Pictures and Words

Because my hard-drive requires me to cull the herd of interesting and funny pictures I've accumulated as screensavers over the years. Check me out like one of your library books on: https://thereibi.wordpress.com/ archiveofourown.org/users/alicat54c

[alicat54cwriting]

Alicat54c Masterpost

My Kofi, if you want to tip me a coffee completely unrelated to my writing of fanfiction, for legal reasons.

Blog for reblogging things I like

Asks from my tumblr inbox get answered here

When people make me fanart <3 it lives here

ideas to write may or may not become real stories

No discord server, but you can ask me stuff on tumblr.

Fanfic Series

All of my fanfics are found HERE on Ao3 and HERE on tumblr

Empathy is Learned

Four little turtles living in a stormdrain, and their ninja mind meld powers. Series includes crossovers and spinoffs and sequels involving characters from the Empathy is Learned main story. If you want to read the EiL universe, the order in the collection (here) is the order that the stories were written/published. Each story is a stand alone story involving the EiL characters. You can read them in the order they were written to get some fun easter eggs and self-references. Tags

A Different Eldest Brother

Four universes, each where one of the four brothers was the eldest and survived under Draxum's tender care until finally escaping with their brothers, connect in some multiverse shenanigans. Started as a spinoff of debb987's The Eldest Brother story. Series includes crossovers and spinoffs and sequels involving characters from the D.E.B. timeline. If you want to read the DEB universe (here) , the order in the collection is the order that the stories were written/published. The collection has all the stories that involve the DEB characters. The “main timeline” of DEB, no spinoffs or crossovers, can be read in order here. Tags

Last updated: Jan 2024

[fire-plug]

Personality hire

Working Cats

[jeanjauthor]

Sometimes you really need a good personality on your staff.

[narwhalsarefalling]

[ankle-beez]

the chain of events in this minute and a half clip is so extremely delightful and funny

[ankle-beez]

kermit and scooter riffing on how their physicality doesn't let them open the envelope to announce the winner. the audience immediately cracking up when it cuts to statler and waldorf because they know what the bit is gonna be. jim henson slipping into the kermit voice accidentally before bouncing back at record speed and riffing on it. richard hunt genuinely laughing at jim's joke but doing so in-character. prime muppets was something else man

[tomorrowusa]

« Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective. So the only way he figures that he’s going to get reelected, and as sure as you’re sitting there, is to start a war with Iran. »

— Donald Trump in 2011.

[digitaldiscipline]

unfuck google drive by shooting gemini

Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again!

Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever?

Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps

Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push)

Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

[segamascott]

[bi-astolfo]

Yes, investigation claimed at least 1,200 detainees 'dropped off the grid' from 'Alligator Alcatraz'

The claim is not new — the Miami Herald published its findings in summer 2025.

[standwithdaanes]

source for the congresswoman thing as well, because i hadn't heard about that:

Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces 17 Years in Prison Over ICE Jail Inspection

The Trump administration has repeatedly attempted to restrict or thwart congressmembers’ access to ICE jails.

[uncomfortablecliche]

everyone throws a fucking fit if you call them concentration camps because they’ve been being constructed and used as detention centers for the last 15 years. men, women, and children held indefinitely with no soap or toothpaste, the deaths that aren’t executions come from the cruel neglect.

[auxphono]

Please please please don't click those phishing texts

[auxphono]

[garbagefunnel]

PSA for anyone with public wishlists on Amazon, they’re making some changes that might reveal your shipping address. 404 has a write up with more info

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address

Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

[sunbentshadows]

This IS really bad - people are going to be doxxed, people are going to be stalked. This is a privacy nightmare.

Basically:

Amazon allows public wishlists for individuals, previously fulfilled through Amazon. This was a fairly private way to receive items anonymously from donors/fans/people online

Amazon is now allowing these lists to be fulfilled by third-party sellers.

Amazon will provide your name and address to said third party sellers

Third party sellers may or may not post tracking updates (aka: your address) to the person who ORDERED the item from your wishlist

Third party delivery companies may also post their delivery photos - of your front door and house number - and send them to the person who ordered the gift.

If you use public Amazon wishlists, turn them private or remove your address. The only private way to use these going forward will be via PO box (unless they roll back this change).

[bideogaymes]

this is especially pertinent for sex workers and leftist grassroots organizations that use these wishlists to provide aid to marginalized & struggling people in their own communities. these edge lords would love to dox these people.

[palant1r]

the virgin loss.jpg versus the chad xkcd Seven Years

[palant1r]

[ms-demeanor]

[a-real-human-person-not-fake]

Don’t forget the latest version, Ten Years

[a-real-human-person-not-fake]

@vividaway​ Randall Munroe is an internet cartoonist who runs the ‘xkcd’ online comic series, which has run from 2006 up to today, with new comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Xkcd isn’t an ongoing story, just a series of funny, wholesome, depressing, or oddly scientifically informative comics.

In 2010, Randall’s fiance was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. He didn’t share too many details at first, but things tended to bleed into his comics: sometimes funny, sometimes sad.

Often in this time, other cartoonists would write in guest comics for Randall, or he’d put in short filler pieces, to try and fill space while nonstop cancer treatments took up most of his time.

In 2012, he posted a comic called ‘Two Years’, about the time since the diagnosis. It’s the one that hasn’t yet been posted here (although parts of it are included in the other comics), and it commemorates some of the things that had happened in the two years since the diagnosis.

There are representations of Randall and his fiance being together for her treatment, worrying together, traveling the world, and getting married. It’s still depressing, but it’s a lot more hopeful, showing how they’ve still managed to have happy moments together, and things will still get better.

Themes of cancer continued in xkcd, but they increasingly became less about fear and nihilism, and more about hope, or just cool facts related to cancer.

At the top of this post is the comic posted in 2017: Seven Years. In it, Randall and his wife are traveling more, trying to have fun and continue old and new hobbies, with cancer ever-present in the background of it all. At the end, the two of them observe the 2017 solar eclipse, and despite all the uncertainty that comes with the thought of another seven years, agree to watch the 2024 eclipse together too.

There are just about no cancer comics between that one and the most recent comic, the one I posted: Ten Years, written in 2020. It’s by far the most hopeful of the three in the little series: the two of them are happy, they’re playing with rabbits and riding on handcarts and going out hiking and stargazing, together. At the end, Ten Years breaks the format with a conversation in which they talk about how unbelievable it is that it’s been so long, and share their worries as well as their hopes. It even ends on a much more lighthearted joke about immortality.

It’s a good comic. Definitely in my top two comics wherein internet cartoonists express emotions about an illness suffered by their wife.

“The ten-year cancerversary is traditionally the Cursed Artifact Granting Immortality anniversary.” -Randall Munroe.

[a-real-human-person-not-fake]

And now, at long last, Fifteen Years:

[ms-demeanor]

The first time I reblogged this it was three years after large bastard's heart attack and quad bypass and one year after his transplant.

Now it has been five years since his transplant, and seven years since his bypass.

We went to see the eclipses and drove to see the aurora too.

[knitmeapony]

There's a lunar eclipse next week. Just in case you need one more beautiful moment of the universe.

[whenfatecollides]

Xena Warrior Princess 3.05 Gabrielle's hope

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

She dodged a bullet

[cathartidae]

hey. dont cry. 566 california condors, okay? 369 free flying.[1] it's gonna be okay.

[cathartidae]

for the record, in 1987 there were 27. [2] things can get better.

[cathartidae]

HEY. DONT CRY. 607 CALIFORNIA CONDORS, OKAY? 392 FREE FLYING. [3]

[friend-crow]

BLM has published a plan to maximize logging in Oregon forests, including old growth forests, without due regard to wildlife (including endangered species) and waterways. They're claiming it will help prevent forest fires, though that seems to be contrary to current science, including that published by the forest service (you can find a list of sources here). This is in response to Trump's executive orders 14223, Addressing the Threat to National Security From Imports of Timber, Lumber, and Their Derivative Products and 14225, Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.

We have 30 days to submit comments if we want to prevent this. This article has suggestions for what you can say, and how:

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests

One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You can read more about it here:

Trump Admin Announces Old-Growth Clearcutting Plan for Western Oregon - Oregon Wild

Conservationists say proposal to “maximize” logging across nearly 2 million acres of Western Oregon BLM lands would devastate fish, wildlife

If you live in Oregon and you love our forests, please submit a comment before March 23rd.

If you don't live here, it would be super helpful if you could reblog to spread the word.

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

yes conservatism is on the rise yes tradwife content is as popular as ever yes pink jobs and blue jobs are fucking stupid BUT there is still such a big change in how straight women are talking about relationships online.

they're talking about how they're no longer interested in dating because their female friends treat them better than boyfriends do. they're realizing that being single is always better than being in a bad relationship. it's becoming a lot more normal and fun and hot for women to be single at any age. the women who have settled down with truly good men in truly happy relationships are encouraging other women to not take any shit because the right man won't need to be "trained". they're talking about how their mothers and grandmothers warned them to get a job and not get married, and they followed the advice.

tradwife content is performance. it's propaganda. there are so few women actually living that life. but we know for a fact that more women than ever are educated, working, and single. and all I see (admittedly in my woke ass algorithm) is women talking about how they're done settling for mediocre relationships. and I love it.

[longing-for-rain]

The rise in tradwife propaganda isn't a sign we're losing. It's a sign we're winning. They need to push this propaganda because women are increasingly waking up and being open about the consequences of trad dynamics. And that terrifies conservatives because their control over women and the family unit is how they exercise control over society.

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[wella333]

[minmaneth]

Nursing home owner pardoned by Trump ordered to serve state sentence | Arkansas Advocate

A former nursing home owner must report to an Arkansas prison late this month to serve out the remainder of his one-year state sentence desp

Good thing we still have some states rights.

[saywhat-politics]

GOP Senator Deletes Tweet Citing Cartel Terrorists Wearing Masks in Attempt to Defend ICE

“Oh dear Mike. I literally couldn’t make our argument better than you do. The bad guys wear masks. The good guys don’t.”

GOP Senator Deletes Tweet Citing Cartel Terrorists Wearing Masks in Attempt to Defend ICE

Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) latest attempt to “own the libs” on social media appeared to backfire over the weekend as he ended up deleting his post amid a flurry of his Democratic colleagues hitting back at him.

Lee posted on Sunday a video of what he captioned as “Cartel hitmen” wearing masks in Mexico, as the country was gripped with terror attacks against infrastructure in retaliation for the killing of a cartel leader. “Cartel hitmen wear masks,” Lee wrote, adding, “Leftists aren’t complaining.”

The Senate’s top Democrat, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), shared the post and replied to Lee, “Yes. Cartel hitmen wear masks. That’s why ICE shouldn’t.”

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Cattle like Mike Lee remind me of the only honest thing any Republican has ever said

"Terrorists never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we"

[lightsaroundyourvanity]

gonna be real if websites demand photo ID I will simply drop them one by one as they ask. like this is how I am set free