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#Orangutans do it for two.
cocoalobae · 1 year
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what would you call this?
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….nothing? …its gibberish. mostly just a rhythm
made in the obsidian app on iOS
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rockatanskette · 1 year
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One of the running themes in "humans are space orcs" circles is the idea that humans will bond with anything. I can think of plenty of stories of humans making friends with wild animals, alligators, predators, creatures that aliens would immediately recognize as too dangerous for contact. But I was reading a story about two orangutans released back into the wild today and there's a certain element to that story I haven't seen so often: humans will bond with animals regardless of whether the bond is reciprocal.
For every story of a human making friends with some unlikely creature, there are dozens of stories of conservation specialists tranquilizing animals, tending to their wounds or illness, and releasing them because they're too dangerous to handle consciously. Stories of tagging birds of prey and timber wolves and Siberian tigers. Fat Bear Week? Any of those bears would rip your face off without hesitation. But they're round and fluffy and intimidating and beautiful and we love them even though they hate us. We make an effort to protect our monsters, because we love our monsters.
Imagine an alien planet that's experiencing ecological degradation. Their flora is dying, and they can't figure out why. And, offhandedly, in a diplomatic mission, an allied planet mentions that humans have successfully reversed similar devastation on Earth. So they reach out and Earth sends some experts to check it out. And what do they suggest? Reintroducing an apex predator that used to be a scourge against alien settlements. The species still exists in other regions of the planet, but it is slowly disappearing outside of its native habitat.
The aliens are askance. They've told bedtime stories to their young of these creatures: how they tear apart their prey, how they've eaten their organs and rip apart their homes. Some suggest that it's a trick—that the humans are trying to prompt them into destroying themselves.
But there are many alien cultures on this planet, with many different stories and some of them agree. The world watches in anticipation as the humans help their predators. They seek them out, these fearless otherworlders, putting them to sleep and tending their wounds. They keep track of the beasts, not to harm them, but to protect them.
At first the doomsayers' prophecy seems to come true. The predators devour prey animals like a feast, like a slaughter to people who have never been so close to the circle of life. But then, slowly, not over months but over years, comes change. The prey no longer eat the leaves and buds of every tree; some are left to bloom and fall. The refuse rots in the dirt, and the floods cease as the soil grows thick with compost and rotted bone, thick enough to hold water. The shapes of rivers change to protect their surroundings from the rain. The pollinators rebound.
Decades later, other cities and nations begin to accept this human myth of "conservation." Champions arise, alien champions, now, who go into the depths of the wilderness and the seas to protect those predators from the apathy of time.
Not all of them make it. This is something else the humans teach. Sometimes the tranquilizers are not enough. Sometimes the timing is wrong. Sometimes accidents happen. And when they do, the aliens look to humans for an answer for why they should protect these creatures who have killed those they love?
"Because they knew the risks," the humans say. "Because they would be the first to speak to save them. Because they taught you to see the beauty in the wild and you must not close your eyes."
So, despite themselves, they don't.
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I find it delightful how some zoos manage to put two different animals that wouldn't usually ever interact in the wild, but which they're certain wouldn't cause each other any harm, in the same enclosure because it gives them mutual enrichment and variety in life. Like even if a flock of otters and an orangutan would have nothing to do with each other in nature, they still enable each other to have a more natural life, offering challenges of everyday life such as "what if there was an annoying little animal living in your house."
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itsabouttimex2 · 6 months
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Monkiefam: Part One
Transformation Troubles
(Part Zero) (Part One) (Part Two)
“It’s for your own safety, kiddo.”
Those words ring in your mind as you stare out of the window, watching as your “father” trains your “brother”. You idly watch them clash, deftly swinging their staffs, blocking, counter-attacking, and breaking through each other’s defenses. Wukong stands leagues above MK, even though the kid is learning fast. You’ve gotten used to the sight of the monkey demon correcting his mentee’s stance, shifting his arms and legs, hauling him off the ground and dusting his clothes off when he knocks him down. Once, you would’ve stood in wide-eyed awe, caught on every fluid strike and powerful swing. Now, it’s become so commonplace that you barely bat an eye.
You only really start to pay attention when they start rapidly shifting between several forms from the 72 Transformations technique.
Although your “family” had allowed you to partake in basic training exercises like stretches and warmups, anything beyond that was strictly off-limits to you. As MK mastered skill after skill and bolstered his arsenal of techniques, you were stuck inside, only able to watch him grow. All to keep you safe, in their own words. One was a monkey demon and one was an inheritor to the legacy and powers of said monkey demon. They were powerful and mystical, and you were a regular human, short-lived and fragile. Weaker, slower, squishier.
But more than smart enough to learn a few of their tricks.
And brave enough to try one out.
“If you wanna change your body, you gotta change your thinking first, bud.”Wukong had instructed MK with these words not too long ago. From a hawk to a tiger to even something as small as a butterfly, Sun Wukong had already mastered all 72 and MK was well on his way to learning to do so himself.
You only had one in mind to start with. If you wanted to ever escape the smothering clutches of these two warriors, you weren’t going to be able to do it with any kind of mindless force. Being able to take the form of a hawk might’ve sounded useful, but the Monkey King could easily outspeed you. A tiger? Both of them could take the same form, and were much stronger to boot. Picking something like a spider would easily keep MK away, but wouldn’t deter Wukong in the slightest.
So instead, you settled on the monkey. Then, you had plausible deniability on your side. You could shrug it off as ‘wanting to be more like him’ or ‘wanting to see what it was like’ if Wukong asked you why you’d been practicing transformations at all. MK wouldn’t need any sort of explanation from you, because he’d probably just get excited about you learning such a technique.
You have your plan. And your reasoning, if things go poorly. All that’s left to do is to get started.
Change your thinking.
Wild, exuberant energy. Skillful jumps and leaps. Dexterous limbs and powerful bodies. Unbridled curiosity. Devotion to your troop.
An innate desire to revel in freedom.
At first, you had worried that the transformation might hurt. But then the whole world flashes gold and your body shifts and reshapes, and you feel better than you ever have before. A burst of adrenaline rushes through you, glowing sparks of white hot energy coursing your veins. You lie there on the floor for a few minutes, trying to regain your composure as the searing ecstasy of success flows through your shifted body.
And then there’s a knock on the door. You try to scramble to your feet, only to trip over your unfamiliar appendages. You slip and lightly thud against the floor, which only worries your captor more.
“You doing okay in there, bud? Training ran a little long, huh?”
You can’t respond. You try to respond, but nothing akin to speech comes out. Only silk-soft chittering. Then it hits you.
You aren’t a gorilla, a chimpanzee, an orangutan.
“Are you still mad that we won’t let you train with us? Am I getting the silent treatment now, kid?”
No, you’ve shifted into one of the little monkeys that flourish on Flower Fruit Mountain.
“Aww, don’t be too upset, alright? Hey, I’ll have MK bring us some of those noodles the two of you like, okay? The three of us can eat together.”
And you don’t know how to turn back.
“Y/N?”
You only have a few seconds to register the concern in his voice before the door between the two of you flies off the handles, broken down by a single kick from Wukong. He crosses the threshold into your room, looking around not only in worry, but tentative anger. If you had broken out again, he was going to…
You look up. He looks down.
There’s only a couple of seconds where he’s confused, head tilted curiously to the side at the sight of the little monkey in front of him. Then, recognition writes itself across his face.
His eyes widen in adoration as the end of his tail curls into a sort of heart. He dashes forward and snatches you off the ground with a huge grin, holding you up to his face. He nuzzles you against himself, brushing his cheek against your own. He only pauses to call out to his student.
“MK, bud, you gotta come see this!”
Once you hear excited footsteps pounding down the halls, you know that you’re in for a long day.
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(SPOILERS FOR GODZILLA X KONG THE NEW EMPIRE)
(I mean, what do you expect when you see two of the new titans in a headcanon? But whatever. Don't complain if some things get spoiled.)
(Good? Okay)
Scar King
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Scar King is Power Hungry, Malicious, Evil, Warlord, and a Dictator. The orangutan titan is power hungry cause he wants to control everything and everyone, which would explain why he went to war with Godzilla for the surface of earth. He's practically obsessed with getting out of Hollow Earth just to take control of it. Scar King is a dictator and acts like one too; he's evil and considers his subjects tools, and just like tools, he'll throw them away when they're of no use or to make a point and show why you shouldn't disobey him. Example: the king who was kicked into the lava when they tried defending Suko. The warlord, for obvious reasons, wants to conquer the whole planet, or at least the surface. His rule is law; if you disobey him, you're dead, if he finds something funny, it's funny to everyone; if it isn't, it's not funny. Example: Kong has a steel tooth, which he made fun of, and everyone was nervously laughing. His biggest and most valuable thing is Shimo, the first Titan, The Mother of All Titans, under his command. He sees her as a tool—a more valuable one that has its benefits. The orangutan titan sees Kong as a threat to his rule; him having the axe doesn't help, which is why he tries attacking and killing him.
Shimo
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Shimo, The Mother of All Titans, is quite rebellious, slightly aggressive, ancient, pain, and old. The ice reptile Titan is old because she's the mother of all titans and the first Titan so, yeah, she's old. Shimo is quiet; I mean, what's the point? When she was under Scar King's control, he would use that damn crystal piece of hers to shut her up, and for her to be under his control for so long, it became natural. Rebellious because, in some scenes, she seems to struggle or refuse to do what Scar King wants before he has to use it again. An example of this would be him commanding her to attack Kong or move so he can ride her. (Pause.) She's slightly, no, aggressive because she bottled her emotions up and holds a, well, you can't measure how much she despises that damn ape.
She also holds a lot of respect for Kong for freeing her from Scar King. So, she was willing to bow to him, not because he freed her but because he genuinely is a good Titan. Plus, he is nice to her and gives her pats and rubs her chin, which she loves. (Oh my god, people are so going to ship them.)
So, I watched the movie today, and OMG, my favorite MonsterVerse movie ever!!! Shimo is one of my favorite kaijus and titans, along with King Kong.
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andejoe · 2 years
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“Louis, may I ask you about human preparedness?”
I looked up from my book to see Milly and company sitting down.
“Sure, what’s the quandary?” I asked.
“Humans are biologically suited for the land, yet when you go on your explorations, you prepare for living in both water and in treetops. Why?” Milly asked.
“Easy answer is you never know what could happen,” I shrugged.
The crew mate next to Milly with dark green eyes spoke up. “It is my understanding that humans prepare for what they are relatively familiar with. A hunter will prepare to hunt, for example, whereas another might prepare to eat plants.”
“Yeah, I’m not sure I follow,” I admitted.
Purple eyes on the other side of Milly spoke. “What he means is, if humans prepare for things they’re familiar with, why do they prepare for all environments? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial to locate the environment you’re biologically suited to?”
“Oh, well yeah, but you have to remember that nearly 75% of wildlife on earth is suited to land as well, and that even our herbivores can be deadly and territorial. Sometimes the environment our biology is most suited to isn’t the safest one to be in,” I explained.
“Can you expound on this subject?” Green eyes asked.
“Sure. So let’s say we crashed on Earth. We have a nearly three in four chance of landing in water. Logically, we’d want to find land to have a better chance at living. But if the land we find is home to a bunch of orangutans, I’d much rather continue on the water.”
“But what if you can’t find more land?” Green eyes asked.
“Set up a water filtration system to clean the salt out and have drinkable water, swim or catch fish for food, make shade for the daytime and stay dry and warm at night. It won’t be enjoyable, but it is livable.”
“This is why you always bring a prepared human on explorations.” Milly was smug, like she just won an argument. “They apply their knowledge to all kinds of scenarios they’ve never experienced.”
“That doesn’t make humans better that other deathworlders,” purple eyes insisted.
“No, but our winning streak in the survival games does,” I offered.
Neither purple or green eyes responded to that. Milly nodded.
“And on that note, I believe you two have a shift of mine to take,” she said.
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popculturebuffet · 2 years
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So Let's Talk About Warner Bros Discovery Burning Down HBO Max for the Insurance Money
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Okay real quick for those of you who don't know who I am: I"m Jake, I review animation on this fair blog sometimes on comission (which is open by the way) , and mostly just because I want to. I love all kinds of stuff from comics, to comic strips, to movies, and review all kinds in turns. I"m telling you this so you have full and proper context as to why Warner Bros Discovery's latests actions have been HELL on my anxiety. While this week has been a hard one for reasons that aren't your buisness, Warner just made it so much worse so rather than do three reviews this week, i'm doing two and this piece, outlying why I"m so nettled, why I no longer feel any security for anything warner has going , in production or otherwise, and why WBD sucks dirty ass in thunderstorms.
Let's begin with what's going on for those in the back who haven't heard: Last week Warner Bros Discovery made the earthshatteringly dumb decision to cancel their 40 million dollar Batgirl film, and not release it in any way shape or form as a tax write off as well as announcing they were canceling several other dc projects with the Arrowverse finally being taken out back and shot with the Flash getting canceled and given a smal lseason to wrap up (and Superman and Lois likewise detatching from said universe for it's own saftey), and just about every DC Project now in fear of being cut, paticuarlly the tv shows. The Flash MOVIE is weirdly exempt from this despite starring known human dumpster fire whose progressively spiraling Erza Miller. Granted they ARE getting help, so it might help, but it still feels odd to not drop THAT movie but drop one by people who have done absoltuely nothing wrong and is almost finished. And by odd I mean...
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So yeah a 40 billion dollar diverse, great looking film is in limbo, any dc film that hasn't started shooting is in the firing range. While I do feel the DCEU badly needed an actual structure instead of just doing whatever movie without any real plan. But
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Is somehow worse than no strategy. But there does seem to be SOME method to the madness here.. unfortunatley said method, as most perfectly put by my surrogate tv dad John Oliver "It seems like your trying to burn down my platform for the insurance money"
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That does seem to be WBD's plan: Liquidate as much as possible, put as much of it as a tax writeoff as you can, and to hell with what comes next. There's no building going on here, just madly selling anything they can to make money. Which admitely I have done, I once had to sell off my entire 3ds collectoin to get buy, but i'm a 30 year old man with the body of an orangutan, not a BILLION dollar company that should know better. Even if Discovery is new at running this type of company, they seem more concerned with making as much money as possible and don't care if they actually surivive as a platform, if works of art surivive, or for anything other than getting a huge kickback.
And that brings me to today, the worst news in recent animation history. And keep in mind that history includes: 1. Disney cancelling the critically aclaimed and briliant owl house because it was too gay and trying to pretend that's not why they did it 2. Netflix's Childrens Content slowly collapsing into the sea with one or two exceptions. 3. Sex Monster John Lassiter somehow getting another job and a new movie AppleTV+ feels comfortable promoting. 4. The passing of Betty White, Ed Asner and Gilbert Gottfried
But yes HBO Max decided to delist a TON of his content. While ti hasn't happened yet and the backlash, and a recent blow to their stock due to this bullshit as a rare instance of corprate greed biting them, MIGHT stop it, it might be too late. The shows being chopped include Close Enough, a show they had just canceled a week ago and now decided no one can enjoy and that was not only one fo the platforms lead shows, but it's only adult animated comedy that didn't make people throw things at it on sight, Infinity Train, a show people were already mad was screwed out of more than four seasons, Ok KO Let's Be HEroes, one of the best cartoons of the 2010s, Mao Mao Heroes of Pure Heart which was stuck in cancelation limbo, and victor and Valentino, which I have not watched but is JUST going through season 3 as we speak. None of it makes sense, none of it is right and all of it is clearly a ploy to mak ea tax writeoff. And while previous managment had done this, there was a simliar incident iwth greats such as megas xlr and sym boinoic titan, never before has a company made material not only unavablaibe but so nakedly tried to claim something as a loss. I'm HOPING this bs dosen't fly in court, as none of these shows really are the net loss they thinkt hey are, paticuarlly close enough and infinity train, so none of this should add up, but i'm not holding my breath.
I'm also not holding my rage. I belivie in works being avaliable to people. Good or bad, as long as their not harmful , they should be out there and avaliable. Things should be preserved. And making it so several shows are just outright unwatchable, JUST so you can make money is one of the most greedy, discpiable, hateful and agonizing acts i've seen in some time. OK KO thankfully escapes thanks to being on hulu, but that may not be forever and they may try this shit with other platforms. For once most of these shows being on netflix in other countries is a lifesaver. And yes you can still find the stuff that's being taken on the internet, piracy can be bad but it can also be a way to preserve stuff, but I should be able to have a legal and fine means of watching Close Enough. I shoudln't hav eto scour for a show just because you want money. I'm still subscribed to hbo max as it's not me who does and it still has enough content.. but if they keep doing this scorched earth nonsense, it's going to leave them with nothing to sell and nothing to buy and no one to buy into thei rshit. and i'm hoping they learn their lesson and ease back before it's too late and one of the best platforms in the streaming wars is gone.
For now though all I can do is wait and hope like hell more things I care about don't die a cruel greedy death.
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halevren · 1 month
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FHJY Spoilers || my live thoughts as I watch episode 11
three hours. three hours along. this might take me a bit to get through 😭😭 I might not note every little thought because that's. A lot. But definitely a good portion of the normal random stuff
THE CONTENT WARNINGS ARE CONCERNING ME.... BODY HORROR??? GORE??? THIS ISN'T A HORROR SEASON. I THOUGHT THIS WAS GOING TO BE A FUN HAHA SEASON???? WHAT??????????
HELLO ONE AND ALL
Ally Brennan Beardsley Mulligan
"What if just shows up for the interview" well I guess that means riz and fig have to create a
PETE WENTZ IS WANDA'S (RECENT) EX BOYFRIEND
"Cause if I say it to Brennan, I'll just be wrong"
CANCELLED 😭
im showing my emo autistic friend this session because they know literally everything about emo bands and apparently Pete Wentz has drank piss multiple times before. Hm.
"Let him sweat"
Mommy/baby time??????
"You are my little baby"
Sklonda embarrassing Riz to Fig is so real and accurate
spys tongue
spy's tongue or spies tongue
Very Humanoid Animals 😭😭😭😭😭😭
AN ORANGUTAN
NAT ONE BECOMES 23 🔥🔥🔥🔥
19 steal orangutan tho
VOMITING
NAT 20 MURPH
BROKEN CRYSTAL??
BLOOD SPLATTER?
oh goodness
Something happened here
CONFUSED?
STABS HER HAND?
Copperkell
Riz asking his mom to see dead bodies
omg did Kalina say Ragh Barkrock because she wanted them to investigate everything that she did back then in reference to him specifically (like the killing clone Lydia / destroying the house, etc.)
Emergency meeting. Even you Fabian.
CARBONIZED BLOOD?
rage kills
CRRRRRRIT it's a 7
IDENTIFY SPELL!!!!!!!
oh no. Brennan why you asking the state of emotions
"Fuck"
TWO IN ONE ONE IN TWO
Identify spell is overwhelmed
ATTACKS ADAINE????
NAT 20 PERCEPTION CHECK
The rot of dead gods??
INTERIOR OF A BODY?
gross gross gross gross
"gorgug..... very good....."
"You have to tip me this time" "nah"
building a God??? oh my...
The daymare queen
Bobby Dawn.
Asking what would make Kristen angry is such a loaded question. So much stuff
"My president!"
gorgug just grabs the angry shard
"I did not tell you I shit." "No, the whole school knows about it"
ADAINE HAS A SCOOTER?
AELWYN ASKED THE SHELTER FOR ALL THE UNWANTED CATS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
AND SHE'S ALLERGIC TO CATS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
"I have so much love to give exclusively to cats"
Camaraderie in toxicity
SHE HAS NO FRIENDS 😭😭
omg aelwyn and fabian boned
"Fuck you. Bitch"
Malarkey
"Tell Kristen to not come back."
zac's little shrugs hehehehe
"I drive down to bastion city and do crimes."
"I shall steal everyone's bones"
THE CATS CAN SMELL THE WARD AND THEY WON'T TAKE THE MEDICINE
aelwyn my beloved I love her so much
FIG DISGUISED AS KIPPERLILLY COPPERKETTLE
Ruben is just constantly being terrorized by fig in the dreamscape
devil's nectar Gertie infodump
KRISTEN AND GERTIE KISSED
"Okay, well let's go out sometime. I'm painfully single, uh, and none of my friends wanna see me naked anymore." Kristen Applebees you are so fascinating
LOCAL FOOD TRUCKS? THE FUCKING FOOD TRUCK FEST
KRISTEN MAKING OUT WITH GERTIE TO DISTRACT HER FROM FABIAN
"Kristen, you know that's my nemesis right?"
KRISTEN GOT HER KISSES IN 🎉🎉🎉
RIZ IS ON THE SCHOOL STAFF?????
LET FIG BECOME THE CLERIC TEACHER
LET WANDA CHILDA BECOME THE CLERIC TEACHER
A CV OF WANDA CHILDA
A WICKER PAPER??????
"I pooped right now."
Adaine over break research paper of curses
RUBEN IS HENRY'S NEPHEW
NAT 20 GORGUG PERCEPTION
He leaves the motherboard.... I worry that it might be stolen by someone else
"Seems suspect." "What do you mean suspect?" "Seems Suspect" their sibling dynamic is so real
THEY BROUGHT ZAYN!!!!
how did they get Zayn through TSA
TELEMAINE HAS A LITTLE THING THAT SAYS GORGUG'S NAME 😭😭😭😭😭
YAK BAK
GRAPE NIP
Hillariel is so pretty
GILEAR IS SO STRESSED
GILEAR SAID FUCK
Gilear is the only person who has made the fig curse the main priority
"I want the yogurt back on my shirt"
ALL THE MONEY GILEAR IN THIS SITUATION MAKES GOES STRAIGHT TO ADAINE
"HE GRABS ME?"
RIZBERT
"TELEMAINE STOP BULLYING ME"
(High pitch voice) "how did she bring winter?"
I heavily fw gertie x tracker
THEIR PLAN B IS SHRIMP JUMP
CRAW FATHERS
GORGUG CLEARLY PISSED OFF
oh fig.... I feel so connected to you
"Who's Wanda Childa....?" "She's my alter emo"
Sandra is so true. I often ask my friends how they percieve me so I can understand myself better.
"What if I punished this man to eternal rock"
"I don't want to see that." Sandra grabs fig's cigarette and takes a hit instead.
SPY'S TONGUE LORE
Kalina with the Spy's Tongue........
I love this lore and conspiracy theories talk
they're annoying but have great record keeping
GORGUG PUT HIS HEADPHONES ON THE SECOND THEY ENTERED THE CHURCH
NAT 20 INSIGHT
Narnia burning man
Fig and Fabian are living it UP
tracker............. i can't say I like her very much after that phone call. So I'm not the most thrilled to see her.
GORGUG PUSHING EVERYONE OUT OF THE WAY TO THE HOT CHOCOLATE
WORLD STAR
Half the party is living it up having hot coco while the other half is experiencing / witnessing a very emotional moment
RUNES RELATING TO GIANT DEITIES
GIFT EXCHANGE
PIPES OF THE SEWERS
CHA CHA CHA CHA CHA CHA CHA
THE RATETTES
EAR WORM?
"PUT ME IN YOUR BRAIN"
A PULL UP BAR!!!! IMMOVABLE BAR
BRACERS OF DEFENSE
"Oh shit they're so practical. I have to wear bracers. What can I do? They're so tactic?"
RIDDLER RIZ?
FIRE GIANT JUICE
"Is this legal?" "It's Not."
WOODEN ORANGUTAN MASK
SO MUCH HOLE
HE SENDS A TEXT TO MAZEY THEN PUTS HIS PHONE ON AIRPLANE MODE
KRISTEN NOOOOO
THE BAR
assisted pull ups 🔥🔥🔥
Naradriel is actually so sweet
Hillsong / wolfsong close enough
NAT 20 INVESTIGATION CHECK FOR MURPH
SCORTCH MARK?
LIST OF NAMES??
WEDDING CONTRACT
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
RUVINA MAID OF HONOR
THE MASK
"PUT THE HOLES AWAY AND MAKE THEM"
WHAT'S THE NAME. WHAT'S THE NAME. WHAT'S THE NAME. WHAT IS IT. WHAT IS THE NAME BRENNAN
OH GOD
ANKARNA
GLOWS RED? OH MY GOD FIENDISH ENERGY
ADAINE BROUGHT BACK ARKARNA AND LYDIA'S CHEST CRYSTAL
OH MY GOD IF LYDIA DIES I'M GONNA PUNCH MY WALL /HJ
negative one initiative........
SAVING ROLLS FOR FIG? WHY
PRIDE ARMOR
THE MOON BEGINS TO WHAT?
TEARS HER FLESH? OH GOD
BRIDE ARMOR
CASSANDRA IS PROTECTING THEM 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
SEVERAL DIVINE INTERVENTIONS ARE HAPPENING SIMULTANEOUSLY IN CONFLICT??????????
FIG INTO THE BRIEF CASE JUST LIKE GILEAR WAS
SIX LEVEL COUNTERSPELL
COUNTER SPELL CRIT!!!!!!!!!
FIG WAS ALMOST KILLED?????????????
RIZ JUMPS AFTER FIG
BARONNNN FROM THE BARONIES
ROËMAENCE PARTNÆR
FABIAN DIDN'T JUMP INTO THE BRIEF CASE. GORGUG, FIG AND RIZ HAVE SO FAR
okay thank god fabian did jump in
DIVINE INTERVENTION ROLL
DEATH WARD ON AELWYN 🔥🔥
BARON IS WARNING KRISTEN?
DID WE JUST WATCH GILEAR FIG DIE?
NAT 20 DEX THROW FOR KRISTEN
what dimension are they in. What is riz's briefcase
ENDING OFF ON A ROLL FOR INITIATIVE??
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL WHAT
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galactic-academia · 1 month
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There is a fury to Terry Pratchett’s writing: it’s the fury that was the engine that powered Discworld. It’s also the anger at the headmaster who would decide that six-year-old Terry Pratchett would never be smart enough for the 11-plus; anger at pompous critics, and at those who think serious is the opposite of funny; anger at his early American publishers who could not bring his books out successfully.
The anger is always there, an engine that drives. By the time Terry learned he had a rare, early onset form of Alzheimer’s, the targets of his fury changed: he was angry with his brain and his genetics and, more than these, furious at a country that would not permit him (or others in a similarly intolerable situation) to choose the manner and the time of their passing.
And that anger, it seems to me, is about Terry’s underlying sense of what is fair and what is not. It is that sense of fairness that underlies Terry’s work and his writing, and it’s what drove him from school to journalism to the press office of the SouthWestern Electricity Board to the position of being one of the best-loved and bestselling writers in the world.
It’s the same sense of fairness that means that, sometimes in the cracks, while writing about other things, he takes time to punctiliously acknowledge his influences – Alan Coren, for example, who pioneered so many of the techniques of short humour that Terry and I have filched over the years; or the glorious, overstuffed, heady thing that is Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable and its compiler, the Rev E Cobham Brewer, that most serendipitious of authors. Terry once wrote an introduction to Brewer’s and it made me smile – we would call each other up in delight whenever we discovered a book by Brewer we had not seen before (“’Ere!’ Have you already got a copy of Brewer’s A Dictionary of Miracles: Imitative, Realistic and Dogmatic?”)
Terry’s authorial voice is always Terry’s: genial, informed, sensible, drily amused. I suppose that, if you look quickly and are not paying attention, you might, perhaps, mistake it for jolly. But beneath any jollity there is a foundation of fury. Terry Pratchett is not one to go gentle into any night, good or otherwise.
He will rage, as he leaves, against so many things: stupidity, injustice, human foolishness and shortsightedness, not just the dying of the light. And, hand in hand with the anger, like an angel and a demon walking into the sunset, there is love: for human beings, in all our fallibility; for treasured objects; for stories; and ultimately and in all things, love for human dignity.
Or to put it another way, anger is the engine that drives him, but it is the greatness of spirit that deploys that anger on the side of the angels, or better yet for all of us, the orangutans.
Terry Pratchett is not a jolly old elf at all. Not even close. He’s so much more than that. As Terry walks into the darkness much too soon, I find myself raging too: at the injustice that deprives us of – what? Another 20 or 30 books? Another shelf-full of ideas and glorious phrases and old friends and new, of stories in which people do what they really do best, which is use their heads to get themselves out of the trouble they got into by not thinking? Another book or two of journalism and agitprop? But truly, the loss of these things does not anger me as it should. It saddens me, but I, who have seen some of them being built close-up, understand that any Terry Pratchett book is a small miracle, and we already have more than might be reasonable, and it does not behoove any of us to be greedy.
I rage at the imminent loss of my friend. And I think, “What would Terry do with this anger?” Then I pick up my pen, and I start to write.
Extracted from Neil Gaiman’s introduction to A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction by Terry Pratchett
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In an article from Empire, director Wes Ball elaborates on the jump forward in time between the last film with Andy Serkis, War For The Planet Of The Apes, and the new upcoming film taking place many years in the future, Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes.
“I wanted to do a big leap forward in time. It’s significant enough that Caesar is still a spirit in the movie, but most of his living relatives are not in this picture. If the last three movies were the Stone Age, here we get to see what happens when they enter the Bronze Age.”
The metal working glimpsed in the trailer fits with Ball's statement. The necklace of Caesar’s symbol worn by Raka the orangutan and the crown of Proximus Caesar are two examples of apes forging their own creations. The apes can now create new and unique pieces rather than using human items or relying on things found in nature.
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funniest parts of inside job pt 2
mommy likey drinky
“santa is fake! but student debt is real!” “you had to learn sometime, brayden”
“this is gonna be the most globally damaging midlife crisis since elon musk” oh that is APT
“ok boomer”
“are you poland? because that german guy straight-up owned you”
reagan saying that alex jones “looks like an orangutan fucked a fire hydrant”
“i’m the only one left who will listen to me!”
spending the whole episode confused on why oprah is back and then seeing her yell “i’m not the first oprah!”
“our missions do feel suspiciously like b-stories”
“why is my wallet on a metal leash? where would it be trying to go?”
lights being mothman’s kryptonite is a very obvious joke but it still works every time
KEANU FUCKING REEVES
“MOTHERFUCKER!” “well, he is fucking reagan’s mother, so yes. motherfucker.”
*takes out a lotus* “i don’t put these in my pocket. they grow there spontaneously.”
“i’m feeling drained from staring meaningfully into the distance”
“after dating so many billionaires, his millionaire lifestyle keeps me grounded”
the pussy posse being amazed and confounded by brett’s respect women juice
the real reason leonardo dicaprio only dates women under 25
“someone on the internet found out margot robbie is cgi” FINALLY SOMEONE WHO AGREES WITH ME
reagan accidentally imitating owen wilson
“when i’m done with you, men will look at you the way they look at me: briefly!”
gigi’s reaction to her make-under: “i wanna cyberbully myself!”
tamiko’s reaction to rand turning into a literal manchild: “way to turn subtext into text, rand”
myc’s absolutely SAVAGE comebacks at the constitution heist
“how would the founding fathers feel about this?” “probably the same way your father feels about you”
“ok, give me the word and i’ll blow the hell out of this thing” “said your ex-wife to brett’s dick”
“aliens? a woman being in charge of a team? nobody’s gonna believe this!”
“it’s a psychic union where everyone thinks the same and acts the same like fucking marvel fans” HGFHJGSDHKJHSJGH
“the last time i saw a white guy that generic, he was on a don’t walk sign!”
“fresh dirt is brought to you by blue apron. do you only care about the environment when it’s super convenient?”
INCEL STEVE
“how did he get that hoodie?”
“WE’VE BEEN FUCKED BY THE POPE!” “for the love of god, CONTEXT!”
saying “when in rome” is half the reason people come to rome
the gay dog weddings
“i now pronounce you two very good boys!”
“that’s me in the corner, losing my religion.”
reagan offending the italians (again)
“oh man, if god is real, i’m fucked”
“in the name of the father the son and the HOLY SHIT”
in a vow to make air travel as inconvenient as possible, the third wright brother invented sharing an armrest
“i deserve to be punished. i still quote borat sometimes”
“look! a woman’s ankle!”
*takes one look at hell* “those flamin’ hot cheetos commercials really nailed it.”
“i love cable news. it’s like watching the apocalypse in slow motion.”
gigi describing brett as “the comic sans of people”
andre reminding us how old millennials are now
“destroying your brother’s political legacy. what are you, a bush?”
the ayn rand tattoo
brett accidentally unionizing and legalizing sex work
“the solution just seemed so obvious”
“because faking your own death worked so well last time, reagan. redundant much?”
“maybe all conspiracies are real!” “oh, that’s not good.”
brett’s lil brett puppet
lil brett dying
lil brett going absolutely batshit crazy during the entire end credits of that episode
“you look like a white girl at burning man!”
the coughing and face-touching station
“the only way you’re associated with the number 300 is in pounds.” “you calling me fat?” “explicitly!”
“i literally have no idea what you’re going to say next!” “vagina egg.”
“i feel like we have the same interests. wanna start a podcast?” “no! this is like a siren song for straight white men!”
reagan once used cheetos as croutons
*route 96 turns into route 69* “haha, nice”
the fact that andre is just the original text of the “one fear” meme
“fun for ages six to six and a half!”
berenstain bears originally being berenstein makes SO MUCH SENSE
“and finally the rich white underdogs became the rich white ruling class. an inspirational story”
jr refusing to put his shirt back on
brett gives a tinfoil hat to the shazaam poster and it WORKS
“turns out i wasn’t pregnant, i just had way too much del taco” “i’ve been there”
“you said something nice, but it felt mean!”
mothman’s alternate timeline was a reverse of the fly
andre is canonically into tentacle hentai
lampshading the plot holes
“me? in charge of a whole workforce, like santa?”
“how many oscars is meryl streep supposed to have? three seems kinda low”
andre, just having shoved nixon back into his grave, now covered in blood and holding a shovel: “i don’t wanna talk about it”
air bud!!
“i could beat a dog in chess! probably.” same, brett, same
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The Romance Options.
So, it is time I start listing the details. Let's start with the romance Options, because that is definitely more important than the synopsis...
Makoto - Kage:
Sex: M.F (Gender Selectable)
Age: 19
Appearance: Black, dishevelled shoulder-length hair. Blue eyes, freckled face. 4’‘2 in height, making them the shortest in the group. Always wears an oversized green hoodie with their favourite anime character proudly presented on the front. Almost never takes the hood down.
Personality: Hacker, Gamer, Otaku, and pretty much anything in-between. Makoto can be trusted with anything regarding technology, but anything regarding reality can often be a challenge. Makoto seemingly has no filter, saying what they are thinking at that exact moment in time; be it inappropriate jokes, insults, or anything in-between.
Messenger #27361 - Kaen:
(Because the player sets the name of this character, all references to them will be “Kit”.)
Sex: M/F (Gender Selectable)
Age: Somewhere between 100 and 200 years old
Appearance: Red, wild hair, with length depending on gender selected. Red eyes, with a barely detectable feint glow. 5’'3 in height. Wears a traditional Japanese Kimono shamelessly stolen from a convenient shrine. When in fox form, has red fur, and two tails.
Personality: Kit is a Kitsune, and a messenger of Inari Omikami. You met them one day at a Shinto Shrine, and they decided they liked you enough to follow you. In Japanese Folklore, Kitsunes can take human form, and Kit does just that. The MC eventually gets tired of referring to them by a number, (definitely not because they cannot remember it), and gives them a name.
Kit is a seemingly endless bubble of energy. They like teasing anyone and everyone, and a good harmless prank is always appreciated! Do not ask about the harmful pranks, however. The Osaka Police department is already overwhelmed with arson incidents, as it is. Having joined a society they know nothing about, Kit spends much of their time being confused. They have a tendency to act like a child running around an amusement park, (which attracts unwanted attention in downtown Osaka), and Makoto constantly teases them.
Ryoji/Ryuko Sasaki - Temae
Sex: M/F (Gender Selectable)
Age: 34
Appearance: Wears a plain, grey suit. Has a tattoo on their left arm of a Cheetah. Black, slick, neat hair, which comes down to the shoulders if female, clean shaven if male. Grey eyes. 5’‘6 in height. If male, has stubble. Is missing their entire index finger on their left hand.
Personality: From the outside, one would think them to be every part the stereotypical Hardened and coldblooded Yakuza member. They pretend to not care about others, but actions often speak louder than words. Is very loyal to those they perceive as friends, and is easily angered when a friend is threatened. On the flipside, seemingly has no sense of self-preservation.
Masa Matsuzaki - Jiji:
Sex: M
Age: 42
Appearance: Black, messy hair. Blue eyes. 5’‘5 in height. Black, baseball cap with his favourite, (fictional) baseball team, the Osaka Orangutans. Wears a white, button up shirt with short sleeves, and a tie. Also wears jeans. Is rather muscular. ;)
Personality: Masa is a detective working for the Osaka police department who assists you with your not so legal methods. He believes in justice above all else, even if it means bending the law. He has no concept of ‘jokes’, and often takes the stupid things Makoto says seriously. (Do not ask him about the Takoyaki incident.) It seems as though he lives only to work, and he often has to be physically dragged into the break room to rest.
Midori Yasukawa - Hoshi:
Sex: F
Age: 21
Appearance: Green eyes. Long, black hair with green highlights. Almost never without a smile on her face. 4’'9 in height. Wears a long, black dress with green four-leaf clovers all over it.
Personality: Midori is a J-pop idol who runs away from her producers, and latches herself onto your group, saying she’s “bored”, after you interrupt a Yakuza meeting that just so happened to be taking place under a stage which she was performing a live concert on. Makoto is a big fan of hers. With a bright and bubbly personality, Midori surprises everyone when she turns out to also be extremely sadistic. Enjoying the various missions you take her on with concerning levels of Joy.
Secret RO: Red String.
Sex: ?
Age: ?
“You’re the war that I wage,” “You’re the love that I hate.” “Can you change me” “From the monster you’ve made me?” Starset - “Monster”
The red string has to connect to someone. Not a soulmate, per say. More like a soul sibling. Your “twin soul”. They are in important figure in the story of your life, as you are in theirs. The two of you may not reach the end of the line without each other. But if life was already written into stone, that would be rather cruel. While you must encounter this person, your relationship with them is still up to you.
Red String is a potential Yandere for the Onryō. They start out hating the MC, but with certain choices, this can become a sort of twisted hate-love situation. That is all the info I will give out for now. It’s a secret RO, so obviously I can’t reveal their identity. I will say, however that they are a character that has already been met in the demo.
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By: Charles Q. Choi
Published: Mar 7, 2012
Chimpanzees have police, too. Now, researchers are discovering what makes these simian enforcers of the peace step into conflicts, findings that could help shed light on the roots of policing in humans.
Animals handle conflicts within groups in a variety of ways, such as policing, where impartial bystanders intercede when disputes crop up. Policing, which has been seen in chimps, gorillas, orangutans and other primates, differs from other forms of intervention in that such arbiters are neither biased nor aggressive — they are neither supporting allies nor punishing wrongdoers.
Policing is risky, however, since it involves approaching two or more combative squabblers, which may lead to would-be arbiters becoming the targets of aggression themselves. To find out why primate policing evolved despite such risk, scientists took a closer look at pol.
The researchers analyzed one group of chimpanzees in a zoo in Gossau, Switzerland, for nearly 600 hours over two years. This group experienced a great deal of social tumult — zookeepers there introduced three new adult female chimps, upsetting the former order, and a power struggle also led to a new alpha male. The investigators also looked at records of chimp policing behavior at three other zoos.
The scientists monitored ape social interactions, such as aggressive conflicts, friendly grooming and policing behavior. Policing could involve threatening both quarrelers in a conflict, or running between the antagonists to break up the squabble.
The researchers explored a couple of potential explanations for policing. For instance, policing might help high-ranking members of a group control rivals to keep themselves dominant, or to help keep potential mates from leaving the group. However, both explanations would require high-ranking males to be the arbiters — female chimps usually do not fight over rank, and female chimps are the most likely members to leave groups, not males. In contrast, the researchers found that police chimps were of both sexes. [8 Ways Chimps Act Like Us]
The researchers suggest policing helps improve the stability of groups, thus providing the arbiters with a healthy community to live in. Supporting this notion is the fact that arbiters were more willing to intervene impartially if several quarrelers were involved in a dispute, probably because such conflicts are more likely to jeopardize group peace.
"The interest in community concern that is highly developed in us humans and forms the basis for our moral behavior is deeply rooted — it can also be observed in our closest relatives," said researcher Claudia Rudolf von Rohr at the University of Zurich.
The scientists detailed their findings online today (March 7) in the journal PLoS ONE.
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Abstract
Because conflicts among social group members are inevitable, their management is crucial for group stability. The rarest and most interesting form of conflict management is policing, i.e., impartial interventions by bystanders, which is of considerable interest due to its potentially moral nature. Here, we provide descriptive and quantitative data on policing in captive chimpanzees. First, we report on a high rate of policing in one captive group characterized by recently introduced females and a rank reversal between two males. We explored the influence of various factors on the occurrence of policing. The results show that only the alpha and beta males acted as arbitrators using manifold tactics to control conflicts, and that their interventions strongly depended on conflict complexity. Secondly, we compared the policing patterns in three other captive chimpanzee groups. We found that although rare, policing was more prevalent at times of increased social instability, both high-ranking males and females performed policing, and conflicts of all sex-dyad combinations were policed. These results suggest that the primary function of policing is to increase group stability. It may thus reflect prosocial behaviour based upon “community concern.” However, policing remains a rare behaviour and more data are needed to test the generality of this hypothesis.
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"mOrALiTy cOmEs FrOm GoD!!1!"
Even chimps know you don't "defund the police."
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Im curious- I never really thought about it, but I wanted to ask! How do primates act as parents? Do certain species have more noticeable differences?
Great question! While all primates are different, one thing that makes us interesting is that parenting is not instinctive, but is rather a series of trial and error and learned social behaviours. There is a book I've been meaning to read on the subject-- Parenting for Primates by Harriet J. Smith-- which explores this in depth. The text is apparently not a dense read but is accessible for layreaders so while I haven't read it yet you may be interested in checking it out. Basically, Smith is a primatologist and psychologist who used her knowledge and experience in both fields to draw comparisons across multiple species (particularly humans to other primates). Additional perspective of hers that makes this interesting is that she found from hand rearing two cotton top tamarins that, having not been raised by members of their own species, they were pretty incompetent parents.
Parenting is different species to species, but there are overall trends. One thing that can surprise humans observing primate parents is how rough they are with their offspring. In this way humans are the outliers, because we are born incredibly fragile compared to other primates. A certain degree of tugging, pushing, and prodding is normal, but primate parents can also be very protective. I've seen gorilla mothers swoop their babies up at the slightest tumbles, and olive baboons breaking up play wrestling between their child and peers.
Some primate species have pretty even distributions of who takes on the bulk of child rearing between the parents, but many have child raising as solely the task of the mother. Orangutans are unique as apes in that they live quite solitary lifestyles, and most in the wild will never meet their fathers. Orangutan mothers take it all on, but of course the exciting thing about primates is that they will surprise you. We have posted before about Berani and Cerah, the orangutan father-daughter duo that have been inseparable since Cerah's mother passing away. Caretakers expected female relatives to step in to care for Cerah, so Berani spending most of his days cuddling and caring for his daughter was a cute surprise.
Overall, across most species there is a high level of variation based on individual and circumstantial factors because parenting is not instinctive. Some primate parents are very caring and doting even beyond the point that their offspring relies on them, and some are barely interested in their children.
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"Prototype chimeras"
Artificial experiments with soul attributes, hybrid beings mixed with animals, they are varied in size and abilities! created as pets, familiars, or guardians specifically for the monsters of the containment unit from alternate universe 502. The little creatures are loyal, loving and powerful! The only sound they can make is "Khy!" every time they express themselves. Their gender is undefined when they are born, only until they reach a certain physical maturity is it known what gender they are. They all have the reproductive ability to lay eggs.
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Prototype number 1: Golden chimera
Mixed with lizards, a dog and a vision and the attribute of determination in its purest form. The little being is cheerful and curious about his surroundings, he demonstrated wall-climbing abilities and immutable supernatural resistance at its best, being the first of his kind, he has more similarities with a human domestic dog. failed to calculate its gluttony with respect to food since the creature is capable of eating more food than it normal, sometimes what he eats does not even have to be food since on one occasion he ate a steel desk in 30 minutes. His condition is not very stable, his body is physically strong but I fear that his mind will collapse at any moment. I have decided to keep him under observation and subject him to more tests to find a cure for this strange disease he suffers from and repair his unstable mind, since he has to be healthy for mass production, if I don't have a cure soon. I may have to put him in a suspension chamber until further notice to prevent him from dying prematurely.
Dr. Wayne Ding Gaster
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Prototype number 2: Purple chimera
Mixed with otters, and a cat and a chameleon and the attribute of perseverance. The little being is relaxed and carefree, he has more similarities to a human domestic cat, he demonstrated abilities to deform his physical structure and become invisible, he is sociable and friendly, his physical structure is stable, he passed his tests successfully in a week. Mass production will be carried out as soon as possible, my oldest son likes this creature. Maybe I'll give it to him as a gift.
Dr. Wayne Ding Gaster
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Prototype number 3: Blue chimera
Mixed with rabbits, an oyster and a hamster and the attribute of integrity. The little being is quite happy despite not having two eyes, he has more similarities with a human rabbit since he likes to jump everywhere too much, he demonstrated abilities to petrify and turn objects and living beings into stone, as well as the ability to make pearls. He is sociable and friendly, sometimes he has a certain suspicion that his pearls will be stolen, his petrification ability is long-lasting, but nothing that cannot be reversed in a day, his physical structure is stable, he passed his tests successfully in 2 weeks. Mass production will take place as soon as possible, my assistant Alphys adore the prototype too very much, she constantly tells me that it is like a lamp as she shines her pearl in her tail when she is happy. She gave this creature a name, she called it "Light", I for one will consider her request for adoption, as I do not want the prototype to further petrify my laboratory!
Dr. Wayne Ding Gaster
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Prototype number 4: Cyan chimera
Mixed with iguanas, a fruit bat and an orangutan and the attribute of patience. The little being is quite restless and flies a lot, it has more similarities with the human bat, but it is very patient like a thoughtful human orangutan. He demonstrated abilities to lift extremely heavy things and cut objects quite easily, as well as hunger from eating a lot of fruits, nothing serious honestly, just a little annoying since he steals food. He is sociable and friendly, sometimes he tends to follow and observe any being that catches his attention, his physical structure is stable, he passed his tests successfully in 4 days, due to his kindness and consideration. Mass production will be carried out as soon as possible. The ex queen Toriel constantly brings the prototype back to the lab, as it escapes too often. Prototype 4 really likes the ex queen since he constantly follows her everywhere indiscriminately and as I always asked to her if she wanted to adopt him, the queen accepted, it is a relief on my part since I will be able to eat my peaches in peace!
Dr. Wayne Ding Gaster
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Okay, enough Graham...what campaign is Steven Cree asking for money? Is it just for the jump, or are there any real collaborations to the cause?
Dear Cree Anon,
Why would you ask me, knowing perfectly well I deliberately do not follow the cast's socials, beats me. But if you are the same insistent Graham anon, know I am also half thrilled you decided to put that evergreen to a well-deserved rest.
Ok, so Cree it is, in lieu of other juicy things. I suppose you mean this (yes, I went there by myself, miserable lurker)?
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It ain't a Ponzi scheme, that's for sure. It sounds legit and it's a decent cause:
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The skydive is supposed to happen on September 17th and in 'layman's terms' he's 'shitting himself': classy. You can help the orangutans and the sloths by donating anywhere from 35 to 400 £. And don't expect this proud mom of two rescue puppies to tell you there are more worthy causes, Anon: I have a soft spot for animal charities myself.
Unless S or C follow this or S is planning to show us his prowess, that does not rock my world in any given way. To put, however, things a bit in context, I will only add this: with Cree back to OL, so have to be his charitable projects or at least preferences, any good publicist would tell you that. Also, from at least this point on, expect no slippage whatsoever, with regard to S, C or S&C. It will all be vetted to death and then some more...and it's been a long while since he gave us anything worthy of being mentioned.
That being said, the above publicist could have kept a closer eye on what their client is babbling: "the animals are screwed" is not exactly the best way to seduce my willing and able wallet. Just trying to be polite, there.
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