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*gasp* Ari??? making a pinned??? at last!

Hello, fellow humans. I'm Leonardo! You can call me anything that's short for it, such as Leo, Leon, Lena, Nardo, Ari, etc. I prefer Ari.

Pronouns: it/hoot/he/chirp/mrrap/bean/shell/chair

Sideblogs: @eagle-lake-moss-blogs, the directory of cats in my Warriors roleplay

@jellyturtles-art, my art blog

@six-starry-ari, my sideblog for my fanmade TMNT/TSC AU

My ao3: Ari_The_Axolotl

I change URLS and icons far too often lol

This is mostly an object show blog

So uh. I sure do exist, thanks for reading!

Name list:

#turtle talks

hey.. i think i frogot to mention i moved my blog to @orphanensemble if anyone misses me

anphivenas

just asked my professor if he wants to feature on a song LMFAO

anphivenas

he said yes

anphivenas

this man is twisted. Sick .

peach-foxgloves

No one ever tell me anything bad about the person who runs this account.

the person who runs this account, Katie Gouldin, is an evolutionary biologist who has an EXCELLENT podcast called Creature Feature which compares and contrasts the weird behaviors of man and beast! she is super cute and funny too!

lavender-lily

oh thank GOD

andypantsx3

just want to add i love how much she hates elon

yeahokayillreblogthat

yeah okay ill reblog that

baddywronglegs

She is also credited by the Audubon society with coining the word “birb”

madlori

Also source for probably the best reaction image in history:

where am i

Live theater in the His Dark Materials universe must be wild. Surely an actor's daemon also has lines to recite, so their daemon's form probably also factors into casting decisions. Maybe some plays have vague character descriptions for daemons, but I bet other plays have really specific or central daemon characters. And sure, big-budget theaters can afford to hire a separate actor with a particular daemon to stand backstage while their daemon plays its part onstage, but community theaters don't have those kinds of resources.

Like if you're casting for Julius Caesar, surely the real historical Caesar had a pretty iconic daemon, right? Are you going to cast an actor with a pigeon daemon as Caesar and just have everyone suspend their disbelief that it's Caesar's lioness, ἁμαρτία?

draconym

queenklu

#overthinking how casting works in real life#internal pieces of an essay about directors' choices and interpretation and whatnot#But imagine casting your actors and daemons as a set--what it says about the characters they're playing#It says something if you cast Julius Caesar with a pigeon daemon#Imagine what it would do to the Eulogy speech! How could Caesar have been ambitious! His daemon was a common pigeon!#(or do you argue that historians were embarrassed by the betrayal and “lionized” his daemon after the fact to make him seem more regal?)#It would make typecasting and casting against type absolutely fascinating when you thrown in daemons.

absolutely fire tags from @afamiliarroomba

impossibletruths

#i bet in some cases of really iconic daemons they keep the actor's daemon offstage #and use puppets or something #also opens up a world of new possibilities for child actors (via @pigeonhawk)

tosailuponthesea

#I had to preserve these. the bit about child actors made me go ''oh fuuuuck'' out loud #there must be some majorly significant coming-of-age plays that have to do with daemons settling #and like. at least one instance of a daemon /actually/ settling during a performance #the reviews! the doctoral dissertations! #also love the idea of daemons-as-puppetry #something something the facsimile of theater while daemons skitter along under the stage like matched magnets #distinct schools of theatrical production and history based on live-action or puppetry daemons and mixed-form shows trying to make a point (@impossibletruths)

roach-works

different theater traditions would solve it differently, too. the greeks once wore rigid theater masks--they might once have also held up their role's daemon as a metal silhouette on a stick, a form as rigidly symbolic as their unchanging mask... and as easy to recognize from the back of the amphitheater.

consider also kabuki, with the stagehands in black, and the bright contrast of the actor's makeup and posturing. the daemon's role could be superimposed with patterned fabric overlays as well as ritualized posturing. a monkey daemon could pose and roar like a general's tiger, while a stag daemon could frisk around and like a servant's loyal dog. and if anything orange and striped was a tiger, and anything white with brown ears was a dog, audiences would be perfectly fine with this for the duration of the show.

theater doesn't have to be realistic, it has to be convincing. an actor's soul would be up to the challenge, whatever shape it was.

Planning on moving blogs. Who wants to be tagged?

only-cat-memes

charl0ttan

mrsterlingeverything

Im craving... $000,000

the-frog-blog-deactivated202510

Check your Venmo :)🤭

mrsterlingeverything

STOPPP YOU DIDNT

audarcy

Found several packs' worth of pokemon cards strewn across a target parking lot and took a pic to show my friends without realizing how much my outfit elevated the scene to "aftermath of a wizard duel"

memorycycle

their scared cus they never saw a sandwich that big. but the dad has to look brave for his son

todaysbird

fun thing about herding and/or generally neurotic breeds: they are really good at following rules you have instituted, but they will also make their own Dog Rules they will follow stringently whether or not you like it

todaysbird

despite never being reprimanded for getting sick if my dog throws up she will ‘tattle’ on herself and run over to me, show me the throw up, then hide and start shaking uncontrollably. nobody taught her to do this. she has decided that throwing up is a punishable offense until the end of time

ajarofpickledtears

todaysbird

my dog has decided that it’s solely on her shoulders to ensure there is peace in my house…if the cats fight she stands between them to ‘break it up’ and/or herds them away, if my rats have an argument she goes to the cage door and barks until they stop. not sure why she has decided she must carry the weight of the world but she has

fauxcoral

localpubliclibrary

Me reaching what looks suspiciously to be the end of my rope: oobh i got plany off rope

wizardarchetypes

went to my best friend’s house last night and saw a little plushie dog and plushie cat that had been sewn together down the middle into a two-headed chimera. I said, “did you do that?” she said, “yes, I saved them.”

turns out at her old job when the last two plushies hadn’t sold and became deadstock, her boss told her to cut them up and throw them out. so she cut them each in half, preserved their heads, and then rebuilt them together.

cannot stop thinking about the way these little plushies were approached with the instinct of a Vampire or some sort of ancient god. “Let me save you [turn you into a monster].”

cipheramnesia

The fact that the beheading was at the order of a superior, and the solution was to create some sort of monster of disobediance to the letter of the law instead of just lying and saving them adds a certain mythological resonance.