#they are nyanbinary

[systemdeez]

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

[nyanbinary-perineum]

You!

Perverted blogger!

Have you tried being normal to nsfw creators today?

You should give it a shot and begin internalizing that everyone you interact with is a person and not kink dispensers whom you can freely barrage with horny talk just because they posted a piece of art or creative writing you liked.

(saying something is hot is chill though, context is a thing and complimenting the thing directly makes sense- this is about treating the person making it weird. Don't do that.)

[lgbtqtext]

[shadails]

tumblr user shadails...will you tell me about shadails...i would like to know what makes them compelling to you. is there a narrative? parallels, perhaps? an intriguing dynamic? i want to know what youre cooking with these two.

Hello, tumblr user nyanbinary-87 (good name btw), I would be happy to tell you about shadails!

In fact, I used this as a great opportunity to create a brand new version of my horrible informational slideshow!

(sorry if anything is illegible. trying to squeeze everything into just a handful of slides was harder than expected... and I still forgot some things! lol)

If you would like more of my personal thoughts/headcanons on shadails & their dynamic, I would be happy to share as well :) But in the end...

[potatobugz]

sora for doodle requests !!!!

hey cat girl i mean they

[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!

[uwubuwuntuwu-owofficial]

I identify as nyanbinary. Meow mrrp mrrp.

[rabbitlegs]

Halloween Digi ft. Marketable Plushie Halloween Digi

[lembowe]

redrew my catboy/girl/enby iterator post!! wanted to see improvment + wanted to draw the catboys and had 0 pose ideas so,,, recycles :) oh... and look who else is here!

[poorlydrawninstarsandtime]

Could we get Frinn being a cat? Pretty please?

naughty kitties get put on kitten-sitting duty to atone for their crimes*

*bad puns

[id in alt]

[systemdeez]

Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

[tiny-xander-adventures]

happy Nico day!!!! 🐈‍⬛❤️🐾

[smashy-headcanons]

What if Steve was mute and communicates via common nonverbal Minecraft methods. Signs, crouching to show they're friendly, lending items when someone else needs them (link needs a sword bc he can't find his? Steve just tosses him one of his own) and shows off builds excitedly. Why not

Oooh yes

[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...

[peridot-the-kitten]

:33< Drew meowself (she/they/it/mew)

[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!