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There's a local queer-owned cattery that breeds Bombay and Burmese cats and they're absolutely ridiculously friendly and solid little gremlins.

They also name their litters after various horror or queer-related media so this is Elphaba (black Bombay cat) and Lydia Deetz (champagne Burmese) from Purranormal Cattery.

Me: My ideal shorthair cat is a beautiful screamy burger-headed corncob goblin with a humorously unpleasant voice. I wonder if someone has bred for that.

The Noble Burmese:

ID: A beautiful pale orange cat with a funny roundish head and short muzzle kneads and plucks happily at the surface they are standing on. Just when you are thinking it looks winsome and pleasant, it opens its mouth and gleefully emits a high-pitched rasping noise that is absolutely horrid.

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the whole "lipstick on a pig" thing makes no sense because the second we gave a pig access to makeup she became god's cuntiest soldier

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Oh yeah there's a part 2 of the horse desensitizing that I love.

🐎: Hey what's with that tiny predator, the one you're hold- WOAH WHAT THE FUCK WHY IS IT UP SO HIGH

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They share stick

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NEVER GIVE UP

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Wizard worm just emerged from a wizarding hole! Lucky you!!!✨🪱🪄🍀

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until they stop fucking with my friends, until they make a country that is safe outside this room, until those fucking nazis are afraid again, this isn't just a wrestling show

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Miscellaneous headcanon that nobody asked for: the Heterodyne family doesn't have a concept of "bastard".

Oh, they'll happily accept the description, if you're yelling at them, but they never really grasped the idea of "this child is born out of wedlock and therefore a lesser heir".

Why would they? There's no doubt about whether a kid is a Heterodyne or not - they have a DNA tester in the Castle. It's shaped like a giant evil lion, it climbs out of a bone pit, and it has its drama dial turned all the way up, but functionally it is a DNA tester.

If someone showed up at Mechanicsburg with a kid years after the Heterodyne's forces had stomped through that particular region, and said, "My kid is a Spark and it's your fault, this is YOUR kid and they're trying to turn my village into kumquats", either the Chapel of Bones lion said "yes" or it said "no".

There isn't an in-between state of "yeah OK that's my kid but unofficially". Either the kid is a Heterodyne or they're not.

(For the record, I suspect any "no" verdicts got everyone involved killed very quickly. The Castle doesn't like anyone it sees as a pretender. Including kids.)

If the kid is a Heterodyne - even if their father didn't want another one - I suspect the Castle would go: "Great! Kid is Family. Family is mine to protect. Kid is mine now." And there would be another Heterodyne in the family, no different from any of the rest.

As noted elsewhere, the Heterodyne family is extraordinarily cohesive for a thousand-year dynasty of evil unassailable mad scientists. Even the rival Red and Black Heterodynes seem to have been feuding with each other for the fun of it (probably with a side of ugh, sibling). The family never really split, diffused, or fractured - as evidenced by the fact that by the time our story comes along, there are no half-forgotten cousins or distant relatives with Heterodyne blood.

This tells me that in all probability, the Heterodyne family never shuffled its bastard children off to some less visible place - and you cannot tell me that a thousand years of raider warlords who sacked Europa on the regular never accidentally ended up with a baby they didn't plan on making.

And the whole concept of an illegitimate child is founded on the acceptance of the idea that some higher power told you that you could only have kids with this one person.

...yeah, I'm not seeing any candidates for telling the Heterodynes anything. Not ones that survived the attempt, anyway.

So there's probably a solid Heterodyne family precedent for "all these kids are half-siblings", and absolutely no Heterodyne family precedent for "but this specific one is lesser for it".

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All the Hunger Games references to “the north” beyond the capital’s control makes me think Canada is just like… recognizably Canada still. Just going, “what the actual fuck America” at the insane evolution of our reality tv culture

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Smash Potato Quiche —

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Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.

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Working very hard and still finding this to be the most time-consuming project I've done so far. Learning a lot though - hope the outcomes reflect the amount of effort I've been putting in!

If you have just a couple of bucks a month to spare and would like to see this deck made, please consider joining us on Patreon. And if you happen to have a few more dollars than that, prints of completed cards are available on the $20 tier. Literally nothing I do is possible without the fine folks over there, so please consider helping out if you can.

Previously: FF playing cards | FFVII playing cards | FFXV Tarots | FFVII Tarots | FFXV Playing cards | FFVII Full Tarots | FF Hanafuda deck | FFVII Shinra photo book

Patreon | Bluesky

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Watching Clarkson’s Farm and damn now I want to work the land.

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It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝

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Things You’d Want in a Zombie Apocalypse: A Few Books

If civilization ever does go crash, there are plenty of things and information we’ll want to have on hand. Do it yourself books, repair books, how to do everything from medicine to fibercrafts to engine repair to emergency plumbing. But all of that is going to depend on staying alive. And for that you need not just food, but plans to keep getting that food.

In that vein, a few books you might want to check out.

Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners. This and other books cover not only growing food from seed, but how to collect and store seeds after harvest, so you have them for next year and beyond.

Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening. In a zpoc vitamin and mineral supplements will be hard to come by. Sprouts will be handy. And tasty!

The Front Yard Forager: Identifying, Collecting, and Cooking the 30 Most Common Urban Weeds. What it says on the tin.

Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn’t Know You Could Eat. Covers twice as many commonly planted decorative species that are also edible.

The Art of Eating Through the Zombie Apocalypse: A Cookbook and Culinary Survival Guide. Full of survival tips, recipes, and entertaining humor.

Note that the foraging books in specific point you toward plants where half the work is done for you. They’ve grown. You just need to find and harvest them. In many cases, like daylilies, maple seeds, and most urban weeds, so long as you leave some proportion of the plants or tree intact, they’ll grow back next year for you to harvest again. And you can transplant many of these to cultivate and grow in safer areas than wherever the zombies are roving. Starting seeds is always risky; transplanting, much less so. You can get gardening with less investment in time and energy and a higher chance of success. All critical in a long-term survival situation!

Of course you also want books on trapping, fishing, and hunting. But you’re a primate, and a hominid on top of that. In extremis, bashing an animal over the head and shoving it into fire to cook is a trick we’ve been pulling off over a million years. Cultivating plants is historically much newer, less instinctive, and has a higher chance of going drastically wrong if you don’t identify the species you’re eating. Misidentify a fish, you’re usually still safe. Misidentify some plants, and it’s the last mistake you’ll ever make. Do not spear your hot dogs on oleander branches!

...Don’t get me started on wild mushrooms. No. Just no.

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Can’t wait for, like, 2025 when we look back on the 2018/2019 era and say “hey, remember when we were all really freaking depressed? That was a crazy time! Glad we aren’t like that anymore”