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I love savannah cats (they're not legal in my country tho, i think) but they also seem terrifying just bc cats have such a strong hunting drive.

So wait from that cat breeding explanation does that mean the only reason we got to begals and great danes from wolves is just the time difference and that some day in the distant future we too can have cats that come up to our knees

dogs definitely had a head start because we were selectively breeding them for jobs (scenter, sight hunter, herder, guard, cart puller, etc) long before we started making cats into funny shapes for fun

dog genetics do seem to be more elastic, though, in that we’ve already hit the upper size limit for domestic cats?

Maine Coons are the largest variant of domestic cat we have right now, and they’re unfortunately suffering for their size. hip dysplasia data collected by the Orthopaedic Foundation for Animals in 2015 found that out of 2,732 cats that suffered from hip dysplasia, 99.1% were Maine Coons. they’re still a largely (lol) healthy breed, but if you see folk advertising XXXX QUADRUPLE SIZE MAINE COON TITANS just like............... steer clear

however if we introduce hybridization, which is hotly debated right now re: the ethics of creating high content crosses that can’t thrive in homes, then the sky is the limit? Savannah cats (serval x domestic crosses) already come up your knees!

but yeah, overall I don’t think cat size diversity will ever rival that of dogs

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Waiting literally a year for your epic revenge is the most teenage girl move ever.

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this is legit how it feels to log in to tumblr today after a couple of days off

Summary of the last 12 hours for the poor/blessed souls who slept through everything:

Castiel (A main Supernatural character) confess his love for Dean (Main Supernatural character). Castiel is then thrown into the Empty (aka a version of Hell aka Super Hell) right afterwards and dies. It is revealed in the script that Dean thinks of him as a friend. This is very funny because Supernatural has been going on for almost two decades with rampant queerbaiting and decides that immediately killing off the only main mlm character in their last season and sending them off to hell is a benevolent gift for their fans.

There is a rumour started by the New York Post that Valdimir Putin is resigning in the near future due to Parkinson’s. This ties in with the Supernatural debacle because people started tweeting about it while complaining/rejoicing at the Gay Representation™. This then became a meme and spread the rumor further.

Georgia and Pennsylvania flipped blue (11/06/2020) and Joe Biden is currently in a good lead.

The Trump organization is suing multiple states to recount the ballots. The majority are overturned, but I think Nevada is recounting.

Pennsylvania says it might take a week or two to count all the ballots.

There was a famous artist on Twitter revealed to be roleplaying as Ted Bundy.

The band System of a Down releases music for the first time in 15 years.

BTS rapper Yoongi goes under surgery for a shoulder problem.

I find out what a brain melting feels like.

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Please remember that almost everyone around you is traumatized. I didn’t understand this when I was younger. I wondered why people acted so strangely and irrationally. Maybe all children wonder this. The author Robert Anton Wilson said (paraphrasing), “We have never seen a completely sane adult human.” No one makes it out of this life alive. It’s not their fault. Mercy, kindness, forgiving — these are what makes one human. They are other names for love. People break in the strangest of ways.

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you can just prefer big dogs and be regular about it. i promise you literally no one is impressed by you being mean to little dogs 

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As a New Zealander who just had to re-enrol to vote, I have once again been struck by the reality that the Orange Guy isn’t a worldwide meme

I swear to god I’m not joking. This dude is the literal government-funded mascot of our elections, and frankly I couldn’t be prouder.

In writing this post, I think I have just discovered the true meaning of patriotism.

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Oh this is so good!

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maybe this is just me Being Old but i really, really hate that the “pay a subscription fee to access content” model is replacing the “pay once for content you’ll actually use” model and it makes me not want to support these companies out of Spite

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Maybe all the twentysomethings are obsessed with cartoons because all the “adult” shows show the same traumas, frustrations, and anxieties we already have to deal with 24/7.

Sometimes you just wanna watch a princess of power or a magical alien child do fancy magic stuff in a lower-stakes world where you can be reasonably sure you won’t be subjected to depictions of extreme violence, gore, assault, and sex without warning, ya dig?

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As cat owners we like to joke about how the cat is the one who’s really in charge, but let’s be honest here: my cats think they’re in charge, but they’re also fucking dumbasses. It’s sort of an incompetent-king-and-long-suffering-advisor arrangement, if the king were prone to getting their head stuck in Kleenex boxes.

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The Cosmere Fandom Currently:

In Preview Land

The Rest of the Fandom

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“Nale’s nuts” is...quite the swear

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My SO: what are you doing that causes your shoulders to hurt so much?

Me: anxiety is stored in the shoulders