FAQ March 2025
(wtf is #eggs for killie, etc)
I see people informing you of runaway Killies sneaking into their dreams and such and thought you should know that Thunder snuck into my character creation without me noticing. My DM gave me a Pegasus to help build my character and I struggled with how to incorporate it, until I realized the attitude it had taken on was "bitchy, tries to eat fingers, actively trying to make Tarla's life harder ... but will never actually leave and dedicated frenemy"
It took me another 2 days to realize this feathery bastard had soaked in Eau de Thunder.
Oh no! Thatās even worse! How am I going to catch a subconscious horse?
Thank you so much for sharing this with me.
Unironically i believe that ārancid horse frenemyā is a fabulous character archetype that reminds us that equines are not simply Epic Mounts, or sugary dogs, but creatures with independent opinions and interior lives - very different from our own. Their minds are not like the minds of dogs or cats or people. They are under no obligation to love us. It is tremendously nice of them to even bother dicking around with riding at all.
I believe passionately in the fact that humans should have deep and intentional relationships with the natural world, and one of the most important relationships we can have with nature, which you never see represented, is one of āworking towards a mutual goal, against our worse natures.ā Too often we place Nature or Animals in a more placid category: Nature is Enemies (wolves that chase your character) or Nature is Pets (dogs that please your character), but too rarely do we consider that Nature Is People (Thunder will win the race for you and he thinks you suck.)
Anyway this is all to say that I think this is a greater and more character-revealing relationship to have if youāre trying to really strike sparks. Thank you and good luck!
Did you ever tell us when Killie and Charlie's birthday is? I would very much like to know. Do they even have one, or are they the sort of characters who are unpinned from linear time? (thank you)
- I donāt know. Iāve never known. I actually worry about it often. I actually thought about it today.
- Charlie has a kid with The Racehorse Birthday (January 1)
- spiritually, Charlie really ought to share my birthday (July) but Killie doesnāt.
- I once half-wrote a scene where Derek says something like āIāll give it to you as a birthday treat - whenās your birthday?ā And Killieās like āAprilā and Derek is pleased for about 0.05 seconds
- Sometime between 1988 and 1998. Theyāre in their thirties (but we donāt know when their canon will be published? 2025 hopefully!)
- probably the most on-brand zodiac animal is Sagittarius, the Horse Archer.
It troubles me! We could put it to a vote!
I just pulled this jacket off the to-do list. I will be cutting scales in my dreams tonight but I did use up all my green leather scraps! I love making shit out of free stuff lol. Adds another layer of pleasure to it. Speaking of layers, I was sewing through about 8 layers of leather and four of cotton at the armscye and I felt like I was on a tightrope getting it done, holy crap.
This is SUCH a cool work! A fusion of really interesting materials to make a long-lived, unique and fun jacket.
Thank you so much for sharing it!
That is the 80th egg for Killie.
After too many tries to count, I made this origami flower!
Trying really hard to kill that little voice going "THIS IS EEEEAAASY IT'S SO EASY ANYONE CAN DO IT IT'S THE EASIEST RECIPE IN THE BOOK SO WHY CAN'T YOU DO IT" oh how I love being a gifted kid who grew into a stupid adult
"Anyone could do this" NO! WHIP ATTACK. ANYONE COULD NOT.
"It's easy-"
NO
"Anyone could-"
PATIENCE GONE. WHIP ATTACK.
Thank you so much for sharing
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the order of rodentia sounds like a circle of knights from ages past but you may be surprised to learn these noble warriors are still fighting their holy battles to this day
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Iām reading that new memoir about working at Facebook,āCareless People,ā and itās just fucking insane.
At one point Facebook wanted to be an international hub for organ donation. The āLean Inā lady asked why she couldnāt go down to Mexico and buy a kidney if her four year old needs one. This is literally on p.57. What the fuck else is going to be in this book if that is on page 57
Facebook also had to have protocols for armed raids of its foreign offices because they violated so many laws or failed to pay taxes or comply with other official protocols!! How is this a company that still exists!!!
āDoing jail time in a foreign country is not a reasonable ask from your bossesā ā legitimately an argument the authorās husband had to have with her!!
Is this what gilded age readers felt like when they read Upton Sinclairās āThe Jungleā???
Though strangely nothing Mark Zuckerberg does is worse than Sheryl Sandburg, who comes across as an unhinged hypocrite who uses her uncontrollable anger issues to cultivate a reign of terror, I am justā¦ baffled and appalled at how much Zuckerberg does not care about the world outside of Silicon Valley. There have already been two instances of him trying to wear a hoodie to state visits, and not in a Zelenskyy protest way. He just doesnāt like clothes that are not hoodies.
Wow they just abandoned a team member in the middle of an out of control crowd in Indonesia! Horrible company!
Guess who Mark Zuckerberg thinks is the best president of all time?
Hint: itās Andrew Jackson!
Another mind-boggling line: āI think the point at which you have to explain Nuremberg to the head of the team leading your China entry is probably a red flag.ā
Real exchange that happened between book author and the head of the DC office:
This conference room detail seems like too much for satire. But it isnāt!
This book has gotten so insane I canāt even summarize anymore. I can only post photos of this moment where Sheryl Sandberg wears her pajamas on a private jet and tries to make her heavily pregnant employee cuddle in bed with her on a flight back to California from Davos, Switzerland.
Following this, we discover that Sheryl says, āyou should have gotten in the bed,ā and ices out the narrator. Sheryl also has her assistant Sadie buy $10k of lingerie for her, and $3k of lingerie for herself, after which Sadie has to go to her house to model the lingerie and stay overnight. What the actual fuck.
Woooow FB knew the whole time that Trump was using trolls and spreading disinformation before the 2016 election but because they were making so much money off of it, they were just fine with it. They completely ignored the author pointing out how Duterte had done the same thing.
Direct quote on p 251: āOutrage is a lucrative business for Facebook right now, a month before the electionā¦.ā
Jaw-dropping.
Guess who lied to Congress about how the Chinese Communist Party would apply its laws and regulations to Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg!
A lot of this later stuff about Facebookās attempts to get into China are going a little over my head but I can see why Meta was trying to discredit the book and shut down reviews. Sheās whistleblowing violations of US AND international laws. I doubt theyāll see consequences under Trump but YIKES
āBy now it feels like the day-to-day at Facebook is lurching from one dismaying shit show to the next.ā
SEEMS ACCURATE
I haven't really been paying attention to the whole Killie thing, but, er, I finished this 5.2m tablet woven band I started at the medieval festival in summer, so. Eggs?
It is very kind of you to donate an egg to a stranger. And what an incredible piece of work! What a beautifully unbroken thread (ha!) of craft running back into the past, connecting you to people who have gone before, and bringing the memory of their handsā work into our time. Congratulations on finishing it.
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Thank you so much, this is an accurate picture of my mental landscape at the moment
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Tea bones. You know.
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You get it.
Tea bones.
Aaaaaaaaa!
Trailing in at the end of the race, a manic blur of limbs and carefuly portioned competence, it's A Queen Victorious!
With:
- One (1) inkle band, 1/3 done.
- One (1) drafted exchange fic, with revisions coming this weekend (it being due next Friday)
- A... thing. Comic? Graphic short story? Has been storyboarded, references found, and tentative doodling begun. It's... not exactly about the Horse Boys, but it's not not about the Horse Boys. Horseboy adjacent. Horseboy as a high-concept application to my special interest. I am learning that I do not know how to draw horf, which is a slight dilemma, due to all panels containing at least one.
Nothing complete, but progress made everywhere, due largely to the efforts of you and the Eggs for Killie community.
Eggs, Killie! I'm comin' for ya! š„š„š£
Thank you so much for being one of Killieās kindest supporters, one of the fiercest cheerleaders of everyone elseās eggs (Iāve seen you! Your kindness is overflowing!) and for this incredible egg submission!
We were literally joking about this a few weeks ago, and NOW look what youāve done! Progress made everywhere, that canāt go back. Old loves advanced, new ones found, and passion threading in and out of everything you do. thank you so much for all you have done, and all you will do, and itās been really really lovely doing it together.
#eggs for Killie#77! thatās SO many#a weighty responsibility.#A Queen Victorious is SUCH a good racehorse name. fits right in.#actually all of our names do really. Obviously the Grand National has I am maximus this year.#but there are some other really good names. One horse has a wonderful name of Meetingofthewaters#which I really appreciate. and another is just called Twig.
My egg contribution: just cleaned and planted 2 garden beds, as well as prepping and planting 20 containers of strawberries - to be given out to neighbors. Because I can't fix the world, but I can give someone a strawberry plant!
I felt bad that flyingseacow accidentally got a picture of Bimble the chicken for THEIR gardening achievement, so Iām giving you one too. Here is a photo of Bimble that my phone SWEARS is actually a dog. This is not relevant to anything - sorry.
Congratulations on your achievement and thank you for the egg. You can DEFINITELY give someone a strawberry plant.
Egg for poor horseboy?
Had the first real gardening day of the year, and among many things I got finally my herb patch done. Something I planned nearly a year and a half ago.
I only need to decide what kind of thyme I want.
My phone really needed to add this photo of Bimble chasing a bread crust to this reply. It was obsessed with the idea. So Iām going to include it in the spirit of supportive appreciation
Well, this is an egg after my own heart, thank you so much for sharing it! Well done on this completion! Itās definitely a good use of your thyme.
Sorry. Thyme to stop.
I made challah today. It was my first time making bread, and I'm so happy it turned out okay.
An eggy bread is a worthy egg.
For your first bread, any bread would have done. But this one is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.
Hello! Long time follower first time interacting!
I was SO BRAVE yesterday and kept going on a big terrifying project of making my brother a pair of boots for his 21st in October. I started working on it in November last year, and then put them aside because they were Too Scary. I have to modify the lasts (shoe forms) before I can start doing any of the normal shoe making things, and I havenāt ever done that before and am completely making it up as I go. Iād done sort of one, sometime back in December I think, but yesterday I pretty much finished both, AND tape-formed the basics for a pattern, which is truly an accomplishment. Itās obviously not finished and will not be finished until far after Killie performs at his next race, but forward momentum! I have, to use the parlance, thrown my heart over!
(The cork parts are what Iāve added on to the white plastic last, using cork floor tiles lol)
I havenāt made anything even close to resembling a shoe since 2017 when I did a cert iv in it š
Aah hello, I notice and appreciate your username when I see it. Thank you so much!
UM, this is incredible. I have occasionally read about shoemaking, watched videos and admired finished products on Reddit. There is something so exciting about it being a craft that people can still do. Especially in a world of rubbish shoes, where good shoes are so rare and inaccessible, it is delightful and life affirming to see that the high-quality artisanal love-of-craft that creates beautiful knitwear is also applied to shoes. Thank you so so much for sharing.
You have, indeed, thrown your heart over the fence. Now all you have to do is follow it.
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āBro where u at we not supposed to be in hereeā
@elodieunderglass is Bee the first one or the one under the forbidden door?
I think itās Bee recovering one of her sons! The Unscrupulous Pantoufle, probably
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Anonymous asked:
Could i please get a small mammal cursed bio fact if u have one
the grasshopper mouse of the southwestern United States looks like a standard house mouse but is almost entirely carnivorous and is known to kill and consume everything from less homicidal mice to goddamn rattlesnakes, which they kill by jumping onto the snakeās back and gnawing through its spine
beholdā¦. a Bastard
How could U fail to mention that this fool marks territory by howling? Yunno. Like a wolf
Oh. Oh I am in love with this bastard wolf mouse.
Hat tip @lookadreygon this is actually my third child (Mouseās) daemon I think š¤