#but that doesn't excuse endangering other people and animals!

[exrayspex]

finally put my foot down and told my parents I refuse to do anything with firefly outside the house/yard anymore.

she was attacked by another dog while on a walk years ago, and has been aggressive towards other dogs and sometimes people since. she's dangerous. my dad insists that it's fine bc "she's a good dog" and he "can just hold her back with her harness."

but what if he can't! she's yanked the leash so hard she crashed him to the ground and he hit his head so hard he was concussed! what if he can't hang on next time? what if I couldn't hang on if I was taking her to the vet or kennel for them? or if whoever else has her can't hang on? she dragged my mom down a hill once!

she's so dangerous, and it's just a matter of time before she manages to attack another dog or person. that person or dog will be hurt, and she will be euthanized for it so she can't do it again. i've told my parents this repeatedly, i've begged them and begged them to get a trainer and work with her.

but my dad didn't listen to the trainer they had a very brief consult with ages ago, and said that the trainer "didn't know anything that we don't already know." (lie!!) my mom is pretty sure it's bc the trainer was a woman and he is a misogynist who hates being told what to do, especially by women.

she's looked for dog trainers in the area who are men, since maybe he'd listen to them, but the only ones around either have been accused or charged with animal abuse, or are partners with those guys. so my mom has given up.

but god you can't just let her be that dangerous, and continue to walk her around the neighborhood and take her to the vet and the kennel like everything is fine when it's not! she NEEDS to be worked with extensively! you can't just give up!

anyway, they left for a road trip today and I had to drop her off at the kennel. she lunged and snarled at a little puppy that came in as she was being dropped off, and had to be held back more than once.

and i'm done. I've avoided taking her anywhere as much as I can without outright refusing to do it at all up until now, but now I'm outright refusing. I won't be the one to bring a dangerous dog places like that, even if it's just necessary places like the vet and kennel. The danger is obviously the worst thing, but it's embarrassing too. I told them I was done, and will be done, until they actually get a trainer and work with her until she's safe to take places. she may not be a bad dog, but the refusal to train her is terrible, dangerous, negligent dog ownership. Just not taking her places outside the neighborhood/vet/kennel isn't enough.

the worst part is I'm 99% sure they still won't do anything about it. I've been begging, and demanding, and pleading, and telling them her life and others could be at stake, and begging some more. for years. but he doesn't care and she won't accept that this is a MAKE HIM or LEAVE HIM type scenario. I've suggested rehoming her to people who will train her to be safe, too, but they're just offended by it.

it's so frustrating. there are dogs and people she's fine with, and dogs and people she wants to attack on sight. I think that gives them a false sense that it's fine, bc it isn't constant. but it's not fine! it's dangerous!

[dewdropsonparchment]

I promise I try, but... some characters I just can't be bothered to give a chance to... so here's a little rant. T.T

Lewis is such... a failure of a mayor. And a bad partner. The town is basically falling into ruin, the economy is absolutely crumbling, the townfolks can barely afford stuff so much so they have to sell their soul to Joja to survive and all he does is demanding more money to the ones that are fortunate enough to have a good job just so he... can build a shrine to himself? Oh and apparently he also shows the damages around town to those newcomers who are crazy enough to come live in Stardew in the hopes they'll do his job because he's too much of a coward to honor one responsibility properly. And why the hell do you want to hide this relationship with Marnie, who cares really... I'm sure he was the one throwing rocks at Linus' tent, too. And nobody does harm to Linus without paying the consequences.

Marnie is not the worst, but she really irks me. She's got that kind of manipulative way to speak to the farmer "oh you're such a nice person.......... could you do me this favor by the way?", she's never behind the freaking counter because apparently that plate in the microwave is way too interesting for her to provide to those who need to take care of the animals she supposedly loves so much. She also somehow seems like she has the animals do weird stuff? I'm not saying she's mistreating them but for somebody who loves them as much as she says she does she's got them do weird things. She strikes me as that woman who'd just have animals to take videos of them doing stupid stuff and lowkey problematic just so she can get validation on some platform. Oh and don't even get me started on how she addresses Shane. Not saying he's not wrong or that he isn't doing bad stuff, but hells, he'd be drowning with a hand reaching for her she'd just look at him and ask him why he isn't coming back up.

Clint. Well sadly we all know a Clint don't we? Creepy. Stalker-y. Doesn't try to get better in his life. Doesn't try to improve in any way. Blames his own issues on others (women). Doesn't know how to see women as human beings. He could be half decent if he actually grew into a person with a spine, but sadly all we get is him living in his own little twisted martyr fantasy world while complaining that he is miserable and Emily doesn't notice him. Do I need to say more really...

Pierre. O. M. G. I didn't get it. At least not right away, why people hated him this much. And now when I tell you that I want to drink his tears every day for breakfast for the rest of my life... Wednesdays, really? Alright, I can take this one (mostly). Being a misogynistic prick to your (supposed) daughter, nope, we're not doing that here. But also? That one thing that got me into a legit rant the other day....... making money out of the farmer's crops while taking full credit for it and selling his crappy stuff as theirs so that he can just look good and get the townfolk's money???? EXCUSE ME???? I didn't know that because I would just sell everything using the shipping bin but then that one time I restarted a game and my inventory was crying and so I noticed I could actually sell crops to him (I know don't judge me I'm still a SDV baby), so I did sell my stuff for space and immediate money... then the days after I would speak to the other characters and they would talk about buying absolutely awful crops from him that he got from me... while mentioning that they also bought produces from him that he grew in his back-garden (what back-garden YOU SPINELESS GREEDY MANIPULATIVE HALF-BORN BLOBFISH) that were absolutely delicious and that he was so talented and that the farmer had competition.......... after that of course I stopped selling stuff to him and those villagers' dialogues disappeared completely so I put two and two together. Imagine potentially endangering the reputation and livelihood of a newcomer just because you're a greedy piece of work. Fun time to have him boast about saving the best crops for the fair for weeks before losing to the farmer. I savored it don't worry.

All in all there are others I'm a bit mitigated about, Pam especially, but none feel as bad to me as those 4. Out of the general non datable NPCs I honestly appreciate most of them even if they definitely have their flaws. Do you have non-datable NPCs you really can't vibe with no matter how hard you try?

[warrior-cats-rewritten]

Hi, @bunnycat70, I don't accept messages from blogs with no age because I don't wish to be dm-ing with potential kids. Not saying you're a child, it's a blanket statement. Hence the 18+ at the top of the blog. Replies and asks are fine since 99% ofbthe time they're related to my posted content, messages not so much. Just my boundaries.

But Gray Wing has, many many times in canon, worried more about how people see his extremely dangerous, abusive brother, than the people said brother has hurt. This is enabling behavior. Along with trying to peacefully tall with him and reason with him. Clear Sky is a proto-dictator, you can't reason with those types. When Bumble is dying and it is very clearly Clear Sky's fault, all Gray can think about is that people are going to hate his brother. Not the woman bleeding out in front of him.

He is also horrible towards every female character he meets. They're either attractive and he wants them immediately, or if they aren't, they're ambitious and threatening despite everyone being logically on edge due to Clear Sky's threat. Clear Sky's "redemption arc" doesn't work due to his previous actions the writers of the next book forget or don't bother to remember or don't or are maybe having some kind of power trip fantasy, and Gray Wing's excusing of them means he is enabling Clear Sky to commit more atrocious acts. This cat slaughtered a mother with 2 kittens and literally left her body to rot for like... Weeks. He killed Bumble, who did nothing wrong, murdered Rainswept Flower for offending him (despite the next book trying to say "oh he wasn't in his right mind anyways remember this event that didn't happen?")

You don't get to make excuses for those peoplenbut not others just because you have connection with the first and foreigners are evil. You do not get to be possessive over the girlfriend you treated like shit before you started being attracted to for wanting to take shelter during winter and accuse her friend of "stealing" her when you pushed her away until all the prettier girls got fridged. You don't get to be eager to throw out a domestic abuse victim for being fat and 'too traumatized to be useful'. You do not tell a mother who just lost her child that "Maybe it's better only the strongest kits survive" when that baby's corpse IS STILL WARM and CLEARLY SUFFERED in his last moments. (All while Clear Sky kicks cats out for being "too weak", hmmmm). Later after his death he effectively says that cats can't change and rather than try and help and accept that they can change after their death, he takes the lovely excuse "Well you shouldn't be bad in the first place".

Fucking RICH coming from you, I bet your brother was really scared when he murdered countless cats, smacked, emotionally abused, and endangered children, and left "useless" cats out to die while piles of tiny animal corpses rotted in his camp. I bet he was totally terrified of cats starving to death while those tiny bones bleached in the sun.

And you know the writers still think this is a good thing, because they constantly claim he is full of "love and compassion" and actively pushed back his death because they like him so much.

So yeah, with all that in mind, Gray Wing is the very first villain protagonist for WCR, and he's a shitty cat in canon.

[vulturesrottencorpse]

i HATE people who let their cats out

not only is it terrible to let your pet out and risk it getting hit by a fucking car or getting killed by something else, it's also just bad..in general.

Your cat is going to kill so many native species because of preydrive. I'm from Australia for example and SO MANY of our small native mammals, replies and birds are endangered because they are being hunted by feral cats. They are ruining the balance of the ecosystem

If your cat isn't desexed it could breed with other cats, making feral cat babies that will probably die or grow up just to make more babies.

They carry and spread diseases to each other, other animals and humans.

They pose a risk to people of they are aggressive or someone could be extremely allergic.

"oh but Mr tibbles wants to go outside it's abuse to keep them inside" no the fuck it's not you want it outside so bad make a cat pen "oh but he doesn't kill anything" you don't know that. Do you see people letting their dogs outside all day or night? No obviously because they can be aggressive or kill things right? So can cats.

I remember a cat that got into our yard ti attack my pt birds (they were in cages but the cat didn't care) and my mum went out to try and get it out. Unfortunately it backed itself into a corner and even my GREAT DANE X BULL ARAB (who we don't own anymore but still see) didn't want to take it on. So my mum grabbed the cat by the scruff if it's neck to throw it over the fence because that's all we could do, but it turned and latched onto her arm. I just remember seeing the amount if blood pouring out from her arm, bleeding all over the floor as she rushed to the bathroom. Looked like someone had been MURDERED. she had to go to hospital for a while night in an ambulance to make sure she didn't get any diseases. I was traumatised, I had so many panic attacks over it because even though it ended up as just a tiny scar, I saw my mum, the person I love most, bleeding EVERYWHERE. I thought she was going to die. I'm traumatised from that sight.

All of that could have been avoided if someone didn't let their fucking cat outside. You can't have any actual valid excuse to be letting your cat out. If you are neglecting your cat, posing a risk to other people and animals, and contributing to the extinction of native species by letting it out, fuck you. I cannot stress this enough. It's actually disgusting that letting your cat outside is a normalised thing. It's not normal it shouldn't be normal. Keep your cat inside or don't have one at all.

[weaselbeaselpants]

A thing about r34 and sexualization discourse talk involving fictional, non real actors is, I think there's a difference between

making a smexy r34rd version of something because that;s just how the internet works. As Jenny Nicholsan put in her Brony doc: "some people don't know how to engage with a character without the lens of 'can I fuck it'?" So they turn their blorbo into a big dicked/big boobied pinup fetish thing. There is a real talk and criticism worth having in that subject alone- about making talking-but-feral animalmonster into sex bombs or the aged-up characters into sex objects thing. It's valid criticism and a talk worth having and, I feel, is worth calling out.

and then

person hyperfixates on making a particular character into something sexy...when it's not something that should be sexualized. Y'know?

To me that is the difference between r34 and pinup artists making teenaged characters into adults and loli/shota. One of them is taking the steps needed to make what they're doing NOT creepy for themselves-- the other is using a 'this is fictional, tho'-argument on literal cp or zoo shit.

Cuties' and KIDS' creators may not have intended to harm the children in their films that were about children sexualizing themselves --but that's what they did. They endangered and put these real kids in real sexual situations. And yes- we should be judging and calling that out regardless of the 'intent'. ---Loli/shota/zoo works differently. Even though no actual children or animals are harmed, it doesn't have the 'this is fiction, really don't think of it too much' excuse because what exactly is that fiction being used for?? Lots of anime have problem with oversexualizing their casts, but they don't exist souly for that or even want to do so intentionally when their fanbases do-- but p0rn is different. It is made for gratification, first. It is made because an adult wants these things to happen for their own pleasure. And yeah "no kinkshaming" shouldn't be applied when the 'kink' we're shaming isn't a kink but a fullblown paraphelia.

[rubbarband]

Desmond had enough of the suspicion, along with communicating with Kal-li about the whereabouts of the giant villain, he was pulled to thin being the mediator between them all.

"Relax all of you." Desmond placed himself between the two, Redwall was powerful, he was high ranked for a reason, and not one to be trifled with. Desmond was also trying to keep the peace between everyone.

"With all due respect you're not making things easier Red, I'll be sorry on my friend's behalves, you came out of M.T's portals, that doesn't happen unless it's allies of his, we're all operating on a lack of information. However; one correction, my friend wasn't gonna kill your tiger, that was a stun gun, it do nothing but knock them out; they're endangered here, we protect wildlife like that. Now, I'll be the first to throw my hat in and trust the newcomers." Desmond took off his mask, a sign here of Trust in others. "My name Is Desmond Baker, Friends call me Des. Please forgive my friends, this is stressful for us all, but also understand I will defend my friends to the death, my city and my home as well. Let's try to be congeal; I know what it's like to have people I throw my life on the line for." Des turned to his friends, who all smiled in return.

"Look at how she defends her friends, no villains would do that, sides...may I?" Desmond asked the blind girl if he could pet one of her tigers, letting the creature come to him if they wanted. "Remember Kaiser when we found those animals that were being experimented on, and we calmed that tiger with the scorpion tail? That was the maddest I gotten over villains, this team care for each other like we do, we shouldn't let our suspicions get he best of us, Violet was it? She's right, if they wanted to attack they'd do it when M.T was around- and he may be a giant coward but he boast about his allies, and look at them! Normal limbs, King's troupes look...off they have multiple limbs- like they hate their bodies, we have alot to learn and if there's other life out there- other HEROES like us. We should have each others backs. Please Red, Stone, Helen, Eliza." Desmond pleaded holding his hand out now to Violet.

"Let's crack some villain skulls together!" Desmond had a hard time not showing a open mind and a kind heart, he wanted to trust them, wholeheartedly.

Red stepped up. "Very well, on my Honor as a knight, I apologize, You make a persuasive argument Desmond." Red wouldn't shake any hands, not yet but he would bow before excusing himself. After his helmet beeped. "Unfortunately I am needed across town, another villain attack, please call me again if you find the whereabouts of Monsterous Tengu."

Eliza breathed a sigh of relief, With merrymaker placing a hand on her shoulders, she been so silent, she was almost like a jump scare. But she stood by Desmond's message, and secretly put a wall between the two they couldn't see anyway. She dust off her hat before Hugging Desmond from behind in a 'you did it!' fashion. Stone and Eliza joined her.

"Aw come on guys!" Desmond blushed getting coddled, not infront of the otherworlders.

Violet stepped closer to red. "First we are not kids, Second I only questioned you being a so called hero cause you assumed the worst in us even through we haven't done anything and you decide it's better to point a weapon at us before asking questions.....You saw us and assumed villain without any indication that we were, Not only did we help defeat the monsters that came with us, but we started talking and trying to figure stuff out and that made you assume we were up to no good? And you are right we would do anything to protect our home but that doesn't mean threatening people who just randomly showed up and assume the worst in them." Sigal walked up and grabbed her shoulder. "Ok I think we get the point Violet let's just calm down." "No I will not calm down I'm not going to stand here have my teammates get threatened and then be told off as if it was my fault." She pointed at Des. "Being a leader is also knowing when something your teammates had done was wrong and to talk to them and not just diffuse it again as if I did anything wrong by simply wondering where we were. You are all acting like I am just as in the wrong as he is when that couldn't be further from the truth." Sigal sighed he wasn't going to get anywhere with this and he knew it. Loden soon walked up to Violet. "Everyone is good. The tigers are a tad confused...but then again so is everyone." "Thanks loden." Violet said once more turning back to the hero's. "I'm not going anywhere till you admit you jumped the gun by assuming something with no evidence....Like I said I don't take threats lightly. You saw the tigers said they have wild animals and pointed a weapon at them with intent to kill....it had nothing to do with us being villains or not you saw and assumed the tigers were a threat when they just stood there." She crossed her arms. "i'm more then willing to forgive and start over, Cause i'm not dumb I understand the stress of what just happened. but being someone in position of a hero you have to be able to read the situation. And were you as great as you boast you are then nothing we could do would hurt you and any move we made you could have countered....but we never made a move." Violet stared directly between Des and Red waiting.

[rjalker]

You put hagrid on your list, is it because he raises dangerous animals? I want to understand

(Made with speech to text btw forgive typos)

It's because when he is first introduced, he maintains a child because the child's father insulted a man who isn't even in the room, and it literally wasn't even a grave insult. She has absolutely no idea that Dudley is a terrible person. He just attacks a child because the child's father insulted someone who isn't even in the room to be insulted. He attempted to turn Dudley into a pig. With a broken one. When his education ended when he was what, thirteen? That was 50 years ago? He does not succeed at turning Dudley into a pig, but he does succeed at mutating deadly spine into a pig's tail. And then Hagrid tells Harry, The Only Magical person and specifically a child who witnesses this, not to tell anyone.

So Harry doesn't tell anyone. Because he doesn't like Dudley, and he likes Hagrid, and he doesn't see anything wrong with this. So deadly now has to get part of his spine surgically fucking removed, when he didn't do fucking anything wrong in that scene at all, Hagrid literally just tried to fucking the kill him because his father insulted someone.

And I say he tried to kill him because he does not make any attempt to turn back his fucking tail, so I very highly doubt he would have attempted to turn him back from a pig.

The movies lie to you and say that Dudley was stealing Harry's cake and that's why I agreed did it. No. Dudley literally didn't do anything once Haggard got in the room. It was literally just that Vernon called Dumbledore a fool so Hagrid decides to fucking attack a child.

He's like, 60s in his 60s. And he is attacking a child with the intent to pretty much kill, torture and traumatize at the very least.

And this has never taken seriously or brought up ever again, because we're supposed to like Hagrid, even when he continues to do shit like this, endangering children, because he's coated as autistic so it's okay, he can't be expected to know any better, we shouldn't be angry with him it's just the way he is /sarcasm.

It's not just that Hagrid and dangerous literally every child and animal that gets near him. His first scene literally involved him attacking and maiming a child. Deadly is now permanently fucking injured from that encounter but it's never treated as a big fucking deal or brought up again. The dursleys had to go to a fucking back alley unofficial surgeon to get his tail removed. He had to have part of a spine surgically fucking removed. But it's okay, because we're supposed to like Hagrid.

I tried to reread the Harry Potter books a few years ago and literally threw the book across the room when this fucking see it happened because it's just so fucking casual and we're just supposed to think this is a good thing and I don't fucking understand how any adult can reread the fucking books and go oh yeah this is fine this is fun.

Hagrid literally knew nothing about Dudley. As far as he knew, Dudley and Harry were best fucking friends. But he is just decides that instead of attacking the adult who is the one insulting people, he's going to purposefully maim a fucking child and scar them for life.

But he's autistic coded, so it's okay. I'll just sick people don't know any better and you shouldn't ask them to not be horrible people /sarcasm

It also fucking ties into the general fucking fat-shaming surrounding Dudley and Vernon, because JK Rowling likes to fucking compared to a pig because he's fat and equates his being fat with him being an abusive asshole.

Like even if you ignore literally every single other horrible thing wrong with the books and with JK Rowling, how can people defend this fucking series when the fatphobia is so fucking blatant that JK Rowling literally once said that Dudley is wider than he is tall. How do you fucking people excuse that. What is wrong with you.

(You as in people who are still defending the Harry Potter series in 2021, not you asker)

When I'm on my laptop later I will link this to the post that this is referencing, it's where I talked about how allistic keep fucking making autistic coded characters and making them horrible people who endanger everyone around them but we're just supposed to accept that and never criticize them or call them out because they're autistic and these people are infantilizing autistic people to be incapable of learning and incapable of basic human fucking decency and I'm going to kill the next person who does it. Other prominent examples include entrapped up from She-Ra, and the blue ranger from That Power Rangers movie. Entrapta literally signs up with genocide of fascists who are murdering people and destroying the planet because she likes the shiny say it's toys and she literally gives 0 sheets about literally anyone but herself and we're just supposed to think this is quirky and cute and that the problem is that she's bad at making friends, not that she willingly signed up with the genocide of faces and helped him fucking commit genocide. The Blue Ranger was fucking carrying around explosives and almost got everybody killed because he was setting off fucking explosives and this is never fucking address and it's just pissing me off so fucking much.

[spirit-of-vengeance]

@spxcemuses @mr-mansnoozie @xxstar-bluesxx

Guess who gathered enough mind to finally write her full backstory of Western Verse. Her being a bounty hunter is set in the Wild West time period (1865-1895), there is no current year(s) to set her story in mainly because I don't want to make a mistake messing up the timeline.

Calm before the storm

Her father, Attila a lesser Hungarian noble whom supported the 1848-1849 revolutionary war but after the failure of it he escaped emigrated to America to avoid the Habsburg revenge, soon followed by his brother Gábor. He could save a small amount of his fortune along with his two most important horses: a purebred Lipizzan stallion and an extremely rare Akhal Teke mare. He had settled near a small town, due to his financial situation and education as a noble he established a school with the support and approval of the local church. To quieten his guilt for abandoning his country in its peril, he poured all of his heart into educating children; at least he is still useful in some way.

One day, a group of artists traveling artists, acrobats traveled through the town and the aristocrat fell in love at first sight. She was like the queen of fairy from the folk tales he'd heard in his childhood, she was tall, blue eyes sparkled like light sapphire, long golden brown hair floated ethereally with every twirl. The smitten lord shamelessly courted the the graceful acrobat, determined to know at least the name.

The group had stayed in the town for a few weeks, allowing Attila's and Myra's romance to blossom; after a month she ended up staying with him, just like in true fairytales.

My obsession with angst backstory strikes again

The lord was in love, deeper than poets could express it. Since the loss of his home and country he had found his place in the universe along with the perfect companion by his side. He paid less attention to the school, the church and other public affairs; it wasn't like he abandoned them but became more withdrawn to spend time with the love of his life, especially after the birth of their daughter. She was almost the perfect miniature of her mother, same beautiful hair glinting gold in the sunlight, only her eyes were the brightest emerald green he'd ever seen.

While Myra's heart and aura was as pure as a fairy's; the local church was beyond distressed. They claimed that Attila had completely abandoned helping those in need because of her wicked seduction. When they witnessed her performing for the amusement of the crowd, the 'temptress witch' brand couldn't be lifted. They gathered a few enthusiastic townsfolk whom shared their views and a few morally questionable men whom only wanted a piece of the lord's fortune.

10 year old Karma was awakened from her deep slumber by her frantic father; smoke and yelling blinding her senses as he carried her out of the burning house into the nearby forest so the mob won't find her. He promised her he will be back but he had to return into their home for Myra; he couldn't leave her inside. Karma watched her dad disappear into the flames, the air filled with suffocating smoke and religious shouts for god to smite the sinners. She couldn't tear her eyes away from the spot where her father was gone, waiting for her parents to stumble out of the half collapsed building; but that never had happened. She sat unmoving from her spot, struck staring into the flames then into the ashes as the sun has risen.

Birth of the marksman

Attila's brother, Gábor arrived the next day after hearing the news, he was the one whom found Karma still staring at the ruins in a catatonic state. He couldn't avenge his sibling as it meant endangering his niece and she has lost more than enough.

Gábor expected her to become a soft spoken, reserved lady once she overcame her trauma; that theory was soon abandoned when once he had awoken to his niece practicing with his rifle outside with frighteningly great accuracy. The young girl naturally had an extraordinary aim and after a few long talks, he'd seen the determination burning in her to avenge the murder of her parents. Given by her mother's dance lessons, she was also flexible and capable of many different acrobatic moves; this combined with her aim proven to be a very dangerous combination.

To not awaken suspicion he told his friends Karma was an orphan whose parents were killed by bandits and he had adopted her to give her a family and education. Karma was fascinated chasing greater heights of her skills, this involved reading every possible book about anatomy, marking, engraving the useful spots of the body. Karma knows where to shoot to disarm, to cause a slow death, to paralyze, to disable for life and when it is only a warning: an injury which will heal with time. Along with her accuracy, her drawing speed only can be compared to lightning. Although she prefers/most comfortable with her dual revolvers (model undecided yet), she is still a menace with shotguns, rifles, flintlocks and even bows due to Gàbor's 'A Hungarian is not a Hungarian if they can't use a bow' mindset.

The bounty hunter quicker than death

Karma had her first official gunfight at the age of 18 on the auction. for Vihar (Storm), the filly of her father's horses.

Detailed post about Vihar

She officially entered the bounty hunter business when she was 20 and Vihar was 2, aiming for the most dangerous criminals whom committed the worst acts possible. In her early years after the kill she slit open corpses she trying to find the bullet, surverying the damage it caused and adding filler information to her anatomy knowledge. Of course she didn’t bother burying the bodies, she knew as a woman she has to be extremely vicious above talented to be hired and mutilated dead bodies did send a great message & served as cement for building her reputation. The name Karma wasn't entirely her idea, many thankful family members claimed that karma has came for their loved ones' murderers. Her talent spread like wildfire among the men of law, glad to be rid of the dangerous scum; with careful planning, use of environment and Vihar as backup she had wiped out gangs, not solely focused on individuals.

Unfortunately her reputation summoned an unofficial grand price on her head as well in certain circles; they had tracked her back to her uncle's house. The battle claimed Gábor's life and nearly her sight as her right eye was almost slashed out. The new loss opened old wounds: her not being able to protect her loved ones. She couldn't look into a mirror, the scar a reminder how despite all years of training she wasn't untouchable; after burying her uncle plan to gain control over her psyche already formed.

She took a knife and carefully carved four half circles around her eye to form a crosshair with her pupil being the middle of it. She made sure she kept the wounds open for enough time to scar as visibly as the vertical cut; she wanted a symbol to add to her legend. Excuse my pathetic excuse of an edit, I'm not good in this, nor I can draw.

Now Karma is 25, Vihar is 6, both of them in their peak physical prime; the name Vihar is also symbolic a little, Karma is the lightning to her horse. She is dancing on the thin edge of bounty hunting and being an outlaw as she often takes...side jobs to help people who deserve it and usually that person doesn't have a bounty on their head, therefore it is technically murder.

Local antisocial feral monk & cocky gunslinger feral lady / addition of the AU with the amazing @mr-mansnoozie

Near her uncle's house, Karma had discovered a cave and a grumpy mute monk living in it along with his pet bear. The monk, Sandy eventually became a second uncle to the traumatized angry orphan, he taught her how to move & creep upon someone soundlessly, disappear without a trace, cover her stances and behavior patterns of various animals. Before and after returning from a job she always visits her uncle of choice for a chat; a silent way to prepare him to the possibility of her not coming back. But she always do. She considers Sandy as part of her tiny family, although his...copying mechanisms with his own traumas were a bit strange to get used to; she adapted quite fast, after all who is she to judge with a past like that?

I'm a dead man walking, Hell's at my door.

aka collection of small headcanons

🎯 Her dual revolvers are called Salvation and Damnation because she's dramatic

🎯 Karma has a small sketchbook filled with anatomy drawings for further practice.

🎯 She actually can sing, but rarely does, only to Vihar since she never received positive feedback on it. Her voice is gritty, rugged and deep; definitely not the usual and desired sounding from a woman.

🎯 If her target was an outstandingly cruel bastard and/or one of those whom killed her parents she uses a little psychological torture. After fatally wounding them she starts whistling (for the most terrifying experience wear headphones & close your eyes while listening) as they try to crawl away or beg for mercy. The first time the whistle gets shrill & more intense is when she lazily reloads, knowing she has both the time and the upper hand. The second pace shift is when she aims; she shoots during the last, long drawn out high note.

🎯 This is her only verse where Cindy is afraid, no terrified of fire; during her....26 AU's she's always been associated with fire despite dying in or being wounded by it. In this verse she is more tied to lightning, the scent of smoke is enough to send her into a silent panic attack and despite loathing the cold she will never sit close to the fireplace. Her other deep fears include injuring her hands & sight and losing Vihar. Her horse is the only remaining family member of hers, she can't fail her too.

🎯 Most of Karma's scars, injuries are a result of her standing between Vihar and a knife/bullet/ even a bullwhip when a criminal was smart enough to catch on their deep emotional bond.

🎯 She has recurring night terrors about the night her parents died, she always wakes up in cold sweat; she's sort of used to them. Though, sometimes she still cries but thankfully Vihar is there to comfort her.

🎯 Karma has a special morning stretch routine to keep her flexibility and warm up her hands & keep them steady and fast.

🎯 Due to her dad and uncle she received high quality education

🎯 For the untrained eye, the belt of her hat are simple crosses while in reality, they are inverted crosses to symbolize her stance with Christianity

🎯 Karma's middle name is Emerald, given by her father due to her eye color.

🎯 Karma was first inspired by League of Legends Miss Fortune because that name alone is great but unfortunately she is too pirate coded for a western so I abandoned the relation. Though when Karma is not being the 'Call me a slow reader but I only made it to the Dead part, the or Alive didn't register.' ; her personality is similar to hers.

🎯 Due to her dad, Karma is actually half aristocrat. Not like she cares about it the slightest; the only indication of noble blood is her idle stance. It is an unconscious mirror of how her father used to hold himself: back straightened to almost impossible point, left arm behind it, right hand resting on the grip of in her case, revolver instead of hilt of a sword.

🎯 If given the chance to live a normal life, she would've grown into a captivating, lively young woman, much like her mother but with the aristocrat elegance of her father; finding a suitor who lives up to her parents' and her standards would've been the challenge of the century.

🎯 Her special move is called Dance of Death. This is used as last resort when she's facing more opponents up to 12, as with her dual revolvers she has 12 bullets without reloading. She mentally marks the stances of all opponents, predicts their movement, firing order and possible way of their bullets before whirling out of her hiding place. Each pose minimizes the chance of getting shot, and with each change of movement two bullets are fired, two men drop dead.

🎯 Her accuracy isn't just 'gun goes boom >:D' but a combination of natural talent, endless practice, movement prediction, sharp, quick thinking & analytical skills and different techniques molten together to utilize them all at once

🎯 Her hair is now as long as her mother's, she always keeps it in a single tight braid to keep it out of the way; without her hat and hair down she actually loses some of her dangerous edge.

🎯 The only physical memory Karma has of her parents is her dad's hussar sword she found underneath the ruins of the house, it was protected by a very thick wooden box & a lock of her mother's hair is tied to the grip. She has hidden it in the nearby forest, her thoughts often wander to it along with the wish to wield it.

[god-will-have-to-kill-me]

What is sustainable about the population in Gaza? They are starving, their entire infrastructure has been obliterated, entire families have been wiped out, the physical effects of Israels genocide will take decades to fully recover from.

What I'm saying is, there isn't some magic number or some population trend that needs to happen for what Israel is doing to be considered a genocide. Even if there was, it does not excuse the deaths of 40,000 Palestinians in gaza since October 7th. It doesn't excuse the illegal Israeli settlers abusing and harassing Palestinians in the west Bank. It doesn't invalidate the clear genocidal intent Israel has demonstrated again and again and again.

"I don't care about that it's not what we're talking about"

There you have it, evidence that you genuinely don't understand population science, population charts, the importance of precision and accuracy in any scientific field. Heck even non-scientific fields value it more than you do. If you don't see how counting settlers among Palestinians is a crucial flaw in determining the growth rate of Palestinians then there is absolutely no ground for you to stand on when attempting to lecture others on "linking fact and reality" and calling people who do understand it "fucking stupid". It's like when people point at China and say they're to blame for carbon emissions without wanting to acknowledge that many countries outsourced their manufacturing for most things to China.

You're so self-centred that you don't even acknowledge your own bias, you don't even want to consider your own confirmation bias. Which you clearly have no concept of given your statement on giant pandas, a creature that has such charismatic bias worldwide that its the usually the first animal people think of when endangered animals are mentioned. But that's another lecture for another blog.

[soulweaverspirit]

"My what?"

"Your mask. Where is your mask?" I ask a second time.

She doesn't even falter before responding. "Oops, I left it downstairs." And then she starts to walk away.

This isn't the first time I've heard this excuse. This isn't even the tenth time. It's endless. A society of always forgetting. Fuck that.

"Oh. Wow. That's incredible. You've cracked the fucking code!" I shout at her retreating form. She stops but doesn't totally turn to face me again. "You've found the way to stop COVID! All this time, there's hundreds of thousands of deaths, but all it took was a simple case of momentary amnesia!! I'm so proud of you."

Her shoulders are tight and I can see the white pool in her fingers as she grips her room keys. Keys that don't even go to this building, where she's but a guest of the night.

There's a moment where I could end this. I could carry on as if I didn't see the fresh soil on all the graveyards. I could wash my hands of this occurrence as the doctors wash their hands raw while dealing with entirely too many corpses. I cannot step away though.

"The funny thing about you 'forgetting your mask downstairs' is that it's literally just downstairs," I start ranting, my heart racing as it finally has an outlet for the rage built up over two years, "You could go back downstairs and get it. Right now. At this moment. You could have looked at the shiny reflective metal of the elevator and seen your face and known. But you didn't. Because you have never cared at all about anything except yourself. That's not even true because if you cared about yourself then you'd be wearing a mask. Instead you fling yourself around the halls of a building where I KNOW at least three people have COVID at this moment. You walk into the elevator with no mask, exposing yourself and infecting yourself, then you walk out of the elevator once again with no mask and once again exposing and infecting, and then you walk the halls. And the whole time you could have put on a mask. You could have gone back downstairs. You could have gone to your car. You could have gone to your room. You could have done dozens of other things but instead you chose to ignore the hundreds of thousands of dead humans and the millions more who now live with chronic long-term issues. And for what? To show off your alcohol coated teeth? To spit on the floor with no barrier? To bite the flesh off someone? You're a fucking self centered animal and I mean that in the cruelest sense of the world. I hope you remember your mask next time, for both our sakes."

And I walk away, shutting my door and those thoughts. I don't care if she reports me to my boss. I don't care if I lose my job and school and friends. I don't care anymore about stupid and selfish people who think they're immune. They can all go die in a ditch since they love being so reckless and endangering others. If I had more patience then I would kill them myself.

[irawhiti]

look. it's been shown time and time again that shockingly, removing the apex predator of a region causes major ecological issues the entire way down. it's well known at this point that the northern side of the fence (the side the dingoes are on) has much healthier vegetation, wider ecological diversity, and healthier native animals in general due to a lack of sickly animals breeding, overgrazing, and destroying habitat that endangered species require when they'd otherwise be killed off.

we've seen the results of removing an apex predator of a region with yellowstone; as soon as wolves were returned to the area (much to the outrage of many ignorant people) there was a cascade of positive effects to the ecosystem, many of which were completely unforeseen. the dingo fence is a similar case on a much larger scale; the fence is one of the largest structures in the world, reaching 5,614 kilometres (3,488 miles). it used to reach over 8,000 kilometres but was shortened as a "compromise" to allow the continued use of poison bait.

the entire reason for the fence - to keep sheep safe and allow larger flocks - has been proven to not even work! the large unchecked population of kangaroos and other grazers compete for resources with sheep and cause reduced stocking availability! feral rabbits, cats, and foxes are destroying the ecosystem with nothing to keep them in check! invasive feral dogs are beginning to overtake the niche the dingo would fill and are now hunting livestock!

it doesn't even stop dingoes from existing on the other side of the fence. dingoes are found fairly commonly where they ""shouldn't be"" and the fence is used as an excuse to shoot on sight. there are holes in the fence and this has been known for at least 30 years but that doesn't stop people from considering the fence an "icon" of australia, considering it an important part of australian history, and suggesting $200 dingo bounties.

there's also an extremely blatant racial aspect to the extermination and exclusion of dingoes that i feel unqualified to comment on in detail, but Aboriginal people have been saying for decades (if not centuries at this point) that there is a direct and obvious link to the extermination of the dingo and the destruction of Aboriginal life, people, land, and culture. i invite any Aboriginal people who want to go into more detail about this to reply to my post since this topic is moot if we ignore the racial aspects of exterminating the dingo and unfortunately this is commonly glanced over if it's even brought up at all.

instead of arguing fruitlessly over whether or not dingoes deserve to be shot for potentially not being "purebred" (the issues with this line of thinking aside, most dingoes are not crossed with feral dogs regardless of their appearance and this is KNOWN. shooting a dingo from far away because it looks a bit darker or fluffier than expected is not the answer and the shooters know damn well it's not) or whether they've been part of the australian ecosystem for long enough to deserve to not be mass exterminated (oh come the fuck on), how about we take a quick look at the dramatic and concerning difference in the health of the ecosystem where dingoes have been largely exterminated?

and it's frustrating. everyone talks about how we've learned from the thylacine, but have we? and who's "we" exactly? Aboriginal people sure as fuck aren't at fault here. the thylacine was exterminated to protect the white man's livestock. dingoes have been largely exterminated to protect the white man's livestock. we are still actively exterminating this species to protect some fucking livestock! and for what? the fence fails in its single purpose! livestock are being hunted by feral dogs and being outcompeted by the massive amounts of unchecked grazers! this is directly caused by the dingo fence!

if you really want to learn from the "mistake" (read: deliberate extermination) of the extinction of the thylacine, i'd suggest you look into the ecological damage done by the dingo fence. look into the ideology surrounding this line of thinking and how it affects human life and traditional land being stolen. look into the damage that mass poison-baiting to target dingoes does to the entirety of the ecosystem, how it's still widely practiced, and how often other animals are accidentally killed off by this practice!

get angry at the fact that people are way more interested in discussing what "percentage" a dingo can be before it can be legally and morally shot on sight than they are discussing the damage caused by fencing off the only remaining apex predator in the continent from a large portion of the land, purely for some farmers to keep sheep! get angry that this has happened before and will continue to happen unless we do something about it!

burn down the ideology surrounding exterminating animals for human benefit, burn down the system keeping Aboriginal people off of their rightful unceded land so that people can farm some fucking sheep, and burn down the fucking dingo fence.

i really hope to see the day when the stupid fucking dingo fence gets ripped down and i'm not even remotely joking. i fucking hate that fence for so many reasons and it's utterly fucking confounding to me that people still argue that the fence is at all necessary

[morlock-holmes]

I'm really fascinated by the way "Animals have individual rights and it is not moral to treat them the way you would an inanimate resource." Just... doesn't even register to people.

Like, not that they consider and reject it, but rather, it's so unfathomable that people can't even conceptualize it well enough to explain why they reject it or even imagine someone agreeing with it.

Imagine I said, "Yes, I have killed and eaten several human beings. The ritual killing and eating of human beings is a fundamental part of the rural Texas culture I come from, and is a vital part of how we feed ourselves during tough times. The humans that I kill lead lives that are far more fulfilling then those of factory farmed animals, and, despite what some environmentalists might imply, humans are not an endangered species. We are sure to kill and eat them in an environmentally sustainable way that doesn't lower the population."

No sane person would buy any of that as a valid excuse for recurrent, ritualized cannibalism.

This is because individual humans are understood to have a moral value which is independent of both their use value and the moral value of humanity as a whole.

The argument of vegetarians and activists in this arena is that at least each individual whale, and potentially all individual animals, also have individual moral worth, and that we have moral obligation to individual whales, not merely to the species.

If that's true, if we have moral obligations to individual whales, everything up there about "culture" and "sustainability" is completely and utterly irrelevant and beside the point.

And, if you can demonstrate or assert that it's not true, that individual whales do not deserve any moral consideration, then you've kind of already won the battle and the other stuff is a lot less relevant.

Re-Blog to support Native hunting rights and fight against individuals who don’t understand our Indigenous cultures. 

[shoujoboy-restart]

Someone said this a appeal to nature fallacy, which it is, but they basically agreed with it by going "racism is a natural instinct, but it doesn't mean it applies to modern days" basically still confirming the argument, which is all this is about for trade at he end of the day.

we must also remember tradcons and far-righters don't argue "nature is always good" just that it's the way it works, centipede hatchlings eat their mother alive to develop essential gut bacteria and the mother eats her eggs if she feel like it, a Trad, if logical, would argue that's not something good, but they could argue sins centipedes aren't endangered, then how bad really is it?

racism is a form bigotry empowered by 18th pseudoscientific beliefs developed to provide morals justification slavery and imperialism in a world that was becoming "modernized", i also must remind everyone, the first actual justification for slavery of African within north America WASN'T race, color or ethinicity, the very first generation of slaves were justified by religion, and it changed because they realized shortly after that the slaves being breed would have the right to convert, so then it became about race.

I say this because it's wasn't a certain social construct being viewed as part of nature that started slavery but another one made up immediately out of convenience, that was emboldened because the last one, by it's own perpetrators, admitted it lacked logical reasoning even for their own gains, so they came with another: how natural is something that not only isn't the first choice or instinct, but that is specifically noticed or made because something else also excused as natural was not convinient enough, that, if you ask me, isn't "natural instinct", it's rationalization and convinience, the centipede mother let's itself be eaten for the sake of it's babies or eats them because it not ready or it's not the best time, it's does fucking ride a Subaru to the hospital and schedules a fucking fecal transplant (real thing by the way) to aid it's babies to aid the bacteria in their gut, racism is the fecal transplant of history, is a conivente excuse.

And tradcons seem to obfuscate racism with discrimination.

Discrimination is in it's truest form without human corruption the act of differentiating this from that, is how animals learn brightly colored and pattern covered animals are poisonous and we learn how to differentiate mushrooms, and plants in the same family as edible or harmful, discrimination is the process of dmfind what benefits you and what doesn't from personal experience or outside opinions.

Racism, on the other hand, isn't, as explained, is the result of a pseudoscience used to convince people other humans should she treated as lesser based on excuses of appearance and costumes, not that those were dangerous or caused harm to anyone any different than the one any other European or Caucasian people haven't done before.

Discrimination is the act of learning something is dangerous, harmful or simple doesn't pocess at benefits to you, and stepping away from it.

Racism is the act of discovering different groups inside your own kind, in some cases MILES AND NILES AWAY FROM YOU IN REMOTE ISLANDS and deciding you want to exploit and abuse them but needs to brainwash yourself that they had it coming and bring conflict and chaos in ways completely unusual to their society for personal profit.

One is natural, the other fabricated out of convinience to exploit and have profits.

We must also ask: how come humans could differentiate, bears, lions, snakes, vultures, bulls, hogs and muktoek other predators and dangerous animals and know each and every one them had their own characteristics and knowing the uniqueness of different species within the same family of animals...but everyone is just a N****r, it's all the same? weird, when Britain started to colonize the Irish, their dehumanization of them wasn't unique at all from the one of the African, in fact they were both portrayed as evolutionary failures from monkeys, that blacks and Irish had the same value, compared their features as being the same and so on...ummm...almost as if there wasn't that much natural instincts to hate the Irish, almost as if they just wanted another group to exploit and make cheap labour from, and know that racism was so ingrained in the mind if the public they could just claim the Irish were equal to bucks from head to toe and that would be enough to convince and wash away the sympathy of skin color, and still provide enough convinient excuses as to why even someone of the same skin color as you can still not be human enough to be afforded rights.

TL:DR: racism isn't natural, it's just a convinient excuse to exploit people and it wasn't even the first one to be used just the one that worked the best and had the most profitable results.

everyone needs to stop telling rich white women to stay safe by "trusting [their] gut" bc now theyre just attacking minorities

[littlealeta]

He's a baby for his attitude, not his trauma and autism. They are not excuses for his horrible attitude.

I'm not expecting Morty to forgive him but the way he treats Rick and everyone else doesn't make him much better. He argued with his family for pointing out how illegal and creepy it is for him to whore off to a 30 year old woman, he bullied Rick into creating a rewind power just so that he can commit immoral acts, he caused a snake infested planet by endangering himself in space when space clearly has radioactive chemicals, he committed genocide just to get with Jessica TWICE, he turned himself into an old fart just to manipulate an abusive douchebag back into his life, he vandalized Rick's garage with a stranger all because he was mad at Rick for replacing his ungrateful ass, he manipulated Rick into not shooting his clearly monstrous child, he lied to Rick repeatedly just to get a sex doll, he lashed out at Rick because Rick needed something to protect himself with, he manipulated Rick into buying him a dangerous animal, he continuously pestered Rick over the whole acid thing even AFTER it was dropped, and tried to keep Rick in his teenage body while he was dying just so that he can allegedly get with Jessica.

It's not just Rick but Morty needs a character arc too, where he can learn to start caring for people even if they're not being nice to him, STOP endangering yourself, endangering other people, and commuting immoral acts for your own selfish benefit! Hopefully Rick will learn to be kinder to others and hopefully his family will come to appreciate him and treat him and themselves better. Or maybe they instead might disallow him from coming into their house again.

But all I'm saying is you can refuse to forgive somebody's actions while still treating them with kindness.

r&m 🔥

i DONT like birdperson, hes a CREEP for marrying tammy under the impression that shes a highschooler, and i keep seeing concepts involving him that would be INFINITELY more interesting if they were explored via rick and diane

also since im already here i need to rant about the (FOR SOME REASON POPULAR) take that rick is childlike and needs to be healed with the power of love LMAO. hes 70 years old hes not a baby for being autistic and traumatized (nor is it childlike for him to eat wafers or get carried away with the gotron thing.. lol). its honestly disturbing to think about rick having a redemption arc that depends on mortys forgiveness. that kid was ABUSED into staying ricks sidekick after every awful thing thats happened to him