#and the answer is. white.

[thefoolsprocession]

I love you can tell exactly the kind of person this is from this list

[batboopp]

do you think he’s capable of love even though he’s from new jersey

[hinamie]

I'll rip in hands and teeth and take a bite

[isawthismeme]

She’s brown and a democrat, gotta get that birth certificate, that we’ll call fake news anyway. Apparently, if you can’t win in a fight, you gotta at least try to get your opponent disqualified.

Sad and weird.

[meo-eiru]

Where do you think you are going?

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

🎃Happy Halloween! 🎃

I wish I could do more this year, but I've been unexpectedly busy for the past couple of weeks. Nevertheless, I wanted to do our traditional Halloween cosplay illustration!

As usual, bonus points to those who know what series this is from. ;)

"When is the hiatus gonna be over?"

At this point, it'll be over when it's over. Sorry guys! I thought I could get back to things quickly, but I'm kinda getting a lot of stuff thrown at me that I can't just put aside in favor of the comic.

If you want to see early Steven Bomb comics, there are a few already available on my Patreon!

Aside from that, I plan to maybe get back into the swing of things in late November or maybe early December.

Thanks for understanding!

[willgrahamscock]

why don't you have a pride icon to show that you're an ally to gay people

the most insane ask I've received in my 11 years on tumblr

[amber-tortoiseshell]

hello! do you know why piebaldism (the Ws allele in cats) is so common in domestic animals? to my knowledge it occurs in cats, dogs, horses, cows, mice, etc. it just seems weird that this specific mutation is so prevalent cross-species, is it just selective breeding? you're the only blog i know that talks about coat genetics in different species so i thought maybe you would know 😅

Piebaldism is an "easy" phenotype: all kind of different mutations that results in worse functioning melanocytes can give white patches. Horses for example have piebald mutations on at least five different genes (EDNRB, KIT, MITF, PAX3 and TRPM1). Probably all those animals you listed have different and unique piebald mutations.

I think this is why it's so common: it doesn't need a specific mutation, just something that turns down pigment production. And turning something off is always easier than changing it but keeping the main functionality.

Piebaldism is observed in all kind of wild animals too, it probably often turns up spontaneously; and by all likeliness that's what happened with early domestic animals too. From that it was simple selective breeding; humans always liked special-looking animals.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 345

Let it be known that none of them actually expected the idiots’ of the week’s ritual to work. The summoning hadn’t worked for literal centuries- everyone knew it had been sealed away, presumably forever!

(Of course they had no way to know that in the Infinite Realms actually used the term forever as a measurement of time, what with how time itself wasn’t particularly linear within. And to beings that could hypothetically live for eternity? Forever was a nice vacation time really) 

So maybe they hadn’t been exactly focused on stopping the ritual as much as they could of been, and by the time they realized it was working, well, it’d been a bit too late then. So yes, mistakes had perhaps in fact, been made. 

First had come the chill, the cold of the ground as your body was lowered down, the cold of your blood dripping from your living corpse. Then came the shadows, the darkness creeping along their vision as their soul slipped from their body. Followed by boiling heat, flames scorching through their flesh and tearing from their chests like a blade piercing their hearts. 

The form that emerged was massive, a cloak dripping crimson fluttering in the wind of an unseen battlefield, verdant flames licking at the air and causing the surrounding shadows to writhe. A dark growl echoed through the building, the stone below them shaking while deathly green eyes glowered down at the living with utter contempt. 

“Do any of you imbeciles know how long it takes to get ghostlings to sleep-” 

[canisalbus]

Ok ok hear me out: it could end in tragedy,, AND have a happy ending. The attempt(s) on Machete’s life force him to flee, he doesn’t even have the chance to find Vasco. Cue gay longing for at least a few years while Machete despairs over the loss of his love, his life, his status. He and Vasco only reunite (again) in their later years. Their relationship is forever flavored with loss and loneliness, but that only means they savor every moment that much more

I also I would like to see them as old men. Vasco would be so droopy :)

You gave me such old dog brainworms.

[fiercynn]

Can you elaborate more on how hindutva is tied to zionism and white supremacy? I'm not trying to hate I'm genuinely curious.

tbh i don’t have the energy rn to write up an explanation myself, but here are some sources to get you started:

hindutva’s ties to fascism, nazism, & white supremacy broadly

hindu fascism 101: what is hindutva?, by the alliance for justice & accountability

why white nationalists are working with hindu supremacists, by safa ahmed at progressive

why white supremacists and hindu nationalists are so alike, by audita chaudhery at al jazeera

white and hindu supremacists are a match made in heaven, by amardeep singh dhillion at novara media

when hindu nationalism and white nationalism meet, by thomas crowley at jacobin

hindutva & zionism specifically

united in hate: the similarities and solidarities between hindutva and zionism, by ananya ray at feminism in india

the hindu nationalists using the pro-israel playbook, by aparna gopalan at jewish currents

why zionism rules the hearts of hindutva acolytes, by shreevatsa navatia at frontline (a magazine of the hindu)

in state repression and its justification, india and israel have much in common, by achin vanaik at the wire

violent majorities: indian and israeli ethnonationalism, a discussion between balmurli natrajan, lori allen, and ajantha subramanian at recall this book podcast

how hindu nationalists became best friends with israel, by goldie osuri at jacobin

india's hindutva proponents and zionist israel: strange bedfellows, by kavita chowdhury at the diplomat

[hinamie]

noir

[thegradus2]

“Surely not…. It’s been 15 years… and anyone would have stopped before getting disowned, noone would lack *that* amount of care for themself”

And then basen doesn’t stop thinking about it for a week

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

hello!! would you consider posting the art of steven's gem inside his head from the faq page on its own? i just think it's really cool and would reblog it!! absolutely love the comic.

I think I've posted it somewhere before, but I can't find it at the moment so sure, let's have it again! :)

Here he is!

[l3viat8an]

Stuck somewhere between Mammon can solve a rubik’s cube in like 30 seconds or Mammon can’t solve a rubik’s cube to save his life.

[amber-tortoiseshell]

Hi there! I've recently been on a quest to find the correct way to describe my sister's cat Azula. My best guess is that she seems to be a seal mink point with white spotting + dilute or double dilute red tabby (the faint red/cream tabby markings on her face, parts of her ears, and a few very faint cream patches on her body and paws). But I'm confused how the dilute red can with the much darker seal points, and I'm very new to cat coat genetics. If you could help, I'd be so grateful!!

Hello! I believe she's a black (aka seal) tortoiseshell point with white. (Not mink, siamese-type point.) She has the characteristic blue eyes, and points can easily get this dark.

The very pale red is also normal, colorpoint washes out the red pigment more efficiently than the black, so flame points are much paler than seals, and on torties the red patches can seem almost white. Strictly speaking it's not dilution, since the cat's genotype is still D_, nevertheless it's a lightening effect.

If you want to deep dive into cat genetics, the genotype for this color is: aa B_ cscs D_ Oo wsw.