#slightly less bad

[normal-newt]

Wildlife rescue organisations here have very intense politics. Like, if you criticize any organisations’ practices you can end up being “locked out” of even unpaid positions in all of them. Which is why this is going safely under a username and not anywhere near my actual one. But it’s so frustrating watching everyone making the same mistakes over and over again.

So some baby animal can’t be released, and it’s decided that they will be used as an education/ ambassador animal. Because of this, they don’t need to be raised to avoid humans. But some people think that this means they should be treated like human children. One organisation literally started splitting up captive-born joeys from wild but un-release-able kangaroos specifically to raise so that when they grew up they would “think they were human”. And for the first year or two it goes great. They want to snuggle with everyone who will look at them, they play with people, and they are just unbearably cute. And people aww about it and say that they really do think they’re human. 

When they start to reach sexual maturity, they start “acting up”. People get kicked and scratched and they start to realise that their “child” isn’t acting so snuggly anymore, and they get angry. And the kangaroos have no fucking idea why, because they can’t know that they’re play wrestling is strong enough to hurt us. Because it turns out they don’t think they’re human, but they certainly seem to think we’re kangaroos.

And by the time they’re old enough to start fighting for real, it’s already too late to do anything about it. You can’t let visitors anywhere near them for safety reasons. 90% of the staff and volunteers won’t go in to clean the enclosures, and a lot of them still blame the animals. Some animals are so risky to work with that feeding them takes two people in the enclosure and one person acting as a “spotter”. There is no PPE for this, so people end up using plastic buckets as shields.

Anyway I’m mostly just yelling at the void, but if anyone reading this was wondering why a lot of zoos and wildlife rescues don’t cuddle the baby animals. it’s because of this sort of thing. There are a lot of really good ways to make sure baby animals feel comfortable and safe, but handling them too much usually either scares them, or means that they could seriously injure someone down the track.

It’s also why so many people who’ve worked with animals are so strongly against people owning certain types of exotic pets. If someone is telling you not to get a pet serval or kangaroo or whatever else people are keeping in their living rooms, there’s a good chance they’re trying to stop you getting mauled.

[klaissance]

they are god’s eepiest soldiers im begging please let them ReLaX

[b4kuch1n]

siren

[oodlesodoodles]

laughter

[lunarharp]

the scrabblers and their bored boyfriends

[riocinn]

rockafire human au where earl is a crusty white dog covered in tumeric

[heyclickadee]

Phee speedpaint. Sort of speedpaint. (Maybe take the “speed” out of the paint part—I’m a very, very slow painter.)

[gilmores-glorious-blog]

genuinely so unwell thinking about how there’s such an emphasis placed on vax being the one who needs his sister, who asks her to not go far from him, who is nothing without her. vex is the one who’s always been more independent, vax says it himself: she doesn’t need him. but in the end, vax is the one who leaves. and vex doesn’t realize just how much she needed her brother until it’s too late.

[welcometo79s]

I don't know shit about Wolffe but everything I see in fanon about him makes me feel like he's a more toxic version of Crosshair???

[a-whispering-echo]

Tudor Nightmare

sister piece to THIS piece of Tudor Dream <3

side note, i KNOW the arms/sleeves on the closer up drawing are odd, i literally COULD NOT figure it out and this was the closes i got before i hurt to much to give a shit so.

[worstloki]

i feel like the thor movies should have explored more about how the other realms hate Asgard and it's not all because of Odin because Bor also killed off basically the entire race of dark elves with the bifrost beam and that came back to bite them as much as Hela did

[p1-norris]

i’m so fascinated by the ‘piastri doesn’t have to publicly thank norris/he might have just done it privately’ thing bc like… no he doesn’t have to but you have to acknowledge that it’s not a good look to, on more than one occasion now, completely fail to acknowledge your teammate’s role in your win? piastri did fuck all in norris’ win at miami and lando still talked about how well piastri did and how unlucky he was afterwards - lando handed piastri his first win from six seconds up the road and saved his second when mclaren screwed up their strategy yesterday and he just… didn’t recognise either of those things afterwards?

like, maybe he did thank him privately. maybe he didn’t. we will never know. but as like a public perception thing, he doesn’t help himself come across as a good teammate or as a team player at any point

[lord-shitbox]

leander when he gets jealous: love bombing. gets you flowers every other day, picks you up from work without asking, shows up on your doorstep with warm breakfast in the morning (surprise!). if someone hits on you in front of him he will do some huge PDA thing like wrapping his arms around your waist and kissing your neck while looking them in the eye

ais when he gets jealous: does that thing where he locks his arms around you during a cuddle session & refuses to let you leave. if someone hits on you in front of him he will simply start a fucking fight

[thealogie]

For the tv writing class I’m auditing our next assignment is to pick three shows we would potentially write a spec script for and summarize our proposed episode. And so far I have the bear, Mr and Mrs Smith and….i literally cannot think of a third show that’s good and still on air and not the obvious cursed option.

[utilitycaster]

WAIT finishing up The Name and uhhhhhh more "entitled fans = kipperlily" validation re: the fact that two teachers are favoring and conspiring with the Rat Grinders and somehow that doesn't count, and also, THEY'RE TRYING TO DISSOLVE THE SCHOOL AND TELEPORT THE ENTIRE TOWN BECAUSE THEY'RE MAD SOMEONE ELSE IS MORE POPULAR AND YOU THINK THEY SHOULD BE REHABILITATED?

[bacchuschucklefuck]

How would Riz give bardic inspiration in your class swap au

motivational speech