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fuck people who reblog posts which contradict each other. no! be explicitly clear
admire folks who reblog posts which contradict eachother. exactly! keep em guessing
Oh, this definitely belongs on Tumblr.
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I’m a real tough kid, I can handle my shit
only 62 more frogs until we hit 8,000 species described. the moment we've all been waiting for
there are an average of about 150 new amphibian species described per year so I remain hopeful that 2026 will be the year of 8,000 frogs
I do love that somebody tagged tumblr's own frog scientist on this post. chop chop dr scherz, we've got 62 more frogs to discover and you're the only frog scientist any of us knows
GUYS amphibian species of the world is still at 7,994 species of frog BUT amphibiaweb is at 8,008 species of frog, and do you know who is a co-author on the 8,000th species of frog there???? TUMBLR'S OWN FROG SCIENTIST DR SCHERZ
you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.
Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now
when i was a tiny baby queer (aka a 24-year-old), i went to my first pride festival probably three months after i kicked ex-gay therapy to the curb and came out to my parents. being the people they are, my parents came with me. they weren’t really sure about this whole gay thing, but they loved me and wanted me to be safe and happy and wanted to be involved in what was important to me, so they came along. (i also think my mother still might have thought i might get drugged or murdered or beaten by a protester of which there were plenty.)
anyway i wanted a memento of my first pride, you know, and this one vendor was selling keyrings, and i liked it, so i bought one. do you remember those italian charm bracelets that were all the rage like 10-15 years ago? it was a keychain like that, and it had a rainbow rooster, a rainbow cat, and then just a rainbow, and so I bought it.
i run into my mom a couple of vendors over and she goes oh you bought something? what’d you get? so i showed her, and i was like, “I’m not sure why it’s a rooster and a cat. Seems kind of random. But I liked the rainbows.”
and my mom, who was some form of minister’s wife for most of my childhood and teenagerhood, stares at me like she thinks i’m joking.
“What?” i say.
“…it’s a cock and a pussy, Jules,” she says flatly, and that is the story of how i died at the age of 24 while attending my first pride festival.
I love how every June this one gets dug up and passed around again, lmao.
oh no is this what we’re doing now
…relic…
*crumbles and blows away on the wind*
Your post about domesticated coyotes and the problems that arise with the idea includes a specific phrase that I *could* look up myself, but I feel like you could phrase it very interestingly.
"Re"-domestication of cheetahs?
With reference to This Post In ancient Egypt, Cheetahs were sometimes used as hunting animals like greyhounds, and kept as housepets by the royal family and later, many wealthy households.
Now, there's an argument about how "domesticated" these cheetahs were- the majority of them were captured from the wild as adults and tamed/trained to tolerate humans and obey hunting commands, mostly because back then and still today, cheetahs are extremely hard to breed in captivity. Some were bred and raised from cubs, and there was not a shortage of cheetahs living in and around human habitation for them to replace stock with.
Even today, cheetahs are... weirdly comfortable around humans, if those humans know how to mind their manners. Game wardens in Kruger National Park sometimes sleep next to young cheetahs they are re-introducing into the wild, or have had female cheetahs who are familiar with them drop their cubs off on their feet to 'babysit' while she goes hunting.
Here's a pair of San hunters from the Naankuse Wildlife Reserve in Namibia bow-hunting while a wild local male cheetah hangs out with them (the angle makes him look much bigger and closer to the men than he is, but he's still VERY close). The male's name is Aiko, and is well-known to these men- they're not worried about his presence because they know how to respect his space and he knows not to go after game they've downed. Game they miss is free for him to run down, and game he flushes from the bushes are much easier to shoot- a mutually beneficial partnership. It's extremely similar to how the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea hunt with their dogs, some of the most recently domesticated and most similar to ancient 'proto-dogs' alive today.
So, cheetahs aren't domesticated the way dogs and housecats are- they haven't been selectively bred for generations, they're not dependent on humans, and they can and will attack people that bother them.
But like Coyotes, the remaining cheetahs we have are VERY habituated to humans, arguably even moreso than coyotes are, and we've made a lot of progress in getting them to breed in captivity- Ironically by pairing them up with highly domesticated dogs, who teach them domesticated animal behaviors like "not worrying about everything".
With Coyotes, the obstacle to domestication are mostly practical matters like "getting a coyote farm funded, zoned, built and insured.", whereas with cheetahs the problem is "there are almost no cheetahs left to practice domestication on and the ones we do have are already inbred". There IS a lot of commercial interest in domesticated cheetahs, so I think a good way to get the funding for species conservation and genetic re-diversification of cheetahs would be to frame it as a prerequisite to "Re-Domestication" and pet cheetahs.
We've done much larger and more complicated things before.
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It's Tumpet Tuesday. Bwaaa.
oh my god and it's a Canada Goose so this is the equivalent of befriending a small demon
OP you're wrong. Duck, duck is the most perfect name for a goose, ever.
This makes me so happy every time I read it. Especially the bit where Guy makes DuckDuck smoothies of all the good stuff he’s meant to eat.
This is the best buddy comedy-drama ever.
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Doctor Who, Does It Have Good Black Rep?
How's The Rep?
Good\Excellent
Decent\Okay (Might still have areas of criticism but overall not bad)
Could Use Work
Not Great
Yeah No Wtf Is This
Doctor Who is an ongoing science fiction live action television series started in 1963, it is broadcast by the BBC and created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson. Mizero Ncuti Gatwa is the Black actor who played the most recent doctor role.
Synopsis "Doctor Who follows the adventures of the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being from a humanoid species known as Time Lords. The Doctor travels through space and time using a time traveling spaceship called the TARDIS, which has an exterior that resembles a British police box. The Doctor encounters various civilizations, which he seeks to protect by outwitting foes and solving crises."
These polls are geared towards a Black audience, if you're not Black i don't mind you discussing this topic as well as i do think its important for nonblack people to understand how to spot and write\not write these things, but please know that you should not be speaking for or over Black voices as a nonblack person and deciding that you know more or better. I do not tolerate that. Its also important to understand that you can still like the characters or designs and critique the rep! (This aimed at anyone not specifically nonblack ppl)
This is only about NuWho: RTD was really not good at having black characters. Mickey (fuck Noel Clarke obv) was treated as less than nothing by his white girlfriend Rose, despite the fact that they were both working class from the same estate. The Doctor also treated him like shit unjustifiably. So for two series you had the only black recurring character treated and portrayed like an idiot and nuisance, until he effectively left the main universe.
Martha’s treatment devastated me at the time. The first black companion, and she was an intelligent, capable and gorgeous medical student. RTD made her a rebound, the only time that’s ever happened in NuWho. Rose was the Bad Wolf, Donna was DoctorDonna, Amy was The Girl Who Waited, Clara was the Impossible Girl. Martha was only ever an afterthought. The Family of Blood two-parter was the most galling example of this. Martha was forced to play a maid (which, lovely to show black kids- if you time travel with the alien, prepare to play the help!) She was also victimised by a period appropriate racist Englishwoman, who the Doctor later offered to make a companion, even though she was a piece of shit to his actual companion. Then in her series finale, Martha goes around the world, saving it and the Doctor, only for her herculean efforts to never be celebrated by the Doctor or the fandom. Even though she later gets engaged to a fellow doctor, RTD ends her story by making her a soldier and putting her together with Mickey, because they’re both black (he disputes this, he’s wrong).
Bill was wonderful. I loved having her as a companion. Her relationship with Twelve was a blessed relief after Clara and that poor writing. But Steven Moffatt gave her an especially cruel and unnecessary ending. After that we get Ryan, who was sweet and perfectly fine, but one of way too many characters, so he wasn’t much of a character. Loved the Fugitive Doctor, but she was barely in it. I feel like Chris Chibnall tried the hardest in terms of diversity, but while his run wasn’t terrible, it wasn’t great. But it was good to see good black and Asian characters overall.
Now, Ncuti’s Doctor was brilliant because he’s brilliant. But his series were messily written, he barely shows up in his first series, and we’re once again left with RTD’s beloved blonde white companions as the de facto lead. The second series (and its specials) was a mess and has now left the entire show in limbo with original NuWho companion Rose emerging for a fourth time, 20 years after her introduction. Like, I like Billie Piper and David Tennant, but fucking enough. And throughout all of this, we’ve had showrunners, fandom and media willing to throw black characters and their actors under the bus (not in the case of Noel, fuck him).
Is Doctor Who terrible? No. I’ve been a fan of NuWho since it premiered, I’ve seen every single episode with Jammie Dodgers in hand. It is diverse. It had queer characters before that was widely accepted on family tv, and poc are found everywhere (including my beloved Sacha Dhawan as the Master). There has been an active attempt to place black and brown characters in a host of roles. But, tokenism isn’t enough, and it’s always clear that the showrunners (except Chibnall, who made queer Asian woman Yaz Khan the heart of his run) idolised their young, white female companions to the point of poor writing, specifically Rose, Amy and Clara. Being a black Whovian means knowing that anti-blackness is accepted, even if the show is slowly improving over time.
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Well shit, Henry Jenkins, out here in 1997 dropping truth bombs
Oh hey I need this for a research paper I'm writing, thank you!
i mean he had been out here since 1988 dropping such bombs:
"'fandom' is a vehicle of marginalized subcultural groups (women, the young, gays, etc.) to pry open space for their cultural concerns within dominant representations; it is a way of appropriating media texts and rereading them in a way that serves different interests, a way of transforming mass culture into a popular culture"
Jenkins, Henry. “Star Trek Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 5, no. 2 (1988): 85–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038809366691.
there are even some earlier works in fan studies but that’s what i have ready to hand.