...Theoretically This Is A Functioning Blog?

I don't actually know what the hell's happening here anymore. She/her.

[catchymemes]

[makahitaki]

[aquilacalvitium]

[funny-nonstop-dot-com]

[ghostisredacted]

just saw someone say "a fandom is small, so like only 1-3 fics posted per day" . you wouldnt survive a day in the place where im from

[neosatsuma]

[starmans-spacelibrary]

most accurate post i have ever seen

[aglionbyacademia]

Annabeth arriving at Camp Jupiter, finally finding Percy

[hometoursandotherstuff]

The back of this house was given a new addition.

Why would they do this?

[animentality]

[arrowandaxe]

[bee-in-your-binnet]

Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated

[gallusrostromegalus]

Thoughts, in approximate order:

You know, given how C. lupus, C. lupus familiaris, and C. latrans can all create perfectly viable hybrids, and that the proto-dogs that domestic dogs descended from much more resembled coyotes than wolves, it's not really a surprise that some yotes are experimenting with domestication.

Goddamn that lady must be fucking shredded to be able to chase down a coyote through a swamp.

"Don't let wild animals into your house, you are not going to make Dogs 2.0, you're going to get injured and the animal killed." is probably obvious enough advice that I don't need to put it in the tags as a reminder.

...I know more than four people on this site that have poisoned themselves trying out 'foraging guides' they found online, two people IRL who tried to keep raccoons at pets, and have a family member who got hospitalized for Cat Scratch Fever after grabbing a feral cat bare-handed. This is apparently, not obvious enough.

Do Not Attempt To Domesticate Coyotes

[collected-sports-bra]

Genuine question:

Could coyotes be domesticated, sometime down the line? I know there are animals like bears that could never be, but coyotes seem close enough to dogs for it to work in many many many many generations.

Or is there something about coyotes that would make that impossible.

[gallusrostromegalus]

The Hare Indian Dog is a now-extinct canine that is strongly suspected to have been a domesticated coyote or coyote-dog hybrid that was bred by the Sahtu people of far northern Canada. The breed went into decline with the displacement and genocide of the Sahtu and other indigenous people of the area, and they could not keep as many of their dogs in the reservations, so the breed eventually comingled back into Newfoundland and Canadian Inuit Dogs. We don't have any preserved specimens to do any genetic testing on, so far as I know.

Could Coyotes be domesticated again? Yes and No.

Yes: They're REALLY closely related and already frequently interbreed with domestic dogs and are in a similar ecological position to the proto-dogs: comfortable living in and around human settlements, especially garbage dumps. Biologically, it's a VERY short hop (possibly as few as 2 or 3 mutations) to domestication for them.

No: The actual practicality of domesticating coyotes is negligible. Humans domesticated dogs in the first place because partially because we needed help with hunting, but probably mostly because we had fuck-all else to do for fun back then. In the modern age of readily available livestock and needing to monetize EVERYTHING or suffer for it, there isn't really much need or interest in domesticating coyotes. It'd take a large canine farming facility, similar to the fox farms of the early 1900's, multiple generations of careful genetic testing and manipulation, and would be goddamn impossible to zone or get insurance for.

The re-domestication of Cheetahs has a slightly better shot because there is a genuine need for LOTS of them as an ecological keystone species and there's decent odds of finding some rich idiots to back that project so they can have The Coolest Pet Cat.

If for some reason there became a widespread need for hunting dogs again, like say, the total collapse of society ala Cinematic Zombie Apocalypse, people would probably stick to domestic dogs, but there would be a lot of cross-breeding with coyotes FAST, especially in the USA Southwest. It's something I'd love to see a post-apocalyptic fiction author explore. That and what happens when various zoo animals eventually break out/are broken out of their enclosures and start populating new habitats. Elephants would be worth their weight in gold in a society with no more functioning bulldozers.

[animentality]

[arrowandaxe]

[bee-in-your-binnet]

Coyotes trying their damndest to get domesticated

[gallusrostromegalus]

Thoughts, in approximate order:

You know, given how C. lupus, C. lupus familiaris, and C. latrans can all create perfectly viable hybrids, and that the proto-dogs that domestic dogs descended from much more resembled coyotes than wolves, it's not really a surprise that some yotes are experimenting with domestication.

Goddamn that lady must be fucking shredded to be able to chase down a coyote through a swamp.

"Don't let wild animals into your house, you are not going to make Dogs 2.0, you're going to get injured and the animal killed." is probably obvious enough advice that I don't need to put it in the tags as a reminder.

...I know more than four people on this site that have poisoned themselves trying out 'foraging guides' they found online, two people IRL who tried to keep raccoons at pets, and have a family member who got hospitalized for Cat Scratch Fever after grabbing a feral cat bare-handed. This is apparently, not obvious enough.

Do Not Attempt To Domesticate Coyotes

[fleshengine]

laying in bed, high as fuck, thinking about balsamic vinegar

[puppygirldick]

Its like grape soy sauce

[fleshengine]

:/

[puppygirldick]

Both are brown liquid made from mold growing on it

[fleshengine]

You know, you're not wrong. I still don't have to enjoy the truth.

[fleshengine]

Good fucking luck. I think I'm like 1-6 when it comes to people saying that on my posts. If this breaks 200 I'll be surprised.

[pinehutch]

Really big problem: world hard cold and full of obligations, but duvet warm

[pinehutch]

In duvet: warm cozy. Everything as it should be

Outside duvet: debacle

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[sophsun1]

Happy Pride 🌈 | The Golden Girls (1985-1992)

[antisocialpyromaniac]

When Grace inevitably dies on Erid they build him a statue. It is grand in that it is not towering, but built methodically with the utmost love respect and care. Adrian and Rocky oversee it’s construction and they ensure the Grace depicted not as a godlike saviour but a silly little space blob who taught their planets pebbles about relativity and who learnt to speak a language not made for his body. They make sure he is seen to be kind and brave. Lastly, they ensure an Eridian is carved with him so he will always have someone to watch him sleep.

[familyofpaladins]

Based on the incredibly funny post by @narwhalsarefalling

(Drew these at two different times, in different places, thats why theres a lighting color change)

[familyofpaladins]

I should note that Rocky is Not beating up or throwing the soft rocky into the ocean (tho i totally understand why it looks like that lol). He's just running with it to get it out fo the dome as fast as possible, while also trying to keep it as far from Grace as possible while doing it lol

Also, Grace is safe! The asbestos becomes a problem if it starts breaking into little fibers that he could breath in. Since eridans use it as clothing, they probably do it in a way that it doesn't break down so easily (tho it would over time). But Grace didn't have it long enough for that to be a problem, but they want to get rid of it to make sure

However

At Grace's next birthday

Oh to be so loved that your friends go to all the work of finding a safe material that they can produce for the sole purpose of giving you comfortable touch

[loveridden1999]

constantly trying to see the inherent good in people is a humiliation ritual that i continue to willingly participate in

[ruffboi-mags]

[keingleichgewicht]

sometimes a family can be a surgeon and a corpse and a blood-magician. sometimes a family is two boys who have died before and their still-living sister the doctor who wasn't there to save them. sometimes a family can be you and your baby brother and a man whose ribcage you have opened up in order to put your hands inside him and cut out his heart, on his request, because he begged you to, in repayment for which two years later he put his hands on your brother's naked soul and dragged him through that dark gate backwards and sealed him again in his own dead gutted body so he wouldn't ever leave you. and somehow im supposed to be normal about it