#the night tiger

[a-labyrinth-of-stories]

The Night Tiger, Yangsze Choo

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Night Tiger | Author: Yangsze Choo | Publisher: Flatiron Books (2019)

[chloesimaginationthings]

Do you guys fuck with the FNAF books?…

[sawreadreviewed]

Very belated addition! Nettle tea (blocking out the library sticker) and The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo. Read it over the weekend without stopping. Not mind-blowing writing, but engaging characters and beautifully evoked setting (1930s Malasia). Bonus points for peppering in not one but several languages in a way that didn’t make suspension of disbelief difficult. I’ll read whatever Choo cares to write!! Also, this book deserves a better cover. They did her wrong.

[rubanacabana]

mango-flavored bravery (ink) and some kinda solar eclipse (error)

🍁🧸☕🍂 happy sweet november everyone!! staying comfortable this season, I hope? (ㅅ´ ˘ `)₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ to celebrate this in-between weather, please enjoy two pieces that come in a pair, ft. my favorite character duo (a.k.a. my muses for like, ever TAT AHHH) !!

ink sans by the illustrious @comyet, error sans by the ultra-talented @loverofpiggies!

[lemon-wedges]

I swear i mean to draw something else but then season two kept teasing me about them going out for drinks and then THEY DIDNT DIDNT 😡

[goryhorroor]

mike flanagan's favorite horror movies

[polmcarts]

[silosene]

ever since I assembled this lego cat my grandma got me for christmas she’s been asking me what I named it and for some reason it gives me overwhelming vibes of @snippit-crickit’s funnysilly mustache man, so. everybody meet Felix Ambrosious Delacroix the 4th (no relation)

yes i made little glasses for him. i would add a mustache but there is nowhere convenient in the legos to wedge it

also: he has a secret compartment!

i wonder what could be inside…?

[browsethestacks]

Tigra

Art by Bruce Timm

[a-labyrinth-of-stories]

The Night Tiger, Yangsze Choo

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[chloesimaginationthings]

Vanessa made her suit for the FNAF mimic..

[themargogamer]

mimicmimicmimicmimicmimic

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Do you think they ever told Michelle about the police raid she came to?

From Michelle's point of view, it's like:

Get called to a police raid because apparently there's an elephant? in a flophouse?

Roll up and discover the cops understated the problem; it's an elephant and a rhino and a wolf and a gorilla. Also possibly a skunk and a hawk, but those are native to the area so maybe the poor skunk is just lost.

Attempt to tranq the rhino before he can flatten a police car; do not succeed.

Discover that THE BIRD has A GUN. Exchange fire with the fucking bird who has a fucking gun.

Succeed in chasing the animals away, even though none of them end up drugged enough to go down.

Discover there was no circus in town, nor was there a mass escape of an illegal home zoo.

Go home. Drink to forget.

Find out that your daughter can turn into a wolf. Find out one of her friends is a hawk who can fire projectile weapons. Witness two of her other friends turning into a gorilla and an elephant.

She's a smart lady. I'm sure she can put the pieces together and ground Cassie for eternity, even if no one spells it out for her.

[jbbartram-illu]

Time for a brief break from posting ceramic animals to post some flesh & blood ones (see alt text for species!)!

My partner's mom & stepdad took us to Costa Rica (near Tamarindo) for his 40th birthday & I was in bird/creature heaven! The nearest rainforest was a bit too far from where we were staying, but I got to experience some wonderful dry tropical forest & estuary/river ecosystems, plus got some good hangout time with the Pacific ocean <3

My partner gave me the good DSLR for the nature tours we went on & it was a joy being able to take pretty OK photos instead of sad zoomed-in cheapest-iPhone ones (obviously I still have a lot to learn, but these are exciting as a beginning!!):

Since our two nature tours were boat-based (one on the Palo Verde River, one on an estuary in Las Baulas park), most of my decent bird photos are herons, as they're larger, generally lower-down, & also move more slowly than goddamn passerines/parrots/smaller birds.

I did get an ok-ish shot of a common black hawk, tho!! LOOK at that eagle-y beak!

& finally, the reptiles!! There were green iguanas & black spiny-tailed iguanas absolutely everywhere...

...AND WE SAW AMERICAN CROCODILES!!

On the Palo Verde river tour we saw some BIG guys (smallest maybe 6', biggest must have been 10'-12')!

& on the estuary tour we saw a few young ones. Two were less than 3' long, and this guy was maybe 4' and let us get super close b/c it was tucked away in the mangrove roots!

I had a wonderful time on this trip and am already looking forward to coming back for a rainforest-focused adventure next time!!

Also, Tamarindo has two really good coffee shops run by the loveliest people (Nordico Coffee & Derecho Sagrado) so if you're ever there, pls check them out!

FIN!