This is acceptable.

pats Rowsdower's head

That man (notoriously) does not shower.

Thank you for asking, and the key is "you look good" (stop here and do not say "...for a trans person").

If the shorter version of the compliment feels insincere to you, just don't offer it.

Just turning your head off and letting someone take care of you sometimes is a fundamental human need. If being somebody's pet for the afternoon helps you do that, right on.

(I may be biased since I am a big fan myself)

I dunno, maybe ask the entire Egyptian pantheon. Or big chunks of the Hindu pantheon.

Or the 35000+ year old sona known as "the lion man". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-man

Or the Leopard Man society from the Congo.

Or the Velites from Rome.

This ain't new; adopting animal traits and appearance to symbolize aspects of personality is OOOOLD behavior.

Liftoff is pretty good as well.

This is all religions, and many sports fandoms...go sing a River Plate song in front of some Boca Juniors fans and see how that works out for you.

Francis Collins is an excellent science administrator and also a young earth creationist. It's wild, he talks about going to try to talk to his coreligionists about vaccines and they just tune him right out.

Nice. And randoms will assume it's caffeine. 😄

Did you remember to use lemmy.blahaj.zone instead of blahaj.zone? I screwed that up just this afternoon.

I mean they're also the group that features the ringleaders of the worst shit happening.

Check out liftoff before you do