“It’s not that wet” 

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This cat strikes me as both fascinated by the sensation of the rain - the smell, sound, and feel of it - and completely mortified by the fact that it comes with being wet

This cat is like “I am enjoying approximately 75% of this experience but I’m not sure if it’s worth that other 25%”

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This isn't cute! Cars only do this when they feel extreme distress!

Maan get that quivering snout outta here

Have you considered taking him to the vet?

Serious explanation here: she's teaching them the instinct of being alert around enclosure openings! For example, if these were wild cats living in a bush, they'd run the risk of a larger predator running up to the opening and grabbing one of them. The mother cat is also only bapping them lightly without claws, so those slaps are more of an annoyance meant to get the kittens' attention, and to teach them to keep their eyes out for potential threats.

After months of research and development and market testing and perfecting the first item I feel confident selling online, I have realized... that it is an incredibly niche item that only a specific subset of absolute nerds would want to buy, and I will have to do a ton of explaining the basic idea over and over again before people generally get what it is I'm even selling. RIP me

Long story short: I'm selling embroidery patterns. You stick them on fabric, embroider them, and wash the pattern away to leave your embroidery shining in solitary splendour.

Long story long... here goes.

Had to illustrate what I envision literally every time I see this text post

[ID: gravity falls fanart of an older dipper and mabel splitscreen. dipper is in bed and staring blearily at his phone while mabel is at a house party saying excitedly into her phone the text post, “dude i know you said you weren’t feeling good but you have to come over a gnome is letting us take shots out of his hat”]

— Francesca Coppa, “Introduction to The Dwarf’s Tale,” The Fanfiction Reader (via francescacoppa)

Someone put it into words. I gotta sit down

(Why does this belong on my decidedly not-fan-fiction-related blog, you ask? Because this quote illustrates very well how assuming that anything where people put sex in it is debasing it, objectifying it, or simply ‘sexualizing’ it, etc. often misses a lot of the real picture of why people do that thing.)

today is great day to create something, to fill the void with a piece of yourself that wasnt there before and to push back against the darkness. you can create a song or painting or sandwich or a walk in the park or even a MOMENT. use this mighty power to defy the cosmic nothing

the uncommon allergy haver to anticapitalist pipeline

in January 2023, companies became required to label sesame on all products it was present in, and undergo rigorous cleaning procedures to prevent sesame contamination, after it was declared the 9th "major" food allergen in the United States.

so, instead of considering this a mandate to give a single shit about people with sesame allergies, almost all American companies decided to just add sesame flour to all their relevant products. because apparently that was cheaper.

it's almost impossible for me to find hot dog and hamburger buns without sesame now. and I am one of the lucky ones. I'm someone who just so happened to notice the label updates, not get caught unawares and have a severe allergic reaction. I'm someone lucky enough to be surrounded by multiple choices of supermarkets, and someone with the incredible privilege to have parents who'll help me search the shelves, and cover those costs that my allergies rack up. not everyone with allergies/other intolerances has all or any of those privileges to begin with.

most food allergies will never be prevalent enough that under capitalism, it will be profitable to give them the level of accommodation that they deserve. I speak from experience with a wide portfolio of hypersensitivity quirks when I say that the rarer the food allergy, the worse it gets.

and here's the thing: I can live without hamburger buns, with only superficial decreases in my quality of life. but sesame isn't my only rare allergy, and ever since this legislation hit, I've been lying awake at night, afraid of what I might lose access to next.

I've been lying awake at night wondering what I'll have to do to live, to obtain enough safe food to survive, if any of my other allergies get this same treatment. and I reiterate. I am one of the privlidged ones.

what these companies have done is completely legal. what these companies did has also cut off up to over a million people from what were previously safe, affordable staples of their diets. a system that has any incentive not to accommodate the dietary needs of any population is not a system that can be allowed to exist. this is the uncommon allergy haver to angry, fuming anticapitalist pipeline.

[flicks invert filter on and off on picture of a rural town in maine] normal world! evil world! normal world! evil world! normal world! evil world!

(via @dancy-nrew )

[Image ID: Tumblr tag reading: #stephen king’s writing process /End ID]

“The Prince rode under the stars”, from Among Gnomes and Trolls Vol. 9 by John Bauer (1915)

Sometimes the rats in my brain come together and start yelling “YEARNING” and in trying to appease them I ask “FOR WHAT” but they are too small so all they can say is “YEARNING” which is a very big word for such a tiny creature, even collectively

I loved this visual so much I had to doodle it.

ratratratratrat

This is half of the human experience.

(The other half is the rats shouting “DO NOT WANT!”)

I know we’re all tired of heterosexuality and maybe I’m just being bi wrong but I’m interested lately in stories about women loving men differently, a fighter going on a quest to bring back the only cure for their husband’s sickness, a woman motivated by love for a man who got fridged for their development, a dangerous primordial force that nonetheless finds themselves loving a virginal young man who stumbled on their enchanted bower

There’s probably a ton of that everywhere and I’m just not looking in the right places though

You’re not doing anything wrong. I honestly don’t think people are as tired of heterosexuality as they are of all the rubbish gender expectations that straight people pile into romance narratives. You’re doing a lot of good by writing the stories you’re writing, because a lot of us are starting to treat relationships between men and women like they’re automatically destined to be shitty and/or boring. Which they don’t have to be in real life, nor do they have to be in fiction.

let me put this in terms that you can understand. if we catch you browsing futanari porn on the school library computers one more time, we are going to "isekai" you to a new high school.

I have a very rough idea in my head that I don't think I can clearly articulate beyond "And that concludes tonight's reports on German air forc—WHAT'S THIS? IT'S KING ARTHUR WITH A STEEL CHAIR"

IDK what this is about, but I want to know more.

This isn't exactly the same idea but it could be but there is more rattling around in here so:

"a catholic priest" i mean yeah sure why not but JRRTOLKIEN himself was alive and a teacher at the time so go big or go home.

You know what sure why not let's just make literal real-life JRRT himself a character in this Arthurian return story, he deserves it.

@seajr DUDE

I bought a backscratcher and now I'm a fully self sufficient being. I'm going to tie a little rucksack to my backscratcher and walk straight into the woods.

Bucky has experienced true bliss