#endlings

[theartofmadeline]

"Men still live who, in their youth, remember pigeons. Trees still live who, in their youth, were shaken by a living wind. But a decade hence only the oldest oaks will remember, and at long last only the hills will know."

spent the morning crying over passenger pigeons <3

[lambouillet]

various miscs from discord and the 82 hour file I draw everything in

[callstheadventurescience]

I was having emotions so I decided to linocut about it. This is a test print; might clean up a few areas but I do love chatter. Thinking about making patches? Idk.

Quote from Tamsyn Muir's Nona The Ninth

[juejack]

the sun and all the lights in the world grew dim over time, and finally after a long while they went out. the endlings couldn't remember the color green yet the world became covered in blankets of plush moss which became the only source of warmth.

[cuppajoyaps]

been thinking about endlings recently (and superman, frequently)

“Last of My Kind”, Jason Isbell and the 400 // “Superman Kryptonite”, Darwyn Cooke and Tim Sale // “Endling”, Wikipedia // Thylacine at the Hobart // The Lonesome Gods, Louis L’Amour // “Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod”, The Mountain Goats // CBS Sunday Morning Interview, David Corenswet // Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, Kate DiCamillo //“Recording of the Last Kauai 'o'o Bird”, Internet Archive

[violetsandshrikes]

“As an endling, Turgi wasn’t, perhaps, as grandiose as many of his fellow lasts of their species. He wasn’t as furry and charismatic as Benjamin the thylacine, who’s death made him a mascot for National Threatened Species Day in Australia. Turgi wasn’t a martyr that tourists visit on eco-pilgrimages, like Sudan the northern white rhino almost-endling. He wasn’t a stately Lonesome George living out his life with gravitas in his own Galápogas Islands. Although sad, of course, reports of Turgi’s death were certainly less intentionally pathos-filled than many other eulogies of species’ extinctions; perhaps because it’s harder to anthropomorphize a snail than other charismatic organisms.”

- Endlings: Fables for the Anthropocene, by Lydia Pyne

SCIENCE FILE / An exploration of issues and trends affecting science, medicine and the environment : World's Last Polynesian Tree Snail Dies

It moved at a rate of less than two feet a year so it took a while for curators at London Zoo to be sure it had stopped moving forever.

[revarrie]

Guys (mainly pointing at @aikoiya @christian-zelda @elezyyyy and @tunguszka20 cause I talk to y'all mostest, but anyone works)

Send me some writing prompts. Please.

I got various fantasies and no ideas for how to write in them.

Fork over le prompts (I don't want to have to use a generator)

[toppo-da-foxxo]

🫵your turn. 13 and 17 for luca and 12 for anyone you want <3

ooohoho okay, lets see-

13. Do I have a voice claim for Luca? What does he sound like?

I don't have a voice claim for him unfortunately, and I have a hard time in general imagining how my characters sound bc I struggle to tell voices apart sometimes, but I've always thought he has a kind of. Bugs bunny quality to his voice. Maybe not quite that high and nasally but in that range. He can be a little whiny and complains a lot, but has a lot of humor to his voice as well. Refuses to take anything seriously.

17. Are there any motifs or symbols associated with Luca? How are they represented in his design?

A lot of people in Luca's life generally associate him with fire- and the goddess of fire by extension. But! He doesn't feel as much of a connection with that symbol specifically. In fact, lot of symbolic things imposed on him in his youth were all things he felt didn't represent him at all. Things like the way he was dressed and was taught treated him like a young girl, the roles and traditions he was taught treating him like an orc, many of the symbols adorning the things he wore supposedly connecting him to fire first and foremost, all things he now knows doesn't fit him and that he tries hard not to be represented by. After finally finding the remains of one of the last phoenix villages, he does take a few bits of jewelry and notes some symbology that isn't as familiar to him with him on his journey- he doesn't know what they mean or what they used to represent, but he sees it as a mark of the culture that was lost and that he's now the last representative of, and tries hard not to let it fade like everything else.

12. Do I have a playlist for any of my characters?

I have playlists for a lot of my characters, but. A lot of them are outdated- I'm gonna talk about Blair's because hers is a lot more current and I have more thoughts about it lol.

I need to put more songs on it bc it's only got 5 at the moment, but! These are the big ones:

Harpy Hare by Yaelokre is one of the big ones- Blair's character is, in large part, about going from 'Just Following Orders' to actively calling out the real damage the royal class is doing to her people, and. I feel like Harpy hare comes at the climax of that character arc, the actual part of her calling attention to the atrocities and demanding reparation for them.

Fire by Barnes Courtney, in contrast is her initial setting out, when she initially accepts this quest to kill the people who are actively trying to change things. She's still conflicted about this at all, but thinks it will be for the greater good in the long run- but that seed of doubt is there, waiting to sprout and turn her on the true enemies of her people.

Dear Wormwood by The Oh Hellos, is that turning point between the two. Realizing this cycle will not end if she does not stop it, realizing she cannot stand idly by, that she is actively working against her people by doing what she's doing. That she needs to change her focus, and actually turn on the ones at the heart of the problem. Its just... such a perfect song for her, I love it so much,,,,