The
border is not a wall—it’s a system of control. It doesn’t protect
people; it pits them against each other. It doesn’t foster togetherness;
it breeds resentment. It doesn’t keep out predators; it gives them
badges and guns.
The border does not divide one world from another. There is only one world, and the border is tearing it apart. https://crimethinc.com/stickers/immigrants-welcome
I just wanted to post this again, after my dear friend included it in a post of hers.
It’s a BEAUTIFUL piece of artwork, and the artist, @kmcmorris, did a fantastic job on portraying what Cleopatra VII would have genuinely looked/dressed like, rather than the over the top and stereotypical Egyptian style she’s almost always shown in. It’s always been one of my absolute favourite depictions of Cleopatra, and wanted to share it with everyone again.
DID HE JUST DROP AN ELBOW ON A GATOR!?
Yeah? It be like that sometimes
The form. The precision.
Florida man is at it again
it is pretty hard to find solid statistics on wolf attacks, but as far as i can tell, wolves in north america kill way way way less than one person a year, which means that forces more deadly to us than wolves include: dogs, ice fishing, and getting crushed by a falling flat screen tv.
…further complications to trying to write non-ridiculous angst into a werewolf story
“you don’t understand…i’ve done things under the full moon that i can never take back…one time i ate a squirrel”
“I SNIFFED MY OWN BUTT. THE INDIGNITY HAUNTS ME STILL.”
“i have pooped in the woods and now must go brood about it. don’t try to follow me.
…and seriously, be careful around your flatscreen, it is probably heavier that you think.”
European wolves (before they were hunted into extinction in most areas) attacked humans purposefully a lot; it’s in the historical record.
North American gray wolves have a natural fear of humans and attack people very rarely, really only when threatened or starving.
So like, imagine, like, a divide between people who got infected with Old World and New World lycanthropy. One makes you this dangerous beast that sees humans as a viable food source an another makes you perceive humans as a threat. Imagine people getting it wrong!
Some shady paranormal group capturing a werewolf to use as security but it just runs away when people trespass.
Some hunters go deep into the woods to murder a werewolf clan for their pelts but it turns out they’ve isolated themselves so deeply because they have the European strain and none of the hunters survive.
New werewolves are so confused because the websites give conflicting advice: get yourself to your nearest national park when you’re about to turn and just let yourself run free; if you try to cage yourself the claustrophobia and the smell of people will make you panic and you could really hurt yourself or someone else.
vs
If you’re anywhere near human civilization you must make sure you turn in a closed space that you can’t escape from in wolf form or you’ll definitely kill someone. Just try to take a nap during the full moon, OK.
And they’re like, WHAT DO I DO WHICH ONE DO I HAVE?
updated position: at the end of the day, there are, in fact, a number of possible compelling werewolf problems.
case in point, the global werewolf cultural divide!
on the subject of the global werewolf cultural divide, another update, per wikipedia:
Wolves from different geographic locations may howl in different fashions: the howls of European wolves are much more protracted and melodious than those of North American wolves, whose howls are louder and have a stronger emphasis on the first syllable. The two are however mutually intelligible, as North American wolves have been recorded to respond to European-style howls made by biologists (x)
that’s right guys: wolves have accents
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A digital billboard crashed during a foggy night in Odessa, Ukraine and displayed a floating error warning in the night sky.
if i looked up while driving and saw this i would assume the world was ending
