Catty Endeavours

Spamming your dashboard with whatever I like.

[z-a-d-i-e]

i see posts here about how people are so mortified when they are acknowledged as being a regular customer somewhere that they never return. cowards. the employees at taco bell treat me like a celebrity. like royalty. i am their strange little pet customer who gets traded along as staff comes and goes. they know my car before i even speak in the drive-thru speaker. today i was 2 hours late and she ran over and squealed that she "thought i'd left them!" and that she "made my order with extra love!" and you what, she did

[z-a-d-i-e]

it's funny that this is getting notes again, because last night i went to the thai place in my neighborhood. it's run by a family and during covid times i ate there literally almost every day. later i cut back on eating out so much and hadn't been there in two years but last night we went and ate inside for the first time ever and the owner ran over to say hello and ask how i was, and repeated our old regular order. it was sweet. it's so easy to feel like you are an island, but stuff like this reminds you that you are part of a community.

[ealasaidh]

Being a regular is fucking awesome. I've only had that status a few times, but I always feel kind of honored. These people see humans all day every day, and they remembered me?! And not for something bad (as far as I can tell)! I'm flattered af!

[beardedmrbean]

real vs fake gym bros, the real ones want you to get better

[da-boy-o-kultur]

Fake Gym bros: Lol, Loser

True Gym Bros while flexing their jaws: Come Bro, join us in the Gainshalla

[simon-newman]

Lift with us Brother.

[the-real-seebs]

every activity you can get into, the people who love the activity want to share it with you and if you are new they want especially to make sure you have a good experience and avoid mishaps because they want you to know what they love

the people who give you shit about it do not appreciate the thing. they just want to be smug assholes.

[benzohoarder]

[figural]

#google translate does not capture the tone switch so i have to say. first two sentences are like. normal maybe kind of feminine posting tone #& the last is like. shounen manga protagonist. action movie hero. jojo's bizarre adventure character. #the tone you would use if you were holding a gun with the safety off (– @chadlesbianjasontodd)

[minothtime]

Basically, a translation could be:

I just think it's so interesting that people end up falling in love with their friends' boyfriends! I absolutely despise every single one of them. give me my fucking homie back you goddamn bastard

[liminalweirdo]

translation tags by @minothtime because they are so so good

[maidthings]

dropping food when you're already sad is such an intense emotion. Just the most fucking wretched self indulgent pity. One time I spilled a bowl of ice cream when i had already spent most of the day sobbing and honestly im still chasing that high

[mintmakesthings-deactivated2024]

Q: why can Kirby canonically multiply at will when he dances?

A: it’s more fun that way.

[depsidase]

[chekhovs-slinky]

“We didn’t have all this autism when I was a kid”

Yea, you had changelings and demonic possession and “brats” and “back talk”, and kids that were “not all there”, your aunt who’s “crazy”, and your second cousin no one ever talks about cuz he’s “special”, and if you’re fucking lucky, your elder uncle who lives a nice quiet life with his 70 lego sets and writes grocery stores about changing the light bulbs cuz they’re too harsh.

[fridakahloblvd]

not to put this user on blast, but ohmygod this may be the funniest thing i’ve ever seen 😭😭

[peachdoxie]

I love talking with neurotypical people about my executive dysfunction because I'm like "yeah there's this invisible wall in my head that I'm incapable of getting past no matter what I do and it stops me from doing things" and they're like what the actual fuck

Meanwhile other neurodivergents are like

[imsodonewiththissite]

Seen it, you say?

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Lilo & Stitch is a great example of a story that has no villains. It has antagonists, sure, but most of them are well-meaning. The worst person in the film is that little shit Myrtle, but she’s not in the film that much anyway.

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Since this post is getting traction I want to clarify how not-villainous the antagonists are:

The Grand Councilwoman is literally just responding to what she sees as a threat to the galaxy and is extremely reasonable.

Gantu is much the same. He’s a bit overzealous, yes, but he thinks he’s saving the galaxy from stitch.

Cobra Bubbles is literally just doing his job, he’s obviously not happy about it but he is doing what he feels is best for Lilo. And much like the Councilwoman, he is extremely reasonable.

Myrtle is, again, just a little shit. She’s a schoolyard bully and is truly small potatoes.

Jumba calls himself an “evil scientist,” but literally nothing supports that. His only onscreen crime is creating a bunch of Pokémon that have powers that will mildly inconvenience people and can be persuaded to be nice over the course of 22 - 90 minutes, to say nothing of himself seeing as he decides to change his ways at the softest bit of persuasion.

Pleakley is literally just gay.

[imjustheretoseetheprivateblogs]

Heard some things. Felt relevant to reblog this post

[galileosballs]

Something that gets really lost in a lot of discourse is that what we would now call 'going low-contact' or 'going no-contact' with your family used to be so completely within the normal range of familial contact that there wasn't even a term for it. Sure, in the pre-IM pre-social media days some people were calling their parents daily, but I'd wager the vast majority of people were not. Long distance calling used to be quite expensive, after all. If your kid went to the big city to seek their fortune you might hear from them every few weeks, or every month, or once a year, and that wasn't particularly odd. This was even more the case before telephones were common, of course - people would send letters, but definitely not more than once a week and probably a lot less. It was just a normal, accepted fact that you'd hear from some family members who lived nearby often, and some who lived farther away very rarely.

The minimum amount of contact with family that is expected of people in the groupchat-facetime-instagram era is so much higher than at any previous point in history. The ceiling is about the same, since then and now multiple generations often live under the same roof, but the floor is higher by orders of magnitude.

How many adult children who are 'no-contact' or 'low-contact' now would also have been the ones who moved to the city and sent a letter every three months then? Is family estrangement an actual current problem, or is it just an illusion caused by smartphones?

[galileosballs]

I'm not aware of any point in history in which children didn't typically have different views on politics, social issues, fashion, manners, and their own prospects than their parents did. I am aware of points in history in which those children, once grown, were not universally expected to talk to their parents every fucking day (it's all of them except right now)

[ineffectualdemon]

In the years since I went no contact with my parents the "I don't owe them anything" did nothing to soothe the guilt I felt

But after this time of my mom reaching out asking "Who would benefit from reconciliation really?" Did.

But only because I imagined a reconciliation where I stuck to my guns. Where I defended my boundaries and refused to fall back into old patterns

Because her trying to make me fit those patterns would make me miserable but my refusal to do so would make her miserable as well

Her message where she reached out made that very fucking clear.

And I'm not saying she's not hurt or upset by my silence and distance. But that's a kinder hurt for both of us then trying again and failing

Recognising that the kindest route for the other person is also disengagement is letting go of guilt

And much more effective in my case then just telling myself I don't owe her anything

[jethroq]

[aphleos]

prev dont leave this in the tags

[silvergryphonart]

Literally the definition of imperialism and classism. Doesn’t matter how many peasants you sacrifice as long as the most powerful piece is left standing

[musicalhell]

Proximity of bishops to the rulers promotes theocratic oppression

[juh-was-deactivated19691231-dea]

the horse is so fuckable

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

they all have a flared base

[baddywronglegs]

Does anyone know how to make the rook move diagonally? Can get bishop to work fine but I think the rook must be bugged, is it just me?

[thetursithan]

[shofarsogood]

I know a bunch of people are into this as a kink thing, but as a person who is really into survivalism, this is so cool.

[biglawbear]

Strap them on like backpack

[anais-ninja-bitch]

writers take note if you have a scene where a character needs to move someone

[avpdvoidspace]

Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.

And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.

It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.

[savouryduck]

when I was in high school, I overheard two older students talking about a friend of theirs.

One of them said something like, "it doesn't bother me that [Friend] was in residential mental health treatment, I just wish they wouldn't talk about it ALL the time".

The other replied, "Well, that was all of last year for them. So when they say 'when I was in treatment,' it's like when you say 'last year'."

I try to remember that any time someone says something that sounds Shocking to me. sometimes one person's scary special crisis is another person's last year.

[heterorealism]

[swaggynomore2k25-deactivated202]

SHE DID YOU GUYS!!!

[wirbelwindria]

[chilewithcarnage]

[armengoldira]

[grawly]

i wish i could see this picture for the first time again

[azzandra]

Every time I see some gamerbro edit of a female video game character to make her 'prettier', I always see something I have mentally dubbed Cockroach Wife Syndrome (in honor of the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha).

That is to say, there is a certain subset of gamerbro who interacts so rarely with real women, that his primary touchstone for how women look is fiction: often video games and anime. So when a video game woman looks too realistic--too close to having traits that one might find in real flesh and blood women--this is foreign to them. This is unattractive. They have been jacking it to hentai and blender animation porn for too many years, and have inadvertently conditioned themselves to only be sexually aroused by the exaggerated cartoonish traits of animated women.

So now every time I see one such edit, I can't help but think. My. What a coincidence you've made her look more like an anime waifu. Truly dedicated to your cockroach wife.

[moth-grrrl-mavis]

You can’t just breeze over something like “the guy who accidentally conditioned himself to only be aroused by a fantasy of his cockroach wife Ogtha” without at least linking a 20 minute video breakdown of this man’s descent into madness.

[kunosoura]

Oh is Ogtha not common knowledge? Eight years ago this was posted on reddit:

Two years ago, we got this update on the life of this roachfucker:

TLDR it's a guy who became obsessed with human-sized roaches with human intelligence after reading Kafka in high school, an obsession which eventually came to monopolize his romantic interests (and has sporadically had catastrophic impacts on his life ever since).

[grawly]

what the fuck happened to my post

[rsquid2]

Wait isn’t there a tma statement with this plot

[symurgist]

nesting instinct is probably the one you're thinking of, but there are in fact multiple tma episodes involving sex with bugs. the magnus archives sure is a podcast, huh

[mothmxwhump]

We could also call it pygmalion effect. But Ogtha Effect does have a ring to it ngl