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BB!Honeyfern -> Honeysnake
A girl who's gonna be stealing a little more time in BB.
[ID: The Better Bones version of Honeyfern. She is a spiky, golden, blue-eyed cat with a brown mask and stripes. Her torso, paws, and 'boots' are creamy. She is being bitten by an adder, and prepares to bite back]
Clanmew Name: Mlashiff, Mlasis
(Mla = Honey + Shiff = Frond, the leaf of a fern)
(Mla = Honey + Sis = Serpent, generic term for snakes)
Alignment: ThunderClan
Relations:
Parents - Sorreltail, Brackenfur
Siblings - Molepaw, Cinderheart, Poppyfrost
Ex-Mate - Berrynose
Apprentice - Briarlight
Honeyfern stands tall as the strongest, most ambitious kitten in the Brackenfour litter. Through BB!Po3, she is a rising star in ThunderClan, and Hollypaw's rival. Honeyfern's ferocity was only matched by her compassion; in early BB!OotS, she doesn't hesitate to lay her life on the line to attack an adder in defense of Briarkit.
After fighting for several days against one of the worst injuries Clan cats know of, Honeyfern survives, and is bestowed the Honor Title of Honeysnake before even getting her first apprentice.
(One of the first completely uncontroversial choices that Bramblestar makes!)
But, the painful ordeal causes Honeysnake to realize things about her boyfriend, Berrynose. Traits that had once been endearing were suddenly not so cute. Boldness comes across as selfishness. Protectiveness becomes controlling behavior. His 'sense of humor' means he doesn't take things seriously.
If only it could have been so simple to just leave him. No, she never would have guessed that the week she left Berrynose, he would immediately become interested in her sister. Poppyfrost!! What are you doing?! GIRL
With her uncle Thornclaw as deputy and far too busy for an apprentice anyway, it's obvious who Briarkit's mentor must be. The brave cat who saved her life became her guide and best friend, staying by her side through every hardship until her fateful death during the Battle of the True Eclipse (BOTTE).
LOTS more under the cut!
Honeysnake's personality is firm, responsible, and occasionally overly proud of herself. At the same time, she is driven by kindness more than anything else, and would break her own back to lessen the burden on her clanmates. She takes after her dad, Brackenfur, more than any of her siblings!
Because she massively values her own strength and her helpfulness, she can be goaded into overexerting herself and bossing around other cats. She doesn't mean to be pushy, but her heart is so large that she sometimes fails to realize that she's only made things worse. Big sister energy!
She must learn to balance this; a flaw is often a value in excess.
When she was an apprentice, her personality could really clash with Cinderpaw's.
Cinderpaw is very emotional, to the point of instability. Honeypaw couldn't understand that Cinder had to learn to work it out on her own, and sometimes inserted herself into her problems
This would make them both upset, as it wouldn't work and then Honeypaw would scold Cinderpaw for not taking her unsolicited advice.
In spite of all this, they love each other and got closer when they got older. It's ironic that Honey and Poppy would eventually be the ones fighting-- they NEVER fought as kids!
She fell in love with Berrynose after he developed a crush on her. Honey hadn't really thought much about romance before then, but she fell hard.
Berrynose was bold and exciting. She was always the one chasing after other people, finding ways to help everyone except herself. To BE pursued instead felt flattering, even freeing. He could be REALLY mean, yeah... but that was endearing, for a time. It felt like honesty, and it was refreshing that he would just say the things she would hold back to be polite, or diplomatic.
They were getting serious before the snake, which is now shuffled to happen in the first book of BB!OotS
The energy in ThunderClan had been... off, for a while. Since Hollyleaf had revealed the secret of her parentage and vanished, uncle Thornclaw had replaced Squirrelflight as deputy, and Leafpool was demoted as Cleric.
The couple had been discussing kittens and such, something uplifting so things could start to heal and move on.
In hindsight, they were normal adult discussions. In Honeysnake's reflections, something is ironic about how mature Berrynose had been just before the incident. Like he really was growing up, for a while.
Was he truly getting better? Or was that just a side of him she stopped being able to see in the new light? She'll never know.
The fight with the adder is burned into her mind, in extreme detail.
She remembers being cuddled next to Berrynose from the second level of the camp. She remembers the way her stomach dropped when she realized, from her vantage point, that a branch-shaped object under the wall was slithering. How she screamed for Briarkit to get back and bound across the quarry faster than she'd ever moved before.
The snake bit her first, and then she bit it back.
Venom from an adder burns. It quickly spread up her paw and through her arm, searing her veins like fire. She crumpled into a screaming heap next to her dead foe, sending the entire camp into a panic.
Jayfeather, already overwhelmed through being a new Cleric working alone after Leafpool's demotion, having recently been publicly disowned, and still mourning his sister, had to spring into action
And the very first crack that Honey noticed on her mate was how Berrynose threatened Jayfeather. "You'd better save her, if you don't I'LL kill you!"
Jayf didn't even dignify it with a response. She was glad he didn't. She didn't want Jay doing anything but helping her not have burning blood.
An adder bite is one of the deadliest, most painful, difficult injuries to treat across all four Clans. She required round-the-clock care and was in constant pain, for days, without guarantee she would survive.
And Berrynose was unhelpful, to say the least. Even going so far as to wrinkle his nose when Jay chewed up a mouthful of nettle for Honeyfern's treatments.
What she once found funny and endearing wasn't so cute when he couldn't be serious when she wanted him to be.
Leafpool, ex-Cleric, started stepping in to help Jayfeather in the den... against Bramblestar's demotion. Jay had never treated such a serious injury before, the rest of the Clan didn't stop needing treatment
The Clan was already a bit split on the idea of Leafpool not being a Cleric anymore. She's Leafpool Moonpool. She made mistakes-- but what else are the Queen's Rights even for?
Has she not already been punished? And what about Honeyfern, their clanmate, who needed her help right now?
And Bramblestar would NEVER prevent Leafpool from giving an injured cat from getting the proper treatment they need..........
But, of course, Berrynose was more loyal to his mentor than almost anything else. He had concerns about an unholy, codebreaking ex-Cleric attempting to heal his mate, and what it would mean for Bramble to rescind an earlier command.
Honeyfern, obviously, didn't care if StarClan themselves had come down to say Leafpool Bad. She wanted to not suffer and die.
And after monumental effort on the part of two trained cats, the entire Clan doing their part to support her, and Honeyfern's indomitable will to survive, the burning cooled to embers and the pain subsided.
She survived the bite of an adder, killing the beast in the process. An achievement that was so impressive that ThunderClan concluded she MUST be truly blessed.
Bramblestar is stingy when it comes to Honor Titles, but for this? He could not ignore it. The Clan needed a morale boost. She had survived the insurmountable. Everyone had come together over this situation, in a way that they hadn't in many moons.
So, as soon as she could stand for a ceremony, he decreed before their ancestors that the venom had been an anointment (thornclaw came up with that line). From now on, she would be known as Honeysnake, in honor of her survival.
It's rare that cats who are so young receive such Honor Titles, and it immediately boosted her up in status.
Berrynose was jealous of this. Not in a way where he'd say so openly, but in the way he would downplay her Title, not celebrate her achievements, or use it to deflect in conversations.
The breaking point was when the newest crop of apprentices was assigned, and Bramblestar decided that Honeysnake was absolutely ready for her first apprentice.
(Millie's three kits, despite being a little older than Dove and Ivy, were slightly delayed in their apprenticeship so they could all be apprenticed at once)
Hazeltail and Mousewhisker had proven themselves strong and competent, ready for their first apprentices. Mousewhisker was given Bumblepaw, Hazeltail receives Blossompaw.
To make sure there weren't too many young mentors, Birchfall was given Dovepaw, and Brightheart received Ivypaw.
And, lastly, to commemorate her strength and honor how she'd saved this child, Honeysnake was given Briarpaw.
...leaving Berrynose as the only cat of his litter without an apprentice! While Bramblestar, HIS mentor, was leader!!
But instead of being upset with Bramblestar, he felt Honeysnake had taken what he'd been owed.
Maybe some other time, Honey would have tried to comfort him, and make him feel better about it all
But she was DONE. That was ENOUGH coddling! SHE was the one who had gone through all of that, killed an adder and saved Briarpaw, and now he feels so entitled to an apprentice that he's upset with HIS MATE?
Poppyfrost, meanwhile, had been watching the ceremony of the apprentices with a forlorn gaze... and was about to get sucked in.
Without getting into Poppyfrost too much here, her key traits are Curiosity and Avoidance. Setting boundaries has always been difficult for her, or saying no to people. So when Berrynose turned his sights on her following his breakup with her sister...
Poppyfrost felt good. She felt desirable, for the first time since she'd given birth to Jayfeather's secret children. She hadn't shared with anyone how low she'd felt for the past 6 months, and it suddenly felt like there was a light in her life.
From Honeysnake's perspective, though, Berrynose found a whole new way to get into her life through Poppyfrost. Poppy started taking his side, or at the very least, not supporting her sister. Honey couldn't get away from Berry without avoiding Poppy, too. So the fights continued.
But, the most important thing in Honey's life quickly became her apprentice.
Briarpaw was attentive and enthusiastic, a bright little ball of light and hope. Honeysnake had a lot to teach her and she listened eagerly
But Honeysnake couldn't save her when the tree came crashing down.
Briarpaw lost control of her back legs, and it was immediately, widely accepted she would not be able to become a warrior.
As Jayfeather spoke with Littlecloud about how to treat her and give her a good quality of life, picking up the "notes" for Wildfur's old mobility device, Millie started becoming very controlling of her daughter.
At first, Honeysnake tried to give the family space... she didn't know what to do, if it was right to get involved or not.
After all, Millie is Briarpaw's mother. She just wants what's best for her, and Honeysnake wasn't sure how much Briarpaw could do now either. She loves her apprentice, so she didn't want to hurt her, or ruin her family by accident.
But then she started to realize how miserable Briarpaw was becoming. She was always such a joyful kid, so excited to get out there and try everything. A radiant little fireball, eager to fight for her Clan.
Now, she was silent, just letting her mother speak for her, only ever piping up to comfort her own parent.
Her quietness wasn't coming from her injury-- it was coming from how Millie was making her feel like her life was over. Like it would have been better if she died, since it was hurting her mom so much to "see her like this."
One day something hit Honeysnake, like a revelation. "I never stopped being her mentor. It's STILL my job to be there for her!!"
She couldn't completely stop Millie from making Briarlight feel awful. She couldn't prevent Blossompaw from misplacing her anger on her sister. She couldn't make Graystripe do his job as a dad to help his kids.
But Honey could be there for Briarpaw. She could be a safe place to talk, a friend and a mentor, and just get her away from Millie for a few hours a day.
And she was even wise enough now to realize that arguing with Millie directly would only make things worse for the young cat. Everything was for Briarpaw, what SHE needed. How to help her.
Together with Jayfeather, they'd even planned out how to schedule things so that Briarpaw could speak for herself without Millie interjecting.
For Briarpaw, it meant everything. There were people in her corner.
Though she couldn't pass an assessment in the usual way, Bramblestar still allowed Briarlight to get her full name. After all, she, like her mentor, had survived the unthinkable.
Honeysnake had never been so proud of anything in her whole life.
And at the end, just before the Battle of the True Eclipse when the Dark Forest was going to attack, they had a final conversation. Watching the moon inch closer to the sun, and knowing it may be the last time they ever spoke.
Briarlight said something she'd been holding back for a long time. "I'm sorry I couldn't be the apprentice you deserved..."
It made Honeysnake's belly lurch. After all they'd been through, to hear she was still holding onto a piece of what Millie made her believe was painful. "What...? I didn't save you to make a warrior. I did it because you have a life to live. Brili, I'm your mentor. I'm supposed to deserve you."
It turned out to be exactly what they suspected, the last words they'd ever speak to each other. Honeysnake fought ferociously for the Clans in the BOTTE, reunited with her old rival Hollyleaf and putting her quarrels aside. She meets her fate halfway through the night, in the bloody Second Wave.
Her death fills ThunderClan with sorrow. She's deeply mourned by everyone; her mother, sisters, friends, nespring, Clanmates. But most of all, Briarlight holds her memory close to fill her with strength in the coming years.
Honeysnake's spirit is invoked for fulfilling one's full potential, and making hard, painful choices to reach it. As the generations go on, she's associated with the shed skin of snakes and beetles, and the 'necessity' of putting oneself in danger to help others.
OTHER TRIVIA
SPIKY. I decided to give her Brackenfur's colors with Sorreltail's texture. She's the most intensely-colored of her siblings, BRIGHT golden, hence the name.
She's also got Sorreltail's torso marking going on, and her fuzzy 'dividers.' She got the boots from Brackenfur though.
In BB, she has Sweetness Tolerance! Ironically enough, she is able to taste and enjoy honey... and boy does she like her sauces.
Her favorite food is honey-glazed bacon, meat strips cut from the belly of a boar. A rare treat but a delicious one. She likes to eat the whole thing like a noodle, chewing it upwards and not using her paws at all.
As a kit, Brackenfur used to tell her to mind her manners. She had a bad habit of eating things without using her paws, because she likes sauce but not getting it on her beans.
She had her eyes on deputyship from a young age. She wanted to be just like her dad.
Losing him was rough. It was even harder when Bramblestar took power just a few months later, she felt like she should have been seeing her dad making the announcements...
But, she stayed strong, especially for her siblings who seemed to be taking it even worse.
Canon doesn't mention what sort of snake bit her, but BB takes place in northern England and the only venomous snakes there are ADDERS babey!!
I drew a girl adder on purpose because something felt very funny about this. here I go pitting two bad bitches against each other. diversity win! The wild animal that tries to eat a baby is a girl!
ADDERFACT: A female Vipera Berus is brown, a male is black and white, but their color can vary immensely.
Bramblestar is a terrible namer. Honeysnake, Mlasis, is a fine name, but he chose the generic term for all serpents (sis) instead of an adder specifically (sipya). In his head it sounded more honorable.
But! It's not the worst!
"Honeyfern" was given by Firestar, and intended to be a nod to her rivalry with Hollyleaf! Hollyleaf's suffix referred to the leaves of most trees, and Honeyfern's to the leaves of ferns.
Both them were named after Brackenfur, who they both looked up to. Brackens are a type of fern, and Firestar wanted to invoke a plant for the names of both cats.
Because Honeyfern was named first and also Brackenfur's child, she got the word for fern leaves.
Of course *Holly*leaf was already named after a plant... but no one ever said Firestar was a FANTASTIC namer either, after all, he's the genius behind "Brambleclaw."
Honeysnake's relationship with Poppyfrost was stable at the time of her death, with her two young nespring having been born... but if it was ever going to "improve," who knows.
but they were cordial. At the very least. She would have been involved in the lives of Mole and Cherry.
Unfortunately there's always a lot left unsaid when someone dies so young. She had a whole life in front of her, cut short because of Tigerclaw's ambition.
#tw snake#tw snake bite#VIOLENCE#Adder bite#adder#BB!Honeyfern#Honeysnake Shuffle#Honeysnake#Better Bones AU#tw pain#tw medical discussion#tw ableism
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Nefja also jumped a snake today. She did her usual mouse jumps in the tall grass and then basically did a reverse jump because she got spooked.
#the snakes we got here are completely harmless#might bite her but try getting through her coat with such tiny fangs#ok there are adders here but not where we were#just grass snakes and blindworms (and they're not even snakes)
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Doc Martin (2004) Out of the Woods
S2E7
With Mark Mylow's wedding fast approaching, Martin is asked to be best man but he is at his abrupt best when he simply says no. Mark then enlist Al Large for the job telling that he doesn't have to organize a stag night as all Mark wants to do is go on an overnight camping trip in the woods. Things go from bad to worse when, after getting lost somewhere in the forest, Mark is bitten by a deadly snake. When Martin goes off to find him, he too gets lost.
#Doc Martin#tv series#Out of the woods#S2E7#overnight camping trip#Mark Mylow#Al Large#forest#adder#snake bite#lost#best man#just watched
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A/N: This is short and silly and I enjoyed every second of writing it.
Words: 685
Warnings: none
You sighed as you let your head fall back to admire the stars. Thousands of piercing little lights dotting the night sky. It was rather beautiful, and for the first time ever since you had gotten into this mess (and a tadpole had gotten into you), you felt… content.
Perhaps it was because despite all this—you let your gaze wander over the campsite—fate decided to give something back. Someone. Your eyes found Astarion, brooding over one of the books you had recently picked up. Gods, you longed to take a bite right out of him the way he stood there in those tight and dark trousers and his white cotton shirt. It was quite incredible this handsome man… vampire spawn… liked you back. Not only that but you had mutated into his… lifeline, so to speak. Absentmindedly, you brought your hand to your neck, fingertips ghosting over the two puncture wounds his fangs had left behind last night. It had become a pleasurable and enjoyable ritual for you both now.
You’d have dinner with the others and at night, once everyone else was asleep, Astarion would get his fill and have supper for himself.
Another sigh. Dinner had been quite amazing and filling today. Gale had volunteered to cook after you found a crate full of abandoned supplies. Potato chips, carrot soup, garlic bread, and even lasagne… a chef would have slapped his palm against his forehead at the combination of all of these things for one evening but alas… you hadn’t eaten this much in over a week.
You were practically drunk on a full belly and that was before having a glass of wine already. Speaking of which… grabbing your empty glass, you got up from your bedroll, sauntering over to Astarion’s tent.
His head lifted as soon as he sensed you—and you actually liked to think that he could smell you, your blood, before he could hear or see you. A slight smile played on his lips when your eyes locked and he shut the book in his hands, putting it aside.
“Have a glass with me?” you offered, tilting your head as you waved the chalice in the air.
“Oh? Are we celebrating something, darling?”
“No… I’m just in a really good mood today.”
Astarion smirked in response and reached for the bottle of elven wine on the small table next to his tent.
“Well, given the current state of things, I’ll drink to that,” he purred, filling both your glasses. You clinked them, each taking a big sip before the vampire spawn took yours from you and set them both aside along with the bottle.
“Now would you say… you’re also in the mood for a bit of fun tonight?”
You grinned when he pulled you close, his face only inches from yours. “I thought you’d never ask.”
You closed your eyes, allowing him to lean forward and capture your lips in a hungry kiss.
“Ow! Gods, damn it!”
All of a sudden, as if stung by an adder, Astarion released you, half-blowing raspberries and cursing as he coughed as if you had poisoned him.
“What… are you alright? What happened? Oh… oh gods!” Realisation hit you only a second after.
“Oh no… Gale made garlic bread tonight! I completely forgot you can’t… oh, Astarion, I am so sorry. Let me have a look, is it bad?”
“I’m fine! It’s not going to kill me, it just… burns. Gods!” A few more curses followed as he brought his fingertips to his lips, assessing the damage done.
“I’ll go rinse my mouth, alright? I’ll be right back.”
The sound of acknowledgment he made was hardly an answer. It was enough for you to turn back around though, your cheeks hurting from how hard you were holding back a grin.
“It could be worse… I mean… I could have put my lips elsewhere.”
“Very funny, darling.” Still, there was a hint of amusement swinging in his voice and you certainly couldn’t help the little chuckle forcing its way out of your throat. He had to admit… it was hilarious.
A/N: I'm on my second playthrough as Durge right now and I realised one thing about myself: As much as I love villains and misunderstood bad guys, I'm really bad at being evil. 😂 I feel soo bad every time I make a mean decision, hahaha!
#astarion#astarion imagine#astarion x you#astarion x reader#astarion x tav#astarion ancunin#astarion ancunin imagine#astarion ancunin x you#astarion ancunin x reader#baldurs gate 3#baldurs gate 3 imagine#bg3#bg3 imagine#neil newbon
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"Warrior Cats: Berrynose – Sticks and Stones illustration"
Illustration of a brown tail-less cat biting an adder as it wraps itself around the cat. The adder rears itself up to bite the cat in the face.
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Edgy Warrior Prefixes & Suffixes
Return to your roots. Make cringe emo cats. etc.
50+ prefixes and 30+ suffixes under the cut!
Prefixes
A
Adder-
B
Bat-
Belladonna-
Black-
Bleeding-
Bone-
Broken-
C
Cold-
Crow-
D
Dark-
Dead-
Dusk-
E
Ebony-
Echo-
Eclipse-
Ember-
F
Fallen-
Fang-
Flea-
Foxglove-
Frozen-
H
Hemlock-
Holly-
Hornet-
I
Ice-
J
Jagged-
L
Lost-
M
Maggot-
Mandrake-
Moon-
N
Nettle-
Night-
Nightshade-
O
Oleander-
P
Poison-
Q
Quiet-
R
Rat-
Raven-
Red-
Rot-
Rotting-
S
Scarlet-
Scorpion-
Shade-
Sharp-
Shattered-
Silent-
Skull-
Snake-
Spider-
T
Tattered-
Thorn-
Torn-
V
Venom-
Viper-
W
Wasp-
Withered-
Y
Yew-
Suffixes
B
bite
bone
burn
C
claw
crush
cry
E
echo
F
fall
fang
frost
G
glare
H
heart
hiss
hope
howl
M
moon
S
scar
scratch
shade
slash
smoke
snap
snarl
spirit
sting
strike
T
tear
thorn
tooth
W
wail
whisper
#warrior names#prefixes#suffixes#/ Region:#North America#Europe#/ Clan:#all Clans#/ Theme:#edgy#emo#cringe#/ Reach:#TumblrClan#warriors#warrior cats#warriors oc#warriors roleplay#oc inspiration#oc inspo
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Ok. I've had the thought for a while that in a very twisted way, Gortash and Durge are like Eve and the Serpent and @laubritter positively made it worse (thank you for the blessing that was the Xvim paralles)
So, Durge was incredibly devoted and faithful to Bhaal, Durge's god and creator(!). Until a certain Tyrant came along, befriended the poor innocent creature, and led it astray, away from Bhaals teaching, to question the formerly blind faith. Potentially teaching the reclusive Durge knowledge about a world they were hidden from. Key point being knowledge.
Durge is a bit like Eve in that regard, blissfully ignorant until she passes by the tree and the Serpent. But she didn't fall for the Serpents' tricks immediately. It took some coercion, some time, multiple visits. Just like it took Gortash years to drive Durge to a point where the Bhaalspawn actively began defying Bhaal. To the point where Durge wrote the prayer.
The Serpent didn't immediately succeed in convincing Eve to trust it. But once the Serpent was successful, she took a bite out of the forbidden fruit. She gained knowledge and then defied her creator and God. And as punishment for her transgression, she fell, was cast out of paradise. And the moment Durge took a bite of the forbidden fruit, had gained enough knowledge or maybe even understood the festering feelings, the moment the prayer was written, Durge fell from grace. Fell from the place of chosen and was cast out of the temple.
Now, on top of that, Xvim, who has a lot of parallels with Gortash, has an adder as one of his symbols. A serpent. Gortash has dragons on his coat. They do be similar enough to reptiles without pissing off Bane for reminding him of his son.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but what happened to Adam and Eves' children again? Cain and Abel? Didn't they fight each other until only one was left, similar to how the Bhaalspawn in general but also Durge and Orin fought each other until only one was left? The fate that all of Durges children will have to face even in the redemption ending?
Also something something about Gortashes obsession with devils, being raised by a Cambion in the hells and then acting as the Serpent, aka the devil. Corrupting an innocent soul the way devils do. On top of that, he is a manipulator and mastermind. Or at least he's portrayed that way. He always has ulterior motives, and one might say he has a snake like personality.
ALSO ALSO Infernal being based on Latin. The language the bible was written in for the longest time. A language in general is very closely tied to holy scriptures. Gorty probably knows infernal too, considering his upbringing.
Am I making sense? Idk. But apparently, this flavour of durgetash took over, and I will now return to sketching something depicting the two most evil and tragic gremlins alongside a Serpent because I saw smth and now that idea is stuck. It's just now worse than before.
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I feel like this has been answered, but I can't find it so:
You've mentioned terms like colubrid, viper, elapid - are these, like, types? Genuses? What distinguishes them?
Those are the major snake families! There are pretty major differences between all of them. The big five snake families are colubrids, vipers, elapids, boas, and pythons. Not every snake is in those families, but understanding them goes a long way!
Colubrids are the biggest snake family, and they're what you think of when you think of generic snakes. They're usually non-venomous, and those that are venomous are rear-fanged and tend to have weak venom. They tend to have slender body plans and round pupils, but they're a diverse group and there are exceptions to every rule. Kingsnakes, ratsnakes, watersnakes, grass snakes, gartersnakes - they're all colubrids!
Boas are a family of primitive constrictors, closely related to pythons. They're all non-venomous, nocturnal constrictors. They don't all have heat pits, but when they do, they're set in between the scales on the lips. They have vestigial pelvic girdles. Boa constrictors, rainbow boas, tree boas - all of these are members of the boa family!
Pythons are primitive, non-venomous constrictors, distinguished from boas by a few extra teeth and an extra bone in their jaws. They all have heat pits (except woma and black-headed pythons!), and their heat pits are set into the scales on their lips. Ball pythons, retics, Burmese pythons, rock pythons, and all non-venomous snakes in Australia are part of the python family!
Vipers are a family of venomous snakes. They have large venom glands, hinged fangs, and tend to have stocky body plans. They tend to be nocturnal and have very few teeth. They tend to have hemotoxic venom - their venom is generally much less quickly lethal than elapid venom. Many (but not all) have a single set of heat pits in their cheeks. Rattlesnakes, European adders, and all pit vipers are vipers!
Elapids are a family of venomous snakes with primarily neurotoxic venom. Their bites tend to be more quickly lethal than viper bites. They have body plans very similar to colubrids, and have round pupils. Many have hoods. Cobras, mambas, coral snakes, and all Australian venomous snakes are elapids!
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Small Child’s Thoughts on “The Taming of Sméagol”
Oh, we are back with Frodo and Sam now. I almost forgot all about them because they were gone for so long.
Sounds like they are on a bad hike, don’t you think?
If Frodo wants to go quickly, they just need to run really quickly and destroy that Ring. It will be better if they go fast.
Gollum eats babies and that is maybe the worst thing I have ever heard of. Frodo hates these hills and I hate Gollum.
This is a really long hike.
They are doing too much talking about climbing and not doing enough climbing.
Uh oh, if they are outside and there’s thunder, they are in danger. What if they get struck by lightening.
Did Frodo die from that fall? (Let’s keep reading, then we will find out.) No! I want you to tell me now, I am scared Frodo is dead!
Oh. Frodo is not dead. That’s good to know.
Oh no, no! Is the hail big? Is it as big as gold balls? Will they get hit on the head?
Sam is being rude calling names like that. I do not think it’s good to call even yourself bad names like that.
Those black riders can fly, we know that because we read it already. But Frodo and Sam don’t. This makes me nervous. I wish they knew the same things we knew.
At last they are doing real climbing and not only talking or falling.
Hobbit fingers are strong even though they are small. My fingers are small. But I wish they were stronger.
Ha! Sam did not tie that knot very well!
Um, Sam is just wrong. Because rope does not have any of the five senses, so it could not have heard Sam, even if Sam did call. And Sam did not call the rope anyway.
Why did this book say “it was not wide, but it was too wide to jump across?” If it is too wide to jump across it, it is wide.
Hey, I know what adders are! We just read about those snakes in school!
I forgot that I do not like your voice you do when you read Gollum’s words. It is not a kind voice.
Gollum says very unkind things. He should not hate Frodo and Sam.
Do not bite people! That is just very, very bad to do! I would be very angry if Gollum bit me.
I think Gollum is lying. I do not think he will be nice to them at all.
Why doesn’t Gollum want them to go to Mordor? (Because he wants to have the Ring.) Well, that is just not going to be good for him. I wish Frodo would go fast to Mordor to get rid of that Ring.
Is Gollum nocturnal? Maybe that’s why he does not like the light. I like the light. The sun makes me feel warm and happy. But… it’s not very warm right now, even when the sun is shining because it is winter.
I think if Gollum is going to promise, he just needs to let his yes be yes. That is in the Bible. Just mean what you say. That’s a good way to do things.
Silence does not have any color because it is not something you see. You just hear it. Or maybe you don’t because there isn’t anything to hear. But silence just can’t be black is all that I’m saying.
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If you do end up postponing Honeyfern's death 'til Battle of the True Eclipse (personally not a fan of this idea, gotta maintain the "anyone can die" vibe I was hooked on in middle school), what long-term effects after surviving a snake bite could Honeyfern expect?
Alternatively, how feasable would her canon death be as the impetus for proper Berrynose Development instead of just making him sad for a while? Or is there not enough wiggle room for that?
I mostly don't want Proper Berrynose Development because I love the snotball. How can you not love the guy? He is SUCH a jerk and I love this about him. Never change, Berrynose, never change.
But the long-term effects of Honeyfern surviving the bite of an adder? It depends, but if it was a "survivable" bite, very little! Maybe some permanent nerve pain in the area. If it traveled, organ damage. The bite of an adder causes damage done to the cells it comes in contact with. "Venom-induced necrosis" is the fancy word for it.
In layman's terms, it burns the area it's exposed to like an acid. That's why it's not as serious if it doesn't get injected into a major artery-- it stays in that part of the body and damages it. If it gets into the bloodstream, it's carried to major organs and causes organ damage.
It HURTS though, it hurts and swells and it's VERY painful. Frecklewish being bitten between the eyes would blind her from the swelling. Honeyfern would have a fever and rapid heartbeat for several days.
Don't get me wrong though, an adder bite is a very serious injury, and they're treating this with stinging nettle, not actual antivenom.
#I love when berry shows up in a moonkitti video because I love how she says BEERYnos#That's him#bEERYnos#adders#adder bite#tw snakes#cw snakes#snakes#snake bites#tw injury#tw snake bite#tw injuries
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European adder 🐍 ! Remember, if you bite it and you die, it’s poisonous; if it bites you and you die, it’s venomous.
[ID: an illustration of a light brown snake with darker stripes coiled with its head facing down. It is surrounded by bones, on a red background. End.
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Dark Forest -- Resembling Deaths
I'm a huge fan of the idea where if someone dies, they resemble what killed them. They won't just show the wound itself, but their body actually changes to incorporate certain signs of their death
Take Perchclaw (oc), for example.
He was bitten by a venomous snake. In the usual version of things, this is seen in the bite mark on his legs.
But in this version of death, he's the one that resembles a snake. Not obviously, no. At first glance, he looks like a cat. He has no scales, he still has his legs. He sounds like a cat, too. You're sure he is a cat. But then you keep looking at him, and you start to notice that something is off. His body is a little longer than that of a normal cat, but maybe he's just a strange breed? Are his fangs a little too sharp, and a little too long? When he eats, does his jaw open a little too wide? When he speaks, you think his tongue might be split, but you can never get a good glance--you're surely seeing things. You hear him hiss, but does it sound almost like a rattle? No, of course not. Surely you're just hearing things (though Perch was bitten by an adder, not a rattle snake, so maybe he doesn't have this part--buy his hisses could sound more like a snake's than a cat's!)
To step away from horror and into some silly, I think it'd also be funny + neat if characters show traits of what killed them in their personality as well.
Continuing with Perchclaw, imagine he just starts to LOVE sunning himself on rocks.
And also maybe he doesn't really notice when he opens his jaws too wide and doesn't understand why cats around him are freaking out.
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A final note to add: they wouldn't show EVERY trait of what killed them. For example, as stated, Perchclaw wouldn't have any scales, and he still has his legs. He also wouldn't have snake-vision, but could find that he can smell things easier when he opens his mouth to do it (but might not think twice about it, since tasting the air is normal).
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More hcs (most are also from ff)
— Mudwing dragonets aren't completely independent, and do receive education. Adult troops take apprentices to teach them their crafts. In capital dragonets are taught in family-owned schools.
— They believe in the afterlife: deceased dragons visit their sibs to comfort them appearing in the living world as birds.
— They are protective of sisters while they are pregnant with eggs. In some regions, prone to scavenger attacks, Mudwings keep guarding the nest until hatching
— They often put small venomous snakes like adders in their nests. Snakes get rats, martens, and other animals who try to harm the eggs and bite bigger animals like scavengers and dogs. Adders aren't that big of a threat to dragonets because of their size, and dragonets do not consider snakes nutritious enough to hurt, and they usually coexist, sometimes snakes are kept as a replacement for domestic cats.
— Mudwings, being omnivorous, have various festivals related to nature and earth in particular: opening of sowing season, honey and fruit fairs, harvest festival. The ones who live in the northern parts, selebrate awakening of the earth in spring and say goodbye to it in the first snow, as winter hibernation is also a part of nature cycle.
— They have rituals of welcoming loners into family as new sibs including special greetings, oaths, and exchanging gifts.
— While Seawings and Nightwings see in the dark, and Skywings see the farthest, Mudwings and Rainwings have the best color vision of all, due to having fresh fruits in their diet. They are better at differentiating hues. You need to see colors really well to tell good and ripe fruit from the rest. Former volcano Nightwings, who are primarily predators and scavengers, are more prone to colorblindness.
— Chameleon could carry Leafwing genes due to either his parents both being related to them at some extent or him being a hybrid. This was the cause of his lack of color changing abilities, as we see he was having enough rest during his short naps to keep himself relatively healthy.
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as I suspected the finished project is too big so fuck it I'm just posting my favourite frame because I'm actually kind of happy with this silliness. The frame alone looks like a fanfic cover so please go write a fanfic that is the entire story through Livia's perspective. I have a good Livia & Tiberius fic to recommend!
Love how all the characters in the show who are mentioned to eat figs eventually find their end at Livia's hands. Augustus is the most memorable one but Julia and Postumus also have a few scenes with figs I find memorable and weirdly enough they even have a member of the Claudian family warning them, just like Livia warned him, but these do it without any irony or knowledge. Good foreshadowing in my opinion!
Antonia: What a polite boy! And how well he speaks Latin. Julia, not another fig.
Julia: Figs are good for you. You sound just like Lucius.
- Episode 3, Waiting in the Wings
Claudius: P-P-Poisoned?
Augustus: Taste that.
Postumus: Yum.
Augustus: You know, there's nothing quite like a piece of food picked fresh from a tree, or a field or a stalk.
Postumus: It's very nice, but you didn't ask me here to taste the figs.
- Episode 4, What Shall We Do About Claudius
Livia: Are you feeling better? There's a delegation here from Rome. They're waiting to see you. Eh, you're a fine one. You made yourself worse with all those figs. I never heard anything so ridiculous. I only came on this journey to look after you, and you won't let me or anyone else cook for you. It's very embarrassing, you know. People might think we were trying to poison you. I sent for Tiberius. Fortunately, he wasn't too far away. He'll be here soon. Well, I thought you might want to see him. And he'll do everything that has to be done. Hasn't he always? Of course...you two haven't always seen eye to eye. But that hasn't been entirely his fault, you know that, don't you? You were always inclined to favor one over the other. I've often spoken to you about it. You made fish of one and foul of the other so often that no one knew where he was or what he was. You should have listened to me more. You should have. You know that, don't you? I've been right more often than you have, you know. But because I was a woman, you pushed me into the background. Oh, yes...yes, you did. And all I ever wanted was for you and for Rome. Nothing I ever did was for myself. Nothing. Only for you...and for Rome. As a Claudian should. Oh, yes, my dear. I'm a Claudian. I think you are apt to forget that at times. But I never did. No. Never. No.
Tiberius: How is he?
Livia: He's dead. Augustus is dead.
Tiberius: The earth will shake.
Livia: I must go and see the senators and the consuls from Rome. Stay with him till I return. By the way... don't touch the figs.
- Episode 5, Poison is Queen
Claudius: And what about Augustus? Did you poison him?
Livia: Yes. Yes, I did. I smeared the poison on the figs while they were still on the tree. I had no choice. He would only eat them if he'd picked them himself. It took me all night to do it.
- Episode 7, Queen of Heaven
Also, I don't think this as an actual intended motif in the show or book but I love associating snakes to Livia.
"They say a snake bit her once and died" - Episode 2, Family Affairs
"Poison is queen" - Episode 5, Poison is Queen
the "my beloved smother" trope and how it applies to Tiberius & Livia among her saturnal impulses
the very first thing we see in the show being an adder that crawls her way through the screen on all episodes
the way she spoke of Cleopatra (who in common belief died by having a cobra bite her breast) was also kind of odd??? the tone she used was weirdly self-incriminatory even if I know she had nothing to do with it (she couldn't have, could she???)
Livilla: They say you were the most beautiful woman in the world.
Livia: There was one other, but she was in Egypt. And, besides, she didn't last as long as I did.
- Episode 4, What Shall We Do About Claudius?
to some extent I can't help but think of the poisoned figs and her "encouraging" Augustus to make only a farce out of the republic and becoming the de facto emperor as somewhat similar to Eve and her forbidden fruit. Both narratives are misogynistic and I am very passionate about defending Eve but I won't deny that I really enjoy this Livia even if I find it lazy to consider her the only ambitious one when HER HUSBAND WAS LITERALLY AUGUSTUS.
If for some reason you read all this but haven't seen the show, 1. Thank you, that's nice of you, 2. Go watch it! It's free on YouTube in english, castellano, deutsch and legendado em português.
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WELCOME TO SPRUCECOLONY! the faithful and guarded.
the first of the three cat colonies in the sea calling. they live in a lush spruce forest with waterlogged meadows and mires. they believe themselves closest to stagcolony, as the ruins of the founding sisters are in their land. other colonies rumor the cold wind of the over-yonder mountains makes their hearts cold.
under the cut, listing of all members and a more in depth look at the highest ranked members!
top to bottom, left to right:
captain smokey spell, deputy spider blaze, sage plum spots, head-nurse grape tail, nurse wool belly, moon fall
wizened raven mask, kindler hoof stomp, kits wren belly & chickadee field, fickle field, adder strike, owl feather
minnow frost, sage-rookie snail swirl, deer skip, honey frost ( eventually changed to honey heart ), coyote bite, and fox bite.
-captain smokey spell is the wise, sentimental , yet troubled, leader of sprucecolony and has been for many years. quite unpopular among his peers for the scandal with the once leader of willowcolony, captain mist drizzle, which then led to the willowspruce war.
-spider blaze is the cold, ambitious, and ferocious deputy of sprucecolony. he succeeded umber blight, who died in the final conflict of the willowspruce war- the drop. despite the former deputy’s wishes for him not to succeed her, smokey spell chose him anyway as he was the most popular, pressured choice. his hatred for willowcolony knows no bounds.
-plum spots is the sage of sprucecolony. she is their emotional and spiritual guide, and is smokey spell’s most influential advisor. while compassionate and brilliant, she is also stubborn and lovelorn. she hates spider blaze vehemently; for work related reasons, and deeply personal ones she would never disclose.
-snail swirl is plum spots rookie, otherwise known as her apprentice. they are sweet, sensitive, and reclusive. they are also spider blaze’s son, and he tries to mold them into a fierce cat. he also disapproves of snail swirl choosing to be a sage deeply. they are very close to their mentor, but are a rock stuck in a hard place; the approval of their cold father, or the approval of their passionate mentor.
-raven mask is the wizened of sprucecolony. he is as old as smokey spell, and the willowspruce war seems to have aged the both cruelly. he is the captain’s second most important advisor, and his best friend since childhood. he is also plum spot’s loving uncle, and just wants the forest to be peaceful before he joins the stag’s above.
thank you for reading! these are only a few of the very important characters of the sea calling. i will be posting more, and willowcolony is next to be drawn! :)) spider blaze and snail swirl belong to my wonderful gf @meta-knight-is-bisexual!
#my art#my ocs#animal xenofiction#cat xenofiction#don’t tag as warrior cats#the sea calling#sprucecolony#captain smokey spell#spider blaze#plum spots#snail swirl#raven mask#deer skip#honey heart#tagging the most important characters#thank you for reading! more will be on its way#also check out my yt which is also pumpkinnkidd for more about tsc cats
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Febuwhump Day 4: Obedience
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV
Characters/Ship: Raicheille Lhorulgois
Triggers/Content warnings: Child abuse
Takes place one year after Silenced.
"Stand still," Mother snaps, swatting Raicheille's shoulder as though she's an insect in need of a good squishing. "And stop slouching, girl! You've no figure yet to speak of; we must pin all of our hopes on your face. Gods help us."
I inherited it from you, you old sow, she doesn't dare say, straightening her shoulders even further, stretching her spine until it creaks. Her new dress clings in uncomfortable places, telling earnest but unconvincing lies about the shape of her beneath it. As though anyone would believe it. Her betrothed-to-be will be a fellow wildwood, of course, and everyone knows elezen don't begin properly growing until their twentieth year, give or take.
At fifteen summers, she feels like a dodo pretending to be a chocobo.
"You will be gracious," Father says. His voice is cold, stern, as though she's one of his hired lances. "You will speak only when it is required of you, or you will suffer the consequences of your disobedience."
She fights the urge to shudder.
There's every reason the new dress covers her from the neck down, hiding the bruises and welts she's earned over the past year.
Nourval wouldn't let them do this to me.
"Do not bite your lip," Mother snaps again, seizing Raicheille's chin between cruel fingers, not quite hard enough to bruise. "Do not sulk at your father, you ungrateful trollop; were it not for your interference, none of this would be necessary! Your uncle had it all well in hand!"
"Yes- yes, Mother."
Had it all well in hand is, Rai thinks, a very diplomatic way to describe the attempted murder of an officer of the Twin Adder, in an effort to frame visiting Ala Mhigan diplomats for the crime - it'd been her interference, yes, that'd alerted Captain Smyth to the plot. But she'd only ever wanted her brother to be freed from prison; beyond that, she hadn't really cared what became of it all. Not really.
She hasn't seen Nourval since. Her last memory of her brother is of him lying half-dead in the tall grass, and Captain Smyth sending her dashing off for a healer.
He's alive, at least. She knows that much. If her parents would let him see her...
But no. They'd told the Adders charming lies, pleading their ignorance, pleading their innocence, and so Raicheille was returned to the loving arms of her parents. If only someone had thought to ask her what her parents might have known... but who ever cared what one scrawny girl knew?
Captain Sanson cared, she thinks, idly, fighting the urge to rub her throbbing jaw while her parents aren't looking.
Today is her chance at redemption, her parents have told her, endlessly, for the past week. Marriage is a time-honored contract, sealing alliances between the families of Gridania's oldest families - those who long for the old ways, before Gridania opened her gates to outsiders; before Ala Mhigo brought war to her doorstep and pushed Gridania to the brink. Before Vainchelon's death. Rai has known all her life that she'd be handed over into the keeping of some tradition-minded man or other...
But that was before she knew the truth about it all.
Now she wants to run screaming into the Shroud, hopefully to be eaten by some wild beast - better that than being married off to some other hateful bastard who who only wants to rekindle old wars.
The one they've picked for her is nearly thrice her age: a grizzled veteran of the Old Guard, known to have a firm hand with his servants. The Matron knows he's likely to see her as little better than a servant; she expects she'll be lucky to see the sun more than once a moon - she'll be kept under lock and key, seen but not heard, her value proven only in the production of sons to bear arms-
I'd rather just get eaten.
"Come, girl," Father says, snapping his fingers like she's one of his hunting hounds. Mother places an ungentle hand on her back, guiding her forward like a prisoner who can't be trusted to follow obediently.
It's more apt than it ought to be.
#febuwhump#febuwhump2024#febuwhumpday4#my writing#raicheille lhorulgois#THIS IS THE ONGOING STORYLINE#it's not as in-depth as last year's but follows rai trying to get the hell out of the situation her parents have put her in#(the boys will turn up soon)
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