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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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bramblesand

People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.

An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.

Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.

It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…

It’s an ant again.

Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.

This is madness.

bogleech

Thank you for this good PSA because I’m still seeing sincere, published, professional writers doing “ahhhhh oh no this monster was SO UGLY i’m mentally ill now!”

brunhiddensmusings

forms of eldritch horror include but are not limited to

- nobody will ever believe you, you must live alone with this knowledge

- you will never feel safe again, and you realize you were never safe before

- everything that was familiar is now strange and abhorrent to the point anything that now seems normal should be held in utmost suspicion

- having this new knowledge has opened doors that will continually reveal new equally cursed knowledge without end

- death and madness are no longer escapes

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catfemboyforeskin

its so bizzare that increased awareness about anxiety has led to “that makes me uncomfy/scared” being an injunction to stop someone else just going abt their life and not a realisation that these things are just feelings and sometimes our feelings are completely discordant with the level of danger were in. like “sometimes i feel threatened when im actually not” should be grounds to interrogate disgust etc not the other way arnd 

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Urocyon littoralis

Channel island foxes aren’t in the vulpes genus, which means they aren’t really foxes. They’re one of many “false foxes,” which includes the bat-eared fox, the crab-eating fox, and the grey fox. The channel island fox shares the urocyon (which essentially means “tail dog”) genus with the larger grey fox, which is its ancestor.

Grey foxes live on the mainland of the United States, while island foxes live exclusively on six of California’s eight Channel Islands: Santa Rosa, San Clemente, San Nicolas, San Miguel, Santa Catalina, and Santa Cruz. Because they can’t easily travel between islands, six subspecies of island fox have developed, each one exclusive to and named after each of those six islands.

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Roughly the size of a house cat, the island fox is one of the smallest canines in the world but is, ironically, the largest native mammal of the Channel Islands. Having no natural predators (multiple subspecies were nearly hunted to extinction by the invasive golden eagle in the late 1900s to early 2000s. A successful conservation project later reestablished their population and removed golden eagles from the area.), they are extremely bold and show no fear around people, completely the opposite of their elusive larger ancestor.

Like the majority of fox species, island foxes are omnivores and will eat whatever is available. This includes fruit, fish, rodents, plants, and bird eggs, which, just like the grey fox, they can climb into trees to search for.

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The social structure of the island fox is similar to that of many fox species. Pairs are generally monogamous, meaning they mate for life, and they share a small territory that oftentimes overlaps with their relatives’ territories.

I rate the island fox 20/10. Adorable

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As a kid I went to scout camp on Catalina. I more than once woke up to one of those little guys in my tent, staring at me. I can confirm that these foxes have absolutely zero fear of people, they would tear open trashcans and pull bags out of tents.