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he/they/she i fear this is just to store my facts and photo dumps in

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spontaneous photo dump after not touching tumblr in a million years lmao

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FUN FACTS FOR ABSOLUTE SIGMAS ONLY!!! do you know what a puma is? a type of cat. how about a cougar? also a type of cat. can you tell me the difference? TRICK QUESTION! theyre the same type of cat, the puma concolor.

the puma holds the guinness world record for animal with the most names. they have over forty names in english alone, and lots more in languages like spanish and portuguese and stuff.

they are also the most widespread terrestrial mammal in the western hemisphere, and among the most widespread in the world. you can find them from canada down to argentina!

some of the names for them ive come across most commonly are: puma, cougar, mountain lion, and panther (yes they are called panthers despite not being of the panthera genus, i dont know man)

some of my favourite names for them include: red tiger, deer tiger, silver lion, mountain screamer, catamount and painter

they are of the genus puma. this basically gives them their very own genus, as theyre the only extant member (all the other potential pumas are very much dead)

they are not big cats, but the largest species of small cat (kind of confusing, big small cats)

they have super muscular bodies built for sprinting, and the largest hind legs of any species of cat, so they can leap five meters in height, and run up to 50mph!

pumas are nocturnal ambush predators. theyre most active at night time, and theyll eat basically any animal they can catch, often things like deer, cattle, and even large moose! theyre known to cover the carcass with bushes to return to eat without other animals finding their catch.

yeah so pumas are very cool and skibidi, hope you enjoyed the yap!!

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HI OKAY SO did you know that JAGUARS are the absolute sillies and they are so cool and i love them? im gonna yap now

jaguars are the only member of the panthera genus native to the americas. they are also the biggest cats in the americas, and the third biggest in the world (smaller than lions and tigers). they can be up to six foot one in body length, but can be as small as three foot eight. females are usually ten to twenty percent smaller than males, and while the largest recorded males weigh up to 158kg, the smallest recorded females weigh as little as 36kg (it varies ALOT).

they are apex predators and obligate carnivores (they rely completely on meat for nutrients without exception). they kill prey by biting through the skull behind the ears to bite into the brain, and their bite is strong enough to bite through turtle shells! they use a stalk and ambush strategy to hunt, listening for prey and then pouncing from cover, usually from a targets blind spot. they can ambush prey in water as theyre able to carry a large kill and still swim. they can even carry carcasses up trees! they drag kills to secluded spots before they eat them.

they mostly prefer dense forests as habitats, and often live in rainforests, tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forests and cloud forests in central america. their pattern camouflages them in areas with dense plants and patchy light. their coats range from pale yellow to tan with a light underside. their black spots become rosettes on the sides and some have dots in the middle. melanistic jaguars (jaguars with black coats) are known as black panthers, as well as melanistic leopards. this is because they are both of the genus panthera, as are other bigs cats like lions and tigers, so you could technically call their melanistic variants black panthers too!

theyre usually solitary other than females with cubs. cubs stay with the mother for up to two years. jaguars are strong swimmers, and often hunt and play in the water. theyre also good at climbing trees, but aren't known to do so as much as cougars are. cubs reach maturity at two to four years old, and most jaguars in the wild live around twelve to sixteen years. captive jaguars can live into their twenties.

ANYWAY JAGUARS ARE SO COOL!!!

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the film the cure is so underrated its actually a crime against humanity because what the actual fuck. im not being funny, the cure shaped me as a person and changed me forever. every couple weeks at least i remember the cure exists and im emotionally destroyed all over again. i cant do this. HE WAS SO CUTE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK HE WAS JUST A BABY 😭🙏

on a less agonising note, here is the bad edit to mars argo my most recent flashback of this film created

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this song is actual pulchritudinous ngl (i love jinx ahahdyehdysudf)

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heres a bad edit that took nine hours just for me to not notice the bg music behind some of the voice lines i cant do this 😭

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having your gender identity figured out as a teen is actually wild. like power to you but i have no idea what im doing. i look like a girl, dress like my fifty year old dad, and refuse to give anyone an informative answer about what the fuck i am. i dont need to figure it out now. what if i dont want to figure it out at all? what if i want to change my name to michael and go on T and chop all my hair off, who cares? but also, what if i want to keep my long hair and dress and act and look the same way i do, and be visibly a woman but call myself michael and insist im a man? or what if i dye my hair blue and remain a blue haired liberal with pronouns for the rest of my life? WHO FUCKING CARES? gender is so stupid. like be what you want obviously, but i cant understand why anyone wants to be anything. if everyone just stopped it would be a non issue. coming out as "i dont give a fuck gender" guys. hate this shit. let me be girl who calls self boy and dresses like father. i am sigma. BE WHO YOU ARE FOR YOUR PRIDEEEEE

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fandom culture in recent years deeply infuriates me. if i hear one more person say anything about "everyone should like what they like and be themselves, except for this interest..." or "i love this media and the fandom, but not the cringe parts" I WILL CRASH OUT. the cringe makes it fun. i want someone to play a roleplay game with me and actually role play instead of hovering at spawn and arguing with people (yes im thinking of that really well made arcane game on roblox that noone uses to role play), i want to read fanfics even if theyre horrendous quality or a painfully cringe trope, i want to make friends in fandom spaces, i want to do bad roleplays in dms, i want to compliment peoples edits regardless of whether they're insanely impressive or look like they were made on imovie, i want to read everyones headcannons even if i completely disagree, WHERE IS THE CRINGE BROTHER??

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got bored heres a bad edit of jinx and isha to an iconic song i totally forgot about and just rediscovered 🥳 (spoilers for arcane s2)

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ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS SPOILERS!!

just did my english nat four talk on isha from arcane so heres the entire powerpoint copy and pasted because im unreasonably proud of it.

I'm going to talk about the character Isha in arcane, her parallel to Powder in season one act one, and her contribution to Jinx's development. My three main points will be her introduction in episode two, her impact on Jinx's character development, and her death in episode six.

When Isha is introduced in episode two, she is shown being chased by a group of men. She must make a large jump running from them, a parallel to Powder's introduction in the first series. Powder makes the jump, doesn't quite make it and is intentionally saved by Vi. Isha also falls and is unintentionally saved by Jinx. This represents the difference in their relationships. Vi was intentionally a role model to Powder, encouraging her to go out on jobs with them and assuring her she's ready. Jinx is unintentionally a role model to Isha, through her acts as a symbol for Zaun.

After her initial meeting with Jinx, Isha chases her into her fight against Smeech with Sevika. In this fight, Isha throws Jinx's bomb whisker, giving her time to shoot one of Smeech's men once he turns around, which is a parallel to the scene in series one, act one of Powder throwing her defective bomb when cornered, and then having to throw away the bag she was protecting. When Isha throws her bomb, her plan works. Isha is consistently a parallel of who Powder tried to be, rather than who she was. This is important to her character as it introduces her as a representation of Powder.

Throughout Isha's five episodes in the series, she's shown bonding with Jinx. She's used as a plot device to change Jinx's character. In episode four they are shown in Jinx's hideout, which is now much brighter. Isha has Jinx dye her hair blue and give her plaits like Jinx's. Jinx talks about how she didn't get to do that sort of thing with her sister, and states that Isha reminds her of Powder.

Isha attends the rally Jinx chooses not to show up to with Sevika. She is shown standing on top of a statue, leading people in support of Jinx as a symbol for Zaun. Enforcers raid the rally and arrest everyone there. Sevika escapes and then breaks into Stillwater with Jinx to break Isha out. After Warwick arrives in Stillwater, Jinx instructs Sevika to get Isha out. Isha is shown crying and attempting to go back for Jinx throughout the fight scene, a parallel to Powder in series one episode three, after Vi leaves her because she isn't ready to help fight.

In episode five, Jinx goes to get Vi, leading them to the cave she lost Warwick in, and they start to fight. Isha jumps in to help attack Vi, and when Vi hits her back and she's injured Jinx drops everything to check on her. This is used to show the parallel between Jinx's previous relationship with Vi, and now with Isha, representing the shift between Powder being protected by Vi, to Jinx taking on Vi's role years later.

Isha's final scene features multiple references to Powder, and parallels between their characters. During Isha's final scene in episode six, a series of flashbacks are shown of her and Jinx from her perspective. In one of these flashbacks, they're spray painting along a wall. Isha has blue paint, and Jinx has pink, representing Jinx's role as a role model like Vi, and Isha taking Powder's place in that relationship. In multiple of these flashbacks, both Isha and Jinx are shown with blue eyes for a few frames. This shows how Isha represents the person Powder wanted to be, and the way she brings Powder back in Jinx.

Isha's sacrifice to save Jinx is a parallel to Powder's attempt to save Vander in series one episode three. Powder used hex crystals in her monkey bomb, and due to it being overloaded it killed Vander, Claggor and Mylo. Isha used Jinx's hex tech gun, intentionally overloaded to stop Warwick and allow everyone else to evacuate, and her plan worked. This further supports the idea that she represents who Powder wanted to be. Her presence and impact on Jinx was a necessary plot device for Jinx to be humanized after being portrayed as being so apathetic for the majority of the first series. Her death formed who Jinx was for her arc in the final act.

To summarize, I've discussed Isha's introduction as a parallel to Powder, her impact on Jinx's character development and their representation of Powder and Vi's relationship, and her death's impact on Jinx's final character arc in the end of the series. Her character was used as a plot device throughout her brief appearance in the series, with no lines and constant references to Powder. She was used effectively in Jinx's development and the progression of the plot, and despite being so obviously a plot device was effective as her own character, with scenes shown from her perspective and her differences to Powder in each parallel.

ANYWAY you are so cool if you took the time to read that insane yap i spewed onto a powerpoint but yeah i am so so proud of it cause i suck balls at english and i did it for nat four BUT IT MAKES NAT FIVE and it was so fun and YIPPEE

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lot of talk about tiktoks downfall so heres a lil photodump noone will see while i try remember how tumblr works