Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.
REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit
my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies
Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs.
So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly – not spazz themselves into miscarrying.
So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs!
The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!
This is my friend TJ, wearing a costume she made for Halloween, 1977. She was 16 at the time.
Now, keep in mind: there was no internet to search for images. She could not have rented and paused the movie, because it wasn’t released on video until 1982. No, TJ just went to the movie a bunch of times, took notes with a flashlight, drew a bunch of sketches, and put this together.
In 19-fucking-77. So let’s bury this bullshit about how women didn’t grow up on Star Wars.
@culturevulture
that’s amazing she was able to make it from notes and sketches. some mad skills right there.
but yes, the BS of girl didn’t grow up on Star Wars dose need to end..
This is so cool??? I mean, somebody just… looked at these things and thought “ah yes that is obviously an ant-eater’s trunk. And these are two snakes in love. Now I just gotta show everyone else” and that’s so fucking creative and amazing
Look i dont wanna sound like a Fandom Mom or whatever but what do you think women over 25 or so are supposed to do? Do u really think theyre supposed to drop all their interests and just talk about taxes and marriage or whatever? It seems like 25+ year old fanboys do not receive this kind of “ooh cringe” reaction either. There are guys in their 40s with comic book collections and shit and people might think theyre a nerd at worst, not a freak who shouldnt be trusted
(Apologies to OP for blasting on here with this wall of text but I get so angry about this whole “lol women over 30 in fandom are so cringe” thing, so)
Women over 30 are supposed to quietly fade into the background of other people’s lives. We’re supposed to give up everything for our husbands (going to expand on this later, bear with me here) and children, and play second fiddle to them. This idea is reinforced by a lot of media the people on tumblr consume. Women as heroes? They’re all young, beautiful and single. The “strong” woman that kicks ass? Young, beautiful and single.
And before y’all @ me with counterexamples, sit your ass down and count the movies you know in which older women (over 40) or women who are married and have kids play a role besides “mentor for the young” vs the number of movies in which the woman who gets to do important stuff is, well, young, beautiful and single. Sit down and count the number of women actors over 40 that you know about vs the number of women actors under 40, and THEN do the same for men. Yes, you’re allowed to google their ages. The results will surprise you!
Don’t even get me started on the ideas about motherhood. For one, try being childfree and over 30. If you think being childfree and young is bad enough, let me tell you that nope, it gets worse.
Then there’s these posts that run around everywhere, including and especially tumblr, that tell people that “if you have children and don’t give up everything for them and always put them first you’re a TERRIBLE MOTHER”. Holy fuck they make me angry. For one, next time you see one, notice how it’s always about the mothers. You don’t see posts calling out the dads for not putting their children first 100% of the time.
Second, holy fuck how entitled are you even??? Do you really expect that everyone drops their passions, interests, careers and relationships just because you showed up on the planet? Jesus Christ on a pogo stick. Get a grip and realize that the world isn’t about you all the time. Mothers are people, too, and people deserve to have some me time. Even if it occasionally comes at the expense of their children. It’s a good lesson to learn, actually. Makes you, well, less entitled. Also, let me introduce you to the concept of single mothers, who often have to work jobs that make it necessary for them to leave their children with friends, relatives or neighbors. And when the kid is old enough to look after themselves for a few hours (usually around 12), well, they get to look after themselves. It’s either that or fucking starve.
And now for the husbands. “But we left that concept behind in the 50s! Nowadays, women can work and do their own thing even if they’re married!” Ahahaha sure, Jan. Let me tell you, the woman is still expected to, if necessary, be the first to drop their job, hobbies etc. and do the unpaid and often unappreciated work. Relationships where these things are shared equally or the guy does most of the work around the house and stop working are few and far between.
I can already hear people going “straight culture ew” but every time you, the queer youngster, post or reblog something about how older women in fandom are cringe or how mothers should always put their children first, you’re showing that you’ve adopted that culture without even reflecting on it. Oh, sure, your wonderful, equal queer relationship will be different, but you’re still expecting your parents to adhere to those norms, thereby perpetrating them.
Many people like to assume that all of history has been a progression from “it sucked back then because people were ignorant savages” to “everything’s great now!”
But honestly, that’s not how it works.
I mean, take Egypt. For many thousands of years, Egypt was…actually a pretty great place to live, and TBH women there had better rights than we enjoy in many parts of the world today. The medical care? They used techniques in Egypt 3,000 years ago that we’re looking at now and going “Okay so that actually has some legitimate points, maybe they knew what they were doing.”
(I mean, sure, they also used crocodile dung as a contraceptive, but hey, the Pill hadn’t been invented yet.)
The Scythians…again. Life with them? I’d be okay with it.
I mean, if you get salmonella, trichinosis and infection from C. pneumonia at once- all three of which Nile Crocodiles carry -you’re probably not gonna stay pregnant. This could potentially be because you are dead, but it does count.
True.
(They used it to make a pessiary, btw. They dried it, powdered it, and mixed it with honey and sodium carbonate, or what is now known as washing soda. Now, the honey and washing soda probably DID kill sperm, much like a modern spermicide, but the dung???? Yeah that didn’t do much.)
Other methods of Egyptian birth control involved condoms made of animal intestines (which were used more because they protected from VD’s, to be fair)
If you couldn’t get crocodile dung, ground unripe acacia fruit and honey could be used to make the spermicide. Unripe acacia fruit is acidic, (as is honey) and sperm are killed in acidic environments, so it probably did help.
Egypt was LEGENDARY for its advancement during that period of history! And compared to many other civilizations at the time, women were indeed in a very good place! I think they could even own property, own and run businesses, and divorce their husbands but I’m not sure. As a man you were expected to keep your wife happy and provide for her, I know that much.
But it’s even wilder. Get this: they had a pregnancy test. They would have a woman urinate on a handful of grain. If it sprouted, she was pregnant. If it didn’t, she wasn’t.
It was 70% accurate.
NO BUT LISTEN
WHAT THEY DID??? They moistened a grain of barley and a grain of emmer wheat with the possibly pregnant person’s urine. If the emmer alone sprouted, it was positive. If the barley sprouted, it was negative.
NOW HERE’S THE WILD PART; certain hormones in the urine of a pregnant human inhibit germination in barley.
WE’VE JUST NOW FIGURED THAT PART OUT
In ancient Egypt? They didn’t know why it worked. They just knew it DID.
I KNOW IT’S SO COOL
People don’t seem to really grasp the fact that this one civilization existed for more than half of recorded human history. They had plenty of time to figure this shit out and become one of the greatest civilizations ever.
I love them so much ;u;
“Living in Egypt for most of history would have been pretty good actually.” -My history teacher during “History; ancient to early modern, part 1″ in college.
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