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Sorry for being such a slow writer, it's because I [remembers that self-deprecating jokes are harmful to my mental health and make everyone else uncomfortable] was attacked by dark spirits and washed up on the shore of a mysterious island with no recollection of who I was
For the first time in Saint Louis Zoo history, a cheetah has given birth to 8 cheetah cubs .
Awww look at their faces! I want to cuddle them!!
But I wont.
i have a little collection of websites i tend to use for coming up with ideas, naming people or places, keeping clear visuals or logistics, writing basics about places i've never been to, and so on. i tend to do a lot of research, but sometimes you just need quick references, right? so i thought i'd share some of them!
eowyn, my love
Today is another day of contributor spotlights! Ghost, one of our fantastic writers, is being up for the spotlight today. @ghostlandtoo
not gonna say it. but he popped into your head didn’t he
overstimulated and anxious at the zoo until I looked up and saw an angel dancing in a beam of light
one of my favorite things about my job that i can say to people that sounds utterly ridiculous but is technically 100% true is that one of our sea turtles keeps trying to get me to commit a felony on her behalf and gets SUPER cranky when i won’t do it
this is because she is spoiled rotten and LOVES head and shell scritches. every time i go to the tank she’s in to collect water samples while she happens to be awake and swimming near the surface, she sees my hand enter the water and immediately comes over to try and get my attention, headbutting the dive platform and splashing water at me and generally making a huge fuss.
unfortunately, because she is also a ~100yr old green sea turtle, i legally cannot touch her. she’s a protected species, and a fairly prominent individual at that, and im not one of the aquarists who dives into that tank NOR am i a vet, so i’m not among the handful of people who are ALLOWED to give her scratchies. she knows all of the divers personally, and knows that i am not one of them. she doesn’t care. she wants attention and because she’s the specialest princess in the entire universe she will do anything in her power to get it.
she also throws a big ol tantrum when i end up not petting her. she’ll stick up her head to snort water at me, slap at the platform and ladder with her fins, and then swim under the dive platform and bump her shell against the bottom — she’s a 500lb turtle, which is a lot of weight for her to be throwing around. i usually have to move pretty quick to get off the platform and onto solid ground cuz there have been times where i’ve genuinely felt like i was about to lose my balance and REALLY didn’t want to end up falling into the tank.
^ myrtle, throwing a tantrum because she was unsuccessful at peer pressuring me into violating the endangered species act
Most sci fi/fantasy: this civil war has been waged for a thousand years. These great houses have ruled the realm for eight thousand years. These two families have been feuding for ten thousand years. This single political institution has stood for twenty-five thousand years.
Animorphs: there is a war waged across the galaxy, waged by countless species. Entire planets have been conquered, entire species have been enslaved. Multiple genocides have been committed, even by the "good guys." It's been going on about, oh, thirty-two years now.
Pride and Prejudice (2005) + tumblr posts (part 1)
inspired by the scariest words my dm has ever said to me and the subsequent coolest (AND SCARIEST) scene of my life
im so glad that this post in particular kinda blew up, if really just for the look on that same dm's face when i showed him that the funnie little meme i made about his brilliant terrifying line now has 1800 notes on tumblr. i actually treasure that honestly. it was a fantastic look on his face
[image description: a single axis chart that runs from 20-1 titled "when you roll a...." 20 is labelled, "you know exactly how to fix this problem." 16 is, "you're pretty confident that you can solve this." 12 is, "you could probably figure it out?" 18 is, "you're...not really sure what you're looking at here." 3 is, "you have NO IDEA how to fix this problem." 1 is, "you know exactly how to fix this problem (evil version)." end description]
I need a way to say this character makes me feel insane amounts of lust but not in a sexual or romantic way
Guards, dissect this man
No it's too clinical I need something that emphasizes the feral desire to devour
Guards, sous vide this man
Guards, prepare this man for dinner
Guards, rend this man asunder
Guards, hand this man's heart to me on a platter so that I may devour him
Guards, resurrect him I didn't like that last phrasing
my liege is everything okay in there
Leave me be I'm trying to figure out how to metaphorically cannibalize someone
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