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How dare he. How dare he give his affection to some random child instead of his own blood. How dare he not even search for his brother. It isn’t fair. It isn’t fair that Marcus has love and adoration, while Snatcher has nothing but fear. Sure he ate a few (dozen) people, but it isn’t his fault he was hungry. He couldn’t help it. It just wasn’t fair. Well, maybe it’s a little fair, he has been terrorizing the kingdom for over 2 decades now after all. It doesn’t really matter anyway. His reputation isn’t the point here. The point here is that Marcus is about to add another member to his family. Now, Snatcher can’t let this happen for a few reasons.

1. It isn’t fair that Marcus has people to care for.

2. It isn’t fair that Marcus has people who care for him.

3. Even if Marcus does do his best to care for people, Snatcher could DEFINITELY care for people better. He is the oldest after all.

Maybe he should demonstrate that. He could be wayyyy better at caring for a child than Marcus. He could prove it. All he needed was a child. Luckily he knows where to find one, holding onto his dear younger brother’s hand. It should be pretty easy.

This is an approximation of The Subon Snatcher’s thoughts as he began to slither alongside the two figures walking down the forest path back towards the manor. If he wanted to do this, he would have to do it soon, as the shrubs would stop being thick enough to hide him a few yards away.

A large creature slithers out of the brush. It is unlike anything Marcus has ever seen before, with glistening long yellowed fangs, elongated eyes the color of slightly dirty gold, a long sinuous body covered in feathers a shade or two darker than the skin of a plum, and two long and thin legs with claws on the end.

“A child for me before a child for you.” The creature hissed.

It’s arms darted out to grab his new little girl, who Marcus had recently discovered was named Beatrice. 

“Stop!”

The shout echoed through the trees. It took Marcus a moment to realize that the exclamation had come from his own mouth.

“You want a child? I can get you one, please just leave Beatrice alone.” A pleading tone leaked into the king’s voice. Of course he would never actually give The Snatcher (as that is the name of this beast in front of him. Marcus had heard complaints of him for as long as he can remember) a child. He just wanted this serpentine avian to leave them alone.

“Will you now?” The Snatcher hissed coldly.

“Of course!” Marcus replied, a little too quickly. “I’ll come back as soon as I can with a nice juicy little girl for you.”

“I don’t believe you.” A skeptical expression, or as close as you can get with such a monstrous form, slid onto the snake’s face.

“R…really? Perhaps you could come back to the city and help you pick one out?” Of course, this was Marcus just trying to buy time, There’s no way this thing would be stupid enough to come to the village with him, right?

“Alright, but you’d better walk fast. You humans are all so slow.” Aaaand nevermind then. Apparently he’s doing this.

I feel like ai art would be fun if we were all still just typing random prompts into it like mushroom giving a ted talk and going lol this looks stupid wasn’t that fun but instead people are like trying to replace jobs with it

I, personally can feel movement and actions. If I want to picture an apple, I rotate a little 3D model of it around and poke my imaginary little fingers all over it. I can ‘see’ the apple by doing this.

Unfortunately, my apples come in the shade of blendr gray, and when I imagine a color, the color is on the top layer, meaning I can imagine red, and also an apple, but never a red apple.

Apple.

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Free slightly moldy bread disposal.

Just curious how people feel about Raccoons

do you love the color of the Idaho state senate advertisement?

It’s done! My Wasteland, Baby! aquarium, featuring Mercutio the marimo as Andrew Mossball-Byrne.

Inspired by this post from @turninghoziest

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Animation is so so cooool

You can do so much more with it than live action it’s so creative because so much care is put into every frame

Oh my god guys it’s the location of my favorite episode of Barney!!!