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Pesto the giant baby penguin plis my bestie🙏🙏 i'll love u forever

Pestzilla, King of the Penguins

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Lissajous curve table

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shatterpoint doing their thing

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I swear to god one of these days were going to see a video of Amaury Guichon and he's going to be making some wings and they are going to look dope as hell, the detail of each feather will be breathtaking, he'll spray paint them to perfection, but as the video goes on, he's not building any sort of winged creature, just the wings. And then there's a human-sized harness (also made of chocolate, somehow, he can do it). And he's attaching the wings to the harness. And he's putting the harness on and he demonstrates how he can flap the wings. And then he'll be off. Out the window and up and up and up. And we'll be looking at the livestream (it's a livestream now) and we'll scream "No, Amaury, the sun! It's going to melt the wings!". But he knows this already. And he is free.

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So there are several species of frogs that have evolved to be so small that their vestibular balance system doesn't work well and I'm sorry but it's the funniest thing to watch them try to jump.

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when i see an abandoned bike locked to a rack with its wheels stolen my immediate mental image is always a shackled skeleton in a dungeon

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are any of your relatives criminals to your knowledge?

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The Hat Man Cometh....

Whew! A while ago I resolved to do a main OC costume bingo (ive already done it in doll form 🤨) and after Pupet and Sulu, it was finally Rem's turn.

About this costume, the primary fabrics are velvet, satin, and dupioni from fabric wholesale direct. The eyes are either repainted googly eyes or glass cabochons. also dont hate me but i did edit my eyes bc you couldnt pay me to mess around with full sclera contacts.

About the OC, Rem belongs to a story about a dreaming kingdom and nightmare realm, where the dream kingdom is trying to lull people into permanent sleep. Rem works to counteract that force as the last nightmare acolyte, serving the nightmare lord Raken. he is in a very real sense: The Hat Man. Giving people nightmares is a messy job, and Rem is even messier mentally, but I enjoy writing him because of it. He also only dresses like this 15% of the time in cerimonial nightmare garb, he usually rocks a literal T-shirt and jeans.

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The velvet worm has a beam attack. This is because it is God’s favourite beast.

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okay, the Jedi are the mysterious magic monks of the galaxy, but I need to know more about Jedi representation in pop culture and society in the gffa, please tell me all about:

the thousands of space rom-coms that use the ‘secret and torrid love affair with a Jedi’ cliché

actors who talk about how they ‘learned everything about the Jedi and even read their Code so they’re almost a Jedi themselves’

the numbers of articles from trashy holomags about the ‘10 things we should adopt from the Jedi way this summer’

conspiracy theories on the holonet about the Jedi Order controlling the Chancellor thanks to their magic abilities or how grand master Yoda is actually just a puppet

rich and bored upper-class coruscanti citizens who are ready to pay a fortune to get a Jedi doing a few tricks at their fancy soirées

how many times Windu had to stop Vos from going to said soirées

how many kids dress up as Jedi for the space version of Halloween in the core worlds

how entire systems don’t believe in the Jedi and think they’re just characters in children’s stories because they haven’t seen one in centuries

and the very important question every Jedi has been asked at least once, which is of course if they’re allowed to have sex 

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Weird Egg?

Okay so in theory, Obi-Wan was plausibly on Mandalore when Anakin was born, right?

(this is technically a variation on a few other fics and AUs I've seen, and I'll list the stuff that came to mind at the end.)

While on Mandalore, Obi-Wan finds An Egg while hiding in a cave with Satine. And he doesn't recognize it, and Satine doesn't recognize it, and even Qui-Gon doesn't recognize it.

Which makes it weird, at the very least, and probably rare. It's the size of his HEAD and even though there's no parent around, the egg is… warm, now? He didn't notice at first, but it's definitely producing at least some of its own heat.

So Obi-Wan brings the egg with him, which is a pain in the ass in terms of maneuvering, but they do seem to have better luck avoiding Death Watch than before, which uh. Given that the egg feels warmer when they're getting lucky, and seems to glow in the Force, they think might not be a coincidence. A lucky rock, except it's alive.

Mission ends. Obi-Wan plans to take the egg back to the temple for study in case they just discovered Something, and as he's saying goodbye to Satine… the egg Hatches.

It is a dragon.

The dragon can project words into Obi-Wan's mind. It's not quite capable of complex thoughts yet, but it's a he (probably), and has a name (Anakin!), and considers the person who's been carrying him and protecting him and keeping him warm for the past six months to be his mom!

Obi-Wan protests at this. Qui-Gon decides to make his life harder with the 'correction' that Obi-Wan would be a dad, not a mom.

So now Obi-Wan has a small dragon which will be growing to the size of a house, that imprinted on him and is following him home and calling him dad and insisting on sleeping in his bed

Idk if you've ever read Septimus Heap, but… the MC of that found a Fancy Rock, put it in his bag, carried it around for a YEAR because he kept forgetting to take it out of his bag, and then it hatched into a dragon. And I kept thinking about that the whole time I wrote this.

In Obi-Wan's defense, he does Have A Plan.

Until the dragon hatches, turns out to be a sapient as a toddler (with promise of growth), and calls him Dad.

And now the plan is gone.

He just wanted to bring a cool egg back to the Temple for study!

And now the Mandalorians are pulling out old books about whatever the fuck this is because these things APPARENTLY went extinct around the same time as the underwater dragon-adjacent thing that is the Mythosaur.

Obi-Wan learns that supposedly the eggs are inert until something with the Force interacts with it in a Purposeful Manner.

Which includes "probing it a little to see if whatever is inside is actually alive."

Anakin's a standard western dragon that can breathe fire because Flyte. Also this post.

Weeeee okay small text for the references I mentioned.

Obviously, first up is the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, specifically Magyk and Flyte.

The fic series I was thinking of initially that kind of jumpstarted the AU process was Boga Service Varactyl AU, but specifically Kenobi Kafé Service Animal Boga AU.

I've been seeing a couple of dragon shapeshifter AUs, including that post I linked earlier from @ahsoka-in-a-hood, @bubblew0lf1's dragon shapeshifter AU, and @squad-724's Dragon Jedi AU has been all over my dash for the past few days.

Stubborn to the Bones by @tideswept, which was part of what had me connecting the various dots of Obi-Wan Finding Animal Anakin on a mission, though our outcomes are admittedly very different lol. (Their fic is shippy, and mine is more decidedly gen/familial with a slight nod to Obitine.)

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my least favourite turn based strategy game is email

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