I'm Z'ev.
Your local Starbucks barista and swamp hag.
My blog is MOSTLY SFW any and all NSFW is tagged.
Really into Overwatch, Stranger Things, Dragon Age, The Arcana, McElroy content, and one day, being freed from my mortal prison and becoming a lich. Or at least leaving the state of Florida.
Any Pronouns . 24 . Aquarius
Remember that whole post that @i-am-a-fish made saying that ‘if you have knees, you are valid’ but then someone pointed out homophobes also have knees and then @i-am-a-fish replied ‘not for long’
*gets fingers stuck and quietly tries to subtly pull them out so people don’t realize but that shit hurts like a bitch, so its hard to keep your cool.“
[ID: An oldschool lunch table. It’s round, with bench seats attached to it, blue, plastic, and has holes in it reminiscent of a milk carton. /END ID]
endgame was so basic. what if when the avengers confronted thanos on his farm he was like “they said it would work. they said I would be happy” and it turned out he was just a puppet for some higher, more terrifying power. whoever it was had taken advantage of thanos’ madness and strength and used him. the film could have been about hunting down this entity and after years of searching, they find out it was the grandmaster and his brother the collector, two of the oldest beings in the universe. at this point the avengers are desperate and they can’t understand why the brothers would have done this. they need closure, they need a reason, and it turns out, after all that, the brothers were bored. they’re millions of years old and life had been getting dull so they wanted to stir the pot, mix things up a bit, so they spent thousands of years plotting an elaborate plan. they ignited the fire and watched it burn. that’s it. how would the avengers of handled that? to know that that trillions of lives were snuffed out of existence because of the tediousness of immortality? what would happen next?
This would have been a 10/10 way to introduce Death herself
Dogs actually do have a language center in their brains. They process language just the same way we do, just not as well.
They do understand our words. This is not true of all domesticated animals (horses, for example, can only manage to distinguish a relatively small number of spoken commands…but boy do they know what you’re really saying).
They don’t understand “just your tone of voice” as a lot of people think.
As of 2016 the record vocabulary for a dog demonstrating understanding of words is over 1,000.
So if you give them a way to talk back, they’re going to use it.
The development of language skills is probably a side effect of domestication and of being kept in close contact with humans. A dog that was a better hunting partner would be kept and bred and over time they developed a better understanding of language.
In other words, dogs are pretty dang smart because we need them to understand us.
And also that is a very good boy.
^ Would like to agree and make one amendment - very good GIRL. This is Stella the dog!
Check out the owner Christina’s Instagram: one of the first things I saw was a video where the dog started barking and, when prompted by the owner, said “outside, look look look look look look look, come outside.” Which is basically exactly how one would expect a dog to speak.
The owner described bringing an unknown package into the house, and the dog ran away to push the buttons for “help no no help help” which is also about what I expect goes on in a scared pup’s mind.
In another video, the dog tried to push a button, and the button wasn’t working. The dog paused and then pushed the buttons for “No. Help.”
In yet another (which the owner seemed impressed by), Stella said “come eat come play.” The owner asked the dog which she wanted to do, to eat or to play? And the dog clarified “come eat.” After eating, then the dog tried to instigate play. So the dog may have been able to understand a short spoken question, and how “questions and answers” work, and also understands sequences, even if she can’t express them (”I want to eat, THEN I want to play”)
Stella can even recount short-term memories, like when her family returned from the beach for dinner and she said “water good, no eat, play”
By the way, the owner uses the buttons as well, which probably really helps reinforce their meaning. She uses them to say things like “Stella all done eat” or “Stella and Christina go outside, bye!”
Wanna know my favorite part? Stella sometimes pushes the buttons for “Stella good” when she’s done a good job. Stella IS good! :D She also makes phrases using “love you,” like “Christina, love you, come play!”
Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.
