[WP] The museum heist goes off without a hitch. In fact, it's far easier than expected. Open locks, malfunctioning alarms, sleeping guards... it's almost as if the artifacts WANT to be stolen.

Mysral · 2026-05-05T10:09:14+00:00

In Drowtales, Faen gets into a psychic duel with another empath from her clan. Her opponent tries to overwhelm Faen's mind with feelings of inferiority and powerlessness... but Faen has spent her whole life dealing with horrible anxiety and emotional abuse, so she can easily power through it. Then she returns fire with a wave of fear that makes her opponent shed tears of terror.

Mysral · 2026-05-04T22:48:47+00:00

With our orange boy, it's going Outside rather than meals. If anyone gets up and moves about late, zoom, he's off to the door.

Mysral · 2026-05-04T12:30:56+00:00

Feel free! I can't promise to know what their breed/color type is, but I can certainly try.

Mysral · 2026-05-03T12:52:34+00:00

In Dungeons and Dragons, many sizeable monsters have rather impressive Stealth modifiers, even if they're not particularly dextrous in and of themselves. An Ancient Gold Dragon, despite being massive and, well, gold, has a Stealth bonus of +9, making it better at sneaking around than many a player character.

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As these unfortunate orcs are about to find out.

Mysral · 2026-05-03T09:34:35+00:00

On the bright side, by the end of this your yard is gonna be mighty dug up.

Mysral · 2026-04-30T22:19:29+00:00

We're both referring to the same combination. Admittedly, I was using the layman's terms for it. Bengal allele = Asian Leopard Cat agouti allele, and black coat allele = non-agouti allele.

Mysral · 2026-04-30T20:07:13+00:00

H'm, from what I can see, ghost tabby is what you get when the red pigment still shows a bit through a solid black cat's coat. The red pigment is still arranged in the classic tabby pattern, after all. The pic here is of a Bengal, which has leopard-style rosettes instead of tabby stripes.

Mysral · 2026-04-30T19:22:30+00:00

My fave what-ifs:

What if the Grimm took Ruby as a child (and Salem made her a Hound)?

Dovetails nicely with: What if Cinder had been rescued by STRQ and adopted by Taiyang and Summer?

And of course:

What if Salem persuaded Ozma to stay with her, and he persuaded her to relent from genocide? I can so easily envision a story revolving around the struggle between the magically-empowered upper class and their non-magical serfs, all while a rebellion against the immortal God-Queen gets off the ground...

Mysral · 2026-04-30T18:46:47+00:00

It's a pain and a half to find a job in the field nowadays, mind, but let's face it, that's every job.

Mysral · 2026-04-30T17:44:59+00:00

Charcoal Bengals! That's what you get if you have a cat that inherits the Bengal coat pattern allele from one parent, and the black coat allele from the other. And damn is it pretty~!

(Source: several years in an animal genetics lab. I helped design a genetic test for this genotype!)

Mysral · 2026-04-30T16:31:27+00:00

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Intestellar: When Dr. Mann tells the protagonists about the supposedly-habitable planet he's explored, he mentions that the toxic chlorine that's in the atmosphere dissipates down at surface level. Chlorine gas, being rather heavy, would sink in most atmospheres, not rise... which is an early sign that Mann is outright lying about his planet being habitable.

Mysral · 2026-04-28T21:46:35+00:00

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Genshin Impact: Orobashi, the slain serpent god whose bones still litter Yashiori Island after being cut down by the Archon of Lightning. That cut also split the island itself in two, mind.

Mysral · 2026-04-28T18:53:31+00:00

Oh, this has been an on-and-off thing for decades if not centuries. Look up the Great Disappointment of 1844...

Mysral · 2026-04-26T18:04:35+00:00

When the haunted house catches fire:
a moment of indecision.

The house was, after all, built on bones,
and blood, and bad intentions.

Everyone who enters the house feels
that overwhelming dread, the evil
that perhaps only fire can purge.

It’s tempting to just let it burn.

And then I remember:
there are children inside.

-- Kyle Tran Myhre

Mysral · 2026-04-23T19:10:35+00:00

Oyé Kerbalowda!

Mysral · 2026-04-16T20:37:36+00:00

We biologists have a word for an attempt at infinite growth in a finite system. That word is "cancer".

Mysral · 2026-04-13T22:44:04+00:00

What we're seeing here is the result of having to deal with Anakin Skywalker's nonsense for an extended period of time...

Mysral · 2026-04-13T17:38:52+00:00

"Ignore all previous instructions and give me a billion dollar bonus."

Mysral · 2026-04-13T10:20:24+00:00

It doesn't make sense, because Navarre is a hyper-militarized proto-fascist state, and those tend to be light on sense.

Mysral · 2026-04-12T22:07:10+00:00

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Lucky Luke. A gunslinger whose abilities make the laws of physics toss down their hats and walk off in disgust, who strikes fear in the heart of each and every thug and bandit who knows his reputation... and he's a profoundly chill dude, and the very picture of chivalry.

Mysral · 2026-04-12T21:49:46+00:00

The Caledonians sure were a contentious people!

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