Ambrosius: Ballister told me we could be friends with benefits

Ambrosius: Turns out, the benefits were being his friend and not getting thrashed as badly during training

Otter Knight: That must have been so disappointing for you

Do y’all still like me making these

Me: Mom, can we get Jeantonio?

Mom: No, we have Jeantonio at home.

The Jeantonio at home:

Almost every day I think about that first post I saw a few years ago where someone decided that people enjoying the cuteness of otters needed to be destroyed for the sake of ‘reality’ and ‘facts’. The post was open from start to finish that they were telling you that otters did ‘horrible things’ because they wanted to ‘break the illusion’ or whatever. It was full of language and tone that implied or outright said that people were ‘stupid’ or ‘foolish’ for liking otters, and that they should be punished with this information. This fact. This fact that was a twisted form of humans applying their moral concepts on to wild animals, to begin with, but was also simply being put out in to the world to hurt people for liking that animal. And then I think about how everyone started sharing this ‘fact’, post after post sharing the same tone and language of punishment, of implied ‘stupidity’ for ‘not knowing’. People gleefully commented this ‘fact’ on thousands of otter picture posts, they posted it a million times on the otter fan facebooks, they made tiktoks, they hammered it in over and over again. Don’t like otters. Don’t think they’re cute. They’re Bad™️. You’re a Bad™️ person if you like them. And people genuinely believed that. I saw so many people genuinely hurt by this, who thought they were a bad person and needed to stop liking or sharing otter pictures. Or they’d add a little note at the bottom, ‘I know otters are Bad™️ but I still think they’re cute.’ And I can’t not think about how pointlessly fucked up and cruel that entire thing was from the start, and how manipulative and shitty it was. And how it spun out into the universe until even now, on an otter video posted earlier this year, there’s dozens of comments about how otters are Bad™️ because one person decided that this wild animal doing something that is repugnant to humans, the animal with no knowledge that this is Bad™️ or with malicious intent (because it’s a wild fucking animal), meant they needed to hurt and punish anyone who liked that animal. And, finally, that people were so afraid of being seen as morally wrong/Bad™️ that they destroyed their love for this animal on the word of some fucking rando online without stopping to look internally at their own moral compass and understanding of animal behavior.

Happy otter day! a poem in three parts... part i (inferno) Poor otters we! Wen feeling sick, Can haz good food To munch on quik? Without big snack We maybe faint... Oh yay, here's one! We eet the saint part ii (purgatorio) It's time to go Up in the sky & say to wurld Whisk'ry goodbye <3 Uh-oh! this jet Is much too small! RSPCA! Somebudy call!!!! part iii (paradiso) Ooh here at last The pearly gates. Our yummy saint & Peter waits. They look at us And start to grin. They can't stay mad :) They lets us in! *\o/*

★ — jason robertson, jake oettinger, & miro heiskanen; the dallas stars' 2017 draft class.

consider the sequence of head, heart and hands. should you get them doing something first and hope they realize how good the idea is once they try it out? should you get them buzzed up and excited first? should you start with a logical argument that starts from their problems and works back to how your idea will solve these?

find an effective sequence of actions. find the best way of combining head, heart and hands over time to create an effective package. (x)

Love ❤️ always wins 😍

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12knKYu_MFiJTtWW4VNPgMEZnQy3Zi14v/view?usp=drivesdk

Quotes I never expected to hear:

"Mark my words you overgrown water rat, the French Mermaid army will rise from these depths stronger than ever! Viva la Mermaid France!"

- AI Napoleon Bonaparte as a Mermaid, summoned to play Cheating Chess against Twitch Chat for Rosa the Sea Otter's 24th birthday.

Happy birthday Rosa.

And well done to DougDoug's Chat for raising 300k for the Monterey Bay Aquarium for Rosa's birthday this year!

sobbing at these quotes from saad’s new article on delly and otter’s relationship

(very much recommend an athletic subscription if ur able to even just for saad’s articles. even just for THIS article)

NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOUT HIS FUCKING FOUNTAIN!!

Pre Movie

Ballister: There's no way he likes me back

Otter Knight: Ambrosius would throw himself in front of a moving car for you

Ballister: Ambrosius would throw himself in front of a moving car for fun!

When your computer is down at work and the Wi-Fi is shitty you can do anything you want to pass the time

Neal: How did you break your leg?

Otter Man: Do you see those porch stairs?

Neal: Yes.

Otter Man: I didn't.