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bad fucking news from the local animal shelter guys. they caught firestar and he was so feral they had to euthanize him he couldn’t be habituated to indoor life. yeah they had to try 9 times but they got him

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Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized

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Keshet's progress pride flag but I made it colorblind + photosensitive friendly and added the intersex part

[ID: The intersex inclusive progress pride flag with a Star of David symbol in place of the original triangle. The circle of the intersex part is also a Star of David. /End of ID]

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i don’t think anyone who earnestly wishes for any person or group to suffer or be harmed can call themselves a leftist

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@zaolat this is gonna be a rough one huh

y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot

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out of all the pokemon i've been asked to remove from the vicinity of the artazon pool she's the one who belongs here the most

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do NOT trust your own thoughts that everyone hates you. the curse of the blood moon is imminent. it's not you. it's ganondorf

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My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch

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OOOH i have some of these for crowpaw story!!!

There's a story that the first bobcat was the result of a cat who committed a great crime being stripped of his name and exiled. He couldn't tell anyone his name when they asked it, so he didn't end up traveling with anyone and remained so alone that he forgot how to speak entirely and started to view other cats as prey.

There's also a story about how mountain lions are actually twolegs who, jealous of the cats, made some kind of profane devil's bargain to try and become cats themselves-- but their minds remained alien, and they're still just as unpredictable and dangerous as people are. Sometimes you can even hear them screaming in the woods...

and many more

I think the clans need more myths, not just about the like, big cat clans. I want a myth about why badgers hate cats, about why foxes are like cats but Wrong, about how starclan themselves planted the great oak, just, more stories!

I personally made up one I really like where according to legend the rule about respecting prey happened because of the spirit of a woodpecker sloppily killed in her nest that destroyed all her eggs took vengeance by pecking through her tree and causing it to fall, causing a sudden drought that led to a famine. Which was only finally removed after starclan had saw the cats had learned their lesson about honoring the lives of their prey instead of viewing it as unimportant and brought back the rain.

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if I can be so fr with you guys one of my biggest peeves on here is when a blogger gets big for having Good Takes(TM) about a particular topic and then feels the need to start addressing every question that gets lobbed at them with the same amount of authority even when it's quite obviously wildly out of their range of knowledge, which is why I try to curve anons who think I know things I could not possible have and also why I'm always reminding you guys that I am dumb as rocks just generally. and this is a communal effort so if you ever see me running my mouth acting like I know shit about fuck, you have my permission to get my ass.

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Characters who were raised by wolves but somehow still learn how to speak and act human despite of having spent the key developing years without human contact are both unrealistic and frankly kind of boring and overdone by now. Imagine a character team where one of them is a (somewhat) realistic raised-by-wildlife grown feral child, and the other one is essentially a glorified handler, who manages all the people-business for both of them.

And the companion is the only other human person that the feral one trusts in any way at all. Better yet, make them clearly be romantically involved with each other. Like

"Wait, she's your wife? ...Uh, with all due respect, but can she like... Can she even consent?" "Look lad. I respect you being worried for her welfare and for being direct about that instead of circlin' around so I'm gonna be straight about it right back at you: She's bigger than me, stronger than me, and frankly, I don't think she spent much time wondering whether I'm consenting."

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i've never heard anything like this. i do recall a reddit post on r/Judaism discussing this, someone had a similar question and the answer was a resounding "What? No, piercings definitely aren't forbidden, they're just unpopular. Your [person who told you that] was probably getting piercings and tattoos mixed up."

a link to that discussion ^

idk if i have enough of us following me but google is not helping so maybe jumblr can:

i remember someone telling me once that my tongue ring was forbidden because the piercing split the body in half. has anyone ever heard of this before? i know the basics about piercing halacha but i have searched and can't find anything specifically about this body dividing thing.

anyone know what i'm talkin about?

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This year some of my favourite books I read were written by indigenous American authors and I just wanted to shout out a couple that I fell in love with

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Horror being my second most read genre, I did not think books could still get under my skin the way this one did lol. It follows four Blackfoot men who are seemingly being hunted by a vengeful... something... years after a fateful hunting trip that happened just before they went their separate ways. The horror, the dread, the something... pure nightmare fuel 10/10

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

An apocalyptic novel following an isolated Anishinaabe community in the far north who lose contact with the outside world. When two of their young men return from their college with dire news, they set about planning on how to survive the winter, but when outsiders follow, lines are drawn in the community that might doom them all. This book is all dread all the time, the use of dreams and the inevitability of conflict weighs heavy til the very end. An excellent apocalypse story if you're into that kind of thing.

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

This book follows Jade, a deeply troubled mixed race teenager with a shitty homelife who's *obsessed* with slasher movies. When she finds evidence that there's a killer running about her soon-to-be gentrified small town, she weaponises that knowledge to predict what's going to happen next. I don't think this book will work for most people, it's a little stream of consciousness, Jade's head is frequently a very difficult place to be in, but by the last page I had so much love for her as a character and the emotional rollercoaster she's on that I had to mention it here.

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Taking a bit of a left turn but this charming YA murder mystery really stuck with me this year. Elatsoe is a teenage girl living in an America where myths, monsters, and magic are all real every day occurrences. When her cousin dies mysteriously with no witnesses, she decides to do whatever she can, including using her ability to raise the spirits of dead animals, to solve the case. The worldbuilding was just really fun in this one, but the Native American myths and influence were the shining star for me, and the asexual rep was refreshing to see in a YA book too tbh

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

The audiobook, the audiobook, the audiobook!!!! Also the physical book because formatting and illustrations, but the audiobook!!! Tanya Tagaq is an Inuit throat singer, and this novel is a genre blending of 20 years worth of the authors journal entries, poetry, and short stories, that culminates in a truly unique story about a young girl surviving her teenage years in a small tundra town in the 70s. It is sad and beautiful and hard but an experience like nothing else I read this year.

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i genuinely hate hyperfixating on things. what do you mean it’s tuesday?

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This is your daily reminder that if you are jewish and live in an area with a decently sized jewish community (especially an orthodox one) and you are struggling

YOU CAN GET HELP

Speak to the rabbis of the shul/shuls

There are Gamachs for food, clothes, medical tools, judaica, furniture etc and most of these places will either be free or pay what you can

Many shuls give out packages of expensive specialty foods that you may need for yomim tovim like wine and matzah.

If you need money for rent, medical costs, school etc shuls will raise tzedaka for you if you reach out

Many communities have people in them who do car repair, home repair, plumbing etc and if you ask the rabbi those people may do that work for you at a decreased rate

There are specialty organizations if you need help with mental health services

If you need help with post mortem care for a loved one or elder care

SPEAK TO A RABBI

REACH OUT

YOU ARE NEVER ALONE

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THERE IS. a website. that takes 3D models with seams and pulls it apart to make a plushie pattern and informs you where things need to be edited or darts added for the best effect. and then it lets you scale it and print off your pattern. and I want to lose my MIND because I've lost steam halfway through so many plushie patterns in the mind numbing in betweens of unwrapping, copying all of the meshes down as pieces, transferring those, testing them, then finding obvious tweaks... like... this would eradicate 99% of my trial and error workflow for 3D models to plushies & MAYBE ILL FINALLY FINISH SCREAMTAIL...

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do you ever think about that stupid starclan life thing that only gets brought up like twice in the book series where when a leader loses a life some of their soul just gets kinda...shaved off to go join starclan, I have so many questions about this like how and what and why

I'm pretty sure it comes up like once in the first arc when firestar first dies and then jayfeather sees firestars not ghost on a starclan trip once in fading echoes, and I don't know if it's ever been said again, but like look at this quote, it's been driving me bonkers for over a decade on what is going ON with this system. I don't even fully know if it appears outside of those two books and I think like maybe secrets of the clans, maybe

Like I can only assume since it's displayed as very pale and barely more then mist they didn't graft like, nine souls onto firestar, so it has to be his original soul right? Just with bits shaved off? It's eldritch as hell and confuses the fuck out of me on how it works and yet yellowfang is so casual all

Another familiar pelt caught his eye. Frighteningly familiar. Blazing ginger fur, large pricked ears, emerald gaze—the slender tom weaved through the bushes ahead. He seemed paler than the other cats, almost invisible. And yet he was there. “Firestar?” Jayfeather breathed. “Not quite,” Yellowfang mewed gently. “Five of his lives are here, but he won’t be able to hear or speak until his ninth life has joined us.” Jayfeather watched the ghostly cat disappear behind an oak. Could Firestar feel his lives ebbing away? No. He shook off the thought. How could he stay such a strong leader if he did?

like...what??? No one ever talks about this, probably because of how little it ever comes into play, but HUH?? why did they bring it back after the first arc to do nothing with it beyond scare the pelt off of jayfeather???? It's so eldritch! I have questions!

What about evil leaders?? Was there just a misty brokenstar wandering the dark forest or do they get to stay in starclan until the final life because it's just plain irresponsible to let a basically unresponsive and on autopilot cat into hell?

What happens if you kill this like, soul slice??? Does it have an impact on the living cat? Does literally losing bits of your soul have an impact on the living cat? Like if eight of your nine lives are in Starclan that's gotta be like, really weird right??? If they do start out in the dark forest for evil what if they stopped doing evil? Do they remember anything?

Are they aware at all? Will the dead leader gain these starclan memories on death? Why can't they hear, I can kind of understand speak but why can they do everything else but hear? Does the soul splice knowing whats happening back in the clans, because like, the soul splice doesn't react at all to yellowfang or jayfeather so does the soul splice even have memories? Can they fight back? Do they try and find other ways to communicate? its kinda really fucked up!

I know no one talks about it because its both stupid and never relevant but I can't be the only one just like, fixated on this detail right? Like what are you talking about Why does a piece of their soul need to leave with each life, you're just healing the wounds or disease, why can't they just...keep it? Until the final death?

Though incredibly funny au potential for where due to how the lives supposedly work ashfur only possesses 1/9th of bramblestar because he's lame and hasn't died yet before this so there's only a small bit of soul room

I just need to know I'm not alone in thinking that this is like, horrifically eldritch right? potentially even somewhat i have no mouth and i must scream for the version of them in starclan especially if evil leaders do end up in the dark forest from the very start???