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It is just me and my complicated relationship with c!Phil against the world.
#my post#my dsmp thoughts#no because like#he’s such a good character#he’s so much fun#AND HIS STORY IS SO EMOTIONAL TOO#sandduo are SO#and emerald duo are SO!!!#okayokay the fact that emduo. NEVER had a big argument#never fought (outside of very minor disagreements)#never got truly angry with each other#guys they love each other they love each other so dang much and their relationship is weirdly healthy#Phil’s story is filled with so much sadness & anger & emotions and it’s SO#GOOD#AND CAPTIVATING#Phil is a very very good character and I like him very much#but unfortunately#but unfortunately.#he was mean to Ghostbur#he was mean to my most Special Guy#he dehumanized Ghostbur and said awful awful things about him#AND THAT HAS PUT A REAL STAIN ON PHIL FOR ME#AND IT SUCKS BECAUSE LIKE#PHIL IS SOSOSOSOSOSO GOOD#HE IS AN AMAZING CHARACTER AND LIKE 90% OF THE HATE PEOPLE HAVE FOR HIM IS UNFOUNDED RIDICULOUS AND STUPID#and actually he used to be one of my favorites in DSMP!! he really did!!#but after becoming a Ghostbur um. Ghostbur Freak#and after finding out about all the ways Phil treated Ghostbur wrong#chat I can’t go back 😔💔💔#cannot stress enough that I LIKE Phil I truly see him as a GOOD character he’s GREAT
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#death stranding#finally finished it#played for more than 3 months#really something else#the story makes less sense than Chrono Cross#which I love#but still awesome#and captivating#and the scenery is beautiful
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What was considered peak masculinity back in the 2000s is now considered as little meow meow energy in 2024
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This clearly shows how far we've progressed and become even more improved versions of ourselves.
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As for this godly man, he's still as fiery and yet so sweet even two decades later, if not more, as he was all those years ago.
#keeping us captivated since 2000#logan and hugh are synonymous now#this man deserves the entire universe#deadpool and wolverine#x men#deadpool 3#logan james howlett#wade wilson#poolverine#deadclaws#loganpool#imagine your otp#otp prompts#writing promt#hugh jackman#ryan reynolds#old man yaoi#deadpool x wolverine#marvel memes#mischievous thunder
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It doesn't matter if that fic has been in your drafts for years and is now self-indulgent to the point of parody. If Steven Moffatt is allowed to do it professionally, you are allowed to do it for fun.
#every time I write I take a peek at my brain and it's just Steven Moffatt in there yes-anding himself#and I have to remind myself that that's okay#I don't know how he got in there but if I am responsible for keeping him captive so be it
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I can’t hold it in any longer.
HES 32???
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And he definitely isn’t little.
#me#what are the chances#blue eyed babe#hooting and hollering#one of my favorite movies#I want to eat this man 24 ways till Sunday#rule 32#he’s so beautiful#and captivating
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That's that shit eating grin that practically screams "Harder! HARDER!" except the homoerotic subtext is a tripwire they're crash landing through
#that's that bratty sub grin#that's that power bottom grin#your honor the murderous gleam in his eye has captivated me#deadclaws#poolverine#logan howlett#wade wilson#ryan reynolds#hugh jackman#deadpool#wolverine#deadpool and wolverine#let comic book characters fight as foreplay#let comic book characters WHO CAN REGENERATE/SELF HEAL fight as foreplay#god who coordinated this fight? was ryan one of them? was hugh one of them?#tell me hugh improvised that grin and needed the camera on him when he did it#tell me his competitive people pleasing theater kid ass refused to let ryan give all the fanservice
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tis the season to remember Medjed aka The Smiter, an invisible egyptian deity with laser eyes and nonbinary swagger:
rotating them gently in my mind as they do a spiffy little dance number
#obsessed with this little weirdo#you have captivated me body and soul with your anime eyeliner and lazyass scooby doo aesthetics
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I don't care what anyone says, I just KNOW Viktor clocked this man's pathetic, neglected shelter dog rizz the second they met and immediately fell head over heels for him. Argue with the wall.
#he likes his men just like i do: pathetic#his sad brown eyes and loserboy personality have captivated me#viktor knew what he was doing#arcane#jayce x viktor#arcane season 1#arcane season 2#arcane viktor#arcane jayce#jayvik#arcane jayvik#viktor#jayce#arcane brainrot#like seriously though he's such a wet cat of a man i love him so much
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I promised you some lions! Let's talk about manes, males, and management.
This is Tandie, the current male lion at the Woodland Park Zoo.
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Notice anything odd about him? He's got one of those hilarious awkward teenager manes. Except... this cat is nine years old.
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I was, of course, immediately curious.
Manes serve a lot of purposes for male lions, including being an indicator of health and fitness - it's actually a sexually selected trait and a social signal. Mane texture / hair quality / length is dependent on nutrition and the body having energy to grow (and carry around!) that much hair! The color is also a signal: males with darker manes have been found to have higher testosterone levels.
In one research report, wild males were much more likely to avoid a lion decoy when it had a longer or darker mane - but the girls really loved a dark mane. It's thought this is because a long, dark mane is an indicator of mate quality. Males with longer, darker manes have higher testosterone and were pretty healthy: meaning they had more energy for fighting, had a better chance of recovering if they got injured, and generally had a higher rate of offspring survival. Manes matter!
So, back to Tandie. He was actually born at the Woodland Park Zoo in 2014 alongside two brothers, to dad Xerxes and mother Adia.
This was Xerxes (rip).
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Obviously, a very large, dark, lush mane on Xerxes here. So where did these blond muttonchops come from on his son?
I asked the zoo docents and got an answer that didn't make a lot of sense. They told me that after the three cubs grew into adolescents, they were moved to the Oakland Zoo together. But living together suppressed his testosterone, and he never grew a mane.
Hmmmm.
Here's a photo from 2016, when the brothers debuted at Oakland. They're a year and a half old in this photo.
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And here's from an announcement for their third birthday.
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Okay, so these dudes obviously all were growing manes as of 2017. I think Tandie is the one on the left in the first photo, and laying down in the middle on the second. What happened?
I was just in the Bay Area for a zoo road trip, of course I went to Oakland and tracked down a docent to ask some questions.
It turns out that shortly after the brothers turned three, they started acting like adult male lions: they started scuffling regularly. It's a normal social thing for male lions to live in groups, called coalitions, but according to my lion experts there's generally a baseline level of some social jostling within them. It wasn't quite clear from what the docent said if they couldn't manage the boys together, or if they just wanted to avoid the scratches and small wounds that result from normal lion behavior. Regardless, they put all three of the boys on testosterone blockers in order to be able to keep them together as a social group.
Now, I don't know a lot about the use of hormone alteration as a form of captive animal management, except in the case of birth control. I don't think it's something that's unethical - there was just a webinar on it that I saw go by - but I don't think it's commonly done with big cats. Lions have kind of complicated reproductive cycles, and for instance, we've been learning that female lions can take much longer to come into estrus again than expected after coming off hormonal birth control.
In males, testosterone blockers (or being neutered) means they lose their manes. This is why a lot of rescues will do a vasectomy on their males instead of a neuter - it allows them to keep their mane and the social signals that accompany it.
Tandie returned home to Woodland Park Zoo after Xerxes passed in early 2022, and the docent told me all of the lions had been off their blockers "for while." I'd guess those things happened around the same time, since bringing the trio down to a duo at Oakland would reduce some of the social tensions.
Hormones are such interesting things, though. One of Tandie's brothers has a full mane again, and the other is still totally mane-less.
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As for Tandie, his mane is growing back in, and it looks like he might rival his dad for length and coloration.
He started here, in February:
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Yesterday:
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What a difference four months (and maybe proximity to a girl) makes!
#big cats#lion#african lion#big cat behavior#zoo animals#zoo animal welfare#captive animal management#zoos
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ithiunk i hauve covid..
#ilove a beautiful fat man in a suit#his lip pout kills me#imlike areyou kiddingme#dylan george#severance#dylan severance#drawing#digital art#my art#illustration#art#fanart#gawddd i love fat men#his shapes immediately captivated me#hes so funnytoo hes so sarcastic and dry and so good#also sosweet
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more figuring out how i wanna draw the Lamb :3
#cult of the lamb#cotl#cotl fanart#cotl lamb#gonna be real main inspo for my lamb design is runningwithsizzorz#the way they draw the lamb (and in general) has so much movement and flow its so captivating#it was very helpful warm up trying to emulate that flow into my art cuz i feel like ive been getting stiff lately :0#en ee ways if you havent seen runningwithsizzorz's art you should it is. very good#moon art
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I need you all to appreciate how crazy it is to have watched the scimitar horned oryx go from a poster child for "it only exists in zoos" to merely endangered (not even critically endangered!) over my lifetime.
So many heroic people contributed ridiculous amounts of time and effort to make this captive breeding and reintroduction effort a success.
#conservation#biodiversity#good news#hope#reintroduction#endangered species#animal conservation#zoos prevent extinction#captive breeding#environment#positive news#positivity
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incapacitation
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drugs that make a character woozy and disoriented. slurring words and falling slack, everything too heavy and confusing and muffled
blown pupils, wandering eyes, breathing too much or too little. sweating, shaking, puking, so limp and pale it’s almost like they’re dead
fevers so high a character's mind just turns to mush. glossy eyes tracking the ceiling, listless and unaware until eventually there's sweat sticking all over the sheets and they start mumbling some vague responses to caretaker's questions
tranquilizer dart that brings a character down all at once. one sudden jerk or look of confusion, not enough time to glance at it much less pull it out before eyes are rolling back and they collapse into the dirt
tranquilizer dart that comes on slowly. pulling it out and running and running until each step becomes too uncoordinated, stumbling or getting dragged along by a teammate until even their begging to stay awake, let's go, becomes hazy and distant
struck so hard that everything rings in one ugly roar. staggering or falling, told to sit down, just stay down. so confused and lost, repeating the same questions and forgetting the answer over and over and over again
character so messed up they struggle to follow any part of the conversation. everything too heavy and confusing and muffled, just useless and incoherent and completely oblivious to the situation
nervous prodding or pleading by caretaker, begging them to just stay awake or focus
jostled around by captor, told to get the fuck up and follow orders, easily manhandled and restrained
mumbling nonsense and spilling secrets. stoic characters without any masks, so confused and broken and vulnerable, slipping and powerless in every sort of way
"you're okay, i promise you're okay"
“ah, shit. you’re a mess—”
“I guess you won’t remember this anyways…”
gaze drifting and blank, too faraway to track anything caretaker/captor is saying. nudged and prodded and pleaded at to no avail, just incoherent and out of it
too weak to move. beaten absolutely senseless or bleeding all over the place, a character just hurting and spent beyond means sprawled flat against the ground
getting dragged along or stepped on, pinned down as if they're in any state to go anywhere
hypnotized and stunned into mindlessness. repeated mantras and rewired thoughts, a character made pliable and blank and used like a puppet
paralyzed but fully aware, left slack and useless and desperate with limp muscles and depressed breathing. assumed dead and abandoned, grieved over or dumped aside like a corpse, forced to watch and unable to do anything
poisoned and just getting worse and worse. teammates desperately looking for a cure while character deteriorates, puking and passing out and getting high fevers, hallucinating and begging for relief
characters taken out of commission when they're otherwise the strongest one. exposed to a weakness, given magical restraints or cuffs with neural suppressors to keep them docile, targeted and taken out
vertigo taking a character side to side, brought down and useless
#whump#just love making the blorbos helpless#whump ideas#whump tropes#whump writing#whump prompts#tw captivity#tw drugging#hypnosis
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Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat
#captive prince#cs pacat#captive prince series#damianos of akielos#lamen#damen captive prince#laurent captive prince#laurent of vere#laurent x damen#queer characters#artists on tumblr#book cover#book illustration
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You wish, Wade, you wish!
#this logan has to be the flirtiest of them all#the way he looks at wade#wade seems just as captivated#deadpool and wolverine#deadpool 3#wade wilson#james logan howlett#poolverine#deadclaws#peanutbub#old man yaoi#imagine your otp#otp prompts#writing promt#marvel memes#mcu avengers edits#ryan reynolds#hugh jackman#deadpool x wolverine#mischievous thunder
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