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[jackandjanetdefender]

~casually reading the DC wiki~

Me: Wait

Me: waaaaait

Me: WAAAAIT

MELONI WHAT DID YOU DOOOOO? THAT'S YOUR SON'S SITUATIONSHIP'S MURDERER'S KID, HOW THE---I have questions

[kikiivana]

Logging on, only to be met with a new G'raha discourse

[humancountries]

The sigh i gave when found out that there were Mandalorians in the clone wars series. And now I'm watching the whole show because I need context. And I'm going to end up watching the bad batch too probably.

[just-a-whumping-racoon-with-wifi]

Do you have chopsticks in your kitchen

Yeah I use them all the time!

I think I have some leftover take out ones

No?

Voting ended onOct 17, 2023

[triptychofvoids]

How gay are you from a scale of 1 to 100? Personally I'm pretty gay.

i think theres a little more nuance required to answer this than just picking a number between 1 and 100

[short-horse]

You're not into vulture culture are you?

It's a passing interest but I don't actively participate in it. Like going and collecting things and cleaning prepping and bleaching. I want a horse skull and maybe a few things preserved in jars. If this about death and bones being a squick. That's totally fine and I 100% understand why something like that aint your thing. If this is about some online stranger trying to tease out where I stand on their morality scale then buckle up because I'll spill some beans for you.

For me anatomy and physiology is endlessly fascinating and I don't have enough words to express just how much I love biology and nature. Bones and bodies are part of that. Predation is natural. Death is natural. Decay is natural. I don't see anything wrong with things like well made taxidermy and articulated skeletons. They're art. It's another way to use more of that animal and show it a little reverence. That skeleton, the fur/feathers, the everything has evolved for millions of years to reach its current state and to not appreciate that even after something has died baffles me. Skeletons and the preserving of bodies and parts is part of the reverence. For me it's not about "look at how SpOooky and WEIRD I am collecting these Oddities" because that's certainly trendy right now. I've noticed there are different flavors of vulture culture even without really being in that community. The part that likes to save and preserve the the hit by car raccoon and the folks who do it because it's trendy. Like that thing I reblogged about drastic drops in bat populations due to poaching because owning dead bats is popular for some reason. It's like owning dangerous wildlife as a flex. "LOOK AT THIS VENOMOUS SNAKE I HAVE! PRAISE ME!" VS "This is my baby, Mr. Cornsnake. He is my noodle and I love him!" Also I'm not going to go out and kill something just for the head or whatever. I think that's gross. Also not the same thing as obtaining parts from a humane euthanasia either. And like.. use what you can from the thing you hunted first. I have a genuine love and respect for the vulturish things I have or want. They're beautiful. Nature made that!

And in relation to that poll I reblogged, folks should be allowed to mourn for the loss of their pets however they choose to. Even if it's taxidermied or an articulated skeleton. That is a very personal choice and no one gets to tell them how to grieve if it's not hurting anyone or anyting.

Also, without preservesd specimines we wouldn't know nearly as much about animals, humans included. We wouldn't have representations of what some human-caused extinct animals (mostly) looked like in life. We wouldn't learn as much about veterinary sciences, we wouldn't have better ideas how to care for and medically treat animals and humans. Preserved things, taxidermy mounts, articulated skeletons, and wet specimines play a vital role in science and medicine. You can't begin to know how to treat a lame horse if you don't know what you're looking for if you're not familliar with the horse's leg and foot anatomy. X-rays can't show you everything. Bones have suble curves where a muscle and connective tissue would attatch, the holes where a vein or artery may pass, the growth rings in the bones, ect. Without death and bones we also wouldn't have fossils. We wouldn't be able to learn and appreciate all the life that has lived and died on Earth hundreds of millions of years before humanity. Even billions of years in some cases. The sheer amount of detail that can be kept during the fossilization process is amazing! A lot can be learned from fossilized skeletons and tissue if someone knows how to read it.

And in general i just like creepy things as much as cute things. I like a bit of horror. Gore in movies and such doesn't bother me. I can enjoy a good slasher flick. I have a slightly darker sense of humor. I like to occasionally reblog skeletons, skulls, and creepy horse monsters. I would have been a veterinary radiologist if I could because I love bones and working with animals. My newest fursona is an undead equine. I stradle the fence between goth and super cute things.

It's not a big deal if vulture culture isn't your cup of tea. It's okay to unfollow somebody if the things they post aren't what you like to see. If adding tags to things will help I can do that too. Something like "Skulls" or the like.

[tributary]

you guys really got to learn when “zionist” is being used as code for “jew.” for this reason i recommend defining how you’re using your terms always.