Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@Sapphicgiraffic@snouts.online @InspectorCaracal alternate solution:

holy super soaker

@InspectorCaracal i mean some places do have a ceremonial spoon i think for the wine

it's supposed to be a bit more hygienic than slurping from the same cup bc ew backwash

so if you got a long enough teaspoon.....................

@InspectorCaracal well if they do wear their fursuits, don't worry

there's a liturgy for that!

https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/prayers/view.cfm?id=1189

@maple the proper thing to do is for me to either woman up and remember i've got a pillowfort account, or ..............figure out how to self edit

until then let me bear PART 125897/? as a MARK OF SHAME, AS IT SHOULD BE, for my sheer verbosity l m a o

sometimes i wonder about starting an alt on an instance with a greater character limit but i don't think i need to be encouraged in any way to write More Words

concept: final steps of faith but instead we have a version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsQPcCDo5a4 with 'nidhogg' instead of 'eggnog' #ffxiv #ihavegoodideas

Please Insert Obligatory Joke About Catholic Priest 'Dog Collars' Here

Please Also Mentally Insert a Variation of the "Sasuke has become CATHOLIC" Meme Because Right Now I Am Too Spoonless To Make That In MsPaint

i can't find it now but i confess a couple hours ago i saw a toot that said "i chose snouts.online because it had a lot of people from mass" and for a good 15 minutes i forgot massachusetts gets abbreviated like that and i was just like

"oh, catholic furries? seems nice"

and my brain accepted this. i did not question at all a bunch of furries showing up on sunday to go take communion in fursuits. just immediately accepted this as total truth

and now i am haunted about Why You Do That Brain

(davalia voice) oh boy, i can't wait to see all my buddies at the Waking Sands who are definitely still alive and not murdered by garleans whatsoever

now, i am definitely not a fan of, say, china's approach to cosmetic animal testing - which is "if you want to sell it here, and you didn't make it here, you MUST test it on animals, or at least allow us to do so".

i don't think every single product needs to be tested every time - that is wasteful on multiple levels.

buuuuut.

it's a tool developed for a *reason*. we ignore that purpose at our peril.

if i wanted to get even more 🌶️ 🌶️ 🌶️ ,

at some point, "no animal testing! we'll just trust companies to recall products, and consumers can inform each other of problems!" is not really a solution, because animal testing is still being performed... ....on humans who can't adequately fight back if they have an adverse reaction, because they are too poor/unknowledgeable about regulatory agencies/don't have clout to be heard online/etc.

i'm not exactly gung-ho about cosmetic animal testing - *medical* animal testing is still very much needed, and i think cosmetic animal testing can be reduced down to next-to-nothing fairly easily, e.g. test specific new ingredients or to answer specific questions

but

kinda like how uber doesn't want to admit regulations on taxis exist for reasons, there are reasons beyond "we hate bunnies" that cosmetic testing is/was done

"we can't have ANY animal testing EVER in our cosmetics!!!" and "i don't understand how this makeup that's unsafe can't be proven to be unsafe as to force a recall!!" are two problems and positions far more related to each other than the beauty gurus on youtube and such want to admit or consider

@eightbitsamurai@elekk.xyz on the *fourth* hand, i say that some jokes are funnier the longer you stretch them, so,

sometimes you just gotta uhhhhhh https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BsW9G4jM1-LR0JUbNfmy6I--xAhw7AjXMJtnNtJPX18/edit?usp=sharing stop doing msq on your alt in #ffxiv to cough up a bit of story like a cat horks up a hairball

@Flipp@snouts.online sorry to dump some info on your perfectly innocent post lol

i only managed to learn about it from a 'history of the english novel' course i took in college and don't get me wrong. it's a fucking horrid book. don't torture yourself by reading it. but it also obviously took off because the man thinking he was writing this great tale of morality accidentally made something a lot of ladies were horny for and then wanted merch of LMAO

@Flipp@snouts.online so the very idea that, say, you'd want merchandise with your whole ~media experience~?

it's something that women clamored for in the 18th century, and it became an industry that *they* demanded exist. it's why you can go get a Marvel brand hoodie and collectible action figure - because ladies, back in the day, wanted some Pamela teacups, LOL

@Flipp@snouts.online hell, you can go back even longer than that and say that proto-fandom owes it to the fans of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela;_or,_Virtue_Rewarded#Reception Pamela - which was so controversial and beloved among women that it became a massive cultural event, with people buying fans to declare themselves "pro-Pamela" or "anti-Pamela" at balls, buying ceramic figurines, etc. etc. - https://www.anglistik.uni-kiel.de/de/tl_files/EnglSem/Fachbereiche/Kultur-%20und%20Medienwissenschaften/Projekte/18th_century_london/pam.html#products - something much loathed by men of the age, but kept afloat by women fans.

nihil novi sub sole, Twilight, more or less!