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the starry sword

📚✨️The demo for my newest visual novel Truth Scrapper is out!✨️📚

You are an amnesiac green girl 📚. Will you decide to remember buff red girl ❤️ or princely blue girl 🧵?!?!? YOU DECIDE

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The sun, the son, the sun.

lemme put it this way; european longswords and european cannons are siblings. they emerged at basically the same time in the early 1300s, and when the longsword was at its peak use in the mid-1400s, the musket was beginning to proliferate.

likewise, the 'modern' style of katana only started being made in the century leading up to the introduction of muskets to Japan; in fact, the reason the katana became The Samurai Sword was because it was a small practical blade you could wear while you carried a gun.

I call bullshit. Ava’s not an idiot, and she’s not even stereotypically socially inept like a lot of scientist caricatures. She’s willfully ignorant about social constructs because she either thinks they’re stupid or they have nothing to do with her and her problems.

I think, even back then, way in the beginning… Ava knew Gloria’s appearance at the diner was changing them. And that includes herself. The diner is a change agent on a multiversal scale, and it recruited another change agent for their specific microcosm. And it has taken many an episode for Ava to admit that (the fact she has changed from having one singular love and focus) to herself on an emotional level, but she must’ve felt it immediately. Ava didn’t care to convince Leif to stay or go, but Gloria? Gloria she tells to stay.

Only six episodes in and Gloria is already at Her Grill (#hergrill), and Ava has figured out that her being there changes everything. Enough that seeing the two older Leifs made her go, “Oh, they never got a Gloria.”

She didn’t need Gloria to prove her point. She already knew time travel was stupid and whyyyy it was stupid. Gloria was just the quickest way to make that point to everyone else.

this man Gilberto (Chito) Shedden nursed this crocodile back to health after it was shot in the eye, and they were best friends for the rest of the crocodile’s life.

this python came in out of the wild as a baby snake and curled up next to the family’s infant, Oun Sam­bat (or Oeun Sambat?) and they were inseparable for 12 years

Cristina Zenato removes hooks from sharks and they let her stick her hand down their throat to do it and they even bring other sharks who need help to see her.

It’s a relationship that goes beyond a single helpful interaction. For example one of the sharks that would show up when she first started swimming with them was a shark she called Foggy Eye who really didn’t like to be touched. One day, Foggy Eye showed up with a hook in her mouth that Cristina Zenato removed, and ever after, Foggy Eye cuddles when she visits, putting her head in Cristina’s lap and enjoying some petting

 We don’t know SO much. Some wolf spiders will adopt unrelated orphaned spiderlings and raise them. We recently discovered that the ant-mimicking jumping spider (below) produces “milk” and suckles its young until they are nearly fully grown.

That’s the story.

They live alone. They die alone.

Except for Octopus City where they live in a social collective.

Except that I watched with my own fucking eyes a giant Northwest Pacific Octopus who my friend social for an aquariums interact. He hadn’t seen her in a year. He reacted to meeting us and to getting treats? But all he wanted to do was see her, touch her, show her his enrichment items. After a year he recognized her and the response was “YOUR BACK AUNTIE YOURE BACK I MISSED YOU LOOK WHAT I WAS DOING WHAT DO YOU THINK BUT YOURE BACK hi nice to meet your friends YOURE BACK.”