#what is up with this fucking echidna

[danpops]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN KNUCKLES HAS A GLITCH THAT LETS HIM FLY AGAIN????

What the fuck is up with this character???

#sonic frontiers #update 3 #sonic frontiers update 3 #sonic frontiers spoilers #the final horizon #the final horizon spoilers #sonic frontiers update 3 spoilers #knuckles the echidna #what is up with this fucking echidna #how does he keep doing this

[star-scrambled]

so 😁😁😁 i’ve been playing a game

#sonic frontiers spoilers??? just in tags really #I haven’t been on social media much since frontiers day BUT I SURE HOPE WHOEVERS STUCK AROUND ISNT SHUTTING UP ABOUT THESE GUYS #BECAUSE HOLY *FUCK* #THEYRE SO. THEYRES??????? ??? ANIMATORS IAN FLYNN HI? WHAT? #best game ever CANNOT BELIEVE THEY INVENTED BISEXUALS #SONUCKLESSSSAUAUAAAAUGHHHHHHHHHHH #swearing in tags #vics silly art zone 2022 #8/10/22 #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sth #knuckles the echidna #sonuckles #sonknux #knuxonic #sonic frontiers

[a-oct0]

And none of them were normal...

I know I said they don't exist at the same time, which- they don't but also I realised how funny of a group they'd be so- Future AU's collide my non-canon to my fanon way to making more stupid things with these five.

#whos world do they end up in? fuck know #what is known is Aster aint happy #one sister is bad enough #but now theres three more?? #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #shadow the hedgehog #shadow #amy rose #silver the hedgehog #silver #knuckles the echidna #knuckles #sonadow #sonilver #sonamy #sonknux #fanart #art #fankid

[tekatonic]

I'm skipping a few drawings in-between these two for the sake of being related-ish, but we'll come back to those.

Technically this Chaos design could be considered OC-ish I guess ? Chaos is a deity here, and quite a major one considering chaos energy is the aura in everything ! Here he is mortal, for purposes.

#sonic the hedgehog #knuckles the echidna #chaos the echidna #chaos #sonic emerald guardians au #did you know echidna feet are entirely fucked up to try and adapt into an anthro form ? #also i don't know what to do with knucks' quill accessories given his gliding form #the star shapeshifty thing in chaos' page is a chao floaty ! #chao are Chaos' minions like Dark Gaia has its minions #i'm not gonna explain what's happening on the right there but he and Tikal have a sad life #teka art #teka backlog #how do you tag chaos now that 'chaos sonic' exists ?

[cartoonrival]

how come you guys let me never see this image

#txt157 #sth #what the fuck. mighty and knuckles straight up cuddling #sonic the hedgehog #mighty the armadillo #ray the flying squirrel #knuckles the echidna #miles tails prower

[guardian-of-da-gay]

I feel like the Knuckles show is probably gonna be like 90% shenanigans (and I love that for him) but I also feel like its gotta make GUN nervous that the Wachowskis are carting around a reality altering super weapon in a cooler while they play baseball... maybe they could send someone in to steal it.  Like a spy perhaps.  Another Mobian so the Wachowski boys lower thejr defenses a bit. If it’s a girl that would further lower their guard.  She’d need to be crafty though, maybe someone with previous experience as a jewel thief.  Wonder if the Sonic franchise has a character like that.

#what if knuckles let someone in and started feeling romantic feelings for the first time #and then she betrayed him #wouldn't that fuck him up #scu #sonic the movie #knuckles the echidna #here’s hoping Apollo hits me with a dodgeball

[wprowers]

there's no way to stop me now

i love amy is it noticeable

First | Next

#my knuckles we love you #shadow having no idea what he is doing ? #sign me up #he will learn eventually #give him time #im a sucker for tails helping knuckles #thats his big brother #sonic: i believe in women's rights to shut the fuck up #sonic boom #knuckles the echidna #amy rose #miles tails prower #shadow the hedgehog #social media

[julie-su]

I thought Lienda was going to have this dramatic arc with that girl but she's just kind of doing nothing. You promised me lesbians and drama. Kragek isn't even a slut

They should put a massive disclaimer over my head that says 'PRE-#160 ECHIDNA CONTENT IS LOOSELY USED AS FLAVOURING FOR THE GOOD STUFF'

--ALSO I AM SO SO SO SORRY if any of you are getting into the echidna lore because of me. Please know that everything I put out about them is cherry-picked and built upon and 70% fanon springboarding off of it

#It's not even a 'so bad it's good' read half of the time. #I mean-- I have a lot of soft spots for most of it! It's just funny. silly. goofy. #but then you've got two fascist regimes playing out and nazi imagery so thick that you've got dingoes lining echidnas against the wall. #F'ing Benedict doing the nazi salute to a crowd of echidna doing the same. Chanting 'heil Dimitri!' #--Did at any point in your brain you think 'hey this is really really insensitive to put in the SONIC THE HEDGEHOG comics'? #It's like - I can forgive some things. It was the 90's. Who wasn't using nazi imagery. But it was SO much more than nazi imagery. #Suddenly we've got 'yeah the dingoes are fascist because they're born stupid and war hungry. unlike us genetically superior echidnas' #... What? WHAT? UHH. THERE IS SO MUCH WRONG WITH THIS. #Also I reiterate. ECHIDNAS LINED UP AGAINST THE WALL BY A DINGO FIRING SQUAD. NAZI SALUTES. Whaaaaaaat the fuck were you THINKING #-ahem- #don't read the KTE comics unless you're ready to hold your head in your hands and nurse a headache

[fastfists]

Not me thinking of this video and going ‘Knuckles can 110% do this without a doubt’ cause I say so and cause my lad is skilled after all. No doubt he’d be able to do this shit.

#I'm Just Warming Up {OOC} #About the Muse {Knuckles the Echidna} #Wasn't going to make this a HC post BUT fuck it; I am making a HC post for it #Knux is my baby and I can do what I want; my baby skilled #Me: -showing off my baby echidna- LOOK. AT. HIM. LOOK at my son. Much talent.

[sir-kettle-of-countertop]

So, I saw a post circulating here about the “extinction of birds in 2023“, with this picture attached

My, what a bold claim! All these poor birdies, “went extinct” in just one year alone? Why would such an outrageous, depressing and catchy claim be spread around? Let’s fact check it.

All the species listed, Bachman’s wabler (Vermivora bachmanii, 1988 or 1980s), Kāmaʻo or large Kauaʻi thrush (Myadestes myadestinus, 1989 or 1987), Bridled white-eye (Zosterops conspicillatus, 1983 and 1983), Kauai ʻakialoa (Akialoa stejnegeri, 1969 or 1960s), Kauaʻi ʻōʻō (Moho braccatus, 1987 and 1987), Kauaʻi nukupuʻu (Hemignathus hanapepe, 1899 and 1899), Maui ʻakepa (Loxops ochraceus, 1988 and 1988), Kākāwahie or Molokaʻi creeper (Paroreomyza flammea, 1963 and 1963), Maui nukupuʻu (Hemignathus affinis, 1896* and 1996 ) and Poʻouli (Melamprosops phaeosoma, 2004 and 2004) are all, indeed, either extinct or possibly extinct, according to IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

What are the dates after the scientific names? Well, those all are *last sightings* per IUCN Red List and USFWS accordingly. So, these birds were not seen for DECADES and in one case FOR MORE THAN A GODDAMN CENTURY. And sure as hell there is NO information about them very suddenly being gone all last year.

What’s the deal then? Where did this claim even come from? Well, likely from this article "21 Species Delisted from the Endangered Species Act due to Extinction" from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. It includes all the birds in the picture (with the last date of sight, listed above).

From the article: “The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is delisting 21 species from the Endangered Species Act due to extinction. Based on rigorous reviews of the best available science for each of these species, the Service determined these species are extinct and should be removed from the list of species protected under the ESA. Most of these species were listed under the ESA in the 1970s and 80s and were in very low numbers or likely already extinct at the time of listing.”

They didn’t ALL fucking suddenly drop dead all in the same year – if they did, as some other people have already pointed out, there would be an uproar EVERYWHERE. Ornithologists alone would not let it live down. They were officially delisted from endangered status by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service that year, there was a proposition to do so back in 2021, too. Some were already declared extinct before by IUCN.

Despite not being seen for so long, they remained on the list of critically endangered for a long while, cause you cannot just immediately declare a species extinct. There’s no RTS unit amount number that goes to 0 once there’s nothing left; people keep checking for them over and over and over again. Sometimes it turns out that a species previously thought to be extinct is actually still out there. Attenborough's long-beaked echidna for example was last sighted SIXTY YEARS ago before being sighted again in 2023. It was thought to be extinct for a while, before 2007, when signs of its activity was spotted again. More often than not though, a species turns out to be actually very extinct, unfortunately – like in this case. I cannot possibly know if the creators of this picture, or people that spread it on social media ever had good intentions behind it for awareness, however even if they did, it turned out to be nothing but very blatant misinformation, with a fearmongering effect. The only thing this achieves is not awareness of habitat destruction or pernicious tourist influence or climate change or what have you – the only thing this achieves is despair and panic. People already so casually fall into complete doomerism, they’re very used to hear bad news. And guess what doomerists do? Typically nothing. It renders people helpless. It’s not gonna make people get up and be ready for action, it, at best, would just make people feel sad and/or angry, or at worst, feed into the current alarming rise of ecofascism. NOTHING good comes out of this. At the very goddamn least, no one needs to lie to promote a goal.

The aim of the USFWS article, on the other hand, IS to make people aware about those animals that are already gone from the face of the planet, no matter how long ago, and that now we have to protect those animals that are critically endangered and still out there – to not have to repeat those tragedies.

Be very critical of what you see on the internet, especially if it’s sited with no sources. Especially-especially if it causes a strong emotional reaction. Lies and misinfo could only hurt the cause, no matter how noble. And please, be aware of your local wildlife status. Check in with it accoding to trusted sources.

[*sic, possibly a typo and it was meant to be 1996, other confirmed date listed there is 1989] Addendum: I could not for sure find the uncredided (who woulda thunken that ppl that don't cite their sources would also not credit the artists) author(s) of the bird illustrations. If someone finds them, please, let me know! Edit: Huge thanks to moosefinch for finding the sources for the artwork! I'll add their contribution below:

"Image sources!

The Kauai ʻakialoa, Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, Maui ʻakepa and Kauaʻi nukupuʻu are from Birds of the World.

The "Maui nukupuʻu" and "Molokaʻi creeper" illustrations are also Birds of the World, but are actually a female Kauaʻi nukupuʻu (the other being the male) and Laysan honeycreeper/Laysan ʻapapane respectively.

The bridled white-eye is by Lauren Helton according to this source.

Bachman's warbler is by Lynn Hawkinson Smith/smithhouse2 according to this Etsy listing.

The Poʻouli is by Christina Czajkowski."

#ah I just now see that the tumblr reblog of the pic and the twitter thread attached was deleted #yet the post is still in circulation. The damage lingers #so fucking irresponsible #fact check #misinformation #birds #bird #ecology #environmentalism #extinction #conservation #species conservation #animals #hawaiʻi #important

[ewingstan]

I had an interesting series of emotions reading this passage.

First was awe at the extent of Vista's capabilities. An entire city crumpled up and transformed. The type of effect that's impressive enough to sell countless blockbuster movie tickets on the basis of visual effects. The type of effect that we've only seen before in this setting from fucking Bohu. The little girl that Brian decked in arc three is pulling Endbringer moves.

That awe was followed by a light sense of feeling cheated, of Vista's power suddenly seeming too powerful based on what wildbow had previously established. But that quickly got tempered by remembering that Vista was always a powerhouse, but that her abilities were limited when people were in the area she was affecting. She could only do so much because she was working with an abandoned city.

And that got me to really pay attention to how Brockton Bay was an abandoned city. Its empty now. Completely depopulated. The city that we spent so much time in during Worm, that went through so much. The city that Coil spent so long conquering, that Skitter spent so long protecting, that survived Bakuda and Leviathan and the Slaughterhouse Nine and Echidna. The city whose mayor Taylor had to threaten to keep it from being abandoned earlier. The Boardwalk and the Docks. Arcadia and Winslow. The Loft. Its all empty now. All that fighting for it and its all empty now.

#mals reads ward #wardblr #parahumans #wildbow #mals says

[heckinconfusedparade]

Woe! Sonic character headcanons be upon Ye!

Sonic:

- Learned how to cook while raising Tails and got really good at it

- Hedgehog Gordon Ramsay

- Can’t bake for shit tho

- Made up a lullaby that he sings to Tails to help him sleep. It’s been effective since the kit was 4

- In the warmer months, Sonic scouts out nice places for his annual picnic with Amy. He loves hanging out with her and enjoying sweets!

- Has a memorial for Chip with his necklace somewhere hidden

- Ran before he could walk

- Bothers Knuckles on Angel Island at least twice a week

- He and Shadow spar every week

- Bro has a bunch of Knick knacks and trinkets from his adventures

- Has a lazy day every once in a whilel

- He does vocal warm ups every morning as part of his little routine, even if he doesn’t plan on singing that day. It’s good to warm up before doing a lot of speaking!

Tails:

- He’s so sweet but so sassy

- Will sass a grown man to death

- Hugs people he really loves with his tails included

- He has a blacksmith place somewhere

- Had to have an intervention for his mint addiction (unsuccessful)

- His love language is gift giving! His gifts are one of a kind

- He made Shadow a gun for Christmas. It has bullets that explode on impact. It’s a tiny rocket launcher

- Used a chaos emerald to give a box Chaos Control so he can warp stuff back to his workshop

- the box defies logic, and he can fit literally anything in it

Amy

- If anyone insults or puts down her besties it’s ON SIGHT! EVEN IF ITS THE BESTIE SAYIN IT ABOUT THEMSELF (looking at you, TAILS)

- Refuses to let anyone go hungry. Angel to anemic and diabetic community!

- Spars with Knuckles to practice her hand to hand combat

- Meets up with Sonic in the coldest part of winter so they can hibernate together

- Loves her picnic dates with Sonic!

- Got Vanilla to homeschool Tails so at least the kid can have credentials to go into higher education in the future if he wants

- Loves thrift shopping! One man’s trash is this gals treasure!

- Crystal girl

- Shares Taylor Swift album theories with Shadow. They both go crazy for it

- She took Cream, Rouge, Blaze, and Sticks on a road trip. It was the most chaotic thing to hit the roads that summer.

Knuckles:

- is the reason a mountain has a giant crack in it

- vibe checks buildings for faulty wiring with his electro signal echidna stuff

- Bro moves the soil around his island to promote healthier plant life

- Bro is the single teen dad of many many many Chao

- Tries to leave the island whenever he can. He has a map of places that Sonic marked because they made him think of him!

- Taught Tails how to throw one hell of a punch and how to use his namesakes in combat

- Secretly looks forward to Rouge’s visits because he finds the sparring fun

Shadow:

- His room is usually only illuminated by a lamp because the sun shines directly in his window, and the ceiling light is too bright

- the lightbulb in the lamp changes colours. Rouge calls it his Mood Lamp

- If Sonic doesn’t show up to their weekly sparring, he gets concerned and indirectly searches for the dude. He’d rather die than admit he’s concerned tho

- Taylor Swift karaoke night with Amy

- Plays Project SEKAI

- Has a garden full of beautiful flowers dedicated to Maria. Amy and Sonic helped find flowers and seeds, and Knux provided the soil. They didn’t ask to get involved, nor were they asked, they just found out from Rouge and decided to help Shadow out

- He cannot fucking cook

- He cannot fucking bake

- There’s very few things he can actually make BUT HES LEARNING

- Learning to enjoy life as it happens. He’s stopping to smell the roses and appreciate what he has right now, and tries not to lament about the past or future

Rouge:

- Sometimes visits Angel Island just to bother Knuckles

- She has a pair of boots that has spikes on the toes

- Taught Tails how to steal

- She’s Cream’s favourite guest to bring to a tea party because of all the drama she brings with her.

- Is the reason Tails is a gossip

- She played Thief Simulator and had the greatest time ever

- Watched analysis videos of people trying to solve heists she committed

- Pretended not to listen when Amy infodumped to her about crystal energy, but she actually finds it very interesting

Omega:

- Trusts Tails with his life

- Because he can’t fit through doors or knock without breaking them, he stands outside the window waiting for someone to notice him outside

-or he just breaks the door anyway because why not

- Loves fireworks, wants to fire them on his own

- Absorbs every insult he hears Sonic make, as well as searches up on the internet to add to his database just so he can insult Eggman in a way that matters.

#I’ll make more another time idk #could be an empty promise #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #tails the fox #knuckles the echidna #amy rose #shadow the hedgehog #rouge the bat #e 123 omega #sonic headcanons

[professorhayforbreath]

episode 4 thoughts :)

why is this episode ten minutes shorter than the others?

right off the bat i'm sorry but i'm not sold on the necessity of the opening scene. i get it's trying to inject sally into the story more, but it's not as if they're not constantly talking about her. and why would he be scared of swimming?

"are you asleep?" ".................yes" i enjoy

annabeth saying her home life was great until her stepmother... i checked the book to make sure i wasn't misremembering her dad being awful and yeah she's pretty venomous towards him. what's the motivation for this revision? was frederick in the writer's room

pan and searchers mentioned! finally

annabeth rattling off facts about the arch 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

i really like echidna finding them on the train and them escaping to the arch, it makes more sense than "the train's stopped let's go sightseeing"

continuing the themes from the last episode by referring to the trio as monsters from the "monster's" perspective..... that's good stuff ngl

percy and annabeth's banter was top tier this episode

i wasn't sure about it at first but on rewatch i really like the whole "athena got pissed about medusa's head so she let echidna and the chimera into the arch" thing. it's a good follow up to annabeth's blind loyalty to her mother in ep 3. like yesssss it's time for disillusionment it's time to join the side of fuck the gods they don't actually care about us

making the water come up and grab him is a good way to 1. show poseidon helping percy and 2. correct rick's mistake about the location of the mississippi river in relation to the arch. two birds one stone. also the way that part was shot and edited was sick

i know i praised the show's writing but that was about line level stuff. the pacing feels... off. it's slow in some scenes, and then some scenes fly by so quickly. please tell me i'm not the only one who's felt this?

I Am Still Patiently Awaiting Seaweed Brain and Wise Girl

#percy jackson #pjo #percy jackson on disney plus #pjo adaptation #percy jackson show #pjo series #pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson series #pjo show spoilers

[lakesbian]

i still become physically ill if i think about lisa calling taylor pet names for too long. calling her "honey bear" after she kills alexandria. calling her "kiddo" right after she lobotomizes herself. despite literally being the same age as her. like it's nuts she loves taylor to death and she's sooo condescending and manipulative about it. i don't even have any coherent analysis about lisa and taylor because if i think about it too hard i black out it's just a really good fucked up little character dynamic. she for real sees taylor immediately realizes she has nothing to live for goes "i can fix her. bc i cannot take seeing this happen a second time." and then spends the next 2 years watching taylor kill herself in slow motion. it happens a second time despite all her best efforts and there is nothing she can do about it. she never fixes her but she is the only thing keeping her standing. she Is her anchor. she saves her from a lot of things but she does Not save her from herself. the fact that a bit after the echidna fight lisa literally just tells her that she can't tell her abt her problems because taylor Is her problems and they never address it afterwards....so so fucked up (good). obsessed w the decision to do a 'mom friend/shy girl' dynamic that takes depicting how fucked up it actually is to the extreme. worm top all time champion of sort of objectively horrible and dysfunctional teenage relationships that everyone involved would've died without. the fucking pepper spray man. taylor giving lisa the pepper spray after she lobotomizes herself + starts worming and lisa saying 'couldn't you have made it easy?' like there is no question that lisa is going to stand with her no matter what but taylor doesn't let her live in blissful ignorance she does her the horrible favor of informing lisa that she's still in there, and this is what she wants to do. lisa just. standing there loving her to death watching her destroy herself smiling sadly and asking "couldn't you have made loving you easy?" even though they both already know the answer was always gonna be no. i have GOT to start having good lisataylor opinions but i Cannot because i start fainting and passing out if i think about them too hard. 10/10 would become physically ill over again. someone bring me the fucking smelling salts

#scarf don't look #worm spoilers

[trans-queen-administrator]

Ok so I saw this post and I don't want to derail it (check it out tho cool analysis). Masks in Worm are so so interesting to me, because they're something the top echelon of villains completely forgo. Slaughterhouse Nine, Birdcage Capes, Nilbog, Echidna, Moord Nag, all of them are unmasked, their identities are complete public knowledge. Masks are a privilege afforded to the Villains who play nice and don't try to blow up the moon, or kill millions, or spawn two thousand goblins, their identities are allowed to stay hidden as an incentive to Not Blow Up The Moon Please. And when the mask comes off, it means there's so much less reason for the villain to hold back because their little Not Blowing Up The Moon prize is gone so what's the fucking point of not doing anything to that smug rock? So when Taylor does get unmasked, there's two major things that signified. She has no reason to hold back anymore, which is why she's so brutal afterwards. She puts maggots in valefors eyes, she manages to kill the Butcher by trapping Cherish in an even worse hell, she ruins the chili, she kills Alexandria and Tagg in the most brutal way possible. Her restraints are gone, she has no reason to temper herself and every reason to lash out. The second thing it signifies is why her lashing out is so terrifying. By being unmasked, she's up there with the nine, nilbog, all the impossibly strong villains we know don't get the privilege of a mask. It tells the reader that Taylor is a villain on par with them, she's that terrifying and enough of a monster that she's not allowed to play the cops and robbers game Lisa tells her about.

#worm #parahumans #taylor hebert #skitter #ramble #absolutely no clue if this one is comprehensible I'm so tired #2:30 am mask analysis #woooo #also yeah some people unmask willingly or never got a choice like Rachel #whatever outliers aren't real #also taylor keeps wearing the mask for The Aesthetic which like. good for her #ohhhh but she doesn't wear a mask as khepri #something there I'm sure

[cartoonrival]

society if i could remember things ive read

#my memory of the things im obsessed with is usually extremely intimate #but with archie trying to find stuff and remember it is like wading through a muddy stream #AFFECTIONATE. but i cannot fucking remember #esp since i havent read any of the echidna stuff that flynn took over after i read kte #so like. it didnt stick w me proper BEFORE because i didnt have context for it #and now i will. and i WANT TO . but also . IM NOT GONNA REMMEBR WHAT HAPPENED IN KTE PROPERLY EITHER. so i have to read THAT. also i need #to remember the timeline and what was happening to the ffs during the events in ktw #*kte #so i can line it up proper. #I HAVE TO BE PUT DOWN LIKE AN ANIMAL #txt157