Vet clinics often have litters of kittens to raise. Either they’re too young for a shelter, too sickly, or the clinic intends to adopt them out when they’re big enough. Whatever the reason, nurses often end up raising kittens and giving them ‘temporary’ names.
The intention of these temporary names is that if you give the kitten a stupid name, you have something to call it other than ‘the middle black male’, but because it’s a stupid name you wont get emotionally attached and end up keeping it. Again.
Which is how some nurses end up with cats that have names like ‘Flea bus’ and ‘Trash bag’.
This is going to take forever to get off. Done with sharpie, ballpoint pen, and a white gel pen.
I wonder how much it would cost to get this done as a tattoo. Like all the way up to the shoulder. Thats probably the only tattoo I would absolutely 100% get if I had the money.
Sort of like a cross between Monster Hunter and Subnautica. You’re one of a batch of explorers/scientists/critter fighters who get stranded on an uncharted planet somewhere and decide to make the best of it. Your goal: do what you came here to do, namely establishing a thriving research base and the beginnings of a sort of zoo, but also find a way to either get someone off the planet to go for help or at least signal for assistance.
Heavy focus on exploration, on research and science, on sample collection and using the resources around you without damaging the local environment. You and a collection of NPCs first have to set up a few huts, then figure out a way to get to a better area and set up a large, protected, safe base. Because you’re all nerds, you spend the whole time you’re doing that collecting plant and critter samples. Once you start to set up the base, you can build a large aquarium and some ponds, some gardens, and set up what amounts to a museum-slash-zoo, which you fill with specimens for your research, enjoyment, and profit.
There’s a range of things to do. Everywhere from collecting plants to garden for food, drugs, research, and so on, to searching for metals and other inorganic resources, to catching small creatures to study, to building small machines, to fighting medium and large beasts. Even taming some of them! What you can’t tame, you ward off or take down, and add whatever you can of it to your research. Lots of exploration, too, maybe finding a few secrets of people who’ve been here before.
Eventually, you can reestablish contact with the people who sent you out in the first place, start up a bit of trade with the main research center back on your homeworld, and recruit a few more NPCs.
And there’s NPCs to make friends with! Possibly some flirtation. A decent number of them are probably going to need to be distracted in one way or another from the circumstances, or they’ll be upset and not very helpful. If they’re calm and happy, or if you’ve got the base set up nicely, you can send them out to do research and gather materials for you.
There might even be a native, sapient species to befriend. A bit carefully. They might not be terribly keen on you at first.
we’re laughing but the only animals to display self awareness in mirrors are humans, apes, dolphins, and elephants. this is actually super remarkable
The cool part is that as time goes on domestic animals are just going to get smarter and smarter, because we value these traits in them. And, as evolution shows us, if a trait is beneficial in an environment (humans being the environment) it is more likely to survive and be passed on.
(to paraphrase: china is enacting a law on December 1 that will make it illegal to post any pornographic work. Do not repost or mention an author’s nsfw work on Chinese social media or you risk getting the artist/author in trouble legally)
this isn’t some long-standing law. this is new and works retroactively. keep your mouths shut, your entertainment isnt worth someone’s entire life being ruined
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