this is the first winter i've spent alone in a long time and i'm remembering the feeling of hating clothes on my skin. i wish i could fast forward a couple of months. it is temporary and will not last forever but i want to be asleep more than anything. and everything is annoying right now. it will not last forever. it will be okay. but it's not right now. right now i want to cut my bra off and lay in hot water without having anything to do.
im going to walk my dogs and hope that i will feel better afterwards. holy fuck
really upset with pete davidson for removing his shitty tattoos. no more clean girl aesthetic!!! it's over!!! everybody get more shitty tattoos NOW!!!!
i feel like a dove or a chickadee or a swan that's lost their mate. like what do you even do once The One is now a loser ? he was always a loser. but i was LYING to myself. and it was much more fun than this. i want nothing to do with anything about him anymore. and sometimes i still hope he thinks about me. but now i'm BORED like damn nothing matters fr huh
I am very happy about this, but it does make me curious what species each variation is based off of! You too? Awesome!
Rusty Wolf = Dhole
Seeing a little red jungle wolf took me right back to reading The Jungle Book as a kid, so I pretty much instantly decided they were dholes! A.k.a. Asian wild dogs or red dogs. They're an endangered canid native to Central, South, East and Southeast Asia, and they live in large clans ranging from 12-40 members.
Pale (Original) Wolf & Black Wolf = Grey Wolves
Our familiar friends have probably always been North American grey wolves, just pales ones! Despite their name, this iconic member of the canid family has an incredible amount of variation, and different subspecies of them are scattered all over North America.
Striped Wolf = Aardwolf
Okay, this is interesting, because they are definitely aardwolves! However, despite their names, aardwolves are actually the tiniest member of the hyaenidae family! Native to East and Southern Africa, they are exclusively insectivores and are known for following aardvarks to use their vacated burrows and foraging grounds. I think it's fascinating that a hyena was chosen for the wolf skins!
Snowy Wolf = Arctic Wolf
One of the many subspecies of gray wolves, arctic wolves are native to the Canadian Arctic and Alaska. Thanks to their territory being generally undesirable to humans, they are the only subspecies that can found across the entirety of their original range. Arctic wolves seem the most logical choice for snowy wolves, through there are several other pale-coated northern subspecies they could technically be.
Ashen Wolf = Northwestern Wolf
Speaking of northern subspecies, let's have some fun with the ashen variant. I'm pinning them as the Northwestern wolf, a.k.a. the Mackenzie Valley wolf! Native to, well, the northwestern part of Canada and Alaska, they are arguably the largest subspecies of wolf we know of. They match up pretty well with their Minecraft counterparts both in terms of habitat and possible coloration!
Woods Wolf = Eastern Wolf
Ooo, okay, I went down a rabbit hole with this one! Eastern wolves, a.k.a Great Lakes wolves or Algonquin wolves, are native to the Great Lakes region of North America. They exist in an identification limbo, with no current ruling on whether they are a subspecies of grey wolf, red wolf, or their own unique branch that drifts closer to coyotes on the canid family tree. There is even some debate on whether the Great Lakes and Algonquin variants should be counted as the same subspecies, which I think is fascinating!
Spotted Wolf = African Wild Dog
The more people who know these good bois exists, the happier I am. African wild dogs, a.k.a. painted dogs or Cape hunting dogs, are the largest wild canine in Africa. They live in packs of 5-30 members and are known their cooperative hunting tactics, using stamina to wear down prey. They're highly social animals, and you'll never find a lone dog.
Chestnut Wolf = Bat Eared Fox
So, initially, I wrote off these guys cause I wasn't counting foxes, but I gave in. The chestnut wolves don't look like much of any existing canines, and nothing that lives in taiga forest. So, bat eared foxes are my best guess. They're small canids native to southern Africa, and are part of the subfamily Otocyoninae, which is a sister family to the families containing true foxes and racoon dogs.
Speaking of raccoon dogs, they're my second best guess for the origin of the chestnut wolf. Their habitat makes slightly more sense, being from the forests of Japan and east Asia!
the late afternoon sound of geese flying over while the sun warms the otherwise chilly air :')
i am missing my dad and the things we'd do together. the geese remind me of days spent down bottoms, layered up, crunching through the crispy marsh, not yet frozen but no longer soft. the smell of the fire, the buckskin, the bitter coffee, the smelly water.
i feel like a dove or a chickadee or a swan that's lost their mate. like what do you even do once The One is now a loser ? he was always a loser. but i was LYING to myself. and it was much more fun than this. i want nothing to do with anything about him anymore. and sometimes i still hope he thinks about me. but now i'm BORED like damn nothing matters fr huh
The duality of man is thinking “children cannot help themselves and we all need to be patient with them as they explore what it means to be human in public” and also “damn, I wish this crying baby was not on the plane rn :/“
Just as courage is not the absence of fear but doing the brave thing in spite of it, patience is not the absence of irritation but doing the kind thing in spite of it.
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