#polar bears a fucking Scary

[queerundercover]

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They’ll never do a Hitman level set in a Furry Convention because gamers would absolutely ruin it but imagine. like the target isn’t a furry he just owns a hotel that happens to have one every year but you can disguise yourself in a fursuit and some guy will ask you “what species is your sona” and 47 would be like “a wolf. i always felt a connection with…hunters.” and then diana would be like “let’s see if you can sniff out some information, furrty-seven” and then he comes to my house and kills me for writing this

[bzdsentai]

Nightcrawler almost has a heart attack and dies.

[supercap2319]

"I'm a level 4 naughty lister? Are you fucking kidding me?" Jack O'Malley asked. He was kidnapped by this crazy Chinese lady and her team of scary guys with guns. But that wasn't the fucked up thing that Jack had seen. It was this little elf who wasn't so little. And a fucking talking polar bear.

Charlie Frost, younger brother of Grýla, the evil witch, joined the Special ops to keep the mythical world hidden away from the mortal one, but now that Santa Claus had been kidnapped, they needed all the information from Jack.

"Yes, you are. You were such a good boy up until high school, Jack. What happened?" Charlie asked.

"Puberty? Hormones? My dick? Boobs? Balls?" Jack jokes.

[shyravenns]

Okay but, is the pow that Price is guarding a shapeshifter, or does he just have a very scary fanged smirk? Could you imagine the first time Price sees him in polar bear form? He really doesn't stand a chance. 🤍

Oh, I'm particularly obsessed with the idea that Nikolai is a shapeshifter/cryptid who just loves to fuck with people.

He might be part of some sort of Russian folklore that's been passed down by generations, but he's definitely not human and he probably has a history of picking up pretty man and woman who catch his eye every century or two.

He'll show Price's supervisors a regular non fanged grin, but then let the mask slip just for Price and Price alone 🤭

Price really doesn't stand a chance whether or not he truley understands what's going on, and Nik is more than happy to play this little game with him.

[wishing-stones]

how would everybody (or just the boys if you feel like it) react if they managed to, just. like. somehow meet or interact with 8 year old Dream and Nightmare? like, back before the incident

Ouch.

Killer hardly believes what he's seeing. He's heard about Nightmare looking a lot like Dream before the curse happened, but seeing them together is a wildly different beast. He thinks it's cute how Nightmare tries to defend Dream by pushing his twin behind him, but... Killer is shockingly okay with kids sometimes, so he'd talk them both down. Chances are he wouldn't get out of that without a flower crown.

Dust kind of.... absorbs the situation and sits down to talk with the two of them. He's quiet and gentle. Nightmare is pretty quick to get closer because he can sense the latent negativity Dust has. He tries to play tiny therapist, and it doesn't really go his way... but Dust will indulge them and make daisy chains. He also might go threaten the villagers within an inch of their lives to leave the twins the fuck alone.

Axe is... let's face it, pretty scary. He'd come bearing treats, though, and once it's apparent that he just looks scary, they're both a lot more trusting of him. Dream's attempts at trying to fix the hole in his skull are cute, but Axe has to physically pick him up and set him down to keep him away from it. He teaches them about some simple edible plants and how to make stuff from them without the need for a proper kitchen.

Cross sees the opportunity and takes it. If he can't fix what went wrong in his AU... the least he can do is help someone else try to fix theirs. He appoints himself their guard, so they don't have to worry about anything because he will take care of it. He winds up with a lot of flower jewelry, and before too long, his hood trim is mostly flowers. He absolutely steers people away from the tree and sometimes follows Dream into town. Still... he can only delay the inevitable.

Baggs is very confused, but puts two and two together quite fast. He's very gentle with children, and treats their injuries and scrapes better than they can. He also is adamant about their communication, and facilitates them talking to each other about their problems and frustrations. Just because they're children doesn't mean they get a free pass from therapy. He is also delighted to turn people away from the tree, and... for some reason, they don't really come back unless they really need help.

Ink sticks around for a little bit, does some fun things with them, but he absolutely will not get involved in altering the timeline. He can't. No matter how much it sucks, he can't intervene in canon events. It's in the script, and he can't alter that. He'd make himself scarce before it happened, though. No need to have that resentment follow him.

Blue is the polar opposite and would do everything in his power to protect the mini version of one of his best friends and his twin brother. Blue with a reason to guard something that fiercely is a dangerous prospect, and he's not afraid to put the smackdown on someone for being a jackass to little Nightmare. However, like Cross.... he can only delay the inevitable, not prevent it.

[sanjisprincesswifey]

2,3, and 23 for the ask game with zoro and torao? 💖

2. favorite canon thing about this character?

i got about a million answers for law tbh, but i love that he is, canonically, a LOSER. i love loser men lol. also i love that he has a weakness for things that are cute, like he’s so bad at pretending he’s scary when he rants about his comic books and can’t resist a big, fluffy polar bear. 

for zoro, i enjoy how he always treats girls with a softness that men don’t receive. we see it countless times when he helps nami or robin or hiyori in wano and i looove that. like, yassss my gentle himbo !!!!!

3. least favorite canon thing about this character?

i hate that law is quite literally the most traumatized he could possibly be. like bro is fucked up and i hate seeing him suffer !!! 

i dislike how serious they made zoro post timeskip, like i understand why it happened, but i miss his laugh and smile pre timeskip 😫

23. favorite picture of this character?

any picture of law in the white tank and blue feathered coat !! he looks so fking goodddd & any picture of zoro from film z because that man looks so delish in glasses

send me a question and a character!

[eroguron0nsense]

Looking for confirmation of this weirdly widespread belief that Law was originally intended to be a villain?

I hear a lot of people who make One Piece content arguing that Law was probably originally meant to be an antagonist and that Oda only changed this because of how popular he was, and it's... baffling? I know that Oda introduced them kind of on a whim on Sabaody and didn't expect to integrate them into the series anywhere near as much as they did, but the substantiation for this theory seems to be that "Law spends a lot of time smirking in Sabaody and has a scary epithet" which I understand but I personally think seems pretty lacking since, well,

Law isn't the Supernova in Sabaody who actually gets the most villainous foreshadowing, with much more emphasis being placed on Kidd's willingness to murder civilians, and even though he gets a kind of freaky ability he also frees Jean-Bart from bondage and has fucking adorable polar bear friend who he has a funny rapport with and it instantly makes him and his crew seem more appealing? I get that the Dr Heart Stealer theme and his general pre-Marineford/Postwar demeanour *might* lend to that interpretation but the vibe I got from Law was less "genuinely sadistic" and more "this is a shit-eating stoner pirate in his early 20s". He's definitely very different from post timeskip Law and even Marineford/PostWar Law, and has a few mildly menacing lines/loosely implied Doflamingo connection, but I hesitate to say that he was originally conceived of as a villainous character based off extremely limited information and I think that interpretation requires you to ignore certain aspects of Law's character in the arc he's introduced in that might conflict with it. Again, I absolutely think Oda realized that he could make Law a more popular or thematically/interesting character or that he liked the new conception of Law and started writing him differently, but I doubt Oda hard-pivoted from Villain Law to making him a kinda morally ambiguous cool guy character halfway through Sabaody/right after we met him just because of some initial positive fan reception. Edit: I also feel like this stems from how he's described based on secondhand descriptions in newspapers who are very clearly framing him as a criminal? And people just forget that the World Government's descriptions of their enemies (e.g. Devil Child, Surgeon of Death) are not and never have been meant to be taken as 100% reliable or reflective of their characters

[pennys-rose-garden]

unlimited shapeshifting shenanigans

turning into a mouse to sneak around

turning into an exact copy of someone to mock them

turning into someone’s dead relative in an argument (classic prank)

turning into a cheetah to race cars

turning into a hawk to pick up squirrels, not to eat them, but just to fling them around in the air like toys

turning into a lemur to climb trees

growing a giraffe’s head to reach high places

growing wings to fly

impersonating a public figure, potentially with tremendous consequences

turning into a tiger and scratching up walls and doors when you get pissed off

roaring just to hear your own voice as an animal

turning into a puppy to make people feel sorry for you

turning into a goat to climb

shapeshifting for cosplay reasons

turning into a magical being to fuck shit up

oh what’s that? you’re filming and the actor you need isn’t available? i gotchu fam

experimenting with gender

perching on top of buildings in the form of a dragon

you can hiss at people and they’ll actually know not to fuck with you

turning into a polar bear to scare the shit out of people

turning into a fennec fox to stay cool on a hot day

turning into an otter to swim more efficiently

turning into a seal to stay warm in the winter

speaking in someone else’s voice and freaking people out

tapetum lucidum to be Scary

seeing in the dark

sensing heat signatures

see someone with food you really want? turn into a seagull and divebomb them so you can swipe it

turning into a cat to pounce on small animals and then let them go

being able to recognize objects by scent

grazing as a horse or a cow whenever you get hungry (free food is always right there)

chasing friends in the form of a wolf

new people are like “yo why do i always see this wild boar walking around,” your friends are like “oh that’s xyz”

turning into someone’s crush to terrorize them

impersonating someone who can’t show up to class/a meeting/etc. and then updating them on everything they missed later

being able to write super accurate xenofiction

turning into a snake so you can chill around your homie’s neck

turning into a fly to listen in on important conversations

turning into an albatross to travel overseas

turning into a big scary dog so your friends feel safe walking at night

turning into a horse so you can give your friends rides around town and they don’t have to walk

turning into a mule so you can carry people’s bags for them

turning into celebrities so you can get into exclusive events

turning into a sea serpent to explore the ocean

turning into a local cryptid to be a menace

turning into a long-dead celebrity to fuel theories that they’re somehow still alive

hanging out at a zoo and seeing how long it takes anyone to notice that One Of These Things Just Doesn’t Belong

turning into a reptile or a bird every month so you can ride out your period

having no one “true form”

playing with your pet as one of their species

talking as an animal and watching people freak the fuck out

being able to do a spot-on impression of marge simpson

turning into a kangaroo to get somewhere faster

never having to worry about safety again

wagging or lashing your tail

turning into an alligator to absorb the sun

[makowo]

As a much longer follow up to this post, here's this... My Ideas for Two Minecraft Mods ^_^ this got really long so it's under the cut

Circle of Life: Rudimentary mod that adds a basic ecosystem, with as few mobs added as possible but enough to stand out as a bare bones animal mod.

Rather than mobs just existing independently of each other with the player as the focal point, focus in on more instances of stuff like wolves hunting sheep. Foxes hunt rabbits + rabbits are more widespread, wild cats/ocelots should spawn more plentifully and have birds and wild mice to hunt, polar bears should have seals to hunt, etc.

These prey animals can have their own niches, like eating plants and spreading their seeds (making grass/ferns/crops grow naturally and make grass more lively), seals eat fish and may be difficult to kill on your own but with the help of a polar bear, but they can be easily killed and drop seal fat that acts as coal or dried into leather.

Bears and foxes should be tamable as alternatives to wolves and cats respectively. Bears are focused on combat, as they hit harder and have more health (could be mounted as well?), as well as have a faster swim speed. However, they aren't useful in smaller areas, and you can only have two at a time or they get territorial with each other. Foxes are similar to cats in that they don't do combat but maybe could help find buried items or something, tying themselves into archeology. -

Darker Days Ahead: A larger progression mod that adds the Deep Dark as a secondary endgame zone to follow up to the End, and not a glorified treasure zone with a scary guy in it. (I know there's already kinda one of these that adds a deep dark dimension but I hate that mod bcs it's very aimless and bare bones atm)

This mod would have new structures, new types of crops that only cultivate with the aid of sculk, new items for scaring mobs away from you with the call of a Warden Horn, a new set of armor with a focus on utility, and potentially a new dimension which the sculk infection originates from. Definitely more but that's what's off the top of my head

The Ancient City is larger and has more signs of having been a city rather than just a castle sorta area. I'm imagining tying it into villager lore, so there would be decrepit but more advanced forms of villager buildings scattered around or above deep dark biomes, with the Warden hinted at being the basis of the iron golems villagers make.

The main new crop could be a fucked up form of glow berries that spread darkness instead of light, and will give darkness/wither when eaten. They could also be crafted into a 2x2 grid and made into a bundle of berries that can be thrown and make mobs in a small area around the landing point unable to lock onto you and take wither damage for a short time. They only grow on walls made of sculk-infested stone/deepslate, which is made by crafting stone/deepslate in the center of a crafting table with a sculk vein on each space directly adjacent to it. They also spawn naturally in the deep dark villages, but crumble into nothing unless mined with silk touch.

The Warden Horn isn't obtained by killing the Warden, but is crafted with a goat horn, a sculk shrieker, and an item that's dropped randomly by Wardens randomly after taking damage, maybe a part of its flesh or one of the things in its chest. It has a very limited amount of uses (repaired with experience via natural mending) but can be used as a defensive tool to temporarily scare and de-aggro any hostile/neutral mobs in a radius around the player, making them run like skeletons with wolves or creepers with cats. Doesn't work on Nether mobs as they wouldn't know about the Warden naturally.

The armor set would be primarily focused on utility, to not compromise on netherite being the endgame armor. Each piece of armor has its own ability, similar to turtle helmets. The helmet allows the wearer to highlight mobs around them and through walls when they make noise, the chestplate provides temporary Resistance 1 and a small damage boost whenever you gain experience, leggings give Speed 2, Jump Boost 1, and small attack speed boost after taking damage, and boots make you walk without making noise. Wearing the entire armor set gives you Absorption 1 in areas under light level 0 and you can get closer to aggro mobs without them spotting you, with the Warden becoming entirely passive to you unless attacked. There could be tools as well, but I don't have ideas for them right now. I think this would have stats slightly lower than diamond to balance out its strengths, since you can mix it with stronger items for certain benefits.

The new dimension is kinda a point of contention for me because I'm not sure of what it could offer. Definitely a new boss, NOT a new faction for trading, but it could relate to enchantments/magic considering experience plays such a large role here and enchants have no present origin point.

That's all I have for now. one day I will make these ideas or commission them when i get money.

[lesbianhouseplant]

Heyo I’m hella late but does anyone remember the “man or bear” “woman or tiger” thing from a while back?

Well I’ve come up with a list in order of “would be fine with me it” to “just fucking kill me now”

1. Bear - generally harmless (save for polar bears, but if there’s a polar bear in the woods I have a much larger issue on my hands). They only really attack if desperately hungry, scared, or with cubs.

2. Woman - near as scary as a man, but generally speaking, has a higher likely hood to have a large lung capacit, meaning she’d be easier to outrun

3. Man - dangerous, high probably of having horrible things done to me both pre and post Mortem, I would rather not run into a man (or woman) in the woods, let alone a forest

4. Tiger - one of the few animals known to actively prey on humans and they don’t wait till you’re dead to start eating. I’d honestly rather have my corpse mutilated then simply have to wait for the tiger to kill me as it’s already eating me

[nemo-in-wonderland]

I don't give a flying fuck that warhammers are not avaible in DA:Inquisition.

Velahris will hold one, when she is not too busy wielding an axe.

My girl is like a freaking tank.

Because I need -I ABSOLUTELY NEED- for Blackwall to see her basically chasing away black bears from her camp in the Hinterlands, screaming and hollering like a freaking banshee, and go all heart eyes for her and already planning on how to ask her to share some mead with her.

Like.

He saw her wrestling bears for fun and was a goner.

I like also to imagine that while people might be a bit wary of Blackwall because of his grouchy appearance, with Velahris we have a case of "he is scary, but his wife is scarier" (sorry, I just live for this trope, I adore).

I NEED THIS.

THIS IS A NECESSITY AT THIS POINT.

also, fml I am living for Velahris and Ravenna (not her real name at this point) being like polar opposite sisters: Ravenna being all fashionable, liking the finest things in life, and having as favourite time that of reading harlequin-style romantic novel in front of the fireplace, with a glass of wine and a small box of chocolate...and then you have Velahris who basically lives in the wood like a freaking hermit, wrestles Bears and Wolves and only eat meat from animals that she has killed with her bare hands and that is only cooked over campfire.

Like.

I adore.

[cleoselene]

Lost: Pilot

So getting into my Twin Peaks bullshit as I have, Damon Lindelof's fanboying of Twin Peaks was enough to make me decide to finally get around to watching this show

Let's Rock!~

-I feel like the first thing that this guy sees when he wakes up aside from trees being a PUPPY is a good sign. idk. it seems like a good sign. Was the dog really there tho?

-This scenery is really beautiful considering it's also filled with horror

-absolute NOPE at the giant engines sucking whole people up NOPE

-okay I don't really know anything about this show except: 1. it was on for a long time 2. it's one of those puzzlebox things 3. a lot of people were alternately happy/mad over how it went but I'm going in this knowing Lindelof was HEAVILY influence by Twin Peaks and if that is the case, the answers are less the point than the journey. not going to get hung up.

-this is really harrowing lol. the last time I tried to watch this I was NOT in the right frame of mind. Plane crashes are ASLFKASDLFAJK scary to me because when I was a kid I had a ton of nightmares about them?

-man FUCK all this lol. Let me die if I get in a plane crash. I am not cut out for surviving any of this shit!

-really lucky that they have a physician here

-"let the fear in, but only for five seconds" hmm that's a tactic

-"the plane had a black box idiot, they know exactly where we are" gurl are you sure about that one

-pulling shoes off a dead body :/ rough

-OKAY NO THE DOG IS BACK. WHAT'S WITH THE DOG. The logical answer is "dog was on plane too" but the dog doesn't seem freaked out enough idk idk

-hmmm the radio on the plane went out and they couldn't be seen. INTERESTING. and there's a creature which impales people on trees. LOVELY.

-yeah see I'm feeling this little Hobbit. He's wrecked and he's searching for his drugs he lost. THAT WOULD BE ME. Just let me die, like I said. I need a medicated life. He found his drugs but the problem is, he's gonna run out??? horrible

-okay roflcopter at this bitch sunbathing. She's been annoying so far but now that she's just put on a bikini and is lounging on a towel next to all the carnage? I kind of have to stan, I think this just sent me over to being kind of in love because WHY NOT

-oh the dog belongs to Harold Perrineau's kid? okay. I was convinced that dog was like, some kind of otherworldly creature. THEY BETTER NOT KILL THE DOG.

-Sayid is hot

-oh, the polar bear! wait I think I remember this being a thing that people were mad was never explained. Hahahahah. The owls are not what they seem. Global warming, man!

-So they can't transmit because there's another transmission already going on? What is this message??? Okay so all I can think is of the domestic pigs in Lord of the Flies and how it was a sign of civilization and they all went crazy thinking civilization was nowhere to be found. but this also seems to be a distress call. AND IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR 16 YEARS? but how has it had a power source that's continued?

NO ONE'S COMING FOR YOU,Y'ALL

[omtai]

h8 when u get into the later seasons of a long tv show and everything gets so crazy and scary ☹️ watching lost with mother & we’re on season 4 and i miss when the biggest problem was the polar bear and the jungle monster. i fucking miss the polar bear and the jungle monster so bad

[shoggoth-the-bitch]

Opening with Nikola immediately, I see. Why do this? Oh god.

"Needs to be near us." Breekon and Hope need the coffin near? That's interesting. Also worrying that the coffin is there at all.

Nikola makes me uncomfortable. I kinda love them... They've said "Can I call you Elias?" twice now. I'm not convinced they entirely know what's going on.

Did Jon just try to say "Fuck you?" I'm smiling way too much from this episode already.

Oh god, are they gonna- oh god, they are gonna skin him.

"Can I call you Elias?" Number three.

"Do you have a preferred brand of lotion." Oh my god. This should not be making me laugh so much.

Wait, is this the episode? It is! This where the animatic came from that got me into the show to begin with! Yes!

This one!

Jon, why do you sound more annoyed then you do afraid of this man saying he's gonna kill you? I guess when so many people are saying the exact same threat, it stops being scary after a while.

Okay, Michael or I suppose the Spiral is lies and deception. He has nothing to do with the Unknowing but he wants it to fail. Jon, fuck why he's here, ask what the Unknowing is. He doesn't want the Circus or the Archive to win?

Okay, I think I get it.

Theory before it's all said: Michael was Gertrude's assistant, he some how got taken by the Spiral, and the part of him that is still Michael resents the Archive he what happened to him. The Spiral doesn't want to be Michael anymore because it has made it's nature complicated but I suspect it can't get rid of him, for whatever reason. Okay, starting the video again.

Sure, Michael, give up a statement. I'm sure this will be very coherent and not at all filled with me going "WTF?!" constantly.

Michael Shelly... Oh, Michael here implying Gertrude is deceptive, that's interesting... what? She FEED him to the Spiral? Oh... Michael really cared about Gertrude and she used him for this.

"Is a thing evil when it simply obeys it's own nature?" That is an interesting question. A polar bear isn't evil just because it willing to hunt humans, it's just hungry. And near as I can tell, the Spiral and all these other entities, they also are just hungry in their own ways. So, maybe they aren't evil. Though that certainly doesn't make them good.

"He believed everything she told him..." Alright, me and Gertrude aren't friends anymore. But what is the Becoming, exactly?

"Okay." Jon is just giving up? I mean, I know he lives because there's like 200 episodes but...

What do you mean "It's loc-

Uh... is Michael dead? Oh, hi Helen... Yeah, I guess Michael is dead? If it could kill Michael whenever it wanted, why didn't it before? Or did it need someone to replace him? Which I guess it what Helen is for?

You're options are the door or being skinned, my guy. Make good choices.

Wait, is the Spiral cool? It's just... taking Jon home? That's pretty chill of it, given the Archive's history with it but alright.

Okay, hold up. It's entirely possibly I'm reading this all wrong but were these entities at some point just kinda vibing and Gertrude decided they all needed to be destroyed? Because that's what it sounds like to me. Like, I don't know what the Becoming is yet but it sounds like the Spiral was attempting to transition from being a thing that could never be into something that was and perhaps could even be defined. At it's very core, it sounds like these things simply wish to exist but they're so volatile that it's difficult to do so. Gertrude even wanted to destroy the Archive, the focal point of the Eye. Even though, as far as I can tell, it's only interest is to collect knowledge.

So did she just decide to go rogue and destroy all these monsters and that's why they're mobilizing like they are?

[rebellum]

I think the reason I'm so unreasonably scared of dinosaurs (just tried to watch camp cretaceous, a kids show, to catch up bc a new series came out) is because I LOVE animals. I liked jurassic park as a kid, despite it being scary.

But for me, the animals in jurassic park aren't really animals. They're not like anything we have today. They are some twisted, inverted version that defy logic.

It's not just about the hunting. Plenty of animals hunt humans. And you can usually get around that! You encounter a large cat, you make yourself big and make lots of noise so it goes away. It's rare and kinda unusual for lions to hunt humans. And, more importantly, these animals hunt when they are hungry. They don't kill you for fun.

But in jurassic park they do. They don't act like real animals. They don't back off when they see you're a threat because they're large predators who need to conserve energy. They just get angry and bite you for fun.

We have no human predators that big on earth now. The closest thing to a large dinosaur we have are whales, and they don't eat people. Possibly some large sharks, but the chance of shark attacks are so low, and are basically 0 unless you're a surfer. Polar bears are big and will kill you but also I live in canada those don't seem Wild and Scary they're just some dude and obviously you aren't gonna go out alone without a gun.

But dinosaurs... they're huge. And there's no way to read how to defend yourself from a t rex. Yelling at it wouldn't scare it away it's fucking huge.

Theyre so unfamiliar to me, as well. I'm an animal person. The kind of person to put "if you can't think of a good convo starter, ask me about animals" in my dating profile. I know about large predator eating habits, rest, hunting success rates, vocalisations, etc. But dinosaurs? We don't know any of that. And even if we did, it wouldn't help with jurassic park because they aren't full dinosaurs.

I think they scare me in the same way zombies scare people. They're a perversion of nature, something familiar twisted to be wrong and misshapen and evil.

[owlbelly]

the terror is so good but it would have been so much better if there just wasn't a monster out there at all. Not even like, some fucked up polar bear that the sailors saw and got freaked out about. just nothing, just people going missing and shapes in the mist and nothing conclusive except the fact that these men are going to die out here on the ice

1000% - i think the only way the monster could really work would be in the hands of an Indigenous storyteller who actually had the skill/background to really handle the themes of colonization & ecological imbalance brought on by imperial greed. i haven't read the book so i don't know how well Simmons pulled it off there (it sounds like the show is better) - the showrunners definitely tried but i think it could have been developed more & any monster stuff would need to be so much subtler!

we should have spent the whole show wondering who was seeing what & whether any of it was real. the surreal moments where you KNOW someone is hallucinating were great & i would love to see more of that with more ambiguity. but yeah absolutely it is PLENTY scary enough to just have them out there dying and turning on each other