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So... it seems I accidentally deleted an ask rather than answering it. To whoever asked "is it okay to visit SeaWorld? Does the money go to giving the orcas good care?"... here is your answer!
The SeaWorld parks, as well as Busch Gardens, Discovery Cove, and a few others, are operated by the recently renamed United Parks and Entertainment, a for-profit theme park company. Like any other corporation, their first goal is to remain profitable. Obviously, a large portion of that goes to corporate leadership and shareholders. But that's far from unique to United, or theme parks in general. It's a byproduct of the greedy world we live in. If you're willing to buy a ticket to Disney or Six Flags, then buying a ticket to a SeaWorld or Busch Gardens is no more immoral.
According to the AZA, approximately 46% of their members are for-profit. And while AZA zoos certainly vary in quality (anywhere from "acceptable" to "exceptional" in my opinion), for-profit status does not cheapen or detract from the work they do. In fact, for-profit institutions often have more financial freedom for animal care and conservation efforts than their non-profit counterparts. Non-profit zoos and aquariums are wonderful places, but believe me when I say there's a startling amount of politics in every aspect of their management. Non-profit status does not automatically make a zoo better, and for-profit status does not automatically make a zoo worse.
Now... do SeaWorld ticket sales go toward giving their orcas (and other animals) good care? Yes.
While it's certainly simplistic for parks to claim, as they do, "just by buying a ticket today you're helping save animals in the wild!"... it's not exactly a lie. Being for-profit, SeaWorld doesn't ask for donations to fund park operations or outreach endeavours. That revenue is generated by selling tickets, merchandise, food, etc. The same goes for their wildlife rescue and rehab program, Rising Tide conservation program, Coral Rescue Center, and the SeaWorld-Busch Gardens Conservation Fund, as well as partner organizations like OCEARCH and the Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute.
Take ticket sales away, and they can't care for their animals, or continue to fund conservation projects. While I don't know the whole story of what exactly is going on with Marineland Antibes, it appears that the park is in a dire financial situation due to plummeting attendance, to the point that they can no longer maintain their killer whale habitat and are trying to offload their animals onto an Asian aquarium or, potentially, an as-of-yet non-existent third party sea pen. While certainly well-meaning, years of boycotts against Marineland ultimately put their animals in a position where they are not being properly cared for. And it would be horrifying if the same thing happened to SeaWorld. I don't think many people, in their fervor to punish the parks for their perceived misdeeds and save the animals, thought about what the reality of driving a zoological facility into financial ruin would look like.
Don't get me wrong, SeaWorld's shift toward promoting itself as a thrill park that also does conservation rather than a marine facility that happens to have roller coasters annoys me. I would have rather they built a separate, neighboring park for the rides, or at least integrated them into the existing park less obtrusively (Disney's Animal Kingdom, for example, seemlessly integrates the theme park and zoo elements, although they have the benefit of the incredibly talented Imagineering team behind them). But as tiresome as the constant roller coaster announcements are, they are what kept the company afloat financially in the years immediately following Blackfish, drawing in a crowd that previously had no interest in the parks, and for that I'm grateful. Thankfully, SeaWorld is in a better spot nowadays. But the only way to convince them that their animals, not their roller coasters, are what people want to see... is to visit and see the animals.
In short, yes, part of your SeaWorld ticket funds care for their orcas and their many admirable projects. Now if only more of it went to giving their staff better salaries.
#their staff make less money than a lot of other major theme parks#the animals have great care... the people uh...#not as much#seaworld#zoos#aquariums#conservation#answered asks#anonymous
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thinking about how crazy dnf were last night. they’re so happy together and they’re so obviously boyfriends they don’t do well at hiding it tbh 😭
they aren't trying to hide it :,)
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Who's your favorite digi girl out of my top ten?
Boy version.
#digimon#mimi tachikawa#miyako inoue#yolei inoue#jeri katou#juri katou#rika nonaka#ruki makino#ruli tsukiyono#nokia shiramine#kyoko kuremi#miu shinonome#miyuki minase#saki kimishima#these are disproportionately from later installments#which is exactly opposite of the digiboy poll#picking so many from cs and survive makes it seem like i dont like yuuko and aoi bc they're the only ones left out#i really DO like them#just#not as much
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My bro just got attacked by our neighbors dog (the kid let the dog out while my bro was emptying the garbage) and there’s blood all over the house, outside on our porch and sidewalk (his hand got bitten) and blood got all over our kitten as well.
#man#it’s always something man#the kids next door were the only ones home so he was frantic because my mom was going crazy on him but my bro did get hurt and he’s autistic#and always always anxious and shit#I got attacked by a dog before so I know how it is that’s why I don’t really care for them all that much and I’m still scared of them but#not as much#rambling#there’s a hole in the gate separating our houses and my mom has been telling them to put something there to cover up the hole in the gate#ever since they moved in since their dog kept slipping into our yard but nothing was ever done about it#mom and my bro just went to the hospital via ambulance tho
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Not sure if anyone asked; how do you feel about Gwen, Kevin, Grandpa Max, Rook as characters? Do you like them, hate them, or they just meh.
I don’t dislike any of them as characters. You’re probably asking cause I mostly talk about Ben, and well…this is a Ben Stan Account so that is what you get, lol.
I think Gwen, Kevin and Rook made great team members and played off of Ben’s character well, each in their own district ways. Max was also essential to Ben’s story and added a lot of opportunity to get into the depth of what makes Ben who he is.
But as you can see, it’s hard to analyze these other characters without connecting my thoughts to my fave. Sorry not sorry.
If I have any particular bone to pick with something any of them does in story (and sometimes I do), I will point it out while I’m writing in Ben’s defence. They’re too sparse to find every point and link to them all, but I do that sometimes.
#I just#love my boy#I think about him all the time#the others? while they are also cool#not as much#but I CAN analyze them upon request#just be aware this is a Ben Stan Account lmao#ask#Ben 10#ben tennyson
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is it fair to complain?
#my heart hurts just a bit#and it's not even that important#but the wind has fully been taken out of my sails#tumblr#you used to bring me a lot of joy#now#not as much#expectations always ruin things#me stuff
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For the love of God I'm gonna become violent.
PLEASE FUCKING STOP TO PUT UNRELATED AESTHETIC FUCKING IMAGE IN YOUR FUCKING FANFICTION/HEADCANONS POSTS ON TUMBLR.
Seriously I can't take it anymore it make me crazy! I SPECIFICALLY use the picture filter to watch FANARTS or EDITS and SPECIFICALLY NOT FANFICTIONS or HEADCANONS. I swear even with the filter 3/5 of the posts are fanfictions!
I have nothing against fanfictions, I love fanfictions. But seriously when my feed got SATURATED with fanfictions when I specifically use a filter, all of that because the authors put some band-cut-unrelated-somehow-aesthetic-or-for-some-other-shitty-reason-sakura-flowers-or-cute-dress at the top of their fanfiction that make me want to smash things.
You want your post to look cute and pretty. I get it, really. Put there is other ways that don't shoot a ball in the foot of non-interested users' experience. I don't know you can use the colors of your text or the police, I promise it will look cute enough.
In my country we say "my individual liberty stop where begin the one of my neighbor". It's mean that when we live in a society we need to respect other people's boundaries and rights. So right now your freedom of putting pictures in your fanfiction is an obstacle to my freedom of not wanting them in my feed when I use the picture filter.
Once again it wouldn't be such a deal if it was 1 or 2 on 10 posts... But it's 3 on 5.
#i'm not even joking#i'm begging#Litterally#i'm this close to crying#Or to start a slaughter I'm not quite sure yet#fanfiction author#Fanfiction post#These fucking aesthetic bands#complaining#It's my vent post#Fanfiction reader x character#I'm screaming a lot on the fanfiction post but the headcanons post do the same#Not as much#But it's still pissing me off
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comic
#badtober#badtober2024#my art#digital art#batman#bruce wayne#mlp#mlp fim#mlp g4#pinkie pie#mlp pinkie#joker#dc joker#crossover#I really dont know how Ive managed to get this much mileage out of batman X mlp crossover art. Why is my brain stuck on this.#also i cheated a bit for this prompt bc I had that first panel drawn back in August and just made another drawing to turn it into a comic
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some of my favorite woven tapestries, by Cecilia Blomberg:
Point Defiance Steps
Mates
Rising Tides
Vashon Steps
#woven tapestry#weaving#fiber art#fiber crafts#textile art#hand woven#art#water#*#*mostnotes#I'm glad people like these as much as I do#I can NOT stop thinking about the first one ever since I saw it#now I'm not the only one hehe
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cunty sukuna
#captains orders#original post:#worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean#bangers
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this happened months ago. i cannot keep it in any longer. a while ago i went on a porn site ive never been to and it asked if i was over 18 and i misclicked and said no and it automatically sent me to google images of puppies and kittens. i still cannot get over how funny this is.
#i literally think about it every time i go to a spicy site#oh god is this gonna be my legacy#plz i make gifs and stuff i have much cooler posts than this#1k#10k
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i’m gonna cry it’s raining right now and i just passed by a family where both parents were without an umbrella but their kid who couldn’t have been older than like 3-4 was proudly holding this GIANT umbrella whose diameter was as tall (if not taller) as the kid. both the parents were getting absolutely drenched but u could tell the kid was just so happy to have an “adult” task and carry the umbrella themselves and i think that sacrifice is what love is all about
#icarus speaks#they were so cute 😭#i cannot emphasize how large the umbrella was compared to them#and the parents looked as happy as u could be while being rained on too#like it was clear they didn’t mind that much bc the kid was so happy#i love kids so much they’re so everything#containment breach
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I swear to god one of these days were going to see a video of Amaury Guichon and he's going to be making some wings and they are going to look dope as hell, the detail of each feather will be breathtaking, he'll spray paint them to perfection, but as the video goes on, he's not building any sort of winged creature, just the wings. And then there's a human-sized harness (also made of chocolate, somehow, he can do it). And he's attaching the wings to the harness. And he's putting the harness on and he demonstrates how he can flap the wings. And then he'll be off. Out the window and up and up and up. And we'll be looking at the livestream (it's a livestream now) and we'll scream "No, Amaury, the sun! It's going to melt the wings!". But he knows this already. And he is free.
#i was thinking 'damn that man is going to build a tower of Babel made of chocolate some day. his hubris is out of control'#and then i got mad at myself when i realized i had gone for the tower of babel instead of Icarus when it fits much better#he's too powerful guys#amaury guichon#chocolate guy#mogologue#60k
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I DONT WANNA PAY BILLS I WANNA USE MY MONEY FOR FOOD AND LIL GIFTS FOR MYSELF AND MY LOVED ONES
#og#imagine how much happier my life could be right now if i could use the $200+ i gotta spend on bills#on literally anything else right now
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shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this
#and by 'everyone' i mean me. im just hoping other people relate lmao#someone asks me about a thing i like and im just like h..................#been thinking about The Character for a solid 6 months+ and let me tell you. expldoeing soon#this is about ffxv btw . how am i supposed to say how much it lives in my brain . i cant think#text#1k#5k#10k#15k#20k#great googly moogly#30k#40k#50k#60k#boooy what da heeel#70k#80k#90k#will this be my first ever post to hit 100k... it remains to be seen#good lord. we did it#100k
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