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Hey, I'm Glass, welcome to my enclosure! I'm 24, Australian, and use she/her pronouns. I make Life Series and Hermitcraft fanart. My current favourite ships are Scarian and Redcreak 💛

You can find my art in #glass draws block people and my writing in #glass writes.

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As they walked, Scott couldn’t help but look at Jimmy and think how perfectly he belonged here. The sunny afternoon and the bright blue water drew out the golden gleam of his feathers. His skin was suntanned; scattered with faint freckles. If Scott focused on that—the warm day, the sweetness of ice cream in his mouth, and Jimmy—he could pretend that was all this was. That they were on a walk, getting ice cream together. That they might hold hands at the end of this, or something dumb and cheesy like that. Wrinkling his nose as the ice cream gave him a brainfreeze, Jimmy looked like a piece of summer. And Scott… well, Scott was a vampire.

Chapter 9 is here go and read it if you're a cool cat like me :D they get ice cream in this one and have 0 difficult conversations

It felt good, the way Mumbo leaned against him and nodded into his chest. It felt good to know there was something he could do to take the stress off his shoulders. And as BigB swung himself into the driver’s seat, his chest had been blooming with pride. He liked the thought of being a reliable boyfriend. And now he was staring down the mouth of a ditch, pride shattering into shame.

I WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS ASK I NEEDED MULTIPLE BUSINESS DAYS TO COLLECT MYSELF. Anyway wolves were my special interest from ages 11-14, and that combined with too much time spent on the old Wolfquest community forums meant I was absolutely militant about wolf realism in media. Turns out a lot of people do not know anything about wolves!!

1. Eye colours Wild adult wolves do not have blue eyes, or deep green/saturated green eyes. Wolf pups are born with blue eyes, but these will pale into yellow, amber or olive as they reach adulthood. An adult wolf with blue eyes will be the result of interbreeding with dogs. Green is also an uncommon eye colour - an adult wolf may have olive or gray-green eyes, but the vibrant saturated green you see in fursonas is not really a naturally-occurring thing. Wolves of the Beyond specifically really irked me for its portrayal of wolves having emerald green eyes

2. Hunting behaviours Wolves don't stalk their prey the same way lions and Warrior cats do. They are endurance predators, and their hunting strategy relies on chasing large prey down until they collapse from exhaustion. They might creep up to prey initially to get a closer start, but the big cat strategy of "stalk the thing and then bite it ASAP" is by and large not how wolves kill prey

3. Claws A weird number of shows and books (and roleplays from when I was like 15) have their wolves scratch each other and leave giant slash marks with their claws. Wolves aren't slashy guys!! Their claws can't retract and are actually fairly blunt. They're built for digging and manipulating dirt. A wolf's claws would probably still scratch you up if it jumped on you (the same way a domestic dog's would), but wolves do not use their claws as weapons the same way a lion might.

This is another thing that Wolves of the Beyond got really wrong lol. There's a scene where a group of travelling wolves form a giant wolf chain to rescue one of their number who's fallen down a cliff, and the author described them as gripping onto each other with their claws. I had to put the book down lmao

4. Sweating?? Wolves don't sweat, they pant! In "The Sight" by David Clement-Davies the protagonist wakes up with sweat clinging to her fur. This has never left my brain. Have you seen what a dog looks like guys

5. Pack hierarchy I'm not even going to go into this one it would take too long. The idea that wolves have a rigid pack hierarchy was proposed in very early studies that featured captive wolves. This has been disproven since then, with observations noting that the strict alpha-beta hierarchy is exclusive to captive animals. I don't really care about this in animal xenofiction because it's fun when the talking animals have a hierarchy (see Warriors). I do care about it in alpha male discourse and that one viral Facebook mom post that's like "the alpha wolf is the one at the back making sure his pack is safe <3"

6. Dens Wolves do not have "dens" or caves in the way media commonly portrays them. They're nomadic! A pack of wolves will spend their time travelling through their territory, typically in keeping in line with migrating prey populations. This also allows them to mark their territory and reinforce their borders as they move. The only time a wolf pack will centre itself on a den is while pups are being raised.

Here's the den from Alpha and Omega, a movie that had me in a chokehold when it came out becase There Were Wolves In It. Sorry Kate, you should all be sleeping in the cold

7. Attacks on humans Generally speaking, a solitary wolf is not going to attack a human unprovoked. The exception to this case would be if the wolf is desperately hungry, defending pups, or feels surprised/threatened by the human. Wolves are predators, and predator animals aim to find the easiest prey to kill - i.e. the most low-energy and least likely to maim them. Wolf attacks on humans do of course happen (especially in areas where human populations are encroaching on natural wolf habitat or have led to a prey scarcity), but I feel like they're waaay more common in fantasy media than they are in real life. A wolf isn't just going to spot an adventurer and mindlessly attack them because they're There