#Sali

[tinylongwing]

Back to the Marianas next week! Here are two field sketchbook pages I didn't manage to post yet, of fanihi (Mariana fruit bat) and sali (Micronesian Starling).

Fanihi were kind of everywhere on Rota, and I saw more of them in five days there than I have in all my time working on Saipan over the years. It's good to know that their population is healthy there, though the locals said that they were seeing them more than usual also because of a behavioral change. Typhoons in 2023 had stripped the trees of flowers and fruit and delayed the new fruiting season, so part of the reason fanihi were so visible was that they were spending a lot more time than before having to find food.

Pretty important when doing any kind of science to keep behavior and detectability in mind - seeing more bats doesn't always mean there are more bats, just that they may be more visible than normal for other reasons.

[haru-thunderstorm]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[moscasines]

Migi singing about Sali. (With help from his dearest assistant Akiyama)

[cpylashistoriasfantasticas]

Salí la muñeca de trapo 🧸

[thehitchikerdude]

In a tribute to the absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking Eberron campaign of 101 sessions (run for well over 2 years by the brilliant @nickandros!!!) which ended this Sunday, here are my wee dudes from it.

Pipes on the left by @6000-piezas and Sali on the right by @nuclearloop, who I thank so much for your fantastic takes on them.

They both had an odd first encounter with the whole party, with Pipes crawling out in front of them from a locked cabinet in a bar that had been raided the night before, while Sali cracked out of an icicle he had been frozen in decades prior.

Pipes was an initially cowardly little Warforged bard with a loud heart and much louder set of bagpipes right next to said heart. He made friends with these strangers, going with them on boats, trekking through snow, and fighting dragons and birds alike. Pipes helped his friends, now known as the Heroes of the North, get back to their present at the cost of his own life.

Sali, on the other hand, was a tiefling warlock, a former professor of astronomy and exiled conscientious objector who had tried messing around with time and paid for it immensely. When the Heroes corrected his and his comrades' mistakes, he was pulled along in the chronomantic wake alongside his Overlord patron. He found the present to be full of new friends, a new patron, and Tusk, the love of his new life. After yet another exile, the group called themselves Sharn's Least Wanted.

But by the end of the campaign Sali and Tusk had died fighting the main villain (and new husband of one of their friends), with only Sali choosing to come back to life when given the chance. After he and a few of the now-scattered group cremated Tusk and spread their ashes, Sali left the Material Plane and set himself up in a library full of all the universe's knowledge. It's a starkly lonely place, with just words on pages, the occasional dream, and memories to remind Sali of his friends, who he visits every decade or so when that realm gets close enough to the Material Plane.

Pipes and Sali both loved their friends even after the end and both of them ended up disconnected from their loved ones by time, space, and death. But while Sali lost his partner and lived on, Pipes got to reunite with one of his best friends in the afterlife.

I think that Tusk and Pipes now party hard and play loud in whatever awaits after death, and wait patiently for the rest of Sharn's Least Wanted to join them. But please, please don't be hasty about joining. Their friends should do all the living they need to first.

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Sali Penv, 2023

[sali-]

بدى عظيماً لوهلة أن تمسحي اسمه من التنبؤ التلقائي في لوحة أحرفك، لن يظهر مجدداً عليها، لكني لستُ متأكده من عدم ظهوره في فكرك كلما أغمضت عيناك.

[mirtapersonal]

A daytrip to Sali, Dugi otok. By pure coincidence, on the same day that Ribafish swam to Sali. It was a bit surreal to see him just appear out of the sea, especially when you don’t expect it would happen.

[evrybodysdarlin]

Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Squid Game (TV 2021) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ali Abdul/Cho Sangwoo Characters: Cho Sangwoo, Ali Abdul, Seong Gihun Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Stripper/Exotic Dancer, Strippers & Strip Clubs, Stripping, Strip Tease, Lapdance, Stripper Ali Summary:

Gi-hun surprises Sang-woo with strippers at his birthday party...but the real surprise is Sang-woo getting addicted to the beautiful angel who gives him a lapdance--Ali Abdul.

Chapter 4 is up! This story is now COMPLETE!

Chapter Summary: Sang-woo and Ali are reunited at the club, and they have a lot of things to talk about together...and to do together.

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Olive Kentro Sali, 2022

[sali-]

في كل المرات التي أخبرت فيها الآخرين أنني بخير لم أكن كذلك. كنتُ اتداعىsali

[timjeffersphotography]

Sunset Sail

[evrybodysdarlin]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Squid Game (TV 2021), 사냥의 시간 | Time to Hunt (2020), 야차 | Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ali Abdul/Cho Sangwoo, Ali Abdul/Han Ji Hoon (Yaksha), Ali Abdul/Han (Time to Hunt) Characters: Ali Abdul, Han (Time to Hunt), Cho Sangwoo, Han Ji Hoon (Yaksha) Additional Tags: Polyamory, Group Sex, Blindfolds, Bondage, Foursome - M/M/M/M, Established Relationship Summary:

Ali Abdul has to guess which one of his three boyfriends is touching him, when they all take part in an intriguing blindfolded guessing game.

(A crossover AU consisting of Squid Game/Time to Hunt/Yaksha characters)

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Olive Daha Sali, 2022

[sali-]

الذهول المعتاد أثناء العودة لكتاباتك القديمة التي تجاوزت قصصها حتى نسيتها ونسيت أنك نسيتها.