Ok, ok. What I don’t get is why Venom has to be eating people, specifically? Like. There’s a lot of other animals out there, my dude, and even if you’re looking for something more often found in predators or what have you, you can eat predators. I mean, call me a crazy environmentalist but why isn’t Eddie Brock renting himself out for invasive species control!? Oh, the everglades are overrun with invasive pythons? Lol, not anymore. Eddie took a vacation and now Venom is fat&happy and they’ve been banging like bunnies between bouts of snake-hunting. Ain’t like Florida’s going to think it’s too weird that there’s a huge monsterman out slurping down snakes like they’re wiggly spaghetti. Let’s be honest here, Venom is already basically a ‘Florida Man’ headline. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
“Mirroring” is a big thing with cats. It’s why they will lay in similar positions several feet apart, or will come and try to do things when you do them. It’s a sign that they love you and want to show.
This cat wants to be close to its owner, and also wants to do what its owner is doing, to be involved in some way.
Giving them their own thing to use is a really great way to redirect them and allow them to mirror the behavior in a non-disruptive way that frustrates neither party.
……s… you should… s… ste… ahem. Perhaps you could. Find. A better… home. For it.
Present her with information re. why she should NOT do that. If that doesn’t work, it should *cough* probably *coughcough* vanish. Fish jump out of bowls all the time, you know?
(I mean, she might just get a replacement, but hopefully not.)
EDIT:
Probably it would work better to just turn up with a better setup. 3gal or larger tank, heater, some Java moss. That way, she won’t just replace a fish into a bad setup.
Try the “here is information” thing first, though.
Growing up my parents taught me that if you’re too sick to [insert responsibility here] then you’re too sick to [insert something that makes you happy here].
It took me a really long time to unlearn this. When I would get sick or have a “bad day” I would deprive myself of anything that made me happy. Watching movies, eating something I enjoyed, going for a walk, playing video games or just browsing online looking at funny cat videos. I wouldn’t let myself do these things because I was always told that if I’m too sick to go to work, or do homework, or go to school then I must be too sick to play Mortal Kombat or watch Unsolved Mysteries lol.
Whenever I wouldn’t feel good, which I later learned as an adult was due to sleep deprivation caused by my ADHD and depression (and of course the depression itself would cause me to feel like shit), my parents would tell me “if you’re not throwing up, then you’re not sick.” And when I would stay home from school (or even work in my later teen years) my parents would make sure that I didn’t have any “fun.” No TV, no movies, no games, no going outside, no arts and crafts, no books, no nothing. Just lay in bed and feel miserable.
I’m happy to say that I no longer do this to myself. Now when I’m having a bad day or I’m sick (cold, flu or whatever) I allow myself to do the things (within reason lol) that I actually love doing. If I’m not too sick to step outside for a few minutes then I’ll go for a walk. I’ll watch my favorite movies and if it’s a bad day or a cold (something that doesn’t hinder my appetite too much) I’ll eat my favorite foods. I don’t guilt trip myself anymore for having a “sick day.”
Just because you’re sick (whether physically, emotionally or mentally) doesn’t mean that you can’t do things you enjoy. You’re not any less sick because you watch TV. You’re not any less sick because you’re playing video games.
Actually you SHOULD be doing these things when you’re not feeling good because they make you feel better. The better you feel, the faster your heal.
Well, I guess I should clarify that “mind controlling” parasites are usually a misnomer and a little hyperbolic anyway.
It was believed Cordyceps fungi affected their host’s brains until recently, but then it was proven that they leave the brain entirely intact. Instead, they control the insect’s actual muscles. This is again only possible because an insect has only a couple simple, microscopic muscle strands though, like a few “strings” to manipulate, rather than a larger mammal’s relatively GIGANTIC mass of millions and millions of cells forming thousands of individual muscles.
Parasites that truly alter the host’s mind are only doing so by damaging a single part of it. Target the right point in a mouse’s brain and you just eliminate its fear of predators. Take out certain points in a small fish and you cause it to swim closer to the water’s surface instead of avoiding sea birds.
So what manipulative parasites really do is give the host a single new behavioral “quirk.” It’s pretty much an organism giving another organism a simple mental illness symptom.
The realest equivalent we could ever have to something like Cordyceps or Leucochloridium in humans would probably be indistinguishable from someone gaining a sudden stim behavior or obsessive compulsion and probably no big deal to live with if so many people already do and it still doesn’t turn into an apocalypse or nothin
Toxoplasma, a parasite that makes rats unafraid of predators and is often found in used cat litter, makes infected humans more reckless and may be linked to mental illness. There are estimates that something like 30% of the human population is infected. We certainly haven’t had any sort of apocalypse.
posting here because i know hayden myers has a large following on twitter and tumblr and i think it’s a good idea to get the word out as wide as possible to prevent any further abuse happening.
he goes by MrHaydenMyers on twitter and misterhayden and misterhaydencomics on tumblr. have included a photo of his face so that people in california know who to look out for.
oh good a callout post for this guy on tumblr
you might be like ‘i dunno who is this guy, he doesn’t sound familiar?’ but a good chunk of people on this website would recognize him if they saw his art:
i know his comics are funny and popular but like please do not support him. i have had no personal experience with him or anyone who knows him but the anecdotes i’ve seen are terrifying
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