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ETERNAL ENEMIES: LIONS AND HYENAS
Last night I watched, no lie, the BEST Nat Geo documentary that has ever been made. Lass was online luckily and let me capslock at her, and from it emerged the most beautiful thoughts ever.
It is called Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas, and uses the film and narrative field notes of two wildlife biologists/filmmakers/observers in Botswana as they follow a rival pride of lions and clan of hyenas. It's kind of horrific in places, because they don't shy away from showing what's up, even when that's baby dead lions being torn apart, etc. But as much as that saddens me, I appreciate it.
ALSO IT IS ALL ABOUT SUPERNATURAL. This happens in two ways.
At first, it's mostly the continuation of the savannah AU (in which, though they do not star here, we have Giraffestiel and the Meerchesters). Except once Giraffestiel and his giraffe-angel garrison are actually there.
So we have our family ofarchangels lions, which focuses on Matsume the lioness (whose cubs get killed by a cobra, she gets bit by the same and nearly dies, and oh btw the hyenas carry off and eat her dead cubs. And then later rival lions kill her mother. She is Cas, in the first part. Ish), and our family of demons hyenas, and they have been "feuding for millenia."
Actually. I can't do this coherently. I will adapt last night's capslock.
On the subject of hyenas:
all hyenas have mock-penises
and engage in play sex to practice for mating
orgies all around
[at which point Lass said: sebastian's daemon is a hyena]
also
they are the only animals to engage in ritual fratricide
which i think is more accurately sororicide
b/c it's a matriarchy so you only have to kill your sisters
but yeah
cubs screw each other and kill each other, all the time
SO. The lions and the hyenas, they fight all the time, often over food, but even not, sometimes just because they hate each other that much.
Example: Matsume and her sisters bring down a wildebeest in a freakishly impressive show of cooperative hunting. Then the hyenas come along and by virtue of superior numbers, tree them all and eat the wildebeest.
THE NARRATION SAYS, AND I QUOTE, "BY DAWN, THE LIONS WERE STILL ISOLATED IN SMALL GROUPS, RELUCTANT TO VENTURE DOWN FROM THE TREES"
swap 'angels' for lions and 'heaven' for the trees, and there you have it, the eternal celestial battle of hyenas and lions.
And then, to finish out this side of the story, we have Ntwadumela, He Who Greets With Fire, the more dominant of the two males in the lion pride.
HE IS THE HYENAKILLER.
SO HE KILLS THE FIRST MATRIARCH. AND THEN. HE KILLS THE NEW ONE. AFTER GETTING AN EPIC-MUSIC, SLOW-MO RUNNING CHASE SCENE.
BUSA SIMBA.
So the other side of this story is how sometimes, the hyenas are the angels.
It's a matriarchy, right, and as long as the matriarch doesn't die too soon (this one does), it's inherited. So we have PRINCESS HYENASTIEL. (really, they call her the Princess in the film)
PRINCESS HYENASTIEL had a freaking great life, okay. She killed her younger sister soon after they were born, securing her place as matriarch-to-be (at that point I was thinking of her more as Meg; she become Princess Hyenastiel later), and spent her babyhood being pampered.
THEN, TRAGEDY.
The apocalypse came her mother was killed, and she was too young to take over.
Quotes from the film:
FOR MONTHS, THE CLAN WILL BE NERVOUS AND QUARRELSOME
she is alone
in a world full of enemies
[Lass-commentary: why won't any of them listen?!]
but now even the new cubs are allowed to take advantage of her
she becomes ALIENATED BY HER UNCERTAINTY
AND LEAVES THE DENS FOR THE LAST TIME
[And then rival hyenas come and attack her clan, and]
AFTER THE BATTLE IS WON, HER OWN CLAN MISTAKES THE PRINCESS FOR AN INTRUDER AND ATTACKS HER
THE ONLY SAFE GROUND IS IN THE CENTER OF THE WATERHOLE
IN TIME THE PRINCESS MAY JOIN EITHER OF THE CLANS
BUT SHE WILL NEVER AGAIN CLIMB THE LADDER OF SUCCESS
Princess Hyenastiel, in short, is my new love, and I wish her all the best in rewriting the book and doing what she has to do, no matter how regrettable.
Have bonus Giraffestiel.
It is called Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas, and uses the film and narrative field notes of two wildlife biologists/filmmakers/observers in Botswana as they follow a rival pride of lions and clan of hyenas. It's kind of horrific in places, because they don't shy away from showing what's up, even when that's baby dead lions being torn apart, etc. But as much as that saddens me, I appreciate it.
ALSO IT IS ALL ABOUT SUPERNATURAL. This happens in two ways.
At first, it's mostly the continuation of the savannah AU (in which, though they do not star here, we have Giraffestiel and the Meerchesters). Except once Giraffestiel and his giraffe-angel garrison are actually there.
So we have our family of
Actually. I can't do this coherently. I will adapt last night's capslock.
On the subject of hyenas:
all hyenas have mock-penises
and engage in play sex to practice for mating
orgies all around
[at which point Lass said: sebastian's daemon is a hyena]
also
they are the only animals to engage in ritual fratricide
which i think is more accurately sororicide
b/c it's a matriarchy so you only have to kill your sisters
but yeah
cubs screw each other and kill each other, all the time
SO. The lions and the hyenas, they fight all the time, often over food, but even not, sometimes just because they hate each other that much.
Example: Matsume and her sisters bring down a wildebeest in a freakishly impressive show of cooperative hunting. Then the hyenas come along and by virtue of superior numbers, tree them all and eat the wildebeest.
THE NARRATION SAYS, AND I QUOTE, "BY DAWN, THE LIONS WERE STILL ISOLATED IN SMALL GROUPS, RELUCTANT TO VENTURE DOWN FROM THE TREES"
swap 'angels' for lions and 'heaven' for the trees, and there you have it, the eternal celestial battle of hyenas and lions.
And then, to finish out this side of the story, we have Ntwadumela, He Who Greets With Fire, the more dominant of the two males in the lion pride.
HE IS THE HYENAKILLER.
SO HE KILLS THE FIRST MATRIARCH. AND THEN. HE KILLS THE NEW ONE. AFTER GETTING AN EPIC-MUSIC, SLOW-MO RUNNING CHASE SCENE.
BUSA SIMBA.
So the other side of this story is how sometimes, the hyenas are the angels.
It's a matriarchy, right, and as long as the matriarch doesn't die too soon (this one does), it's inherited. So we have PRINCESS HYENASTIEL. (really, they call her the Princess in the film)
PRINCESS HYENASTIEL had a freaking great life, okay. She killed her younger sister soon after they were born, securing her place as matriarch-to-be (at that point I was thinking of her more as Meg; she become Princess Hyenastiel later), and spent her babyhood being pampered.
THEN, TRAGEDY.
Quotes from the film:
FOR MONTHS, THE CLAN WILL BE NERVOUS AND QUARRELSOME
she is alone
in a world full of enemies
[Lass-commentary: why won't any of them listen?!]
but now even the new cubs are allowed to take advantage of her
she becomes ALIENATED BY HER UNCERTAINTY
AND LEAVES THE DENS FOR THE LAST TIME
[And then rival hyenas come and attack her clan, and]
AFTER THE BATTLE IS WON, HER OWN CLAN MISTAKES THE PRINCESS FOR AN INTRUDER AND ATTACKS HER
THE ONLY SAFE GROUND IS IN THE CENTER OF THE WATERHOLE
IN TIME THE PRINCESS MAY JOIN EITHER OF THE CLANS
BUT SHE WILL NEVER AGAIN CLIMB THE LADDER OF SUCCESS
Princess Hyenastiel, in short, is my new love, and I wish her all the best in rewriting the book and doing what she has to do, no matter how regrettable.
Have bonus Giraffestiel.
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You *have* to watch it oh man do you Netflix? If not I am going to find a way to get it to you. It might be old and popular enough to be on Youtube or something.
I'ma go rewatch it tonight, seriously it's as good as a legit episode of SPN.
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Also cannot unsee the hyena!novakcest AU where Sally is the matriarch defending her turf and Jimmy and Jacob have playsex literally every second of every day and then (one-of-which-is-a) lion!Zach comes and starts giving them guff and Sally is like FUCK NO, BITCH and tears him a cornucopia of orifices. With her teeth.
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NO SHAME AMONGST HYENAS.