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AF attack #7

Sol for @rottso

there are over 243 kākāpo, and it is the first breeding season in four years. at least 74 of their eggs so far are fertile and have potential to hatch. in 1995 there were 51. [1]

there are 607 california condors as of last year. in 1987 there were 27. [2, 3]

there are 110 'alalā (hawaiian crow), while they were pronounced extinct in the wild in the 1970s-80s. 5 have been released into the wild in the past 2 years. [4, 5]

there are over 319 wild mexican grey wolves, after numbering only 7 in 1977. [6, 7]

there are at least 1300 wild przewalski's horses, after they were pronounced extinct in the wild with only 31 captive individuals in 1945. [8, 9]

hell, they still have sperm from the last male northern white rhino and are attempting to have a southern white rhino be a surrogate mom with his & the last two female's eggs. [10]

i know things can feel hopeless but i work in this field. there is still hope out there because people do genuinely care. even if it just reassures you about the environment around us, there is still some hope out there.

humans are not inherently bad. i know it's easy to say it but i promise that we are not. the assumption that all of humanity is evil and morally reprehensible for the extinction of species- yes, including species that we drove extinct ourselves- is discounting the work of millions of people trying to stop it from happening again. humanity is not evil. there is still hope, and there is still time. never forget that.

someone on reddit explained 😭

they are from a property aimed at tweens and/or teens

they have some kind of tragic backstory that makes them sympathetic and offsets their current misdeeds

the gap between their perceived innocence and their potential brutality makes it very easy to make au versions of them with drastically different personalities

crucially, nothing they've done is actually that bad, because they tend to be cartoon villains

they are noticeably nonhuman/post-human

they are tall and skinny with some kind of lollypop head

they wear a suit and just generally dress like a ye olde patd music video. "dapper"

male exclusively but in that kind of vague desexed default gender way

it is very easy to either handwave the idea that they have genitals or their genitals can be depicted malleably

even in art that is obviously intended to be horny they are fully clothed

please note that not all sexymen have to have all of these traits! very few possess all of them! these are merely guidelines for identifying a phenomenon.

notable sexymen (tumblr or otherwise) through the years:

jack skellington (this, as near as I can tell, is the og sexymen. if there exists sexymen that predate him I'd love to hear about it but I think he codified this)

the warden from superjail

the onceler

bill cipher

sans undertale

the radio guy from hazbin hotel. potentially every character from hazbin hotel

spamton (this is the sexyman from deltarune, not tenna)

the teeth guy from the amazing digital circus seems to fit the bill from my limited perspective