Wren

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

MY LORD?? there is no way I can follow you there!

God it's good to be right

This is study done on rearing peachicks in controlled settings. The scientists took dried, powdered mealworms ground with fish meal, to create a feed additive pre-mix. It had a whopping 84% protein and 10% fat content (along with a lot of other Very Good Things) because mealworms/superworms are basically all protein and fat. It's part of why I give them to the chicks here. The study mixed this premix into a standard feed at different ratios, and found that hey!! adding protein and fat to rapidly growing baby birds makes them grow better! Also, adding tasty bug bits to the feed makes the birds want to eat the feed because it tastes good!

apparently, cats' kidneys tend to be the thing that takes them down, something about their bodies being unable to self-clean their kidneys, and the vaccine is supposed revitalize the body's ability to do just that. It would be very VERY fucking cool to have cats suddenly reaching 30 years of age be the normal thing.

dude cracked the case about WHY kidneys fail, across the board as far as i can tell. turns out there's a specific molecule whose job it is to attach to waste and signal macrophages to come eat it. it remains inactive in cats for some reason, but the molecule is still there. basically what he's done is found the switch to activate them. this will be profound not only for our domestic babies, but for big cats too - especially cheetahs!

although his research was focused on cats, it's already being used to develop drugs for humans too!

on top of that, since these molecules are tags for waste, this could also dramatically lower the rate of fatty liver disease, liver cancer, urinary crystals, rheumatoid arthritis, and even some neurological cases! like, they're hoping it may have an impact on parkinson's and alzheimers, but it DOES have an impact on stroke recovery. like. holy shit.

furthermore, he's insisting that the feline drug be affordable if and when it rolls out onto the market. he wants this to be something anyone can get for their cat!! idk how much sway he'll have over the human drug, but hopefully enough that it, too, won't be that expensive.

annnnnd in his research that he's still doing for the human side of things, he's found a potential link between this molecule and estrogen. in the 20,000 samples he's tested, women between ages 10 and 29 had the highest amount of this molecule present in their blood (a higher amount means Something Fucky is going on, essentially. There's a higher amount of waste the body is trying to clean out) but it drops down to be almost equal amongst men and women after menopause. it hasn't been looked into yet, but fuck, just the fact it's noted and known and probably WILL be looked into soon??? imagine if this is what leads to figuring out all the various ways the ovaries and uterus fucks with people and how to fix it. or even like, maybe there's something about estrogen that makes it work better. who knows! but it's rad the link is there to be researched :D

As for the study itself, the 360 day follow up on stage 3 kidney failure kitties showed that the control had a survival rate of about 20%, while the test group had a survival rate of 80%

It looks like just pinpricks of lights flicking off and on. It's some of the hundreds to thousands of fireflies in my yard, after years of fostering their environment.

It's come a long way since I moved in. It used to be that I could stand in the yard during firefly season and count 30+ seconds before seeing a flash. It's still not at the level I remember seeing in local areas a couple decades ago, when fields would practically glow with how many fireflies lit the air above them. But it's not nothing. And maybe my yard doesn't make a huge difference on its own, but when you multiply it by hundreds, by thousands, by millions... it adds up.

And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…

Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.

In a slightly kinder universe, Alexei doesn't get twisted by their situations into a sharpened thorn to bleed Ilya.

In a slightly kinder universe Ilya and Alexei are all they have, quietly managing their father together until they can be free of him.

In a slightly kinder universe Alexei still does the hard things, but this time the hard things is slowly poisoning their father. Grigori dies in 2008, before the draft.

In a slightly kinder universe Alexei never met his daughter's mother, never married her, never had a daughter at all.

In a slightly kinder universe Alexei attends the draft at Ilya's side, stumbling through English but doing what he's always done: protect his baby brother. Like their Mama asked him to when Ilya was born.

In a slightly kinder universe Alexei marries an American woman and lives in Boston. Ilya has no reason to go home except to fulfill his visa requirements.

In a slightly kinder universe Alexei knows about Ilya, knows his brother, sees how his brother looks at Shane, and worries that the Canadian golden boy is gonna break his brother's heart.

In a slightly kinder universe, in 2016, he's proven correct, when Ilya starts to shut down emotionally seemingly out of nowhere. He's still their for his multiple nieces and nephews, but there's something empty behind his eyes and it reminds Alexei of their Mama. And it scares him.

In a slightly kinder universe Alexei begs Ilya to talk to someone, because he cannot be an orphan alone. He cannot explain to his children why their дядя Ilya isn't going to come play Princess Tea Party anymore.

In a slightly kinder universe Alexei meets the Hollanders at an All Star game in 2018 and they're so overwhelmingly loving that Alexei has to take his leave to a bathroom to cry about it.

In a slightly kinder universe Alexei uses his mother's maiden name, gives it to his children, and erases his father from existence.

In a slightly kinder universe when Ilya moves to Ottawa his brother moves next door. Family dinners at the Hollanders include Alexei, his wife, and his five children who are fast friends with the Pikes once they're in the know.

Wiebe would love to be able to claim this had been a deliberate strategy when he decided to put Shane and Ilya on separate lines but have them go out as a unit on the power play but that's simply not true. It was just an unexpected but fortunate byproduct of that.

After Ilya watches Shane appreciatively in silence for a while, he then teasingly starts throwing out challenges. And of course Shane snaps up that bait immediately because all the incentive Shane needs to do something is Ilya saying "Bet you can't,,," in that specific lilting tone. It eventually escalates until Shane pushes himself to failure and he's breathing hard as fuck and absolutely drenched in sweat, still glowing with victory, preening at the impressed noises Ilya made when he actually finished that last rep.

And then before Shane can go shower, Ilya is intercepting him in their bedroom and tackling Shane to the bed. And Shane's laughing and grinning because he thinks they're still messing around, but then Ilya is tilting his head and saying very very softly "What's so funny, Shanya?" and a prickling chill races down Shane's spine as Ilya looms over him and it suddenly occurs to Shane all at once that Ilya is,,, actually holding him down. Obviously, Ilya is always holding him down, but Shane is always strong enough to buck him off if he really put some effort into it.

But right now Shane's arms are literally still quaking from the burn of over use, he's quite literally weak as a kitten. He couldn't get Ilya off of him if he tried. He's actually pinned.

And Ilya's grin is slow and deeply pleased as he watches this realisation spread across Shane's face, his dark eyes widening to show the whites. He bends down and deliberately scrapes the blunt edges of his teeth over Shane's rabbiting pulse point, making Shane breathe in sharply, a gasp. Shane's not laughing now.

"Moya lyubov, you're trembling," Ilya purrs.

Ilya's fucking Shane so slow, so sweet, absolutely showering him with praise and kisses, just nonstop approval till Shane is absolutely melted into the mattress, sooo boneless and relaxed, his orgasm rolling over him like a wave rushing onto the shore,,

But then Ilya just. Doesn't. Stop.

and if ilya sucks and sucks and kisses and licks and pets and slaps and holds and swallows until finally he smacks his lips and is satisfied, and settles down, kneading shane's quivering body over and over.

and if shane is all slippery and time-softened in ilya's arms, aftershocks spreading earthquakes through his body like ilya's hands in the mantle of the earth of him and ilya kisses the wet soft cloud of shane's ear and inhales the salt of shane's plumbed depths and feels like a god proffered a month-long feast, mighty and majestic and fat on greedy glory, and finally, ilya commends shane's offerings and bites down on shane's neck and shane sighs out in peace and relaxes.