#titaniumvulpes

[doozclops]

Back in Starbound with @titaniumvulpes, doing what I love.

[itchy-tasty]

titaniumvulpes replied to your post “I’m happy with how my last drawing turned out, and it was a steep...”

Do you want some good old-fashioned Art Class Assignments™? I remember a few from my early drawing/painting courses

Part of me resists the concept of art assignments, but I might consider it.

[smodur-archive]

titaniumvulpes replied to your post:syellowtails replied to your post:syellowtails...

I reckon the city folk are used to city deer, who in turn are used to city folk feeding them. I know the deer in Rochester were about as brazen and human-comfortable as yours are, comin’ in and stealing from our garden >:o

They gotta monch!

[amber-tortoiseshell]

I hope it's ok to single out your tags, @titaniumvulpes!

I want to react to your points one by one:

The white gene and the blue eyes gene are not only linked, they are actually the same gene! It's called KIT, and its W allele is basically a loss-of-function mutation. While the white (unpigmented) fur always manifests, the blue eyes (lack of pigmentation in the eyes) and the hearing loss (degeneration of the inner ear due the KIT gene not working) show an incomplete penetrance. (Similarly to the other alleles of the KIT gene, which cause the extremely variable white spotting patterns.)

Oh yes, the colorpoint allele also causes blue eyes, probably for similar reasons: reduced pigment production. Since pointed cats still have some pigmentation, they don't have the hearing problems of the full white cats. Nystagmus however, i haven't heard about that one! It's seem to be an eye condition causing involuntary eye movements, especially common among colorpoints.

This is incredibly interesting, thank you! I love to hear about local mutations 😸

Dedicated to my family and friends who are forced to endlessly listen to cat genetics fun facts

[fucknovegans]

Fucking "80% herbivorous" soooo... *Not* herbivorous then? There's a word for that it's "omnivorous" lmfao vegans are a trip.

[datacoruption]

titaniumvulpes replied to your post “I have… Made a Big Mistake”

What Have You Done

Don’t ever play Doki Doki Literature Club.

[dilfsisko]

Els I want a disease 🥺

You get Glanders! Glanders is a disease caused by the bacteria Burkholderia mallei. It is a zoonotic (an animal disease that can be transmitted to people. the reverse, human disease transmitted to animals is called anthroponosis) infection that primarily infects horses, mules, and donkeys (i DON'T know if it infects zebras, id have to do digging) and is transmitted through direct contact with infected animals. In both animals and humans it causes respiratory infections and massive abscesses. Fatality rates are high and the amount of bacteria needed to establish infection is relatively low, AND because it has allegedly been used in the past as such is technically listed as a potential bioweapon agent, but there's no vaccine which makes this unlikely.

It HAS been eradicated from most of the world but it still exists in some places. Horses entering the US are screened to prevent establishing infections

[nochd]

@titaniumvulpes, you're forgetting quite a few things. There are at least three distinct Latin paradigms that take -us in the nominative singular, and only one of them is invariably masculine -- it is the most common, but still.

2nd-declension nouns end in either -us or -um in the nominative singular, and the -us ones (gladius, equus, lupus) are all masculine, while the -um ones are neuter. The -us ones can be turned feminine by replacing -us with -a, which kicks them into the 1st declension: a she-wolf is a lupa. These -us nouns take -i in the nominative plural. There are no exceptions that I know of.

3rd-declension nouns may end in -us in the nominative singular (tempus, corpus, latus). These are all neuter and take plurals in -ora or -era. The real stem of course is tempor-, corpor-, later-, so strictly speaking the nominative singular affix is just -s; but it does look exactly like it ends in an -us.

4th-declension nouns all end in -us in the nominative singular (manus, status, virtus) except for a couple of neuter nouns that instead end in -u (genu, cornu). The -us ones are nearly all masculine, but there are a limited number of feminine ones, including manus. These take -us in the plural, which looks just like the singular, but apparently the u is a long vowel ū in this position. (The neuter nouns take -ua in the plural.)

there’s this post going around that’s like ‘what if alien languages had pronouns that didn’t include gender information!’ and there’s about five different enthusiastic replies and like, i get the excitement but i’m begging you to learn about languages other than english

[doozclops]

We're done with Terraria for now, but I finally remembered to edit this clip of @titaniumvulpes seeing a fish do a high dive.

[smirkdog-photography]

titaniumvulpes replied to your post “#and Holy Fuck Overlord is so fucking big By the way...”

What the fuck!!!!!!!!!!! He's SO BIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well we don’t call him Overlord for fun!!!!!!

[frost-27]

titaniumvulpes replied to your video “It would appear that I forgot how to jump, and had to make the best of...”

At least it was Very Cinematic

Yeah, me trying to melee nothing as I fell to my death was super cinematic.

[fexalted]

[image description: tumblr tags from @/titaniumvulpes which read: "This momentarily erased my brain and gaslit me into thinking Columbo had been named Clambo the whole time. I was fully ready to take this as a simple statement of fact rather than a pun. genuinely I was like ''yeah yeah clambo we all love clambo'' then I was like ''wait''".]

everyone's favourite mollusc detective, clambo

[lily-sinful]

titaniumvulpes replied to your post: i’m not deleting btw, i’m leaving my tumblr here,...

If they want me gone they will have to physically remove me from the premises

banned from the hellsite for ffxiv crimes, probably

[itchy-tasty]

titaniumvulpes replied to your post “you cheated theres no way you drew that last kirby you traced it or...”

Aw Dooz you've already got jealous dissenters! I'm envious.

It’s funny because so much of it isn’t the same like look with your eyes.

[corvidobligation]

titaniumvulpes

 “titaniumvulpes “[[MO my brain is on a constant loop that’s like “you...”

Brain mouse is dong its best, brain goblin is smelly and lives in a cave and frankly has no right to be criticising anyone.

*throws rocks at brain goblin*

[npd-vriska]

latin may not have manliness as a grammatically feminine word but french does! both virilité and masculinité are grammatically feminine, in part because of something @titaniumvulpes mentions: -is endings in latin can be both masculine and feminine in certain contexts, but -is is usually the feminine ending with -us being masculine, so most of those just ended up getting assimilated into the feminine in french.

there’s this post going around that’s like ‘what if alien languages had pronouns that didn’t include gender information!’ and there’s about five different enthusiastic replies and like, i get the excitement but i’m begging you to learn about languages other than english