#i was like 10

[karnivowl]

Did anyone else watch that 2 hour long video essay about King Candy/Turbo bc I sure did but I think I’m late to the party rip

(This is old but I’ve always wanted to add something to the wreck-it Ralph talk since I was like 10 LOL, and now that that video essay is popular im rubbin my lil hands together like ehehehehe)

[quarzy]

i rarely get asked where i got my name from but im always so happy to tell them because it was on the day deltarune first came out and as i was trying to name my character my keyboard wouldn't work so i kept key smashing until quarzy popped up and have stuck with it ever since. my laptop broke 30 minutes later

[shiraru]

[T-Poses] Tell me about your flux buddies thoughts.

omg hiii okay i wasnt really having lore thoughts more like just thinking about flux buddies makes me so violently ill because i get so happy about it im actually rewatching the series AGAIN!!!! i rewatch it like every year but i guess i should finally apply some thinking skills but im sure everything that has been said was said but i like the idea that lalnable was the original lalna while lalna was a clone and that nano is the original one while echo is the clone meaning that each of the arent like with a matching pair (original/original , clone/clone) punches a hole in my wall

[holymelancholia]

Confession time: My first foray into OC making was for hamtaro where I made what was essentially a self insert mary sue hamster with purple fur and a blue heart shaped gem on it and drew a decently lengthy comic series documenting her adventures

[weirdstrangeandawful]

Whumper who makes a huge deal out of Whumpee's social mistakes.

Bumped into a neighbour on the sidewalk? They have to go over and over to do whatever work they need doing.

Spilled water at a restaurant? Have to show up and personally apologise and compensate them for the 'damage'.

Accidentally insulted a friend? Need to get them the most expensive wine and gifts possible and hand deliver it to their door.

Whumpee doesn't know whether they've just been raised a rude bastard and this is how the world is supposed to be or if Whumper is toying with them or if Whumper genuinely thinks this is what people have to do when they screw up.

[pupkou]

before you left the house when you were younger, were any of you forced to raise your arms above your head and change your shirt if it rode up to expose any sliver of skin or is this an unfortunate original experience

[omega-named-bear]

Fanfic writers and enthusiast, reblog this with the tags of the longest fanfic you've read/wrote. I wanna know word count, trope, everything.

[do-geese-see-god]

When Bruce Campbell shot a witch backwards over his shoulder with a double barreled shotgun, that was the greatest VHS tape my older cousins ever rented at Blockbuster.

[thebreakfastgenie]

Top 5 favourite book moments?

Trying to remember some lol I've been reading a lot of non-fiction lately.

The first time Hazel mentions Cancer Perks in The Fault in Our Stars. This really spoke to me because I was an indirect beneficiary of Cancer Perks (five fifth grade girls, out of class, unsupervised, doing whatever we wanted).

Gandalf's return in The Lord of the Rings because I fucking saw it coming and my dad gaslit me into doubting myself for weeks and I finally gave in right before it happened.

When Caderousse finally recognizes the Count of Monte Cristo as Edmund Dantès after it's been SO obvious.

Fried Green Tomatoes in general because we read it in class with no real prior information and I was like "Harold..."

In Catch-22 when you finally get the full story of Snowden's death after it's referenced so many times.

[howlingwolf23]

I don't know if I'm spilling Girlie Secrets™ but according to dearly departed Granny, the best thing to do when you're constipated is just reach into your vajay and push it out from the other side

[macdenlover]

it came to my realization that 99% of my fandom related headaches would be cured if everyone understood this

[simplykaren]

Class 1 recall on Tostitos. (Class 1 means they can kill you if consumed, this time because of undeclared milk. Having food allergies really sucks.)

[bonefall]

Is there beef with the Holstein cows and you or what was that joke lol

It's kind of wild It's just never come up on this blog before, but I HATE holsteins. Bottom 10 cow breeds for me. I hate how they're so common they account for the majority of milk produced. I hate that they're the "default" cow to the point where some don't even know cattle HAVE other colors. I hate their tiny horns (IF THEY EVEN HAVE THAT. LOSER ASS HORNLESS COW) and their painfully massive udders.

Legit I'm trying so hard to not launch into a No Mouth Must Scream style AM speech-- shoot my hand slipped.

(AM speech about why i dont like holsteins below the cut)

For starters, I have to give a brief lesson on what these terms mean; the "Holstein" is the American strain of the "Frisian" breed. Frisians are an ancient breed from Frisia, in the north of what we now consider the Netherlands. Crosses between the breeds are "Holstein-Frisians."

(There’s even more to this but im keeping it as simple as possible. Also one of my friends is Frisian and she is probably going to kill me for describing it like that.)

Historically, livestock was adapted to the environment they lived in. Frisians were bred by the Frisii people for hundreds of years in extremely grass-rich, lush, flat environments. The "polders" of the northern parts of the Netherlands. They're huge and eat a LOT of food.

Traditional Frisians were developed to produce as much meat and milk from a single individual as possible, without compromising the health of the cattle with constant inbreeding to get quick gains. We are talking about a breed that is over 2000 years old. They had the perfect environment to make The Ultimate Food Cow and by god they did it. I can respect that.

So, take that, drag it across an ocean to a place that does NOT have polders, and add the rapid enshittification of capitalism to it. BAM you've got a fucking holstein.

There is ONE goal for "improving" the holstein. Make More Milk. As long as the black and white milkbag leaks enough, nothing else matters. Health? Fertility? Feed ratio? Ability to not die of infection? WHO CARES. MILK LINE GO UP.

Over 90% of holsteins are inbred to start with, because Milk Line Go Up. To the tune of having an average COI of 8%-- where extreme negative effects (think Hapsburgs) start to crop up around 10%

Holstein bulls are aggressive bastards (many dairy bulls are), so no one wants to keep intact males in their herds, meaning most cows are artificially inseminated

Not being limited by the natural lifespan of a living bull means that the same stud can keep having direct offspring for decades after his death

Toystory the bull had 500,000 calves before he died, and hit over 1 million offspring in 2015. That's ONE animal and to put this in perspective, there are 9 million holsteins in the US.

DON'T WORRY IT GETS WORSE

Not only can 99% of holsteins be traced back to just two bulls-- 99% of male holsteins share one of two exact Y chromosomes with those two bulls.

The gene pool is so small that it's equivalent to about 60 individuals. Warrior Cat allegiances are larger than that. That's barely bigger than modern ThunderClan.

"Massive lack of genetic diversity" does not begin to capture the existential dread of this situation. Mark my words, WATCH, when the Bird Flu finally mutates a strain that rips through a mammalian population, it's gonna be in the USA and it's going to be through our dairy cattle.

This is not prophecy or me laying a curse on the land, this is the natural consequence of basing the stability of US milk production on the equivalent of 9 million clones of two classrooms worth of individuals, and then packing them in close quarters

And we don't have to wait for doomsday for the impacts to be apparent on the cattle themelves

Holstein fertility has also dropped by half since the 1960s when the intensive inbreeding really kicked into high gear

Because their whole body is dedicating all of their resources to milk production, they have a notoriously "bony" frame.

Show judges, however, like this because they think that's a very "feminine" look for a 1600 pound ruminant. Very normal thing to think.

Like. I don't know if i can communicate this to people who don't look at cows a lot (it's not quite as obviously dramatic as a pug skull) but here is a comparison of an "ideal" show holstein and an "unselected" holstein from a herd that's been established as a sort of "control group" for what they looked like back in the 1960s;

The way that the artery on the "modern" cow's belly runs to the udder like a big pink worm freaks me out the most ngl

The udder also bulges out from between the back legs

The show cow is so thin

And then compare these both to a Holstein-Frisian cross who leans more on the Frisian side;

Proper weight, developed legs. Its biggest "problem" is actually just the udder shape-- deep udders, which "hang" low like that, aren't optimal for milk-focused breeds because the higher away from the ground the less chance there is of infection. In that department, the "unselected" holstein clearly outclasses the holstein-frisian.

But it probably won't be surprising to hear that the "show holstein," with its massive, swollen udder, is SUPER prone to infections such as mastitis.

But it is also just more prone to getting sick generally

And, to keep up with these insane demands, holsteins need a TON of food. You aren't going to just turn these things out into a pasture and be done with it. Even its ancestor the Frisian needed premium Dutch polder grass to be such a good cow-- crank that up to 11 with these Monuments to Humanity's Hubrice

The Texas Longhorn developed in semi-feral conditions and can eat a bush to become the best thing in a 10 mile radius. The Scottish Highland was iron-forged in upland moors with a steady diet of turf and rain.

Meanwhile if a Holstein has less than 5 homemade meals a day without poland spring bottled water it will die to death.

And the WORST part? You have to use these if you want to make money in dairy farming. It's WAAY too expensive to just run a suboptimal farm. Their milk isn't great, but they sure do make a lot of it.

...so Holsteins and Holstein-Frisians (and other "super efficient" breeds) have absolutely decimated heritage cattle. The American Milking Devon is a deep reddish brown with gorgeous horns and low maintenance; rare. Randall Linebacks are painted with lines of white speckles down the back and can be used for any purpose; critically endangered. The Niata was a pug-faced cow who could fight jaguars; extinct.

And THAT'S what makes me hate them most of all. I LOVE cows, but whenever I see a reference to one, it's a holstein. It's always boring black and white splotches with big pink udders. They're practically synonymous with "cow" when their homogeniety is actually hiding much cooler breeds from you.

Did you know cows can be tiger-striped?

And that England has its own type of longhorn?

Or that cow horns can twist upwards like an antelope?

And that they can have REALLY LONG ears?

And that they can be blue?

And that's not even getting into some of the cows that have gotten a small crumb of attention lately, such as Highlands, Ankole-Watusi, and Texas Longhorns. There's so many cool cows out there! And they're all really different from holsteins! MOST of them are also a lot healthier and produce tastier milk and meat!

TL;DR yeah i don't like holsteins and I like sniping at them. For reasons both legit and petty.

[shoku-and-awe]

Next time I am taking you down with me!

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

[ladybugboots]

distant past

[12neonlit-stage]

you're allowed to discuss and work together, reblog for a higher sample size or something

You have 1 week, good luck!