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May. 1st, 2025 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anaisninjaSent another letter to babygirl last week lol. More colugo pics and artificial colugo folklore. I told him that I looked for the real thing but was unable to turn up anything legit, so I was gonna make some up and hope real colugo folklore would eventually find its way to me. I think I did a pretty okay job with what I made up. I wrote up some rituals for how to appeal to Colugo to carry a message for you, one of them might be one that he could actually pull off in prison. I don't know if that will get my shit confiscated, hopefully not. It's not like I'm giving him directions to make a bomb, it's writing your secret wishes on paper then folding them in to airplanes to glide like Colugos. Getting it to somewhere green will be the hard part. That might be something he could find on the way to court. How do I even think up this shit lol.
The next step is to write some colugo folktales.
I really need to watch it with the Red Bull. Last night my head was buzzing with it until 2AM. I had this problem several weeks back when I first started with the folklore. My brain kept crunching on colugo stories, which wasn't awful.
One idea I had was with Colugo trying to escape Eagle, and using different kind of fruit trees to foil Eagle's plan. Like Eagle tries to catch Colugo in a durian tree, but it's too smelly for Eagle to get near. Or Eagle tries to catch Colugo in a tree that's got sticky seedpods that would stick to their feathers or something. The last tree will be a mango tree full of monkeys, so Eagle gets a meal and Colugo gets to live another day. I think I can work with that one if I can track down the right trees.
The only tree I have fairly solid confirmation of as colugo fuel is the durian. Which I guess is iconic, but egads are they smelly! I found some at Detwilers market a few weeks back and smelled it to see if it was really that awful. It didn't smell like corpses, it just smelled very strong and not very pleasant. I didn't have thee gumption to buy it and try it, but more power to people who do.
Another idea I had was for explaining why Colugo is nocturnal. It might involve how Colugo got their patagium - maybe they pulled their skin over like a blanket to sleep in late, and eventually it got big enough they could cover their head and block out the sun. Or maybe they discover night blooming flowers and decide that's their favorite thing to eat, and it beats getting up early trying to compete with all the other animals eating the flowers Colugo would eat. I think I can work with that one, too.
I really hope homes got both letters, and I really hope the powers that be let him have the pictures to go with it so he can see what an actual colugo looks like. Mostly I hope the wtfery of it makes his day a little more interesting and inspires him to become an admirer of Colugos. Because everyone should know about Colugos. Even alleged CEO assassins.
The next step is to write some colugo folktales.
I really need to watch it with the Red Bull. Last night my head was buzzing with it until 2AM. I had this problem several weeks back when I first started with the folklore. My brain kept crunching on colugo stories, which wasn't awful.
One idea I had was with Colugo trying to escape Eagle, and using different kind of fruit trees to foil Eagle's plan. Like Eagle tries to catch Colugo in a durian tree, but it's too smelly for Eagle to get near. Or Eagle tries to catch Colugo in a tree that's got sticky seedpods that would stick to their feathers or something. The last tree will be a mango tree full of monkeys, so Eagle gets a meal and Colugo gets to live another day. I think I can work with that one if I can track down the right trees.
The only tree I have fairly solid confirmation of as colugo fuel is the durian. Which I guess is iconic, but egads are they smelly! I found some at Detwilers market a few weeks back and smelled it to see if it was really that awful. It didn't smell like corpses, it just smelled very strong and not very pleasant. I didn't have thee gumption to buy it and try it, but more power to people who do.
Another idea I had was for explaining why Colugo is nocturnal. It might involve how Colugo got their patagium - maybe they pulled their skin over like a blanket to sleep in late, and eventually it got big enough they could cover their head and block out the sun. Or maybe they discover night blooming flowers and decide that's their favorite thing to eat, and it beats getting up early trying to compete with all the other animals eating the flowers Colugo would eat. I think I can work with that one, too.
I really hope homes got both letters, and I really hope the powers that be let him have the pictures to go with it so he can see what an actual colugo looks like. Mostly I hope the wtfery of it makes his day a little more interesting and inspires him to become an admirer of Colugos. Because everyone should know about Colugos. Even alleged CEO assassins.
