VladLaurențiu

[laurentiuvladut]

https://bsky.app/profile/vladutl1999.bsky.social

https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/vladl1999.517575/

https://cara.app/laurentiuvladutmanea/all

Some of the other places I can be found online

[spicomella]

silly little radiodonts! wip, i plan to colour them (: (opabinia, anomalocaris & amplectobelua)

[hollowistheworld]

I really can and will blame the 9-5 for everything. "We're in a loneliness epidemic" well, we have to spend a third of our day interacting with people in a professional way that makes forming real friendships difficult and then we're peopled out by the time we're done. "People are eating more and more unhealthily" people have to spend more than a third of their day doing work related tasks and they don't want to spend their tiny amount of free time making food. "People aren't involved in their local communities" after spending more than a third of their day doing work related things people are tired and also all those community events take place during normal working hours. "People need to get more hobbies" after spending more than a third of their day working, people are TIRED and don't want to do anything that takes yet more energy. "Literacy is dying" to maintain your critical thinking skills you need to read/watch things that make you think and after spending more than a third of your day doing work related stuff you are TIRED and don't want to expend even more brainnpower. "People need to get outside more" People. Are. TIRED. Because they have to spend all of their time working or preparing for work or recovering from work or doing all the chores they couldn't stay on top of because of work. I can blame fucking anything on having to work, it is truly the root of all fucking evil.

[ailithnight]

Hey OP, love your scalding take here; don't forget about commutes.

Once you factor in commute times (which even for short distances can be grotesquely inflated due to the fact that so many people are all commuting at the same time, but that's a different conversation) many people are actually devoting upwards of 10-12 hours a day on "work related tasks."

[mammalianmammals]

Yellow-footed Rock Wallabies (Petrogale xanthopus), family Macropodidae, South Australia

photographs by Wild Portraits Australia

[baldursgateconceptart]

Tu'narath

Art for Dungeon Master's Guide 5eR

Art by Bruce Brenneise

[seafooms]

assorted chibi comms!

[jcw3-protectorate-enthusiast]

I watched Pulgasari (1985). 6/10, D-. An incredibly dull movie saved by the incredibly ballsy ending.

(Yes, I'm aware of the kidnapping of the director and his wife and their escape, that's the only thing anyone who hasn't seen this movie knows about it.)

'The voice and personified power of the revolution no longer serves the people and only serves to gorge itself at the expense of the people, and must be removed from power before it kills everyone it once served.'

The plot: A wicked king and his wicked governors and generals oppress the common folk in medieval Korea. A village blacksmith, starved to death by the wicked governor, uses his last drops of food to carve an image of Pulgasari, and with his dying gasps and the blood of his daughter, Pulgasari, an iron-eating spirit who grows the more iron he eats, is born.

The blacksmith's daughter, Ami, commands him to join the Farmer's Army, a rebellion of villagers turned mountain bandits who resist the wicked king. The wicked king and the wicked generals try increasingly cartoonish means of defeating Pulgasari before being eventually defeated, and then the last ten minutes of the movie are devoted to Pulgasari being a massive problem for the rebellious Farmer's Army.

The movie feels badly edited, there's a lot of stuff that happens offscreen that probably shouldn't have, the acting quality leaves a lot to be desired. It's very dull. I was mostly bored and waiting for it to be over. I was only really impressed a couple times by the effects.

The human stuntwork and armies clashing were always dull and fairly badly choreographed - there were, however, a few cool bits with flaming trebuchets and falling logs where I was honestly wondering 'did the North Koreans actually kill people making this.'

There are a lot of scenes in this where I think it's supposed to be at night, but it's clearly day with a terrible filter. It's got such inconsistent effects - because a lot of the scenes where Pulgasari is just stomping around look very good.

I like Pulgasari himself - definitely not opposed to him being reused, especially since he's public domain. By kaiju standards, he's fairly weak - I think non-Godzilla Kong is the only kaiju he could take in a fight, so you'd have to buff him like they do Kong for crossovers.

(I'm aware he appeared in Monarch season 2, and I will probably get around to Monarch's new season at some point - I want to do a Monsterverse rewatch once I've seen a lot more classic kaiju stuff and have that new frame of reference.)

The movie is mostly just exactly the same as a bad 50s-60s kaiju movie - it reminded me the most of Varan while watching it. But I was so impressed by the ending that I can't give it a failing grade. 6/10, D-. Only worth watching for kaiju fans that are fine with 'nerd homework', and that might be stretching it - this is a curiosity, but it's not massively influential. Nerd homework tends to be a term I use for otherwise bad or boring things that left a mark on the zeitgeist - I'm not so sure that this meets that criteria.

[laurentiuvladut]

So....speaking of Pulgasari, and his ownership and chance of being reused...

Well, the toys and comic book company Titanic Creations(which makes higher quality, licensed, action figures based on more obscure Kaiju(like Gorgo and Yongary), together with their own original Kaiju, did make a toy base on him(renamed Pulgazary, so they are completely and utterly sure they are safe to use him, even he is in the public domain), and the company did publish two graphic novels for now, one of whom is about their own original Kaiju...and the other being based on the 1961 British Kaiju movie Gorgo(and putting Gorgo and Ogra inside the setting of their original Kaiju).

So...he might make an appearance in some future comics? He might not though, because the company I mention is pretty small, and is currently mostly concentrating on making action figures of obscure Kaiju.

[feefal]

pH balance in your mouth, and how it affects your teeth! Inspired by my dentist scolding me for my daily energi drink consumption, cause it’s apparently detrimental to the health of my enamel… whatever that means

why does battery acid have to taste so good…

[eggsnatcheskneecaps]

Western universities are funny because I had one semester exchange in Sweden and wdym I had to hear a professor complain about lack of funding while in a fully modernly equipped room inside the biggest university building I've ever seen in my life meanwhile my home university in Romania has its elevator break down every 2 months and no scientific article I've ever tried to access through my institutional account ever worked

[passionpeachy]

The way adult fandom people hold indie online creators and cartoons to a much higher standard than their actual local politicians. You could be putting that energy into terrorizing and protesting conservatives at your town hall and actually make a good material impact on the world but instead you're background checking everything the trans woman who made the amazing digital circus has ever said

[passionpeachy]

The point isn't "stop criticizing indie artists" or "defend your favorite show under this post". I don't even watch Digital Circus and no one is above criticism. Literally every indie show is getting torn to shreds on twitter right now and I'm not saying this to defend anyone I don't know. The point is "someone who actually has the power to kill us all and get away with it deserves way more ire and accountability than a cartoonist and I expect grown adults to understand this"

[thegenderal]

even before i lived in a place with a massive population of feral cats decimating the wildlife i had read the studies and knew the data said that TNR did not work and we need to be trapping and euthanizing feral cats but now that i’ve lived in a place where there are an enormous number of feral cats it’s like, inconceivable to me that anyone supports TNR, not just for the health of the world but for the sake of the fucking cats

[thegenderal]

nobody will even acknowledge it not even in most conservation circles. We have a solution to a massive, massive problem that is more humane, cheaper, easier, takes less time, prevents animal suffering, and saves valuable members of our disappearing ecosystem. And nobody is even willing to theoretically acknowledge that it exists outside of a few very small circles.

[thegenderal]

it works. It works. It is better for the cats. It’s better for the cats. Living in a place where you cannot drive 10 minutes without seeing a new roadkill cat almost every single day really makes you think about how much suffering could have been prevented if we just dealt with the problem we have created. It’s not a pleasant way to go, being hit by a car. Or being ripped apart by a predator, or eating a poison, or starving to death, of dying of an infection, or an illness, or any of the hundred thousand ways an animal in the wild passes without human intervention. Euthanasia is simply falling asleep. It is fucking wild to me that saying you think we should take responsibility for our mistakes and ensure that cats fall asleep peacefully instead of capturing them and then hurling them back out into the world SPECIFICALLY in order to allow them to die in agony makes people treat you like a fucking serial killer.

[thegenderal]

And if you don’t care about cats dying in agony do you care about the world around you? There’s a species of bird we only know ever existed because someone’s cat brought home our only example. That’s horrific. We’ve lost so much biodiversity because we simply won’t listen to the research, which again, has proven that TNR is not effective.

[thegenderal]

a peaceful death is not the worst thing that could happen to an animal.

[thegenderal]

@cathartidae sources for ya!

Sources:

https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/UW468 “How Effective and Humane Is Trap-Neuter-Release (TNR) for Feral Cats?” 

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6523511/ “A Case of Letting the Cat out of The Bag—Why Trap-Neuter-Return Is Not an Ethical Solution for Stray Cat (Felis catus) Management” (also has a thousand references attached that are handy)

Not a reference so much as the human society actively admitting that TNR does nothing to decrease population, actively contributes to harming wildlife, and doesn’t actually help the cats in any way, just reduces some of the nuisance behavior that people complain about: https://www.animalhumanesociety.org/resource/real-impacts-trap-neuter-return

Unscientific from here on out as i don’t feel like trying to find the studies i read in like January of last year:

https://hahf.org/awake/the-trouble-with-trap-vaccinate-neuter-return/ “The Trouble With Trap-Neuter-Re (Abandon!) from the hillsborough animal health foundation, articles also link to studies

https://abcbirds.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-Evidence-Against-TNR.pdf from the american bird conservancy, has scientific articles quoted. 

[thegenderal]

Even More Sources on TNR being non-viable and ways that cats are impacting the world from birds to *hawai’i’s monk seals*

Animal Emergency and Referral Center of Minnesota. (2022, October 26). Indoor cats vs. outdoor cats. Animal Emergency & Referral Center of Minnesota. https://aercmn.com/indoor-cats-vs-outdoor-cats/

Campbell, V. (2017, January 25). The Obituary of the Stephens Island Wren. All About Birds. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/the-obituary-of-the-stephens-island-wren/

Castillo, D., & Clarke, A. L. (2003). Trap/neuter/release methods ineffective in controlling domestic cat “colonies” on public lands. Natural Areas Journal, 23(3).

Coe, S. T., Elmore, J. A., Elizondo, E. C., & Loss, S. R. (2021). Free-ranging domestic cat abundance and sterilization percentage following five years of a trap–neuter–return program. Wildlife Biology, 2021(1). https://doi.org/10.2981/wlb.00799

del Hoyo, J., Collar, N., Kirwan, G. M., & Sharpe, C. J. (2022, October 25). Guadalupe storm-petrel (Hydrobates Macrodactylus), version 1.2. Birds of the World. https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/guspet/cur/introduction

Dickman, C. R., & Newsome, T. M. (2015). Individual hunting behaviour and prey specialisation in the house cat Felis catus: Implications for conservation and management. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 173, 76–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2014.09.021

Edge. (2019, June 19). Guadalupe storm-petrel. EDGE of Existence. https://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/guadalupe-storm-petrel/

Galbreath, R., & Brown, D. (2004). The tale of the lighthouse-keeper’s cat: Discovery and extinction of the Stephens Island wren (Traversia lyalli). Notornis, 51(4).

Hawai’i Department of Land and Natural Resources. (2025). Feral cats. Feral Cats. https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/hisc/info/invasive-species-profiles/feral-cats/#:~:text=Feral%20cats%20on%20islands%20have,kill%20approximately%202.4%20billion%20birds.

Loss, S. R., Will, T., & Marra, P. P. (2013). The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States. Nature Communications, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2380

McGregor, H., Legge, S., Jones, M. E., & Johnson, C. N. (2015). Feral cats are better killers in open habitats, revealed by animal-borne video. PLOS ONE, 10(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0133915

Medina, F. M., Bonnaud, E., Vidal, E., Tershy, B. R., Zavaleta, E. S., Josh Donlan, C., Keitt, B. S., Corre, M., Horwath, S. V., & Nogales, M. (2011). A global review of the impacts of invasive cats on Island Endangered Vertebrates. Global Change Biology, 17(11), 3503–3510. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02464.x

National Research Council. (1992, January 1). Scientific Bases for the Preservation of the Hawaiian Crow. U.S. National Library of Medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235935/

NOAA. (2024, August 29). Toxoplasmosis and its effects on Hawaiʻi Marine Wildlife. NOAA Fisheries. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/endangered-species-conservation/toxoplasmosis-and-its-effects-hawaii-marine

Read, J. L., Dickman, C. R., Boardman, W. S., & Lepczyk, C. A. (2020). Reply to Wolf et al.: Why trap-neuter-return (TNR) is not an ethical solution for Stray Cat Management. Animals, 10(9), 1525. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10091525

Reed, L. (2022). The effects of free-roaming cats on native wildlife populations. Wildlife Rehabilitation Bulletin, 40(1), 17–21. https://doi.org/10.53607/wrb.v40.250

Salano, E. (2024, October 5). Eliciting the effect free roaming cats have on Native Hawaiian wildlife using stable isotope analysis. UKnowledge. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/biology_etds/103/ 

Steele, J. H., Thorpe, S. A., & Turekian, K. K. (2009). Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences. Academic Press. 

science says it’s long past time to stop prolonging the suffering of feral cats, for the sake of the people, the native wildlife, and the goddamn cats themselves.

[boundless-ennui]

I was at a friend's house to check on carcasses I had macerating in his yard. A little grey cat ran up to me, yelling her head off in friendliness and wanting nothing more than to be pet. I had nothing to give her but let my friend know he should catch her since she was so friendly. I am ashamed to admit I didn't give her much thought beyond that, finishing my work and giving her a last pet before going home.

My friend told me how he'd seen her before but she always vanished before he could catch her. He works far too many hours and is always tired so he couldn't prioritize catching this cat.

Three months pass with no sign of her. I go back with my partner to check on carcasses and this same little grey cat appears. This time, however, a tooth has been snapped off and her tongue is so badly cut that she can't keep it in her mouth. She was thin and dirty and screaming to please be given some food.

This time I couldn't look away. I asked my friend's girlfriend if I could borrow a cat carrier. She loaned me one and a tin of wet food that the grey cat willingly followed into the carrier. She didn't care at all about being put into the carrier - all she wanted was a hand on her. She'd arch up against the top just so my hand would rest on her back for a moment.

We drove through rush hour traffic to the only shelter still open. We knew we couldn't keep her and I couldn't stand the thought of putting her back out on the streets to die slowly.

The shelter couldn't take her. Her ear was clipped so she was a "community cat" and outside their ability to help. They tried desperately to offer alternatives to me as I cried over her carrier, knowing I couldn't take her home but also that if I didn't I couldn't live with the thought of her back on the streets.

I made a Hail Mary call to a local friend who is very connected in our city. They didn't have my number saved but answered all the same to hear me sobbing about a cat I'd found and to please help me find a place for her. Please. If I don't find something then she'll be alone on the streets again to die.

My friend came through. I could keep the cat in their garage overnight and in the morning my friend would be back in the city and could find someone to help the cat.

The shelter folk gave me a crate and some food - their hands were tied but they didn't want to leave me with nothing. They were good people doing the best they could in their own system. Community cats were ones they weren't allowed to "waste" resources on. Ostensibly they'd been dealt with and their fate decided. There was nothing the shelter folks were allowed to do for them.

I took the cat to my friend's garage. She was settled into a crate on towels, happy as a clam to be warm and safe. This was a cat made to be loved and to love, as she immediately began trying to groom one of my friend's roommates. He stayed in the garage with her, giving her food and water and in exchange having no say on whether she was in his lap or not. She was always in his lap.

Nobby Nobbs (so named for the only other character known to man that is as scrungly as she is) was then formally adopted by my friend. Her tongue has healed, her fur remains scrungly, and she's every bit the rabid love bug I suspected her to be when she came to me yelling to be pet.

She's a TNR cat. Someone thought they were doing her a kindness in that and if nothing else she didn't add kittens to the world but that doesn't negate the pain she suffered before I found her - the broken teeth, the lacerated tongue, the ulcerated cheeks, the flea-bald patchiness of her coat.

I say this as someone who adores this cat and has the privilege to see her loved and cherished: I wish she'd never had to suffer what she did. I wish people were alright making the harder call that leads to less misery on the side of the cats.

TNR is a polite fiction, nothing more. Just so the humans can pretend they've done right by the same cats they're letting loose to die miserably somewhere else. As long as the humans don't see it it's fine.

The shelter folks told me she's a community cat and that I could take her home and release her by my house. Then I could feed her myself and keep up with her and know where she was! I could still keep her, after a fashion.

I am not proud of how I snarled back that I would never exchange a quick death for a slow one. I would be giving her a different funeral plot, not giving her a life. Even near me she'd be just as vulnerable to the innumerable predators that find cats quite delicious, let alone cars and poisons and the other cruelties humans practice on stray cats.

She's the second stray cat I've met that when I held them the cat melted in my arms, purring and so desperately wanting to be loved. The first cat I was able to trap and take to a local shelter only to find when I called to check on him a day later that his health had been so terrible, so beyond help, that he'd been put down. All the love in that tiny body lost because the people I lived beside didn't care enough to trap the cats they had.

My partner was asleep. I woke her up to crawl into her arms and sob, my heart breaking for the stupidity of the humans who hadn't cared enough to grant this poor little cat the chance to be either an indoor cat, loved and cared for, or to grant him a quick death long before I met him. I've other stories of the cats they kept around, essentially feeding the poor souls to the predatory birds and wandering dogs that frequented our area.

TNR doesn't work. It is a lie humans tell ourselves so we can pretend we haven't failed these animals on a massive scale. Cats are invasive and cause massive harm in their turn. It is humanity who needs to deal with this crisis, this horror we've made, and I pray one day we look it square in the face and vow to make it right.

[thegenderal]

sorry

[bogleech]

"Haha, christians are freaking out because they think the minions are satanic now"

Ever since I was a kid I have never ever been able to find it at all funny when religious people do this. No matter how stupid the thing is that they're upset by, it JUST makes me feel blind rage and disgust?

Maybe it's because I remember my little cousins getting brutally punished by one of my aunts because they watched some kid show she thought was ungodly? Maybe it's also knowing that they genuinely think the rest of the world is full of hellbound idiots over things this trivial.

So yeah a bunch of christians getting mad at minions, or pokemon or spongebob is 0% silly innocent eye rolling news to me. It's vile repulsive hideous shit to be that common in the modern world. These are the same people who rage even worse over the existence of anyone lgbt or nonchristian. I *just* fucking hate them.

[tomboyjessie13]

What else is new with these people? They've been going through the satanic panic since the Cold War. Dungeons and Dragons, Heavy Metal music, goth fashion, being Queer in general(like you said), the list is just endless.

[fastwalker]

similar to your post about artists sticking their butts in the camera;

there's this one youtuber, reysuka, that's a paleontologist (like. for real, with a Ph.D.) but she also does cosplay, specifically also including onlyfans/sexual cosplay. and i really wanted to sub to her, bc i like paleontology and she does videos applying her paleo knowledge to video games (cool!!!!) but.... throughout the video she'll include so many agonizingly cringe like... anime fanservice things. best way i can describe it. like hamfisted inuendos and winks at the camera and stuff and it's so very very ☹️

like she clearly knows her shit, but i can't stand watching her because it's so uncomfortable to see and listen to.

I had to look her up like why 😭 palaentology is so cool (contemplated studying geology before) why do you have to do this e-girl hentai shtick, have some self respect.

if i had a phd in my dream field I'd be outside collecting wolf poop or smth like that! and not whoring myself out on social media.

"Rey has traveled to remote areas in Antarctic South America, China, Denmark and the Western United States to search for dinosaurs. She has worked with fossils in Natural History Museums around the globe in China, Denmark, England, Chile, and the U.S., most often studying dinosaur fossils and the skeletons of living birds at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History." (from her about page)

genuinely pisses me off that people like this get to live your dreams while you had to drop out of uni just before finishing your thesis due to poverty.

like, she got all that education for what? to attract more nerds to her onlyfans, to make women uncomfortable and groom young girls into sex work by baiting them with dinosaurs. hellworld.

[bogleech]

You're talking about an accomplished scientist and grown woman who just happens to be able to fund her own research entirely with the content you're pearl-clutching about, which was her solution to having been constantly harassed by older men in her field. I'm glad your education failed, no profession needs any more slimy ghouls who talk about women like this.

[bogleech]

Oh is Reysuka not already famous on tumblr??

This is the typical maximum wickedness of the scandalous sinful deviance OP is so bitter about:

I guess "grooming children" is when you put legal public beach clothes on your body? Or is it only grooming if the woman doing so is aware that it gets thirsty clicks? Or is it only grooming if she's also talking about dinosaurs, because as everyone knows, this scientific study of a real natural phenomenon is inherently a form of children's content? Are women allowed to be visible in bikinis on the internet without it being grooming just so long as they have no idea anyone horny will click on it? Or just so long as their PHD isn't in anything someone else's kids might think is cool? Just what are the parameters here exactly.

[sarcasmgal-blog]

I stopped reading the OP when they said "have some self-respect"

Seriously and with the utmost disrespect, fuck you very much OP.

She's self-funding her research. You don't like how she does it? So fucking what? Watch something else, there's lots of content that might suit you better. It's the system that devalued and marginalised a scientist to the point that they chose to find a different funding model to do their research that is the problem.

God I'm so mad

Doing more sexism at Reysuka, on top of what she's already had to deal with is so fucking gross. Fix your shit OP.

[zzoupz]

ART FIGHT friendly fire attack for @valdevia

[valdevia]

TERRIEL SWEEP

[butchboromir]

this is how some people on here talk about punk

[atopfourthwall]

So many obsess over movies today being flops or slop or numbers, numbers, numbers and forget that a lot of films we regard as classics today were flops in their day or at least performed below expectations to speak executive talk.

Why can’t we separate the art’s quality from how much moolah it racks in?

Because to weirdos like that, numbers are the only thing that matter. Value is determined by monetary worth, so even when something is successful they have to deny that reality. "This thing isn't popular because it would reject my worldview that it's a failure for the reasons I stated." Bigots believe that everyone already agrees with them, that they just don't want to say it out loud, so language like the initial post is an attempt to get people to say that quiet part out loud, make it be more socially acceptable to be a piece of shit. They can't fathom that they actually suck and are the fringe dipshit that nobody likes.

[deadgenerations]

I know I should control this reflex but every time I read a "rural people aren't stupid: here are their real concerns" I give it a fair shake and their real concerns are stupid as fuck. oh my god they're worried about solar panels? the ones the government pays them to put up as a subsidy to cushion their agricultural business? and they seem to believe, somehow, that the urban centres are being subsidised by the regions? that urban centres don't have solar or power plants or, sin of sins, transmission lines?