don't crash!

there's just something so funny to me about shitty harvests

Girl these aren't even fruits they're like fruit shaped sour gum

Imagine trying to make lemonade out of that

Is this anything?

If you could ask Walter White one question, what would it be?

i am committed to TWO THINGS

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i’m in love with you

compelled yesterday to make a zine about a lifetime of being a contrarian little shit sketched left-handed and inked right (ow)

u love to see a trans girl smiling

The reality people need to face about exotic pets is that the vast majority of people cannot care for them and should not own them. The vast majority of people they are sold or 'adopted' to should never have been able to acquire the animal, and that animal likely never should have been bred in the first place.

Most people are familiar with cats and dogs. Despite the vast amounts of other pets like rats, mice, birds, rabbits, reptiles, and fish, most people tend to think of animals similarly to cat or dogs in their behavior and needs, especially animals that look similar. It's where a lot of the danger and misconduct around exotic animals comes into play in my opinion, because it seems simple to say that this other animal obviously isn't a cat or dog, but in practice people tend to forget. Even the closest relatives people try to keep it comes with loads of problems. Domesticated animals are inherently used to people and want to be around us, which is not the case of exotic and wild animals.

Wolves, and by extension, wolfdogs, are not dogs. Wolves are inherently shy and try to avoid humans unless habituated to them, being around people can be a huge source of stress. They can't eat the same foods as a dog, they need acres of space rather than a back yard. They eat more, they run more, they have a prey drive built in to target smaller animals you won't find in even the most prey driven dogs. They're also bigger and stronger than dogs too, to the point that most people don't seem to realize just how big a wolf actually is. They are not dogs and will not act like one, but people who keep them repeatedly try to treat them just like a dog, and end up paying the price, with destroyed property, a stressed neurotic animal, health issues, and injury. The same goes for coyotes and foxes, that people often say are 'dog hardware with cat software' which... no. they are their own animals, their behavior, needs, and habits so vastly different from each other that the statement doesn't apply to either, and they don't act like cats either. A coyote acts like a coyote, a fox acts like a fox. Neither are domesticated either. The more removed an animal is from a cat or dog, the problems intensify with how people try to keep them like one. A skunk isn't a cat, its a nocturnal prey animal that has one defense people often try to surgically remove, removing any chance it has to defend itself at a distance. A tegu isn't a scaly dog, it's a large lizard and shouldn't be living in your living room on a dog bed under fairy lights, it needs heat lamps, a proper diet, proper substrate, a good enclosure for one would fill an entire room.

Most people are not malicious and intentionally abusing exotic pets, but they do not have the expertise, handling skills, or resources to care for these animals, and default to 'if its good enough for my cat/dog, its good enough for it'. So many exotic animals are in poor health because of it, with neurological conditions caused by stress and too small enclosures, dietary issues, over or underweight by dramatic standards, developing stress caused habits where they outright hurt themselves by plucking and scratching, all directly caused by their handling. In many exotic species kept as pets, it's seen as completely normal, at most a nuisance, because the owners do not have the knowledge to realize that something is deeply wrong with how they keep the animal and all the other keepers have the same issues, so it must be something the animal just does naturally, even when the wild counterpart doesn't do it. 'Most people keep this species this way, so it must be correct' is a huge mentality with exotic pets.

Snakes are the best example of that, in both good and bad ways. For decades people kept them in bins and power fed their snakes and its a practice that continues to this day despite that it's well known it's not to the benefit of the snake at all and only people who want to keep more and more of them, but it's 'how its always been done' so people keep doing it, even those who tout themselves as animal educators. Throwing a handful of leaves and rocks into a dark bin where a snake barely has room to spread out, only with a hide and water dish, is not good for the snake, it's not 'enrichment', it's just more crap thrown into a tiny claustrophobic enclosure. There's been pushback against it in recent years, which is great, but people continue to do it.

It's the same for almost every species of exotic animal in the petkeeping industry. We as a whole do not keep these animals correctly, we do not ensure those who own or sell them do, and we don't keep up on it. The truth of the matter is most animals are not fit for captivity, having needs beyond what the average person can give consistently for it's entire life. Instead of having massive enclosures suiting the animal's needs, only interacting with it on the animal's own terms and when it's needed, treating it as it's own kind and with all the respect and handling that animal deserves, exotic animals are treated like dogs, like cats, their needs ignored and let to roam in people's houses and when it doesn't meet the expectation of wanting to seek out its owners for affection, of being happy and healthy like that, of not attacking or threatening humans, they are ignored and it's seen as an issue of that one animal, not that it's species' needs are not being met and it shouldn't be kept.

Customer: I AM DOING A RESEARCH ON CHIA SEEDS SO I WANT TO PROMOTE IT DMV: EAT Verdict: ACCEPTED

EXACTLY!

it pisses you off to see a faggot be so happy

#so correct#similar w straight women hating butch lesbians#you see a woman not shaving not wearing make up wearing comfy clothes and still being loved and desired#and remember you've contorted yourself into the shape of a Real Woman in exchange for soc acceptance & power#and denied yourself the gentle acceptance of doing what is comfortable on this earth#people needa stop taking out their own shit on gender nonconforming & trans people and start LEARNING from us#cause it is very obvious when cishet people are miserable and mad that we aren't (via @closet-keys)

Using my day off to drive myself a little bit insane just for funsies

This +the fear of getting locked into a super long term project of my own volition and/or starting it and being unable to finish it is kind of fucking me up right now

platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine

this beautiful baby is the son of ibrahim abu raida, the 25 y/o executive director of the al nasser charity in gaza, an organization working to distribute food to the displaced. they have many different ways to donate linked on their instagram (linked above) and also have a personal gfm to help with their own rebuilding efforts that is over 80% of the way to its goal.

VITAL context: the original tomb raider game used a 3rd person camera from behind the player character, so this model of lara was intended to be seen from the back:

they conserved polygons in the front so they could precisely sculpt the ass.

God bless our troops

The more the bear identity is mainstreamed, the more it gets sanitised. The more you get people insisting it doesn't mean what it means, that it's just for "buff and mayyybe a little chubby" "dad bod" "strongman build" whatever euphemism they can to deny fat men a place in their own community.

Fat hairy gay men built this place for themselves and now you're barging in and pretending they never belonged there.

If you've ever been disappointed by dragonfruit, especially if you felt like it tasted like nothing, then I'm like 90% sure you had unripe dragonfruit, which tastes like nothing. There's a small window of time where it tastes amazing. You must have the patience of a hunter. Do not strike until your prey is at its most delicious

TIPS FOR DRAGONFRUIT/PITAYA

Be free, I love you

anyone else start getting shaky when someone gets into an interest of yours or is that just me

i dont know how to describe it

It's Pronoun...

Your honor I want him killed on a stick