A ghost tried to approach me and he got leery

maybe cain wldnt have killed abel if they had video games to healthily channel the violence between siblings. unfortunately back then the only smash brothers they had was smash brothers head in with a rock

I just heard my mom tell my brother, “when you die, you will go outside and garden until your father says you’re done” and it took me a second to realize that my brother was playing a videogame and this was not a theological discussion.

Purgatory

The Garden of Death

Watercolor and gouache by Hugo Simberg, 1896

The Cleansing Fires of Purgatory vs. the Eternal Torment of Hell

narcissus at the pond

WAIT THE REFLECTION LOOKED BACK AT THE END

the what

I can confidently say I did not expect that.

I don’t think we as a society talk nearly enough about how intricately connected cats and women are. cats are associated with women so heavily, not just in English but in other languages as well. the stereotype of the ‘crazy cat lady’, the fact words to refer to cats are often also used to refer to female genitalia, ‘cat fight’, ‘catty’, etc.

Cats have suffered alongside women, too, which is not something I have seen brought up. Cats were targeted during the Witch Hunts as well, and suffered similar fates as the women they hunted. During this time, cats were nearly driven to extinction, and the mice and rat population go out of control— which is believed to have heavily contributed if not outright caused one of the most famous plagues.

To this day, I think we need to analyze if it’s truly a coincidence that cats are often portrayed as mean or uncaring because they do not behave the same way as dogs— “man’s best friend”— that their boundaries are violated for fun and then people criticize the cat for reacting, for self-defense. They will mutilate a cat so it cannot defend itself, and then abandon it when it is understandably upset, when it can no longer feel safe.

If you look at the statistics, more cats enter animal shelters than dogs, and tend to stay for longer. Personally, my local humane societies seem to have almost exclusively cats. In part, this is because cats are more effective at reproducing than dogs, and there are very little if any resources dedicated to to TNR. This is also because people will not spay/neuter their cats, and then will abandon the cat and/or just the kittens.

I do not think it is entirely coincidental that cats are so heavily associated with women, and they are villainized for not being dogs. That dogs are called “man’s best friend”, but somehow that does not mean cats are called “women’s best friend”— instead diamonds are, for whatever reason, despite women’s shared history with cats, and shared experience of being villainized for having boundaries. They are made the villain for being cats instead of dogs, they are called uncaring and “assholes” because the way they show love is not identical to the way a dog does.

I feel like there is no way it is entirely coincidental, the way cats are hated and the way they are so heavily associated with women, with females.

religion rlly is all about men coping. you'll see men "jokingly" saying it's all women's fault that the world is so horrible because eve ate the apple but that's fiction. it never happened. you know what's actually happening? Men in power killing millions of ppl through wars and poverty or just directly going outside and killing ppl and making up like 80% of murderers and other violent criminals. ohhh but it's all eve's fault from that very long novel. That's like saying women are at fault for everything bad on this world because of something rachel from friends did. I am going to murder my coworkers

Top ten things I never thought would happen this year. Uh. Me getting severely back into Godzilla?

Kerry James Marshall, When Frustration Threatens Desire, 1990

Dibujitos del Goji

These two need a solo movie together

+ matching pfps

I've now officially seen GxK twice, all I got from it was that my boy has the best nap spot

Pity maiden for your folly To venture in these woods alone ❄️

In void

Link in mystic armor

One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official