a one-act play

call me felidae. he/him

[feral--felidae]

hi hello i'm felidae of the @liminal-leaflets system.

icon and header by @io7nize. squee

anons are on now because everyone's been normal. watch the fuck out though.

for those of you that are cool, however: sourcemates/doubles are welcome here! singlets are welcome here! hell, everyone's welcome here! just be niceys

my other blogs:

@royalclawzz - kin blog

@interstellar--interloper - source posting

[ringo-starr-daily]

All of the Beatles dying in a glue trap

[lumsel]

so it turns out that chemical runoff from ai datacenters is causing chromosomal defects in sheep populations, causing something like 95% of affected sheep to be born female

[lumsel]

that's right: ai is to blame for the ram shortage

[kosmogrl]

[chaotichimera]

friend has decreed this critter "brian from family guy but long. brian if he was cool. brians cousin.,cheesestick, because theyre probably like nonbinary or something."

[niqvassieart]

12-day old corncrake chicks from a local reintroduction project I've been helping with.

[bimmyjimmy]

trying to escape arm jail

[alteredpanel]

dead wife jokes banned in the house due to current events

[systimming]

🖤 - anteater

[biocrafthero]

[tine5]

[tim-official]

In Brazil, they have a special name (o jogo bonito, or "the beautiful game") to refer to the country's most beloved cultural pastime: Rhythm Heaven Megamix for the Nintendo 3DS

[mimosa-sexypeople-contests-2026]

Tumblr Sexyman Contest 2026 Semifinals (2/3)

Gomez Addams (The Addams Family)

Mr. Ant Tenna (Deltarune)

Stanley Pines (Gravity Falls)

Remaining time: 6 days 19 hours

[inthefallofasparrow]

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

My father is a huge Beatles fan.

I sent this picture to him. Didn't hear from him for a bit.

My mother calls. "He's been dying of laughter for twenty minutes, what did you send him?"

[segamascott]

[bimmyjimmy]

A bimmy in his bimmy decorated room

[reasonsforhope]

This is kind of a weird reason for hope, honestly, but it genuinely changed how I think about catastrophe.

Historical fact that you probably do not know:

At least 30-50% of the population of Pompeii survived.

Maybe even the majority of the people of Pompeii survived.

(The numbers 30-50% there are according Professor J. Theodore Peña, a professor of ancient Roman archeology who studies Pompeii, whom I took a class on Pompeii with in 2018. The numbers of "maybe even the majority" are from articles linked below.)

Yes, that Pompeii, the one where the entire city was swallowed by a volcanic eruption.

And no, I'm not kidding. x, x, x, x, x, x

Archaeologists find records of Pompeii survivors that reveal how they rebuilt their lives

The story of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is no longer one of annihilation; it also includes the people who managed to escape the city.

So how this is possible, that anyone could survive, when the entire city was literally buried in volcanic ash? And the answer is that the eruption actually took place over the course of almost 24 hours, as the earthquakes and clouds of smoke emitting from Pompeii gradually got worse and worse, followed by the ejection of ash and giant stones that gradually escalated, until the fifth pyroclastic flow (aka giant wave of searing hot ash) hit the city.

So, people had a bit less than 24 hours to flee the city. And many of them did, whether by boat or cart or horse or foot. And many of them made it.

Pompeii is the iconic, ultimate example we have, culturally, for a natural disaster that causes complete annihilation.

But it never caused complete annihilation at all. Not of the people who lived there.

I think climate change, ultimately, is going to be like Pompeii. Yes, there will be natural disasters. Yes, it will keep getting worse for a while.

Yes, people will die, and yes, we do need to act fast, and we need to do all that we can to save every single living being that we can.

But unlike the people of Pompeii, we have the ability to fix most of the effects of climate change. We have the ability to cool the planet down from whatever temperature it ultimately hits. (Masterpost on this here.)

Natural disasters fucking suck. But as the true story of Pompeii exemplifies, they are often a lot more survivable than we think. And we have benefits and resources and technology and knowledge above all communication that the people of Pompeii never did - in fact, we're getting so good at building for and detecting and warning for natural disasters that the number of people dying from natural disasters has been plummeting, even as natural disasters are getting worse and worse (x).

We are going to survive climate change (x). We are going to fix as much of it as we can (x). And we are going to rebuild afterward.

Because as the many survivors of Pompeii show, that's what humans do.