Lady J Senpai

Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

Vultures are also responsible for keeping diseases at bay.

Vulture stomach acid is so powerful that it can kill anthrax and many other deadly diseases.

So when they consume the carcass of a creature that has died of disease, they actually destroy the disease within it too!

"To answer a lot of people's question: this package is [4lbs] there's also, [10lbs] and [20lbs] ones (which used to be sold in most stores, but you can find them only in specialized ones nowadays). There are some tiny ones, like 1lb! Those are the ones you buy to carry when you travel."

Croatians apparently take a pound of toothpast with them when they travel.

Also a lot of us as kids had outside cats and we didn't have any control over their living conditions, but it still creates much guilt.

That's not the point though. The point is that culture changes and we know more and have a better ability to do right by our creatures, and we can do Our Best now just as we did Our Best in the past.

Many people are not conscious of cats being non-native predators, don't think of them as invasive species because they were never told that. It's fine to not have known something.

It's also fine to not have known that cats can thrive indoors and they don't need to go outside unsupervised to be happy. There are very common myths about how cats can't be trained and how cats don't get enriched by interaction by their owners that dogs do.

With that said—it is a good idea to keep cats inside. I grew up with outdoor cats and had so many of them get gruesome injuries or diseases and die very young. There is the occasional lucky cat that makes it a long time, but most outside cats die well before their time. They get in fights with other cats, they get mauled by dogs, they get hit by cars, they get all sorts of worms and other parasites, and they get poisoned or shot by malicious people who don't want cats on their property. One of my childhood cats, I found under a bush with her guts ripped out. Things like that happen to the cats that "disappear."

These things can happen even to a smart cat. You can't be sure your neighborhood is safe. Your neighbor two doors down might get a Husky tomorrow that mauls cats. A drunk driver might tear through your otherwise quiet neighborhood.

Your cat doesn't have a cell phone that they can call 911 if something is trying to kill them. They can't yell "Help me!" if they are stranded somewhere with a broken back or some horrible injury.

A cat isn't thinking, "I'm confident that I can deal with all the dangers out here!" when it goes outside. Cats roam around because instinct makes them feel that it's a good idea to maintain a big perimeter of territory, not because they necessarily like doing it. They don't know what a disease is. They just catch a disease and they know that they hurt and feel awful, and sometimes they die.

Y'all know how people say that "animal abusers" are unspeakably evil people that have something wrong with them. That's hard to reconcile with the fact that ~40 years ago, everyone you knew raised their animals a certain way, and you're pretty sure they weren't all evil people.

But sometimes you have to be like "I was doing my best then, and I will do my best now, and it's worthwhile that my best now is better than it was then."

You don’t start a romantic relationship! By just walking down the street and talking to random strangers!!!

They approach complete strangers.

Talk to women who clearly don’t want to socialize.

This is what became the main impetus behind the idea that yes, fandom does need somewhere to put the fic advertisers won’t find attractive, the fic that gets TOS’ed off other sites, the stuff which has its removal demanded by “all right-thinking people”, the stuff which is “perverse” or “not art” and so on.  Fandom needed an archive of our own, somewhere we could store these pieces of fic, because they were still fanfic, and they were still worthwhile, even if nobody in the corporate world wanted to see them.  (And yeah, the reason AO3 slants heavily toward same-sex content is because the corporate world still doesn’t want to see it, because they don’t want their pwecious brands associated with something “deviant” like that).