#IM CATCHING UP

[thenerdyalchemist]

Vi Arcane if your free my number is

[jessicapendragon]

at the heart of it all

Davrinweek2025 Day One: Nature/Nurture

"Why do you honor it? It's a monster," he says, the words whistling through missing teeth.

Eldrin finishes his prayer over the fallen foe finally felled after weeks of lost halla and hounded steps. The fur is matted beneath fingers, the bones poking through skin. A fighter til the last breath.

"A starving wolf is a dangerous beast, but no monster."

Davrin remembers the panicked bleating, the blood. His boils. "It killed our halla. It deserved it."

"You think so?"

He looks away from the unseeing, pale eyes. It's not anger that's hot under his skin now. It's something else that tickles tears in the corners of his eyes. "Why couldn't it just..."

"I've heard of a few clans befriending wolves, as much as such a creature can be, I suppose," Eldrin says as he collects his staff and stands. "Takes time. Trust. Nature can be nurtured, sometimes. Like growing a vine around a pole."

"We could have saved it?"

"It was likely too far gone. Others, however -being a good shepherd is knowing when to steer the flock away from danger, not run after it."

"But how do you know?"

"Can't know for sure. That's the burden of making the choice. Just remember that the wolf doesn't have a choice in this. Sway it to your fire, but it can't live on carrots. You can't change what things are at their very heart."

There's a pause, a quiet moment of contemplation as a young mind tries to build the world around him piece by piece, not knowing exactly where it all fits just yet, or him in it. And it's with the endearing confidence only youth can manage does he make his next declaration.

"If I can't change it then I'll...I'll make sure every wolf knows who I am. They'll be so scared they won't ever come close and we'll never have to worry about them again!"

Eldrin sighs with a smile that's more fond than anything. "Oh? The Great Wolf Scourge, with his trusty sling?"

"No I need a sword. All the great heroes have them. I could ask Tre-"

A hand waves the idea away. "It's always swords with you. Come now, there's work to be done."

There's a seed starting then. In the end it's more than a sword at the heart of it, but there's a lot of dirt and growing to get through first before Davrin understands that.

[wildstreak]

guys wake up new iconic trio just dropped

[viofiolet]

Altare as Sunday cause I got hsr brainrot

[yourlonelydream]

[red-hibiscus]

Seems Mariah haunts other countries too

[somer-writes]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sky & Twilight & Warriors (Linked Universe), Twilight & Wild (Linked Universe), Dusk & Twilight (Linked Universe) Characters: Dusk (Linked Universe), Sky (Linked Universe), Warriors (Linked Universe), Twilight (Linked Universe) Additional Tags: Linked Universe (Legend of Zelda), June of Doom 2024, Guilt, failure - Freeform, Blood and Injury, Blood and Gore, Possession, Trauma, Comfort/Angst, Twilight (Linked Universe)-centric, Twilight (Linked Universe) Needs a Hug, Twilight (Linked Universe) Gets A Hug, Twilight (Linked Universe) Has Issues, Good Older Sibling Warriors (Linked Universe), Good Sibling Sky (Linked Universe), Mentioned Wild (Linked Universe), Hurt Wild (Linked Universe), Twilight (Linked Universe) Angst Series: Part 25 of Writer's Execution Block || June of Doom 2024 Summary:

Twilight brings Wild back to his senses, but the rancher has sickening deja vu.

[ccieatchildren]

Whumpay 24 Day 3: Made Into A Lab Rat

Day three. 

It had been three days since Whumper had started his experiments. In hindsight, it was not a lot. Just the start of a grueling few months. But that did not make it any less agonizing.

If anything more so.

Whumpee let out a scream as yet another convulsion rocked through them. Their nerves alighted, constricting painfully, twisting their body into uncontrollable angles. Bones bending and ligaments popping. Whumper sat across from them, cross-legged, expression unreadable behind his red glasses. As the wave passed, and they came down from the shock, he scribbled something onto the notebook in his lap.

Heavy breaths filled the room, only accompanied by the scratch of his pen. They closed their eyes and tried to calm their racing heart. The thud of his boots brought them back from their respite. 

“Go on, try to melt them.” He referred to the chains around their wrists, but they would not do as he asked. 

They spit in his face, watching with satisfaction at his disgusted look. “Rupūžė…” He wiped it away angrily. “Fine.” He said, annoyed. “I can do it manually.” 

He grabbed their right hand, palm up, while shoving the chain further down their arm. The ever present scalpel flipped out from his jacket, and he unclasped a pin from one of the three side appendages.

They tried to pull out of his grasp, but his hold was too tight. They then tried bringing their joined hands to their mouth, but he tugged them hard off kilter.

“Ah, ah, ah. You’re not biting me again.”

Still holding their hand in a tight grip, he brought the pin to the tendon in their wrist, poking a precise point on the muscle. Reflexively her hand twitched and sparks flew from her palm. 

“Hey-”

“You shouldn’t be able to do that.” He dropped their hand carelessly, turning back to consult his notebook. “Well… Gal, jeigu keisiu…”

All they could do is sit there in the chains while he made a new batch of the red liquid. He carefully measured the various chemicals, writing in his notes again at each addition and mumbling to himself throughout. 

Half an hour later— it could be longer, their track of time was getting worse with the way the drug muddled with their mind— he approached them with a syringe once again. The notebook was out, the only words they could read were ‘Trial 19’. 

The needle pressed into their vein and Whumpee prepared themselves for the next round.

[nightingaleinberkleysquare]

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Common name: Anglerfish (I'm mainly talking about general deep sea angler fish in this post)

Scientific name: Lophiiformes

Habitat: mesopelagic (twilight zone) and bathypelagic (the midnight zone) zones

Diet: crustaceans, small fish - they are carnivorous

Feeding habits: ambush predators

Classification: Ray-finned fish

Genus: Lophius

Conservation status: most species are considered least concern; only one species (the spotted handfish) is critically endangered.

Extra info: there are over 200 species of anglerfish.

What you think of when you typically think of an anglerfish are the females. They experience sexual dimorphism, the females being large and having a rod-like extension on their foreheads, unlike the males who are much smaller and don't have the rods on their heads.

They can swallow prey up to twice their size.

Male anglerfish latch onto the female and are eventually fused to the female, and lose their eyes, and all of their internal organs except their testes. The females tend to have five or more males fused to their bodies.

(I couldn't find many photos sorry)

As this is bioluminescence Monday, I obviously have to mention the bulbs the females have attached to their heads. The light from the bulbs is caused by small glowing bacteria called photobacterium.

[thebraxiatelcollection]

Spy x Family is becoming a comfort show to me. I love it and i love the little slices of life moments in this world <3

[thesmellofdustafterrain42]

Ruby Sunday looking out at the setting sun over London from the top of unit tower, in her wide leg pantsuit with her little eyebrow slit, after nearly letting her ex boyfriend get eaten by a monster because he lied to her, to save the country from a disinformation campaign: .....I think I'm gay

[strawbyarts]

kh oc week day 6 - one choice, new life

💫🎶✨ @khoc-week

[ with her newfound confidence, harper made the decision to upgrade her keyblade. it may sound small, but it was a big step in her journey to feeling secure in her abilities, no longer feeling weighed down by the former version, star lyre. ]

[lemonlinelights]

Oh my gosh yall were right LET HIM REST

[always-undermining]

what do YOU know about real love nene smh you wont even let oat flirt with you!!!!

[kamisadopteddaughter]

It's a good thing Dominik moved to Vegas cuz you know he went straight home after the Hall of Fame.

[gifti3]

floyd serving octopus,,,,is that allowed????