#urban lore

[rogue-taxidermy-of-sarina-brewer]

Entering into urban lore relatively recently is the purple squirrel phenomenon. And theories abound. The first purple rodent was purportedly spotted in 1997 in Minnesota. The second sighting wasn’t until 2008 when photos of a purple squirrel made the newspapers in England. Then, in 2012 a Pennsylvanian couple trapped a purple squirrel. Before releasing the animal they took several photos of it that gained international internet attention. Many species of animals with silver or gray fur can appear to have a lavender hue under certain lighting conditions and this could account for some purple squirrel sightings, however, it can’t explain the intense purplish shade of the animal photographed in England or the specimen captured in Pennsylvania. Many people dismiss the photos as hoaxes saying the images have been digitally altered or the animals were dyed. But other people believe purple squirrels could actually exist and have offered varying explanations. Some suggest the animals came into contact with discarded ink toner, while others claim a tumble into the reservoir of a porta-potty chemical toilet could have tinged their fur. Another theory proposed their fur became stained while feeding on pokeberries which are used by crafters to produce organic dyes for textiles. There has also been some disconcerting conjecture that their color could be caused by the ingestion of large amounts of bromide, a waste product of the natural gas mining industry. Naturally occurring bromine-like compounds allow some species of sea snails to produce purple secretions, but bromine is not normally found in land mammals. Whatever the case, the actual existence of these squirrels remains unproven, thus earning our little purple friends urban legend status. You now have your Google rabbit hole for the evening. You’re welcome.

[serpentface]

Tigran: launching into a story about a time when he was 7 and watched a guy get eaten alive by dogs, completely unprompted and unnervingly blasé about the whole thing.

Etsushir: not listening, warming his hands over the nightly allotment of yams, smoking.

Palo: this is the tenth time he's heard this story, not listening, wondering whether Etsushir is smoking tobacco and where the hell he got it and can he have some?

[muldermuse]

exbf!butcher being the dad that stepped up for your daughter💓💓💓 we need more headcanons for your vision on this, like, does he know her since she was a baby, did she grow on him and he on her when she was a toddler, does she call him dad, does she know her mom and Butcher are kinda still a thing because they kiss from time to time and sometimes he stays over and sleeps in her mom’s room when they think she isn’t sleeping and so she won’t know??? We need answersss

OKAY SO

you got with butcher when your daughter was 2 and a half. the first time he met her was at her third birthday party, it wasn’t supposed to be that way but the bouncy castle wouldn’t inflate and you thought you were going to pass out from stress so you called butcher- who of course comes straight away

your daughter is TERRIFIED of him the first time she meets him. like, he’s big and scary looking. also not a lot of men come to your house so one that looks like butcher feels extra daunting for her as a lil 3 year old. you coax her into showing billy her birthday presents and she grabs his hand and leads him into the living room. she looks so small compared to him and that’s when butcher decides he wants to be a part of this little girls life for as long as he can (hopefully forever). he takes a genuine interest in all the books, plushies and toys that she’s showing him

he meets her again a few months later, you’re both still going steady and your daughter keeps asking when the ‘big man’ is coming back because she wants to show him more of her plushies. you invite him round for dinner and your daughter basically takes all his attention. she’ll run up to him with different books and ask him to read them. which he does- she loves it because he does all the silly voices

she struggles with his name so just calls him butch. even as she gets older, she never calls him anything else

you stay together until she’s like 6 and then the break up happens. he’s known your daughter for nearly 4 years and he loves her and she loves him- probably her favourite person in the whole world so she still sees him often

she never called him dad but when her friends talk about stuff their dad does for them, she’ll always say that “her butch” does that

you keep seeing each other but it’s so off and on again. it’s not fair for your daughter to get stuck in the middle so every time he spends the night- he leaves before she goes to school

eventually she clocks on and realises because she sees him sneaking out on her way to the bathroom. he looks nervous, “hey kid…just uh…your mom asked me to stay last night”- he can’t lie to her

she doesn’t care, she just asks him to make her some oatmeal because he makes it the best

[startheskelaton]

Hey….

Kamen Rider Hayato killed OG Battra while under blackmail by GMK Godzilla

[padfootastic]

harry’s ‘saving people thing’ comes from james potter and if you disagree, u can bite me because that is the TRUTH

[artilite]

not my usual post, but to keep the original purpose of this acc: OCs! the brown/green one is fen (fennel), the green/red one is mido. they're brothers!

[fala-alfredo-pasta]

Didn't make anything for Valentine's Day but remembered that I had yet to post my piece for the Danganronpa Rare Pair zine. So happy v-day to all the Oumaeda shippers out there💜💚

[adastra121]

“When working with dangerous elements, it is best to keep a safe distance.”

Template by @danger-bird. I included his full design below:

Other MCs' Character Lore:

Mourning Mist (Luneth the Reluctant Unnamed)

Thick as Thieves (Alon the Stray Hound)

[ofeliajuzniewroci]

A beautiful commission I got from @ampreh over 4 years ago that I still love deeply. My vintage-loving, gamer-girl fairy that cannot fly for the life of her

[possumcollege]

Hi! I love Crittertongue, and I’ve been wondering; why is one of the three sisters human? Does she have a different father?  Is she adopted? Something else?

Ooor did I miss the comic where that's explained?

Hope you have a good day! :)

Yep, Trestle's got a different father. He hasn't been in the comics because he wasn't around for long. He's called Roy and he now lives on a canal boat with his third wife, Dale. They're nice.

The curse stems from Silo and Joist's dad, a real shitbird of a con-man with a gift for sweet talk and phony paperwork, but very little else. He bobbed around for a few years after Silo was born, and fucked off for good when it became clear that there was another child inbound and the "daughter is goat" situation wasn't going to clear up on its own.

"I may live in an abandoned shipyard and I'm almost certainly having a second goat baby, but at least my shitty boyfriend ain't 'round no more!'

[victoriaswillow]

Japanese Tales of the Macrabre - Junji Ito Maniac (2023)

[sanct-dream-reality]

Monster Report Form

An in-universe SANCT official monster-hunting form for monsters defeated in the field. While not mandatory, eligible hunters can fill out the form to receive SANCT Bucks, a SANCT-exclusive currency that can be redeemed at your local Sanct facility store. Hunters may also receive other rewards, such as vouchers or the appropriate local currency, if needed.

[aib-detectives]

Our story is set in Texas, and while I lived there for 20 odd years and went to college in Dallas, a lot of people don't understand how big it is. Also.. how many freaking weird and hilarious names it has.

~ Gigabyte

[ambermaitrejean]

The Screaming Lady of Mason County. West Virginia ghost lore. Gif by Amber Maitrejean

[weirdlookindog]

Spring-Heel'd Jack, The Terror of London, 1867

[voidsprinkles]

Fae Folk

The Fae Folk, or Faeries, are a diverse species of liminal beings whose very nature is fluid and flexible. Even though in culture they are rigid and orderly, the rules of that order are paradoxically able to shift and adapt to the given needs of the Fae. They are beings of magic and nature, and as such have viewpoints that seem alien to others, but patterns can be found in their thinking process. Technically immortal in that death as we recognize it was not an actual process in their native realm, it was simply a process of changing from one state of being to another, like becoming a tree or turning into wind. It was only after the collapse of their realm did the Fae truly experience death for the first time. Beyond that, they do not age physically and their appearances are usually not indicative of their actual nature. They are natural magic users, and they tend to be baffled at the idea that people actually need to learn how to enact magic.

Worldwide Fae Population: 678,999,321