#water-rat

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LINKTOBER Day 16: Lanayru Wetlands

Rumors have it Zora’s Domain is besieged by caustic rains. As travelers leave Lanayru’s capital in troves, two plucky (or foolish) adventurers swim against the muddy tide in hopes to learn more about the unnatural phenomenon.

Anyways, it’s raining mud? What’s up with that.

(FAMILIAR FAMILIAR AU is a totk what if passion project where zelda does not get sent back in time. Here’s the masterpost!)

And my patreon, if you’d like to slide me some bucks to buy lunch;

[deepberry2882]

Rinds of Parmesan ❤️

[dandelionsresilience]

Dandelion News - November 1-7

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1. Climate Initiatives Fare Well Across the Country Despite National Political Climate

“[California voters approved] a $10 billion bond measure to boost climate resilience across [the] state[…. Hawai’i] voters cast their ballots in favor of establishing the [climate] resiliency fund, with money for the project coming from existing property tax revenue.“

2. ‘You have to disguise your human form’: how sea eagles are being returned to Severn estuary after 150 years

“[… To avoid imprinting,] the handlers will wear long robes and feed the young eagles chopped rabbit and other meat with bird hand-puppets. […] Williams hopes that restoring eagles to the top of the food chain in the estuary will create a more balanced, thriving ecosystem.”

3. 10 states voted on pro-abortion referendums. 7 of them passed

“New York voters overwhelmingly approved the Equal Rights Amendment, adding [… among other characteristics] gender expression, pregnancy, and pregnancy outcomes to anti-discrimination laws. […] In deep-red Missouri and Montana, voters also enshrined abortions protections in their state constitutions.”

4. Giant rats could soon fight illegal wildlife trade by sniffing out elephant tusk and rhino horn

“”Our study shows that we can train African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife, even when it has been concealed among other substances[.…] They can easily access tight spaces like cargo in packed shipping containers or be lifted up high to screen the ventilation systems of sealed containers,” Szott explained.”

5. Sarah McBride wins Delaware U.S. House seat, becoming the first out trans member of Congress

“McBride spearheaded Delaware’s legislation to ban the “gay and trans panic” defense as a state senator [… and] helped to pass paid family and medical leave, gun safety measures, and protections for reproductive rights.”

6. Critically endangered Sumatran elephant calf born in Indonesia

“Indonesian officials hailed the births and said they showed conservation efforts were essential to prevent the protected species from extinction. […] Sumatran elephants are on the brink of extinction with only about 2,400-2,800 left in the world, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.”

7. Sin City is Going Green

“[Hotels there] have conserved 16 billion gallons of water since 2007, thanks to […] replacing grass with desert-friendly landscaping, installing water-efficient taps across all properties, and reusing water at aquariums and in the Bellagio Fountain.”

8. Gray squirrel control: Study shows promise for effective contraceptive delivery system

“[… T]he feeders have a very high level of species-specificity. […] The bait and monitoring system developed and tested in the study demonstrated that […] “spring was the only season tested where female squirrels were more likely to visit bait feeders than males. Spring coincides with a peak in squirrel breeding and is therefore a good time to deliver a contraceptive."”

9. Returning Grazing Land to Native Forests Would Yield Big Climate Benefits

“[… S]trategically regrowing forests on land where cattle currently graze […] while intensifying production elsewhere could drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions, with little hit to global protein production, a new study shows.”

10. Interior Department Strengthens Conservation of American Bison Through New Agreement with Canada and Mexico

“Approximately 31,000 bison are currently being stewarded by the United States, Canada and Mexico with the goal of conserving the species and their role in the function of native grassland systems, as well as their place in Indigenous culture.”

October 22-28 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)

[empidonax]

HAPPY WET BEAST WEDNESDAY

[sablegear0]

I've joked with my partner about Ri Kusuriuri and his "customer service face" (his grumpy little not-quite scowl that is trying very hard to be neutral sometimes) and his horrible customer service job.

But then I realized... That's exactly what it is. The Medicine Sellers are spiritual tech support, the Exorcism Swords are very persnickety troubleshooting devices that require a detailed and accurate description of the problem before they can enact a solution.

And like any customer service/tech support job, the biggest obstacle is the people having the problem in the first place. Being cagey about what they did wrong or giving bad info because they don't fully understand the situation.

So what I'm saying here is:

A) If you've never worked a customer service job but you've watched Mononoke (particularly the series), it's kinda like that.

B) We need fanart of Ri and Kon in tech-support headsets talking the other characters through diagnosing their mononoke problem.

[shingodzillaa]

we are smol innocent beans papa we will not try to bite you immediately we prommy :3

*me reaches in to grab something*

Them: BITE BITE BITE. >:v >:v

[zondearts]

Aquatic

[franzkafkagf]

aegon having friends he can let his guard down around is so amazing to me. everybody else in his family is so antisocial-core in contrast. aemond only hangs out with his step-father. helaena likes bugs better than people and alicent hasn‘t been able to actually have a honest conversation in years. congratulations on being the most well-adjusted member of your family.

[robo-dino-puppy]

frolicking

[lilyinwaiting]

D&D session was great today guys, nothing went wrong and Soren made no incredibly rash spur of the moment decisions affecting the well-being of herself and her loved ones.

[somerandomcockroach]

Wouldn't Rung implode from the pressure difference like the blobfish did..?

Oh, all deep sea fishes unlucky to be thrown above absolutely imploded with inverted organs, they couldn't orient fast to release the gas inside their air bladder Deep-sea divers specially lift fish slowly so that their blood wouldn't boil and all the gas would come out But Rung always had in canon some more hidden pockets within him, so I imagined that he had extra bladders that immediately reacted on the changed pressure and was compensating the ones that he couldn't change quickly, plus he might not have fastest reflexes but he knows what to do so he started adapting the moment flooding started getting him up. Other deep sea creatures are either not sentient or not even mers, they were caught off guard

But he still starts feeling worse and worse each day due to blood boiling and gas not getting out fully from sudden change pressure once his body starts understanding what happened, so that Nightbeat and Nautica would need to get him back in the deep, which is impossible because of all the new monsters and the fact that Rung's swimming abilities are weak, or they would need to find a medic who knows deep sea mermaids' anatomy and could operate him to help

[3-aem]

when he splash his pure shit water up ur nose during butt bath time and then acts like the victim

[levemetal]

I got Procreate and gave it a test run with some silly AU sketches of course

So have Calamity SJ adopting Hong‘er! Ft. my silly calamity MNQ AU and it’s inevitable conclusion of atticwife Jun Wu in the second pic because I am no longer in control here.

SY tried to be the cool uncle, unfortunately YQY is the cooler uncle so he got the Feng Xin treatment. Binghe about to start beef with a child lmfao.

Ling Wen is new heavenly emperor and I ensure you she is as overworked as ever, but she does not care about heavenly officials marrying calamities anymore. First was YQY, and then Jun Wu. Xie Lian and Shi Qingxuan are really not trendstarters here.

[knocking-on-peoples-non-doors]

june 16th, 2024

[escyn]

Heat-stroke (now ft. Sokka and Zuko)

Id in alt

[skywerse]

NEW HAIRSTYLES!!!!! LET'S FUCKING GOOO