For those of you wondering if he’s having fun, YES!!!! HE IS!!!!!
Ferrets are good with letting people know what they do and don’t like, and with the way hes just gone floppy, hes having a blast.
Also iirc his human has stated that he will demand the spins.
[February 2017] Winston, OR
Here’s a photo of a cutie patootie 👅
I never considered baby capybaras were a thing but here I am, d'awstruck but the tiny adorable child
babybara
holy shit
“oh and you’re filming this, brent? ha ha, fucking hilarious”
stretchy him leggy
What are they
Bad at drinking milk
I tried to make a comic in 10 minutes. It shows.
BETTER THAN EXPECTED
vampires obviously have roots in antisemitism and racism, but i feel we should acknowledge the fact that vampires have roots in ableism as well. i can guarantee very little of you know what ectodermal dysplasia is, but essentially it's a varied genetic disorder that affects teeth (making them sharp, pointy, and few in number), skin (very dry; no sweat glands, making us sensitive to heat), hair (brittle and sparse), and some other lesser areas like the ears. you can see where im going with this.
vampires have been theorized many times over to be inspired by people affected by ectodermal dysplasias - the sharklike teeth, heat sensitivity which would lead to in-house reclusion and mostly nighttime outings due to temperature changes, and the dryness of our skin making us ashy or paler than normal. people with ectodermal dysplasias have been demonized for decades, being branded as monstrous and as barely even human in more severe cases. even with my very minor case of the disorder, i've been treated with disgust and contempt for my physical deformities. i've been told i don't need to dress up for halloween with teeth like mine, i've been told i'm the closest thing to a humanoid monster people have seen. i've been asked if i eat people because my teeth didn't look "human". i've had to sit through media like the magnus archives or doctor who, uncomfortably trying to enjoy these people hunting down "monsters" which looked like me and coped with day to day life like i did.
obviously, physically deformed people have been made into monsters and horror stories for centuries. but vampires specifically are rooted in ableism, antisemitism, and racism, so please tread with caution this halloween - be mindful of the history of vampires. if someone doesn't feel comfortable around you for your "vampirecore" aesthetics, be respectful of that. they could have any sort of valid reason to avoid those tags.
i made a 2-part uquiz called Which Shakespeare character are you? and it has 50 possible results. The first quiz puts you into one of 5 groups and links you to the group quiz that has 10 different characters each. Tag your results. :)
the funniest part of this is seeing people in the tags who want to get hamlet and get something from a play they’ve never read and they’re like UMM IM EMO??? i HAVE to be HAMLET idk who Edmund even is and I’m like… sweetie…. you’re Edmund….
funky dancer
hold me closer,,,,, tiny dancer 🕺
This kind of makes no sense without the sound please put on the sound THANK YOU KINDLY.
@soltrek birb
Hey btw, another worldbuilding thing: You can, and actually should have weird and impractical cultural things. They’re not inherently unrealistic, for as long as you address the realistic consequences as well.
Let’s say you’ve got a city where there’s tame white doves everywhere. They’re not pests, they’re regarded as sacred, holy protectors of the city, and the whole city cares for them and feeds them like they’re pets. They’re so tame because it’s a social taboo to hurt or scare one. Nice pretty doves :)
Then someone points out that even if they’re not seen as pests, doesn’t having a completely unchecked feral pigeon population - that not only isn’t being culled, but actively fed and cared for - mean that there would be bird shit absolutely all over the place?
A part of you wants to say no, because these are your nice, pretty doves. To explain that there’s a reason why they’re not shitting all over the place, maybe they’re super-intelligent and specifically bred and trained to not shit all over the place. The logistics of how, exactly, could anyone breed and train a flock of feral birds go unaddressed.
An even worse solution would be to not have those birds, editing them out of the world. No, they spark joy, you can’t just toss them out!
Now, consider: Yes, yes they would, but the city also has an extensive public sanitation service that’s occupied 90% of the time by cleaning bird shit off of everything. One of the most common last names in the area actually translates to “one who scrapes off dove shit”, and it’s a highly respected occupation. And thanks to the sheer necessity of constantly regularly cleaning everything, the city enjoys a much higher standard of cleanliness, and less public health issues caused by poor public sanitation.
The doves do protect the city. By shitting fucking everywhere.
While I absolutely love your idea, I just want to say that you can easily reduce public bird shitting from Pigeons by offering them comfortable lodgings where they can sleep and feed. Sure, you need to clean THOSE, but the pigeons shit a lot less all over town.
The Augsburg concept has one big pigeon house every 500m in which wild pigeons are fed, protected from weather and have nesting opportunities. Cities doing that have WAY less uncontrolled populations (since they can take out eggs if they feel they need reduce the population), way less shit AND a healthy population since it’s easier for veterinarians to notice and get to sick animals.
So I’d say one can of course still keep your general idea……but there’s also those MASSIVE palace-like pidgeon houses and only the most worthy are allowed to enter and directly interact with the pigeons (feed them, heal them, clean their lodgings). One big entrance for the human servants (priests??) and millions of small holes for the pigeons.
In fact, one could potentially turn your idea around IN THE PIDGEONS FAVOR. So your world is like ours and most major cities have a big feral pigeon population. And most of those cities HATE the pigeons and try to fight them and stuff. And they think that pigeon worshipper town is frigging cuckoo. BUT when comparing, then pigeon worshipper town is ridiculously clean and beautiful. No bird shit everywhere, no ruined house facades and statues from erosion through bird poop. Pigeon haters go “how tf are you so clean, you have birds EVERYWHERE???” and the worshippers shrug and show their little bird temples spread around town that keep their precious birdies AND their town pretty.
I think this is a really good example of how research can greatly improve your worldbuilding! You don’t have to be perfectly accurate - it is fantasy after all - but the real world is so much more clever and beautiful than any of us know
here’s a picture of a baby cedar waxwing begging for food from a robin. neither of these species are nest parasites, so it’s not possible the cedar waxwing was ‘adopted’. this is essentially the bird version of tapping a random person on the shoulder at the grocery store and going “MOM”
I love that the robin’s body language is basically WHAT THE FUCK WHOSE KID IS THIS
Robin is bathing which make’s it even funnier. More like the equivalent of a strange kid barging in while you’re taking a shower and demanding you make them mac n cheese right now
I’ve seen this post so many times and I still lose my shit
I can’t breathe
Best wishes to these people obviously but I’m WHEEZING at the concept of a standard horror plot starter but the stranded travelers are an entire fully equipped orchestra.
Fully and utterly obsessed with every single aspect of this scene
A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.
!!! ok but that’s legitimately what it’s doing!! That’s a corvid right there (looks like a hooded crow, to be precise), which means it’s intelligent enough to recognize, a) cars are dangerous and streets should be treated with a certain degree of caution, b) this car’s slowing down for them–cars do that sometimes–which means they’re not in imminent danger, so it doesn’t have to fly away just yet, c) that hedgehog’s still gonna get killed if it doesn’t MOVE, FAST (cars can change speed very quickly and the hedgehog’s still in the way), and almost certainly also d) if the bird does nothing it gets a free lunch.
Y’all, Y’ALL. This bird is consciously deciding to put itself in danger in order to save the life of a very stupid creature. A creature which, if the bird did nothing, could be free food.
i can’t - look if you follow me you know I have a thing for corvids, but this is - like!!! People are always saying “ah yes they have sub-human intelligence and don’t consider anything that isn’t immediately necessary for their own survival/pleasure,” but! Whether or not it can do philosophy, this crow is clearly demonstrating compassion. Even if it’s just the kind of compassion a toddler shows to a snail, a social creature that instinctively recognizes the potential for emotion in other beings, that’s still huge and cool and important and corvids!!! are! neat!!!
Moth pit
My reaction to this gif went from stone-faced “this is dumb” to full-on snickering gleefully in about fifteen seconds.
you can’t just drop shit like this on my dash i hurt myself laughing
#boyswillbeboys
I thought it was gonna be like… Bohemian Rhapsody but… man was I wrong. I’m glad I was
IT’S BACK
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.— James 5:1-6
At first I thought this was an angry Tumblr post but then it turned out to be the Literal Bible and it got 1000x better
i thought op was a witch and was cursing rich people and i got so into it
