The best kind of dumb

I'm Cali and im gonna draw so much stuff (probs) i have twitter and i do nothin on it lol https://twitter.com/Calicosmic

[flabbeycrossing]

hey

[figdays]

Moon and Star Ring // AWildViolet

[sosuperawesome]

Mermaid and Dragon Tights with handmade silicone scales by tinkercast on Etsy

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[inquisitorshepardcommander]

@knife-to-see-you

@qunaributts

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@thegeminisage

[the-crowe-and-the-magpie]

@exaggerated-yawning

[zetsho]

GARY MOTHERFUCKING OAK

[prokopetz]

That thing about how cats think humans are big kittens is a myth, y’know.

It’s basically born of false assumptions; folks were trying to explain how a naturally solitary animal could form such complex social bonds with humans, and the explanation they settled on is “it’s a displaced parent/child bond”.

The trouble is, cats aren’t naturally solitary. We just assumed they were based on observations of European wildcats - but housecats aren’t descended from European wildcats. They’re descended from African wildcats, which are known to hunt in bonded pairs and family groupings, and that social tendency is even stronger in their domesticated relatives. The natural social unit of the housecat is a colony: a loose affiliation of cats centred around a shared territory held by alliance of dominant females, who raise all of the colony’s kittens communally.

It’s often remarked that dogs understand that humans are different, while cats just think humans are big, clumsy cats, and that’s totally true - but they regard us as adult colonymates, not as kittens, and all of their social behaviour toward us makes a lot more sense through that lens.

The like to cuddle because communal grooming is how cats bond with colonymates - it establishes a shared scent-identity for the colony and helps clean spots that they can’t easily reach on their own.

They bring us dead animals because cats transport surplus kills back to the colony’s shared territory for consumption by pregnant, nursing, or sick colonymates who can’t easily hunt on their own. Indeed, that’s why they kill so much more than they individually need - it’s not for fun, but to generate enough surplus kills to sustain the colony’s non-hunting members.

They’re okay with us messing with their kittens because communal parenting is the norm in a colony setting, and us being colonymates in their minds automatically makes us co-parents.

It’s even why many cats are so much more tolerant toward very small children, as long as those children are related to one of their regular humans: they can tell the difference between human adults and human “kittens”, and your kittens are their kittens.

Basically, you’re going to have a much easier time getting a handle on why your cat does why your cat does if you remember that the natural mode of social organisation for cats is not as isolated solitary hunters, but as a big communal catpile - and for that purpose, you count as a cat.

[daggers-drawn]

This just in - cats are communists.

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[tinaseh]

wow

[excima]

this is why everybody goin to hell

[iichi]

its fucking 3 am and im tired,, enjoy mmy dudes

[philliplight]

Had an art jam session with Mr. Calvin Patimeteeporn last night. We decided to draw Pokemon gym leader Misty! These were the sketches I did! 

[iraffiruse]

World’s greatest cosplay

[olanrogers]

[yoshisnothere-deactivated202006]

[mermaids-luv]

[funnelcloudd]

GREAT octopus TEN OUT OF TEN shiny

[lioness-alana]

This is a first edition holographic octopus. This is worth a lot of money.

[thehotgirlproject]

@portableairport

[spirallingshape]

@hushpupper @pomegranateoctopus

[hedaoftheworld]

Ok so it’s the classic story of a young maiden wants a thing and a witch is like “promise me your first born child” and the maidens like “k” and that should be enough but no the witch keeps coming around like “yo where’s my first born child pls” and the maiden is like “bitch I don’t even have a boyfriend” and the witch keeps coming back and being like “how’s the bf search?” And just being generally annoying. then she just keeps coming round and hanging out and they fall in love and the first born child is already the witches and everyone lives happily ever after

[dragonsandirises]

# okay but like just imagine right? # the witch keeps coming round  and she’s not super pushy but just kind of annoying dammit she has a reputation to keep you know? # its hard out there for a witch and Getting Someone’s Firstborn is a p Big Deal in the community so she’s not letting this go # so anyway one day she shows up at the Maidens hut and the girl’s a mess right? red eyes used tissues and a bunch of chocolate # and the witch  is alarmed like ‘what the hell were you attacked?’ and the girl tells her about this really handsome good looking guy # and how sweet he was and how he brought her favorite type of flowers and made her feel so special… well turns out # he was doing the same with three other women and trying to get their land # and the witch is just like ‘Oh honey I’m so sorry men are pigs’ and then cleans the girls’ house up and makes her a pie # (witches are excellent at baking) and lets the girl rant about how horrible he was and then says ‘well what do you want to do about it?’ # the  girl just goes 'wha?’ and the witch says 'look this one’s totally free i consider it community service you want a new frog or a stone?’ # and that’s the story of how the girl got a very useful nanny goat that kept the lawn trimmed and gave a lot of nice milk # soon enough the witch was  just coming round for tea and gossip and turns out the girl grew some of the best herbs for the witches spells # and the witch knows she’s falling in love but she knows the girl doesn’t feel the same way (lol the girl totally does) but she’s # determined to fulfill her part of the bargain so she tells the witch  she found a possible husband - its the local baron # and the witch is horrified because he’s rich yeah but she knows he’s cruel so she frantically tries to release the girl from her bargain # and the girl is all 'no you said you need this!’ and there is a lot of Very Tense Dialog and the witch finally cries # 'I don’t care about the deal I love you!’ the girl just looks at her for a minute and goes 'you idiot why didn’t you say anything’ # and kisses her # they live happily ever after the end (@Racethewind10)

[dutchstore]

Big shout out to Ireland for this one by Arthur

[blackwolfartz]

Unmute this. You won’t be disappointed.

[timelordonbakerstreet]

[calm voice] “Ireland has got to be home to some of the world’s most unbelievably pointless [yelling] FUCKING TRAFFIC LIGHTS!!!”

[drtweenusgonzo]

Oh, fuck. Goodwill has so many Mask tapes

Ok, well, really they only have 3 different The Mask Animated Series tapes, but why do they have so many copies? Who donated these and why did they have them? Oh, fuck, now I have a lot of Mask tapes…

69 Mask tapes to be exact. They were all unopened. I don’t even have a VCR. Even if I did, I wouldn’t need to buy every copy they had. Why did I do this? Well, let’s get them out and play with them…

This is not very much fun.

Every tape comes with the most incredible coupon. Some tapes actually came with two, so thank you very much, packaging errors. 

The true bummer here is that these coupons expired 20 years ago. The $3 refund does not appear to be worth the effort and I wonder if anyone ever bothered. You had to buy 4 Totino’s pizzas, pizza rolls, or hearty pockets between 10/24/95 and 5/31/96, include the upc from the packages, the receipts from when you purchased those awful food products with the awful food products circled, this coupon, the proof of purchase tab from the Mask box and the receipt from when you purchased the tape during the previously mentioned dates. If anyone did this for $3, I would like to hear from you. Print out this post, take a picture of you eating the printout instead of a Totino’s party pizza, pizza rolls, or hearty pocket, and email it to me with a short story describing how you spent your hard earned $3. Anyway, I guess I’ll epoxy the tapes together and start coating them in resin.

Yes, and do something with those stupid coupons.

TOTINO’S PIZZA ROLLS SMMOKIN’! Now do it several times.

I can’t just throw away the boxes either. That would be terribly wasteful.

Surprisingly, I had more than enough tapes to do what I wanted to do, but the boxes came up short, so the other side of this had to be a little different. 

I suppose this is good, because one day I might want to know what I’m missing out on, having ruined nearly all of the precious tapes. I can just look at this side and read what the episodes were about. I think I watched some of this cartoon when I was a kid. I fucking loved the movie when it came out, so I’m pretty sure I watched this show. Anyway, what’s next?

Oh. I guess I’m really bad at taking pictures of the process. It’s a bookcase. There was only one tape I didn’t have to open.

Maybe I’ll get a VCR one day so I can watch this tape.

There’s just one more thing.

Bookcases are usually just so damn boring. 

Now I need Dark Horse to print some nice Library Editions of The Mask, because the out of print Omnibuses are Fuck That expensive online. Maybe if I hadn’t spent so much money on old tapes, epoxy, resin, glue, and christmas lights, I could buy one or two of the omnibuses in questionable condition, but then where would I put the books? I now have the perfect place to put as many Library Editions as it takes. Get on it, Dark Horse.

[sei-un]