[enki2]

[lleyksie]

black bears ʕ-ᴥ-ʔ

[homunculus-argument]

How long do y'all think it took for people to forget mammoths? One generation, two, three? They got rarer and rarer, until the clan felled the last one that they would ever kill, and the hunters who were there would, for the rest of their lives, keep telling the story of how they once slayed the most elusive grand beast, that was only seen once a generation. And the youths would listen their descriptions of them, and though the description didn't make much sense - there was nothing else quite alike a mammoth that it could be compared to - they listened and thought that one day, they would encounter a mammoth, too.

They might tell their children and grandchildren of this, how the old hunters would tell them of a spectacular beast that one might see only three times in a lifetime, and perhaps kill just once. It must be true, since the clan still has the tusk of one, but no-one alive has seen one.

Their children and grandchildren would tell their own children only vague tales they used to hear the old folk tell, of grand beasts bigger than horses and bovines, the grandest game of them all, but no-one alive has met someone who has seen one.

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[soymoss]

starling

[librarycards]

gentle

[airegin7]

Kestrel flight

[cheglok-art]

Kākāpō believes in you ☀

[cheezeknif]

Bird painting

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Wild animals don't commit murder. A wild animal killing a dog or cat is not an animal committing murder, it's an animal engaging in its natural instincts and finding food. A wild animal does not know or care that its prey is someone's dearly loved pet, it is just hunting the same way it would hunt for a rabbit or squirrel. There is nothing malicious about a coyote eating a cat or a cougar eating a dog; it's just nature that happens to affect people more closely.

It is devastating to lose a pet that way, but there are precautions you can take and at the end of the day, you cannot hate an animal for just doing what it needs to do in its own home. You have to remember that these are creatures choosing between starvation and survival; your feelings don't factor into that. Take as many precautions against wild animals as you can, including doing basics like keeping your cats inside and not letting your dog out unattended especially at night, but don't hate an animal just for trying its best to survive. They were here first and your home and fences are just another obstacle to finding food to them, no different from a river or bramble patch. If you want less wild animals attacking pets, then support efforts to revitalize local ecosystems so that they have an abundance of natural prey and don't feel the need to enter towns.

[theelibloggg]

I'll go even further, no animal is capable of committing murder. Yes it is always super tragic when a pet dog kills a pet cat or another pet dog, when a cat kills another cat, when a pet dog or cat kills a smaller household pet, but calling it murder and acting like the attacking animal in question "knows better" is ridiculous. They're non-human animals.

Is it traumatic? Yes! Is it sad? Yes! Is the animal that attacked a murderer, and is that non human animal on the same level as a human who commits these acts? No.

[alaskanay]

American Kestrel | Raptors of North America

[freckled-cellofun]

Guess who? ☺️❤️

[crowttore]

arranged marriage or marriage of convenience and they don't want to force you to sleep in the same bed or even room as them so they're very respectfully saying goodnight before going to their quarters to fuck their fist while thinking about how relaxed you finally seemed after dinner that night

[asneakyfox]

one of my favorite bits in lord of the rings is something the movies didn't really try to do because it's entirely internal, but sam's carrying the ring and it starts trying to do its work on him, so he's having these intrusive visions of himself marching at the head of a vast and terrible army, and he just starts laughing because, me? samwise gamgee? sam gamgee the general sam gamgee the dark lord are you for real? man i just want to go home and do some gardening. and the ring gets frustrated and it starts trying to figure out other stuff that would actually tempt sam and it's finally like, okay, but hear me out: imagine if you could have...A REALLY REALLY BIG GARDEN

[yaoigaysexaura]

you can't say "stop making everything about men" about a group of marginalised people who have been historically erased and never centered in any conversations that affect them. that is erasure. you are perpetuating the system that leads to these people being trafficked, raped, and killed without ever being remembered as more than a "tragic woman"

[wiisagi-maiingan]

If you have anxiety or psychosis, PLEASE be careful about your caffeine intake and try to always pair it with food. Caffeine can be a major trigger for anxiety, paranoia, delusions, etc and it's a million times worse on an empty stomach.

[thecimmerissystem]

abled people need to get comfortable with disabled people not having the energy to "dress up"

the amount of backhanded comments I'd heard from my irl friends about how they really like the times where I wear things other than sweatpants and hoodies and I should really work on creating my own style is insane

there are some days where I have enough energy to wear the things I want to wear, but those are rare. they need to get used to that.