Udder Randomness

[MeltedCaramel]

My spirit animal is the Raven. Which possibly explains how I ended living in AK. I love to watch them.

I told myself I'd get a tat if I lived to be 50. I'm long past that and still have yet to find something I want to wear permanently. I tell myself it's my artistic nature that can't decide, but I might just be chicken.

kenaiqueen what crazy stuff were you into that the goal was to live until you were fifty!? Of course I'm glad you blew those estimations out of the water though. As for not wanting a tattoo...it's perfectly normal to waffle and not really be able to find the right design for you. My biggest gripe is when people just get tattoos that look like they let a person close their eyes and point to a random body part and the artist just slaps it there. The ideal tattoo needs to curve and follow body lines. It's one of the reasons I'm so upset about my back and all of the scar tissue. I would have loved to get a sinuous, rippling Chinese dragon design...they follow the muscles of the back so nicely when they're done right. With any tattoo though, it needs to enhance, not take away.

[DollyKim]

SQUIRREL! When the universe gives you a totem you're stuck.

I drew some ideas for a charm bracelet like tattoo that I could add things too as my life went on. All these years later there are a things I could still live with. One turn off was having people mistake the meaning of some of the symbols, even the numbers I wanted to use, and it causing complications where I was living. Neighborhood, not family.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Oh, I know big cats fish!! I just meant that when I picture a pond, I picture a domestic cat. A wild cat inspires low hung, gnarled branches that bend low into the river, perfect for a sneaky jungle cat to swipe up a meal. <3

As for non-corporeal cats...some things you can't explain. I'm a firm believer that there are things beyond human understanding. I think people who assume we know everything are arrogant fools. So, rational explanation? Yes. One that science doesn't accept? Perhaps.

I rather like the image of a tiger daintily fishing a carp out of a fish pond for a snack

I'm 100% certain we don't have the answers for everything. I have no idea if we ever will (I'm currently pessimistic enough to think we'll have wiped ourselves out long before we possibly could)

Hah! Yea I agree with the assessment on people who assume we know everything, though ironically despite the stereotypes the scientists I know &/or know of are the usually the 1st to admit there's' stuff going on that's beyond our/their collective understanding. (I blame the hollywood science for that stereotype... Well that and psychology... ugh I know I'm being unfair but that entire field until v.v.recently...)

I also blame the media, which seems to have a tendency to report on scientific discoveries as if they were absolute and not another step on the way of understanding more (and possibly just an interesting statistical anomaly rather than anything more concrete)

[knittnkitten]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/10 ... f=category hmmm

[VirgoVertigo]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1075480366/kawaiis-perfect-american-doll-0?ref=category hmmm

it's a good idea, and the dolls are cute, but there are some kinks ... the way the woman communicates her idea seems a bit unprofessional to me? i don't know. i think she should change her pen name, a lot of people no doubt will call cultural appropriation on it. but i do admit that the Hispanic doll is adorable.
also, "Middle Eastern" girl seems a bit strange to me. shouldn't she assign her an actual place where she comes from? like India, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iran, etc? it also seems kind of dangerous to sell her with a hijab, but i'm all for it.
it frustrates me how she didn't really pay attention to the body's details after being so meticulous with the faces. she didn't have any revisions, no nothing? oh well, i guess.
one tiny thing that bothers me is the eyebrows. do little girls get their eyebrows styled like that? i don't know, i don't have a kid. but it's just strange they all have similar faded eyebrows except the African American girl.
even though i point out all these flaws, it would be cool to see this happen. i'd buy them all in a heartbeat if i could. they're beautiful.

[knittnkitten]

yeah, I was a little confused with her idea, and with a project like this, probably using her real name would have been a good idea. I'm a little side-eye on how her budget changed from 250k to 25k.

[maywong]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

How Wolves Change Rivers

Wow!

[Stormlight]

So, I went to get my tattoo, and all five of the artists working at the shop were booked solid. Two weeks is the soonest they could get me in, and I didn't ask for the owner to tattoo me (he won like three awards at a Philly convention for his realistic work), because he was booked through until MAY.

On one hand, BOO have to wait two weeks! On the other, this is the first time I've had to actually schedule an appointment. This place must be really good!

Soooo ... to compensate me NOT getting my tattoo ... I went out and bought a parrotlet, instead. His name is Ziggy. He's a pocket parrot! The size of a parakeet, only with less tail. And he eats the same stuff my cockatiels do so I didn't even need to buy him his own supplies. I just gotta teach the little bugger not to bite. He likes his head scritches, but when I try to get him to perch on my fingers, he'd rather try and eat 'em.

[OkamiKodomo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q

How Wolves Change Rivers

I haven't replied here, cuz I've been busy working on a new story, but I wanted to say this video made me misty-eyed. Thank you for sharing, Treth.

keinaqueen, my girlfriend's animal is also a raven. They're beautiful little things, so smart, and the ones here follow us around. When I first moved to Mass, I didn't see any. Then, one day when I was heading to work, one flew over my car, and landed on the snow pile next to where I was turning, watching me. Then it landed on the cart corral next to where I was parking. After that, I saw them every day. When I lived in Florida, we didn't have ravens, but we had crows, and there was a flock of over a hundred of them that at the Costco I used to work at. They would sit in the wires as I came out of the building, and then a dozen of them would escort me to my car, chasing away the grackles, which were always mean to me, and liked to dive at my head. Another time, I was having a major night of insomnia, and decided to go out for a walk at three in the morning, in an attempt to settle myself. A raven came flying up and landed on the lamp post over the sidewalk where I was walking and barked at me. I stopped to look at it, and it watched me until I started walking, then barked at me again until I stopped. This repeated until I went inside, where it continued to make noise until I finally laid down to attempt to sleep again, then it went quiet. I think it was trying to tell me to go to sleep. Once, while I was driving at mach speeds on a highway, one dove in front of my car, and forced me to slow down. Half a mile up the way, there was a cop posted behind some bushes at an exit ramp. When we moved to Rhode Island, my girlfriend was sad that there were no ravens around, but about a month or two after we moved, we saw two of them in the big pine tree next to the parking lot, playing in the top branches that were too small to support their full weight. They would jump up into the top, grab the branch with their feet, and slide down it like a fireman pole, flap away at the end, then go up and do it again. Now we see those ones almost every day as well, and when we don't see them, we hear them nearby. There are many traditions about the link between wolves and ravens in several cultures. Maybe it's arrogant of me, but I like to think they realized we were here, and came to find us. One of the tattoos I get will eventually be a raven.

[kenaiqueen]

One of the tattoos I get will eventually be a raven.

I've always thought I'd go for either flowers or a scorpion tat since I'm a Scorpio, but a raven tat could be awesome. I'm working on a raven necklace, but not happy with my design yet. Looking for more raven charms to put on it. (It's all black chain and charms.)