Pica can look like eating anything which is not food for that species. Common things that cats with pica tend to chew on are fabric and plastic. Ribbon and plastic bag handles are common, as are hair ties.
Pica doesn’t always have to be nutritional or evidence of an illness. Some individual animals just have it, and it seems to run in certain breeds or families (burmese, devon rex).
It’s entirely possible that this was both a case of pica, and a weird cat.
if you read in a frog paper “specimen was released in the field immediately after capture” chances are very good that what it actually means is
“i dropped the damn frog and despite the fact that we fell all over each other no one could recapture it”
sometimes when i am sad i go read through the tags on this post, because they are 70% other biologists saying things like “AND ALSO FUCK FIELD MICE” and “THAT CRAB ALMOST BROKE MY FINGER” and I am reassured that I am not the only one who has bobbled a wood frog right into their cleavage.
plus six or seven people who just….can’t figure out what a frog paper could possibly be. (guys it’s…a scientific paper. about frogs.)
and this one
which made me laugh despairingly because i mean
bro you don’t even know.
what is the code entomologists use for “i stepped on it, i’m so sorry, it was dark out and the specimen was very small”
“Impromptu dissection was performed under less-than-optimal lighting conditions.”
‘impromptu dissection’ is an alarming phrase in any context and i thank you for it
Reblogging for the new phrase. I’m now using it every time I accidentally step on a bug, etc
“What you’re looking at is a salt circle, a traditional form of protection—from within or without—in magical practice. In this case it’s being used to arrest an autonomous vehicle—a self-driving car, which relies on machine vision and processing to guide it. By quickly deploying the expected form of road markings—in this case, a No Entry glyph—we can confuse the car’s vision system into believing it’s surrounded by no entry points, and entrap it.”
-James Bridle
using salt circle motor runes to trap driving AI is the most cyberpunk thing I’ve ever seen
I feel like this shares an important connection with the “make a cat sit in a specific place by making a square out of blue tape” Phenomenon, namely that self-driving cars are secretly cats and both are def magically imbued beings, susceptible to glyphs.
Bad photo because it’s cloudy outside and therefore I can’t get any natural light, but I made a tiny paludarium- basically a hybrid of an aquarium and a terrarium. This one’s in a 6" wide bowl meant to hold candles. Pretty sure water and plants are, like, the opposite of candles.
The water portion is mostly full of Java moss and a single Java fern. The land portion, which is contained in a bag made of Hygrolon (a plastic mesh designed to wick water), is made of peat moss and full of bladderwort. The bladderwort hasn’t sent up any new leaves yet, but it should soon.
Aphrodite: Let’s see how bad I can fuck things up
Apollo: DIE YOU STUPID GREEKS
Athena: DIE YOU STUPID TROJANS
Xanthus: DIE YOU STUPID GREEKS
Hephaestus: DIE YOU STUPID TROJANS
Artemis: DIE YOU STUPID GREEKS
Hera: DIE YOU STUPID TROJANS
Ares: DIE YOU STUPID GREEKS
Zeus: FUCK YOU POSEIDON
Poseidon: FUCK YOU ZEUS
Zeus: NO YOU
Poseidon: YOU
Zeus: YOU
Poseidon: YOU
Hades: Can you guys please quiet down up there I’m trying to work
Okay but what if all of the potions edits in Snape’s old textbook were just things he overheard James say in potions class because “no Padfoot you crush the bean! Cutting it doesn’t do anything! Trust me my dad told me”
But I love this because then when Harry always talks about how the prince is a much better teacher than Snape he would actually be learning from his father and grandfather…
I’m not crying
My eyes are just glistening with the ghost of my past
Based on what I’ve read on Pottermore, that’s basically 100% accurate cause James’ dad created a ton of potions (like Skele-Gro and the hair potion Hermione uses for the Yule Ball) and got super rich and that’s why James never had a job and left Harry tons of money. James would have handy potions making knowledge of that sort.
That’s exactly what I meant
A lot of people took this to mean that James was the one who was really good at potions and it was his favorite subject but all I meant was that he was probably very knowledgable about potions and couldn’t help giving his friends advice that Snape probably overheard
Like my dad is a doctor and although science may not be my thing I’m still probably more knowledgable than the average person especially with all of the lowkey medical work I’ve done over the years
OMG OMG OMG!
Ok, ok ok,
You know that joke that went around about “Why didn’t Harry recognize The Prince’s handwriting when he’d been staring at it on the board for 6 years?”
What if that was because it was James’s handwriting? He wrote the notes and Snape stole the book from James as a “Haha, fuck you, lets see how well you do without your cheat sheets”
Then writing ”This book belongs to the half blood Prince.” to gloat that he took something from James Potter.
James is the only one we see use Levicorpus besides Harry.
I know that means James created sectumsempra, but still, it was a time of war and death eaters, maybe he created it as a last resort thing.
New head cannon
It actually makes more sense that James would have notated Sectumsempra “for enemies” because what would Snape care? If he wrote it, he would know what it does. Maybe James even overheard it or saw it used and wanted to warn himself in case he ever remembered the word but not the context and what would happen.
(also cry with me because harry wouldn’t know what james’ handwriting looked like)
That’s ok I’ll just cry myself to sleep tonight.
And it makes sense for Snape to want to get much better at Potions. Lily was repeatedly said to be the star of the class by Slughorn, and Snape must have wanted to impress her just to have something in common to talk to her because let’s be real, they deviated from each other when he started hanging with the dark magic practitioners. And who better to cheat off from than James Potter, the guy who’s like his archnemesis?
HOLY FLYING SHIT it just makes so much SENSE though, i feel like that’s a hidden obviousness J K Rowling has been waiting years for us to get
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