Icon from a picrew by grgikau. Call me Tir or Julian. 37. He/They. Queer. Twitter: @tirlaeyn. ao3: tirlaeyn. 18+ Only. Star Trek. Sandman. IwtV. OMFD. Definitionless in this Strict Atmosphere.
[ID: 1. Lucius leans close into Pete’s side with a dimply grin, asking “Hey Pete, do you have a map?” Looking confused, Pete stutters back “Huh? Um…” 2. Lucius leans even closer, grin widening, and continues, “Because I’m lost in your eyes…” Pete hunches up his shoulders and looks away, flustered and laughing, holding his hands up as if to ward away the flirting. “OMG stop!!” /end ID]
For the July #AsACrew Challenge Day 30: Map
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Anonymous:
what’s the basis behind the domestication of rodents
because for sheep and cattle we’re like “you feed us now”
for horses we went “you take me places now”
for dogs “you hunt with us now”
for cats “you kill for us now”
what was the reason for rodents?? “you’re cute for us now”
basically i have questions (i also have the same question regarding other pet species)
well, that’s a question with kind of a funny answer!
see, the oldest domesticated rodent in the world is the house mouse, domesticated an absolutely staggering 15,000+ years ago. that’s older than cats, sheep, cattle AND horses!
also, we didn’t do it to them. they did it to themselves.
basically what happened was, humans figured out how to harvest and store grains long-term, and a strain of a local mouse population in Eurasia in turn figured out that human-owned grain stores were the place to be!
and from there, they moved into human dwellings.
basically, these mice accustomed themselves to human proximity in exchange for resources, and intensified this tolerance over the ages until they found that they were now a completely different SPECIES from when they started!
exactly the same as every other domesticated animal, except that we didn’t consent to it and also we hate them for piddling in our shoes.
BASTARD.
and from there, it really wasn’t much of a stretch to notice that these little miniburglers were actually kind of adorable, and just nab a couple and start breeding them to be pretty. they were already domesticated, so the stretch from “pest” to “pet” wasn’t very far at all!
in fact, you could say it was just a letter away :)
decided to sketch the cast of our 1920s berlin holosuite adventure in TAKE A CHANCE ON ME its part of a longer series but i fell so in love with the outfits and ideas we came up with (especially for ziyal) that i decided to focus on this particular work first!
if you decide to stop by and give it a read make sure to mind the rating and tags :)
Go read the fic, too! If the tags give you pause (and fair enough) but you’d brave them for a really good fic, this is a really good fic.
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