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 So I am reading Hyena Nights and Kalahari Days to better understand Andrea and her hyena side. Plus, I just love hyenas and would like to know more about them. I'm only twenty pages in and I've already learned new things!

I already knew they were more closely related to cats than dogs, with civets and genets genets being their closest relative. There are also only four living species of hyena; three true hyenas (brown, striped, and spotted) and the aardwolf. They apparently evolved 10 millions years ago, filling the same niche that true canidae did in what would become North America, that is until the dogs crossed the Bering Strait and moved in on their territory. There was also a hyena the size of a cow at one point!

I guess this is a warning that I will be leaving notes in future posts as I read further.

Just remembered something else

 I blame the WW2 Au I am currently reading, but I'd love to read a story where a person Japanese internment camp has to calm his (or her) ancestors and/or kami in order to keep them from sabotaging the American war effort because while they are being misused, they are still loyal Americans.

An alternate could be an American of African descent who appeases the Loa to help his unit fight in the war despite the prejudice the white man is slinging his way. Of Native American codeworkers who are medicine men. Or...or...or...

I guess I'm tired of WW2 AUs and stories seeming to always focus on what white men or (rarely) woman are doing to save the world.

I'd be tempted to write it but being a white male, I would worry about it being cultural appropriation.