#please i just wanna make some pretty beasties with kitties

[motionless-menagerie]

im feeling real damn frustrated right now

my original goal with my taxidermy stuff was to one day get good enough to do pet taxidermy. and while ive come to the decision to not do that since working with clients for that evidently sucks, i still want to be skilled enough with domesticated animals to preserve my own pets with dignity, particularly my cats. in addition to that, i have a couple fantasy pieces planned that require cat skins for them. HOWEVER it seems to be near impossible for me to acquire cats! obviously im not gonna go out and steal people's pets or whatever, and while i have found a dead cat once with no collar or ID, it was also far too decomposed to preserve the skin. poor thing didn't even still have skin. ive tried looking for places to buy intact dead cats, like shelters and vets but have been turned down by all, and even just reached out the other day to one of those scientific vendors that sell preserved animals for students to dissect, asking if i could get a cat from them before they fix it with formalin (since they sell a lot of formalin fixed cats) and if not i wanted to know where they got their cats to fix them. their only answer was "Our cats are ethically sourced!" which is just. incredibly unhelpful

so ig im asking if any of yall in the vulture culture group know where i could get my hands on some non-fixed dead cats to practice on, that are legally acquired and weren't some random poor person's pet that got stolen from them

[dominikadecember]

I don't think I've managed to convey how excited I am for this. It's literally one of the few things that is helping me not off myself at the moment.

The actress they chose for Leia is perfect. She's got the physical attributes for Donna big time but the Eric Forman mannerism to perfection.

And the fact that he is her best friend???? I mean my heart. My actual heart.

Also when he sat down on the couch I got goosebumps!!!!!!!!! How many times did Eric sat on the edge of the basement couch??????? My nostalgic heart! And Donna saying 'Eric's having a hard time with Leia' was really sweet.

I dunno why but this also tugged at my heart strings. After the shitball of s8 these two ending up together is right.

This however??????? Despite looking super pretty together this makes no sense. I completely get that DM is not coming back (which breaks my heart and I can't watch the original show without feeling guilty because Hyde was always my favourite character and he sullied that along with my favourite ship from this show) but despite the clusterfuck that was s8 Jackie ended up with Fez. So I want a really good fucking explanation for how Jackie who got character development in her personal life and relationships thanks to Hyde and in her professional life thanks to her work (only thing s8 did right imo) ended up with Michael Kelso again. Michael Kelso who moved to Chicago! I wonder how Betsy is doing so I hope there will be a reference to her. They better explain this all well!!!!

Speaking of Fez, him having his own salon (or a chain I think it said in the trailer) makes so much sense and also makes me happy. Fez gets so much shit for being a foreigner so it's extremely satisfying to see him be successful and him and Kitty still being beasties. 10/10 for this plot.

I wanna hug this old hippie. Given that my fav character is ruined, I didn't even consider that Leo would be brought back because he is so tied to Hyde but him showing up is perfection. I also hope Bob will make a cameo at some point and there will be a tribute of some sorts to Midge.

Whilst the chemistry of the kids is not quite yet gelled (I sincerely hope that the 360s in the trailer and teaser were just editing and not how they actually filmed it because that looks awful, the og 360 filming was perfect!), I look forward to the 90s nostalgia. I mean look at that shot which I'm sure is in the credits which also have an extremely 90s remake of grungy and punky of the theme song. I must say at first I heard it and was like 'da fuq' but now I'm getting into it. It feels very 90s. Also, these two ought to bang, not them heteros.

Idk why but I'm seriously shipping them. PLEASE BE ANOTHER NEXT DOOR ROMANCE!!!!!!!

Kitty and Red are in top form with Kitty being the loving but over the top and absolutely insane woman who gives far too much of herself to anyone and Red... Well....

Red remains Red. At least some of his lessons have sunk in.

Anyways, I'm reeeeeeally looking forward to this despite my favourite character being now a horrible reminder of how awful some people are. My nostalgia is going to be going through the roof and it's just the beginning!