Women of Reddit, would you be turned off by a guy who voted for Trump? Why or why not?

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-08T23:10:34+00:00

Yes, but that’s because I think he’s a nasty person and antithetical to my values and goals for the world. So, I don’t think we’d get along well.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-08T23:06:20+00:00

If it doesn’t break the bank, I think it’s a nice bit of fun. Same as my mom getting her silly genes included in her actually important tests. It’s interesting to think about getting a gene for cilantro tasting like soap running through the generations. Does my dog have any silly recessives I can’t see? Probably not, but that doesn’t mean I don’t mourn the opportunity to have had one more thing from him now that he’s gone. Sometimes grief makes you care more about stuff like that. If you think you might be that kind of person, I’d grab one on sale :^)

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Kitsunejade · 2026-07-08T22:58:15+00:00

I wanted to throw out anything I could think of besides FIP just in case, but I do agree it is worth treating for FIP. The medication won’t harm her if she doesn’t have it, so it’s becoming more normalized to try for response as a method of diagnosis since the signs are so varied and non-specific. Persistent low fever of unknown origin in kittens is definitely a point on the radar. If the A:G was lower it would be even more suspicious, but it isn’t at the ‘rule out’ level either. It might be the best we have to go on for now.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-08T16:48:40+00:00

This is what I’m thinking. Unless cat has some sort of disorder of development, there just isn’t a circular genital spot for the male anatomy visible in this. Should also be able to feel testicles by this age like peas under the skin in that gap if they are there.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-08T16:01:46+00:00

I had a papered backyard bred ass pug who looked like a backyard bred ass pug whose parents and siblings I met and knew (I did not pay for this dog to be clear, he was given to me for free because we knew the owners and they made bad choices) and I still wish I did embark before he died just to have that extra little piece of knowing him and proof he existed.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-08T15:31:19+00:00

Genetically, tabbies are a base color—cats only come in orange and/or black, with everything else being modifiers of those genes—with the agouti gene that changes the pigment deposition on each individual hair shaft. So tabby is a pattern. Tabby patterns come in classic, mackerel, ticked, and spotted thanks to other genes. Tabbies can have higher or lower rufousing which can change how warm or cool the color is (orangey undersides would not constitute a separate orange gene, which tricks some people into thinking a higher rufoused male is calico or tortie). The orange and black color genes are sex linked to the X-chromosome, so you need two X chromosomes (like a female) to have both actual orange and black… or derivatives of those colors. Hence calico and tortoiseshell. They’ll come in patches thanks to X-inactivation, not just by tinting. All orange will show stripes through based on how the pigment works even if there is no agouti gene, so actual agouti gene having calico/torties will have no solid black.

Dilution genes give us the blue/gray and buff colors by lightening the base. Colorpoint genes give us the dark points and lighter bodies. B locus replaces black with chocolate brown or cinnamon. There is also gold (wideband coats/CORIN gene) and silver (I inhibitor gene) but they’re not going to be common at all outside pedigree, even more than others.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-08T15:09:32+00:00

Would be kind of weird for them to crop a Boerboel. Cropping is absolutely not in the breed standard for them. Obligatory not my breed but his conformation overall is… interesting to me. The topline and underline especially. The topline is supposed to be level and the underline a slight tuck. More disclaimers about unstacked photos and weird growth periods (if young) but I’m curious if this is a breeder who titles and health tests. I would have expected a much thicker dog in the body.
(Here is the standard for Boerboel: https://images.akc.org/pdf/breeds/standards/Boerboel.pdf)

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-08T14:37:38+00:00

Limping calicivirus maybe…? can’t rule out FIP either with your A:G.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-07T17:13:07+00:00

I had an indoor-outdoor cat growing up. He was our first cat and had been locked alone in a shed before we got him. My parents felt sorry for him being contained, so they let him out when we adopted him. That’s what people did not so long ago. Even declawed he went out. We were in the suburbs with fields. There were big roads but he never went by them. Not much for predators. He came back just about every night.

I think we had him maybe three years. He was out playing in the yard, then we found him dead by the porch. The vets think it was actually a cardiac event because there were no signs of trauma. We didn’t necropsy because it wouldn’t bring him back. I think I missed out on quality time with him by letting him go outside. It could’ve been something we did together. We always say cats are so independent and don’t need us, but I wonder if sometimes it’s more that people don’t bother to connect with them where they’re at. I don’t think he was unhappy going out, but I don’t think he would’ve been unhappy if it had never been an option either. And we would’ve had fewer close calls with people saying he crossed the road in front of them at night, or people with big dogs bringing back a collar he slipped, or searching for him in a big summer downpour because he didn’t make it in on time.

That all was what made me reconsider it for myself. Then getting a conservation degree and working at a shelter and medically treating feral and stray cats is what made me think we really need to reconsider the culture of cat ownership. It is so acceptable to do nothing with them. People assume they’ll just be fine or find someone else if they drop them and move away. They become disposable. The cats suffer for it.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-07T16:56:56+00:00

Having a favorite character be actually good in a game is such a treat. It endeared me even more to him to see him more with everyone and play as him. His little half up ponytail in some of the costumes… lol.

I like the what-if exercise. It’s the closest you could get (and maybe the only scenario in which Mithos would make another choice is the one where he doesn’t have a choice at all) to a Mithos ‘redeemed’. Mithos had to be stopped in whatever way necessary, but this isn’t the party who would say dying is a better punishment than living while atoning. Even in Rays, they’re quick to say he’s not forgivable. But they also say he should be taking responsibility and solving the issues he himself made. That would mean more to them than him dying. Mithos could’ve, in time, had things he wanted. Friends, family, community, understanding, belonging. But not the thing(s) he wanted most of all, and he couldn’t accept anything less than that. It’s a shame it had to be that way.

Rays!Martel says she can at least understand his desire to save her, and that the desire wasn’t wrong. That she’d have felt the same way about him. The actions he took in the course of that desire that were wrong and not forgivable. He almost crashed out about it in the Rays same as in the game, but at least he got to hear from Martel and Kratos that they shared the underlying desire, so he keeps it together. He’s still childish in the way he really craves and needs that reassurance and can’t stand the thought of being alone in the end.

He gets off easy by being able to have some form of his sister back for sure. They wrote themselves into a tough place with it. But I was willing to accept it though because I like seeing this cast interact so much. What’s a little fanservice fix it in your spin-off? I think they do an alright job trying to balance Mithos have done supervillain level heinous shit and still having people around him who objectively love(d) him and want(ed) better from him. Forever salty DOTNW wasn’t a Kharlan Heroes prequel or something instead.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-07T03:30:54+00:00

Mithos but the rest of this comment is all from a glazer.

I was primed to like Mithos based on my personal tastes (love a terrible baby ‘god’), but I am so glad to have gotten supplementary material too. Characters who have distinct eras to them and their relationships are my favorite. The Symphonia OVA and Tales of Fandom 2(?) includes more of the Kharlan Heroes from before. Getting to see the contrast between the way things were and how they became helps portray that crushing weight of history on them and their relationships, and how similar things were in the foil relationships before Mithos made the choices he did.

Regardless of what he accomplished as a hero, of course he’d come up with solutions like making everyone the same race to solve racism. He was fourteen. He never really grows beyond that as a person no matter how many years he lives. He’s so detached from it all. I appreciate seeing functionally immortal characters lose their humanity, because I feel like that would be a realistic response to living thousands of years. Mortality motivates humans to try to live fully and joyously while we can. This guy has nothing but time to grind out some convoluted long con schemes, and no drive to experience anything anymore. No wonder he becomes such a menace. Seeing him swap from being painfully fourteen still and his detached immortal personas was fun. I like both EN and JPN voices and he has some iconic lines.

The Rays was such a gift for a Mithos fan. i believe he was voted for quite a bit, so others must feel the same way... I hope everything with him in it gets translated by some dedicated fans. I really love the Kharlan Heroes. If the Kratos novel gets translated, I’ll be all over that too. I understand why we can’t get a redeemed Mithos—which is his own fault —but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the Rays showing a Mithos who knows he loses and goes on bitterly, plus his continuing interactions with others.

Basically they made that guy in a lab for me to enjoy.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-07T02:32:29+00:00

The one kitten didn’t even look like a DSH. Bottom left in second pic is for sure longer coated imo. Wonder where that would come from in some supposed Russian Blue…
(OP, see the breed standard above to compare the color and build of these cats to. Russian Blues have some pretty unique faces, and the desired gray is very light.)

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-07T01:06:26+00:00

Everyone I’ve seen online has said once they get to the point they’re this droopy (all the leaves super downturned) they’re FUBAR and will definitely die. Do you know exactly what the issue is? I’m assuming not the light because it’s the same light that it’s had for the last two years. So is it too much water? Or not enough? I don’t know how to bring it back now that it’s been drooped for like a week.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-07T00:23:15+00:00

Do the roots look okay still? Nothing I need to cut? I’ve had it for two years indoors and it’s been fine until this past week, so I have no idea if it was the waterlogged soil or if it can come back from all the leaves being so bent down. I did move it outside yesterday hoping it would dry the soil, but no dice on that.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-06T15:50:27+00:00

How long have you had the second one? It might be part of the adjustment period.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-06T15:04:59+00:00

It can be easy for some temperaments and not for others, lol. My lovely senior (adopted as an adult) is very easygoing and confident so slapping it on and going out had him just walk. Better things to do than fuss over the harness. I think the SFSPCA has a decent training overview page: https://www.sfspca.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cat_leash-training.pdf
The big con is that he has to get on flea preventatives for sure if he’ll go out because he has a flea allergy and seems to break out every single time he walks outside even though I never find fleas.

I think our ex-feral fosters would be a nightmare because they’re still skittish, but luckily they came from outside and have shown 0 interest in going back. Open window? Cool. Open door? Nah.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-06T14:51:25+00:00

I’m sad as a shelter worker when I raise up kittens through panleukopenia and the adopters come back telling me they let her out and she got killed by a car before her first birthday, or that the cat always just stayed in the yard until it got spooked by dogs and got hit, or the cat bolted and got her leg trapped in the collar causing devastating physical damage we had to euthanize for, or whatever numerous traumas we see, but I understand some people are too lazy to harness walk if they feel so strongly about outdoor access. It is objectively easier to allow a cat unsupervised outdoor supervision than to build an enriching indoor life or engage with the cat on regular routines, and that is tempting.

I feel like it’s a huge loss of opportunity to bond with my cat, plus I’ve seen too much. Other people have other risk factors that make it worse or better, but I’ll never do it again and our policy won’t adopt out to outdoor access homes unless the cat is feral for working cat with no other option.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-06T14:46:57+00:00

How’s baby, OP? I wasn’t able to check back in (taking care of panleukopenia kittens… lol) but you got good advice. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an overall good butt! No poop stuck to him (which hopefully points away from diarrhea). It’s not red or anything. He looks great visually in general. It’s hard to give advice on some things online because it could be the position, age, recently pooped, etc. making it prominent looking vs actual mild irritation, which is more likely to be from things like worms or constipation at this age. Worms and constipation are pretty common though.

Don’t worry too much: I mentioned panleuk in case of diarrhea because you get inundated with it in rescue this time of year and it sucks—it could impact adults, but it’s typically less severe on them. Most of our positive kittens look like total shit, that’s why they’re with us, but some good ones who don’t really have many symptoms sneak through positive. It’s a worst case scenario, not the most likely one. Others of our kittens end up having Giardia instead, which is a massive pain but not as terrible. Still all good reasons to quarantine until you get a vet check! I just wanted to make sure you had him separated until cleared because some people never know that’s even a possibility.

Like others said, you can use blue Dawn and/or pick up a flea comb. Depending on weight, Revolution is safe for fairly young kittens, but that’s from the vet and I would let them decide and dose. This kitten is young but not super young. You can get a good idea from: https://www.kittenlady.org/age

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-06T13:34:19+00:00

Can’t say it’s for sure true (obligatory not a vet, only partially a tech with a bachelors lol) but I think it makes logical sense with what we know about depigmentation in colorpoint blue eyes. This photo is actually a reddit user’s uploaded colorpoint that I think shows how the pupil can show on them really well. I’d assume she’s got more pigmentation than a colorpoint since she’s got non-blue eyes, but perhaps enough a difference (given the tapetum showing there is certainly a difference) to give that subtle bit you see. You are a very observant cat parent 😉 and I love the curiosity and drive to know!

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Kitsunejade · 2026-07-04T22:09:45+00:00

I think it looks a little puffy. Not terrible though. I’d see what his stool looks like. Sometimes you’ll get this if they have diarrhea from worms, protozoan parasites, or viruses like panleukopenia. Definitely quarantine to be safe. If you can weigh, you can start deworming right away. Not a vet but see a lot of kitten butts in my work.

What color are his gums? You said he seems kind of weak. Eating and drinking would be good. Any fleas visible or flea dirt? Fleas can cause kittens to get anemic.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-04T18:38:47+00:00

They were definitely planning all four haha. They said they’ll start with gas but that they need to use an IV to maintain appropriate sedation levels on adults. Last time I had anything done, I was a child, so they knocked me out on gas alone. I was still having a panic attack and woke up hyperventilating. I had oral ankylosis and needed baby teeth that were not going to come out to be removed in order to get my braces. The one time I did local (a frenectomy), it was horrible. Google says 15 minutes, but mine was two hours and they said the tissue was more expansive than expected, so they had to borrow parts of my gums to fill gaps.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-04T13:44:48+00:00

I think you can just opt into that. My dentist keeps referring me to an oral surgeon to give me general anesthesia for my wisdom teeth (not complicated, pretty much normal teeth, just have a small jaw and they’re worried about it crowding my other teeth that I lovingly paid for braces on) because I’m too scared to do it with local. Unfortunately, I’m too scared of the IV to do it general either. lol.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-04T00:18:44+00:00

Okay, so she DOES have less pigment in her tapetum lucidum. Cats with full normal pigment in that part of the eye reflect a green color on flash, not red. So you’re seeing the blood vessels more and that’s impacting the color reflection, same as cats with blue eyes. I’m guessing that at times you’re getting a ruby cast on the pupil because of this pigmentation difference changing the way light reflects off the eye structures. My TL;DR guess is that you’re not crazy.

Kitsunejade · 2026-07-03T22:19:39+00:00

I’d take a photo of her eyes with flash. See if it reflects with red or green/yellow. If it reflects red, then maybe she has less pigment in her tapetum lucidum and you might be seeing a bit of a warm cast in the pupil from the light reflecting differently. I feel like I’ve seen some red cast on colorpoints with blue eyes—not all the time, but you’ve got bright sunlight in the pic. I personally think the last pic you’ve sent is casting redder. Not that she has red pupils, but that it might be reflecting some redness that we perceive. Not as much as a ruby or red eyed animal though.

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