From b1753a7fdd8780f874abf61988a9b19d0c9f6763 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Hugo=20H=C3=B6rnquist?= Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2022 13:22:51 +0200 Subject: Add apex predator text --- apex-predator.wiki | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ index.wiki | 1 + 2 files changed, 118 insertions(+) create mode 100644 apex-predator.wiki diff --git a/apex-predator.wiki b/apex-predator.wiki new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df6942a --- /dev/null +++ b/apex-predator.wiki @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +- https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/v6a1kv/another_reason_why_tumblr_is_the_best_community/ +- https://i.redd.it/oldulxttm1491.jpg + +== prokopetz == +I've seen a lot of videos going around of urban-dwelling critters +coming to humans for help with various problems, ranging from boxes +stuck on their heads to young trapped down a storm drain, and it's +gotten me to thinking: + +On the one hand, it's kind of fascinating that they know to do that. + +On the other hand, setting any questions of how this sort of behaviour +must have arisen aside for the nonce, does it ever strike you how +*weird* it is that we've got a whole collection of prey species whose +basic problem-solving script ends with the step "if all else fails, go +bother one of the local apex predators and maybe they'll fix the +problem for no reason"? + +== roachpatrol == +well, come to think of it, we're at the top of the food chain but we +almost exclusively hunt and kill prey _out in the country_. + +raccoons and possums and foxes and crows all succeed in an urban +environment because they're opportunistic and observant, and almost +none of them would have observed us pounce on one of their species and +then start eating it, you know? a lot of them would have observed that +we scream and chase them out of wherever we don't want them to be, but +other animals are territorial too. but there's a number of situations +where humans feed whoever's bold enough to take them up on the offer, +and we _do_ tend to pull garbage off of other animals as soon as they +slow down enough for us to catch. 'a human got me but nothing bad +happened' is a much more frequent thing than 'a human got me and tried +to eat me'. + +anyway like, we're masters of our environment, we make weird shit +happen all the time, we have lots of great food and sometimes we share +and we almost never eat someone. it makes sense for urban animals v +over the last century or so, to just keep an eye out for opportunities +to use us, and to pass the habit on to their kids. + +== tsfennec == +It really is weird, funny thing. Like yeah, technically they're +predators, and they get pretty screamy, especially if you try to take +any of their stuff... but given the chance it seems like they'd rather +help us out and sometimes they'll just randomly give you food, so??? + +I mean, I guess in fairytales and myths we've got our fair share of +stories about dangerous people/creates who might well kill you or +otherwise ruin your life, but to whom people nonetheless turn for help +in desperate circumstances. So it's not like the perspective is +exactly a foreign thing to our own mindset, really... It's just that, +y'know, we can't _actually_ go make a deal with the faeries when +there's something we can't figure out. + +(Which brings me to an interesting thought about the ubiquitous rule +about never eating the faery food lest you find yourself forever +unsatisfied with anything in the human world - and the potential +parallels to the dangers of feeding wildlife _human_ food lest they +become addicted and too tame and dependent to be safe for either +themselves or us. Hmm.) + +== sapphicaquarius == +Okay, but that last bit with the Fae...makes almost perfect sense + +Of the stories I've read, the food of the Fae, its origins and +effects, are often strange and/or obscure.- Just like our food to most +animals. + +The Fae are strange beings that seem to know weird things that give +them power or an edge over us.- Just like us to animals. + +The Fae work and live by strange rules also often nonsensical or +obscure to us.- just like us to animals. + +The Fae can easily obtain vast amounts of things we consider +rare/precious/desirable, and have no problem with dishing out wantonly +for no other reason than amusement.- Just like us to animals. + +The Fae sometimes are amused by having us around, but only on their +terms and IF it amuses/intrigues them.- Just like us to animals. + +GUYS, I SENSE A PATTERN.... + +== roachpatrol == +-they have arcane social conventions and the punishment for not paying +the respects right is banishment, if you're lucky, and death if you're +not. + +-they have wild and unexpected parties where you'd least expect to +find them. but if you're bold enough to entertain them they'll feed +you and caress and you and play with you all night. + +-time runs strangely in their realm. their homes are summerlands: warm +and bright, no matter the season. there is always fruit on their +tables. but not everyone who comes in from the cold is let back out +again. + +-their games are cruel and complex and unfair, but if you can beat +them by their own rules you will access riches beyond imagining. + +-sometimes they just fucking fuck with you, the fuckheads. + +-they will absolutely steal your children away. when your children +return— if they ever do— they will come back strange. they will know +things they shouldn't. they won't know things that they should. your +strange children might survive, might even prosper, might take wives +and husbands and have children of their own. butthey will always be +marked by their time away from you world. + +-the price for pissing them off is always death. sometimes just you. +sometimes you whole community. + +-if you are very good, and very smart, and verybrave, they will grant +you wish. + +== oceaxereturns == +My eyes just got wider and wider the further down I read. diff --git a/index.wiki b/index.wiki index af20275..2801999 100644 --- a/index.wiki +++ b/index.wiki @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ - [[Just an October Reminder]] - [[Cthulu]] - [[Sun is an Eldritch Abomination]] +- [[apex-predator]] == Övrigt == - [[Media]] -- cgit v1.2.3