Its-mistakeboi - Sounds! Colors!

for the art prompt "mouse world" - necromantic scions & cavaliers primary of the eighth and ninth mouse houses

aka op suffers from chronic symptoms of "read way too much redwall in middle school"

Southern Mountain Cavy (Microcavia australis)

photo credit: Ezequiel Racker

(ALL HAIL OBLIVION!)

That's Bishop of the Chalcedony Thurible. He can see the true nature of the void.

(LIFE IS SUFFERING. IN DEATH, WE FIND FREEDOM!)

But can he see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

(UHH... 'TWAS ORDAINED BY THE NEVERBORN?)

Beat it, bonehead! There's cinnamon sugar swirls in every bite! Mmm...

An undying part of this balanced breakfast.

Every day Road Work Wizard fills in potholes and every night Dark Road Work Wizard crafts new ones

[ID: Two photos of a gray squirrel sitting in a tree with a cookie half the size of its body held in its mouth. End ID]

Oh to be a squirrel with a big cookie...

Eastern gray squirrel (sciurus carolinensis)

November 1st, 2024

Bagley Nature Area, Duluth, Minnesota

I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

Why do men have nipples?

it's not just human men, it's all placental mammals!

pour one out for all of the "I found this weird lump on my male cat's chest, what is it" posts on r/cats

the short answer is: because it's easier.

so, natural selection is lazy. it tends to take the quickest and easiest path to any given solution and can only work with what it already has, so it's really reluctant to drop traits that aren't actually hurting anything by being around! like male nipples.

and since male and female mammals in general start as the same weird little flesh tadpole thing and only start to diverge a couple months into development, it's waaaay easier to just leave male mammals with mostly non-functional nipples than it is to patch them out and maybe bork up something with the female nipples by mistake.

tldr: it's because evolution is naturally lazy.

this is sort of cousins with my favorite practice, which is replying "yeah, that's what i've been saying" after any weird sound or audible bodily function.

roommate's cat: mrorow?

me: yeah, that's what i've been saying!

I enjoy adding "as one does" in parentheses after describing a strange thing to do (as one does).