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notnkgm

happy pride!!!

ajokewemade-finrodsfriend

All credit goes to the creator @kikiflash

sagrogostuff

ingridverse

I can absolutely see each member of Huntrix assuming the other two are not virgins, while all three of them are.

Zoey

Perception: She's so cute and affectionate and energetic and uninhibited!

Reality: Was the Weird Kid in school, has closeness and relationship issues due to her parents' messy divorce, when she dares to make a move she tries to flirt by infodumping or by love poems that are too much for most people.

Mira

Perception: The classic take-no-shit does-what-she-wants bad girl. She must have a string of conquests as long as her hair.

Reality: Didn't like or trust anyone she met when she was still in her family's social circle, now she scares off everyone not brave or perceptive enough to see the lovergirl inside the badgirl. Also a little afraid of fallout from being a hunter hurting anyone close to her.

Rumi

Perception: Gorgeous, confident, in control. She could have whoever she wanted.

Reality: Hello, patterns? Also, trauma?

chrysa3tos

(Wolfish Behavior chapter 4 spoilers)

"Have you not been held like this before?" ... ... ... "Does she not hold you?"

the vision for the first meeting of mira and werewolf rumi muri was beamed into my brain from the moment @kayr0ss showed me the early outline for the chapter. so I immediately drew this, showed kay, and then she turned around and wrote so much tenderness and vulnerability into the scene inspired by these three simple panels :')))

chrysa3tos

i forgot how incredibly funny (and extremely gay) the rumira grocery store meet-cute was from wolfish ch 3

0nkret

Demon Rearing by @beansmakesthings

danger-honey

Little rumira animation, Rumi said something funny before this lol

I've also made a twitter account! It's @/dangerhoney_ if yall wanna follow ^^

art-the-f-up

Sometimes when you think you deserve grief, happiness feels like you're running out of time.

0nkret

The world is a strange place. Stay silent too long and it folds around you, dimming you like a candle swallowed by fog, letting your traces sink beneath layers of dust that no one remembers. You try to speak, because something inside you insists on being heard, yet the world shies away from voices that echo too brightly, too honestly, too close to whatever a soul truly is.

So you shape masks out of quiet nights and borrowed smiles, each one fitting just enough to pass, each one soft enough not to disturb anything. You learn to mute your joy, your strangeness, your colors.

You learn to mute yourself.

Pieces of you fall away like petals in slow motion, just so you can keep moving.

And somewhere along the way, your soul grows quiet, so quiet you almost forget the sound it used to make.

0nkret

eldergoblin

Stacking them again

ryuuna

trying to work on a whole polytrix sketchpage

clar-a-m

Scene from Wolfish Behavior Ch. 5 by @kayr0ss

rohirric-hunter

We laugh at how The Art of War is basically just, "An army can't fight if the soldiers aren't eating," but I'm reading this document about conservation of ancient yew trees and it legitimately says, "You should never fill the center of a hollow yew with concrete," so I think that probably making blatantly obvious statements is just the bane of being a specialist in anything

v-spicata

Ah yeah, that's actually not so bizarre when you know the reasons behind it. Still extremely wrong but understandable at least.

So yew trees are weird. They are extremely long lived with basically no known upper limit to their age. They do this by simply being extremely good at not dying like other trees do.

When a normal tree gets to an old age what usually happens is a fungus gets into their heartwood and takes hold. Their internal, dead wood rots away and they hollow out, lose structural support and collapse. Depending on the species this process can take decades or a good few centuries or so.

While yew trees do hollow out in this way they simply keep going afterwards. A ring shaped yew tree with most of its trunk missing is actually just middle aged and the most ancient yews get even weirder than that.

Wikipedia has this image of a Scottish yew where the start of this hollowing process can be seen. To be clear - for most tree species this would already have been fatal.

The thing is seeing a very old yew in this condition looks wrong to a tree surgeon, it's like the tree is constantly on the verge of death. So, if it's a well loved tree you try and do what you can to stop it from falling apart entirely.

A hundred years ago people tried all sorts of things like chaining up branches and also, yes, plugging the hollowed trunk with concrete. We know better nowadays.

Funnily enough there are even yews that survived this treatment and are still alive today.

This is a picture of the Tisbury yew in 1998 from the Ancient Yew Group, barely a minute ago from the tree's perspective.

Yews are fascinating plants with roots in European culture as ancient as the trees themselves. A few individual specimen trees are even estimated to be around five thousand years old - literally prehistoric in age.

Oh also they do weird things with sex as well sometimes. One of the oldest UK trees, the Fortingall yew appears to partially be turning from male to female on one side. It'll be interesting to see what becomes of it in the next few centuries of its life.

Sorry if this is all stuff you already know, I couldn't resist a chance to infodump about one of my favourite species.