#Hool

[ghostopossumlives]

Didn't like how the torso started going, but pretty satisfied with this face. This is a sketch of a Hool's face.

Long ancient lore ramble:

Long before the FTL Dark Age of the Nebula, the Hool ruled an empire that was ruined and scattered by the Ixionites a bit before the Ixionites wiped themselves out in the Terminarchomachy (an egofascist civil war between all remaining Ixion warlords to become the sole ruler and sole lifeform of the nebula.). The remaining Hool usually now serve under Bauosar warlords, being kept to assist with martial archeology (hunting down their own old shit that might be reverse engineered and giving it to the Bauosar in exchange for keeping their own petty fiefdoms). The Bauosar have similarly incomprehensible lifespans and had been a peripheral force during the age of the Hool and Ixionites' squabbles, but never posed enough of a threat to be focused on seriously by either empire while the other existed. They pretty much took over by default during the Dark Age after events at the end of the Terminarchomachy destroyed all FTL of that era. The Bauosar paperclipped any Hool they didn't exterminate, and their position hasn't risen past "on a short leash" since. (Ixionite survivors received no quarter, and are probably extinct.)

The Hool created the Pards, and were powerful bioengineers at their height. They usually killed their enemies with plagues until their populations were reduced enough to be safely recreationally tormented with monsters. They were unexpectedly hard-countered by the long held Ixionite practice of obliterating anything that might be sapient from millions of miles away with solar lasers, then using their now lost shield technology to hide inside of a sun if they suspected that they might lose the fight (they had a more efficient version of the SLIME systems used in modern planetary siege shields that turned afflictive input directly into monomolecule cohesion, allowing the energy from the stellar corona to make them completely indestructible for as long as they desired), preventing the Hool from ever making biological contact or obtaining cells to experiment with.

The Ixionites defeated and scattered the Hool, but before they were able to hunt down every survivor, they splintered and went to war against themselves. At some point in the conflict, a computer virus of unknown origin or method of transmission began to spread throughout all Hool, vermin, and Ixionite starships and fortresses, sabotaging them undetectably and causing total system failures that struck intelligently at the most devastating opportunity. A typical manifestation was shield failure during the standard Ixionite "sun sitting" tactic, causing the Ixionite to immolate itself. Knowledge of this virus event is mostly from Hool and Melusine witnesses whose ships were also bricked. Hool weren't likely to survive the virus attacks, but were more likely to survive the virus than Ixionites, because they weren't inside of stars when it struck, and were merely forced to hibernate adrift for centuries until they were collected by scavenging Bauosars or vermin. This virus eventually destroyed all FTL vessels in the Nebula, causing the FTL Dark Age, and setting the stage for the Bauosar to rise to power (The Baousar still mostly used STL starships and simply slugged around with several generations of slaves between pillaging planets for minerals). It is unknown whether the virus was an Ixionite, Hool, or vermin creation, and it is unknown if it is gone or still out there. Some even theorize that it might be in full effect throughout the Nebula, and that all modern technology has been inadvertently developed in ways that are immune to the virus because any technology invented that isn't immune is automatically affected by the virus, doesn't work, and isn't pursued, rendering the virus invisible to modern civilizations. It doesn't help that how the virus even spread was never determined.

Hool should never be considered trustworthy sources of information, but they are the main source for these events and are consistent with the accounts of the Melusines. The Melusines provide less information because they went to sleep when the Ixionites and Hool started showing up. (The Melusines are a long-lived species that don't individually live as long as Hool and Baousar, but who are able to hibernate for vast periods of time. They typically try to live peacefully with whatever civilization is closest to a "Golden Age", with whom they invest and trade with, then go on secretive hibernation flights when "Things Look Bad", such as when the Nebula gets split between "Hool airdropping one billion lions on your house" and "Ixionite laser go brrrr". The hibernation flights are attended to by generations of Melusine sentinel monks who would fly reconnaissance missions every few centuries to see if things are getting better, though they were forced into ground structures for awhile after the virus ruined their ships.)

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[luuletus-ee]

- Mari Uri

[ghostopossumlives]

(drops Hool into your bare hand)

N O W

[lighthouse-guardian]

mint green women who say :p and want unlimited access to your information

[inrng]

[noellevanious]

fuckin with a cool outfit i thought up. decided to draw myself in it

[hooleidoscope]

I guess I’m on a roll, here. You know what else gets me about the announcement? People being happy about the supposed darkening of demon!Alastor’s skin tone. Listen…I dig a redesigned demon!Alastor. I dig the theory that his hair is still curly and he just fries it with that fuck-ass bob. But “making him look mixed/more brown/more Black because he looks white?” No, that’s not the take you think it is.

And before you come for me, I did it, too…at first. But a lot of y’all need to understand how often mixed people have colorism thrown at us. There is no one way to be mixed or look like a specific group of people. I was partially raised by a Melungeon/Black-passing great-grandma who taught me to be proud of brown skin, but would warn not to be “too dark,” because that’s how she was treated by others and hated having her dark skin pointed out by strangers. My Korean dad and I are often mistaken for indigenous people because we are both brown and “Koreans don’t have dark skin” …and yet my mixed mom is paper white with blue eyes and identifies as white because no one believes her when she says her dad and grandma were brown. And especially existing as a Melungeon person when we can look any type of way because we are mixed by default…it sucks seeing people telling mixed folks how we’re supposed to look when our looks do not define our ancestry or who we are.

And a reminder that Niffty is canonically Japanese and I don’t see anyone talking about how she doesn’t look East Asian, and spoiler, there’s no one way to do that, either. (Again, as a Korean person who doesn’t look strictly ‘East Asian’ to a lot of people). I get really anxious with a lot of my takes on this fandom and whether I come across as insensitive or offensive…but as a mixed person, this hits too close to home.

There can be a lot of shame in being mixed, but as a fandom that is a happy place to a lot of people, please let’s just care about each other and have more dialogue. I have no problem with Creole or Black fans making demon!Al darker skinned. Dark skinned mixed people exist and should be uplifted in media. But please leave any rhetoric about how you think mixed people should look to yourself. We get enough of that in real life.

[theactioneer]

Patrick Swayze, Steel Dawn (1987)

[ghostopossumlives]

I used to kind of be annoyed with how much I incidentally work similar features into my different species, but also always hated the "all intelligent aliens are descendants of a fallen superior civilization" Hyperborean master race concept. I am absolutely falling in love with my recent shift to "most of my intelligent species share a common ancestor, but that common ancestor is just the rats from a pretty unremarkable spacefaring civilization that spread out, accidentally got rats everywhere, then went extinct due to an unknown fuckup and the rats are all they left behind."

I do have some ancient civilizations of significance, and they do have sapient descendants who do and don't know what they came from, but I don't like it being treated like a prerequisite of sapience like in some stories I've encountered. I especially don't like the "these species were planned to become sapient and inherit the universe" plots.

The Bauosar and Hool are descendants of a/two (it's complicated) ancient fallen empires that they'd like resurrected, but they are also cringe creeps, so it's appropriate for them. It's also complicated to even say they're the descendants of it, since it was literally them. They are decrepit immortal motherfuckers and were literally the individuals doing the ancient empiring before they fucked themselves into a dark age that allowed a bunch of feral mossrock species to develop and become competitive with what was left of them. Now they're stuck in the west arm of the nebula crab bucketing with each other.

(Bauosar and Hool. Not to scale. Hool are usually around ten to sixteen foot tall with Jack Skellington proportions. Bauosar are built like a three hundred foot long house centipede with a sarcophagus with a tentacle sticking out of it for a head.)

[1x20]

meeeee when dean winchester died age 4 with his mommy in a burning room and then proceeded to shuffle around this mortal coil like a zombie for the next 42 years

[dragoneyes613]

Whenever I reread The Coming of Hoole and get up to the part where the Glauxian Brothers show up on the island and Grank and Theo hope their stay is only temporary and they'll leave soon I always think it's so funny because after reading the first books of the series I know that the Glauxian Brothers are still there on that very same island literally a thousand years later.

[harveyguillensource]

Behind-the-scenes of Spicy Will!

[marcelskittels]

Paris-Roubaix 2024 🚿 📸 by Will Jones, Sean Hardy, Justin Britton, cyclingimages, twilcha, mattgrayson_photo tornanti_cc, xavier.pereyron, rhode_photo