

@nightingaleflowlibrary @kricketbee

@themaradwrites @pinkevilwriter

@serenofroses @asirensrage @aalinaaaaaa @goldenlilium-ocs @glbettwrites

@wyked-ao3 @badscientist @thebadphilosopher @andromedalestrange

@fantastictrashpolice @seastarblue @happypup-kitcat24 @chickensarentcheap @allaboutmagic

@ryns-ramblings @kathaliabloodyrose @riemmetric @andromedaexists @kckramer

@tales-from-nocturnaliss @pastelpinkhobbies @idonthaveapenname @the-bar-sinister @rosesonkittens

@bloodred2023 @kanobarlowe @aquixoticwrites @new-royston-cursebreakers

@rosemirmir @salmonandfox @fablesandfragments @paganmindidnothingwrong @elshells

@viscerawrites @ellowynthenotking @dawsonskyelar @greenapplespider

@edupunkn00b @the-duke-of-nuts @exclawshou @karkkidoeswriting @meerawrites

@theglitchywriterboi @mayarab @memento-morianon

[bobvelsebobsession]

Oh yeah, I forgot about Fun Fact Fridays…

Well, let’s start with a not so fun fact about Sandy:

Did you know wolves howl when they try to communicate with their pack members? They will also do this when missing pack members, get separated from their pack members, or even when they feel lonely.

Sandy is no exception to this. Her species is descendants of humans who worshipped the moon. They co-existed with wolves and as a result the goddess they worshipped made them wolfish in genetics and looks. Their human forms weren’t abandoned, they can change to a human form but often chose not to.

Seeing as she is a wolf by definition just anthropomorphic, when she lost her family she stayed up late nights for weeks and howls every night on top of the home she and Bob shares. Unfortunately this did disturb the neighbors so she began going into the forest instead.

She also did this when Bob had been killed, seeing as she watched him die. She didn’t stop her howls until she was able to retrieve his body and revive him but she did grieve in the same manner at the lost of their unborn pup.

She still howls from time to time when she misses someone. Her pups will learn this as well and Bob also has started to pick up this habit since he’s now a werewolf.

In the alternate universe Blood Moon AU that em and @lynx-the-cat have been coming up with, and currently not given an official name, when Vob had died the entire family grieved deep in the forest for weeks. The pups got over it eventually , but Sandy, Bob, and the currently unnamed child still go into the forest to howl out their grief. Eventually Bob would do it significantly less but Sandy and that pup never really got over Vob’s death.

So all in all, they all grieve and express their loneliness the same way wolves do.

[daily-crabbys]

Crab Fact: A crab can not hold your hand :(

[jurakan]

The inspiration for Artemis Fowl was that one day, Eoin Colfer saw a photo of his brother at his First Communion, and thought he looked like a child Bond villain. Working off of that, Colfer decided it'd be cool to have a supervillain who was a kid.

[animaloftheweek]

Fun Fact Friday: Ring-Tailed Vontsira

Image Credit: Stuvwx

Fun Fact! Ring Tailed Vontsiras(Galidia elegans) are very commonly found in pairs, sometimes with or without pups! These pairs don't seem to be two mates, and although that could be an explanation, it seems more likely that these pairs are friends, siblings, or a mother and one of her older pups, as female vontsiras can have two litters per year.

[beccawise7]

Don't waste them!

May today be amazing for you!

~beccawise7💜🖤

[inaris-pokemon-world]

📚 Blaine? Assume he's a Cinnabar Gym leader

Fun fact #17: Cinnabar Island has been determined to be too dangerous for human habitation and made into a nature preserve. As a result, Blaine now runs his gym from the Seafoam Islands. He still calls it the Cinnabar Gym, though.