#i miss the thylacine :[

[drinkinggblood]

death by greed and gluttony; generations pass and none will know of my name, my face, my call. An echo of what I once was.

[ferberus-skull]

Look hard at my stripes. There'll be no more after me.

[nonuggetshere]

Never in my life did I think I was gonna make fanart of Poppy Playtime yet here I am

[tasmanianstripes]

I miss the "cringe culture is dead" era of the Internet

[silks-up-my-sleeve]

Shae Me

🤝🏻

Thinking about very specific extinct animals

[godlike-housecat]

Look at them N O W

The first one was actually from craiyon.com but I’m posting it with the one from DALL-E

[ringneckedpheasant]

thylacine shelf

[im-smart-i-swear]

Thinking bout thylacine... Man those guys were cool... Theyre really fun to draw too!

[thylacines-toybox]

Tonka (he/it)

A super chunky wee thylacine bought secondhand from Australia in February 2024. Its tag is missing, but it's been identified as a Tasile plush.

Sibling described its shape as 'a little Tonka truck' which technically works with the herb and spice name theme I use for my thylacines.

[dinocanid]

If you read Xem's post, you will see that she states you should know the basics about that animal before confirming it. You should know that a wolf is a canine that is a pack hunter that lives mostly in the northern hemisphere. That they howl and usually hunt deer or some deer relative. The have fur and are pursuit predators. Those are the basics. No one except you and your friends said you're only a real wolf therian if you can name top ten unusual facts about wolves. How can someone confirm a wolf if they do not know what a wolf is? You yourself said that you differ from wild wolf behaviours. So you know you're not a wild wolf because of that. But twist words and play the victim I guess.

The OP claimed, very blatantly, that if you make a mistake about some species fact that someone else considers "basic knowledge" then they shouldn't be allowed to identify as that species anymore and should be gatekept from the label. Said basic knowledge included very common and easy-to-make mistakes. Someone can identify as a hyena without knowing at first they are feliforms and not caniforms, the OP said that they can't. Someone can identify as a wolfdog or a leopard, and mistake a wolfdog for a husky mix or a jaguar for a leopard in a photo. That happens, they can look very similar to each other. Idk how to explain that a hyena looks like a dog(canine), just like a thylacine looks like a dog. You can go most of your life before finding out the former is related to cats and the latter is related to kangaroos. You can put a leopard and a jaguar next to each other and it is difficult as hell to tell the difference a lot of times. Not all wolfdogs look like wolves, some just look like dogs especially if they're low content. Some dogs just look like wolfdogs or wolves without being wolf hybrids. See: the pile of movies and shows with "wolves" in it (it's wolf-like dogs being casted as wolves, lots of people don't notice). It's not common knowledge, it's fun facts you might stumble across in a "10 Things You Didn't Know About These Strange Animals" YouTube compilation at 3am.

The OP was stating very clearly that your identity becomes invalid the moment you fail a game of spot-the-difference. The OP post is capped off with:

"So yeah. You should know a lot about the animal you claim to be. If not? Don’t claim it."

I'm gonna be blunt that the OP had one of the most rancid takes I'd seen in a while. Knowing the creature exists was not stated anywhere in the post to be enough, you have to "know a lot".

Someone might not know that animal's realistic behaviors, or where they all live geologically, or what all of their body language means. Someone can know their theriotype before they figure out that later stuff, it's happened all the time and continues to happen. This also isn't covering non-earthly animal identities and how you can't even do ecological research on those. Someone can't go on wikipedia and read up on the ecology of their specific dragon species that has zero record of ever existing. Plenty of those with non-earthly animal identities are not less real as a result, it is an absolute buckwild take that earthly animal identities are somehow different with a higher bar of entry. That's not even mentioning people that identify as earthly animals with unrealistic ecology, because that's also a thing.

For the second part of your ask, I'm guessing you're referring to this recent one. You missed this entire chunk of the post:

"...I do not know most things about wolves off the top of my head. Don't ask me anything about wolf ecology outside the bare basics, I couldn't tell you. When I was really young I thought my nonhuman identity was a dog until one day I had the epiphany that I was actually a wolf. I didn't have to bury my head in research to figure that out, I just knew for not much reason. Any information on wolves I know today is stuff I picked up here and there over the years, independent of my identity"

To condense all of that into something shorter: I just knew I was a wolf before I knew much of anything about wolves. I didn't know I wasn't a wild wolf because I know a lot about wild wolf behavior. I genuinely don't know how that conclusion was drawn after reading that.

"Wolves are canines that live in packs and eat deer" isn't research, that's "I watched a movie once that had wolves in it", which is honestly the extent of what a lot of people know about wolves unless they're invested or something. That's not enough according to the OP, and if that's not what was meant then the entirety of the post was worded extremely poorly.

And this last part isn't related to anon, but I've seen a lot of responses since yesterday about "but why is research bad"? No one has said that it was, and I scroll the alterhuman tags almost daily. That's not something people are arguing. The point isn't "research bad, grr learning about animals sucks", the point is that this discourse is old. Like, old as hell. We're not gatekeeping nonhuman identities based on if you "know a lot" going in. We're not going to claim someone isn't a "real therian" if they get one thing wrong about their theriotype.

Let's say that someone is a leopard therian and posts a picture of a jaguar in some moodboard or something. You know the decent thing to do? You might let them know one of the photos is actually a jaguar, which will usually get you a "oh huh, thanks. didn't catch that". At no point do you suddenly have imply they aren't a "real" leopard therian. You can ask if they've maybe considered jaguars, but they are fully able to respond "yeah but no, I'm a leopard". And that's fine. Someone can be a hyena therian, accidentally say that hyenas are canines. It is absolutely fine and possible to say that hyenas are feliforms without pointing fingers and going "you're not a real hyena, because real hyenas would've known that already".

It's not 2012 anymore, we've grown past this. It is the strangest thing ever to see in the year two-thousand-twenty-four.

[savage-rhi]

anything ashley x leon post the events of re4! maybe of something of them helping each other work through the trauma or leon realizing his feelings for her? :3 thank you! i love your drabbles <3 thylacine

Sure thing nonny! Thanks too for reading Da rules and for the compliment! Enjoy!

"Thanks for not suggesting a café or somewhere with lots of people." Ashley murmured while walking beside Leon. She glanced up, seeing the storm clouds were coming into the lower part of the city. Soon enough it would be raining. She sighed through her nose, beating herself up for not bringing an umbrella.

"After the Raccoon City incident, I had a hard time being around crowds. Sadly, it comes with the trauma. You have nothing to apologize for." Leon did his best to reassure, but he could tell behind Ashley's smile that she still wasn't taking his words to heart. He couldn't blame her. It took months of processing before Leon himself felt like he could walk among people, and not feel the pressing need to be on guard twenty four seven.

"I never got to ask," Ashley began while Leon gently pressed his hand against her upper back to guide her around a corner, leading them to the main park. "Do you see a therapist for any of the stuff you've been through?"

Leon chuckled, shaking his head while he made a face. He immediately took notice of Ashley's hesitance that lingered in her eyes after his bout.

"I promise I'm not laughing at your question, you just made me have an epiphany is all."

"What kind of epiphany?" Ashley smiled.

"Well," Leon sighed. "Being a government agent, I have all the resources in the world at my disposal but I haven't seen a therapist in years."

"Years?"

"You sound astounded."

"Well, yes. I mean--" Ashley bit the inside of her cheek, wondering how to best broach the topic. "I only got a taste of what you deal with all the time back in Spain. You know, with creepy monsters and zombies trying to kill you. It's messed me up a great deal. I can't imagine what's in your head. Not that I'm saying you're crazy or anything..."

Leon gave Ashley's right shoulder a gentle squeeze with his left hand and a pat before dropping it to his side. He shook his head and kept his gaze forward while observing how empty the park was.

"I'm not offended. Trust me, it takes a lot to get under my skin."

"Hence why you're good at your job."

They both chortled at the remark. Leon's mind began to linger on Ashley's words and then her question. He knew she was experiencing PTSD. He could tell from the way she carried herself. How her eyes were on constant alert. The hypervigilance couldn't be missed. Though he had questions, Leon decided not to pry. It wasn't his place to interrogate her. If Ashley wanted to talk about it more, she would.

"My mental health attendance is abysmal, but I still have a good relationship with my former therapist. Do you want me to put in a word for you?" Leon asked.

Ashley felt a weight being shrugged off her shoulders by his comment.

"That would be great, actually. My dad--bless him but also damn him--he's been pushing too many people on me. I know he cares, but I need to navigate this on my own. Preferably with people that understand what I went through because--"

"Most average folks won't understand."

"Exactly," Ashley agreed. "They can't comprehend it."

Cold droplets began to hit Ashley's skin. She shuddered and looked up and the rain began to pour. An exasperated groan escaped her, until she watched Leon take an umbrella out from an inner pocket of his jacket. He set it up and coaxed them both underneath the large object. She felt his arm wrap around her waist, smiling from the comfort that brought.

"You must think I'm whiny." She said while looking up at him.

"No," Leon smiled and shook his head. "The rain pisses me off too."

They both laughed. Ashley could feel the sides of her mouth hurting. She hadn't been that amused in a long time.

"Tell me about your major. Word is you're quite passionate about it."

"Oh," Ashley could feel her eyes brighten little by little when she registered that Leon was asking because he was legitimately curious. It wasn't something she often talked about. There was also a part of her that knew he purposefully changed the subject, so she'd be alright.

"What do you know about computers?"

"I know they're a pain in the ass." Leon laughed.

"Well, let me enlighten you on programming!"

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[vintagewildlife]

Every time I share a thylacine photo I get dozens of comments about how much y'all miss them, which is understandable, but why do I never see those comments about the kouprey?? Vanished without a trace, extinct with no fanfare, gone quietly into that dark night. No one ever cares about cattle as much as predators :(

[extinctionstories]

I was going through your profile and reading your thoughts on de-extinction, and you put it very eloquently. Not only am I concerned about existing endangered animals, what if we do bring them back…. where do we put them? Rats were part of the reason Dodo’s went extinct. Guess whats still on their island. Not to mention, none of them are *real* Dodos. No real Thylacine, and no real Mammoth. Just some weird creature that we got to play Spore with. Would they be protected by laws? Would they be hunted to extinction again? Would they be sickly? I feel like people arent thinking of these questions

Bringing up Spore is another really good comparison. Creatures resurrected in this way, cobbled together from DNA fragments and conjecture, would really be “sandbox animals” more than anything.

Every missing piece of information would represent a choice that we would need to make. In a painting, you can just leave out the things of which you’re unsure, but a living creature has to be rendered fully, down to the individual atom. With little information to base our choices on, how many decisions would default to filling our own needs? Surely the thylacine would thrive best if it could be programmed to prefer the isolated mountains of Tasmania over its more populated coastal areas? Wouldn’t it be for the Carolina Parakeet’s own good if the flavor of human-farmed fruits were repellent to it? Or maybe the dodo could be redesigned to hunt those rats?

If our motivation is really to repair the damage we have caused (as opposed to creating a living effigy to guilt assuagement), then we should do that. People are trying to clone the heath hen, but we have two other species of living prairie chickens whose existence are hanging on by a thread due to ongoing habitat destruction. A single species does not an ecosystem make—but no species can exist indefinitely without its ecosystem intact.

And the legal angle, too! A lot of people don’t realize that extinct animals don’t generally have legal protection. Ivory is banned, right? Well, not if you can prove it’s from a woolly mammoth. Endangered species are guarded by some of the strongest legislation in existence—but the declaration of extinction brings it to an end. There also isn’t really any precedence or protocol for reversing an extinction decision. (This is why people are fighting so hard against the official declaration of extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker—much of its potential habitat (and other species within it) would lose protection, and if any ivory-bills did eventually turn up alive, they would be in danger). It’s hard for me to imagine that the courts would grant environmental protections to lab-created animals—though I’m sure they’d be happy to grant them a patent and trademark.

[nonuggetshere]

OH MAN I am gonna go back to sleep immediately but I had a dream that I'm gonn put down before I forget

Flower wascursed by some witch to look like a monster and manipulated and set up by them to appear as if they're robbing the palace and attempted to hurt their at the time sick mother

Then the witch got PK and some guards and PK couldn't recognise them nor understood what they were saying / just didn't hear them out so they had to run away or he'd kill them

I think it'd be like a SUPER fun basis for a medieval style AU

[tasmanianstripes]

I sometimes feel anxious about my media literacy because I'm Slow™ and don't always get or understand everything

And then I remember some HK fans genuinely believe vessels have no feelings and I feel just a tiny bit better about it

[electricnik]

The Brighton Thylacine. This specimen lives in the Booth Natural History Museum and is on display at the time of writing. The collection  consists of natural history specimens collected by several Victorian collectors,(mostly taxidermy birds) plus others donated and found by locals. The museum now is themed around conservation and education.

The Thylacine was collected and mounted in the 1870s and is sadly quite faded, it is missing it’s stripes, though there is a chance it might not have had any. The feet are well preserved, as is it’s face. The display allows you to get close. I took more detailed photos which I will post.