You have rats? Can I see them
Hey there! I've been keeping rats for the past six years straight, and have had a dozen little men come and go in that time! I hate to be a bit of a downer in this reply, but, as of a week ago, I'm down to one old fella for the time being, and he's essentially in hospice care right now, so I won't be posting any current pictures. However, I do have a very substantial backlog of posts and photos over in my #ratblogging tag if you want to peruse the past! There's some really good pictures in there.
our age of blogs is collapsing
In our original-setting, 'Godbound-in-system-only' campaign, my character, Epsilon-Beta-Delta-Beta (who we will call Deeb for the sake of this anecdote) is a slimy little weasel whose Words (the concepts of reality he has relative divine command of) are Knowledge, Deception, Shapeshifting and Hunger. He generally kind of sucks at direct confrontation and gets most of his wins by Tricking People. Tonight our pantheon was investigating a weird giant soul-eating tree that some rivals of ours have been growing out of the ruins of what was once Seattle, but one of their number had created a giant mechanical eye that sees through all acts of Deceit specifically in an effort to counter Deeb and his ability to sneak into places easily, foiling easy access to the inside of said giant tree.
However, another of their number is a bored god-tyrant called No-Name, master of the Words of Might and Command, who perked up immediately upon our arrival because we were new, interesting people to do shit with. And somehow, it came up that one mortal thing he'd always wanted to try was 'golf'. Deeb immediately was like. That's a REALLY good idea. We should ALL play golf. You know what you should do? You should go tell your friend with the cool mechanical eye to come play golf with us too. No Name says no, he's not sure, she's pretty standoffish. Deeb assures him that's fine because (cosmic lie) "it's an important part of golf to play with at least one person nobody likes very much so that you can all have a collective enemy." No-Name goes and does that, and manages to Command her into agreeing to play golf with us, but she's canny enough to insist that she'll just play golf from up at her vantage point, and No-Name doesn't know enough about golf to argue. So strategy number one doesn't work. Time to improvise.
No Name comes back and is like "she's going to play from up in the tree" and Deeb is like "Ok. Fine. Whatever. Anyway you're a man of culture who knows what golf is, and so am I, so of course you know that a very important part of golf is that you hit a ball into a series of different holes over a large course. I think it would really lend an impressive touch if the final hole in our course was inside the-" No Name interrupts to be like "What? No, that stuff's not golf. Golf is like this," And whips out an immense tetsubo and slams Deeb as hard as possible in the stomach with it, and Deeb has to succeed a save to not get sent flying into Puget Sound. Deeb, wheezing, is like "THATS GREAT MAN. Cool! That sure is golf! And I think that it would be really, really impressive if you did that again, but instead, this time, you hit me towards that giant tree over there. I bet you can't do that, actually."
It's at this point that another party member, Gecko, speaks up and suggests before anything further can happen that No-Names version of golf is really good, but what if instead of hitting Deeb with a huge club he hit Deeb with a nine iron, and what if instead of Deeb being a person, he used shapeshifting to transform himself into a small white ball? And they played that version of golf? And its a compromise because he's still hitting Deeb? No-Name thinks this a preposterous idea, but is intrigued. He agrees. Deeb asks Gecko why he is doing this to him; Gecko's answer is honest and simple: he's just really always wanted to try real golf.
And Deeb proceeds to take half his health pool in damage in a single wicked blow. But it works. It works.
i love learning about animals ive literally never seen or heard of before. what amazing diversity of life on this planet earth. what the hell is a japanese serow
goat dog
Oh this is an excellent new beaft. Look at that thang. I'll take a dozen
Profoundly unserious, yet strangely majestic. Much like us all.......
This photo genuinely made me tear up he looks so fucking sad
baseball is a sport with a long and storied history. to really get a grasp on that history, let's start at the beginning
approximately 540 million years ago, complex animal life rapidly diversified in an event called the Cambrian explosion. among this early animal life was a small worm-like animal called pikaia, a distant relative of famous baseball players like shohei ohtani, tarik skubal, and vladimir guerrero jr
oh to be loved by the sun
i think ppl would be a lot happier and better-adjusted on here if they realized that being online on a website is like being in any other casual public space full of people. if u walk into walmart u dont immediately think to yourself “i have to be friends with everyone in this walmart and if not everyone likes me i’m a failure” and u really shouldn’t feel that way online either. likewise if there’s a guy in the walmart parking lot shouting obscenities u probably wouldn’t answer him and that’s literally an exact equivalent to some of the weird stuff that people on here seem to feel they’re obligated to respond to.