mutual: HEY DO ANY OF MY MUTUALS WANT TO BE FRIENDS OR TALK HMU I LOVE YOU
me: they mean their other mutuals not me keep scrolling
azariel888:So went to get my oil changed and I was going to sit down and draw Geist and wound up drawing my Druid Anka instead. I had a couple of the floor dealers stop what they were doing to look and had a great conversation about drawing. I’ve been really beating myself up
So went to get my oil changed and I was going to sit down and draw Geist and wound up drawing my Druid Anka instead. I had a couple of the floor dealers stop what they were doing to look and had a great conversation about drawing. I’ve been really beating myself up over my art lately. But I’ll probably keep putzing at this and maybe finish it. I miss drawing Nightelves they are so darn fun to draw (helps that they are so pretty/handsome). Also sorry for not posting a lot lately I’ve been beyond stressed out.
ameriscare: businesshag: I HATE how tumblr brings up your old tags as you’re typing a new tag because I really don’t!! Want to remember!!! Some of the things I’ve said on this godforsaken site!!!! tag this post with your first result you get when you type will
I HATE how tumblr brings up your old tags as you’re typing a new tag because I really don’t!! Want to remember!!! Some of the things I’ve said on this godforsaken site!!!!
tag this post with your first result you get when you type will
blood is not kosher
assuming vampires breathe, and are therefore alive, what do they do
If they’re alive and they need it to survive, it’s permitted (provided they don’t kill people in so doing).
If they’re not alive, halacha doesn’t apply to them.
Either way, there is no reasonable halachic restriction on a vampire drinking blood.
but would it need to be from a kosher animal
can they drink, like, dolphin bloodOkay now that gets interesting and I would want to actually ask a rabbi whether that would be a thing. like, if one must consume the blood of living things to survive, does it make a difference whether one limits it to the blood of kosher animals or not. I could see it being ruled either way. (I would think if there is only one type of blood one can metabolize or if only one type of blood is available, one can consume it regardless.)
I remember learning that human blood (not sure about animal blood) is permissible to consume if it has not been “poresh” (”separated”) from the body (in the context of “if you cut your lip or your finger and immediately and instinctively put it in your mouth, you don’t have to spit out the blood”).
So
Drinking blood out of a goblet or vacuum-sealed bag would be assur, but sinking your teeth into someone and drinking directly (so that the blood never touches the air or is in a vessel) would be okay.
I know that applies to one’s own blood, but I don’t know if the principle applies to someone else’s. But it may count as a possible precedent!
Okay, so I asked my rabbi about this (… yes, my actual rabbi). Short answer, @fenrisesque, is that the ideal situation is for the vampire to intravenously ingest blood that was donated by a human in order to stay alive, assuming that donation doesn’t kill the person. If
homemadeintravenously doesn’t work, thenstoreboughtoral ingestion is fine too. This applies whether or not the vampire can drink animal blood. Long answer, which I find fascinating but is long so under a cut:THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL please thank your rabbi for me
(also, consuming blood from a live person who will not be harmed by the loss of blood is completely different from killing and eating a person – because it is forbidden to derive material gain from a corpse, which includes using it for food, separately from any kosher/nonkosher issues.)
heronfoot:Endearments with the reverse boys!
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- Gross and embarrassing. Totally brings shame to the family
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- Reserved and refined, assuming he means any of it. Switches to Nepali for hardcore doting
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- Smooth and smoldering. Uses too many endearments anyways
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- Conservative and controlled. His bro and that other guy Need To Chill
Endearments with the reverse boys!
faebelina:Night elf druid sketch-paint commission : )
ive been leveling an alliance character and i like whole heartedly hate alliance culture
like today i went to shrine of seven stars for the first time ever and it was completely opposite of shrine of two moons like everything was flip flopped and it made me really upset it took me 5 minutes to find the portal room
gartblog: dad76 for my best friend Volt!
lambylingames:i don’t think i ever submitted this chibi Nevia by herself back when i made my very early commission advertisements. here she is just in case!
i don’t think i ever submitted this chibi Nevia by herself back when i made my very early commission advertisements. here she is just in case!
dylibird: weresehlat: grouch314: hot4triangle: sssn-neptune-vasilias: points-at-my-hand: Ever wonder how big wolves are and why running from them is a really bad idea? This had me so fucked up the first time I worked at the zoo. Because honestly they just look like big
Ever wonder how big wolves are and why running from them is a really bad idea?
This had me so fucked up the first time I worked at the zoo. Because honestly they just look like big German-Huskies when they’re not wild. They look like big puppies. And then… they get close to you… And it’s suddenly kinda fucking terrifying. Like “oh this is the animal that used to scare people shitless.” “This is the animal that used to run through nightmares and poems so much.” And you suddenly fucking get it. As cool as these animals are far away, as important as the animals are in their natural environment, as much as we need them to survive… they’re still pretty fucking terrifying
can you believe these things became our friends
And then people domesticated them and now sleep with them in their beds.
We’re not a species meant to last
I’d actually argue the opposite!
We took these super efficient killing machines and befriended them and now they love and protect us as much as we (ideally) love and protect them
Cats basically domesticated themselves so that they could share in our food, medical care, and affection
In urban spaces, prey species know that there’s a higher likelihood that humans will help you if you’re stuck or injured than them killing or maiming you
It’s just, over time we see trends of our species overcoming environmental pressures that would and do lead to extinction in other species by sharing and forming close bonds with other sentient organisms and just kinda… aggressively community-bonding our way out of it?
For a long time there’s been this pervading idea that we, as a species, are just innately violent and terrible and “sinful” and it’s been that violence that let us survive (see the hunting hypothesis of human evolution). But that’s not what we see
We are, at our core, a species that looks into the face of something other, and thinks “I wonder if they want to be friends?” so long as the individual isn’t actively trying to kill us. Sure, tons of people do awful things every day, but for every terrible act or thought on this Earth, there are a dozen acts of kindness that people do casually for complete strangers
So yeah. We looked at these massive fluffy monsters with the sharp claws and crushing jaws rooting in our garbage just beyond the campfire and thought, the way no other species before or after us has done to the same extent; “They look friend-shaped!”
And they were. And that is how we got to be the dominant species on this planet
I want a friend shape wolf