#one tiger every day

[little-pondhead]

Danny moved to Gotham.

Freakshow is touring in Gotham.

Freakshow knows Danny is in Gotham.

Danny knows Freakshow is still after him.

Danny's faith in heroes has been shattered.

Danny turns to the only person powerful enough to run Freakshow out of town, hopefully for good.

Danny turns to the Joker for help.

The Joker is looking for a new punching bag sidekick after Harley Quinn left him.

Danny is just the perfect person to be shaped by the Joker's hands.

Danny becomes the new Joker Junior.

#pondhead blurbs #dpxdc #how we feeling about this fellas #i think it's an ideal angst fic #but i don't wanna write it lol #the younger danny is the worse it gets #someone said that danny shouldn't be afraid of the joker because he's a clown and freakshow is a ringmaster. not a clown #if i find that post i'll tag the creator cause i can't remember rn #but i'm imagining danny who is heavily traumatized and scared and lonely #finding out that one of his worst enemies he hoped to never see again is hunting him and is so close danny has to check his eyes every day #just to make sure they haven't turned red #his anxiety is out of control and he's not about to go find a Bat or Bird to talk to #who would believe him anyways? he's a monster #but danny needs help cause he will not survive this on his own and he knows it #freakshow haunts his every waking dream #but freakshow isn't from gotham. he doesn't have the city's curses engraved into his blood. he never died and he's not truly teasing death #so danny chooses to plead for help from the only predator bigger than freakshow (in his eyes) who IS from gotham #danny goes to the Joker. prepared to offer everything but his free will and free mind. he can't give those up. it's all he has. #danny is a feral house cat asking a tiger to take care of a mountain lion for him by offering the tiger his own liver on a silver platter #joker is...delighted? maybe? no one is quite sure. but he takes what danny offers. #here is this little boy. almost the same age as the second robin when he died. pleading for the JOKER to be his savior. this will be fun

[suffarustuffaru]

omg reinhard and friends!!

#re:zero #reinhard van astrea #natsuki subaru #julius juukulius #felix argyle #rem #emilia #suffaru post #hes so…….. hes like a wet cat #and YEAH I HAD TO USE THE REINHARD ART WITH THE REALISTIC TIGER IM SO SORRY 😭😭😭😭 #for additional context the photo i used for the kills a bug one is when reinhard and subaru met in arc 1 and reinhard was just casually like #‘haha every day i feel burdened by my familys expectations’ or smth like that #REINHARD 😭😭😭😭 #rezero arc 5 spoilers

[1-tiger-every-day]

07.07.2022

f r o l i c k i n g

#Daily tiger #traditional media #crayons #sunflowers #wildflowers #cute tiger #playing tiger #i tell you something doing one of these tigers every fckin day has got me REALLY good at not doubting myself #and just scribbling something out freehand onto the page #im like #what is proportion #what is composition #let's have some FUN let's have some STRIPES let's GOOOOO

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Yoo guess what? I just had another silly thought(tm)!

So pulling from some previous asks, Cassie being terrified and paranoid of Gregory thinking he's out to get her for surviving his alleged murder attempt with the elevator and is planning to strike again any second to 'finish the job'.

And Prototype Freddy becoming protective of Cassie after she went out of her way to get him repaired and whole, and likely becoming besties with Roxy bc both adore the lil girl.

And Cassie having tried to 'expose' Gregory's dirt but nothing coming from it so in desperation she asked Prototype Freddy's help.

With those past ones in mind I just thought of a new one. :3c

Prototype Freddy all repaired and bonding with Cassie and the group, slowly learning from them about the stuff that happened. Like why they were broken and left behind. And what Cassie went through in Ruin, especially the elevator thing.

And he's so. freaking. indignated. Especially that they have the culprit right there and facing no consequence whatsoever. The one responsible for Cassie's, his own little superstar, suffering. And man, the sheer impunity makes him SO MAD.

So instead of Cassie asking him for anything, Prototype Freddy decides to do something about it himself. Not that ones like Roxy aren't capable, but he's the one with the winning stealth and infiltration card, being identical to a certain other bear.

He maybe tells Roxy his plan before heading out as a headsup, in case anything happens.

Then he goes and the moment Gregory and Glamrock Freddy separate even if just briefly (maybe Glamrock Freddy goes to recharge or something idk,) Prototype enters the scene to rejoin Gregory as his Freddy (maybe he gets Glamrock Freddy stuck somewhere like inside a recharge station or something idk again, just to ensure he has enough time to perform the switch smoothly,) hiding the fact that he's actually a wolf in a familiar sheep's clothing.

Then when Prototype Freddy finally thinks he's gotten Gregory alone with him, his "best friend" only, you get the idea right?

Hmm, the tea!

Puts this child in his stomach hatch and spins him like a tumble dryer. Starts jumping up and down as fast as possible to shake him up like a fizzy faz. Takes him to one of the old locked off storage areas, pops him out like a pez dispenser and bails, locking the door behind him. Plenty of ways to give him a time out!

Could fill his stomach hatch with water and drop him in it like a fish bowl (with air of course he's not Funtime Freddy now) lmao he could get creative with it! He could make friends with a skunk and open the stomach hatch to unleash it on him he could do anything lmao Gregory will never suspect a thing!

On another note, Prototype Freddy being pissed off at this situation is fun. Roxy watching him pace in frustration over this thinking "wow he's just like me for real..." will DJ nods in agreement cause he's seen her do this a thousand times lmao. I now have the idea that she started liking Prototype Freddy because he told someone to fuck off or something lmao it was like a switch flicking off in her head. He swore and destroyed her perception of him so hard he suddenly was a completely different guy to her. That's not Freddy anymore. She's never met this guy before. Oh he has the same name? What a coincidence! Completely different guy now!

Everyone else may struggle to get past him being basically a Freddy clone, but he swore that one time and Roxy's cured! Glamrock Freddy who? Never heard of him!

Here's something for you that's stuck to what I'm doing with Sewerhell stuff: different names! Some of the older versions of the animatronics choose different names to go by to avoid as much confusion. It's not always a big change, like Prototype Freddy could go by Fred exclusively or something or a nickname like 'Proto' or something could stick, I dunno I have fun finding different ways to differentiate everyone ¯��\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

#fnaf security breach #pop rox answers #i just suggested the name thing in case you might have fun with that cause i certainly do #i had the idea of the sewercontrol guys taking over the plex for a day or two and thus #they all needed their own identities #so i had to come up with different names and reasons for those names #and it's kinda fun i do it with the minis all the time #mangle is the one behind roxanne mark 1s chosen name and roxy mark 2s nickname for them btw #she embellishes their name so much that they've stuck djdjjdi #roxy mark 2 is fucking Rockaby/Rockabie to the sewerhell squad lmao #like roxabie! roxanne/newbie! cause she's the newbie now! #roxy like 'whatchu just call me????' bsjdjd #roxanne is just used to this lmao #roxy and roxanne are how i also differentiate them #but Mangle's nicknames have stuck for me so that's why they get called nine times out of ten lmao #rockabella and rockabie! #jsjdjdijdis I've just realised that roxanne mark 1 has literally NEVER been referred to by her actual fucking name #once or twice maybe but in her history she's so fucking rarely called that she probably doesn't associate it with herself at all #i should bring that up. that should be mentioned #poor rockabella she's getting more and more similar to tiger every day... #they're completely different but WOW those circumstances huh? wild

[thewhizzyhead]

YOU SEE the thing with Phoenix is that the structure and narrative placement of the song is very much so reminiscent of Don't Even: both the second songs of their respective acts give the general mood of the teens given their current situations. And like Don't Even, Phoenix masks the teens' underlying worries through thinly-veiled boppy tunes with all of the teens in harmony with one another. The big difference however is um of course the murders that had occurred in between those songs so while with don't even we have insecurities masked by indifference, in Phoenix we have distress masked by denial. Both set the tone for the next respective series of songs: following Don't Even are stories of each of the girls' insecurities, and following Phoenix is Move On - a very much so grief-focused song. And with Phoenix mirroring what is arguably the most emotional point of the show, WE GET A SONG WITH MANY BANGER VERSES-

#AND THAT IS WHY PHOENIX IS MY 2ND FAVORITE SONG ON THE SOUNDTRACK #or maybe its tied with dont even in second place i dunno i'll think abt it more #but yea PHOENIX HAS REALLY WELL WRITTEN VERSES LIKE THAT SONG IS ONE OF PMA'S BEST WORK #also yes every chai day we get to see this account have a watt renaissance woo #we are the tigers

[shopcat]

my biggest childhood dream used to be to be an orphan actually i wanted to be a street rat (?). i would lay in the gutters and on my front lawn and one time an old lady pulled up and was like are you okay because i was just laying on the road which i imagine would be concerning and i was like yeah i'm just playing and she was like oh okay... when i wasn't pretending to be some sort of street orphan (???) i was pretending to be a lion which was really fun my dad had a big garden with lots of ornamental stones like in the lion king... and sometimes i'd be a street rat lion just no avoiding that obviously. there's no psychoanalysis to be done here i was just a weird child and every movie i watched there was some sort of orphan who went on an adventure i was like wow that's really the dream

#🐾 #i pretended to be a lot of things i was just one of those kids that got let outside every day #lion. tiger. warrior cat when i was a bit older #we would play survivor ?? like ship wreck but also the tv show #tarzan (just climbing trees) #LOVED being zorro. which involved towel capes and was the most involved a prop ever became #and one time my mom mad the mask out of like a dishcloth then we just hit each other with sticks obviously #zorro ruled.... #i would also play swamp monster (i imagined my best friend was a swamp monster and i had to hide him from the cruel world)

[1ore]

today i was really like "haha man why do i want to write about a couple of dudes that have my exact neuroses so badly" and then later had the most comical panic attack of my adult life

#so that was foreshadowing. #im fine it was the first one in years and it was over nothing #but nothing like the imaginary tigers disease to humble you and your relationship with your mental health #every day i exhibit behaviors

[sanstropfremir]

Please share all your Jopping thoughts! I am now exceedingly curious.

L;AKSDJF;LASDKJFL;SDAKJF ANON I LOVE YOUUUUU

i dont remember if i kept this in my maximalist kpop post or not but i had wrote a whole section about how the concept of superm as a group is maximalism and everything that they did is probably the purest form of kpop performance spectacle that we've seen in the last several years. kpop has always been about taking random americanisms and extrapolating them into a weird and altogether new conglomorate of cultural hybrid bizarreness and superm ramps that up to 100 (pun intended). the disparate visual western touchstones (cars/motorsports, cowboys, big tech + machines, superheros, military, collegiate gear) all crammed together with choreo that goes extremely hard for no reason, stupid and cringe (complimentary) english lyrics, completely over the top studio set pieces, and all done by a group that's literally assembled from defining groups of the last three generations, from the company that pioneered the industry? how can it be anything except the pinnacle of modern kpop? people can make the arguments all they want that sm was attempting to pander to the west in the vein of bts, but what those people miss is that superm was never totally westernized in the way that bts has been in their recent endeavours. superm maintains a sense of koreanness throughout not only their music (promoting i can't stand the rain on the ellen show along with jopping, none of their title songs being fully in english) but also visually with tiger inside, which has become their most popular song second to jopping. sm was very careful not to sacrifice the threads of what makes kpop korean with superm, and that's what makes everything about what they were doing work.

#kpop questions #superm w #superm #the big mistake that hybe and bts has made is that they think that kpop is popular because it's like western pop #and so they have tailored their groups to match that assumption #but this is not what makes kpop popular with the people who are longtime fans or who engage with a lot of different groups #it is the differences the synthesis the cultural hybridity that makes it popular #it is a unique type of pop music and to strip it of those factors is to strip it of character #like superm is extremely transparently a manufactured group and that's what makes them work #like obvs the song with the lyric 'cuz when we jumping and popping with jopping' is not come heartfelt ''authentic'' labour of love #and that's the point!! they are all about the most spectacle all the time to entertain you!! #no pretending to be fake deep we are all here for the glory of the game (watching a group of kpop's best dancing their little hearts out) #real fakery >>>>>>>>>>>>> authenticity every day bc fakery is DESIGNED TO BE THE BEST IT CAN AT THAT SPECIFIC THING #if you were to modernize/'4th gen-ify' a bg track from 2011-15 jopping is exactly what it would be like. it is the natural evolution #i realize this is less about jopping and more just about superm in general. but i think jopping is the perfect intro #and their really impressive work is with superone and their 2020 cbs #absolutely inspired of sm to go from insane americanisms (100) to traditional koreanisms (tiger inside) #and then right back to DIFFERENT insane americanisms (one) in the span of a little over a MONTH #anyways yes i WILL take deep artistic meaning from superm and you cant stop me!! #also: the superone promo photos for one/the collegiate styling + the accompanying merch are some of THE best kpop merch of all time #literally those photos are incredible and that athleisure collegiate combo is soooooo inspired #also they have a stellar discography. its so fucking good #text #answers

[yuquiitas]

tnb is the funniest anime ever bc it makes you say things like “damn i wished we knew more about this dude his backstory seems insteresting” about the main character 

#my art #tiger and bunny #taibani #second one is still a wip but idc really #kotetsu deserves being a better series #look at me in the eyes please guy in his mid 30s who s is a professional supehreroe who after being in the peak of his career loses his wif #due to an illnes ie something you cant punch and now is a single father of a toddler #and cant raise her bc of his work + is going thru it (will be going thru it for 5 years) and gets clowned on live tv every single day #bc all of this but oh boy hes tryiing so hard bc he loves his job and his familly #its like the superior major plotline idk im just some guy

[void-tiger]

Oxytocin low. Send hugs.

#tiger’s roar #it has…been overcast for days. with no snow to maximize light output #and since it’s been so warm the trees think it’s fucking SPRING…not likely gonna get The Mirror Effect + Seasonal Coziness any time soon #and it’s when it looks like a so called Tender Tennessee Christmas outside…is when I actually get the winter SADs #because tennessee in winter is nothing but bizarre tempts and overcast browns. it’s miserable #also…I really only get People Hugs from a ‘what even are we really’ ‘s mom #like…once every two weeks. there’s only so much pets being snuggly and burrowing my face into a jumbo squishmellow can do to help with this #and…Someone told on me to 3rd Party. either someone broke confidence who was told to keep it #OR… ‘what even ARE we?!’ and their sibling (and possibly their parents) all played detective. and spoke to 3rd Party #I…would rather believe the second. vs betrayed Yet Again #because of the timing and because…they’re really the only ones who have Visibly been allowed to see just how Awful this was for me and… #still trying to put on a brave face. redraw boundaries. protect everyone #but I still feel so so fragile. and I need them HERE. and it feels so so selfish to want that #and doing my best to Brave Face is…walking on a fractured leg. but what else am I supposed to do #and…I feel so embarassed to basically expose just how damaged my attachment is #and that using friendships and longing for friendships and prioritizing platonic over romantic is…apparently not normal. #prolly a trauma response actually. and I cannot force people to be friends. because to me friends are surrogate family. literally #and that is…too intense. probably. #(…and did I mention that needing this just feels…selfish?)

[dailyfelid]

19/11/22

#cat #digital art #art #drawing #daily cat #daily drawing #one cat every day #daily felid #one felid every day #19.11.2022 #19.11.22 #today's felid is: #tiger #bweeeeh!!!

[pepprs]

over the years i have become more… irritable? i guess is the word? over the tiniest things. clutter on my calendar. ANY noise that i do not like no matter how quiet it is (e.g. slurping food, scraping spoons, high pitched noises, tv / videos playing in the background). light being off balance (like storm clouds with sun peeking through them or like.. a light bulb being out in a fully lit room). people getting too close to me but only at particular moments. idk what it is but my critical mass for stimula i can handle at any given moment has gotten smaller and smaller and it’s very distressing

#it’s part of why living at home is so like… unpleasant for me bc there is ALWAYS noise and my family gets mad at me bc they’re like ppl live #here you can’t just tell us to be quiet / go away / whatever. and i know i can’t but that’s not what im saying it’s just i can’t deal if its #not quiet or balanced or whatever. i can’t think or process. like today my parents were unpacking groceries and packages and shit and my dad #was opening cardboard boxes and the scraping made me want to jump out of my skin and i was like a caged tiger and i lashed out at them over #something small which made them mad at me and i know it was u called for but i was trying to focus and the noise was just so unwelcome that #i couldn’t bear it. but it’s like that happens to me every day and i don’t know what to do. even al*xa doing her stupid weather report #bothers me. and this one guy on game night whose usb keeps unplugging and pinging. idk. every day i am crushed into a little ball by noises #i physically mentally emotionally spiritually can’t bear and i just find it distressing bc the number of things encompassed in it is growing #larger and larger and it’s like uhmmmm do i have hearing issues or something. lawl #purrs #but it’s also not just hearing it’s like. all my senses. if something is not right in certain categories i lose my shit and cant be a person

[1-tiger-every-day]

25.09.2022

Urban tiger (the first in a series)!

#daily tiger #digital media #artists on tumblr #cityscape #city nights #ipad art #procreate app #I'm begging myself to PLEASE clear some old tiger files off my ipad before it explodes #every day it is on the brink of collapse #artistlife #illustrators on tumblr #OKAY enough tags #one-point perspective #photo study

[bonsaiiiiiii-fics]

Fireflies

original post here

ok so, since I’ve taken a night stroll earlier tonight, i’ve decided that it’s a good time to repost here a fic i’ve made exactly 2 years ago (this time the fireflies are early lol)

i decided also not to edit this fic in any way because i thought i’d have ‘attacked’ the fic’s fluffiness, vibe and everything (although, now that i read it again, i might want to add some things…😏), so get it as it is, sentences that probably don’t make sense and incorrect grammar (you gotta get the whole deal)

summary: Alice takes a nice and relaxing night stroll, welcomed by the Island’s beach and a full Moon peeping out. (think of this moment as a separate thing and not in line with Dust’s timeline and events). the chapter is pretty short, and any doubts you might have will hopefully be cleared out in the tags

It was midnight, and Alice couldn’t sleep. She was on Tracy Island that day to spend some time with Virgil and the others, naturally after having entrusted her home in Los Angeles to a dear friend of hers. Now she didn’t notice the jet-lag, because she went back and forth as she liked between the US and Tracy Island, but she couldn’t sleep anyway that night.

She didn’t have any weird feelings or bad feelings. She just needed to get out a little bit, to get some air. She looked from out the window at the ceiling. As with every time she was in her room, the various constellations painted with fluorescent paint and the great White Moon welcomed and guarded her thoughts, and often even her worries.

That night he was in her room because she wanted to be alone to think; Virgil had fully approved, arguing that every now and then everyone needed to be alone to think. After all, during the afternoon they were completely alone cuddling lazily on his bed all the time, they had enough time for them.

Alice sighed deeply. Evidently not even her room was made to be alone to think that night. So she sat on the bed after having affectionately greeted with her eyes her stars, slipping the soft slippers to the feet. She wanted to get out and so she would.

Turning the abat-jour on the bedside table, which made a warm and faint yellow light around the room, she looked around to accustom her eyes to that little light, then she got up from her bed, heading towards the door leading to the closet, located not far from the en-suite bathroom and opposite the glass wall that led to the balcony.

She entered the small room, lighting the light there too, and then headed to a precise drawer and pull out her two-piece swimsuit, the one that Virgil loved so much. She took off her silk pajamas and black underwear, quickly but quietly putting on her costume, starting with her underwear and then slipping on her bra, quickly binding it just under her shoulders. Then she covered himself with the silk shawl that was part of the pajamas.

She turned off the light from the walk-in closet and went out, closing the door behind her. Then she changed the slippers with a pair of flip-flops, heading to turn off the abat-jour. She headed to the door holding the flip-flops in her hand. She didn’t need any noise now that everyone was asleep. She calmly opened the door and then left. She tiptoed down the hall, making sure not to make any noise. Luckily, the parquet floor underneath her did not creak, so her presence was not even felt.

She calmly went down the stairs and then proceeded to the living room. She was somewhat surprised when John did not appear as a hologram to greet her, though she expected it. Maybe he was asleep, like everyone else in the villa. She went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, and could clearly smell the chlorine in the pool first thing. She smiled a little and then drank the water in one breath.

Then she went out, clenched in her shawl, and was surprised to sense movement in the pool. At this time of night...?

Of course she knew it was about Gordon, and in fact her suspicions were immediately clarified when his twin brother pulled his head out of the water after a dive.

"Hey, you. Yes, right you." Alice whispered to Gordon, who looked at her surprised.

"I didn’t expect to find you up this late, Litchi. Can’t you sleep?" he whispered back.

"Don't call me Litchi." she murmured sternly. "No, I can’t sleep tonight, so I thought I’d take a stroll to the beach."

Gordon was about to replicate something, his glowing look of excitement, when Tiger, with a slight meowing, dived into the water right next to Gordon, who chuckled.

"Sometimes I seriously doubt he’s a cat." he said, pointing to the young tiger cat swimming comfortably in the pool, as if he were in its natural environment.

"True. It looks like he’s made for water. I’ve seen cats swimming like Tiger online, so it’s not totally impossible. Just hard to see." replied Alice, lifting her shoulders, and then lowering to put on her flip-flops.

"If you want, I can go down with you to the sea." Gordon whispered right away.

"If you want, yes."

"Then turn around. I have to put my boxers on."

"You mean you’ve bathed naked so far?" she whispered maliciously, then giggled, turning her back to her twin brother.

She immediately heard him coming out of the water, and when he whispered the ok she turned again.

"Nice abs, bro!" she whispered.

He rolled his eyes, but not after posing. "If Virgil hears you then he becomes jealous of me." When Alice rolled his eyes he continued. " I go inside to get a sweatshirt. If I’m not back in 5 minutes it means that Scott caught me."

She widened her eyes. " Scott is awake? But I haven’t met him at all!"

"I saw his room light go out just before I dived in. He retired recently, but that doesn’t mean he’s asleep. You have to be careful."

"Go then."

"Anyway, do you have the communicator?"

Alice nodded her head as she followed him into the living room. "How could I not have it? I wear it even when I sleep!" she whispered and then showed the bracelet that was on her wrist, so thin that it did not even look like a communicator.

"Wait for me outside." Gordon whispered, and Alice nodded on her way back to the pool, sitting on a deck chair nearby.

She could hear the crickets and the bubbling of an owl in the distance. She stopped to listen to that angelic sound for so long that she did not notice how much time had passed. When she looked at the wrist clock, she noticed that 15 minutes had passed. She got up from the deckchair and then walked a little, until she found a small underground path in front of her. Without thinking twice she took that path, arriving with some trouble at the beach in front of her. She headed toward the still warm sand and without thinking twice sat down on it, comforted by its warmth. She turned to put her black shawl on a rock in the pine forest, and what she saw at that moment took her breath away.

As she had walked in the woods to get to the beach she had never noticed the thousand fireflies that filled the trees with small lights, numerous and beautiful. They looked like stars came down to earth. Some of the bright insects even arrived on the beach, also illuminating the golden sand and, shortly after, the sea.

When she returned to the sand, this time to lie down on it, she realized that there was no moon in the sky. There were several stars bright enough but, although there was no cloud in the sky, the bright star had not yet made its appearance.

She sighed, and then stood up and walked safely to the water, leaving the flip-flops near the shawl and enjoying the sound of the sand creaking under her feet at every step she was taking. She began to immerse herself in the water little by little, comforted by the heat that was releasing from the sultry day just passed.

Everything looked different at night; even the living room of the villa was different at night. There was more room for nocturnal sounds, such as cicadas, crickets and owls, sounds that during the day could not be heard with various commitments. It was as if the world really took on life during the night, revealing this dark but charming side of her, or at least that’s what Alice has always thought since she was little. She liked to walk at night, she always liked it.

It was only when she arrived with the water up to her neck that she stopped. And she enjoyed the Moon that was beginning to peep out, reflecting on the water.

#Iris writes #FluffIris #EverydayIris #or should i say everynight iris lol #Alice Kim centered #oc #original character #Alice Kim #Gordon Tracy #Scott Tracy (mentioned) #Virgil Tracy (mentioned) #John Tracy (mentioned) #Tiger #Tiger is a smol cat the Tracy’s love #but i have yet to decide if it will join their liges on Dust’s timeline too #also you might read that Alice refers to Gordon as her twin #it’s because their birthdays are one a few days close to the other #thunderbirds are go #thunderfam #yes i’m tagging the Thunderfam in every TAG related fic #what about it lol #my fic #Fireflies #bonsaiiiiiii-fics

[saritawolff]

Phew. This one took, uh… a bit longer than expected due to other projects both irl and art-wise, but it’s finally here. The long-awaited domestic animal infographic! Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough space to cover every single domestic animal (I’m so sorry, reindeer and koi, my beloveds) but I tried to include as many of the “major ones” as possible.

I made this chart in response to a lot of the misunderstandings I hear concerning domestic animals, so I hope it’s helpful!

Further information I didn’t have any room to add or expand on:

🐈 “Breed” and “species” are not synonyms! Breeds are specific to domesticated animals. A Bengal Tiger is a species of tiger. A Siamese is a breed of domestic cat.

🐀 Different colors are also not what makes a breed. A breed is determined by having genetics that are unique to that breed. So a “bluenose pitbull” is not a different breed from a “rednose pitbull”, but an American Pitbull Terrier is a different breed from an American Bully! Animals that have been domesticated for longer tend to have more seperate breeds as these differing genetics have had time to develop.

🐕 It takes hundreds of generations for an animal to become domesticated. While the “domesticated fox experiment” had interesting results, there were not enough generations involved for the foxes to become truly domesticated and their differences from wild foxes were more due to epigenetics (heritable traits that do not change the DNA sequence but rather activate or deactivate parts of it; owed to the specific circumstances of its parents’ behavior and environment.)

🐎 Wild animals that are raised in human care are not domesticated, but they can be considered “tamed.” This means that they still have all their wild instincts, but are less inclined to attack or be frightened of humans. A wild animal that lives in the wild but near human settlements and is less afraid of humans is considered “habituated.” Tamed and habituated animals are not any less dangerous than wild animals, and should still be treated with the same respect. Foxes, otters, raccoons, servals, caracals, bush babies, opossums, owls, monkeys, alligators, and other wild animals can be tamed or habituated, but they have not undergone hundreds of generations of domestication, so they are not domesticated animals.

🐄 Also, as seen above, these animals have all been domesticated for a reason, be it food, transport, pest control, or otherwise, at a time when less practical options existed. There is no benefit to domesticating other species in the modern day, so if you’ve got a hankering for keeping a wild animal as a pet, instead try to find the domestic equivalent of that wild animal! There are several dog breeds that look and behave like wolves or foxes, pigeons and chickens can make great pet birds and have hundreds of colorful fancy breeds, rats can be just as intelligent and social as a small monkey (and less expensive and dangerous to boot,) and ferrets are pretty darn close to minks and otters! There’s no need to keep a wolf in a house when our ancestors have already spent 20,000+ years to make them house-compatible.

🐖 This was stated in the infographic, but I feel like I must again reiterate that domestic animals do not belong in the wild, and often become invasive when feral. Their genetics have been specifically altered in such a way that they depend on humans for optimal health. We are their habitat. This is why you only really see feral pigeons in cities, and feral cats around settlements. They are specifically adapted to live with humans, so they stay even when unwanted. However, this does not mean they should live in a way that doesn’t put their health and comfort as a top priority! If we are their world, it is our duty to make it as good as possible. Please research any pet you get before bringing them home!

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[nightthewing]

My first word was tiger and I feel like my parents should've considered that more when they were speaking to me as a kid (my mother in particular)

#they painted the walls of my nursery with an alphabet and one wall had a few jungle creatures on it #and every day they would take me around that room and name all the things on the walls #and tiny little me just sat there absorbing this every day #and one day when they were about to say “tiger” I jumped in and provided it #from day one I have been learning and absorbing and putting things together when she did not know or think I was #I don't know why she never grew out of that despite the fact that she tells that story joyfully on the occasion it comes up #but that's what children do and it's what I did. I saw #I learned #I have been taught many lessons #but probably not the ones she was going for