Achilles

Walnut was born in a species-recovery breeding program in the 1980′s.  The program had crane chicks hand-raised by human volunteers, and at that time they did not fully understand the measures necessary make sure that the chicks do not imprint on humans and retain their identity as cranes.  

As a result, her keepers believe, Walnut does not recognize other cranes as members of her own species.  

It has not been proven that Walnut killed her previous suitors; however, there is a persistent rumor in the white-naped-crane-conservation community that she did.  

Because this species is highly endangered, and the gene pool of the captive population is small, it’s pretty important for the survival of her species that Walnut A) mate, and B) not kill a bunch of other cranes.  

The actual name of the keeper is Chris Crowe.

They both arrived at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in 2004.   

Walnut immediately began paying special attention to Chris--and ignoring the eligible male crane in a nearby enclosure.  

Walnut initiated their courtship, performing the opening moves of a mating dance.  

Chris realized that if he reciprocated the mating dance, it might be possible to artificially inseminate Walnut with her participation and consent.  (The process normally involves restraining the bird.)  

It worked!  

Chris and Walnut have had five children, who were raised by other crane couples at the facility--sometimes the biological dad and his mate--both because it’s unclear whether Walnut would accept the chicks as her own, and because Chris is not equipped to be a Crane Dad.  

However, the Institute provides her with artificial eggs to sit on, and Chris takes his turn looking after them.  (This would not work with real eggs because he can’t sit on them properly, but Walnut seems to feel that he is on the job if he just stands over them.)

she has not been PROVEN to have killed her exes, but there is a PERSISTENT RUMOR (really officers she's simply DEVASTATED, she sobs, wearing a new feather boa unfortunately resembling her most recent deceased husband)

His name is Chris CROWE. (Mrs. Walnut Crane-Crowe?)

the mental images of a whole human man learning and performing the crane mating dance, and "sitting" on artificial eggs so she thinks he's performing his duties as a husband and father (and apparently OBJECTS if he does not?)

"chris, buddy, you gotta marry the possibly-murderous crane lady for the GOOD OF THE SPECIES." (alternately: "chris, my man! good news! we found you a very interested lady! She's 36, she's very spirited and independent, she holds a very important and rare status in her society! ...Is there a downside? WELL...")

Aroace Ryland Grace Pics + Textposts Part Five

So gentle❀+.* AUGH they deserved so much better</3

[rules: in a new post, show the last thing you wrote or drew then tag as many people as you like]

better late than never?! thanks to @owlintheskies for the tag, link to their post

Have a snippet of CH5 of vapes!nico percico infidelity fic (can read the rest on ao3: known to cause cancer in the state of california), bc i PROMISE i am working on it, i just got busy w summer event fic :)

Here is a snipped from my regent Merlin post return Arthur fic that I have been procrastinating— it’s still in the draft side tho

And a snipped from the fic I wrote just to procrastinate the one above— (which you can check out there Say You Will Bring Me Along; To The World I Close My Eyes To See) (very drafty as well)

Merlin in the show is always sneaking away, moving in the shadows and stopping attempts against Arthur life. Merlin has kill quite a number of people and I want Arthur to understand that Merlin can be scary for people that is not him, because Merlin would never want Arthur to be scare of him.

There are fanfics, fanarts and fancomics in which Arthur sees the power of Merlin and he sees all the beauty and tenderness that it can come with magic, and if he sees Merling using against his enemies is always a fast Merlin vs bandits ending in some wave of power that cleans the bandits away, but there are other ways in which Merlin can use his magic to be incredible dangerous.

I have been having the idea that maybe a enemy of Arthur, notices how Merlin is the reason why Arthur has been able to survive so long and against all odds, and knowing that attacking Arthur directly is a suicide mission, they use magic (I know that Merlin is inmune to most of it, or can see through, but for the sake of the idea, lets pretend this magic is very strong or tricky) so Merlin would be unable to recognize Arthur as his Arthur. It could be that he sees a complete stranger, or it could be like the Capgras delusion and Merlin thinks that Arthur has been exchanged by a copycat.

There is also this fic (not finished yet 😔🤚 ADHD and exam are squeezing me by the ball) https://archiveofourown.org/works/78842036 where I want to do a few badass merlin😌✨

Gwaine was rudely awoken by his flatmate ringing him at the nice and civilised time of 06:30 am. He answered the call begrudgingly, praying that whatever Merlin had rung him about was worth waking him up so bloody early. It was.

"I just fucked Arthur Pendragon."

"What?”

Then Merlin says he is willing to die for Arthur, who's "more important than anything."

The hunting Merthur has become my obsession in recent days