the shelbysaurus

Goblin culture doesn’t have a concept of “Property”. A stick on the ground and a tool in a locked shed are equally up for grabs if a thing needs doing. They casually take and leave things all over their communities, eat from communal pots, and genuinely Do Not Understand why the Core Races are so Angry and prone to Violence all the time.

Consequently Goblins who live near Core communities develop a reputation as “Thieves” despite not even having a *word* for that. (The closest word they have is more like “Greedy” and it means a person that hides things so nobody else can use them, and it’s a surefire fight-starter to call a Goblin that)

Common Orc Spiritual beliefs hold that a Soul can only grow stronger by overcoming Challenges in life, and see intruding on another person’s Challenge unasked for as not just Rude, but Deeply Harmful. You’re Stealing their chance to Grow. Asking for help is deeply personal and doing so can be both a way to grow closer with them or a too-personal intrusion, depending on your existing relationship with them. An exception is Children, as far as most Orcs are concerned, all Children are fundamentally the responsibility of the Whole Community, regardless of whose child they are, or even if said child is an Orc at *all*.

“Well, human food IS delicious, I suppose—”

“He has a lock on a box where he keeps ‘his’ tools, Ma’we.”

( thread link )

Slowly but surely your industry will go extinct, just like those breeds of chicken!

animal welfare advocates work to make sure heritage, healthy breeds survive as an alternative to corporate breeds like the Cornish X, which grow so quickly that their legs eventually collapse under their own ballooning flesh. heritage breeds like the Brahma, Cochin, and Legbar (left to right below) grow and lay at a normal life, and can happily scratch about, dig holes in your grass to nap in, rip the leaves off your garden plants one by one, and make very funny sounds with their functional beautiful bodies, all while providing you with food.

‘animal rights’ advocates like @gendercontender​ would prefer a world in which the relationship between chickens and their keepers (and the chickens themselves) did not exist. I would go ask Tallgeese, Yennefer, Anzu, Milkshake, Henny and Perchy what they think of all this, but fortunately they’re too busy tearing apart a fresh green head of lettuce like the tiny funny velociraptors they are.

By the way, the facebook rule ONLY targets small individual breeders, because if you are selling animals tied to a registered business you’re allowed to post them on facebook. That’s why you still see pet stores selling puppies, auction houses listing dairy cattle, registered horse farms selling foals, on Facebook. A USDA licensed puppy mill (that’s a thing and the USDA licence does not mean it’s a nice place) can post and sell their puppies on Facebook while a hobbyist dog breeder who does it for love and invests every dollar back into health testing and proper care cannot. It only affects hobbyists.

One thing that ARAs do not want to see or understand is that humans and domestic animals have a long-developed symbiosis. In the case of chickens, it has made them the most evolutionarily-successful bird species of all time: there are billions of them, and they have come with us everywhere. When you take away the ability of individual people to have individual relationships with domestic animals, you push humans farther from symbiosis with domestic animals and into exploitation of those animals, with a nice side bonus of damaging the genetic diversity of the animals.

Personally, I’d rather keep 8000 years of beautiful tradition alive, and get rid of factory farms, but what do I know, I only work with small-scale farmers for a living.

https://twitter.com/lconservancy/status/1131221408678371336?s=21

feed the hungry

provide a free mammogram 

give food and care to a shelter animal

provide a homeless veteran with a meal

fund alzheimer’s research 

fund diabetes research 

provide books for children

protect wildlife habitat

Those dates you go on with your partner? They’re in public. Unmasked. Your server smiles at you. Everyone feels safe.

You can hug your friends.

You can see a movie. The people in the movie are gay people of color and they kiss and live happily ever after.

I get asked a lot about Vancouver reccos so don’t worry at all ;) I’m more than happy to talk your ear off about my gorgeous city. 

… This got VERY long wow. Lol.