Apropos of Cat

It's the geekdom life for me.

[gffa]

ABSOLUTELY LOSING IT.  “How are they going to explain Grogu’s return, which happened in a completely different show??  Will they make a long as hell recap??  Flashbacks in the show??  A long-winded explanation??  Viewers of only The Mandalorian are going to be so confused, they HAVE to explain it somehow, they have to–” AND THEN THEY DIDN’T EXPLAIN SHIT, GROGU’S JUST THERE, NOT EVEN A RECAP MOMENT, JUST DIN’S, “HE CAME BACK.” You know what, Favreau?  I respect the ballsiness of it.  Don’t explain shit to your audience, they know what they need to know, Baby Yoda’s back, that’s all they’re giving you.  Sink or swim in the narrative, bitch.  That’s some real king shit.

[death-of-the-endless]

[gogoigo]

Just Pinned to Go / weiqi / baduk: Chinese Weiqi Board with Bi-Convex Yunzi Stones https://ift.tt/2Pcnqov

[bublog]

BUB is better! After 1.5 years of dealing with a bone infection in her jaw, her most recent blood test shows that all signs of infection are gone. The infection caused a permanent bone growth on the left side of her jaw, but it does not affect her health or well-being - she just looks even more amazing now. GOOD JOB BUB!

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Yay, Bub!

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OF COURSE I couldn’t pass up drawing Sailor Moon for the Character Design Challenge 💕  

Usagi isn’t very graceful, but I love how elegant she looks in her attacks and transformations

[kvebox]

a little quiet piece for the fma anthology a while back

[awwww-cute]

Oogie-Boogie (Source: https://ift.tt/2A0vFKR)

[ultrafacts]

Source 

[alvaroandtheworld]

THE BEGINNINGS OF KAWAII

[actualbloggerwangyao-deactivate]

No, no, you have no idea. It actually IS the beginning of the whole so-called “kawaii culture”. And it started because girls started using mechanical pencils, which provided fine handwriting. After being banished (more precisely, during the 80s), this kind of writing started being used in products like magazines and make-up. And, during this time, icons we usually associate with the whole kawaii industry (like the characters from Sanrio) came to life too.

And what many people don’t realize is that this subculture was born as a way for young girls to express themselves in their own way. And it was also used as something against the adult life and the traditional culture, often seen as dull and boring and oppressive. By embracing cuteness, these young girls (and adult women, after a while) were showing non-conformation with the current standards.

So yep. Kawaii is important, and it all started with cute, simple handwritting a few hearts and cat faces in some girls’ school notebooks <3

[rifa]

!!!!!

NO OK THIS IS SO IMPORTANT!

This is also how the kawaii fashions started! Girls began dressing in cute and off beat styles for themsleves, they were criticized by adult figures telling them “you’ll never find a husband if you dress that way!” to which they began to reply “Good!”

All the Japanese subcultures and fashions that evolved out of this became a rebellion to tradition and the starch gender roles and expectations the adults were forcing on the younger generations. As early as the 70s and still to this day you’ll see an emphasis on child-like fashion and themes in more kawaii styles and the dismissal of the male gaze with styles like lolita (a lot of western people assume lolita is somehow sexual due to the name of the fashion, but ask any Japanese lolita and they will tell you that men hate the style and find it unattractive which is sometimes a large reason they gravitate towards the style - they can express their femininity and individuality while remaining independent and without the pressure to appeal to men)

Its so so so important to understand the hyper cute and ‘odd’ fashions of Japanese girls carry such a huge message of feminism and reclaiming of their own lives.   

[gay-on-the-moon]

so are you telling me that Japan’s punk phase was really the kawaii phase

[nerdgul]

Kawaii is so goth

[struungout]

The Yu Family Siblings

man, their parents made some damn good looking babies. 😂

[cutegothic]

[bjd-resinrome]

Senza titolo da Jane Kolyadintseva

[factsinallcaps]

THE LIST OF THINGS NINTENDO PREDATES INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:

THE SHERLOCK HOLMES FRANCHISE

UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISHENHOWER’S BIRTH

THE NOVEL “DRACULA”

THE NOVELS “THE TIME MACHINE” AND “WAR OF THE WORLDS” BY H.G. WELLS

THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES

THE DISCOVERY OF HELIUM ON EARTH

[sightless-raiton]

… Okay. I believe you. But like… how?

[factsinallcaps]

NINTENDO WAS FOUNDED IN 1889 AS A CARD GAME MANUFACTURER AND ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS HAPPENED IN 1890 OR LATER

[captainlordauditor]

WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT DRACULA WAS EARLIER WHAT THE FUCK

[factsinallcaps]

YOU COULD WRITE A DRACULA FANFIC WHERE DRACULA TRAVELS TO JAPAN AND BUYS A PACK OF NINTENDO BRAND PLAYING CARDS AND IT WOULD BE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. SAME DEAL FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES.

[marauders4evr]

No no no no no!

Don’t write fanfic!

Those things are in the public domain!

You can legally write, publish, and sell a Dracula book where Dracula travels to Japan and buys a pack of Nintendo brand playing cards!

Same deal for Sherlock Holmes!

[pinejaysong]

what if you write a book where dracula and sherlock holmes travel to japan at the same time and reach for the last pack of nintendo brand playing cards that they both wanted

[constable-connor-deactivated201]

Dracula travels to Japan for some Nintendo cards and a murder takes place. Is it Dracula? Who knows, but Sherlock Holmes has been asked to solve the murder and must visit Nintendo and purchase a pack for analysis.

[hauntedfalcon]

Dracula and Sherlock Holmes travel to Japan at the same time and reach for the last pack of Nintendo brand playing cards. 

Their hands touch.

[tastefullyoffensive]

The goatpocalypse is upon us. (via KTVBJoe)

[morathor]

Updates have since come on this subject; we now know where the goats came from and I gotta tell you, it is better than you could possibly imagine.  See.

These goats got loose from a goat rental service.

You may be thinking, who rents a goat?  Who rents a hundred goats?  What are they for?

They’re for eating.

Specifically, they’re for eating unwanted, flammable vegetation that can contribute to the spread of wildfires.  Some people whose property tends to grow such vegetation, keep their own goats.  But for some people it works out better to just rent some goats.

So.

These are Professional Eating Goats.  They are trained to thoroughly and methodically scour an area of plantlife.  And they came to the suburbs.

And they did their jobs.

I’m so proud of them.

[mschaos]

it is a big thing here in California where there are a lot of hills that make using mechanical means challenging. But goats can scamper up and down those hills with ease and it helps keep fire risks down we actually had a girl in my town bring her 2 adults and one kid over to eat all the weeds for a week and they were adorable. but man they really wanted to come into the house. and remember folks, what goes in, must come out. SO MUCH POOP!

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Another photo of Willow's new outfit.

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Willow has a new outfit.

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Kaoru has the cutest sleeps.

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Kaoru sleeping on my dog plushie (and goban...).