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every time someone reduces CAPTAIN !!! elizabeth "lizzie" lafayette down to "a sad lesbian" a fairy dies bc i shoot it with my gun. like you're telling me you were spoon-fed a character that has one of the most realistic and RAW representations of grief and perseverance in the series and all you got from that was "she's sad" ????
is she a constantly happy character? Fuck no! that's acknowledged!! but to take EVERYTHING that she is, which has positive and negative aspects THAT ARE BOTH SHOWN, to take the fact that she is THE DRIVING FORCE OF THE MAIN BACKGROUND PLOT, and reduce her down to NOTHING but her relationships?? ?what the hell!!!
#saw someone say that lizzie was the most important npc and i cheered and then they tagged on 'bc riptide is abt sad lesbians'#like ok are we ignoring that it's ACTUALLY about living despite everything? are we ignoring that she's fighting an oppressive gvmt?#her sole motivation is NOT ava dude. RAFT is KILLING HER FRIENDS AND HER FAMILY#like you can acknowledge her relationships w ppl. in fact i ENCOURAGE you to do that#because she loves people DEEPLY even though its rare. and that alone says smthn about her.#but she's not waxing poetic about how much she misses ava. id say she's actively ignoring it#my girl is unstable as shit#idk as 1. a lesbian and 2. a person who feels grief intensely#i just. hate how she's reduced to nothing but person b in a ship#BC THE MFS THAT DO THIS HAVE A DEEPER ANALYSIS OF AVA THAN LIZZIE. DAWG AVA AINT EVEN REAL. SHES BEEN DEAD SINCE BEFORE EP 1#sigh. lizzie i love you so much.#jrwi riptide#jrwi#captain lizzie#elizabeth lafayette
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「 private commission for a friend via discord 」
#they gave me raft & ror returns just to see more art of the dead space man#( i don't play the game but he looks neat )#art#commission#2024#dead space#isaac clarke#fanart
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sorry i am still super sick and illnessed over percy and cass and i need to explode. percy who had been driven by nothing but grief and revenge for years and his soul slowly eaten by a demon bc he thought he had no one left to live for. cass who had spent years being manipulated by the briarwoods and resenting percy for leaving her behind bc that was easier than accepting that she had lost the last of her family. both of them having their grief and trauma being taken advantage of for so long and then both of them breaking free of it bc of the realization of "there are still people left in my life that care about me". they are all that's left of the de rolos and the one thing they can do is just be there for each other . like.,. fuck!!!!!! also percy couldn't kill delilah bc he already lost so much of himself to revenge (both in terms of his mind and his actual soul) but cass could bc she was so deprived of any ability to hit back against the people that hurt her . GOD. i'll never be normal about them and also i am always thinking about this shot specifically
#i do not care wtf their relationship is like in the manga let me hold onto tlovm percy and cass like a guy on a raft drifting out to sea#i'm not editing this post i need to get out my unfiltered feelings abt them or else i'll explode and die#percy de rolo#cassandra de rolo#the legend of vox machina#cr#cr1#tlovm#fuckin. also percy and cass' relationship is SO different from vex and vax and this causes such potential (s2e4 im waiting for u) for the#worst drama you've ever seen in your life#i think percy has gotten so used to living alone w him thinking cass was dead#meanwhile vax WILL start crying if hes separated from vex even a little#guy who had been driven mad by the sibling death + is in recovery vs guy who is currently being driven mad by the sibling death. fight#idk how fast vex comes back to life (i know she does) but still. god damn
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ok suddenly got seized once more with thoughts about my wild west mdzs au (abaondoned mineshafts go brr) and like, tempted to go with both the horses AND the guns being named after the swords for the "you named you horse after your gun?" /loser with the punchline being the gun is named after the horse /horse girl
BUT like actuallly the thougth was it could be really fun if their guns are all semi custome made and more importantly they make their own bullets for their guns and the reason Subian "seals" is actually because Wei Wuxian is unable to make bullets anymore, maybe a knock to the head gave him a very specific type of amnesia, maybe he fucked up his fingers in a certain way, maybe h's been on the run and just hasn't had a chance to make any
anyway, just ... fun thought. And it helps keep some of the specialness of the swords in that like, idk the idea of all their guns having custom bullets so nobody can use anybody else's gun is just... these gunslingers amirite?
and if Jiang Cheng kinda knew how to make them/had one (1) of wwx's bullets mixed up amongst his own then...
#random#mdzs#wild west au#and of course I always spend a very long time thinking about the mineshaft#wwx crawling his way through hell#in the dark underground#the mineshaft starts to flood and wei wuxian clings to life by clinging to a raft of dead bloated corpses#the mine was alive once#but it has been sealed off for some time for good reason
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I can tell Jennifer Ashley did not foresee making Lloyd Fellows, intrepid Scotland Yard inspector and Secret Illegitimate MacKenzie, a hero; partly because of how he single white female'd his brothers in the first book, and partly because she named him Lloyd Fellows.
But a book he has, and now she has to steadfastly stick to his last name, because it's not.... great. But it's also not LLOYD.
#romance novel blogging#SIDEBAR: it is very funny to me that lloyd's tragic backstory#aside from the very legit one of his father never acknowledging him or even contributing financially to his upbringing#is baby hart mackenzie being a privileged asshole to him#and as a hart mackenzie apologist who supports all his wrongs (easily a favorite hero for me)#i.... would submit that hart is a privileged asshole to literally everyone in this series#INCLUDING his legitimate brothers#that's just HIM lloyd don't take it too srsly#(read the duke's perfect wife where hart decides to live on a river raft with poors for like WEEKS#letting EVERYONE IN HIS FAMILY INCLUDING HIS PREGNANT WIFE#think he's DEAD#because he wanted to GET SOME PERSPECTIVE#and understand how THE LITTLE PEOPLE LIVED#read his book it is SO. GOOD. and SO. FUNNY.)
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Evil Dead Rise is gnarly as hell
#you know that feeling people get seeing Jaws for the first time#and they see what happens to the kid on the raft and you realize EXACTLY how fucked up the horror is willing to go?#picture that on steroids#then shove it in a woodchipper#I want the DVD yesterday#evil dead#evil dead rise
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ATLA TDP MÅNESKIN NEVERMORE TODAY IS SERVINGGGGGGGG
#Avatar: The Last Airbender#Måneskin#The Dragon Prince#Nevermore#Nevermore Webtoon#Webtoon#ATLA TEASER SO GOOD LOOKING AND ACCURATE#LIKE WOW#NEED TO REWATCH BOOK 1 SOON BEFORE FEB. 22 YAYYYYYYY#TDP CLAUDIA GIRL PLZ DON'T MURDER TERRY#EVERYONE LEFT YOU BC YOU WERE ON A SINKING SHIP#VIREN JUST COVERED YOUR EYES AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS SINKING UNTIL YOU WERE UNDERWATER AND HIS LIMP DEAD HAND#FELL OFF YOUR EYES. NOW SWIM UP AND GET TO OUR LIFE RAFT GIRL PLZ IT'S NOT TOO LATE WE WON'T LEAVE WITHOUT YOU#TERRY IS HERE FOR YOU CAN'T YOU SEE THAT ALSO WHY DOES UR FACE LOOK LIKE THAT#ALSO AAROVOS' MONLOGUE MMMMMM#RUSH! R U COMING? OMGGGG THE SONGS WERE SO GOOD#HONEY! epic love it. VALENTINE OMG SO SAD AND YEARNING AND OCS YESSSS. OFF MY FACE OKAY I NEED TO LISTEN TO IT MORE THE END IS COOL.#THE DRIVER COOL TBH&C VIBES AND GUITAR ENDS TOO FAST THO AND LIVE VERSION FUNNER. TRAVASTERE SO SADDDD AND ACOUSTIC GUITAR#OVERALL GOOD DELUXE ALBUM#NEVERMORE WE'LL SEE WHAT'S GOING ON MONTY PLZ LEAVE#COOL THURSDAY#EDIT VALENTINE MUSIC VIDEO OH MY GOD THE WAY IT LOOKS AND THE WAY THEY SHOT THOMAS AT THE END BRUHHHHHHHHHH SO PRETTY#THE CLOSEUPS OF HIS HANDS THE RIFFS THE WHOLE ENDING HE IS GUITARIST OF ALL TIME#VIC WAS SO PRETTY TOO AND SOME SHOTS OF DAMI WERE CHEFS KISS AND ETHAN EPIC DRUMS AS ALWAYS IT’S JUST SUCH A GOOD MUSIC VIDEO#(I do only like videos of them just performing the song bc other ones I’m confused on like how whatever’s happening relates to the song so#I like this one a lot it like tells a story even when it’s just a performance)
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first day of summer vacay and I already have somehow offended a group of cis white teenage girls
#hashtag CANCELECED for the crimes of being ✨problematic✨#(they got uncomfortable hearing me talk about my non-white side of the families traditions of honouring the dead) LOL#isnt xenophobia just the cutest ??#they said i probably get all my witchcraft information off tik tok LMAO#oookay. as if i havent been my grandma and autns apprentice since I was 7.#+ all of them only happen to be into witch raft bcus it blew up on tik tok in 2021 LOL#so light and love everybody !! unless ur spirituality doesnt stem from white culture bc black witchcraft is dirty and bad and gross !! <3#guys im gonna kms#my gospel
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llustration from Le Petit Journal of 'Raft of the Medusa', 1899.
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[watches bro finish spiderm*n ps4] well. that was kind of a depressing and unfulfilling ending.
#idk man. norman goes back to his penthouse. li and otto in the raft. you know who dead.#where's the justice.#luke rambles
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dream karl george sapnap playing plate up plssss
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Here's this week's schedule! As usual, we'll be doing Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday on YouTube, and Friday, Saturday and Sunday on Twitch!
Check under the cut to see what's coming. See you Tuesday!
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TUESDAY -
We're continuing with Coral Island at 8:00 PM EST! We're gonna try and make quite a bit more progress than usual so I hope you'll join me as I build up my farm!
WEDNESDAY -
We'll be starting something new on Youtube, 8:00 PM EST! I'll be streaming Dead Cells every Wednesday!
THURSDAY -
We're debuting Crown Trick on Youtube at 8:00 PM EST! This is another roguelike but with a different flair, so I hope you enjoy it!
FRIDAY -
We're continuing Trails from Zero on Twitch at 9:00 PM EST! Resuming from Chapter 3 onwards!
SATURDAY -
At 10:00 AM EST, we'll be doing Faith with Citrusssoda!
Then, at 2:00 PM EST, we'll be doing Raft with Tomaae!
Then, at 6:00 PM, we'll be playing Plate Up! with @naturalprime @melynnrose and MrMinteh!
Finally, at 9:00 PM EST, we'll be continuing Subnautica!
SUNDAY -
We'll be wrapping up the week with some Withering Rooms!
Then, at 6:00 PM EST, we'll be continuing Signalis!
And that's it, subbies! That's our schedule for next week.
I hope you'll come see me!
#male vtuber#vtuber uprising#vtuberen#envtuber#signalis#withering rooms#subnautica#coral island#dead cells#faith#trails from zero#raft#crown trick
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at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"
like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.
"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."
... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.
and i'd still keep writing.
i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.
i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley
"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"
and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.
it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.
you create because you're greedy.
#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME#there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing#and the writing is what i need to be doing#writeblr#this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to#edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol#i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!!#my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means#i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her)#hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong#i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet.#i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse#i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!!#i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO#i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness#and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it#im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us#i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer#and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art.#i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work#even if it means being miserable#but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.
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I need to go back to fucking therapy....
#i called like two months ago and didnt follow through cause i suck#im over hear like having a full on self worth break down cause i feel so grooossssss artistically#like its my fucking life raft and even its not feeling great anymore...#im scared its going to get dead and buried like making music
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Please come and see me because I’ll be dead soon’: how Michael Sheen got sucked into a forever chemicals exposé
An opera-loving member of high society turned eco-activist who was forced into police protection with a panic button round his neck. A Hollywood actor who recorded said activist’s life story as he was dying from exposure to the very chemicals he was investigating. Throw in two investigative journalists who realise not everything is as it seems, then uncover some startling truths, and you have “podcasting’s strangest team” on Buried: The Last Witness.
On their award-winning 2023 podcast Buried, the husband and wife duo Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor dug into illegal toxic waste dumping in the UK and its links to organised crime. This time, they focus on “forever chemicals”, specifically polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and set out to discover whether one whistleblower may have been decades ahead of his time in reporting on their harmful impact.
“It’s amazing how big the scale of this story is,” says Ashby, as we sit backstage at the Crucible theatre, where they are doing a live discussion as part of Sheffield DocFest. “With this series, we don’t just want it to make your blood turn cold, we want it to make you question your own blood itself.”
It all started when Taylor and Ashby were sent a lead about the work of former farmer’s representative Douglas Gowan. In 1967, he discovered a deformed calf in a field and began to investigate strange goings on with animals close to the Brofiscin and Maendy quarries in south Wales. He linked them to the dumping of waste by companies including the nearby Monsanto chemical plant, which was producing PCBs.
PCBs were used in products such as paint and paper to act as a fire retardant, but they were discovered to be harmful and have been banned since 1981 in the UK. However, due to their inability to break down – hence the term forever chemical – Gowan predicted their legacy would be a troubling one. “I expect there to be a raft of chronic illness,” he said. He even claimed that his own exposure to PCBs (a result of years of testing polluted grounds) led his pancreas and immune system to stop working. “I’m a mess and I think it can all be attributed to PCBs,” he said.
However, Gowan wasn’t a typical environmentalist. “A blue-blood high-society Tory and a trained lawyer who could out-Mozart anyone,” is how Taylor describes him in the series. He would even borrow helicopters from friends in high places to travel to investigate farmers’ fields. Gowan died in 2018 but the pair managed to get hold of his life’s work – confidential reports, testing and years of evidence. “I’m interested in environmental heroes that aren’t cliche,” says Ashby. “So I was fascinated by him. But then we started to see his flaws and really had to weigh them up. My goodness it’s a murky world we went into.”
The reason they were able to delve even deeper into this murky world is because of the award-winning actor Michael Sheen who, in 2017, came across Gowan’s work in a story he read. He was so blown away by it, and the lack of broader coverage, that he tracked him down. “I got a message back from him saying: ‘Please come and see me because I’ll be dead soon,’” says Sheen. “I took a camera with me and spent a couple of days with him and just heard this extraordinary story.”
What Gowan had been trying to prove for years gained some traction in 2007, with pieces in the Ecologist and a Guardian article exploring how “Monsanto helped to create one of the most contaminated sites in Britain”. One was described as smelling “of sick when it rains and the small brook that flows from it gushes a vivid orange.” But then momentum stalled.
Years later, in 2023, Ashby and Taylor stumbled on a recording of Sheen giving the 2017 Raymond Williams memorial lecture, which referenced Gowan and his work. Before they knew it, they were in the actor’s kitchen drinking tea and learning he had conducted a life-spanning seven-hour interview with Gowan before his death. So they joined forces. Sheen isn’t just a token celebrity name added for clout on this podcast; he is invested. For him, it’s personal as well as political. “Once you dig into it, you realise there’s a pattern,” he says. “All the places where this seems to have happened are poor working-class areas. There’s a sense that areas like the one I come from are being exploited.”
Sheen even goes to visit some contaminated sites in the series, coming away from one feeling sick. “That made it very real,” he says. “To be looking into a field and going: ‘Well, I’m pretty sure that’s toxic waste.’” Sheen was living a double life of sorts. “I went to rehearsals for a play on Monday and people were like, ‘What did you do this weekend?’” he says. “‘Oh, I went to the most contaminated area in the UK and I think I may be poisoned.’ People thought I was joking.” Sheen ended up being OK, but did have some temporary headaches and nausea, which was a worry. “We literally had to work out if we had poisoned Michael Sheen,” says Ashby, who also ponders in the series: “Have I just killed a national treasure?”
The story gets even knottier. Gowan’s findings turn out to be accurate and prescient, but the narrative around his journey gets muddy. As a character with a flair for drama, he turned his investigation into a juicy, riveting story filled with action, which could not always be corroborated. “If he hadn’t done that, and if he’d been a nerdy, analytical, detail-oriented person who just presented the scientific reports and kept them neatly filed, would we have made this podcast?” asks Taylor, which is a fascinating question that runs through this excellent and gripping series.
Ashby feels that Gowan understood how vital storytelling is when it comes to cutting through the noise. “We have so much science proving the scale of these problems we face and yet we don’t seem to have the stories,” he says. “I think Douglas got that. Fundamentally, he understood that stories motivate human beings to act. But then he went too far.”
However, this is not purely about Gowan’s story – it’s about evidence. The Last Witness doubles up as a groundbreaking investigation into the long-lasting impact of PCBs. “We threw the kitchen sink at this,” says Ashby. “The breakthrough for us is that the Royal Society of Chemistry came on board and funded incredibly expensive testing. So we have this commitment to go after the truth in a way that is hardly ever done.”
From shop-bought fish so toxic that it breaches official health advice to off-the-scale levels of banned chemicals found in British soil, the results are staggering. “The scientist almost fell off his chair,” says Ashby. “That reading is the highest he has ever recorded in soil – in the world. That was the moment we knew Douglas was right and we are now realising the scale of this problem. The public doesn’t realise that even a chemical that has been banned for 40 years is still really present in our environment.”
To go even deeper into just how far PCBs have got into our environment and food chain, Ashby and Taylor had their own blood tested. When Taylor found 80 different types of toxic PCB chemicals in her blood it was a sobering moment. “I was genuinely emotional because it’s so personal,” she says. “It was the thought of this thing being in me that was banned before I was even born and the thought of passing that on to my children.” Ashby adds: “We’ve managed physical risk in our life as journalists in Tanzania and with organised crime, but more scary than a gangster is this invisible threat to our health.”
In order to gauge the magnitude of what overexposure to PCBs can do, they headed to Anniston, Alabama, once home to a Monsanto factory. “As a journalist, you have an inbuilt scepticism and think it can’t be that bad,” says Ashby. “But when I got there I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I hate to use words like dystopian, but it was. There is a whole massive school that can’t be used. There’s illnesses in children and cancers. It truly was the most powerful vignette of the worst-case example of these chemicals.”
It’s bleak stuff but instilling fear and panic is not the intention. “Obviously, we’re really concerned about it,” says Ashby. “And although the environmental crises we face do feel overwhelming, it is incredible how a movement has formed and how individuals are taking action in communities. The lesson to take from Douglas is that the response doesn’t have to be resignation. It can be agency.”
#Michael Sheen#Interview#Buried#The Last Witness#BBC Radio 4#it's interesting that with two little kids at home he went in a poisoned place anyway
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Check out this funky little guy
#pictures#please feel free to ignore this#I'm reading The Oak King the Holly King and the Unicorn#It's a squirrel riding a raft filled with nuts and using its tail as a sail#Apparently squirrels were considered messengers for the underworld#They would listen to departed souls and then climb trees to relay messages to the gods#Nuts were also considered dwellings for souls of the dead#And as everyone knows wquirrels cross bodies of water in tiny boats using their tails to blow them across#It reminds me of Charon
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