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Hi 🌸 I'm Cinza's Mom

I'm a Brazilian illustrator inspired by the stories that I tell myself and that I'm told, and by the feelings that live inside of my body and that are poured over me. My creativity is fueled by the opportunity to change the world around me and to see invisible and misunderstood things start to make sense.

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gentle-reminder

gentle reminder

always try to remember that there’s more to you than your past - whatever actions you did years ago don’t make you undeserving of love and support; you are strong and worthy of happiness, so acknowledge your past and use today to try your best to start making a better you that you want to make for yourself: hold on to your hope of what the next day will bring and never let it go, you can do it

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.

They 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.

marlynnofmany

This all makes me very happy to know.

loveridden1999

i hope something good happens to me. i hope something good happens to you too. i hope something good happens to all of us soon

seasonalserotonin

eldritchbauble

I can't just CBT my way out of the societal horrors.

eggsdoodz

aurapalettes

& you know what it actually IS lifechanging to smile at strangers & say please & thank you & goodmorning & compliment someones outfit & help someone in need & be more accepting of loving other people just because they are other people!!!

slavicafire

in this new year I want you to be alright. I hope you move out. I hope you have enough money to feel safe. I hope you abandon shame and forgive yourself. I hope you get enough sleep and some good news. I hope you laugh a lot and the heaviness of the world eases a bit. I wish you to be alright.

furiousgoldfish

Nobody gets credit for keeping you alive. It’s you who kept yourself alive. Every single day you woke up and faced the world. And it was scary and painful and exhausting at times and still you did it. You fought your way thru everything that tried to push you down and away, you found the strength to keep eating and hoping and pushing all the fears and pain away. Abusive parents love to pretend they are the force that keep you breathing but it’s the exact opposite. From the moment of birth, every single breath was you. You owe nothing to anyone. You deserved to be here today, to call yourself alive, by your own persistence and power.

sorasorakodoku

The realization of not having anyone to talk to or confide in, is like the best bitter sweet moment. You won!! You didn't let anyone in. No one can betray you, no one can use you. No one can lie to you. But also, no one can like you, no one can care about you. No one can get close you....is it worth it?