will i ever figure out how to use it? probably not maybe, but i do have a bsky if anyone wants to keep in touch if this beloved hellsite does go down in flames: seedlingstar.bsky.social
it’s even less social, but i’m also SplendidDust over on storygraph if anyone wants to let me snoop their book choices and/or see how many times i read murderbot this year
Ili Pika or Magic Rabbit (Ochotona iliensis), family Ochotonidae, order Lagomorpha, endemic to the Tian Shan Mountains of NW China
ENDANGERED.
photographs by Li Weidong
It only took 32 sessions, but our PF2e group finally has a team name and it’s “Natural Causes” and it came about because we weren’t sure if this one drow was going to be mad we killed some of these other creatures and kept saying they died of “”“natural causes”“”
Blood test results are back. 0’s across the board, dry as a bone under the hood, they’re not sure what they’ve got in those vials but it recoils from light and lunges towards living tissue, which is all normal for girls these days.
It's really funny being obsessed with a character who isn't from a visual medium (podcasts, books, radio dramas, what have you) and thus doesn't have a canon design so you can't post screenshots or anything of them. What do you do then? Post excerpts from the text? Screenshot the waveform of them speaking? It's not like you can just steal art and post it without credit or anything sooo....
I wish we had seen more mediocre benders in atla. It would have accentuated how talented everyone in the gaang actually is. I am sure not every bender would have a talent for martial arts, right? I’d like to see earthbenders who are terrible at aiming and can’t throw a single rock, or waterbenders who freeze water every time they try to bend it, or firebenders with respiratory problems, or airbenders with with a fear of heights
Speaking of our insanely talented main cast, they are so good at bending that they all invent, discover or master a certain subtype of bending (lightning redirection, seismic sense, metalbending, bloodbending, healing, energybending).
It’d be interesting to see a character who is considered mediocre or even terrible at bending achieve this. Just being great at the most unconventional (both useful and useless) way of bending while ‘failing’ the basics.
That earthbender who can’t lift a pebble? They can tell apart the chemical composition of any pile of dirt.
The firebender with respiratory issues? They have insane control of their internal energy making them an excellent lightningbender.
The airbender with a fear of heights? They have mastered floating exactly one feet above the ground.
The waterbender who freezes water every time they bend? They can now even freeze the water in clear air.
my personal pick for most underrated animal is the european legless lizard, which i think is often taken to just look like a normal and rather plain snake, but if you're familiar with reptile anatomy at all it looks more like some sort of bizarre heraldic fantasy creature than basically anything else on earth