Kind and Dangerous

Like, so let's consider the facts. Star Trek was created 60 years ago by a guy who died 35 years ago. Most of the canon was created more than 20 years ago, by people who have since died or moved on with their careers. These people, the ones who actually had a hand in making it, have, other than a tiny trickle in royalties, made all of the money that they will ever make off of their work; their work which has inspired millions of people across generations and become a fixture of popular culture.

And yet, somehow, through some strange alchemy of law and capitalism, all of this is owned by a bunch of usurious sons of bitches with an ideology diametrically opposed to that which the series was created to represent. Men who had no part in creating it, men who, in fact, have never created anything at all, get the revenue from it. They alone get to say what happens next in this fictional universe that they had no part in creating, and that means nothing to them. They alone get to turn the spigot of new Star Trek on or off depending on their taste.

1. This reply is two words and they managed to misspell both of then

If you are in the United States and not employed by a zoo or sanctuary or a veterinarian working with a facility, if anyone for any reason offers to allow you to touch a big cat, please do not do it.

No matter how much you want to, no matter how much it is a dream, understand that it is a violation of federal law that could get the facility the cat lives out in very serious trouble.

We do not know exactly what the penalties could be for that happening within an accredited zoo (yay badly implemented laws) but it typically comes down to being risk to a) the cat’s welfare b) the facility’s ability to have any big cats at all and c) someone, either the facility owner or the person offering, could go to jail or pay serious fines. There are two instances of this happening at AZA zoos that were leaked recently and we may now find out how bad it’s going to get for them.

Lots of facilities will have big cat pelts as educational biofacts that they will allow you to touch. You do not ever need to take the risk associated with touching a live big cat - generally anywhere, and especially in the US.

Plant of the Day

Friday 5 September 2025

The long-spurred flowers of Tropaeolum majus (garden nasturtium, Indian cress) are produced in shades of red, yellow and orange and the whole plant has a pungent aroma. This annual produces vigorous growth and will scramble over the ground or up a support.

cheese sits on the toilet while we take showers, and i like to stand on my tip toes and draw his silhouette in the steam from a high angle, then stand back to see how warped it is from his actual shape

Jesus, what big teeth you have! All the better to eat you with.

THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984) dir. Neil Jordan

Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need

The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to

You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking

No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)

Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.

Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!

Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.

i got swept away by the mightiest need to make a layered robot head that can be taken apart completely -> spent the last couple of days doing very little else than working on these two. they're mostly the same sculpt, but the pink one has some functional improvements compared to the black. all parts attach by magnets. the upper half of the mask can slide up and down, and the ears can rotate.

i have a matching body in progress, but these heads are enormous, so i'm not 100% sure if i will be printing it in this size. regardless, full modular robobuny coming up eventually.