#geckle

[herpsandbirds]

do you have any grackles you would like to share i love them dearly and their name is fun to say.

Here is a post I made recently with the grackles from the U.S.

Herps and Birds (and More) — Might I request something about grackles? I love...

and here is a close relative from South America...

Red-bellied Grackle (Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster), family Icteridae, order Passeriformes, endemic to Colombia

photograph by Félix Uribe 

Red-bellied Grackle (Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster), family Icteridae, endemic to Colombia

photograph by Priscilla Burcher

Red-bellied Grackles (Hypopyrrhus pyrohypogaster), family Icteridae, endemic to Colombia

photograph by Libertus Polling

[sunshine-vermin]

mid-biology lesson and have been smacked with all the cool evolutionary animal features geo should have cause he cave goblin twice

[sepublic]

Man, do you think Geo heard about how Cole united the Geckles and Munce, resolving the conflict that led to Geo being unwanted and lost and a part of him was like. Okay. If he's no longer unwanted, if he's no longer lost, shouldn't he be free? Couldn't he leave anytime he wanted to?

Not that he WOULD, he still has his family, and Cole. But just knowing that he could leave would be a reassurance in and of itself, y'know? N-Not that Geo NEEDS to be told he's loved and wanted, he can decide that for himself and the finders have already made it clear.

But even after all that, he can't leave. And it makes him wonder if he's still unwanted even after the Geckles and Munce have gotten together, like they're still not ready or willing for a hybrid like him. Or they just forgot him, in a way cold and impersonal and unfeeling. That might be worse.

Maybe Geo rationalizes it to himself; Vangelis was a cruel tyrant, and his Re-Awakened were dangerous. Maybe... Maybe his parents died while mining, and/or rising up to defeat the Skull Sorcerer. If they survived, they would've realized they missed and wanted him, and then Geo would be free. Was Geo born during the Skull Sorcerer's reign of tyranny, did Vangelis' enslavement of the Geckles and Munce, and his encouragement of their divide by stealing the Blades of Deliverance, contribute to Geo becoming unwanted and lost?

I wonder what went through Geo's mind when Cole told him he defeated Vangelis, that it was the Shintarin king behind that mask. Now that he's free, does he hope to one day find his parents, and get closure on them? Asking every Geckle and Munce around, even asking Vangelis if necessary?

It reminds me of Jay, who also has to live forever with the haunted question of why his parents left him; He'll never know. He'll never find out. But he just has to live with that and make peace with it, and it's how he makes peace with himself and even Unagami. Imagine Jay and Geo talking together over that sort of thing, bonding over it. They're both shipped with Cole so if you think about it, Lostshipping is like Bruiseshipping but actually canon...!

I jest, mostly on account of Geo being his own, fully-fledged character. But the parallelism, man, Jay bringing up how he has to deal with this unknown and never get closure, and then the very next season is the setup for Geo's own question. Geo knows WHY he was forgotten, but now he has to ask why he continues to be...

[dragonnnerdd]

The womanly urge to make MANY Ninjago ocs, including a Geckle and an Oni, is strong

[lizardposting]

erwin and bread loaf eren yeager bear witness to their fight over the pillow

[calculovo-ninjago]

Finished watching what we have of Crystallized so far, got into the OC making mood

Should make more detailed posts later, but the quick summary is that they're four non-human elemental masters who meet at the Tournament of Elements and make a team that mostly just runs from the messes they create.

Misan - The Munce Master of Sand

The braincell, and the chill one. A lot of trouble could be avoided if he spoke up more. Yellow Not-Ninja.

His Sand element lets him both move sand (it seems to include glass and some computer parts, but those take a lot of effort) and turn his body into sand. He can't create sand out of nothing, however.

Gumi - The Geckle Master of Animals

The strong and the short-tempered one. Do not mess with her friends. Has a pet slug named Gigi. Maroon Not-Ninja.

Her Animal element lets her talk to animals and shapeshift parts of her body. (such as getting a crab claw to crush stuff or frog legs to jump high)

Viper - The Hypnobrai "Master of None"

The mysterious one. Quite dramatic, maybe a little edgy. Closest to being a leader. Navy Not-Ninja.

His "None" element seems to stop other masters from using their powers, but he's just bluffing with his Hypnobrai hypnosis. He'd prefer to say his element is Mind, which would let him use hypnosis more freely, but Neuro is already in the Tournament so that's a no go.

Krys - The Merlopian Master of Crystal

The cheerful one. A bit of an airhead, though. Closest to a "heart" of the team. Pink Not-Ninja, even if that color is taken.

Her Crystal element lets her create crystals out of anything she touches. The crystals can't be cut. Krys mostly makes them grow out of the floor, usually for defensive purposes.

[daily-doodling]

12 July 2015

Me and takethelemons finished work on all our geckle pictures and infosheets!