Stupendous Stoats

honestly still not over the whimsical music stuttering to silence in burrow's end when tula said "it was NOT his fault!". jaw on the floor top 10 moments of all time without a doubt

I find it super interesting that the stoats in Burrow's End have 'husbands' and 'wives'. Marriage is such a human institution, it's curious that they went with husband/wife over something like mate or partner. . . I wonder what the intention was behind that.

I forgot how gods awful rabbit screams are.

This might be a reach but the yellow sashes,

Hazmat material perhaps? Does this mean anything or is it a useless association who knows but I am thinking and trying to connect dots 🤔🤔🤔

“This show rules”-Brennan, speaking for us all

Burrow's End episode 4 spoilers without context

hi, am i the only person who keeps thinking they’re gonna find geoffrey somewhere in last bast? like a came-back-wrong situation? he got so fucked up by whatever happened he just couldn’t go back and he’s been at last bast ever since? cause the idea of it is haunting me

0h negative int being interpreted as curiosity bad and I don't do that is really good

He's truly just a single mom that works two jobs

OKAY OKAY OKAY

So I wasn't sure if this was just not relevant to Burrow's End, but Bennett being described as having his white winter coat come in has me thinking....

Why is Ava in her winter coat when no one else is?

As someone who has done character design before (and calico is a thing in cats, not stoats, so they are already playing with the realism for distinct and fun looks) I do acknowledge that it's likely just 'oh she's old and grey but she's an animal so it's her Whole Body'. And until this tidbit that's what I was happy to think of it, given that factor of their biology didn't seem to come up despite Burrow's End being set in the fall (I think? Can't find a solid ref atm).

But as Aabria notes, stoats change color during the winter, to better blend with the snow. Like this:

... and maybe it's not just 'haha she's old'.

There's circumstantial evidence of humans going shock white (I had a teacher growing up who had), which is pretty debated... but, y'know, this is far more feasible a concept to get behind with a species that grows a white coat every year. She just never lost it again.

Maybe she's stuck in time, the most stressful time of her life, and her body thinks it's always winter. Perhaps it was a change, and she went from having coats more like Tula's (Viola seems to take after Kenji) to keeping her white coat no matter the season. Or maybe loss of much of her litter during that harsh winter kept her in that state.

Or maybe, looking at her again, she's albino. She doesn't have the distinct black tip stoats keep over winter (or was her tailtip bitten off? Hard to tell), but the black nose would say otherwise.

I just take animal coloration too seriously and it's fascinating to poke at. Not something I can research in my field, At All, but! Hey!

We'll know more when we see these 20+ year stoats mentioned in the preview, I'm sure.

But! Very curious.

wow last bast sure seems like a nice place to live!!!! can't wait til next episode when we find out the horrors!!

Bennett fully had an oh. moment when Tula healed him. Yeah okay I'm all in on this ship.

new NPC card style???????? communication number?????

brennan mentioning the kindness from surplus is sooo important to me cuz it is like. !!! yknow? like the only reason we can tell theyre so kind and chilled and relaxed is because they have so much. but whats gonna happen if that goes away. if they no longer have a surplus. how are they gonna start acting. who will they cut off who will they attack and fight. will they attack and fight. im just. obsessed. with this. all of it.

animal crossing villager showing off a bug they caught

If there's one thing I know FOR SURE it's that D&D players will go to extreme lengths to obtain a hat.

i'd make the same face if aabria called me submissive lmao

I WANT THESE STOATS TO FALL IN LOVE