#a feline primate type thing

[elfsyellowflowerzart]

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[pestiferouspoet]

Aight im characterizing this, and maybe adding some new characters from other stories.

1) all of them, minus Harold, Clarity, Margeaux, and JC. Harold is a hive mind, Clarity and Margeaux has come to terms with their insanity, and JC lost her mind somewhere back on Poni island.

2) Cailin. Relative to “the batshit insane demoness alchemist” and “the one that literally died once and is no longer afraid of it”, she’s mostly normal.

3) 0rd34, as well as the shopkeepers, Smoke, Cailin, and Clarity. Fairly obvious, they have jobs to uphold.

4) Kyle. He’s actually a fairly well adjusted kid, for the F’tgans.

5) Demetrius. Just don’t mention the whole genocide thing.

6) Also Demetrius, because nobody in their right mind would mention the whole genocide thing around him.

7) Smoke and Sophia. They are certainly not normal, but their specific brands of abnormality cancels out the other, much more volatile brands of abnormality around them.

8) Margeaux. He can drive a boat. That’s kinda like a car.

For clarification, Demetrius, Sophia, Kyle, and Harold are all part of the same story, along with JC and Collin (who doesn’t show up here). Most of them are human, with JC being a robot and Harold being a flesh mimic clone of Demetrius (it’s a long story).

Everyone else is part of a different story. Clarity is a demoness alchemist, Smoke is an anthro-feline botanist, Cailin is a shapeshifter sell-sword, 0rd34 (or Order) is a far less human and FAR less humane robot than JC, and a cop to boot, and Margeaux is a gliding primate type person pirate lord (don’t ask, there are negative answers).

Genuses of The Normal One:

The Normal One in their own mind

The Normal One, relatively speaking

The Normal One while they're on the clock

The Normal One if you're not paying attention

The Normal One as long as you don't mention the thing

The Normal One because the subject honestly never came up

The Normal One in the sense that whatever's wrong with them perfectly counterbalances everybody else's dysfunctions

The Normal One because they own a car

[desertsafaridubaiheresblog]

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[rxttenfish]

valerie redesign...we talked ab it a bit but i would love to hear more...

,valerie (and catfolk) are.... one of the redesigns who i have worked on the LEAST

i have decided that they arent werewolves, at least. i really like grouping multiple "types" of monster together - because i don't actually want ANY one monster to truly be what its mythology suggested it to be. the words "werewolf" or "mermaid" are painted onto them, borrowed from the myths that exist outside of those monsters, because theyre the closest comparison and easiest word to loan to providing a name. this is also why i rather like how they all have multiple different names, all referring to the Same Thing, and none of them are even their real name, which is what they give to themselves and call themselves (and even this changes, based upon which of their languages they're using!)

but i do like the idea of having werewolves, catfolk, and humans all be this group of VERY similar sapients, enough to vaguely blend together in lots of various cultures - but having the differences between them be stark and wild enough that once you get to know them, you can easily tell them apart.

catfolk, i think i'm going to go for - they're a type of feline that adapted to an aboreal lifestyle roughly convergent on primates. at a distance, they probably look a lot similar to tamarins or marmosets, just similar enough to both cats and primates to REALLY throw someone off if they're looking at them from a distance.

i miiiight also make them more aboreal in nature, compared to the other sapients, trending more towards scurrying around quadrupedally on the ground and having very awkward and facilitative bipedal gaits. they're most comfortable off of the ground, where they can hold onto stuff with their feet and tails (which i'd have to doublecheck on, but potentially evolved to be prehensile, working a lot like spider monkey tails)

for this, i might also make them a lot smaller than everyone else? i dont feel like i have a lot of small redesigns - and i like having catfolk kind of call back to things like the fair folk or the little people, as small not-humans who you should be kind to lest they wreck your shit.

the face might be where i'm most torn on catfolk - we already DO know what a cat that has a human-like face would look like! and we know because we bred them to look like that, pushing for that same neoteny in brachycephalic cats that us humans also obtained in comparison to our great ape cousins

( behold, A MAN )

but i'm not sure. humans seem to have obtained it because we focused less on our jaws and more on our larger brains. while this would certainly help explain how catfolk achieved their sapience and make sense with their anatomy, it is also fairly tempting to draw comparisons to clouded leopards, starting first with chasing prey up trees and pursuing other arboreal prey, which i could then use to give catfolk the nice fangs and more typical feline profile as we would expect.

but i may also make this entirely a feature of their past. that their ancestors has the more typical feline profile, but once they formed a niche in the trees, they needed larger brains to be able to navigate through the branches and 3d space in a far more complicated way, their eyes also getting larger as they focused more on vision to do so, which reduced their jaws, so they then bridged over to tools to accommodate for that reduced jaw power, which made their brains then grow bigger, and so on and so forth.

i do know ill likely keep their protractable claws, but i will adjust their hands to be... weird.... cat-hands..... they may keep their beans, but i also think they may entirely lose them, favoring dexterity over the need to walk silently. they'd also absolutely be using their tail as a fifth limb, which absolutely would be useful for a quadrupedal scurry. very whiskery too, as i can easily see them having things like arm-whiskers like squirrels do, to also be able to navigate through the trees. and yeah, they would have round pupils, since slitted pupils wouldnt be any use to them. i think they actually might be the fuzziest of all the redesigns, even if they might still end up with some bald patches just to deal with heat and such.

i think the biggest loss would just be that valerie can't be purple and her dad can't be blue, though coach could absolutely retain a tawny color with stripes. spots could also be fairly common as well, and maybe even some domestic cat colors too? i'd have to ponder over it.

[ichayalovesyou]

ok I'm pretty new to star trek (started tos, on s2 e22) but uh... i guess do you know anything about vulcan history? spock mentioned something about the aliens in Return To Tomorrow's story matching up with early vulcan origins but is there anything more to it? also are there, like, diseases and stuff?

There isn’t a ton of info on Vulcan evolution to refute or confirm Spock’s statement, but many headcanon that Vulcans evolved from a feline and/or reptile type species (I think it’s both, weird primate-like cat lizards is a really cool concept!) perhaps Spock is making vague reference to the oldest known Vulcan remains being a pair of male and female adult bodies? Or maybe an ancient Vulcan monomyth? Something universal to almost every Vulcan religion? There are monomyths and trends in ancient human religions (like going to the land of the dead to retrieve a dead loved one, also featured in Return to Tomorrow!) OR the weird thing that humans on a primal level seem to know that life started in the ocean (the world starting out as all ocean or a space-like void is in pretty much every single human faith). Who knows!

As far as diseases I’m sure there are plenty but the biggest ones that seem to be unique to Vulcans (one of which is the result of a natural biological process) are Plok’tow, Pa’nar Syndrome, and Bendii Syndrome. (Single episode spoilers for Enterprise, Voyager and The Next Generation ahead)

Plok’tow aka The Blood Fever-The physical and mental deterioration that can kill a Vulcan that does not find a way to engage in the necessities of Pon Farr. The results aren’t really exactly specified aside from appetite and sleep loss, actual fever, and emotional outbursts. It’s also transmissible to other species under certain circumstances. It happened on Voyager, Vulcan accidentally telepathically bonded with a half-Klingon B’Eleanna in a Plok’tow outburst, she attacked her human boyfriend Paris and they all got Pon Farr, it’s been a while since I’ve seen it but I think it was curable for the non-Vulcan victims, and Vorik (the Vulcan) survived somehow.

Pa’nar Syndrome-Basically the Mind Meld equivalent of not having proper safe sex education. T’Pol (from Enterprise episode Kir’Shara) contracted it for a man named Tolaris. It causes endocrine and immune damage, as well as neuroelectric. During T’Pol’s time, Vulcans did not practice the Mind Meld because it was considered unnatural. The whole episode is a not so low-key HIV awareness thing. It can be cured with a proper mind meld by a Vulcan medical professional.

Bendii Syndrome-A rare neurological disease that operates similarly to Alzheimer’s that can affects 200+ year old Vulcans. It damages the metathalamus and causes loss of emotional control (starting with anger) and can unfortunately be projected (but not contracted by) others due to Vulcans’ telepathic nature. Sarek, Spock’s father, develops this condition in the TNG episode, The Guiding Light. I have a theory that this is what happens to Vulcans who never learned how to properly control their emotions, and instead gave off the appearance of control by actively suppressing their feelings. That is both mentally and physically damaging in Humans, even if Vulcans are more resilient than we are, it would still get to them eventually.

There are also diseases that can effect multiple species, like the rapid aging radiation from TOS: The Deadly Years, Borg Conversion (debatably not a disease but I digress), or The Phage from Voyager.

[drabbles-of-writing]

Sorry if this is a bit technical but I need to know. Are Witches and Humans a case of convergent evolution, with humans having a primate ancestors and Witches having more feline ancestors? Or is this a case of humans that evolved to use magic, either by natural selection or due to the magic itself? Personally I think the former is more likely since things like eyesight, hearing, and skeleton structure are more likely to be inherited by a feline ancestor rather than adaptations due to magic.

I could go off on a long ass post about the evolution and logistics of what witches diverged from and how they got magic, human and feline traits combined all in one.

Or I could say it’s magic and whatever you want and skedaddle because it’s late and I’m tired as shit and need to Sleep.

So I will do a bit of both.

I’m gonna go ahead and decide that the witches most direct ancestor is a type of anthropomorphic cat-like demon that, like pretty much everything else in the isles, grew the ability to create magic. Humans somehow made it to the Isles, no I will not explain how, and humans are bastard dumbass furry bitches so they eventually made a bunch of hybrids that through a ton of evolution and trial and error became the witches we know today. But also a lot happened bc magic. Ight I’m clocking out gn everyone.

[lordeasriel]

Since realizing the similarities between primate people, I have been trying to figure out what all the major characters with cat dæmons have in common (Will, Fardar Coram, and Malcom). And they are fighters in their way and kind of subtle people too. But I was wondering if you had any thoughts?

Oh, I have thought about the cat daemons too! I feel like while the three of them have cats for daemons, they don’t have the same types of cat.

Coram has a very beautiful cat, autumun-coloured; Sophonax stands out with her fur, it’s pointed out often in LBS and NL.

Malcolm has a ginger cat, kinda similar to Sophonax but Asta is far simpler and quieter than Sophie. Asta is the most mundane one of these three.

I was under the impression that Kirjava was black, but apparently her fur has similar vibes to Sophie’s (I googled it lmao) but it’s more about the colours of the Subtle Knife - I assume a kaleidoscope of colours with a grey colour base? It’s hard to say.

At any rate - and ignoring the fact that Philman absolutely just makes Will ridicuslously The Protagonist, including with this silly description of Kirjava lol - we can assume that while Will is quiet and reserved, his soul is supposed to show a great deal of personality and good character. It’s a very strong contrast to a very... I’d say bleak person, when you consider how colourful Kirjava is and all that.

Like you pointed out, they’re all good fighters, but they favour agility over strength; Coram uses more his wit to beat Bonneville than actual physical strength, and he makes good use of the lignum vitae stick. Malcolm moves quickly and often outsmarts his opponents, and he is also good at evading them. Will is pretty much the same; they’re about agility and quick thinking, much like cats in my opinion.

The sublety is also on point, but what makes them stand out to me is that they know how to be very loud when they want to. They can make themselves heard. Coram has the respect of the gyptians easily, he can be the center of attention when he speaks as well as blend in when he wants to. The same goes for Malcolm, who can be rather notorious as a presence or simply become inconspicuous (and he is very tall and strongly build, so he is very good at blending in). And Will’s entire character is about how good he is at being subtle, but he also has a strong presence when he wants to. (IIRC, he is paralled with Lord Asriel/Iorek at some point, and Iorek also is compared to Asriel, who happens to have a feline daemon as well, but I’m just stretching here lmao)

All these three people are very composed, they don’t anger easily, but when they do get angry they’re usually swift and precise in how they deal with it. They all have a sort of reputation that makes them stand out between their peers - Coram as a sort of sage figure to the gyptians, Malcolm being good at blending in with the College Folk, Town Folk, the Spies and so on - and Will being Remarkable in, well, everything he does. It’s hard for me to discuss Will, especially about his daemon, because he feels like a broken character to me - we don’t use this term for literature, but I feel like broken character fits well - he is too overworked and it feels unnatural. Notice how he just fits in too well with the pattern of the cat daemons, while Malcolm has stronger differences despite still fitting in with the general Cat vibes (Malcolm is also broken as character, but he is a bit less, especially when he is younger). So, while he does fit super well, I try not to overthink him too much lmao (I also don’t like him, but I’m being impartial here, I promise hahahah)

I can’t remember other cat daemons, but I’d say the main trait people would share (in my opinion, of course) is sublety and quick thinking, because not everyone with cat daemons could necessarily be agile physically, but Coram, Mal and Will all are witty people, and that is the sort of thing that doesn’t require phyisical proficiency.

[metellastella]

Mao Mao Pride Week Prompts, Part 3

A continuation of the prompts put out by @maomaosmother Part 1 https://metellastella.tumblr.com/post/621726687992872960/hello-everyone-happy-pride-month-to-all-of-you Part 2 https://metellastella.tumblr.com/post/621834183114932224/mao-mao-pride-week-prompts

7. Marriage

“But first,” Mao’s sister clapped her hands together, “I wanna talk weddings some more!”

“Right on!” the badger agreed. He whooped. 

“Oh good grief,” Mao rolled his eyes. “Fine. You two can chat with the king about the possibility. And I reiterate. Possibility. When you’re ready to make good on your promise, come find me.” 

She clucked her tongue in disapproval. “Fine. Be the usual stick in the mud. Don’t know why I’m surprised.” 

He grabbed a few more things off his plate and left. 

“So,” she sat back down, “I guess if you favor men, the animals here didn’t have to petition for marriage laws to be amended, huh?” 

”Correct.” the lion replied. 

“Though some thought I was … ironically … being ‘biased.’ Oh well. Can’t help that. Royal power is absolute, for better or worse. I’ve traveled to other nations and, during debates, have suggested that they not use the term ‘marriage’ as I have. Law is, at least in some peoples’ opinions, supposed to be ‘secular,’ and not ‘religious,’ anyway, so why cling to a specific term that isn’t? Simply afford all the exact same rights to civil unions or domestic partnerships. Or make up a third designation. Much easier to get it passed that way. Bypasses a whole lot of entrenched resistance. People can hash out in their own communities what to do with the non-legal angles and rituals and what to call it. But for a ‘marriage’ certificate? What, after all, is a rhetorical difference, in the end?” the diplomat and statesman snapped his fingers. “And like that, less angst for absolutely everyone involved. It’s not always that easy to reconcile or find middle ground. I can’t think of practically any other issues where simply altering one single word could have that effect. Despite a couple of decades worth of rhetorical experience under my belt.”

He sat back, and interlaced his paws contentedly. “Some countries insisted they were still going to adjust tax breaks because of the very unlikely event of children. Unless surrogates are involved, and properly registered as such, to try to avoid wrangling over child custody. That’s a whole other kettle of fish to get into, obviously.” 

She nodded. “Well like Mao said, I’m not here to talk politics. Let’s hear your fantasies about the most important day of your life!”

The badger shook his head. “Well it’s not like that for everyone, but don’t get me wrong, I wanna hear, too!” he said excitedly. 

“Erm … “ the lion looked down. 

“What’s wrong?” she asked. 

“It’s just … I’m more enthusiastic about the idea than Mao, but I’m still a long way off from that myself. So, I don’t want to insult you by making you think I’m further along, just because I have envisioned a marriage … regardless of who the groom is.”

She frowned a little, thinking. “All right then.”

“But I would love to hear about some of your customs, in that event.”

Her face fell some more. “I’m not sure that would be a good idea.”

“Oh?”

“The homeland, though the majority is plenty accepting of pairing in general, has not approved marriage between men,” she said, “so any customs you applied to each other or one of you … might be seen as disrespectful. For example. Would Mao dress as the woman, since he’s chosen to sub? Not only do I think he would never, ever do that …” she looked at the badger for confirmation.

He shook his head, “Oh most definitely not.” He thought for a second. “Maybe that’s why he got up out of here, for that matter. He thought we were gonna suggest doing that. We’ve been to weddings like that. Again, a little like misgendering, no? Even in the rare cases where he gets a mind for it, he’s not at all like a typical sub.”

The badger paused. 

“He doesn’t really fit in when I would hang out with other subs. One panda I met just could not wrap his mind around Mao. It was kinda funny. Irritating for him, though. I would be totally down for dressing like the female counterpart in a wedding, if it were me. I’ve pictured it both ways. Maybe even a costume change in the middle?” he waggled his eyebrows. “Or whatever my partner wanted? If a polar bear gave me any direction I’d melt under his strong paw,” his gaze unfocused, and he hummed appreciatively. “Tuxedo? Coming right up. What color? What style? White wool tunic and stole, as is customary for you big guy? I’ll match you! Usus? My Ursus. My dear ursine. Coemptio? Confarreati? Gown? Dress? You got it, my bae bear. I’m male, sure, but a lot more loosey-goosey in that way. But. It’s not me.”

He sighed romantically. 

“If I understand Mao,” the lion said slowly, “in general, he’s less sentimental, at the very least in expression, so maybe it’s simply that he doesn’t get as wrapped up in it as you or I would.” 

The badger shrugged. 

“Also, women tend to get more excited about wedding planning. Not a hard and fast rule of course, but I think we’ve established that you and I have a lot more in common with women, so it makes sense we’d be more enamored, even if it didn’t necessarily need to be that way.”

The badger slapped his forehead. “Oh yeah, wow. How could I not think of that!” He put his paw down and gestured towards her. “I mean this whole conversation we've had a vibe and Mao has seemed the odd one out, gender wise, but I didn’t consider that.”

The badger went on, “Even without a wedding on the table, which is usually headed up by women in this part of the world, it’s often awkward in the first place for a typical guy to be in a room with all women and vice versa … so this visit has kinda been like that for him, I think. I mean, Mao’s always eager enough to go to a wedding, excited about hitting on and dancing with some ladies, and all, but that doesn’t mean he’d necessarily enjoy planning one. He might even leave it all up to you even if he was totally ready for it!” 

The three femme animals spent the next few hours discussing flower arrangements, color palettes, the band of tolerant aristocracy he would invite, and who among the clan would approve enough to come. That was hard for the sister to get through, as she thought of those she loved who would refuse to give their blessing and ‘miss all the fun.’

8. Self-Acceptance

Mao threw up his hands in exasperation. “This was different than anything anybody knew of. Other clans’ elders who had wielders hurt badly were brought in to consult. We wielders can be slammed around by dragons, can be thrown into the ground and make craters, and walk away. With lesser wielders, bruises could be shrugged off and healed. But SOMEHOW, the universe had, like a homing pigeon bent on mouse’s blood, found one little chink in our armor. . . . Delicate tails aren’t resistant enough to damage to withstand direct crush force. Some of the visiting canine elders spoke of a time when groups of semi-sapient non-magical hunting dogs had their flowing, floppy ears or long tails surgically cropped to keep them from injuring themselves on hunts. To potentially avoid something like this happening again … by cave-ins, like mine, by boulders hurled by some types of dragons, even just being stepped on by a dragon big enough …  Should all wielder animals, intending to fight these beasts … should every species with long tails start doing this removal with our children, they asked? With consent, of course. Like removing tonsils or primates removing the appendix? Lizards probably couldn’t do it, because their slanted gait was too dependent and their tails too heavy. So maybe just the tips? Surely the thicker parts of their tails withstand something like this? They asked. The elders of felines and canines and rodents and otters … the later they waited to dock tails in a trainee’s life, the more they would have to adjust to the missing counterbalance just as I was. They swarmed me and questioned me about it relentlessly. They were asking among themselves … What age would this terrible offered choice be appropriate?”

His green eyes widened in horror at these questions. As if he needed any more psychological stress after being temporarily crippled, he seemed to have altered the entire course of history with the way clans viewed preparation for wielder heroes.

“Inwardly, I felt like …” he once again tried to force the words out he had started before. “I felt like I was causing an implosion of the whole clan. The tranquil meditation spaces were overrun with visitors. Children still hid from me. Our elders argued over whether they should move me for the duration of my recovery, from the clan’s circle. They argued over what to do about the little ones. But didn’t I deserve to feel safe, too? Of course I was ripping everyone apart! It was what always happened when I was around! When we were all younger, and my sisters occasionally came to my defense from one another or dad, I felt it was somehow my fault they argued, too.”

Even if the elders made these new procedures for children voluntary, he would still be virtually ‘responsible’ for possibly unneeded selective surgical alteration of innocents.

“Blue says that’s common, for bullied children to feel like it’s their fault.”

He looked towards the door, probably thinking of the dog’s unruffled voice of reason.

“I try to listen to him. I try to like myself. B-but I … it seemed l-like my family w-was disintegrating because of m-m-me. And my stupid ‘mistake.’ The whole world of wielders, even! Sometimes it still does, when they visit …! Arguing over father’s treatment of me. Remember when my sister said she wasn’t sure starting arguments over lesser wielders was worth unsettling future heroes? Now imagine what I was thinking when the little ones didn’t feel safe in the circle of the clan because of me. I was drowning in self-blame and the only way I felt I could escape it was to work harder, push myself more, and get away from there.” 

Could Blue even help him out of this? The lion pictured him like a seeing eye dog this time, trying for all the world to lead the black cat out of such darkness. 

Bonus:

From my second story, Outnumbered. Tanya sashayed around the red-caped cat. “Hello Mittens.” “Tanya I swear if you do not stop calling me that, I’m going to use the wrong pronouns for you,” the cat threatened. “Touchy, touchy,” the tanuki tutted teasingly, but her normally chipper attitude got a dent in it. “As if that’s an even trade, anyway.” The masculine magic cat said gruffly, “Maybe not. But I’m tired of you mocking me without consequences. Just because that’s the only thing that ever gets under your skin is no fault of mine. Perky little miss.” She rolled her eyes. “So, you try to make gendering me correctly even sound derogatory. No wonder I broke up with you.” The cat’s fists tightened, but he spoke cooly. “If you can’t handle all this. I’ll just find someone who can.” 

“Like the king you’re serving as a bodyguard to?” the fox-like animal said in a silken tone. “The only kind of lion with no birth mane. Are you a chaser, you dog?” “First off. No. How dare you. Targeting gender non-conforming animals may not be officially dishonorable, but as a concept, it is,” the samurai bristled, “We’re not involved, and we’re never going to be. We’re not attracted to each other, as my nose could clearly tell if he was. Second of all. Since when do you have something against dogs?” “It’s an expression.” “An expression that’s derogatory towards dogs,” the cat sneered. “I can’t imagine the blue therapist dog could be less like that. It’s like ‘sexist pig.’ The yellow pig back in Pure Heart would be crushed if he ever heard someone utter it. Yet outside that nice little paradise, it’s a common saying. King Snugglemagne is having to adjust mightily to the outside world. You may be used to it, steeped in it, but for magic’s sake, stop teasing him about it.” “Oh, a king can’t take a little hardship?” she said lazily. “Of course not, he’s been ensconced in his fancy-pants palace. Now that he has an idea of how it is for everyone else, he crumples at the slightest trouble. Sorry I can’t muster up enough energy to care.” “You should care. Given that he has the same problems you do.” “With pronouns? Puh. Since I’m a roaming outlaw,” the orange animal said flouncily, “I don’t expect either other crooks or enforcers I encounter to respect that my gender doesn’t match my body’s smell. The former doesn’t even respect the law, so why should I take that personally? And the latter are more focused on getting me behind bars. So, no, not my problem. Too much of a bother.” “If you settled down, and got a respectable job,” the cat pointed out, “Established yourself as a constant presence, people would probably collectively accept you.” She laughed derisively. “Oh no, I value my freedom far more than that, Mi-” she swallowed back the nickname. He laughed just as derisively. “I see you do value my word on the matter, though,” he said suggestively. “Are you just not as tough as you make out, or do you still harbor some feelings for me, my sweet little illusionist?” 

She opened her mouth, but then shut it again. 

“You slippery mirage master,” he said “you do, don’t you?”

He paused. “Hm. ‘Master,’ maybe I should say ‘Mistress’?” he amended. “There’s . . . really no good choice there,” she chuckled hesitantly. “There are ‘Head Mistresses’ at some schools in Snugglemagne���s kingdom,” the cat pointed out. 

“Yes but . . . still has connotations. I don’t break the law that way,” she said, normally carefree attitude wobbling. “Even I have standards.”

“Hasn't stopped you from dangling the offer to get what you want,” he said. 

She blushed.

“Yeah, word gets around,” he went on blithely as she uncomfortably gripped one of her arms. “Don't know why I should be surprised that playing with hearts isn't beneath you. But more to the point. I know you’re ultimately reasonably principled in that arena, if really flirty. You ever want to get back together, babe, the invitation is open,” he winked. 

“And endure your jealous behavior again? I think not. I’ll file that away with other useless knowledge,” she said icily. 

“Oh that’s not like you,” he said in a low baritone. “You’re sweet to everyone, even if they can’t catch the mocking tone sometimes.” “Not everyone’s as smart as you, cupcake.” He looked caught off guard by the compliment. “She brushed her fingers under his chin. “I guess you’ll just have to miss me.”

She somersaulted away from him, waving goodbye and blowing a kiss.  He said under his breath, “As if I’d ever misgender you. You may play a lot of mind games, love, but you didn’t catch that bluff.”

Comic page: https://metellastella.tumblr.com/post/621837213819437056/mao-maos-specific-trigger-should-not-be First chapter of Piercing the Swordsman https://metellastella.tumblr.com/post/617045879413719040/piercing-the-swordsman-chapter-1

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[nerdpokemonheadcanons]

can you teach me about pokemon body language?

Body language isn’t universal, but I can give you some neat examples!

Primate Pokemon show their teeth when they’re angry. It looks like smiling, but to them it’s showing aggression.

Feline Pokemon “loaf” when they’re feeling comfortable and safe. It’s a sign of affection! Same thing goes for any mammal Pokemon showing you its stomach.

Bug Pokemon communicate through dancing, which would take me a long time to explain... But if your Bug Type is dancing with another Pokemon, that’s their equivalent of flirting.

[dustyard]

One of the things I’ve enjoyed in the books, that I would be interested to get your thoughts on: their no one kind of dæmon that is common to leaders. In the books we see important political figures with wild cats, snakes, owls, birds, monkeys, domestic cats and even a lizard. It’s just fascinating to see how different personality types can rise to the top in their different ways. It’s so much cooler and complicated than something like “everyone in charge gets a feline” or something like that.

Ding ding ding! 

Something that I think gets overlooked a lot in regards to dæmon forms is that animals (just like people) are not easy to categorize. I see people putting certain types of animals into boxes that... don’t really exist in real life. Large predators in particular have this, like, gilded cage in the dæmian community for some reason. People will describe male lions, for example, as extremely ambitious because they often kill their competitor’s young. You know what other animals also do that? A lot of them, even herbivores, and domestic animals. There are plenty of birds who perform obligate siblicide (killing their siblings). Hamsters eat their babies. House cats have decimated native bird populations in a lot of urban areas, because they kill even though they aren’t hungry; it’s just fun for them. For some reason though, a lot of people treat large predator dæmons like they’re only had by extremely cold-hearted, cruel, semi-psychopaths, or assassins or whatever, while smaller or domesticated animals get overlooked. Which... no? (Note that in the books, wolf dæmons were indicative of people who had particularly difficult childhoods, but in if we’re talking dæmonism as a whole, not really applicable.) Large predators do often imbue ambition, intelligence, and sometimes ruthlessness, but you can have all of those traits and live a relatively boring life in a small town and not be the hero/villain in an epic quest. You can also have a somewhat “mundane” dæmon like a tabby cat and save the world (Will, anybody?? One of the main characters???). It’s this association with large predators being cool or whatever without recognizing a lot of the drawbacks that they have. Ugh, I have a lot to say on the subject but this is turning into a rant.           

You specifically mentioned leader roles that were represented in the books, and I love the point that you make about different personality types being capable of rising up in the ranks of any organization, really. There are so many traits that can make a good leader, and many of them appear in vary amounts in a lot of animals. Like I mentioned above, ambition is extremely common in social animals who exist within hierarchies. A competitive nature, intelligence, patience, perseverance, confidence, charisma, good communication skills, empathy/emotional intelligence, integrity, the ability to delegate; any one of these traits can be the reason why a person makes for a good leader. You can also find these characteristics in so many animals! Dogs, cats, birds, horses, wolves, lions, tigers (and bears, oh my!), rats, bees, dolphins, whales, monkeys/primates, snakes, etc, all have at least two of the traits I listed before. This isn’t to say that there aren’t some dæmon forms that are more likely to take leadership positions, because there definitely are, but people and dæmons are complex and don’t follow cookie-cutter character archetype rules the way we so often want them to.

Anyway, this was a great ask! I hope my word vomit was what you were hoping for lmao.         

[zoocross0vers]

Draco Tyrannus: Hi there:) This is kind of a stupid idea, but what if Judy and Nick somehow, some way watched movies from our world, and I was wondering about your honest opinion of how they'd react to the following: Frozen, Bambi, The Lion King, Aristocats, Dinosaur, and The Jungle Book?

Hi Draco! :)

Sorry for the late reply, but here goes!

*For Frozen...I think it might go something like this:

Nick and Judy pop in the Frozen Blu-Ray. A few seconds in…

Nick: Yikes! That is disturbing! What kind of mammals are these?! They have like...no fur!!!

Judy covering her eyes in horror.

Judy: And why is that little reindeer naked and walking on all fours?! Aren’t any of those grown hairless mammals concerned?!!!

Nick (noticeably disturbed): Maybe he’s gone savage?

Judy: But he’s acting so calm…

A moment of awkward silence between them as they stare at the screen with unreadable expressions on their faces.…

Nick: At least the song’s catchy.

Judy: Yeah.

Lol! xD

*Bambi:

When it comes to Bambi, I think they might see it kind of like some sort of prehistoric documentary type of film. You know, kind of like how some animal documentaries follow a baby animal from infancy into adulthood, that sort of thing. Though they’d probably be very confused wondering what the heck could possibly be shooting the animals, taking into consideration that we never see the humans. 

When it came to the twitterpated scene (particularly Thumper’s part), I think it might have played out something like this:

Thumper’s gf fluffs her tail and and curves out her body for Thumper, while Nick (holding a soda in his paw) just stares, a little too focused on the coquettish and veeery naked bunny on screen. Judy notices.

Judy: NICK!!

Nick squeezes his soda in shock, popping it all over himself.

Nick (caught off guard): What?! What? Wha--?

He notices Judy’s very angry and jealous scowl.

Nick: Uh...hehe. Sorry? For a second there I thought we were watching a naughty movie.

Judy scoffs, crossing her arms and facing away from him. Nick meanwhile looks her over -- his eyes tracing her up and down with a mischievous smirk.

Nick: Say Carrots, how about we go upstairs?

Judy turns to him.

Judy: Huh, why? Weren’t you really invested in the movie?

Nick: I was but…(He takes her face into his paws and bumps his nose to hers) I think there’s one particular bunny I’d much rather watch strut her stuff in au naturale.

Nick shakes his eyebrows suggestively, while Judy blushes intensely!

;)

*The Lion King:

I don’t have a scene in mind for this one, I just think they’d view it as a nudist’s rendition of Hamlet, lol! So I just imagine that they’d both be really invested in the drama of it all, but way in the back of their heads (particularly Judy) probably wouldn’t be able to help but keep thinking: “Why are they naked?”

LOL! xD

*The Aristocats:

I admit, I’m not too sure about this one. I’ve never fully seen the Aristocats movie. But besides the obvious, “why are they naked?” question hovering in their heads, I would imagine that Judy would think the kittens are preciously adorable while Nick would totally relate to O’Malley. They’d probably be also wondering what kind of feline species the cats are and again what kind of hairless mammal species humans are, since there’s no such thing as domestic house cats or humans in Zootopia.

*Dinosaur:

I don’t think there’d be much of a difference to how they view it compared to how we view it. Assuming that Dinosaurs existed in their world too but eventually went extinct as they did in real life, anyway. If this were the case, they’d probably be really wondering what the lemurs are though. Unless if primates also exited at a point but went extinct too O.O

If dinosaurs and primates never existed in their world though, then I think it’d be safe to think that they’d probably be like:

Nick & Judy: WHAT?! WHAT?!!!

Nick: What the heck are those things?! They have no fur! And are scaly like fishes, but are out of water!

Judy: And the ones that do have fur look so strange! O_o

Awkward silence....

Nick: The story’s good though.

Judy: Yeah. Aladar’s a sweetheart.

They think about it some more…

Judy: Maybe they’re mythical creatures that exist in other universes?

Nick: Probably.

Lol! I don’t know, that’s all I got for now. xD

*The Jungle Book:

Maybe they see this one as some sort of film about hairy mammals and hairless mammals coming to an understanding with each other. And as a lesson for hairless mammals to appreciate the hairy ones and not hunt them as inferiors? They’d probably understand where Shere Khan is coming from, but they probably wouldn’t agree with his more extreme methods on how to deal with humans. Nick and Judy know all about understanding others and rejecting prejudice after all ;)

Though the only part of the movie that they’d probably scoff at would be:

(In the movie)

Bagheera: Baloo. You can’t adopt Mowgli as your son.

Baloo: Why not?

Bagheera: H-How can I put it? Baloo, birds of a feather should flock together. You wouldn’t marry a panther would you?

Nick & Judy: (scoff simultaneously while they cuddle together on the couch)

Nick: Such backwards thinking they had back then.

Judy: I’ll say.

Nick: Next thing you’ll know he’ll be saying that a fox can’t marry a bunny.

Judy shows off her ring.

Judy: Oh and how wrong he’d be, wouldn’t he slick?

Nick: No doubt about it my hunny bunny (he lovingly kisses her forehead).

x3

That’s all I got for now. Sorry I couldn’t think of something for all of them, but this was fun! Hope you enjoyed the ones I did have a scene for! :D

[toboldlywrite]

Planet Profiles - 5 - Ornith

(middle picture is Grimm concept art by Jerad S. Marantz but it’s not too far from what I imagine the Ornithe look like)

Mood Song

The World

Overall, Ornith is a very Earth-like world. The sky is blue, the grass is (mostly) green, and there is an abundance of liquid water. It orbits its sol-like sun at a fairly Earth-like distance, with two moons. The climate ranges from tropical to temperate with nothing colder. It has one large continent and several smaller ones with one large, freshwater ocean surrounding them. In fact, there is no saltwater on Ornith.

The geography of Ornith consists of a lot of cliffs. Mountains and volcanoes all have sheer edges like steps instead of slopes. There are only a handful of beaches-- in most places the land suddenly drops into the sea. The volcanoes are all long dormant, but water from deep underground bubbles up from them instead. This means that Ornith is also covered in rivers and waterfalls. The tropical regions have even more, since they get considerably more rainfall.

Life

Ornith is home to a thriving population of plant life. Trees have evolved to grow vertically up cliff sides, and some types of grasses grow on top of the rivers (which can prove treacherous for any other living things passing through).    Like Earth flora, the plants photosynthesize and serve as the base of the food chain. But the trees are huge, with the smallest species rivaling Earth’s sequoias. In the tropics, there is only one species of carnivorous plant--the Kynn-- that feeds once every seventy years and lures pray in with vivid hallucinations. All plants have seeds that spread by being carried by either water or air-- assuming they aren’t eaten.

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Most animals have the ability to either fly or glide-- useful in a world that doesn’t have a lot of flat surface area. There is a creature that looks a bit like what you would get if you enlarged a spider to the size of a squirrel, covered it with fur, gave it a crow’s head that had been spliced with said squirrel, added a few extra eyes, and flaps of skin between its ten legs that can expand to help it glide through the trees. They are called Niphete, or Nips for short. Some people keep them as pets. They eat seeds and fruit and small insects.

There is a primate-like creature with eight limbs (all with opposable thumbs) and two prehensile tails that swings and leaps from tree to tree and is known for its daring aerobatic feats as well as its luxurious green fur coat (ideal for blending in), which caused it to be hunted by the early mammalian humanoids. The einu were endangered for a long time, but made a quick recovery.

Grazers include a deer-like creature (a bit smaller than an Earth deer) with four tusks for digging into the ground/bark, and both sexes have a single horn instead of antlers. They have claws instead of hooves that allow them to cling onto trees and impeccable balance so they can climb up and down cliff sides akin to mountain goat (of course with all the trees and foliage growing up and down the cliffs a bare cliff face is rare). Their feathers are colored to perfectly blend into the forests in temperate regions and are extremely shy, though some people have domesticated them. Their wings once allowed them to fly, but have since shrunk to a size that makes gliding difficult-- though it can help soften their infrequent falls. They are called erth*.

Their predators are a fearsome feline-esque beast almost twice their size called the da’rys. Like a shark, they have rows upon rows of teeth that move in to replace any that fall out. Their claws are sharp enough to cut through the rock where they dig their dens. Their wings allow them to attack from above (though they can’t fly for long), and their prehensile tails allow them even greater maneuverability. They are covered in feathers and the ones on their tails change colors with their moods, especially during breeding season. During the rest of the year, they are extremely solitary, except for when raising their young. Da’rys mothers are considered examples of unconditional love to aspire to. They will sacrifice themselves for their young, and will protect them by any means necessary. They even care for the weak, sick, or runt of their litters and have been seen to apparently morn any that die. They also purr. But they are not kept as pets.

The rysitav look a lot like bipedal, feathered dinosaurs about the size of draft horses. They have extraordinary stamina, agility, balance, and speed. They can jump up onto tree branches without breaking stride and run along very narrow ledges. Their front claws also allow them to climb the trunks of trees and up rock for short distances. They are domesticated by the Ornithe and come in all sorts of colors (some mini breeds have even been created). Rysitav literally translates to “first friend.” Because, historically, that’s what they were. If you mix the roles of horses and dogs in human history, you’d have an idea of what the rysitav mean to the Ornithe. Modern families often still follow the tradition of having one for each family member-- one to grow up with each child.

In the water, there are creatures that resemble a penguin’s body with a fish’s head and the fins of a ray. They use their fins/wings not only to swim but to glide between different levels of their river homes, skipping the waterfalls.

The ocean is largely unexplored, because the Ornithe fear it and don’t really want to explore it. However the larger creatures on Ornithe makes their home there in the depths. And the largest air creature, called the kalbojer, spends its life flying out over sea. Like a giant seal with two pairs of massive, albatross wings instead of flippers. They mate, eat, sleep, and give birth all in the air.

The People

Long ago, there were two humanoid species on Ornith. One was avian, the other mammalian. Their history with each other was turbulent-- periods of peace interspersed with war with each other and among themselves. Until one day, a virus fell from the sky. It attacked both species, but not in the same way. Desperate to survive, no matter what, the two worked together until they figured out that by splicing their DNA in just the right way, they could create a hybrid race that was immune to the virus. It took huge and quick technological evolution and a few failed test attempts, but in the end, they were successful. What remained was one species of Ornithe, both avian and mammalian.

This hybrid race had features of both: they had many of the basic mammalian features along with feathers in place of hair and sprouting from their arms, and a pair of wings attached to their shoulders. Their bones had the light weight of their avian fore-bearers and the strength of their mammalian ones (plus some. Because if you’re already genetically engineering yourselves, might as well). Therefore, they do have the ability to fly (though the extent of that ability depends on fitness level). They have aquiline-shaped noses and very sharp eyesight that are especially sensitive to motion and different shades of color (even very close ones). Feather color varies widely, with tropical Ornithe typically having more colorful patterns.

Afterwards, there was a long period of peace in which the Ornithe made impressive advancements in technology, medicine, social issues, the arts-- everything, basically. They became part of a coalition of advanced worlds who swore to help each other and others in need. And for a time, it did just that. But then disaster struck. A chain of supernovae took out nearly every world in the coalition-- either destroying them completely, killing all life, or severely disabling them, which was the case with Ornith. It took quite a while for them to rebuild from the ashes,  and when they did, it was under the leadership of a religion that started out honorably and innocently but slowly became corrupt, holding the world and its people back from achieving the potential they had shown before. As they hoarded all the power to themselves, they turned against anyone who held different beliefs or deviated from what they considered to be normal and proper. They allow visitors from other worlds to land at only one port and only for minimal trade purposes. The Ornithe who interacted with them are supposed to undergo cleansing rituals regularly.

At first, the religion was focused only on worshiping their deity-- the living spirit of the world-- and honoring them by caring for the world and each other. But each new leader added on rules-- sometimes under the guise of protecting the world, sometimes to help the “unenlightened” find their way to the right path. Eventually, the parameters for what made someone “unenlightened,” and eventually “evil,” were expanded to include anyone who didn’t follow their rules. The Church also banned flight-- it’s considered a “gift” from the deity that shouldn’t be used until they are “worthy” of it. The punishment for flying as well as for other infractions is clipping wings (so they won’t be able to fly even if worthiness is achieved during their lifetimes, and they won’t be able to soar into the afterlife unless the deity takes pity and heals them-- which means confessing and repenting their evil ways). For some infractions, wings are removed entirely. That marks them as eternally unworthy. 

Particularly “evil” are the elios: those with the energy manipulation gene sequence. Those are persecuted worse than any other group, and paranoia is worse than that surrounding witch trials on Earth. Anyone so much as accused of being an elios is taken into custody and tortured until they are either satisfied that the accusation is untrue (and they are very hard to convince), or they decide they are and are sentenced. The only sentence is execution. By fire.

Some people still follow the original beliefs of the religion while others follow other belief systems-- including those “smuggled” in from other worlds. But they all have to be practiced underground.

Back in the days when they were part of the coalition, the Ornith lived in floating cities, built disguised into the clouds. But after the disaster, most cities fell and the technology was lost. Now, the Ornithe live in settlements on the ground and around the waterfalls. Some people live in colonies deep in the forests/jungles to escape persecution, but the Church is determined to hunt them down.

They’ve lived under the rule of the Church for a long time, but strife is reaching a breaking point. It can only be a matter of time before war breaks out again on Ornith.

Let me know if you have any questions!

*yes, I accidentally left the a out of Earth when I typed it above and it inspired me to name it after it. What of it?

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Be the Pack Leader Your Pet Dog Desire You to Be

In this blog article, I wish to clear up two vital realities concerning your pet dog ...

The extremely initially concerns whether you're absolutely needed to be the pack leader.

The 2nd is whether the pack leader is hostile in their activities. Is it called for to pound your chest, scream, and slap your pet in order to come to be the pack leader?

The action to these two concerns can change the collaboration you have with guy's best pal.

Concern 1. Is it really needed that I am the pack leader?

Let's consider it from all angles.

Pets are pack animals. It's just how they operate within their areas, and also it enables them to operate well.

The leaders of these packs make choices and also their packs follow their orders. It's a efficient and easy means to get every little thing done.

In the wild, dogs are pack pets. When dogs sign up with the residence as a pet, they start to create a pack with the family members. This consists of all participants of the household in addition to various other pets (cats, and so on).

Pets see all people in their area as participants of the pack, and also the pack leader decides.

In several residences, proprietors are able to easily train their dogs due to the fact that the pet dogs do what they ask without resistance.

You might recognize homes such as this. They have this exceptional, very easy, relaxed pet dog, as well as you're uncertain exactly how since the owner hasn't done anything unique with their pet dog. Why is their dog mannerly while your own isn't? 

Well, right here's the trick. Some pet dogs are just easier to educate than others. It doesn't have anything to do with that you are as an proprietor.

If you have an very easy pet that you've had for years after that you can get away with much even more than other people do, the truth is. When people go about offering suggestions, it can be frustrating due to the fact that they may have a great dog simply since they have a great pet dog! Due to the fact that of their training, not.

If you have a brilliant, driven pet that is more tough to train then you need to see to it you recognize what you are doing and that you are sending clear messages. The method to training these kinds of pet dogs is ... to make certain that YOU are the pack leader in the home.

The difference between the behavior of these dogs has absolutely nothing to do with type and also whatever to do with personality and personality. It's sort of challenging to know that you won't what you're getting up until you're house.

It's why you are continuously gratifying your pet dog and also combating with them. It's all given that in your dog's mind, you are not the pack leader!

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That's said, let's speak about question two before I tell you what this service is.

Question 2. Is the pack leader hostile in their actions?

The important point to recognize is that the very best pack leaders are loosened up and constant. These were all traditional techniques to being a pack leader yet not anymore.

Antique pet dog training used several components that you required to actually regulate your animal. It included a large amount of pressure in addition to frequently fighting your pet, which could be messy.

One of the most effective animal training is when people are instructed on specifically just how to win their pets while utilizing a calm as well as mild approach. Due to the fact that they are scared, this guarantee that their pet dogs will identify them as the pack leader by means of choice and also not. This brand-new pet dog training technique is to alter the technique we've made use of previously as well as educate our dogs in your home.

By finding just exactly how our dogs see the world, we can readjust our actions to communicate in a means they acknowledge. It's essential that we supply the most effective messages, rather than simply using human psychology with our family pet. Lets admit it, we would absolutely never ever before use fish or bird psychology on a dog, so why do we constantly utilize human psychology? 

We are primates, progressed from apes, yet your family pet dog is a pet dog progressed from the wolves. There are some crucial, however, refined distinctions!

When you consider your animal's mind, as well as additionally where they originate from, there is no demand for issue or aggressiveness in training. The opportunities are that your pet dog does not see you as the pack leader if you are having a difficult time after that.

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Allows appearance at the truths ...

Dog are pet animals. Often there are different other participants in the pack, perhaps young people, greater than one pet dog or felines as well.

The truth stays that dogs see all beings as component of the pack as well as that pack have to have a leader that decides.

If you have a tough, exceptionally wise, driven dog afterwards you have to acknowledge what you are doing as well as the messages that you are sending your dog. The essential to educating these type of pets is guaranteeing that YOU are the pack leader in the house. See to it that you are the pack leader in your pet dog's mind!

[quirkwizard]

If you were to create a Quirk that allowed the user to change their body parts or gain the aspects of only a certain type of animal (e.g. bird, feline, reptile) - which do you think would have the most potential to be powerful and the most varied abilities?

I don’t entirely understand this questions. Are you asking about the animal or the body part? If both, it’s rather hard to say due to how broad a stroke we’re painting here with the lack of specifics on the the types of animals I can take from. The first thing that comes to mind is the mouth and snakes, but that wouldn’t be as beneficial do to how humans are designed. The second one is felines and legs, do to the amount of jumping power, but it would lack a lot of versatility. The last one is primates and arms, for climbing and striking strength, but again would lack versatility. If I misunderstood the question, feel free to send the question again in with clarification.

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What People Don't Know About Service Dogs or Service Animals

Essentially, a help dog or creature is equivalent to a help canine that goes through a great deal of preparing to help individuals experiencing handicaps - mental and physical. They can likewise be a closest companion for individuals with extreme wretchedness. Administration canines can be explicitly prepared by administration canine association to take care of job or perform undertakings to assist a person with an incapacity. Notwithstanding, the proprietor can likewise prepare the creature. A few canines are given from various reproducers and some are deserted canines gave from neighborhood covers. Nonetheless, not everything canines can be a help canines. Things like personality, the capacity to learn complex assignments, and so forth Become possibly the most important factor inside the canines preparing. Yet, any variety or combination of types of canine may create an agent equipped for administration work. So, contingent upon breeds, your canine can have the entirety of the characteristics as far as wellbeing, demeanor, teachability and actual capacity. These qualities can lead them to be something other than your pet yet a help canine/pet all things being equal.

Anyway, what's in store's after your canine has been affirmed? Truly, for most, proprietors expect administration canines to be treated as creature on move or working creature openly. Why? Essentially on the grounds that each proprietor's wellbeing absolutely relies upon canines capacity to deal with interruptions. During the preparation, your canine is set up to evade interruption as much as possible particularly when wearing their stuff and simultaneously they are prepared to be unwind and cordial when the stuff is eliminated. A proprietor's consent is an absolute necessity before others interfaces with the canine while in broad daylight places.

What you can be sure of is that you can really prepare your own assistance canines. These days, more individuals are deciding to prepare their own canine on the grounds that there are times that preparation programs simply can't prepare the canine to the proprietor's individual necessities. In any case, not all nations permit that sort of preparing. Fortunately, this is allowed to certain nations including US however there are sure measures to be thought of. Mentors must have abilities which permits them to comprehend that their involvement with preparing progressed administration canines are not the same as preparing the normal canine straightforward acquiescence abilities. Proprietors may have to enlist an expert coach or association that is happy to prepare proprietor's canine. Proprietor mentors as a rule begin preparing their canine when they are as yet a pup until they arrive at the correct age to be assessed. The solitary ruin is that some think that its hard to manage passionate clash in uncommon situations when a canine bombed the assessments and conclude whether to re-home the canine and start again or to simply keep it as a pet.

Then again, expertly prepared young doggies were raised as needs be by means of exceptionally cautious exploration and furthermore needed to go through a system that has a ton of severe rules and generally given a triumph pace of 85 % or more after assessment which is path higher than proprietor prepared pups/canines. For what reason is that so? This is on the grounds that program coaches are master in controlling the hereditary qualities or state early incitement of doggies until the occasion that they become administration canines.

On the off chance that you are intending to get an assistance canine, you don't need to stress over carrying them to where you are. Truth be told, when your canine got enlisted, they are permitted to go anyplace you go. You can don't hesitate to carry them to any cafés, transports, schools, ride taxis, take planes, stores, cinemas, games, watch shows with you, visit specialist's workplaces, and some other public spot. Lawfully talking, it is a necessity of government and state laws to consistently have your canine with you. Makes it all the more energizing that they don't need to wear any distinguishing gear, no compelling reason to wear their vest too. So everything could really be proprietor's watchfulness. Actually a ton of administration canine proprietors decide to dress their canines in vest and recognizing clothes to stay away from questions and showdowns in broad daylight. So thusly, it makes their life simpler and simultaneously it helps get the canines far from interruptions however much as could be expected. In the event that you bring your canine somewhere else, remember that it is unlawful to request explicit recognizable proof from administration canines accomplices. In the event that someone advised, them it isn't permitted by law. You can carry ID cards with you, however observe that it ought to be done intentionally, again, this isn't needed and ought to never be normal.

Up until now, the most mainstream help creatures are canines. This is on the grounds that canines are man's closest companion - magnificent pet, gives friendship, and ensures their proprietor. Canines are agreeable naturally and actually, they work intimately with individuals, for example, law requirement, search and salvage and in any event, cultivating. These qualities made it workable for canines to be administration creatures.

Imagine a scenario in which you don't have a canine. At times, different creatures can be prepared to perform errand to assist crippled people with carrying on with free life. Truly any teachable creature could be your administration creature. The most widely recognized obviously are canines, felines, primates and fowls yet in actuality any creature that is competent for preparing to play out the assignments needed to profit a certified crippled proprietor/individual could be viewed as a help creature. So that implies you can likewise have others like capuchin monkeys, which can be prepared to do other assignment like working handles and switches, getting a handle on fallen things and turn pages of your books. You can likewise think about preparing scaled down ponies, it's demonstrated that after genuine trainings, they can really manage the visually impaired; they can pull wheelchairs and even help people with Parkinson's infection. Actually even before the development of administration canines, creature communications as of now assumes a major part in assisting human with medical problems. One model is horseback riding which is really referenced from the beginning of time as remedy for some affliction including gout, neurological problems and wretchedness. Up to this point, creatures actually help us regarding physical and psychological instability and still help individuals with handicaps. Any species or type of administration creature may utilized by an impaired overseer.

Remember that assistance creatures are characterized dependent on undertaking they can do however have you actually wonder about the distinction between administration creature, canine guide and treatment creature, buddy/passionate help creatures and pets? This inquiry customarily carries disarrays to individuals who need assistance.

To make everything understood, the term Service Animal is the government lawful term for creatures that are exclusively prepared to finish task for individual with incapacity. It may not generally be a canine, doesn't generally wear supplies recognizing them as administration creatures, is anything but a pet, is secured by law, manage the visually impaired, ready individuals who are hard of hearing, convey or get things, close and open entryways, help debilitated who have restricted utilization of arms and legs, pull wheelchairs, help individual with seizures and help individuals who have issues in adjusting.

A guide canine/creature is prepared to give direction to locate impeded person. Guide canines had their trainings from ensured authorized school for manage canines. Interestingly, direct canines are ensured under state and government law.

A few people alluded to their creatures as treatment creature anyway it isn't legitimately characterized under government law. Most treatment creatures can be found in nursing homes, halfway houses, medical clinics, and so on while others live in specialist/dental specialist workplaces, recoveries foundations, and even in private homes of individuals or person that benefits a ton for keeping creatures on account of the restorative friendship it has to bring to the table. For certain states, it is characterized as close to home pet for advisor, doctors so to put it plainly, a treatment creature isn't an assistance creature. The clue is that when a creature is prepared to give persistent (help, help, uphold) to a certified handicapped individual due to his/her inability, at that point that implies that the creature is considered as administration creature instead of a treatment creature.

In uncommon cases, individuals term their creatures as partner or enthusiastic help creatures. It's regularly given the part of explicitly helping individuals with either passionate or mental inabilities and need consistent friendship since they can't work freely. This kind of creatures are practically same as pets since it's not lawfully characterized however acknowledged as another type of pet and ensured under Fair Housing Act.

The most widely recognized disarray is the means by which the pet is not quite the same as some other help creatures. The appropriate response is simply straightforward. A pet isn't a help creature since it's not prepared to offer explicit support or errand to individual with handicap and it's not ensured under laws that give equivalent admittance to cripple people.

With all the sorts of administration creatures, individuals here and there neglected to distinguish if a creature is administration creature or not. To advise you truly, it's simpler to tell which isn't. How? You can judge by looking. It's significant that you don't cause the individual with incapacity to feel awkward when you inquire. Notwithstanding, on the off chance that you are as yet befuddled if the creature meets the rules to be called as administration creature, you can pose inquiry in a prudent way. You can inquire as to whether creature is needed because of handicap or possibly request errand and administrations the creature was prepared for. Recall that it's a major NO to get some information about their handicap. Never at any point ask a visitor for confirmation. To put it plainly, you can't segregate individuals with administration creatures in light of their handicap. You ought not ask individuals with inabilities and their administration creatures to remain away or needed to sit in specific areas, yet all things being equal, the person with the creature may pick uninhibitedly to sit in an area where the creature will be less diverted. Moreover, with all the legitimate trainings given to both the proprietor and the creature, you may anticipate that the help creature should act the correct way and be leveled out of their proprietor.

In the event that you don't have handicap, it's prescribed for you to figure out acceptable behavior the correct path in cases t

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A Much-Hyped COVID-19 Drug Is Almost Identical to a Black-Market Cat Cure

Cat owners are resorting to China’s underground marketplace to buy antivirals for a feline coronavirus.

SARAH ZHANG

MAY 8, 2020

When Robin Kintz’s two kittens, Fiona and Henry, contracted a fatal cat disease last year, she began hearing of a black-market drug from China. The use of the drug, known as GS-441524, is based on legitimate research from UC Davis, but the ways to get it seemed much less so. “It was, ‘If you want to save your cat, send me thousands of dollars, and I’ll DHL you some unmarked vials,’” she says. And she did. Kintz transferred the thousands of dollars, got the unmarked vials from China, and then injected the clear liquid into her dying cats every day for months.

The first remarkable thing, given the nature of the transaction, is that Kintz says the vials actually worked. Henry lived for almost another year, and Fiona made a full recovery. She’s still scampering around today, fluffy and alive—a miracle considering that vets had long thought her disease, feline infectious peritonitis, to be incurable and 100 percent fatal. Kintz now runs a 22,000-member Facebook group that helps cat owners using GS-441524. Thousands of cats have reportedly been cured of FIP.

The second remarkable thing is that GS-441524 is almost identical to a much buzzed-about human drug: remdesivir, the antiviral currently our best hope for treating COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Although early data suggest that the drug shortens recovery time at best, Anthony Fauci has touted remdesivir from the White House. The Food and Drug Administration has authorized it for emergency use. And Gilead Sciences, the company that makes remdesivir, is donating 1.5 million doses of the drug amidst the pandemic.

Gilead invented and patented GS-441524, too. Its scientists co-authored the UC Davis studies showing effectiveness against FIP. But the company has refused to license GS-441524 for animal use, out of fear that its similarity to remdesivir could interfere with the human drug’s FDA-approval process—originally for Ebola. When that failed, and a global pandemic of a novel coronavirus later arose, the company began testing it against COVID-19. Remdesivir has a small but clever modification that makes it better at entering cells, but it and GS-441524 work in exactly the same way to inhibit viruses.

FIP is also caused by a coronavirus—not the same one that causes COVID-19, but one that specializes in infecting cats. (Although humans may be able to pass COVID-19 to cats in rare cases, humans cannot get FIP from cats.) In most cats, this feline coronavirus, or FCoV, causes mild diarrhea or no symptoms at all. But in a small minority of cases, the virus infects white blood cells, and the immune system goes haywire into full-blown FIP. The disease comes in two forms, both fatal: wet, in which the cat’s chest or belly swells with fluid, or dry, in which there is no fluid but the cat is still feverish and sick. Eventually, it dies. For decades, vets have had little to offer but euthanasia.

Then GS-441524 came along. Small trials at UC Davis published in 2018 and 2019suggested that cats were not just having their life prolonged by days or weeks, but were seemingly cured. “It really was a game changer,” says Drew Weigner, a veterinarian and the president of the Winn Feline Foundation, which funded some of the UC Davis research. “Three years ago, we told patients, ‘Your cat is going to die.’ Now we can tell them something else. It’s quite a story.”

The story of a drug first tested against Ebola (that failed), whose close cousin became a groundbreaking treatment for a cat disease (but only illegally), and that has been resurrected in the pandemic of an entirely new virus underscores the vagaries of drug development. To be clear, while remdesivir is in clinical trials, GS-441524 has not been tested in humans for safety or efficacy against COVID-19. The black-market formulations of GS-441524 are also incredibly expensive. A 12-week regimen for cats can cost upwards of $10,000, depending on the brand, type of FIP, and weight of the cat. Plus, there is no legal way to buy GS-441524 as medicine—not for cats, not for humans.

The drug probably would have never been tested in cats, if not for the fact that Niels Pedersen, a longtime FIP researcher at UC Davis, personally knew the former chief scientific officer of Gilead. The two met 30 years ago, when Gilead was testing antiviral HIV drugs in monkeys and Pedersen was working at a primate research center. But Pedersen’s true love has always been cats. He grew up surrounded by them on a poultry farm. A colleague of his warned me, lovingly, that Pedersen was “irascible,” and he was difficult to get on the phone. But his voice softened when he talked about taming those barn cats and finding homes for their kittens.

Pedersen became fascinated with FIP in vet school in the 1960s, when it was still a mysterious disease with a mysterious cause. Over the decades, scientists would discover the feline coronavirus behind FIP and then spend years trying but failing to develop a working vaccine. Pedersen ended up devoting his career to the disease. And when the vaccines failed, he began thinking about antivirals, and he began thinking, again, of Gilead. The California-based company specializes in developing antivirals, including Tamiflu, Truvada, and a host of HIV and hepatitis C drugs.

Around five years ago, Pedersen got in touch with his Gilead contact, and the company sent him 25 or 30 molecules, drawn from the large library of drug candidates that pharmaceutical companies typically maintain. Two of the molecules worked marvelously in cat cells infected with the FIP virus: GS-441524 and GS-5734, the latter of which is now better known as remdesivir.

Both GS-441524 and remdesivir work by blocking viral replication. They are nucleoside analogues, meaning they mimic the nucleoside building blocks—A, U, C, or G—that make up the virus’s genetic material. Specifically, they mimic “A,” and when the virus is tricked into incorporating a GS-441524 or remdesivir molecule instead of “A”, the replication process gets jammed up. Eventually, no more letters can be added, and the virus cannot replicate. Where the two drugs differ is that remdesivir has an extra phosphate group, a small change that helps it enter a cell and get used in replication. This modification is commonly used to enhance the effectiveness of similar antivirals. “It’s just one of those really clever things that worked perfectly,” says Katherine Seley-Radtke, an antiviral researcher at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

For whatever reason, though, this modification did not make much difference in cat cells infected with the FIP virus. Both molecules were effective, so Pedersen decided to pursue the simpler one, GS-441524. He then infected 10 cats with FIP and dosed them with GS-441524. All 10 cats recovered.

“We almost fell out of our chairs,” says Weigner.This is ridiculous, he remembers thinking. This can’t work this well. Wait, wait, stop, go back? It did what? The initial study was small and under artificial conditions, but in a follow-up field trial of 31 petswith naturally acquired FIP, 25 ultimately made it—an unheard-of recovery rate. Pedersen had previously tested another antiviral out of Kansas State University, but only seven out of 20 cats had gone into remission. Those results seemed impressive at the time, but GS-441524 appeared to be even better.

Pedersen is 76 now, and he has devoted 50 years of his career to FIP research. Finally, it seemed, a cure was at hand. “I felt really good,” he told me, “and I thought this was a good capstone for my career.” But the capstone never materialized, at least not in the way that he expected. Despite the success, Gilead refused to license GS-441524 for use in cats.

While Pedersen was testing GS-441524 in cats, a different virus—a human virus—was raging halfway around the world in West Africa: Ebola. The virus that causes Ebola is not a coronavirus, but remdesivir is unusually broad-acting for an antiviral, and early results against Ebola were promising. So promising, in fact, that the company was eyeing FDA approval of remdesivir in humans.

According to Pedersen, Gilead worried that the cat research could impede the approval process for remdesivir. Because GS-441524 and remdesivir are so similar, any adverse effects uncovered in cats might have to be reported and investigated to guarantee remdesivir’s safety in humans. Gilead’s caution about generating unnecessary cat data is standard industry practice. “One of the rules in drug development is never perform a test you don’t have to, if the results could be problematic,” says Richard Sachleben, a retired pharma-industry researcher. (Gilead declined to comment for this story.)

For Pedersen, the explanation was hard to accept. “It was a blow,” he said. “It hits you very hard, especially when you didn’t see any reason for it.” He still published the studies, as academic researchers do, and results became public in 2018 and 2019.  

Not long after, Pedersen began hearing from people in China. One company wanted to license the drug from Gilead, he told me, and it asked Pedersen to be the intermediary. The company failed to get a license but started selling an FIP drug anyway, and its exact formula is unclear. Other companies explicitly advertise their formulations as GS-441524. China has a large base of pharmaceutical manufacturing, and raw GS-441524 is not particularly difficult to synthesize. FIP is also a growing problem in the country as cats—especially purebred cats, which are more prone to the disease—become more popular in China. A black market has sprung up to fill the vacuum left by Gilead.

The use of drugs from China was at first controversial in the FIP community. “I got a lot of hate mail for it. I lost a lot of supporters,” says Peter Cohen, an early supporter of the drugs. Cohen runs ZenByCat, a nonprofit that raises money for two groups funding FIP research, SOCK FIP and the Winn Feline Foundation’s Bria Fund for FIP Research. Earlier iterations of Facebook support groups, such as FIP Fighters, initially banned any discussion of the black-market drugs too.

Susan Gingrich, a former administrator of that Facebook group, has focused on pressuring Gilead. Gingrich, whose brother is former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, is also the founder of the Bria Fund. Her cat Bria died of FIP in 2005, and she established the fund with donations from her brother and herself and her husband that same year. “It would be so much easier if Gilead would have either marketed it or let another entity market it,” she says. Gingrich bought stock in Gilead after early research into GS-441524 seemed promising. In June 2019, she wrote a letter to Gilead, as well as to President Donald Trump and her congressman and senators in Tennessee, imploring the company to allow animal use of the drug. She says she’s received no response.

When Kintz was trying to save Fiona and Henry, she asked about GS-441524 in one of those Facebook groups that had banned discussion of the drug. Her post in the group went nowhere, but two women privately messaged her with advice. Kintz ended up starting a new group, now called FIP Warriors, so they could exchange tips and feedback on different brands. The group grown to 22,000 members on Facebook—as well as 25 admins and 26 moderators. It has satellite groups in different countries and languages around the world. “It feels like a global corporation sometimes,” says Kintz, who is a design consultant in upstate New York when she’s not running the Facebook group. If she is going to be offline for, say, six hours, she notifies her fellow admins and moderators. The Facebook group has morphed into a 24/7 international organization.

FIP Warriors also has a network of emergency group chats for every state. Because shipping from China can take a long time and because the earlier that GS-441524 treatment is started, the better, the emergency chats connect new members with those who have vials of extra GS-441524.

Zina Lemesh, a lawyer and cat breeder in New York, joined the group in February, when her cat Nora grew jaundiced and stopped eating, and her belly swelled up like a bowling ball. Lemesh recognized the signs of wet FIP, and she knew it as a hopeless disease. She was preparing to call her vet about euthansia when she came across the group in a frantic online search for a treatment. She posted an emergency plea for GS-441524. “Within 10 minutes, I was in contact with someone,” she told me. “Within the next two hours, my cat already had shots.” And within a couple days, Nora started eating again. She is almost done with her 84-day regimen. Her swollen belly is completely gone.

“This is a cat mom and an attorney speaking at the same time and I try to balance the two in my brain, which it’s hard,” Lemesh said. On one side is the cat mom who would go to great lengths to save her cat; on the other is the rules-minded lawyer who can’t believe she injected her cat with unlabeled drugs from a stranger. But if it’s between letting Nora die and a small chance at saving her, the choice was clear. Of course, Lemesh told me, she would rather go the legitimate route—if that were an option. “Do you think people would like to send $7,000 to $12,000 to some weird source?” she said. “Or would they prefer to pay their vet?”

The black-market availability of GS-441524 puts veterinarians in a bind. They can’t prescribe the drug or legally buy it for cat owners. Some do agree to help owners with the injections, which can be difficult and painful for the cat. But others want nothing to do with the unapproved drug. Linda Pendergrass-Nethery, who lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, told me she ended up switching vets. Her first vet refused to help, she said. The second prescribed the sedative gabapentin to mellow out her cat, Sundance, for injections. So every afternoon, a couple hours before Sundance’s daily injection, Pendergrass-Nethery and her husband give him a dose of gabapentin. When the time comes, they burrito him up into a white towel—“like a mummy,” she said—and inject him with GS-441524. It’s definitely a two-person job.

In the meantime, FIP Warriors has grown prominent enough that Chinese sellers are now approaching the group to market their GS-441524. They seem to pop up and then disappear. “It’s hard to say if they’re companies or sort of backdoor dealers,” Kintz says. But the group has tried to institute a small measure of accountability. It had, at one point, tested a few popular brands to verify the concentration and content of their GS-441524 vials. When new sellers approach, the group asks for samples to send to cat rescues, which might not be able to afford GS-441524 for kittens that would otherwise certainly die of FIP. “That’s generally how we determine if it works and if it’s going to be okay,” Kintz says. But the group is also rife with disclaimers about not being able to verify any particular drug.

Case in point: This January, a popular brand of GS-441524 appeared to kill cats that had been given the drug. When the group started noticing a pattern, admins began collecting data and warning against the brand’s most recent batch. The man who had been selling it online disappeared, with several members of the group posting that he still owes them money. Rumor was that he and his wife had divorced acrimoniously; she had been the brains behind the operation and he had tried and failed to continue the business. Then a new brand of GS-441524 popped up—reportedly made by his wife. It’s all impossible to verify half a globe away. “It’s truly like the Wild West,” Kintz says.

The recent surge of interest in remdesivir could change some of this dynamic. After Ebola trials found little benefit, remdesivir became a drug in search of a (human) disease. Should remdesivir ever be granted proper FDA approval beyond emergency use for COVID-19, and if it becomes common enough to prescribe through pharmacies, then vets could legally use it extra-label in cats. “It may be five years down the road, and COVID is a distant memory, and then it is used for FIP,” Weigner says. For now, at least, the cat-specific data on remdesivir is still lacking.

Kintz hopes that GS-441524 can, one day, be legally available for cats. Then, she says, “no one would need me anymore, but that’s okay.”