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an ode to Yoshitaka Amano
Jul. 1st, 2014 12:09 amIf you don't like cats, you are not allowed to view this image.
...it was more Amanoesque in my head. Sorry. I still like the way it came out, and about four people in The Question Club along with one person on Devianart thought so too. It got three likes but I'm pretty sure two of them were those people who like everything they see on the front page. I've never benefited from such an exchange in any way, so I don't know what to think.
Also, I added a few more details to it.
***
So Vine doesn't work on mobile devices, or at least not MY mobile device, so I'll probably have to show Ian the Sodapop video by looking at the source and painstakingly typing in the mp4's url. I don't know if that will work either. We'll find out on July 7th.
In the meanwhile, enjoy this video of Sodapop. The other cat was not Sodapop and that's all I know. Oh, I know it's either a female, a male with the cat equivalent of Klinefelter's syndrome (or XXXY or XXYY or XXXYY), or a chimera (this is when one zygote absorbs genetic material from another zygote or something. There's a CSI episode about this.) or a mosaic (a mutation that only affects some cells, or anaphase lagging, or non-dysjunction, or in other words, errors in replication).
There's a gene on the X chromosome, let's call it O. O for Orange. Because it changes the pigment in black fur to orange. An ordinary XX female with one O gene will have some hairs turn orange and some hairs remain black.
Of course, I haven't taken biology since 10th grade so I could be wrong about this. Don't even ask me on the genetic differences between tortoiseshells and calicos, or the pattern differences between different types of calicos are.
***
I got shanghaied into restraining Penelope. Zach was having me distract Gallop with some pine needles, while they were trimming Penelope's hooves. Gallop grabbed the twig from me and started flailing it around, and it looked like he was flagellating himself with it (goats are rarely, if ever, penitent). And I was holding down Penelope and holding her legs so she couldn't kick, which hurts like fuck apparently.
So, goats lost toe #1 (which is our thumb and our big toe), and #2 and #5 are dewclaws, and #3 and #4 are hooves. The hooves were a mess but at least they were mostly hard. Adrienne (?) said Penelope's thinking "worst pedicure ever, no tip for you," but it doesn't matter. She'll get another pedicure in a month. Or maybe we could airlift a boulder into the pen and embed it about ten feet into the ground.
***
There's a hybrid of what we believe is a mallard and wood duck, and he looks like he's wearing a tux. Both ducks are genus Anas, and they probably have sperm with similar enzymes and immune systems that don't treat the sperm or the zygote as a foreign body (I wonder if that's why the only interclass hybrids I've heard of are birds)
I don't think drakes have mating rituals, I think they just jam their GIANT CORKSCREW PENIS down anything that looks like a cloaca.
They're pretty easy to mix up with female mallards.
***
Nina was making raccoon noises.
This woman had a night camera in her yard. She filmed raccoons, opossums, cats, even a man.
***
Burning question: how the hell does one violate the dress code of a Mars-themed restaurant?
...it was more Amanoesque in my head. Sorry. I still like the way it came out, and about four people in The Question Club along with one person on Devianart thought so too. It got three likes but I'm pretty sure two of them were those people who like everything they see on the front page. I've never benefited from such an exchange in any way, so I don't know what to think.
Also, I added a few more details to it.
***
So Vine doesn't work on mobile devices, or at least not MY mobile device, so I'll probably have to show Ian the Sodapop video by looking at the source and painstakingly typing in the mp4's url. I don't know if that will work either. We'll find out on July 7th.
In the meanwhile, enjoy this video of Sodapop. The other cat was not Sodapop and that's all I know. Oh, I know it's either a female, a male with the cat equivalent of Klinefelter's syndrome (or XXXY or XXYY or XXXYY), or a chimera (this is when one zygote absorbs genetic material from another zygote or something. There's a CSI episode about this.) or a mosaic (a mutation that only affects some cells, or anaphase lagging, or non-dysjunction, or in other words, errors in replication).
There's a gene on the X chromosome, let's call it O. O for Orange. Because it changes the pigment in black fur to orange. An ordinary XX female with one O gene will have some hairs turn orange and some hairs remain black.
Of course, I haven't taken biology since 10th grade so I could be wrong about this. Don't even ask me on the genetic differences between tortoiseshells and calicos, or the pattern differences between different types of calicos are.
***
I got shanghaied into restraining Penelope. Zach was having me distract Gallop with some pine needles, while they were trimming Penelope's hooves. Gallop grabbed the twig from me and started flailing it around, and it looked like he was flagellating himself with it (goats are rarely, if ever, penitent). And I was holding down Penelope and holding her legs so she couldn't kick, which hurts like fuck apparently.
So, goats lost toe #1 (which is our thumb and our big toe), and #2 and #5 are dewclaws, and #3 and #4 are hooves. The hooves were a mess but at least they were mostly hard. Adrienne (?) said Penelope's thinking "worst pedicure ever, no tip for you," but it doesn't matter. She'll get another pedicure in a month. Or maybe we could airlift a boulder into the pen and embed it about ten feet into the ground.
***
There's a hybrid of what we believe is a mallard and wood duck, and he looks like he's wearing a tux. Both ducks are genus Anas, and they probably have sperm with similar enzymes and immune systems that don't treat the sperm or the zygote as a foreign body (I wonder if that's why the only interclass hybrids I've heard of are birds)
I don't think drakes have mating rituals, I think they just jam their GIANT CORKSCREW PENIS down anything that looks like a cloaca.
They're pretty easy to mix up with female mallards.
***
Nina was making raccoon noises.
This woman had a night camera in her yard. She filmed raccoons, opossums, cats, even a man.
***
Burning question: how the hell does one violate the dress code of a Mars-themed restaurant?
