#ambassador animals

[thrivingartistcooperative]

Wildlife rehabilitator Robin "D Possum" and her professional ambassador for all possumkind, Trooper, appearing for a community workshop at the Thriving Artist Co-op in Newport, TN.

Robin helps injured and orphaned possums get back on their feet and out into the wild, where they serve a vital ecological role in controlling tick populations.

Most of her charges' care and feeding comes out of pocket for Robin. You can help her support these charming, timid, and important animals here.

[canisalbus]

✦ Diplomacy ✦

[badnewswhatsleft]

critical damage

[ink-asunder]

The absolute separation and dissonance american people have from the concept of illness is insane to me. American culture (I know it's not the only one) is so hung up on preserving youth, health, ability status, privilege, etc to the degree that they moralize uncontrollable (and sometimes harmless) biological occurrences to the point of actual delusion.

You can't have wrinkles, you can't have grey hair, you need to look 24, you need to fit in the prom dress you bought when you were 16. And the way this extends into healthism and ableism is detrimental to the collective conscious, I think. People act like you're a "bad person" if you get covid. They act like if you get sick, it's because you did something wrong. They say you should get into health and fitness not to make yourself happy or to have something to do, but to "prepare our bodies to age gracefully."

As someone who was chronically ill and disabled since childhood, I've always had a bit of a disconnect with this culture?? Like, having to LIVE with a facial difference for 15 years before "cosmetic reparation" was an option for me taught me that the way you look and how healthy you are really has nothing to do with you at all. But the main reason people aren't "unlearning" these issues is that americans refuse to accept that they coexist with disease at all.

Cancer treatment only happens in movies or to people you don't talk to anymore. Covid isn't real. Covid is over. Everyone with lung cancer got it because they smoked and they knew the risks. If you're on a chemo drug, you must have cancer. If you have cancer or a spinal condition, you MUST be dying. If you're in a wheelchair, you can walk if you really wanted to. Don't be visibly sick or disabled around me; it makes me uncomfortable. Don't talk about your health; it reminds me of my own mortality. Deny, dissociate, don't think about it.

When the reality is that new illnesses and outbreaks happen all the time. "Chemo" drug units and dialysis centers actually encompass a range of drugs and disease treatments. Some people have to get a year's supply of iron infused into their blood once a year. Does that scare you? If you've had cancer, you have cancer forever. You're in REMISSION because the root cause of the problem is still in your body. You're cancer free now, but maintenance diagnostics will be a permanent part of your life.

But we can't talk about that. Because the concept of BEING ill is so deeply dysphoric for the generally healthy, abled public. Getting sick is TRAUMATIZING to the point where if you can fully recover, you tend to not dig deep into your feelings about the situation ever again. And you're doing it to yourself, but it's also kind of being done to you by everyone. Honestly, just normalizing illness and coping with our close proximity to it would do wonders for society.

[temeyes]

was making wallpapers of kei again cuz i gotta feed myself these days...

[spinus-pinus]

Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus

6/16/2023 San Diego County, California

[nxght-shxft]

alagadda posting again :3

[katy-pawz]

♡︎ @armin-week-2024 - Day 7: "All eyes are on you, Mr. ambassador + Haircut ♡︎

had a hard time again choosing one prompt for d7 so combination of the two prompts go brrr 😁😁🔥🔥✅✅

[octopusowl]

Tell me, am I cooking? Or cooked.

[apollinaresart]

Idk if this means anything to anyone on here but I’ve been selected as a Toon Boom ambassador for 2024 and that’s a huge honor for me!

[bumblingbabooshka]

Janeway visits Tuvok on Vulcan and they're waiting around for whatever reason when from behind them Janeway suddenly hears what sounds like a series of consonants interspersed with clicks and a shriek which somehow all together sound like the first steps of some undiscovered bird, stretching its wings for the first or perhaps final time. Tuvok looks up and turns toward the noise. "Yes?" This is his last name.

[purplespacekitty]

part 2

part 1

[hero-of-the-wolf]

boss: hey do you have any pictures I could use for the event?

me:

me: HOMEWORK CANCELED

[chernobog13]

Poster for Planet Prince: The Terrifying Spaceship, released on May 25, 1959. This was the second half of a two-part serial; the first half was released the previous week on May 19.

These two short features - Part One was 57 minutes long, Part Two was 64 minutes - were produced by Toei. They were adaptations of the Planet Prince television series from Senkosha, much like Toei had done with Senkosha's previous series Moonlight Mask (Gekko Kamen).

However, unlike the Moonlight Mask films, the Planet Prince films featured a hero not at all resembling his television counterpart.

The television Planet Prince was Senkosha's answer to Shin Toho's theatrical superhero Super Giant (aka Starman in the USA), with a similar costume and superpowers. Over 49 episodes his costume changed a bit, but he looked like this:

I think we can all agree, the two versions of Planet Prince look nothing alike. Well, except that they both have the same number of arms and legs and noses and whatnot.

In 1965 the two Toei Planet Prince films were edited together into an 85 minute-long TV movie for American television entitled Prince of Space. This is the version seen on Mystery Science Theatre 3000, and was released on DVD with the Sonny Chiba (as Iron Sharp/Space Chief) film Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961).

Anyhoo, in no way should Planet Prince/Prince of Space be confused with this guy:

This is Prince Planet, the hero of a 52-episode animated series that debuted in Japan in 1965. An English-dubbed version hit American airwaves the following year.

Prince Planet was, like Super Giant/Starman and Planet Prince, and alien endowed with incredible superpowers (Although most of his came from his pendant) who came to Earth to protect its inhabitants from various threats.

The series did not last more than a year, however, because of two reasons:

It was black-and-white when color TV was rapidly gaining popularity; kids had more colorful choices for their viewing pleasure.

Parent groups complained about violence in the series, especially when Prince Planet seemed to have no qualms about killing his enemies. I have not seen this series, but I really, really want to just for that reason alone.

Finally, in 2012 there was a theatrical reboot of Planet Prince, appropriately entitled Planet Prince 2021.

I have not seen this film yet, though I did see the trailer a couple of years back and wasn't very impressed; it seemed the filmmakers were going for a goofy, "look how silly we can be" vibe, much like Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (2008), the sequel/reboot of The X From Outer Space (1967).

I will seek out this film and view one of these days, though, if only because it features one of the last performances by the late Jirō Dan, who was Ultraman Jack's alter ego, Hideki Go, for decades.

Also, the costume looks kinda neat, in a low budget sorta way, although I'm not crazy about the sneakers.

[astralprisms]

Adventures in the Underdark

[dreamerkitty]

Gorgeous-taishi/Gorgeous Ambassador and his successor from episode 187