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[among-the-pine-trees]

Stupid "online animal expert" of the day:

Since when European pine marten became Nilgiri marten?

It actually looks like this:

I hate when they don't double check.

[252mya]

There is something about a giant aquatic crocodile-snouted dinosaur with a sail down its back wearing the trans pride flag that just feels right. The real Spinosaurus (~99 million years ago, North Africa) is the only non-avian dinosaur we know that swam for a living. @webvein drew this one. It’s on apparel at 252MYA.COM/STRANS.

[webvein]

My favorite of the pride flag Dino’s I’ve done so far :)

[ictitherium]

captivity

[pointandshooter]

photo: David Castenson

[briargeese]

Hellebores (Lenten Roses) under a UV light.

[snototter]

A female African lion (Panthera leo) in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

by Steve Jurvetson

[camelidae]

As far as I can tell the one great distinguishing feature of the Barbary lion was Much Fluff.

[enchantedbook]

'Werewolf' by Jakub Różalski

[sonjackcarl]

[godbirdart]

『 HOW AM I GOING TO BE AN OPTIMIST ABOUT THIS 💥 』

[your-worst-boy]

Ginger Snaps (2000) BTS photos

[burntundertones]

[sophieinwonderland]

What is a mindform?

I've been using this term a lot lately, and I'm honestly not sure how many people know it. I feel like it's self-explanatory enough that when I use it, people will pick up on what it is based on the context even if they don't know.

But essentially, your mindform is your inner world body.

You can close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting in a chair. Some people will imagine themselves from a third person perspective, in which case your mindform is whatever you see sitting there. If you are imagining from a first-person perspective, then imagine a mirror in front of you. Whatever you see in the mirror is your mindform.

Because this is happening in your head, you should be able to change the mindform at will. Imagine yourself bigger or smaller. Change into a completely different creature.

I think mindforms are most useful as a concept when we are talking about systems because systems tend to use their mindforms more often to interact with headmates.

But they importantly are not exclusive to systems. Most singlets should also have mindforms, but their default mindforms are usually just going to look similar to their body unless they are experiencing some form of alterhumanity that makes them see themselves as something else. Or maybe a closeted trans person might imagine themselves looking like their true selves.

Default Mindforms

After looking at Google, the words "default mindform" have apparently never been used together in human history. So I guess this is also a coining post of sorts.

Anyway, the default mindform is just the form someone frequently defaults to. It's the one they identify with and feel comfortable with, and some may experience dysphoria if they take a different form.

Most of the time, I have a tendency to use these interchangeably, but I do want to make this distinction because headmates are not actually locked to one form. You can change your mindform to try out different appearances the same way you can try on different clothes.

So the mindform is more nebulous. It is whatever you appear as at that given moment. But the default mindform is what you identify with. It is who you are internally beneath the body's meatsuit.

And I will also add that some headmates have multiple default mindforms. There may be multiple appearances they feel comfortable adopting. There's not a limit on how many default mindforms you can have.

[sophieinwonderland]

One thing I want to add real quick that forgot... Mindforms are also not strictly inner world.

They can be externalized by a headmate imagining themselves outside the body. This is especially common in tulpa systems which have a tendency to be imagined outside the body in the same way imaginary friends are.

There is even a practice called imposition that aims to make the tulpa appear more real externally, with the end goal being to strengthen the skill to produce a complete hallucination indistinguishable from reality.

All of this is also mindform even though it's not in the inner world. I just wanted to be clear because my previous description of it as an inner world body could be a bit misleading.

[pocketss]

laurie 😔

[kipine]

🌙

[local-hellhound-steals-spaghetti]

Is it right to assume that an assessment would not only benefit the animal in question but also likely provide scientific data to prevent future strandings? Are autopsies usually performed after euthanasia? Because I assume those would also benefit whales research and stranding prevention in general.

Absolutely- the data we can get from an assessment can give us a lot of information about why that whale stranded in the first place. And if that animal does have to be euthanised because they’re too sick to refloat or are continually restranding - we will always try to do a necropsy to get more details about the whale’s death.

It’s important that any data collection on a live whale is done as safely as possible but we can also get a lot of information by general observation, species identification, behavioural analysis and recording frequency of respirations.

There are some amazing technologies being developed with cetaceans in human care that will help get quick and accurate data in the future without being too invasive. And this would also help in being able to triage more effectively in a mass stranding event.

… wouldn’t it have been nice if those millions of dollars had gone out to developing and distributing that technology instead of dragging a dying whale into the middle of the ocean? But I digress…

You’re spot on though that assessment and necropsy can be used to understand and potentially prevent strandings in the future. Whales do get sick but if a whale has stranded because of human activity eg. Underwater noise, boat strikes, fishing gear, that is information that has to be collected and shared to governments and the public to inform ocean management policies. Because that is something that we can actually do something about!

[mimill3]

2 orcas playing 🫍🫍