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Mossy Feathers (She/Her)
Mossy Feathers (She/Her) @ MossyFeathers @pawb.social
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  • Weighted Wildlife. They specify how much each one weighs on their site. I have an opossum from them and I love her. She's one of my favorite plushies (don't tell the others I said that though). They've also got some 5lbs dragons in the works.

    Creep Cat Toy Company also makes some weighted plushies like the raccoon and opossum, and the weighted ones come with a zipper in the belly so you can, remove, or move the weighted bean bags around.

  • My 30s will probably be the best years of my life, if not my 40s. #justtransthings

  • This is so dumb. The random hair on top of everything just... I don't even know what to say.

  • No? The manosphere didn't create it afaik. Afaik it's satirizing the manosphere.

  • It's fucking satire LMAO

    God, it's depressing how many people here don't get that it's painfully obvious satire.

  • It could make things slightly more difficult straight out of college, but beyond that? Not really. It took me 8yrs to get through college. The fact that you're almost done means you're doing great!

    Edit: if anything I should have stopped and listened to the voice in my head telling me that the path I was on wasn't the one I should have been going down. The voice didn't start showing up until about 6yrs in to a 4 year degree, and listening to it would have meant it probably would have taken another 3~4yrs to finish, but I would have also actually had a career; one that I would have enjoyed, no less.

  • I have no idea if this is satire or not but I unironically love both the idea of your dinosaur character(?) and that YouTube clip.

    It's half satire. I honestly didn't get to watch Jurassic Park as a kid because my parents knew I loved dinosaurs, but also that I was also a very timid child. As a result, I didn't get to watch it because they thought it might scare me away from my love of dinosaurs (other things in my life caused me to lose interest anyway, but I'm slowly rekindling it). Now, I honestly struggle to enjoy dinosaur media that doesn't portray them with feathers. Beautiful and terrifying is, imo, vastly superior to "I'M HERE TO SCARE".

    The furry flavor was mainly for fun.

    Do you have art/bio for your sona? If I ever play D&D again this may well inspire me to update my Dragonborn bard to have feathers. /gen

    Also, kinda. I'm working on updating her design, but here's a fairly old screenshot of my VRC avatar.

    If you'd like, I could recommend some e621/e926 tags and artwork. Be warned that you will get lewd stuff on e621 if I just give you tags, but you could use e926 with the same tags if you don't wanna get blasted by uncensored cloaca (e926 is literally just a front end for e621 that forces the safe filter on).

  • Bruh. My sona has feathers because that's what theropods had, and quite frankly, the idea is kinda pretty. The furry element to my comment was supposed to be for humor, not kink. "Us prehistoric birds are just as pretty as our extant brethren and it should be a crime to portray us as anything else uwu" kinda thing.

    Here's the thing though. Feathered dinosaurs can be just as scary, if not more so than their highly scientifically inaccurate counterparts.

    One thing to consider is this: there are several modern species of birds which can mimic a broad range of sounds, varying from other bird calls, human speech, car alarms, heavy machinery, and so on. Furthermore, the birds capable of mimicry often also have the ability to associate these sounds with specific contexts, and perform these sounds while anticipating a specific outcome; for an example: a parrot asking for a cracker because it expects to receive a cracker when it asks for one.

    Additionally, due to their relation to birds, theropods would have been less likely to roar and more likely to chirp. Sounds silly and cute right? Well, as an animal gets larger, the noises they make typically get slower and lower in pitch. Try slowing and pitching down the sound of a chicken going bwak-ack or the call of a loon and tell me that isn't really fucking unsettling. Hell, just the unedited call of a loon itself is fucking disturbing if you imagine it's coming from a voracious carnivore and not a waterbird.

    Also, you can't tell me that making dinosaurs act even more bird-like wouldn't be even more terrifying: https://youtu.be/yS71VeptuEc

    What other family movies would you like updated to indulge your personal kinks?

    Since you asked though, Zootopia really should have an unrated cut that includes scenes of Judy getting railed by Nick's fat, knotted fox cock. c:

  • I love dinosaurs. One of my main sonas is a feathery fuckwit named Mossy Feathers. I'm strongly considering going back to school for paleontology.

    All that to say that I never watched Jurassic Park growing up because my parents thought it would scare me away from dinosaurs. I will continue to never watch it because they refuse to even make a "feathered cut" of the movie.

    As you may imagine, this is inexcusable for a company the size of Disney. I am personally offended for both for myself and dino-kind. To add insult to injury, to the best of my memory, they have publically stated that they have no interest in updating the dinosaur visuals and instead will proceed to portray dinosaurs unrealistically. Imagine if humans were regularly portrayed as simple-minded cavemen who shout "unga bunga" and bang sticks together. Then research discovered that, in spite of current world events, this is not in fact an accurate portrayal of humanity; yet the media continued to portray humans in this way because "it's scarier and more entertaining".

    This is speciesist and it is not okay. You can do better. We all deserve better.

  • The ones I had were pretty shitty, lol. Like, I had some good ones like Zoombinis or Freddi Fish, but most of them were stuff like "Milly's Math House".

  • Windows 98

    Windows XP

    Dialup

    The Old Internet aka when 90% of it was html and shockwave flash

    Weird childhood obsessions; some were good, some were bad, some became things that defined me as an adult.

    A lot of the edutainment games I played as a child. I actually went back and installed them to see what they were like through the eyes of an adult. There were a few that were still fun, but as you might be able to guess, most were pretty shitty.

    That said, there have been a few things that ended up being 100% worth revisiting. CRT monitors, for an example, are unironically still kinda awesome. I just wouldn't replace my main monitors with one.

  • Community is absolutely still a real thing. In my experience, however, you have to be willing to step outside of the mainstream and you have to be willing to touch grass every now and then. Socializing IRL is completely different than socializing online, which is different than socializing in VR, or in voice chat, or so on.

    That said, there absolutely is a case to be made for idea that "community" being slowly ground into dust, possibly intentionally so. The death of open gathering places, the rise of online-only interaction and so forth, erodes at the kind of socialization you need in order to build a community. My tinfoil hat theory is that it's easier to sow division in the unruly masses and keep them at each other's throats when everyone is alone, so the rich and powerful have an incentive to kill the concept of community so that it's harder to rise up against them.

    At this point, I believe the places where you're most likely to find a strong sense of community will be within marginalized groups; people who've traditionally been downtrodden tend to band together for protection, relationships and support.

  • This is my experience as well. Anecdotally, at least. Lately I've been slowly putting together a community of friends, and my anxiety and depression have been dropping like crazy. Between that and the self-esteem boost I've been getting from finally starting hrt, I'm actually starting to feel competent enough to tackle things like getting a job, moving out (I'm gonna go looking at rental properties with a friend tomorrow), going grocery shopping, things like that.

    God, I've always wanted to be able to just do something so plain as going grocery shopping for myself.

    I can also tell that the anxiety causes a lot of issues with my motivation from the fact that my wonderful mom always throws worst-case scenarios at me whenever I try to become more independent. She's been throwing the entire warehouse at me lately because I've been talking about how I'm moving out with a friend. My excitement has been turning to dread despite my friend's reassurance that they'll catch me if I fall; and as a result my motivation and ability to get out of bed has been plummeting.

    But... Yeah. Anecdotally, it's not laziness, it's being anxious, overwhelmed, overstimmed, depressed, feeling lonely (I mean, what's the point in doing anything if no one cares?) and so forth.

  • 2 would be the closest I'd consider to being ideal. The handle kinda looks like it sucks tho.

    Ideal would be the head of 2 with the handle of 5.

  • Did she get snubbed by someone who's ace or something? Asexuality is possibly the most inoffensive sexuality in existence.

    Like, oh no.

    They don't experience sexual attraction.

    That means they're probably significantly less likely to objectify or assault you than someone who isn't ace. Isn't that a good thing for someone supposedly so concerned with being objectified and violated, Miss Rowling?

    What a wildly brain-dead take from someone who loves claiming to be a feminist.

    (Yes, I know she's not actually a feminist, but it's another piece of hypocrisy to throw on the pile)

  • The world around them is collapsing. Tate promises to have the solution. For whatever reason, his solution makes sense to them. So they follow him.

  • Sure. Just make sure there's a gate for marginalized communities who are trying to get out.

    I have a lot of trans Texas friends, few of us have any decent options to leave. A fun fact: Texas ranks 2nd when it comes to % of trans people. Yet we have no voice, and a big part of that is thanks to how fucked the Texas voting districts are. That's why a trans person in Dallas can be decently safe, but a gay person in Tyler will get their knee kicked in by a neo-nazi in broad daylight (this actually happened to someone I know, they have to walk with a cane now and they aren't even 21); yet cities barely end up with any blue politicians at a state or federal level.

  • Mmmm... Spicy fly.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world

    Today I learned about the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center

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    Tarantulas rule

    196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Normies trying to use Lemmy rule