#low white

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This is my kitten, Pixie! She has a bit of an odd coloring- I’m not sure if she counts as Calico. What do you think?

so tiny small.... pleek reblog with a picture of her now... i love her so much...

anyway black mackerel tabby tortoiseshell with low white!

[warrior-cats-genetics]

yk what. i stick to my word /j chestnutgaze be upon ye

ooh so pretty so spotty!!!

chestnutgaze is a shorthair amber bengal tabby with low white! amber for both the bright orange and black ^^ amber is a breed-specific color, but as i said on the first amber cat, i'm ignoring breed also, i'm describing bengal markings as "bengal tabby" as i believe bengal is a modifier of spotted tabby that is, again, breed-specific

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These kitties seem to be black self with low white spotting!

DISCLAIMER! This is a hobbyist's identification, please send an ask or reply with any corrections or thoughts on this cat!

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her name is feta but i don't think she's actually cheese... pls confirm is she cheese???

this cheesy kitty is a red mackerel tabby with low white! what a cutie

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solid black with low white!

That was the low battery notification

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uh to further prove im not a bot

lookit my sona. (David - any pronouns) stripes aren’t realistic but they are a red mackerel tabby with low white spotting

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solid black with low white!

being an adult means I can use my big boy money (which is supposed to go towards stupid things like rent or food but who the hell does that) to force people to look at Melly.

look at her. she’s simply so Shaped

[miriatwstuff]

I am objectively correct and you all know it /j

[svampira]

snack time🤤

[chamerionwrites]

Honestly this gets at my chiefest complaint/frustration/discomfort with fandom as a whole. Which is: in their rush to defend the artistic merit of fanworks I think a ton of people have really valorized transformation and remixing and reinterpretation in and of themselves, when imo those are all quite neutral actions. When done well, they can expand and build upon and subvert meaning in really powerful and thought-provoking (and fun!) ways. When done poorly, they are just as likely to flatten and oversimplify and decontextualize and completely erase meaning. The simple act of changing something does not imbue the choice to do so with creative validity. It is entirely possible for a cover song to be bad (or just boring!). To exactly the same degree that it is possible to transform a pretty shallow and straightforward work into something deeper and more nuanced and subversive, is possible to transform a work into a vastly shallower and less interesting shadow of itself. As with nearly everything in art, it's all about the execution!

But the second you voice this position (which should honestly be a pretty uncontroversial one imo), you get people shrieking at you about being gatekeep-y and pretentious and betraying the sacred fandom etiquette of Don't-Like-Don't-Read.

And like...listen. I was not raised in a barn. I am 150% capable of quietly back-buttoning out of a fanfic I think is bad or boring - which is exactly what I do when I encounter them - and I am obviously not advocating for stupid ships wars or any kind of harassment or leaving hatemail in people's AO3 inboxes. (Which some people will also accuse you of the second you say anything less than lavishly positive about fandom, in true piss-on-the-poor fashion.) Literally all I am saying is that you can't have your cake and eat it too - that if fandom and fanworks (in the broadest sense) have artistic merit then fandom and fanworks (in the broadest sense) are fair game for artistic critique. Which means, in practice, that I can go on my own blog and make a post exactly like this one - critiquing broad trends, or stating that some interpretations are bad actually, or pointing out that subverting or talking back to or reading against the grain of canon is very different from simply ignoring it, or saying "fandom's culture of collage/remix/fuck-canon-I-do-what-I-want can lend itself to to really creative and interesting art but also to a lot of really bland homogenized cut-n-paste art, not to mention some pretty troubling decontextualization." And that if you feel this rains on your personal parade, you are then free to DLDR by back-buttoning out of my blog and/or blocking me so you never have to see my hot takes again, rather than clamoring in my notes about how I should let people enjoy things.

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Ah, what a stretchy guy! They seem to be a black tabby tortoiseshell with low white! Wow!

DISCLAIMER! This is a hobbyist's identification, please send an ask or reply with any corrections or thoughts on this cat!

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Hello! I recently saw a video online of an orange-tuxedo-calico cat. Is it a chimera kitty? Here's a screenshot from the video:

hmmmghhh it’s possible, but unlikely!

outside of a DNA test, chimeras are only provable if a cat is displaying patches that are impossible to have together: not-red tabby and solid, dilute and non-dilute, two different bases, etc. this lovely lady just looks like a long haired black self tortoiseshell with low white!

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Mackerel tabico with low white, red mackerel tabby

[rocketbirdie]

hitboxes

[topboylikesully]

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red and black calico with low white!

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