Appropriate icon is appropriate! (I patterned Suriel's markings loosely around a monochrome mountain lion.)
She is BEAUTIFUL -- yes, I winced at the tooth, too, but I'm glad that it probably didn't cause her too much pain, if there was no bone erosion. And it looks smoothed-off and not jagged, so I'll bet it had been that way for a while, and she just kept on living her life.
I love her, and I'm so happy that you have her! (I adore mountain lions, too!) Thank you for sharing her! ^___^
I *must* see the liger skull cast -- they're the closest we'll get to seeing a cave lion or sabertooth in our era!
P.S. You might enjoy the cover image, and some of the other pieces of art, on my desperately-needs-to-be-updated-because-it's-basically-an-archive-at-this-point website :)
I love your Little Red poem. And it opens with the same words as Depeche Mode's Stripped, which is A) one of my favorite songs ever and B) rather appropriate. (And there the resemblance ends, obviously, but it's a neat mental parallel.)
Eeeee, thank you so much!! (And I am a RIDICULOUS Depeche Mode fan, and it delights me that you love that song as much as I do!!)
Here, I'll give you a present -- I'd had a rough idea of creating a series of fairytale/mythic poems with appropriate botanical names (thus "Paperwhite," "Ladyslipper," etc.), and this was the one for "Wolfsbane," which never made it onto the site because I need to re-learn how to use a web-design FTP program that is many generations beyond the one that I built it with. It's one of those things that I'll get to when I have the spoons to spare -- but, in the meanwhile, here is one that only a couple of people have ever seen, and I think it's perfect to share with you . . .
Remaking our bodies with a purpose divine in its ferocity as, fueled by a fiercer fire, we blaze with a heat that wards off any winter's chill.
That is hair-raising, if you read it aloud.
Wow.
Thank you. I mean that.
When I get my desktop put back together to transfer all the good stuff to my laptop, I'll pull off the RRH poem for you. I think you'll REALLY like it.
I'm serious, the liger is TERRIFYING. He kinda makes Ollie, my actually rather large adult male lion, look like a skinny little dickweed. It's a flawed cast, but still SO COOL. And the flaw won't show once he's mounted with his mouth open. Same with the smilodon replica. He makes it look fairly tame. (Ollie and the smilodon are about the same size, and the smilodon was cast from what is probably the largest complete specimen found in La Brea.) (This guy.) Ollie is actually longer by about 1.5"-2". It's just the sabers that look scary as SHIT.
I don't think it slowed her down. I've seen lots of animals with broken teeth acting 100% normal, whereas an animal that's having tooth pain, a lot of the time they act "off." (A friend had a dog's abscessed tooth pulled, and despite the dog getting fantastic vet care always, it had apparently been bad for a while before they found it. When it came out, she acted -- is STILL acting -- two or three years younger. I mean, WOW.) Grond has that same deal going on with his upper canine
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She is BEAUTIFUL -- yes, I winced at the tooth, too, but I'm glad that it probably didn't cause her too much pain, if there was no bone erosion. And it looks smoothed-off and not jagged, so I'll bet it had been that way for a while, and she just kept on living her life.
I love her, and I'm so happy that you have her! (I adore mountain lions, too!) Thank you for sharing her! ^___^
I *must* see the liger skull cast -- they're the closest we'll get to seeing a cave lion or sabertooth in our era!
*luff*
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(Yes, that's a mountain lion skull!)
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I love your Little Red poem. And it opens with the same words as Depeche Mode's Stripped, which is A) one of my favorite songs ever and B) rather appropriate. (And there the resemblance ends, obviously, but it's a neat mental parallel.)
*wags!*
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Here, I'll give you a present -- I'd had a rough idea of creating a series of fairytale/mythic poems with appropriate botanical names (thus "Paperwhite," "Ladyslipper," etc.), and this was the one for "Wolfsbane," which never made it onto the site because I need to re-learn how to use a web-design FTP program that is many generations beyond the one that I built it with. It's one of those things that I'll get to when I have the spoons to spare -- but, in the meanwhile, here is one that only a couple of people have ever seen, and I think it's perfect to share with you . . .
"Wolfsbane," you say ( ... )
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divine in its ferocity
as, fueled by a fiercer fire,
we blaze with a heat
that wards off any winter's chill.
That is hair-raising, if you read it aloud.
Wow.
Thank you. I mean that.
When I get my desktop put back together to transfer all the good stuff to my laptop, I'll pull off the RRH poem for you. I think you'll REALLY like it.
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And, yes, I would LOVE to read yours!!
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Andi - HOLYSHITGUDWRITINGZ O__O (My response to reading those was "I wonder if she'll let me get a few phrases as tattoos".)
Naamah - You have a RRH poem (what am I saying, of course you do!). I have not read it. This must be remedied!
And HAPPY BIRFDAI SISSTUR!1!! *wagwagwagwag* <333
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And yes, I shall have to email it to you or something. You would like it.
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Oh my, I love the icon!!! *rawr*
And that is *also* a lovely compliment, m'dear -- the answer is absolutely yes, as long as I get to see a picture of the finished work! :D
How are you doing, sugar? *squishes*
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I don't think it slowed her down. I've seen lots of animals with broken teeth acting 100% normal, whereas an animal that's having tooth pain, a lot of the time they act "off." (A friend had a dog's abscessed tooth pulled, and despite the dog getting fantastic vet care always, it had apparently been bad for a while before they found it. When it came out, she acted -- is STILL acting -- two or three years younger. I mean, WOW.) Grond has that same deal going on with his upper canine ( ... )
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