#HELP THIS IS SO

[spoontales37]

I was bored so I used my trusty cat allele random choosing wheels to generate a cat coat and drew this lovely girl

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Chocolate calico solid with a lot of white, I know the ginger spots look like they don't have any stripes but that's because it's a ticked agouti pattern. She also has some recessive cinnamon and dilute genes, so that could be fun when I eventually "simulate" a litter. I skipped over colour point genes because I forgot to make that generator... Sorry girlie pop. The eyes wouldn't normally be this vibrant green, but I don't actually have a good argument for this, just a style choice heh

I need to give her a cool name

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Here's her without shading

More under cut (ranting passionately about cat genetics and another picture)

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So here's a sneak peak behind the white

The calico pattern is incorrect here, because without white the patches of colour would be way smaller, she would in fact be a tortoiseshell not a calico.

I always start with the agouti pattern (in other words the stripes) and finish by drawing white on top.

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For the curious the alleles generated in this very simplified simulation were

b-b1 (chocolate with recessive cinnamon)

D-d (recessive dilute)

dm-dm (which was irrelevant, because the dilute modifier only shows up for cats that are, well, dilute. She could have been a lilac based caramel calico)

XO-Xo (female, calico)

Ws-Ws (a TON of white - over 50% but not completely white)

a-a (Solid cat, no striping except for where her fur is ginger, because the agouti pattern is always visible on ginger fur)

Like I said, I completely forgot to do colour point, which I usually do, even for the extremely simplified version of this exercise (I ignore the silver/smoke inhibitor genes, albinos, I'm still learning about wide band and rosette patterns, and for the agouti patterns I just choose randomly from 8 patterns, I deal with those genes only when I decide to randomly generate the cats offspring)

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Generating random cat genetics is one of my favourite things to do, it's been one of my absolute autistic hyperfixations for the past I don't know how many years, I love talking about it and explaining it to the best of my abilities, even if I don't quite know everything yet.

I will probably do more of these lol

[russellius]

@.mercedesamgf1: Signing in for another two years. 🙌✍️

[stargirlrchive]

Just read in one of your posts that you'd fuck Jake if he was real

Girl don't worry your not alone I'd rub Tonowari with butter and lick it of him 🤣🥲

BUTTER??? HELP ME 😭😭

[vee-lociraptor]

tiktok refugees i believe you are few but it is VITAL that you know on tumblr you can speak freely. kill. die. sex. fuck. you can say things here

[piedpip3rrr]

What is this? A crossover episode???

[macdenlover]

it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

[puppppppppy]

filipina miku!! my mom helped me with her outfit ^_^

[maskenjager]

I can't unsee this

[holographings]

someone on twitter said Imagine what s2 jayce would give to talk to s1 viktor just one more time. and someone had a time travel alternate dimension fic ready to go. and i read it. and now my face is being eaten by 3750 feral dogs i think

[3liza]

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/theyre-not-human-how-19th-century-inuit-coped-with-a-real-life-invasion-of-the-walking-dead

Indigenous groups across the Americas had all encountered Europeans differently. But where other coastal groups such as the Haida or the Mi’kmaq had met white men who were well-fed and well-dressed, the Inuit frequently encountered their future colonizers as small parties on the edge of death.

“I’m sure it terrified people,” said Eber, 91, speaking to the National Post by phone from her Toronto home.

And it’s why, as many as six generations after the events of the Franklin Expedition, Eber was meeting Inuit still raised on stories of the two giant ships that came to the Arctic and discharged columns of death onto the ice.

Inuit nomads had come across streams of men that “didn’t seem to be right.” Maddened by scurvy, botulism or desperation, they were raving in a language the Inuit couldn’t understand. In one case, hunters came across two Franklin Expedition survivors who had been sleeping for days in the hollowed-out corpses of seals.

“They were unrecognizable they were so dirty,” Lena Kingmiatook, a resident of Taloyoak, told Eber.

Mark Tootiak, a stepson of Nicholas Qayutinuaq, related a story to Eber of a group of Inuit who had an early encounter with a small and “hairy” group of Franklin Expedition men evacuating south.

“Later … these Inuit heard that people had seen more white people, a lot more white people, dying,” he said. “They were seen carrying human meat.”

Even Eber’s translator, the late Tommy Anguttitauruq, recounted a goose hunting trip in which he had stumbled upon a Franklin Expedition skeleton still carrying a clay pipe.

By 1850, coves and beaches around King William Island were littered with the disturbing remnants of their advance: Scraps of clothing and camps still littered with their dead occupants. Decades later, researchers would confirm the Inuit accounts of cannibalism when they found bleached human bones with their flesh hacked clean.

“I’ve never in all my life seen any kind of spirit — I’ve heard the sounds they make, but I’ve never seen them with my own eyes,” said the old man who had gone out to investigate the Franklin survivors who had straggled into his camp that day on King William Island.

The figures’ skin was cold but it was not “cold as a fish,” concluded the man. Therefore, he reasoned, they were probably alive.

“They were beings but not Inuit,” he said, according to the account by shaman Nicholas Qayutinuaq.

The figures were too weak to be dangerous, so Inuit women tried to comfort the strangers by inviting them into their igloo.

But close contact only increased their alienness: The men were timid, untalkative and — despite their obvious starvation — they refused to eat.

The men spit out pieces of cooked seal offered to them. They rejected offers of soup. They grabbed jealous hold of their belongings when the Inuit offered to trade.

When the Inuit men returned to the camp from their hunt, they constructed an igloo for the strangers, built them a fire and even outfitted the shelter with three whole seals.

Then, after the white men had gone to sleep, the Inuit quickly packed up their belongings and fled by moonlight.

Whether the pale-skinned visitors were qallunaat or “Indians” — the group determined that staying too long around these “strange people” with iron knives could get them all killed.

“That night they got all their belongings together and took off towards the southwest,” Qayutinuaq told Dorothy Eber.

But the true horror of the encounter wouldn’t be revealed until several months later.

The Inuit had left in such a hurry that they had abandoned several belongings. When a small party went back to the camp to retrieve them, they found an igloo filled with corpses.

The seals were untouched. Instead, the men had eaten each other.

[bluismie]

This is my love letter to the most beautiful ship I witnessed this year. Cheers to us Jayvik nation 💫

[hauntedhotel]

Me, on the welcome desk in the library: Good morning, how are you today?

Customer: I have welcomed Jesus into my heart and so I am well today and every day.

Me, a little unnerved: Okay then! Is there something I can help you with?

Customer, digging around in his bag and pulling out an iPhone in a box: Unfortunately, Jesus can't help me with this fucking phone, so I came to the library.

[theriverbeyond]

how does hard drive never fucking miss

[bonesandthebees]

one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am