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think they're gonna sleep well? (2024 doodle)
"A steward's job is never done" is a sexy little riso zine about a captain's steward who takes his job aboard very very seriously.
Available at my next convention and on the shop when it'll reopen in late april!
the terror season 1 ep 3
Captain Crozier in a Victorian swimsuit from Instagram requests
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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.
Terror part of a trade with the fabulous @salazar-bollinger!
Here’s a cheeky little trade I did for the lovely @ghostbees! They’ve also done a picture of my best boys and best friends Blanky and Francis over on their blog - check it out :)
Day 171
Jopson with a beard is real and he will hurt me
In a Dream by Anna Akhmatova
We're reaching the end of our voyage, with only three weeks of prompts left for you all! This week's prompt comes to you from Harry Goodsir ⚓️ As always, don't forget to tag us in your WIPs using #SailOutSummer26 so we can share your work!
Happy sailing!
obligatory current tune - his last painting - manic street preachers
i've loved so much that i can't go on
The Iceberg - Frederic Edwin Church
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inspired by René Magritte paintings
“There is a solitude of space...”
by Emily Dickinson
There is a solitude of space A solitude of sea A solitude of death, but these Society shall be Compared with that profounder site That polar privacy A soul admitted to itself — Finite infinity.
Just finished The Terror, what a phenomenal show
Liam Garrigan and Jared Harris in The Terror "Mercy"