#ons wildcat

[orchidmilkshake]

Oncostele Wildcat

‘Green Valley’

[theminecraftbee]

Etho and Grian are back at base, hysterically laughing over their achievement. Cleo sits inside, staring, as the two of them talk about getting a wither and a warden to fight, and tries to figure out what she feels about it.

In some ways it's not their fault. Task made them do it and all that. Plus--

Well, it's not like she and Etho are losing hearts anytime soon. They've both done a damn good job keeping themselves from dying. A benefit, Cleo thinks, of deciding to team with Etho this time. Between the two of them, they'll largely only do chaos they can recover from. Maybe this is their game. Maybe this time, Cleo manages to stick with someone until the very end. It looks like it. It looks like...

Grian, of course, is the confounding factor.

She wasn't going to turn him away. He needed allies. They needed someone a bit better at actually doing damage than herself or Etho. It's mutually beneficial. And, besides, he's weirdly lovable, in an inherently kind of dangerous way. A little like loving a bobcat someone had accidentally raised as a pet cat until it got a bit too big and stinky and murdery for them. Like, yeah, he shouldn't be domesticated and he's not, really, in any sense of the word, but it's a bit sad to watch him try to survive on his own now, right?

Hah. Maybe that's what Scar managed to do to him. Would explain a lot, really.

Anyway, he's her bobcat now, which is the problem.

See the thing is: Cleo understands Etho. It's why finally deciding to be partners for once felt... right. They're similar flavors of people. Scared, mostly. Survivors, but not in the 'will stab anyone' way that like, Martyn is. Loyal, although Cleo has no delusions that Etho is as loyal as she. And scared. Has she already said that? Scared. It's important to the kinds of things she and Etho are. Like... mountain lions, maybe. Mountain lions that have been around just enough people to know how dangerous they are. Like that.

God, she's only doing cat metaphors. Bdubs really is turning them all into furries.

Anyway, the point is, Grian isn't scared.

And that... terrifies her.

That's scarier than anything else. Because, see, Cleo wants to survive. But more than that, she wants her partners to survive. And she and Etho, the two of them are doing well. Better than most people. They're green and they have so many hearts.

But Grian? Grian's yellow and not afraid and goading Etho into not being afraid too. It's not their fault, exactly, Cleo thinks. They both had hard tasks. They didn't have a choice, Cleo thinks.

But. But.

She doesn't know what to do, if Etho gets convinced the humans down the mountain aren't scary. She doesn't know what to do if he gets too close. She doesn't know what to do if he gets hurt.

Because she--she doesn't think she can learn to stop being scared, anymore.

But she also doesn't know how many times her heart can stand to lose someone.

Did you know--wild cats are social? They have a reputation for being loners, but mountain lions, they're social. They don't do well being alone. They don't actually hunt solely alone. That's the important bit here. They seem independent, sure, but actually...

Anyway. This is Bdubs's fault. For making her a furry, apparently.

She watches Grian and Etho scheme together and sits back and breathes and tells herself that Etho isn't going to stop being afraid anytime soon. That if push came to shove, he, at least, would retreat back, and that maybe the two of them could convince Grian to retreat too. Safe from hunters. Safe from red.

Maybe safe from hurting each other, too.

(She's not so sure about that part.)

[lunar-lattice]

dunmeshi and fma were already kinda taking up similar niches in my brain bc 'really good story told by a female author' but the more i think abt it, the more im CONVINCED fma influenced dunmeshi

a sibling relationship is a big focus (bonus gold hair and eyes)

dark but relatively simple premise that gets increasingly more complex until you hit cosmic proportions

similar tonal shifts (like how you can get comedy then super emotional beats in the same sequence)

similar art in terms of how it can go from the most beautiful art youve ever seen to low-effort for comedy

well thought-out worldbuilding and politics within said world

a more calm section after the intense climax that largely deals with solving our original issue

[every-vasily]

[skrunksthatwunk]

ding ding ding

of all the things ash gets compared to (lynxes, beasts, demons, wives), colonel fox is the only one to call him a leopard, the thing ash views himself as, at least within the context of the snows of kilimanjaro visual. also note that eiji is the only one to respond directly to that visual, insisting that a) humans have wisdom leopards don't (don't die on me for nothing) and b) ash is not a leopard, anyway (seriously ash don't die on me for nothing)

to fox and to ash, ash is someone whose life of violence (+ inability to leave it, stubbornness, whatever he's searching for that keeps him going down this path, etc) will inevitably lead to his death. eiji's an optimist (perhaps more accurately, he believes in ash) and tries to steer ash from this, but he's more resigned to it than he's willing to tell eiji. and the fact that fox understands that about ash immediately is just. ough. and of course in the end, ash is the one who seals his own fate. it wasn't inevitable, to eiji, to the audience, maybe to the world. but it was inevitable to ash, and he finally surrendered to it. he couldn't believe in his ability to escape like eiji could (or, imo for a slew of reasons i'm not getting into, he chose to die in a comfortable place and time, surrounded by hope and love. before things got bad again. etc)

edit: i forgot to say this in the original post but part of the reason why foxx feels like a final boss is because of that immediate understanding, that psychological violation. and because it lets him reinforce ash's hopelessness that leads to his final decision

[dragonpyre]

Character design/animal anatomy exercise

[hawkzeyes]

mkay ;-;

JSA #62 (1999-)

[wanderingmind867]

I had one last poll idea here. So here's me continuing with all of my comics polls:

[jetbluebishop]

Sick new threads: aka my tf2 loadouts :3

[laurajameskinney]

spin my wheel boy

if you dont know who a character is google them and pick based on the pictures. or name vibes idk im not your boss

[cuntwrap--supreme]

Something really empty in the universe knowing Big Cat Scott Henson is dead. Funniest furry motherfucker to ever live. One of the funniest guys in general. Really broke the stereotype about furries being pedophiles and assured the public that furries are degenerates in other ways too. Restored my faith in Canadians. A loss to the indie wrestling scene. Rest in pussy, tiger boy.

[oceanjoker]

IAMWILDCAT IN DON'T STARVE STYLE!

I'm planning doing these portraits for everyone in the crew, maybe 2 per week

and i'll probably remake the Vanoss portrait since it is kinda old

here's a little bonus:

i cant do background lol

[soranatus]

Black Canary & her uncles By Doc Shaner

[wrestlingarsenal]

In the early Aughts, my favorite Tag Team was "America's Most Wanted" -- James Storm and Chris Harris. These two studs were booked nearly every week to suffer some incredible beatings on TNA Wrestling. In 2004, they were involved in a Handicap Match which I wrote about on my old Wrestling Arsenal website 20 years ago today, on April 11, 2004 (and continuing the following week on April 18, 2004).

It seems James Storm had injured his shoulder and couldn't wrestle, so the promoters booked his partner, Chris Harris, against one guy from their rival tag team -- the Naturals. Harris won, so the Evil Promoter forced him to immediately wrestle the other member of the Naturals! THEN THE POOR WHIPPING-BOY WAS FORCED TO WRESTLE BOTH OPPONENTS AT THE SAME TIME in a HANDICAP MATCH! (I's all worked up because I love unfair 2-on-1 tag team beatings.) TNA was notably homo-erotic in those days, and also got good ratings. Hmm, I wonder if those go hand-in-hand?

To revisit and update my old static images describing this sadistic scene, I went and found this episode of TNA Wrestling (which aired as a pay-per-view on 2/25/2004) and created this edited video, focusing on the "Wildcat" in agony. I mashed the two preliminary singles matches together with the Handicap Match to make it seem like one long, glorious, two-against-one torture scene. I must say, Chris Harris looks great selling in his tight blue trunks and tall shiny boots, and his partner is adorable outside the ring worrying about him, looking like a chubby Jordan Catalano.

[blorbobutworse]

@silverflowers14 i think u would like this

ur post possessed me ur welcome

crack...but not crack

:)

Logan starts his smoking habit the way most kids do: early and out of desperation.

He's starving, doesn't know any other feeling except the chill of the air and the shakin gof his aching stomach. He's hiding around a bar, trying to break into the locked trash container next to it, when he sees a gaggle of young guys stumble their way into the rotting alley.

Someone laughs drunkenly at him. Another jeers some comment about him looking more like a rat than a person.

He tenses in preparation for a fight.

They keep muttering against each other like a bees, a singular sweaty, sticky mass, and then...

"Hey, kid! If you try this, I'll getcha somethin' to eat."

...

He holds the cigarrette with three fingers, and the guy that holds the lighter grips his wrist too tight to keep it steady, but he breathes and smokes it.

and it....it tastes disgusting.

He hacks, and they cackle

"C'mon, the whole thing."

He chokes and heaves his way through it.

He gets a wad of single dollar bills thrown at him, and the weird, squirmy feeling he has at being treated like a sideshow is ignored in favor of chasing down the bills that fly away.

...

The next time he does it, his friends dare him too. They somehow manage to get their bands on something that looks like a cigar, thanks to Wildcat's 'luck'.

Sabretooth and him are the most mutant looking, and what's a little bit of underaged drug use in between kid mutants?

And... this one isn't so bad.

Still, he fakes a cough, spits his saliva out, and then turns beet red when they tell him its not even tabacco, it's catnip.

They're nursing bruises for weeks.

But...

If he starts growing a catnip plant in his room....no one says anything. Not even Sabretooth, who just so happens to have strange leaves floating around his room all the time, until they get sent out to that final mission.

...

...

Ill also write when his Parent's (aka the x men) find out his cute gardening hobby is. l Literally his way of making Feral Weed.

:]

[kosmicsandshoes]

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