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Ranchers! Look at the boys (just a doodle)

#BOYYYSS

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when you shake grian he makes a sound like maracas. when scar hits the ground he makes a squeaky sound like dog toy. when mumbo flies he makes flubflab sound like laminated paper.

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I huave to go home.

#this will be me at work on May 4 team ties mcc………………….

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etho bbusiness parperss

#bbusiness parbners

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You'd have to stop the world just to stop the feeling

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I hate work I should be at the (remembers I don’t want to go to the club) the imagination

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evil arc moment

based on this by esmptumblr on twt

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Also have random warmup doodle I drew

#OUGH. HIM. YA KNOW? JUST….HE…..

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I actually really want to hear about it so I’m here to ask about Grian and shrikes…

(Also fun fact there’s a type of shrike in Australia we call a butcherbird because they’re known for taking their prey and, uh, making use of rose thorns)

rubs hands together ohh boy. I am So glad you asked (:

we actually also call them butcherbirds!! and this is exactly what makes me so insane about it when applying it to grian, ESPECIALLY third life grian. the shrike is a passerine (song-bird), but deceptively so. it’s ferocious, it spikes their prey on thorns. something about it being a songbird and a bird of prey at the same time are what gets me. im gonna bullet point some stuff out bc i can’t find a way to organize this coherently

grian, on the surface, is not necessarily formidable. he’s a bit goofy, plays pranks, doesn’t exactly know what he’s getting into at the start of 3L. he’s the songbird

plus they have a shrill cry which… lets be honest… that’s So grian, he’s very shrill

but we all know how 3L ends. grian kills scar. and while scar let him win, I don’t think grian ever fully forgives either of them for it. his hand was forced, but he also killed the one person in the series he trusted and cares for. the shrike.

HOWEVER. if you consider it in a more metaphorical sense, I like to apply the lyrics of hozier’s song “shrike” to 3L desert duo. ‘remember me, love, when i’m reborn as the shrike to your sharp and glorious thorn”. 3L desert duo are the villains from so many perspectives. scar is just as willing to kill and cause mayhem as grian— if not more so. but grian is his lackey. scar is the thorn, grian is the shrike. together they are deadly

shrikes NEED the thorns. shrikes don’t have the talons of a bird of prey, they need a tool to help them kill and hunt. grian NEEDS scar. he doesn’t have the bloodlust at first, but as the series goes on grian is more and more willing to attack, trap, kill, and since he’s green most of the time he NEEDS scar to do it for him.

and maybe that’s why grian always ends up in scar’s orbit, one way or another, in these series.

bonus… thinking about… cactus thorns…

they’re also very territorial which I think fits very nicely with grian. especially in 3L.

tldr: if you haven’t cried thinking about desert duo while listening to ‘shrike’ by hozier I highly highly suggest it

#hell yes #I love when you talk birds #thank you asker you’ve done us all a service #birdie

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This is just like that team hermitcraft mcc post. Heaven is real and it's team ties mcc

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That yelling you hear is me cheering

#GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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do you know where "no beta we die like x" comes from and how it is used?

The term "beta" in this context is short for "beta reader" - a person who reads a fic while it's still in the editing stage and helps the writer get it ready to post. Some betas check grammar. Some check canon compliance. Some are sensitivity readers. There are lots of things that betas can do.

So functionally, saying "no beta" means that the writer didn't get this checked by a second person before they posted it. It's a warning that there might be errors or typos etc. It's mostly used when an author has written something quickly and is posting without doing a lot of (or any) edits first.

As for where it comes from? It all started with a bumper sticker.

This image was an internet meme at one point, and it got meme'd on in the form of "no ___ we ___ like men"

Here on tumblr, one of the versions that got really popular was from now-deleted user @grec1a who created this version:

From there, it migrated to AO3 as the "no beta we die like men" tag, and very often the word men is replaced by the name of a character who dies in canon.

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don’t you ever read a piece of fanfiction so good you just

#PREV <333 💥💥💥💫💫🤩🫣😭💕💗🎀🎀💝🎁🌈🦄🦋🦋🥞👐🧈🥞🥞

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look at this thing

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alright, alright by birrdie 3.5k, one-shot desert duo / scarian vigilante au

#you guys have NOOOOOO IDEA how SANE I am about this vigilante au #every single facet of it makes me want to eat some glass or perhaps a fork #GAHHHHHHHHH #birdie #fic library #THIS universe scar is just…..He’s Just. #UGH!

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the escape of the canary

#OUGH…

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there is so much intimacy in creating something together