there is, in fact, a "platonic explanation for this" if you're not a coward
its so fun to see the diversity of tags on this ranging from "they're literally just standing next to each other" to "deep bonds dont have to be romantic/sexual!" to "yeah friends can fuck nasty, platonically. coward." we're all so correct, there are, in fact, a million platonic explanations for this
Controversial take but if you wrote a novel about two women falling in love and you changed one of them into a man you would have the most enormous smash hit of a romance book on your hands
Maybe because I met like 15 butch lesbians who are the real life equivalent of the ideal male romance lead and I have yet to meet a man who fits the archetype.
Ladies do you want a man who reads you classical novels when you can’t sleep? Bakes cakes, knits sweaters and is able to remodel your bathroom? Good with animals, kids and has a career they’re passionate about? Handsome but not vain? Sweet, sensitive but charmingly rough around the edges? A good conversationalist? Well that’s not a man, that’s my friend Jennifer
Look at this cool new t-shirt I made for fans of Abraham Lincoln! I made it on my own time, with my own resources, and without any affiliation to existing public or private institutions concerned with history, education, hospitality, culture or retail. You can find it at my new Threadless shop or directly at bit.ly/imissabe
Iillustration of my dream workspace for the upcoming Nobrow 10: Studio Dreams from http://www.nobrow.net alongside a ton of great illustrators
Lydia Leslie Lydie - Candlestick by Frank Eugene, The Met’s Photography Department
Medium: Platinum print
Rogers Fund, 1972 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
the moon is proud of you
and so are the stars
and so is the sun
the aliens are watching you, a little confused about your life choices but are proud of you too
I feel like we, as a society, really need to step up and get our insult game back up to Victorian levels.
“You big boiled-egg, you - What do you mean by calling me a “swill-pail”? Haven’t you got any better manner, you conglomerate mass of Adipose Tissue?”
(Letter to Jack from his friend ‘Osa’, dated October 24, 1900.)
한영수 Han Youngsoo (1933 – 1999) 서울, 명동. Seoul, Myeong-dong, c.1953 ~ 1963.
“It’s hard to explain, but I feel like the kids are only playing the part of kids,” Matsumoto says of most manga he has read. “I consciously make an effort to render the characters as realistically as possible. I try to let the child naturally shine through.”
According to Matsumoto, the children (and adults) in “Sunny” are “about 70 percent based on reality.”
“The names have been changed, but it’s the first work I’ve done that’s based on my experiences. It was fun to write, but I was also worried that the characters were too much like the real people. I worried about offending my parents — although I did ask their permission,” he says. “My dad told me to go ahead but, in his heart, I’m sure he had some reservations.”
Matsumoto had been mulling over whether or not to write “Sunny” for more than two decades.
“Each time I finished a work, I’d think about writing ‘Sunny’ and then always give up.”
“At first, I thought it might be a rather dark story. It turned out to be pretty upbeat,” says Matsumoto, pausing as he thinks.
“Maybe the message I tried to get across is deceptively simple: it’s not all bad, life’s never all bad.”
— Taiyo Matsumoto on ‘Sunny’ (japantimes.co.jp)
Fun fact: Cheetahs only attack prey that runs
jesus that is good to know.
Yup, that’s the point you just stay still and let it do whatever the fuck it wants that doesn’t involved you getting eaten.
REALLY FUN FACT for big cats cheetahs are fucking docile as shit
my grandfather ran a cheetah sanctuary in south africa and he’d just lie with them and sleep among them and they’d rub against him and chirp at him they’re big fucking babies
Another Fun Fact: Cheetahs are incredibly nervous animals. One of the (many) reason’s they’re going extinct is that cheetahs are so sensitive and nervous, some of them are literally too nervous to breed. Others will breed, but stress themselves out so much, they’ll lose their cubs. So zoos with breeding programs had to figure out how to make cheetahs comfortable enough to first of all, get laid and secondly - not spazz themselves into miscarrying. So what’d they do? They gave the cheetah’s their very own Service Dogs! The dogs make them feel safe, protected and secure!
AJHHHHFDDGHH SO PRECIOUS
this post just got so much better
THIS IS OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE POST
This is the greatest thing I’ve seen all day.
Dogs are truly angels.
so THATS why these cheetah ft dogo pics exist
the anxiety cat
Also! Cheetahs are not in fact classified as big cats, they are simply very large lesser cats, due to the fact that they purr, meow, chirp, and cannot roar. Also many cheetahs have learned to recognize wildlife photographers are friends and not foes, so they will just come up to people and be friendly occasionally as pictured at the top of the chain. Some will even leave their Cubs with photographers to look after while they hunt. So. Yeah. Cheetahs are great
this works because cheetahs are actually fairly social animals, and they look to members of their group for context on how worried they should be about any given Situation. but since cheetahs are also nervous social animals, they can work each other into an anxiety spiral pretty easily over things like “being in an enclosed habitat” and “there’s a guy over there”.
so by introducing a dog as a member of the group, the cheetahs will now look to the dog for context clues on how worried they should be! and the dog Is Not Worried At All, Thanks, so the cheetahs think everything must be chill even if they were personally unsure about it, and they stop being so freaked out about literally everything.
idk why I wrote all this im sick
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imagine someone thinking of you and buying you flowers
ok now imagine a horse as a skeleton with a blue fire mane
the horse ! It’s bringing you flowers !
