#Shinga

[thepastisalreadywritten]

(CNN) — Fresh warthog carcass in tow, a poacher speeds away from Zimbabwe’s Imire Rhino and Wildlife Conservancy.

Blood spatters, footprints and tire marks are the only traces of the crime he has just committed, but a trace is all it takes for the hunter to become the hunted.

His arrest comes a short while later, courtesy of Shinga, a Belgian Malinois that perfectly retraced the poacher’s 2.8-mile (4.5-kilometer) route home, leading an anti-poaching team to his door.

Last October’s pursuit ultimately began much further afield, in the sleepy Welsh town of Carmarthen, where Shinga was born and raised.

It’s home to the kennels of Dogs4Wildlife, a non-profit organization that trains dogs to support anti-poaching units (APUs) in their efforts to protect endangered wildlife across southern Africa.

It’s run by professional dog trainers Darren Priddle and Jacqui Law, who decided to blend their career experiences of developing working dogs for police, security, and military operations with their love of wildlife, after seeing photos of a poached African rhino on social media in 2015.

“It was quite a horrific image. We sat down and we said, ‘Okay, that’s really affected us,’” Priddle told CNN.

“We can deploy dogs in the UK to track people … to look for drugs, firearms and explosives, so why could we not look at developing the dogs that we were training for conservation efforts?”

Puppy love

The duo has since sent 15 dogs to five sub-Saharan African countries, including Mozambique and Tanzania, each one bred by them in southwest Wales.

They usually breed one or two litters each year.

Dutch shepherds and Belgian Malinois are two of the most common breeds for tracking, while labradors and spaniels are typically the detection (sniffer) dogs of choice.

Training begins from as early as two days old.

Priddle acknowledges that sounds young, but he believes early imprinting programs can provide a strong foundation for the formal training that commences around six weeks later.

“There’s a lot of scientific study out there that’s been documented on exposing puppies to touch, different temperatures, different surfaces and textures, as well as different odors that we put into the whelping box when they’re very young,” he explained

“It just helps their brain and (helps) their synapses to fire. We see a lot of advancement in those puppies.”

The curriculum closely follows that of the typical police or security dog, focusing on obedience, tracking, and scent detection — a skill used to sniff out rhino horn, elephant ivory and bushmeat.

The only key difference to the training process is acclimating dogs to the sights, sounds and smells of lions, giraffes and the myriad other species they will help protect.

With rhino and elephant numbers severely lacking in the wetlands of Carmarthenshire, trips to local zoos are organized to desensitize the puppies to African wildlife.

Typically, after 16 to 18 months, dogs are ready for assignment.

Even though Priddle accompanies each one on the long flight to their new home, spending the first month with the anti-poaching unit to provide field and animal welfare training to rangers, goodbyes never get easier.

“The transition from spending every waking moment with that dog, having a very strong relationship, to then letting that go is challenging and difficult,” Law said.

“But as much as it breaks my heart when they go, I know they’re going for the greater good.”

Biting back

Easing the pain are WhatsApp group chats set up for Priddle and Law to keep in touch with and advise APUs across the various reserves and conservancies.

They are particularly active forums, especially given that the organization also provides training and consultancy to teams with existing dog units, such as the Akashinga Rangers, Africa’s first armed all-female anti-poaching squad, who watch over Zimbabwe’s vast Phundundu Wildlife Area.

Naturally, updates of success are a source of immense personal pride for the pair back in Wales.

Shinga’s tracking triumph in October followed the achievements of fellow Belgian Malinois Dan, which alerted his team to a rhino calf that had been caught in a snare trap in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa in 2013

Such victories demonstrate the “game-changing” value such dogs can have when incorporated into conservation efforts, argue the duo, even through their mere presence.

“When these reserves bring a specialist dog onto a wildlife reserve … the word spreads very quickly that the APUs now have the capability to actually catch these poachers on a more efficient and successful basis,” Priddle said.

“Some of the smaller wildlife reserves almost eradicate poaching in all types completely, just because of the deterrent value that dog brings to the party.”

As park manager and head of anti-poaching operations at Zimbabwe’s 10,000-acre Imire conservancy, Reilly Travers has had a front row seat for the last seven years to the impact of Shinga and also Murwi, a Dutch shepherd whose training was paid for by the fundraising efforts of pupils of the local Harare International school.

Capable of covering as much as 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) an hour when tracking, even in darkness, dogs allow rangers to “own the night,” Travers explained, adding an invaluable level of versatility and unpredictability to their arsenal.

And on numerous occasions, Shinga and Murwi have alerted units to potentially mortal threats – be it from poachers or predators – through body language alone.

“They’ve saved our guys on the ground on several occasions and they’ve been responsible for apprehending quite a few poachers,” Travers told CNN.

“It’s had a massive impact on security for Imire. We’ve had a drastic reduction in poaching and the K9 unit has a massive role to play in that … It’s not the silver bullet but it’s a tool that will make a significant difference.”

‘We learn in nature’

Zimbabwe once boasted thousands of rhinos, yet numbers nosedived to less than 450 by 1992 because of poaching networks, according to conservation charity Save the Rhino.

The efforts of Imire, which saw the birth of its 23rd rhino in 2023, helped the country’s rhino population climb back over the 1,000-mark in 2022.

But statistics continue to make for grim reading across the wider continent.

Though the numbers of African rhinos poached annually has dropped steadily since a peak of over 1,300 in 2015, almost 600 kills were still recorded last year, according to Save the Rhino.

It contributed to an overall decline in the total African black rhino population in 2023, though white rhino numbers are on the rise.

And the impact of each loss extends far beyond statistics, Priddle and Law explain, especially at the smaller reserves that Dogs4Wildlife focuses on, which have markedly less anti-poaching resources than the continent’s most renowned parks.

Recalling the sight of a de-horned 25-year-old bull rhino and eight-year-old male in Limpopo, both killed by a single poacher, Law stressed the knock-on effect on the wider environment.

“The vegetation they clear, the seeds they disperse, all the other animals that are impacted. You think it’s just a rhino that’s gone – it’s the whole ecosystem that suffers,” Law explained.

“The owners of that reserve had a relationship with that bull for 25 years – we grieve when we lose a dog after 10 to 15 years.

For us to experience the impact that losing those two rhinos had on the reserve owner sort of gave us added motivation.

It was just horrific. I never want to see that again.”

As Dogs4Wildlife looks ahead to its long-term goal of one day opening a specialized training and canine school within Africa, mobilizing future generations has become a key part of its overall mission.

Its Conservation club, called Siyafunda Ngemvelo – which translates to “we learn in nature” in IsiZulu – has taken more than 180 South African children into reserves as part of a wildlife education program.

Law said that for local people to want to protect rhinos, they must first see the animals’ value to the environment.

“We have to start at the fundamental basics, which is children taking responsibility for their own wildlife,” she added.

“Once they get the passion for it, they’re going to become future rangers, not future poachers.”

[mov24]

[ladyshinga]

i love my family group chat

[labelleizzy]

@ladyshinga this u?

You're right and you should say it.

[ramen-tokyo]

新雅（Shinga）「ニラそば」

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Shinga Deathwalker: The Tragic Guardian of Bwonsamdi’s Shrine

Deep in the heart of Nazmir, at the decaying Terrace of Sorrows, lingers a spirit bound by duty and heartbreak. Shinga Deathwalker, also known as Shinga Deathserver, is a spectral Zandalari troll who once served as a devoted priestess of the Loa of Death, Bwonsamdi. Alongside her husband, she kept vigil over Bwonsamdi’s shrine, ensuring that the souls of the dead were properly guided to the afterlife.

Their sacred duty came to a devastating end when their only son, Kel’vax, was corrupted by heretics and turned against the very Loa they worshipped. Twisted by dark voodoo, Kel’vax returned as an undead monstrosity, commanding legions of zombies to defile the shrine. In the chaos that followed, Shinga and her husband were slain—only to return as ghosts, still loyal to Bwonsamdi and tormented by the betrayal of their child.

Even in death, Shinga remains resolute. She tasks adventurers with purging the undead, using a blessed torch to release corrupted souls back to Bwonsamdi. To prepare for the final confrontation with Kel’vax, she guides players through ancient Zandalari death rites—lighting ritual torches, retrieving sacred powders, and breaking the phylacteries that anchor Kel’vax’s soul.

In a final, sorrowful revelation, Shinga confesses the truth: Kel’vax was her son. Though her heart breaks, her resolve does not waver. She knows that only by destroying him can peace return to the shrine—and can she and her husband finally find rest in Bwonsamdi’s embrace.

Shinga Deathwalker stands as a tragic figure in Zandalar’s history, embodying the pain of loss and the strength of unwavering faith. Her story reminds all who meet her that in the world of trolls and Loa, the bonds of blood may bend... but the will of the Loa cannot be denied.

[kumoriyami-xiuzhen]

Hakuoki x Sengoku Night Blood Crossover - A Fleeting Vision A Fortuitous Meeting with a Samurai Episode 1

Four more parts remain after this... I'm hoping that I won't get delayed since I'm going to see if I can get my keyboard fixed tomorrow...

Hakuoki x Sengoku Night Blood Crossover - A Fleeting Vision A Fortuitous Meeting with a Samurai Episode 1: In the Mist/Fog

Translation by KumoriYami

——This was all so confusing.

I had been on patrol with the Shinesngumi when they got into a fight with some ronin. As staying would have caused them problems, I had just been about to move away when I had been engulfed in a dazzling light.

I don't know if I had lost consciousness, but when I opened my eyes again, I was lying alone in a strange place.

Yamzaki: Yukimura-kun!

Just as I got up, Yamazaki-san ran towards me…

Shortly after——we went to the place where Okita-san and the others were fighting a group of what were known as "Yakuma."

Amidst the cheers celebrating the end of the fight with the Yakuma, I suppressed my growing unease as I asked a question.

Yukimura: Can you tell me more about Shinga——!?

Okita: Hey, Chizuru-chan. What are you doing over there?

Okita-san smiled as he came into view——but his eyes weren't smiling. I knew thta he was on guard against the unfamiliar woman next to me.

Yukimura: Okita-san.

Okita: Anyway, let's head back to everyone else first.

Heronine: U-Um...

Yukimura: In any case, I'm fine now. Thank you for saving me.

I thanked the woman who had gone out of her way to help me, even though she had been in danger herself. It looked like she wanted to say something, but Okita-san grabbed my hand and pulled me away.

Okita: Do you know what’s going on right now? You seem pretty calm.

Yukimura: I'm also not calm too, um, can you let go of my hand...

Okita: I’m holding onto you so you don't do something unnecessary again. Or are you going to give me an order?

Yukimura: I, I don't plan on doing that...

With a casual scoff in response, Okita-san let go of my hand. His face was however still filled with dissatisfaction.

Okita: Forget it. Hey, you didn't say anything about us, did you?

Yukimura: Of course not. I didn't say a word about the Shinsengumi.

Okita: That's good. Given how unclear the circumstances are right now, I hope you’ll be more careful about what you say and do. You also value your life, right?

Yukimura:...I understand.

Okita-san must have been caring for me in his own way, so I obediently replied to him.

Okita:...Good. In any case, I've warned you, and now we need to figure out how to deal with the ones over there.

Okita-san cast his gaze over.

I turned my head to follow his gaze. Although two groups of people had fought together against those Yakuma just now, and while their blades were sheathed, there was an unstable air flowing around them. The monsters called Yakuma had been defeated, but as long as they drew their swords now, the tips of their blades would easily reach the other.

Because of this tense atmosphere, I felt like my heart had been caught in my throat.

Okita: Yosh, foolishly standing around won't resolve this issue, so let's go everyone.

Yukimura:...Okay.

After I followed Okita-san, as we approached the Shinsengumi, Harada-san noticed me first.

Harada: Chizuru!? Are you alright?

Upon hearing his voice, everyone looked at me and Okita-san.

Toudou: You're alright, that's great!

Yukimura: I'm fine. No one got hurt, right?

Toudou: We're perfectly fine, don't worry.

Harada: Nn. Rather than that, the more important questions are where is this and who they are.

Hearing this basic question from Harada-san, everyone shut their mouths. I was about tell everyone what tht woman had told me, but just as I was about to open my mouth——

Saito: There's still too little information available to make any conclusions. We should meet up with the Vice-Commander first.

Yukimura: U-Um…! I have something I want to tell everyone!

Amakasu Kagemochi: Excuse me, please don't be so hostile, I'm not going to come any closer.

Seeing the other person's seemingly gentle smile, Harada-san and Heisuke-kun stopped in front of him. at the same time, the everyone from the Shinsengumi, as if by prior agreement, put their hands onto the hilts of their swords. In the increasingly murderous atmosphere, his smile only looked chilling…

Harada: Although you look like you have something to say to us, so what is it exactly?

Amakasu Kagemochi: You don't look like people from this area. Where did you come from, and what is your purpose… can you tell me that?

Toudou: How can you tell we’re from somewhere else?

Amakasu Kagemochi:...Your question is already the answer. If you knew that this was Uesugi territory, why would you take such brazen actions?

Kakizaki Kageie: Kagemochi, there is no need to ask questions, why don't you just arrest them.

Amakasu Kagemochi: That would be too reckless. They defeated the Yakuma, that should be at least be considered as protecting the people in our domain. Though it doesn't seem.... like that was intentional.

The man in charge of these negotiations’ lips curled into a smile.

Harada-san and Heisuke-kun slowly stepped back to negotiate.

Harada: Hey, what should we do? It seems like if this continues, we'll get arrested.

Okita: If they want to arrest us, they'll be enemies, right? In that case, then it's fine to cut them down, right?

Yukimura: O-Okita-san...! They can hear all of that.

In the midst of this simmering tension, I couldn't help but raise my voice at Okita-san, who was being too careless.

Okita: What a pain, woulddn't bit be easier to just cut everyone down?

Saito: No, we should retreat for now, and go join up with the Vice-Commander and the others who were separated.

Okita: Even if that person isn't here, wee'll be just fine.

Yamazaki: That would be fine if this was Kyoto… in this unfamiliar place, it would be inadvisable to recklessly start a fight.

Toudou: What! This isn't Kyoto?

Okita: It seems so. Heisuke, you're too slow.

Touddou: Shut up. I noticed that a long time ago!

Harada: But even if you say that you're going to look for Hijikata-san, there's no guarantee that he's nearby, right?

Saito: That’s why we should act more carefully right now.

Okita: Alright, alright, I get it.

Saito: Yamazaki, can you go check around and see if the Vice-Commander and the others are nearby.

Yamazaki: Understood. After findding the Vice-Commndderthen I'll join up with you.

If I were to explain things, that would instead cause everyone confusion. While I listened to everyone talk, listening to everyone's conversation, I also considered that.

Toudou: Chizuru, don't be so disappointed! No matter what happens, I will… we'll protect you!

Yukimura: Y-Yes… Thank you, Heisuke-kun.

Harada: Then, let's run away first... Let's go!

Harada-san took a stance with his spear——he just made a feint, and then we turned around and ran.

Naoe Kanetsugu: Aahh! They ran away!!

Uesugi Kagekatsu:...Father, are we going to chase them?

Uesugi Kenshin: No, it's not necessary. Kagemochi also understood that, so he let them go.

Heroine: Eh...

Amakasu Kagemochi: Did you see everything?

Contrary to Kageie-san. who was upset, Kagemochi-san came back with a bitter smile.

Kakizaki Kageie: What were you thinking! Now those suspicious people will be wanddering all over the territory!?

Amakasu Kagemochi: Although the possibility of them being spies cannot be ruled out, their genuine confusion of who we are was worrying.

Heroine: Does Kagemochi-san feel the same way?

Naoe Kanetsugu: Hey, what does tht mean? Do you know something?

Heroine: Maybe they're from another world like me… I got that feeling when I spoke to the woman.

Uesugi Kagekatsu: The same… as you...?

Despite how there was no conclusive evidence, I spoke of what Yukimura had told me——

Uesugi Kenshin: We met them when trying to find the Himemiko…. I can't think that the both of them aren't related.

Heroine:...Hey, Imari-kun, does Himemiko-sama know about this?

Imari: No, no/they aren't/don't. I don't know anything… perhaps Himemiko-sama is the only one who knows.

Heroine: Is that so...

In the end, only Himemiko-sama knew all of the answers.

Naoe Kanetsugu: However, as long as they might have come from another world, there might be a clue for us to find the Himemiko.

Uesugi Kagekatsu: Ah, so that's wwhy Kagemochi-san let them go...?

Amakasu Kagemochi:...Is that how it is? But I do actually want to leave them alone for now.

Everyone wryly laughed because that was response was very much in Kagemochi-sama's style. However, I didn't think they held any clues that would lead us to Himemiko-sama.

Heroine: (In that case, is she like me, a "woman from another world"? Someone that Imari-kun can rely on...?)

While in the midst of this situation full of unsolved mysteries, Kagekatsu-kun gently pulled my sleeve.

Uesugi Kagekatsu: Hey.... are they all from the same world as you?

Heroine: No, it doesn't seem to be the same as mine.

Uesugi Kagekatsu: I see... but it would be nice if we could find a way back with them… [not sure if this more in the 'you can find a way back home', or 'we can send them home' context)

Heroine: Yes...

Uesugi Kenshin: Kagekatsu, Kanetsugu.

Naoe Kanetsugu: Here.

Uesugi Kagekatsu:……Here.

Uesugi Kenshin: Go after those people and offer them assistance. If they want to talk, bring them back to the town.

Kakizaki Kageie: Kenshin-sama...! Are you going to leave these suspicious people alone?

Uesugi Kenshin: If they truly are messengers of the Himemiko, then we must protect them. That's all I have to say.

After Kagekatsu-kun and the others received Kenshin-san's orders, they immediately set off into action.

---to be continued in part 2 here---

[chuck-snowbug]

Shinga(Sparkling Wine/森臥 Dear 2023) feat. Kame-San & Appetizers(Camembert Cheese, Olive, Prosciutto & Strawberry) - December 2024

[erik-even-wordier]

helping un-brainwash some of the MAGA

Posted by Amanda Shinga Bussell to Facebook on March 4, 2025.

I'm seeing some Reactions to the idea of helping un-brainwash some of the MAGA and let me just say this:

No one asked you to do shit.

I mean YOU specifically. It's a call to action but it isn't about YOU. Stop making it about you. YOU can go do something else and shut up about how "useless" you think this is.

Let me see if I can phrase this ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY to get it through heads about how this has to fuckin' work:

Cults don't let go easily. They also don't exactly ADVERTISE as a cult. What average MAGA voters were drawn in by is a complicated question with more answers than you might think, but the point is that there are LAYERS to this. Whatever drew them in ends up not mattering as much as what KEEPS them trapped - they don't feel trapped in MAGA because they thought eggs would get cheaper, that's how they got drawn in. They're trapped by a violent cult who lets its members know they won't be safe if they try to disobey or even speak up against its precious leader.

We aren't asking you to PERSONALLY go find the worst and loudest MAGA chuds and baby them and coddle their feelings and forgive everything they say and do. That's ridiculous. This ain't about those ones, it never was. They're unreachable and trying to extend a "helping hand" to trolls isn't going to work for obvious reasons.

THINK. USE YOUR BRAIN.

DO you actually think redemption, growth, and personal accountability CAN work? Or do you agree with the normal American puritan protestant punishment view of the world, where no one can ever change for the better and we have to hurt people because pain is the only true lesson?

The FURTHEST gone will have to hit a level of rock bottom we can't have anything to do with. Those aren't part of this equation, the loud trolls ARE NOT the ones being discussed and yet y'all tend to bring THEM up as a reason you think deprogramming can't work.

But believe it or not, some guy screaming on Twitter 22 hours a day about nazi shit IS NOT THE AVERAGE EXPERIENCE of voters! AND IMPORTANTLY that's not who ANYONE wants you to "reach out" to. There's no reaching some one who's at the top of their culting game - they're euphoric right now, they feel on top of this fucked up world, they're not who we mean. They love where they are, you can't drag some one away from a good feeling like that.

What we mean is the ones who ALREADY WANT TO GET AWAY. Who are voicing doubts! Who are scared and losing shit and grasping for answers.

Do you hear me? Can you internalize that part please?

Some Trump voters changed after his first win. Some changed after Jan 6th. Some changed now. They're scared to be loud about it, and I get how frustrating that is (god knows I want 948449 thinkpieces everywhere about leaving MAGA), but you cannot let your anger at Twitter Nazi #9859 impact how you treat your neighbor who's a school teacher on food stamps and has three kids she needs to take care of so she has MAYBE half an hour of free time a day and that half hour wasn't enough for her to TRULY research what was happening last year, might've never fuckin heard the words "Project 2025" etc. No one told her, no one informed her, she didn't know how or where to even look, and her financial situation stresses her out so much she wasn't able to free the mental energy to even TRY (funny how that's the kind of stressful life Republicans seem to want us ALL to have)

We're internet-biased here, and assume everyone HAS to be the exact same level of Informed and Aware that we are. Because the headlines are EVERYWHERE right? People are talking about it EVERYWHERE, there's trending hashtags after all! But there are millions of people who avoid the internet. Like I'm sorry but that's reality and once you admit you're ignoring a MASSIVE section of the ENTIRE population of the world because they aren't using the same tool you are? Doesn't feel very "aware" to me. It feels like bias that makes this worldview easier and we are desperate for easy. But this isn't easy.

We do not have the same lived experiences. People get sucked into cults, they get scammed, they get lied to. It's "American values" to mock anyone who gets scammed, right? To laugh at them, make fun of them, tell them they deserved it? It's why scam victims end up quietly suffering and scammers keep on going because no one listens to the warnings from a victim. Not like I'm free from this urge, god knows everyone who gets ripped off by a clear meme coin crypto nonsense makes me want to laugh but also tear my hair out and scream "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING" but like. in truth, if i had to admit it fully, can i say that helps.... anything? at all?

Yes, this is complicated because a lot of them are blind to their own biases and bigotry. If you're in a vulnerable minority, these "reach out to the ones who are trying to get out" messages are EXTRA not for you. No one should be pressuring black progressives to "reach out" to white MAGA. No one should be begging trans people to be nice to people who want to hurt them for existing in public. SAFETY MATTERS.

It's for those who CAN. Who have the ABILITY and, god this part matters, THE DESIRE.

There's cult-deprogramming groups for a reason, and as much as I ALSO FEEL PERSONAL AND WIDE-REACHING POLITICAL ANGER TOWARDS THESE VOTERS... I AM ALSO NOT SO SHORTSIGHTED TO REFUSE TO MAKE THE FUTURE BETTER BECAUSE I CAN'T LET GO OF MY OWN FEELINGS.

Bite your fucking tongue once in a while and fucking admit we'll sometimes have, and use, imperfect allies without having to be their friends. Purity won't win us shit. But getting ex-MAGA to focus their anger and their pain at the RIGHT people who've been the ones hurting them this whole time? Who've been LYING to them? That might matter. That might win us SOME shit. That might have a fucking impact. Please. Let people do work even if you don't personally wanna do it. This ain't about you, or me.

EDIT: oh one more point: this will not make you a solitary hero to anyone. People who've escaped cults often have a LOT of people they end up being thankful for for it later - you will be ONE PART of the deprogramming, YOU YOURSELF will not be able to be their total and complete hero, you CANNOT take on a person like a "project" that you can complete like homework. You can be ONE aspect of the community care that gives them the space and freedom to feel like they can safely leave. There won't be a lot of individual heroes in this, this is about community

[yugenronin]

starter for @thebloomingrosefamily

The merchants at the coast wanted nothing more than to offload the cargo they brought from further southwest. The sooner the dockworkers got everything onto the wagons, the sooner they could start hauling it to Kai and receive payment from the Takeda Clan.

None of them were prepared to find an ornate foreign ship shattered upon the rocks. Among the wreckage they found a few valuables but most surprisingly, a woman. Human as far as they could tell. Beautiful, with pale skin and long pastel hair crusted with salt from the sea. Water soaked her clothes, her lips parted as she took yet another soft breath.

So they hauled her out of the doomed ship, no other survivors to be found, and tossed her on the back of a cart among the goods they were to transport. The Takeda Clan were the most influential family in the area. If anyone was to know what to do with a strange foreign woman, it would be one of the foremost lords in Shinga.

The cart rattled along for a few days, the merchants occasionally stopping to give the unconscious woman a little bit of water. When they arrived outside Tsutsujigasaki Castle, one informed the soldiers at the gate of the situation while the others began to offload the goods for the last time this trip.

As her limp body was scooped into strong arms, swaying gently as she was carried inside, shouting could be heard. A commanding voice, barking orders. Frustration, concern, and shock lingering behind the firm words.

Takeda Shingen held her close, left with no choice but to take this stranger into his home. She did not smell quite human, but the shallowness of her breaths scared him. He would not let her die. From the merchant's story, she had already survived so much. No way in hell he would let her meet her end on his doorstep.

[mov24]

[ladyshinga]

What happens when a Tortie has a Dilute ginger dad,? You often get a lavender Torti! But what happens when that Torti hooks up with a Siamese? You get three color change mutations on a Tortie kitten. This is Cheese Torta and she has three colored beans as well. She's not a year old yet so her color is still coming in but there are Tortie patches all over her!

LOOK AT HERRRR i wanna pet her little splotchy-colored feetsies

[apothecaryscript]

Special Web PV Maomao & Jinshi version / 薬屋のひとりごと　Web特別PV –猫猫&壬氏編-

猫猫（ぴくぴく）

Maomao (Piku-piku.)

Maomao (I know, right?)

壬氏「うちの猫は、かなり警戒心が強いのだよ」

Jinshi “Uchino nekowa, kanari keikai-shinga tsuyoino-dayo.”

Jinshi “My cat can be quite cautious.”

猫猫「ごきげんよう。何かご用でしょうか」

Maomao “Gokigen’yo. Nanika goyo deshoka?”

Maomao “Greetings. What business do you have with me today?”

壬氏「まるで用がなければ話しかけるなと言いたげだな？」

Jinshi “Marude, yoga nakereba hanashi-kakerunato iitage-dana?”

Jinshi “Do you mean I shouldn’t talk to you unless I have business?”

猫猫「いえ、めっそう���ありません（棒(ぼう)）」 （棒） means 「棒読み(ぼうよみ/Bo-yomi)」: Monotone and flat reading

Maomao “Ie, messomo arimasen.”

Maomao “Of course not.”

壬氏「何か、困ったことはないか？何でも言ってみろ」

Jinshi “Nanika, komatta kotowa naika? Nandemo itte-miro.”

Jinshi “Do you need help with anything? Tell me anything.”

猫猫「はあ？」

Maomao “Haa?”

Maomao “Well…”

高順「何も壬氏様まで中に入らなくても…」

Gaoshun “Nanimo Jinshi-sama-made nakani haira-naku-temo…”

Gaoshun “Master Jinshi, you don’t have to go in there with her…”

壬氏「薬屋が入るなら、俺も行く」

Jinshi “Kusuriyaga hairu-nara, oremo iku.”

Jinshi “If the apothecary is going, I’m going too.”

猫猫「んっ。お手を触れないでいただけますか」

Maomao “N. Ote’o furenaide itadake-masuka.”

Maomao “Please don’t touch me.”

壬氏「そんなことを言うのはお前くらいだ」

Jinshi “Sonna koto’o iunowa, omae kuraida.”

Jinshi “You’re the only one that says that to me.”

猫猫「なっ…」

Maomao “Na…”

壬氏「フッ」

Jinshi “Fu.”

猫猫「はっ、こいつ…うつるじゃないか！」

Maomao “Ha, koitsu… Utsuruja naika!”

Maomao “This guy! The color sticks!”

紅娘「あの様子じゃ、かんざしの意味、絶対分かってませんよ」

Hon’nyan “Ano yosuja, kanzashino imi, zettai wakatte-masen’yo.”

Hongniang “I’m pretty sure she has no idea what the hairpin means.”

玉葉妃「まったく、可哀相なのはあの子だわ」

Gyokuyo-hi “Kawaiso-nanowa ano ko dawa.”

Concubine Gyokuyou “I feel so sorry for a certain someone.”

壬氏（くしゃみ）

Jinshi (Kushami)

Jinshi (Sneeze)

猫猫「壬氏様…あっ…」

Maomao “Jinshi-sama… A…”

Maomao “Master Jinshi…”

壬氏「もう少しだけだ。少しだけ、温めてくれ」

Jinshi “Mo sukoshi dakeda. Sukoshi-dake, atatamete-kure.”

Jinshi “Just a little longer. Keep me warm, just a little longer.”

猫猫（今日はまた一段と子供みたいな顔をする。こちらの方が、まだいいな）

Maomao (Kyowa mata ichidanto kodomo-mitaina kao’o suru. Kochirano-hoga mada iina.)

Maomao (He’s even more childish today than before. I prefer him like this, somewhat.)

猫猫「フゥ…」

Maomao “Fu…”

[daily-hyosatsu]

I love this typeface! The name 新ヶ江 is read Shingae or rarely Shinkae.

新 means new, and it’s read atara.shii, ara.ta, nii, or shin

ヶ is a tiny version of the katakana character ke, but in kanji compounds, it can also be read ka or ga. In this usage, the following four katakana are basically interchangeable: ケ・ヶ・カ・ヵ. It's a whole thing.

江 means creek, inlet, or bay, and it can be read e or kō.

[ardenttomatostudio]

This is Akrisa, my WWN bard elementalist.

I tried to get inspiration from Shinga and Babs Tarr, whose work I admire so much. I don't think I got them, but I did improve my technique and that's something.

[mellowmiraclecheesecake]

𝓗𝑒𝓁𝓁𝑜 ! 𝐼 𝒽𝑜𝓅𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊’𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶 𝓌𝑜𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 , 𝓃𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝓇 𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 ! ! ❄️ 🦋 🐳

Welcome to my blog ,

you can call me Kaze ; or really anything , I don’t mind ! My pronouns are [ they/them ] . Some fun facts about me are that I like to read / watch manga / anime , while my favorite animal definitely has to be Angora rabbits or Siamese cats .

I mostly do reblogs , but I can do requests for an anime , manga and video game character scenarios , imagines or drawings ! I’m currently taking requests too , my inbox is open if you want to just talk or anything ; feel free ! Read : “ The Cloud Dream of the Nine “ ( “ 구운몽 “ ) by Kim Manjing 9/10 , “ Who Ate Up All The Shinga ” ( “ 그 많던 싱아는 누가 다 먹었을까? “ ) by Park Wan-suh 10/10 , “ Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series “ ( “ 퍼시 잭슨과 올림픽 선수들 “ ) by Rick Riordan 10/10 Currently reading : “ Tokyo Revengers Volume 17 “ ( “ 도쿄 리벤저스 “ ) by Ken Wakui , “ If You Could See The Sun “ ( “ 태양을 볼 수 있다면 “ ) by Ann Liang Favorite songs: “ I Bet on Losing Dogs “ ( “ 나는 지는 개에 내기를 걸었다 “ ) by Mitsuki , “ Shinunoga E-wa “ ( “ 시누노가 에와 “ ) by Fujii Kaze , “ Let the World Burn “ ( “ 세상을 불타오르게 놔둬 “ ) by Chris Grey :p

Important:

If you are a fundraiser blog please know if you reach out to me by my inbox or private messages I will of course re - blog your campaign / fundraisings . But due to personal reasons / a current situation , I most likely won’t be able to donate money . Please understand and I ‘ m sorry for my current not being able to help directly with giving money . Also , I may not be on Tumblr much for a while , so if you do an inbox or private message me and I don’t respond quickly I am not ignoring you , I would probably just be inactive for the time being . Sorry for the suddenly of this announcement . I hope you all understand , have a wonderful rest of your morning / afternoon / night !

- 💙 Dni : Racists , transphobic’s , homophobic’s , cyber bullies , acting nsft ( I am not a minor but I don’t feel comfortable with people being explicitly inappropriate with me ) , scammers