#enrichment in my enclosure

[whitewolfstracks]

So, I read up on zoochosis and basically learned that it's what I'm suffering from.

As a wolf therian trapped in my apartment because of joint issues, I'm really sensory deprived, restricted in socialisation and free roaming, and unable to engage in instinctive behaviours.

But that also means that enrichment is the solution, right? I'm gonna go put on forest videos with nature sounds and burn tree resin and shake some pillows with my teeth.

Hope that helps!

Curious if the "understimulated wild creature being kept as a pet" feeling is a common amongst other non humans

Specifically less of a "im an animal" type of way, and more of a "i might be dissociating" type of way

[joy-drops]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

Didn't feel like preparing lunches all week so I decided to pack Rations instead. Into the lunch box goes two blocks of cheese a summer sausage some apples some hearty brat buns and a Knife

Also some KitKats because this flavor sounded cool

[shitty-proendo-blackout-posts]

I HAve cOLORS!

[plumbogs]

2024 simblr goals

get more weird

make those men kiss

make those women kiss

make those men women

make them kiss

[rookthebird]

if your necromancer is digging that is NOT cute. they only exhume bodies when they're extremely stressed. a proper well-enriched necromancer is provided with enemies to kill and reanimate on a regular basis and will make their enemies claw out their own graves as a play behavior.

alternatively you might have a mad scientist that was sold as a necromancer. this is sadly very common but the two breeds actually have very different habitat requirements

[brw]

This is so funny to me, it's been a while since weird reductive statements were made towards me. Anyway loving the implication I've never had to fight or struggle for finding a community. In fact my struggles with finding disabled communities is exactly why Krakoa does not work for me on a personal level; Krakoa since inception is hostile to disabled people. Charles Xavier could not exist on Krakoa as a disabled person. Krakoa proves that disabled people will by and large be left behind and ignored at every stage. This would be an interesting plotline to explore, if any of the writers were disabled and were capable of saying Superpowered Ethnostates Are Probably A Bad Idea. It was a superpowered nation prioritising the most powerful people at the expense of those who weren't. It was founded by eugenicists. And writers have failed to explore this sufficiently which is why I have strangers vaguing me to imply that I have never lacked community. Have I entered the fucking shadow realm. Where am I? It's so cold. Have I entered a world where eugenics is fine and normal if minorities do them. In what world is opening up your comic in Jerusalem not inviting comparisons to Zionism. I feel absolutely insane.

[sing-you-fools]

now i just have to do the back 🫠

[poppyknitt]

hello fellow autismers. anyone else out here treating lucky charms like a treasure hunt and picking out the marshmallows before eating the rest or am i just a strange beast with weird arfid behaviors

[pomagranatespringandskulls]

Do i like drinking pomegranate juice as a offering to hades and persephone? Absolutely

But i also drink it out of a fancy goblet for myself because it makes me feel like a fancy vampire

Boom self care!

Enrichment in my enclosure!

Annnnnnnd

A devotional act!

Its the best!✨

[triflesandparsnips]

While I was busy writing one response, I realized this belonged in a whole separate post, so--

Y'all know we've got three separate illustrations of Blackbeard in the first season of OFMD, right?

You can see the tldr helpfully demonstrated in this three-panel remix comic from @asofterflag:

Figure 1. The three separate illustrations of Blackbeard seen so far, in chronological order from left to right. Also some text about sexy pirates.

Getting into the nitty-gritty: the first image is an extant depiction of Blackbeard with minimal editing (and is the one in Stede's book when he's talking to Frenchie):

Figures 2 and 3. Left: Blackbeard, as pictured by Benjamin Cole in the second edition of Charles Johnson's A General History of the Pyrates. Or so Wikipedia tells me. (Also, lol: six guns and a sword.) Right: Blackbeard, as shown opposite "Captain Kidd" in episode 3.

For reasons that I will expand on momentarily, I should also point out the following:

The background of the original image depicts three ships.

It moves too quickly to really clock, but we can be sure that at least one of the three ships is also depicted in the image that appears in the show-- you can see the mast touching Blackbeard's left sleeve, which is identically depicted in the original.

Keep this in mind.

The second image (what Stede shows Ed when they meet) is also based off an extant depiction of Blackbeard -- particularly in terms of the leg stance, trousers, bandolier, multiple weapons, smoking beard -- but there's been some hefty editing to get closer to what our Ed looks like:

Figures 4 and 5. Left: Blackbeard, as pictured by Joseph Nicholls in 1726/1736 in A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers. (Six or maybe seven guns. And a sword. And. A big stick.) Right: Blackbeard, as handed to Ed Teach in episode 4. (I count eight guns, plus a dagger, a sword, and Ed's bare right arm.)

Once again, I would like to point out the following:

The background of the original image only depicts one ship...

And the edited image, besides changing Blackbeard's appearance, has two.

So: Three. Two...

Again, keep this in mind.

But then we get to the third image. The one that Izzy rips out of a book and shoves at Ed, and that Ed then uses as a reference to fully embody his sad vampire clown image.

The third image? That fucker is completely original, and also very much our Ed.

Figure 6. Oh dang. Full Blackbeard. Fingerless gloves (hm), no guns, no knife -- just a sword and a skull.

And let me point out:

Only one ship now.

And. A lighthouse.

(This is Ed. Not the Kraken.)

But those ships, huh? Three. Two. One--

OH HEY remember how I said to keep some stuff in mind from earlier? YEAH.

So that first image of Blackbeard! The one with the matching ships in both it and the show version!

Let's go look at it more fully! In close up!

Figure 7. Oh hey look! Guess what's on fucking fire. Looks awfully familiar, where have I seen--

Figure 8. OH YEAH. IN THE PICTURE ABOVE STEDE'S BED. ONE OF ONLY TWO PIECES OF GODDAMN ART LEFT IN STEDE'S CABIN AFTER THE KRAKEN HAD IT PURGED.

YUP

JUST A SHIP

(ON FIRE)

AND A GOD DAMN LIGHTHOUSE.

[briandavidgilbert]

blocking porn bots is a tumblr minigame to me. it's like playing whack-a-mole

[joy-drops]

♡＼(◕▽◕)／♡

[marshmallow-fluffy]

Alright, @amphibianaday's Amphibuary, days 17 and 18! Decided to get a head start on learning pixel art for day 23, and I think he came out ok

And my mom's for the day!

[ineffablebookgirl]

Told one of my students yesterday he had to get up and write on the board because "you need some more enrichment in your enclosure" and another one of my students turned to look at me SO fast and gave me the briefest and most piercing of Looks and so now I'm 99% sure at least one of my students knows I'm on Tumblr.