#i HATE people that don't give a shit about the genetic health of animals they breed

[kedreeva]

When I first got Stan, I wasn't sure he'd make it more than a few days, but he did. When I first took him to the vet as a baby, they told me not to expect him to make it to maturity, but he did. The last time I took him to the vet, a different vet from his usual vet saw him and had to sort through the list of known health issues to get to what was wrong this time, and was impressed he was even alive, and that was over a year ago. He's beaten a lot of odds, he's gone farther than even the most hopeful of speculation.

Unfortunately, a line in the sand comes for any animal Time doesn't take. For us, that line was him losing his ability to walk, or his ability to see, and both have been slowly worsening over the last year. Today, it has finally come down to the latter, as his vision has gone completely in his remaining good eye. For peafowl, that's a hard-line quality of life factor- it affects their ability to get food and water (which would mean stressful and uncomfortable tube feeding sessions 3x a day), as well as their ability to move into or out of shelter, and their ability to socialize. As they are HIGHLY social creatures, feeling like he's constantly alone would be absolutely miserable for him. I can't put him through that and still call myself a responsible owner, so he'll be going in for his final vet appointment tomorrow afternoon.

I know a lot of you have loved Stan over the past 7 years, and I know you're going to miss him nearly as much as I will. He's been a Very Good Boy, and this place is just not going to be the same without him.

#stan the peachick #animal death for ts #pet death for ts #pet death #animal death #my pets #i moved him into the sun for now to warm up #but he's clearly not doing well #2024 can fuck off right now #it has not been kind to me #peafowl #peacocks #i HATE people that don't give a shit about the genetic health of animals they breed #i hate people that perpetuate health problems because a mutation is pretty #this is a direct result of poor breeding #and I'm furious about it

[wahbegan]

Imagine, if you will, a place where Rachel Dolezal or whatever the fuck her name was started a revolution. Where surgically changing your race became a massive movement. Where people deeply unhappy with their skin color, or deeply envious of another's, could simply get the operation and say "now i am Japanese, just like i've always felt!"

Of course, there is a lot of pushback. On one hand, there are the conservatives, huge and loud, pushing back against this because it's new and different and because races shouldn't mix and people are destroying their bloodlines and race is becoming meaningless and how are they supposed to feel superior yadda yadda yadda. Obviously, people hate these assholes.

But, there's a second, quieter sort of pushback. Lumped in with the first kind and hated just as much. People of color saying "i really don't want white folks saying they're not white now."

Oh, but it's for their mental health, it's for them to live their truth, they're not hurting anyone "Okay but it feels deeply offensive, how can they just think they idk feel like a minority?" Well, it's pretty much impossible to quantify and varies a lot from person to person, but trust us, it's NOT based in stereotypes and couldn't hurt you in any way so who gives a shit "Okay, but they know they're not ACTUALLY people of color, right?" Says who? "Biology! The way they were born!" The way they were born isn't important! And your understanding of biology is outdated. What is race, really? Just the color of skin? We can change that now anyway, why reduce someone to their skin color? You know, other animals don't have concepts of race like we do, their colors are very genetically complex, they present in all kinds of ways, and what about biracial people? There is no scientific basis for race. It's an arbitrary thing we made up and now we're un-making it up. You're kinda sounding like a blood quantum proponent right now i'm not gonna lie "But racism still exists." Yes, especially against these people who race transition. They are the bravest among you. "I don't know how else to tell you this just feels like spitting in our face. There's more to race than skin color. Culture, community, oppression, trauma, fucking facial structures and hair growth! it's in every cell of us, it is not just our SKIN" What are you saying? Black people all have the same face? There are no blonde black people? Asian redheads? As for culture, community, trauma, and oppression....well, they identify with yours. That's why they're part of your community now. "How could they possibly identify as part of our community when they weren't born in it, they can't truly understand it from the outside" Yes they can, you just gotta trust them. "Okay, but can i....can i just have community with, hang out with, only date other people of color?" Of course you can!! As long as transracial people are also included. "And how do you know some racist freaks won't take advantage of this?" What, spend all that time and effort and money to become part of an oppressed minority just to be freaks about it? Nobody would do that, you're being severely paranoid.

Further imagine that it's totally cool for all kinds of violence discussed in very racially-coded language to be espoused towards the people of color who aren't on board with this or god forbid demonstrate against it.

Can you imagine that shit? Crazy. Fucking lunatic world that would be

Anyway, i'm Rod Serling