#splash-the-cat

[mrv3000]

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anatomy, dachshund, dog, sausage...

[vr-trakowski]

splash-the-cat answered your question “Okay, I’m bordering on desperate here.”

So the only direct reference I can find to the creature in that section is "A very recalcitrant salmon"

Yes!  That’s it, that’s what I needed.  Thank you!!  

[ultranos]

rowanwould replied to your post “counterpunches has discovered why I’m not allowed near the idea of...”

The old bloodlines are the fish-head mermaids right?

Possibly!  I was more thinking the living-fossil types.  Like coelacanth and sturgeon.  Maybe hagfish.  They're the ones who were around from before major extinction events.

Hell, maybe current mermaids fear them, as they are denizens of a "less-civilized" era.  (Untrue!  Lies and propaganda!)  And so maybe hunt them still when they're found, so they hide.

splash-the-cat replied to your post “counterpunches has discovered why I’m not allowed near the idea of...”

WRITE THAT RIGHT NOW, NOS!

If I do, I'm so blaming you.

let-it-geaux replied to your post “counterpunches has discovered why I’m not allowed near the idea of...”

No, but. I need it more now.

Hah.

[dsudis]

splash-the-cat replied to your post: Sometimes you just happen to be resear...

IS IT BABIES SLEEPING NESTLED IN CAP’S SHIELD?

MAYBE? MAYBE ALSO CAP CARRYING A BABY AGAINST HIS CHEST AND COVERING THEM WITH THE SHIELD?

MAYBE. UM. JUST. POSSIBILITIES I AM THROWING OUT THERE, IT'S A BIG UNIVERSE, ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN.

[geneeste]

BAH. Since tumbler won't let me post two comments - Caveat that she's my BFF, but Merrie Haskell is worth checking out. Her new book out today has a boy protag and awesome girl co-protag. Her other two are girl pro-tag, but w/ prominent boy characters. She gets dinged a lot for writing at the upper edge of middle grade complexity in reader skill, so they'd probably be a nice challenge for him, and content wise they are middle grade, so nothing scary or dark. She's on tumblr at merhaskell

Thank you! Her books look very promising - in fact, the kidlet picked her Handbook for Dragons Slayers today on account of his love for anything dragon-related, so we are definitely going to have go back and get it. ;)

[ultranos]

splash-the-cat replied to your post:1 2 3 4 5?

SMOOOCH

It's true, though!  I'd probably read your grocery list. :P  And you're probably one of the only people on the planet who can get me to read S/J. (Like that ex-car-thief-AU...)

[bethanyactually]

But the funny thing about that is we (as readers/viewers) sometimes miss out on information that might have been interesting. The author didn’t think it was, but fans? Most fans will soak up content like a sponge (see: LotR extended editions, cutscenes, etc). And so we’re likely to ask ridiculous questions like “What is laundry day like at Avengers Tower?” - not because it’s important to the narrative, but because we’re curious. Not to mention: every narrator is an unreliable narrator. Especially the ones who seem the most straightforward. Which means there are a wealth of stories not being told hiding right behind the story that is. Which, I think, gives an inkling of the primary difference between original fic and fanfic: original fic is declarative, saying “here is the story, these are the important events and characters and aspects of the world,” while fanfic is exploratory (even when it’s got a cracking good plot). Fanfic exists in the interstices, in the ellipses and the enjambment. Fanfiction exists in the moment before the wave function collapses.

-- saathi1013: Fandom as Inhabitation of Negative Space*   (via Not Exactly)

NOTE: I had incorrectly attributed this quote to the wrong person. Thanks to splashikins for pointing out my error!