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mammalianmammals

Ord's Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys ordii), family Heteromyidae, southern ALB, Canada

photograph by Andy Teucher

#they’re saying ‘meep’ ‘meep’#rats

noodlebutts

..... Having both of them looking at me like this in focus is more unsettling than expected

#what the fuck are those #cats #i hope they have a good day i guess

artmialma

Ivan Pokidyshev (born in 1993)

#that's so fucking cool #art #nsfw

spacerockband

Strange Bird

#so good and horrible #cuckoo cuckoo #birds #art

wanderingcoasties

“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”

— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)

#it's not always mister bug...