Downtown owl by Chuck Klosterman has been on my reading list for probably a decade. I've read most all of closterman's books on music and I always enjoyed them. So the summer I decided I would go ahead and tackle Downtown Owl.
I got about halfway through and right in the middle of the book apropos of absolutely nothing was the description of torture and killing of someone's pet cat.
It was graphic and disgusting and added absolutely no nothing to the story. It had no reason to be there. I was so disgusted I just stopped the book right there.
The book honestly was not that good to begin with, definitely not up with some of the other books of his I have read. And in the end I paid $17 just to be completely and utterly disgusted.
This was not a horror novel, this was supposed to be a humor novel. And to have that jump out, out of nowhere is absolutely Unforgivable.
DO NOT BUY/READ THIS BOOK.
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Why TF did he have the bird?
Seagull soup - absolutely
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Be Careful; Your Character Is Showing by Christina Knowles
Do all animals deserve to be treated with respect and compassion? How you answer this question will say a lot about your character. This topic has been boiling just under the surface of my mind for some time now. When I hear someone say something, which, in my opinion, is cruel about animals, I automatically think less of them as a person. This has been on my mind lately because I have recently…
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"And if I can't love him in this life, then I will undo billions of years, and take the universe back to the very first hour, to zero seconds, to the birth day, just to make sure I can see him again."
-Isabella Lamberty, Love is a Very Wide Rooftop and Everyone is Unhappy
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Another update for everyone!
An "adult" in fandom spaces throwing a fit over someone's age and the fact that they're anti-harassment.
Interestingly, a quick scroll through their followers and following shows that a large portion of them are children.
Gives sexual predator.
Just like all antis.
That isn't all however! This person in question seems to have people who record and photograph themselves torturing cats and posting them on social media in their following!
We all know how twitter works, your followers and followings are based on things you interact with on the site. Which means this person partakes in this kind of disgusting and horrible shit!
They they think they're the good guy in this situation?
They get off to animals being tortured for fun for fuck sakes.
Antis will always be predatory monsters.
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everyone loves to talk big game about how they hate carceralism and punitive justice until it comes to the topic of sexual violence in which case half of the prison abolitionists will revert immediately to being constitutional literalists for the code of hammurabi without missing a beat--good thing that the accusation of sexual violence hasn't been historically leveraged against people of colour or gay people or trans women or anything or this capitulation to kneejerk reaction would be uhhh pretty bad!
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Lykoi the werewolf cat breed
So I’m not going to be arguing because I’ve seen enough from enough owners over the years to have reached this conclusion, and I’m not in well enough health to come back to this. But I’m seeing the lykoi breed get more attention around tumblr lately, and I’ve gotta speak up because the breed has a dirty little secret.
I joined the Lykoi Lovers group years ago because I loved this breed, they’re super cute! I love werewolves! However, over the years, as more people got these cats, and their cats aged up (3-5+yo is when skin issues become REALLY evident) the group turned into a horror show.
This mutation really reminds me of lemon frost in leopard geckos. In the geckos, it was the desirable appearance which CAUSED the cancerous tumors. It wasn’t something that could be bred out. Similarly, it is the werewolf appearance which causes the skin issues, cysts, pimples, bleeding in the cats. You can breed away from it... and end up with a normal looking cat with fewer skin issues. You cannot seem to keep the werewolf look AND have good skin.
More below, and it IS graphic so be warned. Pus, blood, sad cats under the cut.
Let’s start with "what to know before getting a Lykoi”
Okay, inevitably bumpy? What’s that mean exactly?
“The gene that is specific to Lykoi that creates the semi hairless and roaning look is thought to be responsible for less hair follicles and possibly smaller pores. This in turn could be responsible for the cyst/pimple issue. So, it's not going to be in Sphinx or any other breed, it's specific to Lykoi. Responsible breeders are currently working on breaking away from some of the older lines with bad skin and breed Lykoi that have no or less bumps. However what happens when you breed for more coat and better skin is that it seems to lessen the look of the Lykoi. Many of the heavier coated Lykoi without skin issues lack a mask or have a very slight one.“
^^^This is pretty damning as far as the future of the breed goes. Well bred ones will not look like werewolf cats.
Okay, but that’s just a couple cats, and just one cyst. That’s not so bad---
“They definitely bother me more than her.” You sure about that?? Look at her...
Okay but that’s just a FEW cats, how bad could it b--
Again, this issue typically appears after the cat is 3-5 years old, so people buy their little werewolf cats unwise to the fact it’ll live with painful skin problems for the majority of its life.
It is the very mutation which reduces follicle count and pore size which causes the werewolf appearance and the blackheads and cysts, so I think “breeding it out” is nothing but a pipe dream. The mutation itself is what causes the problems, as mentioned earlier just like lemon frost leopard geckos.
Anyway, this has been a PSA.
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