The Big Cats and their fossil relatives, by Alan Turner, illustrated by Mauricio Antón, 1997
Bought new at the La Brea Tar Pits museum, an excellent book on the history of big cats! I really need to reread this book, though I know it's obviously dated in some areas as new research has come out
A Stiffbeard dwarf and their companion.
Which is a cat! Big one too. These cats are commonly used by this clan for pulling sleds and hunting (and in rarer cases, warfare).
🪄Name: Blaze/ Race: Mobian/ Class: Wizard/ Items: Spell book and Staff
*Big and Blaze are both purple cats so in bound by chaos they are siblings.
*Her girlfriend Amy is her biggest supporter.
*No matter what spells blaze cast she has a 50% chance of it turning into a fireball.
Blaze did go through a lot of concept designs before her debut. All I know was that I wanted her to be a wizard and to be traveling with Amy. Then I was like "I want a wizard with a cape and witch hat. That makes me happy and I'm gonna do it" and there she was.
"Funny enough I—like, if street hockey, ministicks, I always wanted to be a goalie too! Like, for some reason I always wanted to go in net. You know, probably because of [my Dad] and then, um, you know, once you get dinged a couple times and the shots get too hard you realise—then it's not so much fun after all so... Yeah, it was great he'd always—"
"You probably wanted to be goalie 'cuz you're fucking crazy, man! Those guys are bananas! I actually went as a goalie in morning skate one time when I was suspended in the coast, and it was the scariest thing ever, bro. It's nothing like blocking a shot because you're literally just standing there, and these guys are shooting right at you. It's unbelievable!"
"Yeah! You gotta get in the way of the stuff to save it! That's crazy! I know, and like obviously gear is like great and they don't really feel—but there is, like, that psychological thing going on where, like, you know, you wanna move out of the way 'cuz it's gonna hurt! I get—I mean, it must not hurt that much, like, 'cuz Bob's crazy, man! Bob loves taking—Well, I wouldn't say loves taking it off the head, but he doesn't hate it, like he—"
"Feels good?"
"You know, every once in a while—they hit him in the head and you go up and say sorry he's like, 'No, no! It's all good! I love it, I love it!!' and like, kind-of shoos you away so."
The Buzz Pod | 8.7.24 (x)
so speaking of banking pucks off bobbys head and how much he loves it flashback to that day in october of 23 where bobby was doing that for practise and managed to rope in matthew to the shenanigans to the utter confusion of everyone involved (x)(x)(x)(x)
Save me teenager who was never taught how to properly regulate his feelings and goes into emotionally distressing rage episodes as a result. You will be my hero always.