Behold! A Woman With No Impulse Control

no, regular degular white horses don't have measurably different lifespans from other colors of the same lines, but there IS a really funky genetic issue related to the white coat that is occasionally produced called "lethal white"!

like deaf cats, these foals are born with pure white coats and blue eyes. however, much worse than the cats, this horse mutation carries a nonfunctional colon. essentially, these foals are born without a digestive system and will invariably die within a few days.

because of this, once lethal white is suspected and proven, the foal is humanely euthanized to prevent it from suffering.

but yeah regular white horses are fine, though they are at higher risk for skin cancer so if you have one be sure to get that checked regularly.

He asked: "Oh, was she the only son or something before *waves hand*?" and I was like, warily, no she has two brothers. And he responded with a great deal of confusion: "Then what's their problem?!?!"

When he found and married my mom, he was nearly 45 and they had so much trouble conceiving that he went to a Guanyin temple supposedly "magical" for praying for children. When I was born (not a son, also an only child until now), my mom said, "when you prayed at the temple did you ask for a son?" He said, "Aiya, everyone is asking for sons, so I said any gender is okay. If I asked for a son, maybe we wouldn't have gotten a child because Guanyin's son quota is already used up. Do you want that to happen?" My mom laughed for days about "son quota" and continues to tell people about it today, but her honest answer was: "Any child is okay."

Jokes on them. They didn't specify a gender, so Guanyin Ma gave them a non-binary child!

More seriously: my dad doesn't care about sons. When I told my parents that I wouldn't marry or have children, I thought he might be disappointed, but he wasn't. Then again, maybe I should have expected that, given he tried to become a monk at 18 🤪 I think he said the thing about sons to poke fun at people who care too much about sons because he frankly thinks it's all a bit ridiculous. In his eyes, a child is a child, so what's the point in caring about gender? If the child "changes" gender, does it make a difference?

it will always choose you. you cannot die. you'll always come back because it loves you so much. you are its right and left hand, its eternal weapon. it will drown you in its light. light as horror. darkness as horror. what if it thinks you are its best friend.

He’s the god of the sun and agriculture. He’s not the Wildmother: his domain is crops cultivated to sustain groups of people, not wild flora, not even forgeables. He didn’t choose a wheat field to provide a reliable staple for bread, which could symbolize how mortals would rely on his bounty to survive. He didn’t choose berry vines or bushes to symbolize regrowth or reliability, even when they’re not the backbone of stable agriculture.

As far as the stream is concerned, the Sun Tree doesn’t even bear fruit. It just blooms white flowers. There’s no sustenance at all. It’s a plant that has nothing to do with agriculture—so that’s not the right part of his domain to focus on. But while the Sun Tree is named for the sun and needs sunlight to grow, it doesn’t otherwise have anything to do with the sun either. It doesn’t glow or manipulate sunlight. It doesn’t turn to face the sun like a sunflower would.

According to the Tal’dorei sourcebooks, the tree symbolizes protection, but it didn’t protect Whitestone from the Briarwoods. It told Keyleth that it had been in Whitestone its whole life and didn’t have much curiosity to ask about anything. There’s no well of magic to tap to unleash some hidden abjuration to expel vampires or other bad guys. If anything, it reflects the state of the world around it.

But a tree offers shade. It protects people from the sun.

Step two: dig out stash of old seed catalogues saved for this purpose. Get super crabby because you can't find the Mod Podge anywhere. Give up, then have daughter find it immediately, in the "glue box" you forgot you created.

Step three: decide on a color scheme, and start cutting. I asked @phantomtheraccoon if we should coordinate or contrast and she cleverly said both.

Step four: collect your flowers and fiddle with layout.

Step five: paint item with Mod Podge, place your images, and paint them again. Leave to dry, which honestly doesn't take long.

Step six: trim edges add cut out holes. I didn't actually cut out the screw holes; I just cut little X's there for the screws to go through. Worked fine to put it up, we'll see someday how it survives taking it apart again.

Step seven: coat everything with Mod Podge at least one more time, paying special attention to edges. Dry elevated on something (say, the top of the Mod Podge bottle) so it doesn't stick down.

Step eight: okay, wow, that's awesomer than expected!

🎶whiiiiiiiite gluuuuuuuuue aaaaaand waaaaaaateeerrrrr and aaaaaaaaaastrobrights!🎵

After that incident, "Homeostasis" analyzed what had occurred and scanned those children who showed resonance with the event. From that data it identified specific inner traits that had a direct influence on Digimon evolution and behavior.

That analysis led Homeostasis to create their Digivices and Crests, each one linked to the strongest qualities those children had at that moment in their lives. These artifacts were meant to connect those traits with digivolution and keep it stable. But they aren't strictly necessary as seen later in 02 in the Dark Ocean where Tailmon digivolves into Angewomon without them.

So Digivices and Crests work as systems that guide how those traits are expressed during evolution, supporting evolution and helping prevent unstable or destructive outcomes when those traits aren't properly applied, though this system isn't fully reliable as seen in cases like SkullGreymon. Their purpose is to maintain balance within the Digital World when darkness becomes stronger than the system can control.