#might make more at some point

[justamessedupdisneyprincess]

Onward expanded universe!

Species

Usually when I hyper fixate on things, I like to expand that world with more possibilities. We only saw a small handful of mythical creatures in the movie Onward and I wanted to think of some more that could easily be included. Most of these are from things I found on Wikipedia about mythological creatures that would have a suitable role as a highly intelligent citizen within the Onward universe.

1 - Succubus/incubus

Some of my friends in the fandom back in the day had some SI/OCs which where a creature called an incubus. A succubus/incubus is a creature with devil like features who feed off love and lust. This is just my personal take on these creatures for my headcanons. But their appearance is most certainly inspired by my friends. Reddish skin, horns and a long tail, some have wings but some don’t have any wings as well. Succubus/incubus have two stomachs, one for “normal” types of food and another one that can only be filled with one things and that is love. They feed off of love, whether it’s being a part of a relationship or even witnessing a couple together in public. Though they tend to favour the more let’s say “intense” sort of love, they can feed off of romance rather than super sexual stuff. They feed off the emotion itself, the aura of it. Hand holding is like a bite sized snack, kissing is a bit more filling and so on. If they eat enough love they can actually store it in their body and it can convert to their other stomach that is used normally for food. However food cannot be converted to love so while they can eat love and survive fine without eating actual food for a while, they struggle to do that and won’t last as long if they try to do that in reverse. It’s just how their bodies sort of work. Most Succubus and incubus tend to feed off of romance novels nowadays but if they reread the same thing it loses its taste and doesn’t become nearly as filling for them, like a bag of chips only each time they read it it’s like eating another handful until there’s no more to suck out of it. So they are always on the hunt for a good new love story. Succubus and incubus are especially happy and healthy when they are apart of a relationship though as they are always very well fed and never have to feel hunger so long as they are around their partner. They say love comes in many different flavours though, usually depending on the dynamic between the couple. The love can taste sweet, it can taste spicy, it can taste bitter and so on. It also varies on what kind of emotions are included with the couple and what they are doing. As one Succubus would say “Watching an elderly couple hug has a bittersweet taste to it, but it also tastes just that tiny bit stale.” Much like how everyone enjoys different tastes in food, succubus and incubus enjoy different tastes in love as well. They have their own “shipping dynamic preferences”

2 - Imp

Imps are a creature that vaguely resembles a fairy but also have a somewhat devilish feature. They tend to be small but not as small as fairies. My take on them for the Onward universe is similar to how the original folklore behind them is but different as they evolve into modern society. Imps usually love pranks and they are very mischievous. Back in the day their pranks would be so intense that some of them would badly injured and even kill their targets. In this modern day in age however their hunger for mischief is still as strong as ever but their pranks aren’t as intense for legal purposes. Bullying is very very common to occur with imps as they always find it hilarious to see how others react. You can either be like an imp and help them pick on others or if you refuse to do so you become a victim for them to prank. Imps are very sheep like and tend to target anyone who is different to them. There is a certain imp though who is not like the others and refuses to pull pranks and pick on others, because of this however that poor imp is neglected by her own kind. Imps can get very gremlin like but most of that gets repressed now in this day in age, which tends to also make them more angry and aggressive towards others and they usually aim to hurt others vocally and emotionally as it is something they can easily get away with, it’s something that makes them feel powerful again.

3 - Dwarves

Honestly, I’m surprised that I didn’t see any dwarves in Onward. I have seen gnomes but no dwarves from the looks of it. Much like in LOTR and The Hobbit, dwarves have a serious love for gemstones and mining and it’s a strong part of their culture. Regardless of how they start off biologically, all dwarves are capable of growing a beard but there have been some who shave in the modern times. Though shaving is rare to occur with dwarves as it is usually frowned upon by most other dwarves and some say it’s an insult to their ancestors to do so. But when a dwarf has to take on one of those “super professional office jobs” they are not left with much of a choice. They either have to trim it back super short or shave it off entirely, most bosses are not a fan of long bushy beards that can leave hairs in the keyboards. Usually dwarves end up working as miners, construction workers or jewellery shop owners or even jewellery makers! Dwarves tend to have a small and stocky build to them, I can’t really decide what their skin colour should be in the Onward universe though...I dunno if it should be more elf like colours or human like colours. Same with hair colours, I dunno.

4 - Brownies

Brownies are not commonly used but basically they are just house elves from Harry Potter. They are small and often described as to not be very pretty to look at. They live inside roofs and attics and the original folklore story says if you leave them out a snack to eat and then a note telling them what you would like, they would do that thing for you. If you leave them presents as you sleep basically they clean your house for you as you sleep. For the Onward universe, brownies tend to work as maids, waiters, cleaning people and so on. Since they tend to do most of their chores of the night they have evolved to be mostly nocturnal, usually the earliest they rise is at lunch time and the latest they stay awake is five in the morning. While most others appreciate money for working, brownies tend to get more excited to receive a gift for their job. Gift giving plays a big role as a part of their culture and for the longest time they would only accept an offering/gift as payment instead of real money. I am also working on a brownie character who dreams to become a warrior but much like in Zootopia with Judy, everyone laughs at him for it because Brownies are seen as too small and fragile to become a warrior and that their role is cleaning things. Appearance wise, I can’t say I could imagine them looking much different to house elves. I mean from what I read Dobby is literally more like a brownie. Idk if house elf is another name for brownie or if it’s a weird coincidence LOL

5 - Naga

Nagas are often described as half snake and half human, usually the bottom half being a large snake tail. Nagas are cold blooded and tend to hibernate in the winter because of it, however depending on their budget they might have to limit how long they can sleep for. Usually Nagas will sleep for a month or two in the winter as sleeping for three months can usually cost them their job and it’s hard to convince their boss to have a three month vacation. While they can chew food they are still capable of swallowing up food whole, they usually ate that way because the food lasts longer in their stomach so they can stay full longer. But doctors say it’s healthier for them to chew because it’s easier for their body to fully absorb nutrients that way and some nagas may have a sensitive stomach where swallowing things whole can lead to bloating. There are two types of nagas, one being more like a python and the other being more like a venomous snake. The python types are much bigger, an adult one can easily be over 9 feet tall! They tend to have super strength as well. While venomous nagas are smaller and tend to range around the size of an average elf. However if they bite you then you’re pretty much doomed.

[reasonsforhope]

This is kind of a weird reason for hope, honestly, but it genuinely changed how I think about catastrophe.

Historical fact that you probably do not know:

At least 30-50% of the population of Pompeii survived.

Maybe even the majority of the people of Pompeii survived.

(The numbers 30-50% there are according Professor J. Theodore Peña, a professor of ancient Roman archeology who studies Pompeii, whom I took a class on Pompeii with in 2018. The numbers of "maybe even the majority" are from articles linked below.)

Yes, that Pompeii, the one where the entire city was swallowed by a volcanic eruption.

And no, I'm not kidding. x, x, x, x, x, x

So how this is possible, that anyone could survive, when the entire city was literally buried in volcanic ash? And the answer is that the eruption actually took place over the course of almost 24 hours, as the earthquakes and clouds of smoke emitting from Pompeii gradually got worse and worse, followed by the ejection of ash and giant stones that gradually escalated, until the fifth pyroclastic flow (aka giant wave of searing hot ash) hit the city.

So, people had a bit less than 24 hours to flee the city. And many of them did, whether by boat or cart or horse or foot. And many of them made it.

Pompeii is the iconic, ultimate example we have, culturally, for a natural disaster that causes complete annihilation.

But it never caused complete annihilation at all. Not of the people who lived there.

I think climate change, ultimately, is going to be like Pompeii. Yes, there will be natural disasters. Yes, it will keep getting worse for a while.

Yes, people will die, and yes, we do need to act fast, and we need to do all that we can to save every single living being that we can.

But unlike the people of Pompeii, we have the ability to fix most of the effects of climate change. We have the ability to cool the planet down from whatever temperature it ultimately hits. (Masterpost on this here.)

Natural disasters fucking suck. But as the true story of Pompeii exemplifies, they are often a lot more survivable than we think. And we have benefits and resources and technology and knowledge above all communication that the people of Pompeii never did - in fact, we're getting so good at building for and detecting and warning for natural disasters that the number of people dying from natural disasters has been plummeting, even as natural disasters are getting worse and worse (x).

We are going to survive climate change (x). We are going to fix as much of it as we can (x). And we are going to rebuild afterward.

Because as the many survivors of Pompeii show, that's what humans do.

[ruporas]

need to exist in your warmth (id in alt)

[hollytree33]

PLEASE GIVE US MORE PAPA SOLAS I BEG YOU, MY LIFE WILL BE YOURS!!!!

Your wish is my command, dearest anon

[maxlovespigeons]

With the return of my hyperfixation, have some art I've drawn in the past I don't think I've ever posted to Tumblr

[canisalbus]

✦ 2023 summary of art ✦

[spitblaze]

If you’re gonna care about prison abolition and justice you are necessarily going to have to care about the people who DID do those crimes and just want to reintegrate and live a normal life without hurting anyone. You're gonna have to be cool with the fact that the guy scanning your groceries might’ve raped someone. You're gonna have to relax about the possibility that your bank teller used to be a career criminal. The person sitting next to you on the bus might’ve committed three different murders, and as long as he's not about to commit a fourth right now, that's not your fuckin' problem. People don't disappear from society after they commit crimes, and most of them really just want to live a normal, stable life instead of going back to that. And the best way to make sure they don't relapse is to ensure they're able to live that peaceful life instead of freaking out because the guy next door used to run a dogfighting ring. You don’t have to be friends with them, you don't even have to like them, but you're gonna need to be okay with them existing in society. Sorry.

[timethehobo]

Pocket sized necromancer. 💀

[medicalunprofessional]

never change, man !

[journey-to-the-attic]

one thing about ik is that she will always reach out

[ingoodjesst]

have you put the pieces together yet, detective

[thesmokinpossum]

If My Body Could Speak, Blythe Baird | The Godfather, Mario Puzo | My Father's House, Sylvia Fraser | To The Daughter Who Secretly Longs For Her Mother’s Affection, Lynne Shako | Storms from Jupiter, Wanda Deglane | DO NOT REPLY, @filmnoirsbian

[pokimoko]

haunting the narrative -> haunted by the narrative -> haunting the narrative -> haunted by

[neunhofferart]

fave scene u boarded this season?

Okay, MAJOR SPOILERS for Jurassic World Chaos Theory Season 2 incoming haha. It's hard to pick just one, so here's a bunch:

Favorite scenes that made it to screen:

The sucho vs. hippo fight (Though sadly I didn't request this one for my demo real because most of the boards are not very pretty/had to be cleaned up by someone else due to time. These panels below are some of the few that look nice enough to show LOL. Originally in the script, there were TWO hippos we called Orson and Welles, but it was just too much going on in that little set, so the whole thing had to be reworked from scratch halfway through the boarding period. My director Mike Mullen and our revisionist Emma Gilles contributed a LOT to this sequence and made my hastily redone roughs actually legible for everyone, and added/refined more after I had to move on in the schedule)

Ben freaking out while everyone piles more and more problems on Yaz

Kenji fixing his dislocated arm while Darius gagged

Santos sending Red to kill Captain Lang (I have permission to share this one in full, but I need to format it because it's in pdf form).

Favorite scenes that were cut or significantly trimmed down:

Extended scene of Brooklynn feeding Gordon that introduced more of an idea of her having lingering PTSD around dinosaurs, while also highlighting more of the connection between her and Gordon sharing a limb difference. It was a more contemplative scene, but the episode hit 30 or 35 minutes in the initial cut and it could only be 22, so a LOT was cut in the Brooklynn episode (I also have permission to share all of this one, but again need to format it first)

Extended Kenji/Brooklynn break up scene- The first half is still there, which leads into what Rianna originally boarded in 104. A stupid detail I'm proud of- when Kenji leads Brooklynn up the mountain by hand, it's the last time anyone ever holds that hand (in that way). HOWEVER- there was originally a bit more past what Rianna did in 104 that showed how their dynamic/what they both wanted out of their relationship wasn't really in sync. Brooklynn tries to defend her actions to Kenji, but Kenji feels that her work has grown important to her than he is, and Brooklynn actually winds up being the person to say 'Fine, then let's break up!' Which I doubt she mentioned to Darius haha. Anyway, this was again cut because the episode was too dang long.

[rebouks]

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Byrd: Dad? Oscar: Morning, bud.. miserable day, huh? I’m not looking forward to packing up in the rain. Oscar: Did you sleep okay? Byrd: Erm… Oscar: GO GET YOUR HEARING AIDS! [Byrd fidgeted guilty, implying that he’d lost yet another pair] Byrd: [sobs] Why do I have to be deaf without them, papa-.. s’not fair. [Oscar held Byrd tightly, stroking his back until his sobs subsided somewhat] Oscar: LET’S SEE WHAT WE CAN DO… [Oscar plonked Byrd outside as he rummaged through his bags, eventually producing a backup pair of hearing aids] Oscar: Better? [Byrd nodded gratefully, burying his snotty nose in his father’s hair as he threw his arms around him] Oscar: Maybe you ought to think twice about learning SSL. Byrd: What’s the point? No one else knows it. Oscar: Robin does, and we all know bits n’ pieces, don’t we? [Byrd grumbled disinterestedly] Oscar: I think it’s long overdue, pal-.. what if we all learn it together? Properly this time. Byrd: I guess… Oscar: All I heard was yes. Byrd: Are you deaf too? Oscar: [snorts] C’mon, we’ll probably find the other pairs as we clear up. Wren: Daaaaad, it’s raining! Oscar: The faster we get goin’, the faster we’ll be in the car-.. I bet Wren can pack up faster than you. Byrd: [gasps] NO WAY! [rain pattering]