Occasional cats

Whatever shiny things have attracted my attention. Includes many blorbos, occasional cats, art, knitting & the odd mention of chronic illness. 

[inozuart]

every part of me is a reflection of you

[rosenkranz-does-things]

found a piece of black paper and decided to try it out by doing some studies

[gallusrostromegalus]

A cat is a machine that turns proteins into violence.

[starathsbunker]

#Helios was declawed by his former owners so he doesn't just slap things he dislikes like most cats#he really only feels confident in hissing at them#Especially because a lot of the thing he doesn't like are bugs and those are sharp sometimes :(#Selene has figured this out and now when she hears him hiss she sprints over the kill the fuck out of the bug#Helios has learned she will do this so he'll hiss at stuff louder and louder until she hears him#A nervous old man and his emotional support homicidal maniac tags by @gallusrostromegalus

I couldn't reblog without the tags because the context is hilarious

[gallusrostromegalus]

A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)

Yes, he is more than twice her size. Yes, he is five times her age. Yes, he cries like a big baby until she kills Unacceptable Scary Things (earwigs) for him.

[cm8x-insanity]

I couldn't get these two and their dynamic out of my head, @gallusrostromegalus I doodled them (guessed on their collars)

[gallusrostromegalus]

OH MY GOD MY CATS HAVE FANART

[rqbossman]

Huh. So @jonnywaistcoat I guess Denny's the restaurant chain is disappointed in your face?

[aldegger]

[ace-disgrace-on-the-case]

Hey, this is your sign. If you’ve been thinking about getting a cane, go do it.

[ravenyibi]

[hinaypod]

"How do you write Hi Nay episodes?"

"Hey Motzie did you write this episode because of a childhood trauma around killing a chicken"

No I wrote this around a fond memory of killing a chicken

"Hey Motzie did you write this episode because you're afraid of tight spaces"

Actually I wrote this because I love tight spaces they're very cozy and sometimes I fantasize about being buried alive

"Hey Motzie did you write this episode because you're scared of spiders"

Actually I think spiders are cute and I would like to be enveloped by 10,000 spiders just to see how it feels like

[syslut]

when he finally comes home to you.😭🤚❤️

[malpractisingstripper]

i forgor that the people in whitby were so excited for their big black dog after it leapt from the demeter, "members of the spca [...] tried to befriend the animal", "general disappointment" at it not being found, like oh yEah i forGot that dracula didn't exist before . well dracula.

they're just delighted at the sole survivor being this big dog that they want to adopt

[rabbitmotifs]

casualties of dating a vampire: he might really mean it when he calls you delicious

[on-a-lucky-tide]

Lol. We live in hell.

This is in the country renowned for being "miserable" because it's always raining.

What. The. Fuck.

[queerautism]

Extremely fucking stupid bc genuinely who cares. Walking sticks are literally for anyone. They help you when you walk around. Perfectly healthy and abled bodied people use them while hiking because they just work.

And what if it was just a fashion thing? It used to be trendy. It gives your outfit a different vibe. Experimenting with fashion is fun, there's literally zero things wrong with using a cane because you like the way it looks or how it makes you feel.

Every single person choosing to use a mobility aid in public normalises their use, and makes it less likely for me to get harassed out there. It just becomes a regular thing you see while out in public. And that's the exact thing ableist TERFs like Stock are actually against - Not even mentioning the absolutely obvious misogyny here.

Covid was a mass disabling event. It continues to affect many, many people. Denying reality and gaslighting disabled people will not make us go away

[ramblingandpie]

My neurologist is thrilled. Even just 10 years ago, he had so much more difficulty getting patients to use canes or walking sticks. Especially when, like me, about 80% of my walking is just fine. That 20%? Migraine with hemiplegia/hemialgesia/hemianalgesia (yes all in the same hemi). Chronic pain in my feet, which sometimes means cramps that make me unstable. I use a cane for short distances, rollator for medium, and have a mobility scooter for long distances.

He went on a mini-rant a while ago that was basically thanking me for using one because know what happens when someone is 80% fine to walk without a cane?

Falls. Major fall injuries including head injuries and TBI. Minor injuries leading to avoidance of walking and the resulting deconditioning leading to that 80% becoming 60%, then continuing to decline.

Whatever helps people move and reduces their risk of injury is amazing.

Mobility devices are great!

[queerautism]

I talk about this a lot - People simply do not take falls seriously enough. They are extremely dangerous. Anything you can do to mitigate fall risks, especially as you become older, is very very important.

As you said, the stigma against mobility aids used to be much stronger, and many older people straight up refuse to use them. They are the main demographic that are the expected users, the 'understandable' use case, that most people agree makes sense. Their doctors are often begging them to use them. And yet the stigma is so great, and has such power, that people with very reduced mobility would rather continue to struggle and push through without them until they have a fall that greatly injures them. It's so unnecessary and so heartbreaking.

We need to push for mobility aids to be seen as a normal, regular part of society. Something for every kind of person who can benefit from one in any way. That's the only way to eliminate that stigma and empower everyone, so no one is put in the position to sacrifice their safety for the sake of not becoming othered and judged.

[space-feminist]

people who feel the need to chime in on posts about not supporting hp because of jkr with AND THE BOOKS ARE AWFUL AND HORRIBLY BIGOTED TOO are so completely missing the point it's insane. the content of harry potter does not MATTER!!!! if it was the most perfectly unproblematic piece of media ever it would still be supporting jkr and her bigotry and that would be enough of a reason not to support it!!!! all you're doing is continuing to treat harry potter as something worthy of discussion instead of trying to kill its cultural relevance!!!! you are not an ally and i do not trust you!!!!

[space-feminist]

good omens is by and large a very good book with positive messages but i stopped posting about it after the neil gaiman stuff came to light bc the quality of the content doesn't fucking matter when we're talking about materially supporting people who wield their power & influence to harm others

[wheeloffortune-design]

my publisher: Good morning! Huh did you advertise for the pre-sale yesterday? Because we launched twelve hours ago and we already made sales!

me: yeah, i posted on tumblr

publisher: .........tumblr?

me: that's where the gays are.

(link to Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a sapphic western)

[wheeloffortune-design]

update

publisher: And what is your marketing strategy on... tumblr?

me: idk, i shitpost at 2am?

publisher: .....and it works?

me: depends on what the gays find funny at that point in time.

publisher: Could I have a link to your tumblr?

me: .......absolutely not.

(link to Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a sapphic western where 50 year old women kiss and murder)

[wheeloffortune-design]

update!

publisher: I've been looking into tumblr, have you thought of using Blaze to promote your book?

me: NO

publisher: But it seems like an efficient way to get this in front of more eyes-

me: people on tumblr hate Blaze.

publisher: There is no algorithm and you can't pay to promote a post? I don't understand how anyone advertises anything on tumblr.

me: That's the best part. They don't. They can't.

(trying to make him understand that we do not control the attention. We just have to show something shiny and gay enough and if people are interested, they'll reblog.)

(Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a deconstruction of the colonialist cowboy mythos dressed up as a sapphic romance.)

[wheeloffortune-design]

update with picture of a pet!

This is Cosmos, my publisher's dog.

He barks at my publisher's phone notifications. So every time a book is sold, Cosmos barks.

It's been days.

I think you guys would love to know that when you buy a book, a dog barks in Vancouver, Canada.

(Mrs. Victoria buys a brothel, a story where women help women bury the body of your abusive husband.)

[glitch-in-the-code]

[andyacklesspn]