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maskormenace2019-01-01 05:21 pm
heliophilic) wrote in maskormenace2019-01-01 05:21 pm
005 ☽ VIDEO
[When the feed turns on, M's sitting in the center of the screen on a couch in his apartment. His usual smirk is nowhere to be seen, and instead he looks... tired. Surrounding him is a curious sight--D, his Dragprawn from a swear-in years ago is draped around his shoulders, at least a dozen rats are running around in and out of the frame, a chinchilla sits on his lap eating a raisin, and in the background, a very stressed looking white tiger with ice blue stripes lays on the floor as far away from the others as she can manage.
As soon as he knows it's recording, M leans forward, making eye contact with the camera and, by proxy, the viewer.]
Happy New Year everyone. I'm going to guess that many of you, if you've been here a while, have had people come and go. I'm going to guess a fair number of you have entertained the idea of getting some sort of animal companion to try and make you feel better about the situation you're in. Maybe give you a bit of normalcy.
Stop.
Stop subjecting these animals to losing the people they rely on and care about over and over again, because you never know when you're going to be ported out.
Stop gifting them to your friends in your wills like they're some kind of toaster. They don't know when they're going to be ported out either.
[He motions over his shoulder to the tiger.]
Fubuki over there's an imPocreat. This is her third home. As you can see, she isn't taking losing another caregiver all that well. I inherited the mischief of rats here from an imPort gone about a year now. Inherited Pancho the chinchilla from him in a roundabout way too--though this is also his third home after his initial re-home ported out a few months after he did.
Stop doing this to them.
If you absolutely need to have a dog, cat, goat, bearded dragon, Burmese python, or hissing cockroach... There's these places called animal shelters, and most of them are dying to have people come and foster animals temporarily while they wait for a forever home.
Stop being selfish.
[And with that, he cuts off the feed.]
As soon as he knows it's recording, M leans forward, making eye contact with the camera and, by proxy, the viewer.]
Happy New Year everyone. I'm going to guess that many of you, if you've been here a while, have had people come and go. I'm going to guess a fair number of you have entertained the idea of getting some sort of animal companion to try and make you feel better about the situation you're in. Maybe give you a bit of normalcy.
Stop.
Stop subjecting these animals to losing the people they rely on and care about over and over again, because you never know when you're going to be ported out.
Stop gifting them to your friends in your wills like they're some kind of toaster. They don't know when they're going to be ported out either.
[He motions over his shoulder to the tiger.]
Fubuki over there's an imPocreat. This is her third home. As you can see, she isn't taking losing another caregiver all that well. I inherited the mischief of rats here from an imPort gone about a year now. Inherited Pancho the chinchilla from him in a roundabout way too--though this is also his third home after his initial re-home ported out a few months after he did.
Stop doing this to them.
If you absolutely need to have a dog, cat, goat, bearded dragon, Burmese python, or hissing cockroach... There's these places called animal shelters, and most of them are dying to have people come and foster animals temporarily while they wait for a forever home.
Stop being selfish.
[And with that, he cuts off the feed.]