I'm a 27 year old male body with an infinitely aged soul. Lost at the fair, look for the balloon on a wrist. Everything around me is in a state of flux
I did it because I think I loved you. Because I think I still do. And because I knew how happy you could be — so much happier than I ever could — but how tied down you were by your own fear and guilt. And that I don’t think you ever really wanted my friendship, so I gave the best thing I could. The thing you really wanted to take anyway, I think.
I’m convinced that there are badly written plays and musicals all over the Imperium that try to portray the Heresy, but most of them have very little idea of what actually happened. The Ravenor books mention there are operas about Ultramarines, where a character sings a lament for his fallen Astartes brothers.
This Romanesque-style mansion in Louisville, Kentucky was built in the 19th century & eventually turned into a tax business, before it was ironically overtaken by the city for unpaid taxes in 2005. Left to deteriorate the building was eventually sold and re-sold for $1. [730x1100]
“It’s cruel to not let your cats outside.” No, it’s cruel to allow your cats to go out in an environment where anything could happen and you wouldn’t be there to help if something did. Its cruel to let your cat be exposed to diseases, parasites, and chemicals, which is what happens when you let them outside. It’s cruel to shorten your cat’s lifespan by half because you insist on them not being an indoor cat.
It’s even better for the environment to keep them indoors since your cat won’t be driving native birds and rodents away that are a necessary part of neighborhood ecosystems. If you really want your cat to be outside, take them out on a leash or at the very least supervise them while they’re outside. If you have the resources, you could even build a catio (patio for your cat). But please, do not let your cat free roam outside. You’ll have a healthier cat if you don’t.
My cat is an out door cat, he is 10 years old and beautiful, the vast majority of the time he is inside cuddling up with me and looking majestic af 👌🏻 we give him worming treatment monthly to make sure he doesnt get sick and can come in and out whenever he likes, and there is a vast abundance of rabbits and mice to catch with no danger of killing off anything entirely in my area since theres nothing interesting anyway
Then you are lucky because statistics show that outdoor cats only live to be 2-5 years old. And when it comes to the environment, it’s not just about what your cat kills. Prey animals will literally decide to no longer settle around your neighborhood just because they see and smell your cat, which cuts down on biodiversity. Just because those animals aren’t “interesting” to you, doesn’t mean they aren’t a necessary part of keeping the ecosystem in your neighborhood balanced and healthy.
And for all you know, your cat could have feline hiv from being outside and you wouldn’t even know it unless you got them tested for it regularly because it often is symptomless.
Outdoor house cats are a HUGE cause of biodiversity loss from incidental take. For birds alone, there are estimated to be 100 million to 350 million killed because of outdoor cats - which is, at the low end, double the estimates for some of the other leading human-caused sources of mortality, such as collisions with windows and vehicles. Cats are a source of abnormal mortality (mortality that a species has not adapted to deal with) for birds, rodents, and other small species of animals that are important to ecosystems - not just overpopulated rabbits. It can dramatically reduce their population sizes, leading to extirpation or even extinction of some species.
Even if you don’t think that it’s dangerous to let a cat roam outside because of traffic, predators that will go after cats, diseases beyond just worms, possibility of accidental injury, and so on (which it is), cats have an absolutely devastating effect on local ecology if left outdoors and it is extremely irresponsible (both in terms of pet ownership - because it IS dangerous - and for the ecosystem) to let that happen.