Got Talking About Infinity Nikki With My Coworker, And Because Its Dress Up I Suggested Trying FFXIV

bitches be like "god he's so hot" and he looks like this

sure was cold last night. good thing we had trash to burn for warmth

I’ve recently become interested in legends of avantrist, but the problem is I work with alligators and am very familiar with them and what they look like so every single Kremy art I see I’m like, “you’re no alligator you fuckin imposter…”

For anyone interested, here’s some miscellaneous alligator facts

Alligators have five toes on their front limbs and four toes on their hind limbs. Only the first three toes on each foot has claws.

Despite common media depictions, alligators are NOT green. They are black, dark grey, dark brown, and in VERY rare occasions, white or yellow, though these ones only survive in captivity. This is actually one of the ways to distinguish them from crocodiles, because crocs are much lighter in color, being a brownish green, tan, or a lighter grey. Alligators also loose their juvenile stripes at around 3-4 years old, while most crocodiles keep them their whole lives.

Alligators have thousands of tiny black dots on their face that kinda resemble a five o’clock shadow. No, it’s not facial hair or blackheads, they’re actually integumentary sensory organs that sense movement in the water around them and make their faces extreamly sensitive to touch.

Alligators do have ears, they’re just a little hard to notice. It’s the slit behind the eye.

Alligators have no sense of personal space. They will crawl all over each other trying to get the best sunning spot. It’s like they see other alligators as big rocks that sometimes move. (At work, we call them cuddle piles)

Despite how similar they look, alligators and crocodiles are not closely related. They diverged from one another around 100 to 90 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period. For reference, the last common ancestor of all big cats lived 10 million years ago.

Alligators have tongues, but they are attached and can’t move like ours.

Mama alligators are very protective of their babies and protect them for a year after they hatch before ditching them.

Alligators grow about 6 inches a year until they reach maturity at 10 to 12 years old. By this point the gator is about 6 feet long and will continue to grow through its entire life, though at a much slower rate.

Alligators are cannibalistic and won’t hesitate to eat a smaller alligator.

How do you tell the difference between a male and female alligator? Just put your finger in its cloaca. If something pokes you, it’s a male.

Alligators and all other crocodilians are more closely related to birds than any other member of the class reptilia. If birds aren’t reptiles, then neither are crocodilians.

Pots and Pans by Anthony Brault

Helpful things for action writers to remember

Sticking a landing will royally fuck up your joints and possibly shatter your ankles, depending on how high you’re jumping/falling from. There’s a very good reason free-runners dive and roll. 

Hand-to-hand fights usually only last a matter of seconds, sometimes a few minutes. It’s exhausting work and unless you have a lot of training and history with hand-to-hand combat, you’re going to tire out really fast. 

Arrows are very effective and you can’t just yank them out without doing a lot of damage. Most of the time the head of the arrow will break off inside the body if you try pulling it out, and arrows are built to pierce deep. An arrow wound demands medical attention. 

Throwing your opponent across the room is really not all that smart. You’re giving them the chance to get up and run away. Unless you’re trying to put distance between you so you can shoot them or something, don’t throw them. 

Everyone has something called a “flinch response” when they fight. This is pretty much the brain’s way of telling you “get the fuck out of here or we’re gonna die.” Experienced fighters have trained to suppress this. Think about how long your character has been fighting. A character in a fist fight for the first time is going to take a few hits before their survival instinct kicks in and they start hitting back. A character in a fist fight for the eighth time that week is going to respond a little differently. 

ADRENALINE WORKS AGAINST YOU WHEN YOU FIGHT. THIS IS IMPORTANT. A lot of times people think that adrenaline will kick in and give you some badass fighting skills, but it’s actually the opposite. Adrenaline is what tires you out in a battle and it also affects the fighter’s efficacy - meaning it makes them shaky and inaccurate, and overall they lose about 60% of their fighting skill because their brain is focusing on not dying. Adrenaline keeps you alive, it doesn’t give you the skill to pull off a perfect roundhouse kick to the opponent’s face. 

Swords WILL bend or break if you hit something hard enough. They also dull easily and take a lot of maintenance. In reality, someone who fights with a sword would have to have to repair or replace it constantly.

Fights get messy. There’s blood and sweat everywhere, and that will make it hard to hold your weapon or get a good grip on someone. 

A serious battle also smells horrible. There’s lots of sweat, but also the smell of urine and feces. After someone dies, their bowels and bladder empty. There might also be some questionable things on the ground which can be very psychologically traumatizing. Remember to think about all of the character’s senses when they’re in a fight. Everything WILL affect them in some way. 

If your sword is sharpened down to a fine edge, the rest of the blade can’t go through the cut you make. You’ll just end up putting a tiny, shallow scratch in the surface of whatever you strike, and you could probably break your sword. 

ARCHERS ARE STRONG TOO. Have you ever drawn a bow? It takes a lot of strength, especially when you’re shooting a bow with a higher draw weight. Draw weight basically means “the amount of force you have to use to pull this sucker back enough to fire it.” To give you an idea of how that works, here’s a helpful link to tell you about finding bow sizes and draw weights for your characters.  (CLICK ME)

If an archer has to use a bow they’re not used to, it will probably throw them off a little until they’ve done a few practice shots with it and figured out its draw weight and stability. 

People bleed. If they get punched in the face, they’ll probably get a bloody nose. If they get stabbed or cut somehow, they’ll bleed accordingly. And if they’ve been fighting for a while, they’ve got a LOT of blood rushing around to provide them with oxygen. They’re going to bleed a lot. 

Here’s a link to a chart to show you how much blood a person can lose without dying. (CLICK ME) 

If you want a more in-depth medical chart, try this one. (CLICK ME)

Hopefully this helps someone out there. If you reblog, feel free to add more tips for writers or correct anything I’ve gotten wrong here. 

Tiny moorhen chick having its first little swim! 

Soy schnitzels for my mum, yum!