Katface

They/Them, 31. Just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing. AO3- IneffableBastard (Mostly GO fics, OFMD as well)

[hoursago]

[kowbojki]

Based on that scene in the Aristocats!

[monkeyislandtwo]

why r callouts always like "please dont harass this person and dont go after them. anyway heres every single detail of their life gathered by stalking and their private profiles for all to see"

[monkeyislandtwo]

"please don't go after this person! now let me post this document for every single one of my followers and list every single one of their usernames"

[cannibalisticdespair]

[wizardarchetypes]

absolutely looosssinggg it. i'm so obsessed with movies which portray the woman MC in a highly specific job because the writers clearly think it's like "off-beat" and "quirky" but have no idea how the field works whatsoever.

i decided to try a romcom i somehow missed i the 2000s 'head over heels' and i got 3 and a half minutes in and we're introduced to the lonely MC with bad taste in men as evidenced by her extremely short list of ex boyfriends, including her first boyfriend when she was 11 or something because i guess that's still relevant in her adult life.

so she's resigned herself to never finding love and prefers to ignore men to focus all her energy into her career.

this job is immediately presented as though it's for spinsters with no hope of ever finding a man.

the mc's lesbian bestie (whose first line involves her being scolded for being too sexual in the workplace, but moving on) points out their colleagues as evidence that they're doomed to a romance-less, sexless life if they don't switch up their shared career path. the colleagues are three old women, so-dubbed "the menopause triplets":

these women are presented as if they have no idea what's going on at any given moment. this is 2001, and presumably this is an entry level job requiring low effort and no experience.

then their boss bursts into the room, unceremoniously bumping a large painting into the door jam and walls, announcing that it's a new project for our MC.

our MC is thrilled to see the painting. apparently it's a light in the daily slog at her dreary job for loser women with nothing going on in their lives.

And that job is? Conservator of paintings (specializing in Renaissance) at the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The painting being handled like an old couch on its way to the curb?

The Bacchanal of the Andrians by Titian.

Her lesbian colleague who is presumably also a a highly trained & skilled curator finds it depressing that the MC is so excited about the painting.

it's a quirk unique to this MC that she cares so much about paintings, in her department at the metropolitan museum of art, where her colleagues find all that art business rather dreary. because we all know that's what conservators in extremely competitive museum positions are like.

[wizardarchetypes]

I'm not saying there can't be lifelong love in here somewhere but I also just feel like the monogamous heterosexual marriage you're fantasizing about isn't necessarily best represented by the bacchanal. and that's okay. but i do stand by that.

[midnightssea]

it’s amazing how women are able to navigate crowded rooms without ever touching a palm to a man’s lower back

[greenleavesandwarmbreezes]

I realize the point of this post but also. It's because they touch arms. Men touch center mass women touch extremities. On average, men are broader than women, so need someone to move their entire body to make a path, and women are more liquidy (like cats) and only need an arm or a leg moved.

[midnightssea]

men big and strong, women small and delicate (like cats). groundbreaking, thanks for sharing!

[mini-wrants]

I’m taller and also heavier than the average man and I’ve never touched a man or woman on the lower back to indicate them to move.

My shoulders are so wide and I’m so clumsy that I knocked my own house thermometer off the wall and broke it. Somehow I’ve still never had to touch someone on the lower back to navigate a room.

Men are touching women on the lower back because they want to. You’ll notice men don’t touch other men on the lower back; they tap their shoulders or arm.

It’s on purpose, not because women and men abide by different laws of physics.

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

Crying over these lesbian cats

[cassieoh]

A fleeting moment of intimacy during a long Fall

[gothhabiba]

men make it absolutely impossible to practice humility

[gothhabiba]

what you say: “I think this is the case”

what men hear: “I have no idea whatsoever, but here’s a totally random guess”

what you say: “I’m not an expert on this subject”

what men hear: “I don’t know anything about this subject and need its bare fundamentals explained to me”

what you say: “I could be better read in this area”

what men hear: “I have never read anything in this area”

[gothhabiba]

like okay fuck it nevermind I’m actually an expert in every subject I’ve ever read or heard about. in fact I know everything.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

If anyone's ever wondering why I come across as such an arrogant bitch on Tumblr it's because I used to work in science with a lot of men and never readjusted my communication style afterward.

[respectissexy]

This is one of my biggest seemingly low-stakes feminist soapboxes. Women are often encouraged to take hedging, consensus-seeking, and checking-in phrases out of their speech in order to seem "more confident". And listen, of course you do not need to say "I think" when you actually know for pretty damn sure, or double-check every little thing you say, or apologize for things that are out of your control.

But there are men in my life who I respect, who I think are generally good communicators, but who have admitted to me that if they do not know the answer to something they will just state their best guess in a confident tone of voice, with no hedging or clarification to warn the listener that what they just said was pulled from their ass.

I once asked my high school boyfriend what noise a platypus makes and he confidently told me "oh they quack" and I said "really? that seems like they'd have different noise-making structures than ducks since they're not birds" and he said "oh yeah you're probably right. I was just guessing." And had no idea why I was mad! I was like, so if I ask you a question you might just bullshit me?? What if I had believed you and gone and repeated that to other people? I could have looked like an idiot. I could have spread misinformation to a ton of people! But I have told that story to other men and had them say "oh yeah I totally do that."

This is so much worse communication than just saying "I don't know but I think..." There shouldn't be campaigns training professional women to sound "more confident," there should be campaigns training professional MEN to stop doing whatever THAT is!

[gothhabiba]

[ID: Chidi Anagonye from The Good Place saying “okay, but that’s worse. You do see how that’s worse, right?” End ID.]

[app1ep1i]

You are purer than the snow that has not yet been touched

[tanpopomugishu]

Crowley sometimes just needed a hug, which Aziraphale never failed to provide.

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I couldn't decide which version of this image I liked better, so here are both!! --- @goodomensafterdark

[huariqueje]

Reflections - Michael Krähmer

German , b. 1952 -

Oil on canvas in a complex resin oil glaze technique , 85 x 100 cm.

[afeelgoodblog]

Pope Francis’ last wish

[mayakern]

We have some sad news regarding shipping to Europe. 😥 Due to changes in EPR packaging requirements starting 12th August, we need to suspend shipping to Europe. In order to get everything shipped in time for that deadline, we will end sales to Europe starting 1st August. We received a quote today for registration, €‎10 730 for one-off registration and €‎7 362 for annual fees. We're hoping to find lower-cost options, but we've been looking for awhile and haven't found many options. We're really sad about this development combined with the closure of the UK warehouse. The UK storefront also would've been subject to these regulations and forced to close, but it really feels like the cherry on top of a garbage pie. We hope to see you again soon. 😭

[taquidro]

painted this sad ed inspired by frederic leighton’s ‘flaming june’ :’)

maybe get it as a print?

[girldraki]

[girldraki]

[angelic-odette]

When I say women should have higher standards for how they're treated, this is exactly what I mean. At the first insult? Kick. Him. To. The. Curb.

[somethingfangirly]

Seriously. What the fuck did he think was going to happen?

[bigmickswingin]

protip for everyone, but mostly boys in this case:

when you are on a date, and someone has an interest you don't quite get, instead of saying lol lame, try saying hmm i don't quite get that, please explain that to me, and then listen as the other person talks about why that thing is something they are in to.

you might learn something which recontextualizes the matter, and you will definitely learn something more about your date, which is the entire point of dating.

you don't have to be a superfan by the end, but you will have shown you can be chill and take an interest in stuff, which is much more likely to result in a second date instead of being ditched in a coffee line.

this also works outside of dating, btw.

[pepsi-maxwell]

there's a delicate balance between "seeing something on my dash so often i end up caring about it unexpectedly" and "seeing something on my dash so often that it gets added to the blocked list with extreme prejudice"

[naniiebimworks]

Crowley and Aziraphale while watching over Warlock.

They met on tops of buses….

Crowley seemed to have kept long hair during this time, so i wonder if it’s just his unstyled nanny hair.

Crowley is also the only reason “Brother Francis” probably wasn’t fired as a gardener the entire time he was there….

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST/ USE MY WORK! ^^;;