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[HOUSE PORN @HOUSEPORN___]

Some people have a talent for engineering 😭

[Matt lander @m477lander]

Eva has never been just a pet to me.

She’s my best friend, my most loyal companion, and probably the creature I love most in this world. But over time, she became something else too. A symbol.

She somehow represents a lot of things that have always mattered to me. Even her name makes me think of life. But she’s also a predator. Protection, speed, agility, independence, always alert, and that focused stare that seems to notice everything around her.

A few years ago, I had a thought: what if one day she became the symbol of the biggest project of my life?

Not just a name or a cool mascot. I wanted the idea behind the project itself to stand for those same things.

As you can probably tell from the screenshot below, this didn’t start yesterday. Project EVA already existed back in 2024. There were early plans, job openings, people I was looking for, and something that, at the time, mostly existed in my head was slowly starting to take shape.

I’ll leave what happened after that out for now.

Maybe Project EVA will actually turn into something big and serious.

Or maybe there’s nothing serious about it at all. Just some weird idea from a developer who loves his serval way too much and decided to dedicate something to her.

Maybe it’s just for fun and one very long story.

Or maybe those of you who’ve been reading my posts for a while are starting to wonder about a few things.

Who knows.

For now, let’s just call it Project EVA.

But I’m genuinely curious. When you look at this screenshot, the name Project EVA, and this whole story, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?

What do you think something like this could turn into after a few years?

Something actually serious, or just one big idea that ends up going nowhere?

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

@SixHandsMouth @m477lander My pleasure, you are about to witness a great project my friend 💪

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

@Johnsondfirst @m477lander That’s what Im thinking, this definitely means a lot to Matt that we think 🤔

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

@m477lander Matt I think there definitely more to project Eva than youre telling us 😅💪

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

@Kardimens @ADzhurka7 @m477lander No it isn’t 🤣

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

@MatiasR64909100 @m477lander Felt for her 💔😪

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

@170mphspeed @timothymartine @m477lander At this point we are all certain he was trying to help🤷‍♂️

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

@timothymartine @m477lander Very relatable, just like i and my pup ❤️

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

Now the titanium fangs makes a lot more sense 🙏

[Matt lander @m477lander]

I’ll leave the first part of your comment unanswered for now lol😺

You’re right about the fangs, though. I never did explain why she has titanium fangs. I also never told the story of how Eva ended up living with me in the first place.

Eva is an African serval, a real predator. I never wanted a serval, and I don’t think people should buy wild cats just because they want something beautiful or unusual at home. A serval isn’t a toy. But things were different with Eva.

This was about six years ago. I was on a short trip, and people nearby had been looking for an escaped serval for several days. People from my country have local group chats wherever they move, and the escape was all over ours. We followed the search too, then decided to help and eventually got in touch with the owners.

That’s when we found out they were breeding exotic cats to sell. The escaped serval was an adult male, and we later learned he was Eva’s father. His escape brought way too much attention to the breeding operation. Inspections followed, along with questions about how the animals were being kept and bred. I won’t get into every detail. There was plenty of fucked-up shit going on.

The breeders ended up in immigration detention because they were foreigners. At the time, they still had an adult female serval and two very young kittens they were planning to sell. One of them was Eva.

The kittens had already been separated from their mother and bottle-fed way too early so they’d get used to people and be easier to sell. By then, both were completely dependent on humans.

The escaped male was eventually found. People who knew the breeders took him and the adult female, but the kittens were going to be put down. It all came down to a new law. People who already had these animals before the law took effect were allowed to keep them. Acquiring or keeping new ones was banned, and the kittens didn’t qualify for the exception.

At that point, I didn’t see much of a choice. The two kittens had already been born. They were alive, they’d done nothing wrong, and now they were going to be put down because of all this bullshit.

I took both of them somewhere it was legal to keep servals. I won’t get into exactly how I pulled that off. Let’s just say it took a hell of a lot of time and money. The stress was even worse.

I later gave the male kitten to someone who already had experience with animals like him. He couldn’t take both because two adult servals need a lot of space. The boy is still doing great, and Eva stayed with me.

The whole thing started with trying to keep them alive, so I named her Eva.

I realized pretty quickly that a serval is absolutely fucking nothing like a big house cat. She’s a predator who weighs over 14 kg, runs fast, can jump almost three meters straight up, and has the temperament to match. But you get attached to her almost instantly. And once you do, you’re responsible for an animal that depends on you for everything.

Eva also had health problems. Being bottle-fed so early took its toll, and as she grew, we discovered serious issues with her bone development. We spent a long time going from vet to vet and figuring out her diet. She went through exam after exam and slowly got better. Eventually she got stronger and grew up. For a while, everything was fine.

Then the dental problems started, especially with her fangs. Most vets suggested simply removing them. She could live a normal life without them, so medically, that was the easiest option. I didn’t like it.

Eva is still a serval and a predator. These problems went all the way back to the beginning of her life. Just removing her fangs now and calling it a day felt wrong. So I started looking for another option.

Eventually I found a veterinary dentist who takes on difficult cases. I had to wait several weeks because right before Eva, he’d been working on a bear’s teeth. An actual bear.

He examined Eva, and we decided to restore her teeth. She got ceramic crowns on the back teeth. The fangs were more complicated. A predator’s fangs have to withstand much more force, so ceramic wasn’t strong enough. We needed something tougher. That’s how Eva ended up with titanium fangs.

She uses them without any problems, including when she eats meat. No one replaced healthy teeth with metal ones just for looks. The damage was already there. Her fangs had to be rebuilt, and we went with titanium.

The engravings were my idea. When the fangs were being made, they asked if I wanted anything engraved on them. I figured that since they were going to be titanium anyway, I might as well add something personal.

One upper fang has a tiny crown engraved on it. The other has E.L. The E comes from her name, and the L from my last name.

Her teeth are fine now, and Eva is doing great too.

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

Its closer than you think ❤️😮‍💨

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

@kim_monia Would a Porsche 911 make you happy ?

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

If you blink you’ll miss it 😂

[حمدان 🎖 @7ikm33]

ماذا يحدث لشعر الإنسان إذا لم يقترب منه المقص لمدة 700 يوم؟
هذا الشاب قرر أن يكتشف الإجابة بنفسه
ووّثق مراحل نمو شعره حتى ظهرت النتيجة الاخيرة...

[حمدان 🎖 @7ikm33]

ماذا يحدث لشعر الإنسان إذا لم يقترب منه المقص لمدة 700 يوم؟
هذا الشاب قرر أن يكتشف الإجابة بنفسه
ووّثق مراحل نمو شعره حتى ظهرت النتيجة الاخيرة...

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

Be patient lads, the Great Wall of China wasnt built in a day 👏❤️

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

Hope youre not giving up champs 🤷‍♂️🏆

[Thor Torrens @ThorTorrens]

Rear naked choke saves child from killer pitbull attack

Take jiu jitsu

[M.neto @Mike_3336]

another day to win champ 👏🏆

[Matt lander @m477lander]

gm.

Hypothetically…

If Eva ended up becoming the mascot of a crypto project…

What would you name it?