#but people are...so very bad at animals

[shima-draws]

WAIT

ENHANCE

OH

OH NO.

#Pokemon #Pokemon SV #Pokemon Scarlet and Violet #Pokemon SV spoilers #I TRIED POSTING THIS HOURS AGO BUT I GUESS IT WAS SWALLOWED BY THE TUMBLR VOID #Video #Shima speaks #Anyway 😬😬😬 #I CAUGHT THEM T POSING #The screen faded to black and I SAW it in the SPLIT SECOND #But bro that’s so BAD. #NINTENDO. #You are a multi million dollar company #I should NOT be catching your characters T posing in your INTRO CUTSCENE #THAT’S SO BAD!!!! #I’ve seen lots of other glitches and I’m already like. Oh no. Oh nooo. #Listen I’m loving the game so far it’s VERY fun but the graphics 😭 And the clipping and the janky animations and THIS 😭😭😭 #This is NOT the polish I’d expect from a main series Pokemon game #SWSH looked better than this. And people tore SWSH to fucking SHREDS over the quality

[bonefall]

is there any death in the rewrite that you consider to be really graphic? where do you draw the line in the violence of a character's death?

Hmmm... Probably Tigerstar honestly! The cats wrote a song about his organs falling out.

I think when it comes to the "line" of a character's death, it's very subjective. Me and every other kid who read WC pogged out when Tigerstar had a really drawn out, horrific death on-screen, but I'm still haunted by Sootfur with his broken leg, falling down towards a badger while Squilf couldn't save him and seeing the aftermath of his "sightless eyes" when the animal moved off him.

One of those was objectively less graphic, but imo a LOT more harrowing. I think emotions are a lot more important in how deaths are received by an audience than the actual blood and guts, which I think gives you a decent idea of what you're gonna get here.

I think Leopardstar's rock concert is the "ceiling" of how intensely I describe deaths. I think that one's pretty graphic, but it's for a reason. The point is that it's a brutal killing that haunts Mistystar, you get me? And I try to write "around" the gore, describing sounds, the rest of the body, etc.

There is also cosmic/body horror with the Ancestor Rats, and more importantly, BB!Cats do food processing. They skin dead animals and separate the organs and such. When I get around to doing an entry on animal fat, I would also like to show WHERE in the body the fat is stored on certain animals. It's a lot more important to nutrition than you think it is.

BUT whenever I feel like I'm "around" Leopardstar's Boulder Appointment or an Ancestor Rat, I always always tag that. Less "violent" things like the song about the organs (Tiger's In A Heap) and more gentle food processing (like an offhanded mention of removing entrails or skinning) isn't tagged.

If I ever end up including a "diagram" of where fat is stored in the body or "how to properly skin a small rodent" It will be tagged as gore and I'd try to stay tasteful to begin with, I would ABSOLUTELY never drop something like that on anyone untagged and unwarned.

#I have what I consider a high benchmark for gore (medical + mortuary science education + did some butchery for hunters) #So when it starts to feel iffy to ME that is my threshold for tagging things as gore #But I am very bad at understanding when people are sensitive towards like... carnivores eating meat or carcass processing #Because legit in my head that's just Making Food #I go to the store and it is not hard to connect the cuts to where it was on the animal #AND I was raised to heavily value ''appreciating'' meat because an animal died to feed me #cw talk #bone babble #ugh now im thinking about deer stew #mmmmmmm #I miss the taste of game

[nashvillethotchicken]

Thinking about Lestat seeing Louis’s eating patterns as a waste of his gift/himself while Armand gives Louis food that he literally can not enjoy or digest just so he has something on his stomach

#if i had to give each of louis relationship a theme loustat would be shame and loumand would be enabling #which are both really bad ways of “helping” a partner with an ed #lestats shame and anger tactics only make louis more resentful and less likely to eat #while armand having the little drinks and exotic animals and the human food dont actually deal with louis problem head on- #cus at the end of the day louis is still not eating enough #and i think they really exemplifies both of their trauma and abandonment issues #both of them came up chronically food insecure #lestat was put into the role of provider at a very early age and stayed in that role until he died/was turned #so for him rejecting what lestat gives is like rejecting lestat cus he doesnt have anything else to make him “useful” #and lestats reaction to rejection is anger and control so he tries to shame and control louis into eating more/human #while armand has been abandoned by literally everyone he loves up till this point so for him its like #ok i can make people dtay if i give them what they want and what louis wants is to not feel bad about eating and so armand does that #but it still doesnt get to the root of the issue which is louis having poor coping mechanisms for his grief and other emotions #like either way you slice it. louis is not meeting his nutritional needs. he eats drinks from one guy eats a fox or some other small animal #when he should be having like two dudes at least #and then he has human food which according to anne rice makes vampires vomit up their whole stomach content so... #louis imma send you to my therapist shes great #interview with the vampire #iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #amc iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #ldpdl #iwtv 2022 #armand iwtv #armand #loumand #loustat #like armand gives louis food he cant eat just so he knows theres something in louis stomach even for a short while

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

i think the most annoying part of dog food discourse is how many people will act as though proplan/hill’s/Royal canin diets aren’t extremely and prohibitively expensive and that THAT is the reason so many people look into healthy alternatives.

People complain about corn being in the first five ingredients on most of those feeds because, regardless of other factors here, that is not an expensive ingredient. But it makes up a large chunk of the dry food. So the dry food should be fairly affordable, right?

Oh… with tax you’re spending about $100 for one 45lb bag of food where the third ingredient is wheat and the fourth and fifth ingredients are corn.

Oh… well! It’s slightly cheaper! But the second ingredient is rice, third is wheat, fourth is corn, and then fifth is poultry byproduct. None of those are very expensive so this just must be the low end cost of dog food unfortunately. The vets recommend it so surely that means prices aren’t inflated, right?

Oh? This one has similar ingredients with the only real difference being no corn? And it’s half the price?? Well surely that’s just a fluke.

Oh. Oh no.

This one even has CORN in it and it’s $20 cheaper?? Wow!

Like listen at some point I don’t care if your dog food has the ichor of the gods in it, I’m not spending $100 every five days if there are cheaper options with just as many “good” ingredients in it. If you think I’m a dog abuser because I can’t afford this overpriced garbage, that’s too bad. I don’t care. My dogs are perfectly healthy with the food I give them. Great weight and great coat. People giving dog food recommendations that aren’t those top three hyper-expensive dog foods aren’t trying to epic own those dastardly vets half the time, but I really don’t blame the ones who do lose trust in vets when the only heartworm protection they recommend lately are expensive triple-action brands like Simparica Trio that costs $120+ as opposed to the other heartworm protections that are only about $40-$60 on average, which is still cheaper even if you add on a $20-$40 flea and tick protection separately, and only recommend dog food that costs $85+ a bag even if your dog doesn’t have specialized dietary needs.

Those top three foods are GREAT at making competent prescription diets, I don’t deny that. I do still have to criticize the pricing of those prescription diets though because I have spoken to DOZENS of people who had to pull their pets off of a prescription diet and struggle to find something comparable because they couldn’t afford the food, and that’s terrible! These are not poor companies! Purina, Royal Canin, and Hill’s can ABSOLUTELY afford to lower their prices to make their food accessible to people who need it for their animals but they don’t. They probably never will. Because at the core they are run by greedy corporations. It doesn’t matter how many good nutritionists are on board if the company is run by people who put profits over customers and make the food impossible for people to afford.

#I keep seeing posts from people on both sides of this #and it is frustrating to see how many vets don’t seem to acknowledge #that a MASSIVE part of the dog food debate has and always will be #the inaccessibility of these three brands #because whether corn is good or bad or neutral for a dog #It’s a cheap ingredient #any meat byproducts are a cheap ingredient #wheat in any form is a cheap ingredient #rice is a cheap ingredient #they aren’t putting Diamond dust and gold flakes in the kibble it’s very accessible and affordable ingredients for the most part #and many comparatively smaller companies use very similar ingredients and make food people can actually afford #So yeah when people look at these factors it does make them distrust vets who will almost exclusively push expensive brands #and that’s where the distrust is coming from #it’s not primarily smug tiktok kids who think they know everything #it’s just people who have less money than you and get treated like they care less for their animals because of it lol #and people who feel scammed because anything veterinary is already expensive to the point not everyone can afford it as regularly as needed #the fact people have to give pets vaccines themselves to make ends meet because most vets charge so much just to walk in the door #is a sign of a larger problem #I criticize people who avoid taking animals with surprise sickness or injuries to the vet #but it’s not exactly hard to see why that isn’t even an option for a lot of people #people can’t even afford surgery on themselves if they’re suddenly injured out of the blue in this country #So I can’t pretend to be shocked they don’t have $10k squirreled away if something unavoidable happens to a pet #no one is entitled to an animal they can’t afford yes yes but a routine vet visit shouldn’t be $600-$1000 per animal sorry #give me a copay or something

[turtleblogatlast]

Raph amassing a decent squad of stuffed animals when he’s little and coming up with wrestling matches between them.

Captain Cuddles is the winning face, and Cheech is his long-standing heel rival. Their fights are legendary.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt raph #rottmnt headcanons #rise Raph #I feel like people ignore Raph’s love of wrestling too much I think it’s so cute he loves it as much as he does 😭 #but yeah little Raph making up his own wrestling matches between his stuffed animals #because he’s gotta go with the stuffed animals - they can’t get hurt as easily as his brothers #and he learns from a young age how easy it is to hurt #so it’s better to have friends that can’t get hurt! right? #SIDE NOTe #I like to think Raph connects so well with Franken-Foot largely because he connects with inanimate objects so easily #he’s very quick to give humanity to anything that endears itself to him #I wonder if they had a bad run in with humans in the past and Raph remembers it most vividly #projecting on inanimate objects and animals with the respect and care he wishes others would give him

[dyketubbo]

properly got the chance to read through the statements made by pomme dapper and ramons admins (plus admin 18s and some of the twitter update admins) and jeez i feel so bad for them but especially pommes admin. something incredibly sinister about focusing so much mistreatment on the admin who comes from the country where the union efforts are coming from while making merch of the character they played. capitalism is the enemy of creativity. whoever the people are that are removing admins without notice, theyre the ones that deserve to be removed from the project. not the egg/worker/animal admins that the whole fucking story is built on the backs of

#imagine being so fucking capitalism poisoned #that youd rather mistreat and kick off the people who help make the project what it is #than pay them for WORKING *DAILY* to keep the story going #what a fucking joke #mask mews #qsmp #hardly anyone is getting on the server. bads taking a break. a big part of why tubbos still getting on #is because of the tubbathon + he has to to work on his project #pierres on mostly to be afk and pac and phil get on rarely while other ccs just Arent getting on the server or are doing other things #and even when those who get on the server get on. they talk about missing the eggs. how much they wish they were there #qsmp did good for itself when the eggs werent around dont get me wrong #but the eggs are a GIGANTIC part of its success. it wouldnt be the same without them #you cant downplay how important they are to the very fucking structure of qsmp #especially because the egg admins also play the fed workers and animal characters #refuse to pay your workers what they deserve and eventually itll all fall apart. just because its a slow process with major corporations #doesnt mean itll be slow for smaller projects like this. thats just not how it works

[capn-twitchery]

tagging some art reminded me. i think it's the animator in me but it's my favourite thing in the world to see artists draw their oc simplified down to their barest shapes & details

i love it when people draw their ocs like this. like yes!!! tell me what features define them, hand over their basic shapes, give me the tools to make them a more animation friendly design Immediately in my brain!!!

it's so fun to me. i'm half a step away from making a flondon oc cartoon in my brain i swear

#i cannot look at a character design without considering if it would be good to animate #this probably makes zero sense i've just been itching to try and draw in simple cartoon styles lately #like the 2000s cartoon network type stuff #& i'm about 2 seconds away from making a whole concept for a show that doesn't exist #twitch's high zee hijinks but also i think every oc deserves to pop up #a really fun project would be trying to find a cartoon style that works for me and trying to draw other people's ocs in it #but i know i am so very bad at finishing projects #in related news btw i got my adhd meds. which is probably why i now want to concept an entire nonexistent show #fredspeaks #calling myself an animator is a stretch actually i haven't animated in years FDHFJFK but it counts xD

[cyaneyedcl]

drew and animated some beefleaf with this audio cus i think they fit the concept so well :') i had original plans to make it angstier but ill save it for next time :6

hope u like it as much as i do!!

ALSO! i posted this on tiktok too so if u could drop a like and share it there too i would really appreciate it :( <3

🔗 https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLAbb3PF/

#this was my first time drawing beefleaf and also using procreate dreams so my bad if it looks very noob-ly done #im still learning t-t #BUT i still like it and im proud of how it turned out even tho i can see every single mistake i did #but cant be bothered to fix them alr #animating can get annoying #also not really sure how well does tumblr receives videos?? #like- do people like watching vids here? #idk if its that liked but oh well #just wanted to share #beefleaf #shi qingxuan #he xuan #mxtx tgcf #tgcf #heaven official's blessing

[controversial-blorbo-bracket]

what this poll has taught me is that i know fuck all about a lot of characters

It’s taught me that a lot of you guys severely overestimate the relevance of your shows

#every post inevitably gets 10000 ‘how do 90% of people not know who anime guy number 48 is??’ #which isn’t a bad thing it just puts into perspective how personal familiarity gets mistaken for mainstream popularity so often on tumblr #a fascinating phenomenon that is very intriguing to see in action in all the notes and replies #we are on the being delusional website and doing our jobs perfectly I love yall #not a poll #ask #anonymous

[lazycranberrydoodles]

boss lady doodle that i started during cringetober but didnt finish (i rewatched way of the househusband yet again.) nya

#way of the househusband my beloved comfort show way of the househusband #i highly recommend it! its on netflix. selling points: #its hilarious. you’d think they would run out of jokes but they never do #it has a cool style where its basically a very elaborate comic dub of the manga so the episodes are compilations of skits. ideal for adhders #gender roles ehe #it has kitty cats #it has a kickass metal intro #yeah. #its sooooo funny #the plot is about a yakuza who left to become a househusband #and as the show goes on we see more ex yakuza working at the grocery store and walking their dogs and being absolute losers #also the women characters are written like people so its a good anime 👍 #tatsus autistic swag is unmatched #me and the bad bitch i pulled by being covered in blood #the rewatch triggered a bigger project that ill post soon #get hyped i guess #YIPPEE YAY HIBARI TORII I LOVE YOU i can be your sleepy loser husband if you want #art #my art #gokushufudou #way of the house husband #way of the househusband

[wyllsravengard]

i love and miss baldurs gate so much but every time i remember how the fandom and writing team treats wyll i simply dont want to think about it anymore. like i shouldnt be surprised because this is a dnd video game but it's crazy how far people are willing to go to pretend all of it is not racism. wyll is too boring and yet halsin (who is even more boring mind you) gets more attention then him in fan content, same with rolan and dammon and all other side characters in the game. he's never in anything promotional and it's pretty clear at this point the writers are Not Going to fix it. i love wyll so much i literally want to eat him alive but the wave of frustration i experience every Single Time i think of bg3 does not feel good

#like. rdr2 fandom is a rockstar game and certainly they are not absolved from racism #but because its been years since release the fandom is smaller and it is so far less common #but additionally the base game for the most part handles its racism very well #and this is me. Mean Hater Bitch. saying this and rockstar who focuses on satire #so many people are just so blatantly racist to wyll and they go so far as to HARASS people who talk about him #and this is not like esp shocking. anime fandom is also horrendous about this! #but in a game and in a fandom that CLAIMS to promote diversity as it has queer characters you would think there would be more. idk. #actual care and perception put into their one black lead. i know i talk about it Everyday but its like. so bad like worse than i have seen #in recent years for video game fandoms like. christ alive #z.gen #larian critical

[bugweiser]

uh so I couldn't get the extremist fursona doodles you did out of my head and I ended up making fanart for them hope u don't mind

oh my god….. oh my god………… i have been looking at this all morning these are so fucking GOOD DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!! i’m so so so honored that u would make fanart of them 🥹 i have so much good to say about all of them but i think ancap is my favorite, you got the feathers and the glasses and smug aura just Perfect…… your animal skills are Awesome Dude. incredibly based thank you so much 🥹💛💛💛💛

#i have a responsibility to disseminate this beautiful art to The People…. but i just want to keep staring at it yfm #centricide #seriously good stuff!! also i was knocked on my ass seeing u in my inbox. i love your work so much!!!!!!!!! #really great stuff #bear commie looks adorable.. like a papa bear in a storybook #i also rly love the way you do animal ears they look very natural while still being stylized #ancoms smug little face…… #big paw mf #and authright. my love….. big bad wolf lookin ass………….. #your linework is just so satisfying friend #thank u……… wonderful way to start the day💛💛💛

[sciderman]

I would say you’re more of a Mr peanut butter type yeah

doggy doggy what now?

#sci speaks #i love mr peanutbutter. #i think i love especially that eventually people stopped liking him. #cute quirky doggy winds up being a JERK actually just like the rest of us. #i love him and i love that. #really need to rewatch bojack actually because i don't remember it very well but god do i remember Loving it. #i think it's probably the best adult animated series i've ever seen. just. like. i don't know. it's the kind of writing that i really love. #where all the characters are bad actually. and you think they might be outwardly put together but they're not. #bojack is a GREAT SHOW. depressing but great. #i can't even like recommend it to anybody i'm like. yeah. it'll depress you. sorry. but that's why i like it. #i like those kind of ugly sincere emotions that make me feel less alone for being an asshole sometimes. #not in a “haha this character i like is an asshole so i can be an asshole too” kind of a way but in a . #i shouldn't despise myself because this is just part of what it is to be human i guess. you'll mess up and make selfish choices. #we all have that same software and i don't know. makes me feel less alone. i love to see that nobody else has it put together either. #it's not just me floating in the world with no direction. #it do be why i hate people who point at a character and say “BAD ROLEMODEL!! why aren't they PERFECT??” #get out shut up i hate you. #try living LIFE for five days maybe.

[wolfxe]

idk what it is about the way dungeon meshi portrays relationships but it feels so unique to me

i like all of the ships and also want none of them to be canon. it's fun to imagine literally all of them, but it's just as fun to examine the platonic relationships and what they mean

it's so refreshing to see marcille & laios' friendship but i totally get why people ship them. marcille & falin's devotion to each other is amazing to explore in any context. chilchuck & laios, laios & kabru, senshi & chilchuck, even toshiro & falin. literally every character dynamic no matter the romance/lack of it is so interesting to me

it really felt like a breath of fresh air getting into something where the relationships between characters felt both real and substantial the way they are, but also capable of being expanded upon and played with without feeling like they're betraying the main themes/ideas. man i love dungeon meshi

#og #dungeon meshi #i need to make character tags for the meshi crew cause apparently this is gearing up to be a big one #im not really into anime usually #but i had heard a lot of good things about dungeon meshi from people i follow on here that i respect so i gave it a try #watched the anime and immediately started reading the manga #im hooked man this shit is so good #the THEMES man #THE THEMES #it's literally helping me work through some of my own issues i have with myself #especially through laios #god. laios #hes so me and somehow thats helping me examine a lot of stuff about myself and my worldview and repair it a little #im eating better cause i keep remembering senshi when i think about skipping a meal #save me dungeon meshi. save me #im realizing this post makes me seem kind of like i need to be into a ship to like a fandom or something #which isnt true #most fandoms im in dont actually have any ships that interest me #which is why this feels so important. cause its portrayed things so well that i can actually like the ships #its really nice being able to genuinely enjoy most of the stuff made by fans #cause if we're being honest here the majority of fandom content are of ships #which isnt a bad thing but it does mean that if you just like the overall story or individual characters or platonic relationships #then its a little harder to engage with the community #but now i can! very fun

[twinvictim]

Vegans on this website are something else man

#crismon tomes #generally speaking i find people who are vegan as a DIET and also just generally are informed about animal wellfare to be fine #but so many weirdos on this website have the most asinine opinions ive ever heard #its actually not immediatly easy to be vegan. feeding your cat a vegan diet is animal abuse. riding horses is not inhherent abusive (?) #if you care about animal wellfare youd be advocating for ethical farming bc no matter how preachy you get everyone is not gonna be vegan #it just wonr happen. its not feasable #every animal has eaten every animal for millions of years and we can do so in kind ethical and mutually beneficial ways. its very easy #to be normal about how other people live their lives #i think what annoys me most is the moralizing #no one is a bad person for eating meat/animal products. they just arent lol

[peribytes]

THE BITCH IS BACK, BABES !!

#NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #THE ANIMAL IS OUT OF HIS CAGE. THE ANIMAL IS FREE. #FUCK THAT PLACE. SHITHOLE OF A PLACE #i have a word or two for my doctor and it starts with F and Y #i got no help. zero. whatever they said i have already learned from the internet. lol. #also my anxiety was so bad in there i lost 4 pounds from a poor appetite. #and they gave me fuckin. lithium #my parents were SO MAD when i told them over the phone #anyway #i'm home and i couldn't be happier about it #just the thought of being trapped in that place makes me wanna vom <3 #oh yeah i was put in the detox unit instead of the one for mental disorders or whatever it is #my dad was very mad i was put in with the alcoholics and drug addicts but they were very nice people #i was able to come out of my shell and have conversations with them pretty easily #that is the ONLY positive thing i can say about my entrapment #i missed you guys so much. i really missed my family #god and now they're gonna call me tomorrow morning to talk about whateverthefuck #and i gotta call my doctor in a week #god i don't wanna talk to these people anymore. LEAVE ME ALONE