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Also what accountability is she supposed to take? Wanda's been taking accountability ever since she got back in 2010, restoring the depowered mutants powers and not expecting forgiveness from them because she's not owed that just for restoring their powers.

If we're going to have a discussion again about accountability, it should be one about how Pietro, Magneto, the Avengers, and the X-Men need to take accountability for making it happen too, because it was just her. The fallout of a much needed discussion could've provided rich tension and development in characters

I agree with you about Wanda, she has literally been in this same cycle for a decade, and not one writer is willing to move on, she's already gone through this, it's already been done, and yet Williams throws this back at her again why? My theory is that it's cheap, familiar, drama, there was no need to do a set up for those scene, EVERYONE knows about House of M/M Day, so it was easy to use it for some "heightened stakes" but the issue with that is, that isn't wasn't supposed to be about Wanda's past "misdeeds" which she already atoned for! How many freaking times does she have to go through this cycle???

This book was supposed to be about Magneto, and a mystery, but now its all gonna be solved without even the help of the X-Factor detective team! What use are they. Also what was up with Tommy and David in the vines? We literally have not seen Pietro's reaction to any of this. Why are so many plot lines dropped in the space of 4 comics? Where is the TRIAL OF MAGNETO?

I don't agree that this was all Pietro's fault, Pietro was reacting, he wasn't setting out to hurt people like the Avengers/X-Men who all decided that they had to kill Wanda. He and Wanda are victims of the Avengers/X-Men's choices, and I am really tired of Pietro & Wanda being blamed when they have already done everything they could to atone, both already suffered. Pietro had his powers taken from him, he did alot of bad things, he later tried to make up for it and he took full accountability for his actions. Wanda has tried to fix what she did as well already. But you know who has never been blamed or done anything about this? The ones who wanted to kill Wanda, their FRIEND, because they were afraid of her. Erik also has some blame because of his inaction to stop them, prompting Pietro to ask her to change the world, and also because he killed Pietro.

I am very tired of the Maximoff Twins tied to the House of M and unable to move on because everyone wants to write "aftermath" of M Day. The Twins have done enough, they have been through enough, and Trial of Magneto was sloppy writing built on shoddy grounds, if they wanted to undo the retcon they failed, if they wanted to provide a good story, they failed. There is only one more issue left but I know it's not gonna be enough to fix this mess of writing.

Here’s some good news for your day: snow leopards have been sighted again in the Khorkh mountains in Mongolia for the first time in nearly 30 years!  The area surveyed is a small, highly biodiverse sanctuary on the border of China. Snow leopard sightings used to be common, but since the 1990s, there hadn’t been any confirmed reports of their presence. 

A new study by the Snow Leopard Trust, however, was the first time there’s been rangers and camera traps in Khorkh. According to the Snow Leopard trust, “we don’t have an unlimited number of cameras or trained field staff, so we have to select our study sites carefully. This is the first time we’ve been able to venture east into Small Gobi A Protected Area – thanks to the help of local rangers, whom we had trained in camera trapping techniques before the survey. The fact that we’ve been able to confirm the snow leopard’s presence here this quickly is encouraging.” 

What’s even better is that the camera trap caught photos of multiple individuals, including a mother with young cubs. 

Snow leopards are not super svelte like other big cats. They’re stockier with kind of wide bodies, for the purpose of heat conservation. You can see in this photo that they don’t have the “definition” of warmer-climate cats like tigers. 

Add to that the fact that they’ve got the longest and thickest fur of any big cat species, and that they need to put on extra weight to survive the winter… and you get a pretty chunky-looking felid. You can see in the photo below that they can look fairly close to spherical when they’re resting or curled up on themselves. 

We’re all fairly used to seeing photos of snow leopards that are either taken in the warmer part of the year, or ones from zoos. Summer coats make cats look less fluffy, and in captive settings, snow leopards don’t need to put on extra weight to prepare for a lean season. But you can see even from photos of snow leopards in human care that they’re still super fluffy animals. Here’s some babies from the LA Zoo - even in a warm climate, they’re still puffy and could easily look rotund if caught at a bad angle. 

Above is Bataar from Cape May County Zoo on the left, and Raj from Binder Park Zoo on the right. Both at great weights but fairly spherical when at rest. (Photo Credits: J. Berg and Zookeeper Bryan.)

The lovely lady below this text is Misha, from the Sacramento Zoo. You can see how even just sitting, a reproductive-age female snow leopard can look quite round. Directly below her is a group of snow leopards from Assiniboine Park in Manitoba (who I unfortunately don’t have names for) showing how common that aesthetic is for the species. (Photo Credits: M. Owyang and F. Donnelly)

Snow leopard cubs are super fluff when they’re little. The very fresh baby on the right was born at the Welsh Mountain Zoo in the UK, and was probably around two or theee months old when the photo was taken. The older cub on the right is Misha’s son, Coconut, when he was about nine months old. (Photo Credits: M. Rimmer and M. Owyang)

Even though snow leopards are super fluffy, it doesn’t mean their actual body under the coat is chunky. While they’re built a little more stocky than other big cats, they’re still very long when fully stretched out. Here’s Misha and Coconut again to demonstrate: on the left, Misha stands while Coconut sits on a rock; on the right, Misha is standing fully stretched out with her paws on a tree. (Photo Credits: M. Owyang)

And because no photoset of snow leopards would be complete without it, here’s some gratuitous tail from Princess at Tanganyika Wildlife Park. (Photo Credit: K. Randolph)