after all the choice jokes in Morph Club about how much Visser 3 loves tigers (he really, really loves tigers), I had to draw a comic about him finally getting some merch of his favorite Earth animal.
in honor of a new Animorphs TV adaptation being announced with RYAN FUCKING COOGLER at the helm (!!?!??) hereâs the first piece of animorphs fanart I ever drew. RIP Visser Three you would have coveted The Tiger Poster
Matching your freak is beautiful and all but what you really need is a boy who's infatuated with your freak. Down bad for your freak. Deeply intrigued by your freak. Eager to see more of your freak. Supportive of your freak. Gets bricked up witnessing your freak, even.
[Before I ever played D&D, I was obsessed with monster books. I bought a copy of the 2e Monstrous Manual with my allowance and combed through the internet looking for official and unofficial monsters alike. The caterwaul was one I encountered during that era, and the unsavory glee of this picture (from the 2e Fiend Folio Monstrous Supplement) stuck in my head.
The caterwaul first appeared in the 1e Fiend Folio, where it had some classic 1e exception-based design: it had exceptional Dexterity, and there were 2 d100 tables the GM had to roll on to figure out exactly how nimble any given caterwaul was. The 2e version sensibly simplified that to just giving it haste. The Hackmaster 4e version, the predacat, elaborated on it to the point of being a d10,000 table; there's a .0003 % chance for your predacat to be so fast it's effectively invisible! The 3e Tome of Horrors version doesn't give it either, just the sprint ability of a cheetah and a high Dex for its CR. If you're wondering why I'm doing these Fiend Folio monsters even though they already exist in PF1e through the Tome of Horrors, that gives you a glimpse why. The original 3.0 Tome of Horrors is a very important book for the purposes of the SRD and the history of D&D spinoff games... but a lot of the monsters in it are mechanically boring.
Lastly, some speculation. An evil black cat monster appearing in a British book written in the 1980s makes me think the caterwaul might be inspired by "alien black cats", feline cryptids found around the world but especially in Great Britain. The Fiend Folio was written in 1981, before the Beast of Exmoor or Beast of Bodmin Moor had major flaps, but both stories were known already. I gave them the endonym "bodmin" as an homage to that. I also think that the caterwaul "evolved" into the rooftop prowler in later Hackmaster products. That monster is also a stealthy sapient feline with slightly humanoid characteristics.
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Caterwaul
CR 4 CE Magical Beast
This man-sized creature looks like a parody of a black panther, with midnight blue fur and a long flexible tail. Its face is unsettlingly humanoid, with pointed ears and a leering expression.
Caterwauls are monstrous felines with supernatural speed and agility. They are sapient, albeit not very smart, and refer to themselves as âbodmins.â Bodmins can survive perfectly well on a diet of birds and mammals ranging in size from rabbits to cattle, but enjoy hunting humanoid creatures for the challenge and for the treasure picked from their corpses. Although a caterwaulâs paws are only as articulated as those of an ordinary cat, their tails are prehensile, used for clearing brush and sifting through treasure.
A caterwaul is incredibly stealthy, and typically attacks from ambush. Before pouncing, a caterwaul can grant itself haste, and their keen senses allow them to launch a surprise attack from a considerable distance. Their tactics are fairly standard for a cat of their sizeâpounce, bite, grab on, rake with back claws until the prey stops moving. If multiple prey items are clustered in an area, or if the caterwaul is surrounded during a counterattack, the beast screams so powerfully that it deals sonic damage. Caterwauls often kill more than they can eat, and only feed on the freshest of meat, leaving bodies behind to rot and attract scavengers.
Caterwauls live in rocky areas, typically cliffs and caves, and are highly territorial. These territories are marked with scent and scratch marks left on trees and boulders. Bodmins collect treasure, particularly small shiny things like coins and gems, and their hoards are often also littered with metal scraps, chips of mica, or other worthless but sparkly objects. Male caterwauls wander between female territories a few times in their lives seeking to mate, but have no role in rearing the young. Young caterwauls are regularly abused by their mothers to ensure they grow up properly mean, and are then driven off to find a new territory or die trying when they are around half grown.
Caterwaul CR 4
XP 1,200
CE Medium magical beast
Init +4; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, Perception +14, scent
Defense
AC 17, touch 14, flat-footed 17 (+4 Dex, +3 natural)
hp 38 (4d10+16)
Fort +8, Ref +10, Will +5
Defensive Abilities evasion, uncanny dodge
Offense
Speed 60 ft., climb 40 ft.
Melee bite +8 (1d6+1), 2 claws +8 (1d4+1 plus grab)
Special Attacks pounce, rake (2 claws +8, 1d4+1), yowl
Spell-Like Abilities CL 7h, concentration +8
1/dayâhaste (self only)
Statistics
Str 12, Dex 19, Con 19, Int 6, Wis 15, Cha 13
Base Atk +4; CMB +8 (+12 grapple); CMD 21 (25 vs. trip)
Feats Agile Maneuvers, Iron Will, Lightning Reflexes (B), Weapon Finesse (B)
Skills Acrobatics +16 (+30 when jumping), Climb +13, Perception +14, Stealth +16; Racial Modifiers +8 Acrobatics, +8 Perception, +8 Stealth
Languages Abyssal
Ecology
Environment temperate hills and mountains
Organization solitary
Treasure standard
Special Attacks
Yowl (Su) Once per minute, a caterwaul can yowl as a standard action. All creatures within 60 feet of a yowling caterwaul take 2d8 points of sonic damage (Fort DC 13 halves). The save DC is Charisma based.
Psst, hey, Marilyn Monroeâs image as a freewheeling sexpot was a carefully constructed lie. The real Marilyn Monroe was a roiling tragedy and her life was an indictment of our society as a whole. She was orphaned after her mother had a schizophrenic breakdown, bounced around between foster homes where she was sexually abused, and married a 21-year-old at 16 to get out of being sent to an orphanage. Hugh Hefner published nude photos of her without her consent that were taken when she was 23 and desperate. She suffered severe anxiety and depression, which she coped with by drinking and using barbiturates, and was already a full-blown addict when she became famous in the mid-50s. Her career was one of exploitation, condescension and alienation, and she killed herself at 36. That Hugh Hefner, a man who was at best an unpleasant footnote in her life, felt entitled to be buried next to her is one more humiliation in a pop cultural landscape we should all be ashamed of.
âPlease donât make me a joke⊠I donât mind making jokes, but I donât want to look like one⊠I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity..â
 - Marilyn Monroe, last taped interview, days before her death
Can I just also say, in addition to all this, that Iâm still pissed off about the fact that Joe DiMaggio swooped in and gave Marilyn a Christian funeral before her Rabbi could return from a trip overseas? âCause that shit is fucked up.
So many men who claimed to be in love with her, and not one could fucking respect her wishes, even in death.
âIâve never fooled anyone. Iâve let people fool themselves. They didnât bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldnât argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasnât.ââ â Marilyn Monroe
Also:
As one of the biggest Ella Fitzgerald fans, she literally helped desegregate her performances. Ella was not allowed to play at Mocambo because of her race.
Ella Fitzgerald: âI owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt⊠she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him â and it was true, due to Marilynâs superstar status â that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman â a little ahead of her times. And she didnât know it.â thisisnotmyfairytaleendingg (Source: dmvnessa)
ALSO:
In August 1956, Monroe began filming The Prince and the Showgirl, with Laurence Olivier staring and directing. The production was complicated by conflicts between him and Monroe. He angered her with the patronizing statement âAll you have to do is be sexyâ and his attempts to get her to replicate Vivien Leighâs interpretation.
She became pregnant and miscarried during the production, which heavily worsened her depression and increased her drug abuse.
A L S O , I will never forget watching a documentary about her once and, speaking about her marriage with Arthur Miller, the narrator said, verbatim: âAmericaâs Brain had married Americaâs Bodyâ. Like, literally, because he was a famous writer, he was entitled to personhood; she, being an actress, and a beautiful woman, was reduced to being âa bodyâ. I have never been more enraged with her portrayal in the media. If you want to be dismissive of her, literally come for you.
She was also chronically ill her whole life: she suffered from endometriosis with pain so debilitating that a clause was written into her contracts accounting for the days when she would not physically be able to work during her periods.
She was on courses of strong medication, had invasive surgery to try and limit the damage caused, and despite trying for a baby numerous times, suffered many miscarriages because of her condition. The miscarriages especially sent her into deep depression, since she desperately wanted to be a mother.
There is speculation that the condition may have been one of the triggers in her drug dependency as well, because when you have endo, you will take whatever you can to stop. it. hurting.
Marilyn Monroe was smart and strong as hell in a world that saw her as a sexy doll and nothing more.
Marilyn was a founding member of the Hollywood branch of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and had lifelong left-wing political views with a particular emphasis on racial equality. She formed her own independent production company that survived for several years and earned a credit as an executive producer on several films. Additionally, she was not only concerned for workers rights, she acted for them, using her own fame to stop staff being unfairly sacked from several of her films. She was a loyal, kind woman and her early death remains a great tragedy. Worse still, as OP notes, is the co-opting of her image by exactly the sort of people she would have loathed in life.
"I don't want to be on meds for the rest of my life" couldn't be me. I will offer to personally suck off any team of scientists that manages to come up with a singular new medication for my condition that works and has no side effects I can't live with.
if youâre afraid of roundabouts you shouldnât be.. theyâre beautiful pieces of roadway engineering that prevent much more anguish than they cause. loosen up and enjoy the experience of using a Roundabout next time you see one. theyâre quite intuitive and much faster than a light
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