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graceful gallop

I’ll never understand why anthropomorphic animal cartoons like Robin Hood and Zootopia will go to the trouble of creating character designs that are meant to be understood as “attractive” or even “sexy” to the human audience but explicitly avoid showing interspecies romances between anthropomorphic animals. Why is THAT weird but, like, trying to make rabbits recognizably sexy-coded to humans isn’t?

glumshoe

Sometimes, sure, but why was Maid Marian a fox in Robin Hood? There wasn’t anything particularly “foxlike” about her personality, and it would make more sense for her to be a lion. They made her a fox only because Robin was a fox and making her something else would be “weird”, but I don’t think the wolf cop or the chicken maid or the lion prince were actually meant to represent race.

countesspetofi

The best inter species couple is Kermit and Miss Piggy as the Cratchits in A Muppet Christmas Carol, because all their sons are frogs and all their daughters are pigs, as God clearly intended.

glumshoe

there are only two genders: frog and pig

forestdwellingrat

I’ve pointed out to my friends that the fact that Kermit and Miss Piggy’s kids are like that means either

1) they reproduce asexually and the children are clones of each parent OR

2) Kermit and Miss Piggy are members of the same sexually dimorphic species, hence the split between their male and female children

yes I have spent too long running about potential muppet biology

glumshoe

oh god

sailor-lady

Third option, when they want kids they get some fabric and make one, and hope a Hand inhabits it

glumshoe

Do you think there’s a ritual for inviting An Inhabiting Hand to possess the empty husk of your muppet baby?

jenivi

aflowerthatbloomsinadversity

Just wanted to show u guys that in Muppets Most Wanted, Piggy fantasizes about her and Kermit having babies and this is what they look like

So do with that what you will

fremedon

Recall that in The Great Muppet Caper, Kermit and Fozzie are brothers. And this was their dad (right):

capitalism-and-analytics

Thank you for specifying, which one of the two individuals in the picture was the dad haha

la-pou-belle

I, for one, think Shrek handled interspecies coupling the best. By this I am of course talking about the Dronkeys.

kestrelsparverius

adrnired

In season 3 of BoJack Horseman, we learn Diane (middle) has been impregnated by Mr. Peanutbutter (left). The fetuses are confirmed to be puppies.

autisticexpression

This is the worst addition to this post

araku-validrava

I am reminded of Treasure Planet.

In which Captain Amelia (left), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic cat, had hybrid babies with Doctor Doppler (middle), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic dog, whom also gave birth to the babies

wizardlizardinhislair

I always thought that in muppet movies like muppet Christmas Carol the characters are played by the muppets (so kermit is acting and playing the role of Bob rather than being him) so the kids in that film would just be other acting muppets right?

Or is that just something my brain made up?

ridiculouslyphotogenicsinosauru

kingscrown666

Last time I saw this post (YESTERDAY) it stopped at the second Eggman

the-haiku-bot

Last time I saw this

post (YESTERDAY) it stopped at

the second Eggman

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

astronomical-bagel

anyone in this thread smoke weed

susiron

In Leo the Lion (2005) a lion and elephant have the most cursed hybrid children and I think yall should see them

(also Matt Mercer voices the villain, Maximus Elefante and I think that’s very important)

spaceinvaydr

zaynfag

a short story

emmajiqrubini

I cosplayed Edna Mode from The Incredibles at Holiday Matsuri and needless to say I spent the day hunting down characters with capes and getting irrationally angry at them

loubuggins

This makes me irrationally happy

iweon

A very beautiful image of these smiley blackfoot. It seemed everything was alright…

Photograph by Mary T. S. Schaffer in 1907.

tate-iyohiwin

I just love how humanizing this is, it’s the first time I’ve seen us not depicted as the stoic archetype of this period

tsoki

Pictured here are Sampson, Frances Louise, and Leah Beaver who actually were very close friends with the photographer and were regular subjects of her work. It’s amazing what happens when you view us as people rather than museum objects - you capture us as people, as friends, as lovers, as parents rather than the stoic image of genocide and colonialism in-progress.

If you’re interested in learning more about female photographers and how they aided in representing native peoples through positive representation and ethical photography, I would suggest reading “Trading Gazes.” Mary T.S. Schaffer and other influential female photographers, and friends, of native peoples are given some much-needed recognition in this book while also discussing the white woman’s place in our genocide and colonization.

stuckinabucket-deactivated20140

Behold, birds who have lost the ability to can!

Just kidding, guys. These birds are just trolling the hell out of ants. I really, really wanted to show you this clip of a Galapagos finch or something harassing the shit out of formica ants and then being all “Yes, yes, bathe me in your fury! Your chemical defenses are now my own! Mwahahahaha!”, but the closest thing I could find is this video of David Attenborough pissing off some wood ants. It was basically like that, only instead of an Englishman with a stick, it was a bird stomping around with its wings spread just being an absolute asshole about everything.

This behavior is actually called anting, and there are two types of anting that birds can engage in. One is just anting, where birds will rub ants all over themselves to get that precious, precious formic acid all up in their feathers. They’ll also do it with mothballs, cigarette butts, and certain sorts of beetles and millipedes. The other one is passive anting, where a particularly lazy bird will find an anthill and just flop down on it with all their feathers spread and puffed and annoy the ants until they hop to and try to make them leave, at which point the bird rubs its wings together and goes “Yeeeeeess.”

They do this to get rid of external parasites, because external parasites are annoying. Ant-eating birds who do this are getting a two-for deal out of it, because they get the ants to empty their acid sacs in a beneficial location (the bird’s feathers) and then get to eat them without having to deal with the acid in their crops, so it’s basically like if your bug-spray or deoderant came in a bacon bottle.

Formica ants get the brunt of this, because they’re super-common and quite frequently spray the acid instead of trying to inject it, so the bird can get itself doused and then preen it into its feathers. Considering the spraying of acid is like the ant way of saying “Oh my god go away you dickhead I hate you we all hate you why are you still here jesus christ what is wrong with you,” we can be reasonably sure that they’re not super-thrilled by this bird behavior. Since the birds keep doing it, we can be reasonably sure that they don’t care about the ants’ feelings.

kingrebecca-deactivated20180222

I can’t stop laughing at the text Why can’t every science book be written like this?

whoviankendokaqueenbeewithbooks

Important update! The ants do have an important use of the bird visit!

About 20 years ago, the local wildlife conservation organisation thought that the ants needed protection from the birds, especially woodpeckers, because those regularly destroyed the anthills when they where bathing in formic acid and eating the ants. So those lovely people decided it woupd be a great ideo to erect chickenmech around the anthills to protect them against their avian foes.

In the next year, avery single anthill that was protected by the wire had been moved a bit by the ants. Just a meter or so, but outside the fencing.

It turned out to be their reaction to a problem that usually the woodpeckers would solve for them: compostation and mycosis.

The regular birdvisits turned the needles over, allowing air into the anthill which was very important to the ants hygene. It stopped from fouling to build up and helped keep the hill dry.

Without the birds, the ants had to do that themselfes. So they had to turn over the hill themselves, thus moving the hill outside the mech and regiving the birds access to their mite treatment.

The birds are not parasites, they are in a symbiosis with the ants!

(excuse my mistakes, english is not my first language and i am terrible at typing on the phone)

everythingfox

“I meowed at our neighbor’s cat once and now it regularly comes up to our door and just watches us live our lives.”

(Source)

lesbiankermit-moved

Elliot Page attends the 2021 Met Gala (September 13, 2021)

mystic-merc

why is no one talking about the green rose??? anyone else getting oscar wilde green carnation vibes or is it just me? yes he wore a black suit to the met gala but The Significance of this look!!!

a-polite-melody

Also, as pointed out in a post I just reblogged, the oversized suit was almost definitely a deliberate choice to evoke a particular image:

“teen trans boy's first prom suit, borrowed/bought a size too large because it was the smallest available". The obviously overlong sleeves. The cut of the jacket collar. The overlong suit pants. The massive chunky black sneakers. The massive green rose in his lapel.

Sure, he’s wearing a black suit, but he did that very much On Purpose as a transmasculine person at his first event since coming out. And on top of that, the outfit perfectly fit the theme for the Met Gala.

zhooniyaa-waagosh

Elliot is an experienced celebrity who’s attended tons of these events and yet people are being so condescending, acting like he doesn’t know what he’s doing? Even his expression in this photo shows that he knows EXACTLY what sort of image he’s presenting and that it was completely deliberate. That’s not the face of someone who is self-conscious in a bad suit, it’s the face of someone who got the exact look he was going for.

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

autisticjoy

idk what it is about sitting in chairs and having both feet on the floor but it’s so uncomfortable and awful and i’ll never willingly do it if there’s literally any other option

tiktoks-for-dead-pope

funnytwittertweets

dashaibo

I feel like this would be a great addition to a children's hospital!

thefreedomphoenix

You know because color theory

urbanfantasyinspiration

We are never gonna let that one go huh

anyawarrior

here's a pride edit i made. TERFs and exclusionists can fuck right the hell off. there are so many more i could've fit into here but i just chose whatever came to mind.