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shardclan · 7 years ago

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The principle behind the saying "familiarity breeds contempt" wasn't entirely lost on Arcanus. He'd served the old dynasty since the fifth, and seen the entire lineage since grow from sinless hatchlings to adults with a broad range of personalities. Some, like the Sixth, meshed well with him. The blood was strong enough between them that it was simple for them to get along. Others, like the Appointer, were fine when they were hard at work, but privately had the personality of a tail rash, while fore others this was inverted. The Economist, for example, openly had a the personality of an opal cobra with a toothache, and yet she was easily among the least abrasive of his many charges.

The problem Arcanus had was that "familiarity breeds contempt" was the bedfellow of "absence makes the heart grow fonder"--a concept that went in the exact opposite direction which made infinitely more sense. Why shouldn't one miss someone they are fond of? It felt obvious. But then, it also felt obvious to Arcanus that comfort should be the only thing bred by familiarity in any type of cordial relationship.

There was a lot Arcanus might have once held in contempt about Carnelian, for example. The man wasn't accountable to anyone. His temper and proclivity for violence meant he was more or less a paid vigilante. Or, in the recent case of Hitth's wings, an unpaid one with great publicity. He got in moods--GODS did he get in moods. He was unpredictable and aggressively kept himself untethered to places and people around him even when he obviously cared about them. He was... he was like a bigger, angrier, less disciplined Smoke Gyre, when he truly didn't need to be. Maybe he still held those things in contempt, just a little, but for the most part those were all things Arcanus had come to like about Carnelian.

Telos and Techne's relationship was more like a continuous stream of contempt peppered with only the most fleeting moments of familial care. The latter's recent absence had done little to make either of them fonder of each other.

"He's using you," Techne hissed.

"He should be," Telos shot back. "He should use everything he's got to keep Junior out of this."

"You've been away from the House too long. That's not how we do things--it's not Xannite." She took a short but intense drag that would have burned a less dedicated smoker, her horns vibrating all the while. "Are you not getting that your son threatened the House with war?"

Arcanus kept perfectly still, barring a single flick of his eyes toward the corner of the room. Bestealcian was glancing back at him with the same carefully blank expression.

"I get it just fine. What I don't get is why you think I care? Why do you think I'm going to call him out or reign him in?" She whipped her arm around the room, drawing attention to both the finery that had amassed as the result of gifts and the mounds of paperwork on her desk. "Does this look like a place you'd find a Xannite who is still about the House first?"

"Maybe, just a thought, I expected you to care about the kid's well being a little more since you built this whole fucking kingdom all because you were so hung up on his father!"

Arcanus saw the punch shoot up from Telos lower back up to her shoulder where her muscles bunched dangerously and coiled down into her arm like a snake readying for a deadly lunge. But it died there. She choked it back somewhere between elbow and wrist, refusing to dignify Techne’s words with so much as a clenched fist.

"You don't know anything." The words were firm and assured.

"I know your son is more attached to the House than you are," Techne insisted with an accusatory jab of her cigarette. "You may have checked the fuck out because you're untouchable up on your throne, but he isn't. I want you to just--”

She squeezed the cigarette between her claws, her tongue flicking rapidly as she rubbed at her crest. “Just think about this. Think about it for more than 5 fucking seconds, Telos, what's going to happen to him if anything happens to you. I did you a favor helping you with Hitth, but clearly something happened to both of you in there. I understand he’s trying to get married but next thing he'll be claiming he's a fucking prince just cause you're his mother."

Telos didn't answer immediately, and Arcanus saw the anger in her eyes cool. Her thumb rubbed, as it often did, at the spinel ring, and her words came slow and measured. "I have known since the beginning that if I failed as Aphaster's queen, the House would reclaim me. It was you who thought I should be taken back in spite of it all to begin with. So don't think that I haven't considered that Zo has put himself in a dangerous position. The House is patient and we remember--that's our purpose. The moment they sense an opening, they will send an enforcer."

"And yet..." Techne prompted impatiently.

"And yet that is the choice he made. And it would spit on everything we teach our own to tell him to make a different decision."

Techne threw her hands up in agitation. "It's a decision that that relies on you to begin with! That's the problem! How can you be fine with being dragged into being his living shield?!"

Telos' brows drew together and she crossed her arms. "Aren't you being a bit hasty to assume I'm going to be dragged anywhere? Zo can say what he wants, and the House can test me if it likes, but I don’t actually have any obligation to do anything."

"Cut the shit," Techne growled with a tired loll of her head. Her tone was unimpressed at best. "You love your son like a skydancer loves flight, you're not going to stand by and do nothing. I know it, you know it, everybody fuckin knows it."

"Then you're all wrong," Telos countered.

Techne stared at Telos, but her expression wore down the coatl's skepticism. She drew her cigarette slowly from her lips, her expression drawing in tight as she waited for a joke that wasn't coming. Finally, after finding no purchase, she peered over at Arcanus and pointed weakly at Telos.

The knight met her eyes, looked again at his queen's expression, and gave a single slow nod.

"You're...." Techne began suspiciously. "Not... going to help him...?"

"There's no need for me to." Seeing Techne confused, Telos sat on the edge of her desk in decidedly unladylike fashion with her elbows propped on her thighs. "What exactly did Zo say to the Librarians?"

"He said he was offering a complete memory transfer of everything that happened to him when he was with the Outsider, in exchange for the right for him and his own to live out-of-house." Her eyes narrowed, and she jabbed the cigarette back in her mouth, sucking bad-temperedly. "And then that those were his most generous terms and any attempt at retrieval would lead to the House's destruction by Aphaster and its allies."

Telos rubbed at her nose, if only to hide a creeping smirk. "That little snitch..." She leaned back, shaking with barely suppressed laughter. "Now I'm definitely not going to lift a finger for him. If what you said is true, Zo is going to throw my standing with the House right into the Wyrmwound."

Techne's crest rose while her cigarette drooped, and she tiredly rubbed at her eyes. "What did you do this time?"

"Take his offer and find out," Telos teased blithely. She wiped the bit of mirth from her eyes, and tried to put on a serious face. "Techne, I know have tunnel vision when it comes to Zo sometimes--"

"All the time," the coatl muttered.

"--But true to the codes of the House, I treasure his identity and the life he is trying to live with it above all else. I advised him to use what he has, and he's using it."

"Which is apparently something stronger than you."

"Oh, absolutely. I'm just a politician who knows how to throw a good punch and swing a rapier in a bind. I have to think about this clan's well-being. Can you imagine me trying to make this clan go to war just for my son? It'd be like if the Auditor came out and told us to dismantle the Machine."

Both of them shared a slight shudder at the thought, but Telos pressed on. "Have you ever met Junior? Really met him? Has the House begun looking into him now that Zo has given his ultimatum?"

"I've warned them against trying to get close by the usual method. The Enforcers are weighing my proposal to just have me go talk with Dreamweaver and the relevant party."

"Parties, Techne, I promise you that's going to be plural." She shifted sideways onto the desk to better face Techne and pressed a hand sincerely to her chest. "I'm not the shield in this. I never was. The thing that will destroy the House is not really Aphaster or even Feldspar. It's Junior himself."

“...What?”

"Zo has chosen to marry one of the most beloved young men in Southern Sunbeam. Junior is a powerhouse of barely stable Arcane energy. He's the treasured son of a once-king--a man who was beloved by my husband's father and who would get dangerous and unpredictable if you tried to take Junior away. He is nephew to a still-king, grandson to a loving and highly dangerous progenitor, and recently he is a father to Jorah." She laughed, a little frantically. "And Jorah alone would tear the House apart with his bare hands if he thought for even a second that being there made Junior or Zo sad."

Techne blew smoke very slowly from her nostrils--her way of expressing an impressed silence. Telos leaned in close, and whispered conspiratorially. "And Junior is considered part of the dynasty even more so that Zo. Lutia is Zo's aunt by blood, but she Junior's aunt by proclamation, and we both know we don't have Enforcers who can deal with her."

Techne's cigarette lifted with her brow. "They made up?"

Telos rolled her eyes and rubbed at the bridge of her nose. "They made up eons ago, Techne. That's what I mean. You're not in Aphaster often and you dont read the paper or catch up with local gossip when you do come here. You don't have a pulse on the relationships peripheral to this marriage at all or you would know better."

Techne plucked the cigarette from her lips and leaned against Telos' desk. Arcanus was at both their backs now, so he couldn't make out their expressions but he could see the slight circular turn of Techne's crest where she must have been rubbing her temples. Telos reached out to lay a hand on her back, but Techne was quick to raise her claws to preserve her personal space.

"As a keeper of the Machine, and Inquisitor of House Xanna, I demand a truthful answer from you. Did the events that occurred when you faced Hitth include anything that would be considered treason against us and our way?"

"They did," Telos answered truthfully.

"From what party?"

"Subject C."

Techne's crest stood, and the feathers around her chest near doubled in size. "No end to the fuckin troubles that wildclaw caused us..." she snarled under her breath. "Was any forbidden knowledge exchanged?"

"Not to my knowledge."

"I see. Then I've no cause to act as an Inquisitor in this situation and I get to make this merry report about how two epochs in a row an Arcanite is going to be living out-of-House due to a bunch of marital bullshit." She went to flick the stub of her cigarette, and caught Arcanus' glare. With a petty glare back, she ground it out on the marbled edge of Telos' desk and smeared away the ash with her tail before lighting up a fresh one. Still grumbling, she excused herself, and the last thing they heard before she slammed the door behind herself with a distinct mutter of "Un-fuckin-believable..."

Arcanus inspected the edge of the desk and wiped it with his thumb just to be sure it was as clean. Beastealcian materialized between him and Telos. “Soooo...”

He gave a distracted hum.

"Do you think she noticed the new make up?"

They both looked at their queen. Telos' fingers wandered up to her cheek. Very shortly after finally laying her mourning lace to rest, she rang in the anniversary of her coronation and the official formation Clan Aphaster by also letting the trail of golden tears be laid to rest. She had replaced them with 4 rays of gold shining down from under her left eye.

Telos laughed and shook her head. "She was so preoccupied with Zo, I don’t think she realized anything was different at all."

#Flight Rising #C: Telos #C: Techne #I know I have prompts..#BUT Y'ALL MIND IF I #Aphaster Stories #House Xanna

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tumblunni · 7 years ago

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OKAY SO THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG

Man it REALLY sucks that the only place you can’t take screenshots is in the cutscenes. SO MUCH GODDAMN PLOT HAPPENED!! I’m gonna try and sum it up! basically ORESHIKA GOT REAL

* Okay so to recap what’s happened before: we’re a magic cursed clan of zombie doods who need to defeat Abe No Senmei to break the curse. We can each only live for two years, so the game is built on hundreds of generations of this family marching into death over and over again until eventually some great great grandkid might get a normal life back. But oddly enough it isn’t actually as super dark as expected, cos you dont really have any personality or bonding scenes with the family members. I kinda stopped getting very upset after the first three generations, now theyve just become a bunch of numbers that i have to selectively breed to make a better next generation. Seriously its been OVER 150 CHARACTERS SO FAR and I’’m only around 2/3rds through the game! And like the plot also seemed super simple and it didn’t feel like anything was gonna happen to anyone outside of the backstory?? I DIDNT EXPECT IT TO GET SO REAL

* Abe No Seimei is a cool smarmy ass jerk villain with a neat design and a weird ancient japanese hand puppet. like this really funky cool wooden mask thing with a giant wig that I legit thought was an actual demon attatched to his arm until it started having clickitty clack face animations. I got REALLY UNUSUALLY SAD ABOUT THAT! Cos seriously abe no seimei is just.. weirdly.. nice...? He keeps telling you how to defeat him, he waits to do all his evil plots when you’re there to watch him, he literally sends you letters to come to his grand feasts celebrating each evil plan. And its so fuckin mysterious and getting to know him is really the only thing driving the plot forwards, cos none of your characters have actual voices. And like.. he’s this immortal guy who seems like he wants to die, and he’s deliberately playing the villain so you guys will be motivated enough to find out a way to do it. And like HE HAS ONLY ONE FRIEND and its HIMSELF DOING A STUPID PUPPET PAL VOICE. i’m really abnormally upset that onigashira isn’t really alive! His cute comedy sidekick doesnt exist! MR SERIOUS VILLAINMAN IS DOING THAT VOICE ALL ALONE IN HIS STUPID SAD HOUSE why do i want to hug this horrible jerkface

* Okay but then the other mystery we have is the character Nueko, who’s a weird demigod of some sort who can reincarnate in human form. She’s the one who gave us our magic zombie powers in the first place, she’s got the power to DIE HORRIBLY REPEATEDLY AND FEED PEOPLE HER BLOOD in order to cure them of deadly diseases and bring them back to life and stuff. And this actually becomes a gameplay thing! You can repeatedly bring her back as a new human reincarnation, and then her special skills let her shield allies from damage at the cost of basically going poof back to the heavens again. Its a really useful relief from the punishing permadeath! While not being overpowered cos she can only save one person per dungeoncrawl, and you cant reincarnate her again for a while afterwards. Anyway she keeps popping up every now and again like ‘hey guys i slept off that last death’ and being a super helpful badass team mom and such. But then THE PLOT STARTS HAPPENING EVERYWHERE Cos it turns out she’s got ~magical anime amnesia~ and doesnt understand her demigodness any better than we do. But wtf why does this evil sorcerer man keep implying he knows some secret about her...?

* THE PLOT TWIST SHE’S HIS MOM HIS MOM and seriously I LOVE ONIGASHIRA SO MUCH its like Nueko: What did you say?! Onigashira: *literally looks out the fourth wall* Did you hear it, kids? He totally said “waaaah, mummy, I missed you so much”, right! Literal actual player prompt: Yes/No Bunni, of course: SLAM THAT YES And oh god its just so extra funny cos Seimei actually doesnt even deny it?? He cracks a semi genuine smile and just looks embarassed, its so weird cos its like the only time he hasnt been all smug grumpy asshole. And I mean if it is indeed true that Onigashira is just a puppet, then the whole thing was his genuine feelings from the start.. ... though also DOES THAT MEAN SEIMEI CAN SEE THROUGH THE FOURTH WALL its weird how thats MORE SCARY than the literal demon doing it! like i feel like the game wants me to be scared of onigashira but he’s just SO CUTE AND FUNNY and I really dont want him to be imaginary okay. can we adopt him after we defeat seimei :(

* BUT ANYWAY UMM Yeah, Nueko is actually his mum despite looking younger than him! He kinda inherited her reincarnation power in a broken way, cos he’s half human. Instead of experiencing multiple lives whenever he chooses it, and getting to nap in the clouds in between, instead he just CANNOT DIE NO MATTER HOW MUCH PUNISHMENT HE TAKES. Seriously he introduced himself by setting himself on fire, burning to a crisp and then growing back his skin right in front of us, just to prove it! I can honestly relate to this guy going mad if he’s had to put up with this super crappy immortality that he never even asked for. And also its gotta sting to see that his own mum gets to stay more youthful looking, lol. i mean he’s pretty bishie too right now, but I’m assuming he’d actually continue to age and thats gotta suck!

* Oh and there’s this really cool element that all the bosses that Seimei summons to figth you become new powerups for Nueko! Its an early clue about their connection- at first she’s like WTF WHY IS THIS HAPPENING, but then it turns out these bosses actually originally were her familiars and she left them to look after her son. So they’re still loyal to her original command until she defeats them in battle. Also the WAY these familiars get used is EXTRA SUPER COOL! They’re sealed in magic tattoos all over her body, so she gets more sweet ink every time you reach a storyline milestone. And then she doesn’t just summon them or just boost her stats, she friggin GROWS MASSIVE MONSTER ARMS ALL OVER THE SHOP! Like I was so worried when her design looked all fanservicey at first, but then she’s never degraded in any way and she gets this super disservice power lol. I can’t imagine any smut fanfiction with her! “Yes hunny i will take off my bra and then BRING OUT THE CRAB ARMS” She grows fuckin CRAB ARMS! And snake heads for legs! She can shoot different demons out of all of her limbs and grow giant horns and wing hair and breathe fire and holy fuckin shit yo. And she’s really fuckin terrifyingly stoic badass even before she unlocks her powers! She could probably crush your head in her palm and not even need the crab. basically I Love Strong Mom

* Oh and apparantly Nueko’s husband was another god who got erased from history? Literally nobody is able to say his name, it comes out as garbled scribbled out text. And at the moment its ambiguous what happened, but it might be possible that he was actually sniped out by his fellow gods for being TOO GOOD. Like, he wanted to make peace with demons and give a bigger share fo divine power to humans, and everyone else was all ‘BUT THE STATUS QUO’ and stabbed him in the back. possibly? Maybe? ITS ALL SO MYSTERY!!

* so ANYWAY ANYWAY a required other thing for explaining the EMOTIONALLY DESTRUCTIVE MOMENT is that there’s this duo of minor helpful npcs i never mentioned before, cos i honestly didnt think they were gonna be important there’s this justice-powered cute princess who’s determined to do political stuffs to clear your clan’s name and let you back into your former land, though all you really see of it is that she makes a few sentences of progress every time you get back from a story dungeon. And then there’s her grumpy ass bodyguard who’s kinda your rival? he’s always hating on you while she always supports you, and its like he’s jealous cos he has a crush on her and doesnt want commoners talking to his precious princes. And blablabla ‘i am the only one strong enough to protect her GRARR i need to get stronger how did you defeat me’ yadda yadda. Except you dont even get to fight him, again its just like one sentence every story dungeon where he says he was totally gonna rescue the magical artifact you beat him to. Even tho he doesnt do it no matter how many years pass, lol So yeah we like.. didnt really even know them very well, but also they felt like this comforting constant that would never leave? GuesS WHAT THE EMOTIONALLY DESTRUCTIVE BIT WAS

* Okay so HEY SEIMEI KIDNPPED PRINCESS LADY HAHA JUST AN ORDINARY DAMSEL IN DISTRESS PLOT we’re TOTALLY gonna successfully get her back, this is probably just filler... HA... HA... HA...

* The rollercoaster of emotions begins! Hey onigashira might actually really be alive! Apparantly this puppet mask is haunted, or something? like onigashira is the name of a whole set of masks that give you super power if you wear them, but turn you beserker loopy demon man. Though they dont seem to be sentient or anything and also like nobody else seems to be able to wear them without losing their humanity?? So like did seimei escape the curse by wearing it as a hand puppet instead? or is the puppet not connected to the masks at all? Or is it gonna be something lame like seimei was never in control of his actions and the puppet is sentient and is the real baddie? COS I LIKE HIM BEING THE CUTE COMIC RELIEF YO Oh, wait, like.. maybe its something like seimei is possessed by the mask but the mask isnt really alive and like.. doing ventriloquism is just his random symptom of this ambiguously defined madness? Like instead of going beserker it made him ‘give in to his instincts’ in a different way, so he stays mostly in control but involuntarily expresses his true hidden feelings through the puppet. Hence why it is the best and cutest goofball who encourages him to be honest and hug his mom. OR JUST I DUNNO I JUST KNOW I HAVE MY FAITH SLIGHTLY RESTORED THAT CUTE SIDEKICK MIGHT BE REAL AND I CAN ADOPT HIM

* but hey guess what happened right after that happy moment of wow cool yay in the middle of me being like ‘yay seimei is so cool yay onigashira is actually gonna play a bigger plot role than just a sidekick and may actually be his own separate character’ SUDDENLY THEY KILL THE SAMURAI And like OHHH NO they dont even JUST kill the samurai I was still thinking the moment was cool!! Seimei throws a second mask on him and curses him to fight the party and i was just like WOW YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD and WHAT A COOL BOSS FIGHT CONCEPT And like I was proud of myself for sweeping the fight super quickly?? I just thought he’d be fine once we got the mask off??? BUT NO HE’S FUCKIN DEAD WE COULDNT UNDO THE CURSE WE JUST HAD TO KILL HIM AND THEY SHOW HIS VERY GRAPHICALLY BLOODIED CORPSE and like his whole plotline got cut off with no resolution?? he only existed to die here?? THE WRITERS NEVER HAD ANY INTENTION OF LETTING HIM CONFESS HIS PRINCESS LOVE. AND HE ALSO NEVER MADE UP WITH US AND LEARNED FROM HIS RIVAL PLOTS he just died really sadly and then like FOR THE SECOND TIME ONLY IN THE ENTIRE GAME we had an actual dialogue choice to decide the personality of our hero first time: lol onigashira mommy jokes second time: pick one of three ways to try and soften the blow as you tell the rescued princess that her childhood friend and crush just died horribly :(

* :(

* the one I picked was telling her he died saving her, not that he was the one being mind controlled to threaten her. :(

* I DIDNT EVEN LIKE YOU GRUMPY DUDE BUT YOU DESERVED BETTER THAN THAAAAAT

* look can i just headcanon that he became a guardian spirit like my characters can do if they get that rare random event. or like.. geez.. why couldnt nueko use her ressurection powers on him if she could do it for us?? they should have at least had a line of dialogue saying something like ‘it cant be done cos his soul was corrupted by the demon power’ or something...

* MAY YOU RESOLVE YOUR DAMN PLOTLINE IN THE AFTERLIFE, GRUMP FRIEND

* also seimei I am fuckin pissed. you have been promoted from trash boss who i kinda wanna give a hug to the same thing but without the hug now. you dont even deserve your sweet sidekick! IM TAKING YOUR DAMN PUPPET PAL, SHITTY POOP MAN i fuckin SWEAR if this game doesnt end with me ripping that puppet out of his hands i am gonna throttle a bitch

* ALSO I FUCKIN SWEAR IF THEY PULL A ‘PUPPET PAL WAS THE REAL VILLAIN AND SEIMEI WAS BRAINWASHED’ I AM GONNA DOUBLE CHOKE YA inm gonna fuckin build my own puppet with animatronic stranglin’ hands

#bunni plays oreshika #I WILL NOT CEASE IN MY ENDLESS BELIEF IN PUPPET PAL

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refractedglade · 7 years ago

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do all of them. or the odds. or the evens. honestly just do some I'm tired and dont feel like reading through them all :/

this is honestly a lot so it gets a cut. also wow way to abuse the question ask.

1. do you have any recurring dreams? what are they?

only ever had one I think, and that was back in… probably elementary school? I had monthly nightmares thanks to one of the least frightening episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog, god bless you young me you tried your best

2. what is your favourite kind of fruit?

im torn between grapes and apples

3. sweet or savoury?

savory

4. what is your smallest/pettiest fear?

not even sure what the hell that means uhhhhhhhh

the fear that i am or will be mediocre at video games. it sounds dumb but at this point it’s one of the only quote-unquote skills I have that I can identify and im afraid to lose that

5. what is your least favourite vegetable?

peas

6. what is your favourite art movement?

surrealism I guess? I don’t know much about art movements tbh

7. do you drink milk?

fuck yes i do

8. what was the last line of the last book you read?

“A mob of Surly Thugs are there to greet you.

TO BE EVEN MORE CONTINUED.”

9. do you like bitter food?

not really

10. what is the most significant event in your life so far?

probably one of the several times i’ve moved since that always leads to meeting new people

12. what is your favourite breed of dog or cat?

I love labradors.

13. list your top 5 favourite turtle names.

what

Leonardo

Donatello

Michelangelo

Raphael

and uhhhhhhh

Coco Jumbo

14. what job would you have if you could have it without going through all of the school or experience that is required?

if I didnt have that Id probably get fired very soon for being shit at my job, but lets say public attorney, see how far I get in that bullshit

15. are there any names that you dislike so much that you would dislike the person with the name? what are those names?

no not really

16. what is your favourite letter?

either R or T, they’re both such helpful shortcuts for web browsing

17. are there any instruments you wished you played?

I wish I had continued learning piano when I was younger. I was in the middle of lessons when we moved for the second time and we just never got another teacher.

18. list your best friends.

@verbalmoonwalking and honestly even though we haven’t talked much in forever @wombathills

19. would you rather be a skeleton or a ghost?

a ghost, way more opportunities and less of a hassle (imagine trying to navigate through the world as reanimated bones)

also there’s already some people i’ve promised to haunt

20. do you prefer fish or lizards/snakes? (as pets)

i dont have much experience with lizards or snakes (although I did have an anole for a year or so). i guess fish, they’re just so incredibly low-maintenance

21. art or music?

weird way to phrase that considering music is art but music

22. what is your favourite type of flower?

unfortunately Ive never learned much about flowers, but I do really like when they’re blue

23. soup or salad?

souuuuup

24. are you good at keeping plants alive?

surprisingly yes! I’ve had two plants growing since late winter/early spring I think

25. do animals tend to like you?

heck yeaaaah

26. what is the worst book you’ve ever read?

the Book of Leviticus

there’s not really a good answer to this, if a book is terrible I either never got far enough to remember or read it for a school assignment and promptly forgot about it

27. do you collect anything?

too many thing, and most of them only for short periods of time. the only consistent collection i have is my Halley Labs music collection

28. how many pillows do you sleep with?

right now just two, used to be three

29. whats the latest you’ve ever woken up?

5 in the evening i think? I forget details since its been a few years, but after an all-nighter I pulled during my first finals of college I passed out at around 6 pm and woke up almost a full day later

no wait addendum: i think like 1-3 in the morning because of falling asleep around 8-11 am.

30. how many pictures are on your walls?

my room has… a painting and a poster

31. what age did you stop keeping stuffed animals on your bed?

honestly? i didn’t

32. what is your favourite candy?

Butterfinger, or if in moderation Twizzlers

33. what is your favourite baked good?

its not the real answer but a vivid image of a steaming baked potato keeps appearing in my head

actually the more i think about it the better that sounds, like its plain but theres a lot of room for customization there

34. do you have a camera? if so, what kind?

yeah, i actually sort of inherited it recently from my late grandfather, though I haven’t actually,,, used it yet.

35. do you wear jewelry?

nope, used to wear a fidget ring a lot but who knows where that went. if i ever find a really cool necklace I’ll probably start wearing that all the time though.

36. sunrise or sunset?

sunset, sunrises are pretty but its a pain in the ass waking up the early

also seeing something like that in the evening is just a better state of mind imo

37. do you like to listen to music with headphones or no headphones?

depends on both the music and my mood, generally at this point no headphones though just because when i listen to music its while driving

38. what was your favourite show as a child?

I had a weird sense of almost reverence for Digimon as a kid. My mom had forbidden me from watching Pokemon, and I only ever saw like 3 episode of DIgimon once by accident because a day care had their cassette tape. I barely saw any of it but I loved it.

Season 3 aka DIgimon Tamers is still a solid series, and I still vividly remember watching season 4 on TV when I was slightly older and finding it weird but cool (4 was where they could actually like combine with their digimon)

39. describe your favourite spot in your house.

im the basement goblin so the couch down there is for all intents and purposes mine. also its right next to the room with the heater so hell yeah.

40. do you like to be warm or cold?

I like to be in slightly cold environments so I can be the kind of warm that isn’t just warm but warmed up, like the feeling of being warm when things are cold is very good.

41. the best joke you have.

i think the best jokes i ever did done was editing like 20 different photos of a friend of mine into dumb joke images

one was his face on a tube of laundry soap with some dumb caption along the lines of “ah, this is my life now”

42. whats the weirdest thing that you’ve seen happen in a public place?

first thing that comes to mind is a futon frame on the side of a highway. now let me clarify:

-it was sitting upright, not like it had been tossed aside

-it was on the INSIDE side, not the outside

-no mattress in sight

just… there.

43. CD or digital?

CD, I’ve been conditioned to love owning physical copies of stuff. On that note, also cassette.

44. who do you miss right now?

good friends, my dog, my will to live….

45. if you could combine two places in the world, which two places would you choose?

if by world you meant universe, lets combine earth with some other planet and see what the fuck happens

if you meant earth then Michigan and Ohio, that’d make some shit way more convenient for me

46. describe the worst substitute teacher you’ve ever had.

one of my high school english teachers went on maternity leave, and so we had a sub for about ¾ of the school year. i forget a lot of why the class hated her but a lot of it just came down to she was not good at teaching, and we had to deal with that for almost a whole year.

47. do you believe horoscopes?

short answer is no. less short answer is that while I don’t really believe anything like that, i still enjoy looking at and considering them, especially when they’re in shitpost format.

my sister came back from a mission trip to Africa a while ago and brought me back a small gift she got overseas, a pair of small handmade dice. i’ve developed a habit where on some mornings I’ll roll them before my day starts to see how high I roll, and sometimes interpret that as what the day might be like. do i believe it? not especially. but I almost sort of pretend to believe it. that’s sort of how i treat horoscopes, except even a little less than that.

48. are you spiritual?

49. describe your pets ( or family if you dont have pets )

we had an extremely good dog named Zeus for a long time. yellow lab, energetic as hell in his youth and even in his old age. started having pain in his legs as he got older and eventually we had to put him down a year or so back.

he’s honestly part of the reason im not sure about getting pets in the future, i dont know if I want to go through that again.

50. are you good at getting over mistakes?

I guess? I mean I’m good at getting over that post-”I fucked up” anxiety for sure, that’s a skill I learned in college within like a year. After a bad test or something I just started forcing myself to say “fuck it it’s over can’t change anything now.”

#asks #saltierthanpearl

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ourholly101love · 7 years ago

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Chase the Lightning Inuyasha Chapter 3

The stew wasn't only good it was delicious. Inuyasha didn't tell her that though but he finished the bowl and didn't complain. she knew it was good he could tell by the triumphant look on her face. she had obviously forgiven him for teasing her because she smiled as she fed him. ignoring his protests that he was perfectly capable of feeding himself. it wasn't until the bowl was empty that he wondered if perhaps she had poisoned him......maybe that was her reason for her satisfied smile. Inuyasha gave her his best and coldest glare a look guaranteed to frighten young girls and to keep anyone at a distance. but she met his gaze fully and continued to smile, and he found he couldn't maintain the icy look.there was something about the way she was looking at him that melted his determination. She had the most beautiful eyes and the milkiest skin Inuyasha had to look away. She may be Sangos cousin but under the skin she was just like Kikyo. calculating, shallow daddies little girl, running away from a horrible fate of marring a man that cant dance. you might as well call me kagome,you know you can be of great help to me Inuyasha. *(Inuyasha raised an eyebrow) you know this area fairly well I would think?. are there many unattached ranchers near edo?Unattached as in unmarried Inuyasha asked coldly, kagome nodded. is that why you are here your looking for a husband? she nodded again, yes a rancher. why a rancher? have you seen the way miroku looks a sango? sure I live here most of the time or close by anyway." I want someone to look at me that way, scince miroku is a rancher i thought." you cant go by that Kagome, i myself am a rancher first off Miroku is a lousy rancher. getting married and having a family didn't cure his itchy feet, its just that now when he gets the urge to wander he packs up Sango and the twins and takes them with him, Bankotsu dose all the work when it comes to the ranch and I guarantee Bankotsu is not your type. I’m certain there are others?. trust me kagome sango and miroku have a one in a million marriage your more likely to be struck by lightning then to find what your looking for in edo. As likely as my taking advice from a man who managed to alienate the entire village, from what Ive heard no one likes you and im begenning to see why.Nobody likes the truth Kagome, still set on a rancher? yes Kagome answered" perhaps you can introduce me to your father."Inuyasha didn't move and his look was impassive but he was certain she knew she had touched a nerve, my father is already married and although Inuyoukai often take more then one mate without marking them my father only allows one bitch to his household. Inuyasha didn't give her a chance to respond the shocked look on her face was enough. but she deserved it. surely she knew, surely Sango had told her at least as much as she knew. nobody knew it all exceptInuyasha and his father and a few ghosts he tried to bury. I’m sorry I shouldnt have said that Inuyasha, Its fine but from now on just leave me alone...Inuyasha...I’m"..No! you dont know me, you have no clue what its like to be hated for what you are. Kagome certainly understood that he didn't see or speak to his Father or even acknowledge him in any way. Inuyasha slowly sank onto the bed and let his mind wander back through the years. Early'st memory was his mother Izayoi his human mother and the daughter of a wealthy lord she was beautiful with long black hair and twinkling brown eyes the family fell on hard times then she met the demon lord his father. but then they were sent away and his mother was killed.he was five when his mother was shot and killed he was almost killed as well. but was pulled away from his mothers body by his older half brother Sesshomaru. So he survived and was brought here to his dads ranch. when he was told of his mothers death he had tears in his eyes Inuyasha thought they were tears of guilt for sending them away. Toga begged Inuyashato stay but he refused he always did, he didn't realize until much later that he was trying to protect him,he had almost forgotten the lessons in life when He met Kikyo He would never forget it again. Inuyasha lay in the soft bed caught between sleep and full awareness he'd slept far to much in the past two weeks.And now even though it was night and the cabin was quiet he couldn't ease into deep sleep. His side was healing slower then he thought it should, Kagome was finally letting him eat at the table and walk around the house. Allowing him that was what she said and god help him that is how it felt to him. it was taking much longer for him to get his strength back as well, he must have been closer to death then he thought for his body to be so slow at healing. Kagome fussed over him all day cleaning his wound. Her hands as soft and gentle as a breeze, her touch was fatherly never lingering against his skin he couldn't understand why he was so drawn to her.WHAT Are you doing out of bed?. Inuyasha turned to see her watching him from the doorway it was a question hes was becoming accustomed to. letting in some fresh air do you approve doctor?. She didn't answer hugging her night gown to herbody theres Storm coming," Inuyasha moved away from the window there was another long low rumble of thunder and Kagome trembled with fear. I don't like storms she said softly befor my sister Yukari married I would sneak into her room when a storm came at night. After she left home I had to wait out the storms alone, I was much to old to run to Daddy to hide my face in his shoulder as I did when I was little, she looked him straight in the eyes. unsmiling Undaunting I should have stayed in my room and buried my head under the covers but I thought I could sit with you for awhileI guess it was a silly notion. this is a good sturdy cabin a little wind and rain wont hurt it or blow it away.I know i’m not scared. your not a very good liar but you can stay with me.The Thunder was getting closer with each flash of lightning. Don’t get to close to the window, if you have to watch move the chair back. I don't want to watch. Then Thunder and lightning were closer and kagome jumped it's beautiful though. yes bright and beautiful but dangerous.she turned and looked at him this is highly improper you know?."she said with a smile sitting in here in the middle of the night. staying in the cabin without a chaperon very improper. but this is Colorado not Philadelphia Kagome.why are you afraid of storms? I don't know its not a rational fear. Its not like i’m afraid Ill be struck by lightning or the cabin. Its just I cant control my heart beats I shiver every time the thunder crashes a loud boom sounded above like that, what are you doing? I’m closing the window I could have done that now back in bed for you she turned to leave the room aren't you going to tuck me in Inuyasha said with a wry smile.I swear a twenty five year old baby is what I've got on my handsIt seems like Sango told you a lot about me didn't you two have anything better to talk about when she visited you?.I Assure you we had many conversations about more Interesting subjects then yourself Mr Takahashi you know why I came her and my plans they don't include a...a half civilized moody..Say it Kagome, Half breed was That The word on the tip of your tongue?"...Good Night Inuyasha she turned her back and walked out of the room.Inuyasha had hardly spoken to her since the night before. He believed she had rejected him because of his demon blood.He said That not her, Truth be told she liked him, maybe more then that but how could she tell him that?, she had allowed him to believe it simply by not denying it. That had been easier then trying to tell him the truth, But what is the truth?. the truth is she was attracted to him and why not? he's handsome and she knew enough about him to see through his scowls and frowns that she was falling in love with him.Not in her plans but true none the less she was in love with him.What are you doing chopping wood?", getting my strength back. His words were Harsh his eyes were fierce, That look doesn't scare me yasha and we already have enough wood, and your not getting your strength back your sapping what little you have". now get back into the house Inuyasha glared at her and she glared back at him. It was clear he was unaccustomed to allowing anyone tell him what to do. And he didn't like it not one bit. Im fine a little exercise will do me good. NO" Inuyasha raised an eyebrow No?"he took a step forward and she took a step back no" he took another step forward and she took another step back.stop that Inuyasha, stop what? you said yourself i’m nothing but a sick weak old man. Who should be confined to a bed or is there another reason you want me in bed?, you couldn't catch me if you tried, are you sure little girl she turned on her heels and ran as fast as she could which wasn't very fast. She could hear him behind her his feet landing on the grassy earth his breathing got closer and closer she expected him to stop at any moment. But he stayed with her until she felt his strong arm snake around her waist and they both fell to the ground the very breath knocked out of her as she hit the ground. Inuyasha covered her body with his for a moment he didn't move, Inuyasha are you alright?, I’m fine, Then your right your all better.. No you were right I cant move, I told you so you can gloat later. can you move at all are you bleeding again?. Try to take a deep breath she pressed against him and They rolled together slowly till his weight was off of her. she was on top of him Inuyasha was strong but he still need'ed her.she could feel his heart beating against her, Sango told her that one day Inuyasha would find a girl that wasn't frightened half to death of him and heaven help them both when that happened. he didn't scare her in the least she kissed him and pulled away before he had a chance to react,she didn't know why she did it Inuyasha’s eyes flew open what in the hell did you do that for?"sorry you just looked like you needed to be kissed. They might have stayed there awhile if they hadn't heard the sound of someone clearing their throat, suikotsu was standing near the porch. I brought you some groceries miss Higarashi I'll just leave them in the kitchen, thank you Suikotsu its very kind of you. he turned and looked at her I warned you about inuyasha he said in a low voice. I know you did but...Suikotsus eyes widened as he looked over her shoulder she turned her head to see Inuyasha approaching them very slowly, I see you can move again?, yes babe he answered to her mortification i finallygot my strength back. His words seemed to have a double meaning he reached out and plucked a long blade of grass from her hair dropping it to the ground, as he placed his arm around her. Kagome saw the buckboard disappear with a sinking heart he didn't know why he did it, why he made certain suikotsu left with the wrong impression, actually he did know why he didn't want her to marry a rancher he knew it was foolish he didn't want to see her... watch her grow fat with another mans child that thought stopped him completely it was time for him to get away from the ranch away from edo. what did it matter who she married?, it didn't not at all but some how he already felt like she was his. you know before the sunsets on edo everybody will think you and I, I don't give a damn what they think,"During the next few days the women of edo came to the cabin alone or with guests. bringing cakes,bread and smoked meats, As well as fresh vegetables. they arrived each and everyone of them hoping to find Kagome rolling in the grass like Suikotsu had told had kagome known that is why they came was to gather gossip yes she did did she care no not really, but she charmed them all. pouring cup after cup of tea, praising every sweet pastry and loaf of bread that past under her nose, sheasked for recipes for the vegetables. Inuyasha always made brief and memorable appearances whats for dinner babe? he came through shirtless of course. sorry I Didn't know you had company Kagome had to bite her lip to keep from shouting the devil you didn't! I m leaving tomorrow he said Solemnly still refusing to step aside, his arms were crossed over his chest as he blocked her path.Tomorrow really? really Inuyasha said Stepping aside for her to brush past him, as soon as I put you on the stage.I’m not going anywhere, yes you are your going home, I most certainly am not they could stand there all day and not finish this argument. If I have to tie you up and throw you on the back of the buckboard with your bags I will he turned away from her Kagome stood in the middle of the room speechless For the first time in her life. She couldn't go home not yet.Then Inuyasha stalked into the room scowling, pulled her against him with a low curse and kissed her. This was not a kiss on the cheek, This was a kiss that locked lips to hers and held her tight to his chest she could barely breath. His mouth was strong and demanding and then something changed. He still held her but not so tightly, his lips still pressed against hers she wrapped her arms around Inuyasha’s waist then he pulled away. He had the strangest look in his amber eyes unsure of what just happened. Bankotsu stood in the doorway I brought over the buckboard as you asked you sure you don't need me to drive?, Ill do it Inuyasha said coldly. sure will hate to see you leave Miss Higarashi...Kagome stared at Inuyash, he could smell the tears getting ready to fall but she held them back. Another one of your performances you saw him coming and that is why you kissed me?" you must be proud of yourself for making me think you cared, I’m not going anywhere bankotsu she said softly if you want to leave then leave.Ill stay in town till Sango comes back.you will be on that stage, I’m not Kagome snapped and you cant make me your not my keeper,my Father or my Husband. as Kagome stormed out of the cabin she finally let the tears fall, what ever had driven him to go back in the cabin and kiss her? where had the uncontrollable urge come from? he knew she believed the kiss to be another one of his plots to ruin her reputation an embrace to startle Bankotsu nothing more, he would allow her to believe that was grateful in fact that she did even if his heart was breaking this was for the best,he had no explanation for the act otherwise none at all.but he couldn't shake the memory of the kiss it was like being caught in a storm of lightning coursing through his body,the thunder in his heart he had never experienced anything like it before. The feeling of losing control his past experience with women left him void of emotion but Kagome was all emotion he only to look at her face to know what she was feeling right now.She was angry, hurt but there was a twinkle in her eyes he didn't like it not at all, she was up to something. she hadn't begged him to stay since they left the cabin, what are you up to, I don't know what your talking about what makes you think I’m up to something." your going home." I suppose eventually Ill go home but not now,thats not what i said Kagome. well what will you do ride with me the whole way? you put me on the stage Ill just get off at the first stop, will you ride all the way there with me? will you carry me to my house hand me to my father like i was some sort of criminal, what business is it of yours where I go like I said you are not my keeper.I will go where I choose, you really should go home. Thats not your concern is it,? I was a fool to think you really cared but it was all a game to you and I thought Inu had honor I guess I was wrong, I've decided to wait at the hotel Till sango returns do you have a problem with that? they road the rest of the way to town in silence.will the stage be on time? last week it was an hour late Jakotsu answered, I wont be on it Inuyasha so give up." If you put me on it Ill kick and scream and Ill be back on the street before it can move ten feet, she was smiling when she delivered her threat. Inuyasha looked at her a ticket for the stage and a length of rope Inuyasha turned and walked away. jakotsu was concerned about what was happening are you alright? as he placed his hand on kagomes shoulder, as well as can be expected, I guess Inuyashais determined to get rid of me . why I thought Yuka replayed I mean I would just die if a man talked to me that way."why is he making you leave? because he's a pig headed bully...who’s to say why men do what they do?.outside Inuyasha was surrounded by a half a dozen men Kagome knew something was wrong as she ran towards them stop it!"she yelled as she pushed her way through, what do you think your doing?!" Kagome grabbed the rifle from the front of the buckboard let him go she screamed, now four men looked at her back off Lady one of them said this doesn't concern you, i said let him go!"come on sweetheart you know you cant use that thing, your gonna hurt someone if you not careful, yeah you if you don't let him go this is the winchester 73 a most effective center fire repeating rifle its also called the 44-40 or 44 caliber kagome dropped the lever and pulled it back up my cousin sango taught me to shoot do you feel lucky asshole. everyone paled He burned Toga Takahashis barn," I’m certain you mistaken, Inuyasha didn't burn anything. he was seen riding away on that damn black stallion of his another man yelled. it was during the storm, then I know your man is mistaken Inuyasha was with meall that night he didn't go anywhere.so your claiming Inuyasha didn't leave the cabin that night even as you slept? naraku spoke up.we weren't sleeping at all that night and i can tell you he didn't go anywhere, they didn't care if Inuyasha was Innocent or not they wanted to get rid of him, and would do so with no more regret then they might squash a bug. so your willing to swearin front of the whole town that you and Inuyasha have been living there in sin." I never said that but you believe what you want If thats what you want to believe but the only way your going to hurt him is to kill me first and how will that look for your village a heartless village that hangs innocent men on a whim and young mothers are shot down in the street you may try to keepit secret but Sango will know and it will spread like wild fire, soon she had the crowd in the palm of her hand there was only one person not swayed Naraku walked to the front and prepared to slap the horse's, what about my baby Naraku stopped the Mob stared at herthere was shock in the crowd, even Inuyasha looked down at her with an unreadable fire in his eyes if you hang him what will happen to our baby, what will Sango say,Suikotsu spoke up lets think about this now keep are wits about us if she swears Inuyasha was home that night, I have to tell you to cut him down, Naraku stepped into the wagon just cant keep your hands off the human women can you?knocked up sangos Cousin now were going to have to watch you marry the pretty little thing don't seem fair.Your crazy Kagome I'd rather hang, you know Naraku said we would be doing Sango and Miroku a real disservice if we didnt take care of this pronto preacher? you available this afternoon? the minister nodded, that really not necessary theres no hury, nonsense theres no reason to delay this" five guns were trained on Inuyasha only this time they were leading him to a much different fate Kagome paced the small room, Id much rather wait for Sango she said to no one in particular...And give Inuyasha Takahashi a chance to disappear Yuka spoke up that wouldn’t be right Kagome, it would have been right to wait for Miroku and Sango they would have known what to do but it wasn't going to be allowed might as well make the best of it. It appears the whole village will be present for my wedding she said with more then a trace of amusement" wouldn't a reception Afterward be Appropriate"?She turned questioning eyes to the women around her, Yeah something outside in the field behind the church surly we could put something together some kind of party punch and sandwiches maybe some music we'll see what we can do.THE Church was full and every man in the room was armed the front pew was filled with men their six shooters and rifles trained on her groom a shot gun wedding with the entire town in attendance shops closed down the stage was quickly hurried through even the black smith was silent was this a wedding or funeral even though she felt like a princess Inuyasha looked very little like prince charming at the moment, she could feel anger radiating from him like the heat from a fire, Inuyasha leaned over and whispered, Ill get you for this little girl the minister faltered a bit but continued, this Is your fault mr Takahashi, now be quiet and pay attention to the ceremony, Ill strangle you with my bare hands if its the last thing i do, no you wont Kagome answered him. Inuyasha? the minister Interrupted I do?...Do I have a choise? he looked at the men with the guns, I guess i do the minister repeated the oath to the bride and kagome was more responsive then her groom and then the minister pronounced them man and wife. you may kiss the bride, your supposed to lift the veil and kiss me she whispered, Ive done all i’m going to do Inuyasha stated , the room was silent as everyone waited a little kiss on the cheek will suffice and so he did he gave Kagome what she obviously didn't expect he wrapped his arms around her lowered his lips to hers and gave her a searing kiss that rocked her very soul and his as well and then her words came to him its much more Interesting to give them what they least expect and so he did the guns in the front pew lowered and still he kissed her, the minister cleared his throat and still he kissed her men in the back rose to get a better look and were jerked back into their seats by their wives and still Inuyasha kissed her when he finally released her Kagome took a breath and Inuyasha gave her a Devilish grin. Inuyasha decided his wife was right it really was more fun to give people what they least expected but he knew it wasn't the only reason he kissed her, he kissed her because he wanted to, he kissed her because he needed to, In one quick motion Inuyasha picked her up and walked with long strides away from the minister, this comes later Yasha your supposed to walk me...shut up woman you are my wife now, and you will do as i say and if i want to carry you out of the church then...I haven’t had a chance to explain my plan. plan? this is all part of a plan?Inuyasha asked well in a way,then Naraku walked up at least let me kiss the bride he spoke up with a grin.the man lowered his face to kagome even as she tried to move away from him but it wasn't necessary before he could touch her with his lips Naraku went flying backwards and landed on his ass in the dirt he barely had time to catch his breath when Inuyasha was lifting him by the throat, touch my mate again Ill kill you he had the attention of everyone there but no one came forward, Inuyasha heard whispers Naraku tried to kiss Lady Kagome, that Naraku never had any Manners, Inuyasha took care of him good and then Kagome was by his side as she glared at his terrified face trying to decide weather to hit him herself, you can let him go Yasha he didn't mean any harm he's just an Ill mannered oaf.

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bettaesthetic · 8 years ago

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Bettaesthetic on Veganism

~We eat meat because it’s convenient. We’ve been doing a lot of things for many years.

~this is MY blog, and I post for myself and about myself. If you don’t wish to see what I post about, I won’t feel attacked if you unfollow me. Whatever makes you happy.

• Meat Eater Argument: “PROTEIN!?!?!!!”

My body needs protein! This is in fact the case with most living organisms. I, however, obtain my protein and nutrients without eating animals. I’ve lived my ENTIRE life this way.

• Meat Eater Argument: “but we evolved this way for a reason??!?!?”

Sure, evolution intended for this to happen, because 2.6 million years ago we began to eat meat and evolved around the hunting and gathering prospect of food. But you can’t say I evolved wrong, since I’m doing just fine without meat. Sure I take supplements, like nutritional yeast, and Omega3 pills. But those do not directly hurt our environment, or millions of other living beings.

• Meat Eater Argument: “but our ancestors all survived on meat, you can thank them for that.”

You know what else we can thank our ancestors for? The Holocaust, slavery, the destruction of most of the rainforest, the pollution of the earths atmosphere, Salem Witch trials, beheading, isolating people with diseases on an island (patient 0), killing babies that weren’t average (autism, Down’s syndrome, melanin deficiency, leprosy). Those may not have gone as far back, but they contributed to how fucked up our world today is. My point here is that our ancestors did a lot of stupid things.

• Meat Eater Argument: “but vegan is expensive!!!!!”

Actually, it’s not. You just can’t buy pre-packaged, microwaveable dinners anymore. Because the vegan ones, are expensive. So get a cookbook, and do some experiments!

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All that matters is I care. Because this is my blog where I post things about how much I care about animals. This is my blog, and I will continue to run it how I would like. Nothing has been “shoved down” your throat. If you didn’t agree with my post, stop reading. If it bothered you a lot, unfollow me. If you’d like to continue following but not see my animal rights content, block my ‘veganism’ tag.

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DONT get this point wrong. I understand that snakes eat other animals. They are not humans and don’t have the choice or ability to survive without it. That isn’t even remotely what I’m referring to when saying animals don’t deserve to be killed for food.

In fact, if you breed your own feeder animals for your pet, good for you. I respect that. They need those proteins, and breeding yourself does not support the industry that makes millions off of breeding incorrectly, inhumanely, and without a care in the world.

• Animals don’t deserve to be killed for food for HUMANS.

• A species that DOES NOT NEED to eat animals. Yes we need some proteins from them.

• But we HUMANS have the TECHNOLOGY to gain those proteins without killing animals.

• Yet most don’t, because it’s “convenient”.

• We have the power here. Use it correctly.

#veganism #mine

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caredogstips · 7 years ago

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Desperately required: python hunters to undertake Florida’s unwelcome intruder

Since Burmese pythons encountered their route into the wild in the 80 s they have devastated native wildlife. Now 150,000 “couldve been” lurking in the states waterways

Bill Booth struggles to recall the last experience “hes seen” a raccoon, a fox or a rabbit on one of his frequent hunting jaunts deep into the drenches of the Florida Everglades. An outdoorsman all their own lives, he knows as well as anyone how the native wildlife once abundant in the various regions of the immense wilderness has been all but wiped out by an intrusion of a fatal species he is trying his hardest to remove: the Burmese python.

By some thinks, up to 150,000 of the unwelcome intruders are swimming through the states 1.5 m acres( 600,000 hectares) of waterways, reproduction uncontrollably and exhausting almost every living individual in their route, sometimes taking on even the previously undisputed monarch of the Everglades, the American alligator.

Its a proliferating problem that has led wildlife officials to conceive ever-more colourful attempts to try to eradicate, or at the least contain, the giant serpents. With diversifying success, exertions have included discipline dedicated sniffer bird-dogs, bring back snake hunters from Indias mountain-dwelling Irula tribe, and, very recently, advertising for minimum-wage civilian python-catchers on a two-month contract for a hunting was launched in April.

Bill Booth and a beautiful, if massive, python. Picture: Bill Booth

Booth, who takes his small gang on regular hunts into the most remote specific areas of the ecologically fragile wetlands, is at the forefront of another initiative. The Miami-born firefighter and his fellow Cypress Boys are the current endorses of the Python Challenge, a month-long hunting devised by the Florida fish and wildlife preservation board( FWC) in which members of the public are encouraged to crusade into the Everglades, tracking and captivating as many snakes as they can.

But while Booth nabbed 33 of the 106 pythons property in the 2016 objection, including a 15 -footer exactly 3ft short of the Florida record 18 ft 8in serpent territory in 2013, he accepts the tally had little to no impact on the wider problem.

Theres no way humanly possible to go out there and get caught and get rid of them wholly, he mentioned. Its simply too much of a enormous area.

Theres over a million acres out there, provinces down in the national park that humans have hardly ever been to, areas that are off-limits, and youve went serpents everywhere. When I was a little minor, the Everglades was my backyard and I revalued all the wildlife, but over the years these pythons have taken over and taken a toll on native wildlife. Now you scarcely examine any other wildlife, theres hardly any fowls and you dont insure any raccoons. In four years of hunting quite regularly down there, we might have read got a couple of creek otters, but other than that there is nothing to good-for-nothing there.

From the figures, at the least, theres no scarcity of would-be snake hunters willing to threat the hazards of the brawling with one of sorts most fearsome predators. More than 1,000 participants from 29 positions contested last years objection. Separately, a similar amount applied for the 25 paid slits on next months hunt, the overwhelming reaction thrusting an early close to the South Florida water management regions application process.

Floyd, the snake-sniffing labrador. Photograph: Roger Booth

Its a excite, it really is, Booth replies of catching pythons. You might go for periods without investigating one, and when you do its unexplainable, you simply get goosebumps. Most of the time we identify em out sunbathing themselves.

I was out with a magazine gang for four daylights and merely couldnt find a serpent. We were just to the point of giving up and went to a tree island for lunch, I strolled around and there it was, a 15 -footer.

Floridas problem with pythons became apparent in about the midriff of the last decade, when officials began to notice steep worsens in specific populations of native swine and birds. Anecdotally, the serpents first appeared in the 1980 s, dropped by owners who could no longer care for their fast-growing exotic pets, or having escaped from an Everglades breeding facility destroyed by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

Skip Snow, a retired biologist with the National Parks Service( NPS ), connected armies with FWC, the US Geological Survey and university researchers to create a number of initiatives to try to limit their impact. So-called Judas serpents were liberated back into the wild with radio transmitters during mating season, designed to lead officials to girls each carrying up to 100 eggs. But after some early successes, there used to be problems linked to batteries running out and other technological issues.

Heres another one! Image: Bill Booth

Snow was also ascribed with the coming into effect of Python Pete, an enthusiastic beagle puppies who invested several months in civilizing with a captured serpent called Bob to be able to sniff out hiding snakes for a reinforce of fried liver.

Unfortunately, Pete was rapidly withdrew when it became clear he couldnt work for more than 15 minutes at a time in Floridas scorching hot and humidity, but his trailblazing exertions continue with a joint endeavour between the NPS, University of Florida and a team from Auburn Universitys bird-dog perception team.

Two pitch-black labrador retrievers, Floyd and Vito, who were previously civilized as bomb-sniffing pups, spotted six pythons during a four-month assignment in the Florida Keys that wrapped up in February. They are good at noticing them when the serpents are right in front of them and we cannot look them, but there are defies, responded Dr Christina Romagosa of UFs department of wildlife and ecology, co-author of a startling 2012 analyze that determined pythons had almost entirely wiped out native mammals in the Everglades, from marsh rats to bobcats and deer.

It can be simple if the serpent is just in front of you in weeds, but if theyre in a puncture or in water, we as people are still objection in finding them.

The dogs were in Key Largo at the same time as the Indian tribesmen, brought in by FWC as a two-month venture. They captured four pythons on an vacated missile locate that the labradors had spotcheck but not found.

Tylan Dean, chief of the biological business diverge of Everglades national park, feels such initiatives are unlikely to make much of a dent in the python population, but pronounces all have some evaluate as part of a toolbox of options and as educational vehicles.

In terms of hold, we still dont have any method that I would call successful, he said.

I try to be rosy because I dont think we should give up on this wonderful ecosystem or the critters that are being affected its worth continuing to try to improve. Theres always potential theres something out there that will be revolutionary, that is able meaningful in our ability to control pythons or increase their impact.