‘The richness of the oriental leaf’? Is there some non-American tobacco I don’t know about?

LMAO, a heat seeking missile would be great for the elevator lines at cons.

I assume they enforce it just by legal threats, I don’t know that they’ve ever actually taken anyone to court over it. But since their cheapest suits are like $6000 I imagine most people are scared to lose.

You don’t have to explain, I’m totally familiar with having to hide furry stuff from family. We ordered most of the fur online, but I know that can be hard too depending on shipping costs. 🫶

I’m a huge believer in “every self made fursuit is a good fursuit”, but if you want to build your skills up before tackling an expensive project then designing plushies is definitely a great way to do that 👍

You totally should! My husband and I made his (partial) fursuit, and it was a ton of work but super enjoyable to see the end result. And sooo much cheaper, this was like a decade ago but we spent maybe $250 total.

He’s already an artist and I already knew how to sew, so we had a leg up, but there’s a ton of great tutorials and videos out there for it if you’re starting from zero.

These tutorials were a lifesaver for us, if you don’t already know the site.

Do you know about the ridiculous TOS you agree to in order to buy one of their suits? They put all kinds of restrictions on what you can do with it and don’t even allow you to sell it without their approval.

I’d never heard of them before today, and weirdly enough I saw this post while watching a video about their absurd TOS.

So, you’re on lemmy.world and I’m on lemmy.blahaj.zone. My login for Blahaj won’t work on lemmy.world, and yours for lemmy.world won’t work on Blahaj, because they’re two separate instances. An instance is a when someone has taken the freely available Lemmy software and hosts a site for others to join.

We can talk to each other because we’re both using Lemmy. We can also talk to people on Mastodon and few other sites that use the same method of sharing posts with each other (ActivityPub).

Different instances usually have different rules. What gets you banned on one instance may be fine on another; don’t worry too much about it and just choose a place you vibe with.

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Terry Pratchett was a real one, though, and by the time it was published they said neither were sure who had written what. There’s as much Pratchett in there as Gaiman.

I know from looking at it that it’s one of those kitchen gadgets meant for cracking an egg held in an egg cup to neatly remove the top, and that it’s the variety where you pull back the heavy metal ball and it springs back towards the egg to crack it. I don’t speak German, though, so I don’t know how much of that is contained in the name, haha.

No, it’s just one angel who is male. He has so many wings. Please stop making him have more wings 😩

If you want to use it I give you my blessing 🤝

Either that or they’re literally too daft to understand why trans people would rather see a hundred people with wEiRd PrOnOuNs who may or may not be trolling than see a single person appointing themselves the pronoun police.

Like, it’s not showing me anything I didn’t already know, it’s just ugly to see. Not to get on the soapbox too much, but I think medicalization* of transness and the portrayal of the noble suffering trans person as an archetype kind of inevitably leads to this Very Serious interpretation of gender identity that is just as oppressive as Evangelical takes on gender. Sorry if anyone got the wrong impression, but “MTF + FTM + nonbinary are All The Genders” wasn’t actually what anyone involved in trans liberation was ever fighting for. If this makes (general) you mad, go make that your problem instead of mine.

And I say that as someone that needed surgery and HRT! It will probably actually kill me if HRT gets banned in the US, I’m not saying this as someone with no skin in it. They’re not taking anything from me by existing, and if seeing them makes you go “holy shit we’ve gotta shut this whole trans thing down” then you were always my enemy.

People mad about it inherently do not understand the point of federation if they want all instances to basically be .world, except with different mods.

I didn’t even know Junji Ito did a Frankenstein adaptation, so I am one of those wondering. Thanks for the info!

What was your formative dinosaur media as a young kid?

This 1980 claymation/cartoon/live action short called Dinosaur was absolutely hypnotic to me as a kid. The scenes with all the hooting and howling in the jungle were so intense for my little 4 year old mind!

Oops, I thought this was a photoshopped image with a filter on it, but it looks like it’s AI. Sorry mods! I’m really easily fooled by VHS-looking effects laid over AI images.

Stop following me around, my therapist!! 😂 I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard almost exactly that in therapy, haha.

But for real you’re 100% right, and it’s good to remember that.

That makes the one shitty English teacher I had stand out even more in my mind. She wasn’t quite Roald Dahl character level shithead, but she was close. I’m pretty sure her being ex-military had a lot to do with it.

The ketamine bit isn’t speculation at all, he’s publicly admitted to it and says he has a prescription. At his income bracket that basically means he wanted it, so he got it.

I agree that it’s probably not (only) ketamine giving him bloodshot eyes all the time, who knows what that is though.