#This is such a good picture

[is-it-cute-gf-au-edition]

Hey, I've loved your blog for a while. Sorry to see all drama that's been going on lately. The dimension 04'/ Ford Pines stuff makes me really uncomfortable TBH. I'm just glad my dad isn't very internet-savvy.

Anywhooo, I thought you'd appreciate getting an actual pet to rank again. It's been a while since you got a normal submission. This is an old photo I took of my brother snuggling with my pet plaidypus Polyanne. I made him a shirt out of her fur that I managed to bully him into wearing. Well, he doesn't know I tricked him into it, don't tell him that.

He used to make fun of me for snuggling with Poly at night. He stopped after I caught him red-handed.

....Is that--

OH MAN. Wow!! There are a lot of '\ Pines variants following this blog!! (That was supposed to be '\, right? Common typo. If you're from another branch, I'd love to hear more about it!)

If I'm right and you're related to a different Ford Pines, I'm really sorry for the recent content. I can only imagine how weird it is to see a version of someone you love in this situation. Please block the "#Ford Pines is a Human" tag if it's too much for you. Unfortunately, I'm probably going to keep doing it, because, well... I don't like how more and more people are jumping on this Ford Pines Pet Show Stan train. It makes me uncomfortable, too, and some people are actively supporting this treatment of 04'\ Ford Pines.

(The worst of it is from Loyalists in-dimension. I don't know what dimension you're from, but I really hope you guys don't have to deal with this. A lot of it is also from anti-loyalists, which.... ugh. You don't need to hear about this. I'm sorry.)

Thanks for the submission. Please keep in mind that I only have this to go off of, so don't take it too hard!

RATING: MAYBE CUTE

So, this has the potential to be a really good image! Unfortunately, it's a little hard to formally verify anything I see in it.

Here are the potential problems:

All platypuses are wild animals, and generally unsuited to being pets. I want to assume that most exotic pet owners have ethically sourced and well-cared-for animals, but unfortunately, a lot of them just aren't. Most people don't know how to properly care for wild animals, and a lot of exotic pets are poached.

I'm Unsure that the plaidypus is in a safe position; someone who knows more about their spines weigh in.

There is some debate about whether plaidypus fur harvesting is actually ethical, since it's often stressful for the plaidypus! If it's a pet animal, though, you can probably easily pick up naturally shed skins. (Also, to be honest, it seems like a lot of the people who hate plaidypus skin harvesting have no problem with factory farming.)

On the other hand:

Is your local Ford Pines a biologist like the rest of them are? That gives a lot more credence to proper care.

Plaidypuses are much friendlier than platypuses. I've heard they'll do the cat thing and just walk into your house and decide they live there. (To my understanding there are a lot more plaidypuses in 04'\ than in most other dimensions, since we have higher ambient Weirdness but aren't actively collapsing into Entropy.

It isn't wearing a harness or anything. It could probably just leave if it wanted to.

Here are some honorable mentions in favor of cuteness:

I see that sonic shoe in the corner!!

Look at the drape on that shirt!! Is it really Plaidypus fur? I've never seen it in person, but I thought it was thicker than that! How did you get it to look so soft and light?

[conjuringturns]

timothy scott as mr. mistoffelees in the original broadway production of cats (x)

[stickersgeorg]

The most fortuitous picture

That is my cat Saturn next to the sticker of a Saturn cat that I specifically got because that's my cat's name, right above the "love" sticker that was a freebie from one of my first big sticker purchases ♥️♥️

[rares-posts]

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[intercrusher]

laura her dad and that bald guy

[fortunatelyperfectcreator]

[anna-scribbles]

adrien in my outfit from a few days ago✨ feat. my claws out converse

bonus:

[kylejsugarman]

only thing i know for certain is that if "breaking bad" took place during modern times, jesse would've used his cash to buy a drone and there would've been a sick ass sequence filmed from drone perspective and one episode cold open would've been all scary and sinister and it would end with an ominous shot of the drone laying all crushed and fucked up on the floor to imply harm done to jesse. and it would be really sad

[gingermintpepper]

I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.

(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)

Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.

(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)

I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.

[piierrote]

Quiet

Mini ace attorney riso fanzine :)

[xx-sketchy-xx]

LOOOK, LOOK WHAT MY MOTHER MADE FROM CAKE. AAAAAAAAAA-

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Basking, vivid, chill.

[wolfienation]

[apollos-olives]

i want to mention that while yes, the conditions that palestinians live in is horrid, palestine is still a beautiful place.

there are so many stories of people returning from their trip to palestine and all of them saying that they were disgusted and horrified and the living conditions they say the palestinians were in were just awful, and while yes all of that is true, and palestinians do live in ridiculous conditions, i still want to make it clear that palestine is an insanely beautiful place. our mountains are beautiful, our plants are beautiful, our mosques, our churches, our olive trees, our birds. palestine is a beautiful place. it is the birthplace of both christianity and judaism, it is the birthplace of jesus. our temples are astonishing, our food is delicious, our culture is rich, and our diversity is beyond. our dances are beautiful, our clothing, our jewlery, our homes. each and every one of our lives is precious.

go to any palestinian home in the world and you'll see beautiful things. the west wants to get rid of us, to completely decimate every part of our existence, but we will not let them. and we need everyone on our side to help us keep palestine's beauty safe.

[vmkhoneyy]

I think if I could be the kind stranger in someone’s memory, that’d be enough.

[fortunatelyperfectcreator]