whenever you read those “10 things to know before getting this pet” things they’re so basic, just stuff about lifespan and diet and stuff, no one ever thinks to tell you “your rat is going to want to open your mouth and stick his head in” or “bearded dragons sometimes just swell their eyes to the size of ping pong balls’ or ‘chickens will try to eat your cat’
“Your rat is going to pop their eyeballs in and out rapidly, because it loves you.”
Okay I need to ramble about this because I love it so much. The above is called boggling and it looks like this:
And it’s caused by the rat bruxing it’s teeth. Now bruxing is rat’s grinding their upper and lower incisors. There’s a whole range of reasons rat do this. The most prominent one being to file their teeth down, as the upper and lower incisors are constantly growing.
But rats will also brux based on emotional responses too. Mostly when they are anxious or stressed, or when they are content (kind of like the rat version of purring). When rats are so relaxed and content, they’ll brux so much that it’ll cause them to boggle.
This is because of the masseter muscle. This is a muscle that attaches to the jaw bone and runs up under the eye socket, as shown below
When a rat is bruxing, this causes the muscle to tighten and loosen rapidly with the intense grinding / chewing, under the eye socket of the rat, that causes their eyes to pop forward out of their heads and wiggle.
I’ve been noticing a touch of bitterness between sex repulsed aces and sex favorable aces over positivity posts about the other and let’s all take this moment to put ourselves in other people’s shoes.
Many sex repulsed aces grow up feeling like outcasts because everyone around them is interested in sex while they are uncomfortable, even disgusted by it. They feel like they are alone until they come across asexuality and hey, that sounds like me! They are now relieved because they’re not the only ones in the world who don’t want sex. There is nothing wrong with them after all. Then, they see an influx of posts about how you can be asexual and still enjoy sex. So now they feel like they’re being pushed aside in favor of aces who like sex. Because to them, everyone else in the world likes sex so wtf.
On the other end, correct me if I’m wrong, but many sex favorable aces grow up feeling like they don’t quite fit in either. Something is missing. They spend their whole lives wondering why they are the way they are. They come across the asexual label, assume it’s about “not liking sex” so they quickly abandon it and continue not knowing why they are the way they are. It’s not until they read one of the posts about how asexuals aren’t all sex averse that they actually start questioning if they’re ace. To them, it’s important that people know that asexuals can be sex favorable and enjoy sex, because so many aces go through life not knowing what they are because aces are stereotyped as not liking sex. They want to break that stereotype.
Both sex repulsed and sex favorable aces deserve validation. Both deserve their own, special posts. Both belong in the ace community.
Sex repulsed aces, understand that sex favorable aces need that validation because they spent so much time lost and confused because of the assumption that asexual = disliking sex.
Sex favorable aces, understand that sex repulsed aces need that validation because they spent so much time lost and confused because everyone seems to love sex and they feel alone because of it.
Let’s agree that all aces are valid, regardless of their feelings towards sex.
ash williams is doing it all hes an idiot hes a genius hes a retail worker hes a malewife hes a dilf hes 20 years old hes 50 years old hes trans hes bisexual his tits are out 24/7 he has a chainsaw hand he has a pet lizard he is my poor little meow meow he is my best friend
Tumblr gifmakers are better than $1mil worth of marketing. I’ll see endless ads for a show and be like meh but I’ll see one good gifset and suddenly I’m on s2 ep10 finding blorbo from my gifs
I may not think about orv every day anymore but yjh is still my pampered little meow meow. my fussy spoiled showcat. my depressed divorced catman despondently pushing his glass of milk off the bar. actually you know what
b) once burnout hits you CANNOT work that hard, by your standards, so odds are it actually hit a while ago and you just “powered through” because that’s what you’re used to doing. So now, every day, you’re hitting your limit and thinking “wtf man i used to be able to do this, i used to be competent, clever, diligent” and like yeah. you were. and that burns glucose. welcome to the dumb bitch zone.
and c), lmao, me too girl
fuck b) came for me harder than the first post did god damn
childhood emotion of wanting a dragon that is your friend so bad that it feels like there is a vacuum in your soul that only a dragon who is your friend can fill
greg, mouth full of potatoes: oh wow! these potatoes are amazing! like so good. not to overstate the tastiness of these potatoes but like they’re possibly the best i’ve ever had maybe?
tom, materializing in front of him: what the fuck did u just say? the best potatoes you’ve ever had? you unsophisticated plebe. i could cook u potatoes that would be a thousand times better than these bottom of the barrel shit fuck potatoes. my potatoes would rock your goddamn world. you’d be screaming my name so loud that the neighboring lords and ladies would be able to hear you from miles away and then to shut you up i’d shove more potatoes in your mouth. bet you’d like that though wouldn’t u you sick fuck. god.
Regarding Serizawa and whether or not Spirits & Such will be a part of his future, the answer is implicit in the way he speaks here. In talking about how each person has their own role to fulfil in REIGEN, the scanlation translates this one part of his speech as given. But this removes the poetry in what he’s saying: he uses 流れ着く, “washed ashore/drifting toward”, rather than just “ended up”.
I’d translate this part as, “I understand this personally because I went through a lot before life drifted me toward this job”. The image is that Seri was lost ‘at sea’ before he finally found the shore - his purpose - at S&S. (Twitter)
