Apparently the Sphinx in Greek Mythology was the daughter of the original Chimera with her brother the two-headed hellhound Orthrus. Kind of funny in Dragon's Dogma terms tho 😂 "rrrAWWUGhgrrHSSSSSSSbaaaaaAAAA" "MOM! I'M TRYING TO RIDDLE HERE"

"HRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH"

"NO I DON'T WANT TO EAT THE ADVENTURER THEY'RE DOING A QUEST FOR ME"

"BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH"

"MOM OH MY GOD"

"HISSSSSSSSS"

"THAT'S IT THE NEXT RIDDLE I GIVE THEM IS TO FIND ME A NEW SPHINX PARENT THIS IS WHY I DON'T VISIT ANYMORE"

oh, thats zionist propaganda in my knuckles the echidna show

one time i had a dream that tiktok users deemed “kid” as a slur and that you HAD to refer to them as minors otherwise you would get harassed and threatened with doxxing. you couldn’t say “when i was a kid” anymore for example you HAD to say “when i was a minor” instead

XP/98 remix

Really digging the concept of the Gorechimera from Dragon's Dogma 2, where it's an undead version of the standard Chimera. Played around with the design and thought, what if they took the undead aspect of it to the extreme?

So here the lion is completely mummified and the snake is reduced to a skeleton, while the goat, the only "living" component responsible for necromancing the other two, is much more explicitly ghostly in appearance, with its wispy hair being made of some kind of intangible ectoplasm surrounding its physical form. In this version, the lion takes no damage but can be climbed, the goat can be damaged but is not climbable (forcing close range melee fighters to have to climb from the riskier front to reach it), the snake can be shattered but reassembles itself after a few minutes, and being a ghost the goat now resists *physical* damage and takes more damage with *magical* attacks. Once defeated, the goat's ectoplasmic hair fades away.

And, as a shout-out to the infamous glitch in the first Dragon's Dogma, the Gorechimera as a whole dies once the goat takes enough damage...or so it seems, because even with all three heads dead the body rises back up with one final health bar and runs around wildly and aimlessly, bucking and kicking with the lion and goat heads dangling limply and the snake skeleton falling apart as it does so. This final phase can no longer attack aside from shaking off pawns or Arisens climbing it, kicking with its back legs, or emitting a soundless roar to stun the player and pawns (much like the DD1 glitch, but now a feature and not a bug), and when one health bar is depleted in this state, the Gorechimera at last finally dies for good.

headcanon that the pokemon rival is trans and that's why the professor never remembers his name

I like this headcanon much better than the "professor has dementia" or "professor hates the child" headcanons

Also nature.

not real: horse with a horn

real: creature with the beak of a duck, the fur of an otter and the tail of a beaver, that sweats milk, lays eggs, senses electricity, glows in the dark and is venomous

Fucked up how humanity discovered electricity and radiation and made machines and learned to make airplanes and cured diseases and our takeaway isnt that "Some Magic Is Real And Here's Why", but that magic is fake this is big boy science and it's totally not magical

Link in bio. What will he learn?

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Lammergeier Dragon art doll

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This doll designed and made by me fully from scratch. Inspired by beautiful bird  called Bearded vulture. 

Super sculpey, faux fur, feathers, wire+plastic armature, primer, acrylic paint, varnish. Posable neck has plastic ball-and-socket armature inside. Tail and wings are also posable and has wire armature inside. * Size: Doll is around 73cm / 29 inches total length 

The Chimera and Gorechimera of Dragon's Dogma 2. Love that while the first game's Gorechimera was just an edgier-colored palette swap of the standard Chimera the DD2 Gorechimera looks visibly rotted, the lion hairless and dead-eyed, the snake sporting sickly tones of decomposition rather than the bright shiny greens of the standard version and the goat looking downright ghastly.

A strange little detail though is how the standard Chimera's goat head lacks upper teeth but the Gorechimera has them?

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a myth, y’know.

It’s basically born of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is “it’s a displaced parent/child bond”.

The trouble is, cats aren’t naturally solitary. We just assumed they were based on observations of European wildcats - but housecats aren’t descended from European wildcats. They’re descended from African wildcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and family groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony: a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by alliance of dominant females, who raise all of the colony’s kittens communally.

It’s often remarked that dogs understand that humans are different, while cats just think humans are big, clumsy cats, and that’s totally true - but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour toward us makes a lot more sense through that lens.

The like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats bond with colonymates - it establishes a shared scent-identity for the colony and helps clean spots that they can’t easily reach on their own.

They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony’s shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can’t easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that’s why they kill so much more than they individually need - it’s not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kills to sustain the colony’s non-hunting members.

They’re okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co-parents.

It’s even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as long as those children are related to one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human “kittens”, and your kittens are their kittens.

Basically, you’re going to have a much easier time getting a handle on why your cat does why your cat does if you remember that the natural mode of social organisation for cats is not as isolated solitary hunters, but as a big communal catpile - and for that purpose, you count as a cat.

POKAPRIL Day 21 : Team Star Mela

I'm sorry but these can't be comfortable...