Kithe

@Santandave1 💔💔

Day seventeen of posting my DaraVerse superheroes @itsDaavee

A lion can stand three feet from your face on a safari and not even register that you exist. To its brain, you and the jeep are the same animal. One big weird shape that doesn't smell like food. Stand up though, and you go from invisible to dinner in under a second. For the lion, you and the other tourists never register as separate people. The whole jeep looks like one giant creature made of metal and fabric and humans all smushed together. That shape has no scent of any prey animal, and it moves nothing like one. The brain searches its mental file of every animal it's ever hunted, finds no match, and moves on. Lions learn this from their mothers. In places like the Serengeti or Maasai Mara, they see more than 100 of these jeeps a day. Cubs grow up watching mom ignore every truck. They copy what mom does. After a few generations, an entire population of lions has decided that safari vehicles are boring background noise, no different from trees or rocks. Hunting is expensive. A lion that picks the wrong target won't have enough energy left to catch the right one tomorrow. So when the brain sees a weird shape that doesn't fit anything in its hunting memory, it just skips it. But the whole truce hangs on one rule. The shape has to stay the same. The second someone stands up or leans out the window, the big creature breaks apart. Suddenly there's a person-sized snack standing where a big boring shape used to be. The lion's brain registers the change in under a second. In June 2015, a 29-year-old American filmmaker rolled down her window at a park near Johannesburg to take a photo. A lioness was already a meter from the truck, just watching. It lunged through the open window and bit her in the neck. She died at the scene. Ten years later, in September 2025, a zookeeper at Safari World in Bangkok stepped out of his vehicle in the lion section. One lion charged. The rest of the pride joined within seconds. The park had run these tours for over 40 years and nobody had ever died like that. Craig Packer has spent over 40 years studying lions and started the world's first lion research center back in 1986. He's said it plainly more than once. Lions don't have much patience for humans acting weird. Sit still and you're part of the furniture; move suddenly and you're a target. The truce works because every lion in those parks grew up watching its mom ignore the trucks. Break the pattern, and the whole thing falls apart in about as long as it takes to stand up.

Celebrating a goal vs the scousers in the same corner he’d sit at OT with his sister. Just a young boy living his dream.❤️

people seem to be forgetting that you have to teach children things for them to know it

@itsDaavee @tawartgit Cook something up, then🙂‍↔️🙂

@tawartgit I don’t think I’ve ever thought of a Bruce Wayne sketch 😭😭

He is so incredibly difficult to draw

i fear that rule #1 of being a sports fan is being biased and hypocritical

A functional government with systems that work for the people.

Full grown adults who can’t vacation, take a gap year, have hobbies, play an instrument, speak multiple languages, swim, cycle, skate, or backpack. Just a lifetime of hustling and trying to escape survival mode. These are subtle poverty metrics no one really talks about.

In the comics,Sokka became so addicted to the undercover role that he infiltrated the fire nation army in that town just to get intel about their fight strategy. And the fire nation soldiers luckily liked him and his jokes. When he realized how deep he was in the undercover,he had to fake his own death just so he can leave and get back with his team. The solders held a funeral for him.

There's a whole industry built around African poverty. NGOs, consultants, conferences, awareness campaigns, celebrity endorsements.  Billions of dollars flow through this system every year, employing thousands of well-paid Westerners. None of those people have an incentive for the problem to actually be solved, because if African poverty disappeared tomorrow, they'd all need new jobs.  I'm not saying they're evil.  I'm saying the incentive structure is broken, and incentives shape behavior more than intentions do.

どう見ても、黒いテープが日焼け止め最強なんだよな。

Day thirteen of posting my DaraVerse superheroes @itsDaavee

And just like that… everybody stopped talking about the Epstein Files.

I AM HOOOOOOOOWWLING

No we cannot

in order to become a better person, you must first realize how horrible you really are. not in the dramatic sense, but in the quiet ways you sabotage yourself, repeat unhealthy patterns, hurt people who care about you, or tolerate what wounds you. you cannot grow if you keep pretending you're innocent in the story you created.

We are no longer seen as human beings with free spirits and creative thought, who love, work and build. We are now data. Statistics. Graphs. Pie charts. Profit margins. Experiments. Reports. Markets. Files.

The tortoise is out & about. My dad has had him since he was 10. He’s now 89.

Day twelve of posting my DaraVerse superheroes @itsDaavee

Before the Internet, we didn’t even know how dumb everyone was. We suspected of course, but now we have proof.