#has a cow named lulu

[snnynaturalarch]

she'd name him potato

[hmshermitcraft]

Etho doesnt mean to get pets. He had a dog in childhood that in hindsight was definitely just a fox his dad brought home and kept. he loved the dog a lot don't get him wrong but he didn't want another pet because nothing could live up to sidekit.

However. His house is full of pets. It started with cats. A cat started to hang around and eating Etho's trash, so he started to put out a little food and water for it. He named her Brad, he thought she was a boy. Then she had kittens under his porch and suddenly his one cat was 8 cats. He lets them inside when it's cold and they ask but he lives on a farm with lots of vermin to eat and places to explore so they prefer to stay outside.

Then came a dog. a young pitbull with scars Etho recognized as bite marks. Poor thing probably escaped from one of those dog fighting rings. He named her Dunkin and let her lay on him in bed to sleep. After Dunkin came Shadow, a black dog of unknown breed who Etho keeps tripping over because he's so quiet. Then a pair of huskies started howling at his cows so he trained them to chillax even a little bit. He calls them Left and Right since they have one blue eye each, one on the left and one on the right. Left and Right were NOT spayed or neutered, so now he has Left, Right, Up, Down, and Sideways to wake him up every morning. He got them fixed before any more shenaniganary could take place.

Then Bdubs moved in and bought his two horses, Lulu and Mi Amoré who were staying at his parent's farm while Bdubs stayed in an apartment.

Then Bdubs adopted a macaw from an ailing friend, and then rescued an albino hognose someone dumped while coming home with the bird. that was a surprise. "Hi honey meet bird and snake." Yeah.

Bdubs loves it, the domestic farm and the garden are his safe haven. They go riding on the horses through the woods with all the dogs often and sometimes they'll even take Bird once they got her a harness. The cats live mostly in the little barn but they come in the house at their leisure to say hello often enough.

So no, he never wanted pets, and he didn't plan his family, but he's happy with them all. Especially Bdubs.

-s (based loosely on my dad and aunt who keeps obtaining critters on accident)

Bdubs enjoys telling people about how his lovely Etho has adopted or otherwise cares for so many animals! Critters just seem attracted to him.

Etho often snorts, and adds, "Including Bdubs." Which leads to several minutes of loud Bdubs noises before they start giggling together.

[rakija-farmer]

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Hey y’all’s. Welcome to my blog. I’m here for a good time, not nothing crazy. Married to Alex on Spring 20/2024. I’m the very clear favorite of Evelyn and George. I got a dog named Lulu and a very successful farm. I love my cows, chickens, and Goat very much. They are my babies.

If y’all’s want any tips for the farm let me know, I can provide. My grandads Dedo’s old book has some real useful tips in it. Just send me an ask? That’s what Emily told me lets people submit questions. She helped me set the blog up and explained it to me.

Also: properly fuck Joja mart. That company is TERRIBLE.

[shoutnspout]

The Loving Critters

Smiling Critters Spin Offs The Loving Critters 1.Cherry Berry The Fox. She's A red fox with an amulet in the shape of two cherries. She Gives off a cherry smell that really relaxes adults but makes kids hyperactivate somehow. She's the leader of the loving critters calming them down when they start to fight. Recommended to be sold to adults. 2.Bark Bark The Robot Fox. The robotic sister of Cherry Berry She Has A Amulet In the shape of a gear. She gives Off a rain smell that makes people feel cozy. She helps her sister when her sister is feeling depressed. Note The rain smell is a cool idea and the fact she shots small disks out of her back is cool as well but Little kids keep trying to eat the disks maybe change them to candy.

Butter The Butterfly. She's A bright green Butterfly with an amulet in the shape of a brown leaf. She gives off an pumpkin spice smell That makes people crave pumpkin spice coffee. She's the dorky but lovable member of the group who loves everyone even if they don't return her affection. Note: she's cute but kids have broken her before. 4.Mike Nike The Dog. He has an amulet in the shape of a piece of candy. He gives off a cotton candy smell that hypes people up for some reason. His the member that hypes up the rest of the loving critters with peep talks. note he has a name to close to the candy company change the name or spell it different. 5.Belle Belle the cow. She's a white and black cow with an amulet in the shape of a cookie. She gives off a cookie smell that wakes people up in the morning. She's the shy but caring one of the loving critters she always lifts the others up when their feeling sad. Note DO NOT LEAVE ALONE WITH SMALL KIDS THEY WILL CHOKE ON THE FAKE COOKIE. 6.Katy Kitty The Cat. She's An All white cat with an amulet in the shape of a cat's face. She gives off the smell a watermelon of all things that helps people eat during lunch. She the cuddly member of the loving critters who cuddles with the others to help them fall asleep. Note She's Cute To Cute It makes the kids try to take her instead of leaving her in the test room. 7.Bobby Moby The Otter. His a tan otter that has an amulet in the shape of a shooting star. He gives off an ocean smell that makes people enjoy the day. His the level headed member of the loving critters who keeps his composure even when his annoyed or angry. Note his to stretchy. 8.Lulu The lemur. She's an red stripe black lemur with an amulet in the shape of a ruby. She gives off a popcorn smell that helps people focus on things they're working on. She's Very bubbly and happy but this sometimes annoys the other loving critters expect Cherry Berry who loves that about her. note I think I'm gonna to keep her :b.

[mrmikeyd-blog]

Hightower jumped

Recently, there was a fire at the largest multi-story apartment building in Florence, Alabama. It was on the 4th floor. One person died and one was seriously injured. The reason given was someone was smoking a cigarette too close to an auction tank and it exploded.

It was the largest thing that I can remember happening to the building since Hightower jumped. And he DID jump, or fell but contrary to whatever Lulu was telling at the time; I did not push him. Well, not that I remember. I have to admit though, things were kind of hazy that night. Let's get this story started.

Around 1982, Lucille Lowery moved to the top floor, the 14th, of Courtview Towers. It was new, maybe 3 years old then and was considered THE cosmopolitan place to live. The ONLY high rise in Florence! At the time I was making good money managing my daddy's rental and real estate business so I moved on the 12th floor. We were the queer version of the Jeffersons(Me) "Beans don't burn in the skillet" and Green Acres(Lucille) "I just adore a penthouse view". Of course, Lucille was on the top floor and considered socially over me but I viewed the east and her the west. I got sunrise, she got sunset. I overlooked the river and Wilson Dam so it was considered that I had the better view. My mother was impressed and went out and bought me new living room furniture and I had found a king-size platform waterbed. I was all set.

The queens were impressed. Sybil started coming by immediately after I moved in and even introduced me to one of her trashiest boyfriends, Terry Balentine. He was from what would be considered state line royalty. The Balentine name came from a long line of beer joint owners on the state line, bootleggers, car thieves, bank robbers and general outlaws. Terry's branch on the family tree was not as "prestigious" Mainly, drugs, drinking, fighting, breaking and entering and crimes of passion. What "trashy" outlaws do. Sybil had met him at the park and brought him up one night to show him off. He was rough trade gorgeous. He was 19years old with coal black hair and eyes, high cheekbones and a muscular body. Not lifting weight muscles, real country boy lifting cows muscles. Butch jobs: carrying loads of roofing shingles on his back and mixing cement MUSCLES! OHHH, I swoon just thinking about him! When we met, I threw everything I could think of at him. I bragged about my job and my new car (did he like Mustangs?) but knew to be careful around Sybil. "God help the sister who comes between me and my mister" was words the bitch lived by. I had a new set of radials on my car and truly did not want them slashed!

As I recall, the short time I lived there I really like living in "The Towers". I loved being able to run up to Lucille's to visit or drink or smoke. It was always yelled out at the door "Hon, got a cup of sugar?" We started calling each other Lucy and Ethel. Of course, I was Ethel. Her saying "Every Lucy needs an Ethel" has stuck with me all my life. And in my sitcom tv show life I have followed the pattern. I have always had a running sister. EXCEPT, I am LUCY!

Miss Lowery had already had several soiree's. These were the Van Pelts, the Tippers, Christine Collier, the artsy crowd, half of Trinity Episcopal church choir. The "upper crust" where only liquor was served but other novelties were available for the most daring. No trashy tricks invited along with no park cruisers. Queens allowed but they must be debutantes of the highest caliber. I had always been invited to all her party's but mainly filled the room just as furniture would and carried on very simple meaningless conversation until it was time to go. I was strictly filler. She was giving one the night in question.

This particular party was actually kind of dull. There was a quee call LuLu in attendance who was supposedly some third cousin or something of Miss Lowery. Her family came from the Leighton money same as Lucille's so she was one of the few younger queens allowed at the affairs. I had known her for awhile. We were not close but for some reason when I said goodnight at Lucille's she came with me down one floor to my apartment. Standing in the hall was Terry Balentine and some short boy I did not know. Yes, it had been a few weeks and of course I was getting with Terry on the side. He didn't care who he tricked with as long as the money was good you spent on him. A true hustler. Not a crackhead, or druggie a real bisexual who knew his craft and expected to be paid well for his services. Well, by Florence standards anyway. We didn't really have any rich old queens then, just closeted tricks who would pay as much as $100 to suck the right dick. I was never in that league but Terry didn't care. He liked me! My apartment was full of liquor and LULU had pot and poppers. As I recall, someone came over with some coke or maybe it was quaaludes. Anyway we all proceeded to get royally drunk and fucked up.

LULU knew better than to go for Terry so I told her in the kitchen to go for his friend. He had gone down the hall to the bathroom and I went into the living room with a drink for Terry and the next thing I know I hear the bedroom door close and lock. I went to the door and said "Look, whore this ain't a video booth, leave a quarter and make it quick" or some cute saying like that. We cut on MTV and started doing coke and smoking pot and snorting poppers and drinking and drinking and drinking and evidently we had sex because some time in the middle of the night, I got up off the floor, my pants were off and Terry was laying butt naked on the sofa. My mouth felt like the lower 40 acres so I went into the kitchen to get a glass of water,

The layout in these apartments is the kitchen is on the back wall next to the hallway. There is a large opening to a small dining room then on the far wall sliding glass doors to a small balcony with a high concrete wall. You can see all the way through from the kitchen. I looked out and there was the guy (LuLu's date or HIGHTOWER) as he would be nicknamed, sitting up on the ledge. I went to the sliding door and told him to get down he would fall. I walked back into the living room and woke up Terry to tell him to get his friend off the wall and when he went into the dining room there was nobody on the wall or balcony. I walked out on the balcony and looked down. The guy was laying on top of a roof used as a drive through. It was later determined that what saved him was this roof was constructed of steel beams with some kind of foam and tar in the middle of each square the medal beams form. He had landed perfectly in the middle!

Of course, all hell broke loose. Terry split, he had warrants. I woke up LuLu and we called 911. She kept asking me if I pushed him and I said no but it did seem like he wouldn't come down and I took his arm and told him not to fall. I went to the police station and told them what my muddled brain could remember. After all, I was still drunk and high! I think he broke an ankle or something, it was not serious, and when questioned it must have somehow got out that he was at a "queer" party so he made a statement that he did not know anyone at the party and the only reason he was there was because he was looking for a place to commit suicide and the door was open. He saw the ledge. It worked! It turned out he was about to go to state prison under the 3 strike rule but due to his mental state he got locked up in the local place for mentally ill patients, Riverbend. On a side note, as soon as he got out the state wanted to try him again so this time he climbed O'Neal bridge and threatened to jump: Sybil gave him the name "Hightower"

I moved out of Courtview probably the next month. I did keep slipping around with Terry Balentine until he went to Texas with one of his brothers and killed a guy in a gas station robbery. He was sentenced to the electric chair. Sybil called me up and said "Eva we are going to be prison widows" She knew all along.

There was a running joke about LuLu that nobody as far as I know would ever tell her to her face. "LuLu's got a killer booty, it drives her tricks to suicide"

This incident took place in probably 1982 or 1983 and is for the most part forgotten. Of the main characters alive, only me and Lu's killer ass remain!

[comixandco]

imagine if the credits for majora’s mask were tied to the actions you did in your last cycle

like instead of that everybody is happy celebrating the festival, if they were a specific set of cutscenes that each play depending on whether you did it before fighting majora or not

so like, if you didn’t defeat each temple boss you would see cutscenes from that region still in trouble like the deku with the monkey over the fire or the gorons all frozen, but if you did kill all the bosses in the last cycle you can see the regions happy like in the actual credits

and the same for important quests as well, grog could either be with his chicks or with grown cuccoos, pamela might be with her dad or she’d be on her own, you can only see anju and kafei’s wedding if you complete their quests then fight majora, if you don’t help romani defend the ranch she isn’t playing with her sister in the credits she’s just sat there

idk i just think it would be really neat if you finished the game and were suddenly hit by the realisation that that’s it, the cycles are over and your choices in that final go-through are how the characters will live the rest of their lives

and it would make you want to go back and play through again if you saw your favourite characters not having the happy ending they deserved

[luckyqueenreign]

hey love! Welp, what a rollercoaster this final was!

the only two things I actually liked - Suresh's speech and him giving MC the ring and showing his intentions (finally!)

everything else is a total mess!!!

the writing was atrocious - i felt like I read a 12 years old girl's diary😵Sexy scenes weren't sexy. Congratulations of other islanders were fake. MC's speech was terrible! Like - this dude (Suresh) pouring his heart to you and makes himself vulnerable and you talking about his hot body and great personality? Maybe it doesn't look completely out of place if you coupled up with others, but with Suresh it was stupid. And don't even start with ring!!

where did it came from?! Was MC hiding the freaking ring from players in her ass?! cuz it's only plausible explanation! UNBELIEVABLE!

I mean wasn't hoping for a brilliant final. I was kinda expecting tonnes of BS, but FB for sure surprised me😆

also! I was really disappointed with "looking at MCs journey". why in the name of holy cow they didn't do it with an actual scenes? why Bobby didn't said a thing about Finn trying to seduce MC in shower? I WOULD LOVE to see Kat's reaction. And Suresh's too! he must see his girl was loyal and would never be "the other woman". Kat must see her man actually isn't hers. And also Kat can go to hell with her fake apology after all her petty comments in final.

okay, rant over, thank you for your attention 😃

do you know who picking who in final if MC doesn't pick Suresh?

Hi babe 💖💖 yes!! those "spicy" scenes were NOT spicy at all...high schoolers in a creative writing program could've managed a better scene than that. He really truly laid it all on the line for MC with his speech and he was like well your really hot and your personality is too! MC has a depth problem that was evidenced in that speech!

The ring was sooooo crazy...also I was wondering if she proposes to anyone else or if that was just a Suresh exclusive moment.

re: Best Bits...ME TOO I was so disappointed they didnt do it like previous seasons where you actually got to see the moment on your screen. Seeing Kat's reaction to Finn propositioning MC wouldve been WILD!!!! they shouldve let that happen and I'm so mad we didnt get that moment.

If you pick Finn, Suresh picks Kat and I think Alfie picks Dana - (not entirely sure on Alfie/Dana here but assuming)

If you pick Lulu, Suresh leaves and Kat & Finn, Alfie and Dana are coupled.

If you pick Gabi, I *believe* (someone please correct me if im wrong) Suresh leaves, and Kat & Finn, Alfie and Dana are coupled.

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

Year in Review: The Most Notable News About Women Directors in 2020

All four of the Sundance film directing awards went to women, and three of those women were black women. They include: Radha Blank for The 40-Year-Old Version, Garrett Bradley for Time, Maïmouna Doucouré for Cuties, and Iryna Tsilyk for The Earth Is Blue as an Orange.

After a 2019 with several prominent award winning films directed by women the Oscars fails to nominate any of them for Best Director, with only Greta Gerwig’s Little Women adaptation securing a nod for Best Picture. As protest actress and director Natalie Portman shows up to the awards ceremony wearing a cape featuring the names of several women with prominent releases in 2019 including Lulu Wang (The Farewell) and Lorene Scafaria (Hustlers).

What looked like a promising year for women directors with blockbuster releases comes crashing to a halt as Covid-19 disrupts the world, shuttering theatres and productions. Among the casualties of the theatrical releases: The Eternals, Black Widow, and Candyman are pushed to 2021, Mulan is released online, and Wonder Woman 1984 is released simultaneously online and in theatres on Christmas day.

Among the directors we lost in 2020: French director Sarah Maldoror dies from complications with Covid-19. French New Wave director Nelly Kaplan also dies from complications to Covid-19. American director Lynn Shelton dies from complications from leukemia. 

For the first time in its 77 year history, the Venice Film Festival attempts something close to gender parity with a record 8 out of 18 films in Official Competition directed by women, the most ever. Director Chloé Zhao wins the top award, the Golden Lion, for her film Nomadland becoming just the 5th woman to win after Margarethe von Trotta, Agnès Varda, Mira Nair, and Sofia Coppola. 

TIFF’s three People’s Choice Awards are all awarded not only to women, but women of colour. It’s the first time the top award at the festival has been won by a woman since Nadine Labaki in 2011. The three winners are Nomadland directed by Chloé Zhao, One Night in Miami directed by Regina King and Beans directed by Tracey Deer.  

Several prominent movies directed by women came under scrutiny: Cuties was accused of child exploitation after a promotional poster of the movie went viral. Disney and the team behind Mulan faced fire for thanking Chinese government officials from the province running concentration camps holding Uighur muslims. Prominent Canadian director Michelle Latimer was revealed to have exploited tenuous claims to her own indigenous heritage for grants. Wonder Woman 1984 drew fire for trading in inaccurate and offensive ethnic stereotypes and creepy non-consensual sexual politics. 

TMC hosts Women Make Film, screening 100 films directed by women from September to December.

Maria Schrader wins the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special for her miniseries Unorthodox.

For the first time in its history the Gotham Awards Best Picture lineup is made entirely of films directed by women: The Assistant (Kitty Green), First Cow (Kelly Reichardt), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman), Nomadland (Chloé Zhao), Relic (Natalie Erika James).

[dreamerkitty]

Tried drawing out aaaallllll my villagers from Builders 2. I at first got to Clayton and was like ‘oh god i didnt realise how many there were...’ but soldiered on!

Ilda and Malroth’s house is in the green gardens (though Malroth barely ever uses it -_- ). Rosie and Britney are close and Britney’s fond of patrolling around the farmers fields. They share a house together! Lillian is the main cook and Llana is the bartender at the bar. Himiko’s a killing machine that helps with the farming (she’s named after the same character from the rpg Blue Dragon!). Lauren’s the shopkeeper and is only really in it for the money... There are one cow, sheep and chicken each and two dogs: Paula and Jess who I’m currently trying to breed (Paula is named after Paula from Earthbound and Jess after my late dog)

The Scarlet Sands would be where Phi would live but I don’t actually have a Phi in-game. Digby and Dougie are sometimes residents but I moved them out I believe to make room for the puppy (and I can’t move one without the other, duh!). Gooliope the slime shares a room with one of the dancing girls, she seems to love the piano there and is great at making oil. Kiki’s a cute singer and named after my bestie! Emilie is this areas shopkeeper and has a little rivalry with Lauren (she’s quite smug because her shop is bigger). Anise and Arabella are twin sister Cosmic Chymeras. One love to do cooking but I can never tell which... Sabre and Marumaro are a small Sabrecat family, they like to sleep on the building roofs. (and more characters named after Blue Dragon Characters!)

And finally the Cerulean Steppe! It’s where Lulu lives, she loves it because it has a castle, her room is very extravagant and fit for a princess. Anessa is the leader of the guards with Zara as her deputy. Zara and Esther are close and share a house! Tureen’s the resident Liquid Metal Slime and loves playing tag. The two guards Liza and Lucie are named after my online bestie and my sister <3 ! Pudding is the dog from Furrowfield (named after the Princess of Moonbrooke!). Haydin and Meenah are a couple with Meenah being just a beginner bard. Cellise is a bloody hand, she shares a bedroom with Nera (who she has a crush on). Szabo and Kesu are the gardeners here with just a small spot by the castle for their farmyard. Aurora is a golem who I think was meant to live on the Scarlet Sands but she ended up here somehow... (named after Aurora from the Azran Legacy!)

Ooops, kinda long! Eehee, hope you enjoyed!

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Dragon Quest Builders 2

#26

Title: Of Empires, Queens, and Builders Pairing/Characters Builder & Malroth (Dragon Quest Builders 2), Female Builder (Dragon Quest Builders 2) (Builder is named by player in Game, named Sil in fic), Malroth Rating: Teen Warnings/Tags: Pre-relationship, gratuitous use of puns

Summary After the events of Malhalla and the builder and Malroth return to the Isle of Awakening, things are only peaceful for a short time. They quickly discover that the islands have merged with the real world practically overnight. Now their residents must determine their place in it, and how things have changed. How much time has passed since the Luminaries defeated Hargon? And what has happened since then?

A SNIPPET:

Lulu rolled her eyes. “Details, details. Look, it’s pretty and defensive and that’s the point.” She examined her nails. “Anything on that list would be better than an arena. What would we even do with one of those?”

“Fight things, of course,” Malroth said. “Entertainment for villagers and training for warriors.” He kept reading down the list. “Wait, stables? Why do you want her to design stables?”

“Well, with the naviglobes not working like they used to, we need better transportation.” Lulu started moving some of Sil’s blueprint papers into a stack. “And we should build roads between the different villages to make it easier to transport goods.”

“Lulu,” Malroth snapped, “we don’t have horses!”

“So we’ll get some!” she snapped back. “Or we’ll use something else.”

“Like what, cows? Slimes? Sabercats?” Malroth stopped and rubbed his chin. A toothy grin spread across his face. “Actually...”

Lulu’s eyes lit up. “Yes! Tame sabercats! That’s exactly what I meant. Good to know you agree with me.” Malroth glared at her and she stuck out her tongue. “Sil,” Lulu said, turning to her, “we need you to build us a... oh.”

Sil had laid her head down on top of her papers and was snoring. Lulu sighed and Malroth chuckled.

“It’s been a while since she did that,” he said. He reached over and tugged at her pigtail. She mumbled and swatted at him before rolling over. One of her papers stuck to her cheek. “Yep, she’s out.”

“Yeah, I know,” Lulu said. She got up and started gathering up Sil’s papers. “I’ll get these, you get her?”

“I know the drill,” Malroth said. He knelt down next to Sil’s chair and dragged her arm over his shoulder. She sleepily followed and laid down across his back, looping her arms around his neck. He got one hand under each of her knees and stood up, carrying her piggyback. “Where’re we dumping the body this time?”

Lulu snorted as she picked up the last paper. “Let’s put her in my room,” she said. “I can make sure she’s not disturbed. She deserves some quiet time and it is the nicest room in the castle.” She headed to the stairs that led up to the bedrooms.

“It is not,” Malroth said, following her. “It’s full of pink junk and it smells weird.”

“It does not smell weird,” Lulu said. They passed Sil’s workshop and continued down the hall. She opened the door to her room and Malroth recoiled, wrinkling up his nose. “That is just from when I sprayed some perfume,” she said. “It is nice stuff. You have no culture.”

“Forget it,” he said, continuing past her door. “She made my room the best, anyway. I’m putting her there.”

Sil started sliding down his back and he shrugged to hitch her back up again. She rubbed her face against his ponytail and blinked a few times. “What’s up?” she mumbled.

“We’re putting you to bed in a room that doesn’t smell like fake flowers,” Malroth said.

“‘Kay,” she said. Her eyelids drooped. She reached up with one hand and grabbed the tip of his ear. “Elfy elfy elf,” she mumbled, tweaking it back and forth.

Malroth felt his face go red, out to the tips of the ears she was playing with. “Sil,” he hissed. He glanced back at Lulu. She had her hand over her mouth and was turning red as well, but from holding back laughter.

Sil laid her head back down against his shoulder and yawned. She waved to Lulu. “They thought he was an elf, Lulu,” she said. “In what’s-it-called, place. With the ‘rena. They thought he was gonna forest-magic-curse them.”

Malroth groaned as he got to his door. “You traitor,” he mumbled. He shuffled into his room. The bed was still unmade from the last time he’d slept here, and he dumped her in the middle of it. Sil sat up and sleepily pulled her boots off, then burrowed under the blankets and curled up.

[veliseraptor]

I’m not an academic, is there a debate about fish as a category?? My only knowledge of fish discourse is Herman Melville raving in moby dick about why whales should be considered fish

that comes actually from the (delightful) book Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller, who cites it from Carol Kaesuk Yoon’s book Naming Nature.

it’s an idea that comes from a notion of taxonomy that a) a legitimate evolutionary group must include all and only the descendants of a given ancestor, and b) a reliance on “shared evolutionary novelties” to identify relationships between species, and saying that the focus on fish as sharing a habitat and some qualities (scales, most obviously) obscures major differences between them. a scene she describes is about pointing out the ways in which a lungfish is more closely related to a cow than a salmon.

the point of my referencing this has to do with something about this quote (from the book):

The category of fish hides all this [difference]. Hides nuance. Discounts intelligence. It gerrymanders close cousins away from us, creating a false sense of separation to preserve our spot at the top of an imaginary ladder.

her point is, among other things, about not just the dangers of categorization but the ways that categorization that seems obvious can in fact be arbitrary and disguise other possible connections, which leads to people being potentially blind to those connections.

(I am probably simplifying all of this greatly, but that is the reference; “fish” as a category groups together a lot of animals that do not belong in the same bucket.)

[snnynaturalarch]

• has a pug named rolly

• has a cow named lulu living in the farm next door to the safehouse

• currently online trying to adopt a capybara and naming it potato

• she might adopt an alpaca next

• then probably a penguin

[thehouseoflamination]

Nicknames my MC (Tay) calls the boys

Lucifer: right off the bat she calls him Luci. She has a thing about shortening names that are more than two syllables, and the Avatar of Pride is no exception. He never directly verbalizes his displeasure for the nickname, how it reminds him of his life back in the Celestial Realm, so Tay never sees a need to stop. He gets used to the nickname quicker than he’d like.

Mammon: much to his displeasure, his name isn’t long enough to warrant a nickname, something he is highly displeased with and won’t shut up about for quite awhile. Eventually, after Mammon referring to her as ‘my’ human and ‘his’ human for months, Tay starts calling him ‘my’ demon and ‘her’ demon in retaliation. It’s not quite a nickname, but he is pleased all the same.

Leviathan: just goes with the basic Levi everyone else uses. But after the whole dating sim misadventure, she occasionally calls him Leviachan. 1) It is just so fun to say. 2) He turns onto a blushing, stuttering mess, which is oh so amusing.

Satan: oh boy, Tay was desperate to find a good nickname for him, because calling someone ‘Satan’ was just so uncomfortable after hearing his name associated with the root of all evil for years. Unfortunately for her, Tay could never think of a good nickname for him. She is unsure if Satan is bummed he doesn’t have one.

Asmodeus: it starts with a slip of the tounge; she called him Asmr instead of Asmo. Asmodeus finds it adorable that his nickname is short for a pleasure response. If she wants, he can make her tingle in other ways 😏

Beelzebub: Tay called him Beel for a bit, but once she found out his demon form is based on a bug, she started referring to him as Beetle. He didn’t bat an eye at the changed nickname, but hearing her call him that makes his heart hungry. Odd.

Belphegor: until the attempted murder, he was Belphie. Afterwords, outside of Beels hearing range, he was simply referred as That Cow Fuck. He will have to work hard to get back to being called Belphie. He’s lucky he didn’t manage to kill her, or there would be no coming back from that.

Diavolo: Tay will swear up and down that this nickname isn’t a slight to his character, (or a shortening to what she kept mispronouncing his name as Divalo.) Diva is his nickname and he Loves it, much to Lucifers ire. In all his millennia, no one has had the gall to not call him Lord Diavolo, or even just Diavolo. He relishes the familiarity a nickname gives. Lowkey bummed that Tay is one syllable so he can’t really shorten her name in return.

Barbatos: the nickname Barbie just slipped out one day, and to her surprise he didn’t smite her on the spot. He just gave a coy grin and chuckled at the shocked and embarrassed look on her face. Tays apprehension at using his nickname faded with time.

Solomon: unfortunately fortunately for Tay, she clicked pretty well with Solomon right off the bat. After two (2) conversations he was dubbed Sol and there was no looking back. When she peeked his interest enough to start teaching her magic, she calls him Sir while she’s being taught. When she really needs his help with something, she calls him Master Solomon to butter him up.

Simeon: oh. Oh boy. Tay is highkey terrified of doing/saying anything that might offend this angel. Because of this, she will not give him a nickname. Once she warms up to him a bit, and is a little more sure he won’t despise her for being a faulty human, she names his contact on her DDD Simi. But she would never call him that to his face. If she were to slip up and call him that in conversation, she would combust in embarrassment.

Luke: Luke was blessed with a one syllable name, but he’s too cute to let that technicality stop him from getting a nickname. Lu or LuLu is Tays go to for him. He may huff and puff, but anyone can see how much he likes it.

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Series 5 amiibo thoughts

(Copied from my twitter)

My thoughts on who might have amiibos in series 5, a thread

I’m assuming this series has 100 cards like series 1-4, there should be 16-17 special characters and 83-84 villagers

Special characters that are extremely likely to get amiibo cards (they’re in acnh, but don’t have amiibos yet):

C.J., Daisy Mae, Flick, Orville, Wilbur, Harvey, Wisp

Gullivarrr may get an amiibo since he’s... kind of... a new character

Any other past characters could return too and get and an amiibo

This could include: Cornimer, Farley, Frillard, Kaitlin, Serena

Or spin-off characters: Beppe, Carlo, Giovanni

Or others like: Lloid, snowmen

And of course, there could be new characters!

Now onto villagers!

I assume that we will get amiibos for: Audie, Cyd, Dom, Judy, Megan, Raymond, Reneigh, Sherb

There are also villagers from previous games that have the potential to come back

These 53 are the most likely to appear: Ace, Aisle, Aziz, Belle, Bessie, Betty, Cece, Champ, Chico, Chuck, Dozer, Elina, Emerald, Epona, Faith, Felyne, Filly, Flash, Flossie, Ganon, Hambo, Hank, Hector, Holden, Huggy, Iggy, Inkwell, Jane, Leigh, Liz, Lulu (hippo), Marcy, Medli, Nosegay, Otis, Oxford, Penny, Petunia (cow), Pigleg, Quetzal, Rhoda, Rio, Rollo, Sue E, Sven, Tiara, Twirp, Valise, Viché, W. Link Woolio, Yodel, Zoe

There are some other villagers from old games that I did not include because they were either a Japan exclusive character or have a name that someone in acnh already has. I figured those were less likely to be brought back.

And there could definitely be new characters!

[insomniarambling]

Brief overview of the Beniot kids

This is sort of a WIP just to get an idea of their personalities and look 

See my other NG post about generally info about the other kids/ parents 

Full name: Nova Beniot

Nickname:  NA 

Age: 25 

Hometown: Rieux, France 

Birthplace:  Luna  

Pronouns: she/her 

Sexuality: Lesbian 

Language: French, English 

Build: Lean and well muscle; very little body fat 

Height: 5’5

Species: Lunar, half wolf mutant 

Hair color: black, dyed teal ends 

Special features: slightly pointed ears, large canines, sharp nails if not filed 

Eye color: grey-blue 

Complexion: Palish but can tan 

Piercings: Lobe, triple helix, helix, orbital, naval, septum, nipples (probably), eyebrow 

Tattoos: matching moon with Mason, no others because she hated every second 

Scars/ Birthmarks: NA 

Personality: Loud mouth, opinionated, fiercely loyal, a bit hotheaded and brash, independent. 

Both Mason and Luka have physical/mental abuse and neglect in their past but i’m not planning to go into detail 

Full name: Mason Beniot

Nickname: Mace 

Age: 23 

Hometown: Rieux, France 

Birthplace:  Unknown 

Pronouns: He/Him 

Sexuality: Bi 

Language: French, English 

Build: Well muscled, broad-chested, tall 

Height: 6’2 

Species: Human, possibly Lunar ancestors 

Hair color: Dark brown 

Eye color: Bright green 

Complexion: Warm brown 

Piercings: Industrial, 2x lobe, tongue 

Tattoos: Moon phases on inner wrist 

Scars/ Birthmarks: Scars across his back, like Luka 

Personality: charismatic, flirty but suaver than Throne, friendly, generally a people person, tends to be a bit petty sometimes and obnoxious to quieter personalities. 

 Full name:  Luka Beniot

Nickname: Lulu 

Age: 20 

Hometown: Rieux, France 

Birthplace:  Unknown 

Pronouns: He/Him 

Sexuality: Bi 

Language: French, English 

Build: Thinner and less naturally muscled than his siblings 

Height: 5’8 

Species: Human, possibly Lunar ancestors 

Hair color: Naturally light brown; dyed grey-white 

Eye color: Yellow-hazel 

Complexion: Honey 

Piercings: NA

Tattoos: NA

Scars/ Birthmarks: Scars along his back, small scar through his eyebrow, notch in ear, Freckles 

Personality: A bit aloof and not super friendly to strangers. He can be truthfully blunt and a little tackless, despite this he works very well with the farm business. He is very good at negotiating and dealing with the more rude customers. He does often require assurance from his family, as he has some abandonment issues from when he was a child. 

Full name: Netta Beniot

Nickname: Nets, Nettle, Spitfire, Crazy Red (Justice Clay) 

Age: 17 

Hometown: Rieux, France 

Birthplace: Rieux, France

Pronouns: she/her 

Sexuality: Straight  

Language: French, English 

Build: A little on the chubby side but naturally muscular 

Height: 5’4 

Species: Lunar, wolf hybrid 

Special features: Very hard to see wolf features, slightly curled clawish hand 

Hair color: bright red 

Eye color: warm brown 

Complexion: Very pale, freckles 

Piercings: lobes 

Tattoos: NA 

Scars/ Birthmarks: Scar on wrist from bad rope burn when she was a kid 

Personality: Absolute spitfire, much like her mother she is very stubborn with a strong sense of pride, inherited the most wolfy behavior. Does not hesitate to call someone on their crap, often butts heads with Nova 

Full name: Sasha Beniot

Nickname: Sassy 

Age: 17 

Hometown: Rieux, France 

Birthplace: Rieux, France

Pronouns: They/Them, He/Him 

Sexuality: Ace, Homoromantic 

Language: French, English 

Build: Very tall, lanky, small amount of muscle 

Height: 6’1 

Species: Lunar, wolf hybrid 

Special features: Large canines, angular face 

Hair color: Med-dark brown 

Eye color: green 

Complexion: warm brown 

Piercings: NA 

Tattoos: NA 

Scars/ Birthmarks: NA 

Personality: Despite being selectively mute, he is not shy, he is an absolute savage when comfortable, very adventurous, liking to hike and travel to more remote places with Journey. Has heightened sense due to wolf genetics so he can be a bit anxious and jump in large crowds 

Full name: Briar Beniot

Nickname: Bry, Mutt (in a loving way by Kai II) 

Age: 17 

Hometown: Rieux, France 

Birthplace: Rieux, France

Pronouns: He/Him 

Sexuality: Gay 

Language: French, English

Build: Very tall, broad and muscular 

Height: 6’7 

Species: Lunar, wolf hybrid 

Hair color: Dark brown 

Eye color: green 

Complexion: Olive tone 

Piercings: NA 

Tattoos: NA 

Scars/ Birthmarks: Various scars from the farm, notably a large one on his hand from a cow hitting him with her horn and a few around the mouth from his fangs catching on his lips as they grew. 

Personality: Laid back, kind, can be a bit self destructive and work himself into the ground if not stopped. Very gently despite his size and love working with kids, wants to be a school teacher. 

[ducktracy]

136. porky’s pet (1936)

release date: july 11th, 1936

series: looney tunes

director: jack king

starring: joe dougherty (porky), billy bletcher (conductor)

the first of MANY, MANY cartoons to flaunt porky’s name in the title. this is also jack king’s second to last cartoon at warner bros—he headed back for disney as early as april 1936, leaving the rest of his films to run on. porky’s moving day, released in september, would be his last. for now: porky and his pet ostrich lulu are broadway bound, but trouble arises when the train forbids any animals to board. it’s up to porky to find a way to hide his extremely noticeable and indiscreet pet.

a telegram boy is pedaling along on his bicycle, determined to deliver his envelope, bumping all along the way. i didn’t include a photo thanks to the 10 photo limit, but you’ll notice some signs in the background, such as “malaria motel” and “buy burton’s burpo beer”, a reference to producer john burton. the scene runs a little long, yet it’s deliberate so as to show off the syncopation between the animation, music, and sound effects of intermittent bike horn honking.

nevertheless, the telegram boy arrives at his destination by crashing into the sidewalk. unscathed, he jauntily hops onto the porch and rings the doorbell a few times. out comes porky, who answers the door. a telegram just for him. he accepts the envelope and signs off. an amusing little detail as he tucks the envelope in the lip of his sweater, taking it out and tearing off the side.

the telegram reads:

MR. PORKY PIG

CAN USE YOU AND LULU IN MY NEW SHOW $75 WEEK. STOP. (that’s how you ended a sentence, considering there was no morse code equivalent to a period) COME NEW YORK AT ONCE

J. BOTTS

PRODUCER

remember when i said porky would never say “WHOOPEEEEE!” again after gold diggers of ‘49? well, that’s one bet i lost. i totally forgot, but he says his famous “WHOOPEE!” here, too. i THINK this is the last time he says it, unless porky’s moving day has a surprise waiting for me. regardless, porky is ecstatic. he dashes upstairs, telegram in hand, skidding to a halt into his bedroom.

he approaches a birdcage, where we see the beginnings of a big bird head inside. porky shows off the letter to his pet, stuttering “look, lulu! look!” a clever pan reveals that lulu is, in fact, a giant pet ostrich with her head in the birdcage and the rest of her body perched in a rocking chair. lulu gives her approval by squawking hilariously and incomprehensibly. “we’re broadway bound, lulu! we’re gonna be big shots!”

porky hardly wastes any time tying a rope around lulu’s neck and freeing her from the confines of her arbitrary birdcage. with his hat on his head and a couple of oddly places train whistle imitations, porky declares “let’s go!” and together they fly down the staircase, lulu sliding down on the banister. good animation that’s easily mesmerizing. lulu hits the end of the banister while porky runs ahead, nearly choking her as he flies back towards her from the impact. nevertheless she gets down, and porky’s so excited he whips out the door, the door closing on lulu and hitting her right in the face. she chatters porky out furiously, but manages to recover.

some time later, porky and his prized lulu arrive at the train station, seeking out the nearest train. after hearing the sound of the all too familiar whistle, porky attempts to flag down the train, waving his hand and his hat to get it to stop. we then get a shot of the train, hurtling down the tracks at frightening speeds. so fast that the conductor doesn’t take note of porky and his very obvious bird companion. the train speeds by, spinning porky, lulu, and the entire station around like a top, a sequence that would be perfected and stronger in tex’s the village smithy.

both porky and lulu attempt to recover from the impact, porky stuttering “stop!” all too late while lulu has her head buried in a hole in the floorboards. nevertheless, they both recover quickly when the sound of another train approaches. this time, porky thinks ahead. he pulls a lever that flashes a stop sign, and the speeding train literally jolts to a stop on the middle of the tracks. good timing and amusingly stark visuals make the gag work. there’s an intriguing angle from inside the station as we view porky and lulu happily board from outside. silence... until a yokel train conductor yells “YOU CAN’T BRING NO BUZZARD ON THIS TRAIN!”

lulu and porky are promptly kicked out, landing right inside the station. (if you notice, one of the flyers posted advertises millar manor, a reference to story man tubby millar) porky signals for lulu to bend down low, and he whispers a plan in her ear. the plan: lulu wait by the tracks while porky boards, and he’ll pick her up as the train passes by. lulu gives her squawks of approval. porky signals for lulu to go to her post, and he himself boards the train.

sure enough, the train begins to chug, the wheels turning. lulu waits patiently, and just as porky promised, he sticks his hand out the window and grabs her by the neck. her neck is so long that the rest of her body lags behind, flopping in the wind, much to the surprise of one of the passengers looking out the window. porky wrestles her inside, and everything’s good to go.

here we have it, folks! the infamous “porky stuffing an ostrich up his ass” scene. porky realizes he didn’t quite think things through. an ostrich is a pretty damn noticeable bird. he signals under the seat, trying to stuff her in, ordering “hurry up, lulu! get under the seat before the conductor sees ya!” another push, and her head pops out of the crack in the seat, giving some happy squabbles. treg brown’s sound effects turn a puzzling scene into an amusing one with nonstop honking, porky wrestling with how to get both ends of her body under the seat. it’s still a relatively awkward scene, but the sound effects certainly add humor to it. eventually porky opts to sit on the seat himself, stuffing lulu’s body under and hoping he can conceal her head. but, as to be expected, lulu pecks him right in the butt and he jumps up in shock. another stuff beneath the seat, and she’s about as concealed as she’ll get. porky grins at the camera, clearly accomplished with his feat.

but, as birds will do, lulu hardly stays in one place long. she wrangles herself out from beneath the seat and swallows the toupee of a sleeping passenger’s from behind. ham or ex makes one final appearance! if only there was any indication as to how to tell them apart. the little pup turns the propeller of a toy plane and watches it whirl around in fascination. the plane makes its way towards lulu, who promptly swallows it. of course, the plane is still on, and works its way up from her throat all the way to her head, giving her “dog ears”. amusing animation as lulu’s neck loops around itself, the plane in her head directing her uncontrollably as she loops around her own body, flipping and flying around. she crashes right into a door, where the plane just... disappears. she doesn’t spit it out or anything of the sort, it literally just... melts away. nevertheless.

lulu now has her sights set on an accordion, which she also deems a delicious snack. and, predictably, her neck moves up and down and sounds like an accordion. a very predictable gag that isn’t all that hilarious, but porky’s look of pure horror as she strolls past his seat is totally priceless.

just in time for the conductor to ask for tickets. panic-stricken, porky snags a guitar case out from under the seat in front of him and stuffs lulu inside. her accordion neck blares loudly and noticeably, and he grabs her neck and wrings it out, sliding the accordion down to her body where it disappears. first a plane and now an accordion! maybe lulu’s act on broadway is “The Bottomless Ostrich”. she now fits in the guitar case... except for her feathers, which prominently stick out of the bottom. porky steals someone’s pair of scissors (what a thief!) and cuts off the fluff, and instead of returning the scissors hilariously throws them out the window instead, hiding the feathers under the seat. instead of just, you know, tossing them out instead.

the conductor approaches porky for his ticket, but lulu suddenly grows rowdy, giving herself away immediately as the guitar case begins to jolt around and squawk. she wrestles her legs free and barrels into the conductor, who now rides on top of the guitar case like some sort of twisted steed. lulu barrels into the end of the cabin, freeing herself from the case. porky goes to wrangle back his bird, but it’s too late. the conductor furiously throws her out the window, and then throws porky out himself. nice service!

they reconnect on the tracks, porky shrugging dubiously. fortune smiles upon them when they spot a handcar. they both board at opposite ends, preparing to push their way to broadway, yet a cow blocks their path. no matter! porky positions himself on the handles and grabs the cow’s tail like some reins, and they’re off. soon they even manage to pass the very train they were booted from, much to the bewilderment of the conductor, who passes out as porky tips his hat and lulu squawks her greetings. iris out.

with a lot of these rewatches of the jack king cartoons, i’ve softened my perception of them and appreciated them more, but they’re still relatively below average. nevertheless, this cartoon was, if anything, amusing. not particularly funny, but amusing to watch porky’s plight as he works so hard to hide his Very Obvious pet. lulu’s squawking is hilariously obnoxious, which works in her favor and against her at the same time. the animation was very smooth and fun to watch for sure, especially with lulu sliding down the banister and lulu swallowing the toy plane. lulu would make one more appearance in porky’s moving day, which is kinda funny. i wonder, if jack king stayed longer, how many more cartoons she would have popped up in. overall a decent cartoon but nothing to write home about. it wouldn’t kill you to watch it, but i think you’d be fine if you went without.

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