[department of joy and whimsy]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

grace who studies eridian vocabulary for an hour a day. rocky who memorizes every word grace says.

i love the PHM fandom because there is no shipping war at ALL that I have seen. we all agree that everything is canon because it's all so good

What's soooooooooooo fucked up about the Olruggio and Qifrey thing is that we're shown time and time again that everything about Olruggio will slowly kill Qifrey. Just by following his nature to help. On first meeting, he didn't just pull Qifrey out of danger, he pulled him out of the water, Qifrey's biggest trigger, the thing that makes him feel most unsafe. And then, for good measure, casts a spell on him to make him feel warm and dry. He hugs him and tells him he's glad he's alive and Qifrey is so desperate for both those things it almost kills him on the spot. He pulls him out of the water again when they leave the great hall, taking him aboveground to wide open skies. He takes the drying spell and carves it into rings so he always has it on hand, ready to go. He invents contraptions to help Qifrey sleep at night. He offers to help when Qifrey's struggling, be it emotional support or just sweeping the floor. Everything about Olruggio is about making people feel comfortable and safe.

(Prompt submission) Grace's Eridian doctors are large animal veterinarians. There are some awkward adjustment periods.