#im not tagging all the characters tho. too many

[suppenzeit]

fuck it. hits them with the furry beam

below are explanations for why i chose the species i did

Solas - Wolf, because he's the. He's the Dread Wolf.

Varric - American badger. Badgers usually live in burrows, and are short and stocky! Chose American badgers for their shorter faces.

Cassandra - Nearly entirely inspired by Karelian Bear Dogs, because I think a hunting dog is a good fit for someone from a family of dragon hunters

Cullen - A German Shepherd or Malinois type dog. Breeds often used as guard and police dogs

Leliana - Red fox, for obvious reasons (she's a redhead and sneaky. like foxes)

Josephine - Deer, I used marsh deer as a main inspo tho. Friend suggested a bird and that would've really fit but birds aren't always the most expressive, sadly. Why's she a deer? Vibes.

Dorian - Caracal, because caracals look fancy and like warm environments. He's my favorite to draw can you tell.

Sera - A lynx of sorts. Honestly this one was just vibes too

Cole - Jackrabbit. Because they're lanky and have unnerving stares. Also I think the ridiculous ears would match his hat. :)

Iron Bull - I think this is obvious. Kinda wanted to do something else just as a bit but bulls really do just fit him!

Blackwall - Markhor. At first I wanted a bear but bears are a bit too round and bulky to fit him, and I also wanted his beard in there naturally.

Vivienne - Melanistic serval. Again, just vibes. Was also considering a leopard, since they're also regal, but I wanted her headpiece shape in there.

and lastly, Felix - Dobermann mix of sorts. This is also just vibes but it's also because the thingies on his dads hood remind me of cropped dobermann ears.

(Hukka is of course a wolf as well. it wouldn't be right to make him any other animal)

[sugarcoatednightshade]

thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

[pr0cyon-lotor]

Chat!!!

AU where Shen Yuan gets transmigrated into the body of a rogue cultivator and he finds a stray little girl. He picks her up and decides to raise her as his own since apparently she has no one.

The little girl's name? Su Xiyan.

Somehow she still ends up in Huan Hua Palace, but she manages to avoid Old Palace Master better. She still gets sent to seduce Tianlang-jun, and she still falls in love.

Shen Yuan approves because he does trust his daughter, but he does think her taste in men is... interesting. He manages to help Su Xiyan escape from Huan Hua when she realizes she has Luo Binghe. So Tianlang-jun isn't sealed either.

Years later, he meets Shen Jiu, and they fall in love. They're fluffy and cute, eventually they get married. But tragedy strikes as Shen Yuan is attacked by a demon using Without A Cure.

The wound was too large, he was too tired, his swag too swagful, his heart too big, his ass too fat. They killed my mans 😔

Shen Jiu and Su Xiyan are the people holding him as he dies. He feels fulfilled since he at least cherished his family this life.

Then Shen Yuan wakes up, he's at the hospital. He is confused at first but then a nurse calms him down and says it was probably a coma dream. Shen Yuan accepts this answer, yet he feels like he's too old for his body and his family notice he's suddenly a lot wiser and calm.

After all the therapy (both physical and mental) he is discharged. His family hover around him, and he lets it happen since he feels like he hasn't seen them in like years. Eventually they trust him to go on his own again.

Shen Yuan decides to become a teacher. He lives a rather calm life, but he can't help but feel like he left something behind. He constantly dreams about taking care of a little girl and marrying a beautiful man. (So maybe the dreams helped him realize he wasn't straight, but for some reason he felt like he already knew that.)

During one of his morning walks he encounters a cat with a golden coat and cream colored underbelly and sock. He barely managed to get a look at it before it bolted to him, meowing and yelling.

He eventually gets the memo and takes the cat with him, who seems content with it. He names her Su Xiyan after the little girl in his dreams.

Throughout the days of first having her, he notices that other cats tend to come visit. One has a completely black coat and keeps trying to seemingly catch Xiyan's attention. And another is a beautiful white cat with green eyes, who seems extremely fond of him, that is followed by a large grey tabby.

Shen Yuan ends up just getting used to the cats on his balcony and leaves food for them. They all seem to like him for some reason, probably because he gives them food.

The white cat is the most bold and just walks into his apartment whenever he wants Shen Yuan's attention. At least the grey tabby is sensible enough to wait for him to say he's allowed inside.

The white cat always hisses and fights with a tuxedo cat that always has a smaller cat following behind. The small cat is sweet, the bigger one tends to leave dead rats in front of his door...

Shen Yuan gets used to the fluffy semi-roommates. Eventually even a few kittens join the group, one from Xiyan herself and it looks suspiciously like the tomcat constantly following her. Even the hissy white cat has two little kittens following him, a little calico and a siamese kitten.

Life is good and Shen Yuan had too many cats.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OH ARTHUR BENNETT.. such a gorgeous and intriguing character. terribly burdened by a GRUESOME set of crimes, his light suffocated by a HEAVY century of GUILT. so tragic, so dark and broody, and yet PAINFULLY awkward in any social setting ever

[bonestrouslingbones]

btw one of the things i want to do when i really rap up atbb for real is spontaneously get the energy at will to do actual updated fullbodies of the main 4 since now i actually have the ability to draw them the way they look in my head & have the skills to put some more variety in their shapes. basically i wanna

[100-gar]

Controversial take but i watched all of jjk, in subbed, so it had my full attention 100% of the time, and i am of the opinion that it just fucking sucks.

So me and my wife were talking about it, and we were trying to figure out why people like it and we've come up short. I do not understand what's so appealing about this show for so many people. Can someone PLEASE tell me.

[j-esbian]

stole this template from @imaginescalemates lol but this was actually a lot of fun. i guess i DO tend to gravitate towards certain character types

[quirkle2]

Shigeo follows slowly, and a bit distantly, perhaps. Her voice feels a bit like jello; it doesn’t help that the rest of the cafeteria drowns out half of her words. “Is there a reason you think somebody is doing this and not… ya’know. Just bad reception or something?” Mezato ticks her finger back and forth like a grandfather clock. “Mob, Mob, Mob… First of all, bad reception does not cause phones to overheat and explode—actual case here, by the way—and second of all, don’t you want it to be some weird, paranormal thing going on?” “Uhm,” Shigeo tries, deciding between the “correct” answer in Mezato’s head and the correct answer in basic morality, “No?” She blinks, and then slumps, eyes lidded as her neckerchief almost dips into her vegetables. “Simpleton, Mob. Simpleton! Don’t you like excitement?” Shigeo stares at her blankly, hoping the message is clear.

[cinnabeat]

literally what was the point of hiding brains face in the beginning

[primordyalsoul]

one thing about me is that i'll never be over episode 23.

especially because the first time i watched it, I was confused about who was saying what in the interaction between Rei and the angel. But I think it doesn't really matter, because all of it is reflective of Rei's inner feelings, as she's essentially having her own mini instrumentality here, a dialogue with herself.

angel: i'll share what's in my heart with you. see? doesn't your heart hurt?

rei: hurt? no, this is...loneliness?

angel: loneliness? i don't understand.

rei: you don't want to be alone. we are many, but you are not. you hate it, don't you? that is loneliness.

angel: that is what's inside your heart. that is your own heart, overflowing with sorrow.

[lunarrampage]

I'm a big advocate of just blocking and moving on when seeing bad takes about your interests but that's mostly because I rarely travel outside the small circle of artists and mutuals I follow and ohhhh boy after having seen the worst take about a beloved blorbo I suddenly understand everything, it was like a redditer overtook my body and I almost went into a rage as I resisted the urge to "um actually" and type up an entire essay in ops comment section but I persevered. Are you all proud of me.

[pocketramblr]

dndhat movie is fun but i'll admit a good 30% of my fun was pointing at the screen like "wait i have a character/party member who does that too! :0!!"

[ashen-laguz]

the act 1 + 2 experience on my main bg3 file;

the act 3 experience so far of my tav wondering why everyone's trusting them with ~all this horseshit~ after they've been nothing but a dumbass menace all game

[ugartecoco]

kinda miss volleyball ngl

[starflared-arrow]

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[ilaiyayaya]

Haha what if I hacked the Genshin Impact servers and hypothetically sent a server-wide message to all players that said "Haha I hackered the gaem and now you hjave to see this message where I tell you to have a very nice day and thank you for-a playing my game! :)" I think that would be funny I think

7 ROLLS AWAY FROM RATE UP PITY! 7 ROLLS!!!!! SURELY I'LL GET CLORINDE TOMORROW, ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY!!! I mean I pretty much have a 100% chance of getting her before her banner ends as long as I get at least 1 roll per day since there's 8 days left but like, I WANT HER NOW!!!!! doing the math starts typing 80085 into my super calculator if I do my dailies and also do a *tiny* bit of grinding each day (open 1 chest) I have a 100% chance to get her before her banner ends, BUT, I'm a genetic freak and I'm not normal, so I got a 141 2/3% chance of winning at gambling (that means, tomorrow's the big win!). The numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for THE FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT WHO INVENTED GAMBLING I HATE GACHA GAMES I HATE IT I FUCKING HATE IT!!! I JUST WANT FONTAINE YURI WOMAN #2!!!!!!!!

But, but, see here's the thing, I have god (lots of stellar jade) on my side, and jesus would never let me down, The Bear just knows that tomorrow SAM (I will not call her Firefly I don't care about shinji i only care about the robot shinji is supposed to fucking get in) is releasing in Star Rail, and I have loadsa rolls saved up in that game and also pity because I only roll on like 1 character every 6 months in that game because I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT AVENTURINE I DON'T CARE IF HE'S GAY HE SMELLS WEIRD. I'm gonna get the funni epic hot epic funni robot hot robot and also her light cone while only spending 2 rolls total because god, jesus, and the bear all love me very much and want me to succeed in life (predatory gacha games) AND god, jesus, and the bear i need to fucking stop saying that it's becoming a problem i can't get that phrase out of my head getoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyheadgetoutofmyhead are just saving my Clorinde pull for tomorrow, that way I can be extra super happy and get 2 epic vimeo games characters in 1 day, thus tripling my life expectancy! it's so simple, it's not that I have bad luck, it's just that I'm actually the luckiest girl on the whole wide internet and ALL OF MY LUCK IS GONNA HIT TOMORROW ALL AT ONCE AND I'LL GET CLORINDE AND I'LL GET FIREFLY AND ALSO ELON MUSK WILL DIE AND ALIENS WILL COME DOWN FROM SPACE AND GIVE ME 1 BILLION DOLLARS AND UMMM YEA :))))