Cute, Cuddly, and Cannibalistic

Whatever it is you followed me for... you are getting a lot of random other stuff too.  Things I like: monsters -Pacific Rim--Good Omens-- animals (especially hyenas)-stupid horror movies where people are eaten--- personal stuff is mostly about small town politics and organizing Pride events. Logistics and infrastructure, it's hella gay!She/They -Old enough to remember when the internet made a noise.

[ivafakename]

YOUNG MAN!

There's no need to feel down,

I MEAN YOUNG THEY!

I forgot your pronoun,

[ivafakename]

Prev do you think it's okay to just go on other people's posts and be funnier than them?

[star-girlfriend]

i love the x files cause it’s like what if the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen (literal doctor and FBI agent) got slowly convinced into believing in the most bizarre things imaginable by the most beautiful man you’ve ever seen (big stupid doe eyes) (also top FBI agent) and now they’re wanted by the government for being hot. or whatever

[fenrislorsrai]

Crowley woke warm and comfy, with a weight on one shoulder and wing being slowly stroked. They made a sleepy noise and weight was removed. “Were you using me as a book stand again?”

“No, this time I was using as a lap desk so I could make notes.” Crowley currently had nose firmly burrowed into Aziraphale’s side, so they could get arms around him. Aziraphale had one leg wrapped over Crowley’s leg, probably to stop them from squirming.

“What were you making notes on? Other than ON me.”

;“They are on you, actually. And me as well. I thought writing down what temptations and blessings we’d done for each other would give me basis for figuring out what we might have learned. Then I’ll label them by type and compare which types we gave each other over time. I think that even if we weren’t actively trying to teach each other, once we’d been at it for awhile, we had a sense of which ones were within each other’s capabilities and which were not.”

“You HAVE been busy while I’ve just been sleeping.”

“You do so enjoy it though.” Aziraphale ran hand along Crowley’s wing where it met body. “You’re not stiff are you?”

Crowley carefully stretched out wings and then folded them away into nothing. “No. It’s nice sleeping with them out. I believe I owe you a proper grooming though.”

“You owe me nothing.”

“You were clear on that. But I like taking care of you.” Crowley rubbed cheek against Aziraphale’s side. “Let me.”

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[fenrislorsrai]

It actually ended up 87K at the end. Post season 1 before we knew there'd ever be any more.

[glumshoe]

how can you tell if a rabbit possesses the gift of prophecy or not

[glumshoe]

I want to win Best of Show at a 4H competition for prognosticating rabbits

[heywetotheotherworld]

Oh, good luck! The issue isn't actually whether they can tell the future-- all rabbits are clairvoyant to a certain degree. What you want to breed for is precision as well as clarity.

The current 4H show trials involve getting the rabbits to predict the outcome of a horse race (via nibbling alfalfa out of a cup with a picture of the winning horse on it). Many rabbits can predict the horses that will run well over the course of the racing season, but you want to breed for a rabbit that can predict a specific race in the immediate future. So, it's all about narrowing that window of vision.

That said, this is obviously the strategy for show rabbits. If you're aiming for the rabbit equivalent of the kwisatz haderach, you don't want to narrow that window of prognostication at all.

[glumshoe]

My chief concern is that heritable rabbit clairvoyance seems to be negatively correlated with vitality. Rabbits that are heterozygous for the prognostication gene (Pp) tend to be moderately clairvoyant but feeble and small in size, prone to anxiety and stress—their visions are vague and symbolic. Rabbits that are homozygous for prognostication (pp) tend to have visions that are both more accurate and more precise, but also display a failure to thrive; even when they do survive to sexual maturity, they are almost always infertile.

Which begs the question: is it animal cruelty to attempt breed prognostication into rabbits, if it reduces their quality of life so dramatically? I know some animal rights groups are lobbying to have clairvoyant rabbits barred from show. I doubt they will succeed since there is so much financial incentive to be made off breeding for clear, precise, and accurate rabbit prognostication... but I think we have to consider the ethical implications even if it remains legal.

One interesting study I read recently showed that rabbits bred to prophesize only in abstract concepts tend to be more healthy and hale than those trained on naturalistic variables like horse racing and weather patterns. The conclusion was that rabbits experience the most psychological distress when they understand the nature and content of their visions, but are nearly unaffected when the content has no meaning to them—suggesting a potential application in the stock market.

[heywetotheotherworld]

Reblogging especially for the deep dive into the ethics of breeding prophetic rabbits for show. It's an important issue that I don't see enough folks talking about. I wasn't aware of the vitality issue, and this post reminded me to get current with the science.

I think my main concern with the study you mention above-- if I'm thinking about the right one (A Sense of Impending Doom: Semiotic Stress Syndrome and Prognostication in Domesticated Rabbit Populations?) is that it was, like so many studies in this area, funded by an investment firm. I feel it's not unreasonable to suggest that they might have ulterior motives in encouraging breeders to focus their efforts on refining rabbit lines that foresee exclusively abstract concepts.

That isn't to say that more precise prognostication isn't stressful for rabbits; I'm just doubtful of the validity of the claim that abstraction is somehow better for them.

[glumshoe]

That is the study... I had no idea who funded it! Now that you mention it, I absolutely can see the ulterior motive in promoting the idea that rabbits can/should only be used for abstract prophecy. You don’t actually need a rabbit to issue clear or accurate prophecies about something like the stock market—you just need people to believe that it can, “leak” those supposed prophecies, and voila! they fulfill themselves.

I have also read that wild rabbits tend to produce only one prophet per warren, regardless of population size. Does that produced one likely pp kit were actually observed culling extraneous pp kits in the same and subsequent litters. You would think that having multiple prophets in a warren would be beneficial, but I guess rabbits have never read The Minority Report.

[heywetotheotherworld]

Absolutely, thank you for mentioning that! It's my hope that future studies of pp kits in the wild will expand to look at them in situ, in the context of their Warrens of Origin (WoO) and to consider the warren as a whole as a meta-organism, much as we already do with other eusocial animals, such as bees, wasps, or micro camels. I'm not necessarily suggesting that propheted warrens are unequivocally eusocial-- I suspect we may ultimately find that what's going on with does who birth pp kits is something closer to quorum sensing than true eusociality-- but I think that discounting the role of the WoO in the development of pp kits is simply reductive. Something to look forward to in future research!

[glumshoe]

Absolutely. AFAIK they still don’t have an answer as to why some warrens never naturally produce prophets while others produce them consistently. If it’s a caste in a eusocial metaorganism, why is it present in some but absent in others, seemingly unrelated to the wellbeing of the warren? They did some studies back in the 70′s (headed by Dr. Nadia Ardavan, i believe) to see if they could force spontaneous prophets by engineering catastrophes, but imperiled warrens performed no differently at producing pp kits than control groups. It precognition an evolutionary holdover or an emergent adaptation?

[enjoymorestuff]

Is there some way you can use the rabbits' prophetic abilities to predict upcoming prophets?

[glumshoe]

In theory? In practice, I suspect that it would be prohibitively demanding—the rabbit would not simply have to foreknowledge of a future event, but would also have to predict the predictions made by the prophets whose existence it would be prophecizing. This fractaling, recursive precognition would surely exhaust a rabbit... they’re fragile creatures, after all.

[catchymemes]

[vtmb2spoilers-deactivated202112]

hope u dont mind me keeping ur tags because ur right:

[calmdowncalmdown]

I’ll reblog this every time I see it.

[wolfsrainrules]

This. 

This is the post that sticks with me, when I think about how drug campaigns should be run. This is the post that I remember, that haunted me, because it was honest, it was raw in a way “DARE” and other such things never managed. 

Telling a Kid ‘dont do drugs’ is all well and good, and sometimes it may work, done a certain way….but this. 

This is the post I remember, even years later, the one that makes me stop and shudder.  Ifuxdalion was right. This was more haunting to read then any anti drug campaign I’ve ever been subjected to in school as a kid. 

It’s honest and open, and true, and they should all be like that.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Never start feeding a cat. It will love you and a cat that loves you is the most annoying beast on the planet.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#why not just love it back then#like if i wanted to i could make this a whole thing and send it to my crush but i'll just leave it here

Loving it back makes both you and the cat more annoying

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#so....hows it going with the neighbor's neglected cat....

He's the snuggliest bastard in the entire fucking world thanks for asking

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You guys will never guess what beast is kneading all the skin off my shoulders right now

[heckthatbork]

Having dates turned on is really funny because the time between the first and last post is three days

[prehistoricsilverfish]

TIL my coworker is deathly afraid of cats and today in the car she told me about her tragic backstory. "You see... one day I found a stray on the streets, and I asked my father if we could bring it into the house and keep it as a pet, so he did. And one night while I was sleeping... it came up to me... AND SLEPT ON ME!! 😱😭"

And I'm like girl they're supposed to do that 😭 You brought a cuddle machine into your home, what do you expect???

[i-am-a-fish]

don't be mean to yourself that's you

[i-am-a-fish]

you live there

[shadowisi]

[thebutchmessiah]

Dyke arm wrestling, Leeds, May 2026

[fenrislorsrai]

Check out the The Buggre Alle This Server community on Discord - hang out with 110 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

A server for the Book Omens and all the NON-television/film adaptations like the graphic novel, radio show, and the musical stage show. If you did not know there was a musical... the Ineffable Con will be showing a recording of it in August! (the Australian show.... there's multiples but that's the only one with the recording!)

Hop in the server and yell about Good Omens, the original novel and the weirder adaptations. there was even a perfume line!

[officerhaughtstuff]

You’ve heard of the Roaring 20s........

now get ready for the Screaming 20s - coming to a decade near you in 2020

[heterokatedison]

is it too early or can we start screaming now

[heterokatedison]

in retrospect perhaps we should have started sooner

[jorolle]

this post is the equivalent of a newspaper from the day of the outbreak being blown past by the wind after you wake up in a post apocalyptic world

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Miniature effects in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Fantasy II Effects returned from the first film to handle the future war sequence and the Cryoco truck tipping over, while the nuclear destruction of Los Angeles fell to 4-Ward Productions.

[lliveonthesunn]

i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands

[dawnthekitty]

People don't remember how one of the worst things to happen to someone in a same sex relationship was having the love of your life hospitalized and all of their medical decisions put into the hands of family they'd cut off years ago. Of having no right to attend, much less plan, your wife's funeral because her body was released to her next of kin. Of not being able to say goodbye because her parents told the hospital you were not allowed to visit.

Marriage equality is so important.

[fenrislorsrai]

Wikipedia page on all the rights automatically tied to marriage in the US

some of the other important ones:

Right to a spouse's Social security if the die

Right to veteran spouses benefits

ability to have foreign spouse legally stay in country

tax free transfer of property between spouses at death

right to visitation of children after death or divorce

All told there are more than a THOUSAND things that married status changes your access to rights and various programs. Many of the most consequential are about end of life, but there's also things like getting discounts as "a family", filing taxes together, and getting a moving allowance if your spouse is in the military and is moved to new posting. It's a huge number of things that ensure equal treatment under the law.

[thundergrace]

that's hot

[detectivehole]

unless its egregious, i'm not embarrassed to be fooled by ai. "oh i got lied to via something made by the Lying Machine the machine we made to Lie really well" like it's gonna happen it's no egg on your face. just be chill about it

[detectivehole]

don't get me wrong. it's always devastating always humbling. no one wants to fall for the lying machine it just sounds bad. but you can't dwell

[phantomrose96]

Hey kids, you need to start worrying a little less about getting “#mogged” and a little more about getting “#smogged”. This is an Air Quality Index public service announcement.

[kat4t0nix]

Trans Girl Seeking Roommate(s)

Hey there, I'm Kat. I'm a 32 year old trans woman. Some of you may have seen my posts floating around, or have seen them reblogged by others.

I've been in an incredibly precarious mental state. I've attempted to kill myself three times in the last few days, and part of it is due to the fact that I'm in an oppressive environment that's harming my mental health, and I desperately want out of here. I want to do... something to make myself better. Making this post is my taking that first step to getting better.

I've also been on a waiting list for affordable housing that's tied to my income for nearly two years, however, I can't keep waiting for something to happen. I truly need a place to be where I can feel happy to be who I am, and not where I'm regarded to be an ideology to be believed in, or not...

I currently reside in Ontario, Canada and am looking for a place here, however, if need be, I can relocate to another part of the country, but I likely won't be able to fully afford travel to other parts of the country. I'm also able to provide/split on rent, however, my income is limited, but I can provide enough to make an impact, and make things work.

If there's anybody out there. Anybody at all that's looking for a roommate here in Ontario, or another part of Canada, please, PLESE reach out to me and send me a DM.

Please help me get better, and get out on my own. Please. I want so badly to live, and to not live in a place where I'm made to feel unwanted as a trans person.

[kat4t0nix]

Reblogging this again because I just had to bare witness to not one, but two of my family members go on a conservative tirade about how poor people are losers, that people they don't like, need to be put to death, and that trans people like me educating kids by reading them stories, is somehow wrong.

PLEASE, IF ANYBODY IS OUT THERE THAT'S LOOKING FOR A ROOMMATE, PLEASE HELP ME GET OUT OF THIS SITUATION