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The site has once again grown too toxic for my taste, despite attempts to "curate my feed", discourse continues to be reblogged by many artists I followed for cool art and not discourse.

And also apparently the delete account button is a dead link now, but I bet a lot of you didn't even notice that. So just unfollowing everyone as I follow them elsewhere, is the only way left to make it clear that I won't be active here anymore.

You'll probably find me here instead:

I still won't be checking this site, but I'm gonna upload my art backlog, for the sake of bringing attention to other sites I post it on and actually use.

burnt out pyromancers emitting steam and smoke

tired cryomancers shivering with visible foggy breath

weary necromancers looking ill and hearing voices

The animals that have stayed with us for thousands of years have evolved to cooperate with us better. Dogs have additional facial muscles around their eyes that wolves lack in order to mimic human facial expressions. Sheep grow their wool perpetually while their wild counterparts don't because a bigger fleece means they're more likely to be allowed to breed and be kept around. Domestic dairy cows produce much more milk than wild bovine species and domestic hens lay more eggs. Do you know how energy costly producing eggs or milk is for an animal? It's pretty intense! They wouldn't be able to do that if we hadn't given them the food and safety from predators and the elements to.

This is a bit to the left of my area of expertise, so bear with me (heh), but there had been attempts to domesticate brown bears several times in human history! Vikings were the first ones we have records of (that I know of) and also in the Roman empire, India and even the Victorians. There were absolutely a few generations of tame brown bears, from pets to zoo performers to hunters and war bears. They did have a chance of being domesticated like the wolves had been.

And all of that effort? Resulted in jack shit. Level of domestication remained zero. The bears got out of that domestication experiment with zero genes altered. There is several reasons for that, one of which being that they live too long and don't breed as fast, and also they are very individual animals as opposed to wolves, so they don't play well in groups, which is kinda necessary.

But the biggest reason? BEARS DON'T NEED HUMANS. There is absolutely no point in a bear's life cycle where it's survival would be immensely impacted for the better by human intervention. They can hunt and forage on their own, no help necessary. They have no trouble surviving harsh climates, so human houses weren't a temptation. They're solitary, so they didn't seek out companionship when alone. They occupy a similar dietary niche as humans so were more competition for resources that an opportunity for mutualism. They certainly didn't need protection.

So even though humans (being human) tried to domesticate bears, bears weren't really playing ball with that. They were just fine on their own, and saw no sufficient incentive to change themselves to fit into a relationship with humans. Sure there are some weirdoes who got fairy-napped as cubs and are happy living with humans, but their genes aren't useful enough to bring into the pool. They saw what happened to the wolves who got too close to the human fire and missionaries are mauled on sight.

@mediterranean-ground-cuckoo you have activated a sleeper agent I didn't know I had in my brain.

Because it's kinda already happened, but not really? The thing about cheetahs is that they are very, very endangered, part of the reason being that cheetah cub mortality rate is something like 80%, which is abnormally high even for wild animals. Cheetahs don't make dens where they can stash their cubs, so they have to sort of drag them around with them and hope predators mistake them for a badger and don't attack them (cheetah cubs have very fluffy fur on top of them as camouflage).

Add in the fact that tjey're basically horse software running on cat hardware? These guys are an anxious wreck, every single one of them. And if left on their own they will absolutely form a positive feedback loop of scaring each other half to death and be too stressed to breed.

Enter wildlife conservation scientists.

These guys really want cheetahs to stay around, and stay wild animals. They are very fucking careful to let cheetahs be wild animals while making sure they don't perish entirely to enviroment, starvation and predation, and that they preferably breed.

Cheetahs see humans staying back and keeping a respectful distance but helping whenever they need it. Everyone who knows cats knows this is basically a marriage proposal done right.

So humans want cheetahs to be proper wild animals. Cheetahs have tried being wild animals and said 'Fuck that shit! That's hard! Come pet me and keep me safe!'

Add in the fact that cheetah gene pool is so fucking limited they can basically all be each other's organ donors, you also gotta bolster their diversity, preferably with healthy cheetahs from zoos, and those are so used to humans some of them will just come up to you and demand to be petted. If it's one of those that was raised with helper dogs? That's basically an oversized housecat, or at least it really wants you to think it is.

And there is also a historical precedent for this! Fucking pharaos kept cheetahs as pets, and if taken young they can be tamed in, like, a year. Tame cheetahs were noble gifts in the Ming dynasty. The Mughals used them as hunting animals (though it might have been carcals or leopards).

Quite frankly, the only reason cheetahs HADN'T been domesticated so far is because getting them to breed in captivity is real fucking hard, and consistent sucesses were achieved only in the seventies. The males need to have their bromance packs (pardon, coalitions) and females need to have a large area to roam. Kinda hard to arrange without a whole lot of land.

Monster Researcher Eclair meets some Witch Hunters.

The trait is simple; regardless of if you're playing mainline canon, extra modes, different-character versions of events (ie meta knightmare, dededetour, guest star) or spinoffs, the character is ALWAYS the same instance of that character.

One of them is Galacta Knight. It is heavily implied that Star Dream seals Galacta Knight in the crystal, Nova calls them back in time to fight Meta Knight, where they escape/explode, get summoned by Star Dream, and then upon being defeated by Meta Knight, get sealed in a crystal, whereupon Nova summons them - blah blah blah. Timeloop.

Galacta Knight also appears in Star Allies (to die) and Clash, where we get the lore of them also being referred to as the Aeon Hero.

Since every method of summoning Galacta Knight involves reaching across time and space, and that it is stated that Galacta is "banished" from time and space, every iteration of Galacta is the same Galacta.

The only other character with this trait is fucking Magolor.

We do not know where Magolor is from. Where he got his information from. Where he got his powers from. What he is. Nothing he tells us is accurate, trustworthy information unless we physically see it. Technically we don't even know the guy's name. But what we DO know, is that he has never been duplicated or cloned in any way, and in spinoffs he is still the exact same Magolor. Manager Magolor = Clash Magolor = Traitor Magolor = Epilogue Magolor = Magolor the Wayfarer.

All we know is that he has access to a machine that can travel across both space and time.