#where my anime mutuals at

[ringosmistress]

#jojo was a man who thought he was a loner #jojo x beatles #holy shit #a collab we didn't want #but now need #where my anime mutuals at #two of my favourite obsessions come together to make this shit ass meme #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jojo's bizarre adventure #jojo #the beatles #john lennon #paul mccartney #george harrison #ringo starr #beatles #memes #get back

[p0nyr0ni]

#sorry to be the guy that draws edgy art for vday #anyways this is for my bf !! #based on a convo where we talked about finding each other in every universe #but maybe in one we were a predator and prey and couldn’t love each other the way we were supposed to #so ended up killing each other in a desire for closeness #and now in this universe we are gay twitter mutuals <3 #pony art #tw blood #tw animal death #pony’s greatest hits

[bookgobloblin]

Fionna and Cake screenshot redraw because the Star has an IRON GRIP on my brain right now original screenshot under the cut

#fionna and cake spoilers #fionna and cake #marceline #marceline abadeer #fionna and cake screenshot redraw #screenshot redraw #my art #digital art #bubbline #marceline the vampire queen #adventure time #I am so insane about this episode omg #The ending sequence was PURE CINEMA #It's going to have a permanent place in my brain as one of my favorite animated sequences of all time #the juxtaposition between bubbline at each other's throats and gumlee realizing they were meant for each other is just so good #AND TEHN THEY KISSED IN AN ELEVATOR #I'm dead #even in a timeline where they had basically no chance of having a happy relationship their obsession for each other was unquenchable #to the point of self destruction #Mutually assured destruction has never been this gay #I am so normal right now

[nosfelixculpa]

woe red bird blorbo upon ye

#creations #gifs #cartoon #animation #storm hawks #stormhawks #sh #tv #nerd corps #dhx media #wildbrain #asaph fipke #aerrow #if u dont see me make gifs for a bit i will always return with one of them #its easy bc ik where all the scenes r nd its nice to colour bc of the Style #anyway take him i am bowling him at u my mutuals and my followers #expect a piper to be here soon they r a package deal #attempted to use scenes i dont usually use but was only slightly successful #im too attached to the Helmet One u cant take it from me #the eye twitchy one is so beloved to me hes so silly #this boy led a war

[darksisterswielder]

Introducing y‘all to my little friend from my neighborhood 😌🫶🏻

#She belongs to a family whose house I pass every time I go jogging or taking a walk in the forest #I‘ve known her for a little over 3 years now #every time she sees me she immediately walks over to me meowing like crazy and headbutting me #we‘ve even gotten to the point where she turns her back to me and just chills out while I crouch down next to her catching my breath #and enjoying nature #idk her name I just call her darling or little one lmao #during the pandemic I went for a walk every day on the same route and befriended every cat on the way #but she is special #also she is not overweight that is her pouch #got inspired by my mutuals who regularly post their cats on here #I wanted to contribute but alas I do not have any pets :( #and these little creatures are so fascinating and comforting so I felt like sharing them #animals #cats #mine

[doodlboy]

Insane abt these outfits tbh

#too bad i never get any of these special cards :[ #anyway #barking at rei rn fuckign mad scientist awoooo #FATHER [the little bird on his shoulder] HAS A KNIFE HOLY SHIT #AND GLASSES????? #blade's outfits never miss tbh #the giant knife is just a plus #idk what the hell is going on with kuya but i dont like it #he looks so polite... #he's not polite at all who is this sweet little man #wheres my bastard yokai #anyway mutuals behold some random bland[ish] anime men you probably know nothing abt #elliot rambles #nu carnival

[cpunkhobie]

:D

AHHHHHHHH FUCK YEAAAAH THANK YOUUUUU

#jonahs lemonade stand #buwan #comfort #animals #mecore #<- where all my fave animals go #mutuals

[vero-niche]

https://youtu.be/4EuFD9V9AT0?si=OmXVKeUe11WgqkR4

This fuckimg song

This fuckign

I love it and hate it at the same time

I have never heard this up to a year ago where i just stumbled upon it in a playlist but its so nostalgic sounding SO NOSTALGIC when i LITERALLY COULD NOT HAVE HEARD IT when i was small and yet it gives me the feeling that i remember listening to it in like 2009 at grandmas house on summer break at 23:35 pm at night on animax after cartoon network ended for the day, bc i stayed a lot at my grandparents' house on sumemr break and i watched anime there bc mom could not say no but i could not have done that since darker than black DID NOT AIR IN HUNGARY AT ALL, not with sub, not with dub, it did not air, i looked into it

Im literally nostalgic for THE NOTHING I HAVENT EVEN SEEN THE SHOW

Why the fucm does it sound so nostalgic i remember the nothing my brain is making up shit

it does have familiar sounds tbh, as in, many notes and tunes and vibes typical of that time, so probably it's a culmination of that haha

even to me it doesn't sound completely new, even tho i wasnt near anime in 2010 yet.... it kinda has that cowboy bebop vibe? or smg like that, maybe somene more at home in older anime knows why it sounds familiar haha

#fun fact: the only old school anime i ever completely watched is trigun #which is honestly the highest honor with me bc i dont rly like/watch older anime by which i mean pre-2010 ones #i got into anime in 2016 only and theres always some good stuff coming out every season where i prefer the style/storytelling/lenght more #than with older ones #i tried watching several but egh. this is my toxic trait or whatever lmao #ask #mutuals

[anti-dazai-blog]

Thank you to everyone who got me to 2500 likes!

#2500 likes #tumblr milestone #thank you #Wow #when I started this blog I thought I’d get bored of it after covering the first ~3 chapters in the anti dazai series #never thought I’d be dedicated to insulting an anime prettyboy for this long #Thank you so much to all my mutuals and to all the people who appear frequently in my notes #I love you all so much. I love you so so much and I appreciate all of you #I might not interact with y’all as much as I’d like to. But trust me I see you in my notes. I see you and I am filled with joy and happines #Thank you for enjoying my blog. The anti-dazai series will continue!! #I haven’t posted in months because of school. But midwinter break is coming up #Just a few more weeks. Maybe around a month? And then I’ll be back with the rest of the guild arc #There’s very little Dazai content after that because most of the stuff he appears in is Dazai/Fyodor mind games #In the cannibalism arc and the hunting dogs arc etc etc #So let’s see where things go from there

[chojis]

marito of the day

#for my mutuals asking where is he from: bucchigiri but it is good? do i recommended it? is it worth it? no vjkngkbnjgb #the mc character is soooo annoying and unlikeable and the sister thing is so fucking weird plus the plot is...i dont know #^ this character is not the best but i love his design and IN this anime hes one of the best characters and like other 3 nfkdjbngj #bucchigiri?!

[darklight-owl]

Thank you for everything you do for PL women. You are the bravest PL warrior ever o7

Happy to serve o7

I like things but I don't like when said things have obvious misogyny so I usually end up going "FINE. I'll fix it MYSELF."

I love adding detail to underwritten female characters 🥰 makes the "11 year old shonen fan who would latch on to any passing woman in her animes like a stray puppy because there was no main character with her gender" in me very happy.

#on that note i think non binary kids deserve financial compensation from every cartoon they've ever seen #but i disgress #how does one write a character as compelling as Claire but then refuse to give her ANY screentime how tf does that happen #like if Claire was my character I would at least add a scene where she gets to the future and realizes she's going to die #why does Dimitri finding her body get animated but Claire arriving in the future only get a passing mention hmmm #Claire would be far less ignored by fanon if she wasn't ignored by canon #anyway happy Flora Friday everyone! I'll see if I can take the time to draw her today :3c #mutuals #another-clive-blog #pl spoilers #professor layton spoilers #<-because of the tags

[prolibytherium]

I have spent much of my life at war with various rodents

#I'm not sure any mutuals who followed over from my previous life remember the 'bastard the mouse' saga which was a particularly #painful time of my life where I was fighting a losing battle against a group of mice that I liked to pretend was one particularly wily mous #Caught one with my bare hands and I felt like a god #Anyway this apartment building has a mouse population too and you'd think that having had beloved pet rats since the original mouse saga #would make me more sympathetic but if anything the firsthand perspective of how much these things piss and shit has made it worse for me #Like I respect that they are just little animals eking out a living in the perfect controlled environments we humans create #Unfortunately they have crossed me

[rw-ethology]

Do you have theories on why lizards and how relatively open are they to being befriended by slugcat? Them continuing to be a threat to slugpups makes sense, as well as possibility of the lizard accidentally biting the slugcat during a careless attempt at feeding (which is why I now only give them snacks by tossing and running the moment I am sure the Lizard is locked on it). But usually it seems predators take longer to form such mutualistic (suppose?) approach, especially to prey. Cycles maybe?

Looks like kind of a mixture of both generally recognising when it benefits them to stick around, and resource-guarding behaviour directed towards a creature that has made itself look very valuable.

There's two main ways a slugcat can go about taming a lizard- by establishing itself as either a source of food, or a source of protection (saving one from a vulture causes your reputation with it to go way up). Either way, you've convinced it that eating you or letting you die would be counterproductive at this point, so as long as it remains convinced it'll follow you around and protect you from its rivals and other threats so it doesn't lose out. There's probably a number of things that factor into why they'll act in this way so readily, but if you look at it as an alternate expression of other traits and behaviours they already show off, you can kind of see where it might stem from.

Lizards are incredibly food-motivated- they'll go for pretty much anything they can fit in their mouth (that's large enough to be worth the effort), and will ignore almost everything else to run and cache it in their dens, presumably to store for later instead of wasting time that they could be spending finding more. Especially considering the state of the world and limited time pressure placed on every creature by the rain, in general it's probably kind of difficult for a large carnivore to consistently find enough to eat every single cycle. A successful catch whenever you need it isn't at all a guarantee; with that in mind, them having developed some degree of stockpiling behaviour would make sense, and suggests at least a rudimentary understanding that being careful with your food supply hugely bolsters your survival odds in the long run. Likely as a direct consequence of this, many lizards are highly territorial and/or competitive to varying degrees, and will chase rivals down and fight viciously to steal each others' prey or protect their resources under threat. It's also important to note lizards have a global reputation system- if you're nice enough across the board they'll become passive and if you harm enough they'll start to fear you, a behaviour unique amongst predators that suggests as a species they're just about intelligent enough to learn from experience and observation when it's better to just leave something alone.

It's most likely these specific characteristics that allow a lizard to become "tamed" so quickly. All you're really doing is taking advantage of their ability to recognise a valuable benefit, and redirecting their drive to defend one onto you, by teaching them to associate you with good things. No matter how tasty a slugcat looks, if it's proven time and time again that it will provide more food and support (that you desperately need) while alive than it could ever be worth dead, then why on earth would you want to let it die, or allow some other creature to take advantage instead?

However, this relationship only lasts as long as you put the effort into maintaining it. If you fail to let them into your shelter or feed them enough in subsequent cycles, or throw weapons at or around them (even by accident), they'll decide you're no longer worth the effort and quickly go from warning-bites to straight up turning on you as your reputation drops. Additionally, considering they by and large don't seem to recognise the slugcat's other companions- be it other tamed lizards or pups or friendly scavengers- as anything other than a rival or something else to eat, it's pretty clear that to their understanding they really are just guarding a resource and not joining a pack; lizards are not social creatures by nature with very little need to have developed emotional intelligence (even yellows I suspect aren't very close with each other beyond their advanced hunting formations and sharing prey), and any cooperation is strictly down to improving their odds of survival, not any form of attachment or gratitude as we would recognise it. It's still considered mutualistic, as both parties benefit from the relationship, but while a slugcat might become emotionally attached to their companion, the lizard isn't really capable of reciprocating in the same way.

With all that in mind, it's likely not the case that they're any more open to being "befriended" on an emotional level than any other predator in-game- they're just the only ones you can successfully lead to believe that you might actually be more useful alive than you would be as a few extra food pips, and for that to work out in your favour. Other major threats to the slugcat like vultures, miros birds and most large invertebrates most likely either lack the intelligence to discern one prey item from another, or they're so high on the food chain there's simply no meaningful benefit they could get out of collaboration (or both). It just so happens that lizards manage to be in the perfect position on the food chain with ideal behaviour to take advantage of that it's made possible to convince them being your friend is worth it, however temporarily.

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BONUS: the first lizard i ever tamed. was a little bit pathetic and utterly failed to protect me from anything before falling off a building in sky islands trying to wrestle a white lizard and losing, but the several painful minutes I spent being mediocre at squidcada hunting were worth it anyway. I miss him every day. godspeed you blue idiot

#rw-ethology #main post #asks #anonymous #my screencaps #rain world #rainworld #slugcats #lizards #really good question i love mutualism.. had a lot of fun coming up with this stuff #*taming* a wild animal is absolutely not the same as *befriending* it in a way that we/social animals would consider a friendship #or like.... domestication (that is a WHOLE other beast and i Highly doubt that's where lizards are heading) #like ofc it can be friendship To You! but believing an animal feels exactly the same is assuming a lot. can be dangerous at worst #though it can also be argued that to a creature where that's the closest it can Get to caring- like reptiles- it's still really meaningful #its just a matter of perspective. even if its not Affection based you can still have a strong bond with them/be important to them #so imo of course rw lizards can still be your friend :) they think you're important enough to protect after all. thats a high honor #perhaps the highest a lizard can give #just be nice to them!!! #downpour spoilers #< nearly forgot. for slugpups ment

[https-hunter]

I FINALLY HAVE A PORTFOLIO WEBSITE :DD

#it took me WEEKS #i'm a bit hesitant to link it here bc it has my face & where i live yk #but i'm fine with mutuals seeing it so if you want to see it lmk and i'll send it privately!! #personal

[benetnvsch]

just remembered how the anime cut Kunikida out of that one bit where the ADA go and get revenge on that group of ppl who damaged their cafe hurt the cafe owner and like?? what was the reason </3 g-d forbid the anime ever shows Kunikida caring about something other than his ideals

#the amount of times they just cut scenes of him showing emotions or being there for the others is wild #like my mutual on twt (and here if ur seeing this stellar hi :3) just pointed at that one scene in the anime where Atsushi and Kyoka look- #- for Dazai was actually Atsushi and kunikida in the manga and just AUGHHHh what was the reason ?? WHY?? #and the amount of times they show him doing things like showing more compassion or crying or anything and just RHAHHH #PUT HIM BACKKKK- #the only way that bones could make for this would be animating magnificent days or 55 mins (PLEASE) #reanimating LN 1 #OR ... #lol #or..... #animating that one Mayoi event where the ADA goes to the beach #hehe #pls give kunikida his own filler episode just following him around actually I think that would be neat #kite watches bsd

[watermelinoe]

and see how dialogue isn't possible when you block someone who doesn't even disagree with your movement, just with certain premises behind it? see how it doesn't allow for practicing harm reduction or nuance? when i'm struggling to get myself to eat anything at all, which can last for days or weeks at a time, what i do eat needs to count. sorry, i'm eating the cheese stick because it's the only thing that sounds palatable and it gives me seven grams of protein. sorry there's no room for women with eating disorders and deficiencies because "eat less animal products" isn't good enough when your ideology values non-human animals more than women's health. but of course the burden falls on women to make ourselves tired and weak while the male-led industry overproduces and overconsumes. at least you stayed true to your logically inconsistent, female-socialized emotion-based beliefs and allowed for zero compromise! there's no way your airtight ethical philosophy has blatant logical flaws at the slightest nudge of critical thought, the people who point out fallacies are just heartless!

#the fact that i considered breaking mutuals w this person so many times #but i'm the one who gets blocked in the end lmao #sorry you have no rebuttal to my argument lol #notice how nearly every woman who agreed with me also agreed that the current animal ag industry is the problem #and that we all would like to consume less animal products where we can #but when your ideology is so militant that that isn't good enough because ''meat is murder'' (but only when humans kill animals) #(but remember we've elevated non-human animals to human status. so every time a predator kills a prey animal: murder.) #(wait that's different. it's because ummm humans interfering with animals isn't natural. so are we on the same level as non-human animals?) #(yes but no! pre-industrialization agriculture wasn't part of nature because uh. humans did it.) #(and humans aren't part of nature because of animal agriculture. flawless non-circular logic.) #(so in conclusion all animals have equal personhood except when they obviously don't have the same morality because they're animals) #(this is why there can be no harm reduction because all animal products are human rights violations on par with rape and femicide) #(no this isn't degrading to women bc we told you chickens have the same personhood as women!! and don't question that either!!) #anyway i limit animal consumption to the best of my ability but meat is not murder. if that's not good enough then bite me #sorry to the normal vegans out there who don't treat it like a human rights movement. you get too much shit and i'm adding to it rip