#Jack Speaks

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Friendly reminder to everyone to always fact check your work. Even when it seems like it's right.

Case in point: I'm making a short little post about Gambian pouched rats(!). Funnily enough, they're named not for pouches in which they carry their young, but for their cheek pouches. Apparently most other rats don't have cheek pouches like hamsters and gerbils do. Neat.

Anyway, some of the literature I was reading said that Gambian pouched rats can carry a lot of food in their mouths. Makes sense-- they're big rats. But how much food exactly? I started looking. More sources agreed that, yeah, Gambian pouched rats can carry a lot of food! Maybe even up to 3kg over the course of 2 hours! That seems like a lot, especially considering Gambian pouched rats only weigh 1.0-1.5 kg. So I do a little more digging. Every source agrees that they can carry a lot, and they all cite that very specific number of 3kg over 2 hours.

Finally, I track down an actual paper about Gambian pouched rat cheek morphology (yes I went down a wormhole. This is my HBomberGuy moment.) The paper cites 2 sources for that 3 kg/2 hr number! Great! I find those two papers, and read them. And.

Neither paper says that. In fact, they don't really talk about Gambian pouched rat feeding habits at all. One is just an observation on natural behaviors, with a brief section on their diet but no information on how much they carry. The second paper-- written by the same guy-- was about how Gambian pouched rat behaviour changes in captivity. There was a good-sized section on cannibalism, but nothing on transporting food. So that first paper, the one that cited those other two for that 3 kg/2 hr figure, just straight up lied.

Moral of the story: always do your homework kids, especially when it sounds too good to be true. Also, Gambian pouched rats can probably carry quite a lot of food in their mouths, but whether they really can carry up to 3 kg worth of food in 2 hours remains to be seen.

[laughinghy3na]

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[jackyjackdraws]

...i know your artstyle from somewhere

Are you the one who did the "Youth" PMV (pmv? amv? map?) for gravity falls, like. years ago

Also I never responded to this but yeah! Yeah I did

Gosh it was like...in 2018? Literally a million years ago...

[scp-963]

Give Bright a chicken :3

chimken

[fiendfluid]

cackling

[jackjackeastwood]

hey man you wanna go get ice cream some time?

-@ask-jibril-rp

sure that sounds great man :)

[uniquerodent]

Absolutely desperately craving to be babied right now omg! I just NEED my diapers, I NEED mommy cuddles, I just want to feel safe and warm and be told everything will be okay mommys got you, all those adult thoughts are just going to disappear

[slujactivist]

aftg is truly the perfect fandom for an angst and hurt/comfort Enjoyer tbh. and speaking of different povs, did you read the Rainbow Crate edition's bonus chapters????? do you have a favorite??? personally i had to reread the entire series to process my feeling but i still think about the new content everyday

YES I DID OMGG

aaron's chapter made me so feral because I've always felt that the fandom (not the entire one, but a vocal part) unfairly devalues him as simply homophobic and Angry so to see him be Smart and Struggling with his emotions amd to see his perception of andrew was so nice!!! Like, I fully admit that he is both angry and homophobic but he's also such an interesting and Flawed Man and he's Trying so I have to love him 😭

Also the fact that Aaron admits that he's never spoken to bee directly during their joint therapy sessions and then immediately outs andrew and neil to her???? (Also the info that andrew never told bee he was gay and never admitted to neil broke my heart into tiny jagged little pieces)

And then wymack and bee's chapters made me cry ugly tears for obvious reasons <3

[somethingnurseywoulddo]

i adopted a 10 week old kitten and i’m so excited to see what her coat length is gonna be. she has ear tufts but outside of that there’s not a lot of other signs.

[canontypicalbones]

im doin' artfight this year! (gonna do me best, at least) so! come check it out! come have fun with me!!! https://artfight.net/~jackdawjay

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Surprise! Did you know some toads glow under UV lignt? I sure didn't! This is a Couch's spadefoot toad (Scaphiopud couchii) showing off this fantastic ability.

[laughinghy3na]

I need a pin that says "I Survived NIN's 'Broken' Short Film and I Didn't Even Cry"

[jackyjackdraws]

Are you irish!?? I saw your OC Kevin (that I love btw) and you said he's irish. I myself am rish, and I just love seeing an irish mention, and was there any reason you picked irland? Also, how did Kevin find his way to Gravity Fall's? (Sorry for all the questions. Your character is just so fun to me, and I'd love to know more about his story)

Hahah! I'm happy to hear that you like Kevin but,no

I'm not Irish, but the reasons why I made Kevin Irish are two:

One: Kevin is based off Achilles from the game Hades. While Achilles doesn't have an Irish accent, at first I thought about making Kevin Irish because he uses the word "lad" a lot.

Two: I've spent three years of my life every summer in Ireland due to a summer school project organized by my high school, and this went on until 2020 when Covid struck.

I honestly fell in love with that country, all the people I've met were very friendly but reserved, which I appreciated and the places I've been to were breathtaking. I got a lot of things both good and bad to say about Ireland but I'm going to stop here 😅

So, when it comes to why Kevin is Irish yet he finds itself in Gravity Falls.

At first he lived in Ireland, then his mother decided to move to America to live "The American Dream". They then moved from New Hampshire to California and finally to Oregon where Kevin's mom got severely Ill. So, in order to gather some cash, Kevin worked tirelessly to pay for his mom's medical expenses, eventually finding a job at The Murder Hut (aka. The Mystery Shack)

[scp-963]

I really missed you, it's been at least 1 year since your last post, it's good to have you back

that's very sweet thank you 😭 tumblr makes me anxious so i just lurk on my private

[fiendfluid]

book 3 bingo card

[jackjackeastwood]

darry whats wrong man?! are you ok?