The herd in the forest (detail) - Ivan Shishkin, 1864
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i think he should have a Border Collie. intelligent, enthusiastic, determined, and very good at rearing sweet little sheep ;)
I was trying to look into local breeds, but I really don't know enough about them tbh so might as well! Airplane's haphazard world building allows for much wilder things than foreign dog breeds in ancient fantasy China and the few collies I see in passing are a delight.
I think Binghe's daemon in PIDW would actually be another wolf when it settles, despite his best efforts. Growing up his daemon is almost always in the form of a sheep (to the point people wonder if it has already settled, despite Binghe being far too young for that to happen) because of his subconscious (maybe even instinctual?) need to appear harmless. It's one of the things that triggers Shen Qingqiu's anger at him - it's not unnatural for a daemon to favor one kind of shape or another, even if it's rare for children to stop experimenting early, but something about Binghe's little lamb daemon tickles Shen Qingqiu's paranoia just the wrong way.
Shen Yuan sees nothing wrong with it, but then he doesn't really have the right cultural understanding of the world to really get why it's weird. Of course Binghe's daemon is a little sheep, he's a gentle and sweet little white lotus! Makes perfect sense to him! It's his cruel shizun's awful influence that will make the gentle lamb turn into a ravenous, rabid wolf - he's certain there's some kind of commentary on the cycle of abuse in there, even if only by accident, because he doesn't trust Airplane to write depth if his life depended on it. He's not completely wrong, but he's off the mark enough to be surprised that Binghe's daemon starts taking on canine forms when Shen Qingqiu eases up on targeting him.
In this AU Binghe would probably end up with a wolfdog of sorts, inspired by Shen Yuan's claims that his own daemon used to be a dog too.
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They always look so ruff in the spring
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↳✦║ VELVET
"No deer in Reine is Velvet’s equal in the practice of Winter Magic, in form nor in function. She is perfection personified, supremacy symbolized. Those who dare challenge her will be left with nothing but a cold shoulder.
A grand tournament was held in Reine City to determine who was most fit to answer the Council’s call and become Foenum’s Champion. Velvet trounced all opposition without so much as breaking a sweat. Haven’t heard the news? Well, you’re forgiven for now. Can’t rightly blame someone for living under a rock. You’ll see… soon enough."
X X X / X X X / X X X
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My favorite kind of historians are the ones who say "oh, they can't be blamed for not knowing this sort of thing had happened before in other parts of the country. They were illiterate and isolated, so we shouldn't be surprised when they explained things through magic and superstition."
And then, when asked how we know what happened, goes "we know because it was all written down."
Yeah? By who? The superstitious illiterates?
This was less than 500 years ago. The things he's talking about were reported in newspapers.
And this guy's trying to tell us that all the locals knew about wildlife and predator behavior came from folklore and superstition? Get bent.
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Eebie I had a dream a few days ago that I was some sort of animal and I was hunting and killing a bunch of little animals but they all looked like your sona and I was so scared that one of them would actually be you :(
FWAHFIHSNFHSGAH hunting eebers for sport thats beautiful😊😊😊😊
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Spinosaurus paleo art
Sorry if this one isn't as my previous art about utahraptors, I've been in a rush with this one. I'll be taking part in a small art exibition next week, and my deadline for this project is due to tommorow, so yeah, here's the story, enjoy!
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