Cosmic Dread with a side of apple slices

ow my bones

[cattailsandcontradictions]

Why are you in my house? Oh, you’re here to check out my blog? Lovely, come on in!

Y’all can call me Cat. She/any pronouns! She/her works well, but feel free to mix it up a little! I’m generally in the aroace category of the alphabet mafia (there’s probably a microlabel out there for how I feel but I don’t care to find it currently)

I crochet a lot, and can play both flute and guitar. (I want to learn so many more instruments you have no idea)

Some things about me/this blog:

I am a minor, so just keep that in mind, generally that means don’t be creepy (exceptions to bugs, they are creepy but very cool)

This blog is as much of a safe space as I can make it. Transphobes/homophobes/racists/antisemites/etc. can fuck off! Everyone has the right to exist.

If I accidentally say something offensive or reblog from someone problematic, please tell me. (please cite a source for me as well! I trust y'all, but I'd like to take a look myself.)

You’ll find lgbtq+ stuff here, MCYT stuff here (fuck wilbur soot we don’t like wilbur soot here), fiber arts, D&D, art, video games, and who knows what else. Enjoy!

also been getting super into Flight Rising lately colorful dragons make my brain go brrrrrr

slowly building a collection of blinkies down here

[kosmogrl]

[knightofleo]

[mananabuffins]

I've never seen a more deserved cat slap

[joyfulwitchcatmarcy]

[ajaxgb]

Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

[urie]

did you receive abstinence only education in school? (and please say where your school is located in the tags)

yes

no

Remaining time: 4 days 1 hour

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.

[olyoil2-deactivated20250812]

People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.

[holoprisms]

it literally could use a little clouds if i had to be honest

[dmdog]

It lives in the arcade and leaves sticky little footprints on the linoleum. Naming it Gumble

[ammi-delta-document]

saw this and was like "that's so them"

[sharpenededges]

[kilncreatures]

walky pink shark

[atinybitofhopepunk]

I draw the walky pink shark experiencing whimsical joy at seeing a butterfly

[kilncreatures]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[trap-mind]

just because I don’t start the conversation, doesn’t mean I’m not dying to talk to you

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

Boris "professional idiot" Johnson wanted to build an island airport in the immediate area.

it's fucking visible

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It is fun to learn.

[therealraewest]

Hey what the fuck

You weren't kidding they've been trying to get the masts off for 5 years and keep getting foiled because there's probably bombs leaking out of her

[angeluslupus]

Fun fact: Doxing myself but I live in the blast zone if that thing ever goes up! It's even immortalised in a local artwork:

[slowlymychaos]

@tatzelwyrm

[alksblog]

Unfortunately, Gordon Lightfood never did a song about it.

[the-haiku-bot]

Unfortunately,

Gordon Lightfood never did

a song about it.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[ijaazat]

summer

1. make a syllabus for yourself - books, media, places, recipes

2. complete 40% of it

3. eat every fruit u can

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

things to say after fucking up egregiously

pack it up boys we've made a social blunder

let's run that again

one more time normal style

I'm going to become a statistic

further proof god is out to get me

it's because I tore my acl senior year

I couldn't do it for religious reasons

my ex took my talent in the divorce

good thing nobody saw that (said directly to someone who definitely saw it)

[fuckass-bird-blog]

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[ufo-offical]

*flies past*