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:) hello! :D hope you have a nice day and absolutely do not think of the possibility of one of the last story cards being of silver! and that his groovy will very probably be crying!!! THERE'S SO MANY CRYING PEOPLE IN STORY CARDS LATELY!!! SPECIALLY LIGHT USERS!! I AM!!! SCARED!!!! bc so far we got Lilia and Sebek in the beginning book 7.... so at the end.... so we're missing story Silver... and Malleus is the one with less cards, so they might add one for him... but... the tears... ego.... THE TEARS!!!! EGOOOO!! (LOVE YOUR ART BTW EVERYTIME I GET A NOTIF FROM YOUR BLOG I RUN HERE TO SEE!)
(thank you! 💚💜💚)
YES I am ALSO like...90-95% convinced that we're going to be getting a story card for Silver once we wrap around back to diasomnia. 👀 especially because the way things are going, Silver will be the only character whose dream we haven't seen -- yet???? -- and that just. y'know. makes me wonder!
although I do think it would be VERY funny if he got a story card and the groovy was just "regular Silver except with one beautiful single crystal tear". this is actually a lot coming from him.
(he used up all his emotion yelling at a baby that one time, there's none left for a proper groovy-level cry.)
#art#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 10 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 10 spoilers#maybe not quite that far but just in case we'll go with the latest out as of now#i would absolutely love some more expressions for silver though#i saw someone point out once that he only has one smiling/happy animation and now i can't unsee it#LET HIM SMILE MORE#anyway my personal dipping-deep-into-speculation theory is that if we do get his dream and a story card from it#i'm leaning towards thinking it might be some kind of au where lilia never adopted him (and/or mel was never killed?)#because of how absolutely and intensely he was convinced that lilia MUST hate him and blame him for everything that happened#and while sebek punched some sense into him at the time i could see silver's wish being some kind of 'they'd be better off without me' thin#(plus blonde silver would be different enough to justify the card probably)#idk they might go in a TOTALLY different direction but that's where my thoughts are at the moment!#there's gotta be some kind of resolution between lilia and silver at some point at least#i'm just still holding out for someone to actually say the words 'silver vanrouge' please it is all i want
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17th Century Gaydar
With @canisalbus's characters Vasco and his QPR wife Ludovica. Consider this a Headcanon but I imagined they were likely set up as like, teens- maybe not fully arranged marriage, but marriage was heavily implied with their courtship. So here I imagine them as like 15/16 which is why they're kind of smaller and scruffier, as well as having their outfit colors a little lightened. Also Ludovica in cute ear bows moment. I THINK this is my first more or less official online artist fan art??? I hope I did them justice.
*edit forgot to color in Vascos hands consistently my bad **EDIT I CANNOT BE TRUSTED TO POST ART WITHOUT FORGETTING SOMETHING
#illustration#digital art#my art#fan art#canisalbus#vasco#Ludovica#gay dogs#anthro#furry#comic#a lil disgruntled teen vasco for ya#he CAN frown!#gay lesbian solidarity#wlw mlm solidarity#I made a LOT of assumptions about Ludovica#like there's just the rough headshot without her hands or tail#this is all speculative hc stuff anyway#did some roughly time period appropriate clothing#figured they wouldn't be wearing anything too ~flashy~ in a personal moment#and would have slightly different wardrobes as teenagers
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"What have they done to you,
Old friend."
Trapped in the fade, Solas comes face to face with the remnant of his spirit.
The Dread Wolf was his wisdom, mirror to his pride. In the wake of the wrathful Evanuris, it too, has succumbed to their taint.
Or, where I'm making wild plot speculations surrounding Solas trapped in the fade. while turning my brainrot into art pieces and gifs. I'M PACING MY ENCLOSURE. Looking for crumbs and scrabs of Veilguard. Please Bioware I'm begging, feed me. 😭
#I made like 3 different versions of this lol#Anyways the first sketch is the best#Trying not to over complicate my artworks#When working on my iPad I just keep zooming zooming zooming untill I can give Solas a kiss on the nose#But then I also lose the space for gesture so now I just wave from a tragic distance to my boy#Beautiful bald headed boy#Can't wait to see what new plot the developers have devised to torture him even more. Here is my two cents. Face confrontations to the past#Hell yeah#the veilguard#veilguard speculation#dragon age the veilguard#dragon age theory#da: the veilguard#Da: the Veilguard artwork#Dragon age fanart#Solas#Solas fanart#fen harel#The Dread Wolf#The dreaded husband#art#Daze Chroma#Dazechroma#My art#da:tv#da:v#datv spoilers#datv speculation
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[The Cursed, Unwanted Child: Ostracised by the Village]
#jujutsu kaisen#ryomen sukuna#jjk sukuna#sukuna#jujutsu kaisen fan art#fan art#my art#jjk#heian era#king of curses#true form#og sukuna#somebody said its Sukuna Angst hours#and i took that personally#This time i tried myself to do something a liiittle bit more different#and in a limited time#and also apologies if the blood looks weird i don't really draw blood or gore often if at all#but yes if Gege's not giving us Sukuna's backstory any time soon then i'll just start speculating#this is connected to that brainstorm post i made in the past#i'm so exhausted =_=#i wanted to add more details but like i said#i has ran out of time#V_V#jjk fan art#kid sukuna
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i rarely ever get the Anatomy Worldbuilding Brainworm but suddenly i was struck by it bcs i had been thinking about the weirdness of basilisks and in particular how the whole Ability to change sex through shapeshifting works so. Yippe
#worldbuilding#creature lore#speculative biology#spec bio#speculative evolution#bestiary#pareidolia tag#this is why arvo is like the transiest cis trans guy ever. he was born female but has a male human form#at the same time the human form is still very different from a real human so like#despite being “cis” in that form hes still trans af. You get what i mean#also ik the anatomy here probably isnt 100% accurate or makes sense im no anatomy expert just erm. I just wanted to roughly visualize
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i keep seeing this tweet and it keeps making me think of them... 🤝my man
not to do them any disservice, they are like genuine actual legitimate friends who respect eachother beyond just their mutual of disdain for eggman. but surely they must joke about it..... we didn't really get to see much of them being realbuds at the end of scrapnik but i want to believe they are So homies now
#im still working on asks i prommy this ones just loooong. so intermediate scribbles in the meantime#off-art#scrapnik island#scrapnik mecha sonic#sonic the hedgehog#god scrapnik is a really great example of a thing where the main view of a character is them acting Not As They Usually Are#cause obviously he was not doing that shit before#and obviously hes going to be pretty different going forward since he's getting some of his Baggage figured out#so it leaves a lot to speculate on both ways it's very fun......a scrapnik reunion...my life for a scrapnik reunion....#i dont actually think it'll ever happen but its a blessing in disguise bc that means i will just go make my own. exactly as i want it to be#sonicposting
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Just had a thought:
Jumping off off the moments where izuku tried to talk to his peers, Aoyama leaving, feeling like he failed Tenko, losing OFA, and feeling overall disconnected suddenly(at least, we can read between the lines that he is) from his peers and even from his dream...
What if this epilogue includes Izuku considering LEAVING UA? Has anyone else had the thought that he may end up there?
The logic being that once he has no Quirk, he won't fit into the Hero course. And if he represses all of these emotions like we think he is, he might take that to mean that he doesn't deserve a spot in the Hero course, and have the idea to withdraw.
Obviously this all needs to pan out BUT what if this thing with his friends almost blowing him off, just kind of adds to that negative feeling? Like makes him feel a certain way, like they're already moving on without him?
So he comes to a conclusion that maybe he should withdraw. His friends react of course as you expect they would, likely being shocked and sad, but also knowing hes going through a lot, and so trying to be supportive no matter what? They tell him "hey you dont have to, you have a place with us", but ultimately will support his decision without fighting him too hard, as the case with Aoyama seems to be...but it's REALLY KATSUKI who takes it home. Who NEEDS to take it home, and say what the others won't.
It's Katsuki who confronts him, and has to talk him down from the idea.
And what if that's how we get a Kacchan v Deku 3? Which does not have to be, and really needn't be a literal fight.
It just needs to be that long awaited airing out of all of the unspoken feelings, mainly Izukus feelings of failure (failing to protect Katsuki during the war, failing to save Tomura/Tenko, failing to even hold on to his own dream, ie OFA) and what it all means for his future.
How he thinks logically, if his quirk runs out eventually, he can't be Quirkless in the Hero class. How that dashes all hopes of staying a Pro Hero in the future...
Maybe even what he is thinking about society and pro heroism as a whole now!
Katsukis got to convince him that He is a hero, deserves to be a hero more than anyone. Maybe even concedes that even if the dream of being a hero traditionally speaking has changed, there are so many other ways he can continue making a difference.
How much of a difference he has already made.
And that is when it gets personal, and katsuki confesses further, "you've made all the difference in the world to me already" or something. Maybe spills some more sentimental feelings. Maybe Izuku finally spills some of his, maybe we get a hand hold and or an embrace....
And katsuki makes him promise that he won't give up yet. And if he has to leave the Hero course, he switch to one of the other courses in UA to continue his dream in another route. And promising to be with him every step of the way.
And maybe idk, suggesting they be Hero Partners and open an agency together or something romantic like that. Lmao.
Throw in maybe a little bit of spice somewhere about Katsuki getting worked up and Izuku having a moment of worry about his heart/health and Katsuki retorting that his heart is fine and not to derail their conversation by "worrying about my stupid heart"
Bonus points if there are tears involved, there usually are lol.
#bnha spoilers#bakudeku#bkdk#bakugou katsuki#izuku midoriya#what if though#late night thoughts#epilogue speculation#kacchan crying as he tells izuku how much of a difference hes made in his life would be splendid#kacchan crying as he begs izuku not to go#just kacchan crying bc ylhe usually does in the deku v kacchan chapters#i like the idea especially of kacchan telling Izu he doesnt have to leave ua#he can just switch course and still be there#and still live his dream in a different way#i think that would be SO GOOD#considering what he was like a the beginning#encouraging izu and suggesting alternatives that keep them together#oof#the angst and drama#but also the hopefulness in the message#horikoshi i am outside your window
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Talita and Firth-nga (Fir) chatting about tusks and antlers, as well as their similarly carnivorous diets
@jayrockin your specbio work has been a HUGE inspiration for me!!! I adore Talita and wanted to draw something out of appreciation for your work. I can't wait to see where RTTS goes next!!!
#specbio#rtts#talita rtts#rtts talita#runaway to the stars#specevo#speculative biology#aliens#I mean. Fir is technically from earth just not THIS earth. so he counts as an alien in my heart#rtts fanart#artists on tumblr#GAHH. SO EXCITED TO POST THIS IM VERY HAPPY WITH IT!!!!#talita is a BEAST to get right when drawing her. had to reference like 4 different artworks of her#also wow shes so YELLOW. I hadn't realised until I colourpicked her for this#shes so extremely awesome#HOPE I GOT HER CLOTHES RIGHT....#if anyone is curious Fir is a kiatsorak!!! they're an amphibious mammalian species from an alternate version of Earth#I came up with them when I was 7 and have not stopped thinking about them since
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long time no aliens, huh
#took a bit of a break from drawing woodwinds just Because but felt like drawing them again cause i miss my weird anteaters#also i decided to give the species a few edits. the most noticeable one is probably their hands#they only have 4 digits now and i wanted them to look different between the three species#plainswinds only using their hooves for walking. waspwinds using their hooves and Backwards Digit#and lowinds not having a hoof at all#also gave lowinds more physical differences so they aren't just small blue plainswinds (shorter torso. dewlap skin instead of wattles. etc)#yea :V!#art#drey draws#woodwind aliens#speculative biology#ouuuh i missed my funny guys i need to talk about them for a million hours rn
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Some notes on Wilson's marriages/divorces, and how he met House:
• House didn't just meet a freshly divorced Wilson. He met barely married Wilson, who just got notified about his #1 divorce by a lawyer, not his wife
• Wilson walked around with papers on hand, long enough to give House a chance to sneak a peek. The same day he received the news. (there's a chance it was some sort of middle step in the divorce procedure, but "just served", checkmate your honor)
• House 100% knew that when he bailed him out. No, I don't have any concrete evidence besides "it's fucking House"
• House had Wilson observed the entire time to know he didn't open the papers. The divorce lawyer prob gave him an idea of what it is, and he was just marinating in the suffering juice
• House had to be nosy and stealthy when he checked the package Wilson clung to, he saw what's written on it
• They didn't actually talk at the conference itself, so House did it silently too
• There was a law firm address on the papers, and you couldn't just google shit then. House's had to remember it to investigate it further, or he already knew of the firm (or it said "BLAH LAW FIRM BLAH HERE'S YOUR DIVORCE PAPERS, LOSER", which is possible)
• Wilson likely opened them in a hotel room (or he looked at the package sadly/angrily there too), needed a drink, and House was at the bar
• House was watching Wilson at that conference, then at the bar, then meltdown over the song, then the whole fight and the mess, then the detention, and was like yeah I'll bail that
• "First words you ever said to me." This is when they first talked, Wilson was in jail and the one in need
• Ok alright, hear me out, if House didn't know what the papers were at the time of bailing. There are 2 paths for him to find out
• Wilson STILL had them on hand in jail
• Or Housey saw them at Wilson's hotel room. Yeah
• It's been over the decade since they've met and they both vividly remember the details of that drunk night (I get why for storytelling purposes. Still... Much to think about)
• That conference is either the last one, or one of the lasts, House attended. And that one was already boring to House without Wilson. 15 years prior to s06e06 "Known Unknowns", can't do the timeline magic I just eyeball it
• House also introduced Wilson to Cuddy pretty soon, since she was a witness to the levels of despair he was apparently in
• House might've pestered Cuddy to hire him, or she chose to do so herself (whenever she was dean). Maybe House chased away some poor oncologist to make an opening. Even if House isn't as obsessed with Wilson at the start of season 1, he's always plotting
• There's the brother thing too. Wilson still fresh out of med school, still divorcing, still guilty af and looking for the brother in Princeton, so he was happy to work there
• Prior to that, Wilson was working 2 jobs to support himself and Sam and was ready to follow her to Baltimore
• The divorce and meeting House happened in 1991, the same year USSR completely fell apart. Just thought I'll throw that in #educational
• Wilson was married, non-fraudulently, for 12 years total
• Marriage #1 has only lasted 1 year
• That means every marriage House was present for has lasted longer #math
• Wilson found a way to get fulfilled while in the marriage
• Now he's got a needy bitch with infinite problems and who will slurp any poison he has to siphon
• I'd argue House is what made Wilson bearable at home
• At the same time, House is what kept Wilson away from home, ultimately contributing to the divorce
• Wilson himself describes his marriages as crappy - he doesn't really need help destroying them. House still helps~✨
• Timeline gets wonky, but there couldn't have been much of a downtime between marriages, a couple of years max
• "Fell in love at the wedding" - whatever the fuck that means for Wilson
• Either Wilson met Sam through that wedding, and she also aimed to work in medicine - how they've connected. Or they went there as a couple, both being med students? Got high on emotions and jumped into marriage
• Wilson speedruns relationships once he's in them, so it could've gone "hey that was a nice wedding, how about we have our own?"
• He fucking sucks at proposals, his looks and general air of niceness carried him all 3 times, I will not be hearing any objections on the matter
• When Wilson talks to Cameron about cheating. He says, "I have (cheated). I always told them"
• "Them"
• It's could've been every marriage (#1, #2 and #3). If boy managed to sneak in cheating in his 1-year lightning marriage #1, while he was studying + 2 jobs (now I don't doubt his time management skills, but it's still a hassle. On the other hand, all that stress couldn't have been helping)
• Or it could be #1 and #2, or #1 and #3. But #3 is pretty much a certainty (he flirts with nurses on screen, House is also there), and it's "them", so why would he randomly stop in the middle? Don't think so
• What's most likely is - #2 and #3. When arguing with Sam (#1) again she didn't mention or allude to the cheating, her problem was that Wilson didn't communicate ANY emotions to her, she even admitted to House she made the most mistakes in that marriage, let's say there's some truth in that
• Wilson either didn't tell Sam about cheating, she didn't have a problem with it, or he lied to Cameron
• OR he didn't cheat on Sam
• He started to cheat after the first divorce AND his marriages started to last longer, which is funnier too
• He could've started cheating prior to House entering the picture, but much more likely - after. Divorce and/or House are the cause
• Speaking of. Meeting House is very tightly linked to the #1 divorce. Every time Wilson would think back on it, he would have to think about all the turmoil and getting bailed by House. And vice versa - every time he'd think back on meeting House...
• "I met someone who made me feel funny. And I didn't want to let that feeling go." Another Cameron talk. Ur honor, there's something on that wall
• btw, he is STILL married while meeting House, so if you hilson 1st-night-fuck truther, that meeting is his cheater origin story in a more practical sense. He then could've really meant all the marriages, but then he lied about telling Sam/Cameron, he might not count it since he's divorcing to tell Sam
• Ultimately, he's a huge liar, and I'm wasting my time. What I'm saying - nothing is really off the table with this guy in terms of hcs
• Aftermaths of #2 and #3 aren't really talked about like #1. It must've been really nuclear
• House says neither of them recovered from (#1) divorce to Wilson's face, Wilson doesn't contest that in any way. Even tho House didn't know Wilson before the divorce he usually right on the money with these things
• After the divorce #2 Wilson got 3 legged cat
• After failing to secure marriage #4 (#1 part 2) he got a diabetic cat
• Just like the thing he has with missing phone calls, after every divorce, consciously or not, he might expect a savior to bail him out
• After and during #3 he crashed at House's, then surfed hotels, then moved in with a dying patient, then Amber's, then House moved in with him (still Amber's)
• Maybe his wives kept taking properties in the divorce, and he just stopped getting them
• Man frankly didn't have a home for a while (HOMELESS BUT NOT HOUSELESS)
• Then Wilson finally commits and gets the place for himself and House, from Bonnie (#2)
• Wilson adamantly remains on good terms with his ex-wives (but not random exes. One helps House with a prank, House kept tabs bc of course)
• But Wilson thinks they hate him. Did he ever pay attention to them?
• While spending all the time with House, then cheating, telling his wives about it, Wilson gave them more attention and emotions to delay the divorce
• He also learned how not to get attached in marriage, to not get destroyed by the divorce (excellent gambit if you expect your marriage to fail)
• He has a better support system now too. Can't believe House is your support system, fucking lmao and ouch. Cuddy is his only other friend we see, maybe Stacy at some point (he kept in touch with after the incident)
• All his other friends and family we hear next to nothing about, at best they're surface level
• In season 5 he's only visited by the coworkers/House's team + Cuddy <- all that is pretty much House's tolerance circle
• House is pathetic, but Wilson is something else entirely
#house md#gregory house#lisa cuddy#james wilson#sam carr#bonnie#his failed marriages and house#studying Wilson under a microscope#I was just trying to piece all of this shit together and speculating none of this is gospel lol#ive compiled this thinking i dont have much to say. look at us now#not even touching his “divorces” w house here#that's entirely different beast#might've missed something obvious - feel free to add/correct#prob got carried away and tunneled#but wow that first divorce must've been rough#if i was house and saw the man so distraught at some dusty conference breaking shit over a song id fall in love too#you might think im obsessed but im really not#long post#longpost#like actually longpost
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Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !
Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)
I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!
someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)
uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE
#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 4 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 4 spoilers#mel is so cute but mal fits with the rest of the draconias better#eng version no you were supposed to save me not make things MORE confusing#anyway raverne huh#that uh. that sure feels like it's supposed to evoke raven doesn't it.#what does it mean WHAT DOES IT MEAN#hold on i'm going to flail around embarrassingly about anime character theories now#(okay first a disclaimer: i do think we need to sit down as a fandom at some point)#(and have a discussion about exactly what is actual canon versus meta speculation versus jokes)#(because i think there has been. some confusion. over that re:crowley and raverne specifically)#(but i do feel justified in being like THEY ARE PROBABLY CONNECTED SOMEHOW RIGHT?! right now)#like i really don't think it's as simple as crowley being raverne but with memory loss or something#(and if they pull that on us i'm going to need an EXTREMELY good explanation to go with it to justify that)#they've gone out of their way several times now to make a point about them acting and sounding different and it feels very intentional to m#(and once again: i super 100% absolutely do not believe that lilia wouldn't recognize him with the top half of his face covered)#i just think the contradictions are a lot stronger than the connections right now but there ARE some connections and i'm 👀ing at them#to be fair the connections are mostly meta like crowley being diablo/raverne being evocative of raven#also the general 'raverne mysteriously disappeared and apparently had distinctive eyes' thing#versus 'crowley's past is unknown and he never shows his eyes'#(i will argue that crowley DOES seem to have some kind of canon connection to briar valley)#(since he is clearly some sort of fae and the masks are a briar valley thing)#and that is kinda it right now isn't it#okay hold on i had to delete some tags because i used too many (thanks tumblr for letting me know and not just vanishing them OH WAIT)#so tl;dr: i'm in the 'crowley is connected to raverne somehow but it's more complicated than just him being in disguise' camp personally#but that will probably change as we get more info and also don't take this as an anti-speculation thing because i love theories HOORAY
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Khait overview:
Khait are domesticated bovids. Their wild ancestors were a wildebeest-like antelope standing an average of 48-55 inches at the shoulder, while modern khait exist in a variety of sizes and forms. The majority of riding khait average out at 55-65 inches tall, though exist in small but exceptionally hardy 'pony' forms adapted to harsh terrain, and (much less commonly) as very large draft animals. Their horn shape, coloration, and mane shape/length/texture varies tremendously across the domestic population, as a result of both natural development and active selective breeding.
They were first domesticated on the vast western steppes in a slow process of accommodation to caelin scavenger-nomads that would follow their herds to consume their dead. Their use was initially solely for meat and hides (and being passively ridden by their 20-30lb handlers), and gradually came to encompass carrying packs, plowing, pulling carts, and eventually pulling chariots and being actively ridden when their domestic population came into human and elowey possession. Their ability to carry large riders shaped the trajectory of human and elowey history and spread, and they remain the key and most widespread mounts used by the large mammalian peoples.
Their usage is functionally near identical to horses in real life- most of the domestic population are large, strong animals capable of carrying grown humans on their back, pulling carts and hauling packs, etc - but they have significant behavioral differences to anatomically modern horses (and the small, three toed horses in the setting).
When left to their own devices, mares and their young will form loose, overlapping territories. Females form strong social bonds amongst themselves and their herds may retain the same members for life, but they do not form permanent attachments with males. Young males are driven off by their mothers at adolescence, and will coalesce in bachelor herds until they are mature enough to compete for mating rights. Adult bulls establish their own territories and defend these from other males during the breeding season while females pass through at will.
In captivity, the majority of males will be gelded. Geldings are typically unaggressive and adopt female-esque social behavior, developing strong peer bonds with mixed herds of females and other geldings. Intact adolescent males can be kept together until they are fully mature (4-5 years old), while bulls are typically kept apart from all other intact males (though in practice, many individuals may coexist peacefully if not in the presence of receptive females). An optimal captive setup is to keep a herd of up to 30 females and geldings on the same land as a single intact bull. If breeding is to be avoided, captive herds should be separated into mare and gelding bands during the summer months (ideally with both groups able to see, touch, and smell each other), with the bull kept with the geldings. Fully separating a bull from contact with a herd is damaging to the animal’s health- they are highly social prey animals and will suffer from severe stress if deprived.
Khait maintain social bonds primarily via grooming, spending much of their time at rest meticulously licking each other. This strengthens their bonds and relieves stress and physical discomfort. They retain some juvenile behavioral traits well into adulthood as a byproduct of domestication and will readily engage in social play while at ease- chasing, headbutting, kicking, mud rolling, and scraping dirt with their horns.
Herds maintain stable dominance structures. The dominant individual is typically the eldest mare (though in captive herds a gelding may take this position) while young individuals and immigrant members are at the bottom of the social structure. Hierarchy is maintained through ritualized displays rather than overt aggression, though dominant individuals may be physically aggressive towards unfamiliar khait, and introductions of new animals to a herd must be done cautiously. Bachelor herds have only loose social ties with no real hierarchy, and territorial bulls have no distinct place in the dominance hierarchy of associated herds. Mares are known to frequently mount each other (and geldings) as an aspect of dominance behavior, while bulls are occasionally known to mount other males during socialization and play.
Mares have a seasonal breeding cycle determined by daylight hours (going through estrus cycles in the summer and anestrus in the winter), but their receptive period is far longer than that of their wild ancestors (which would have only bred for a month-long period in late summer) as a byproduct of domestication. Dominant mares get first dibs on breeding and may attempt to prevent low ranking mares from mating (though a bull will usually attempt to mate with all receptive members of the herd).
In the presence of receptive mares, bulls put on elaborate performances to advertise their health and willingness to mate. They aggressively scent mark their surroundings with glands on the hooves and below the eye, urinate with an erection to spray their leg and chest hair, toss their manes, scrape the ground with their hooves, dig out tufts of dirt and grass with their horns, and chase females around with a very silly looking, high stepping trot. When two bulls compete, they will perform these behaviors in each other’s direction while periodically stopping to investigate each other by scent. If one does not back down during this challenge display, they may fight. High intensity fights involve both animals dropping to their knees and locking horns, shoving until one falters or flees. These shoving matches may be physically intense, but are ritualized and rarely result in actual injuries. Bulls are occasionally known to get their horns locked together (particularly in the context of domesticated khait having a variety of horn shapes), which can be fatal if not intervened with, and attempting to untangle two very large, panicked animals can be fraught.
Mares investigate a bull’s condition by observation and scent before allowing a close approach, and may mate with the same male multiple times in one estrus cycle. Gestation lasts about 10 months, and foals are born capable of standing and running within hours. Pregnancies almost always produce one foal, with twin births being very rare but not unknown.
Khait are fully domesticated and come from long lines of ancestors accommodated to extensive handling, but their instincts as prey animals make the process of 'breaking' a khait can be complicated. The halter, bit, and saddle is unsettling for unaccommodated animals, and the sensation of being mounted by a rider resembles being pounced on by a predator and may be distressing. The methods used to train a khait for riding vary tremendously across cultures- existing anywhere on a spectrum between wrestling a yearling down, mounting it, and holding on for dear life until the khait calms (perhaps a briefly traumatic approach, but often necessary to the demands of life in a khait-based nomadic context) to extremely gradual accommodation processes lasting years.
Human (and other sophont) keepers benefit from the khait's proclivity towards dominance hierarchies, but cannot fully fill roles in the khait social system. Khait behavior towards handlers differs strongly from behavior towards other khait, as they conceptualize people as non-threatening predators. However, khait can still form strong and trusting bonds with handlers. A comfortable, healthy, well bonded khait will implicitly trust their handler in matters of watching for predators, and will usually tolerate annoyances in handling that they would otherwise react to aggressively. They will attempt to bond with handlers by grooming (ie: licking them), and are known to produce wholly unique contact calls reserved for their associated sophonts and never used towards other khait. A handler responding to in kind (scratching and brushing, speaking and singing to it) will reinforce this bond, which can last the khait's entire life.
Khait are socially intelligent animals, and adept at reading body language and emotional cues (scent, tone of voice, etc) of the sophonts they are accommodated to. This is partly instinctual behavior developed over generations of living with a specific sophont, but largely a learned process- a khait born to human-accommodated parents growing up with elowey handlers will eventually become 'fluent' in their handler's body language (it just may take longer to do so).
#I realized I've never like. actually introduced khait as animals. They aren't Just like Horses But Different (though definitely did draw#on some horse behavior here and there especially wrt how they relate to humans and react to saddle training)#I say 'wildebeest like animals' because I based them on wildebeest but wanted to have some flexibility with their behaviors. A lot of#what I described is accurate to wildebeest (or like. a speculative domesticated wildebeest) but some of it draws from#other bovids entirely#creatures
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i decided to change a little bit about the bäckahäst humanoid form, and realised that they have some superficial similarities to skogsrå, so heres a thing ironing out their differences a little
#fantasy#huldra#bäckahäst#skogsrå#speculative biology#spec bio#pareidolia tag#bestiary#creature lore#lore#(huldras are referred to as skogsrå as well in pareidolia btw. or irl i guess LOL)#(skogsrå is just the regional term.... the huldra and skogsrå are very similar myths irl so its likely its the case there too)#in case ur ootl bäckahästar in pareidolia can turn into a humanoid... it has to do with the myth of näcken#(basically ppl think they are two different “creatures” but theyre actually the same just in different forms)#worldbuilding
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i don't know what order to start Dissecting, so i'll just start with:
it's absolutely fascinating how the dynamic Wally & Barnaby had - to my knowledge - before the update, and a dynamic i'd seen speculated elsewhere and generally accepted, has been completed turned on its head
see, given that Wally is the "main character" and Barnaby is classified as "his best friend", i got the feeling that Barnaby kind of... tags along on Wally's 'shenanigans'. that he's the sidekick, the best friend. especially since their dynamic has been previously & briefly described as "Barnaby is very polite to Wally." he's the Companion.
but the audios sorta paint a reverse picture. in the Interview, when Barnaby enters stage right, he completely bowls over Wally's introduction and dominates the interview. when the interviewer asks how the two of them are handling the fame, even outright asking Wally, Barnaby doesn't hesitate to answer the question himself, and only about himself. Wally doesn't get another word in edge-wise until the interviewer explicitly singles Wally out.
(now, an argument could be made that Barnaby knew that Wally was somewhat overwhelmed with all of the questions, and tried to take the reins to give him a reprieve. but, considering that the interview seems to be very early on the possible timeline - like, very soon after Welcome Home debuted - i don't think this is likely. i doubt Barnaby and Wally would've had the time to solidify their dynamic or really get to know each other that well yet)
and Barnaby continues to take point in pretty much all of their other conversations, too. like in the mystery Howdy/Barnaby/Wally audio, their interaction gives off the vibes that Wally is Barnaby's sidekick, his tag-along.
(on a related tangent, it's fascinating how the website described the episodes as "[beginning] with Wally introducing the focus or theme for the day before coming across other characters who would join him on his escapades until the end of the day." but from pretty much everything we've seen so far, it seems like He's the one who's just along for the ride, bouncing from neighbor shenanigan to neighbor shenanigan instead of having his own adventures.
of course, if the 14 audios are present time, which is honestly somewhat likely, this could be because the show isn't running. they aren't doing episodes - they're just existing, doing their things. no need for Wally to take point in any way shape or form. tangent over)
in the 14 audios with Barnaby, he doesn't even acknowledge Wally until the very end - which, of course, could be because that's how the scenes are set up. except that in some of them, the characters do directly acknowledge Wally's presence outside of the endings. Eddie in 5-14, Howdy and Poppy in 1-14, and Frank in 4-14 (technically, since he was infodumping to Wally at the very start before Barnaby interrupted). you'd think that a guy would try to include his best friend a little more!
maybe i'm reading into it too much. & given what we know about Wally as a character, it would make sense for Barnaby to be the go-getter Main Guy of the two. but it really seems like its Barnaby & Wally instead of Wally & Barnaby. he's just kinda... there. going along with whatever Barnaby is up to.
but also, on the other side of things - & it's occurring to me as i type this, it's interesting how in a lot of audios, Barnaby seems to seek Wally out. in "Just So", he shows up to fetch Wally. in 4-14, Barnaby interrupts Frank and Wally's gardening session, almost as if he's stopping by to check on his little buddy. in 7-14, Barnaby calls Julie's house (presumably) searching for Wally, or at least checking in once again. something to consider in all of this!
#and if the 14 audios are in the same day along a timeline - which they Are. im trying to puzzle it out rn but anyway -#its interesting how barnaby just kept. checkin. in.#they had three audios where they were already hanging out and then got two (technically three) more where barnaby checked in!#it feels like there's something there...#separation anxiety? a compulsion? love for his buddy? a secret fourth thing?#maybe he could tell something was Off with wally that day...#(which is a topic i will ramble about in a different post)#its a push & pull to be certain....#but yeah that plus all the evidence of Barnaby kinda being the Lead and wally being brushed off to the side....#what a complicated fuckin picture it paints!!! dont know what it means yet!#i have another post im working on centering on how the neighbors seem to treat each other - wally & eddie especially#but this post aint about that. itll be related though#homebogging#wh speculation#please let this have made sense!#when i make posts i just kinda throw myself at it bc i have No organizational skills!#my brain is a complete incoherent mess and i am so sorry if this post is messy <3
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So I don’t think Gerrard knows about BT - we’ve only been shown him acknowledging (in a derogatory way) that Tommy is gay. But while buck was in the scene, so too was Chim and nothing was indicated about Bucks sexuality - so I don’t think Gerrard knows he’s bi.
So what if we get Buck and Eddie being all flirty work husbands and Gerrard sees them behaving as they always have and he tries to call Eddie out for being inappropriate and gay in the firehouse. Eddie just takes it but Buck isn’t having any of it (slashing his neck at Buck to cut it out and let it drop) and tries to defend Eddie. Gerrard gets mad at the insubordination and calls a line up - where he proceeds to go for Eddie with the wild orange packet. - calling him both racist and homophobic slurs (in a way that’s not quite over the line enough to get himself fired because he might be hideous but he’s not stupid) hence Bucks clenched fists as he can’t say or do anything.
#this cues up Eddie questioning things - because he’s never actually been called up on the way he behaves towards buck before#and what if it isn’t platonic - what does that mean for him - does that make him queer?#does that mean he’s disrespecting Shannon even more and that his grief isn’t just about her but also about how hes realising the love he had#for her was different and what he thought was his great love wasn’t his great love - so he’s feeling guilty as well#and he’s spiralling into his gay awakening#and also then into pining because Buck isn’t available as an option#me wildly speculating and having fun#it’s like writing a fic idea down without actually writing the fic (I don’t have the time to write it!)#911 spoilers#eddie diaz#evan buckley#911 abc#buddie#911 speculation#anti bucktommy#not really but to be safe!
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Miwi flashbacks shot years ago that we've never seen before in S5 would fix me, actually
#even if just different perspectives from the scenes we did see#just the wonderful feeling of validation that it was planned all along#the extra layers added to classic scenes#i will combust#miwi#flashbackgate#byler speculation#byler theory#st5 speculation#st5 predictions#st5 hopes#st5 theory
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