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I once stayed at a game reserve in South Africa, and they had three cheetahs – two males and one female. The boys stuck together (they were brothers), but female cheetahs are solitary, save for when they are raising cubs. Which is hard work for cheetahs, because they don’t/can’t den, she’s working constantly to protect/move her cubs, as well as feeding both them and herself.
Now, these cheetahs ARE in a private reserve, but they’re still essentially wild. But they are more or less accustomed to the presence of people. And this cheetah, Ketswiri, got very badly injured in her leg one time, which usually would be fatal to a cheetah. The staff at the reserve helped her. Another time, she was starving, and they provided her a fresh antelope carcass. And she remembered this, because the science officer was telling us how one time he was watching Ketswiri and her cubs, and she wandered over and dumped all her cubs at his feet, and walked off. Like “watch my kids, I need some me time.” And he was panicking like COME BACK I CAN’T BABYSIT YOUR KIDS WTF
Half of the comments are about cats giving birth on top of or next to their owners and I’m not crying at all
it’s so funny though because domesticated cats are aggressively social in raising their young so basically op’s cat was like bitchthese are your kids too, where tf you think you’re going???
As a person with cats who has given birth, they are also this way about *your* kids. My cat spent my whole pregnancy snuggled up to me, and then as soon as my daughter was born, he was always where she was. He was super protective of her when new people came over. Whenever we had to take her out for a doctor’s appointment, he waited by the door and sniffed her carseat when we brought her back. Cats are intensely social and it’s so wonderful 🥰
[image description: comment by Nassim B.: “I had a cat that used to sleep with me, and once she had given birth to 4 kittens, she brought them to me at night to bed, so I got scared to smash them by accident and went to sleep downstairs in the living room, after 10 mins she comes to sleep with me, then goes upstairs and bring her kittens one by one…. can we call that trust?”]
gwen stacy’s character is just so…ugh. I don’t think I can ever trust anyone who got mad at her for not imediately siding with miles.
cause here’s the thing: gwen stacy is a sixteen year old. a sixteen year old who watched her best friend (only friend) die in front of her, and then, her only family member betray her. at the beggining of atsv, there’s literally no one by her side, and she wants so desperately to be seen by someone again.
she wants miguel, jess and the spider society to accept and value her, something her own universe seemed incapable of doing. she’s so desperate to prove her worth to them, and she just… can’t seem to do it right.
so she leaves miles behind to achieve that, but she fails to realise that he sees her, he already values her and understands her in a way no one has ever done since peter parker. (peter, who understood her so intrinsically that he knew it was her under that mask all along!! her peter!!)
gwen’s story is that of a lonely teenager realising she doesn’t have to be alone, that she doesn’t exist as a puppet and that she wasn’t made just to suffer through canon events in order to save everyone else at her own cost. she can forge her own path, and so can everyone else.
that’s why her reunion with her dad was so meaningful— not only because it shows that nobody is bound by fate, but because he chooses her!! he sees her, and he decides he loves her more than his duty, and thats what being spiderman is. it isnt about being bitten by a spider and following the multiverse’s rules, its about fighting for who you love. and, because of that, anyone can be spiderman.
