iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 07/10/2026

XIV : Taking advantage of the anxiety mysteriously disappearing in case it comes back, this thing you have to do a bunch of random groups to complete is done. It might be on the way back, feels like I might be sinking back into overthinking again. Trying to head it off but we'll see

The Aetherwell Array from the Dawntrail relic weapon questline. Four circles with strange symbols embedded in a weird disc say 10000/10000 below them

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 04/10/2026

Yesterday: hiking with furries to Chester Lake

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 02/10/2026

Bsky is very random about which link previews it supports :P Here's a picture from the map link 📷 Anurag on Google Maps

A sign on top of a rock-covered mountain with a view down to the green foothills below. The clouds are low, seeming to be right above the photographer. The sign says:

KATAHDIN
Baxter Peak Elevation 5267 ft
Northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail
➡️Pamola Peak via Knife Edge 1.1 mi
⬆️Chimney Pond campground via Saddle 2.2
⬆️Roaring Brook campground via Saddle 5.5
⬅️Katahdin Stream campground 5.5
⬅️Abol campground 4.4
⬅️Springer Mountain, Georgia via the A.T. 2189.1
Baxter State Park

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 22/09/2026

"Wtf I was feeling better, why'd you bring me to this wretched place?" He's getting better a lot faster than expected, so probably not a deep joint injury like I thought. Still, he's old so needed an expert opinion

A cat laying on his disassembled carrier on a vet table looking at the camera with head tilted

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 11/09/2026

Bought this watch (pebble time 2) a year ago, mostly for the heart rate monitor and some techy reasons. it arrived half a year ago and i only found the time to set it up now. It looks so happy that tomorrow is september 11 🤔

A pebble time 2 on a wrist, the screen shows a happy sun and the text "September 11 Tomorrow"

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 09/09/2026

Need to put this somewhere to link it to someone, so might as well make a post about it :O Picked up this badge from @likeshine.bsky.social at a con in Detroit, 2012 and it's still the badge I'll use the most at cons to this day~

An anthropomorphic melanistic tiger from the chest up with a banner saying "Rowlga"

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 08/09/2026

Propagandizing for the gay muppet agenda last Saturday night

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 07/09/2026

Let's see how long the ears stay on the hat post-con until the invisible pressures of society wear me down

A person's head wearing a hat with a patch on the front showing a tiger with the handy text "tiger". magnetic tiger ears are attached to both sides

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 06/09/2026

Kara-yote starting now at @calfurry.ca in the carving board room!!

A coyote fursuit head with a laptopto the right and a karaoke screen in the back playing daft punks around the world

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 04/09/2026

Funny, the place i grew up (VA) isn't affecting the contour lines at all. Canadian English is known to be moving in a similar direction as California English though so maybe that explains it? There were a few questions I know I'dve had a different answer as a kid

Dialect quiz results showing most match on the west coast and worst match in the deep south. Most similar city San Francisco, least similar city Nashville

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 13/08/2026

This thing. Went neutral a ton, a lot of them felt very dependent Mindlessly determined to a fault. Kindness matches the bard results of other tests Low bravery is true, very risk-averse. Faced with physical challenges, I prefer retreating into guerilla/ninja tactics undertale.jadenthejaded.uk

The undertale virtues test thing. Text:

Soul virtues extractor
[a heart graphic]
DETERMINATION
red soul
"Despite how many times I fell, I always got back up"
[A bar graph]
Determination 70%
Kindness 65%
Integrity 38%
Justice 37%
Perseverance 37%
Patience 36%
Bravery 26%

undertale.jadenthejaded.uk

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 11/08/2026

The muscle memory of always opening telegram never goes away :0

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 07/08/2026

It's not the sin of socks in sandals when the socks are only there to create a different barefoot illusion Or if it is idgaf 😀

Feet wearing socks that look like the tops of actual tiger paws, in sandals

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 05/08/2026

Wtf gawdamn that's what biking, weights and lunges do I guess

A man in shorts doing a lunge in a mirror, legs are ripped bud

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 31/07/2026

I'm about to start Step 3. Pictured: sandals for Step 2. I have a Step 2.5 which is biking barefoot (this has certain risks i won't go into but I'm aware). Plastic nubbed pedals help stimulate the protective layer to grow. Don't use metal tooth pedals for this~

Adidas sandals with hundreds of plastic nubs on the insoles

A plastic bike pedal with plastic nubs for grip

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 27/07/2026

Anyway I went up Prairie mountain. First time since they redid the trail from the southeast. Wow it's a lot smoother. But i came up the back way which used to be easier and people already thought that was weird X3

Top of Prairie mountain looking westish. Canadian flag at the right, the ridge rolls out in front of the viewer with more mountains in the distance

Top of Prairie mountain looking southish. Canadian flag at the right, the rocky ridge drops off with more mountains in the distance. Sky is partly cloudy

Top of Prairie mountain looking eastish. The grassy ridge continues to the right. Front and left are much smaller mountains covered in trees. Sky is mostly sunny

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 26/07/2026

Now that Bery bought a soft serve maker, trying to approximate my favorite ice cream flavor which no longer exists: Willie Nelson's peach cobbler. It's a good first try, gonna do it again soon and see if it can be better :0

A pint of Ben & Jerry's Willie Nelson's Country Peach Cobbler: peach ice cream with cinnamon sugar shortbread pieces & a peach swirl

A bowl with soft serve made from half and half, cinnamon and pureed peaches with toppings of peach jam and crumbled shortbread cookies

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 22/07/2026

I have zero tattoos, but if i got any it'd be a full body of my stripe pattern. The orange stripes, outlined in black or white (depending what that part of the fursona is) fading away from the stripe for ½ an inch or so The probability of this happening is basically 0 though~

Ref sheet of Rowlga a male tiger, showing front and back views as well as 45 degree and side views of the head

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 18/07/2026

Con Saturday is the day to fully represent. Yeah I'm unsubbed from xiv rn but I'll be back~

A picture of my back in the mirror showing the reverse of the pawbs fc t-shirt that says "pawbs, soft on the outside" with a cartoon short eared carbuncle mascot holding a knife

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 17/07/2026

Ending this with a couple arts i did 13-20 years ago. Never got that good at it but it was fun when I had time to even try XD can see some aspects of myself that I've always liked from these drawings though

"Self Portrait in Black and Orange", my first furry drawing. A smiling inverse tigerman wearing a black gi and orange belt stands barefoot with arms crossed on rocks next to a natural pool in front of a waterfall. The gi has a Hobbes rawring patch on the left arm and a patch on the left breast has the Chinese character for tiger algebraically inverted. The background is a photo i took at the swimming hole in St. Mary's wilderness, Virginia, which was where I went to swim and camp when I needed some me time

An inverse tiger man rides a bike that's probably too big for him. He's wearing only shorts, standing up and leaning forward to get more speed as he exhales. This is exactly what my bike looked like at the time, including the milk crate attached with bungee cords. Got this bike when I was 14, painted it black and orange when I turned furry, brought it with me to Ontario then Calgary. One year I tried riding it in the snow, it didn't work. Put the bike away and come spring it was rusted to death. It's final resting place is the east Calgary dump

A tigerman from the chest up giving a thumbs up sign, staring at the viewer wide eyed with a whole fish in his mouth, tongue curled up from under the fish to hold it up

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 17/07/2026

On July 17, 2006, I joined the HomestarRunner wiki forum and needed a username. I went with Inverse Tiger and sometimes played along with the tiger thing. Since I was publicly acting as an anthro character, I call this the start date (also, only date i can verify). But didn't have a fursona name yet

A forum signature i used, Calvin and Hobbes flying through the night sky on their wagon, silhouetted in front of the moon like that scent in the movie E.T.. in the right is text "I.T. The Inverse Tiger"

A forum signature i used with an inverse tiger's eyes staring at the viewer surrounded by a black rectangle. Faint text in the black rectangle reads along the top: Panthera tigris contrarius [the Chinese character for tiger algebraically inverted] pro justitia magna
Along the bottom it's the same thing in greek. Translations were my own, so they're ass lol

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 17/07/2026

All the elements were in place, but the only time I'd ever heard of furries was from the ancient derogatory meme "the geek hierarchy", and i had no idea what they were.

Ancient meme "the Geek hierarchy", a flow chart of which types of geeks consider themselves less geeky than which, with furries at the bottom, everyone considering themselves less geeky than furries.

Definitely something from another time

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 17/07/2026

Much later, high school was done for a while and still didn't know what to do with myself. I got into some martial arts. Both schools i went to used black gi. In the second one I only made it to orange belt, but hmm.. what a striking combo :3

A blurry photo of me (with a tiger emoji over my face) giving two thumbs up while wearing a black gi with an orange belt

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 17/07/2026

The color scheme seeped in from two directions. Back when i was a kid in Virginia, baseball was a bigger deal and the Nationals weren't there yet. So the hometown team was the Orioles. Orange white and black. Later in my childhood they introduced the stylish black "Alternate 2" uniform

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 17/07/2026

Later, I played Wing Commander 2, with the evil Kilrathi cat aliens and the one who defected to the human side, Ralgha nar Hhallas, callsign "Hobbes", supposedly from the human philosopher, but cmon, you know the truth. It's from the tiger philosopher. Even kid-me knew that

Colonel Ralgha "Hobbes" nar Hhallas as seen in wing commander 2, a large anthropomorphic tiger man wearing human military clothes, stares down at someone off frame to the left with a scowl. The wing commander 3 version was offensive for being liony instead of a tiger, and for what the plot did with him, which was unfor-fucking-givable and made me hate the game and stop playing wing commanders altogether

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 17/07/2026

That piled onto a love for Calvin and Hobbes from as soon as it appeared in the newspaper. Eventually we had all the books. my favorite paper and presentation in higher education was about similarities between zen and c&h

3 images: Hobbes crouching to pounce, Calvin and Hobbes sneaking down the stairs with the babysitter at a table at the bottom, Hobbes acting like a zombie with Calvin mostly cut off by the edge of the frame

Hobbes standing and asking someone off frame (Calvin) "so you're a tiger now?"

A bookshelf with the 3 volume hardcover set of The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, with Night of the Jungle Cat, the Sunday Pages book and the tenth anniversary book. The rest are in a box in my parents basement

A slide from a presentation titled "Hobbes is an enlightened figure" with a picture of Hobbes holding out his hand in a refusal gesture while looking away with eyes closed

The speaker notes say: "Any meanness he shows is either out of expressions of his exuberant feline nature (pouncing on Calvin) or part of a lesson he's teaching Calvin, as when Calvin said he thought others were on earth merely for his amusement, and then Hobbes pushed him into some mud and laughed to illustrate how stupid Calvin's point was"

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 17/07/2026

Two pieces had to come together, the tiger and the color scheme. The tiger was easy. My mom's always had a cat, so we had a cat growing up. His name was Gumbo and he was a very good cat. The tabby stripes probably played an influence, being a cat definitely did

Blurry photo of a gray tabby kitten on an 80s couch

Blurry photo of a tabby cat jumping and landing on something. The kid barely visible in the background isn't me

A blurry photo of a tabby cat curled up under a blanket, but the blanket is being lifted up by someone out of frame so the cat is looking at them like "uh, how may I help you?"

A blurry picture of a tabby cat sitting on a rug in front of a door looking up at someone off frame to the left

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 09/07/2026

That's not a grape... Nam flashbacks to 2009 when these things swarmed Virginia right before I moved to Canada and I was finding live ones in my shit for weeks and dead ones for years. Luckily they don't survive up here

A bunch of green grapes with what looks to be a brown marmorated stink bug or close relative on them

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 06/07/2026

This year's show as I left i felt like:

The Austrian emperor from the movie Amadeus with the caption "There are, how shall one say... too many notes"

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 28/06/2026

Now for the reward. It's me, I'm the hungry tiger

The front of a restaurant named hungry thaiger with tiger stripes and a cartoon tiger holding utensils

A neon sign in the restaurant in the shape of the same cartoon tiger holding utensils with the text hungry thaiger

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 28/06/2026

Very wet hike, started much later in the day than usual :0 got to the top though

A cloudy day next to a lake at the bottom of some mountains in the canadian rockies

Looking down on the lake from most of the way up a mountain, many clouds in the sky, some raining. Mountains all around

Looking down on the lake from on top of a mountain, many clouds in the sky, some raining. Mountains all around

A path on a mountain ridge goes forward from the viewer towards the left. To the right, a view off the ridge to a mountain with some water at its base

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 16/06/2026

I thought turning it on would teach him he actually doesn't want to be on it cause it makes noise, but he showed me how little I know about his motivations

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 12/06/2026

Guess i should play XIII someday to see if this is accurate or not~ all the others I saw had scores in the 90s so maybe it had trouble with me XD ff-resonance.vercel.app

Your FF soul type
Final Fantasy XIII
Lightning
86 resonance score, top 8%
"Fate can be changed. As long as you don't give up"

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 12/06/2026

Someone at this restaurant is a person of culture

The Pancakes section of a menu which contains an option called Makin' Bacon ($20.95, bacon infused & topped with bacon caramel drizzle)

Joke explained: This is a reference to Adventure Time when Jake makes bacon pancakes and sings a little song about it

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 09/06/2026

$5.52 USD? I feel so compensated 🥸 I hope the lawyers are happy with their $5.52 million yachts!

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 06/06/2026

After last night, still got up at the usual time, rolled out of bed and headed for this week's hike, Ink Pots in Banff. Pictured: the valley just past those ink pots

A man walks on a path winding forward through an open valley toward a forested area, tall rocky mountains in the background with patches of snow still on them. The sky is partly cloudy

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 31/05/2026

This is such a ridiculous temporary radon mitigation system (actual mitigation coming in 3 weeks) but I'm proud that this stupidity actually totally works

A radon graph for the month of May. For most of it, it's bouncing between the low 200s and low 400s (Bq/m³). Starting around may 23 it plummets and has been at "safe" levels since May 25.

Horizontal lines on the graph indicate the canadian safe standard of 200 and the EU safe standard of 100. The US safe standard is around 150 but uses different units

An air purifier that blows air out its top attached to the exhaust hose of a portable air conditioner unit with duct tape, clear plastic garbage bags, and a belt. The exhaust hose goes up and out a window behind a curtain

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 09/05/2026

I'm proud of Kendrick for his astonishingly rapid progress in Tibetan Buddhism

A car display showing FM 98.5 playing a song by The Weeknd Ft. Kendrick Lama. Just so you know it's also 20C outside and 1:15PM

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 08/05/2026

Need to remember to use this more to lock my phone down during work hours. ADHD, gamified :P

Screenshot from the Focus Friend app, a sentient bean stands in a cartoon office with eclectic decoration. A message says "Minirowl needs help focusing". This account currently has 19 socks and 0 scarfs (I'm not gonna be paying for scarfs rn)

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 16/04/2026

Look how dang puffed up for warmth this confused-ass robin is. Woke up to at least half a foot of snow. It better be the last of it i swear

A very round and fluffy North American robin (yes yes not a real robin like jolly old England has) sitting on a tree branch in a snow storm

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 14/04/2026

Good progress already grinding for the next Privateer stream. Got the best ship but that's the easy part. Now to upgrade all the things so we can focus on the story missions

Screenshot of the game Privateer. A Centurion ship (which is shaped kind of like a fighter jet) sits on a launch pad in space.

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 11/04/2026

Huh yeah, i don't usually pay attention to pressure but our sensor shows it's been very spiky lately :o

A wave plus sensor graph showing settings between 880 and 900 hPa over the past couple weeks

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 02/04/2026

Chaucer said Aprille is whan the shoures come. He didn't say anything about snoues. That bitch

A snowy residential street. The snow is still falling.

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 15/03/2026

🐯Name: Rowlga Nartamas 🐯Origin: ? via Gridania 🐯Occupation: Bard 🐯Nameday: 3☀️ 2nd Astral🌕 🐯Race: Helion Hrothgar 🐯Gender: Male 🐯Sexuality: Homoflexible 🐯Age: 44 🐯Height: 5'6" 🐯Social Status: Alternating raconteur & hermit 🐯Marital Status: (in xiv) Single, noncommittal 🐯Battle Style: In Narnia again

A hrothgar (catman) wearing ornate jacket and pants, a jaunty hat, sunglasses, and a guitar on his back, sits on a stone bench an area with bamboo and blossoming cherry trees

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 03/03/2026

Yesterday went to Banff with Tannyk to treat myself. Brunch at a Louisiana restaurant (Tooloulou's), up Tunnel mountain, and dinner at the fancy fondue place Grizzly House (not pictured)

Bananas foster French toast, cheese and garlic grits, and andouille sausage

A rack of spices and sauces in a restaurant. they have both Tony C's and Slap Ya Mama spice blends, which proves the authenticity of the establishment

View from Tunnel Mountain looking down on Banff

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 18/02/2026

Spoiler: it was. It was CO2 lol. Something we did a few weeks ago to increase energy efficiency made the air stagnant in the bedroom when we're both there at night (gray area of the graph peaking high). Figured out a workaround though

Carbon dioxide sensor graph showing levels going way too high from late January to mid February

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 04/02/2026

Still on standby for raiding, but to keep from falling behind too much I'm hopping in for a few minutes tonight for an m9s gear funnel Since I'll be on the stream for a bit, needed a matching portrait by @tigerinspace.bsky.social and get a look at that cheeky cat :3

A fuzzy tiger man with tousled hair smiles and looks sideways at the viewer below the name tag Rowlga Nartamas and a ffxiv bard icon

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Rowlga Nartamas @rowlga.inversetiger.ca · 22/01/2026

Using only images, explain how you became a furry

Cartoon tiger Hobbes, thinking while wearing a scarf

Cartoon tiger Hobbes, looking at a box saying "so you're a tiger now?"

Video game character Ralgha "Hobbes" nar Hhallas from Wing Commander 2

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