I don’t know if this has been said before, but aside from all the bleeding taxidermy and axe-headed, vengeful lumberjack ghosts, one thing really disturbed me.
THIS.
This is extremely similar to the most famous example of classical conditioning, where a dog would be given food at the same time a bell was rung. Eventually the dog would associate the bell’s ringing with food and salivate.
But in Pacifica’s case, she friggin’ goes quiet and obeys every time the bell is rang. This implies the bell had been used for a long time to control her, and that she associates it with negativity; most likely punishment or humiliation, given her family’s ways. It’s bad enough her parents expect her to be picture perfect despite their family’s tarnished history, but conditioning her like an animal and forcing her to change who she is and what she likes, for the sake of their family name, is somehow more disturbing that bleeding taxidermy will ever be for me.
I know we’re all freaking out about the laptop but I’m woried about what will happen to Pacifica once the party is over.
It was very graphic and I’m still really bothered by the lack of response from Dipper’s end.
My headcanon is that they used to ring the bell and put her in a cold, silent dark room when she acted outside of what they approve.
New Headcanon: Steven is home-schooled because the Crystal Gems were told that they needed to send him to a place called “Kindergarten” and they freaked out.
I found that the thaumometer from thaumcraft can be placed on teh tinkers construct casting table for smelting. I wanted to see what happens when I pour smelted material on it, what it would make. Turns out, it just crashes the game.
The more adventuring a knight does, the more banged up his armor gets. So if you get rescued by a knight in shining armor, you probably got rescued by a really shitty knight.
Platinum, gold, and tungsten never lose their shine and silver plated with rhodium doesn’t tarnish. If you get saved by a knight in shining armor, that knight probably has money out the ass
Money isn’t gonna do shit if a dragon comes after us!
Also, gold is a soft metal and will crumple away like foil.
why is it so hard to get a world with tinkers construct and thaumcraft
3. Capturing wild animals and using them for human entertainment is a super shitty thing to do.
4. This is not cool.
This is abuse and horrible. Zoos are prisons.
Some zoos only take old animals to where they are given an easy life. Their maintenance is funded by people coming into the zoo.
Those tigers are not thin.
“Zoos are fucking stupid” wow such science you sold me
They weren’t captured for this purpose, they probably weren’t captured at all, it’s called rescuing.
This is cool.
This is not abuse, it’s actually exercise if you think about it.
Zoos are not prisons. Zoos allow us to rescue animals, research them, and protect them from hunters and the dangers that we, as humans, impose on them.
I’m so done with all the shit about zoos on my fucking dash.
Zoos literally save animals every day so why don’t you do your freaking research.
This comment is perfect^
Animals come to zoos as a result of
being born captive
getting injured in the wild and rescued to live a healthy life in captivity
being rescued from black market dealers, private collectors, or the like who decide that they can no longer care for the animals or who had been illegally keeping the animals
being in a breeding program to increase their numbers because the animal is endangered in the wild
If you knew anything about tigers at all, you’d know that they are endangered in the wild due to poaching and hunting. It is of utmost importance that their numbers increase, or they will go extinct within the next fifty years. I don’t know what zoo this is so I don’t know their reputation, but the tigers look healthy, and this tug-of-war is good for them because some animals get stressed in zoos when they are bored. This isn’t solely to entertain zoo guests, it is to give the tigers something fun to do.
Zoos do not snatch animals from the wild without a good reason. If you want to protest animal captivity, go to SeaWorld and protest the orcas being kept there, they are far too large to belong in such cramped spaces and they are solely kept for entertainment.
Thank you and good day.
ALSO ITS NOT LIKE THEY’RE FORCING THE TIGERS TO GRAB THE ROPE, THE TIGER WANTS TO PLAY
Tigers play just like domestic cats play with each other, this is for the educational benefit of the visitors and the enrichment benefit of the tigers. Also word to the comment above. Tigers are endangered to the point that they cannot repopulate themselves in the wild, they need the help of captive institutions like zoos, where they live carefree lives free of stress and can breed and birth without fear that other predators and mating competitors will come along and eat their cubs.
Furthermore, these tigers are NOT thin. In fact, one of the ones in the large group looks borderline obese. People who know nothing about animals need to stop talking about animals.
Boosting the shit out of this because I’m so damn tired of whiney morons (who probably never get outside) bitching about animal’s rights when they really have no fucking clue.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
