#nyanbinary

[systemdeez]

I don't know who needs to hear this but you can meow and wear cat ears if you want to.

[lgbtqtext]

[emobernie]

Today, I am proposing new legislation:

Headpats for All Catgirls, Catboys, and NYAN-binary Catpeople!

For far too long have far too many of our nation's catpeople gone without basic necessary headpats due to the greed of the For-Profit Headpat Industry.

This legislation will give Americans what most developed nations already have: Universal Headpats!

[uwubuntu-official]

I identify as nyanbinary. Meow mrrp mrrp.

[rabbitlegs]

Halloween Digi ft. Marketable Plushie Halloween Digi

[ccthecorporatecat]

Hi nya'll! I'm CC and I don't want to go back to work tomorrow.. but the horrors persist!!!

Feel free to say hi and maybe shit talk your boss a bit...

[catboybiologist]

could you explain why/if we can't just copy the genes of one animal and splice them into another animal, for example why we couldn't give humans cat ears?

There's no one easy way to answer this, but the basic answer is that it's not that simple. There's no one gene, or even easily reducible set of genes, that just is "make cat ears". Not only is there a network of genes activated within a cell, there are a myriad of signals from nearby cells (the "microenvironment") as well as cues from the rest of the body and environment.

So each one of the cells making your ear isn't just encoded to be a cell that makes your ear. In fact, most of them don't have any "ear" genetic characteristics or activation. They're generic cartilage or skin cells that were told to grow more or less by neighboring cells or distant cells during carefully coordinated times during growth and development. Each cell interprets this signal in different ways, and also receives multiple signals at a time, the combination of which can produce unique results.

The easiest to interpret example of this is finger development. During development, when your hand is still a fingerless paddle, a single cell on the pinky side of your hand (or thumb side, it could be reversed) releases a signalling molecules to nearby cells. A cell receiving the highest dose will start to become a pinky, and send a signal for the cells immediately around it to aide in that. The next cell that isn't aiding that, but still receives the initial signal, receives a lower concentration of that signal since it's further away. That lower concentration signals a ring finger, and it repeats until you get thumbs at the lowest concentrations.

That's the most visible example, but it's similar to what happens all over the body- signals that are dependent on the structure and genetics of the microenvironment, not just the genetics of the developing cells alone.

This careful network of timing, signals, gene activations, and spatial placement of cells is the core of the field of Developmental Biology (which, technically, my PhD is in as well bc it's often wrapped in with molecular bio lol).

So making cat ears on a human genetically would essentially require not only genetic manipulation, but also babysitting the fetus the entire time and adding in localized signals to the microenvironment of the developing ear cells, which is essentially impossible. There's too much "human" flying around to realistically get that result, and an attempt at doing so would essentially be akin to molecular sculpting. That's why *my* preferred approach would be epithelial stem cell manipulation/printing and subsequent grafting, but that's an entirely different thing.

If you're interested in this kind of thing, the most approachable and engaging summary of developmental biology is the book "Your Inner Fish", by Neil Shubin, the discoverer of Tiktaalik. He summarizes a lot of dev biology through the lens of evolutionary biology, which is a great way to see how differences in structures have arisen and differentiate across the tree of life.

If you want a shorter introduction, and like cute but kinda "cringey in the way you love" science parodies: the song evo-devo by a capella science is really fun and gets stuck in my head a lot:

But yeah, hope that answered your question!

[plushmayhem]

DigitalBasic REAL and in marketable plush form!

[bluenightcomedies]

⭐️today's daily doodle a little late! friend's alter wanted my help draw what they look like

they's so cuuuute ;w;

[cointelpro-again]

Cheers, I'm Mint. Vi/Vir/Virs. Quite happily nonbinary. I'm also Deaf. I'm here to point out (and make fun of) queer infighting. Because by all the stars, you all sound so goddamn much like CIA agents doing a COINTELPRO that I'm seriously starting to believe you motherfuckers really do genuinely work for the feds. If you feel like wasting your time on Tumblr complaining about things when I assure you, you have far larger problems to deal with (for instance, the global queer genocide?) then I'm gonna waste your time even more.

Yeah, sure transmisogyny and transandrophobia exist, but TMA/TME along with AGAB/AMAB/AFAB are the worst fucking terms known to the stars, and if you use them I hope you burn. Let's not even get into saying that some trans people are more oppressed than others. What the fuck are you? A white person? Fuck off with that reductive bullshit. When we're all in the camps together I'll be sure to inform you that you're more oppressed than me, like it'll make a fucking difference.

Stop oppressing your comrades for power and a sense of moral superiority you motherfucking morons

Marxist Anarchist, I hope every goddamn imperialist burns.

Please know this isn't my main, and my main is a very popular much more moderate trans account. Have fun guessing!

[systemdeez]

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[jackrabbitcollective]

Btw, just wanted to warn you guys of someone making fun of my boyfriends mom's cancer.

@nyanbinarymess

They made this post saying Charlie doesn't deserve an apology when they said horrible things about his mom and doubled down on it. Over what you may ask? Dumb internet drama, this person really is wishing bad will on my friends mom cancer (of who is already DEAD, YOU ARE DISRESPECTING A RANDOM DEAD WOMAN) over fucking internet drama.

Please just block them and report their pages (if you want to)

I'm sick of bad people getting to hurt my friends and get away with it over internet trauma and think low ass pot shots are okay. The only thing holding you back from making fun of someone else's cancer shouldn't be mommy respect, it should be YOUR MORALS!!!!

get ahold of yourself and self reflect that all of this makes you a bad person. All of it. This entire server they're in? All bad people too! They're enabling this behavior. It shouldn't matter who started it, two wrongs don't make a right and even then it's petty internet beef you've stepped up a notch by being verbally abusive and manipulative.

[deviantplum]

Everyone thinks they want an anthro cat with big tits, until it's bath time and I've wedged myself behind the bookshelf and won't stop biting.

[itsheckinwes]

TELL ME WHY YOURE TRANS WRONG ANSWERS ONLY GOOO!!!

My butt was too flat for extended gaming sessions so I decided to do estrogen about it

[ccthecorporatecat]

My first ever CC illustration ahhh they're so cute!!

Thank you @archwo I'm super happy with how you drew them 💕 (bluesky: myuuwi)

[teakayart]

The reference VS what I drew