#all i found was animal abuse

[is-the-bug-video-cute]

The downside to reading older studies is that there were no animal welfare guidelines back then, so no one would bat an eye if a bachelor's student cooked a bunch of bugs alive -_-

There may not be a lot of protection for invertebrates now, but at least you can't get away with this today. Not at my university, anyways. My supervisor would have me kicked out on the spot if I tried something like this.

For those who don't know, T. molitor larvae have an optimal metabolism at roughly 30ºC, after which point they begin to experience heat stress. Newly hatched larvae (and possibly adults, but the data on them is lacking) are unable to eat fast enough to keep up with the optimal metabolism, so if you keep them at anything higher than 28ºC they starve to death within days. Such is the plight of ectotherms :(

So basically, this bachelor's student, in 1937, simultaneously cooked and starved a bunch of beetles to death to test of they could still reproduce under stress. The fact that 8 females only produced a total of 12 eggs during a period where they should've produced 500-600 speaks for itself.

#animal abuse #bug abuse #animal death #bug death #there are so many studies like this that i have to sort through #sometimes they do get a few useful findings out of it! #like the study that found that mealworm beetles can still mate if you amputate their antennae! that's useful knowledge wrt cannibalism! #but ohhh my god some if the things they've put these animals through is awful. wire-mother levels of awful. demikhov-dog levels. #and no one has ever really cared because they're ''just bugs'' #all the starvation experiments and induced deformities and overcrowding and heat stress and ughhhhhh

[authoralexharvey]

It's my mother's birthday and all I can think of is all the ways she traumatized me growing up.

#There Was the Year She said I ruined her BDay Because I Came out as Bi #There's The One Time I tried to Tell Her I was NB and She Scoffed at Me #There's the Time She Threatened to Report me to the Police and Make Sure I Could Never Have Animals Again #Because Our Ferret's Water Bottle was Broken and I Didnt Know Until She Screamed at Me #When I was 12 She Said I Ruined Her Life by Being Born #When I Cut Myself and She Found Out She Made me Sit with Her and Plan What to do WHEN not IF she Found My Body #When I Tried to Kill Myself She Made it All About Her #I Did Choir for One Year and Stopped Because She Never Came to Concerts and Acted Like it was the Biggest Chore to Even Come Get Me #The Time She Accused me of Lying to my Fiance About Being Abused Because He Told Her I Have Panic Attacks When She Yells #All the Times I had to Be her Personal Therapist For Her Love Life #She Likes to Make Me Do Karaoke to Show Me Off #She Refused to Help Me Get a License #When I Told Her I Wanted to Live with Dad She Said My Bros Would Come With and theyd Never See Her Again #She Constantly Badmouthed Him Wherever She Could #Made Me Mad At Him Because He Wouldnt Be at My Birthday Parties (because Military) and Try to Make it Seem #Like He Wasnt There on Purpose #Would Refuse to Help Me with School and then Berated me for Failing #When I DID Ask for Help She Would Do it All then Yell at Me for Making Her Do it #Constantly Compared me to My Older Siblings Who I Didnt Even Know Yet and Made me Resent Them #I Took Care of My Brothers Growing Up. Not Her. But she Acts Like that Never Happened #A Bunch of Other Shit I Cant Even List #I Was Her Doll. Her Mini-Her. And Because of That my Bros Got it a Lot Worse #Anyway I have to See Her Today and I want to KMS #alex has the floor #tw: suicide #tw: abuse

[gunkbaby]

never showed u guys my guinea pigs (had to give the ferrets back - in tags)

this is jarvis

#i have 3 of them will show the others l8r #So abt the ferrets #i was told they had: 1) no history of abuse 2) no behavioural issues 3) had only been rehomed twice #All of this was not true #idk how to explain how bad it got. #i was prepared for the ferrets bein difficult right #Like i expected 2 toddlerz #but they had issues 4 sure #We found out that they have been rehomed 7 times already #they’re at a special behavioural ferret place now #it rly devastated me #I hate rehoming/giving animals back #thatswhy i ended up in hospital after they were gone i decided to overdose #i am a failure. I failed them #so i was like ‘fuck it’ #and i did it #it was dumb huh #the ferrets weren’t evil #i dont hate them #But i was scared of them #It got to a point where i locked myself in the bathroom 24/7 bc they had my flat to themselves #I couldn’t leave the room to play with them or sit and do my work bc they would always bite me #For no reason #like i thought they were scared or upset or bored and i did everything to try and help that #but they would bite and drag into my skin #i was bleeding constantly and one of them kept going for like arteries #i knew they bite so at first i was like ‘whatever’ but they got worse #I couldnt interact w them anymore #I loved them a lot #I love ferrets

[cherryhrat]

Im ashamed to say im back on my naruto shit

Hes my son your honor, hes just a little guy

Id die for him

#naruto #help i cant believe im about the hyper fixate on naruto for the 4th time #watching the first show reminds me of everything wrong with boruto especially art and animation wise #god I fucking hate boruto #anyways naruto so silly i love him so much #thinking about team 7 found family.... #thinking about if sakura was well written... #so much potential.. wasted :c #I hc that shes actually not a boy crazy idiot and simply has a crush like a normal person and that she ACTUALLY HAS MUSCLES BC YA KNOW #HER WHOLE FUCKING THING IS STRENGTH CHARACTER DESIGNERS WERE YOU HIGH???? #and I hc that she was actually used well in fight scenes like the one against puppet guy and she didn't cry for naruto to solve everything #and that she didnt fuck with his feelings in that one episode when she 'confessed' to get him to go home #and that sasuke wasnt a lame piece of edgy shit and was a better written antagonist #and that naruto didnt have an absolutely unhealthy obsession with him #sorry but people who ship naruto and sasuke are gross #its already abusive and unhealthy as all get out and now you want to add r o m a n c e??? #im sure narutos crush on sakura got weird too #oh yeah like when he transformed into sasuke to trick her into kissing him #naruto writers be normal about romance for once please #shikamaru and temari and naruto and hinata were pretty good #idk personally I ship naruto and gaara and naruto and shikamaru #oops im rambling in the tags what can I say I fucking love naruto and have a lot of opinions on it

[fizzingwizard]

it's the end of 2023 and "thief king bakura had a point" isn't a hot take now anymore than it was twenty years ago when we first learned about aknadin's crimes in kul elna

#yugioh #thats what the narrative was implying you were supposed to think that #almost every yugioh dm plot arc involves abuse of power #and probably a hero/anti-hero/villain whose origin story is being a survivor of abuse #thats why we adore kaiba so much... despite his questionable extra-ness he's the guy who turned an arms manufacturer into a game company #and took over the world... with card games #and he's still messed up and extra and not all that trustworthy #but he's also a visionary #thief king bakura was much the same but much more helpless until he found zorc. or zorc found him #even atemu is a victim. he didn't cause any of this but he had to pay the price for all of it. #aknamkanon in his impotency knew it and thats why he sacrificed what he could to help his son even a small bit #i mean heck. what about kisara #point is thats the difference between thief king bakura and other abuse survivors in ygo. #he endured the unendurable but unlike kaiba there was no atemu to intermediate and help his heart grow out of zorc's reach #he becomes zorc's pawn and the battle is no longer about kul elna or bakura it's only about zorc #the person who deserved bakura's fate (as well as atemu's btw) was aknadin but like people in power are wont to he dodged accountability #yugioh was shockingly Real about some shit despite being the Card Games Are Srs Business anime #blah blah anyway it's nice to see the usual fandom wank still goes on in 2023 so i can whip out the ol' soapbox

[scorpion-flower]

That shrew really couldn't allow any of her "beloved dogs" to outlive her...

#i was a bit neutral on the event of her death #because i am not pro monarchy #and she - like every monarch and politician - has done horrible things #but on the other hand i wasn't gonna say anything bad too #and then i found out about that #f that #and all you naive babies who are unironically sad #tw: animal abuse #tw: animal death #tw: animal harm #scorpion-flower #we were the kings and the queues #anti royalty #anti royal family #anti monarchy #elizabeth ii

[guideaus]

I wanted to see if I could get more gifs on my dash, so I followed the anime/edit tag, but was immediately met with the reason why I dropped s*yxf*mily

#personal #our found family secret identity show where all the women wanna homewreck including a child #this and its weird abt fascism. war Bad one sec but the next the siscon character is in a gag where he's abusing his power #sometimes i wonder how it is rn but seeing this animated im like oh yeah (not interested)

[valleyfthdolls]

But god if I’m not thinking about the fact that Cassidy was abandoned in that fucking storage closet

#onyx talks too much #I think about that a lot #when did someone find him? when did William realize he was gone? #how long did it take him to care? #he must have been so fucking scared in there. alone and cold all fucking night with nothing but those horrible animatronics #and the memories of what happened to Elizabeth keeping him company #as soon as someone found him he clung to the first semblance of safety he had #and fell asleep in the arms of his abusive father #did he have to stay there overnight? how long did he sleep the next day? how tired and scared must he have been? #enough to give up and collapse into William’s arms #and sleep as long as he could buried under his blanket the second he got home #no matter the kinds of nightmares he might have been suffering #all he wanted #all he had in that moment was his bed and his stuffed animals #and the one part of the whole world that had even the possibility of being safe to him #because the world outside of his bed sure as hell was never going to be safe #no matter how bad his dreams might be #and he was right #it never was

[bubbled-clouds]

uh so shit happened today !

#tw child abuse #tw phsyical violance #tw emotional abuse #um i think thats it #tw phsycial abuse #ok so this morning was amazing- i found out my art teacher is enby which made me really happy #but then when i got home my parents quite literaly hit my head + face + pulled on my hair (all with their hand) #and uh they took away my phone and all of my accessories and threatened to cut up my favorite stuffed animal #um i have not been calm for like. i think 6 hours now ? #and my makeup got taken away #they even threw my laptop on the floor (it's fine) #um irl mutuals if you see this please don't text my instagram and also if you wouldnt mind can you text my irl bestie like a ss of this ? #i dont want her to worry too much. um yeah so hiatus from literally everyone until an indefinite amount of time? #um i need to find a job n shit so pray for me ig lmao uh yeah that's all #i'll prlly only log onto tumblr whenever my parents are out #ok bye #bee updates aha #fuck. #i misspelled some shit so #tw physical abuse #tw physical violence #ok bye guys (im not gunna unalive dw lmao) #a cry for help from the gods?? if there even is one at this point ! #also irl bestie if you see this #could you tell apollo to not text me #thanks

[beelas-bees]

Cheeteh z, answer honestly, do you hate women

#if cheeteh z ever found my blog i would be destroyed #but i dont really care tbh #do i actually think cheeteh z hates women? no #do i think its odd how important women are never featured in his maps? yes #wheres leopardfoot. mothwing. actual tawnypelt. snowfur. mistyfoot. stonefur(honorary woman) #where are they cheeteh z #also what cycle of abuse??? pinestar did nothing. literally all you showes was him leaving #*showed #this map sucks #that list of women was just for tigernoir too. i could go on #if someone actually found my blog...? eh i wouldnt care #i dont care if i get anon hate. i dont care if i get blacklisted from his projects #im just glad to know that im not the only one who thinks his maps are weird #and confusing and useless alot of times #its like an animation studio but you dont get paid. these maps arent for fun anymore #maybe i should make a ramble tag..

[skullz-chamber]

The only picture I have of me with patches and she's blurry 😓 she was mainly my mom's cat. She loved her so much.. whenever my mom was having panic attacks due to her auditory hallucinations patches would sit on her and would refuse to leave 💘

She used to lay on my shoulder as I walked around the house. She's a liddo parrot 🦜

#i have to keep stopping myself from blaming Crystal #patches is very scared so when taking her to a new location i have to slowly introduce her to her surroundings #in the end its my fault for continuing to trust an abusive person with delicate things #I will monitor my issue with taking responsibility #but I really think this is it for me and my sisters #its fucked up and psycho but my cats are all i care about #it trips El Homie out too he was like you know I've read about mfs like you #people who don't have bonds with society or many humans .. he said he always found it strange #they either have a close intimate bond with an inanimate object or some sort of animal #it is what it is and i won't take this too far but when I look at oatches lil face im just like #wow those fat bitches can kick rocks fr ( my sisters ) #ayo just realized tears were coming down my face while typing how cute #my mini munstaaas

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Me: *talking about the older Disney Princess movies and how I'm re-watching them* Someone: Oh yeah, but man those older ones, the OG 3? They were horrible representation for wom- Me:

Me: Speak not another word, lest we get thrusted back into the good year of 2014. This is why Frozen gagged y'all, cause people had that antiquated and twisted mindset of something that doesn't exist.

#we do NOT disrespect Snow White Cindy nor Aurora in my house #silly talks #SW and Cindy were parental abuse victims who still fought back and survived in their own way #and one was fucking 14 christ all mighty #and Cindy was so freaking proactive its crazy #i love the live action disney cindy but og animated cindy was just as good #they had a slightly different focus and messages but they both executed their own stuff (and shared stuff) very well #and aurora is just existing and y'all wanna drag her man #btw I love frozen and F1 is one of my top fav disney movies #but when you watch it and remember the bs mindset people had of the older disney princess during the 2010s-ish era.... #....well F1's writing is elevated a lot more! #It's playing into and subverting the twisted expectation people had of the older gens and the creators/Hans trolled y'all #I was not expecting this to happen in an irl convo I was not expecting to be thrusted back into 2014 TT0TT #(btw I say this knowing I also accidentally bought into/entertained that weird mindset for a minute.... #.....i was a teen and thought the headcanon/aus of 'making childhood thing actually twisted' was fun uwu #like ed edd and eddie is actually taking place in purgatory or whatever #do I really believe it? no. did I find it interesting/entertaining to explore that idea? yea #i firmly don't believe Beauty and the Beast is stockholm syndrome.....but did I find it interesting to hear about it the first time? yeah #so yeah when I bring up F1 gagging people I look at it fondly cause I was also invested in that crowed too! ...I wasn't as antagonistic #about it as some people but I did explore those ideas cause I found them fun) #anyway off topic we did Herc and Mulan last night (probs my fav disney movies besides F1 and Lion King 2)

[jenisis]

Capital "O" oof tonight

#got the latest covid jab and for some reason this one is taking me OUT #apparently there was potential covid exposure at school too 🙃 #also I found the body of a baby mourning gecko that had somehow escaped so that's super fun too #and the executive dysfunction is... well #let's just say the reason I found the body at 1:30am is because I spent three hours lying in bed after work #desperately beating myself up about how if I don't get up and do viv maintenance I'm abusing my animals #all the while cursing the state of the world

[e-wwis]

something so touching about church-goers bringing their pets to church on the feast of St. Francis

#im not even christian anymore #and i was never even catholic #but something about all of god's creation gathered together and presented before him in his house #something about people loving their animals so much it compelled them to bring them before their god to receive a blessing #gives me a little hope in humanity #and also makes my eyes piss a little #also i just found out about blessing of the animals today and im obsessed to say the least #this will live in my head forever #side tangent but religion can be so touching when its power is not abused by man

[malkaviian]

im fostering a kitty

#ok hes not a kitty as in baby. hes a teenager i think. we dont know how old he truly is but hes definitely not an adult. #the people in charge of him were looking for a foster home because they cant take care of him for at least 1 month or so #and i cant let this cat suffer any more. he has a cripple leg which gives him no pain; he only walks a bit funny and cant jump too high #which considering the state they found him in is a miracle hes alive at all. this is the best possible result; in all honesty. #he gets startled at everything even if the noises come from outside the house and hides if you raise your hand #so he most probably got abused. the poor little thing. hes so sweet he has the softest meow and purrs as loud as ten motors at once #but hes just very scared. very. you will be fine buddy love will abound here; but take your time. #though this is not adoption; its temporary--- i dont really want to adopt another cat right now. it feels almost betrayal. #but im too soft for cats; i cant just not help him when hes in need; even more with his backstory. so hes now here for the next month or so #hes so cute hes gray; white and has a pink nose #animal cruelty tw #lilith whispers

[evilminji]

Actually? You know what would be darkly hilarious?

If, when the GIW can't get ghosts declared both malicious AND non-sapient/sentient? They push for "dumb animals" instead.

Which is accepted. Ghosts are animals. Checks out, says scientists everywhere.

HOW "dumb"?

What? Says the GIW, mid-victory high fives. They did not expect a follow up question. They SHOULD have, as this is the SCIENTIFIC community and that is literally their job, but here we are.

How. "Dumb"? The scientists repeate slower. What methodology did you use? What is your sample size? Are their different sub-species? Is this dimension like ours? Is Ghost the equivalent to Mammal? It says here their are humanoid ones.

What IQ are we talking about here and HOW DID YOU TEST??

A goldfish, parrot, and dolphin are all animals. WILDLY different levels of intelligence. You can't treat them the same. Technically speaking, WE are animals.

The GIW does not like where this conversation is going. Tries to shut it down.

.......well NOW the scientists are both offended AND invested. How DARE you try to push faulty science and hide the Truth from them! They're gonna do their OWN studies! *picks up the phone and dials that one embarrassing spiritualist friend they had in college* Hey! You still think you can summon ghosts? I'll pay you to try it for Science!

And like? As a Ghost? It's degrading as hell. But ALSO these fuckos just Whoopsie'd you into having both protections under the law, since animal abuse IS illegal, AND just put the ENTIRE planets scientific community on their asses.... by accident.

So you take a deeeeeeep breath you don't even need. Remember you're doing this for the little ghost babies and fluffy ghost animals. And show up at a research facility like "yes, hello, I am Ghost. Here for you to poke and prod at. Please ask me to name the object on the flash card or whatever IQ tests do these days."

Should you HAVE to prove your own fucking sentience? No. But? You do it. You're even polite about it. Ask for a copy of the study they plan to publish so you can BEAT some mother fuckers with it. The scientists nod in understanding and use the BIG font for your copy so it'll hurt more.

They've been there.

And just? Shitty people getting what they wanted only to have it blow up in their faces?? I see all these angst "but what if they were declared ANIMALS" prompts and I just?? Are we talking PARROT or goldfish!? One has the average intelligence of about a human 4yr old and the other is a FISH! People get RIGHTFULLY furious when you treat INTELLIGENT animals badly.

And would, in fact, adapt pretty easy to discovering one of said animal has become HUMAN lvl intelligent. It's easy to grasp the idea of human intelligence lvl dolphin or monkeys. Maybe there was some mutated strain, maybe in uetro tampering. Who knows. But if I tried to sell you a human intelligent housefly? Gold fish? Lizard?

You wouldn't believe me. There is some kind of trick at play.

So if GHOSTS are seen as animals? Everyone nods and then later? Someone comes in TV and very excitedly informs you "we found INTELLIGENT LIFE amongst the ghosts!" You'd believe it. Probably be really excited by your conversation starter for the day. Get a taco and move on with your life.

But? Having to willing sit for a barrage of testing? Is going to suuuuuuck so bad. Poor Danny. SATs all over again. For HOURS. At multiple facilities, just to be CERTAIN it's not a one off. All because he not certain he can insure good behavior from other ghosts and This Is IMPORTANT. He ALSO can't be certain it's even SAFE.

Might be a trap.

But if he has to do it again and again and again? Mexico to Bavaria to China to the Maldives? If this is what it takes for the scientific community to bitchslap the GIW into ORBIT before the UN? Hand him that pencil.

He has no where more important to be.

@hdgnj @nerdpoe @mutable-manifestation @ailithnight @the-witchhunter

#dpxdc #dp x dc #dc x dp #dcxdp #dc x dp prompt #you wanna call me an animal? #well check mate! #SO ARE YOU #now they're asking what KIND of animal i am! #and THIS ghost is sayin SAPIEN! #i am in your scientific community #disproving your theories! #your studies were bad and you should feel bad! #danny phantom