Cha Noir

Descriptivist, lover of cats 😻, gongfu tea enthusiast 🍵, MMO binger ❗, watercolor dabbler 🎨, beginner's mind

[dappermouth]

Something in the wind has changed–it calls you by a different name.

[sheilafitzcarraldo]

[biowarefangirl]

when playing an open world game, at what point do you stop harvesting plants and return to the main quest??

[theraphos]

there’s a main quest?

[negativeonetwelfth]

sometimes the main quest can unlock certain equipment or abilities that make harvesting plants more efficient

[prokopetz]

No, your cat is not tricking you or setting a trap for you. You’re just misreading what she’s trying to communicate.

Basically, there are two ways that cats bond with their colonymates (and if you own a cat, you count as a colonymate): grooming, and play. Grooming is self-explanatory; play mostly means means wrestling, because cats are hardcore like that.

A cat who wishes to engage in bonding - whether grooming or play - is going to do one of two things: either she’s going to initiate bonding, or she’s going to solicit bonding. A cat who wants to initiate bonding will just walk up and start licking or wrestling with with you; conversely, a cat who wants to solicit bonding will indicate, in some fashion, that she wants you to be the one to start grooming or playing with her.

Now, here’s the trick: because play for a cat typically means play-fighting, one of the most common ways for a cat to solicit play is to deliberately adopt a vulnerable position, thereby communicating that her prospective partner should mock-attack her in order to begin a wrestling match.

Sound familiar?

Basically, if your cat rolls over onto her back and looks at you really expectantly, like she’s anticipating some action on your part, and you go in for a belly rub and get your hand shredded, it’s not a kitty prank. Rather, you misinterpreted a solicitation for play as a solicitation for grooming.

You’ll save yourself a lot of blood loss if you learn to tell the difference!

(It’s possible to teach a cat how to roughhouse with a human partner without causing injury, but it takes work. If you aren’t able to put in that kind of training time, it’s usually best to redirect to a different form of play when you recognise that your cat is trying to get a wrestling match going; a game of chase is a popular alternative.)

[x323-blog1]

“cats don’t act like dogs and therefore are assholes” is a thing basically only said by assholes

[aspiritualwarrior]

“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”

— Rachel Carson

[the-real-ted-cruz]

its so annoying how whenever somebody criticizes trump for something people are like, “WeLl wHy wErEnT yOu OuTRaGeD aT OBamA wHeN hE dId tHe sAme ThInG,” like yes obama also did bad things but he’s not the president anymore and when he was president i was like 8 and too busy picking my nose to criticize a politician so can you please chill

[terpsikeraunos]

Enter PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, and MUSTARDSEED

fairies have good names

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

Life imitates art

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

this is literally the real life version of getting the right answer on a math test by using the wrong function

[markv5]

Солнечные кисули…

[browsedankmemes]

[sachertortes]

I really wish there was an option on those Customer Service Surveys that says specifically, “The representative I spoke to was lovely and helpful and deserves all of the raises but I think that you, as a corporation, should die in a fire.”

[guardian]

Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency, has been confirmed to his post. Pruitt, who has filed 14 lawsuits against EPA regulations and refused to release thousands of emails he exchanged with oil and gas executives, will be at the forefront of the United States’ forthcoming climate policies.

[cwote]

Things You Shouldn't Have To Apologize For

1. caring about something/someone 2. not looking your best 3. being depressed 4. asking for help 5. following what you believe is right for you and not what’s right for everyone else 6. lending a hand to your friends in need 7. crying 8. BEING YOURSELF

[researchdigest]

Learning by teaching others is extremely effective – a new study tested a key reason why

Learning by teaching others is extremely effective – a new study tested a key reason why

By Christian Jarrett

The learning-by-teaching effect has been demonstrated in many studies. Students who spend time teaching what they’ve learned go on to show better understanding and knowledge retention than students who simply spend the same time re-studying. What remains unresolved, however, is exactly why teaching helps the teacher better understand and retain what they’ve learned.

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[mienar]

“we open at sunset.”

[crimson-chains]

Deer God <3 

LOTS OF ORIGINAL STUFF LATELY Hope you guys are enjoying ^^

[draevian-deactivated20210310]

If you think Sylvanas really cares about the horde, because of her epic “for the horde!” moment in the cinematic, I’ve got news for you… That phrase, “for the horde”, is just another weapon in her arsenal that she will use and abuse to not let the things she actually cares about get taken away (lordaeron in that instance).  Unless of course, blizz wants to do a total 180 and change who she is. In which case it’d be a classic blizz writing move, where they just pretend a character was just like that all along. Either way, I don’t want to be apart of a horde that purges an innocent town just for more humans for Sylvanas to resurrect. Undeath is a curse, right? You hate what happened to you, right? Then stop making a new scourge in the name of the horde!

And blizz, please stop forcing my character to act out these horrible things, and then tell me “No, she isn’t evil, silly! She’s trusted! By you! Idiot!”. It was one thing with Garrosh, because we all got fed up with it, and took him out. But don’t tell me Sylvanas is gonna get away with WORSE things, and get no punishment or resistance from the rest of the horde.