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ggsworldstory · 11 months ago

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Chapter -1 Act Jangle: how the government (tried to) steal Christmas

It was christmas eve aboard the Toppat submarine,everywhere you could look holiday spirit could be found, sweet cocoa wafted through the air, Lively decor around every corner, even the two who’d always bicker about what music to have playing agreed to have their playlist on one side and the other’s on their side. Meanwhile, atop the sub, Jess practiced her waterbending tricks, with each wave of her hand, little orbs of the ocean arose before quickly freezing into all manner of shapes and sizes,from snowflakes, to gemstones and much more! while GG watched and gave thunderous applause, “You’re really getting good with that!” he said

“Heh, thanks” She replied with a shiver “but it’s getting pretty cold, we should be heading back inside”

“I guess, unless…” GG said as he got an idea, he folded his fingers into a taut fist preparing to release a warming fire for the two of them, he flicked his fingers open and… nothing.

GG chuckled awkwardly before he tried again, and again, and again several more times, “Dammit!” he cried out in frustration

“Oh, don’t be so down, you’re bound to get better sometime,besides,I think it’s sweet of you to try that just for my little water tricks.”

“Thanks, but what if what wasn’t just for those tricks, what if there was more at stake and I messed up, I don’t how I’d live with myself…”

Suddenly, the two felt the loudspeaker go off inside the sub, though somewhat muffled, they could hear the captain announce “All members, please report to the front of the submarine for an important meeting!”

“Huh, wonder what’s this ‘bout?” GG wondered as the two made their way to the sub’s front, taking seats next to GG’s parents, soon enough, Captain Sharkbite presented themself

“Hello everyone, I know yer all in the holiday spirit especially with our annual holiday heist tonight, but I’m afraid I come bearing bad news, the sub’s autopilot is on the fritz, I’ll need someone else driving this thing through the night”

GG attempted to inquire, “Wha- why can’t you just keep driving?”

“Ye can’t be serious,I need to be here to get a full eight hours of shuteye. Do you have any idea what happens when I haven’t gotten my sleep?”

“Don’t remind me…” Gerald mumbled with dread

“Just be glad you weren’t born yet at the time” Gabrielle elaborated

“Anyways, ye know just as well as I that I wouldn’t trust any of you bozos alone within 10 feet of my steel baby! But, in times this dire, I’m begrudgingly willing to trust two of ye and we’re deciding who the same way we decide everything else; picking names out of a hat!”

The captain rustled their arm through the hat, as the Toppats in the audience waited with bated breath, hoping for anyone to get picked but them, eventually they picked up two slips of paper and read them aloud

“Gerald Maxwell and Gabrielle Maxwell, welp that settles that, meeting adjourned”

While every other Toppat rose from their seats, relieved to get out of a lousy job, the four elemental wielders did not share their joy

“Oough, this is gonna be painful…” Gerald sulked

“Is it really that bad?” GG asked, concerned

“We’ll be fine, George” Gabrielle tried to assure, “we'll just stay here and not get to go on the holiday heist like we've done every year since before you were born…”

“No way! What if me and Jess took your places?”

“We’ve stayed up so many times, we may as well be nocturnal!” Jess remarked

“No, that’d be far too irresponsible on our part-”

“Gerald, can I speak with you in private for a moment?” Gabrielle interrupted as she pulled her husband aside, “Gerry, maybe we should let them have this?”

“What? Why?”

“Think about it, you know how much George has been so down on himself lately, pulling off something like this could be the confidence boost he needs! Besides, the path is so simple, you could do it in your sleep!”

“Yeah but… oh I can’t say no to you, but what about the captain?”

“Don’t worry, I’ve got an idea”

The parents turned back to the two “Alright kids, here’s the plan…”

[Later that night]

Every other Toppat was on the surface for the holiday heist, while Gerald and Gabrielle arrived to the front of the sub where Sharkbite was waiting for them with groggy, barely awake eyes, “ah, good… yer here” they said with a yawn before reaching into their pocket, pulling out a piece of paper and handing it to the two, “Just… follow that path, get back here, watch out for rocks and it should be good…”

“Aye aye, Captain!”

"Yeah, yeah, Harry Fish wash and such…" they continued as they trudged to their room flopping into bed, dead asleep near instantly

"Alright, kids, come on!" Gabrielle announced and prompted GG and Jess to peek their heads out from the hallway, proceeding after they saw the coast was clear

“Now, did you get all that?”

“Follow the path, don’t crash into crap, get back to the dock at 8:30 before the captain gets up, easy as pie!”Jess remarked

“Great, take care, you two!” Gabrielle replied as she and Gerald began to make their way to the hatch and catch up with the others

“enjoy the heist, Merry christmas!” GG added as he watched his parents head out

“Are you really sure about this, Gabbie?”

“Have some faith, think about how happy this’ll make him!”

Gerald turned back to his son, waving at him, looking jolly as St Nick himself “alright…” he admitted as a smile began to spread across his face, “I mean, what’s the worst that can happen?”

[Meanwhile]

In a government base, not too far from shore, two people were up to their necks in files of all kinds, one continually grumbled to himself as he sorted through them, the other noticed and asked, "hmm, what's wrong, Larry?"

"Still can't believe you talked me into this crap…"

"Hey, don't be so glum, this is gonna get us back on the general's good side! Y’know, after what happened"

"Hey, that time was NOT my fault, Jarvis! How was I supposed to know that wasn't the Motor Mafia?"

"Well those kids' bikes did have the same colors"

"Doesn't matter, like sorting some papers of our fuck-ups is gonna get us back on the general's good side…"

“Oh, lighten up! Our luck’s bound to change any moment now, we just gotta keep a keen eye out for an opportunity!”

[back on the submarine]

GG took great joy in his role as de facto captain as he held the steering wheel, tapping his foot in rhythm as he whistled a jolly tune. Soon Jess walked in, carrying two steaming hot mugs of cocoa, “Care for some cocoa a la Jessica, Captain Maxwell?” She playfully remarked as she handed GG one of the mugs

“Why, thank you, uhhh… what’s the term for captain’s 2nd in command?”

“Co-captain?”

“I don’t think that’s a thing… but as Captain, I hereby make it a thing! Great thinking, Co-Captain Wagner!”

The two shared a laugh before taking sips of their respective mugs of cocoa “Mmm, ya can really taste the espresso!” GG complimented, “Alright enough goofin’ around, what’s the map say?”

Jess took the map out of her pocket and looked closely for instructions, but the longer she inspected, the more confused her face became

“Is something wrong?”

“Uhhh, you might wanna take a look at this…"

GG took the map to have a look on his own and while it was simple at first, but the closer the two looked, the more obvious what parts the captain wrote while they were half-asleep, or fully asleep in some areas

"Crap…" GG muttered, "ok, no need to panic, let’s just steer to these X’s, X marks the spot, r-right?

“Makes sense”

With that hasty decision, GG made the turn, unfortunately in this instance X may have marked the spot, but it wasn’t a desirable spot in the slightest as they ended up hurtling towards a large pile of rocks!

In a desperate bout to correct his error, GG reeled the sub’s helm back as hard as he could, steering it to the surface, once up their, the two took a moment to catch their breaths and take a sigh of relief

“That was too close…” GG said as he tried to process what had just happened

All of a sudden, the two heard a loud screech that sent shivers down their spines and forced their eyes as wide open as they could go

“Jess, you heard that, right?” GG said in a deadpan tone

“Yeah” Jess replied, equally devoid of emotion

“Any idea what it was and why we stopped moving”

“Not sure, maybe check the windows”

“Yeah, good idea”

The two both walked to the windows on their respective sides, saw what was out and proceeded to walk back to the spot they started at

“So what’d ya see?”

“Giant sea stack”

“Same here”

GG then grabbed his hat, held it up to his face and let out a massive, muffled scream into it

Larry and Jarvis were in the middle of their organization as before when Larry would notice a peculiar sight out the window “hey Jarvis, hand me that telescope”

“Sure, what for?”

Looking at the protruding top hat shaped hatch that laid in the distant ocean,an awful, awful idea began forming in Larry’s head “cause we’re about to save christmas…”

Just then GG had finally stopped screaming, “ok, calm down” Jess said, as she pushed a button on the Sub's dashboard, activating a pair of drills on the side, “just give it a couple hours and we'll be back in business in no time”

At that moment the two noticed something strange appearing on the radar

“Please tell me that's Santa…” GG pleaded as he pulled down the periscope to investigate with GG looking through left lens while Jess took the right, unfortunately instead of Jolly old St Nick, they only saw a boat headed straight for the sub, brandishing an all-too recognizable green circle and white star, with two eager looking passengers aboard

They stepped away from the periscope, turning to one another, attempting to take a moment to process the situation they'd gotten themselves into

GG began to slowly reach upwards and scream into his hat once more

Losing patience, Jess grabbed his shoulders “Pull yourself together, George!” She hollered as she locked eyes with him, they stood there for a moment before awkwardly stepping away

“Uh, thanks I needed that” GG said “so what are we gonna do?”

“From the looks of things, there's still a decent amount of time left before they get here and I think we’ve both seen enough christmas movies to know what we’re gonna do next” she said as she turned to see the many decorations hanging throughout the halls

[Some time later]

The boat had reached the sub at last “you really sure about this?” Jarvis said nervously, hesitant to go through with his partner’s idea

“Hey, you’re the one yammering about ‘looking out for opportunity’ yet you can’t see when it’s staring you in the face?” Larry snapped back, approaching the Sub’s hatch, “we’ll just go in, find our evidence, and be right out”

“I guess, still, I can’t help but feel a little scared…”

“Please, chances are, they’re all asleep with visions of stolen goods dancing in their sick little heads”

At the same time, GG and Jess were putting the finishing touches on their plans as they stood beneath the hatch

“Ok, let’s go over this one more time” Jess said as she pulled out a map of the sub “when those bozos come in we’ll coax 'em through the sub and lead' em all the way to the front, get them into position, then blast 'em out!”

“Easy enough” GG replied

At that moment, they heard the handle of the hatch twist and creak “they’re here! Get into position!”

the two hastily scrambled as the government goons made their not-so-graceful descent inside

“We’re really going through with this…” Jarvis nervously muttered

“Oh for the last time” Larry snapped as he began walking “nothing is going to happen-” immediately, he found himself face planting on the floor, tripping on a wire tied to the sides of the room “it’s a sign” Jarvis said with fear in his face “it’s a damned string!” Larry began walking again only to trip once more on a line of unlit christmas lights “if these chuckleheads think I’m gonna be stopped by a couple childish pranks, they got another thing-” Jarvis pulled Larry back, right before he tripped on some tinsel and fell into a pile of jagged Jacks “ok, maybe you lead” now in this new formation, the two entered the main hall, they walked slowly and with caution

Suddenly, Jarvis jumped with shock at the sound of a quick pitter patter that echoed throughout, instinctively, shined his flashlight ahead, revealing GG and Jess standing at the end of the hall, holding up a large ruby hoisted from a rope, before they promptly released it

Jarvis instantly ducked while Larry remarked “Hey, those are just a couple of kids-” Before getting smacked across the face and falling onto the floor “are you alright?” Jarvis said, before subsequently getting smacked by the gem swinging back, Larry soon got up right as the ruby was raring to swing back again, but he managed to dodge this time as Jarvis got up, realizing what was gonna happen, he went “Oh no you don't!” Before grabbing the gem before it could strike

They were both almost immediately hit by an equally massive amethyst, sandwiching them between the gems before they both slumped on the floor

The two toppats let out a couple laughs and hi-fived at a job-well done, but the infiltrators weren't quite down for good

“Why you little!” Larry angrily grumbled as he rose once more and began to chase the duo, with Jarvis following close behind

“Scatter!” Jess exclaimed as she and GG split up to opposite paths of the hall's fork with Larry pursuing the path Jess took, while Jarvis opted for GG’S side

Jess soon arrived at the submarine's armory, immediately, her eyes lit up with a mischievous joy as all the possibilities rushed through her head and hid into position, Larry soon caught up, looking around slowly, both to preemptively spot any potential traps and seek trouble making Toppat teen “where are you, little brat?” He whispered, looking back and forth, when in reality Jess was above, having scaled the tallest shelf, she grabbed some of the armories many blades and tossed one down, landing right next to Larry who responded with shock as tried to get away, only for another blade to fall in his path, prompting him to run away again, this continued for some time, with several blades, spears, swords, shears, machetes, even chainsaws! Till eventually, Larry was left circled in, looking frantically as to where the blades would fall next, but they had seemingly stopped

Deflated from fear, Larry lied down trying to catch his breath, only for Jess to toss down a massive hammer with a jet engine built inside, right in the center of the circle, by the time Larry noticed, it was too late, as the hammer dropped on him like an unfortunate nail

At the same time, Jess climbed back down before letting out a playful “oopsie!” Snickering as she made her getaway

Larry would not take kindly to the girl's taunt as he got up and gave chase once again

Meanwhile, Jarvis would find himself in the sub's lounge, initially he felt relieved “this place looks pretty nice!” He thought out loud as he went to take a seat on a comfy looking chair “little rest can't hurt” he assured himself but as he went to rest his weary self, he found the chair had a tack on it! Immediately getting him to stand back up and eliciting a sudden “ouch!” but not deterring him fully as he moved on to the chair right next to it, only to find an identical issue and letting out an identical “ouch!” Despite everything that had just transpired, he still persisted and made his way to the third and final chair of the row

This time however, he took some precautions, feeling the seat carefully with his hands, once he assessed the chair was fully tack free, he breathed a sigh of relief as he turned his back and prepared to slump down for some well needed relaxation

Just as he turned however, GG appeared from behind the chair and swiftly dumped a handful of tacks onto the seat

As Jarvis sat down, he couldn't even bear to get up, he was utterly paralyzed by pain and could only give a soft whimper instead of a shrill shriek, taking him a second to finally get back up, and by then GG had already placed another splurge of spikes onto the floor in front that pierced through his pitifully thin shoes “I was wrong, a little rest CAN hurt…” he said in pain as he tried to waddle away

This pattern would continue for some time, room after room, trap after trap, each somehow getting more sadistic and painful then the last, by the end of it all, Larry and Jarvis were battered, beaten, yet somehow still alive

The two reluctantly opened the door to the cafeteria, wherein immediately they ended up getting struck by what was a bucket filled with water that had frozen very and became a cylinder of ice

After that blow, they stood back to back, shuffling in circles with their flashlights, looking out every which way for potential traps

“I wanna go home…” Jarvis cried

“No! We've gone TOO far and suffered TOO many concussions to quit now!” Larry aggressively replied as they passed into the kitchen, where they became really on edge, sharp knives, hot stoves,eye irritating spices, anything and everything seemed it could spell danger for the poor saps

At that moment, Larry noticed he'd stopped feeling Jarvis’ back pressed against his, he turned to find him with some cookies in one hand and a glass of milk in the other “How can you think about eating at a time like this!?”

“It's called stress eating and this is a VERY stressful situation!”

“And have you learned nothing from it? Those cookies could be poisoned for all you know!”

“Well if anything in this awful place is gonna take me out, it could at least give me a bit of joy beforehand!”

They argued for some time while GG and Jess eavesdropped on them from behind the door

“Wait, did we put any traps in the kitchen?” GG inquired

Before Jesa could answer, they heard a loud “AGH, THIS MILK'S EXPIRED!”

“Guess we did!”

Hearing the oncoming foot traffic, the toppats bolted away and prepared for their big finale

Larry burst through the door, fuming mad, “when I get my hands on you two I swear-” when he was once more tripped and fell over “another trip wire? These kids are running out of ideas” Jarvis quipped

“Hey, mind getting me outta here?” Larry said as he found himself tangled in the large pile of christmas lights placed for him to fall into

“Oh sure thing!”

While this was happening, the toppat teens stood just to the side of their last trap, a massive rude Goldberg machine with a large bag of fake snow hanging from a rope “alrighty” Jess said “now all that's left to do is smoke their eyes, and while they're distracted, we shove em in the cannon and blammo! We're home free!”

“Thank goodness” GG replied “you really pulled through for us when things looked awry”

“Aw, thanks” and with that Jess placed down the marble which rolled along the track and knocked down the cup that released the race car which continued along until knocking over the dominoes that would go on to tip over the ball that fell on the scale and weighed it down just enough to touch the broomstick which grazed the toy plane hoisted by string and tied to a knife that swung by the rope and…

Completely missed

As GG and Jess saw this, they were nothing short of befuddled, “what happened?” GG asked

“We were out of string! I thought it'd be just enough”

“Well what are we gonna do now?”

“Uhh, uhh, maybe there's still time, try to get up there and burn the rope”

“O-ok, I'll try”

And with the clock ticking and chills down his spine, GG began to precariously climb the apparatus, trying to move fast but also be careful, to make a mad dash while not making a sound and seeing Jarvis slowly and steadily untangle Larry only piled on the pressure

Soon enough, he managed to get to a point where he could reach out his hand and attempt to get a flame going, he stretched his arm as far as it could go, flicked his finger and…

Nothing

“No no no”

He tried again, nothing

“C’mon, not now!”

Nothing

“please!”

Nothing

He shook his arms and hands every possible way he could think of, trying his hardest for even the faintest spark that could light up the rope to appear but no matter what, nothing

As he continually waited for Jarvis to detangle him, Larry noticed the peculiar sight from up above, immediately recognizing that it was one of the kids that had been torturing him all night, he wiggled his arm into his pocket and pulled out a pistol, with which he shot at beside GG, causing him to lose his balance and fall from the contraption and right in front of the two

“GG!” Jess cried as she rushed over to his aid, only for Larry to point his gun at them both with a triumphant chuckle as Jarvis finally managed to untie the string of lights with only one thing to say “both of you, hands in the air”

GG and Jess soon found themselves tied up to the christmas tree “as much as I'd love to give you little pests hell right here and now for what you've done to us all night, you're lucky I'm not above going through the legal channels first, so we'll just find some evidence and be on our merry way, for your sake I hope Santa can deliver your coal to the prisons you'll be spending Christmas and the rest of the year, rotting away like the FILTH you are!”

“Larry, I found some evidence” Jarvis announced as he handed Larry a photo

“Oh, this is rich, this is really you?” He said, holding the photo up to GG, it showed him as an infant, held up by his parents, in front of many various stolen treasures

“And to think, you managed to grow up into something more pathetic”

With that last snark, the government goons made their way back the way they came, ready to turn in their evidence and put the poor toppats away

While Jess struggled and raged, trying to get out of their confinement, GG could only stay there, still with his head down and utterly defeated “I can't believe it” he muttered as his voice began to break down “this is all my fault, I couldn't drive the sub right, I got us stuck on these rocks,and even after everything you did to help, I couldn't even burn a stupid rope to fix the problem I caused why cant I do anything right?”

“GG!” Jess exclaimed “look at me! When I first ended up here, I thought it was all over, I didn't know anybody, anything about stealing, or even if they'd keep me around for long, but then you happened, you showed me that there was hope, that I couldn't see before, heck, when you saw that you're parents were gonna miss the holiday heist, you didn't hesitate to offer yourself to take their places for their sake and if you're willing to do all that and more, there's no way I'd ever let anyone talk to you like that, ESPECIALLY yourself!”

GG's heart was absolutely touched by what he'd just heard “you really mean that?” He said with a sniffle

“With every fiber of my being, no matter what happens, no matter where we end up, there's no one I'd rather spend christmas, or any other day of the with than you and the rest of the clan”

From what Jess said, GG couldn't help but perk up, tears rolled down his cheek, but this time of joy, he began to struggle and strain until he could reach his arms out of his constraint and firmly grasp the rope

And what happened? In the Toppat clan, they say: GG’s heart glowed alight that day

And with a swift pull, he burned through the rope, freeing both him and Jess, with no time to waste they made haste to the hatch but when they climbed up, they found the boat already a great distance along

“No, we can't be too late!” Jess said

Thinking quickly, GG said “we're not, raise a sheet of water”

Not entirely sure where this idea was going, Jess did so and with the freezing cold night, the water froze quicker and more solid than ever, at that point they both knew what to do as Jess raised an arc of ice that the duo promptly hopped on and ran across continually as Jess raised the ice for them to race across

Soon, they'd quickly catch up to the boat, but not without catching the attention of Larry, noticing via the rear view mirror “don't know when to quit, do you!? Jarvis, gun em down!”

Immediately, Jarvis complied, rushing to the mounted gun at the back of the shape, he took aim and began firing, the two noticed this, knowing they'd be toast if they just kept moving forward so Jess waved her aims in a special motion and raised a towering, swirling spire of ice before grabbing tight to GG's hand

Together, they'd slide and scale the spire, grabbkng and twirling one another to and fro, narrowly avoiding the barrage of bullets coming for them until they reached the top and spun with a grand jump

Holding each other hand in hand, spinning through the air as they made their descent towards the boat like a mighty drill about to pierce a heart of wood

Seeing this, Jarvis bolted for the other side of the boat, but this proved a very bad idea, as the two landed, the boat was rocked so quickly, it immediately launched Larry and Jarvis into the night sky like an aquatic catapult

Soon after, the boat finished rocking and GG and Jess found their footing, they noticed something floating gently back down, GG grabbed it and lo and behold, twas the photo Larry and Jarvis tried to steal, prompting him to breathe a sigh of relief before putting it safely beneath his hat

All seemed well until Jess looked at the time: 8:15

“Crap!” They both said in unison as they realized there was no time for celebration just yet, as quick as a flash they drove the boat back to the sub

Once inside, GG rushed to clean up everything he could, placing the decorations back where they were before, cleaning up all the littered tacks, weapons and other junk all over the floors and FINALLY getting rid of that long expired carton of milk

Meanwhile, as the drills had finally freed the sub, Jess set a course back to the dock and drove as fast as she could

It was down to the wire, but with only a minute to spare, everything was as it should, the two opened the hatch for GG’s parent and made sure everyone got into position

With that, the clock struck 8:30 and on the dot, Sharkbite instantly burst out the door and started screaming “I should have known you couldn't do it right! You let me down, you… you… kept everything ship-shape…”

“Just doing our Job, Captain” Gerald remarked

“Well, consider me pleasantly surprised, I shouldn't have doubted you, Maxwells”

Gerald and Gabrielle looked around the corner to see GG and Jess peeking from the side, they gave a wink, which they promptly returned back

“Now, what are we waiting for? It's christmas! Let in the rest of the crew!”

And so the hatch opened and all the Toppats came flooding in to start partying and exchanging the gifts they got one another for holiday heist, Gerald and Gabrielle came up to GG and Jess

“We can't thank you enough for doing this for us” Gerald praised

“and I'd do it all again in a heartbeat” GG snapped back “so what'd you get from the heist?”

“Oh I don't know” Gabrielle replied “why don't you see for yourselves?” She continued as she and Gerald reached out their boxes

“Aw, ya shouldn't have!” Jess said as she and GG grabbed the gifts

“Please, we insist, Merry christmas you two” Gerald remarked as he and Gabrielle walked off

“Ahh, we did good, Jess”

“That we did” Jess responded “hey, wanna know what my favorite part of Christmas is?” She said as she pointed up with a cheeky smile, GG obliviously followed her direction, his face glowing redder than his hat as he saw the mistletoe.

[The end, Merry Christmas!]

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lanevids · 4 months ago

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sharkbitespeaks · 8 years ago

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The Gay Tragedy is for Straight Consumption | Personal Thoughts

Everyone knows that if you’re a person in the LGBTQ community and you even catch wind of media with LGBTQ content, you’ll give it a shot. It’s the reason why I watched Carmilla, Yuri on Ice!, The OA, and other series I would, if it was like every other series, have no interest in. Sometimes, however, the “representation” in them feels like it was made for straight people to be voyeurs into our lives--the experience of a LGBTQ person is too often created for the enjoyment of others.

(Please note that within this piece, I use “queer” to refer to my own identity and don’t mean to force it on others.)

When I was fifteen, I was just coming to terms with being queer. I was barely in a place to, seeing as no romance would be happening to an awkward brown “not-straight” kid in a largely conservative community, but it was still something I was figuring out, regardless. I listened to a lot of unconventional music, trying to be really nonchalant about the fact that I listened to bands people didn’t know. One of them was of Montreal. Now, you’d think that I would have listened to the album “The Gay Parade” and had an epiphany in the style of every straight writer’s gay character--but instead, I heard the song “Tim, I Wish You Were Born a Girl.”

I felt strange. I felt like crying for someone who felt like they had been cheated but in a way where there was no one to blame. Well, I mean you can always blame compulsory heterosexuality, but you get it.

And then, like a fool, I decided to read some comments. Maybe I was looking for people who felt the same way I did or recommendations for more music, which was uncharacteristically naïve considering the fact that I’d been using the internet for like, eight years at that point.

“This song’s so funny!”

For some reason, that one struck me as strange, amidst all the “This song reminds me of my favorite slash pairing” and “But he’s not even gay because he wants Tim to be a girl” and the casual transphobia.

Why? Why was the suffering of this man who was deeply in love with another man so funny? What was there to laugh about when he gave up his simple dreams of living with Tim in the face of society?

That wasn’t the first time or the last time that I’ve encountered the blissfully unaware ramblings of someone outside of the LGBTQ community.

I’ll take you back briefly to another memory, which is me sitting in Borders in the manga section and taking a peek into the ~risque~ world of ~yaoi~. By no means do I advocate this as a good way for me to be introduced into the concept of gayness, but it was just sort of the way it happened for me. I felt like it was wrong to even be near the section--but reading just a simple story about a boy who saw another boy and fell in love was weirdly liberating. How the biggest drama wasn’t that people were homophobic, but more that they had a misunderstanding about some silly little argument and would end up kissing on the Ferris wheel. It felt like it was normal.

It was only a couple years after that I realized people (read: straight girls) were titillated by it. There was no sense of a weight being lifted.

That’s sort of the fundamental difference, isn’t it? The difference between seeing yourself in a character and seeing your gay friends as characters. It’s why we can tell when queerbaiting is happening--because they don’t see us as people.

"Allies” can’t wait to see coming out stories on screen so they don’t have to deal with the fallout of a real coming out, which is always infinitely messier and never happens just once. They want to pat themselves on the back for watching it and say that they would have accepted the character. On the flipside of that--some of them can’t wait to see a REALLY messy story about coming out. One where someone gets kicked out. Or hurt. Or dies.

Why?

I don’t really know. Probably for a combination of reasons, but all ones that eventually trace back to the voyeurism of our private lives. But only those that are marketable, because you sure as hell don’t see stories about butch lesbians or LGBTQ people of color. Even rarer are stories about trans people who aren’t just a joke. They want the experience without the substance. The character without the humanity. The one that they can enjoy.

I hate it. I mean, I don’t know anybody that likes it. But I’m torn--underrepresented, but knowing if I was, it would probably be for them. I want to exist without that gaze on me. Visibility without risk of death or dissection, laughter or hatred.

Whenever I talk about LGBTQ issues and my existence as a queer person, it always boils down to this: I just want to live. And that’s all.

#sharkbite speaks #personal thoughts #lgbtq

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yanderes-galore · 3 years ago

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Uh....yandere Hybrid Cheshire and hybrid Sharkbite Naib hcs....?perhaps-??I would sell my soul for this-

"I would sell my soul for this-" Is a chaotic reaction and I love it, lol.

Domestic Cat! Naib and Shark! Naib gets a little NSFW

Cat Hybrid! Naib Subedar

- There are two ways I can write Cat Hybrid! Naib.

- Domestic hybrid and similar to the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland.

- Let us start with physical description.

- In this AU Naib is a cat hybrid (somewhat supernatural). He has a fluffy blue tail and ears along with wide blue eyes.

- Naib also has sharp fangs and claws, as a cat would.

- If we are going to go with the version that will be more like the Cheshire cat, then he will wear the suit he wears.

- If we are going with domestic cat hybrid Naib, he may not. In fact since you may get him in a hybrid store/adoption center he'll wear a certain outfit they gave him so he isn't naked.

- Now onto Yandere behavior!

- Let's start with Domestic cat! Naib

- At first he's uncaring who adopts him.

- He's scratching at the outfit they gave him, tail flicking as he wishes to take it off.

- When you meet him and adopt him, he acts normal enough.

- Lounging around without a care in the world, hissing or scratching you if you touch him and he isn't in the mood.

- Like a normal cat, lol.

- As time goes on he'll be less reluctant, letting you scratch his ears and chin, little more willing to let you bathe and dress him.

- He goes from ignoring you to choosing to interact with you.

- Naib is more like a roommate now and wants to participate in what you do.

- You'll be sleeping at night and he curls up by your feet, purring softly.

- Probably closer to the time where he is more in, ahem, 'heat' he will get more possessive.

- The hybrid is more irritable towards company, hissing at them as he stays curled around you.

- Your company can only watch and speak to you from a distance as Naib is hovering around you.

- He's rubbing against you while purring, ears flicking as he begs you to pay attention to him.

- Company gets harder to have the closer he is to his heat, leaving the house is also hard.

- Naib's body temperature would get hotter and he's walking around nude to cool down.

- He acts like nothing his wrong with it, too. It's awkward for you because he is still half human and only has fur on the ears and tail-

- Point being, Domestic Cat! Naib would get more Yandere the closer he is to heat. The first heat with you and it's in full swing.

- After that he isn't letting you go

- Would he kill? If you keep him on short lead, no, but he could.

- Would he kidnap? If you count him locking you in your own house, yes.

- Now onto what I will call Cheshire Hybrid! Naib

- This hybrid is more like the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland.

- He can be kind and sympathetic, but also have a brutal and cruel sense of humor.

- His suit is sparkling and eyes gleaming as he watches you in a tree.

- He promises to be your guide in Wonderland as he leads you and the other 'Alice' in this land (Explorer-) around.

- Then you are shown all the treasures of Wonderland, bonding with Naib and Kurt.

- Overtime of course Naib starts to dislike Kurt.

- Why did he have to come here too? Why couldn't you be the only Alice here?

- Naib's behavior gets possessive as he travels with you, the cat hybrid getting handsy as he has a hand on you at all times.

- Naib also doesn't like the news of you leaving Wonderland, so he isn't afraid to kidnap.

- So yes, this Naib will kidnap.

- Would he murder? If he's fed up enough with Kurt then yes.

- He could care less what happens to Kurt, but if Kurt tries to get you to leave then he'll have to step in.

- Overall, both variations are quite dangerous.

Shark Hybrid! Naib Subedar

- Physical appearance as always~

- Naib has rough blue skin with red eyes and gills.

- This hybrid is amazing at swimming in his human form, but he has the choice to swap to his more shark like form in water.

- In his shark form he becomes more like a merman, lower half of his body shark like while the other half stays human.

- There is a shark tail on the outfit he wears, but he himself doesn't have one in his human form.

- His teeth are razor sharp in both shark and human form.

- There is also a keen sense of smell he has, usually used to smell blood though.

- Now to Yandere behavior.

- Shark! Naib may have met you in his human form.

- As he is a hybrid he can go out of water as long as he keeps his skin hydrated.

- He likes to do this to try human food once in awhile.

- He's curious of the human world and might meet you on the beach.

- He stares for a moment before stopping himself, deciding to keep an eye on you.

- He's been looking for a mate and it isn't rare for hybrids to hook up with humans. It's been in the news before.

- He may decide to come up to you and speak.

- He knows your language a little bit so he can communicate. He needs to know some to get food, anyways.

- Even in human form it's easy to tell he's a hybrid, the gills on the neck, red eyes, blue skin. It's obvious.

- He's unsure how he wants to court you, as humans and sharks court differently.

- If he tries courting in human terms it would look...indecent.

- So for now he tries luring you, as he is a wild hybrid this is how they get human mates.

- He lures you to the water, saying he only wishes to swim with you.

- Then once in he switches to shark form and drags you deeper into the water.

- If you couldn't tell, yes he would kidnap.

- Would this hybrid murder? Of course! There will be no evidence, too.

- After all, some humans are tasty.

- You'll be kept in a sea cave with him, his red eyes looking for signs of you wanting to mate.

- He's unsure why you're crying and screaming, he chose you as a mate! Is this not how humans do it?

- Similar to Eagle! Naib he will keep you there for a long time.

- The hybrid gets worse in heat, dragging you in the water to try and induce your compliance with pheromone chemicals.

- He'll try to make the sea cave more like home, bringing trinkets from the surface for you to have.

- Overall he can be dangerous. It's best not to trust him when he meets you on the surface.

#yandere x reader #identity v #male yandere #yandere identity v #yandere male #yandere male x female #yandere male x reader #yandere naib subedar #yandere idv naib subedar #yandere hybrid #yandere hcs

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evilneo · 3 years ago

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Earrings are cool! I never got my ears pierced because i am both lazy and scared. And yet i still want sharkbite piercings.... did you know that roses are edible. So are violets. My grandma uses violets in her salads and i use violets and roses in candy making. I dont make candy a lot because its a little messy but its always been worth it to me. Ive always wanted to make sweets for people to enjoy. Speaking of those, do you have favorite sweets? Mines anything sour/fruit flavored. - Jacket anon

standard lobe piercings dont really hurt at all! (and I literally got mine done at Claires so YA) (DONT go to Claires btw get them done properly). Ive always wanted an orbital and an industrial piercing :)

I like fudge:) and most sweet things (I have a sweet tooth) I also love sour sweets!

the flower thing is really cool and interesting Ty ! :)

#asks #anon #jacket anon

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neatotothethirddegree · 3 years ago

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PIRATE AND MERMAID AU CHISSUES.

Cheesy is a pirate and his pirate group are either fishing or just hanging about the shore. Cheesy sees this one very bright teal fish just hovering on the water. Weird for a fish? Xe throw a net and pull this guy towards the shore, seeing a blood trail left as the fish moves along, and Cheesy finally sees its a mermaid and freaks. Tissues is covered in cuts, bruises, sharkbites and different growths or parasites. Tissues looks FUCKINT rough. Cheesy takes the net off the barely living tissues ans tries to patch up his wounds. by the shallow end of the shore so he doesnt suffocate in the air. tissues is fuckint terrified the entire time, but he cant move from pain or maybe just cause hes so scared. Pirates and Mermaids prolly dont speak the same language so He doesnt understand any of what Cheesy is saying or doinf and the guy is already traumatized and scared from whatever happened to him. sad hurt comfort chissues -🦶

FOOT YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT CONTENT AN AU NEEDS RIGHT OFF THE BAT LETS GGOOOOOOOOO

I LOVE TBIS ZO MUC H,,,,, Honestly poor Tissues is not built for a mostly "eat or be eaten" environment like the ocean, its expected that they wouldn't be getting along well down there on his own

#anon #🦶#ndl #long post

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thehordemultimuse · 8 months ago

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🖋 CHUCKS MY MUSES AT YOURS AT THE SPEED OF SOUND, (reflections-of-mobius)

[cracks neck] aight, let's do this- I agree with all your ideas for plotting on your post, so allow me to add a couple ideas of my own, in no particular order-

-what if Sharkbite and Cinn had like a fight or something, nothing serious, just two kickass individuals throwing down for funsies -I think it'd be funny if Murk and Hope met. like, 'wtf, why do you feel oddly familiar, let's never speak again' -[grips Hope and Tempest] LET'S PUT THEM IN MORTAL PERIL -[grips Rust and Sharkbite] LET'S PUT THEM IN MORTAL PERIL -[grips Hope and Tenebrosity] i hope they kiss :3 -i think Copycat should torment Beet/Barry. I think it would be funny.

#sorry for the late reply had work and then family #[speak | ask]#[the rat that makes all the rules | mod alex]

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sergeant-angels-trashcan · 6 years ago

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Sailor Pluto: "I'm going to go be human for a while, see how they live." \ Pluto: [meets aliens on Earth] \ Pluto: Wait what. \ Noh-Varr, who somehow ended up talking to her at a bar, both assuming the other is a Real Human and trying not to act too weird: Hey, do you like close harmony girl groups? I've got some great vinyls at home if you want to hear some. \ Pluto, confused: Sure? \ Pluto, watching Noh dance half-naked to retro music: This was a mistake. \ Pluto: A REALLY HOT mistake.

lmao ok so i saw this right before I went to bed and thought about it while I couldn’t sleep and went “well, I never do anything but super niche things anyway so why not”

because like. first of all, correct, I truly believe Sailor Pluto (especially before she actually comes to Earth for realz) has the same level of human behavior comprehension as Noh (which is to say, if they actually put effort into it, a lot, but who wants to put effort into it?), but i think she’s way more likely to wind up accidentally dating Sif and/or Valkyrie

BUT upon further consideration I decided that the Senshi would super love Noh. Think about it: he’s super strong, hard to freak out, and eats anything. The girls can work on their cooking skills at all the terrible food experiments will not go to waste because he will still eat them.

I’m seeing Noh meeting them post-canon, so while they’re in college or out of it, but I could also see Usagi running into him as a high schooler and just yelling “NOH PLEASE EAT MY TEST I GOT A 45 ON IT”

“SURE THING KID.”

but anyway.

I actually…think…that in suggesting this AU, how dare you, that I’ve found the PERFECT girlfriend for Noh!

And I wish I could say “oh it’s Rei or Mako” but like. Noh really goes for the fighty girls and it doesn’t work out well for him, does it? And he and Usagi are the bro-est of bros

So like. Power couple Noh and Ami.

One of Ami’s defining traits is her compassion and understanding, and there haven’t been a lot of people like that in Noh’s life. Someone patient enough to sit down and say “okay, that was a terrible decision. Why did you make that choice?” I think Ami would really get the “he is literally an alien so he doesn’t get some of this stuff” and the Senshi have dealt with aliens who don’t get Human Stuff before so it’s not like this is a conversation Ami’s never had before.

She’s outside the Marvel Universe, so she doesn’t think of him as “that guy who betrayed us” or “the guy who set fire to New York” but she’s a Sailor Scout, a superhero in her own right, so she’s not going to get freaked out by his superhero stuff. Probably just really curious. (He introduces her to Dr. Strange so she can talk about balancing a medical career and a superhero one only to find that Strange truly has no advice for her, and also his fridge is full of snakes, but she also meets Loki, who talks to her about magic/science overlap and then takes her out dress shopping and maybe to case a bank for a robbery??? Ami is still not sure)

I don’t see Ami as being super interested in sex (I don’t think she’s opposed to the idea of it, it’s just not a priority for her) which I feel like…is maybe a relief for Noh? He has to worry less about mind control saliva (”Noh could I do a cheek swab? For…science.”) and let’s be honest Noh has had a lot of people doing horrible experimenty things to his body so it might be nice for him to have a relationship that was primarily mental and emotional than physical, at least to start with. (They are super cuddly, though. All the time cuddles.)

And having a doctor or medical student in the Young Avengers extended family is really useful because Ami just sighs and goes “Hawkeye-chan, why are you covered in shark bites.” (and before someone comes to me like “I don’t think she’d use -chan in this situation”, you are probably right but when you’re bandaging up someone’s 26 sharkbites because they won’t go to a hospital after invasion of landsharks and you’re too polite to call them an idiot, what else is she gonna call Kate? This is the third time this has happened, and Ami has no frame of reference for this)

Noh has a spaceship that he and Ami tear apart and improve tech stuff on. AMI LOVES COMPUTERS. Noh is smart, even if he doesn’t always act that way, so he can keep up with Ami, mentally, which is really nice. He can also keep up with the Sailor Scouts if they need an extra hand. He’s diffused at least two conflicts by invoking Dreamgirls? They’re all still really confused about how that worked.

….also you will be hard pressed to convince me that Noh doesn’t play music while Magical Girl Transformations are happening. From an old skool boombox, for the Aesthetic.

Noh: Did you guys need someone killed? i can do that.Ami: we try not to kill people, Noh.Noh: but sometimes. you gotta.

Not to mention–Ami is a calming influence, and hanging out with Rei and doing Spiritual Exercises with her has helped him control his anger so when he gets mad it’s more controllable? And it manifests more it being really protective of Ami (not when she’s a Scout. She’s fine as a Scout. Noh and Tuxedo Mask are the Sailor Scouts traveling cheering section) but at parties or mixers or whatever when Ami is Really Polite and doesn’t call people on interrupting her and Noh will just go “EXCUSE ME, AMI WAS SPEAKING IT’S VERY RUDE TO INTERRUPT.” followed by. the most terrifying glare.

Noh is a Supportive Boyfriend. (he’s been working on it). He’s trying to be more attuned to Human Things so he reminds Ami when she needs to sleep or eat or that studies show a thirty minute break of dancing to motown for every two hours of studying improves information retention. Ami never had impromptu dance parties before Noh and now she has them all the time. And…they do help her maintain focus.

Noh went through her entire apartment building during finals and threatened bodily harm to anyone who disturbed the peace and at least three little old ladies laughed at him and gave him food to take back to Ami. He’s losing his edge.

idk man I just feel like they’d help one another grow as people–Noh in becoming more aware of how his actions affect others and thinking before he makes terrible choices and getting better at asking for help, and Ami in being a little more impulsive and self-indulgent. Neither of them do a complete 180 or anything but just…a bit more balance.

Ami, I think, really and truly does see people for the good and bad in them, but focuses on the good, and again...I think someone who believes that Noh is fundamentally good and not a screwup--or that his screw-ups don’t define him--would be a game changer. Ami very, very secretly thinks about Noh’s white hair and his spaceship and his flying boots and thinks her boyfriend is kinda an angel, and even though she never says that, Noh can sense it, you know? He knows Ami believes in him. She holds him to a high standard, and by god, he wants to exceed it.

Also? Noh helping Ami study, using her legs as a pillow while she plays with his hair

#phoenixyfriend #sailor moon #young avengers #noh varr #sailor mercury #ami mizuno #sailor pluto #my stuff #this was....not what you asked me at all #power couple noh x ami #honestly i've known them for 8 hours and i love them #goddamnit i love them so much now #i mean i love kate!!! but kate is a grudge holder #ami is not #also catch david and ami being pals #honestly what a chill and sweet relationship whti would be #occasionally fighting the forces of darkness and alien invasions #normal stuff

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awildhanmonster · 6 years ago

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More Ado about Characters:

Alright, now for round 2! The following characters are all more one-offs and have no direct relation to each other quite the same was as Nell/Leonora/Barnes do, so let’s see if I can keep this under novel length.

Remy Green, aka Remy: 17 years old in current canon, and still in the last leg of high school, Remy is, for lack of any better term, a reverse werewolf: perpetually stuck in the form of a gangly wolfdog monster on all nights save the brightest of full moons. Originally just a “normal” human kid just trying to survive through graduation, her entire life wound up turned on its head when an out of control werewolf attacked and bit her while out with friends one night. He was subdued and arrested, even later charged for the negligence and violent assault, but the damage had been done and the virus passed on— in the worst ways.

Remy essentially suffered the equivalent of a severe allergic reaction and anaphylaxis during the first shift, which took hours (normal were shifts should be minutes) and resulted in her parents frantically driving her to the ER in tears. She survived, though the diagnosis— for a fragile kid with shaky self esteem— was, at the time, seemingly a fate worse than death. Despite her form, she never seems to suffer the loss of mindfulness or weakened inhibitions of most werefolk during “peak” moon periods.

Remy has since started learning how to cope with life in a new form she didn’t really want or ask for, and she has the full, unwavering support of her parents, though it’s still a lot for a teenaged kid to handle. I’m pretty sure she wound up being pulled from high school and is trying to finish out her last year and a half or so at home, though she could really use some friends she doesn’t think are “obligated” to love her like her parents are. I think she’s pretty lonely and dealing with a lot of depression issues. Luckily she’ll fall in with Wayne at some point, who’s like a sweet (greasy stoner) older brother, and he and the rest of the Losers can adopt the hell out of her as a little sister and teach her how to not give a fuck about what humans think when you’re a weirdo. She’ll earn her happy ending eventually.

Rose Lund: Absolutely 100% a retooling/transplant of one of my dearest, most beloved, super shitty/earnest self-insert characters as a 12 year old on Neopets and I have NO SHAME AT ALL. Rose is a human mage (they do exist!) around 30 or so, a pale/skinny English-Caucasian mutt with green eyes, straight brown hair, and a penchant for fancifully extra looking dyed bang fringies because she’s stopped giving a fuck. She’s one of those rare people who can strike up a conversation with just about anyone, blessed by a very… unique way with words that’s unintentionally contributed to her internet fame as a slice of life blogger about the day to day trials of pet dragon (well, wyrm) ownership.

Rose has been passionate about rare and magical exotic creatures since she was a wee girl, and developed an obsession with dragons (‘wyrms’ being the correct term for all non-sentient varieties) before she was out of grade school. In college she double majored cryptobiology and spell artistry, then upon graduation, acquired a pair of rare pygmy wyrms— from temperate and tundra subspecies— respectively, as pets, both for personal reasons and to aid in her pursuit of a master’s degree in cryptobiological husbandy.

Pygmy wyrms, it should be noted, are generally terrible pets. While only growing to approximately the size of a house cat (10-12 pounds on average) and sporting the appearance of beautifully miniaturized mythological six-limbed dragons any fantasy nut would fall in love with, they are far from domesticated, exasperatingly precocious, and have the charming habit of expelling flammable gas from a myriad of orifices when startled. They have a distinctive, vaguely musky sulfurous smell about them regardless of cleanliness and are just clever enough to ignore training commands when convenient. Imagine giving a very ornery, very clever raccoon flappy wings with a several foot wingspan, feeding it rotten eggs, and strapping a flamethrower to both ends, then rigging it all with an excitable hair trigger. That is a pygmy wyrm. Rose owns two in an apartment complex: Ice Pack (Packy), who is a pale milk white/ice blue, and Sharky (Sharkbite), who is black and burgundy/red.

Needless to say they’re the loves of her lives and she revolves around them, having garnered a massive internet following thanks to her daily posts about their antics and the realities of exotic pet care. They’re harness trained now and reasonably polite, though this is only due to years of hard work and constant reinforcement. She hopes one day to breed more biddable specimens and help contribute to the conservation of the species worldwide. Also, they’ve made her very good at anti-flammability hexes.

Shun —: known only by her first name, a kitsune who moved into the apartment complex fairly recently with her pet pipe fox, Yuzu. It should be noted that kitsune are particularly long lived among mythicals, though how long exactly that is tends to be hotly debated and unknown by all but the foxes themselves. What is known is how they are extremely slow to age after reaching their peak maturity/fitness, with certain individuals reported over 500 years old and, apparently, showing very little of their age beyond a massive swath of grown tails (nine being the highest on known record). Kitsune typically grow to around 30-40 lbs, outwardly resembling a much large. leggier, more willowy silhouette than traditional foxes, and will begin life with a single tail that splits or “buds” and multiplies over time.

Neurologically they are fairly unique among mammals, possessing a kind of distributed intelligence throughout the body that can give the tails a “mind of their own”, so to speak, in much the same way as octopi or other related cephalopods do. In fact, due to the extremely slow rate of cell death/turnover, a severed kitsune tail will continue to move and attempt “functioning” for weeks, even years by some reports, under correct conditions. Which I’ll get into shortly.

Swerving back to Shun herself, she’s an artist by trade who zigzags between traditional and digital freelance work for a living. Conservation of mass is still in place for humanoid shifts— which all kitsune can voluntarily assume— with predictably small, delicate, androgynous bodies that rarely get above 4’5’’ or so in stature. Features like pointed ears or slit pupils/exposed tails can be morphed or shown as desired, though the chronic perception of being childlike or “cute” regardless of how old they are is a pretty common occurrence. Shun is no stranger to this either, and hates shopping for clothes at non-mythical-specific places because she has to do so in the *really* young children’s department for anything to fit.

Back on the subject of pipe foxes, though— Shun is a kitsune with 3 and 3/4 tails. She had an unspecified accident several years ago in which she lost the final quarter of her fourth tail, but managed to retrieve the piece after several weeks of searching, at which point it was already trying to become a pipe fox. Pipe foxes (at least in this world) are the result of a severed kitsune tail’s survival instincts going horribly wrong (or right) and attempting to restructure themselves for survival, and the amount of tail there (i.e. how much was separated from the body) will determine what becomes of it, though the “starting” process is pretty identical no matter what you do.

If a severed piece of tail has no food, eventually, with time, it will die. If, however, you keep it somewhere safe (like a drawer) and you present it with food (which could be, I don’t know, a chicken leg), it will sense it, and you will see the start of a small, gaping fanged mouth begin to grow from the stump. Once this has formed, the tail will wriggle itself to its prize and devour everything it can, sustaining it. Keep feeding the tail and it will continue to grow legs, organs, features, and a face— though not necessarily in that order. Eventually, you will have a small— usually mouse to rat sized— beautiful white magic fox, prized heavily by black market collectors for its splendor and apparent luck giving properties. A true quarter-tailed pipe fox will live somewhere between 5-40 years, unpredictably. The distributed intelligence of the tail will reform/conglomerate into a brain relatively on par with a modern pet dog, possibly smarter (or much dumber) depending on your luck.

If, however, there is MORE than roughly a quarter tail chopped off, with more of the nervous tissue and mass intact, the pipe fox resulting may appear larger and more robust. Many exotic buyers have been lured into purchasing these creatures from traders without realizing, and years later the unlucky recipient will find their precious fox’s skin suddenly flaccid on the ground like a shed cocoon, having erupted into 75 tinier pipe foxes that will summarily swarm the accessible property to spirit off with literally anything they decide is valuable, never to be found again, often raging like an infestation for days or WEEKS before vanishing forever.

Rumor has it that feeding an entire severed tail will result in 75 tiny pipe foxes bursting forth from the cocoon shell that will each burst into 75 more bug sized foxes each, resulting in a plague of nigh biblical proportions. But that’s never actually been confirmed on record.

Needless to say the kitsune have a lot of protocols for dealing with severed tails and will usually destroy half-formed pipe foxes of unknown origin on the spot. Shun keeps Yuzu as a pet due to being intimately aware of the little rat-sized creature’s origins, and she still had to sign SO many extra insurance papers and wavers before the complex would let her move in.

I am not good at keeping it short, am I? Wow. Well, there you have it! I’d be happy to answer any extra stuff I forgot too if someone has a question. I do love these nerds.

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respectanimalrights · 6 years ago

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"Words Of Wisdom" - 🔵@maestro320 Notes: There is so much controversy surrounding shark bites lately. The advice experts will give borders on the same principle of respecting another beings home. But most humans just dont seem to get it. Add #Arrogance with #IgnoranceByChoice, that brings you closer to disaster. With scars still visible from a near fatal shark bite, this humble avenger for sharks went ahead and spoke for their importance and conservation. This is an excerpt from an interview during #SharkWeek years ago featuring Veteran Shark Diver, Underwater Wildlife Photographer and Filmmaker, Mark deGruy. @divingdeepthemovie - We are deep in the midst of Shark Week so we thought we’d share a clip of Mike deGruy dispensing some wisdom. Given that he survived a nearly fatal shark attack and continued to make films about sharks and speak out about shark conservation, we think he knew a thing or two. Mike deGruy (December 29, 1951 – February 4, 2012) was an American documentary filmmaker specialising in underwater cinematography. His credits include Life in the Freezer, Trials of Life, The Blue Planet and Pacific Abyss. He was also known for his storytelling, most notably, a passionate TED talk about his love of the ocean on the Mission Blue Voyage. His company, Film Crew Inc., specialized in underwater cinematography, filming for BBC, PBS, National Geographic, and The Discovery Channel. His notable accomplishments include diving beneath thermal vents in both the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. He was a member of many deep sea expeditions and was a part of the team that first filmed the Vampire Squid and the Nautilus. He was also part of the Deepsea Challenge, where James Cameron went to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. In 2016, production began on a feature-film documentary about his life and work titled Diving Deep. The documentary is planned for release soon. Additionally, Mike was also well known for being attacked on 2 April 1978 by a grey reef shark. He was severely bitten on his lower right forearm. (Continued in comments 👇👇👇) - #Conservation #Education #Research #OceanOptimism #OneOceanGlobal #WordsOfWisdom #SharkBites #Respect #TheTrueResidents https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn5hqvxBdX6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rwuv8vn00ww2

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Slashdot: Apple Neutered Ad Blockers In Safari, But Unlike Chrome, Users Didn't Say a Thing

Apple Neutered Ad Blockers In Safari, But Unlike Chrome, Users Didn't Say a Thing Published on September 23, 2019 at 05:03PM sharkbiter shares a report from ZDNet: Over the course of the last year and a half, Apple has effectively neutered ad blockers in Safari, something that Google has been heavily criticized all this year. But unlike Google, Apple never received any flak, and came out of the whole process with a reputation of caring about users' privacy, rather than attempting to "neuter ad blockers." The reasons may be Apple's smaller userbase, the fact that changes rolled out across years instead of months, and the fact that Apple doesn't rely on ads for its profits, meaning there was no ulterior motive behind its ecosystem changes. The reason may have to do with the fact that Apple is known to have a heavy hand in enforcing rules on its App Store, and that developers who generally speak out are usually kicked out. It's either obey or get out. Unlike in Google's case, where Chrome is based on an open-source browser named Chromium and where everyone gets a voice, everything at Apple is a walled garden, with strict rules. Apple was never criticized for effectively "neutering" or "killing ad blockers" in the same way Google has been all this year. In Google's case, the pressure started with extension developers, but it then extended to the public. There was no public pressure on Apple mainly because there aren't really that many Safari users to begin with. With a market share of 3.5%, Safari users aren't even in the same galaxy as Chrome and its 65% market lead. Furthermore, there is also the problem of public perception. When Apple rolled out a new content blocking feature to replace the old Safari extensions and said it was for everyone's privacy -- as extensions won't be able to access browsing history -- everyone believed it. On the other hand, ads are Google's life blood, and when Google announced updates that limited ad blockers, everyone saw it a secret plan for a big corp to keep its profits intact, rather than an actual security measure, as Google said it was.