2020surgery

I am a dull and simple lad.

[starshardfragments]

How to deal with street cats

Be nice to them. They’re doing an important job. Do not chase them, grab them or harass them. 

Always bring some food with you, it’s just polite. 

Approach them slowly, and let them come to you. Sometimes you might have to sit on the ground and tap it a few times. This is what you brought food for. 

At some point after you have managed to touch the cat it will turn and sprint away. This is when you start following it.

Cats do not want you to get lost, but they can be fast. Never lose sight of them, you should stay with it until your return. This might still look like your usual street but you are in a liminal space already. Try not to get lost. 

(NOTE: do not follow cats with mismatched eyes. You can pet them, but the moment they run away you should immediately turn your back to them and walk in the opposite direction.)

Black cats:

Follow black cats into the floor-level vents. Don’t worry, there are many spider webs but there aren’t any spiders.

Do not lose sight of them in the dark.

When you emerge, you will be in the same street you were before, but there will be no people to be found.

Do not stray, follow your cat. Sometimes it might want to just catch a bird and go back. Do not stay longer just to explore.

 If you hear the sound of a crowd in the distance do not try to follow it. Your cat will never lead you there.

You can take anything with you but you cannot take pictures or record video or sound.

Orange cats:

Orange cats hang around train stations for a reason. Follow them into the next train. You will not need a ticket.

If the cat wants you to scratch its ears during the trip, do it.

The landscape will not look like the area around your town.  Do not panic - this is normal.

The people in the train will not speak a language you understand or recognize, but they will have clothes and devices similar to yours. They are usually nice.

Get down at the same stop as your cat. You will not understand the name of the station, and no one will get off in the same station as yours. You should follow your cat, but it will never leave the station. Follow it into the next train to get back home.

Never stay in the train. Never wait for the last stop.

White cats:

White cats live on the edges. They will take you to many places but at the same time they will never take you anywhere.

If you meet them during the night-time, the sun will start rising, regardless of the time. If you meet them during the daytime, the sun will start setting. It will stay like this for the duration of the trip.

Follow them to the edge of a forest that smells like honeysuckle. You will hear the song of birds and the flow of water. You should never stray and enter the forest on your own. Your cat will not follow.

Follow them to a building where a fancy party is being held at. Through the windows you can see the food and the champagne. The guests will ask you to join them, but your cat will keep walking. Do not accept the invitation, and never eat the food or drink the champagne.

Follow them along the edge of a swimming pool. People will be bathing, playing and laughing. It will be hot, regardless of the season. Do not step too close to the edge, because they will try to grab your ankles and pull you into the water. Keep walking.

Once the sun finally sets or rises you will be back home. Never enter your house until you are completely sure the sky is changing.

Calico cats:

Calico cats are the safest. They will follow you instead.

Walk around your town and you will see everything is the same, but you will not be able to make the connections between the streets.

If you want to go to a certain place you will find it is no longer where it used to be.

You will not recognize anyone. Every single person in the street will be a stranger. They are not dangerous but do not look them directly in the eyes.

Never try to find your house. Because you will find it.

When you want to come back take the cat back where you found it. This might be more difficult than you expect.

Remember to always take some food with you, something make of iron, and comfortable shoes.

And remember to always be nice to the cats!

[if you like my writing consider buying me a coffee? your girl works night shifts ;u;]  @senshi76 gave me the suggestion for this one!

[elodieunderglass]

Oh I love this!

[animatedamerican]

WELL THIS TOOK AN UNEXPECTED TURN EARLY IN

[2020surgery]

HUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Ok ‪I mean yeah it looks fantastic and I loved Arrival and Ryan Gosling is great score is beautiful and the original Blade Runner is this rather intimate story taking place within this vast universe you don't see that much of this looks... Far more epic in scope maybe it could work like Cameron's Aliens to Scott's Alien. Wait and see, wait and see.

[2020surgery]

Hi there

[2020surgery]

One year ago today we lost him and it still doesn't seem real

[grassprint-deactivated20240101]

Some doodles, plus Rey’s first rainfall 

[exac]

reading headlines in 2015: shit the onion tricked me again reading headlines in 2016: please be the onion

[just-shower-thoughts]

The game “Duck Duck Goose” was probably invented to teach children that ducks are pretty chill, but geese will chase your ass down and attack you

[lizardtitties]

Me at midnight: Boy, I’m tired. I’m gonna lay down and sleep

Me at 2am: I am a being of pure energy fuelled by adrenaline

[zany-the-nerd]

Child: What’s a VHS?

Me:

[thisusedtoberum-deactivated2017]

A cleanly shaven mario

[theawesomeadventurer]

this makes me….so uncomfortable…

[2020surgery]

This is violence😭😭😭

[railroadsoftware]

did anyone actually ever read those animorph books

[sonypraystation]

just stared at the covers for a concerningly long amount of time before putting it back where i found it

[railroadsoftware]

me too

[the-emileighain-mountains]

Same

[bogleech]

Here are some of the spoilers you missed out on by not reading Animorphs:

Five children are forced to engage in guerilla warfare, espionage and repeated murder to protect their loved ones from alien parasites as they wait for the other, heroic aliens to finally arrive. When they do, the “good” aliens turn out to not give a shit about humans, caused the whole intergalactic war through their own shittiness and are willing to exterminate whole planets themselves to get at their hated enemies.

A child repeatedly experiences his intestines hanging out of his body while in various animal forms

A child is mentally tortured until broken and never gets better

A child in the form of a fly experiences getting splattered and smeared against a ceiling until his friends who are also flies at the time can peel his body off and take him somewhere he can transform back into a whole human before his insect mind fades completely

A child is shrunken and experiences having her eyeballs digested out of her head inside her friend’s stomach while she’s in the form of a tiny elephant

The heroes are forced to permanently imprison another child in the body of a rat because he knows too much and they abandon him on a tiny island with only other rats and garbage for company. Rumors circulate that the island is haunted but it’s actually his psychic screams reaching distant boaters.

A race of devastatingly powerful, violent aliens turn out to be mental toddlers who don’t know what they’re doing and are just bred to think they’re playing one big game before they’re killed at age three so they don’t learn the truth

An alien spends a few centuries hanging from the parasitic tentacle of a much bigger alien, surrounded by millions of rotting corpses attached to its other moon-spanning tendrils. They engage in mental warfare until one finally absorbs the other completely.

It turns out another seemingly “evil” alien race is simply driven to kill and eat everything in sight because it was separated from its original world where food was continuous and the entire specie’s life is the torture of perpetual starvation

A peaceful robot willingly removes its inhibition against violence to help in the war, only to slaughter a huge number of alien-controlled humans so gruesomely that nobody dares think about or speak of it again and it is the only thing left undescribed in a book series that already describes entrails getting torn out and skulls getting smashed

A child stays too long in the form of a flea and instead of turning back into a human, accidentally turns momentarily into one big, giant flea that can only writhe and moan because it shouldn’t exist and can’t live at that scale.

The kids discover Atlantis, then discover that Atlanteans are inbred mutants who paralyze any humans they find, dissect them alive to figure out how their organs work, then stuff the corpses as kitschy museum displays for their children.

An ordinary ant gets transformed into a human child. It has no idea what’s happening and is so overwhelmed by its huge new brain and sensory input that it can only scream until it dies

[loveinthemindpalace]

What. The. Fuck

[pristinely-ungifted]

From someone who recently read/finished this series, NONE OF THE ABOVE IS AN EXAGGERATION.

[zizygy]

Also you can get all the PDFs here

[bogleech]

Everybody read some animorphs you know you wanna it’s right there

Go ahead and start on book one you’ll already get some juicy terror

[keweplz-deactivated20210706]

Go ahead and tell me how oppressed you are by someone saying a word you don’t like or having a differing opinion when this woman was brainwashed, recueved little to no attention, was taught that if she were so much as to think differently that she would be KILLED, a woman who saw her friends mother being publicly executed, a woman who agreed to be sold just to have something to eat, who witnessed her mother being raped, who crossed a dessert in search of freedom when this strong woman, is able to tell her story and say that she lived a good life, that she is greatful for her experience on this earth, who cries because we cannot see what we really have. Tell me how someone calling you a name on the internet (a privilege that she never knew existed) is opression.

[feminists-against-feminism]

“I don’t think of me as a victim“ -Yeonmi Park, North Korean defector

Freedom begins as a state of mind

[pervocracy]

“Society forces women to do X and forbids them from doing Y, and that’s wrong, so let’s make X forbidden and Y compulsory” is my least favorite form of feminism.

[gotitforcheap-deactivated201611]

[maxknightley]

[dingusandsmartypants]

[slouchhatmilitia-deactivated201]

This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.

[heavilyarmedvirtue]

The death rattle of a civilisation

[bloodandhedonism]

i’m a gay dude in the very early stages of caretaking for an aging mother in rather poor health and it’s making me freak the fuck out about not having kids for when i’m old

and no, i don’t think charity/government will save my bacon either in the future

[serkentsi-deactivated20180207]

remember, folks, “boko haram” means  “no bullshit” :)

[genghis-khanye]

i wonder if she’ll change her tune when she’s farting her last in some sterile care home being ‘looked after’ by a bunch of imported browns who don’t give a shit about her

[ranma-official]

this. quick, quick, quick, we must breed as fast as possible (and you’re a literal subhuman if you don’t want to) or the mooosleeeems win

[multiheaded1793]

Protect Western civilization from the pitiless, bloody-minded savages! We did it in 1945, we’ll do it again. These people are driven inhuman by their deranged, archaic creed. They will *never* adapt to modern values or believe in human rights… unlike Muslims, or at least the vast majority of Muslims.

[dagny-hashtaggart-deactivated20]

Do “traditionalists” really not grasp that virtually all human civilizations have included, and even valorized, a substantial number of non-breeding members? Yes, if nobody has kids, that’s bad, but both socially and biologically there are many advantages to having a large part of the population work on things other than passing on their genes.

[funereal-disease]

http://funereal-disease.tumblr.com/post/148840688055/skyvirus-funereal-disease-when-you-refuse

Put it this way: when you say “men’s egos need to kept in check”, consider what that means for a trans man who’s battled dysphoria and finally, finally arrived at comfort in his masculinity.

When you say “all men are potential rapists”, consider what that means for a man who was himself raped and feels gut-punched every time he’s conflated with his abuser.

When you say “men should take up less space in conversation”, consider what that means for a man who’s overcome debilitating social anxiety and is just now starting to speak his mind.

When you say “men’s sexuality is toxic”, consider what that means for a queer man who constantly hears the same from his family and his church.

When you say “kill all men”, consider what that means for a man who’s watched his friends be murdered by police and grown up knowing respectability won’t save him.

Please vent if you need to. I won’t demand linguistic perfection from people who are hurting. If you’re feeling wounded by men in your life such that “fuck all men” is the only thing you can say, that’s okay. You’re not a bad person. But you probably shouldn’t endorse such rhetoric as political praxis, and you don’t get to tell men who are hurt by your imprecision that they are wrong for being hurt. Their needs compete with yours, but they aren’t wrong for having them.

Please remember that men who protest your words are not mere instantiations of maleness. They are whole, complex people with feelings and pasts and real reasons for feeling the way they do. To insist otherwise is to force them back in the “suck it up” cage.

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

Everyday Feminism Is Bad At Feminist Theory Again

Everyday Feminism Is Bad At Feminist Theory Again

[cw: descriptions of abuse, slurs] There is a bad article on Everyday Feminism about masculinity again, and I’m complaining about it. First: in my opinion, it is incredibly dangerous to talk about abuse as a normal thing that people typically do. Most people have never abused a partner. This is important because normalization of abuse is a common abusive tactic. One of the reasons people stay in…

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