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twoja stara sra do gara a twij stary to wpierdala punczory nie umarlyy - 20f - happy to make new acquintances

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Polish rural gothic

A love letter to the polish countryside, all the old wonky buildings, shrines, disheveled fences and crooked trees. Remnants of once different, deeply religious society. One of my greatest romances.

Part two, Part three

Shoot with Instax Mini 90 Neo

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MOON (2017-2024)

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chat how do i stop going insane every summer

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Every time some flannel-wearing old man dies and all his good clothes get dumped to a thrift shop, it's like a whalefall for the local masc-presenting thrift-shoppers.

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Lykoi the werewolf cat breed

So I’m not going to be arguing because I’ve seen enough from enough owners over the years to have reached this conclusion, and I’m not in well enough health to come back to this. But I’m seeing the lykoi breed get more attention around tumblr lately, and I’ve gotta speak up because the breed has a dirty little secret.

I joined the Lykoi Lovers group years ago because I loved this breed, they’re super cute! I love werewolves! However, over the years, as more people got these cats, and their cats aged up (3-5+yo is when skin issues become REALLY evident) the group turned into a horror show.

This mutation really reminds me of lemon frost in leopard geckos. In the geckos, it was the desirable appearance which CAUSED the cancerous tumors. It wasn’t something that could be bred out. Similarly, it is the werewolf appearance which causes the skin issues, cysts, pimples, bleeding in the cats. You can breed away from it… and end up with a normal looking cat with fewer skin issues. You cannot seem to keep the werewolf look AND have good skin.

More below, and it IS graphic so be warned. Pus, blood, sad cats under the cut.

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Instead of making a seperate post and linking back to this one I’m just going to add onto this as a reblog so the evidence is all in one place. I hope that’s alright.

So. I was doing some research earlier, not on this subject in particular but in my perusing I did come across a study on this exact issue.

I’d like to draw attention back to this comment from one of the screenshots:

“The gene that is specific to Lykoi that creates the semi hairless and roaning look is thought to be responsible for less hair follicles and possibly smaller pores. This in turn could be responsible for the cyst/pimple issue.”

The gene is not ‘thought’ to reduce hair follicles, we know that’s what it does.

Lykoi not only have fewer hair follicles the follicles they do have are more shallow and smaller, and they have more sebaceous glands. Check out sebsceous gland hyperplasia.

The Lykoi in this study were also observed to suffer from periocular and mural lymphocytic folliculitis.

I had a hard time finding a source that gives a straightforward explanation of what “lymphocytic folliculitis” means so here’s some case studies to give you an idea of what the condition is like.

A 5-year-old cat developed a raised hair coat and adherent crusting lesions involving the skin of the head, dorsal neck and abdomen. Erosions were present on the lips and eyelids. The footpads were dry and scaly.

- A case of diet-related lymphocytic mural folliculitis in a cat

A 13-year-old, 3.4 kg female spayed domestic shorthair cat presented to the referring veteri- narian with purple discoloration and alopecia of the right forelimb near the first digit. […] followed by recurrence of the signs together with an ulcer- ation and surrounding moderate erythema at the location of the original lesion. There was also a new alopecic area with erythematous to purple discoloration of the skin cranial to the metacarpal pad on the same extremity. […] the lesions subsequently worsened. The ulcerated area expanded, and the erythe- ma cranial to the metacarpal pad on the right paw intensified. The ulceration bled when traumatized by normal activity, such as grooming, though there was no evidence that the lesions were pruritic or painful.

- Feline cutaneous lymphocytosis: case report and summary of the literature

Lymphocytic mural folliculitis is characterized by lymphocyte-predominant inflammation directed toward the follicular epithelium. This histological pattern is recognized in domestic cats associated with infectious dermatoses (dermatophytosis, demodicosis)

- Lymphocytic Mural Folliculitis Resembling Epitheliotropic Lymphoma in Tigers (Panthera tigris)

Demodicosis is mange.

Dermatophyrosis is ringworm.

That’s what these symptoms are being compared to.

We’ve known since 2016.

The Lykoi was established as a breed in 2011.

5 years into their time as a breed we knew. When the first Lykoi began to age into their prime we already knew exactly how the genere resulted in their unique appearance.

But no-one decide to call it quits.

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Wind Turbines, Palm Springs, California image credit: David McNew via: The Guardian

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podpisano: dziadek Tadzik

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Can you explain the "breyer horses are stylised" thing you said a while back? Not because I don't believe you but because I don't know enough about horses to see it (besides the mane and tail)

All artistic representations of a horse will be somewhat stylized. Humans can't help it, they imagine details, even when referencing photos or live animals. A swayed back gets exaggerated, sickle hocks are overlooked, the face becomes more expressive, because to a human who loves a horse, and who expresses their own emotions with their face, the horse's face just feels more expressive.

Take a look at this horse from Peter Paul Rubens' "Wolf and Fox Hunt" (1616) and how it compares to a photo of a horse

The artist was clearly familiar with horses, and most likely referenced off a live horse. And yet its face is much more expressive than a real horse's face - it's neotenous and borderline anthropomorphic, with its huge sorrowful eyes, and the short muzzle that puts the mouth in closer proximity to its eyes (making its expression more readable).

I think a lot of people see what they want to see when they look at a horse, and they reflect that in their art. Is the horse an independent agent or a tool of its rider? Is the horse an unthinking animal or a soulful creature like yourself? Does the artist admire animals, in spite of painting them in terrible war-like scenarios? Does the artist paint animals in these scenarios because he admires them? Is the horse meant to elevate the status of its rider, by being depicted as a soulful creature that nonetheless submits to its rider? (You can probably guess my own opinion from these questions)

Earlier art saw horses almost an afterthought, depicted from memory while their rider was drawn reverently. All those art pieces of emperors and kings on horseback, where the horse looks like a cartoonish oaf, use the horse as a symbol of power, with no regard for the animal itself. Even when the horse is beautifully rendered, it's nothing more than a vehicle to carry its rider. The artist has depicted the horse as expressionless, beastly, and soulless.

Even when you get into portraits of horses in the 17-/1800s, they are still stylized, though now you're just as likely to see a lithe and graceful companion, as you are a muscled working horse or a faithful old friend. Horse breeding really took off around this time, as did theories of animal minds, so adoration of horses-as-individuals became more widespread. Examples are "Lustre" (1762) by George Stubbs, "Mare and Foal in a Stable" (1854) by John Frederick Herring Senior, and "A Grey Horse in a Field" (1873) by Rosa Bonheur.

All this is to say that horses will always be stylized in art. Humans can't not twist the horse the suit their own tastes, and that's fine. I actually think it's kinda beautiful. The way horses are stylized can give you insight into the artist's opinion of horses. An artist with a neotenic, expressive stylization probably has more respect for horses-as-individuals than an artist who depicts them as inexpressive, powerful, willing beasts of burden.

Breyer horses have an airy painterly quality to them. Even the draft horses seem almost weightless. Compare Breyer's "George" with the self-released resin horse "Gustav," both sculpted by Brigitte Eberl.

George has much longer hooves and smoother curves in his legs - you could draw a near perfect curve from his hind knee to his toe -, giving him a flowing appearance with very little weight behind it. Gustav, on the other hand, has sharp edges and corners. He feels heavy. I'm a big fan of wrinkles and muscle on model horses, but the muscles on George seem like he's been through a rock tumbler. They're smooth and soft-looking, except for the extremely deep crevices between them, which are probably there to better catch paint and enhance the shading (an effect that's especially noticeable on George's thigh). Gustav, on the other hand, has very subtle muscling and virtually no wrinkles (he deserves neck wrinkles, give my boy neck wrinkles!!). He looks like a working horse with a solid layer of fat over his muscles. George's stylization is, for lack of a better word, smooth. Flawless. A bit too perfect for my liking. George is like the platonic ideal of a visually appealing draft horse. A horse like him can't exist.

I think resin horses by master craftsmen are the closest we'll get to depicting horses exactly as they are in life. The stylistic choices are extremely subtle, and seem more like a consequence of the medium than a deliberate goal on the artist's part (e.g., you can't make a realistic mane out of resin, so you have to compromise).

I love both the stylistic trappings that humans fall into when depicting horses and the endless quest for the perfect artistic representation of the horse. Both are beautiful. All horse art is beautiful.

(Obligatory disclaimer that I'm not an art historian or anthropologist, I literally studied bugs are university, so if you think I'm talking out of my ass you are MORE than welcome to add to this post!)

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3rd base is when i throw up at your house

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