Invertebrate high-five! 🐙 Octopuses feel, smell and taste the world around them through their suckers, while sea urchins use their tiny tube feet to move about the seafloor and pass food to their mouth.
It’s okay to have fictional characters do problematic stuff. Really, it is. Fictional characters are there to tell a story; not to be perfect paragons of virtue.
“Yeah!” some people will say. “It’s fine as long as you show that it’s problematic!”
And I’ll say: No. You don’t need to always do that either. We can’t expect writers to point out every moral misstep a character makes.
It’s okay to have characters do something problematic, and it’s okay to assume that the readers can see why it’s problematic on their own.
Today the Department of Awesomely Good Deeds joins this little octopus in thanking filmmaker Pei Yan Heng, who spotted the small cephalopod after it had gotten beached during low tide on beach at Singapore’s Cyrene Reef. Pei filled a plastic cup with water, gently scooped up the stranded octopus, and then carefully returned him to the sea.
It took the creature a little while to recover, after which, instead of swimming away it swam over to Pei, extending a tentacle and placing it on Pei’s shoe, where it remained for a while in apparent gratitude:
Hanna
Pruszkowska “Baśka” with dog Kropka, Andrzej
Korycki “Sokół” , Zbigniew Rozental “Wyrwicz” photographed by
Eugeniusz Lokajski
during Warsaw Uprising.
Guess what?! There is a miracle cure for parvovirus but it’s not what youtube and natural health bloggers would have you believe. It’s not feeding them charcoal, colloidial silver, homeopathic vaccines, capsules full of faeces from a dog that currently has parvo, oregano, garlic… not even a raw food diet.
It’s vaccinating your fucking puppy.
Reblogging since we’ve euthanased at least 20 dogs in the last two weeks due to a positive parvo test 😭😭😭 please vaccinate your puppies!!
Wait, are you telling me the anti-vax crowd has moved on to pets now? What are they afraid of, a rise of feline autism?
Antivaxers are literally the stupidest group of people possible, so they probably are.
no but one of the things I witnessed as a little vet tech intern doing rotation was a frustrated tech trying to convince an older woman to let the clinic give her adult dog his annual rabies vaccine (a required vaccination for reasons of public safety), which she was refusing to do because “what proof can you show me that these weird drugs won’t make my dog autistic??”
and a week later, another woman shying away from the parvo vaccine for her puppy because “you just hear all sorts of horror stories about vaccines these days, you know?”
also, when I was looking up my state’s rabies vaccination laws just now while writing my addition to this post, one of the first things to pop up was an article for pet owners about “tips on how to avoid ALL vaccines!!”
so, yes. yes, the antivaxxers have moved on to pets, people are now afraid of “autism” in dogs & cats, and it is it brain-meltingly stupid, not to mention dangerous for everyone.
