I’m continually astounded by the human capacity for cruelty and hatred. I want so badly to love people and see the best in them and yet. and yet.
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I’m continually astounded by the human capacity for cruelty and hatred. I want so badly to love people and see the best in them and yet. and yet.
Tolkien Tolkien Tolkien Tolkien i'm begging of you please don't kill my man
His beauty is beyond compare His stature tall, and long his hair Like every other man you wrote has been I know the more you speak his praise The fewer his remaining days How easily you break my heart, Tolkien
I think this song is made of lies Your fave's your fave because he dies Or 'cause his pain gets worse in every scene. If what it took to make us care Was fairness, wisdom and great hair We'd all be on here stanning Finarfin.
Tolkien Tolkien Tolkien Tolkien I'm begging of you please go kill my man
Tolkien Tolkien Tolkien Tolkien Please kill him with all the angst you can
WHO ELSE UP FRANKEN THEY STEIN RN
people should be allowed to have low ambition, and also be able to feed a family on the salary of a cashier at a convenience store.
The US is crazy bc like so many people have intense conspiracy theories about the government like "I think there's a secret elite group of people who control everything" and you can tell them "actually you're not completely wrong, it's just not a secret group of people, it's a bunch of rich people and lobbyists who are doing it all out in the open" and they'll be like "hmmn I don't think it's THOSE people though. I prefer my racist & antisemitic theories"
They'll be like "I heard there's a powerful ring of pedophiles who are influencing the country" and you'll tell them "I mean yeah that's what the Epstein files are about" and they'll say "no I'm pretty sure this has to do with The Queers actually"
Conspiracy theory no one will ever accept: What if the people secretly controlling the world are the same people obviously controlling the world?
fortune magazine literally keeps a running tally
"We're living through the ongoing fascist collapse of the United States but I still gotta clean the kitchen and go to work tomorrow" sure is the mood right now, huh.
Okay, had some thoughts, slept on it, had more thoughts. Woke up this morning and there are some (understandably) very worried folks in my notes/DMs, asking if this is the End end. As ever, I am but an old gay academic on the internet. My opinion is not more special or more insightful than anyone else's. But if you want my thoughts, here they are.
First: the U.S. isn't in the "imminent" or "approaching" stages of fascism. At least as far as the president and the ruling junta are concerned, and in regard to what they're trying to do, this is full-out, blood-and-soil, grab-people-off-the-streets-to-send-to-concentration-camps-without-trial fascism. The reason they have not been able to do everything they planned is due to a) considerable and vigorous resistance from multiple levels of American society, and b) federal judges. Everyone say Thank You, Federal Judges. They are the only thing keeping the Turd Reich in check right now, because the GOP-controlled Congress is waving handkerchiefs and cheering all the way. If Trump and the withered skinsuit of white supremacist evil known as Stephen Miller were able to do what they wanted with genuinely no interference from the courts, this would be unspeakably bad. And y'know. It's already bad.
I am not here to tell anyone to Pollyanna it out or just think happy thoughts or whatever else. This is very bad. We have to acknowledge the badness of it and to understand that this is what happens when you voluntarily give power back to a miserable reactionary fascist regime that repeatedly announced its intentions to do exactly this. Except too many Americans went "lol that's funny he's such a joker" and voted for him anyway. I'm very curious how the Both Parties Are The Same crowd would like to explain the fact that literally none of this was happening at the same time last year, when Democrats still held the White House and Senate, but that's another post and I'm tired of arguing with their anti-reality doomster Horseshoe Theory vortex of stupidity. So. Moving along. It's done now, it happened. What next?
Here's the important thing which you have to understand: this hysterical overreaction -- National Guard, trampling on state sovereignty, Marines in the streets, declaring open war on LA and wherever else the ICE Gestapo is being sent -- is not a sign of strength. It is a sign of a weak, failing, and flailing psychopathic old dementia patient who has realized that destroying American democracy on behalf of his Kremlin paymasters and alt-right tech bros (though too bad, so sad, #Trumpsk ended in Pride Month!) is going to be a hell of a lot harder than he thought. Trump just spent the week getting mocked, ridiculed, emasculated, and made to look weak and stupid. Musk turned on him and blew up the Big Beautiful Bill, which was already having a hard time in the Senate. Judges are almost automatically ruling against him at this point. He was even forced to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the US from the Salvadoran gulag and get Fascist Barbie Bondi to concoct some other BS charges to try him on. The point is, TACO. Trump Always Chickens Out. He is weak, he's failing, people keep fighting him and winning, he just got major-league embarrassed by his Ex Bestie, and his stupid budget bill just got a lot harder to pass. So what do you do, if you're Donald Trump? You lash out at your favorite target, That Dadgum Gay Liberal Commie Immigrant Refuge, California.
This is what fascists do when cornered, thwarted, and made to look stupid: they try to do the only thing they can do, which is an overwhelming show of brute force. Please remember that this is also happening because said withered skinsuit of white supremacist evil, Stephen Miller, is upset that they haven't managed to "cleanse" the country of every single immigrant yet. It is also openly admitted by Orange Hitler's Favorite Special Little Boy that a big part of their plan is to cause enough terror to force immigrants to self-deport, or just voluntarily pack up and leave because they think this well-oiled terror machine will come for them next. Now. Listen. I have zero, ZERO right to tell any non-citizen living in the US right now what to do or how to feel. If you just want to get out before you do have to risk going through that, it is completely and utterly valid.
However.
This is your home too. You belong here. If you decide that if they want you out, they'll have to fight you the whole way, then you could and should do that. Those of us who are U.S. citizens have a right to stand up with you, not least since the Turd Reich is already musing about finding ways to do the same things to us. Nobody is safe. This is way past the "first they came for" lines of the poem; they want to get everyone if they can, for the tiniest and most minute infractions against Donald of House Putin, First Of His Name. See above: we're in the full-blown fascism stage. I am not minimizing or ignoring that.
But still.
If you do the usual Doomer Leftist Edgelord Internet Thing and go "lol well guess Trump is a dictator for life now and there will be no more elections and we live in Gilead forever," often with barely-disguised glee that at least those stupid liberals are getting punished, you're, well, also a fascist. You're accepting and glorifying fascist narratives, you're exalting fascist power, you are once more making the fascists look cool and inevitable and like there's no point at all in fighting. Nota Bene: This does not refer to the people who are genuinely terrified and despairing and thinking that this is in fact the end and there's no more point in fighting. You're scared. I'm scared too. I see that and I feel it and I know, I know, I know. But you can still control what you say and how you react and the messages that you spread in response. If you're just reblogging a lot of unsourced screenshots and panic-mongering posts: maybe don't do that. Think about what you're putting out there and how you're reacting. If you don't feel like you can do that, get off the internet, stop looking at the news (which also has a vested interest in making everything look apocalyptic) and take a breath. It will still be there tomorrow.
At times like these, all we can do is hold onto each other and take some comfort in the fact that time still creeps in a petty pace from day to day. The Terrible Future still will not happen all at once and in a giant blob of awful and with no chance to change it. Nothing is predetermined and nothing is inevitable. Everything will still happen one day at a time, and that means we have to use the time as best we can. If you feel like this is in fact the End for you and you need to get out, well, go ahead and make those preparations if you can. But also recognize that everyone is in fight-or-flight mode right now, that is a screaming panic response, and while you shouldn't downplay the danger, you also shouldn't up and run because your scared animal brain thinks that is the only thing left to do. We are still here. You are still here. I am still here. We can still do something as we choose.
I hate the fact that we have to quote Gandalf like, all the goddamn time right now, but it's still true. All you have to do is choose what to do with the time that is given to you, etc. You still have a life. You still have a choice. You still have time. It is not done, it is not the end, and goodness knows the world isn't over now because Donald Trump got mad again and threw a hissy fit because he had a really sucky week and got publicly dumped by Elon Fucking Musk (again, lololololol). Things are very bad, but the point of my original post above was that even when you're living through an awful historical event (yet again, I hate this timeline), ordinary life still goes on. You have to focus on what you control and do what you can with it. It's not about hope so much as confounded stubbornness. If those idiot weaksauce fascist losers want to get you, make it as hard as fucking possible for them, and part of that IS just refusing to accept that they have that power, or any power. You can think whatever you want, but if you just say out loud, "Fuck you. This is stupid. You are going to fail because you're failures and you can't make me afraid," weirdly, it really does help.
Hugs.
Hamster Escapes the Most Dangerous Prison Maze 🐹
While this seems cute I'm pretty sure it's stressful to the hamster
Does anyone know more about this?
The hamster does not watch movies, and therefore is unaware that the cardboard and plastic props in his obstacle course are references to well-known cinematic deathtraps.
He doesn’t seem stressed to me. He’s being pretty exploratory (sniffing around and whatnot), not beelining to the nearest safe space, and he’s even sitting still long enough to ride moving things. This is honestly incredible enrichment.
I don’t think orcs are elvish enough. You have this race that was made by taking elves and twisting them, but they are always shown as so far removed from elves that unless you are told their origin, you wouldn’t guess it. Which is a shame, because I think they would be more effective if they looked like elves.
Because what happens if they look like elves? For elves, this would lead to a whole range of issues. Does killing an orc count as kinslaying? It’s a lot harder to sidestep that question if the look similar. If you want to make it really dark, have elves face off against orcs and have the elves recognize some of the orcs. Even if it doesn’t count, that’s going to cause some psychological damage to the elves to be killing people that look kind of like them. And depending on how exactly they differ from elves, you can bring in the horror of the uncanny valley. As for humans and dwarves, if the first group of pointy-eared humanoids you encounter are monsters that slaughter your people and ravage your home, you’re going to be way less trusting of the next group of pointy-eared humanoids you encounter. What if some of the problems in early dwarf/elf and human/elf relations was due to cases of mistaken identity?
So orcs should still look like elves. Elves that had been tortured and dragged through Hell, but still clearly of elvish origin. My ideal orcs look more like uncanny valley zombie elves than the dark, beefy beast men they are usually portrayed as. I know this departs from Jirt’s descriptions, but I think there’s room to make orcs really creepy.
Traits my ideal orcs would have:
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I like the idea of making Orcs Elf-like. A few different possible ways I can think of to do this (I guess these are mostly “if you’re trying to be canon-compliant probably wouldn’t work but you might take an idea or two from them, and file the serial numbers off and they might be an interesting idea for original fiction”):
Orcs as predatory Elves: Take inspiration from portrayals of Elves like in Charles Stross’s The Nightmare Stacks. Orcs still have something like the beauty and grace of Elves, but it’s wilder, more predatory; more like the beauty of a leopard. Like you said, they’re the kind of Elf that eats babies. Physical features might include very inhuman pointed mobile ears, powerful long almost lupine jaws, sharp teeth, claws. They might also have a lot of subtly threatening mannerisms; even in relatively peaceful interactions they move fast, they’re stealthy, they invade your personal space, they like showing off their teeth and claws and weapons, you can tell by the way they position themselves around the room that they’ve got blocking your exists and maneuvering you into unfavorable positions and hurting you at the back of their minds. They like meat, and they like it raw and bloody, and people are very much on their menu.
Orcs as Nazi Elves: They’re superficially beautiful and noble-looking. You start to notice something wrong when you see them in a group and notice how homogenous they are. They’re like a Nazi’s fantasy of “perfect” tall fit blue-eyed blond “Aryans” with “perfect” features, they almost but not quite look like clones of each other. They embody a single narrow, cramped idea of perfection, and their unnatural homogeneity is a frightening window into the mindset and methods of their masters and what sort of world their masters desire to create.
Orcs as ‘roided up Elves: This is similar to the idea of them scarring easily. It’d make sense if Melkor modified them to increase their combat prowess in ways that didn’t give much consideration to their over-all well-being. So they’re kind of like Elves that have been force-fed a bunch of steroids. They’re more muscular and stronger than regular Elves, but it’s not really good for their health. All those powerful muscle movements wear out their joints and cause them to injure themselves and stuff. Maybe they have a short lifespan. Or maybe they have enhanced healing that compensates for it, but in a way that doesn’t prioritize their well-being. All those broken bones and joint injuries tend to heal wrong, over time they start to look twisted, and by the time an Orc is 40 or something they’re in serious chronic pain, and they’re still functional despite it, they can power through it, but they’re not having a good time (and this contributes to their aggression and quarrelsomeness; older Orcs are hurting and that makes them cranky).
Also, changing them this way might involve messing with their physiology in ways that really mess up their bodies, like it might involve making them produce unnaturally immense amounts of testosterone and stuff, which might make them ugly and aggressive. They might look like grotesquely Chad-ified Elves, with huge jaws and huge chins and huge noses and heavy brows and coarse skin and lots of body hair, maybe even fur if you want to give them a dose of serious inhumanity. And maybe it’s kind of like they’re constantly ‘roid-raging and a lot of the Orc temperament is a result of that.
Orcs as domesticated Elves: Orcs are to Elves as police dogs are to wolves; they’ve been domesticated; changed to be servants of another being. The physical changes associated with domestication may involve neoteny. I think that approach would be great for making it a very viscerally uncomfortable experience to fight Orcs. Orcs look child-like. Adult Orcs have powerful adult bodies, sure, but they have faces like young teenagers (or whatever the Elf equivalent is). Fighting Orcs feels uncomfortably like fighting child soldiers; it feels like fighting precociously big and strong 12-14 year olds.
And this may be more than a matter of appearance. Orcs must have a pretty high mortality rate and Melkor would probably want to minimize the amount of child-care they needed, so I think it would make sense if Melkor gave Orcs accelerated physical development and brain development. Maybe by the time they’re eight or ten years old an Orc is already physically and sexually mature, already physically a powerful mature warrior, ready to march off to join Melkor’s or Sauron’s armies and kill and burn and pillage. And they’re not exactly a child at that point, their brain development is accelerated too, an eight or ten year old Orc has brain development like a human older teenager or twenty-something, but they still have very limited life experience, and if you managed to have a real conversation with one of them that would show. So not only do they look kind of child-like, not only does fighting them feel uncomfortably like fighting child soldiers, but a lot of Orcs actually are something kind of like child soldiers.
I think this approach would be great for showing that Orcs are also Melkor’s and Sauron’s victims. Imagine scenes from like this or this but instead of being ugly scary monsters that make animalistic roars the Orcs basically look like precociously big thirteen year olds and have weirdly child-like voices (I don’t know what a child’s voice but with the force of a big adult pair of lungs behind it would sound like, I guess it might be pretty weird). I think that’d be basically unfilmable cause it’d be so uncomfortable for people to watch that an approach like that would never get approved by a commercial studio, but that’s kind of the point.
And I’m pretty sure this gets into contradicting Tolkien’s portrayal of Orcs, but another layer of tragedy that would be fit really well into this idea is Orcs aren’t naturally bloodthirsty violent creatures, being more domesticated means their natural temperament is actually more social and less aggressive than that of their wild ancestors. If you gave an Orc to human parents as a baby they’d grow up to be a very friendly, extroverted, gentle, basically delightful person with lots of consideration for others; their biggest problem in human society would probably be that they’d be easy to manipulate and take advantage of because they’d be very trusting. In Melkor’s and Sauron’s and Saruman’s Orcs these traits are twisted to make them obedient to their dark masters; Melkor’s and Sauron’s and Saruman’s Orcs believe in their masters as little children believe. Orc soldiers aren’t ferocious dogs of war straining at their leashes, they’re hyper-disciplined totally loyal professionals who follow orders and will always do their best to get the job done, whatever the job is. They’re very brave, but it’s the “will follow orders no matter how much personal danger it puts them in” sort of bravery. They’re not rigid, they’re as smart as you or me (though often with a lot less life experience) and they use that intelligence against their enemies, they’ll improvise, attack on their own initiative where they see an opportunity, etc., but battles are just problems to be solved to them, like building a bridge. Imagery trying to make them look scary would be stuff like this, focusing on the idea of a huge army of disciplined, merciless soldiers who will obey their evil masters without question, but really, I’d prefer to lean into that this interpretation would make it blatantly obvious just looking at them that these are profoundly tragic creatures. Imagine an army marching, and they’re obviously physically powerful creatures, but they have faces like children, and they’re singing together in high voices like the voices of women or very young boys, and what they’re singing is this or something like it (“We take the storm and power / of Mordor through the world! … It’s a good day to kill! / Painted red is earth and sky / Even Manwe will bow down!”).
Which, if you run with that, would suggest a relatively optimistic answer to the “wait, so after Sauron was defeated what happened to the Orcs? Did the ostensible good guys kill them all? Even the baby Orcs?” issue. Like, imagine it’s a few months or years after the One Ring got thrown into Mount Doom, and a bunch of Orcs show up at a human town somewhere, and of course the townspeople expect the worst and are terrified. And the Orc leader says they want a meeting with the local mayor or baron or whatever, and that guy’s like “well, I guess I don’t have much to lose by finding out their demands.” So he goes out to meet the Orc leader, and…
He thinks it’s a female, though it’s kind of hard to tell. She’s big and looks very strong. There’s a disturbing contrast between her painfully young-looking looks like a thirteen year old girl face and all the obvious signs of past violence on it; there’s a huge scar that crosses her mouth and has carved a permanent notch in her upper lip, and at some point the left side of her face seems to have been caved in by a club or a warhammer or something and healed in a distorted caved-in shape and it looks like that wound destroyed her left eye. The other eye looks bloodshot, almost as if she’s been crying.
And she says she and her followers want to surrender.
She says, “Our Precious King Excellent has stopped telling us what to do. He has always told us what to do before, and we do not know what to do without him. We do not know what to do. We are lost. We need someone to tell us what to do. Please tell us what to do.”
(“Precious” and “King Excellent” are two suggestions I’ve seen for a translation of the name Sauron calls himself).
I’m definitely filing this idea away for “if I ever write the sort of fantasy that involves a Dark Lord who commands armies of biologically distinct Soldiers of Darkness, I’m probably going to write said Soldiers of Darkness as like this.”
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You could mix these up somewhat. E.g. you could combine the predatory Elves idea and the ‘roided up Elves idea and give them almost a werewolf look.
Also, I didn’t really spell this out in my original post, but one way I think the Orcs as domesticated neotenous Elves idea would lend itself to making Orcs tragic is you could use it to develop an idea that Orcs actually aren’t naturally fierce and really don’t enjoy battle, but you wouldn’t guess that from looking at a lot of their external behavior.
They’re actually engineered/bred primarily for docility and submissiveness. They’re by natural temperament cooperators and appeasers, not fighters. Their natural default responses to danger lean much more toward flight, freeze, and fawn than fight. If an Orc baby was adopted and raised by human parents, they’d probably turn out the sort of person who’d probably cry if somebody punched them. Their ferocity is mostly submissiveness that wraps around toward aggression in a way that’s only possible because they’re intelligent beings. Walking toward people who want to kill them is actually really stressful for them, and doing so is like 90% an exercise in their System 2 fighting down their System 1. Actually being in battle is a profoundly unpleasant experience for them. It’s not that they have any particular inhibitions around hurting and killing other people, that part is easy for them, but battle means people are trying to kill them and sometimes they get painful injuries and their hyper-domestication means the sort of fight responses that make it so humans can sometimes enjoy it anyway are quite weak in them, it’s mostly just a scary and awful experience for them. And a lot of them first go into battle when they’re, like, literally nine years old, and sure they’ve already got strong adult bodies and adult-like brain development at that age, but nine years of life experience is nine years of life experience, they don’t have a whole lot of mental resources to handle stuff at that age. They’re actually quite brave and effective fighters despite this, but it’s almost 100% System 2 loyalty/obedience to their master + muscle memory.
But one of the main emotional resources Orcs have to handle that experience is their submission/loyalty to their master and their confidence in their physical strength, their weapons, and the fact that theirs is the side with the bigger armies and the monsters and the wunderwaffen. So they absolutely would do a lot of the “scary” behavior you see in e.g. LOTR movie Orcs. They’d pound the ground with their spears and pound their shields and make a monstrous din. They’d load people’s severed heads into a trebuchet and throw them at their comrades to taunt them. They’d make a point of not getting out of the way until the last possible moment while a huge rock flies toward them. They’d chant “Grond! Grond!” as they roll their mega siege engine toward Minas Tirith. Saruman’s Uruk Hai would cheer thunderously as Saruman orders them to march to Helm’s Deep and stain the land with the blood of Rohan.
Like, I mentioned how uncomfortable to watch some of the scenes from the LOTR movies would be if instead of scary ugly monsters that make animalistic noises the Orcs looked kind of like precociously big thirteen year olds and had weirdly child-like voices, but actually yes those scenes would structurally work with this interpretation almost beat for beat, you could just change what the Orcs look and sound like and rely more-or-less entirely on that to make them hit very different.
Like, this scene would totally work with this interpretation with only minor structural modifications. Consider how the Uruk Hai would experience it. They’re the products of Saruman’s breeding program, so they’re probably pretty young. Your average Uruk Hai is, like, literally ten years old. They’re the same age as a lot of the children sheltering in the back of Helm’s Deep. This is the first time they’ve left Isengard. This will be the first time they’re in an actual battle. They know that a lot of the Rohirrim have been seasoned veterans longer than they’ve been alive (let alone the Elves they’re going up against, who are probably orders of magnitude older than them). They’re outside in a thunderstorm and they’re wet and cold and not having a good time. They’re not natural fighters, walking toward the fortress full of armed people who want to kill them is actually a pretty stressful thing for them to do; they’re doing it 100% because Saruman told them to. How do people like that comfort themselves and each other in this situation?
They do things that remind them that they are strong and they are many. They pound the ground with their spears and pound on their shields, and the thunderous racket it creates reminds them that they are many, that while they’re young they have powerful adult bodies, that they’re physically powerful creatures, that they’re strong, that they’re Saruman’s fighting Uruk Hai whose armor is thick and whose shields are broad. They don’t roar and snarl, cause that’d just be a silly look on them, but they shout, they chant. Maybe Saruman’s name. Maybe something suitably threatening in Black Speech (do Uruk Hai use that?) like “There will be no dawn for Rohan!” And they have high voices like girls, but they also have big, powerful lungs, and there are tens of thousands of them, it’s loud, it’s a big sound like thunder or the crashing, pounding waves of a turbulent ocean, its loudness reminds them that they are many and they are strong, the women and children sheltering at the back of Helm’s Deep will hear it and be afraid.
I feel like Aragorn’s “Show them no mercy, for you shall receive none!” line would hit poignantly different in this context. Like, yeah, it would be a lot more viscerally uncomfortable to kill this version of Orcs (especially for Elves, cause they’d be a neotenous version of Elves) and there probably would be more of a need to remind people that while these are tragic creatures they’re also dangerous merciless enemies and need to be taken seriously as that; if they win here they’ll massacre everyone in Helm’s Deep just as mercilessly as the beast-men Uruk Hai from the actual movie would.
that thing where you're attracted to someone not in a platonic or romantic or sexual way, but in an 'i want to read about their exploits' kind of way
no i don't want to "date" or "hang out" i sort of just want to follow you around while you go about your crazy business. i won't make it weird if u won't
My cats have this meow that means "please come with me to fix this" after which they'll lead me to the problem in question, usually a empty (or 'empty') food bowl or a closed door they want open. They look at the 'problem', they look back at me, clear message.
What fascinates me is how this illustrates what they percieve as being in the realm of my 'power.' I control the food, I control the door, sure, but my cats love to sit on the balcony in the sun, and it has happened plenty of times that on a rainy day they come get me, go to the balcony and show me... the rain. "Please fix this" they say. "Please get rid of the wet"
"Silly kitty," I say, "I can't control the rain." I then walk into the shower and turn on the rain.
I hope this is a universal cat owner experience. Every single night he begs me to turn the sun back on so he can watch birds on the balcony. I tell him no, I cannot do that.
But I can turn lights on and off in the house and he's fairly certain I'm just not applying myself properly here.
You know damn well that can't just stay in the tags
brooding men who cannot communicate their feelings if their life depended on it are only hot when they're fictional. if i have to deal with one in real life i will curse him and pray for his downfall every night before i go to bed
It's because the writer communicates their feelings for them. If people wanna pull that off in real life they need to hire a guy to walk around behind them narrating.
#can i be the guy#ill narrate SO incorrectly#theyll all learn how to talk for themselves just to shut me up (via @cirrus-grey)
i'm loving the implication that this isn't something they hired you for, but something you'd do as some sort of public service.
David and Goliath
This should be a friendly reminder to KEEP your PETS inside
And its also a good demonstration of how cats will try to defend their home and family against big ass preditors they cannot possibly win from.
Which is a sign of domestication, btw. And why you should keep them inside.
People like to taut how "undomesticated" cats are as an excuse to let them out. Its wrong.
If I ever see a puma in our Irish back garden, I'll have more to think about than keeping cats inside...
Happy birthday, Professor Tolkien, you'd be absolutely appalled at the whole damn lot of us. <3