[unfamiliarsculptures]

Another dragon forest spirit. This one a little smaller than the last. This piece will be available this Friday, July 17th at 8pm Eastern time.

[goatedgreen]

right after my friend and i got out of iron lung the first thing we wanted to talk about was the nature of the moon, and the creatures on the moon that simon was on.

my friend really likes biology and when i brought up that the blood on the moon was oxygenated blood (really really red, also the oxygen levels go up when the blood enters the sub), the first thought she had was that the moon itself was likely some kind of organism/ superorganism that incorporated the humans that went down there into it.

she talked about how, similar to insects, the moon reminded her of an open circulatory system (the gravity of the moon acting as the bugs exoskeleton) but ALSO a closed circulatory system (the tunnels acting as veins and arteries).

thats when i kind of thought, based on that if continue the line of thought that the blood moon is a circulatory system, that the fish/monster creatures are a bit like white blood cells since they target and purge the "viruses" that are down there, aka the subs that get sent down

so you have this moon, which is actually a living creature. and you have the people that are being sent down, into this LIVING THING, getting destroyed because they pose a threat to the "immune system" of the moon.

[chloemew]

Absolutely enamoured with this snail mug I got yesterday....

A snug of snoffee

[neostellarjpg]

May I suggest Dave and Nepeta somehow being de-fused and having to process not being one again?

[targetedknowledge]

[bethanythebogwitch]

You CREATE Miette? you drag her from peaceful nonexistance into loud reality? oh! oh! jail for demiurge! jail for demiurge for One Thousand Years!

[whirling-ghost]

[ID: a photo of a small 3D paper cat standing on the piece of paper it was cut out from. "You created me?" is written in front of it on the paper. end ID]

[decamarks]

Cordyceps emoji I made this morning. It's already become very useful in conversation with friends, so please feel free to use it.

Intended usage(s): Denoting actions made as a result of "possession"; feeling of occupying force directing one's behavior; need for relocation

[kallistoi]

[image description: an emoji-style illustration of an ant with cordyceps fungus growing from its head. end description.]

[depsidase]

[haunted-hideaway]

I’m glad that OP:

1) Figured this out.

2) Shared so others can learn from their mistake.

[flipocrite]

ai-generated code is functionally immune to debugging.

[idarik0]

[ID: A Reddit post on r/ChatGPT by user u/Ambitious-Garbage-73 titled "I mass deleted 3 months of AI generated code last week. Here is what I learned." The rest of the post reads:

"Three months of building a side project almost entirely with AI assistance. ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, the works. Shipped fast, felt productive, everything seemed fine.

Then I needed to add a feature that touched most of the codebase. And I realised I could not do it. Not because it was hard, but because I did not actually understand how my own project worked.

The AI had generated clean looking code with consistent patterns, but the patterns were not mine. I could not trace the logic from memory. I could not explain to someone else why a function was structured the way it was. Every time I tried to modify something I had to re-read everything like it was someone else's code. Because it was.

So I deleted about 70% of it and rewrote it from scratch. Took two weeks. The result is simpler, half the lines of code, and I actually understand every piece of it." /end ID]

[sunshine-tattoo]

so I already made this post about how I loved that nibbles in zootopia 2 wasn't made to look overly feminized even tho she is a girl character which is Amazing.

but I LOVE that goat (2026) takes it a step farther by having virtually NO female characters who are designed overly feminine.

Louise, Will's mom, looks like him and none of her features have been softened to be more delicate. Neither are Carol's, the llama diner owner. They both look like Ungulates.

Flo loves having her hooves done and always dresses fancy, but she also isn't animated to be overly pretty or humanized. She looks like a warthog in a pantsuit, as she should.

Olivia has big eyes and long lashes but that is because she is an ostrich and they all have that. She dyes her feathers pink and likes feminine things but she also is a powerful athlete. (I also headcanon her as a trans woman because she has the male ostrich feather colorings.)

Adi and Ari, the rhino twin girls, have big eyes and love girly stuff like glitter and makeup, but they also are literally 5 years old. And they love causing destruction and chaos.

Hannah the aardwolf is a wlw who dresses like a frat boy gamer and honestly she has cured me of all the Trauma i have gotten over the years from overly feminized anthro animals.

Jett is athletic and strong and only looks feminine when she wears a dress to the big premiere and even then she looks more elegant than girly.

I also love that her age and years of pushing herself are catching up to her and this is a conversation about an athlete no longing being able to play, not a woman no longer being young and sexy.

(Plus her reading glasses are adorable and soooo accurate for looking at tiny phone screens lol.)

Also. The fact that she is the star player and everyone's favorite, including Will, is a testament to a woman being treated like an athlete and never a sex symbol.

The real sex symbol of this movie canonically is Modo, who is bi and attracts fans of all the genders.

And the character who is most concerned about their appearance isn't even a woman at all! Its Mane, a super masculine character!

This movie has singlehandedly proven that anthro animals can be designed without human elements and that female characters do not have to look feminine to be taken seriously.

Goat (2026) really is the GOAT of animated animal movies and I hope we get more like it in the future. <3

[lakesparkles]

I like to think Hannah's mane puffs up everytime she feels any strong feeling, like a real aardwolf does

[lakesparkles]

Thank you Goat movie for giving me a cat and a hyena

[artemis-heart-emoji-heart-emoji]

The soon to transition Mrs Nice Guy: No more Mr Nice Guy

[alteredpanel]

dead wife jokes banned in the house due to current events

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[catcrumb]

( hi everyone! it's that time of year again... expect me back sometime in august! in the meantime, consider donating to direct relief for earthquake recovery in venezuala! )

[psychic-waffles]

We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.

Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky

Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*

You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.

*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.

[phaeton-flier]

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

[phaeton-flier]

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

[theaudientvoid]

[centrally-unplanned]

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

[theabigailthorn]

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears

[idarik0]

[ID: Tags that read: "#theres like one other species that can take you out and they have a taboo about attacking you while your hibernating #thats some holy ground sanctuary from vampires shit". /end ID]

[hollowedskin]

I got a 4 min long video of Kimchi dreaming today, so here's a clip

You get the whole walk cycle and the little sprint at the end.

Sometimes her sprints last for like 4 or 5 seconds and she can shoot herself off the couch or into a wall if she gets a grip with her back claws. If she does it next to a wall, her head smacking into it sounds like someone is trying to break into the house. She doesn't wake up.

Later in the dream she injured her paw and was limping, and earlier she caught something and ate it.

[hollowedskin]