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Just cuz she’s cool

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Victoria “Heavy Metal Queen” Terpsichore- Cowboy Bebop

submitted by @skittypretty

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[ID: A pair of large Siberian tigers standing on a mound of snow together. In the background we can see snowy hills lined with leafless trees. The tigers' fur is lit by warm sunlight.]

Photo by Jim Zuckerman

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Amur tiger brothers Dmitri and Luka at the Oregon Zoo enjoying a nice slab of frozen goat milk together, hopefully they get this in the summer as well.

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You’ve seen those photos of dogs snapped through catching a treat, with just the silliest faces? I see those and raise you: a tiger catching meatballs.

This is Kali, a Sumatran tigress at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma.

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The US' excuse for vetoing the recent ceasefire resolution is so stupid!

The only reason they vetoed it is because it didn't emphasise the hostages (who are most likely dead at this point) enough. Like they wanted it to be on the first page with the biggest fonts imaginable or some shit, and because the draft didn't meet those demands despite mentioning the hostages, they vetoed it.

Like they are more willing to let Palestinians suffer and die in a genocide over this stupid ass complaint.

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There is nothing in the world worse than the feeling of helplessness, that you cannot do anything, and you are standing in hell, and you are unable to do anything but silently observe your pain.

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Today we Read - Air Pirate Funnies - Underground Comix published by a group of Anti-Disney cartoonists lead by Dan O'Neill who sought to provoke a lawsuit that would result in the validation of parody rights.

O'Neill was found guilty of infringement due to not transforming the characters enough, with Law Professors arguing he inadvertently set back parody law by decades. In spite of this, the lawsuit effectively legitimized adult and underground comics and was a major inspiration towards the integration of adult content into the Funny Animal fandom, which later evolved into the modern Furry fandom today.

Another aspect about these comics which I think often goes under-analysed is the fact that in spite of how intentionally offensive and parodic it is, many of the works inside were in conversation with old comics masters of the early-to-mid 1900s, with a lot of the contributing artists paying tribute to the comics that made them the creators they are today, including parodies of Krazy Kat, Polly and Her Pals, Beetle Bailey, etc.

The personal favorite of these for me is Shary Flenniken's Trots and Bonnie, which stars a cynical lesbian teenager and her dog, which would go on to be regularly syndicated in National Lampoon and stands as an example of early feminist underground comics, while also paving the way for shows like Daria in the 90s.

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there's this fucking tik tok that i keep seeing and it's one of those "meet the friend group" shitty thirst traps and it's 6 dudes right and you got the punk boy (okay fine whatever ) and the elegant boy (what would we do without him) and then there's the fucking ventriloquist and the video just continues on to the college boy and the nerd boy (why are these two different boys?) but i'm still caught off guard by the fucking ventriloquist like this dude just straight up has a muppet of himself and he's not even like doing a ventriloquist thing he just has it and is lip syncing to the song and he has the muppet and that's him he's the ventriloquist that's his thing. there was nothing else for him to be he's just the ventriloquist of the friend group. i cannot stop thinking about this. The Ventriloquist.

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hate my fucking house