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[weirderscience]

The species loamcats were engineered from suffered brood parasitism from many species (including rival social groups of their own species), but none such prevalent as the geac. These creatures would lay their eggs in the nests of pre-sapient loamcats, and the near-identical hatchling would be raised unknowingly. As it grew, it would evict its siblings (or eat them, depending on species) and go on to parasitize more nests in adulthood.

Even after their extinction, the tale of the geac would become mythologized through the generations- particularly in cultures that did not practice egg marking.

The geac became not a separate species but a loamcat cursed from birth, a type of "witch" or "changeling" that had failed to retain their gifted sapience. These mythologized geac would attempt to act civilized but eventually fail, turning back into mindless, violent beasts that would devour their unscrupulous host families. They would then sneak into the hatcheries of careless families and leave their own egg in misguided hopes that their children could be taught better restraint.

Of course, this mythologized geac could be assigned to any cultural group of ire. In more conservative areas it is common for cultural minorities to be referred to as geac- with the full connotation that their origin (or belief systems) makes them unable to retain the gifts of the Precursors. In many of these areas the myth of geac can be considered a racist trope- though in others it is used as a eugenicist fable against the disabled and orphaned.

In more superstitious spacer societies, this myth has evolved into a new iteration. Geac are born from wedlock, from unscrupulous unions that have not been approved by those in the family. They are a symbol and punishment of an individual's poor etiquette. The only way to resolve the curse on the child is to abandon them as one's own- or take on the curse in their place.

It's not seen as coincidental that alongside this myth, spacers are notorious for handing off unborn children to guild-sponsored orphanages.

[ashtcnirwin]

we lose the chase for nothing

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

JOHN: call my girl the bit the way i'm committed to her

KANAYA: Call My Girl The Bit The Way I'm Chomping At Her

[daily-hanamura]

[skylarbee]

you can poke your head behind the mountain peak, don't have to mean that you've gone into hiding

[sajdd]

so im getting back into watching tommyinnit after so long and i love that you can see that hes matured but hes also somehow still the same chaotic little shit as always. good to be back.. same shit as always

[dailyayao]

[somnefarious]

There's something so fun and cute about coils being used as an elevated seat or bed, love to see it

[queen-of-bad-opsec]

shoutout to cyberpunk 2077 for discouraging me from wanting to become a fighter pilot

i remember going to some air show, and being just so completely enamoured with the fighters. just. wanting that. flying through the skies at entirely zoo high velocities. surrounded by amazing technology. so what if i'd have to kill ppl? might get killed myself?

"They didn't even have to recruit 'em - they just.. showed them the tech."

i'm having a hard time finding an exact source for that quote, and thus a hard time verifying its accuracy - but something along those lines was saved. and fuck, if that didnt resonate with me then...

not gonna bother doing some in-depth analysis for how that quote fits in today's world or whatever, i suck at that shit. but i feel like it is a sentiment worth spreading. to try n avoid being dazzled by the tech. or noticing when you are, and thinking critically about it.

went to the same airshow a year later, with a new, much more critical view of things. was as cool as ever, except i was a lil less enamoured with the idea of actually using the tech this time 'round. saw an f35, so that was cool.

[lildoodlecat]

@sumireviku creatures in the wild

[ecto-stone]

So if FFOS is what if teen Vlad take more after Plasmius personality. Then My Blood is what if Personality back in college make sense for Jack to absolutely adore him but Vlad still maintain his personal flair.

[civetfish]

Al-An's colors

What emotions do yall think each of his colors represent?

I'm looking for ideas for another thing and I want to make a chart or something for a bunch of his colors (Including both those that we actually see in-game and those that we don't) So feel free to shoot your own headcanons at me in the replies!!

[candycryptids]

Hiya! I hope you're doing well today! I love your characters and how you've structered their bios! Since Chuusday is listed first, is she technically your official WOL or is it someone else? Do you canonically have a WOL in the first place?

Also, I find it SO sweet that you and one of your partners both play FFXIV and have characters paired together ;w; Did you meet ingame or long before either of you started playing? Either way I wish you both the best!!! <3 - gardenofballads 🌻

Awaaaah! Im doing pretty ok!!! Taking time to answer this as a wind down from Emerald Weapon Ex Brain Soupage. And I’m so glad! ;W; I think I butchered one of those “Get To Know An OC” thingies- uhh… oh [this one] actually! I chopped a lot out and I think added a couple different thingums instead because there was so much to that that it felt overwhelming to try to look at let alone fill out LOL but it was a really good jumping off point uvu;

And!!! Hilariously Chuu was my First XIV Character, so she’s dear to my heart for being the first one- but she very quickly made it known being the WOL even as an AU was something of a Joke (Her character showed great reluctance and even frustration at having to do So Much World Saving, maybe a side-effect of me rushing through MSQ to catch up with my other spouse [Who plays Talia, though they’ve got less time for XIV these days ;0;] and the rest of my friends who were all EndGame already at the time in Shadowbringers fhdjfjsjfs.) So I made…… many alts. Throwing spaghetti at the wall but I have SEVERE side-character/NPC brain and kept making “supporting cast” types =w=; it actually took me like. 3? Alts before making an ACTUAL WoL with my husband (Ishi’li and Kizuna) (as of Right Meow, they’re in post ARR, but we’ve been working on Keathan and Tuesday together because Keathan was… Keathan’s first character in xiv XD so we’ve been jaunting through the story together and experiencing every inch of it so we can pick and choose what The Boys™ get up to when we wanna focus on them x3)

🥰 I knew both speece during at least high school- but I actually knew Keathan as early as Elementary school hehe 😌 tho the speece didn’t proper marry until… i’unno, 2017? (For frustrating legal reasons, I’m not legally married, but. As it goes. Someday we’ll have money to visit the one state that has legal poly marriages. Also I struggle to remember our wedding year 🫢)

Since managing to make a Co-WoL with my husband I’ve managed to make one other Alt meant to be a Solo-WoL (Mochiie) but I have to really wrinkle my brain to sink time into playing him, since I’m trying to take screenshots throughout the story at what I find to be inspiring beats xD And even still he has an alt-universe where he’s just a side-character for the ‘Main Timeline’ (where there’s a bunch of spaghetti and like 8+ confirmed WoL’s and the Msq entourage looks HILARIOUS in canon, someday I’ll get all the data together and take pictures, but I think it’ll cook what’s left of my brain x’3) [it’s less concrete than anything I’ve posted about before or I’d try to explain it ;v;’ it’s just interesting mostly to see how the story gets stretched to fit around a larger community of heroes than a solo guy shouldering the whole burden lmfao.]

🌸🌸🌸…. I also hope you’re having a lovely week @gardenofballads !!!! I am tossing flower petals into the air around you !!! Thank you for the ask and well wishes n kind words 🥺💖 🌸🌸🌸

[smol-tired-binch-blog]

Biofluff Prompt 4: Scars/Healing

Guess who remembered he had Bioshock OCs and a reason to draw them.

Will and Evelyn bonding and healing with him teaching her to play piano.

[mantisgodsdomain]

We do think that Riz is a gynandromorph of some description, especially since damselfly sexual dimorphism tends to be pretty distinct and he's displaying a very unconventional morph for a damselfly of any flavor. He would have no goddamned clue what that would mean, of course, and he probably wouldn't care about it if you told him, but he's definitely got something going on there.

[sleepy-stitches]

hi. ive taken this trip now. ive come out with new and controversial opinions on bus systems