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Hello, Fluffsters! Yes, I’m back. At least temporarily. After Fluffy wrote about Hairless Cats for a “fluffy animals” series, I realized I’d reached the limits…

So today’s post is short, but at least it’s written by me.

I saw these fine fluffy fellows yesterday morning, and so I took a picture. Aren’t they cute?

3 cute bunnies by a building

Three Cute Rabbits

Happy Sunday!

Fluffy Animals: Hairless Cats

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Hello, Fluffsters… The Webmaster still hasn’t shown up, and so I guess I’m going to need to take drastic measures and write a post about something she’ll dislike.

Hairless Cats.

That’s right, hairless cats.

Now, you probably don’t normally think of them as fluffy, but you se-

Error: The Webmaster has deleted the rest of this post.

Wait… So I’m not allowed to delete posts, but you are?

Yup. My blog, my rules. That was a lousy topic. But I’m too busy to write a new post right now, so I’m afraid I’m going to need to leave it like this.

Happy Saturday, Fluffsters!

…Yeah. You’d think that if she showed up, she could at least do something useful. Oh well. Happy Saturday!

Fluffy Animals: Unicorns

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Ok, so there’s still no sign of the Webmaster.

Although I love the attention, if she keeps not showing up without warning, I might just stop writing these- it’s not as though I like the whole website, or anything.

Today, though, I will continue to create the fluff. I guess I will be able to once more capture Quality Fluff on this page.

Facts About Unicorns

This website, alas, does not actually own any photos of unicorns. But I do have experience with the equivalent creatures on my home world.

1) Yes, unicorns are fluffy. They are so fluffy, in fact, that unicorn fur is able to be spun and then woven into fabric.

2) Unicorn fur is really comfortable. It is, of course, waterproof and protects the skin from the sun. It is also both lightweight and basically climate controlled. In the summer, it seems like a cool fabric. In the winter, however, it is able to completely block out the wind and the cold. It is the best type of fur for warm clothing and for clothing during the warm months.

3) It has innate protective abilities. And not just against weather elements. Unicorn-fur fabric is both really strong and innately protective against magic. Any magic user that can afford them uses Unicorn Cloth as coverings when they work magic.

4) Unicorns are simple, but difficult, to catch. Fortunately for our world and magic users, both men and women can approach unicorns. The simplicity is that you simply need to find the unicorn’s home bunk and bring a diamond. Unicorns eat diamond, and so you need to bring a prime specimen. Once you find the Unicorn Home (which is usually fairly easy to find,) you present the diamond. If it is large enough and stunning enough, the unicorn will approach and trade its fur for the diamond. (By trading its fur, the unicorn basically just sheds its top coat. No harm is done to the unicorn.) It’s a painless process for the unicorn to give its fur.

5) Many wizards must make their own unicorn cloth to become Grand Masters. At least, that is how legend goes. Nobody who is not a wizard actually knows what goes on at the academy. According to urban legend, advanced magic users must complete a series of trials to be considered Grand Masters of the Magical Arts. Unicorns are very picky about what diamonds they accept- diamond-made are preferred. Any wizard who wants to be a Grand Master, then, needs to confront a dragon in order to get the diamond. Or have a lot of money. If a wizard can make his or her own Unicorn Cloth, the assumption is that the wizard has done enough to be considered a Grand Master.

There are a few instances when it’s not enough. The wizard does need to receive the fur directly from the unicorn, you see. But that sort of step-around usually doesn’t happen.

There you go! I hope you enjoyed the peak into life on my home world. Happy Weekend!

Fluffy Animals: Cows

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Really? Three days in a row that The Webmaster hasn’t written a post? Well, I can’t pass this up.

Unfortunately, my stock of unexpectedly fluffy animals is about dry. I guess this means I’ll need to go with more conventionally fluffy animals:

Cows

Yes, cows. I might have done something on a platypus, but there aren’t any photos of them on this website.

So cows.

1) They can be very furry. The one photo this website has is of a particularly furry calf. It’s rather charming, actually.

Furry Cow

Isn’t the cow cute?

This is apparently a Highland Cow.

Highland cows are native to some of the colder regions of your world. They have fluff, though, and therefore qualify as a fluffy animal.

2) Cows give whipped cream. After a process, of course, which involves shaking the cow a lot before milking it.*

3) Similarly, if you freeze a cow before milking it, you get ice cream. If you shake the frozen cow, you get a milkshake.**

*Please don’t actually shake your cow before milking it.

**Please don’t do these either.

4) If you can lift a cow daily from the time it is born you will be able to lift a cow. That is the truth. It might be a miniature cow. It might be a stuffed cow. But if you lift it, you can lift it.

5) Cows are fairly boring. Especially when they charge at you. Have you seen how sharp their horns can be? They can bore a hole right through you!

And so, Fluffsters, I hope you have a wonderful day.

Fluffy Animals: Skunks

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Huh. It looks like the Webmaster still isn’t writing the post. I guess I’ll take over again.

I guess this does give me a bit of an opportunity to continue the odd-animal portion of her fluffy animals series. So…

Fluffy Animals: Skunks

I think that everyone will even agree with me that these animals are fluffy.

A cute looking skunk

Isn’t he cute?

So, here we go.

1) Skunks are fluffy. I think nobody can deny this. They’ve got long fur, and it looks nice, thick, and soft. I think Peeves might be jealous. The fur helps them survive the winter months in comfort. The dark in their fur helps them blend in at night, while the white helps them not become roadkill. Or so I understand.

2) Even with their distinctive markings, skunks still confuse people. I know that there are people who think skunks are a type of cat. Furthermore, some cats think skunks are a type of cat. I heard about a cat that once was very interested in a skunk… Clearly not the brightest of all cats.

3) Wild dogs only need to be sprayed by a skunk once. Afterwords, the animal will steer clear of all skunks in the future. I know that some folks complain about domesticated dogs not learning. There’s a simple reason for that- domesticated dogs still get fed after getting sprayed. In the wild, the stench prevents the canine from catching anything. So not only does the dog smell bad, it also goes hungry until the scent wears off. Aren’t skunks amazing?

4) If their scent is removed, skunks make great pets. I’m not too surprised. A picture demonstrates why- skunks just look so cheerful with people.

A skunk about to jump off of a perch

I wonder where he wants to go…

Doesn’t the little one up there look a bit puppyish or catlike?

5) Skunks show up in more full-length Disney movies than duck-billed platypuses. According to what I was able to find. Finally, a mark in favor of the universally disliked skunks!

Happy Wednesday, Fluffsters!

Fluffy Animals: Porcupines

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Do I believe my eyes? Have I actually started a new post before the Webmaster? Fantastic!

Well, Fluffsters, happy Tuesday! I hope you’re having an excellent week. Due to the Webmaster’s absence, probably due to her continuing vacation, I will be infiltrating her post today. And so, here’s a post about:

Fluffy Animals: Porcupines.

 

Yes, you read that correctly.

Now, granted, porcupines are not the traditional “fluffy animal.” I think that’s a pity. From what I have read, they are quite charming animals, really!

A fluffy porcupine eating a carrot.

Look at the porcupine eating a carrot. Isn’t that darling?

Ok, so if you pet them it’s a problem. But here are some reasons why they are awesome:

1) Their fluff is dangerous. How cool is that? They can prance along, humming gently to themselves, looking adorable, and have an automatic defense system built in! Sweet, huh? It just proves that fluff doesn’t have to be useless.

(No, I’m not trying to prove a point to the Webmaster… What makes you say that?)

2) They live in trees. Seriously. Porcupines live in trees. I don’t know if I can repeat that often enough. Who would have expected that? So, not only do they have spiky fluff (unlike many mammals), they also live in trees. It’s as though they went out of their way to protect themselves. Point two for fluff not being useless! (But who’s keeping track?)

3) They’re happy critters. Of course, if your fluff is dangerous, and you live in a blinkin’ tree, what do you have to be upset about?

Happy looking prancing porcupine.

4) Porcupines are fun in any form. Especially real life, but also in crochet form. I mean, isn’t that amusing? (And aren’t they clearly fluffy?)

5) Carrots are a porcupine’s best friend. That get eaten, and then are gone. So clearly they are not best friends forever, but they still look so cheerful together!

 

Cheerful looking porcupine eating a carrot.

6) Despite their terrifying fluff, porcupines are (mostly) harmless. After all, they are not carnivores. That’s right, your little kitties are possible more dangerous than a pet porcupine. You never hear or read about people feeding mice to their pet porcupines, do you? Clearly, then, they are significantly less deadly to small rodents.

And so, Fluffsters, I wish you a joyous Tuesday.

Fluffy Animals: Kitties!

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Hello, Fluffsters! And welcome back to today’s edition of Fluffy Animals!

Oh goody. I’m soo thrilled.

Oh, good! I’m glad somebody is.

Why do I even try sarcasm. Why do I even try?

Today’s Fluffy Animal post is…

Kitties!

Yes, what kind of blog about fluff would this be if I didn’t have a post devoted to man’s worst enemy, the cat?

… Worst enemy? Really?

…Yes?

I mean, think about it. You see articles and books on how to tell if your cat is trying to kill you. You don’t see that sort of thing with dogs.

But I digress.

Information about kitties

1) They are cute. Especially when younger. After all, the only problem with kittens is that they eventually turn into cats.

Cute kitten which will, alas, turn into a cat.

Cute kitten!

2) They are useful for rodent control. Of course, if you love rodents, this is another problem. You wouldn’t want your kitten to kill a Marmot, would you?

3) Intelligence of conversation decreases as a kitten gets closer. XKCD says so, and they wouldn’t lie to us, right?

So, there you go! Happy Monday.

Seriously? That’s it?

It’s after midnight my time as I’m writing this, and I’m getting up too early my time tomorrow, which is when this is going to be posted. So, yes. I’m not responsible-

-Boy is that ever true-

-for the rest of this post. You can write more, I suppose…

All right, I will!

After all, you left out some of the best parts.

Fluffy’s perspectives on Kitties

1) They are awesome carnivores. Unlike dogs, they don’t eat carrots. At least, normal cats don’t.

2) They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. I kid you not. There are huge cats, medium sized cats, and very small cats.

3) Some cats are celebrities. Take Grumpy Cat, for example. I’m sure you’ve heard of him her. (Can you really believe that Grumpy Cat is female? That just seems very odd. She looks like she should be male.) Or Nyan Cat.

4) Some “wildcats” are extremely cute. In fact, I’m not sure whether Ocelots and Horpadies might actually share some sort of purpose in life- being really cute and deadly at the same time.

And that is a much more reasonable fluff post- don’t you agree? I fully realize that I left many details about cats uncovered, but I think it’s still significantly better than how the Webmaster was originally going to leave it.

Fluffy Animals: Marmots

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Hello, Fluffsters!

So, I’m still on vacation. And I still found internet! Yay!

Today is Sunday, so I’m going to start another new series: Animals. More to the point, fluffy animals. (Lizards are right out. So are hairless cats. Eww.)

So today, I’m going to be talking a bit about…

Marmots.

Marmots are really cute. They’re a small rodent, and they’re all over the place in Rocky Mountain National Park. (At least, I think they’re marmots.)

I got a few photos.

A small rodent from rocky mountain national park perching on a rock

Marmot on a Rock

So, I can’t quite get my camera to cooperate and focus on the nearby things. Sorry about that. The rocks and grass in the background are quite lovely though, aren’t they?

A rather chubby looking smaller rodent in a colorado national park

This fella was big.

This picture turned out better!

But anyways. Here’s a bit of information about marmots.

1) My first introduction to them was through fiction. Wolf-Speaker by Tamora Pierce is still one of my favorite books. It’s number 2 in a quartet of books, so you can’t just start with it. (The first one is Wild Magic. Have I mentioned I like fantasy?)

You know, I think you may have gone a week without mentioning that fact! How remarkable!

Hmpf.

And the quartet is something like the 2nd or 3rd quartet of books in this particular universe, but I think you can probably start with it anyways. But yeah, there’s a marmot in that book. I don’t quite remember her name, but I do remember wondering whether marmots were even real.

2) They are fairly cute. They’re small, furry, and dark colored. I was unable to get too close to any marmot, but they were adorable from a distance.An adorable marmot in the distance.

They were especially cute when they would run around. They seemed to just boing along.

3) Marmots have a shorter wikipedia article than unicorns do. It’s true. Look at the article about marmots, then look at the article on unicorns. There’s clearly a difference in length. So what is this? Discrimination against real animals? Dscrimination against rodents? Anti-discrimination against fictional animals…?

4) Groundhogs are a subspecies of marmot. Fact. Thus sayeth the wikipedia, and so it must therefore be true, right?

So, what information do you know about marmots? Or do you have any fluffy animals you’d like me to highlight?

Happy Sunday!

Things Concerning Cookies: Cookies with Nuts

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Hello, Fluffsters! Yes, I’m still on vacation. But I found internet! Isn’t that exciting? This means that once more, Fluffy cannot delete this post!

Want to bet?

Given that you’re going to be deleted if you delete one of my posts? Sure.

Fine. You win. Again.

Thank you. So, Happy Saturday!

Here are some cookies people make with nuts.

Alright, so it’s a slight change from the previous entries this week. But it still relates to cookies, right? So… here we go.

1) Russian Tea Cakes / Mexican Wedding Cakes. This are amazing. It’s a combination of nuts (your choice), butter, and powdered sugar. LOTS of powdered sugar. They’re really good, and you should look up the recipe at some point.

2) Chocolate Chip Cookies with nuts. These actually are not my favorite. There are few things ruined more by nuts than chocolate chip cookies. So, please don’t ruin your lovely chocolate chip cookies with nuts. Almost all humanity will thank you for this.

3) Brownies. They are not cookies, but it’s similar to the chocolate chip cookies. There are very few recipes that actually work well with nuts. So please, even if the recipe calls for nuts, don’t do it.

4) White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies. These are actually good. The macadamias add a nice contrast to the dough and the sweetness. You have my full permission to make these. They also don’t masquerade as good cookies. They are what they are supposed to be.

So, there you go. Four types of cookies that have nuts with them.

Happy Saturday!

Things To Do Concerning Cookies: Freshly Baked

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BWAHAHAHA! I found INTERNET! That means that Fluffy couldn’t delete yesterday’s post!

I tried, to. Just for the fun of it…

But anyways. Happy Friday, Fluffsters! I hope you’re having a great week. Today’s post is about

Things To Do Concerning Freshly Baked Cookies

Didn’t you already talk about this?

Across the different cookie posts, maybe. But in terms of just the freshly baked cookies? No.

Now, I know that this looks fairly obvious. When you have freshly baked cookies, you normally

1) Eat them. After letting them cool a bit, presumably, so that you can actually pick it up. But even that isn’t entirely necessary.

So I’m sure you’re now asking, “Webmaster, why even write a post about this? What else can you do with freshly baked cookies?”

Good question, Fluffsters! I’m glad you asked!

This leads us to 2) Put a large scoop of ice cream on it. Some restaurants do that, and sell it for a fair amount of money. Especially if you bake it in a small pan. That’s really good. I’ve primarily seen this done with chocolate-chip cookies, but I imagine that oatmeal raisin, peanut butter, Snickerdoodles, or basically any other type of cookie. If you like, you can put a candle in it and call it a birthday cake. (Or an unbirthday cake, if it’s not actually your birthday.)

3) Take a picture. Put a filter on it, and post it on Facebook. After all, we do need more instagramish type things, right?

…That was a bit of a stretch. Didn’t you already mention that for something?

…Ok, maybe. But you can still (apparently) instagram a lot of different types of things.

4) Take advantage of the extremely soft state and decorate them. You know. Like as previously mentioned, you could put peanut-butter cups in them. Or, if you prefer, you could take colorful candies and stick them in to create designs. (This especially works well with chocolate-y cookies, as many colorful candies are more chocolatey.) But chocolate candies would also be excellent with peanut butter cookies. (If you do that, take a picture and send it to me at webmaster (at) totalfluff.com?)

Well, that’s about all I can think of without experimenting, which I won’t be able to do for a while. (I’m a ways away from any of my baking supplies. It’s sad.) But if you can think of anything else to do with them, let me know?

Happy Friday! I hope to talk with you tomorrow!