#yellow lance

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some more assorted roleswap edits feat. edgy katie and a surplus of the golden boy (thanks to @haleyislametbh for the edit of lance&yellow!)

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any headcannons on that roleswap, or is it just,,, u know,,,, role swap

i have Too Many headcanons on that roleswap au. here’s some assorted misc katie hcs and an edit i didn’t like the outcome of but spent too much time on to not post

katie’s galra side is a lot more prominent than canon!keith’s, unfortunately for the rest of the team, and it presents a lot more canine in nature (as opposed to most galra looking either feline or… vaguely reptillian?). she’s like a very disgruntled puppy most of the time

katie eats the other paladins out of house and home, even rivaling lance, will bite on instinct if you touch her without warning, and is very physically expressive despite only knowing how to Anger.

her ears especially are dead giveaways to her emotions, and, somewhat unrelated, are very soft and velvety

uhhh speakin of which katie’s hella hairy. would fuzzy be the right word? purple arm hair, its so punk rock

her senses of smell, sight, and especially hearing have been greatly heightened by Galra Puberty ™. these changes only started happening shortly before matt’s escape pod crashed back on earth, and grew in relatively shortly. because she’s still not used to her stronger senses, katie has had extreme sensory overload on the battlefield more than once

katie’s growing in a set of sharp galra teeth and they Hurt Like A Bitch so she has developed a habit of teething. team has to make regular trips to the space mall bc she bites right through everything they give her, from stim toys to actual dog chew toys

when she doesn’t have something proper to teethe on she typically resorts to furniture and then gets her ass kicked by allura

but she has subconsciously gone to chew on hunk’s hand/forearm before, and uh, in case u didnt know, puppy bites Hurt Like Hell, and then she has to listen to him complain for the next decade

katie has trouble falling asleep and when she does manage to sleep she’s frequented by nightmares. despite being a Loner ™ in the day it’s rare to find her at night alone if she’s actually trying to sleep. usually she goes to matt, or lance if he isn’t in the lab (the sounds in the lab keep her up, so she never sleeps in there). when she’s really desperate she’ll go to hunk bc he’s Big And Warm but he is threatened vividly to never speak of it.

 she curls up real tight like a dog/cat when she does manage to sleep :’) it’s cute

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Valuable Mid-Atlantic Mussel Officially Listed as Threatened

Thirty-six species have already been lost to extinction.

This new listing may seem trivial, but the listing also means that the rivers in which the mussels live may be the target or protection and restoration, which is good for the local communities and environment.

Excerpt:

In response to a legal victory by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today gave Endangered Species Act protection to a freshwater mussel that lives in Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia.

The yellow lance is threatened by pollution from agriculture, logging and urban development, as well as by climate change. There are only seven remaining populations, none of which are considered highly resilient because 86 percent of the streams in the mussel's current range have low, or very low water quality.

"Freshwater mussels are North America's most endangered group of animals, which tells us we have to take better care of our streams and rivers," said Tierra Curry, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. "Because the yellow lance is an indicator of water quality, protecting its habitat will directly benefit people, as well as other wildlife that rely on clean rivers."

In North Carolina the yellow lance is found in the Chowan, Neuse and Tar River watersheds. The population in the Tar River in North Carolina is the healthiest remaining population and is estimated to have moderate resiliency. In Virginia the yellow lance is found in the James and Rappahannock River basins, and in Maryland it's found in the Chesapeake River Basin.

When viewed geographically, the species has declined by 70 percent in the Coastal Plain region and by approximately 50 percent in both the Piedmont and the Mountain regions.