#but they are literally doing good?? to the prey?? population??

[isthedogawolfdog]

The whole “shoot a (insert predator species here), save a (insert prey species here)!” shirts/signs are so dumb. Like, sure go ahead and kill the animal excessively to the point where there are barely any individual animals left and watch your ecosystem fall apart, have fun.

#rambles #it’s like?? #but they are literally doing good?? to the prey?? population?? #wolves #coyotes #predators hunt the weak and sick #this HELPS the population stay healthy

[evilwickedme]

I said I'd never do jumblr content again and yet here I am because this keeps coming up and it's like the only thing I can think about. That said I will not hesitate to turn off reblogs if y'all are horrible in the notes again, and be warned that I will be blocking anybody who supports any of the theories I mention immediately

There is no such thing as a conspiracy theory that isn't antisemitic. There is no such animal

Antisemitic conspiracy theories go back thousands of years. The ones that still have the most hold on culture to this day are the blood libel, and the protocols of the elders of zion

The blood libel was an accusation that would be brought against Jewish populations in Europe often but especially around Passover claiming that we were killing Christian children for ritual purposes, usually to use their blood for baking matza or other nonsense (it is important to me that you know that this is nonsense. It is horrible and damaging but also to the core a ridiculous lie that never at any point made any sense. They just didn't care). Debatably this trope is present in the merchant of Venice. Undebatably Jews were killed because people did and still do sincerely believe this

The protocols of the elders of zion is a fictitious document published in Russia at the very beginning of the 20th century, supposedly detailing the meetings of the Jewish people who secretly run the world. The protocols were almost immediately proven to be a rip off of another document - ah, plagiarism - but that hasn't stopped antisemites from embracing it wholeheartedly (special thanks fuck you to Henry Ford for publishing them in his newspaper, spreading it across the USA). It built on previous antisemitic tropes, from the greedy banker trope (Jews were forced to be money lenders in medieval Europe as it was forbidden in Christianity and Jews weren't allowed to join any guilds, preventing them from making money in any other capacity - the reason why there are so many Jews in Hollywood is identical, but in the early 20th century) to the concept of dual loyalty (i.e. Jewish are loyal to ourselves above all else and cannot be trusted to be loyal to the country where we live, see: modern trope that every Jew is probably loyal to Israel and the subsequent idea that it's okay to ask every single diaspora Jew how they feel about Israel immediately upon meeting them). It's also worth noting that the word cabal, used to denote the shadowy organizations that supposedly control the world, comes from kabbala, which is Jewish mysticism

The idea of lizard people, created by a guy literally named Icke because he is a gross human being, was designed to repackage the antisemitic shadow cabal concept to be supposedly more palatable

Most qanon theories also build on all of this, such as world leaders preying on children (remember pizzagate?)

But more importantly conspiratorial thinking always positions you as the good guy standing against a mysterious "them", an other which is influencing things behind the scenes. The Jew is the ultimate other, and specifically an other that supposedly forms a shadowy world government, controlling everything and yet somehow not managing to get rid of antisemitism (see: protocols of Zion, lizard people, we control Hollywood and the government which is of course conspiring against you). There is no way to decouple the idea of an evil shadowy organization (usually also referred to as a cabal to really hammer it in) from antisemitism and antisemitic tropes

And this means that even supposedly "harmless" conspiracy theories attract antisemites and train people who aren't necessarily rabid antisemites to confirm those kinds of biases. Obviously Qanon and lizard people are antisemitic, but what does the moon landing have to do with Jews? Well, it was Hollywood and the government that faked it, obviously. Hell, even the conspiracy that Taylor Swift is secretly a lesbian and is either still secretly dating or is exes with Karlie Kloss is riddled with antisemitism -

Okay so I need to explain my position on this because I fucking hate this conspiracy theory, and the fact that most people simply won't acknowledge that that's what it is. Firstly, Taylor Swift has stated that she is not gay or considers herself an ally at least three times off the top of my head, and specifically denied that she was dating Karlie Kloss. Secondly, outing people is wrong. Thirdly, the conspiracy theory hinges on the idea that she would be risking her career by coming out, except that she's proven that basically no controversy can come in the way of her career, she's already "come out" as an ally, donated to glaad and the equality act, promoted queer musicians & artists & designers (there was a song in the reputation tour that was dedicated to a gay designer every single night of the tour). So what's stopping her from coming out at this point? Mysterious forces, clearly. The antisemitism in that I've already explained, but also the virulent antisemitism among Kaylor shippers aimed at her husband and at the fact that she converted to Judaism is fucking disgusting

Again: even a supposedly harmless conspiracy theory leads to antisemitism and attracts antisemites

A few years ago I tried to rewatch white collar cause I remembered really enjoying that show as a preteen and after around a season I just couldn't stand it anymore, because all I wanted to do was jump into the universe and yell at Mozzie to shut the fuck up because these conspiracy theories were barely presented as a joke and never challenged even once by any of the characters. When I rewatched that 70s show it also fucking sucked, but at least it wasn't showing up in every single episode. The blacklist focuses entirely on a literal Cabal, that's what they're called

This stuff is so normalized and it's fucking everywhere and it's exhausting. Jews are to this day being murdered over this. I can't change the world by myself, unfortunately, but if you don't have a specific person to blame for your troubles, shut the fuck up. Just shut up. There is no conspiracy against you. Sometimes life just sucks. Or definitely does for the Jews who get shot at over this shit

Again, I'll be blocking anybody who parrots this bullshit in the comments but especially fucking gaylors y'all are one of the main reasons that being a fan of Taylor Swift's music is fucking unbearable. Just accept you can connect to music made by somebody different than yourself it's not that difficult of a concept

#this post brought to you by my burning hatred of gaylors #antisemitism #jumblr #jew tag #jewish history #conspiracy theories #t swizzle #to the people who will inevitably come into my inbox after this and ask me questions about antisemitism: pay me first #ko-fi link is through my bio #gail speaks

[zillychu]

I really like your “ghosts treated as natural disasters” au! It’s super cool! I wonder how people get around the fact that phantom has never been seen sucking anybody’s life force out? Do they think he’s building up to something big or just protective of the population center he’s found

That's a great question! I tried to keep that post as short and sweet as possible but oh man do I have a lot more nitty gritty details in mind.

For one, ghosts aren't restricted to Amity Park. They have haunts (territories) but they have lairs in the ghost zone as well, so they tend to go back and forth between the worlds.

However, only the Fentons have a portal with a fixed location, and they rarely have it turned on. (Fun fact: the Fenton portal is made after ghosts explode into the human realm in this AU!) There are areas on earth with higher portal activity, but where they pop up and how long they stay is pretty random.

So, ghosts naturally wander. They pop back into the human realm as they wish, but it's not always close to their haunt. Lots of lesser ghosts don't even have haunts, too mindless for intelligence and more like roaming animals. Smarter ghosts can be curious and explore other parts of earth. They tend to only get defensive of their haunt if they sense other ghosts hunting there excessively, or trying to lay claim on the haunt.

So, in short, Phantom isn't always in Amity. He's there most frequently, but does appear elsewhere on earth at times. There's basically no way to tell how many ghost-related deaths are Phantom's fault.

Not only that, but slowly devouring a human's life force over time isn't uncommon! More intelligent ghosts will do this in an effort to prolong the duration of their "meal", and indulge in the terror it incites. A lot of people simply get very ill and exhausted over time, until there's not enough life left in them. But since this happens to humans naturally all the time, well... it's often hard to tell if the decline in health is from natural causes, or a ghost. (Lesser ghosts don't eat as much, but they have no intelligence to keep them from stopping till they're full. They get full quickly though, so you're less likely to die if one catches you. Just watch out for multiple encounters.)

Danny does take this to an extreme, though! Humans do replenish their life force naturally over time--it's just that ghosts that eat slowly still overcome that natural regeneration. Phantom is literally the only ghost that takes so little over such a large population that it's barely perceptible (unless he messes up, which, oops--that's happened).

But there's simply no evidence that this is probable, or even possible. Ghosts have no reason to do this, it's not as satisfying to them if their prey doesn't experience the terror that comes with knowing they're being drained.

(Also, just another fun little factoid: haunts are usually small! Lesser ghosts will haunt a single item, stronger ones will haunt a building, the strongest on record will haunt something like a park or complex. No one has figured out yet that Phantom haunts all of Amity because that's unheard of!)

Another factoid: ghosts don't need life force to survive! They lived in the ghost zone all this time just fine.

Life energy simply gives them more power, and better ability to stay in the human realm longer, and more corporeal. And it's instinct--it tastes good.

Danny, however, does need that life energy to survive. He needs his ghost half strong enough to stay attached to him, or it could detach and leave his human half dead. Then he'd just be another ghost.

(Also, The more sentient a life is, the stronger it is. So ghosts could technically drain the life of plants and animals, but it's gonna be mostly empty calories.)

#Danny Phantom #zilly squeaks #i need to think of a name for this AU #maybe just a title since it's less of an AU prospect and more just a story idea #hmm #also just another friendly reminder that I'm not protective of my AU ideas! #if you wanna take bits and pieces or the whole thing outright and make it your own? feel free!

[queen-shiba]

You still shouldn't fuck with Mhin, Leander, or any human in Touchstarved fr fr

@killersweetie @fizzydreamz

Listen...

As weak and gullible as our species may be, there are also those of us who are completely unpredictable.

And humans are built to endure anything and everything.

We have a level of anger worse than ANY other being I've ever met. Like- worse than God if I'm being real here.

We used to be able to run prey like MAMMOTHS down until it fucking died of heatstroke and we'd eat that mf and harvest it.

What's worse is nowadays we wipe out entire species that frighten us, look pretty to us and make profit, or are a threat to us and our livestock if we farm.

What's worse is that humans develop so... fucking... fast..

We have weapons like no other could ever have. If all the governments so desired, they could just destroy the world with nukes. That is what humans can do.

Now think about this in the touchstarved universe where we don't have nukes and all that, but we have magic and alchemy and probably shit like guns and other weapons. Things we could probably mix to cultivate a more controlled nuke, but a nuke.

The fact that there are HUMANS who can hunt and kill Soulless shows that if everyone were to step the fuck up, humans could very well wipe out the entire population of Soulless. If education were easily accessible to all, then humans could very well fuck up monsters like it's nothing. All we have to do is stick together. Humans are literally pack animals. We do best in groups.

In touchstarved, it doesn't matter how weak or strong a human is, so long as they can outmaneuver whatever threat is there and they have the resources to either trap, kill, outsmart, or gain the favor of the threat they face.

We seem to be good at doing all of that. Especially outsmarting and gaining favor. (Usually with food or sex)

No. Just because Leander and Mhin are weaker than the rest of the cast, does not mean they could not and would not kill anyone else.

Kuras is a stretch for anyone tho.

#touchstarved game #touchstarvedgame #leander touchstarved #touchstarved leander #touchstarved mc #mc touchstarved #touchstarved mhin #mhin touchstarved #touchstarved theory #touchstarved headcanons #touchstarved shitposting

[yveltalreal]

i love feeding my scolipede because every time i do someone else whos feeding their pokemon acts like im a monster for feeding my pokemon that is quite literally a large over-effective predator live prey (it is sedated with HER OWN VENOM to keep it from injuring her) or acts like im coddling her by feeding her pre-sedated pokemon instead of just like. unleashing her onto paldea to hunt by herself.

scolipede are large, aggressive predators not native to paldea, held back in their native habitats by the amount of obstacles that hinder their movement and the pokemon that hunt their young. if i unleashed her onto paldea, a region thats generally pretty open and once again, does not have scolipede natively, i think she would destroy the local skiddo population for lunch. giving her a corvisquire thats already been sedated and paralyzed with her own venom and thus will not feel pain as she "hunts" (gets to run across the school yard, pick it up, and kill it like she would in the wild) it is for the good of all of us because my beautiful darling baby girl of a scolipede gets to eat, the delicate balance that is the ecosystem of this region is not utterly FUCKED, and me and you get to enjoy the joys of watching the circle of life in action.

#pkmn irl #pokeblr #from m #pokemon death tw #pokemon consumption tw #ooc: in regards to pokemon hunting and eating pokemon. however.

[lepurcinus]

So, after watching a couple of videos about writing xenofiction.

Really rabbits are underappreciated animals in the aspect of how very exploitable their stories can be.

Yes, the most famous book in this genre has them as main characters and does a very good job of representing them correctly (Though not entirely, there are a couple of scientific flaws sprinkled in there but never mind). But the rest of the other rabbit stories out there are kind of uhhhhhhhh.

Because first we have the attempts to copy the first one, and well, they don't give too much by themselves. It's just reading the same thing but made up to look different and without all that sparkle.

And then we have the stories about rabbits that are already on the more traditional side. They are portrayed as calm, gentle, uwu cute or whatever, sometimes very shy, sometimes silly, they are present in the day, they mate like rabbits (ironic), everything kills them, etc. (well maybe some of them are not so bad). And let's not mention attributing the same behavior to all rabbits, no matter the species, it will be the same.

And well, that's not entirely how they work. They are animals that can be really complex in themselves, they are adaptable, variable, stop putting them in the same idea please.

If we are talking about European rabbits, why the hell do we only have stories that occur in areas where they were introduced? Why is there nothing about rabbits in their natural habitat, the Iberian Peninsula? Although it may not seem like it, there are many things that work differently there.

We have the "prince of a thousand enemies" although well, in reality many of those thousand enemies are not very interested in the predation of the rabbits because they were not used to them. That's why they managed to proliferate and become a long-term problem. (And let's mention when in Australia they introduced foxes to hunt the rabbits, but the foxes passed them by and preferred to go for the native fauna that was easier to catch and equally nutritive for them).

But, in their natural habitat, we even have animals that actively eats rabbits. There's also two species that literally LIVE off hunting rabbits, to the point that if these diminish they will too (The Iberian imperial eagle and the Iberian lynx). Just look at that potential with just that idea of predator-prey relationship. How the rabbits see these rabbit-killers and how they see their prey as their source of life.

(To give an example, and in parallel Canada lynx are almost entirely dependent on the American Hare in their diet, so much so, that if the hares disappear the lynx go with them. Not only that, but the hares are actually declining in population because of fear of the lynx. The lynx hunts them so much that the females reach a point where they even refuse to reproduce due to the stress of being hunted by the lynx. This does not happen with ANY other predator. Now transfer that to Europe and WOW).

And if we go to America, ok there are a couple of things with the common cottontail rabbit. But they ignore that there are over 28 species of rabbits throughout America, and even though they are related, each lives in a different environment and behaves differently.

We have rabbits that inhabit deserts and feed on cactus, others that live in cold mountain areas. And even rabbits that build burrows in the middle of swamps as a means of protection, these rabbits are basically aquatic. Why doesn't anyone notice this? Look at all that potential (and let alone the rest of the rabbits in other parts of the world).

#lepur stupid toughts #lepur talks #rabbit #xenofiction #ideas #bunny #watership down #srry i just need urgently to say this #dumb dumb ideas

[eldritch-spouse]

okay- I have a scenario for the bastards at the clergy…

Let’s say a human child gets thrown into the maw of the clergy by people trying to kill them (idk why but uh…just humor me) This poor kid got dragged inside TCE and was dumped there

How would TCE members react to seeing this kid who…obviously shouldn’t be there.

Would anyone help them since they’re a child or would this poor kid become a small appetizer

Like all I can imagine is Gallon just tending the bar, as usual, and then this 5 year old comes around, crying and obviously fucking terrified.

It’s just some food for my own thoughts don’t mind how rambley this is

[Odd scenario, but interesting. Admin!reader for this one.]

The kid could almost go unnoticed upon entry, being that they'll be running amidst a crowd of comparatively massive monsters whose eyes aren't really cast down most of the time. But Gallon, who is almost always at the entrance floor, needs to have a very sharp eye and he will no doubt notice the odd little monster sprinting around- Oh no no, that's definitely a human. A human infant trying to hide behind his bar counter.

Under normal circumstances, Gallon wouldn't care much about loose humans running amok the place. They'll eventually get snatched, it saves him the trouble of calling Admin and having to report the entire ordeal. However, this is a child. The Clergy does not allow minors within its walls, be they monsters or otherwise. The slime is sure some sick fucks would still reach for the kid, but that's not happening under his watch.

Since Gallon has little idea how to handle human children without scaring the absolute shit out of them with his huge glowing eye, the slime focuses on calling you to the scene immediately. You're the only human around, and you're friendly-looking enough, this infant will latch itself to you without a doubt. To keep the child distracted, Gallon will resort to manipulating the shape of his tendrils into different animals and hope that's enough to captivate them for a couple of minutes.

Once you're on the scene, the kid becomes almost entirely your problem. And you know there are certain monsters that cannot know of this, mostly Morell- Heavens forbid, he might try to cook the poor child. And Vinnel, who might not discriminate in his torture. Santi is of no danger since he actually avoids infants like the plague, but Grimbly might let his blood-sucker tendencies get the best of him, children are easy prey even if he's small.

Your best bets here are Patches and Nebul. Patches because he's actually had contact with human children before (even if they make him nervous) and Nebul since he has good enough self-control to not do anything stupid. Plus, the wraith might help to calm down the child with his abilities.

Ultimately, The Clergy has its hands on a hot potato here, because they cannot let the kid stay around for too long. Not only will the sights there most likely scar this poor child well into adulthood, this is also an extremely dangerous environment and quite literally no one has time to babysit a lost child.

As the only human, you'll have to leave with the kid. Try to work something out with them, a location to drop them off where you will not be seen by the general populous, and some sort of bribe (like candy) so the poor kid doesn't go around telling anyone the establishment they were tossed into. It's a sad situation, but you ultimately don't have the time or permission to delve into more personal matters, such as discovering who abandoned their child here and why. Krulu wants this nonsense solved as soon as possible, children are of no use to him.

#malewifecentral #general tce #after the initial hilarity this would probably get really angsty #poor kiddo

[teaveetamer]

I am not an expert in American culture but if the goal is to protect children , shoul'nt they do something more useful like regulating guns ? I keep seeing new about little kids accidentally killing a family member because someone gave them a gun

The short answer is: it's not actually about protecting kids.

The long answer is: children are a useful tool in political discourse because they are uniquely vulnerable and completely unable to advocate for themselves. Either they're too young (<12ish) or society refuses to take them seriously if they try (12-17ish).

There are no children's rights groups run by children advocating for themselves, for example, like there are gay rights groups, trans rights groups, advocacy groups for people with disabilities, etc. AKA, there are no children who will push back on harmful policies aimed at children.

Children aren't going to be able to tell you what is actually best for them. Nor should they have to. Adults need to make those decisions for them 99% of the time.

"Think of the children" preys on the inherent ambiguity and fear a lot of good parents feel ("am I doing this right? What if I'm wrong?"), and can justify bad parent's horrible, potentially abusive decisions ("I was just doing what I thought was best! No parent is perfect!").

This means you can essentially do whatever you want as long as you trojan horse it in as "protecting the children". There will be some pushback, but there are enough people with fear and insecurity that your pushback will be small enough to overcome (and if it isn't, just proclaim the people trying to stop you as child abusers or pedos). But the people pushing these efforts don't actually care about children. They care about power, control, and political capital.

And you'll notice... when minors are actually old enough to tell you what they want, the political discourse will start infantalizing them to get them back to the "they can't tell you what's actually best for them" stage. Teenagers get treated the same as 4 month old babies.

Look at the recent shit about trans healthcare in the US. Often times the trans youth accessing these services are teenagers, 13 and older. But whenever you hear the fundies talking about it, they'll opine about 3 and 4 year olds getting abused and manipulated into wanting top surgery. To be clear - no one is doing that.

For reference, 15 is the age at which we allow minors to operate two ton death machines (cars) supervised in the US, and 16 is the age we let them operate them unsupervised. If you're a farm kid you can be legally driving tractors even younger than that. You'd think if you were old enough to do that then you'd be old enough to decide if you feel more comfortable with she/her, he/him, or they/them pronouns, but the people who want to exploit your vulnerability for political capital will always treat you like you're barely out of the womb.

That's why we're having endless legal battles over trans kids' access to health care, which impacts ~300,000 kids in the country (0.4% of the American child population, probably even less since MANY trans kids do not access gender affirming care and their transitions are primarily social in nature), but no one wants to touch the obvious gun toting elephant in the room. Which affects 73,000,000 children in the country and has quite literally surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for minors. Because guns get their own little advocacy group to protect them, but children? Fuck 'em.

#tw transphobia #tw csa mention #tw america #hopefully coherent I have a lot of feelings

[lesbianoms]

I think the reason I’m able to be okay with some cruel vore scenarios and get triggered by others is because of the lack of specificity.

Like, when I’m reading an imagine/scenario post with nameless, gender-neutral pred/prey and it literally could be any two characters, my mind immediately attaches that to characters I love and care about and who do not, under any circumstances, deserve to suffer and die in such a horrible way

But idk. Sometimes I feel like a hypocrite.

Like yesterday, I was writing a story/scenario with a cruel female pred that I was getting really into, but the thing that made it okay in my mind was the fact that, in the story, I specified that the prey was… literally just some random fucking dude. Like I “made” him for this story. He did not exist before the story and he will not exist after the story is done, and neither will the pred.

There is 100% absolutely no way in my mind that the characters here could possibly even be conceptualized as anybody I care about (real or fictional). Because I had specified to myself and my brain that these were their own separate entities created for the sole purpose of populating a kinky post

This also feels very weird for me to admit, but it definitely also has to do with the fact that the prey is male in this situation. A lot of really disturbing vore and fetish porn I saw as a child had an emphasis on innocent women suffering and it really fucked with me. Couple that with the fact that in this specific scenario I wrote:

the woman has power & is in control of the situation

the prey has done something dickish and is kind of awful guy

the focus is not on his mental/emotional suffering persay, rather the domination aspects of being eaten

I don’t know. It’s weird. Writing this because I saw some vore scenarios that, in theory, are super good and hot, but for some reason the way in which they were written makes me sad and uncomfortable. And now I’ve gotta try to go back to sleep and not think about them. Idk, thought I’d share about how my brain works

Does anybody have any thoughts or advice? I know this post is kinda out of left field.

#vore talk #soft vore #cruel pred #v.ore #v0re #nom’s thoughts #fatal vore #digestion #vore scenario #weird stuff

[isthedogawolfdog]

youtu(dot)be(slash)g-7cLXyMp8E?si=OQ_6WDtl_dnMj9DP

Thoughts on this video on the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone and also the article that it cures which claims the Yellowstone narrative is factually inaccurate?

BAHAHAHA I am fucking CACKLING.

Okay so this video:

was posted in late 2020 and BOY HOWDY is it a wild ride. Because I need a distraction and am feeling particularly petty right now I'll see if I can break down the video and it's... um... "facts".

Before I start though the dudes YouTube is chock full of extreme vegan takes so I wouldn't say he's the top tier candidate for good sources lol.

"Introduction"

The beginning is meh. Y'know the usual thing some Youtubers do with the whole "is this really true???" thing with unreasonable amount of suspicion? yeah. He pretty much makes comments on how maybe the reintroduction of wolves into YNP wasn't the "incredible success story that it was made out to be." Which I feel like the, y'know, the many hundreds of research papers on the wolf reintroduction into YNP and the massive benefits it's created kinda contradicts? but I mean what do I know.

"Yellowstone narrative is misleading"

So this part opens up with this video (which I don't feel like watching rn if I were being honest so I'll save that for later) that blew up a bit ago regarding how wolves change rivers, and the claim that it was misleading, untrue, etc. The youtuber (who we shall call Hancock because "Youtuber" will get boring) uses this source to stake the claim that the positive impact wolves have had on rivers in YNP isn't true.

As we would know if we actually did research and didn't talk out of our ass, wolves didn't directly affect the rivers just by hunting elk, but beavers as well. Aspen and willow are, surprise surprise! a favorite food of beavers. Prior to wolf reintroduction riverbeds and waterways in YNP were in terrible shape, mainly due to erosion and lack of support from water loving plants, which are... tada! willow and aspen! Beavers and elk chowed down on these plants in huge amounts due to their numbers being so vastly out of control due to lack of predators. So when wolves came around and started hunting the plentiful beavers and elk, the willow and aspen were basically like "oh shit! we aren't being eaten to the point where we're all dying!! lets grow more!!" and in turn the more willow and aspen = more footing for the soil along waterbeds which means the rivers were saved. Some of this was mentioned in the article that was linked but wasn't mentioned by Hancock so idk what's up with that.

To sum it up, wolves made an impact! And it's silly to just write that off completely!! I think my issue with this part is that Hancock completely writes wolves impact on the environment off, which is frankly ridiculous. The original video may have overstated it a bit, but it's not like it doesn't exist.

"The balance of ecosystems"

Hancock then talks about the complexity of the YNP food chain (kinda), and how some people feel the need to restore the balance in nature if we humans fuck it up which?? like yeah?? we should?? He goes into a schpeel about values or whatever and if we value certain ecosystems over others??? Idk I was NOT tracking.

He mentions his thoughts on "which balance is best for the animals that live there". Goes on slight anthropomorphizing tangent then dives into the next part...:

"Ecology of fear"

Ah, lads, we are back in biology class aren't we. Except this time we are anthropomorphizing the hell out of everything! "The deer are afraid of being eaten alive, so afraid that they sometimes choose to eat less..."

Okay, did anyone tell this guy that the amount of food the herbivores (ungulates namely) before wolves were reintroduced was literally killing everything? Without wolves to balance the prey populations out they overgrazed, populations skyrocketed and so did disease.

The rest of this is a tangent, so I'll skip over it.

"Wolves suffered too"

Hancock cites the outbreaks of canine distemper disease that have occurred in YNP since reintroduction. This is a bit of a mute point, since canine distemper can fuck any canine population up whether it's a brand new reintroduced group of wolves or they've been there for decades.

Also, can we note how he talks about canine distemper then shows a wolf with mange?? hmmmm.

"Numbers of animals vs welfare"

Dude talks about random bullshit regarding animal rights. Loooooots of emotional heartstrings attempting to be pulled. He is 10000% coming from one of those anti-predator perspectives. Biiiig yikes.

"It's too complex (human health analogy)"

This section was basically mansplaining but with vegans lol.

"The choice we have"

He brings in wild animal contraception?????? I???? Girl what. I mean it's a thing yeah but I did not expect that to be where he was going.

Hancock talks about "one of the cruelest, and unfortunately most romanticized and thus most prevalent methods of population control" AKA reintroducing predators. Hmmmm it's almost like he didn't read about the mass amount of ungulates and other prey animals dying off in YNP when winter came (prior to reintroduction) and there wasn't enough food to sustain them all, subjecting them to excruciating deaths and long drawn out starvation and disease.

Hancock then goes onto how animals eat each other alive, which like, yeah, they do. AND THEN he talks about "wild animal suffrage" which, frankly I refuse to google. Blah blah blah he's anti-hunting who would've thought.

"we didn't do it for the animals"

Okay this actually has some value to it. Hancock talks about how wolves weren't reintroduced for their benefit, or anyone else, but only for people and tourism. This is both right and wrong.

I'm sure that all the biologists and hard working members on the reintroduction team would disagree that it wasn't done for the animals, but who knows. Anyway, the point that tourism would rake in a lot of cash for the state was also something that helped wolves get reintroduced, since we know many government officials weren't in it for the animals. So yeah, sort of true, but not really.

Hancock goes on about what animals are concerned about, even adding a little wolf with a thought bubble (which tbh, I'm sure if wolves knew about the technicalities of biodiversity they would love it, since it usually means a better quality of life). More anthropomorphizing and entitled vegan guilt tripping.

At this point I stopped watching, since it's already been roughly an hour, and although I could do this all day, I have to work later.

To answer your question anon, this video is very poorly put together and I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. There is little to no research done prior to creating it, and the creator talks from a animal rights activist point of view, which is never helpful.

#this is so fucking funny #wolves #wolf #yellowstone national park #yellowstone wolves #animal rights

[louisisveryfake]

HELLLLLO here's some things about koalas to make your day a bit better. to begin, i would like to state that it makes no sense that koalas havn't gone extinct, but they are and they're adorable and it's lowkey funny so this is why

- koalas are certified smooth brains. like literally, the more wrinkles your brain has the more surface area for neurons and therefore the smarter you can be, and koalas brains are *concerningly* smooth. also, they have one of the smallest brains in proportion to body weight of any mammal. they have tiny, smooth brains. they're dumb as fuck. it's iconic

- koalas have no natural predators. not becuase they're dangerous, they just don't have any. nothing eats koalas, which leads to my next point that...

- koalas have literally no purpose. they hold an absurd biological niche. they don't control eucalyptus population, their poop doesn't give nutrients to the soil, and as i said earlier, they arn't prey. if all the koalas died this instant literally it would not affect anything. except the mental health of everyone, becuase koalas are cute as fuck.

- given all this, you might think that koalas are just super hardy and super good at surviving. wrong. koalas are unreasonably picky. koalas are so picky with their diet that they'll only eat the leaves of one (1) type of eucalypt and even then ONLY specimens of that tree that are within a very tight geographic range of where the koala was born. koalas will PHYSICALLY NOT EAT anything that is not from their very precise home range. they would rather STARVE TO DEATH than eat leaves from a suburb over.

- koalas also have a floating ribage, which means that if you pick them up wrong you can literally just break their ribs and cause extreme major organ damage. why? they sit in trees and do nothing so they don't need a good skeleton structure. based.

- also those leaves that they eat? they're EXTREMELY POISONOUS. and a key side affect of the poison is that it literally *shrinks their brain*. they eat poison ONLY (they only eat eucalyptus and nothing else), that also MAKES THEM STUPIDER. it's absurd.

- ahh, you must be thinking, eucalyptus leaves must be super foods then. wrong. these leaves also have almost NO nutritional value, so koalas have to sleep *all* the time. koalas have so little nutrition that they can't afford to be awake and do stuff. they have to sleep all the time otherwise they run out of energy

- also becuase they're so dumb you have to give them leaves presented on branches and also they will only eat the tips of said leaves. if you gave a koala a bunch of eucalyptus leaves and put them flat on the ground the koala would have absolutely zero fucking idea what to do becuase they're so dumb they can't deal with any change.

- eating leaves and chewing them takes a *toll* on your teeth (woah), so most herbivorus animals have adaptations to ensure that their teeth keep up to the task of eating. KOALAS DON'T. eventually their teeth just grind down to nothing and they literally starve to death. THAT IS HOW KOALAS DIE

- finally they fall off trees so much that their brains have developed basically a crash helmet so they don't die.

koalas fucking spit in the face of natural selection and we STAN THEM for it. they exist purely by luck and they are iconic and cute and adorable and need to be protected at all costs. do not mistake this as koala hate, they are my idols and they are amazing and i love everything about them thank u for coming to my ted talk

#also the babies eat diarrhoea #it’s really weird but we don’t talk about that #australia is definitely not real #australia #animals

[brokenhardies]

Decode Tribunal Sneak Peak

TW: Brief mention to Hitler, as well as a mention of genocide

Just something I wanted to do before I forgot! Here we go!

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"Wait, please!" Amber cried, causing Osiris and the Ennead - about to vanish back into the Overvoid - to take pause.

"What is it, Emissary?" Osiris asked.

"Just, please, let me plead our case without..." Amber paused, "That interloper getting involved. You're the Judge of the Dead, aren't you? You would know how dangerous Ammit is."

She began to walk across the area.

"She preys on the hearts of men - even with the slightest wrong, they're in her grasp." She paused, looking up at the Ennead. "She literally feeds on them, for any minor wrong they could commit. From as drastic as genocide, to as small as cutting in line."

It took a second for Osiris to understand what Amber was saying, as she stood in the middle and waited for a rebuttal. She gestured to them.

"Go on then," She began, "Tell me that isn't what she's doing."

"Ammit is a necessary evil," Nut interrupted, "She's there to keep people in line."


"Ah, so she's your Satan, isn't she?" Amber chuckled, "Wow, I thought polytheism didn't have a Satan."

She paused. "But seriously - does that work? Even with the threat of Hell, people still do awful things. When I first encountered Harrow - after he trailed my flatmate to his place of work and also stalked me - he mentioned people like Hitler and Pol Pot; both who had no qualms about doing what they did."

"There are some unscrupulous people out there," She continued, pacing once more. "How much do you wanna bet that instead of targeting those bad people, Ammit's gonna miss her mark and hit the next Martin Luther King Jr?"

"And people have the capacity to change!" She stopped pacing and looked up at the Ennead. "Tell me, do you not believe that people have that in them? To turn around and change? What good is killing them before they even make the effort?"

The Ennead did not respond. It was if they were thinking it over.

"Do you believe that is Harrow's plan?" Osiris asked, as Amber nodded.

"He told me himself." She stated. "He specifically mentioned waiting to weed a garden after the roses are dead. You banished Ammit because she was choosing to stray from her position of punishing those after they have died -- how is that different from what you are doing with Khonsu?"

"It is incredibly different, Emissary," Horus interrupted, "Khonsu's crimes are vast. He's responsible for several incidents. We have promised to not interfere."

"...Oh my God. You guys are running on Time Lord rules." Amber pinched the bridge of her nose. "Okay... How to convince you guys... Think Amber, think..."

She muttered under her breath, as Marc recovered from his brief panic attack. He seemed confused and disorientated, watching as Amber tried valiantly to convince the Ennead to help them find Ammit's tomb. The trail that got dismantled when Harrow chose to intervene. Amber then finally came up with a reason, clearing her throat;

"You are Gods, correct?"

The Ennead nodded, looking at the incredibly intelligent Emissary as if she had three heads.

"Yes, I know, obvious question but--" She raised a finger, "What's the one thing Gods need more than anything? Worship. You said it yourself; humanity had abandoned you. If Ammit wiped out lets say... Half the population? Just a guesstimate. That knocks out fifty percent of your potential audience!"

She smirked. "If you thought humanity had abandoned you before, imagine humanity but half of them were disintegrated for thinking of committing a crime. Horrible world, I know."

She began miming the world's smallest violin between her fingers and wiping a fake tear from her eye. Osiris had finally had enough of Amber's posturing and glared at her.

"You may be the Emissary of the Gods." He began, "But in this council room, you are just a spectator."

Amber shrugged. "You said I was to represent Khonsu. I'm doing my job." She bowed. "You're welcome."

Suddenly realizing that she'd played them all, the Ennead all looked at each other, as Amber folded her arms. She mimed looking at a watch. Marc struggled to his feet behind her, almost ready for Khonsu to possess him again now that Amber had made her argument. However, nothing came. The familiar bird's voice didn't show. Probably because he was just as startled that Harrow brought up Marc's mental illness, making it no longer about him. Finally, Osiris cleared his throat and spoke;

"Fine. Name your price," He began, "What is the information you need?"

"The location of Ammit's tomb." Amber stated, "We... Kinda misplaced the scarab leading to it, so we have no other way of finding it."

"We are unaware of its location," Finally, after standing silently, Hathor spoke. "The location was hidden from us, due to Ammit's many followers."

Amber nodded. "I see."

"But someone had to know something." Marc said, his voice hoarse from all of Khonsu's screaming using his mouth.

"There is one--" Began Isis, causing Amber's head to dart upwards towards her. "A medjay named Senfu. He was tasked with recording the location of the tomb. In case our judgement was false."

"Find his sarcophagus,” Osiris finished, “And the tomb's location will be revealed."

"How are we supposed to do that?" Amber asked.

"His sarcophagus has been stolen and passed around the black market," Osiris continued, "You may wish to start there. Good luck."

"Hang on, if we're doing a deal, I have one more condition to add!" Amber exclaimed. "We find Ammit's tomb and stop her and Harrow. You pardon Khonsu."

Osiris smiled. It appeared he liked the challenge. "So be it."

And with a wave of his hand, Amber and Marc were ejected from the Ennead.

#ocappreciation #ocapp #ochub #queerocs #fyeahsuperheroocs #OC: Amber #story: emissary verse #this drabble just came to me in a vision and i went; this was my biggest problem with the old version of decode #the fact that she couldnt stop them from doing that #also all the italics! i love all the italics! #emphasis is fun! #and yes theres a large bit of doctor who in here -- i read amber's whole 'what do gods need more than anything' bit in #matt smith's voice lol

[shonkgobonk]

🔎 - Do they stalk their prey first, or do they just go for it? Do they establish a relationship first? Do they do kidnappings?

⛑️ - How good is your OC at patching up their wounds? Do they get hurt often or are they good at staying unharmed?

🎭 - Are they loved or hated by the public? Neutral? Do they live solitary lives, or do they blend in with the normal population? Do they lead a double life? Have a ‘day job?’

For Adonis and Nyx

Thank you for the ask Teethy!!

I had fun with this and the answer is under the cut!!

🔍

Nyx

Nyx needs to stalk their victims to really see if there's any redeeming qualities about them, usually people become her target because of them being downright nasty people. If they have a family and their family dynamic is a lot nicer than hers was, part of her would want to mess it up purely because of a twisted thought of "if I couldn't have a good family, neither should you-"

She probably wouldn't establish a relationship beforehand, but isn't apposed to kidnapping a victim if needed

Adonis

It depends on how interesting they think their victim is. If they find them interesting, they'll attempt a friendship with them at least, it's a 99% chance they won't get attached and will just end up eating them (and if they are friends with Oli, wouldn't mind bringing him some as well👀 Sharing is caring dude)

And they definitely have kidnapped people on many occasions

⛑️

Nyx

Gonna be honest, they're just a lil clumsy, but we all make mistakes- It doesn't help that she's a bit reckless too, hence the scars around her neck and on her face minus the big burn. Also the random scars that are just all over her body, she really just slaps a bandage over it, maybe some cream if it's needed, but just does that and hopes for the best-

Adonis

They have a regenerative power type thing, so they don't need to really patch themselves up unless it's a bigger wound, then it just takes a hell of a lot longer to heal-

🎭

Nyx

Nyx usually leads a solitary life, mostly just watching from the sidelines, but they're pretty neutral to the public. She just exists there, other than her scars, she can blend in with the public pretty well. She doesn't really have any type of job, she just takes the money from her victims for anything she needs

Adonis

Adonis can literally blend into the public. They are known because they're the reason for the missing people and because of the odd circumstances that there's never a body found, so people assume just that, they're missing. The also take the money from their victims, but if they're tight on cash, they have been able to just pick pocket people or flat out steal if they need to. They have had a handful of like performance jobs though (*cough* theatre kid energy *cough*) they always happen to have exactly what people need or want to see. They've acted their whole life, why not make some money off of it?

#slasher oc #oc #slasher adonis #slasher Nyx #my self made blorbos #but yeah Adonis is a theatre kid in a way #oc ask game

[scholarlypidgeot]

Out of the receng worldbuilding asks: 2 (because any excuse to hear more about perytons is good); and mayyybe 5 (because if you have thought about it before then you really have a fully functional world).

2 What sort of magical creatures exist in your world? (Dragons, fair folk, spirits, etc)

Magic is a very broad term, but I know what you mean. Unusual creatures in the setting include but are not limited to:

Perytons! Deer with wings and teeth. Generally flightless. Tend to linger around herds of true deer and prey on the predators. Typically a symbol of the strong protecting the weak, and as such symbolic of The Hunt. A symbiotic relationship.

Ornixes! Large breeds are also called dragons, but in reality this is just the collective term for therapod dinosaur-like creatures. Small breeds tend to be very intelligent and clever, comparable to modern birds. Larger species are much more animal, and built to kill. Viewed similarly to sharks as graceful and beautiful but incredibly dangerous, even if they generally avoid human populations.

Aurochs! A collective term for megafauna in general, including what we'd recognize as elephants, Sauropod dinosaurs, Pleistocene mammals, etc. Auroch is most often a generalized or collective term, like cattle, for when these creatures are used as beasts of burden or otherwise raised under human care.

Giant spiders! They're literally just called spiders. Spidersilk is a valuable material within the setting. Coarse spider hair is useful to make brushes or cleaning materials, and shed exoskeletons can be used to reinforce gear or make armor. The venom of most large spiders is actually only harmful to humans in large doses, but a bite will still be lethal (duh). There are also other abnormally large bugs, but spiders have worldbuilding significance.

Don't get me started on what might be in the ocean. Since there's one primary landmass and most people use the inland sea.... yeah.

Magical creatures - magically influenced people, for the most part - tend to influence the idea that creatures like the above are reflections of other creatures, rather than a world where these creatures never existed at all. It's much more symbolic. Speaking of which, magical people-creatures (Fair Folk) can be condensed into 2-4 categories:

Unseelie. Most comparable to the animal reflections of people. Sharp teeth and nails, blood cravings as a side effect, heightened senses honed for nighttime predation. Many consider them closer to ornixes or perytons than people, even if that's wrong, because it's better to believe you couldn't become like that.

Seelie are easier to live with. They're unusual, sure - their hair is strange colors, their eyes are bright and eager, they live life on the edge and recklessly, their bodies are nearly indestructible. They'll do anything in their power to cheat you if it benefits them. But they can't lie. They won't eat you. Oftentimes their demands are somewhat reasonable. And they always stand by their word. Sure it's by compulsion, but hey, at least they're not going to eat you, and even if there is an unfavorable bargain, it's very likely you'll outlive them.

Wulvers are a subclass of Seelie, or once were, according to legend. Every region has its wulvers, adapted to its climate: Arahas has bouda, hyena-men; the Protectorates and North see kitsune, foxfolk; the Forest region has more traditional werewolves; Brydlen has folk that can take the shape of great hounds, called Faoladh; the Basin, coyotes; and in Zanoma are Lobisomem, who appear as maned wolves. They share most of the primary Seelie traits, that is, liability to fast living, near invulnerability-- although, rather than iron as their Seelie cousins, they're vulnerable to silver weapons. There are two primary differences: 1. They have an average human lifespan, believed in different Wulver cultures to have been earned by one of their ancestors tricking death; and 2. they have a co-dependence, and often serve as protectors of their human communities. A wild, vicious Wulver is a force to be reckoned with, however, almost as fierce as an Unseelie and equally dangerous.

Finally, there are normal humans who can channel magic in little ways. A voice that can bend people to their will; sparks of fire; bursts of electrical discharge; an abnormally green thumb; temporary invisibility; speaking the language of animals. The causes of this are yet unknown, but no one with these abilities is more or less likely to become Seelie or Unseelie, and it doesn't seem to be genetic. Sometimes your child just starts talking to a cat and you have to be open to accept that.

Thank you for the ask! The worldbuilding questions can be found here, for anyone else interested!

[cura-te-ipsum]

I have a running theory on why Americans are taught to fear immigrants when over 99% are from other continents ourselves.

See, Australia was populated with "criminals" who had to build a society, but America was populated by white settlers who became criminals. If we are honest about our history as white Americans, we came to a land that was already inhabited by vast societies, mass murdered everyone in our way, and labelled ourselves the Good Guys. European settlers managed to nearly starve while surrounded by woodland maintained by indigenous peoples for centuries. We then stripped away these cultivated woodlands to plant mass mono crops which we literally shipped in slave labor to maintain. Oh, and those mass monocrops are a huge component of what led to the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. We have consistently been behind the rest of the industralized world in regard to social changes (e.g. women's right to vote, abolishing slavery, same sex marriage, public and higher education, child labor laws, care for the elderly, etc.) Instead we celebrate the genocide and erasure of indigenous culture with a huge annual feast.

With such a horrific history we are spoon fed from infancy to ignore, it's no wonder people are terrified of immigrants in the US. I hear the same rhetoric in regards to LGBTQ issues, women's rights, and the Black Lives Matter movement. There is an undercurrent of "What if they do to us what we have done to those who came before us?"

Have I personally murdered indigenous people, owned slaves, employed children, and destroyed entire ecosystems by levelling maintained forests for coal mining? No. Of course not. A vast majority of white Americans living today haven't either.

But if we do not acknowledge our history and the wrongdoing of our own ancestors, we will continue to fall prey to fear mongering. We love our roots. We can love our family. We can even adore our ancestors, but we cannot continue on their path. We cannot become stuck in the ruts of propoganda and call it tradition. That way lies only more death and suffering.

If the questions remains, "What if we are treated the same way our ancestors treated others?" This cycle will never end. I cannot change my ancestors' actions. No one can change the past. What I CAN do NOW is:

Acknowledge the suffering passed down through generations to those around me;

Listen to marginalized communities and, when possible, help amplify their voices;

Work to keep from repeating my ancestors' mistakes; and

Actively listen whenever someone tells me my actions are in error.

I am unlikely to be perfect. Perfection is not my goal. Progress. Growth. Those are my goals. My version of utopia is never set in its ways, but constantly changing and adapting to the needs of the people. Wherever they were born. Whatever they look like. Whatever language we speak.

#TLDR: White Americans are taught to be afraid of immigrants because we are worried our past atrocities will bite us in the ass. #fuck white supremacy #white americans #american history #turkey day #Thanksgiving #thanks for coming to my ted talk #ancestors done fucked up doesn't mean we have to keep fucking up too #lessons learned #lgbt rights #women's rights #black lives matter #immigrants #we get the job done

[squidsquadlove]

reading the Vampire Squid wikipedia article with your vampire boyfriend

do you ever have a brand shiny new OTP and think to yourself: but what if one of them was a vampire??

oh, good, me too! you're my kind of people!

also do you have a hockey team that's named the Kraken and has adopted the squid emoji and lots of squid references? and therefore your sweet little vampire rookie is, perhaps, a vampire squid?

BUCKLE IN WE'RE GOING ON A JOURNEY MY FRIENDS

The vastness of their habitat and its sparse population make procreative encounters a fortuitous event.

Shane: ::wiggles eybrows:: Matty: Oh my God. And I thought I had no game.

This process may repeat up to, and sometimes more than, twenty times.

Shane: Is that per night? Matty: It's per lifetime for the squid, and may I remind you I am not a vampire squid oh my God Shane: You sure it's not per night? Matty: We can try, I guess. If you wanna explain to people where our stamina went. Shane: Uh no. No thank you. I'm good with our current pace.

It has been hypothesized that the iteroparous lifestyle of the vampire squid has evolved with the squid's relaxed lifestyle.

Shane: Iteroparous? Matty: Means they don't die after sex. Shane: O_O Oh God! Was that a possibility? Matty: Wh-- no! And again: Not a vampire squid. Shane: Okay, in that case, I have a bone to pick with this part-- 'relaxed lifestyle'?? Matty: In this economy? ...development camp?? Shane: Eighty-two game season! Matty: With some postseason games! Shane: Hell yes! ::fistbumps:: Matty: 'Relaxed lifestyle'! Shane: These people have never had a long road trip in their lives, let alone eight back-to-backs on the schedule. Matty: To be fair, they're marine biologists and not professional hockey players.

The mature vampire squid is also thought to be an opportunistic hunter of larger prey as fish bones, other squid flesh, and gelatinous matter has been recorded in mature vampire squid stomachs.

Shane: I definitely saw you eat some calamari. No fish bones that I know of. Matty: Not on purpose. Shane: As for "gelatinous matter"… Matty: oH My GoD

Shane: Also, "larger prey"!! Matty: I'm two inches taller than you!! Shane: ::gestures down his much bulkier frame:: Matty: ::grumbles and crushes another vampire-friendly protein shake::

These spawning events happen quite far apart due to the vampire squid's low metabolic rate, meaning they take a long time to accumulate the necessary resources to spawn. This is very rare and needs further research done on it.

Shane: ::raises hand:: Volunteering for research. Matty: I-- I think you just insulted my refractory period. Shane: More research is required! Matty: Just because not everybody goes, like, three times a night-- Shane: I need help with my research. Matty: ::muttering:: Low metabolic rate my ass.

If a predator were to bite off an arm tip, the vampire squid can regenerate it.

Shane: Whew. Because I was kinda worried about going up against the Kings. They re-signed Lemieux. Matty: To be fair, I'm not nearly as much of a pest as Brady Tkachuk but. Shane: Still. Please don't get bitten on the ice. Matty: ::a little overcome with the awwwwwws:: Usually people worry about me biting people. Shane: ::grumble:: If it were that easy to get you to bite people, I wouldn't be looking at the Wikipedia article on vampire squid.

Vampire squids also use a unique luring method where they purposefully agitate bioluminescent protists in the water as a way to attract larger prey for them to consume.

Shane: …Am I reading this right? I have to take you to a rave to get laid and bitten? Matty: Jesus fuck no you are not reading that right.

...

Shane: AHHHH I JUST HIT THE RELATIONSHIPS SECTION ::reads avidly:: Matty: Bruh. We are already in a-- Shane: Shut up, reading.

...

Shane: ::disappointed look:: Matty: ::looking over his shoulder:: What, nothing? Shane: Literally the only thing of interest is this thing about "internal stiffening structure". Matty: ::glances down at lap:: Uh, pretty sure that's external, bud. Shane: Maybe for you.

The vampire squid is currently not on any endangered or threatened species list and they have no known impact on humans.

Shane: Oh, good, not on endangered or threatened lists! Matty: No known impact on humans? Shane: Oh, honey. Matty: I had seven hits in ten games! Shane: I know, I know. ::pets him:: Matty: Just because I didn't have any penalty minutes…! Shane: You did great, baby. Matty: ::sulks:: Shane: You've had an impact on me. Matty: … … … 🥰

#mattyshane #fabulous squid boys #the vampire squid au #I love them your honor #baby squid do do do do do do #matty beniers #shane wright #seattle kraken