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hello, im birdie! 29 cisf gemini ☼ capricorn ☾ leo ↑

[shirtsthatgohard]

[catcrumb]

[sailorcuba]

the purest form of serotonin is when a cat looks at u and u go like “what?” and it meows at u

[arborealgargoyle]

like, that is a very unspecific response I still have no idea what you want but I applaud how adorably you meowed all the same, well done

[arborealgargoyle]

This post led me to reminisce on the nature of cat’s meowing, and I have a funny story

I befriended a feral cat once who had spent her life in the forest without human interaction. I was worried about her because she had a paw damaged from an old injury and was emaciated but obviously nursing kittens that were hidden away somewhere. It took me weeks of putting out food and sitting across the yard every evening for her to trust me even a little and when she decided we were friends and she expected dinner every night she started coming to my door and trying to call for me in the evening, but she didn’t meow. Why would she? Cats only meow naturally as kittens when their vocal chords/ears aren’t fully developed, adult cats communicate with vocalizations that aren’t audible to humans. She probably tried making noises I couldn’t hear to call me but ended up sticking to the one I always responded to- a horrible yowling growl that she had made at me when we first encountered each other in the forest. Except once we were friends she would make this noise while purring and rubbing affectionately against a nearby tree or the porch railing (because she didn’t want to touch me yet). This understandably freaked my family members out but I was touched that she had taken the time to find a way to basically yell FUCK OFF in an affectionate way.

Fast forward to when she finally trusts me enough to bring her hidden kittens out of the forest to me, long story short I gained their trust and put them in this big pen, that I had previously used to keep chickens in, so they’d be safe and to keep her from having another litter. Except she was already secretly pregnant again! (Fix your pets, guys, they make SO many babies) and ended up having her new babies in this pen. I kept my distance, sitting on the outside once they were born until she seemed comfortable enough to let me come inside. The kittens were a bit wild, hissing viscously at me as soon as they opened their eyes, but they warmed up to me. There were four of them and soon they all wanted to be the center of attention during the twice daily play sessions. I’d be playing with one and another would meow insistently behind me and I’d immediately answer them and give them love, teaching them that humans could be friends that answer their needs- making them adoptable once they were weaned. Mama cat (Artie) would just watch me play with them, and I guess she was doing some thinking because one day when they were about a month old I was playing with them and one meowed behind me. I was confused because I hadn’t realized there was a kitten behind me and when I turned, there wasn’t. The only cat there was Artie looking at me really intensely. I turned back around to the kittens and I heard the meow again, I turned back to Artie and responded in the way I always did with the kittens “yes baby?” And she meowed again in an exact imitation of her kittens! After that she would.not.shut.up. It was like she had cracked some kind of code, meowing for attention and snacks and just to say hi. Her two older kittens, the ones she’d had in the forest, had never meowed at me either but started to once they saw how I responded to their mom. and I find it endlessly fascinating because before that it had never occurred to me that cats only meow at humans because they were taught by other cats to keep meowing past kittenhood because that’s the best way to get a human’s attention.

Imagine befriending some weird giant with the wrong number of legs that you met in the forest who seems nice enough but doesn’t seem to be able to hear you, until your friend explains that all they can understand is fuck off! And I’m a baby give me love!

[anxietyproblem]

[natalieironside]

I was born at a very young age.  I’ve been alive for as long as i can remember, and I hope to continue living until I die.

[the-fantastic-mrs-fuck]

And what do you think you can bring to our company?

[natalieironside]

Gonna steal from it

[kleefkruid]

My dad was dealing with some mixed feelings so I told him "In therapy when something is too complicated to do a simple 'pro and contra list' we sometimes do an excercise where you imagine all these mixed feelings around a table in some kind of conference, letting each tell their bit and you leading the debate."

and my dad didn't really respond and just stared ahead so I kept preparing lunch. Until a few minutes later when he suddenly piped up: "I am having a bad time at the conference"

[humandisastersquad]

[kinsey-the-saiyan-deactivated20]

I too am having a bad time at the conference

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you too are having a bad time at the conference

[anxietyproblem]

i-

[lgb-without-t-deactivated202509]

[redavexat]

[largishcat]

What game would challenge the grim reaper to for your life?

chess (traditional)

checkers

poker

solitaire (this confuses the grim reaper. perhaps long enough for you to escape)

uno (i personally always carry an uno deck for this exact reason)

D&D

a drinking game (can a skeleton get drunk? hopefully)

monopoly

other (specify in notes)

Voting ended onMar 4, 2023

[sosuperawesome]

Paint Earrings // Kakeung Gardens on Etsy

[twistcmyk]

[gayteensupreme]

you're in a locked room with musk, trump, and king charles. only two bullets. do you:

shoot yourself

shoot musk and trump, sparing charles

shoot charles and trump, sparing musk

shoot musk and charles, sparing trump

line them up in a row and kill them all with one bullet

shoot trump and charles, then beat musk to death

shoot trump and musk, then beat charles to death

shoot charles and musk, then beat trump to death

beat them all to death

kill no one

Voting ended onFeb 21, 2023

[thatonefan02]

[curseworm]

i think that every child should have unrestricted access to thick blackberry brambles or some other delicious fruit that grows encased in a painful fortress. i think wading through thorns to reach the cluster of shining ripe berries you spied through a gap between the tangled vines teaches you something important. not sure what though

[curseworm]

i just know no fruit has ever tasted as sweet as the ones i ate while bleeding under the blistering summer sun

[becomingicarus]

@crunch-barr do u know what ur tags r doing to me rn. this is the epitome of love

[sandmandaddy69]

[nymika-arts]

guess what happened

[nymika-arts]

guess what happened again

[hawkeabelas]

ok tumblr olds here's an important one

ibuprofen (motrin)

acetaminophen (tylenol)

naproxen (aleve)

nothing I just complain

other (add in tags/comments)

Voting ended onFeb 13, 2023