The Courage to Withstand¹

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[theseasideskies]

System Intro

Hi! This blog is the home of the Slipstorm System §, a collection of therian critters. There's 4 of us so far, we're:

🌦️ Jess (she/they)

🍃 Claire (she/her)

🐈‍⬛ Alex (any pronouns)

🏵️ Emily (she/her)

Feel free to follow us on Bluesky (18+), we're more active over there these days. We'll still pop in over here to reblog random stuff, you'll mostly see us yapping in the tags of our reblogs lol. There might also be more writing posting, when we get back into that habit in our free time

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually

[cat-boots]

sassy n purple!

[commission for @doctor-strangewolf]

[mail-me-a-snail]

grace slow as fuck statement!!! less than ONE WEEK before philifur!! i am so excited to see y'all there V⁠●⁠ᴥ⁠●⁠V

[emmbeaart]

don't forget to stȏ̶̘͑p̵͈̘̋̒ ̴͈̅a̴̞̅n̶̙̂͝d̷̫̉͜ ̶̝̼̕s̶̨̩̈m̸̞̤̀̎e̷̦̠̓l̷̦̀ļ̸̫̂ ̸̡͂͝t̷͕̠̓͊h̷̞̳͘e̷̟͓͌͝p̶̧̡̬̜͕̹̣̜̤̙͈̗̮͎̄̄̄̃͐̌̇̅̽i̸̢̡̧̛̳̯̻͓̖͈̤̟̱̠̠͇͓̫̳̫̱͑̈͜͜͜n̸̢͈̓̊́͆̅ẻ̸̡̡̘͇͎͇̹̰͉̫̪̯͔̄͐̃̇̆͒̃̂͑̉̂̐̍̏̆̔̿̕̚͜͝͠͝ͅ ̸̛̛̤͓̟͕̱̫̙͖̻͌̀̓͂͋̍͊̽́͑͊̈́͌̇̔̀́͘͝͝t̵͍̦̻͇̞̭̣͕̤̞̪̼̼̟͈̳͔̯̺̹̥͕̱͆̿̈́̃͗͗͊͊̍̃̈͘͝͠r̷̨̧̨̡̛̼͙̯̰͔̙̜̬̟̮͖͔̜̯̭͙̪͈̄͐̄́́̇̀̏̾́́̄̏̋͊͑̈́͂͑̔̕͠͝ͅȩ̸̢̧̢̛͈̜̖̻̼͙̤̝͕̩͇͕̺̫͈͎̥̞̱͗͒́̂̈́̈̿͌̏̃̆̽̓̉́͛̊͂͝ͅȩ̷̣͗̒̈́́̈́̆̈́͊͂̓̄̑̌̉͐͆̒̐̒́̀̈́͝s̵̨̡̩̤̱͓̳̟͒̀̆̏ͅ 🌗🌒🌑

[cadesz-01]

so i started playing outer wilds....

[cloudabserk]

i know we just met but i’ve been thinking about you my whole life

[cloudabserk]

“ryland grace wouldn’t say KYS!!!” what do you guys think calling someone a staggering waste of carbon means…

[cloudabserk]

not rude if true. grace squishy eel

[cloudabserk]

it wants to be close to me. probably because it is so cold and soft & it knows i am strong and warm

[elliegully]

[calibrateall]

horrid joke.

[djpachipikachu]

in an eridian mood … give them some paws

[lutheban]

Rocky, once again, being baffled and STRESSED about human biology and the things his human does to keep healthy i dont think mr "my whole crew died of radiation sickness" likes the fact that his alien and most things on his planet needs it for survival very much xD previous

[cloudabserk]

i know we just met but i’ve been thinking about you my whole life

[soycroco]

my take on Mulberry he's so fun to draw tbh

[the-future-is-chrome]

free the nipple dragons

[hemipenal-system]

dragon and human hanging out. they both think their species domesticated the other one’s

[hemipenal-system]

the dragon comes over and sniffs the human for a bit then gently lays her head in the human’s lap to request petting. the human obliges

the human thinks “wow it’s really cool that they got an animal that normally eats humans to be docile enough towards us that i can pet her”

the dragon thinks wow its really cool that they got a skittish prey animal to be brave enough around dragons to offer me grooming behavior