#good question!

[ragdollnetic]

JTW Day Seven: Paranormal Investigator | Historical Fiction | Photography

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Family photograph with Jason's pretty face intact. 🥰

[destinysquared]

Hello Destiny! I’m curious abt something..

Do you think that or is there any possibility that the members of the circus have ever had real human friends before MC's arrival?

Well, we know for sure they have interacted with humans many times. Most of the interactions are seemingly negative.

But uh....

you might find.....

A character or characters who had different experiences with humans.

hehee

Just gotta wait for more lore though~

[spindle-and-nima]

How can you tell that Nima is genuinely constantly angry, and not that she's one of those animals that do the wrong actions for their feelings? /genuine question

I'm thinking of cats who hiss as a greeting, dogs that growl when excited, and other weird individuals' mismatched behaviours like that. I know if it's multiple tells of anger at once, it most likely is, but I'm more so thinking of like, her smirking at flowers you gave them for example

Because all her other behaviors are entirely in line with normal rabbit behavior and the behaviors surrounding the sign of annoyance are consistent.

Our other rabbit, Fizzy, is the kind of bun who thumps when shes warning everyone about what she thinks is danger and we can tell since the behaviors surrounding the thump indicate she's wary. My husband thought she was angry like nima but i explained it was not the same: with fizzy we get thump, then head ducking and bobbing and alert ears. Its wary behavior, not annoyance

For nima, she will almost always follow up these behaviors with a thump, a bunny butt, flicking feet, grunts, which are all annoyed/defensive behaviors. So recognizing these patterns, i can definitely say many many things anger/annoy her. When she is relaxed she also shows normal behaviors: tooth purring, splooting, flopping, loafing etc.

Nima for the flowers was likely more pissed that i dared offer her something and bother her rather than the flowers itself lol

[draw-the-squad-like-this]

Hi! I want to submit a post but I don't fully understand it, I never done it before-

Are you able to edit the post? How much can you edit? Should I just put the image and scoure or should I put it like in the format of the posts with 'Draw your characters like this' on it??

I am able to edit the post!

For those curious: When a blog receives an ask, the blog can't edit anything in the "ask" box. They can only edit and type in the "answer" body of the post. But when a blog receives a submission, they can edit, add, or remove as much or as little of the entire post as they want.

All that's to say: don't sweat it. I have submission guidelines for what images I accept, but there's no way to format the actual post "wrong" by any means. If you add the image and the source, that's all you need to do :) You can add more text if you want to, but usually I handle the formatting and tagging.

[kedreeva]

Peafowl genetics question!

I like leucistic peacocks, they’ve always struck me as very elegant! But you mentioned that the “black” peafowl suffer from shorter lifespans and other genetic issues. What’s the cause of these type of issues, how they’re bred? And do leucistic peafowl suffer from the same kind of health issues?

Nope! It's something about the Charcoal gene itself that is the problem. Various breeders have tried to fix the issues, from outcrossing to diet and environmental changes, but sometimes phenotype changes really are just the result of a gene that's doing Other Fucked Up Stuff- like "progressive pied" in peafowl is a form of vitiligo, and comes with a host of autoimmune problems that are the root cause of the pigment cell death, and makes THAT mutation also a bad one to propagate. The new Black gene in peafowl does not appear to have the same functionality problems as Charcoal (the other black-colored gene, though it's more like a dark brown or grey in most cases), but it also hasn't been around long enough to know that for sure. However, the hens are producing eggs and offspring, which was the first major indicator that Charcoal was unhealthy- all homozygous Charcoal hens are sterile, they do not lay eggs.

The leucistic genes (white and pied at least, possibly also white eye though I'm of the opinion that that's a white spotting gene not a leucistic gene) have both been around for hundreds of years and show no signs of being deleterious to healthy function of the animal. They're costmetic in nature, and fine to reproduce!

[oohyeahthatsagoodquestion]

Can someone please as Jensen at the next Purgatory -- IMPORTANTLY, NOT AT A CE CON!! IT HAS TO BE IN EUROPE!! AND IN A COCKLES PANEL -- how many boyfriends he estimates Dean had?

yeah! that's a good question? what is dean's body count? 🤔

[theabsurdity]