amongoose

jade they/she adult why are you all following us here. go follow our art blog or one of our fandom blogs. we don't even post about zangoose here

[zangoonse]

welcome to the

(where we don't post about zangoose and the only zangoose barely ever even fronts)

member blogs: (a lot of them are blank because the people running them haven't fronted but we're getting to it)

@never-lake: axel, amy, nova, ven, valentino

@prower-labs: tails, kit

@spiral-hill: whisper, tangle

@aerialgarden: echoes, skip, the ralsei subsystem

@menhir-trail: ruby, serena, isabelle, scarlet, jade, zeke, elana

@castelia-park: luca, dusk

@aridcanyon: jana, annie

@zangoonse: everyone else

other sideblogs:

@pikajade: our art

@foxgirlbelly: 18+ for the people who use this blog or don't want to make their own blogs 18+

bluesky (18+)

we block liberally. if we have you blocked there's a pretty good chance it's not personal and you just did or said something that annoyed us a bit

[segamascott]

[blanq]

tumblr glitched and now there’s just a guy in the void

[daughter-of-prospero]

Wile E. Coyote, two milliseconds before he lights a match only to reveal he's surrounded by flammable traps he himself has set and the whole website explodes

[mao-machi]

Sketh of blaze🐱

[kelseyfun]

Reblog if you say "Y'all"

[jaziferret]

Blaze

The empress herself

[dragon-in-a-fez]

under US law, it's illegal for anyone who's not a member of a recognised native tribe to own an eagle feather. the penalty is a $100,000 fine.

14 years ago when I had recently moved to Alaska, I went hiking with an Aleut friend, and she pointed to a feather lying on the ground and said "hey that's a bald eagle tail feather, you should grab it!" and I was like "uhh I'm very white and that's very illegal" and she went "they're fuckin everywhere up here man. I have 20." so she grabs it off the ground and hands it to me and says "there, now it's a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person."

and I'm like, okay, cool, I guess this is how we do things in Alaska. nice.

so I keep this bald eagle tail feather around for years. display it in my home among other cherished memorabilia from places I've lived and visited, etc.

on a whim, I have just now looked it up. there is no exemption to that law for a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person. the last 7 years I lived in the US, I was technically a bald eagle poacher.

probably a good thing I don't intend to move back there anytime soon. I wonder what the statute of limitations is on bird crimes.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

@freedomisscaryshit I'm fucking dying I think you forgot the word "feathers" in your tags?? or do you just wish you could grab whole ass eagles that land in your yard??

[emotional-support-husband]

As an Indigenous person, it continues to astound me that there are such strict laws (written by White people) in our name, laws against...picking up things just found on the ground. Like, stop pretending this is "for" us. We don't want this.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

so, for clarity, that's not what this is. the law against possessing feathers is an anti-poaching measure, derived from a North American treaty protecting certain migratory bird species from hunting. that treaty has an exemption for indigenous people to allow tribes that use eagle feathers in ceremonial or religious practices to continue doing so.

[chekhovs-raygun]

i used to collect feathers (illegally) as a teenager and the thing is that it's incredibly important for feathers from wild birds to be illegal to possess because it ensures that they never become fashionable to wear. the reason we passed the migratory bird act was because the american and european fashion industry was driving species to extinction in a timespan of years. not just decades. the ecological devastation of exporting birds for hats was absolutely insane and people were watching wetlands and forests and meadows just empty out in realtime. look at the wikipedia article for the plume trade.

the law against 'picking feathers up off the ground' means that you can't go shoot an eagle then sell the feathers on etsy by saying you 'just found them'. you can't own them no matter where they came from, which makes sure that they're not going to come from any birds killed and then secretly disposed of.

these laws, as harsh and ridiculous as they seem, saved flamingos, spoonbills, egrets, and all kinds of hawks and eagles from extinction. the minute these laws weaken and people can make money off killing them again, they're fucked.

[lizardlicks]

this is one of those "no actually this regulation exists for a reason" laws much like work place safety and building fire codes (that Republicans keep trying to roll back) and is written in blood just like them as well. it's just not human blood this time, and the fact that people actually cared enough about long term future over short term profit to get it put in place is nothing short of astonishing. That it didn't get put in place in time to save several species is heart breaking.

[kuroiyuki96-art]

Wanted to try drawing something in a certain style

[identifying-deer-in-posts]

For deer, "bonehead" is a compliment. Use this to build reputation within cervine factions.

[identifying-deer-in-posts]

[identifying-deer-in-posts]

[miijiu]

forget me not

[ashleyorange]

Underrated Sonic lesbians, more people should draw them I think

[interested-individual]

New slang update

"Its raining, we should find some shelter" -> "Cats and dogs bro, we move"

[jesterjesteringjesterly]

Putting Silver in the Torment Nexus is just my favourite activity. It's how you can tell I love him. SO INTO THE IRON LUNG HE GOES

[portaltomb]

this lettuce smells like dog

[iamoutofideas]

you bought dog lettuce

[swarnpert]

[mlarayoukai-archive]

You show a cat something and they're like sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff sniff ooooh I understand now. Don't care

[simplefanatic]

Ralsei and Kris cuddling (platonically/comforting) might fix me

Drsw that goat princess experiencing the horrors

[shopcat]

look at this wonderful gif of scallops getting scared and scattering like a flock pigeons

[elioftheasphodel]

whatever. go my scallops

[whitachi]

last night I had the experience of "referencing a tumblr post that you think is widely known but turns out to not be as widely known as you thought it was" last night and it was this post. whatever. go my scallops