#progression pets

[ae-azile]

Azile's OC Round Up, Part 2!

First up, we are finishing up the pets by adding the Progression cats lol

Name: Phoenix

Name meaning: Renewal, regeneration, immortal, rise from the ashes.

Owner: Namphueng

Found/brought in by: Phoenix found Namphueng, but Namphueng, Kim, and Chay brought him back to the compound.

Origin: Phoenix has been curious, adventurous, and ambitious since he was very young. As soon as he could walk, he was trying to explore and help his feline mother and litter mates. But when he was off on one of his adventures, his mother and litter mates were caught by animal control. While Phoenix would like to believe they were put in a nice shelter and all got homes, he simply doesn't know for sure. After a couple of weeks of roughing it on his own, he saw a kindred spirit in his future human mother, Namphueng. He knew she needed a friend and someone to be there for her. So he latched onto her dress and made sure she wouldn't be able to resist taking him home. They have been best friends ever since and he will do anything to protect her.

Qualities: Protective, Intelligent, Empathetic, Courageous

Age when adopted: 3 months

Featured in: Progression

Status: Alive

Name: ? Cat, as of now

Owner: Hopefully Kim and Chay one day

Befriended by: Kim, while he was at his lowest. He has not been able to find her in months.

Origin: She is a stray who wanders around at night in and around the park close to Kim's apartment. She provided company to an extremely isolated and depressed Kim. He is the only human she ever sat with. She chose him because she was lonely and scared. It's something she doesn't like to admit. But she could see Kim was lonely and scared too.

Qualities: Independent, Cautious, Quiet, Elusive, Empathetic

Age when Kim first found her: 2 years old

Status: ?

Names: Valencia and Pittsburgh

Owners: Pete and Vegas

Name Meanings: Vegas wants all of his children (fur and human) to have city names since he, his brother, and his mother had names that represented cities. Vegas chose Valencia. Pete chose Pittsburgh, partly because he and Vegas had a surprisingly magical time there, partly to be a dick.

Found/brought in by: Vegas, when Pete mentioned having a cat he loved when he was little. There were two left in the litter, so he had to get both.

Origin: Turkish Vans from a reputable breeder.

Qualities: Valencia is somewhat prissy, a cuddler, and would sit with Vegas all day if she could. She has little interest in toys, but will play with her brother, usually by manipulating him into getting the zoomies, then pretending she is innocent. Vegas has yet to catch on. Pete is suspicious. Pittsburgh is naïve, friendly, and hyperactive. Often gets mistaken as dumb due to his bubbly personality. Both of his fathers love him, but Pete understands him a little better.

Age when adopted: 9 weeks.

Age now: 1 year.

Status: Alive.

The humans are next!

[mumblesplash]

[narrator voice] she did not forget

[cryptictangerine]

*Throws on tin foil hat* THE END IS NIGH! HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF, WE ARE DOOMED! DOOMED I TELL YOU!

[theenbyroiderer]

Sleepy dog modeling some more crochet ferns for my moss wall project.

[mandragorika]

been playing neopets in between things so i thought i’d work on a lil design for my faerie xweetok (＾▽＾)

[moonturtlephilosophy]

I think one of the biggest drivers in the "transandrophobia discourse" is that the women/transfems who are currently going after transmascs, belive that men have some inherent qualities. The flavor changes depending on who is talking, but it's always one of them: bioessencialism, genderessencialism, sexessencialism, ect.

Newsflash: feminism includes everyone and strives to free ALL from these societal systems. As soon as you exclude literally anyone, you're not a feminits anymore. Even if that group is cis, white, hetero, able-bodied, upperclass men. They are not opressed by this system, but they sure are affected! And need to be included in femminist discussion. Both about their struggles with patriarchy and capitalism AND about preventative measures for rape, SA, sexism, ect. (How they cause harm through perpetuation of harmfull systems. That they did not put in place. Literally just please give men a space to deconstruct these systems for themselves. They are not gonna 100% see themselves in theory made by women and thats ok. That doesn't make them automatically evil.)

[zin3b0]

Omg I just realized I never shared the Dial-Up comic preview with yall.

SORRY 😭😭

Very excited for how it’s turning out

[murk888]

BIG SHOT! BIG SHOT! BIG SHOT!

(i can't find any other words right now. no thoughts only big shot. he occupies my mind. lives there rent free. leaves no free space at all. the big shot is very big indeed)

[azierumart]

the kids introduced them to minecraft…

[ae-azile]

I really love how you write pets in Progression. VegasPete got their cats and Nam has Phoenix. Now Chay found love of his life, Koda:D. I really hope Kim will meet with his cat soon. I wonder about the pet dynamic now. Will Phoenix accept Koda or is he already jealous? What will Phoenix and Koda do once Kim's soulmate cat appears? I adore this fic and the way you incorporated pets into it. Arm should get Khun new fish too. Now KinnPorsche should get some pet as well. Maybe bunny (I can't get that photoshoot picture of Mile with white bunny out of my head for some reason). So Kinn would look really cute with bunny and Porsche would match its energy.

I'm so glad you like the pets! I know we only see them occasionally, but Vegas and Khun are canonically animal lovers to some extent, and Kim might be too, considering he has included cats in multiple music videos. It felt important to add them to the lives of the ensemble. 😃

I think it would be great if each character (or couple) got a pet before the story's end. I will say Kim's kitty is going to make her first official appearance in the next couple of chapters, and she does have kittens. So they will need to find homes - preferably with close friends or people living in the compound.

Khun does still have the fish Kinn promised him and purchased for him after Elizabeth and Sebastian died. While they don't fill the hole his two beloved carp left, he does still find solace feeding the fish and spending time with them. In fact, Khun, Arm, and Pol would take Nam on walks around the grounds to go feed them and sit by the pond. 🙂

Oooh, a bunny for Kinn could be fun! I never thought about that possibility for him. During chapter 27, I do mention him having a bird as a kid, one who belonged to his maternal grandmother he inherited and happened to die suddenly of old age the day Kinn was assaulted by Douglas. 😔 I thought of maybe him and Nam bonding over their love of birds and building a nice and secure enclosure to get a couple.

As for the current pets, I think the dynamics are as follows:

Phoenix - for the most part - is very loyal to Nam. He can be extremely playful due to his age, but is an old soul. He is younger than Koda, but feels like he is much wiser. He doesn't hate him, but he is still adjusting to not being the only furbaby and sometimes finds Koda to be a bit goofy and mindless. However, they are slowly bonding and Koda really wants to be his friend when he's not focused on his new dads. Koda is the type of dog who needs regular cuddles, interaction, and care. He wants to be friends with everyone. While Phoenix is friendly as well, there is a more noticeable hierarchy in his favorite people, with Nam being on the first tier, Kim and Chay being on the second tier, Porsche being on the third (although he is on thin ice after saying Koda is more fun than him), and Khun, Arm, Kinn, and Pol being on the fourth tiers. He is friendly acquaintances with the cousins now that he's made a couple of trips to see them, and will become closer with Arm's sisters and nieces once the move in.

Koda definitely ranks Chay as his highest friend, with Kim being a close second. Porsche and Nam rank next, and the other allies in and outside the compound are those he also loves dearly, but those are his top four. He also enjoys visiting several guards and is actually okay with Korn, but doesn't love the tension that seems to pop up whenever he enters a room.

I think Kim's cat and Phoenix might already know each other. They were in the same park. I don't think he is her child, but he might be a nephew. If she moves into the compound, they will become close. I think she will be iffy around the dog first, but will take Kim's, word for it when he tells her she can trust him and they will become good friends. 🩵

As for Pittsburgh & Valencia (VP's cats) - while full blooded siblings from the same litter - Valencia definitely manipulates Pittsburgh for her own amusement and gain sometimes. She loves him, but she also takes after one of her human fathers. Vegas is also the one she is more drawn towards. Pittsburgh is a loveable and playful boy who loves everyone, but is closer with Pete. He really enjoys when Phoenix, Koda, and Lucy (Fern's dog) visit, while Valencia hangs back more. Macau thinks Valencia is sort of a bitch and Pittsburgh is sort of a doofus, but loves them both equally lol.

Thank you for the ask!

[transgender-chiroptera]

OH YEAH I SHOULD MENTION.

My URL may be transgender chiroptera, but that's mostly because I'm trans! Please remember that non-human animals cannot be transgender in the way humans are because gender is a human social construct and animals have not got the same kind of constructs as us! With notable exceptions like seahorses, generally speaking stories of 'trans' animals are usually stories of intersex animals, so please mind your language regarding these phenomena, because intersex people are super important to discussions of gender and sex (which is ALSO a spectrum btw)! In that vein, please don't call intersex animals naturally nonbinary. that's not how any of this works.

Also, while I haven't looked into any specific examples, I am certain bats can be intersex (as can any animal really), because genetics love to do their thing and cause variation in animal's sex characteristics! I'm going to look further into it at some point, but I'm mentioning just to head off potential questions about it :>

[everywebkin]

rainbow armadillo, released april 2010

[francy-sketches]

mental illness

[oooopipito]

Hello. I almost died at work. Bye. (Don't dig the ground under the sun in a black leather Panama hat.. don't repeat my mistake..)

[creatively-cosmic]

Meeting the Missing One.

[sol-consort]

Cole in Dragon Age Inquisitor is definitely Autistic, it's not even coded subtext or anything. It's staring you in the face.

Yet the way characters & the game itself treat him made me extremely uncomfortable. Calling him by "it" or telling him to "speak normally" and "act normal" How his stims and speech difficulties are met with annoyance. You can't even excuse it with "oh they're doing this bc he is a spirit" since when others loudly condemn him, it's usually because he's presenting very common traits of autism, rarely does it happen bc of his intrusive spirit powers.

It's sickening. How was this allowed? Even Sera's behaviour gets scrutinised a lot and described as "loony" God forbid neurodivergent characters get a speck of the taken-for-granted respect every other character gets. Common decency? Decorum? Why offer that to people different than you when you can just reassure the player that it's a very good thing to tell people who act "weird" to "just be normal"