#most other extinct animals just. went extinct. and that’s okay

[creampuffqueen]

STOP SAYING WE SHOULD CLONE THE BABY SABERTOOTH CAT!!!!! NOT ONLY IS IT NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE. BUT. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT. THERE IS NO MODERN DAY NICHE FOR THEM TO OCCUPY. WHY WOULD YOU BRING AN ANIMAL BACK IF THERE IS NOWHERE FOR THEM TO GO

[marlynnofmany]

Paws in a Circle

There’s a poster I saw once, back on Earth, that had a silhouette of a bear with deer antlers, and it was labeled “Beer.” I had forgotten about it completely until I met our newest client, who by that logic was definitely a beer.

I’d already done my part of the interaction by carrying out one of the heavier boxes, so while the captain went over the delivery fees with her, I was free to stare politely and decide which other Earth animals she resembled. (Fur coloring more like a red fox, and semi-upright posture that was less bear and more extinct giant ground sloth.)

I was so focused on watching the client handle the datapad with her giant paws that I completely missed it when the hovercar behind her sprung a fuel leak.

Paint saw it, though. “Oh! Your car!” she yelped, pointing. “I’ll get Mimi!” She was off in a flash of orange scales, back into the ship in search of our mechanic.

The client growled a swear word that didn’t translate, shoved the datapad back at Captain Sunlight, then galloped over to her car. While I expected her to throw open the hood in search of the part that was leaking, she instead made a beeline for the back seat.

When she threw open that door, I saw why.

“Kids! Out of the car! It’s not safe!”

A half dozen bundles of spotted yellow fur tumbled out, making distressed noises that didn’t need translating. They had tiny little antler buds and very big eyes.

Captain Sunlight was busy talking to someone through her communicator, probably Mimi. I stood there uselessly by the packages. What did I know about fuel leaks? Nothing helpful. I knew the puddle was growing by the second, and was probably flammable, but that was about it. And this backwater spaceport barely had an information booth, much less a local response team.

The client ushered her cubs over to where we stood just as Mimi and Paint returned. Blip and Blop followed with a big toolbox carried between them. Mimi was already taking charge and waving tentacles about, talking to the captain about the lack of reliable repair shops this far in the boonies, telling Blip and Blop how best to use their muscles in opening up the engine, and reassuring the customer that this was fine, actually, that model hovercar had a known issue with the fuel lines.

When the client dithered over minding her cubs and being present for the repairs, Captain Sunlight pointed a scaly yellow hand at me. “Our human can keep your little ones entertained. Bring them over here.”

“Uh,” I said.

Captain Sunlight looked up at me, still talking to the client. “She has extensive experience in tending to small furry creatures.”

I wanted to say that veterinarian training and childcare were two very different things, but I wasn’t about to make the captain look bad. And knowing Mimi, this would be quick.

The client said, “Thank you. Kids, you need to stay over here, okay? Next to these boxes, but don’t touch. Listen to the tall one. I’ll be right there helping fix the car.”

The tiny-voiced replies were recognizable words in the most common trade language, though their pronunciation made me clock them at around three or four years old in human years. They were very cute.

And they were suddenly my responsibility, all looking up at me like spotted teddy bears while the rest of the adults fretted about the car.

The questions were immediate.

“What are you?”

“Where’s your fur?”

“Did you lose it because you ate the wrong thing? Mommy says we have to eat our vi’mins so our fur doesn’t fall out.”

“Is this instead of fur?”

I freed the tiny paws tugging at my pants. “I’m not supposed to have fur. I’m a human. And yes, I wear clothes to keep me warm instead.”

“It looks funny.”

“Do you have to brush it?”

“Do you know any games?”

I brightened at that. “Games! Sure, I know some games.” I wracked my brain for something that would keep them entertained without causing new problems. “What kind of games do you like to play?”

They all answered at once in an avalanche of words, bouncing around in excitement, with a couple grabbing each other’s fur to keep from falling over. I couldn’t make out a thing they were saying. But I had the beginning of an idea.

“Do you like dancing in a circle?” I asked.

They had no idea what I was talking about, and possibly no understanding of basic shapes yet. Three of them spun in place while the others waved their arms.

“First you stand in a circle, like this,” I said, sketching out the shape in midair. “Here. You stand here, then you there…” With some gentle nudging — they were so soft — I soon had them arranged in something like a circle. “Now hold hands with the person next to you.”

I was a little concerned that their paws weren’t suited to this, since they had long blunt claws already and didn’t look very dexterous, but they managed. With lots of giggling and hopping in place.

“Now everybody step to the side, in this direction.” I ushered them into a clockwise rotation, nice and slow (and giggling), with no risk of any little fluffy heads bonking onto the spaceship landing pad. It took them a second, then they got the rhythm without tripping over their own feet.

Then they unanimously spun faster, hopping and laughing with squeals and barks that were probably making more than one adult turn to stare. I don’t know; I kept my eyes on the littles. My arms were out and ready in case somebody stumbled and brought the whole circle crashing down.

But no one did. The half dozen youngsters wheeled and spun, bouncing with glee and showing no sign of stopping.

“That’s new,” rumbled a voice behind me. I tried not to flinch when I looked up at the mama bear. Beer. Whatever. She asked, “Is that an activity from your planet?”

“Yeah,” I said. “Pretty basic, and it seemed good for kids.”

The antlered head nodded. “Looks like valuable practice at coordination, as well as teamwork. There are a few adults I know who could benefit from that.”

Images flashed through my head of huge antlered bear aliens doing ring-around-the-rosie as a corporate teambuilding exercise. And professional athletes trying to improve their footwork. “Yeah, they probably could. And it’s a fun bit of community bonding time.”

Mama Bear nodded. “Okay children, the car is fixed,” she announced. “Time to go home.”

The cubs made the exact same disappointed noises as human kids. Even when their mother waded in and picked them up one by one to urge them towards the car, they didn’t want to stop playing. They grabbed hands in pairs and spun off that way, even faster than before. I did have to catch one fuzzy little teddy toddler, who just laughed about it and hopped around some more.

Peripheral vision told me the rest of the crew was helping move the packages into the hovercar’s storage space and mop up the last of the fuel. Overheard conversation told me that the good captain had tactfully gotten us a bonus payment for the mechanical assistance. I couldn’t tell if childcare was part of that, and I didn’t ask. I just focused on herding the excitable youngsters back to their car, where thankfully they all knew how to get into the safety harnesses without help.

Mama Bear closed the door. “Thank you for everything,” she said, directing that at me as well as Captain Sunlight. “I will recommend your services highly to anyone who asks. And we will probably need more deliveries soon, once we get the new house set up, so perhaps we will see you again!”

Captain Sunlight nodded. “Perhaps so. It was a pleasure doing business with you.”

I waved goodbye to the kids, who had found the button to open the window and were just as excitable as ever. “See you later! Maybe next time I can teach you the Hokey Pokey. That’s big on my planet.”

~~~

These are the ongoing backstory adventures of the main character from this book.

Shared early on Patreon! There’s even a free tier to get them on the same day as the rest of the world.

The sequel novel is in progress (and will include characters from these stories. I hadn’t thought all of them up when I wrote the first book, but they’re too much fun to leave out of the second).

[awwfur]

WoF x TWST. Yuu, Grim, and the great seven.

Master post More WoF x twst AU! More info and rambles past here

(And size chart at the bottom cause I know WoF sizes are wack)

Makes the most sense to start with Yuu first, yea?

Yuu: They get to be human still! Yay them! In this AU I wanted scavengers/humans to be extinct. Why? To make Yuu even more outta place. There’s a bit more to them as a character, but I’ll save that for the writing of the AU.

Grim: I played with the idea of making him into some kinda cat-like fantribe. But settled on making him still very cat like but with more dragon like qualities. Also bigger. And I’m still playing with the idea of him having a smaller form closer in stature to him cannon size. (So he can still ride on Yuu and have something unique to him) He was really fun and really hard to figure out, cause I almost made him more wild cat looking, but I didn’t end up liking it.

(I don’t plan on giving the ramshackle ghost their own full fledged refs, or even just head shot/bust refs. Apologies to all.)

and now onto the seven! Who I’ve turned from Disney Villains into WoF villains/antagonists (they are in order of left to right too to bottom)

Queen Scarlet: “The Scarlet queen” I know that an icewing might have been more fitting, with all the rules they have. But! I went for color pallet. I’m also heavily bias. So Scarlet gets to be queen of hearts

Queen Wasp: “The Queen of Tribes” a big reason for picking Wasp over Blister in place of scar is the fact that, well, she did rule over the silkwings for a good 50 years give or take. And I have this head cannon that she’s fair more clever than she’s depicted in the books.

Albatross: “The great seawing animus” I REALLY wanted Ursula’s WoF substitute to be a seawing. And there was NO WAY I was using whirlpool. (If you know you know) also I have him holding the drawing for the summer palace

Blister: “The sister of Brilliance” If this clever villain wasn’t getting to be the Scar stand in, she was going to be the Jafar stand in. (And yes I drew her holding the eye of onyx. If you know. You know.)

Chameleon: “The beautiful shapeshifter” okay. Scarlet would have gotten to be the Evil queen stand in if I wasn’t dead set on making her the stand in for the queen of hearts. So I had to pick the next best character. That being Chameleon. I don’t have any big reason for him being the Evil Queen besides the fact he has those scraps of scroll to turn into a few other tribes (I can’t remember if there were more than the Icewing, Nightwing and skywing. Because I wanna say he had four tribes he turned into) and also I have him holding Darkstalker’s scroll

Queen Diamond: “The queen of Ice” another one who I just kinda picked the “oh ugh-this’ll do”. I mostly picked her cause of the spell she cast on foeslayer to keep her trapped. So I guess she gets to be the Hades stand in.

Darkstalker: “The Darkstalker” that title is subject to change. But since he already had one in the books may as well use it! Anyway, it only made since to make the most clever and powerful Wings of Fire villain be the Maleficent stand in. Drew him when he escaped from under the mountain because that pose felt like the most powerful one for him. (Although like scarlet I’m very bias)

welp that’s the WoF seven (shockingly hard to pick who would be who. Besides Darkstalker he was easy)

Size chart time!

The dragon examples are Skywings, and I’m of the belief that mudwings and nightwings are larger than skywings but I picked skywings to be the chart comparisons because not meany characters will be much taller or shorter than an average adult skywing. Well, besides the staff but that’s besides the point.

it also has Grim and Yuu because I feel it’s very important to know how tall these two are. (And if I give them exact measurements my brain won’t remember) I was also tempted to add in some kinda animal in here because we’re going largely with mega fauna and flora. But it made the chart crowded. But know I intend for even chickens to be larger than Yuu. (Or about the same hight not sure yet)

[resident-idiot-simp]

Sorry it took so long to respond I was out all day and normally I would be asleep by now but due to a family emergency involving a sibling (they will be fine) I am ✨AWAKE✨. Please forgive the inevitable crimes against grammar I’m about to commit I am severely sleep deprived :D

Okay so the reason wendigos aren’t able to hybridise is because humans turn into them through specific methods ie eating human flesh. they are human turned creatures. Same rules apply for vampires, werewolves, Zombies, Ghosts and any other similar type of monster, they are around but they aren’t hybrids. There are also no Moth Man, Bigfoot or Loch Ness Hybrids.

Magic left the world a LONG time ago and no one (Human) remembers why. This caused a mass extinction event with most creatures that were solely magical being wiped out. The ones that survived either became Cryptids and barely functioned with the scraps of magic left behind or they became mundane…

The reason the fae left in the first place is because a bunch of humans tried to take magic from the Fae and actually succeeded for like five seconds before a bunch of them died from the sheer amount of power. This BIG NO NO altered the nature of magic into something humans could actually use unfortunately it also hurt the Fae badly so they had to poq for a while to recover. They took the magic with them but not before cursing the surviving thieves and their descendants to never be able to experience magic again (this led to some unintended consequences).

The reason there are no Fae hybrids is a little more sinister (angst potential incoming). Every now and then a little bit of magic would leak back into the world and keep things running just enough so that when the Fae returned it wasn’t a complete shit show (just mostly one) and after some initial conflict and a bunch of new border agreements things settled down (British hybrids can pick which royal house they follow (fae or human) whilst still maintaining citizenship (guess which Soap picked lol)) and with magic being reintroduced (in the 1800’s btw) the world slowly started to change. Within a generation hybrids began appearing, within another three Mythics started showing up too. With each successive generation the hybrids got stronger and as the magic around the world continued to grow more and more animals began looking weird. Rabbits with antlers, Giant Sea Snakes and Octopi, Lions with golden coats. But no dragons or phenox or unicorns or purely magical beings appeared instead what they had where hybrids that become a little less human every generation.

TLDR the OG mythical creatures went extinct and magic is trying its best to bring them back the normal hybrids just didn’t have enough juice in them to meet the requirements. Anything that didn’t go (fully) extinct like the Fae or are human turned creature won’t hybridise.

Technically Ghost hybridisation shouldn’t have worked but because he “died” such a specific and traumatising way near a canine mythic who’s magic he absorbed over months the magic got a lil confused (Ghost is the only Black dog hybrid the as the rest are actual dogs and not extinct ( does that mean Ghost is the strongest Black dog? Maybe…(yes it does))).

If you want angst you could say that if a hybrid uses to much of their magic they run the risk of becoming more creature then man. I don’t think they’d loose their intelligence and they’d still be the same “person” but they definitely wouldn’t be human.

Since magic returned vampires can walk in the sun, wendigos became intelligent (took one look at the military and went ✨no✨) werewolves become more aware (lol) and don’t need the moon to shift and Ghosts are still classed as citizens.

Ooh What if magic is radiation from the asteroid that took out the dinosaurs????

You're fine I hope everyone's okay and I'd be a hypocrite because I too do not understand the English language.

Ok that makes sense yeah.

FAE LORE FAE LORE!!! I LOVE IT! I love that the lore and angst of humans trying to take something not made for them is very fitting. There is a ton of potential for angst and I love that Soap is like nahhh fae all the way. (He is correct)

I Love that explanation of mythics It seems very fitting for the universe. The world needs them in some way shape or form so it corrects itself.

Great explanation for Ghost and the fact that singles him out making him the most powerful is perfect. I mean look at that man.

AAAHHHH ANGST!!!! I LOVE THAT! It limits them and makes them of not super op. It also explains how some of the actual mythical creatures can survive in the human world now. (Wendigos my beloved)

OMG DINOSAUR LORE?! YES! (what if kidding kinda If all the dinosaurs didn't die) Hahaha unless

(I answered this on my phone so I couldn't answer each paragraph because it wasn't clear sorry)

[kafus]

okayyy so as for actual episode thoughts

grrr biting thrashing gnawing the bars so much is being set up and i really feel like this arc is going to get exciting. briar and sazare (perrin) both introduced in the same episode with clear and established roles in the plot… though i wonder what the hell carmine is going to be doing still?? her intro episode didn’t even seem to imply what on earth she’ll be doing but she has a whole sequence in the op so definitely… something…

i’ve seen some people take briar seeing a terapagos before and writing a book on it as proof that horizons is happening directly after the plot of the main games but i don’t personally agree, not that it isn’t possible but i just don’t think that’s enough proof. as far as i’m aware the anime has always loosely ripped on game plot threads without actually being in the game timeline and i don’t know why that would change now.

that being said knowing that there is, or at least was, another minimum of at least one other terapagos recently enough for briar to have personally seen one is a pretty big deal! terapagos’ whole thing in the games is that there is just one of them left, the one you catch is based pretty explicitly on Lonesome George (the last remaining member of the pinta island tortoise who went extinct in 2012) so like. cool to hear there’s at least a couple out there. could have lore implications

btw i try not to involve the games too much in my discussion of horizons in general just because i treat them as separate things more than other people i think, but it is worth acknowledging that the milotic that attacks you in SV is programmed to be tera ghost but never actually terastilizes, this was only found out through datamining... it makes sense with the whole Dead People thing but it's really odd that it never terastilizes. so i think it's interesting that it does in the anime and pretty much immediately too. idk how to elaborate on this i just thought that was Interesting. they referenced something from the games that doesn't even... happen lol

i thought for sure we were going to see the woman in the trailer for this arc/in the op at the shining pond this episode so i was surprised it didn’t happen. also, if they do end up only seeing her and not lucius, does that imply that lucius is somehow alive? or is it just coincidence? many questions of which i do not have the answers to… i'm so curious UGH and also the existence of hisui pokemon... dot acknowledges they SHOULD be impossible, so i'm really curious where they came from or how they survived... MAN

really loved dot in this episode, it’s fun to see her going out on her own and then interacting on her own, as per usual i feel like cheering seeing her do anything independently lmao. continues to be sweet how she’s so awkward but powers through on account of her interest in pokemon (which was brought up twice in this episode, first with briar where she talked about welcamo, and then indirectly with sazare. one of the most consistent things about her.) welcamo/kuwassu has always taken care of dot but it was cool to see her verbally acknowledge that kuwassu kind of Chose Her instead of the other way around. i really hope someday we get some sort of Dot Kuwassu Origins episode, i want to see how they met and bonded when dot wasn't interested in becoming a trainer herself

anyway liko asking dot if she's okay and sitting next to her at briar's tent send post

[phosphorus-12]

Wakfu AU Chapter 2

Eventually, Yugo had to get up. He couldn’t just lie there forever, although that was seeming more and more appealing by the minute. He carefully got up to one leg, hopping over to a nearby tree. He sat against the bark and inspected his leg. It seemed to just be sprained. He tore off a strip of fabric from his shorts and grabbed a small stick from nearby.

He made a makeshift ankle brace from the items and then surveyed his surroundings. There was no shelter nearby, at least that he could see. He would have to find some. He couldn’t teleport since that would require jumping, so he decided to walk. He got up and the pain had faded a bit, so he was good to go. He began walking, the ache in his ankle now at a manageable level.

The rain was still beating down, soaking his hat and making his hair wet. His hair stuck to his face uncomfortably, but he couldn’t move it from his face without removing his hat, which was not an option. He never took it off if he could help it. He trudged along what he assumed was a path for what seemed like forever.

Eventually, he saw a cave near the base of an extremely tall mountain. As he got closer, he realized that there was light inside. Maybe there were some people inside who would let him join them, he thought. The mountain was supposed to be dangerous, and travelers were warned to seek safety in numbers. He crept toward the mouth of the cave, listening carefully. He almost tripped when he heard loud laughter erupt from inside. He peeked inside and saw a group, sitting around a fire and laughing.

They were surrounded by cages. So. Many. Cages. There must have been at least forty, probably more. There were small ones and large ones, but they all had something in them. Yugo thought that hunting that many animals for a group that was maybe ten people was overkill, but maybe they were hunting for their families or villages. He really shouldn’t be so quick to judge.

The largest one laughed as another finished telling the story of how he had trapped something or other-Yugo hadn’t really been listening- and started talking.

“Yeah, those ones are a feisty bunch, aren’t they!” He kicked a cage nearby and the creature in it, which looked like a small Crackler. “Gonna fetch us a lot of money, aren’t ‘cha?”

These were not hunters. They were trappers. You can’t eat a Crackler. Yugo looked closer at the cages. None of these animals are edible, or useful in any practical way. Half of them were babies or adolescents. Most importantly, none of them are allowed to be hunted. Some are sacred animals, others are almost extinct.

Okay, maybe he should have judged quickly.

Contrary to what people might think when they meet him, Yugo is not a dumb, naive little kid. He knows that if these animals leave this cave, they have a very, very slim chance of ever returning to the wild.

Which is why Yugo went inside. He carefully kept to the shadows, the bright blue of his clothes dulled by travel, mud, and rain. As he snuck in, he noticed the chains and restraints on the floor nearby. He shuddered as he realized how they were being used. His suspicions were confirmed when he saw a baby Boowolf chained and muzzled in a small cage in the back. He approached it silently, not wanting to get caught. As he set his hand on it to open the cage, somebody else did, too.

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[mk-writes-stuff]

Cinnamon, gingerbread, and hair if that's okay!

Ooooh this one’s going to be a long post :). I’m not complaining, I love big asks. Thank you!

(From this ask game here).

Cinnamon: What animals exist in your world?

A strange answer for the Seven Stations - none! The stations don’t have animals of any sort, and all meat is lab-grown. When the stations were supporting the Old World, it didn’t make sense to try to keep animals because meat could just be shipped up if necessary, and the few pets the nobles had that went up with them have long died out in the centuries in between. Stellaris is the only character we meet who knows much about animals. Some of the elves probably had livestock, but I haven’t developed that much - and if they did bring them, they probably had to eat them on the journey.

The Pirates’ Roost has a lot of the animals you’d expect from a mostly tropical setting - rich sea life, lots of birds, and a lot of jungle life. The big difference in wildlife is the dinosaurs. Dinosaurs never went extinct on Ixalan, so they have a wide variety of feathered dinosaurs of various sizes - everywhere from raptors and small pterosaurs to massive titan dinosaurs. The Sun Empire keeps them as pets and various warbeasts and generally treats them with respect, but there are also a lot of wild dinosaurs that are… less friendly.

Gingerbread: What is the most popular holiday? How does the average person celebrate?

I honestly haven’t developed holidays for the Seven Stations, really. I’m not sure the average person gets many holidays. The Church of the Stellar Cross is of vaguely Christian origins, so they likely celebrate some of the major holidays like Christmas and Easter in a modified form, and they celebrate those with church services. Nobles also have a lot of celebrations that aren’t really holidays, like debutante parties.

Different groups in the Pirates’ Roost have different celebrations they focus on. Torrezon celebrates the day that Elenda discovered vampirism. Both the sirens and the Sun Empire celebrate the summer and winter solstice in opposite directions - the summer solstice is a celebration for the Sun Empire and a mourning day for the sirens and vice versa for the winter solstice. The siren celebrations are the primary ones I’ve worked out - the summer solstice is spent in somber clothing and prayer to the waves, and the winter solstice is celebrated with bright colours, stargazing, and gifts to people you want to keep in your life through the new year.

Hair: What kinds of discrimination are there? Are they the same as reality?

The Seven Stations have some of the same discrimination as reality. They don’t have racism and they don’t have sexism (although the elves have sexism against men and masculine people). The nobles are homophobic and transphobic, although the common people don’t really care. The nobles (and the elves) are also highly ableist, specifically against mentally disabled people. Very noticeable in the first book is the way Stellaris is judged for his autism - although the treatment of him does get better :)

And then there’s the clone thing. Clones are legally not considered people on the Seven Stations and are frequently horrifically abused - often killed for magic or organ replacements. At the start of the series, treatment of clones ranges from indentured servitude to straight-up mass murder. Many people will gladly turn in or murder escapee clones, and the Church of the Stellar Cross considers clones to be possessing only a piece of a soul. Clone rights are a major arc of the series, and attempts to help them and improve their lot in life is one of the major goals of the protagonists.

The Pirates’ Roost is a bit different. The two empires have various kinds of racism, ableism, homophobia, and transphobia going on. The pirates, on the other hand, are pretty chill for the most part, but there’s a lot of subtler species discrimination. Vampires are often stereotyped as monstrous and predatory and deeply feared. Orcs are stereotyped as brutish and violent, but the primary reason they work as mercenaries is because they have a highly specialist culture and they are primarily pushed into being mercenaries. Goblins are often stereotyped as stupid when they simply have a different linguistic structure and poor hearing. And sirens are stereotyped as seducers and tempters and are sexualized to the point where they’re often harassed in public - Malcolm deals with this multiple times, with strangers asking to touch his feathers and flirting with him when he’s clearly uncomfortable.

Thank you for the ask! I hope you don’t mind the super long answer :). Feel free to ask me any questions you have!

[tulipsnflowers]

Okay, guys, you want me to go on about the most pointless things?

Let's go on about Byeol (and a bit about Fane, I suppose), because I am going insane

Alright everyone, for those unaware, this is Byeol:

This is a tyrant in Nexomon: Extinction, his name is Byeol. The problem about this, however.

He isn't a story tyrant, and this... Makes me very interested in him.

Amelie calls Tyrants super powerful Nexomon, but here's the thing. According to Coco, Jin blocked off the entrance to Fenrir's tomb so that no more Tyrants may be hatched

Lydia also says to go bother Nadine because of the egg, and keep in mind, the grass Tyrant is Tikala. A warden. Probably because Deena didn't necessarily want to add fuel to the fire

So then we are already established that Tyrants are probably always hatched.

... So then what of Fane and especially Byeol?

(And there's no Psychic Tyrants because... Solus would be too lil to bonk an egg, and nobody would ask a random kid to do so.)

Well, let's go with the easier one, in which I ask yet again, what's up with the Ghost type? I've wanted to throw hands about it for a long time.

(Ulzar says that the reason Nexomon are, well, a thing is because of the Children of Omnicron. So it makes sense, right? 7 children, 7 elements)

Psychic is a bit trickier because of the fact Mystogen exists. And if we're going of the fact Solus made the psychic type...

Putting a pin in that, rant for another day.

So... What of Ghost?

Well. That's not the point of the post and that's my motivation for writing Doubts.

But! Moving on, Fane. Well, with the assumption they come from eggs, well frick. There's no ghost primordial.

... Which is why I can't speak much of it. We can surely just blame Hilda

... Do you know who we have more of?

Byeol.

Well. Let's see then.

Byeol is a normal type in Palmaya, first and foremost.... We are back to James everyone, anyone who's talked to me isn't surprised

Hi new people, James is how we call the Nexolord on this side of the fandom, moving on.

Assuming that James isn't dead and we take into account this from Nadine:

Well, who am I to argue with Nadine? (Granted, she could mean Grunda or Deena , but.)

.. So, in today's rant. Byeol and Metta, woooo.

First of all, he is in Palmaya(and later around the Orphanage as of the Abyssals but we can put a pin in that because, Abyssals) , which, is definitely not the frozen tundra

But, Merida is in the frozen Tundra, and Atlanta's Tyrant is frosty enough to argue Merida bonked the egg there.

.. So then, Palmaya's free, ey?

Well. That's interesting, further on, I am going to need to grab Metta for a moment

Hello bowling ball, I still think you should be an Armodillo.

Moving on, see this man? Until his siblings he is, unfortunately, not an animal

My only logic conclusion, looking at this man(if we don't take my other James theory into account), is that he's supposed to be a kind of biblically accurate angel, just, ribbons not wings (Thanks for the association Azzie, your hands are red too)

... HMMMM who ELSE has wings and is a normal type...

... WELL THEN.

Additionally, I must point out, Metta has 7 ribbons. If we count the bottom pointy Byeol has he has 8.

... Well, it just happens an additional type is added this time, to bump it from 7 to 8(we already went over why I think Ghost might not count)

.. So then.

And. Well, let's look at it this way. Nivalis and Arqua, they don't look the same. Fona and Mulcimer, er. The closest we have is Ventra and Eurus.

... And, well, Solus and Nara, but surely not

... Byeol could've been a kangaroo or something, but instead-

They're both inanimate object things I can't make sense of. I know Ross said that he was just inspired to make a star thing, but-

... Hm.

What am I trying to say? Nothing really. At the end of the day these are coincidences, likely

Like, n3 protag and James both have a blue hair strand, but that doesn't mean they're like, immediately necessary related kind of thing

... Just makes you think.

(Also, this stated when I made a joking like toddler Byeol human version, and I saw the white hair and went like "...wait")

[ghostoffuturespast]

28, 40, 47!

Nature Ask Meme Here

28. What’s your favorite local animal you see all the time but still love?

Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana)!

The second fastest land animal in the world, these dorks are holdovers from the last ice age and I’m lucky that I practically get to see them every day. While they’re often referred to as “antelope”, their closest living relatives are actually Giraffes, and Pronghorn are the only species in their genus. All other varieties of other Pronghorn went extinct, so you could say these guys are one of a kind. 

These Pronghorn fawns were a little curious as to what I was doing in their parking lot. They got about fifteen feet away from me before they decided I wasn’t that interesting.

40. What is your favorite kind of rock formation?

Canyons are pretty badass ngl. Black Canyon of the Gunnison (not my photo)

The Grand Canyon is cool okay, but Black Canyon of the Gunnison should definitely be on your bucket list of National Parks. Way less crowded, plus, I saw some Gunnison Sage Grouse last time I went, which you can’t see at the Grand Canyon. They don’t live there. Absolutely, ridiculous birds.

47. What is your favorite species of tree?

Bristlecone Pine (Pinus aristata) → There’s actually three species of Bristlecone Pine but P. aristata is the one primarily found in the Rocky Mountain region, but they’re all cool. I think the one in the pic is P. langaeva.

These trees are some of the biggest badasses in the Pinaceae family and the oldest tree on record (named Methuselah, at 4,856 yo) are some of the longest living trees in existence. (At least, non-clonal trees. Looking at you Aspen.) They grow very slowly and their preferred habitat is just below treeline, in some of the rockiest, most barren, and harshest conditions imaginable. They wood is highly resistant to decay, even long after the tree is dead, and I love all the intricate shapes these trees grow in. 

[secret-engima]

Hi ! So glad I find your master worldbuilding mind!

Quick question, how do you think we went from a clan-based village to actual Konoha where several clans (Senju, Sarutobi?, Uchiha, Danzo clan? , Hatake if it's a clan) have disapear? Did the village care ou try to protect them? Did other clans are treathen by the possibilities to be let down?

Because you said that Tobirama trust Uchiha with police force but Sarutobi was obsessed by clan balance and all. I know Sarutobi is old, so a lot could have happening.

Any thought?

Hi! Okay so this ask is actually based on a slightly flawed premise (not your fault it's Kishi's worldbuilding again) in that we do not actually see a lot of "wiped out" clans. What we see is Kishi not bothering to flesh out the clans he has because what is attention span. For example; the Sarutobi are not wiped out! There is exactly one shot of the Sarutobi clan in the 4th war arc that is in both the manga and the anime (in the anime the shot is actually narrower so you can't see as many as in the manga shot) where a bunch of their jounin and chuunin members (like easily double digits, I forget the exact number but I wanna say around 20ish? With more implied to be off screen) breathe fire at the juubi in sync. And it is confirmed they are all Sarutobi. There's like one guy who's essentially like: COME ON GUYS LET'S SHOW THEM THE SARUTOBI CLAN KICKS ASS.

So the Sarutobi clan is actually a decent enough/healthy enough size, we just literally never hear or see it until that one single shot. So it's reasonable to assume most clans are healthy and protected by Konoha. This is kind of implicitly supported by the narrative too, because things like the Uchiha and Hatake and Senju being nearly extinct are things that people comment on and find noteworthy, which means it's *not* the norm.

As for how the three clans we know of being wiped out *got* wiped out, I think that is less the fault of Konoha itself (tho Hiruzen is directly at fault for allowing the Uchiha massacre thanks) and more a side effect of that transition from clan based society to village based society. Namely the multiple shinobi wars. As I mentioned in my economics rant, the shinobi wars were something entirely out of the league of clan wars back in the day in terms of scale and destruction, so clans that got hammered likely were ones either already on the small size (like the Hatake probably were) or ones that would have been intentionally targeted by the enemy out of fear (Senju and Uchiha). The sheer scale of the conflict and clashing powers would have decimated targeted clans, and the villages would have been unprepared for that kind of issue until it was too late. After that, the surviving members could have easily died out without having kids post war, or if they were female members in the case of, say, the Senju, they didn't die out but the *name* died out, because it's still traditional in Naruto world cultures for the woman to join the family of the man and not the other way around (with the exception of the Uchiha and other regularly manifesting kekkei genkai clans I imagine).

We don't see anything about the Shimura clan either way beyond Danzo, which is again a flaw in the kishi worldbuilding, so we don't know if he actually has a clan still running around, or if they were just a small clan that got hammered in the multiple shinobi wars. On that note you can apply this same worldbuilding problem to almost every other village in the show. Kumo, Iwa, and Suna all have characters who are implied to be from a clan or have kekkei genkai that appear to be hereditary but no clan is mentioned. So we just do not know if there IS a clan of say- people with hand mouths like Deidara, or if they are one-off manifestations of a kekkei genkai, or if they are survivors of other villages' clans that got hammered casualty-wise by the wars like the Senju and Hatake presumably were.

Logistically speaking it would be beneficial for the villages as a whole to do everything they could to keep their clans alive, since their clans are where their powerhouses tend to come from while civilian-born shinobi fill out the ranks with more mid-level shinobi. There would probably be incentives and benefits offered by the village for clan shinobi to marry and have kids that bear the clan name, etc etc. And clans that are still a healthy size work hard to keep it that way.

I hope that answered your question?

[cogneato-inc]

IJ Gang+ Fursonas/Favorite Animals

VERY brief thoughts on everyone’s fursonas/favorite animals because I want to post art-

Andre

Would be a ferret for obvious reasons - skinny, mischievous, probably a little stinky ? It’s uncanny

His personal favorite animal is absolutely smthn unconventional tho - a wacky bug or lizard, maybe some kind of bioluminescent sea creature for the rave vibes ?

For sure the type to change his answer every time anyone asks

Brett

Obvious sona choice is a golden retriever because,,, yeah <3 but CONSIDER- a tiger ?? I will not elaborate

I don’t think he could pick just one animal as his favorite if you asked him to -

In my mind he’s like,, a terrible Snow White (/affectionate) ??? He loves and tries to befriend every animal he comes across and is,, not very successful most of the time-

Gigi

Is saying her sona would be a leopard a cop out ? It just fits so well (elegant and dangerous ??) it’s not my fault she also wears the pattern everywhere-

She’s definitely an animal person (if she wasn’t so busy she’d have so many pets </3) but birds are her #1 - brightly colored exotic ones ofc but she also just really likes birdwatching on early mornings

(She absolutely has a separate insta just for archiving all of the pictures she takes-)

Reagan

Begging forgiveness for my basic answer but,, she’s a house cat </3

She’s just got cat vibes !!! It’s the autism I know it (alternatively some kind of fox maybe ? I keep flip flopping-)

She seems like the kind of person to have a really obscure or extinct favorite animal ? Like a really fucked up creature from the Cambrian Period - but she’s also absolutely a cat person

Myc

Honestly I don’t think I’ll make him a sona because he’s already not human-

As for his favorite animal he,,, doesn’t have one ? He isn’t really an animal person, even if he can tolerate them - definitely likes bugs more (and it’s totally NOT because he spent most of his childhood with only them for company, that would be ridiculous)

(He is absolutely the type to chase someone around with little creepy crawlies if he finds out they’re scared of them-)

Glenn

Very torn between his sona being a bull or some kind of big livestock guardian dog - Anatolian Shepherd maybe ? (Of course he’d still be half dolphin)

DOG PERSON no one will ever change my mind-

His family ABSOLUTELY had dogs when he was a kid and he’s still really fond of them even if he can’t keep any

Alpha-Beta

OUGH okay my immediate thought for his sona was a bear which,,, given his history he would HATE-

But it’s perfect ? Big and strong ?? But S OFT ??? I refuse to consider other animals

He insists he doesn’t have a favorite animal but he’s absolutely got a soft spot for orcas (he watched the Seaworld documentary </3)

(THE PRESIDENT IS A SAINT BERNARD I know this in my heart, big goofy dog man, it’s probably even his favorite animal he just seems like a dog person (,,, based entirely on everyone else’s (incredible) headcanons lmao-))

J.R.

Almost went with a mongoose just for the bit- but no this man is OBVIOUSLY a ram. I can’t explain it at all he just is.

And he HATES animals - he can tolerate the ones that don’t come to him looking for attention but beyond that, no absolutely NOT get it away from him

If he had to pick he’d say fish, just because they can be relaxing to watch (please god let this man relax-)

[docholligay]

Ep 7: The motherfucking wolf attack

Hello! This is about up to Episode 7 of Yellowjackets, and ONLY episode 7 of Yellowjackets. I have not seen beyond the seventh episode, at all, and know NOTHING about this show. Please do not spoil it for me.  Things that are spoilery in nature, for me, include: saying things like  “Just wait!!” confirming or denying anything I put forward, outside information about the cast interviews or creator statements, leading questions like “Do you think “blank moment” means anything?” etc. Remember  that Y’ALL HAVE SEEN THE SHOW AND I HAVE NOT. This informs the way you  talk about things relating to the show. Just be really careful is all  I’m asking. Also: If there is LITERALLY any stance I  could take on this show or character that would make you upset, please  just fucking block the tag

If you WOULD like to discuss the show and my takes on it, the Discord is right here! I don’t go there, so it’s a great place to get every emotion out.

Please thank @sailorsunspot and @moonlight-frittata for backing this odd way of doing a liveblog, and remember my tip jar is always open

Okay, so, let’s get this huge, giant problem I have out of the way. The wolf attack. I have a MASSIVE problem with this, and much iof it is informed by my own life, and the place I live, and the political and personal stituations therein. Don’t misunderstand me, I am in fact not one of those weirdos who thinks killing an animal that kills lviestock is always a moral wrong, but wolves are continually blamed for the actual sins of coyotes and, you know what? Stray ~doggos~. We shot a lot more dogs for taking lambs than anything else. 

Neither do I think media has the responsibility to only portray the most righteous, correct, and holy version of anything. I find it fucking asinine the way people complain about the portrayal of shit sometimes, believe you me. But on a personal level, I find this fucking wolf attack thing reprehensible, annoying, and that sort of city kid shit that is funny when it’s hunting but less so when this idea has led to the near-extinction of a species and there are STILL HUGE DEBATES RAGING in real, human places. I’m not saying you have to have a problem with it. There are loads of things that stick in people’s craw about how things are portrayed in fiction that I would look to you and go, “Oh, get real” about. Fair is fair.

 But, for me: 

There have been exactly 6 fatal wolf attacks in the last 100 years in North America: 2 of them were bit by a rabid wolf and actually died of the rabies, 1 was a toddler killed by her father’s captive wolf, 1 was killed in a captive wolf sanctuary when she went alone into a pen of unsocialized wolves, and the other 2 were a lone human with no other humans around killed by an entire pack, one of which was very likely starving. So you’ll forgive me if, having read the commentary around at least three of these, I think it’s wildly insane to show this on television to a bunch of fucking people who can’t tell the difference between an elk and a mule deer. Wolves did not kill fucking Van, wolves did not attack a group of five young women around a fire, I would give anything for this to have ended up being a fever dream because it annoys the SHIT out of me and I hate being there with a show I really enjoy. 

And, please know, I understand the symbolism here. Taissa is the wolf, and Taissa destroys the things she cares about so that they won’t get in her way. Taissa burns down her own life. Taissa has been acting completely aloof and detached whenever Van mentions anything about them building a life together, while Van is already fucking married to Taissa in her head. And this isn’t me saying, “Taissa doesn’t care for Van” I don’t think that’s true I just don’t think any of these things broadly matter when it comes to the predatory pursuit, the hunt, her desire to win and find victory over things. I think THAT is what Taissa craves the most, and I think that’s why she’s fucking haunting Sammy (I think) and BITING HERSELF in the garden. 

She’ll maul herself if only it means she comes out on top, it’s insane, I love it, I just wish we didn’t have to deal with this particular slice of it OR that I could rely upon people having absolutely any idea whatsoever how nature actually works. 

[smoothmovesbaby]

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑  𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐒 .

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟷    :    𝐓𝐇𝐄    𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄.

NAME  :    benny gecko. benny is not short for anything. EYE COLOR  :    dark brown HAIR STYLE  /  COLOR  :    black, and heavily styled with lots of product. he only washes it once in a while. HEIGHT  :    5'6" CLOTHING STYLE  :    we all know he just wears that damn suit. interestingly, it isn't technically checkered, but plaid. BEST PHYSICAL FEATURE  :    he's got a handsome face.

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟸    :    𝐓𝐇𝐄    𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄.

FEARS  :    benny is generally pretty fearless. death and severe pain do scare him, but he's brave about it. that said, he'll avoid them at all costs, including his own pride. GUILTY PLEASURE  :     he's never felt guilty about anything in his life. BIGGEST PET PEEVE  :    when people assume that he cares what they think. AMBITIONS FOR THE FUTURE  :    king of vegas, baby. in his post-fnv verse where he's had to leave vegas, he wants to build up the town around a series of casinos he owns. it's not going to happen, especially after the destruction of shady sands and ncr drastically reduces the california population.

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟹    :    𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇��𝐒.

FIRST THOUGHTS WAKING UP  :    he wonders if his hair looks okay. THEY THINK ABOUT MOST  :    himself, his ambitions, how good he looks, etc. he's completely self-obsessed. WHAT THEY THINK THEIR BEST QUALITY IS  :    he thinks it's impossible to choose just one.

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟺    :    𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓’𝐒    𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑?

TO BE LOVED OR RESPECTED  :    respected. BEAUTY OR BRAINS  :    beauty. he doesn't care how smart someone is, but he would get annoyed if someone was noticeably less intelligent than him (which, almost no one is). he would also be annoyed if someone was a lot smarter than him and he had trouble understanding them often. DOGS OR CATS  :     he likes the idea of cats, even though he's never seen one before and frankly isn't entirely sure what they are, since they went extinct long before he was born. he likes the look of them, from what he's seen in pictures.

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟻    :    𝐃𝐎    𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘…

LIE  :    more often than he tells the truth. BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES  :    way, way, way too much. BELIEVE IN LOVE  :    he's never really thought about it that hard, but yes. he's not really the relationship type, but he's not against it, either. he's just too busy thinking about himself to think about loving someone else. WANT SOMEONE  :    no one in particular.

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟼    :    𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄    𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘    𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑…

BEEN ON STAGE  :    no, he's completely talent-less when it comes to the creative arts. CHANGED WHO THEY WERE TO FIT IN  :    no. the transition from boot riders to chairmen was a choice he made because he wanted to.

𝙻𝙰𝚈𝙴𝚁  𝟶𝟶𝟽    :    𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐒.

FAVORITE COLOR  :     gold. FAVORITE ANIMAL  :     most animals are kind of deadly so he doesn't really care for them. FAVORITE BOOK  :     he's never read a book. he's flipped through them, but they seem too long.

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[wakingfromthewater]

For the top 5 anything, if ur still doing that:

Top 5 Sad Sailors in Movies and TV

Or

Top 5 Seals

Hello anon! I was tired and then uhhhhh two weeks went by.

Most of the sailors I like are not actually sad, so here are some seals.

Gray Seal

Long overlooked until I realized how expressive they are. They are also extremely shaped, even for a seal. They make cooing noises like doves and can fight off a great white shark with their sharp claws. They watch over each other while they sleep and adopt orphaned pups. Their weanlings look like black sesame mantou. What more needs be said?

Weddell Seal

Okay, the queen! She's the world's most southerly land breeding mammal. She's incredibly graceful underwater. She makes ultrasonic noises. She's highly intelligent. She dines on Antarctic tooth fish (or Chilean sea bass, if it's served in restaurants). I do however think they should be renamed, since James Weddell was only looking for new kinds of seals to slaughter and I don't think it's very nice they have to be named after him.

I wrote half an answer to this on mobile and I think here is where I thought about the monk seals and became very sad and cried. Okay, moving on.

Elephant Seal

There's just something enchanting about their bright little button eyes like a faerie creature. I find the screaming noise their babies make endearing. The southern elephant seal is much more beautiful than the northern elephant seal, but I'm very proud of the northern elephant seal for defying humans and coming back from extinction. Also they like to dive to below the crush depth of a nuclear submarine and take a little nap down there, how cool is that??

Ringed Seal

The smallest seal! I love their raindrop-patterned fur and their mischievous little faces. Compact, but having all the aspects a seal needs. They are also the only seal that digs (they dig a den in the sea ice). The Saimaa ringed seal is especially beautiful, and of course we must mention my terrible adopted daughter Cloudberry, who had the face of an angel and the mind of a rabid Tasmanian devil.

Leopard Seal

Lately there have been a bunch of posts like "Reminder, leopard seals are NOT friendly sea puppies and would eat you," to which I say 1) ALL pinnipeds are essentially a bear that swims (their closest relative is the Ursidae). They are large predatory animals designed to kill, and people forget that at their peril. And 2) If a leopard seal wanted to eat me I would simply allow it, it clearly needs the nutrition. I love how they are shaped like a seal but also so different from the rest of the family. I love their huge heads, wide jaws, and their delicate little trilling noises. Did you know they will cooperate with each other to hunt king penguins and then share the carcass?

[adultswim2021]

Robot Chicken #69: “Love, Maurice” | January 18, 2009 - 11:30PM | S04E07

Another collection of Robot Chicken style comedy sketches found–where else?--Robot Chicken. Which ones will I struggle to say anything about? Read on, dear read-onner: 

This one has one where David Faustino is a troop, and that is the joke. I disliked this one because the joke was supposed to be that it’s good that he’s a troop. There’s another one where Roger Rabbit and O.J. Simpson do Strangers on a Train with each other. This one was weirdly senseless to the point that I couldn’t really get behind it, but from this icy distance I still acknowledged the joy of coming up with something this brainless and laughing about it with your friends, and couldn't fault the writers for indulging in a thing like this. I just don’t think I like it here. It is simply too random. Same sorta goes for the one where it's Terminator but Arnold's head is on a baby's body for some reason.

The two sketches I had the most positive reaction to were: Kid Venison, in which Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive deer instead of a radioactive spider. I liked some of the jokes in this. Mocking deer for being skittish is one of the few full-throated bigotries I freely indulge in. They are the bastards of the woods and I hope I live to see them go extinct. 

The best sketch is the one where the tentacle monster is nervously calling an anime girl to try and set up a second date. Fairly clever idea, and the performance of the monster makes this one fairly funny. I like when the music briefly kicks in, I literally laughed out loud at this. And that’ll do it for this one.

EPHEMERA CORNER

Black Dynamite (the Movie) (January 18, 2009)

Noting this here, because it’ll be relevant later: Black Dynamite Colon Movie Film For Theaters had it’s debut at Sundance, probably. Fine. I’ll look it up. Okay, yes, it was Sundance. The movie had a wider (but still limited) release on October 16, 2009. 

One movie-goer was overheard saying "This is flawless spoof comedy - go see it, brilliant". Another was heard to say "The best piece of cinematic satire since the Naked Gun". "Very, very, very, very, very funny" said another. "Hilarious - Black Dynamite Kicks [SWEAR WORD REMOVED]", said one disgusting movie-goer, who probably committed a violent crime after saying that. The point is, this movie is well-regarded as a funny lampoon of Blaxploitation movies.

Okay I need to jam this in somewhere; one of my favorite video stores to ever exist was Le Video in San Francisco. One time I was feeling nostalgic for it, so I went to instagram to see if any one had taken pictures of it during it's final days in existence. There was only one; a zoomer who was trying to shame them for having a "Blaxploitation" section. It was clear that they never encountered the term "Blaxploitation" before, and just thought the store was positively IDing movies that somehow exploit black people? Not what I wanted to see! At all!

Adult Swim adapted the movie into an animated series, which debuted as a pilot special in 2011. Two proper seasons came after that. I remember liking it, but I don’t really remember much about it. Same could be said for the movie, which I also remember seeing and liking. I WILL revisit the movie, but not for this post. I’ll probably do a write-up for it around shortly before I cover the pilot episode.

[vi-sigoth]

I actually think a lot of Internet “Christian trads” don’t believe what they claim to. Yeah yeah, I know, calling out someone for lying on the Internet, how groundbreaking. But—

When I was vegan (it was a bad time in my life, I don’t want to talk about it), I hung out with a lot of vegans/vegetarians, because, you know, when you’re fucking insufferable you need to find other people to live your insufferable lifestyle with, and I literally talk to none of them anymore—anyway. I hung out with a lot of vegans and went to a lot of vegan food festivals and cafes in the urban area where I used to live; and roughly speaking, you could categorize these people into about three different categories, with plenty of overlap between them:

1. People that went vegan because they thought it would improve their health/wanted to eat cleaner.

2. People that legitimately thought that going vegan was the best way to address cruel animal husbandry practices (which, let’s face it, there are plenty, so you could see why someone might be led into it), and—

3. People that were absolute fucking assholes who searched for an easy ideology/ belief system to latch onto and use as a vehicle for their vile personality. I’m talking about dudes who punched unwitting waiters in restaurants blocking the path to smash the lobster tank, men who sent women posing with a gun and a dead buck on Instagram rape and death threats(but it’s okay! They were just scumbag carnists! They deserved it!). Women working for PETA screaming through a megaphone held inches away from passerby’s ears.

Those people might’ve pretended they were vegan for the animals, sure. But the truth is, had they actually sat down and done any sort of deep self-reflection (assuming they had the capacity to do so) they’d find that veganism was merely the ideological vehicle for whatever anger and disenfranchisement they had inside them. I mean after all, veganism gives you endless Internet debate opportunities and endless ways to vent your anger out into the world.

And I really think there’s some Tumblr “trads” that are like this too. They’re almost always converts. They pick Catholicism, Orthodoxy, or one of the many flavors of Protestantism and lean hard into it. You see, for “Christian” “trad” bros, this provides a comfort. It’s not their horrendous personality that repels women, it’s that all women are fallen whores who won’t submit to a husband, and just like, don’t worry king, your based trad gun loving biblical virtuous virgin is out there, keep posting white women extinct button Pepe memes, Jesus fashwave edits, and uppity posts about how all non-Catholics are going to hell while not living any of the Christian values you espouse online in real life, she’s out there bro. It’s okay that you’re a creepy incel, no one has to know as long as you call woman whores, say the N word and have a Bible quote in your bio. And the women? Some of you are just fucking unlikable cunts, but it’s okay! Since Jesus forgives everything, you can be as big of a snotty bitch and bully online and let’s face it, probably IRL too, it’ll all be washed away, or so you say on your Tumblr blog in between pretending that your Internet Christianity gives you the moral high ground in any argument.

Now keep in mind, I don’t think this of all the Christians on Tumblr, or even most of them, but man, some of you are so fake it’s nauseating. And you know, I absolutely believe that the world is rife with demonry and degeneracy, but sometimes, the problem isn’t demons. Sometimes, it’s simply horrendous character flaws and a vile personality that had any of these people ACTUALLY turned to religion, they would have been forced to come face to face with.