To Boldly Go Where It's Bigger on the Inside

This is Cat's Tumblr. Atheist, Mathematician, Sherlockian, Trekkie, Whovian

[softest-punk]

I was literally running to a medical appointment because I was late but I had to stop to take this photo

[noah-wyles]

[kitten-kin]

Spectre screenshot recreation using a Funko Pop James Bond that I won as a prize from a previous Fest, and a whole bunch of cardstock!

His head is so big. LMAO

[xalatath]

Tumblr banned porn to appeal to advertisers only to exclusively host ads for links you wouldn't touch even while wearing full PPE

[herowyn]

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[closetocanada]

Happy Moon Landing Day! ❤️👩‍🚀🌛

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[cbarc]

Please save and share this info where possible. This report has since been removed by Amnesty International due to legal threats of libel from JK Rowling. This information is no longer easily accessible.

[assignedmale]

[rowark]

Once, when I was a kid, the Queen came to Canada (well, more than once, but I'm thinking of a specific visit lol), and it was on TV all the time, and everytime she talked she'd start with, "Prince Philip and I..."

And my brother and I started saying that all the time, in a specific weird high pitched voice, with a British accent, and we'd drag out the "I" unnecessarily... like, if I was going to say, "I'm going to ride my bike" I'd be like, "Prince Philip and IIIIIII... am going to ride my bike."

It was a short lived thing, but still, to this day, I cannot hear "Prince Philip" and not have the urge to say it 🤣🤣

[keroascrazy]

Omg i love this, it makes me think of the time my mother in law, who was looking for any excuse to label me as disabled to collect a check, looked at me one day and said "I think you have jaundice."

My then boyfriend and his younger brother both lost their minds over it while I just sat at the dinner table confused. Sure, im always pale but, jaundiced?? This woman used to be a registered nurse!

Anyway, from that point on, the younger brother at random, anytime the in-law said something dumb (which was often) would reply with "Kero I think you have JAUNDICE."

The entire phrase was spoken mockingly but the emphasis on the word 'jaundice' always had so much venom and rasp to it. It became a household meme, and to this day, some 10 years later, I have an impulsive laugh whenever I hear the term 'jaundice' and MUST reply with that phrase.

.... its led to a few awkward explanations.

[rowark]

It's funny the random things that become catchphrases for no reason lol

A few years ago, I went to Florida with my friends, and we went to Universal, and we were waiting in line for a ride and there was a mother and child behind us, and the kid was getting more and more nervous as we got closer to the front, and he was giving all these random reasons they should get out of the line... they also happened to be British, and when we were almost to the front, the kid suddenly tells his mom he has to poop and if they go on the ride, he'll poop his pants. The mom was like, "I asked you before we got in line if you needed the bathroom and you said no" and the kids goes, "I didn't have to go then, but I have to go now. It's how the body works!" But he said the last part so emphatically, in this British accent, and it was all I could do to not burst out laughing... I think they got out of the line (I can't remember), but my friends and I still always say, "it's how the body works!" In a British accent 🤣

I have a little collection of phrases I've picked up like that... I almost forget that they aren't real expressions until I say it around someone who doesn't get the reference and I'm like... oh yeah... I'm just continuously mocking a kid I saw once 🤣🤣

[marzipanandminutiae]

When my parents were driving me up to college after summer break, for my last year, we stopped at a Friendly’s for lunch. Mom started in on me about my post-school career plans. Rather desperate to change the subject, I looked at the little dish of individually-packaged jams and said, “Oh look! Apple butter! Mom, didn’t Great-Aunt Marjorie used to make really good apple butter?”

I thought it was a smooth conversational transition. It was not.

Both my parents burst out laughing, and now “Oh look! Apple butter!” is code for “let’s change the subject” in my family.

[berdymane]

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

I think so many problems online can be solved by either going "damn, not my problem" or simply sending a screenshot to a group chat

[mymystrade]

If only we could’ve actually had the Lestrade Spin Off.. the information that we could’ve learned off him.. the scenes where he’s just oblivious and not always there when Sherlock is in trouble or not…

I still mourn for the loss of this..

[barachiki]

Did you forget about the scene where Lestrade is just in his flat, doing dishes for a good solid seven minutes, humming to himself when he gets a call and eventually goes to a crime scene....

You know... this scene!

Ok, for real though, I have always said that I'd spend an hour a week watching Lestrade doing dishes. Here it is in action!

[johannadc]

I'm for it!

[prokopetz]

Flavours of unreliable narrator:

Lying to the reader

Lying to themselves

Simply misinformed

Not paying attention

Has weird priorities

Assumed you knew

Hates you personally

Bad at communicating

Easily sidetracked

Will believe anything

Has weird prejudices

Just kind of dumb

[lokijiro]

Suggestion :

Mummy Holmes had a friend who was a famous professional photographer. When the Holmes brothers were children, they went to that man's house every year with their parents for a photoshoot.

Mycroft became Sherlock's legal guardian when the latter was fourteen, after their parents' death. Mycroft still took Sherlock to a family photography session at that man's house every year, even if it was just the two of them now.

The annual family portrait tradition continues even after both brothers have become adults. However, at some point while Sherlock is in his thirties, the photographer passes away.

A year after the man's death, Sherlock finds a different photographer, and makes all the arrangements for the annual family portrait with his brother.

[katebeckets]

"it's a tv show" "it's not real" i don't care. NO SHOES ON THE BED

[psychotic-gerard]

love seeing revisionism in the wild “free the nipple never meant you can walk around topless every where that’s still sexual harassment it just meant for like breastfeeding and stuff”no it literally means you should be able to walk around topless anywhere because get this. breasts aren’t fucking sexual organs.

[roguebombshell]

I remember when I was about 12, I watched a show on TLC that followed people as they got somewhat uncommon medical procedures.

There was one episode with a trans woman getting different gender-affirming operations, including breast implants. It showed the procedure, and (what I found so fascinating that it's stuck with me for decades), as soon as the doctor put the implant in, a censor blur popped up on the nipple.

And you just know there was a meeting between the TLC lawyers and the editors and producers of the show to discuss what the difference was between a "man nipple" (can be shown) and a "woman nipple" (no no must obscure, 'tis naughty). And they decided that as soon as the implant goes in and the nipple has more mass behind it, that's the moment when it becomes a woman's nipple and must be hidden to comply with TV rules.

But it's the same nipple. On the same person. I know what it looks like; I just saw it. But TV and obscenity rules are rules, and the rules say woman nipple = sexual and therefore explicit, but man nipple = neutral, just fine.

"Free the Nipple" was calling out arbitrary bullshit like that, because someone just existing with their body parts should not be considered obscene, and the double standard that men can be topless but women can't is so blatantly ridiculous. All nipples are just nipples. If you get turned on or bothered by them, that's on you.

[queerspacepunk]

not to be all "these two words will change your life" or whatever, but I promise you, programming in "good catch!" as your response to people correcting you/pointing out errors or whatever removes so much friction from interactions, and comes with a delightful happy meal toy of "not hating yourself so much for making mistakes"

[madgastronomer]

I use "I stand corrected" a lot. The mild silliness of the outdated language makes it work for me.

[knitmeapony]

I had a high school science teacher who would say "if you admit you're wrong and change your mind..." and the whole class would respond back "... you aren't wrong anymore!"

And when a kid would assert something incorrect In class, he wouldn't tell them they were wrong, he would help lead them to the right answer and then when they admitted/ accepted the new information, he'd say "now we're both right! Nice work!"

For a bunch of gifted kids whose identity and reputation often was staked on knowing more than most people, it was a great safety valve. No shame in making a mistake, because if you accept it you have learned! Now you are smarter! It always made me feel better.

[sks1ll1]

Sherlock looks up to Greg and Greg can’t help but look out for Sherlock and that’s exactly why Mycroft and Greg kiss!!

[onewhocriespearls]

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Animation I did of my Sun and Moon paper puppets :]