#frankenmouse

[h3nry-clerval]

@prometheusprattles I found this in your dormitory, does he not remind you of yourself? I've determined to keep him! Would you be so amicable as to give him a name?

[kollectorsrus]

[sugarkillsall]

frankenmouse reblogged your photo and added:

Sugar, it actually hurts me to look at this...

If you think it hurts it look at just imagine what it was like drawing it 

[classywastelandbread-blog]

Candlelight, preferably McHanzo, but let the muse take you!

Thanks for the prompt! It’s posted up on Ao3 now! I had a lot of fun with this one, even though there isn’t a lot of “holiday” going on in it. 

These days I don’t much celebrate the holidays–I live across the world from my family so it’s just me and the cat most of the time so for me moments like these, where everyone can just relax together, is really nice!

[theveryworstthing]

more creature questions

anon 1: they’re people so yup on the different personalities and names. i edited in into the last reply because i forgot to answer the name thing but they have a tendency to switch up names after long stretches of time, usually by translating their name into different languages taught to them by their visitors. they like languages. they also choose their own names. names are used mostly by visitors, sometimes friends. family just call each other the manner of their relation. as for gender they’re hermaphrodites, like snails, and take whatever pronouns they like/are most convenient. they honestly don’t think about it much.

@shiftingpath : you could hang out in one but i don’t think they would stay asleep long enough for the Pact to set in without their knowledge. it would set in even if they were asleep though. and if they’re doped up it would take a lot more than someone arriving to wake them up. that venom is heavy stuff. they’ll do their best when they wake up though, which is fine if you don’t mind the sadness.

anon 2: now i’m thinking that house hunting may take a weird turn in the Small Guide world.

anon 3: they’re born with a very soft flimsy shell that grows and hardens very quickly as they get older. until they’re hard enough they hang out in mama’s shell. they love decorating them and usually take decorations from whatever ecosystem or culture the encounter first.

@drchiropterajones : consecutive. you can hang out with a creature several times without forming a pact. most people just go ahead and do it though. after a while they don’t see a reason not to.

@frankenmouse : it differs. some platonic some romantic. it depends. (i squeezed this one in because i saw it just as i posted the rest)

[shadoedseptmbr]

sekritjay

Goddamn

servantofclio

Amen, why is this even a thing.

frankenmouse

I've never really gotten the whole "you graduated from X grade" thing. Like...that's the baseline expectation. It's not a milestone (generally) like moving from elementary school to middle school/finishing high school.

Well, we had a graduation ceremony from 8th grade.  I was in a place (and tbh, a time ‘cause i’m old) where we weren’t too far away from people not just *automatically* going to high school, where it was an achievement to make it to high school.  And in my kids’ school, 6th grade is the start of middle school.  So it’s something of a transition.  They had a slide show of kindergarten to now and I teared up because, of course, I did! My baby!  (my babies, i’ve been room mom a number of years, i know all of them fairly well)

But uuuuuggh, i do not get this big...todo.  I mean, we got our girl a gift, partially because it’s an excuse to get her new game that came out today.  But there were diplomas, and cap and gown and pomp and circumstance.  And...seriously?  

[classywastelandbread-blog]

@frankenmouse replied to your link “Tú eres mi sol (You Are My Sunshine)" by Elizabeth Mitchell and Suni...”

YOU ARE TERRIBLE.

I’m amazed that you have just now realized this. 

[shadoedseptmbr]

jessaknits replied to your post

“My first grader’s social studies homework includes defining the terms...”

WTF.

this was my response, yeah

clancybrownseyebrows replied to your post “My first grader’s social studies homework includes defining the terms...”

...i did not learn about either of those things until high school, and probably still don't entirely understand them properly. godspeed little first graders, godspeed.

Right?  For me, it was probably college economics before I heard those terms specifically.

frankenmouse replied to your post

“My first grader’s social studies homework includes defining the terms...”

I'm 30. I have a PhD. I do not know what either of those things are.

*hands* I don’t know.  I thought 1st grade Social Studies was: This is a community, these are the people who make a neighborhood.  Draw a map of a town.