#SORRY FOR THE LATENESS!!

[shookethdev]

@chaoticgouda

HAPPY (BELATED) BIRTHDAY, CHARLIE!! We all hope you had an amazing birthday!!

@cero-sleep @eyenaku @kitsvoidcorner @baby-bloos @enigmaticcattic

[moozyfreak]

DAY 8: ALL GREEN ^^

[flannelfoxen]

HORSE IS SO CUTE also apologies if this has already been answered, i tried looking it up on your profile but nothing showed up so i dunno if thats an error on my app or not, but anyway! how do you clean bones? a year or two ago my cats killed a chipmunk and left nothing but the head and tail, so i wanted to get the fur and flesh off the head and thiught i could boil it in some water but the ones i live with told me no because it would ruin the pot and i dont know what to do. its just been sitting in the freezer for forever now lol

H.orse says thank you.

Sorry I took forever to reply to this. It ate my reply the first time and then I forgot. I was cleaning bones this morning and then I remembered. I uh forgot to take pictures.

Don’t boil bones. It will do bad things to the bones. Break and they will never be clean.

I use maceration (using water to grow bacteria to decompose the body). Will be a lil stinky but it’s low maintenance and outside so it should be fine.

Something that small can be left in a container of pure water outside in the heat. No fancy chemicals or anything. Just make sure animals can’t get to it. I have had bodies stolen by stray animals.

An old plastic container with a lid should work just fine (butter, sour cream, etc.). Just make sure to poke some holes in the lid for the gasses to escape. You might top it off every now and then.

That’s basically it for awhile. Wait for the bacteria to grow in the warm conditions so they can decompose the animal. You don’t necessarily have to get all the skin and flesh off. You can just wait a few weeks and it should come off in the water. Don’t change the water until all the flesh is gone. You want to keep the bacteria in there.

Check if the bones are flesh-free. They probably won’t look clean and pretty right now but at this stage it’s just seeing if all the flesh is gone. If it looks good then dump the water and wash the bones off. You can use a little strainer for the teeth if you are feeling fancy. Small teeth get lost very easily.

Then we go to degreasing! I wash and reuse the container I had the thing in.

This will get all that grease out of the bones. Make them actually clean and not slimy. They will last longer.

This step requires some dish soap. I use off brand orange stuff so it really doesn’t matter what kind. You just want degreasing dish soap.

Fill your container back up with water and then add the skull. Pour some dish soap in there and then leave back outside.

This time, change the water about every week or so. If it looks dirty, change it out. You want to do this until the water stays clear.

When that happens, wash off the bones and container and it’s time for whitening. This requires some hydrogen peroxide.

It’s about dollar for a bottle at the grocery store if you don’t already have some at home.

Do not use bleach. That will severely damage the bones.

Set the skull in and fill your container with the peroxide. Make sure it is fully submerged. I know these little skulls like floating.

This will disinfect the bones and make them lighter in color. This will not damage the bones.

The longer you leave the bones in, the lighter they get up to a point. Small bones should only take a few hours to get maximum white. You can always pull them earlier if you like the color.

This also helps get rid of trapped dirt. It might make a fizzing sound. That’s fine.

When that is done, you can rinse and let dry. Glue those teeth in and you are done! Also if any part separated during cleaning you can go ahead and glue them back together.

I use just regular Elmer’s washable school glue so I can get the teeth back out if I want. Works absolutely fine. You can go for super glue if you are up for it.

I forgot to mention that bones look darker when wet. If you want to see the actual color when cleaning, let it fully dry and you will see the real color. You will also see the grease spots when dry. If you see those then it’s not done.

Hopefully this helps with your c.hipmunk!

[cookie12sposts]

@atenobear I am your secret santa! I'm so sorry for the lateness!! I'll do better next year, and sorry for this ugly sketch, but Frisk is an adult male 😓

Secret santa frans hosted by @venelona

The blog isn't working for some odd reason..

[the-worldabove]

[continued from here]

mamoru tenses up, a paw clenched in annoyance. for a moment it looks like his heat vents begin to spark, but nothing comes of it.

in the end, he shuts his eyes and lets out a sigh, the stiffness leaving his body with each breath. just a little longer, he tells himself. just a little longer until he can finally rest. when he opens his eyes again, he looks so very tired.

“well then, what do you want to know?” he asks in resignation. it’s not like he has anything else to lose. “you can psychoanalyze me all you want, if that’ll make you happy.”

@sacred-prophecies​

[nymphoutofwater]

And why? Cultural norms? Personal schedule? “Cause I’m always late to everything”?

Bonus points: Region and/or ethnicity?

[beebfreeb]

An Interview with Dot.

[spinejackel]

What are dead man walking tornadoes? :O

it’s a multi-vortex tornado. i dont remember the tribe it originates from (i think it was cherokee), but there’s a native american legend…? saying? that goes “if you see a man in a tornado, you are about to die.”

the most infamous shot of a dead man walking tornado hit jarrell, texas in 1997

it did so much damage to the town it caused the scale that tornados are measured by, the fijita scale, undergo revisions, and it made anchoring buildings in the tornado alley region pretty much mandatory. (it took the entire town off the map. only those who had taken shelter outside of the town or in underground bunkers survived.)

two more examples of dead man walking tornadoes looking like a person are a tornado from 2011 that hit cullman, alabama

and a tornado from 1975 that hit xenia, ohio

edit: it has been brought to my attention that the native american “legend” part of this post was a rumor spread by a documentary.

i have been asked to remove it, but i believe in letting my errors stand because i’m not perfect. i make mistakes

[cacturnia]

shout out to the silly creatures from scavengers reign‼️‼️

[sadclowncentral]

for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the "question only a human can answer" which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?

[mint-chocolate-rooibos]

who taught her that

[canisalbus]

Today's tumblr experience.

[chiptrillino-art]

(ID in ALT Text) Happy very, very late Mother's Day!

I am not saying that zuko is sokkas substitute for kya. or they look in any way similar! The whole concept here is that something was happening at the moment, be it how they were laying in bed, how the hair pooled over the pillow, or how sokka was able to hold onto it. It just brought sokka back. It triggered a memory, and suddenly he relived a brief memory. Making him suddenly miss his mother again. hope you enjoy!

[corruptimles]

MikuAllWeeku Day 4: Five Nights at Freddy's

[wacuoms]

[minmocat]

based off mew ex #232 from paldean fates!

this was a pokemon request from ko-fi! if you'd like to send in a request, shoot me a $5 donation on ko-fi with the name of a pokemon of your choice & i'll draw it!