Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

at least in all of this nonsense, luke and leia are clear

leia is a siamese cat, and luke is a golden retriever.

i mean just look at them. it's obvious. luke skywalker IS a golden retriever. he doesn't quite understand what he is doing but he is a VERY good boye trying his BEST and that's the entire original trilogy summed up for you, you're welcome! meanwhile in the back somewhere leia has locked eyes with you and slowly pushed your drink off your desk

@boisdevache@guineapig.party y'know, i had thought about that, but he's a dour killjoy instead of anywhere near jovial. sort of why i ruled out coyotes, even though i'd have loved to make that desert predator connection (insert here a 15 page long ramble that nobody wanted or asked for, about how his upbringing as a slave in the desert is crucial to understanding the character of darth vader etc etc)....

dingoes were also momentarily considered but he hasn't eaten any babies (yet)

of course the real dick answer to this would be to just blight some poor commissioner's inbox

"hey, i want one shitty au darth vader from my fanfic but as a furry please! oh, he's a krayt dragon."

"a *what*"

"yeah we see a skeleton of one in a new hope but otherwise the appearance is a bit all over the map in the comics and whatever haha, here's your money and good luck lol!"

...but just to complicate things, i also have called the motherfucker "prince of cats" ("What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word..."), and keep describing him as leonine in appearance, or pantherlike in movement in upcoming chapters (since he's enjoying the fact that, uh, he can be sneaky)

...i think i may just like animal related metaphors too much for my own good

i'm leaning towards wolf or fox, even though that is cliche

it is a BIT difficult to figure out WHICH because i've already done art/done titles referencing him as "between reynard and ysengrin" - e.g. he used to be as darth vader ysengrin the wolf, fully invested in might-makes-right with the brute force of the empire behind him, but he is now reynard the fox, living by wit and cleverness first and foremost along with the rest of the rebel alliance...

i guess to fully infiltrate this space i need to decide what the hell animal my shitty au darth vader would be in furry form, and then commission art of that

me: wow i wonder why i have this itchy red patch on my back? i hope i'm not allergic to something like the cover of the chill pack i use for my shoulder!

my mom, looking at it: honey that's a chilblain

me: ......

my mom: you've been doing 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off, right?

me, remembering how i usually just slap it on there and then sit for like 2 hours: ..........uh...............................................

@boisdevache@guineapig.party EXACTLY but some people punctuate it that way and they are Wrong.

(i think it might be more of a mid-atlantic/yankee thing because then you are thinking of the contraction as "ya + all" not "you + all", and while 'you' does get shortened to 'ya' down here, in the deeper south it tends to be a different sort of vowel sound than starts 'all' - more like 'yuh' - but i ain't a linguist lol)

very important hot and spicy 💽 🐴 :

it's y'all, not ya'll

and i will defend this to my grave

@wintgenstein OH LAWD HE COMIN INDEED

@wintgenstein get a pixie frog! then it'll be more the frog in danger of eating the cat.

(ok i kid, they don't get THAT big, but they're very very good absolute units)

....you could probably break skin with this if you had a sufficiently sharp toothpick or other toothpick-sized bolt....

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"yeah i concealed carry" i say as i pull out my palm-sized crossbow, loaded with a sewing needle; "ow what the fuck" says the mugger, "goddamn what the hell, you know you can just get pepper spray right",

ok this little "free just pay shipping" crossbow that fires toothpicks? actually packs a surprising amount of punch. i was just able to fire a toothpick across the living room, into the hallway, with such force that it then ricocheted off the hallway wall

fishing in #ffxiv is in fact zen as hell. you definitely have to be in the mood for it, but if you are, it's amazing.

seriously. put on a podcast, kick your feet up, and just go fishin'.

is it high octane action? nope. but it's peaceful. you get to enjoy the lovely views. you get to relax. it's a great time.

(top hint: in sound settings, turn the music down low so it doesn't drive you mad, but leave sound effects up so you can hear the sploosh of a fish on the line along with your podcast.)

@mythros a lot of people rag on fishing for being a waste of time, but honestly, i find it a very lovely excuse to sit down and take a moment to just look at the landscape! ffxiv is an extraordinarily gorgeous game, and the day-night and weather cycles often mean that you can get radically different views, and just... enjoy looking at some lovely landscapes!

@LANthus GOD THAT'S EVEN BETTER.... I'M SO HAPPY.... i'm bad at video games but as A Fat Girl it is so happymaking to see fat girl characters in video games who are powerful and not jokes 😭

@LANthus i have just known about this game like 5 minutes ago, and Doris is the best video game character i have seen in many months

(also can i just say from reading a review here that i'm very pleased doris is a slow-moving character not because she's fat but because. she's lugging heavy bombs around.)