I was thinking last night about my college anthropology class and how when it was brought up that chimpanzees engage in actual warfare, my first reaction to that was, audibly, "awesome." My professor (who I had a tight relationship with at the time) was appalled, and couldn't understand why I thought that was a hope-inducing thing for me to learn.
So many people have said things like, "War is a uniquely human invention." But it isn't. We are not inherently, uniquely, monstrous beings at our core. If humanity was the only species capable of warfare (not just conflict, but actual warfare with tactics beyond "go here and kill") I might be more prone to despair for humanity's future. But we are not alone in that, and there's something hopeful about that fact.
I despise war, and all of the consequences thereof. Most wars have been needless aggression or the consequences thereof. But I think that if we were unique in this aspect among all of our studies of other species, I would be more prone to that despair.
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Another aspect of this whole shitty discourse that's been driving me insane is that I feel like I can't actually express the criticisms I do have of Israel at all or in an unvarnished way, because if I do, it will get picked up by antisemites and people who want Israel wiped off the map and just be more fuel for the fire. I refuse to be a token and I don't want to hang out dirty laundry at a time when doing that gets Jews attacked and feeds into violent hatred for the entirety of Israel. At the same time, I feel morally obligated to discuss these things, because (a) I care about the lives it's impacting and (b) because I also refuse to be a hypocrite that prioritizes "being right" over the facts on the ground, one of the worst and most common sins in these discussions.
So then I constantly find myself doing crazy math to figure out what I can and can't responsibly speak on, because what if it gets used as a weapon against my people instead of being necessary intra-Jewish tochecha?
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Vibrates intensely in emotional reunion.
Look I know this is now how it went 😔 but I really wanted to use this quote for these two (its from How to Train your Dragon 2), imagine Dainsleif feeling so much joy and relief upon finding the Lost Prince alive and well, him showing more vulnerability than Paimon and Lumine have ever seen.
ITS NOT CANON, BUT IT COMPELS ME!!! xD
-NO ROMANCE INCLUDED-
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Piece number Four! Line art by @cakeractuallyarts
FentonWorks!
Proudly hunting ghosts since 1995
Expect for Phantom (the Ghost Boy, Inviso-bill). FentonWorks is no longer accepting hit requests on this ghost, capture/retrieval requests only.
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I feel like a lot of the fun of a bodyswap fic when you're working in a universe where everyone's kind of a furry of some flavor, is how goddamn alien everybody's bodies must be to each other. Like, I'm sure that it was weirdly jarring to wake up as a spider or a deer or a winged cat or a television, but they've had years and years to get used to it. But then you suddenly get swapped into the body of a prey animal, or into someone with a different hormonal system to you, and now you're relearning how to so much as have feelings again.
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I think it's safe to say Mike Pence pretty much alienated any potential voters after his interview with Tucker Carlson.
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