Ask Vanna; Guess who's coming to the North Meadowlands?

 

Ask Yuri and Wade: Boxing with Lieutenant Hopps.

 

Yuri: HA! look at you gettin' punted by that pipsqueak! And here I thought you was made of sterner stuff there Wade!

Wade: Hey, that Rabbit packs a punch! It was like being kicked by a kangaroo!

Yuri: Y'all don't need to puff up her ego fer me Wade, y'all can be straight, y'all took a dive to give the cute lil' bunny some confidence.

Wade: I wish I could say that...y'know she ko'd a rhino? I heard about it from some of her former police academy classmates. Can y'all imagine? A bunny takin' out a rhino?

Yuri: I can't believe that...period. Nor can I believe one of my blood brothers actually got toppled by a cottontail. I mean, I'm watchin' it again, and I still can't believe it.

Wade: I think that gal picked the wrong job. She shoulda become a professional kick boxer! She'd probably make it to the Animalympics with that kinda talent!

Yuri: They wouldn't let her fight outside 'er weightclass even if she did. Safety protocols and weight divisions and all that...still iffin' they did, I'd pay to see it...especially if she was fightin' you again...I'd love to see ya get yer hide tanned by a lil' bunny rabbit live and in person.

Wade: *huffs* maybe you should try taking her on before you go on puttin' me down. You'll see there's a lot more kick in that little rabbit than ya think...

Yuri: No thank ya. Unlike you, I wouldn't hold back, and I ain't interested in sendin' a little bunny to the morgue because she wanted to tangle with a real wolf.

Yuri: Not...A...Word...

Wade: All I'm going to say is...Ada's big sister works in wrestling right? Maybe you should put Judy in touch...

Yuri: *grumbling* Kickin' ina boxin' match shoulda been ground fer disqualification...

Ask the Hunter gals plus Mellie and Val; Beach Day favorites

 

Dawn: Oh well, I've never actually been much of a beach or pool person, I've never really done all that great in the heat to be honest.

Ada: Cause of da wool right?

Dawn: Well, yes and no. I mean granted the wool is a big part of it. Trying to swim after your wool gets soaked is pretty exhausting as it gets really heavy and restrictive. And in terms of sunbathing, or lounging, it's like you're doing it in a sweater.

Ada: Yeesh...

Dawn: That why if I know I'm going to be spending a lot of time at the pool or beach for a summer, I usually have Vernon shear me down to the bear minimum of wool, so basically my head wool and a few...*Coughs* playful patches on the front of my body.

Val: *Snickers* Sounds like Puppy is having a bit more fun shearing you than he probably should be...

Dawn: Well...that makes two of us more often than not. *Giggles*. Still, even sheared, that's not the end of my problems as then I have to worry about getting severely sunburned if I'm not careful.

Vanna: Oh right, I didn't even consider that. You are probably the only one of us who has most of their actual hide exposed most of the time.

Dawn: It doesn't help that my skin is so pale too, and my genetics don't tan, only burn.

Qali: Yeah, most of us only have to worry about keeping our snouts and paw pads covered in sunscreen.

Vanna: And not even considering most of you have very dark pigmented noses which tend not to burn. Myself on the other paw...well let's just say I've suffered my share of painful snout burns while trying to sunbathe.

Dawn: So generally when it comes to my preferred place for a pool day that would be by our backyard pool, lounging under the darkest, thickest parasol I have and reading a nice novel while I watch my Puppy and lambs play in the pool together. *giggles*

Mellie: What a coincidence, that's my favorite place for a pool day too. *Snickers* Have I mentioned how much me and Gussy appreciate the open invites?

Dawn: It's the least we can do for you guys, you're family to us and the lambs after all.

Mellie: It means a lot to Gus, he's already very against going to the beach and public pool for sanitary and privacy reasons. Plus we both love seeing our nephew and nieces.

Dawn: Vernon and I love the privacy as well. Puppy insists he looks weird in any swimsuit he puts on despite me telling him otherwise. *Giggles*

Qali: It's probably a fur thing...too much fur under your clothes can make you look kinda boxy...at least that's what Trenny says. He's the same way. *Snickers*.

Melanie: Gus is the same, except with him he doesn't want to take his shirt off in public and risk other mammals seeing his little pot bellie...*Snickers* Of course, I happen to love his little spare tire.

Val: So you don't swim at all then? 

Dawn: Oh, of course I do. I just don't really do it very often, and if I do it's usually at the family pool. When we go to the beach it's usually because the lambs want to more than me and Vernon...and we wouldn't want to deny our lambs thier lambhood fun just because Vernon and I tend to prefer cold weather activities.

Val: I really shouldn't have expected any other kind of answer from the two nerds in this little group. As for me, I'm the total opposite. Love the pool, and especially love the beach. And the less restrictive clothing I can get away with wearing in that kinda setting, the better. That's why I'm a huge fan of that Mystic Shoals place, where clothing is optional.

Dawn: That's that coastal resort that's an extension of the Mystic Springs Oasis right?

Val: Resort? Dunno. I've only ever went to the nudist beach part myself. I like to take in a little topless basking in the sun. Love the feeling of it on my bear fur.

Dawn: I should have expected you to be a bit of a voyuer...you do love showing off don't you?

Val: Hey, I go there for my own enjoyment, not to get oggled. 

Melanie: Unless you drag Kodi with you...

Val: *Chuckles* Can't a vixen take a little pleasure in getting her mate all hot and bothered? Besides he oggles me everywhere...even with clothes on.

Melanie: He's been thirsty for you since he first laid eyes on you, I'm not surprised that fire hasn't died down. *Laughs*

Dawn: A portable ego booster...

Val: Like Vernon isn't for you little miss Egomaniac?

Dawn: I'm not an egomaniac.

Val: Pft...sure you're not...

Vanna: Things are getting off track, so to avoid another argument between the two of you, can we get back to the question?

Melanie: Vanna's got the right idea...so Val, the nudist beach is your favorite place for that kinda thing?

Val: Actually no. My favorite place poolside beach day place isn't a pool or beach at all. I actually prefer chilling in the hot tub in our backyard on cool summer evenings.

Ada: Hot tub? Niiiice....Wish me and Yuri had one o' dem.

Qali: Ooh, that's my favorite too! Although I prefer to take a dip in the hot tub on chilly winter nights when the snow is falling. *Giggles*

Giselle: Oh yes, nothin' beats a hot tub sit on a chilly night in tundra town...It's just so lovely...

Val: Ew...no thanks there, I'd get sick in a heartbeat...I've never done super well in the cold...I'm like the opposite of my Dad. He lives for winter and dies in the summer. Me, I get a cold if I'm in Tundratown for more than a day.

Ada: I'd be a beach bitch, paws down...dat is if didn't rain in Seaotter like...eighty percent o' da time! *Cackles* Usually gotta wait for a family trip to get down to da beach and get my fur baked by da sun.

Vanna: *Chuckles* I'm very much the same. Like Val and Ada I do love the feeling of the heat on my fur...though up until Dawn and Vernon got their house in the South Meadowlands, Zach and I had to make do with lounging by the public pool at the North Meadowlands rec center...which can be rather...noisy at times...

Ada: Dat jungle blood runs deep in us...*Cackles* We crave da heat like we was lizards or sumtin, don't we? It's just...it's so sooding...and relaxing to just...feel da heat dance across yours pelt. Youse like...get heat drunk...

Malcolm: That would explain why you'd fall asleep in minutes when we took you and Yuri out to the bay last time you visited. I'd be talkin' to y'all one minute, and the next y'all would be dead to the world. *Laughs*

Ada: Not a bad way to goes...but seriously just give me a beach chair, a tin blanket, sunglasses and a hat, and set mes up on a sunny, sandy beach and I'm in paradise. It's da best sleep aide in da world...and wit my job, I need it.

Malcolm: I can understand that. Though personally when it comes to mah preference, I've always been more of a water hound. Iffin' I'm gonna have my ideal lounge, it's gonna be sprawled out on an innertube and bein' rocked by the gentle waves of the sea...Now that would put me out fer' the count...

Dawn: That's kinda scary...aren't you worried about...y'know...drifting out to sea.

Malcolm: *Chuckles* Well generally I'd tie the innertube off, plus I got Xavey to keep an eye on me now, and that boy is even more of a water hound than I am. I get dozy at the beach, but he get's pumped up. Loves gettin' his excercise in the water whenever he can get it...even has some life guard trainin'...so iffin' anythin' happens, I know I'm in good paws...*chuckles*

Dawn: The way you laughed at that kind of makes me think you've had a close call or two and have a little experience to back that up.

Malcolm: *laughs* Well...I may have...faked goin' overboard a few times..

Vanna: Why on earth would you do that?

Malcolm: Y'all are familiar with how CPR works right? Let's just say I was fishin' to get a lil'.... mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. 

*The girls share a laugh*

Ask the Ruminerd; Videogame Film Adaptations

 

Gus: Awful...all of them are awful. I can't think of a single game adaption that was actually good.

Mellanie: Sonic the hedgehog.

Gus: ...Eh...okay, I'll give you the sonic movies...but can you really even call them an adaptation of the story?

Vernon: Er...yeah?

Gus: No, what I mean is...like yes it is an adaptation of Sonic as a...character? But it's not an adaptation of any of the game stories. They did that dumb thing Howlywood always does where they bring a character into the Animalian world in order to save costs. Like those terrible chipmunk films...or the Sniff's movie...

Vernon: Well even fer one of them types of movies, they did alright...

Dawn: The Pups loved it.

Joel: And there are way...way worse game adaptations out there...like the Monster Stalker movie...or the entire Roosident Evil series.

Gus: Cervidwen's hooves, don't remind me about the roosident evil films...*Shudders* Six damned movies that are little more than fanfiction built around propping up the directors wife's ego...or show her off or whatever...

Broomie: It really is...her character actively steals thunder from the other actual characters in the series...like that moment in the second one where Jill's trying to blow up those zombie komodo dragons in the room filled with gas, and she throws a match and it goes out, but then Alice throws a lighter or something...it's insane.

Joel: Makes you wonder how it got six movies...

Gus: Sheep...Er...I mean...er...normies...Sorry Dawn.

Dawn: It's fine, I've heard the sheep flock allegory used as a derogatory term for my whole life...I'm already used to it. It's ingrained in most cultures' colloquiums after all, for better or worse.

Joel: Normies don't care if it's accurate to the source material...they just want to turn their brains off and watch a bunch of attractive mammals mugging for the camera and explosions for an hour and a half.

Gus: Then why even use the IP? Why not just make something original?

Broomie: The name has a built-in fanbase...and normie buzz...

Gus: You don't have the built-in audience when they know to avoid the movie because it's going to botch the lore!

Joel: It still has that normie buzz though. People who only have a surface-level knowledge of the series, think the concept is cool, but don't care about all that quote-unquote "Nerdy Baggage" that comes with actually being into a franchise.

Gus: You think it's the same sort of thing with those 'live-action animalme' remakes?

Joel: *Snorts* Oh don't even get me started on live-action animalme remakes! I still have nightmares about that 'Cowboy Fleabop' series they produced for Petflix!

Broomie: I think there isn't a soul alive that doesn't want to forget about that Cowboy Fleabop live-action series...

Ask Dawn and Vern; The emetology of 'Zoo'

 

Dawn: Oh, well a zoo is a general term used to describe a group of varying species of animals in the same place. Like at a market, or theater, or public venue. At least that's how use of the term started.

Vernon: Yeah, it's usually used reserved to describe more...noisy, busy scenes. So like, y'all wouldn't necessarily refer to a library filled with a few different species of mammals as a 'zoo', but y'all would refer to a stadium full o' excited mammals of all stripes as one. Or, o'course, a city...like Zootopia. *Chuckles*

Dawn: I'm not sure when it expanded outward to cover groups of non-sentient mammals, or the facilities to house them...presumably once Animal Zoos started to become a thing altogether. Granted I don't think most of those sort of facilities use the term 'zoo' in their branding much these days. They tend to lean toward a more specific phrasing. Like an Aviary for a bird zoo, a reptile house for a reptile zoo, and of course an aquarium for fish. 

Vernon: I think they still refer to them ape zoos as zoos don't they?

Dawn: Some...I think they call them "primate zoos", although the one we took the lambs too was called a "Primate House"...so I couldn't say.

Vernon: Hoo boy, I remember...I think the gorillas traumatized the pups somethin' fierce. The way those things were carryin' on that day had all the folks there's hackles up. Hard to believe them things are actually mammals too...

Dawn: I know...can you imagine what it would be like had they evolved with the rest of us? I shudder to think about it...

I need an Extra Week.

 Hey y'all...I'm sorry there were no asks this week. I've just been feeling really low...and have found it hard to actually put the asks together. I think I'm still just...in a mourning funk. My heart just wasn't in it. I'm sure I'll be able to take care of the asks next Wednesday as I was already halfway into a big one before all creative drive just left. 

Sorry guys...again this year has just...I seem to keep stumbling in terms of asks...but Robert's death really threw me for a loop and I'm...still going through the motions.

Thanks for reading, and sticking around if you still are.

-Wasty