#Debudding

[coochiekrab]

Actually tbh now I’m thinking about all the ways that deer furries can have their antlers altered. Since they stop shedding after puberty and keep a permanent set into adulthood, there’s an actual incentive to coming up with Creative Modifications. Many gender affirming. Debudding, implants, honestly magnetic antlers are probably huge both for deer who work in construction and need to wear hard hats or cyclists who need to wear helmets constantly but also for gender fluid or gnc deer who just want to Switch things up day to day….shaving for deer who have impractically Huge Racks. Prosthetics for deer who lose theirs to trauma. What if they’re repairing shattered antlers with Kintsugi. What if the kids are flipping their heads upside down into soup pots full of rit dye or koolaid to stain their antlers blue. Carving. Bone burning. Sharpening………

[isolationaroundus]

I hope they won't fuck up the WYATT SICK6... This group HAS to be dominant. Let them destroy everyone for a couple of years...

I literally got goosebumps and tears on my eyes.. One of the best debuds ever.

Bray Wyatt would have been SOOOO PROUD!

[dean23456]

Yuko

I really like her. When I first saw her i immediately liked her. Best cluckeria debudant to me at least. I was shocked when I learned that she was prudence's mom. But it made sense. I think this will happen again.

[fuckoffblogs]

something about people pronouncing debut as “de-bute” pisses me the fuck off. this group didn’t “debuded” they DEBUTED. IT HAS A PRONOUNCIATION. LEARN IT

[taszzer-fr]

Also: in goats the horn is connected to the sinuses, so if the base breaks its Bad News. How far up the horn do dragons consider safe? How common are horn injuries in general? Do some groups debud?

Last post got me thinking about horns and okay, people love to draw dragons with piercings through their horns and make accents with whitespace illusions of holes through the horns. I also do this, it looks badass, but horns are bone? They're alive bone? And I've been trying to figure out how to make it work that's not only "magic".

There are all kinds of crazy horn modifications out there that just do things to the keratin - dying, carving, tattoos, caps, getting stuff enameled or embedded in the surface, as well as surface-level piercings - but having something go through the horn itself is Hard Core. That's an extreme level of body modification. It's the kind of thing you have to seek out a specialist for, and vet them thoroughly. If surface level relief carving is getting an earlobe pierced, then an all-through horn piercing is like corneal tattooing or those guys who implant magnets in their fingers.

The procedure is performed with something like a biopsy needle, but larger, and involves plague magic to control pain and sterilize and shape the wound. Even with numbing, it hurts like hell and the infection risk is high. Since you can't just leave your marrow exposed to the air, the opening is fitted with something like a gauge made of bioceramic or, less ideally, a body-safe plastic. It's common for these to made to look like other materials, or to have a veneer applied after it heals.

Recovery is simplified by the fact that there's no open wound and no joint involved, but it still hurts a lot and has to be kept an eye on. This usually includes follow-up visits with the artist or a doctor to check for signs of infection and administer medicine or magic to promote bone healing. The worst-case scenario is finding a crack in either the horn or the gauge, since that means potentially bacteria inside, I emphasize, your bones. The patient may or may not be provided sealant or disinfectant to put around the edge of the gauge, but it's unclear whether these actually help.

Once it's healed, you can either leave it as a hole or put stuff in it. Rings are a classic, as are various dangly things and plugs with cool designs.

[some-programming-pearls]

Between Recursion vs for loop which one is the best option and why? which is better in terms of performance, code readability, maintainability, and debudding?

When deciding between recursion and loops in programming, it’s essential to consider factors such as performance, code readability, maintainability, and ease of debugging. Let’s explore the characteristics of both recursion and for loops in these aspects: Recursion: Recursion is a programming technique where a function calls itself to solve smaller instances of the same problem. Here are some…

[coochiekrab]

Rumi would be too powerful with big antlers, another tool of destruction in her arsenal. I support it.

Kuri and Aubrey ask her if she would ever want to get debudding surgery, not because they think she doesn’t pass enough with the antlers, but because they feel uneasy with her having Two Permanent Weapons on her head for the rest of her life

[the-void-to-scream-in]

hey fun fact: when farm animals with horns start growing their horns in, most farmers stop the horns from growing by dehorning/debudding. One way of doing this is a concentrated heat source (like a branding iron) to burn away and kill the horn bud so the horn never grows (dw most of the time the animal is under an anesthetic so they dont feel it). However, if you don't kill the entire bud, the horn continues to grow but very painfully and likely a little fucked up.

Now, hypothetically, assuming Tubbo starts growing his horns in during or after Schlatt's rule, that means the horn bud would still be present and vulnerable during the festival. And a firework to the face is a lot of heat very close to his horn buds. However, it's not a very concentrated heat source, meaning that while the bud would definitely be severely damaged, it wouldn't be completely killed. Tubbo's horns growing in would be a painful process and they would likely be a little fucked up.

Now, I'm not saying that everyone who draws Tubbo with strong, healthy horns is wrong, I'm just saying they're missing out on an excellent angst opportunity. Not only does Tubbo have to walk around with a physical reminder of Schlatt literally attached to his skull but his horns are fucked up and painful and it's Schlatt's fault

[itsbenedict]

WK reviews +5 lessons

finish flower lineart

prep TFJ session

+2 arma

talk to aunt about staying with her while i check out condos

still a couple loose ends to tie up for session planning, but i do have the rules of Warball formalized in case the players take an interest in the Big Game.

and arma- man, for things that are basically throwaway flavor for an appendix to a fake walkthrough, i get really carried away doing like, armchair game design for these things. it should be balanced, i can't stop thinking, even though i'm not implementing these systems and there's no playtests to iterate based on. but also not actually balanced, i insist, because this is supposed to be authentically recreating kind of thoughtless kitchen-sink RPG mechanics design, and so there have to be some ridiculous busted OP things and totally useless gimmick things and some of them need to secretly be the other thing when you think about it.

i don't know what audience i'm making these for besides me, but it's fun

anyway i only finished one of the two i planned to get done today, in large part due to the fact that there was a jigsaw puzzle in the house and that shit is like catnip to me

[burnt-toast-life]

Y’know how Ashe killed Sirius in Noel’s Scenario yeah what would’ve happened if he did that with Wilardo

[neonponders]

Here’s your crack fic for the day ~

• • • • •

Steve buys a cow. He supposes the correct terminology is “rescuing” because he has no intentions to slaughter it.

He names the cow Billy.

The horns have been “debudded,” which is like destroying a hair follicle so the hair stops growing. Maybe it’s the lack of horns that makes this cow head-butt everything, including Steve.

The cattle vendor at the fair certainly looked dubious when Steve made it clear he had the money to pay for him. Steve knew what he looked like - the last farmer in the Harrington clan had to be three generations back, at least.

“That bull’s a headstrong one. If you’re not used to lively horses or cattle, he ain’t the one for you.”

Nothing was for Steve, apparently. Not steady relationships, or a steady job, or steady mental health since Starcourt became a skeleton standing over rubble. Steve had bad decisions and the consequences sweating out of his pores; all he knew was that a blond and caramel cow with soft curly fur avoided everyone touching him until Steve held out the back of his hand. Horses wanted to smell a person before they were touched, why not cows?

Billy licked his hand and the rest was history.

Or at least, the rest was the Harrington’s summer cabin several miles outside Hawkins. The house was not technically a cabin, but a bonafide house. It looked like it belonged in the mountains with its many windows, thick beams, and flowery window boxes. The property around it was substantial, and he needed to get one of the fields ready with a quickness.

Hiring a team to install fencing around one of the meadows was easy. Getting a pre-built carport hauled out to the property was not, but it was the best he could do until a proper barn was ready. The carport looked like a barn-style covering to a bridge and acted as the entrance to the field as well as a safe spot at night or inclement weather.

The damn cow came with a learning curve, that’s for sure. And a hefty care bill which actually succeeded in bringing Steve’s parents home to see what the hell was going on with their son’s bank account. To say they were confused would be a severe understatement.

But the Harringtons were the type of wealthy people to enjoy equestrian pursuits, so Steve’s mother was not entirely put off by the prospect of keeping a large animal on the property. She called a vet to come out and do a full checkup of the creature, and Steve watched in annoyed wonder as Billy let his mother totally ruffle the curls and ears on his giant head.

“Playing favorites, I see,” he scoffed.

His mother smirked at him. “I think he knows he’s safe.”

Steve could only take her word for it, because Billy still head-butted him all the time. As soon as the screen went over Billy’s face to protect his eyes from flies, the cow followed Steve around the property, knocking his face against Steve’s backside while he tried to weed-wack the walking trails between the fields and the house.

“Could you not?”

Billy only snorted and shook his head, making his ears flop.

Steve’s father couldn’t help but marvel, “He doesn’t even need to be tethered. That cow follows you around like you polish the sun.”

Steve tried his best to do that, he really did. He got a cylindrical “cow brush” installed in the field. Billy rubbed against it like a massive cat. He cleaned Billy’s hooves every day that he was at the cabin, which became more and more often. When the barn was finally built, he made sure Billy always had a bucket of fruit and veggies to greet him after a long day in the pasture. The damn thing loved alfalfa hay, and it made Billy smell nice after rolling around in it.

The only thing that got Billy’s energy out was a giant bouncy ball. Steve introduced it by chucking the thing over the fence. He’d never seen Billy have a fun fit, but that was the day he learned that cows are just terrifyingly large dogs.

Thing is, one Billy Hargrove has to come out of the hospital some point or another. And while he’s being discharged, he gets to overhear a bizarre conversation between his sister and Henderson.

“He’s installing the salt lick this weekend. Cows love it, apparently.”

Dustin sighed, “I don’t see why he hasn’t invited us to his new place. I miss him.”

“Probably because the cow’s a rescue, and you’d scream loud enough to set it off,” Max teased.

Billy waited for Dustin to go to the bathroom before he ventured, “It almost sounds like you’re talking about a real cow and not a girlfriend.”

Max still doesn’t like the way he talks about women, but now she tells him so. The summer of ‘85 has changed a lot of things. Max sticks to Billy like glue and tells him like it is. Steve owns a cow, apparently, and barely visits Hawkins anymore. 

Billy goes with Max when they finally get the invite to the “cabin.”

“This is not a cabin,” Billy remarks as he pulls up to the nice house in the repaired Camaro. The road there and the driveway to the house are as far as the car is allowed, otherwise his sports vehicle is super unequipped for this place. The house is nicer than the one back in Hawkins, but Billy feels as unequipped in his atrophied body as his car.

Thankfully, after an exhaustively awkward handshake with Steve, the latter sets them up in the house for the weekend. The fridge is stocked and there’s another in the garage. There’s a goddamn laundry room upstairs for guests and before long, Billy finds himself risking exhaustion by walking along the unfamiliar, grassy trails - 

A bike bell alerts him to someone coming down the trail. Steve.

Billy doesn’t wait for some clumsy hello. “You need a motorbike for this place.”

Steve laughs as he slows down and dismounts to walk beside him. The damn bike has a luggage carrier on the back with a green cube of hay stuffed with flowers like a pin cushion. “Is that for your cow I’ve heard so much about?”

Steve glanced back at it and confirmed, “Yeah. Cows love enrichment, or whatever, so I try to give him stuff. He rolls around in alfalfa, but the roses and herbs might be a nice change. Getting the honeysuckle and blackberries off the house was a nightmare. Those bushes have thorns. Big ones.”

Billy laughed softly. “I thought honeysuckle was poisonous?”

“Not the flowers. But cows have, like, four stomachs anyway.”

“What? No, they don’t.”

“Yeah, dude! They eat anything off the ground without even looking. It’s insane.”

Billy discovered that laughter came easily with Steve. And when they finally got to the carport, he watched the cow meet Steve and head-butt the block of treats out of his hands.

“Wait, wait! God, this is why we have to tie things up with twine.”

The cow won and shook the cube out of its binding. Steve snatched the twine anyway and untied the knot to wrap around the spool standing on a pegboard in the carport. Billy’s feet shuffled over the hay in the miniature barn while he relented, “He’s pretty. Still smells like shit, but...I haven’t seen a curly-haired cow before. What’s his name?”

He turned his head just in time to see Steve’s snap up and his jaw to go slack. “Uh.”

Billy snarked, “What, did you name it after your favorite porn star and your mom doesn’t know or something?”

Steve coughed and swallowed painfully. “Nope.”

Billy frowned at him. “Why are you being weird about this? It’s a name.”

“Yeah, but,” Steve began before his shoulders wilted into a slouch. He sighed, “His name’s Billy.”

Billy Hargrove has to take a long moment to process that. Then he dared, “I would ask if it’s because he’s blond, but there are plenty of those to take name inspo from.”

Steve rubbed the back of his neck, where the hair had recently been cut since he was tired of his longer hair holding sweat on his nape. “I found him after...everything happened...and he reminded me of you. That’s all.”

“That’s all,” Billy repeated flatly.

Steve shrugged and came to lean against the other side of the carport opening, mirroring him. “Yeah. Dark blond. Curly. Gets in my way and head-butts me around. Never lets me get the ball to play a proper game with him.”

Billy glanced at said ball in the grass with a soft smirk on his face. “I didn’t realize you thought of me enough to name something after me.”

Steve shyly held his gaze until Billy finished, “Even if it is a cow.”

And so what if Billy rides on the back of his bike to the house.

Or if he stays longer than a weekend because he likes the physical therapy of walking through the groves of trees and fields without an audience around him.

Or that he sleeps better with Steve’s homemade veggie pasta in his belly than he has in years.

Or that they kiss with lightning bugs around them after Billy admits that the lush greenery of late spring/early summer is kinda nice. Kissing is their business, no one else’s.

But with an extra pair of hands, Steve’s mother indulges and gets another pasture set up for a new rescue. Steve and Billy watch as a new barn gets built with waterlines and a saddle room. The truck drives up with the silver steel carrier hitched to it, and the boys watch a russet horse step out. Her fur is a beautiful clay red in the sunlight -

As she bites her handler.

Steve and Billy immediately looked at one another and said in unison, “Max.”

[missmyloko]

Hi Justin I hope you are having great day. When maiko/geiko comes back kagai like mamefuji, are all already debuded maikos her neesan. Thanks

Yes, those who debuted after she left would be considered onesan to her ^^

[swamp-spirit]

Cool new pet. Here’s the part of it you cut off to make your life easier. I mean Because It Could Get Caught On Things.

[vegance]

Oh, i think most farmers actually do disbudding, not dehorning (at least in terms of the terms the Wikipedia page uses). And tbh it tends to be done because large herbivores are dangerous enough without spikes on their head. Even with plenty of room and amazing care. Not to mention there is fighting in the normal social behaviors of cattle and that also means more risk to the animals.

Like, its not just because the behaviors happen in close quarters. It’s because the behaviors happen at all.

I do however disagree with removing horns once they’ve actually grown in and with gouging. There’s better methods and once horns are actually growing properly they’re kinda, part of the skull.

ohhh, i should have used the right words there.

yes, i understand that it is also done to prevent danger to humans, and also to prevent them from like... hurting each others skins and making their "leather" less valuable and things like that.

but still, we don't debud wild bisons, do we? because we are not using them.

all these things are a symptom of animal agriculture. and dehorning/debudding can be intensely painful for the animals, and are often performed without anesthetic.

[nmemory]

OCTOPATH is another group that was made from Produce 101 Japan season2.

They couldn't be chosen as "INI" in the audition. But they will get their debut as new boys group on 9th February in this year!!

They have wanderful skils and special gifted too.

I'm looking forwerd their debut!!

KOSE NAOKI TAKAHASHI WATARU

YOTSUYA SHINSUKE KOBORI SHU

OTA SHUNSEI KURITA KOHEI

KAIHO TOMA

I love Toma's singing voice. His voice is beautiful and soulful. I waited his debud from after the audition. I'm so so so happy...

[skykittywhatchamahcallit]

Me when I see de-budded goats: 😰😱😨😠😡😤😖😟😬😕😕😯😯😪😪😞😞😣😣😳😳😳