One of those pre and post dog walking videos that has a hound in place of whatever dog was gonna get absolutely fucking messy in the field.
The first shot is of some awkward looking frame of a girl whose in a loose fitting flight suit with a muzzle tightly secured to her face.
The second shot is of the same girl, suit half off and smeared with different mixtures of grease and sweat, practically foaming at the mouth in hound space with the muzzle dangling around her neck. She has an entirely different demeanor and might be bleeding.
Both shots are taken from a handler looking down at her
I was thinking about the whole “Humans are space orcs thing” and I got an idea.
Imagine than in far future, humans are part of some king of intergalactic union with other species, but other species only became advanced enough for space travel after they kind of “outgrown” the “animal part” of their brain. You know they became these highly intelligent very rational beings. And they put their effort to creating better tech after that.
While humans got to the same level just by their sheer stubbornness (you know, our need to figure out if we could and not if we should). Like we just kept going and somehow got to the same level as these other beings.
Humans would be the only intergalactic species that can go insane very easily, that is at war with other people of their own species, Earth is the only “advanced planet” where irrational violent crimes still happen, where people are able to hurt eachother over the smallest things.
So (from the aliens POV) you would have this odd little fella, who’s as intelligent as you are but the second he doesn’t get good sleep all of his intelligence seemingly disappears and he looks like he’s ready to shoot everyone on the space ship and then himself.
But it would probably also mean that humans have the best art. Because they still have their impulses and deep desires that don’t make sense. Since art can’t be made completely rationally. (Or at least great art imo, you still need the emotions in that to make it stand out.)
So I imagine this alien on a mission with their human copilot and the alien is constantly asking the human to connect his fkin Spotify to the space ship speakers cos they really want to listen to fkin Rasputin from Boney M.
The legislature is looking at a bill for requiring age verification for "adult content" online. We all know what garbage this is. These things never really protect kids, and they always wind up restricting much more than actual pornography. Tumblr's stupid effort to ban "porn" should show us more than enough about how this plays out.
Every rational person wants to protect kids online. Measures like this don't do the job. It doesn't even come close to an honest conversation about what protecting kids means.
If you want to tell your reps this is dumb, make a comment here. It doesn't even have to be long. Just tell them you're against this move.
Wind thinks about his place in the timeline. And he watches how Time treats Twilight. How Twilight gets the nickname “pup.” How Twilight gets to be a blood relation of Time and Malon, which even if it’s accidental gets him special conversations that no one can have. No one including Wind. Wind learns about how Time will one day die and wait hundreds of years to meet Twilight, to train him. How Twilight went on his adventures at the age of 16, not 12. And resentment begins to grow.
Twilight wasn’t compared to the Hero of Time every time he had to help a new area. He got a mentor who properly cared about him and taught him to fight and a companion who was there over his shoulder the whole adventure. He only had to go on one adventure. His father figure (less of a figure and more actual dad) didn’t resent him in the beginning. He didn’t lay impossible tasks at his door or had to be blackmailed into helping. Twilight had people in his village his age. He had little kids who he saw as siblings but didn’t have to be responsible for because they had actual parents without poor eyesight, arthritis, and low stamina.
Seemingly suddenly, Wind starts to pull away from Twilight. And not only Twilight, but Time too. They become hard for him to talk to civilly. To look at. To think about. Warriors tries to talk to him, but that lands him in the same category. It isn’t fair because Warriors understands a little. He gets being held to an impossible standard. To be responsible for other people. He didn’t have a proper father figure either. But he had Proxi. He had Impa. It wasn’t the same.
Wind starts hanging out exclusively with Legend and Hyrule. Because they aren’t part of the straightforward timeline either. They are from the other off-shoot. Time can have Twilight, and Twilight can have Wild and Warriors too. Would make things neat, easy. Sky to Four to Time to Twilight to Warriors to Wild. That can be the “right” timeline. And Legend, Hyrule, and Wind can be the odd ones out. It’s not like either Legend or Hyrule care. They didn’t have stable companions either. They didn’t have father figures at all. Sure, Hyrule came after Legend, so they had that connection while Wind was by himself in another off-shoot. But they didn’t mind. They didn’t.
And Legend shelters Wind from Warriors’s attempts to talk. Hyrule hangs out more with Legend and Wind and stops doing crazy antics with Wild. And slowly the one Chain becomes two separate ones. No one knows how to fix it. Warriors can’t talk to any of the three, Time can’t do more than command his two other successors and Hyrule in battle, and Twilight can’t get close to Wind even in Wolf form. Legend’s bunny form is discovered, and the pink bunny gets to sit in Wind’s lap. But Wolfie is no longer the recipient of hugs or attempted kisses.
The rift grows. Four tries to mend it by asking about Wind’s shield but gets shut down with “it couldn’t be yours because it’s not from the canon timeline.” Sky explains that he’s the one that cursed them all and should hold all the blame for their troubles but Wind reassures Sky that none of the off-shoot timelines are his fault with a sneer at Time.
Finally Wild snatches Wind when the two Chains are in his era and teleports them to the Chaas Qeta Shrine. On the small Tenoko island, Wind has nowhere to go, so Wild forces him to sit with him on the shrine platform or he wouldn’t teleport them back to the others. Grumpily Wind complies.
There Wild reveals a secret. He knows where he falls in the timeline, and it isn’t after Twilight. Every time Twilight appeared, his Sheikah slate made it clear Twilight came from another world. Which Wild now realized meant Twilight was from another timeline. The hero Wild had grown up hearing tales about hadn’t been the Hero of Twilight. It had been the Hero of Winds.
When Wind heard that, he exploded. Because of course Wild wouldn’t have pretended to be Twilight’s successor instead. Wind wasn’t good enough to be Wild’s predecessor. He was just a kid who defended Hyrulean Kings and didn’t matter even to those who came after him.
Wind threw himself into the ocean and began swimming towards shore to the best of his ability. Wild quickly swims after him and catches him. Wind can’t get out of Wild’s grip and to his shame bursts into tears. He’s done. He wants to go home. Or at least go hide behind Legend and Hyrule and never talk to any of the rest of the Chain again.
Hugging Wind tight, Wild takes him back to Tenoko Island. He holds Wind while the teen cries. And when Wind quiets down, Wild apologizes. Wild explains that he didn’t tell Wind the truth not because he thought Wind wasn’t worthy to be his predecessor or because he preferred Twilight. Twilight was different to Wild than Wind was. Twilight was a companion he grew to love and trust. But Wind was his hero. Wind defeated Ganondorf at age 12. Wind rescued an Ocean King’s kingdom. Wind established a Hyrule that had technology so advanced that the Sheikah learned from it. A Hyrule that moved back to its native lands once they had dried enough.
Wind was so impressive. He accomplished so much in his life that Wild couldn’t imagine letting Wind know that centuries later he would be followed by a guy who couldn’t do at 17 what Wind did at 12. A hero who failed to protect the Hyrule Wind had painstakingly raised from the depths. Wild didn’t want Wind to look at him and resent Wild for making a mess of the world Wind left behind.
Wind stuttered that he would never. That he thought Wild was so cool and his meals were the best and how could anyone not be proud to have Wild as their successor? Wild would smile wanly and say he would have loved to hear those words from his hero, but for the last few months he hadn’t seen his hero at all. He had seen a bratty child wearing his hero’s skin.
The truth of how he was behaving would slap Wind in the face. He would think about how he would have felt if Time had started treating Warriors or Legend or Hyrule the way he had been treating Twilight. How he would have felt if Time had caused a rift between the people he loved, had made them choose sides because he felt left out. And his heart sunk.
Wild admitted that he knew his hero was still in there. That he knew the boy who grew to be the man that established his Hyrule existed behind the bratty child who had treated his older brothers horribly. Wild knew that that hero could fix the tear he made. Wind agreed.
They returned to the others, apologies were said, and Wolfie slept in Wind’s arms that night.
