#lesser weasel

[maybejaime]

Lesser Weasel you will always be so silly to me

[gutsofgold]

Lesser is SUCH a silly guy we need to talk about him more

[thatrandomartistjavi]

Putting this here cause why not. Made this to silence the brainworms

[javi-selfships]

Sheryl be like “This is my boyfriend and this is my boyfriend’s boyfriend and this is my boyfriend’s other boyfriend”

[whitmerule]

tfw when you turn your back for ten seconds and your minions are fighting again

what's a chief weasel to do

[weltato]

I need someone to yell at me about the Wind in the Willows musical pls

It's been going around and around in my brain for a few days now

Ratty & Mole have my heart <33

[inthewiiildwoods]

the wild wooders sleep in a giant pile together during the day. chief weasel pretends he hates it so no one knows how comforted he is by the warmth + safety of being surrounded by His Guys™

lesser + cheryl always weasel their way into the pile to be at his side. they call a temporary truce to their rivalry each night so they can both enjoy these moments (as the alternative, they found, is they are both kicked out for their squabbling)

[chiefweasel]

Okay, so, this could either be an au where Chief and Lesser don't get together, or can be placed after Chief gets with Sheryl, but before he gets with Lesser:

Imagine Lesser knowing how he feels for Chief, but knowing Chief is happy with Sheryl, and wondering if he ever even had a chance with Chief... then Mike comes in with this shit just to be a dick.

He was a lot taller than Leslin. Of course he was. He was a fox, a large sly, sneaky, thieving, scheming fox (not to say all foxes were like that, but this one definitely was) A fox that could have easily devoured the lesser animal with a quick snap of its jaw.

Lesser hadn't felt this small, this helpless since he was a pup. Only now he felt smaller, more helpless. It had been a long, long time since someone betrayed his trust. He never thought it would happen again. He wished Benji was there. A part of him wished Benji was in Mike's position. Knowing what Mike knew and all. The rest of him was too scared to note on the stupididty.

"Of course you could have been together " Mike almost cooed at the least weasel as he played when the rim of his hat, "Benji loved you front the start."

Leslin had loved his best friend for almost as long as he'd known him. Even before he knew males could opt to be mates. Les could always count on Benji to be there through anything. He'd stop bullies and share his meals. How could anyone not fall in love? But he'd never think in a million years the greater weasel would like him back. Besides, as a child, Benji's dad would always say he and Sheryl would make for a good match- and Benji's dad was right! The two made for one of the best couples Lesser had ever seen. He only wished it didn't hurt him so badly to look.

Mike saw how Leslin looked, how his lip trembled. He wouldn't let up. The weasel had knowledge he wanted. The weasel was going to tell the fox what he wanted to know.

"He was just scared of his feelings." The fox continued, moving towards Lesser with a water like fluidity, stopping to pick up a stick. In the dirt beneath him he drew two interlocked circles. Each with diagonal arrows pointing upwards at the left side. He stomped on it.

Benji hadn't just been scared of his feelings, he was scared of being gay. He had to wipe away forming tears. Leslin didn't want to see anymore. He looked down, but Mike only dropped to a squat and forced Lesser's eyes to meet his own. If only it were Benji in that situation.

"For all his cockiness, he didn't know how to act around you."

Lesser had always hated the way a fox smiled. Was it rude, stereotypical, and probably offensive? Yes, but their smiles were so predatory. Their teeth were so sharp.

Mike knew. And Mike used it to his advantage.

"And you know Benji." The fox stood, still forcing the weasel to face him. Before dropping it and walking away. "He likes to dance."

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Phylogenetic weasel tournament

Family: Mustelidae

Subfamily: Ictonychinae

Genus: Galictis

Two very similar southern american species. They differ in their sizes and their natural ranges.

pictures: 1, 2, 3, 4

[animal-families-tournaments]

[maybejaime]

I think Lesser Weasel should be allowed to say fuck. For enrichment.

[gutsofgold]

lesser has a habit of getting stuck in places and cheryl has a habit of laughing at him rather than helping him just saying

[sneakyweasel404]

I have been going mad over DAYS trying to settle on a character design for a mustelid character. My brain is melting.

They're a Colombian weasel, lesser grisson and a hybrid possibly-maybe.

[forthegothicheroine]

I've made a post about great lesser-known noirs, but it occurs to me that some of you might not be familiar with the classics, and might want to know where to start. This is a ridiculously short list- I have a million more to talk about- but here are some of the big stars of the genre.

The Maltese Falcon: Sam Spade, a clever but callous private detective, gets wrapped up in intrigue relating to an artifact that is functionally cursed. If he's an unscrupulous character, just wait until you meet everyone else. The whole damn cast is electrifying, lending charm and cruelty in equal measure.

The Big Sleep: Philip Marlowe, a kinder and more poetic detective for Humphrey Bogart to play than Spade, is called upon to deal with a wealthy, dysfunctional family, and it keeps on getting weirder from there. Is the sharp-tongued Vivian Sternwood the femme fatale she seems, or is she just another person trying to find the right thing to do in desperate circumstances? And will she and Marlowe keep their hands off each other until the plot has had its last twist?

Double Indemnity: Rich housewife Phyllis Dietrichson and sleazy insurance agent Walter Neff are, by their own admission, rotten people. It's only natural that they should plot a murder together, and that they should turn on each other the very second things go wrong. Every single domestic murder movie since 1944 has ripped this off.

Kiss Me Deadly: This is nominally an adaptation of a Mike Hammer story. Screenwriter Bezzerides hated Mike Hammer. As depicted here, he is one of the worst people in the world. Depending on the cut of the film you see, he may inadvertently cause the nuclear apocalypse. (For once, the theatrical cut is darker.)

Sweet Smell of Success: Cruel, all-powerful columnist JJ Hunsecker wants his sister's boyfriend out of the way (for reasons that are, um, ambiguous.) To accomplish this, he enlists the biggest weasel in New York, Sidney Falco, and the two completely deserve each other as they spend the rest of the movie trading elaborate insults. Popular on tumblr for its dialogue and chemistry between the leads.

Sunset Boulevard: Broke screenwriter Joe Gillis thinks he can con a has-been into hiring him as a script doctor, and that's the last free decision he ever gets to make. From then on, his life is in the hands of Norma Desmond, silent film starlet turned crazed recluse, terrifying yet intensely pitiable. This is as much gothic horror as noir.

Ace in the Hole: The story of a man trapped in a cave is turning out to be a big hit in the newspaper, and if the publicity will make a reporter's career, then what's the harm in delaying rescue just for a little while? This is as vicious as noir gets, but damn it, you've just got to see what happens next. (Watch Jacob Geller's video Fear of the Depths after this.)

Sorry Wrong Number: Of all the films on this list, this is the one that really scared me. In the days of switchboards, a rich hypocondriac woman is connected to the wrong phone line and overhears a murder being planned. It doesn't take her long to figure out she's the intended victim, and each call she makes or recieves makes the situation darker. But how can she escape her fate if she can't- or won't leave her bed?

The Asphalt Jungle: The heist movie. Maybe the only heist movie ever made. Every line is quotable. Every member of the team is an unforgettable personality. When things go wrong, they go horribly wrong. One minute you're laughing, and the next minute you think you'll never laugh again.

Gun Crazy: Laurie and Bart, two practiced sharpshooters, are perhaps the most perfect match in all of noir- and that's a bad thing. When one half of the duo gets a criminal idea in their head, the other can't say no. When the opportunity to ditch her man like a sap comes up, the femme fatale throws it away to be doomed at his side. He fell in love with her when she first aimed a gun at him. Quentin Tarantino kissed star Peggy Cummins's feet at a showing of the film, and I hope she kicked him in the head.

Laura: Everyone was in love with Laura Hunt, and somebody killed her- or did they? Did they get the right person? Is the cop on the case in love with a dead woman? Was her columnist mentor just her gay best friend, or was there something darker beneath that facade? And what would Laura think of all this? A big inspiration on Twin Peaks.

In a Lonely Place: Bogart isn't at all heroic here, as a screenwriter with a drinking habit and a violent temper. He's obviously a bad idea to date, but just how bad an idea? He's not the type of guy who'd kill a woman, is he? Bogart and Gloria Holden give perhaps their best performances here, and they'll wound your soul.

Touch of Evil: A Mexican cop (played, unfortunately, by Charlton Heston) finds out a nasty secret about the big hero cop Hank Quinlan: he's framed the culprit in most of his cases. Not because he's crooked, but because his intuition tells him they're guilty. Director Orson Welles as Quinlan is frightening, grotesque, and a little bit tragic in what some consider the last classic noir.

The Killers: The first twenty minutes or so are an adaptation of a Hemingway story, where out of town hitmen gun down a man so depressed he won't even bother to run from them. The rest of the film is an investigation into how he got that way. It had something to do with a radiant gangster's girl, and something to do with a few botched crimes. Sometimes a man can die before the bullets even touch him.

The Third Man: Everybody is lying about the whereabouts of an American expatriate named Harry when his friend comes looking. Did they do something to him? Or, more frightening still, is he the one who's been doing things to other people? Orson Welles is a more charming monster than he was in Touch of Evil; the light and shadows on his face cast him as a vampire, while his fingers sticking up through the sewer grate look like something terrifying emerging from the earth.

[tubbytarchia]

To all the nosy neighbour enjoyers, thank you for being that. Anyway here's my propaganda!! Just some of my favorite moments tee hee

Sorry if my BigB looks weird (I tried really hard :( ) I'll pretend that that's intentional given my rabbit hybrid BigB thoughts under cut:

I made a little post about this before but basically BigB has such rabbit behavior:

1. Cannot help but keep burying himself underground like it's his natural habitat (seriously he comes back on ground to build a house on a mountain and then immediately makes an elaborate underground hideout again. Or how he built backrooms in SL and kept retreating there. Or how he was literally underground when he ran into Pearl, for Pearl to inform him that it was night time and BigB immediately wanting to retreat back underground. Or how he was underground for almost the entire "red winter is coming" session. Or)

2. Often fidgety around others

3. Constantly cautious but doesn't let nervousness show if there is any

4. More prone to keeping distance and watching rather than engaging

Idk he is extremely prey animal behavior (positive, affectionate) and I can never see him as anything but a rabbit now. I considered giving him rabbit legs too but then I was like nah. Because I think him having weird rabbit posture in a mostly human body contributes some inherent awkwardness and a bit of uncannines (fitting with his gaslighting tendencies). After all he's kind of out of his element above ground (or that's how he acts!) and that's when people are going to be seeing him. But just you wait till he stands tall for a change to tell someone off (like Cleo in SL or Scott in LimL). And with such posture, he inadvertently makes himself look smaller, which certainly would help him weasel his way out of undesired situations like he often does, eg by talking people into pitying him to save himself from dying. I'd also like to imagine him to be smart enough to manipulate his rabbit ears to not betray how he's feeling or to make others think he's feeling a certain way, unless he feels particularly threatened or something. That's maybe half the appeal of animal ears to me, that they can be an added tool for emoting, but a hybrid moving them in deliberate ways is a fun concept!

Oh and he has caving boots!!

I do kind of seethingly hate how he looks with his ears drawn back but I did the best I could. I really hate having human ears in addition to animal ears personally, but if I put his ears any further up where they'd look cuter (Pearl's antennae for comparision) it'll look really weird. Aghh whatever he's supposed to be awkward so whatever please ignore it Im going to cry

Also if you think the old design is cuter, it's almost certainly because of the lesser facial hair lol trust me!! And I changed the curly hair to be a bit less curly in likeness to Lee from Walking Dead because I did not realize that BigB's skin is basically that and I couldn't help myself. I was overall really unhappy with my old BigB design so yay for redesign. I swear its not just animal features that make things interesting for me...... maybe somewhat....

[weltato]

a thing I like in difference between the live version of witw and the soundtrack is that in tww when Chief says "who makes the decisions around here?" in the soundtrack, Lesser sounds a little scared and a lot "shit shit ignore me, I fucked up talking back I know, don't hurt me" but in the live version that I've seen Lesser sounds more confident in a sort of "hey, you're the boss man, I understand that, I'll go do what you told me to do now" way and he even (I believe??) shoots fingerguns at Chief

idk if this makes sense, I'm just writing brain words and have some lesson planning to do, but basically in the soundtrack the "you do, chief" sounds more like a question than a statement to me