#tami species

[tristarnova]

Tami is just a juvenile, so while she may be plushie size, she could get way bigger, and this is like the max size if they don’t stop growing.

[ask-tami-and-their-friends]

100 posts! Finally after so long this thing gets to 100 posts, finally, even if this is currently a reblog zone, I am happy, I’ve finally made it to this milestone, hopefully, soon, I get those asks, and we can get the stuff about the fluffalbuns.

[destieltropecollection]

Destiel Trope Collection 2024 | Day 10: Wing Fic

After the Storm (The Meaning of Flying) | @cassiecasyl Rating: General Word Count: 1,132 Main Tags/Warnings: Canon Universe, Canon Related, Angel Wings, Flying, Angel Castiel (Supernatural), Fluff, Feelings, Dean Winchester is Bad at Feelings, can be seen platonic, actually this is platonic, but definitely leading up to something, Dean Winchester Has Abandonment Issues, Castiel Loves Dean Winchester, Home Summary: The storm has ended and finally allows Castiel to fly again. The only shadow over his happiness is Dean fearing he might not come back.

After the Flight (The Meaning of Home) | @cassiecasyl Rating: General Word Count: 1,438 Main Tags/Warnings: Canon Universe, Canon Related, Feels, Storm, Angel Wings, Angel Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester Has Abandonment Issues, Home, Castiel Loves Dean Winchester, Dean Winchester Loves Castiel, Poetic, Massage, Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Dean Winchester is Castiel's Home, Dean Winchester is Bad at Feelings, Promises, Castiel Won't Leave Summary: Castiel's shoulders are tense after his first flight and Dean helps him out with a massage. Confessions and promises are made.

Hold Me in Your Wings | @tami-ryver Rating: General Word Count: 1,670 Main Tags/Warnings: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Cursed Dean Winchester, Winged Dean Winchester, Angel Wings, Wings, Sentient wings, Human Castiel (Supernatural), Human Castiel in the Men of Letters Bunker (Supernatural), Alternate Angel Lore (Supernatural), HugsFluff Summary: Dean can see Sam stretch his hand forward as if he wants to touch. As he is about to allow it, his wings stiffen and pull away from Sam' hand. Dean looks at them, then at Sam. ,,I didn't do that."

Flower in Bloom | @tami-ryver Rating: General Word Count: 1,679 Main Tags/Warnings: Wingfic, Winged Castiel (Supernatural), Seraph Castiel (Supernatural), Angel Wings, Wing Grooming, Molting Castiel (Supernatural), Wing Hugs, Pining Castiel (Supernatural), Pining Dean Winchester, Castiel/Dean Winchester Mutual Pining, Mutual Pining, Dean Winchester Takes Care of Castiel, Dean Winchester Can See Castiel's Wings, Dean Winchester Has Self-Worth Issues, Fluff, SO MUCH FLUFF, Light Angst, First Kiss, Castiel/Dean Winchester First Kiss Summary: Dean gasps, as now he can see them more closely. They are not only black, but they seem to shift colors from deep blue to black and dark purple. They open even more, and Dean stills when one of them comes closer to him, almost touching him. Dean inhales sharply when the soft feeling of feathers registers in his mind. They are so soft, but also so strong.

Like Flying | @Cmccle01 Rating: General Word Count: 2,355 Main Tags/Warnings: Dean, Sam, Castiel, Amara, Gabriel, Balthazar, Jack. (No warnings. It is a pretty clean story) Summary: Dean and Cas get what they deserve. and Jack smiles

Be Not Afraid | @envydean Rating: Explicit Word Count: 3,075 Main Tags/Warnings: angel!cas, human!dean,Alternate Universe, angels as different species, Xenophilia, bottom!Dean, Top!Cas, Wings, Outdoor Sex, Anal Sex, Fluff and Smut, previous childhood meeting, Artist!Dean, dean is obsessive about angels Summary: Dean saw his first angel when he was ten years old. Ever since then, he's been on a self-serving mission to see one again. Sixteen years later, by luck — and lust — he finds the same angel again during mating season.

dressing down | @hornystiel Rating: Explicit Word Count: 3,971 Main Tags/Warnings: Sharing Clothes, Possessive Behavior, Wing Kink, Wing Oil, Dick Jokes, D/s elements, Scents & Smells Summary: “Pick something and it’s yours.” Cas hesitantly touches each item, reverently rubbing the material between his long fingers. He trails the patterns, the band names, the sparkles. Dean follows his hands like they’ll show him all the secrets of the world.

The Hounds Of Love Are Hunting | @melancholictearz Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 4,275 Main Tags/Warnings: AU - Ancient Greece, Fallen Deity!Castiel, Artemis Worshipper Priest!Dean, Prophecy, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, Injured Cas, Dean Takes Care of Cas Summary: IS A STRANGER WORTH THE WRATH OF OLYMPUS? It is said that an experienced hunter shall meet the path of a fallen god. The mortal’s faith in the Goddess he worships must decide whether he kills his prey or shows mercy, and the Fates shall write the future accordingly; the divine entity will either die to the wounds of his fall or will perish as mortal. Dean worshipped the Goddess of Hunt, Artemis, for as long as he could remember. But when the prey that the Fates have chosen for him crashes into the field of the Artemis temple under his care, he doesn’t draw the feathery arrows from his quiver.

Falling Never Felt So Good | @verobatto Rating: Explicit Word Count: 15,066 Main Tags/Warnings: Season 5, canon divergence, wing kink, winged Castiel, touch starving, shower sex Summary: Castiel is alive! After saving Dean and Sam from Zachary, Castiel reveals he's now a fallen angel and he should serve Dean as his loyal servant. But thinking about having an angel watching over you because he fell for you isn't worse than the consequences… Lucifer is out there trying to break mundane seals to get stronger, and the only way to stop him is through fallen angel and human bonds. If only strengthening Dean's bond with Castiel didn't include touching and kissing, things would be easier...

Say Yes | @verobatto Rating: Explicit Word Count: 21,843 Main Tags/Warnings: Winged!Castiel, BAMF!Castiel, mutual pining, fluff, miscommunication, angst, wing kink, angelic grace kink, touch starving Summary: After evading the apocalypse, Heaven faces a new crisis. Without archangels and with an absent God, the angels will appeal to their last hope: to achieve a perfect bond between two of their own and thus generate the necessary energy to save Heaven. But when the first attempts fail, and everyone begins to lose hope, it's then that Castiel admits that he may have "accidentally" started a bonding ritual with Dean Winchester by bringing him out of Hell, and now the restoration of Heaven depends on a brave hunter agreeing to complete the bond with Castiel, a ritual full of enigmas and sensuality that will confront the angel and the human with their most hidden feelings.

[yveltalreal]

//okay i finally have a few ideas for a 300 follower event

1: Emoji Design Fun - this is more ooc wise and would have no ic elements. you guys send a pokemon species and an emoji, and i'll design that pokemon based on the emoji. send it off anon or @ your blog in the ask and you can keep the design. every design i get on anon will be gathered at the end and people can nab them first come first serve. pokemon can be be different colour morphs/coat patterns, hybrids, or just different breeds for stuff. if you get one of the designs, you can use it for pkmn irl or out of it. i dont really care as long as you credit me for the creach's design. if you do use it in pkmn irl you will have to figure out how your character got the pokemon though as once again this would be purely ooc and maple would not be responsible for giving your character the pokemon. mostly just a way for me to flex my designing muscles and have some fun.

2: Maples Mom Takeover - A non canonical event where maple's mom gets access to the blog for the day. the validity of what she says however may be canon may not. mostly just a fun way i might be able to reveal more about her than i would otherwise, although the takeover happening wont be mentioned afterwards.

3: Tami Takeover - I just let maples absol have the blog for shits and giggles. maybe she'll give you a new perspective on things, maybe she wont. she might even introduce completely new info, who knows! everything would be translated by maples rotom.

4: PMD AU Takeover - An au takeover of pmd maple. would also be non canonical and not mentioned later on. idk if id do canon pmd or the original pmd world from @vital-spirit (the pmd blog i run with friends). either ill decide later or do a second poll if this one wins

[soul-of-justice--uty]

Tami: what is your favorite species of monster, if I may ask

GRAHHHH ITS SO TIRING SWITCHING BACK AND FORTH WITH SPRITES SO IM USING THIS ONE TOO

[strixcattus]

Conlang Year Days 165–176

Names!! Names for places! Names for people! Names for time clones!! Even names for colors and languages, which were not part of the prompts but which I created alongside them!

That's right—Conlang has a name now! It's Lecizao, from *laki (tongue) *liyo (walk) *siza (person) and *zapoki (time), but most of that can't really be properly extricated (I'm not even sure *liyo is doing anything in there). The part that comes from *laki, the prefix le-, is a prefix that's used in the names of other languages as well.

Days 165–169: Place Names

Many speakers of Lecizao learn it as a second language, to aid in communication during time travel, so they don't need it to name their towns. However, here we circle back to the so-named "fey" (who still, I'm realizing, don't have a name in their own language) who are native Lecizao speakers.

The fey were/are(/will be), essentially, groups that decided to live entirely outside linear time—stopping in different eras and universes for supplies, camping out in locations Mortal Eyes Were Never Meant to See, that sort of thing. Occasionally, some of them decided to stop travelling and chose a single timeline they wanted to live in, but over time (for whatever value that word holds here), through some combination of random genetic changes and the diversity of minutely different human species and wandering farther and farther from their native universe, the fey started to look a bit less like the native humans in the timelines they visited. Nothing drastic, but they give off a bit of an uncanny valley effect.

(They're nicknamed "fey" because, in a lot of the times they visited, people would immediately conflate them with myths about fairies due to their odd appearance and behaviour. Going along with this was easier than introducing time travel to arbitrary eras.)

Currently, when most people think of fey, they think of them as living in fey towns, enclosed and sometimes concealed settlements of fey. These towns are typically named after features of their location (either physical or temporal), usually in compound-word format.

A sample of common prefixes:

Kama (mountain)

Teimi (forest)

Mona (sea)

Kesi (cliff)

A sample of common suffixes:

Dato (rain)

Miju (wind)

Kuona (lone/alone)

Zuoma (quiet)

Examples of town names might be Kamakuona (Lonepeak), Tanu Dato (Rain Valley), or Zatu-Kogate (Birdsdeath).

Timelines are also given names. Individual timeline branches are assigned codes, which usually make use of letters from a native linear-time language, but large clusters of timelines are given descriptive names, which can range from clinical to flowery and metaphorical.

I was only ever able to figure out one potential cluster and its name: Luji Nomidu Koziale (War's End Cluster): A cluster of timelines in which World War I was the only World War.

Days 170–173: Personal Names

Personal names cover both the given names of fey and a common method for naming any time clones of oneself one might meet, if such a case arises. Fey tend to have beliefs that go strongly against creating and meeting time clones, but that doesn't mean it never happens.

Fey have both a personal name and a surname, with the personal name preceding the surname. Their surname is usually the name of the town in which they grew up, though they may change it if they move away or marry someone from a different town.

Personal names can be single words, or condensed versions of words or compounds. Some fey towns will also borrow names from the surrounding cultures, either to supplement or to replace Lecizao names.

In my doc, I've sorted names by origin, but here I'll give them sorted by typical gender.

Feminine names:

Deide (*denege, songbird)

Ju (*yilu, flower)

Tiola (*nopula, sky; with a prefix from *tami, child)

Masculine names:

Kama (mountain)

Juila (*yumini, tree, and *sopola, strong)

Taomana (*tanu, valley, and *makona, old)

Neutral names:

Kala (bird of prey)

Tai (light)

Tana (shorter version of Taomana)

Zeiluko (*zapoki, time, and *lupoki, true)

Keiti (*keni, path, and *tesi, false)

Tizao (*zapoki, time, with a prefix from *tami, child)

In the case of time clones, adjectives are used to set the individuals apart. These descriptors are typically chosen to imply as little as possible about the person they apply to—color words are particularly popular.

Days 174–176: Wrapping Up

Names in context act almost identically to nouns, though they generally don't take determiners. (Names modified to indicate time clones might, though.)

Mikaigano kui Tanu Dato. I was born in Tanu Dato.

Suo tei tiokesi Tiola ne ki posudi. Tiola does not eat meat.

Nai tio jitaiza ne ja Zeiko Lenui Juiza. This is the Grey Zeiko Juiza (Traveller).

Katani tio Keiti sou Kesimiju. Keiti went to Kesimiju.

[a-fox-in-the-nexus]

Tami: all I know is that I am a boss monster, that’s for sure, cause i am not fully grown, according to some people, my species is supposed to be tall as adults, but I am not… not sure about my human like face though.

[biskysposts]

Technically, Seth hates all shifters in general, and Tami probably thinks she’s superior than other species except Fleshifters.

I see what you did there (maybe I could draw them being racist to each other)

Thank you! and I would be happy if you did 

[richielipschitzaot]

Ok that's good I was worried I would have to CUT YOUR TONGUE OUT or something haha thank you for being so understanding! I'm sorry for threatening to cut you open with a rusty scalpel I woul d only do that to bad people. But you're not a person so your badness doesn't count! The spyware is worrying though I might need to use a skin suit to look like someone else as to not be prosecuted by the space outlaws who are always watching. Do you want me to buy you something or are you sappy and gonna say something like " my family being safe is all I need. " ( wrong, by the way. Your family is temporary and materials are forever. I could get you a funky little figurine or something I know they appeal to you.) Haha aaawwwwwwwwwwww h hh do you know what you taste like. I'll be over at your house in 19 seconds.

Best regards, E!

( P. S I appreciate your adaptation to my sign off, that tells me a lot about you and your species! )

Okay..

I don’t think we have spyware.

Um, I guess? The newest manga of Moon Tami would be nice..

Uh, no. Okay.

Best Regards, Richie

(P.S 👍)

[halloweenvalentine1997]

A recommended reading list of books I own and have read

A Demon in my View by Ruth Rendell

A Judgment in Stone by Ruth Rendell

A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne

A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins

A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin

All Around the Town by Mary Higgins Clark

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Bag of Bones by Stephen King

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Carrie by Stephen King

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

Dead Run by Erica Spindler

Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Every Breath You Take by Ann Rule

Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fatal Flowers by Rosemary Daniell

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison

Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule

Help the Poor Struggler by Martha Grimes

High Lonesome by Joyce Carol Oates

I Am the Only Running Footman by Martha Grimes

I Know You Know by Gilly Macmillan

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg

If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule

In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Just Kids by Patti Smith

Lost Souls by Lisa Jackson

Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll

Menfreya in the Morning by Victoria Holt

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

My Sweet Audrina by by V.C. Andrews

Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin

Night Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates

Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger

Nowhere Like Home by Sara Shepard

Over Tumbled Graves by Jess Walter

Pearl in the Mist by V.C. Andrews

Petals on the Wind by V.C. Andrews

Pursuit by Joyce Carol Oates

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Ruby by V.C. Andrews

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb

Slenderman by Kathleen Hale

Small Sacrifices by Ann Rule

Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

Suicide Blonde by Darcey Steinke

Summer by Edith Wharton

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The 9th Girl by Tami Hoag

The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates

The Anodyne Necklace by Martha Grimes

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh

The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins

The Butterfly Girl by Rene Denfeld

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Cutler series by V.C. Andrews

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes

The Doll Master by Joyce Carol Oates

The Elizas by Sara Shepard

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell

The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates

The Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray

The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Hudson series by V.C. Andrews

The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins

The It Girl by Ruth Ware

The Logan series by V.C. Andrews

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

The Old Contemptibles By Martha Grimes

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Prince of Lost Places by Kathy Hepinstall

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Shining by Stephen King

The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

The Stand by Stephen King

The Strange Beautiful by Carla Crujido

The Sundial by Shirley Jackson

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

The Third Twin by Ken Follett

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

The Turn of the Screw & Daisy Miller by Henry James

The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Vanish by Tess Gerritsen

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Wait for Me by Sara Shepard

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Watching You by Lisa Jewell

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

What Remains of Me by Alison Gaylin

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

[danicadenniss]

Tamara Claire Lavigne

Home: Titan City, United Republic of Nations

Alias: Tami

Nickname: Tammy, Sweetheart by her mother, Sweetie by her father

Species: Human

Gender: Female

Ethnicity: Caucasian (Part German, Part Italian and Half French-Canadian)

Hair Color: Platinum Blonde

Eyes Color: Blush-Green

Skin Color: Fair

Family Members: Father-Maximus Aldo-Lavigne, Mother-Phoebe Chloe Lavigne, Oldest Sister-Amanda Isabelle Lavigne, Partial Grandfather-Dr. Hugo Aldo✝️, Partial Grandmother-Viola Aldo, Partial Aunt-Emma Aldo, Partial Uncle-Felix Aldo, Unnamed Great Partial Grandmother✝️, Unnamed Great Parietal Grandfather✝️, Great Aunt-Ida Aldo✝️, Material Grandmother-Charlottes Lavigne, Material Grandfather-Mr. Lavigne

Appearance:

Tamara Claire Lavigne is German, Italian and French-Canadian baby girl with wavy platinum blonde hair tied up in a small ponytail with purple bow tie, thin blonde eyebrows bluish-green eyes, fair skin and a thin figure. She wears a purple sleeveless above the knee dress with light purple sash around her waist and white kittens patterns, a deep burgundy capris leggings, white ruffles socks and light pink Mary Jane’s flats. She also wears a lavender hair tie.

Personality:

Tami is a cute, sweet, beautiful and sometimes greedy girl.

[tristarnova]

Info about tami’s species, will be updated over time.

1: despite what the color choices @soul-of-justice--uty used, tami does not have cat ears but instead has small horns.

1.5: tami does however have ears on their head, which are tanuki like, but are usually hidden, only revealing themselves when she is shocked.

2: Tami’s species usually lives in a colony of sorts, which are very close, I wonder why tami isn’t with their colony.

3: those angelic wings aren’t actually true wings, they are fluff made into the shape of wings, so tami can’t actually fly with them yet, she will need to grow up to get her true wings.

4: Tami’s species goes through multiple metamorphosis throughout their life cycle, and molts, with tami having just recently finished her 1st metamorphosis by the time yokei godneu starts.

5: Tami’s species have a prehensile tail, able to move just like a third arm.

[ask-tami-and-their-friends]

Waiting around for asks, if enough asks are made on this blog, we will introduce you guys to the adorable fluffalbuns species.

[evoldir]

Fwd: Postdoc: UMinnesota.EvolutionaryGeneticsSymbiosis

Begin forwarded message: > From: evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca > Subject: Postdoc: UMinnesota.EvolutionaryGeneticsSymbiosis > Date: 29 August 2023 at 08:06:10 BST > To: rdmpage@gmail.com > > > > > Postdoc: Coexpression networks and symbiosis. > > Univ of Minnesota, Peter Tiffin > > A postdoctoral position is available to work on an NSF-funded project > to investigate genetic basis and evolution of among-host variation in > symbiotic performance. The work will involve collection and analyses > (differential expression and coexpression networks) of host-symbiont > dual-seq data from twenty host species (Medicago sp.) and two > symbiont species (Sinorhizobia). The comparative analyses will build > on extensive characterization of the genomics of the symbiosis between > M. truncatula and S. meliloti that has served as a model for evolutionary > and functionalgenetics of legume-rhizobia symbiosis.  The project is a > collaboration with Liana Burghardt (Penn State), Katy Heath (U Illinois), > Barney Geddes (North Dakota State), and Tami McDonald (St. Kate’s). > > The start date is flexible. Funding is available for up to three years. > > The candidate must have a Ph.D. and either experience with or a strong > desire to learn about evolutionary analyses. > > To apply, > please submit a brief cover letter describing your relevant interests > and experiences and CV (with contact information for two professional > references). > > Application materials must be submitted through the Univ of Minnesota > Jobs Site, job number 357326. Review of applicants will begin Oct 15. > > Please email me with any questions: ptiffin@umn.edu > > Peter > > Peter Tiffin

[niko-jpeg]

A Relatively Spoiler Free Project E Run Down for @bean-with-a-knife

You asked for this Bean. Now you have to deal with the consequences.

Also, the name is a placeholder until I can find a better name, so if you have any suggestions for what the project as a whole should be called feel free to tell me.

Please note: This is a highly abridged version of events because I cant include everything without A. Massive Spoilers and B. killing my hands.

Project E is an original project I have been working on for around 2 years now. It started as a simple story about a character in an unfamiliar world and morphed into... whatever this is.

The project is divided into three parts: "Times End", "The Second Realm" and "Self-Contained Universe". A fourth part is also being considered thats just full of cut scenes and bonus stuff, but we'll cross that when we come to it.

TIMES END: Times End is the first part in the project. It follows the story of Aviator; an amnesiac creature called a "Luft". Lufts traditionally have magic surrounding air and wind, which is uncommon in the world this takes place in (No name yet). This world is divided into seven continents, and each of them kind of do their own thing.

Aviator remembers jack shit about her life or where she came from, as she had been travelling her whole life. One day, she stumbles upon a place called "Edolan", a conglomeration of different tribes and settlements that ignore each other and pretend the others don't exist.

Aviator is entranced by this new place and immediately gets to exploring. A lot of things happen, from Aviator discovering her new favorite food to pissing off the mafia to solving murder. Oh and a dead human ish character named Puppet follows her around creepily because thats Puppet for ya.

Then a bunch of bad things happen, the world nearly ends, and Aviator gets sealed in a crystal in another plane of existence to stop the end of the world. Because that makes sense. *cough* and Lufts as a collective species are blamed for the whole thing. Because thats logic ig.

THE SECOND REALM: The second realm takes place 100 years later and follows Shedo, Arsene, and Dori-Mei, three rebellious (and very bored) teenagers with absolutely nothing in common other than going to the same school. Shedo is Puppets adopted daughter, Dori is a refugee from another continent, and Arsene is an orphan taken from his home because his parents were deemed unfit to keep him. (Fair enough though, they were bad parents).

They all have very different problems and lives, but they get along well enough. One day, Shedo finds a strange glass crystal ball sort of thing and Arsene breaks it like an idiot, landing them in another dimension. They learn how to traverse the new realm and go back and forth.

Sadly, they arent the only ones exploring this new realm, as a group known as "The Investigators" are hot on their heels trying to track not only the trio down but whatever seems to be at the center of the world.

Anyway, drama ensues and a lot of enemies to lovers tension between Shedo and Rift, the leader of the Investigators, who is a Luft herself. No I promise that not all Lufts are girls, I just wanted her to be an angry lesbian okay.

They make their way to the center of the world thanks to the help of a pair of weirdos who offered their assistance up to them named Tamy and Teaso. Speaking of them... SELF-CONTAINED UNIVERSE: Teaso was a normal... uh, humanoid ant. Sounds weird but its really not. Worked at a library, had a solid life in the underground secret city of Lamplight, and everything was fine. Until his childhood best friend he WATCHED jump to her death shows up as his door drunk at two in the morning.

When he asks what happen, she just drunkenly tells him that she found the answers to Times End, the event that nearly ended the world 100 years ago in a diary written by a Luft. Huh, weird. That sounds a little familiar.

And thus, once Tamy (the aforentioned friend) sobered up, they embark on an epic quest of which Teaso was not a willing participant in.

Everything else is too spoilery sorry but I hope the synopsis of each makes at least a LITTLE sense. Its kind of a mess but oh well. If you made it this far you deserve a cookie. I would love to hear your thoughts on this VERY VERY FUCKING ABRIDGED VERSION OF THIS PROJECT LMAO.

[grimoireoffolkloreandfairytales]

Balkan Bestiary: Baba Roga

So, talking with some nice people over days, I started going over sources and stuff, and looking up folkloric beings which, while not endemic to, are kinda specific to Balkans- have their counterparts in other slavic cultures, and similar beings in rest of world, but are still specific to countries here. So here is one, might make series out of it!

Baba Roga, meaning  quite literally ‘’Horned Hag’’ or ‘’Grandmother (with) Horn’’ is the monster more or less every child on Balkan is familiar with. She is popular in Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. If you are misbehaving, your parents and grandparents and other relatives will invariably threaten you with her- an old, ugly and evil crone, with single horn growing from her forehead, who shall sneak into night to steal naughty children away and probably eat you. 

Descriptions don’t tend to go beyond that, but some add that she is hunched, has rotten teeth, dresses like peasant, or smells awful, or has other undesirable qualities. Sometimes she looks quite similar to mundane woman, only with small bump on forehead (that may be concealed with hat or headscarf), while at other times she is a grotesque caricature of old woman. It is also ambigious whether she is specific individual, a type of demons, or being stock character, both.

Obviously, Baba Roga is a boogieman like figure, and isn’t so much popular in folklore as she is in warnings given to children. Boogieman gets translated here as either Baba Roga, or bauk, which is another creature fond of spooking people. I was once told by one older woman that bauks and baba-rogas are male and female name for demons of same species, and while I never encountered this belief written down anywhere, and wouldn’t claim it as fact, I wouldn’t say it is incorrect since a) oral traditions differ between regions, and unfortunately are rarely recorded 2) from strictly folkloric perspective, it is correct: bauk and baba roga have same function ( scaring naughty children) so they can be seen as same type of story, with different cosmetic details.

Baba Roga, illustration by Ivica Stevanović. in book ‘’Exiled Beings ( proganan Bića’’ part of series about folkloric creatures of Balkans

Baba Roga usually lives in the cave or deep into woods. She is often described as witch, though she rarely if ever exhibits magical properties, which sin’t so surprising as, again, tall tales us to scare kids aren’t concerned so much with such worldbuilding details ( it is interesting to consider whether baba-roga is, again, specific spirit, a witch twisted by her magic, or like many creatures in slavic lore, formerly-human-soul that eventually became monster). One book I read claimed that Baba Roga gives birth to children from below armpit, but again, only one source I know of this.

There have been attempts to connect baba Roga with similar figures of other Slavic cultures, like East Slavic Baba Yaga and West Slavic Ježibaba. While there is of course big possibility that all these figures stem from one single story back from before medieveal period, it is also possible that they developed separately- ‘’child eating old witch’’ really isn’t such uncommon motif. There has been theory that they are degradation of pagan death-and-life goddess, and while I do think that theory may hold some water ( particularly in cases like Baba Yaga and  Muma Pădurii ), I also think that it may be something of a reach. Sometimes boogieman is just boogieman.

There is also a quite famous children’s song, by Ljubivoje Ršumović. Here is one sung version, and below is the text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1El-PV-cFc

Ima jedna pećina stroga U kojoj živi baba Roga

A ja sam valjda razumete Jedno veoma hrabro dete

Pa sam rešio upravo stoga Da joj pokažem njenog boga

Ali valjda znate i sami Baba Roga se krije u tami

Nosim joj limun, nudim joj krušku Al’ ona ni da pokaže njušku

Da li postoji il’ ne postoji Uglavnom, ona se mene boji.

My English translation, sorry for being little clumsy:

There is one severe save In which Horned Hag does live

And I, supposedly you understand I am one very brave child

So exactly because of that I decided To teach her her lesson well*

But supposedly you know yourself The Horned Hag  hides herself in dakness

I bear her a lemon, I offer her a pear But she won’t even show her snout

Whether she exists or not Anyway, she is afraid of me.

* original songs uses idiom ‘’show her who is her god’’ but thats awkward in english so I decided to go with meaning