madlori:

tastefullyoffensive:

by Xergion

This is true! The zoo where I volunteer (the illustrious Columbus Zoo & Aquarium) was one of the pioneers of this program.

Our zoo is known for raising cheetah cubs. Cheetahs have a terrible infant mortality rate and cubs are often rejected, so we get a lot of cubs to raise from all over the country (other zoos and sanctuaries, mostly).

The cubs are placed with a puppy friend when they are wee and small, so they grow up together like littermates. They play together, wrestle, and the dogs (yellow Labs) are so calm, friendly and well-socialized that the cheetahs take behavioral cues from them. When they meet new people, or go into new situations (which they often do, as ambassador animals for cheetah conservation), they check out if their dog friend is feeling chill – which he is – and then they know it’s okay for them to be chill, too.

Basically the dog is a service animal for them.

The cats need their dog friends less and less as they get older and more comfortable, but they still often hang out as grownups.

Our zoo does cheetah runs, where the cheetahs get to chase a lure and show off their speed. Often they’ll have one of the cheetahs run (we have like twelve cheetah), and then they’ll have one of the dogs do the run to show how much faster the cats are. People get a kick out of that. The dogs…let’s just say they try their best.

raisel-the-riveter:

so I’ve been meaning to put this on tumblr and keep forgetting but, in the campaign I’m running my sister is playing an orc fighter, and one of the options you can pick for a fighter’s signature weapon is that it “glows in the presence of [fill in the blank].”

I was like, “oh, that’s funny because it’s a reference to that sword in The Hobbit that glows in the presence of orcs. Your weapon probably doesn’t glow in the presence of orcs.”

to which she responded, “FUCK YEAH it does.”

So now we have in the party an orc fighter with a club that glows in the presence of orcs. Or, as far as the character is concerned, a club that glows. It’s been in her family for generations since some ancestor won it in a battle, and it’s just always glowed. She has a sack to put it in when she’s trying to be stealthy.

zetsubonna:

iwillbeinmynest:

avengedwritings:

charliexowrite:

jamesbhrnesvevo:

wipe him

In case anyone forgot what a great actor Seb really is, look at his face in the third gif. Then join me in crying and raging out and breaking ALL of Hydra’s shit for hurting my baby like that.

Reblogging again because I just saw the little head shake in the third gif and I’m sobbing 😭

Okay but also in that last gif LOOK AT HIS ARM. You can literally see how deep that metal goes into his torso. Don’t think for a second that some of those gears and wires aren’t attached to some nerve endings. I believe, without a doubt, that he can FEEL what happens to that arm and where it’s attatched.

In the comic book canon, the arm is literally fused to his spine and adds 75 pounds or more to Bucky’s overall weight.

The attachment of Bucky’s metal arm was nonconsensual and required extremely invasive surgery and is the definition of medical and body horror.

Also, iirc, he suffers from chronic pain because of the surgery, in addition to the pain suffered by regular amputees. So that and his history as a victim of electroshock torture contribute to his post traumatic personality shift into a tight lipped, cynical, and overall less cheery guy than he was previously.

Genji: Do you want to tell me how you guys crashed the car?
Hanzo: Well, we were driving and there was this deer in the middle of the road that Jesse couldn’t see, so I shouted “Jesse, deer!”
McCree: …
Hanzo: Do you want to tell Genji what your response was?
McCree: … “Yes, honey?”

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