#this is about the chupacabra btw

[ducksido]

First off, I have known you for around 10 minutes, but now I’m a dedicated fan, your writing is absolutely amazing! And love that you include EPIC in it, if it doesn’t bother you, could you do a Mexican!Yuu? Like a little Mexican chaos gremlin who insults with every insult known in South America, you can totally ignore this message btw, no problem, have a nice day!

(Combining these three) [Also thank you very much c0ralrubi and childofserpents[❁´◡`❁])

Grim: "You mean to tell me tamales come in different flavors?! And you make them for Christmas?! Gimme one!" Grim is obsessed with Mexican food but underestimates the spice levels. After one bite of a habanero salsa, he refuses to trust Yuu’s food recommendations. He also thinks alebrijes are real and keeps asking if he can have one as a pet.

Crowley: "A culture so rich in history, legends, and celebrations! Why, I must host a NRC Día de los Muertos event in your honor!" Crowley 100% butchers the execution of it and makes it look like a spooky Halloween party. Yuu threatens him in Spanish while wielding a chancla.

Crewel: "Your homeland embraces bold colors and statement pieces—how absolutely divine!" Crewel admires traditional Mexican embroidery and charro suits. He���d love to make custom traje de charro-inspired outfits for Yuu, with a modern twist.

Trein: "Mexican folklore is filled with such intricate tales… Tell me more about La Llorona." Trein is fascinated by Mexican horror legends. Yuu tells him about Nahuales and El Chupacabra, and he starts using them as cautionary tales in class.

Vargas: "You mean to tell me your people run with BULLS for fun?! That’s the kind of strength I admire!" Vargas is shook when Yuu tells him about Mexican rodeos and charreadas. He tries to challenge Yuu to a physical competition, but Yuu just smacks him with a lucha libre mask and runs away screaming "¡Viva México!"

Sam: "Ooooh, you got all kinds of magical folk legends? Tell me more about these aluxes!" Sam sees Mexican myths and traditions as an untapped business opportunity. He starts selling calaveritas and copal for "spiritual balance" at his shop.

Heartslabyul:

Riddle Rosehearts: "You celebrate by smashing a piñata?! How… reckless." Riddle is horrified by the concept of piñatas. He gets hit in the face during a birthday party, and Yuu just yells, "¡Le pegaste al cumpleañero! ¡Córrele!" (You hit the birthday person! Run!)

Ace Trappola: "Wait, you have, like, a WHOLE holiday just for bread?! That’s sick!" Ace tries to get Yuu to share their pan de muerto. He also loves Día de los Inocentes, especially since he can pull pranks and blame it on a cultural holiday.

Deuce Spade: "Hold on—you have a whole fighting sport where people wear colorful masks?! That’s so cool!" Deuce becomes obsessed with lucha libre. He asks Yuu to teach him insults in Spanish so he can sound like a rudo (villain wrestler). He’s bad at them.

Trey Clover: "Wait, you put chocolate and chili together?! That actually sounds amazing." Trey loves Mexican desserts like churros, cajeta, and tres leches cake. He tries making mole and is deeply confused by the mix of chocolate and spices.

Cater Diamond: "Okay, but Magicam aesthetic—can I take a pic with your Día de Muertos ofrenda?" Cater is obsessed with Mexican aesthetics. He starts using phrases like "¡Órale, güey!" incorrectly and gets roasted by Yuu for it.

Savanaclaw:

Leona Kingscholar: "Hmph. Your people have strong warriors and deep traditions. I respect that." Leona admires Mexican fighters, from Aztec warriors to Lucha Libre legends. He’s also highly interested in the jaguar symbolism in Mexican culture.

Ruggie Bucchi: "Wait, wait, wait—you guys eat grasshoppers for snacks?! That’s actually kinda genius." Ruggie loves chapulines (fried grasshoppers) and asks Yuu for recipes. He also steals tamales and learns the hard way not to mess with the Rosca de Reyes baby.

Jack Howl: "Your people are really into loyalty and family, huh?" Jack deeply respects how important family and tradition are to Yuu. He’s super intrigued by Mexican legends about wolves, like El Cadejo.

Octavinelle:

Azul Ashengrotto: "So you’re saying these… alebrijes… are spirit guardians? Fascinating." Azul is intrigued by Mexican folklore, especially alebrijes and their meanings. He wants to see if he can profit off of them.

Jade Leech: "You honor mushrooms in your culture? How delightful!" Jade adores that some Mexican indigenous traditions view mushrooms as sacred. He asks if Yuu has ever tried special ones.

Floyd Leech: "YOU GUYS HAVE FIGHTING MASKS?! WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL ME SOONER?!" Floyd immediately challenges Yuu to a lucha libre match and makes up his own wrestling persona.

Scarabia:

Kalim Al-Asim: "Your celebrations sound so lively and exciting! Can I join?!" Kalim is absolutely in love with posadas, piñatas, and mariachis. He tries to dance to jarabe tapatío and nearly trips.

Jamil Viper: "Your food looks delicious, but I sense a dangerous amount of spice." Jamil is deeply suspicious of Mexican chiles. Yuu pranks him by telling him habanero salsa is “just tomato sauce.”

Pomefiore:

Vil Schoenheit: "Your people emphasize beauty in tradition? I respect that." Vil admires the bold colors in Mexican clothing and makeup. He wants to create calavera-inspired makeup looks.

Rook Hunt: "Ah! The poetry of your culture! The passion!" Rook is obsessed with Mexican poetry and romanticism. He dramatically recites Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz poems.

Epel Felmier: "Y’all have weird apples, but I kinda like ‘em." Epel falls in love with tejocotes and ponche navideño. He gets super into Mexican cowboy culture.

Ignihyde:

Idia Shroud: "Mexican mythology inspired, like, half of my RPGs…" Idia geekily rants about Quetzalcóatl and Xibalba. He thinks La Llorona is the best horror story ever.

Ortho Shroud: "So… Día de los Muertos is about remembering loved ones? That’s beautiful." Ortho loves the sentimental side of Mexican traditions.

Diasomnia:

Malleus Draconia: "You respect spirits and traditions? You are wise." Malleus deeply respects Día de los Muertos and wants to experience a Mexican graveyard celebration.

Lilia Vanrouge: "Ah, I remember the battles of your ancestors!" Lilia claims to have met Aztec warriors. He’s probably telling the truth.

Silver: Falls asleep mid Mexican legend.

Sebek: "YOUR PEOPLE RESPECT ANCESTORS?! FINALLY, SOMEONE SANE!"

RSA + Noble Bell:

Chenya: Steals pan dulce. Neige: Thinks Yuu’s culture is magical. Rollo: Disgusted by how loud Mexican parties are.

Extra Mexican!Yuu Chaos:

Randomly yells "¡No mames, güey!"

Calls everyone "cabrón" or "mijo."

Fights Leona with a lucha libre mask.

[spaceypeachbun]

ranking my ocs based on how likely they are to know what a furry is (from least to most likely)

(disclaimer I'm a furry this is coming from a place of love)

least likely:

Captain Odhran O'bannion. He's a 161 year old Irish sailor who was 55 when he was made into a vampire so he's stuck with an eternal Old Man approach to life. The only reason he uses the internet willingly (as in, besides when he's forced to by modern society) is when he goes on YouTube dot com to watch videos of people building tiny houses or doing shit in boats. If you tried to explain to him what a furry is he just wouldn't get it. He'd grunt at you and pretend he gets it so you stop talking to him.

Yasmir Ezzios. Now Yasmir's only in his mid-late 20's, but he's just not terribly online and when he is online it's not in circles weird enough to encounter a furry. Guy's just a little bit sheltered in some regards because that's what growing up this side of 'too rich' does to a motherfucker. He might have even seen a fursona or a fursuit online but he either thought it was nice art or a mascot costume. If you explained what a furry is to him he'd think it was a wonderfully cute idea and would likely create a fursona, though he wouldn't like, participate in the fandom or anything. It would be an elk btw, his Trademark Favorite Animal

The Tongariro National Park Entity. Well she just began existing like a few months ago so you have to give her this one. she'd loooove to film a furry convention and edit it into an arthouse horror film but please understand she'll do this with anything. don't let Tongariro film your wedding.

somewhat likely

Jachobin Garbot. He MIGHT know what a furry is. Now, he's only a little younger than Odhran and was made into a vampire at 42, but he's also a freak. He's gotten himself into a lot of weird situations and importantly he's had a lot of sex, so he's possibly encountered someone on the more sexual side of being a furry and erroneously thinks it's a kink. MAYBE

Mnemosyne Kaga. Same age as Yasmir, but just not very online. She doesn't use social media and spends much of her time doing weird magic and getting in over her head with it. Sitting in front of a bunch of crystals and making candles and writing sigils and stuff. MIGHT know what one is just through osmosis, but that's a maybe.

Mordecai Benoit Henri Baptiste Ambroisie. Hard to decide here. If he's ever encountered a furry it was on accident and it would have had to have been like, IN PERSON. Or, it's entirely possible one of the ballet students mentioned furries to them in some capacity.

knows what a furry is

Adelaide Ambroisie. A perpetual teenager who's drastically online, she knows very well what a furry is. Has a fursona (black cat, the animal she transforms into) but considers this more a convenient way to present herself online than actual participation in furry fandom. She's another way Mordecai could possibly know what a furry is.

Radio Kahale. Very online. Has no beef with furries but maybe has a slightly skewed idea of what they actually like, are and do. Thinks it's like mildly weird at best but also her wife's a chupacabra and she takes care of a 'demon' kid so her attitude about it is 'well things could be weirder, peace and love on planet earth.'

Penelope Montez. One of her many many friends is a furry. She's not into it personally and doesn't have a fursona but she did go to a con with said friend once and got crazy high there. Bought a furry porn print that's taped up in her RV because she liked the art style. Technically it's scaly art since it features a big-assed big-tittied snake lady. Doesn't jack off to it or anything she just thinks its dope in a 'HELL YEAH BROTHER' kinda way.

Victor Richter. Learned what a furry was through friends-of-friends back in the early 2000s. Considers it 'interesting stuff!' and appreciates their fandom history but doesn't party with it himself.

Sunmi Pond. Aware of furries through general life exposure and his mom being friends with one. Is not a furry and has no interest in learning more about them.

is a furry

Hogarth Hanamura. Guy's just full throttle a furry. His fursona is a black wolf named Kuro. He wouldn't wear a fursuit but he would happily wear a pair of black wolf ears and a tail (maybe with black fuzzy fingerless gloves). This is helped by him being a werewolf in some AUs! In AUs where he's not a werewolf he is still super into wolves in general and will draw anthropomorphic wolf dudes in his sketchbook and represent images of himself as having wolf ears and a tail. GRANTED he is extremely remiss to tell anyone about this because he finds it super embarrassing. Being a part of the furry fandom has not gained him any actual friends due to his personality.

[novaursa]

Hi not 100% sure what this Hate Anon is on about ad I mostly read your fics if they jump on my page (all are amazing btw) so I may not know the fic they speak of. But I'm gonna say this anyways.

It is YOUR job to take in the content you do, it is not a Fic writers, the government, or your fucking mom, it's YOU. If you read a rape fic that's on YOU!

Obviously this Hate Anon has nothing better to do in their pathetic life than hate on a fic writer for having fun and exploring their writing style.

Now I will say this, do SOME ( like 1%) fic writers go too far and make it fetishy and gross and that's all they write? Yes. But maybe find those and waste your time on them and not someone who is just exploring and trying something new!

Fanfiction will always have the dead doves of the dead doves, they will always have the tooth rotting fluff of the tooth rotting fluff, you can't stop it be abuse this is how it is.

Also to act like your such a holier than thou fighter of this as you hide behind Anon is pathetic, I NEVER use Anon, the reason being if I have something to say I'll say it but I get why people use it. But it's people like YOU hate Anon that makes me wish this isn't a feature on Tumblr.

If I'm honest you sound like those people who hate of Fic writers for not having the characters put on a condom. I will always say this, it's not a fic writer job to make you feel comfortable all the time, if you have a problem with this one hop onto another and see if they fit your taste instead of throwing a tantrum like some three year old in a grocery store being told no.

Sorry if this didn't make sense, you can ignore it if you want. It's probably not formated right but I needed to get this off my chest.

Everything makes perfect sense, and thank you for sharing your opinions and thoughts. 🙂

I subscribe to everything you wrote.

The thing is, this hate anon is one sad woman-child that makes me regret sharing my gender with her and forces me to hate feminism. She has been tormenting this fandom and its writers here for some time now.

She is obviously mentally ill and the book definition of insanity. She always goes in circles on and on with the same arguments and wants some form of validation desperately.

I've waited for her to come to my blog, because just like a stray chupacabra, I tend to follow people home when I'm hungry.

[toxic-potions-productions]

My Scooby-doo movie rating

So, since October is finally over, I decided to rate the Scooby movies I binged for the month. For both nostalgic reasons, & also just for fun FTR, I'm keeping my October PFP cuz I love it way too much & It's such a mood not to get rid of. Fight me-

Anyways, these movies were all watched on Dailymotion.com, & I'm going to rate them 1-5 based on if it's as good as I remember it being Let's see if you guys remember any of these

Spoiler warnings ahead!!

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Day 1, October 2nd Aloha, Scooby-doo!

This movie wasn't the most entertaining thing, but it also wasn't extremely boring, either. I started with this one based in Hawaii as it was the tamest one & I wanted to save the spookiest ones for last. I did like Little Jim, though, he was awesome. & the Wiki Tiki is an awesome villain, cuz I've always been a sucker for monsters like that

My rating: 3/5

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Day 2, October 5th Scooby-doo! & the Monster of Mexico

Honestly, this movie isn't as good as I remember it being. Or maybe I just found the wrong place to watch it, since ALOT of ads popped up throughout the movie, which kinda threw me off. This is probably my most forgetful movie, I'm sorry to all the Mexicans I'm flaming for this. I just don't remember much about this movie. Alejo was really cute, though, I liked him. & I also liked how they portrayed El Chupacabra, too. But, other than that, I don't really think Monster of Mexico is for me. But, I'm glad I watched it again for nostalgic reasons, so that's why I'm not that upset

My rating: 2/5 A high two, low three, BTW. Cuz it wasn't terrible, it's just kinda mid now that I'm 21

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Day 3, October 9th Scooby-doo in Where's my Mummy?

I. FUCKING. LOVED THIS MOVIE. I've said it before in my post about this, but this has to be one of the better movies I've watched, so much so that I regret not saving it for later. Amelia Von Butch is such an awesome antagonist (& she's hella fine, too), Triple A is the coolest dude I've seen, Rock Rivers is funny as hell, & Omar is super interesting to watch. The mummies, Cleopatra, the segway into the movie, the more CGI creatures like Spirit of the sands, this movie SLAPS. & I think "Mummies, Rags, & Riches" is the biggest banger of the entire soundtrack, even as an adult. That song will never not slap to me. Definitely one of those movies I'll be watching again soon just for fun. Said it before, but I'll say it again. Egyptians just do it better

My rating: 5/5

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Day 4, October 13th Scooby-doo & the legend of the vampire

You would think since I was so obsessed with 39 back in the day that I would've liked this movie as well as I did when I was a kid. I hate to say it, but not really. Naming a vampire Yowie Yahoo sounds kinda..........weird. I'm sorry, I can't hear it any differently. The pacing was really slow, somethings were a bit off, it really wasn't as good as I remember it being. Since I love Australia & the culture of it all, I'm disappointed that I don't like this as much as I did anymore. The few things I did like were the Hex girls, Daniel & his grandfather Malcom, Jasper Ridgeway, The Bad Omens, the vampires themselves (Including old Yowie despite the name), & the soundtrack. Auugh, the soundtrack was so awesome, especially in the opening scenes of the movie. Other than that, I'm upset that I didn't like this movie. Especially Two skinny dudes. IDK why, but I really don't like those two. For a movie that has the same birth-year as me, I really don't care for this one

My rating: 1/5

A HIGH one, low two. Cuz the potential is there, & I see what they were going for (Mostly cuz Wildwind was super awesome & the Hex girls have my heart as usual. So, that's why it isn't getting flamed THAT hard)

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Day 5, October 15th Scooby-doo! Pirates Ahoy!

Again, I'm mad I didn't save this for much later, cuz this movie ROCKS! The soundtrack, the pirates, Captain Skunkbeard, Mysterio, this was definitely a fun movie to watch. "Blow Ye winds" has been stuck in my head for days, too. We need to bring sea shanties back!! & I am also absolutely disgusted how the soundtrack isn't on Spotify. Not only that, but Rupert Garcia is a real cutie & such a likable character. Fred's parents, Skip & Peggy, are absolutely adorable, too. Yes, they're cringy at times & I understand why Fred reacted the ways he did, but damnit, they are so adorable! Captain Crothers & Sunny St. Cloud were really fun additions to the movie, too. My only question is why did they name that billionaire guy Biff Wellington?? That sounds like a fancy steak XDDD Either way, this movie was one of the better movies I remember, & now I'm obsessed with pirates because of it 🏴‍☠️

My rating: 4½/5

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Day 6, October 19th Scooby-doo! & the Cyber Chase

Hear me out on the Phantom Virus. HEAR ME OUT--

Uhhhh, who said that? Anyways, I really enjoyed this movie, it was so much more fun that I remember it being. Professor Kaufman is my favorite character from it, honestly. Eric did an incredible job on the game, & the real gang meeting the cyber gang gave me so much whiplash due to the old looks. Especially Shaggy wearing red, cuz that's ANCIENT times. I also think Officer Wembley is a bit of a grouch, but I don't mean that in a bad way. Just means they did a good job writing his character. But, my one complaint is Bill. What was going through my boy's head to make a virus just because he didn't get picked for that prize money?? Like, DUDE!! That is so petty, even for a Scooby-doo movie XDD

My rating: 4/5

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Day 7, October 21st Scooby-Doo! & the Loch Ness Monster

SCOTLAND PRIDE!!! >:DD

This is one of the movies that's the closest to my heart due to me being half Scottish myself. The way they animated the Loch ness monster was absolutely amazing, she looks alot better than some of the other CGI stuff from the early 2000s. & with the scenes where she's clomping around actually look really satisfying, too. & the characters are so fun to watch! Del is a super funny guy, Sir Ian is really cool, & Fiona Pembroke is probably a favorite of mine. & Shannon is absolutely adorable, too! Not only that, but Colin & Angus are fucking hilarious. Put a Scottish accent on any siblings & it automatically becomes alot funnier to see them on screen. However, that Duncan McGubbin dude sure is creepy. Was he always like that? I don't remember being that scary, it's gotta be the lazy eye. Not only that, but I LOVED the scene of the guys in the sub swimming away from Nessie after spotting that underground cave. Easily a favorite scene of mine. Definitely gonna put a Scotland visit on my bucket list because of this movie. Who knows? Maybe there is a Loch ness monster out there somewhere

My rating: 5/5

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Day 8, October 27th Scooby-Doo! & the witch's ghost

I wanted to watch this on my birthday, but due to my party, I was so busy running back & forth that I didn't have time. But, I saved this one for second to last for a reason. It's not as close to my heart as Zombie island, but damnit, it slaps. Ben Ravencroft is definitely an author I'd read, since I'm a sucker for horror books. Not only that, but this movie with the Hex girls' debut was one of my gay awakenings, so these three hold a special place in my heart (Luna, my beloved). I kinda wish we saw more of Jack & Dr. Dean, though. Shaggy & Scooby made Jack's meals look incredible 🤤😋 But, man. Ben is OP as hell with powers like that. & the animation of him summoning Sarah was fucking cool! Definitely a favorite misleading villain of mine. Summoning your own ancestor & she ends up dragging you into a book with her, couldn't be me

My rating: 5/5

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Day 9, October 31st. Halloween night Scooby-Doo on Zombie island

Said it before, but I'll say it again. BEST SCOOBY MOVIE EVER!! I saved this one for last since I knew it was gonna be as good as I remember it being, & damnit, was I right. I honestly kinda wish Moonscar island was a real island in Louisiana now, since I would love to go there. Mostly for the peppers cuz I'm not one to turn down some good old spicy food, sue me. Anyways, I really loved Lena, the ferry driver Jacques, Beau, & Simone Lenoir. I honestly don't remember this movie being as dark as it is when I was younger, but then again, it was a movie from the late 90s. They were able to get away with alot of things back then. Ironically enough, my all time favorite character would probably have to be Snakebite Scruggs. There's something about him that's just so scary, but so cool to me that I wish we saw him more in this movie. His hunting pig, yes, hunting pig, Mojo creeps me out, though, no idea why. But, out of all the things they could've worshipped & turned into, it just had to be a cat. Simone, Jacques, & Lena aren't beating those furry allegations for a while- Okay, that was dumb. Anyways, it was awesome of me to save this movie for last. "It's Terror time again" is still one of the best songs from any sort of Scooby movie I've seen, too. & the zombies still continue to scare me in the best ways possible, even when I know they're just people Simone & Lena drained to stay immortal. But, the way they were defeated by disintegrating into dust was still probably the darkest thing I've seen, even today in 2024. But, it means it was just as phenomenal as I remember it being.

My rating: 5/5, obviously

If it's your first time watching it, don't be alarmed when you don't hear Scoob's iconic "Scooby-dooby-doo!!" at the end. Watch through the end credits, & it'll be there after a cute little scene with Simone's kit-kits ^w^

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& that's all of them! Now I'm kinda thinking if I should try to draw my favorite characters from these movies. Key word, TRY. IDK how well I'll be able to pull it off, but let me know if you wanna see that

PLEASE give these movies a watch if you haven't already, they are absolutely amazing. Don't let the ones I rated the lowest disappoint you, since that just means they might be more your guys' thing instead of mine. Such an amazing thing to do over the course of October

& I hope you all had a fun & safe Halloween!

[waywardrose]

For the weirder asks can I get #1, #4, and a #3 if you so desire 💕 hope you’re doing well btw! Been missing you

1 = who is/are your comfort character(s)?

I'm still in my Stranger Things era, so Eddie Munson and Steve Harrington. I remain devoted to Kylo Ren and Clyde Logan, of course.

3 = do you leave the window open at night?

I should preface this by saying I'm a nightowl. I don't go to bed until 4 or 5 AM. If it's a nice night, I'll turn off the heating/cooling system and open the windows. I close the house before dawn and draw the black-out drapes.

4 = which cryptyd being do you believe in?

I'm open to all cryptids existing, honestly. I think there really are sasquatch. Chupacabra don't seem out of the realm, either. Considering how many people saw mothmen in the 1960s, I can incorporate those into nature. Humans haven't even explored half of the ocean, so strange sea creatures are possible.

One of my favs is the Mongolian death worm. Probably because I always think of Dune when I hear about it.

Thank you for asking! Miss you too, my darling! We should talk and catch up. Questions from weird asks!

[fortuna-majoris]

No no, nerds can be chaotic and do wacky shit. I am pretty studious and nerdy, but I have done my fair share of wacky shenanigans. Like for example, we (my whole class) were playing hide and seek across the school (we were highschool freshmen btw) and I hid in such a way that the seeker made eye contact with me twice yet didn't tag me. Also, yes she did date and get married normally, but the asking out process wasn't normal at all. When she was asking out her, now, husband there were 3 mis-timed (without a permit) fire crackers, a broken smoke detector, a broken in lab and a weird goo mixture. The husband was already in love but fell deeper for the sister and instantly asked her out, after cleaning the mess. Just before her third year finals, she drank a unique concoction of coffee, 2 5 hour energy drinks, 2 caffeine tablets and a highly caffeinated tea. Safe to say, she saw god that day and was vibrating the whole day (this is when the previous incident happened, she crashed immediately after the clean up so the husband took her to her house and when she refused to let him go, cuddled with her the rest of the night). She accidentally left her coat in one of the labs and realised it only after the closing time, so she and her friends planned a mission impossible like heist to get her coat back. After going through the whole thing, one of them found the key and permit to enter the lab after closing hours in one of their pockets. She is an avid researcher on the supernatural creatures, (like mothman, goatman, chupacabra and nessie), so she and her friends regularly went to hunt supernatural creatures in the dead of the night. She somehow still managed to become the valedictorian of her class and gave an amazing speech. When she tells them, her friends don't believe that she is the normal one in her family. But after hearing these stories about them, they hold a small funeral for her family's sanity, that died the day that three had been born (yeah all three of them are triplets).

OP made the post unrebloggable but said it's fine to screenshot and I'm in love with this

[crypt1dcorv1dae]

Btw I'm thinking Abt chupacabra bc I have a fakemon based off of it and I kinda combine all the different "types" of them into the concept and also it just. Makes me feel happy to think about cryptids. If you couldn't guess from, ykno, my url

[naachikko]

I just .....it was just a sketch!

(don't worry, i have some in depth context down bellow!)

If you want... maybe too much info, i invite you to click around down there!

So Context! [im going to nerd a lot about the Minecraft skins i have done which are not even the 40% of my wardrobe]

On the discord server i mentioned that, when it comes to playing minecraft i often mention "the grand master's teachings".

(Which if you don't know who the great master is, maybe his teachings will give you a clue)

And for some reason, while playing in a new modded server a friend did my brain started drifting away thinking "what if someone who follows the grand master's teaching gets corrupted?" And i started playing scenarios on my brain about a non corrupted Nachiko (because my skins are variations of Nachiko, what a surprise (sarcasm)) talking with a corrupted one.

[Might be cringe so, strap in]

P: "The only thing that works on this world, it's to treat others like they treat you"

C: "tsk. We must stop this cycle before begins a new"

P: "..... "Those who have treated me with kindness, i shall repay tenfold."

P: "And those, who treated me with injustice, that used me...that hunt me down, that hurt my friends.... i shall repay that injustice a thousand times over"

C: " ha! fear and death are the true and only equaliser on this world. What they shall make, we shall break before it's too late."

[Cringe over(?)]

And then i imagine them monologuing to each other quotes and teaching of the great master before fighting.

Then i started drawing....

And eventually my mind visualised the skin i used (and actually drew) for a .... kinda social//tryhard server i was with in friends.

Against the one i did for a RLCraft series.

Both actually symbolise my two mentalities when i play Minecraft on a server pretty well.

A ready for everything traveler with a liking to being flashy and silly just for the hell of it...

(i was going around with either of these two with a sombrero and dual wielding maracas with my army or crows and a giant pickaxe on the back, everything started with the left skin and eventually evolved in to the swain skin on the right.....which became "Mexican Swain" later.............and it was the birth of Natato btw)

And an adaptive survivor, whom may die thousands of times just because they know the satisfaction of triumph is sweeter than a free victory, respectively.

There was an actual evolution: on this one.

The start: was just Nachiko in a potato sack because the gimmick was to look poor. With stones at the end of the hair thingies and no much more detail.

The middle: was all messy and a deteriorated. Scars with corrupted purple underneath (fun fact, it was in the outer layer so i could take the bandages off to show corruption), burn hair and clothes which where also dirtied and a darker shade of light on the eyes. The potato sack became a potato sack robe and a lose piece if it was used as a belt.

The Epilogue: the potato sack was fixed up with rope instead of ditched for a better robe, the belt became a proper belt and now, the hair decorations came back but now mate out of bronze and there was a shoulder piece added to style the roman warrior (also, bronze became my favorite material on RLCraft for no reason) and the messy hair was kept to show that despite all, the world out the is still wild...

(I love making small details, okay?)

Then i started adding references to my pets on said servers, my army of Crows and my flying hellhound steed (named princess).

... against my boss monster pet the Grue, my three chupacabra (named Lucy, Anais and Marina) and my steed which was a FUCKING POLAR BEAR WOLF HIBRID I NAMED VOLIBEAR.

Then i ....began to add details and... you know how things ended 😅

You can see the duality of a person when the most remember phrase for one side is

"the army of crows shall rise at dawn! We must charge to victory!"

and the infamous

"keep killing me all you want. I will keep coming back, while you have only one. single. life."

It speaks volumes that on the social server i loved all my pets and all of my crows (that i named individually) equally while on the RLCraft server i grew so attached to my Bronze Pike that i named it "Ika" and eventually it became a character in the official Nachiko's lore (yes, a weapon in a Minecraft server became a character) and to my chupacabra pet Lucy which was just small, purple and deadly.

(early concept of Ika as a character, since we are here. It follows the logic of "a lost weapon will be wield by the bond with it's master" which from nerd to normal translates "to "the "soul" in the weapon looks like who owned it" so, i drew her pretty much another Nachiko but with the armor i used there. Also fire ears because damn she cooked enemies up good.)

At the end one thing is clear.

"We" both call for the great master, and "we" both claim that "he demands blood"

... RLCraft changes a man.

(When i was invited to a more social server after RLCraft i was farming nether stars from a lot of withers day 5 (even made a skin called "the wither butcher" because the second thing i did there was cooking).... RLCraft fucked me up good lmao...i was invited to other server recently and i got 5 dragon eggs(yes, 5) 3 days in. Without entering the end, no interaction with mods, no stealing, no cheating.)

(wither butcher Nachiko. Fun fact, Halloween was around the corner so i was prepared with this fancy outfit. Everything was separated by layers. I could take the skulls off and the bandages, bellow those you could see blood and green, putrid hands. Bellow the apron there are some more wither skeletons ribs and on the back you could see a a nether star around the heart area. The idea was to have wither skill as helmet to finish the look. It was a great skin!)

Anyways, sorry for the ummm "lore(?)" Dump??

I hope you liked it and i hope you have a wonderful day or night!

[sergle]

UPDATE: i’m doing everything i can with lost & found pages in the general area we found him, but nobody’s reported to missing a black kitten, and it’s looking likely that he was dumped. bringing him to the OKC humane society shelter will be my last plan if nothing else works out, but they’re at capacity a lot of the time, esp with kitties.  so!

Do You Want A Him?

if you’re in oklahoma, or would be willing to take a little road trip, please feel free to hit me up and ask about the boy. he’s super super snuggly and clingy, very playful, and already very adaptable with other animals. he has massive bat ears and a long nose, he photographs like el chupacabra and he looks to be around ~9 weeks old. his temporary name is chalupa btw. 

Ah fuck ah shit we found a kitten again

dude screaming his LUNGS out in front of some random building in lawton. literally just screaming as loud as possible. his plan to cry for help worked flawlessly.

[therussiancourier]

Latest paint doodles (tw drugs dick-shaped head and brahmin gets uhmu hmuuhmu)

-How many times did we already camp?

-It's 15th time.

(the top orange line tw drugs btw) DRUG ADDICTS CLUB (near ghoul with green scarf) smokes weed but not that much anymore cuz one guy kicks him for that (the ghoul in the hat) psycho mixed with bear yummy (half burned guy) became addicted to med-x due to his serious burns + his low pain threshold. doesn't admit he's addicted to anything (courier with dumb glasses and party hat) alright there's a list of almost every drug in the game so im not translating that

Nova - fuck again this drunk got behind the counter

the sheriff( i don't give a fuck about his name tbh look at his emo hair) - duh sucks

Nick(the guy with crying emoji(lone wanderr(RE(09fuck i forgot how to use keyboard wait guys) - WAAAAAAWEAWAWWAWAWA I WAS WaLKING AROUND THE CITY WITH BEBRUIL ADREGIL AND DRUID(jokey names of his radroaches) WHEN WHEN>>>...WEHGNE.//.... A SUPERMUTANT JUMPED OUT OF BUSHES AND........ STOMP DRUID........ AdREGIL hAD A MENTAL BREAKDOWN ........ B...BE>BRUIL STYATED CRYING>.... AND I BECAME THE FATHER WITH ONE DEAD CHILD.. . .

alright dudes i don't have energy to translate it all. it's basically all of my ocs standing and their height comparison

-don't forget about his tail -tf is this bastard doing with her

(dark red) how is this potato still alive? (funny deathclaw) i see this asshole i hope he will crush under my weight fucker fucker fucker fucker (bright red) ROTTEN ROTTEN CANNIBAL HI MISS ME!!!!!!!? DUEL YOU ME TOMORROW AT FOUR ZERO ZERO YOU UNDERSTAND???? DUEL U ME GOOD?????? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A ROACHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(this picture exists cuz i remembered that Nick(ghoul all the way down(the lone wanderer of mine) has the most high strength SPECIAL stat

jack kennedy dsaf but no haha nick valentine

Boone - PURPLE CHUPACABRA?! Courier - Baaaaaabeeeeeee he llo lets drink beer togethaer ;)) Dave Miller from DSAF - c..co.coocurier-san...........

Courier - BOOME TAKE O PHOTO OF MEEE AND THE BROS! Nick (my lone wanderer) - i fucking hate every single one of you. /next white frame C - MEOW ROTTEN N - MmMMERWOW

valentine but hahahah no its's dave miller dsaf

arcade - Godness, why did i even sign up for this? courier - ARkAD ARKAD LOOK WHAT I BUILD FROM GARBAGE AND POO

no im not translating that im tired

[mcx7demonbros]

A Thousand Years Old Conspiracy

Ft. Klein (MC), Simeon, Solomon

C/W: none

Summary

Simeon got a question for Klein. The question was “What’s your take on Lilith’s judgement by Celestial Realm?” And Klein gave his honest opinion and analysis.

No proofread btw

Also, for context, please read the dialogue in these 3 pics first

“Sorry for making you two wait.” Simeon apologized as he entered the room, where Solomon and Klein was sitting at the tea table waiting.

“It’s not that long. Is Luke asleep?” Klein asked.

“Yes, he’s sleeping soundly.”

“Ok, let’s begin our adult talk.” Solomon smiled.

Simeon immediately commenced the adult talk with his own question, a question he had waited so long to ask Klein.

“Klein, may I ask a difficult question?”

“Sure, go ahead.” Klein replied and sipped his tea.

“Ok, then let’s me get straight to the point. Klein, what’s your take on Lilith’s sentence by the Celestial Realm?”

Solomon’s eyes widened “Simeon, don’t you think that you are asking Klein too difficult a question? After all, Klein’s a believer of Father.”

“I’m sorry. I just want to know your opinion. It’s alright if you refuse to answer.”

Klein did not reply right away. He closed his eyes and took a breath. He knew that someone would ask him such question sooner or later.

“It’s alright, Solomon.” Klein spoke “Simeon, I’ll satisfy your curiosity right here, right now.”

“I’m all ears.” Simeon’s face grim, the easy-going expression had disappeared completely from his face.

Klein took another deep breath before answering.

“Lilith’s sentence, however cruel it may seem, is justified.”

The answer made Solomon’s eyes widened in shock, he nearly dropped his cup of tea.

“May I know the reason?” Simeon asked.

“Simeon, you and Luke once told me about the good go to Heaven, the bad to Hell.”

“Correct, it’s an unchanging dogma of truth.” Simeon nodded.

“If Lilith’s lover had been a good person, he would have gone to Heaven after his death of the incurable illness. He and Lilith would be united, Lilith would have no reason to go steal Celestial fruit for him.”

Solomon frowned “So what you mean is…”

“Yes, Lilith’s lover, or my many greats grandfather was an evil person. There’s no way he could go to Heaven and be united with Lilith.”

“I’m sensing that’s there is more to your analysis, Klein.”

“Yes, Simeon, you’re completely correct. I bet Lucifer had told you back in Celestial Realm that he himself had gone to see of the man was a good person and deserved Lilith. Since the man was evil, that meant his deception skill was very good, to the point of tricking Lucifer successfully.”

“Which in turn leads us to-,” Solomon had also started thinking based on Klein’s analysis.

“He might have very well deceived Lilith. However, the possibility of Lilith might have been corrupted during the time she spent with him in the human world and she was in cahoot with him to steal the Celestial fruit can’t be ruled out. Or third possibility was that she knew everything but was blinded by love.”

“Another question is that what happened to the Celestial fruit?” Solomon feared that the consequences of Lilith’s action could be more serious than he thought, his sense was tingling.

“Yes, it leads no another theory of mine. Before the War, Celestial Realm should have captured Lilith’s lover to fix things. But I didn’t hear anything about his sentence.”

“There was no sentence. The Celestial army wasn’t able to capture the man.” Simeon added his part to the story. “The only one sentenced was Lilith…and after the war, Lucifer and the others.”

“Which means my many greats grandfather either was extremely strong or a powerful faction was backing him. In either case, the fruit has fallen into evil hand. Since then, many kinds of monsters have arisen, werewolves, vampires, Chupacabras, jiāngshī (Chinese hopping vampire/zombie), etc. Currently, numerous secret organizations are plotting to take control of the world, including mine. And many organizations have the not widely-known history of thousands of years. The whole equilibrium of the universe have been toppled.”

“So you are saying, except your Black Cross Society, the Celestial fruit could very well in the hands of one of the secret organizations?” Klein nodded to Solomon’s question. The white-haired sorcerer frowned, those secret societies were more dangerous than he thought.

“Do the Brothers know about this? Have you ever told them?”

“No, Simeon, they don’t know.” Klein shook his head. “I think they do know about my position on Lilith’s sentence secretly, but they never have summoned enough courage to ask me directly. And the analysis I have told you, I think…I don’t know if they will accept it. I don’t think they have ever stopped to question about Lilith and her actions. To them, Lilith is forever a sweet little sister.” Klein’s eyes started to get blurry. “If I told them my honest opinion, they might hate me.”

“It’s ok, Klein.” Simeon hugged the Evil Overlord and let him borrow his shoulder to cry.

This fic will have a sequel and another OC will be introduced.

Tag - @sparkbeast20

[colorfulatlas]

It's, once again, been a while since I've cartoon posted... I've been binge watching some shows, catching up for their new episodes... honestly Amphibia has been stable before the, well, big finale, and I enjoyed what TGAMM has offered so far! although for the two I haven't watched their christmas specials yet, and I have completely binge watched CentaurWorld's season 2 during class (dw we weren't doing anything important, it's literally the last week of school) yesterday... it was really something.

But in today's cartoon posting I'm not going to be talking about those shows BUT I am going to talk about an animated movie saga I've watched in the span of a few days, a mexican classic! it's not really known outside of here, and it's generally called: "Las peliculas de Las Leyendas" (The movies of Las Leyendas (the legends)), you probably heard of it as Legend Quest:

For what you can guess, it's a bunch of movies each talking about a different popular mexican legend and/or myth, in chronological order we have, La Nahuala, La Llorona, Las Momias de Guanajuato, El Chupacabras and at the end of the saga, El Charro Negro, it's not the last one though, there's another movie coming which is a prequel called Los Origenes (the origins) and even though it says it's coming this year, it's still not available yet as of December.

All of the movies except the most recent one are free to watch on YouTube (and also on a few streaming platforms, but it may be exclusive to just Latin America) if you want to watch all of the saga entirely blind and read my review later, keep in mind though, there is no english dub and/or subtitles so you will have to guess the plot, apologies!

Anyway, you know the deal, yadayada after the cut there's spoilers and stuff. My general consensus? It started small, maybe not that good due to very little funding, but from La Llorona onward it just. gets. better.

So, let's start humble. Movie numero 1, La Leyenda de La Nahuala:

The story sets in New Spain in the early 1800's, it gets pretty long to just write it down here, but in short, The leyend is about a demonic spirit who took the body of a woman, killed an entire high class family, controls the spirit of two girls and now, haunting an abandoned house in Puebla, is lookin for the final soul of it's ritual. Leo, our valiant protagonist, pisses himself 3 times to it's story but goes inside the house since his brother Nando got sucked in by the spirit, and defeats it at the end nonetheless. His brother gets the karma for being an asshole. During the movie we get introduced to a handful of characters that would appear as part of the main cast or important characters in later movies, such as Friar Godofredo, Teodora, Xochitl, Las Calaveritas (the two sugar skulls), Don Andres, Alebrije, Nando and of couse, Leo himself.

Being the first movie it's of couse going to be a starting point for Animex (today Anima Studios), which well... it's a start. The animation (and in some cases phasing of the story) was not good unfortunately, but keep in mind, it was one of their very first movies + apparently they had very little fund at the time for what they wanted to make, the story is interesting but those issues take a lot of points for the movie. Despite that, it was a sucess! So succesful they decided to make a Sequel 4 years later!

Movie numero 2: La Leyenda de la Llorona:

around the same time of the last movie story wise, two siblings in Xochimilco go to do a trick-or-treat-y thing around some houses when one of them gets taken by La Llorona, the spirit of a weeping woman who weeps for her lost children, who died a long time ago. Fortunately! Leo and his new friends come to the rescue! And despite adversities, like Alebrije and Don Andres getting lost in La Isla de las Muñecas (Doll Island, which is a real place btw, look it up), the hot air balloon crashing and more, Leo achieves La Llorona's destiny, reuniting her with her children and leaving the town in peace and having the sibling. Unfortunately for the team, their friend Xochitl has been taken captive in Guanajuato, and now they have to save her.

Compared to the last movie, the animation and phasing improved A LOT and the character designs evolved a little as well, settling them in for the later movies. It wasn't as succesful as the first movie, but it was good nonetheless, I liked the version of La Llorona they choose, which is not as gruesome as some I've heard of where the mother literally kills her own children lol, and we also get introduced to some demon guys from La Isla de las Muñecas who would appear on the next movie!

Movie numero 3, La Leyenda de Las Momias de Guanajuato:

Leaving off from our last movie, Leo and company now has to save Xochitl from whoever is holding her captive in Guanajuato, a town filled with Zombie mumies. This was started in some mine excavation by some French guy who decided to bring his lover back to life with some ancient mesoamerican spirit found in the mine, the thing goes wrong when finding out two guys who worked there were spying on him, the mine gets destroyed, killing everyone inside (and the French guy apparently but he survives). One of the two guys was the father of Valentina, a girl who desperately wants to clear her fathers name since he has been acussed falsely, so she disguises as a boy named Luis to be heard. Also in this movie we get introduced to a high af Alebrije called Evaristo, who will appear in the next movies... another funny af character, awesome. At the end they stop the ritual from happening, they save Xochitl and the mummies stop being mummies, turn into ghosts and leave in peace. It seems to be the end of the quest for Leo and his friends so Leo decides to go back to Puebla, unfortunately he was stopped by... someone.

The movie succeded on maintaining and even making better it's animation quality, and it was just very enjoyable, though, it's not my favorite, that title goes to the next movie:

Leo wakes up from a nightmare with El Charro Negro in his way to Puebla, but the ride he's going in is stopped by some Realist soldiers, the ride being full of rebels, tried to get by, but they were all arrested and set for execusion. On prison, Leo finds his brother Nando who is serving for the soldiers... what a way to go for the asshole, but before the execusion could happen a demonic looking creature who sucks the blood and soul of people, called El Chupacabras, scares them and kills a bunch of soldiers, the crew tries to escape from it, many fail and only a few of them return alive with Leo and Nando surviving as well, later on, with the help of Teodora and the Alebrijes, who just realized the true story of the Chupacabras, tell Leo and he manages to save the species of El Chupacabras, who were actually mythical creatures called Nakitary abused by a Circus guy, and was the reason why El Chupacabras, or the Nakitary creature, was so mad. Leo and his friends are having fun at the end, but they don't know, their final enemy, El Charro Negro, is going after them, especially, after Leo.

This one, compared to the other movies, it's the SPOOKIEST! Really caught me offguard settling in as a children's movie, and the mini scene of the rebels revealing against realist soldiers and the message of independence really got me. The animation maintained as well, and for all of those reasons is what it makes it my favorite, now...

Movie numero 5: La Leyenda del Charro Negro:

The last movie, while Leo tries to go back to puebla with his brother, El Charro Negro goes after him and lures him to his house thanks to his disguise as an old man, by making him stealing a precious item from a guy who sold his soul to El Charro Negro, El Charro takes the guy's daughter's soul since he never completed his deal and he opens a portal with the purpose of still luring Leo in, after he is lured in, and the guy's daughter's soul in danger, now him (and his friends who got involved) have to battle against all of the other villains of the leyends before, unfortunately he doesn't do it on time as El Charro asked and he takes Leo's body for him to be the next Charro Negro, his friends try to stop him but that makes his evil spirit free, that breaks his conection to the spirit world and Leo had to leave Charro Negro's house/realm, he and Nando leave while his friends are fighting the evil spirit of El Charro Negro, and it ends. The evil is defeated, Leo goes back to Puebla with his brother, a bit sad that he doesn't get to see his friends again but knowing full well they defeated evil, and now he gets to live in peace.

The movie to me makes a perfect ending for the saga, and it does it pretty well, it's quite emotive and well, it's just good, and the animation maintained it's quality and phasing as well. Just good!

Now, the only movie left to watch is the Origins one, which is not out yet, it's a prequel and I'm not quite sure how to feel about it having seen the trailer... but oh well.

[kiwi-the-servamp-addict]

So since

Alot of entities are canon to Servamp

I like to think that cryptids and creatures like La Chupacabra or Mothman exist

But specifically

I thought

What about

La Llorona

So I decided to draw something about it

Nicco asked Ildio about other things that lived in the world...

He got a story with the answer too..

(This was in Ildio's human life btw I like to think that memory stuck with him forever-)

Also if you don't know La Llorona is "The Weeping Woman" she's from Hispanic fokelore and she's mainly used to scare little kids but I've been told by my abuelo that he's seen her when he was little {he has some crazy ass stories that are so interesting} and my dad (he didn't like that my mom joked about her) had also seen her along with many other reports but if you believe she exists or not is your choice I personally believe she's real (I remember my mom telling me "if you don't go to bed La Llorona is gonna get you" [same with El Cucuy] when I didn't want to go to sleep which got me to go to bed real quick-)

But basically she was the prettiest woman in her village and this rich handsome guy shows up and ends up wanting to marry her, they have kids but then one day she finds out he's leaving her for another woman, out of rage and wanting to hurt him she proceeds to drown her kids in the river, after she realizes what she did she drowns herself in the river But she wasn't allowed into heaven because she didn't have her kids so she is forced to roam the earth until she finds her children who are lost because of the river and when she finds them she will finally be able to rest but she can never find her kids so she cries out "Ay Mis Hijos" (meaning "oh my children") and is constantly crying and at night she snatches up kids thinking they're hers but when she realizes they aren't she drowns them too (in some places she specifically attacks men but it's different in every area)

So the entire point of the comic was when Ildio was a little kid he always heard the story but he never believed it until he saw her in person and she almost got him but didn't and that specific memory stuck with him even after he died

But yeah! I hope you enjoyed it!

[murcielagatito]

i just think its really fucking hilarious that the one lore we have as puertoricans that ppl actually know about they think its mexican 😭

like yall know nothing about our gods our tribe our history and nobody EVER bothers to look up anything about our culture. so we end up with multiple instances of all our shit being labelled mexican and the film industry just fucking calls it a day.* we r then also reduced to the stereotype of owning hella pr flags and they think thats enough

pop quiz time: do you know the reason why we are known for always having our flag? if so, what is it? (si eres boriqua ur not allowed to answer)

*recent examples: bad bunny in bullet train, luis guzmán in wednesday and now chupacabra in chupa (dumb fucking name for the movie btw)

[gobbluthbutagirl]

i did something semi-similar to the el chupacabra niece guy btw. for as long as i can remember i have had a habit of telling dogs(any dogs) to “go bite matthew”(matthew is my brother) just for the hell of it. no i don’t actually want them to bite him. i just think it’s a funny thing to say. and it’s not like they even know what that means anyway so it’s really a no harm no foul type of deal. but you know what’s even funnier in my mind than telling dogs to bite matthew and getting no reaction? telling dogs to bite matthew and having dogs go apeshit crazy(but NOT - and i cannot emphasize this enough - ACTUALLY biting matthew). i would NEVER train dogs to bite my brother. i am not that kind of girl. but what i WOULD - and did - do is train my dogs to associate the words “bite matthew” with receiving a treat. and the thing about my dog robyn is that she is a highly intelligent creature and so by like the third or fourth time of being asked, “do you wanna bite matthew?” and then being fed a treat she Knew. and she passed this knowledge down to gabbie who in turn joined her in passing it down to luna. and to this day there is no faster way to make the girls lose their minds than walking into whatever room they’re in and uttering the words, “bite matthew.” pavlov’s dog, meet tumblr user gobbluthbutagirl’s hound

[galadrieljones]

Re: bethyl... Are you working a ‘seven years for Rachel to get Leah instead’ angle? 👀 (Trying to figure out from your semi-cryptic message on your other blog)

 Anon!

When I saw the name I went into hyperdrive. I love all the Old Testament allusions in The Walking Dead. Sometimes they’re overt, sometimes they’re implied. This one feels like both. And now I’m just going to go into it:

Season 10 Spoilers Ahead

Reading Daryl and Beth Through a Biblical Lens: Who is Leah?

FIRST: Who is Jacob? Jacob and his brother Esau are important characters in the book of Genesis. I have thought of Daryl as a Jacob character before. Jacob was one of the three Biblical Patriarchs of the Israelites, born in Canaan. He’s a patriarch for his people at the beginning of a new world, a younger brother, “the good son,” cunning, brave, but more a lover, a traveler, not a fighter like his older brother Esau. He sleeps alone on the riverbanks, has visions, wrestles an angel all night long and never gives up. When Jacob’s mother, Rebecca, was pregnant, she asked God why she felt so unwell. God told her that she was carrying fraternal twins, and that they were fighting in the womb, and that they would fight forever. He told her that one day, “the elder would serve the younger.” Esau was born first, then Jacob, holding onto his heel. Jacob means “heeled” or “supplanted,” superseded, undermined. Like Daryl, living in the shadow of his brutish older brother who will hamper him for much of his young life, but who he is destined to overtake. 

Jacob and Esau. Merle, like Esau, is a big, mean brute. He is even described as being covered in red hair. Esau itself means “red” in Hebrew, echoed by Merle’s “redneck” past. By far the less intelligent, the less compassionate, a hawk where his younger brother is a dove. They are patriarchs for separate nations (in the Bible: the Israelites and the Edomites). In the Bible, Jacob flees Canaan after his brother threatens to kill him for usurping his birthright (which Esau “sold” to him, btw, for a simple bowl of stew). Similarly, Daryl must beat or outrun or escape his older brother’s abuse, sometimes directly, sometimes metaphorically, and eventually Merle is at his mercy and “serves” him in the end--re: “the elder will serve the younger”--by sacrificing his life to save Daryl and his people from the Governor.

Jacob’s Ladder. There are two episodes of TWD with big Jacob’s Ladder themes, in which Daryl is directly involved: “Chupacabra” (2.5) and “Chokepoint” (9.13). Jacob’s Ladder refers to a vision that Jacob has of a tall staircase leading up to heaven, with angels climbing up and falling down. The angels that fall represent the coming, various exiles of the Israelites, falling down to signal that the Jews will overcome; however, one angel, representative of the Edomites, or Esau’s descendants, gets very close to the top, signaling Jacob’s fear that he/his people will never be able to overcome his older brother’s power. God promises Jacob from the top of the ladder that Esau, too, will eventually fall. 

The season 2 episode “Chupacabra" shows Daryl falling down and then climbing up a steep hillside, injured, to a bright light at the top, while battling visions of his angry big brother, who he ultimately vanquishes. In “Chokepoint,” Daryl fights Beta (also a total David and Goliath allusion) at the top of a high tower, and he pushes Beta down a steep elevator shaft. Jacob and his people, the Israelites, like Daryl and his group, must overcome numerous trials and exiles, escaping their captors, again and again. 

Meanwhile it is interesting, though perhaps purely in my own self-interest to note that the little house on the way to Haran where Jacob slept and had his vision of the ladder, he named Bethel, aka “House of God.” 

Rachel vs. Leah. And then there are Jacob’s two wives: Rachel and Leah. This is where my Jacob comparison starts to come together on a new level. This Jacob character gets paired with a Leah? Like, no. In Genesis, after leaving Canaan, while on the run from Esau, Jacob goes to his uncle Laban’s farm in Haran. Laban has two daughters: Leah the eldest and Rachel the youngest. Rachel is described as a fair and beautiful shepherdess who Jacob falls in love with. Jacob promises Rachel’s father that for seven years he will work for him, and in return, he will be allowed to marry Rachel.

BUT

After seven years, on their wedding night, Jacob is tricked into marrying Leah instead. Leah is older and described as having sad or “soft” eyes. She appears to him in a veil with her true identity concealed. After the wedding, Jacob is obviously upset. He is in love with Rachel. He waited seven years to marry Rachel. But her father thought he should marry the older girl instead. Laban agrees to then let Jacob marry Rachel as well, if he works on his farm for seven more years. Jacob agrees. 

The story goes on. Leah has many children with Jacob, but Rachel struggles to conceive. Still and always, Jacob favors Rachel, his first love. Eventually, Rachel has a son with Jacob--Joseph, who, as Jacob’s favorite son, Jacob would later gift with the “technicolor dream coat.” Even after Rachel’s death, Jacob does not favor Leah. He takes up with Rachel’s handmaiden instead. 

In this story, Beth will represent the Rachel character: A fair and beautiful shepherdess, younger sister, and farmer’s daughter. Like Beth, Rachel is also characterized as outspoken and brave, having questioned God’s treatment of the Israelites, and questioning with such force, that God responded to say that basically, he was sorry, and they would eventually make it back to their homeland. Rachel is a classically maternal character who famously cries for and defends her children. 

Timeline. The timeline is suspicious. Seven years Jacob waited for Rachel, only to, as you put it “get Leah instead.” If we look at the approximate timeline for The Walking Dead, we can deduce that, at the time of season 10c, and our very convenient Leah spoilers, roughly 7-8 years have passed since the prison's fall and the subsequent events of “Still” and “Alone.” If we apply this to the Daryl/Jacob and Beth/Rachel lens, we can deduce that Daryl has waited for Beth for ~seven years and is now being served, in a surprise twist, someone named Leah. Someone we have never met before, who, up until now, has been “in disguise.” 

Biblical Allegory. It’s worth mentioning that The Walking Dead uses a lot of Biblical imagery and allegory in its storytelling. Whether it’s Rick as Abraham to Carl’s Isaac, or smaller examples such as with characters like Samuel (prophecy kid) or Aaron (Moses’s spokesman). There are many more. The trials and tribulations of Rick’s people can also be looked at through the same lens as the trials and tribulations of the Israelites in Exodus. I mean, think frogs and pestilence, contaminated rivers, diseased livestock, massive storms. Daryl is not a character in the comic books, and neither is Beth. Their characters and character arcs would make sense as extensions of the showrunners’ obvious love for Old Testament storytelling and symbolism. Jacob’s deception and love for Rachel is a good story, and tbh, it kind of makes sense here? 

Conclusion. This is a Biblical analysis of a character arc. I’m not trying to argue that this is foreshadowing Beth’s return. Please don’t quote me on that. BUT: it can be read that way, if you want to use this as meta-analysis of how the show sets patterns for its storytelling. I do recall hearing things about how the showrunners possibly “cancelled’ Bethyl at the last minute, due to backlash over the age difference. If they wanted to make her into Rachel instead, bring her back seven years later, so that she’s no longer nineteen and has lived a little in the world, without Daryl, and to double down on the Daryl/Jacob allusions, while also solving the “Beth is too young” conundrum, I think that would be.....interesting, to say the least. If it is intentional, and I’m not saying it is, but if it is, it’s possible it was planned farther in advance as well? Who knows.