Beaver HOLE - Trips in ADD land 2

Where's my brain? Maybe moseyed on down to Shady Thicket a bit too long.

I really tried @f3nix to do your contest. The prompt was good. Maybe too good for my multi-directional gray mass to handle. I was greatly triggered by the beavers and as soon as I heard that word I had Primus's Wynona's Big Brown Beaver as my soundtrack. No amount of dark fog, shadows and foreboding could erase this comedic bass twang beaver thumping tune from my head.

I imagined you were hoping for Cthulhu to rise up from the beaver dam, tentacles swirling and all consuming. I'm sorry my brain does not cooperate.

I began to imagine the beavers chatting Sharon up, like from the book The Architect of Sleep by Steven R. Boyett, a book I read in the 80s (except those were raccoons). Ends up modern fur culture has really taken a liking to this book. Furs didn't exist back in the 80s that I know of. No, I'm not a fur. There's a whole write up on why there are no sequels to this book written by I think, a person who at least is in touch with the fur community. Watch here if you want to know what a furry is.

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Which led me to remember other "talking animal" fiction I liked and realized they were all a bit post-apocalyptic.

Tank Girl & Booga

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A Boy and His Dog, movie based off of the Harlan Ellison story

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There's some great sentient animal sci-fi out there, I recommend Anne McCaffrey's "Tower and Hive" books for some intelligent space cat action:

Catalyst by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Scarborough (2010)

and Little Fuzzy by H Beam Piper (1963)

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At least I got un-stuck from beavers, for a day or so, then tried to get back on track.

So I was trying to figure out how to make the beavers talk and over and over in my head I just kept imagining one of them looming over Sharon like some pizza parlor animatronic band member with a banjo and big buck teeth going...

THARONNNN! THAAAAARRRONNNN!

I needed to get more serious, I thought.

Quickly I looked up beavers on Google remembering that guy that had his leg artery severed and died. I found some information on that it seems it is rare for beavers to attack people unless they're rabid. There had been a rash of beaver attacks and it was weird and scary but in my mind beavers are still cute. I wanted them to be the good guys in this.

I thought, aha, there could be some trappers coming to harvest beaver balls - because sometimes I think some perfumes smell like weasel and beaver butt - and Sharon could save them! So then I read about beaver balls and it depressed me a bit thinking of how they are harvested and what their sacs are used for:
Castoreaum (wiki)

Now I am wondering if I should check for that ingredient in the perfumes I like, as I wrote about earlier.

I just couldn't get around it f3nix so sorry. Rock on!