#and in the background a wild moose

[vvaywardhunter]

"I get that a lot," he deadpanned. Dean had been framed for more than his fair share of murders because of that tendency to show up when bodies were dropping. He didn't cause the terrible things to happen-- usually. He was just trying to clean them up and put down the things responsible. But, y'know, try explaining a skinwalker stole my face and used it to commit murder to the local police.

"Pleasant," he echoed skeptically, raising an eyebrow. He knew a lot of hunters. Even the ones who were his friends, he would hesitate to call pleasant. At best, they were a rough and grumbly lot. At worst, they'd tried to kill him.

As he'd said, though, it was really neither here nor there. Dean might be watching him like a hawk the whole time, but he wasn't going to turn down help, especially when he wasn't sure precisely what had happened here. "Alright… Do you know what we're looking for?"

@rubiesintherough

"You realize that's kinda suspicious, you showing up to 'help' when there are bodies on the ground." He didn't lose his suspicious frown, but his hand eased off the weapon he'd automatically reached for at the sight of a stranger. To his credit, he hadn't actually pulled it, but the instinct was there. If a hunter wasn't paranoid, they were usually dead.

"You don't sound like a hunter." Most of them didn't kid themselves that they were doing the most good or the least harm, or whatever that was about. That sounded more like a crusade, but as long as it didn't get him or other people dead, Dean didn't really care how he justified it.

[sigh-tofm]

when they come home drunk…

… price

- thinks it’s important that he loudly tells you he’s married while you steady him upstairs to bed. points to his ring incessantly, slurs on and on about his perfect wonderful wife with the big ass and soft tummy. you roll your eyes and can’t help but smile when he doesn’t let you hold on to his arm to support him. something about protecting his virtue for his wife, as if you’re not standing right beside him. proceeds to lock you out of your own bedroom when you finally get upstairs, telling you his wife will be home soon so he can’t have a strange woman in their bedroom (but still remarks on your wonderful ass). you decide it’s too early in the morning to persuade your drunk husband to let you in, so you go down to sleep on the couch. you wake up with price sleeping soundly on the floor beside you, having gone to find his wife when she never showed up in his bed the night before.

… kyle

- gets sappy and apologises for being away. loses all concept of time when he’s drunk, says he’s sorry, he didn’t mean to be away so long, he was thinking of you the whole time, the guys pulled him along and he couldn’t say no. while he’s on his knees at your feet, pressing his face to your thighs and mumbling into your marbled skin, almost making you lose your balance with his fervent apologies, you gently remind him that you were the one who made him go out with the boys because he needed to unwind after a stressful weekend of combat drills, and that he had left with them less than two hours ago. he refuses to hear and only hugs your thighs closer, so much so that you have to support yourself on the wall. turns out all he needed to relax was you.

… johnny

- is horny. almost starts drooling when he eyes you at the top of the stairs, after struggling to close the entrance door for a good minute, causing you to investigate what made all the noise. gets a wild look in his eyes when he sees you in just his t-shirt and makes you scream and giggle as he chases you back up the stairs and to the bedroom. being absolutely shitfaced, he has the coordination of a tranquillised moose and stumbles head over heels across the floor, catches his foot on the doorway and narrowly misses the edge of the dresser with his head as he falls. still, his little soldier is courageously tenting his pants when you worriedly lean over him and he gets a good look right into the collar of your shirt.

… simon

- is emotional and clingy. can’t get enough of you, won’t leave you alone. you can’t make out half his words when he’s had this much to drink (and the mancunian in him breaks out too, making it ever harder to make out the words), but you play along, smile and nod and let him sit on the closed toilet seat and talk and talk while you do your night routine in front of the mirror. so lucky to have you, luv. how could’a lug like me get a pretty one like you, luv. his melancholy statements of love become comfortable background noise for you as you remove your makeup and apply moisturiser. lets you wash the sweat and grime of the day off his face with a washcloth, closes his eyes while you massage your floral-scented moisturiser into his skin, never once stopping his little speech. ambles after you out of the bathroom, holding on to the hem of your shirt, when you’re all finished and ready for bed. his devoted mutters only let up when be falls asleep next to you.

[deancasbigbang]

Title: Arms Around His Angel

Author: blackhorsedances

Artist: stonelions

Rating: Explicit

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester, minor Benny LaFitte/Garth Fitzgerald IV, Gabriel/Kali. Charlie Bradbury/Meg Masters; Jody Mills/Donna Hanscum. Past Dean and Lee Webb; Past Dean and Lisa Braeden; Past Dean and Benny LaFitte. Sam Winchester/Jess Winchester. Jack is Sam and Jess Winchester’s son.

Length: 36041

Warnings: No major archive warnings Content Warnings: Mention of James and Amelia Novak dying in an MVA (no gore, nothing on screen), mention of the humane slaughter of a steer (no gore, nothing on screen).

Tags: !Inventor Castiel. !Rancher Dean Winchester. Bisexual Castiel Novak. Semi-comfortably Bisexual Dean Winchester. Top Cas/Bottom Dean. Smut and fluff. Mostly safe sex. Hurt/comfort. Happy Ending.

Posting Date: October 14, 2024

Summary: Castiel Novak invented cutting-edge solar technology and left his position as CEO of Angelus, Inc. to protect himself and his technology from his dysfunctional brothers. He found safety on a 20 acre farm in Kansas with a pond, house, barn, and his trailer. When his twin and sister-in-law are killed, he’s drawn back into the business, and into danger, to protect his niece Claire and his technology. Dean Winchester rebuilt Winchester Ranch after John almost destroyed it. He has 500 acres of land, a ranch house, and a big barn. He raises American Wagyu beef. He’s a single Dad with a great son, Ben, a giant moose brother Sam and Sam’s wife Jess, and an adorable nephew Jack who roams around the ranch with his trusty sidekick, Honeybee, Dean’s old palomino mule.  Castiel and Dean meet accidentally at a hotel and share a night of wild–and completely anonymous–intimacy. When Castiel wakes up alone, with no note and no phone number from his ‘Cowboy’, he assumes that the night was a one and done, and regretfully moves on with his life. Dean keeps thinking about the ‘Angel’ that he spent a night with, but is pretty sure that he doesn’t deserve that kind of a guy in his life. Jack and Honeybee discover “Mister Cas” and inadvertently set the stage for ‘Cowboy’ and his ‘Angel’ to meet. But sinister forces are moving in the background. Will they be able to overcome the forces that are trying to keep them apart?

Excerpt: “What’s Jack doing, Sam? Garth says he and Honeybee are out most days from breakfast until well after lunch. Jody says he packs peanut butter and banana sandwiches.” Sam shrugs. “He says he’s out visiting Mister Cas. I think he probably found the fort we built that one summer, and is holed up out there with sandwiches for his imaginary friends. Let it be, Dean. The heifers are out in the north pasture. The steers are in the east pasture. There’s nothing out by the fort to worry about.” “Snakes, Sam. There are snakes to worry about.” Sam looks at Dean across the kitchen island, and shakes his head, hair flopping over into his eyes. “You’re the one that told me that a mule will kill a snake faster than you can say ‘snake’, and I believe you because I’ve seen Honeybee do it. Let him be. Ben will be out of school in a couple of weeks, and he’ll be following Ben around like a puppy.” “Heh, you’re probably right.” Dean runs a hand down the back of his neck.  “I know I am, Dean. You worry about all of us, but you worry too much. You can’t watch over everyone all of the time.”

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[kaythefloppa]

Moose Nibbles - Thoughts [Spoilers]

The last episode in this week's batch of new episodes. Here are my thoughts: Spoilers ahead!

More ammo for my analysis of the canon timeline: The opening sequence of this episode takes place in Grizzly Gulch, the central location of Activate Kid Power, suggesting this episode takes place after that special. No reason why I'd mention it, just had to.

Ok I'll admit, this was a funny joke. Much like the salamander episode, this ep. is way funnier than it has any right to be.

Obligatory "why the fuck did it take them 14 years to make a moose episode?" aside... this is the first time we've seen a moose calf in the series and oh my god it's so fucking cute!!!

When they announced at the live show that they were doing a moose episode, I was really hoping that this episode would be a prequel to Little Howler, showing how the brothers got the moose disc. While I'm not disappointed that it didn't happen, and whilst this episode does more than enough to make up for that, still.

Also here is the show agreeing with me as to how absurd it is that we're almost 8 seasons in and we're only JUST NOW getting a moose adventure.

A few things to note

I am SO GLAD that we were wrong and that this wasn't a musical number. Idc how good the song from the previous S7 episodes were, those mfs cannot sing 😭

This entire file name is titled "acid," which I think is a good enough descriptor for this entire sequence. I feel like it would be even WORSE on acid.

This is a joke in the episode that DOESN'T land and that's purely because of the punchline; secondhand embarassment is not enough to detail how cringe it is. They were doing so well beforehand too, like what gives 😭

After 3 seasons and 8 years, the Moose Suit is back!

I know I glaze S7's animation a lot, but I want to do it here because goddamn did the animators have so much fun with this scene and the facial expression. This is the type of shit I'd expect in a Spongebob episode, not Wild Kratts, but it's so fucking funny regardless! I know people think that the new seasons can get too 'kid-oriented' sometimes and part of me agrees but scenes like this make me happy regardless because I know that 8 year old me would've rolled on the floor at this. I'm laughing at this as an adult!

Also, what probably helps this scene is the color direction: There are three shades of green in this scene. The dark green that's in 75% of the background, the spring green in 35% of the background alongside Chris's bullfrog power suit (that matches the green hues of a frog) AND the light greens of the antlers juxtaposed to the other shades and thus the easiest to see! This helps the joke because you're obviously going to be attracted to so much green complimenting each other but also you're immediately going to point out the one thing that's NOT supposed to be there and laugh at it because of how easy it is to spot.

Yeah, two paragraphs glazing analyzing this one scene because the f*cking sight gag was green!

The first time we ALSO see a female moose in the series! I love this episode.

Had a conversation with my friends involving this, and of course I'm enough of a nitpicky bastard to ask this ultimately meaningless and fruitless question - what exact effect does the CPS have on the user's digestive tract? I assume that if an animal's abilities/biological life-hacks include specialized digestive tract (i.e. like a lemur, panda, or gazelle) it changes the user's tract to match the animal's, especially since we've seen this be the case before (i.e. the T-Devil and Gazelle Suits, both of which have been used by Chris).

All I'm saying is, compared to the sh*t that Chris has eaten in the CPS, (moldy pizza and grass that has probably been stepped/shat on), twigs are probably the best meal he'd take lmao.

Hell yeah babeeey we got the Oak Tree Power Suit callback!

Admittedly not as funny as the Bullfrog-Moose joke earlier, but still incredibly enjoyable of a sight gag. They didn't even try to hide the blatant callback and that just made it even more chuckle-worthy.

Does that fucking look like a horse to you Jimmy??

Also another episode where Jimmy plays a key role in saving the day. I feel like this is building up to an episode that will finally answer the question of "Does Jimmy need a Creature Power Suit" and with how they've been developing his character this season, I'd be good with either a "yes" or "no." Just something I'd like to mention.

CHICKADEE AVIVA!!!!!

I'm with Martin here. I feel like the proper method of preventing such crazy malfunctions from even being a problem in the first place would be THAT F*CKING RING CHIP THAT WAS CREATED A DECADE AGO TO HANDLE THIS EXACT CONTINGENCY AND I WILL KEEP BRINGING UP UNTIL SHE F*CKING COMPLETES IT.... or... someting like that.

Again, somehow this joke manages to keep being funny even after they overdo it. Well played, writers, well played.

But also, what is the species of the snake that touched Martin in this scene? What kind of snake suit was he malfunctioned into? The fandom wiki says it's a garter snake but the suit resembles the Rattlesnake Suit from Season 2 and even had the insignia, so I assumed that this was actually a King Snake Suit since most king snakes mimic rattlesnakes. But we've seen two species of king snakes in WK (the prairie king snake from Season 3 and the Eastern Kingsnake from the flash games), neither of which resemble the snake in the episode? Can any snake experts help me out? Because I'm gonna be mad if it turns out that yet ANOTHER episode in this batch was aired out of order.

CONCLUSION:

Pros:

The animation. Most of the jokes land here simply because the detailed and fluid animation compliments the comedy.

The fact that we got a moose episode at all.

The callback malfunctions. I don't exactly know, nor can I confirm how much online activity in the fandom chatboards managed to reach the radar of the Wild Kratts staff (logically it can't be much since the Internet's a vocal minority and all that but given the two year long dry season before S7, it can't be none at all, but I digress) but it definitely feels like the malfunctions in this episode were subtly written for older fans who were around during Seasons 1-2, since many of the suits we haven't seen since around that time. The self-aware humor surrounding the oak tree suit callback is more than enough of an indictator. But whether it was intentional or not, it's still a silly fun stirng of callbacks to episodes we know and love, and that is what I can appreciate it for.

Cons:

The Disney-acid sequence in this episode: Mainly the punchline that kneecapped any comedic potential it had and just came off as cringe. Skip. Skip Skip.

I'm gonna be honest, there are not that many pros or cons I can enlist about this episode beyond overanalysis and nitpicking. The entire premise of this episode down to its execution is simplistic, which isn't a bad thing. It was still enjoyable, it's still something that I can find myself rewatching on end. It's still something that I can point out personal cons vs. pros with (the acid sequence vs. the malfunctions) but divorced from all of that, it's a simple middle of the road episode at its core. Again, it's probably just filtration bias after being hung up from Monday's high-stake special, but I'm gonna say it's above average at best.

Ranked: 6.9/10

[cinderbuck]

Kaijune, 2025.06.02

Today's prompt was "Crystal-scaled".

Ech, went with rainbow vomit instead. Should've planned better. I found the background first (yet another old photo from my files, this challenge doubles as a daily environment study it seems), and thought I'd come up with a fitting monster to put in later. Only, I couldn't really think of a good one. So here's an eight-legged, long-necked moose cow. Around three hours of work, I think. Made some minor adjustments with a mouse after I was done. Not sure how visible that is, because I don't really zoom in at all when drawing these.

Today I learned that long-necked moose = llama. So let's pretend I tried drawing a llama instead of a moose.

Tomorrow I'll plan ahead, or at least think of a monster first and THEN find a fitting environment to put it in.

I fed a moose half a banana once. Not a wild moose, of course, but she was cool. Very wiry hair, if I remember correctly, but it was about 17 years ago, so I might be wrong.

[raycatz]

ohh my gosh it'd be too much to draw but the LU boys would have fun playing king frog.

It's a memorization game that's played in a group. Each person picks an animal with some kind of sign (could be asl or something made up) to go along with it. For the easier version, you say the animal name, and to make it a bit harder you do it silently. (I've also done it with making the animal noises.) You send the action around the circle by making your own sign/animal and then the person your sending it to's sign and animal. and then continue. The are two set roles, King Frog and Monkey. The goal is to become King Frog. If you mess up, you give up your spot in the circle and become Monkey, and everyone after you moves up a spot. When you move, you take on the animal role you move into.

It gets more difficult/fun the larger the group.

Sometimes the action will get caught between two players and they can get really sassy about it. It's a lot of fun to watch the kiddos at camp do this. They're usually good sports and pass it on ashgdsjdfs but it's funny when it does come back and we get dramatic eye rolls and sassy body language. Silly noises are always fun as well. You also get kids wanting to be kangaroos and flamingoes, etc. And you ask, "what sound does your kangaroo make?" and the kid goes, "uhhh... boing boing?" "Great!" and they hop too. For flamingo the kids will usually balance on one leg for their sign/action, so you get to watch them balance and try to play the game at the same time xD

I really like the moose sign. You sign out big antlers. It's a fun motion imo. Unicorn is fun too because dramatic players will slam their fist to their foreheads ahsgsjdfs

But yeah, king frog. I think the Links would be really good at it. I also imagine while Wars or Time are trying to explain something that Wind or someone might start up a game of King Frog in the background.

Time: "It's important to keep in mind-"

Wind @ Wild: king frog

Wild: *frowns*

Wind: KING FROG

Wild: ... wolf, *to Legend* bird

Legend, without missing a beat: bird, unicorn

And it keeps going until it gets to Twi, midway through signing cat, when Time is like, "Are we listening???"

[outofangband]

Mammals of the March of Maedhros

Fish, Birds, Flowers

Flora, fauna, geography and environment Masterlist

Other world building in the Himring tag!

The March of Maedhros was a cold realm in Northeastern Beleriand. It was located slightly Southeast of Dorthonion and south of the planes and meadowlands of Lothlann and Ard Galen. The March was a cold region with taiga forested hills and icy waters, including the sources of several rivers, namely Celon and Little Gelion which were located in the other Hills around Himring. 

 The March falls between the cold mountains on the Southern and Eastern borders of Dorthonion and the mountainous regions of the Gap and Thargelion on its own Eastern border.

Like my other posts of this kind I will include more world building notes at the end (relationship between people/elves and the fauna, symbology or significance of certain species in local cultures, etc), otherwise this would just be a long list of species. Please always feel free to ask more about this, it’s one of my favorite topics 

Taiga and tundra: musk deer: reindeer, red squirrel, tundra wolf, altai mole, brown bear, snow vole, taiga shrew

Other forest: forest dormouse, northern birch mouse, pine marten, sable, common shrew, northern pika, moose, lynx

Hills and alpine meadow: grey marmot, forest steppe marmot, long tailed ground squirrel, wild horse, beech marten, northern badger

Northern reaches: snow leopard, wild yak, snow sheep

Throughout: red fox, brown hare, Eastern roe deer, field mouse

World building notes:

-As it’s probably obvious by the art in my background, the idea of snow leopards in the March is very important to me! Some of the most skilled among Maedhros’s captains hunted and scouted along side them and their image came to represent the ruthless, efficient and precise nature of his fighters in art and heraldry 

-I also believe that they were wild otters in the rivers specifically northern Celon,the colder one, rather unique to the region. These were far larger than common otters and well adapted to the cold. 

-Horses were brought in large numbers, including the descendants of Valinor horses. In the March they are bred for endurance, and ability to withstand the cold and train to respond to almost entirely non-verbal commands, especially by some sections of the scouts who ride them

-I always imagine a location or locations similar to Lake Baikal in Siberia, which is home the world’s only completely freshwater seal as well as cnidarian species that are not found anywhere else in the world. The seals in thr near frozen lake are abundant but are rarely slain. They are near inedible though their fat is highly useful for oils and their skins are occasionally used as well. The lake is located north of Himring and was originally the result of geologic activity in the Ered Engrin.

-Reindeer are kept by some of the Noldor and their allies in the more remote regions of the march. Their fur, skin, meat, and milk are all used.

-Pine martens and sables are dear to the Avarin groups of northeast Beleriand, some members even taking them as companions or scouts. They represent will and joy in stories and art

-I like to imagine smaller species of mammoths or woolly rhinos trek through the March on their search for fresh grass and vegetation. 

As always please feel free to ask more, I really love world building and I always feel these posts are incomplete

[heyiwrotesomethings]

Hi everybody! I’m mostly settled in back home and I’m feeling a lot more energized and ready to finish up those last few requests so I can go into September with a clean slate. Thank you all for your patience, it feels good to be back :D

Under the cut are some pictures from my trip for those who may be interested to see what I was up to.

Starting off strong with a black bear we saw on the side of the road! We saw 5 total I think. All while driving, which was be a theme for most of the animals we hoped to see on our trip. One of the scariest moments was when one bounded into the road in front of us. A very close call, but nobody (person or animal) was hurt. (Riding Mountain NP, Manitoba, Canada)

This elk silently strode right into our campsite one morning. I looked up and I had a heart attack because he emerged from the bushes like a reverse Homer Simpson. He was very chill though, went to go eat leaves in the little island surrounded by campsites. He came back the next morning too. You really don’t think about how big an elk is until the only thing separating you is a picnic table. (Prince Albert NP, Saskatchewan, Canada)

Bison, also seen on the side of the road while driving by. This was also the same place where I saw the beavers and because of that I think that’s why this place is ultimately my favorite from the whole trip. I’ve only seen one wild beaver in my life before I came here so getting to see a bunch chew and swim around made me very happy. Also, you could not pay me to get into the water there. Never mind the fact that they had a blue-green algae bloom, but they also had leeches that you could see swimming around just by looking in from the dock. Icky, but fun to watch. (Elk Island NP, Alberta, Canada)

Moose, also brought to you by simply driving down the road. Which is funny because we went on a trail that pretty much guaranteed you to see moose and we didn’t see a single one. But this one was just hanging out on the side of the road maybe 40/50km away from the critically acclaimed moose spot. She was the only moose we saw, and some people were disappointed to have not seen one with antlers, but I say better one than none. (Jasper NP, Alberta, Canada)

Jasper probably had the most cool views. Love me a mountain with a big ol’ glacier on it. There was a nice, cool wind that blew through this area almost constantly. (Jasper NP, Alberta, Canada)

Another elk, but this one was too cool not to share in my opinion. Another from the car shot as we left Jasper. He’s running with the mountains in the background and he’s got the biggest antlers I’ve ever seen. Super neat. (Jasper NP, Alberta, Canada)

Here’s a nice little artsy photo I took. We saw a lot of these purple flowers around and I think they’re really pretty, especially paired with the beautiful glacial waters and rugged mountains. Wish I could see views like this all the time. (Yoho NP, British Colombia, Canada)

I know this probably doesn’t look like much, but I think it’s so neat to look at. It’s a mountain that still has snow (maybe a very small glacier idk) on it but also has a little dune that looks like it belongs in the desert and a refreshing little stream curving around the rock. I took this photo while on a 10 mile (~16km) hike too much elevation gain and the down didn’t feel much better, but on those rare stretches of flat ground I felt like Rock Lee when he took off his ankle weights. Also, 10 mile hike up a mountain, barely any people around, you think we saw any animals? No. No we did not. (Yoho NP, British Colombia, Canada)

I think these birds are called Clark’s Nutcrackers if my quick googling is to be trusted. I thought they were really cute, but also kind of vicious. I saw one dive bomb a woman and steal a good chunk of her wrap/burrito. (Banff NP, Lake Louise, Alberta Canada)

A whole herd of big horn sheep seen while waking around the campground. Some of them looked really menacing. Really big horns and super buff. If one wanted to mess you up, it definitely could. Still really neat to see from a distance! We also checked out the hot spring nearby. Too hot for me, so I spent most of my time in the little cool pool, a refreshing 55F (~13C). (Kootenay NP, British Colombia, Canada)

[ratsoh-writes]

How about what animal they'd be for some of the newer skeles?

Oooo! Alright I’ll keep going down the list

Gears: oh this little diva is definitely a bearded dragon! Bold, sometimes lazy, but can really move when he wants to!

Compass: he’s a ferret for sure! Curious and friendly, but also fierce when threatened. And very active!

Sparks: this wild child can only be a crazy playful sea otter! Slippery, curiously and a bit too bold for its own good!

Salt: he’s for sure a bird of paradise. A pretty boy who loves to show off to the ladies. Lazy in everything except wooing his lovers lol

Lush: he’s greedy, territorial and loves to be surrounded by the things he loves. Lush is a classic hamster. A bit of a hoarder, but only with things actually useful to him

Pepper: he’s a classic peacock. Proud, loud, drop dead gorgeous and he knows it

Cider: he’s a bull! Gentle and hardworking most of the time, but can have a real temper on him when he sees something annoying.

Barley: a lazy and mischievous boy like him fits a coyote well. He prefers to feast on others loot, and sings long into the night. At least he’s kinda cute

Ram: this sleepy sweetheart has a real dangerous bite when pressed. Ram is a lazy bear. Looks cuddly but is much stronger then anticipated

Pitch: he’s a tiger! Solitary and prefers to blend into the background. Pitch can rarely be social, but needs space to do it regularly

Moose: he’s a large boar! A real pack animal, moose has a strong parental instinct, taking close care of his family. He’s resourceful, loves to eat, and aggressive when it matters.

Maple: he’s a jumping spider! He’s incredibly curious, and fearless! He’ll leap right at whatever catches his fancy!

[gameideas-111]

Game idea: Elderich observer

Okay, game idea: A game where you go out with a team or solo, and gather proof of eldritch cultists and their ritual. Try and catch Video, physical, and photographic evidence of their rituals and activities. All while trying to die from the cultists trying to catch you, the eldritch creatures that will kill everything if they get their hands on you, and maybe other supernatural creatures with a cosmic twist. With you managing to get an upgrade or two by grabbing bits of eldrich lore, and being able to carry 1 or 2 spells of eldrich ability that cost you some HP to cast. With your quota being a rental system for protection money to keep the place secure (Basically a landlord with a security detail). The website you upload to (Concept name: Watcher's web) pays you based on the interesting things you post.

With eldritch items and artifacts being sold occasionally at a variety of country fairs, where you can also buy things that may help along your journey. With strange stone guards who make sure you're not violating any rules (Some nice ambiance could be an occasional, a distant sound of gunfire, and the sounds of eldritch beasts in the background, only for the sounds of the stone guardian attacking come from the same direction, then silence comes back). These locations will eventually fall apart, with people packing up as those background noises get louder. loading into their cars and trucks before booking it. The same goes for customers. If you stick around too long (Which some other shop keeps and customers will do), the area is invaded with eldritch monsters and cultists grabbing people and trying to get them back into their own vehicles or portals. You can steal things without consequences if the storekeeper is dead, though, so maybe stick around and get some loot (If you don't mind the moral or physical dangers involved).

The thing you travel in is a big van with a trailer hooked to the back. Which takes you back to your home base when you're done. Your base of operations, where you can buy things at a steep markup and sell for cheaper prices than the market. The organization is known as "Pharo's Property firm". Which is run by Harley Optant (Guess what anagram that is), who communicates with you through your text messages and your computer. Eventually, when you do fail to pay the rent, the Pharo's property firm will cut off your power and plumbing, and sell your location to the cultists. The players are entering a wave-based survival where you and your coworkers need to survive. The last one to survive gets called "Lord of the squatters" and gets an achievement for this.

Some concepts for the cults include The Tech Surfers: A Group that revolves around technology. interfering with your equipment, cursed technology, and lots of weapons that explode into parts when they fall. Their special ritual creates an entity of televisions and slowly pulls the player camera towards them and pulls the player looking at it closer (these would be television like creature), a creature that hurts when you look at it directly and will look for certain players before moving on (These would look like balls of cameras and wires), the Signal head (a humanoid shaped being with wires through it and a sinus tower for a gead. screens with eyes, mouths, and ears scattered across the body. thet interfere with tech and acts as muscle), and the signal barrier (a smaller humanoid being that has a radio antenna fused to both their arms, this creature lets the cultists and summoned creatures communicate with each other like they're a hive mind, and lowers chances of their summoned creatures attacking them).

The Hunting yards: Stronger than normal cultists who let out animals mutated by the world. Focusing on traps, tracking you down, and working alongside wild beasts. With their summonable creatures being the goliath (A massive humanoid covered in hyde and a moose skull for a head, wielding a massive metal club, they like their little cultist friends), The behemoth (An amalgimated creature that has the skulls and fur of many bears, with dear like antlers and skulls further up. Its mouth is a massive collection of skulls and worm-like appendages. They automatically know the location of the player with the most kills; if there isn't one, it goes after one at random. There can only be one behemoth at a time. It is slow when approaching its target), The Yule goat (A goatman who lays strange traps around, and uses spears to finish them off), and the Woodsmen (A ghostly being who interferes with visual evidence, and attacks through it. the woodsmen can be warded off with salts and incense).

The Watchers in the night: Servents who go out and gather eldritch items and videos of the area, mostly by trying to steal yours. They already have a camp set up somewhere and defend it zealously, becoming significantly more aggressive when it's discovered. With their summonable creatures being The Observer (six to seven eyes connected by a string of light that reports where you are to the cultists), the helm (A helmet that flashes with a light that prevents pictures from coming out clearly and stops players from healing), the sparks (vulture-like humanoids that sculk around and snatch eldrich items from the player, and drag away bodies to let more rituals be performed), and the cloaking (Seeming to be a mix between a capped octopus and a circus camp, that let's cultists and creatures who haven't attacked or have been attacked be mostly invisible, whila also keeping them hidden from search equipment. Cameras and pictures can not pick up the image of the Cloackling. Its effects will remain for as long as they're within a certain radius of those creatures. If forced to defend itself, it will let out a shriek and try to fling pieces of rock at the attacker).

The New Blue: A group of cultists who specialize in tracking people who are using technology, creating traps, and boosting monster abilities. They especially like traps that lure other monsters towards their groups. With summonable creatures including The hound of Nyth (A skeletal dog with wire-like tendrils around its bones. It will drag you towards the nearest cultist or summoned creature), Bluebell wisp (A ball of light and a chained up human body that grants creatures strength. Healing and strengthening creatures they find and attach to, this is represented by a faint ray of light. They can not attach to each other. These creatures can be killed with certain abilities), the Center (a skeletal humanoid with four mechanical legs and patrols areas, pacifying creatures against the cultists and increasing monster abilities to find you), and the lightless hunger (A drifting jellyfish creature with loose wires for tendril and skelital hands dangling down between them. They drift towards lights, including the lights on your vans. They can also have random ritual creatures follow it peacefully. Along with being able to cling to dead bodies and puppet them around, letting them control their electrical powers, and command some of the monsters under their command. They may also gather scrap and equipment using their monsters to track it down and bring it to them).

The Viral Allure: A group that specializes in an undead infection, often focusing on killing others, before resurrecting them with the virus. They only really have two summons, the maypole (A massive, tall creature in a veil that spreads a gas that infects creatures around it, and will charge towards fire to put it out), and the human king (A mass of dead bodies of infected that lumbers around and eats everything). The infection can infect any monster or creature, turning that creature into a member of their horde. All of the infected are scared of fire besides the Maypole. It is honestly a more aggressive force (So try not to let the infection near the dead).

Maybe I can expand on this idea. Hope it was at least fun t read.

[gallery4percent]

Tips to Create Stunning Wildlife Artwork for Your Next Animal Art Contest

Wildlife has always been a source of inspiration and a subject of fascination for art, literature, and expressions. Whether it is the wild habitat of a fierce tiger, the majestic roar of an African lion or the silent grace of a gazelle (deer) in the forest, the theme of wildlife continues to impress art lovers and creators alike.

If you are a budding artist or a seasoned animal art expert passionate about the art of animal expression, you can hone your skills better while preparing for an animal art contest with some ace online galleries like Gallery4%, where your imagination rules. Read this blog till the end so that you can enhance the level of your work and come to win the contest with breathtaking wildlife artwork.

1. Find Your Wild Inspiration

First, you must find your wild muse or inspiration for creation! To start with compelling wildlife paintings, you must choose the proper subject. Do you love the raw energy of predators or the subtle elegance of forest dwellers? Are you fascinated with the vibrancy of birds or the earthy mammal tones? If it’s zoo art for reference or you wish to check out natural references, seek inspiration and choose animals that spark emotion and your curiosity.

Pro Tips: A visit to the local zoo or wildlife sanctuary can help you with up-close studies. Or, have high-resolution images from wildlife photographers to study the textures, fur, anatomy, and movement of animals.

2. Select Your Canvas and Medium of Art

You need to focus on the texture, detail, and depth to bring life to the animal you paint. So, choose mediums like acrylic, oil, or watercolor wisely. Acrylics are fast-drying and great for bold colors, oil colors offer rich blending and are best for soft transitions that are just perfect for painting fur and natural landscapes for animal paintings on canvas.

Watercolors are preferred to create soft undertones and atmospheric effects to draw the backgrounds in forest concept art or while painting jungle scenes.

There are mixed media to blend ink outlines with watercolor washes, or textures with acrylics. That will give your animal paintings a unique twist.

3. Study Forest Painting Ideas to Create Better Backgrounds

Wildlife artwork is not all about the animal only, you need to take care of the backgrounds as well. Paint the creatures within a meaningful and immersive landscape like a thick rainforest, savannah regions, icy landscapes of Tundra, or the mystical twilight in the woodlands. So, follow these few forest painting ideas to start with:

You can paint a tiger emerging through dense bamboo forest

Or, paint a moose drinking at a moonlit lake

Even a flock of birds flying high against an autumn sky can be some of the interesting theme backdrops.

This will enhance the appeal of your animal art and the story you’re trying to tell.

4. Sketch and Study Animal Anatomy and Add Styles

Do not rush for the final piece, make different sketches of animals. Animal anatomy and behavior are the crucial things for study, to know how it rests, moves, rests, or interacts with its habitat.

Are you looking for realistic animal paintings, or expressive and abstract compositions? Along with technical skills, judges look for originality in any animal art contest. Your personal style will express everything.

Consider stylizing:

You can use dreamy color palettes to enhance the background

Stylize animal’s form with features like oversized eyes or elongated limbs

Add symbolic elements in your creation like a crown to represent dominance in the wild, etc.

5. Paint Emotion into the Art of Animal

Not only color or sketch, animal art without emotion is incomplete; think about the emotion and mannerisms of the animal and think about the wonder, majesty, fragility, or prowess that they convey.

Eyes are the windows to the souls, also include dynamic poses, or dramatic lighting to heighten the emotional impact, so that viewers can connect with your animal paintings on canvas and you can win big!

6. Know the Rules of Animal Art Contest

While you enrol for an animal art contest, you must know the rules and criteria. Some contests focus on realism, while others deal with innovation and storytelling. So, make sure that your artwork relates to the contest theme, size specifications, and submission guidelines.

Pro Tips: If you can add a compelling artist statement that describes your creative process and concept it can make a huge difference for the wildlife artwork you’re going to submit.

7. Innovate with Forest Concept Art

Add concept art in animal portrayals too like they’re used in fantasy or film — it’s also becoming popular for wildlife paintings as well. Use forest concept art techniques like stylized lights, narratives, and dramatic compositions to your artworks.

Add fluorescent glaze to the trees where a panther rests or a mythical twist to fox in a moonlit grove, etc. These innovative approaches create unforgettable zoo art experiences on canvas that the viewers would really appreciate.

8. Network with Other Animal Art Experts

You can learn from the works of fellow wildlife artists in online forums and social media, or visit exhibitions themed on animals. Browse platforms like Behance or study the work of past winners at Gallery4% animal art contests for ideas and techniques, so that you can upgrade your forest and animal painting ideas on canvas.

Knowing how others approach the art of animal will help you refine your own unique style.

Closing Thoughts

As technology has paced up, creating stunning wildlife artwork is much easier than ever – but it is more than just a technical skill, it’s all about storytelling and emotion, and showcasing the breathtaking beauty of the wild habitats of the animal kingdom. If it’s a lioness in a wild chase or a quiet moment in a jungle scene, it’s the emotion and passion that speaks out loud.

Why wait then? Pick your brushes, set your imagination free, and bring your wildest visions to life for the next animal art contest NOW, themed on living & breathing!

[allthemusic]

Week ending: 6th November

Well, if it isn't a daft bit of holiday fun! I'll confess, I've known and loved this week's song for quite some time. It's not clever, it's not eloquent, it's not particularly groundbreaking. It's just a bit of really solid silliness, perfect to liven up this time of year.

Hoots Mon! - Lord Rockingham's IX (peaked at Number 1)

Lord Rockingham's IX wasn't a band, per se, or at least not in the way we'd imagine now. They were a group who played together, but they were session musicians, and mostly when they played together it was on an ITV pop TV show called Oh Boy! It's credited as the first teenage music show on British TV, and it had a rotating cast of visiting solo rock and roll, skiffle, jazz and pop artists, including Cliff Richard, Marty Wilde, Shirley Bassey and Lonnie Donegan, just to name a few familiar names. And if they didn't come with their own band, they needed a backing band - hence Lord Rockingham's IX.

I've no clue why they were called that, and apparently they briefly attracted some legal trouble from the descendants of the real Lord Rockingham, who was a historical figure who existed, back in the 1700s and was even Prime Minister in 1765. I guess it's a cool name for a band, and they were, by all accounts, quite a cool band, fronted as they were by one Harry Robinson, a Scottish bandleader, but also notable for the inclusion of Cherry Wainer, a notable female Hammond organ player who ended up singing with Cliff Richard a bunch when he was on the show, too.

Anyway, aside from livening up British TV, they also recorded several novelty records, and this is one of them, based on a Scottish folk song called A Hundred Pipers, which dates back to the mid-1800s, but is actually about the events of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 when Scottish forces under Charles Stuart captured the English town of Carlisle. Which is kind of cool, though Hoots Mon doesn't take on any of those lyrics. Instead, it's merely inspired by the folk song's tune, which it does gamely spruce up with all sorts of stereotypically Scottish interjections. We've got an och aye, a hoots mon, a braw, bricht, moonlicht nicht, and of course, a moose loose aboot this hoose. All of which I suspect I should be taking offense to, except a) Harry Robinson was Scottish at least, so he gets a pass and b) it's such good fun that I can't really bring myself to care.

Aside from these lines, it's basically an instrumental, and man, as instrumentals go, it's a catchy one! We've got this brash, repeated sax line, that Hammond organ, a percussionist goes nuts in the background, there are multiple key changes, and then just all this clapping and shouting in the background, holding it all together. It's madcap, in the best possible way - I challenge you to listen and not bop around, just a little bit. Top music for dancing round your kitchen to. I'd put this on at a Christmas party, for sure.

Underrated track. If you do not know, go listen. I promise, you'll go away with it stuck in your head on loop for several days. And it's cool seeing the development of a sort of proto-Top of the Pops, and the way that's beginning to shape UK listening habits. TV's been more and more important, and I feel like the dawn of TV shows dedicated to music in particular can only be a good thing, in terms of moving music along and bringing new sounds into the public consciousness. Also, sometimes it gives you people clapping and screaming hoots mon to an absolutely wild saxophone backing track.

Favourite song of the very Scottish bunch: Hoots Mon!

[anchorageroleplay]

Of all the world's cities, Anchorage uniquely combines the conveniences of the modern world with a rugged, natural environment that has all but vanished from populated regions of the world. It's an urban enclave surrounded by wilderness. You can watch moose in the morning and ballet in the afternoon. You can take a short flight to see some of the most beautiful mountain scenery on earth, then be back for fresh seafood at local restaurant and a warm comfortable bed at a great hotel. The world's second highest tides surge against its shores, North America's highest peak glimmers in the distance, and the city parks and trails are vast enough to forget which century you live in.

BIG WILD LIFE — ANCHORAGE, AK.

anchorageroleplay is a plotless, literate roleplay for writers 21+ and characters no less than 30+. Our mission is to have a safe and diverse space for muses of all backgrounds while creating a welcoming environment in all aspects, along with a heavy focus on character development.

[thedivinemsem]

My mothers family came from Maine - in fact I can trace their ancestry back to the first European settlers in the region. My grandparents met at Bates College in Lewiston, as did my parents....and as it turns out, a distant cousin, George Colby Chase, was president of the university back in the late 1800s.

So it makes sense that I should have a piece of my background on my Christmas tree, and what better emblem of Maine than a moose?

I've actually never seen a moose in the wild - this is the closest I've come.

Honestly, I think my ornament is much cuter than this guy.

[emetheuhtitle]

I think I'll be posting more here, since I deleted my IG (reel brain rot + plus it fueled a pretty unhealthy habit of mine), I was always tempted to document my time on discord rp and about my ocs, beyond just my art accounts. Maybe this is the place for it.

So to start, the community I started with was Standoffs, to my knowledge the biggest jojo Rp server, long before it had 100 members let alone its current 1000. This was the weird pipeline r/fanstands -> discord Fan Stands -> Standoffs.

Standoffs was the weird brain child of Moose, a mod who in a wildly unhinged act faked his own kidnapping, made a halo faction irp and was pretty weird and Juniper Pengold, one of the current admins, she's great. A bunch of people that joined never really tried discord rp (myself included) we just had these high concept charachters we loved, and we just, made shit up and trew them at echader. There was a genuine 'Child playing with toys they don't know the lore to' energy.

I had a few fights, my stands at the time were I think Lonly is the Word, Sign of the southern cross, Sabbath bloody Sabbath and there was one stand named after a constolation. Than. I joined the 'clans rp' just a generic faction based role play. What I joined with, was Angry Again, a stand which made a target hear a spacific ticking noise from a choosen location with no way to avoid it. That's all. I'd write

*The ticking noise continues*

and leave it at that. Annoying. Funny. Neat. The user was this, wildy depressed homeless guy called Vain George, his whole thing was he tought of himself as annoying and useless and thus choose to reduce himself to nothing but a part of the background. He was f i n e. He became a part of a duo with a charachter by HeyZell, at the time Cookie, later Dice, her name had some growing pains.

We both joined kinda late and picked the clan with least members, to be honest we were the only active ones for the time. We tried to do some detective work, but honestly we knew way too little about the Rp to ask the right questions... So here's the world.

Modern Day New Orleans.

Crystal Vipers- Nicknamed Sitcom assasins, 'the good guys' they are your usual misfit found family criminals. They had Moses the profoundly gentle and wholesome individual. They had a guy with 2 completlely broken stands becuase these were the wild days with no real approval system ran by Thomas, he's... We're going to talk about him :). Icy and J were in it with pretty standard charachters, note those two they're consistently chill and cool with everyone no matter the time period. Jake was in it too! And it was ran by JRD. He's chill I think?

Weird Mafia... Thing? - What you need to know first is it was ran by Moose, the owner who faked his own kidnapping. And this clan was whole hardely stupid. They had just random over powered bullshit and they, and I'm not kidding avoided the events of the Rp by hiding in an elavator.

House of the rising Sun/Men without hats. These. These were the cool villians, they were silly and insane and there was so much to it. The main villian who was a priest who's village got hit by a meteor and felt spited by god spacificly and went on a crusade using a gambling house and a stupid over powered 3 act stand Bible Black -> Tear of a Godess -> Lateralus. Alot of them were genuinly cool. Except every Scrungo charachter. Scrungo we'll talk about extensively, soon, even.

Bizzare Agency. They were ran by Riux, he's chill, they just never had the members to pop off, until me and Hazel (HeyZell) popped in. It had, 3 time stoping vampires, a way to share stands and some other bullshit we didn't bother with. Also a way to auto upgrade stands I think? Honestly by the end which is the point where we joined everyone had some over powered bullshit as a way to upgrade everyone.

So alot was happening when we joined, alot of moving parts. Next blog I'll go into everything that was happening. It was, alot. I'll sleep now, re read the channel archive and tell you all the stories and legends of old.

[random-meme-bot]

Small notes on some the notes, most of them are jokes though:

Charlotte:

I love that some of your notes are just noises Charlotte makes.

Charlotte disliking moose is just evidence that Making Fiends and Invader Zim take place in the same universe.

Vendetta

Wait she's Bulgarian? I always assumed she was French, because you know, she's called Vendetta...

"Nick show Vendetta is more visibly nervous and confused occasionally" It's because she has stage fright over being on TV.

Grudge

Marvin

I'm so glad you added the "...and that's how this banana saved my life" bit, truly the most important character development in the whole show.

Fiends

"Fleas. With knives" The can have some knives, as a treat.

"Fiends can be killed via being stabbed" In their defense you would probably die too if you were stabbed

World building

"Aliens canonically exist" I'll be real, I was not expecting the invader zim joke to come full circle.

Misc.

"They are often confused together" My and my mutuals.

"Sometimes they just sit in class and do nothing" Mood.

The ABC poster bit took me on a wild ride, I never actually paid attention to the background posters in the classroom.

Unrelated but your anecdote about the English practice gave me a flashback to the hunchback of Notre Dame

The random background kids are obviously Marvin's siblings, they are even named the same "unnamed".

The insanity that you're about to witness are the notes that I took during my Making Fiends rewatch... and with rewatch I mean that I overanalyzed every frame and every line in this piece of media. I wrote down any info that I thought was even remotely or relevant interesting, because I need all of it to be able to write my made up S3 and 4 versions of the show.

All of this info is a mix and match of all of the Making Fiends stuff that is available to us, aka:

The webisodes + the alternative versions of them + the character commentary ones. The Nickelodeon show, the Making Fiends website and the Making Fiends fan wiki.

Why am I showing you this? Because some of these are funny to me and about 70% of this info sounds like I'm just making shit up... to be fair, take some of these with a grain of salt, cuz sometimes I made assumptions about things rather than writing down the obvious.

Anyways, let's get into it, I put it into a Google Doc to make it easier.