In a 2 week long polling tournament, the “Ultimate Feliform” was voted on in my Instagram stories.
So here are some fun facts about the teeny tiny termite-eating hyena who was deemed champion: the aardwolf!
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giant siphonophores!!!
giant siphonophores are deep sea invertebrates that live in many deeper oceans all over the world, from iceland to chile!
they eat small crustaceans and small fish
siphonophores can grow up to 130 feet long!
they’re not single multi-cellular organisms, they’re actually colonies of tiny biological components called zooids!
giant siphonophores have hydrostatic skeletons
they attract pray with bright bioluminescent light!
there are over 175 species of siphonophores and they have very diverse differences
siphonophores are bioluminescent and can glow many different colours, mainly blue, red, orange, and yellow!
they’re so amazing :]
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[cws: drugging, SA and SA apologia, fantasy racism/ableism, forced institutionalization.]
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i know i never shut up about it but god i am still just. So Salty about how the show handles the dynamic between mayor jones and pericles for many reasons, and one of the biggest is that there are really strong overtones here of sexual assault.
a character who already brings to mind the Slimy, Shady Cis White Guy with Buried Allegations archetype:
takes advantage of the trust of someone who's doing something with him in secret--
(which will get that person in a disproportionate amount of trouble compared to him, if they're discovered)
--to catch him off guard so he can grab him, drug him, and do violent things to his body while he's unconscious; scars him for life in a way that is disabling and should cause a lot of ongoing suffering, which, like many other things that should have a strong negative impact on him physically or psychologically, the writers ignore; and dumps him there alone to discover what's been done to him when he wakes up.
specifically, he does this to someone from a marginalized group that's highly unlikely to be believed if they tell anyone what he did--and going by the fact that mayor jones never got in any trouble until present day, he wasn't.
goes out of the way to ruin the life of the victim and discredit him as thoroughly as possible, because he's a loose end and he needs to shut him up.
flees the scene and gets away scot free with this for twenty years, has a successful privileged career and is considered a pillar of the community in the meantime.
when his dirty secret, which he's been paranoid about finally facing consequences for after the victim has recently become a risk again, is discovered, it's a huge career-ending scandal.
is redeemed by the end, while his victim goes on to be the Monstrous Irredeemable Pure Evil Main Villain and also sexually abuse someone himself, which is played as horrific and traumatizing (as it should be).
more specifically, is portrayed as showing redeeming, heroic anti-villain qualities by backhanding the victim into a wall as hard as he can in present day.
me: hm. yeah fuck this
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Fascinating things happening on my ClanGen file rn
A pair of apprentice siblings team up to kill two full-grown warriors (who were mother and daughter btw) for the unforgivable crime of *checks relationship logs* being kind of annoying
One of their mentors is bloodthirsty, and another was shameless but became bloodthirsty shortly after this, so they might have helped their apprentices out
Also the apprentices' mom is in the Dark Forest, bcus they were found with her dead body as kittens and when I looked at her profile I realized it'd make a lot of sense if she was exiled from her prior Clan bcus she was evil, sooo yeah she was probably training them
The bloodthirsty mentor is a rogue who joined the Clan last year and may have killed an apprentice about two moons before joining. Also he has a deep DF bond
The shameless mentor is a former kittypet who joined the Clan two years ago and always felt pressured to prove herself worthy to the Clan due to that, so her apprentice's evil dead mom might have recently started training her in her dreams, hence her newfound bloodthirst
Shortly before those two cats were murdered, a fairly young warrior, the son of the mender (my universe's word for medicine cat) and one of the most respected warriors in the Clan, had a vision from StarClan. It was likely meant to warn him of the murders but he couldn't decipher it in time. He does figure out what it means shortly thereafter tho
Instead of, yk, talking to the leader or smth, this guy apparently decides to go full on vigilante justice, and he orchestrates an avalanche to kill one of the murderous apprentices, and the other supposedly died to greencough but honestly I wouldn't be surprised if he used the knowledge of herbs he got from his mom to at least speed up the process
Both apprentices were sent to the DF, which I feel kinda bad about but honestly even if StarClan gave them a second chance (which they might have) their mom would definitely drag them into the DF with her
Meanwhile the elderly deputy finally decides to retire
You'll never guess who replaces her
It's the bloodthirsty former rogue with a DF bond who might have killed an apprentice
The literal next moon the leader loses all five of his remaining lives to being mauled by dogs (TOTALLY a coincidence! [sarcastic]) which leads to said bloodthirsty deputy becoming leader
I'm scared
This all happened in the span of like three moons. Btw.
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Will you ever release a single player version of the Lunar Livestream game? I was interested in checking it out but wanted to explore by myself.
Part of the core of the game is that it's a one time only event that cannot be experienced in any other way. A lot of aspects of the game wouldn't make sense viewed through a solo mode
But who knows, maybe one day i'll feel differently and retool the game
Thought i'm a lot more hyped at the idea of making a follow up than coming back to the first game
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