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Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

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i hate you summer i hate you heat i hate you sweating i hate you burning sun i hate you warm weather i hate you climate change

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Haven't drawn these guys since I was 12...

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Haymitch Abernathy, my poor boy

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dear lord, please take all life problems and responsibilities away from fanfic writers but also make them financially stable and happy with nothing to worry about so they can happily focus on writing and posting fanfiction. amen

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Just saw a post asking how tall people are and now I want to make it a poll. Apologies to people in the fringe height categories, you do not get specifics.

I had to consult a chart for this

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sorry i can’t go out tonight i’m at home sitting down

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Do you have a full master post of like your cowgirls lore, how they met, their backgrounds and situations they got in ect. I absolutely am obsessed with them.

Why thank you so so much

I’ve talked so much about them on here, but it’s scattered, and quite a lot of it has evolved lore wise

So let’s make this that master post:

Basic lore for this universe:

Set in a non specific time of the Wild West (implied to be the tail end of the era)

But with a magical twist. The folklore of things that are not quite human living alongside humanity is real, and they are hunted for their skin. It is a known fact that shapeshifters exist, and they are illegal. Though some peoples “magic blood” don’t always show itself as Shapeshifting, it can also appear as accelerated healing or acute senses. These people are generally referred to as beasts or animals

These transformations are hard on “beasts,” they take up a lot of strength to preform them, and if you’re injured in one form, it can take time before you’re able to switch. If you’re injured enough it can be permanent.

Brunette: Flora Guerra

She was born to an Italian immigrant family with strict parents, as well as the youngest daughter to five other children. When she was 16, her parents arranged a courtship with a much older man. Flora was furious, this rage culminated in her first transformation, unfortunately this happened in front of the man as well as the rest of her family. They immediately turned their backs on her, disgusted with what she was. Terrified, she fled. She hopped on trains and resorted to petty theft to make her way west, to a land she hoped would be freer than the life she left behind!

Her first big brush with the law was when she stole her horse Bandit from a man who was treating him poorly. She fled the scene but only after shooting one officer. (Thus her first ever bounty was for murder)

Her main way of making money was seducing men and robbing them blind while they were distracted by her beauty, unfortunately she picked up the wrong trick one day, a notorious gang leader, who instead of shooting her outright, brought a then 17 year old Flora back to his gang. She became “his girl” and used her looks to help him get what he wanted.

In the gang, however, there was one man (Henry) who was like her! He could turn into a wolf, like how she could turn into a jackalope, they formed a bond, and when the gang fell apart, he was the one to get her out safely.

Ginger: Mattie (Matilda) Hayes

Mattie is the eldest daughter of her odd family. Her father and mother immigrated from Ireland. When mattie was a child, her and her brother (ben) witnessed the brutal murder of their mother while she was in beast form, protecting them. Because of this, Mattie became the sole caretaker of him, very much raising him herself. The entire family were beasts of some sort.

Mattie could turn into a fox from a young age. Ben also started to transform around the same time. (Though he was a cougar)

Their father, was also odd, in more ways than just beastly. He was a sour old man with a mean streak, drink had a mighty hold on him. After an incident that broke the camels back, involving hateful words and a smashed beer bottle, Mattie had enough. In a fit of rage she set fire to her father’s barn, in the aftermath She packed her bags and set to leave. She tried to get Ben to come, but he refused and told her to never come back. So she listened.

At 18, her and her horse June travelled the desert, finding odd jobs, pulling off some robberies, and failing at pickpocketing, this left her with quite a price on her head.

After a couple years of travelling by herself, the way she preferred, she ran into Flora for the first time.

First meeting:

They met as their animals first, Mattie was trying to hunt Flora but got startled by her antlers

Later on, she was trying to rob a man on the side of the road. Only for Flora to swoop in at the last moment and get the trick instead. (By “saving” the man, but picking his wallet a moment later)

That night, Mattie was nursing her hurt ego by drinking her weight at a saloon, but alas she couldn’t even enjoy her whiskey in peace, when the woman who stole her prize sat down at the bar with her.

Pissed off Mattie tried to storm away but bumped into an angry drunk, this turned into a full on bar fight. Which Flora dragged her away from and offered to patch up her wounds

They stuck together after that. But didn’t become lovers till much later

Flora fell first, but Mattie fell harder.

JESUS this is long I’m sorry

Anyways main plot:

Word gets to Mattie that her father is dead, and her younger brother has resorted to a life crime. He is being set to hang once he’s caught. She sets out to find him.

Flora’s old gang now turned leaders of the beast hunters, has picked up on her location, and they are hunting her down. Scared for her and Mattie’s safety, she works with Henry to figure out how to keep them off their trail.

With the help from Henry and Henry's partner in beastly rights, a young woman named Hazel, (also a shapeshifter. A coyote) they are able to evade the hunters and help save lives. One life in particular is a young boy named Teddy. They find him in a hunter camp and take him in as one of their own!

Everything seems to be going okay, Mattie finds Ben, and together her and Flora help him get away from the noose. They look after him and bring him to their camp. He begins to make seemingly genuine relationships with the rest of their group, specifically Hazel. They thought they were in the clear and were making plans on how to take down the beast hunters for good.

Ben throws in that he knows where their main hideout is, in an old abandoned mine in the heart of a canyon. He says he could lead them there.

Flora and Mattie get into a fight right before they are set to meet up with Ben, Flora accusing Ben of being suspicious. They throw nasty words at each other before Mattie takes off to meet with her brother.

What they didn’t know was that Ben still held a grudge for Mattie leaving. He blames her for their father’s ultimate death.

He agreed to a deal with the hunters, his freedom for their pelts. Specifically, Flora's, as she is a jackalope, and that makes her skin rare. The leader of the hunters has had a grudge on Flora and Henry since their falling out and is set on getting her revenge.

This is where Ben had planned to have them all cornered for the hunters to take down. Quick on his feet, he pretends he is unaware of the ambush and leads Mattie away from the fight.

On Flora's side, she is interrupted from her moping over her fight with Mattie when Teddy runs in saying Hazel is missing. Her, Henry, and Teddy, race back to Ben's campsite, knowing that she had been there recently. What they weren't expecting to find is her corpse. A lone coyote left to rot with only one culprit to who could've done this. Ben.

They race to where they were supposed to meet with Ben and find it crawling with hunters. A huge battle ensues. Flora and Henry take off down the canyon, searching for the red head. Desperate to find her before it's too late.

Flora gets injured during the fight in her human form. Her leg was crushed by her horse when he was shot from underneath her by none other than the leader of the hunters herself. Unable to run Henry meets his old partner head on and sacrifices himself so Flora can get away.

When she finally catches up to the siblings, they are already in a confrontation, but Ben sees her and nearly kills her while in his cougar form.

The siblings go head to head as their beasts, and against all odds, the fox beats the lion, (with a little help from Flora and her rifle) killing the last remaining member of her family. (In the end, Ben was in too deep. There was no way he was getting out of this alive, so he let her kill him)

Flora, incredibly injured, cannot transform, and for reasons unknown to Mattie, she can not switch back. Teddy eventually finds them before the hunters can, and they run away into the night, all bruised in battered.

Years pass, Flora has a limp that doesn’t go away. She is never able to be her animal again. And Mattie, well, she didn’t get too injured that day, though it seems like something broke inside because she lost her human form.

They all move north together and live a peaceful life, even though it’s not quite normal. What with Mattie being a fox and all that.

A decade or so after everything, they’ve been out of the life for a long time, is when Mattie finally finds herself again. Though she’s very different from what she used to be, her human form had changed, more fox like and more wild, though still her. She can only take that form for bits at a time, but it’s something.

(Though there is a little extra drama, a revenge plot on the leader of the hunters. Flora, Mattie, and Teddy find her with the original plan to kill her, but Flora changes her mind, instead shooting her in the same leg that she was injured, making sure this woman could never hunt again) ((Teddy continues on the work that Henry and Hazel had dedicated their lives to, protecting beasts))

They’re happy

If you read all of this… damn thank you!!

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it’s like this.

if you only have one person in your life that you trust, you probably are always going to turn to that person when something shit happens. as well as whenever something good happens. or anything else. this is not inherently a bad thing, and it’s really beautiful to have someone in your life that you trust so much

but if that person is suddenly busy or going through something difficult themselves or doesn’t have emotional capacity for a while, suddenly there’s a problem. not necessarily through any fault of your own, you don’t have anyone to turn to with as much regularity as you did before

this is true of any kind of relationship. this is true of any kind of coping mechanism, also. the problem is not that you trust that person. the problem is not that you use that coping mechanism. the problem is not even that there’s something wrong with you and that it’s all your fault. the problem is that nothing can be everything

the solution is not to cut off your one trusted person or to cut yourself off from your one trusted coping mechanism. the solution is to do the difficult work of diversifying your life as much as it’s possible for you to do. which is why it sucks so much when external factors prevent you from being able to live a truly diverse life. okay that’s all have a good one

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$20 used to mean something

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what will it be, boss? the comfort of misery or the pain of change?

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btw if u were a stuffed animal i would gently brush ur fur out of ur eyes so that u can see :)

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for a while now i’ve been learning that some people kind of choose to hate themselves like you can give them tools and resources and advice and they’ll even follow some of it and go “i still hate myself” and i feel strongly at that point they’re kind of choosing to stay in that mindset because it’s comfortable and familiar or something but some people are truly [gotye voice] addicted to a certain kind of sadness and hooked on feeling low

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Flocking sketches from last week! I just wanted to draw clouds. Gonna do a personal theme next time too, but the theme inself is a secret for now 👀 I worked a little on them after the stream, so some of them are 30min instead of 20. Here are: Zhejiangopterus, Bolg amondol, Diplobune and Iberomesornis. More info in ID as always!

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what's the mood

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Happy 10th birthday to the best tweet of all time.