#no hard feelings OP

[chilope]

zero respect when people get all "oh nooooo i sure hope this post doesn't get a zillion noootes teehee, stop reblogging I can't have this be what people remember me for 🥺🤭" all coy and shit when the option to disable reblogs is right there. strangle that post in its crib to prove you're not a poser.

[remratsuken]

Okay, I'll put on my big boy pants and engage in some internet debate for once.

T3: They're still doing the same damage to the eco system

Barn cats, be that built for big or small barns, homesteads, etc. have a purpose that ideally stays within the walls of whatever their training focuses on, such as in Dagger and Saber's case of managing pests and rodents, acting as a first sign of alert regarding predators or having more specialized roles such as hunting local wildlife, though the point can be made that unlike dogs, cats lacked a selective breeding process that took place over many centuries (and likely millennia) and as such are not the right tool for the job.

In short, yes, they do damage to the ecosystem. That is the purpose of an animal that is trained to perform a task rooted in that very ecosystem. What I think you're more getting at is their tendency to be a very invasive species, but you're favoring more destructive and uncoordinated parts of them brought about by ignorant owners over trained professionals (or at least those with experience) who have an idea of what these animals can be used for.

Before I come off as sounding sympathetic to outdoor cats, I'm not. I do not believe the average person should own an outdoor cat without very good reason, such as the above mentioned points of it being trained for a specific purpose, therapy cats included. There's a multitude of reasons that they shouldn't be endorsed, but you said it best with

T3: ...and [are] still at the same risk of getting injured, sick, or generally suffering

and

T3: This is a super specific case

Although, I should still offer my thoughts on these. I'm not denying the existence of potential pathogens or infectious agents that could possibly occur in or spread to cats, and I'm well aware of what kinds exist. In fact, this is one of the many reasons outdoor cat owners should again, be condemned. This being said, there are vaccines that exist that seek to minimize the risk of at least a given few diseases and afflictions and, ideally, work to better aid a working cat in its day to day life. Further still, a responsible cat owner and trainer will understand what their cat will need prior before putting them to work and potentially endangering them. The problem stems from the fact most people don't have working cats, and not everyone will get them vaccinated.

As for being a specific case, it isn't. You said it yourself that while barn cats do exist, they are to be completely forbidden and should be illegal. If you accept that the definition of an outdoor cat is one that is allowed more than at least 1/3 of its standard walking-around time to be outside rather than inside, no situation I could possibly cite is too niche. You also seem to consider that cats trained for a specific purpose are just as easily considered hazardous and should similarly be outlawed because of the risk to them and the outside. What about every single risk for outdoor dogs you seem to be ignoring? I do say "ignoring" not maliciously, but because in your original post you say

T3: ...get a damn ratting dog it won't give your livestock diseases

--which is blatantly incorrect. Here's a short PDF (or two) that actually proves the opposite of what you said, which I find even more alarming considering the fact we've gone on a multi-millennia tirade of breeding these dogs to have hyperspecific traits and instincts. If you did know this and were simply localizing it to cats, don't. Go big or go home, that's /gen.

T3: I wouldnt agree with someone letting their terrier run around un checked most of the day

Neither would I, it's a good thing this specific back and forth we're having is about legitimately trained animals rather than negligent owners, but then you went ahead and said this:

T3: no matter how much the terrier is killing rats and keeping the farm free of rodents, that dog is still running around doing god knows what else

You seem to be paranoid that trained animals are simply these fragile creatures that apparently can turn entire ecosystems to ash (this part is true in some cases) while also being this dainty and flimsy organism that barely holds its weight (this is not).

The alternative is you don't think they're fragile, just that they're destructive, and an ecosystem must be protected at all costs, even at risk to a farm or homestead. This is your personal view, and I would like to remind you that while I have been somewhat facetious and sarcastic, I'm attacking your opinion, and not your person. That being said, I'm going to continue attacking this view/idea because to me it's an asinine take rooted in goodwill and a lack of understanding.

Sure, in the context of a wild habitat, an animal that is not native to the area should not be allowed to roam free and damage it. There is a case where a cat single-handedly caused the extinction of a bird and I think this is a level of extreme that we shouldn't be talking about, but it's worth referencing given all that's been said so far. However, at what point does an outside cat become the single-biggest threat to a species? Surely it's not common, but this is pure speculation on my end. What isn't speculation is (and I'm trying to be very careful with my wording) human life takes precedence. Again, before I sound like a madman flailing her arms over her head and advocating for the extinction of every species or ecosystem we don't deem appropriate, here is a much-needed disclaimer: I am speaking in regards to our day-to-day life and survival, economy, and housing. I am not saying we should demolish (or risk demolishing) natural habitats and our own ecosystems just for the sake of greed, and I never have. I am saying that in the very niche context that is either protection from outside predators or procuring food to feed hundreds of millions of people, a few trees must fall. Frankly, you couldn't pay me not to cut down a tree if it meant my family would stay warm for the night, so long as there wasn't any alternatives.

T3: Minion isn't allowed to free roam either is he?

To my knowledge, Minion is allowed to roam free in specific circumstances, though that's more in a commanding/advisory context and capacity than a general one. Really, I should reach out to Nate and see if Minion is allowed to do his own thing, but it wouldn't surprise me if that was the case.

T3: bro you sound like youre 12, first of all stop acting edgy going all "ohh ohhh i love starting drama"

Yeah, this is fair. In my defense, you made a very generalized statement and at the time I was on my 8th cup of coffee and was basically simulating what it was like to have Parkinson's, so I wasn't in the mood to act coherent or link things. Luckily today I'm only on my sixth, so we'll see if I last long enough to drink a seventh or if I have a stroke on my way to the kitchen after having written all of this.

outdoor cats should be illegal. I don't care that it's gonna make it impossible for some people to have cats, I don't care that it would make more cats have to be put down because they can't be kept indoors. No, barn cats aren't a valid excuse. Barn cats are useless, get a damn ratting dog it won't give your livestock diseases or shit in their feed like barn cats do. I don't give a shit that your cat tears the house up if you keep it inside, maybe you should actually care for your cat and not expect all it's enrichment to come from being tossed outdoors. Stop making up excuses for neglecting cats.

[namisweatheria]

I feel like we don't discuss Nami's relationship with gender enough. Her entire character is so deeply informed by being a girl in a male-dominated pirate world and it's so interesting and so worth talking about.

The background creepiness of Bad pirate crews, which are most of them, how they tend to not have any female crew members at all, how they beckon any pretty young woman around to come play with them and join them. It's real bad. It's also like, a totally 2 dimensional portrayal of evil that is reserved for the most background of background characters.

However I think their ubiquity says a lot about how piracy is meant to be perceived by the public in One Piece, and is one of the strongest indicators of how prevalent misogyny is in-world.

It's very normal in One Piece for regular island inhabitants to have never met a Different class of pirate in their life. There's no reason for them to withhold judgement that maybe these pirates won't be like every crew that attacked before, and to wait and judge them by their actions. I mean frankly that would be irrationally weak self-preservation.

There are people who live peacefully under the flags of Yonkos who protect them, and feel loyalty and gratitude to them for it, but that seems to only be thing with very big name pirates. The East Blue, being the weakest and least populated, has no such plethora of powerful people and resulting turf wars.

So. Nami. Is very clearly implied to have never met any Different pirates before. I'm thinking about what that means. About how every group of pirates she stole from were creepy, dangerous men. How she started going out stealing when she was still a young child. How she didn't have a mother anymore to guide her or comfort her. How Arlong would grab her chin inappropriately, talk about her as a "human female", as property, and god knows what else.

How all the men in Arlong's crew treated her patronizingly, pretending they're all friends, teasing her and playing at respect when really not a single one of them ever stuck up for her or hesitated to accuse her of betrayal. Who were always ready to kill her if she refused to cooperate. Who grabbed her and intimidated her when they felt like it.

That's what she had to come back to after a close call with stealing from other predatory men, instead of the relief of home there was a dark, cramped room filled with endless hours of misery and isolation and blood. Where any one of her captors could barge in and demand new maps, work faster, where did you go, you took too long again this time. Endless threats and incursions.

I'm thinking about that her fight scene in Alabasta, where she tumbles and rips off her cape and uses it to catch her enemy's spikes, before leaping to her feet and running out the back door, all in one moment. How it makes her enemy reconsider her and think, "so the girl's not a total novice at fighting after all." What that implies about her experiences as a young thief. The times she wasn't fast or clever enough and had to fight and claw her way out. Why she always carried a staff and a knife. Why she was the only one before Chopper who had any medical knowledge or experience.

You know she was stitching herself up. And the weapons, how do you think she learned to use those? If any of the Arlong Pirates helped her it wasn't out of kindness and it wasn't gentle.

Then I think about Nojiko, and Bellemere's memory, and the only softness in a hard life. How easily Nami connects to every young woman experiencing hardship that she meets. How completely she dismisses the struggles of men unless they mean something to her and are going through something terrible. The way that Nami only has sympathy for women and children is easily noticeable in-text, but it's also something confirmed in those words by the author. And it's clearly because of the life she lived, the men who had all the power and only abused it, who saw her as nothing but a girl to take advantage of, without anyone aside from her sister clearly knowing and caring about any of it.

Nami clearly isn't bitter, she doesn't think the world owes her recompense, on the contrary she knows she is far from the only person in the world to suffer the things she has suffered. She is endlessly reaching out and kind, but only to those that she isn't sure would get help without her. Certainly, before Luffy, Usopp, and Zoro, no man ever reached out a hand to her without an ulterior motive.

I think when she sees a girl in trouble, a girl biting her lip to hold in a scream of grief, a girl running in the woods away from a monster, a girl captured by pirates, she sees someone who no one is coming for. Who no one will stick up for. A person without allies in a world against her. Whether it's actually true in this case or not, she runs straight for that girl anyways every single time.

[green-crocs12]

idiots in love (nami already hates them)

[manofbeskar]

my 11-month-long project is finally out!!! 177-page comic adaptation of my second mishanks fic "hard feelings". you can get the comic (+ 6 bonus artworks!) here

thank you for 1 year in mishanks fandom, i had a lot of fun making art and writing stories. i hope you enjoy this christmas present from me :)

[kacievvbbbb]

You do get the sense that the fallout of Roger's death and the Roger pirates disbanding not so much traumatized Buggy and Shanks indifferent ways but instead generated such drastically different reactions to the trauma.

While the trauma of everything seemed to push Shanks into the future, always constantly waiting for something, putting plans on hold and then later in place, for this great moment, this great coming that he sees on the Horizon. For Buggy it rooted him firmly in the past keeping him trapped in this grief masquerading as anger.

While Roger's death forced Shanks to grow up fast, it kind of arrested Buggy's development keeping him stuck in those same feelings, rooted int that same place.

You get the sense that Buggy's whole east blue schtick is just one long overdue rebellious phase one big fuck you to Roger and his ideals. He's rebelling against Roger's principles. One of their rules was don't steal from innocent people and Buggy was keeping a whole town in poverty. If Roger and Luffy's pirating styles are diametrically opposed to someone like Blackbeard, who might be the most literal pirate in the entire series, then buggy is the parody of that Blackbeard piratism. He is playing up cruelty, being the most piratey pirate possible, hell he's literally a clown on a stage. It's all a show! It's his own special way of trying to "get back at Roger" of trying to discard everything Roger taught him for this overacted, over exaggerated clownish cruelty. Mentally he never left that execution square. He is still 15, alone and scared.

Hell he literally never left either, while I'm pretty sure Shanks' booked it out of the east blue as fast as he could, Buggy never lef, might have never left, if not for Luffy. It's part of why Luffy bothers him so much, he's just like Roger everything that Buggy is trying hard to forget and here comes this kid, whose never even met the Captain but is wearing his hat, shoving it right back in his face.

It makes sense that he never leaves the east blue till Luffy literally forces him out of it (fucking with Luffy gets him captured and imprisoned) and it makes sense that it's Luffy that literally breaks him out of prison, literally sets him free, and on the path to greatness that maybe he was always meant to achieve (even if he trips his way into it). This boy that is tragically so much like his old captain but so beautifully unabashedly himself, is what Buggy needs to start letting go off the past, to start trying to move forward.

Maybe that's why Buggy, at what could arguably be described as his lowest moment, gets the strength to free himself from his own self imprisonment, realizing that even back then he was locking himself away and pinning his own dreams on Shanks. And, maybe for the first time ever, Buggy really own his dream. He declares to his tormentors and his crew and the entire world that; actually He wants to find the one piece, him, as captain of his own crew, this crew, not just a part of someone else's. That's his dream and he's willing to turn the world upside down to do it.

[fkapple]

Emily and Shane on things that scare them?

[seventh-district]

Figured I'd try my hand at some Redacted character post/text edits!

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Credit to @/sainthowlzon for all the Listener icons, and to @/elisacaleisa for their google drive with all the canon icons!

(slightly alternative version of the Solaires' GC edit below the cut bc i had a lil too much fun with what Vincent would name his contacts)

[littlefankingdom]

Tumblr already showed me twice a post where OP implies that Bruce made the choice to not help Jaybin when he was attacked by an angry mob in Legends, so I had to check, and look at that, they were lying.

Context: the general population has been turned against superheroes.

An angry mob does attack Robin, and what is Batman's reaction? To come to the rescue! He even immediately calls him "son", switching to an endearing term to reassure him. However, Batman is hit in the eyes with a bottle of perfume and blinded, as his attention was on his boy. Gordon tries to get him to leave, but he refuses because he can't leave his boy behind, and when Gordon tells him that his men will take care of Robin, Batman is like "I don't trust your men with my son". Batman is forced out of here, he is so pissef, and he is called "arrogant" by the cops there.

This man trusts ONE cop, and it's Jim Gordon, that's it. And people dare to tell me Bruce isn't an acab believer. He grew up in Gotham and his parents were murdered when he was 8, of course he believes in acab. That's why he was so against his son becoming one.

Anyway, later on, Jason is in the hospital (Bruce was right, Gordon's men didn't do shit), and Bruce is pissed at the situation. However, Jason feels guilty and ashamed, and Bruce immediately goes to comfort him, reminding him he isn't at fault for getting beat up, that Bruce is proud of him and that he is a great Robin. And when Jason compares himself to Dick, Bruce stops that too, bringing up that Dick also had less glorious moments like this. And again, Bruce switches to "son" and "Jay", which convey affection in the goal of comforting his boy.

In the end, Bruce leaves his son safe at the hospital, resolved to not obey the president and get to the bottom of this. Later, Jason decides he cannot stay there and must help, even if it kills him. And people dare say that he wasn't reckless.

Anyway, the other thing about this, apart from Bruce didn't walk away WILLINGLY from Jason being attacked by an angry mob, is that as awful this is, the writers never intended this to be a traumatic experience for Jason. Of course, it would be normally, but it's just a plot point here to get Robin away from Batman while he works with the other heroes. Damn, there isn't even a follow-up to Jason leaving the hospital, he doesn't show up in the next issues to help.

Sometimes, especially with older stories, comics' events don't matter as much as you think they do. If you want to re-imagine them as impacting for the characters, that's your choice, but let's not act as if they were intended to be. Because I saw that moment being used as a comparison to Under The Red Hood, to be like "see Bruce keeps abandoning Jason", and like, calm down with the shortcuts. Because you are making that up, on your own, with what was given to you by different writers over the decades that didn't communicate with each others or agree on the characters.

[destinationtoast]

🐈💔

I'm sad to report that Little Kitty Fantastico, aka "Tico," passed away earlier this week, at age 9, after a heart failure. He died at home, surrounded by love and cuddles.

He was such a good and beloved little guy. He was bonkers for lettuce & other greens, and he absolutely could not be trusted around salads. His skills included perching atop walls and keeping watch on everything below. Like his sisters, he was long and had arms that went on forever. He was usually both the goofiest and the floofiest of all his sibs, especially when he was begging for belly rubs.

He was exceptionally sweet and snuggly. (Especially with Winter, who is very sad now. 😿) We will miss him so much.

[sualne]

small oneshot turning into something longer than planned

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

new apartment had a toilet problem and within two hours there was someone here fixing the fucking toilet problem. crazy how that works.

[cybertron-after-dark]

Being constantly surrounded by the presence of a loving God sounds great until you realize you never know when his freaky fuckin eyes are gonna show up to check on you.

And man. They do it a LOT.

[pokemon-radical-red]

I hate it when I headcanon a character who’s canonically a girl as a trans man and make ships of him and a character who’s canonically a guy and I refer to it as a gay/mlm/guyxguy/whatever ship and someone gets mad. Like omg let trans people have FUNNNNN. Why are queer headcanons and genderbends cool until they’re saying that the character is trans???

“OMGGG you’re so misogynistic I can’t believe you would erase FEMALE representation!!!”

and like half of the characters in the franchise are women, and a total of… NONE of the characters are trans men. Also, my headcanon doesn’t change the source material. If my stuff upsets you, you can block me and go engage with the source or maybe every single other fanwork, since mine is the only trans man hc for this character that I’ve ever seen.

or when people are like “WTF??? this is so transphobic!!! how dare you imply that a character who looks like that could be a trans man?!?! do you think that trans men are women or something??? she uses she/her, and you’re misgendering her!”

No, I don’t think that being a trans man makes you a woman or vice versa. That’s why it’s a headcanon, and the headcanon is that this character is actually a trans man and not a woman at all! You’ll never guess what pronouns most trans men had to use at some point in their lives, and you really won’t like it when you find out about pre-(or no-)transition trans men… or trans men who are in the closet… or trans men who don’t know that they’re trans yet.

“But the character is a kid!!! Saying they’re trans is sexualizing them.”

I’ve seen this one from other queer people. Like did you miss when all of the homophobes said this about your identity, or do you think that bigotry is only bad when it’s directed at you?

“Why would you say ‘testosterone could fix her’??? Are you trying to call her a delusional woman?”

Why would your brain even go to that first? This literally has to be a bad faith reading, because there’s no way that someone could see what I said and get this unless they were specifically looking for something to be mad at me for.

(Note for anyone unaware: “Estrogen would’ve fixed him!” was a meme going around at the time I said this. I’m not sure if it’s still super big, but this was a joke to the effect of that.)

“So girls can’t be tomboys anymore? You just wanna trans everyone?”

This is like actual real life transphobic rhetoric. This isn’t even just shitting on my headcanon, but in fact, sending transphobic hate to a trans man. Thanks 👍. Maybe you should go send JK Rowling another message about how much you loved her essay instead of bothering me.

[kacievvbbbb]

I am very down with the idea that whenever Shanks comes to Visit him on Kuriagina Mihawk uses him like hired muscle

He works him like a dog, Shanks hasn’t even set two feet on the island and Mihawk has handed him a list of all the furniture that needs moving, the light bulbs (he has like 30 chandeliers) that need changing, the rooms that need repainting. Living in the ruins of a castle of a dead kingdom takes work. Could Mihawk do it? No he has a garden to take care off.🙄

Just the idea that Mihawk started a renovation project on his castle while Zoro was there as part of his “training” and Shanks shows up and really Shanks you’re just gonna stand there while the kid does all that heavy lifting Mihawk says as he sips his glass of wine.

Shanks of course is happy to do it. Benn, who he recruits cause there’s just somethings a one armed man shouldn’t do on his own, is of course disgruntled that he has once again been dragged into their weird foreplay.

Perona of course goes “I’m just a girl” 🥺. And of course when Mihawk is unmoved by this She huff and sets to tricking Zoro to do her share of the tasks as well.

She then proceeds to become the most heinous, unethical, inhumane work site manager to ever exist. All while wearing a glittery construction vest and bedazzled hard hat

[scribbyizhere]

thinking abt an au where they became marines as kids (due to unnamed reasons) but they turned out wrong

might talk more abt this au but I'm shy so I'd prefer questions abt it lol

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