I Just Learned That A Bunch Of Insane Robber Fly Enthusiasts Went And Gave Common Names Over A Thousand

I got a drawing tablet not too long ago and decided to practice using Fire Alpaca by drawing Lucky from Paleo Pines! Definitely not my best work but I'm proud of how it came out considering I used an unfamiliar program

Vibey song for pietor furan

Oh Pietor- the disaster twin. How about this ?

(A heavier voice, a little desperate and repetitive like a man going through the motions- also sounds a bit like dragging footsteps? IDK, simultaneously frenetic and exhausted, like I'm sure someone with his history and family drama is.)

the peak of "wouldn't it be awesome to be a child soldier? JUST KIDDING! it would be incredibly fucked up. anyway here's the main character getting eaten by wolves" is the alex rider series, which takes the wish fulfilment premise of being a teenage spy and then makes it explicitly clear from day one that alex is being blackmailed into acting as a spy for adults who have neither love nor even basic care for him and will let his life fall apart the moment he says no. coincidentally it's due to this career that alex is both an orphan and without a guardian in the first place; spying led directly to both his parents' and uncle's deaths. alex is repeatedly traumatised and nearly killed in increasingly horrifying manners, and it becomes clear that the only way for him to protect himself is to keep throwing himself in danger; he hates this and is completely aware that the only person he trusts could be ripped away from him at any moment and that his social life and academic standing is being ripped to shreds the longer he continues living his double life. the kicker is that he was raised in, perhaps intentionally moulded for, this lifestyle and the longer he continues it the harder he finds it to leave; he's essentially addicted to life-and-death situations and almost doesn't want to keep coming back to it. he turns to the other side only to turn that his bosses' enemies are just as bad as they are; at the age of just thirteen he finds himself completely alone in the world. and it slaps both as a thriller series and a deconstruction of the horrific violence both literal and structural that undergirds alex's life and job and the ethics of using a literal child to do your bidding as the lines between work and home life blur beyond recognition

2007 eBird gem

Ooh, I just discovered your blog. Always glad to discover another H.I.V.E. fan :) The series is my favorite, but I can't help but cringe at the fact that the core four have been at H.I.V.E. for six years and haven't aged a single year

Hi! The same to you, seeing other H.I.V.E. fans out in the wild is a delight!

(No idea if you’ve finished the series, so spoilers below, fyi!)

Yeah, I think it’s a common fandom belief that they do age like normal school kids and graduate at 18. There’s no way Otto meets his dad, gets possessed (multiple times), and loses his girlfriend in one year, give the kid a breather at least! I’ve heard some say it had to do with the publishing company, but who knows? Common sense says they’re ready for college when they get out.

RadenWA is honestly a hero for these

they're got even more than these, too!

"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

don’t ask for someone to make you a fool- be your own fool. fool for yourself first

april fools in a few weeks. who will ask me to be their fool

love when characters have to have a domestication arc before you can even consider giving them a redemption arc

He’s your fav character because of that one cool scene, he’s my blorbo because his handful of character traits provide enough for me to ground him in source material while simultaneously extrapolating on him in ways said material cannot due to inherent limits of mass-marketed media

We are not the same