I'm A Loose Bolt Of A Complete Machine

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welp

right, my old personal blog is a thing, lol

hi? ^^;

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in case anyone is wondering, I’ve been so busy running my FOB blog (I have 1.3k followers there now! Phew.) that I forget to like…use my personal. If anyone needs/wants to contact me I recommend doing it here. 

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It’s like no one ever told him cats don’t like water. 

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OTTERCAT

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he’s having so much fun aw

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This was meant to be a quick warm up, but it turned into a comic that I’ve wanted to draw for a while. This is something that is extremely important to me, and I appreciate it if you read it.

A while ago, I heard a story that broke my heart. A family went a cat shelter to adopt. The daughter fell in love with a 3-legged cat. The father straight up said “absolutely not”. Because he was missing a leg. That cat was that close to having a family that loved him, but the missing leg held him back. Why?!

Many people have the initial instinct of “nope” when they see an imperfect animal. I get it, but less-adoptable does NOT mean less loveable. 9 out of 10 people will choose a kitten over an adult cat. And those 10% that would get an adult cat often overlook “different” animals.

All I want people to do is be open to the idea of having a “different” pet in their lives. Choose the pet that you fall in love with, but at least give all of them a fair shot at winning your heart.

Don’t dismiss them, they deserve a loving home just as much as any other cat. They still purr, they still love a warm lap, they still play, they still love you. Trust me, next time you are in the market for a new kitty, just go over to that one cat that’s missing an eye and see what he’s all about!

[kedreeva]

Let me tell to you a thing.

This is Lenore. I first saw her in a little cage at the Petco I frequent (I used to take my parents’ dog in for puppy play time), and she looked like the grouchiest, old, crotchety cat in the world, and I fell instantly in love. She was cranky, she was anti-social, hanging out at the back of her cage. Her fur was matted because she wouldn’t let the groomers near her.

She was perfect.

But I didn’t have a place for her. I wasn’t living in my own space yet, and where I was, I wasn’t allowed cats. So I pressed my face to the bars of her cage and I promised that if no one had adopted her by the time I’d bought a house, I would come back for her.

I visited her every week for over six months while I looked for a house. At one point, they had to just shave her entire rear-end because the mats or fur were so bad. They told me she clawed the heck outta the groomer that did it, screamed the entire time, and spent the next two days growling at anyone that came near the cage.

A couple of weeks later, I closed on my house. I went back and I got an employee, and I said: “That one. I need that cat.”

They got the paperwork and the lady who ran the rescue that was bringing the cats in told me that Lenore (at the time, Lila) was 8 years old, had been owned by an elderly lady who had died, and brought in to a different rescue, who’d had her for six months on top of the time I’d been seeing her at Petco.

This kitty had been living in a 3x3’ cube for over a YEAR because she was older and “less adoptable.”

I signed the paperwork, put her in a cat carrier, and drove her to my new home. I had pretty much nothing; a bed, an old couch, a couple of bookcases, and a tank of mice I called “Cat TV”. I let her out of the carrier and onto my bed, and I told her “I told you I would come back for you when I had a place. It’s not much, but it’s yours too now.”

Lenore spent the next three days straight purring non-stop. She followed me around the house purring. Sat next to me purring. Slept next to me purring. Leaning into every touch, purring, purring, always purring. She still purrs if you so much as think about petting her. She’s amazing, and I love her.

So, you know, if you’re thinking about adopting, and you see a beast that others consider “less adoptable,” think about Lenore.

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FUCKING IMPORTANT

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THIS POST MAKES ME SO SAD, I JUST WANT TO HUG ALL THE KITTIES ;-;

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I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING

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I wonder if there’s gonna be any extra rewards for completing the national dex in ORAS

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that would be cool, maybe a special doll for your base or something+the things from X & Y... but there's no way in hell I'm doing the Natl Dex again after doing it in X, lol.

[imalooseboltofacompletemachine]

I have the same plaid dress that you were wearing in your fob M&G picture! It's sooo cute :)

Yeah!! It's my favorite dress! Is the zipper on yours really dumb too? I got the last one in the store (happened to be in my size) and there were none left online so I was stuck with the world's most difficult zipper.

[imalooseboltofacompletemachine]

in case anyone is wondering, I've been so busy running my FOB blog (I have 1.3k followers there now! Phew.) that I forget to like...use my personal. If anyone needs/wants to contact me I recommend doing it here. 

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My boyfriend asked them to pretend they’re stealing me away from him, they were not sure what to do at first but then Patrick grabbed me and turned into a supervillain. I tried to look terrified but I was trying to stop laughing so I look vaguely amused instead. And Joe’s fucking face behind me oh my god.

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Met my boys yesterday! I asked to do a group hug thing and said I wanted to start with hugging Patrick, but something got lost in translation so it ended up with Patrick grabbing me suddenly and Pete hugging himself, ahaha.

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I needed these on here even though I totally forget I have a personal most of the time.

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are you having a soul punk day

WTF DO YOU MEAN, EVERY DAY IS A SOUL PUNK DAY

yes

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an aesthetic that will never go out of style: making others feel loved, needed, and important 

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nicewave

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John Green being fucking awesome

[agentdarcylewis]

"read misogynistic gender dynamics into it" 

don’t need to read into things that are actually fucking there!!!! holy shit john green have you ever read twilight or are you pulling this statement out of your ass like you seem to do a bunch lately?

let’s count the ways twilight fucks up in terms of “gender dynamics” and other things, shall we?

a character is physically abused by her cousin’s boyfriend to the point of being scarred permanently, yet they still get together for “destiny” reasons

same character basically exists as a satellite planet to her bf and as an example of how every imprintee should act

imprinting as a whole: YOU GET NO CHOICE IN LOVE!! boy falls in love w/ u? u better just fucking accept it. don’t like him?? you’ll “grow to”, because of his “loving devoted attention”!!! it’s for the good of the pack!!!! fuck you if you want anything different

imprinting on babies, aka child grooming is totally okay as long as you don’t start the sexy stuff until 18!! (“mentally”- can’t forget bella’s daughter is allowed to get w/ jacob, her mom’s former friend, when she’s seven years old)

bella’s agency is completely taken away by edward (and jacob) in terms of her child (wanting her to get an abortion against her wishes, edward basically telling jacob he can have sex with her and give her children if she wants them)

edward sleeps with bella even though he KNOWS she will be harmed by it

leah clearwater is portrayed as an utter complete bitch for not following the pack rules, yet jacob is touted as a heroic leader for doing the same

and speaking of leah, how fucking dare she be upset her boyfriend broke it off with her to get into a “fairytale” relationship with her cousin!! (the same bf that later scarred her beloved cousin and friend FOR LIFE)

jacob and edward treat bella like a literal piece of meat and consistently ignore her wishes for “the greater good”

being a vampire makes u white!!!!!!

humans are trash. you’re a human? you’re trash

jacob violently kisses bella without her consent

bella is the classic definition of “not like other girls” and treats the girls who attempt to be friends with her as disposable

she also treats her father like trash and is dismissive of her mother

SEX IS BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SILLY BELLA 

special snowflake syndrome to the max (and u’d know about that right john? *flutters eyelashes*)

don’t forget the stalking!!! nothing says true love like stalking

“Perhaps the creepiest part was the werewolf wife (who was human) who had the misfortune of being around her husband when he got angry & lashed out at her. It was a tacit endorsement of domestic violence. There was never any thought that the wife might leave her husband or that you maybe shouldn’t be around someone who will strike you when they are angry (especially someone with claws..) ” -ezra

“Did anyone else also notice that the good guys in this series are white, and the bad guys are Native American?  Also ALL of the vampires in the book are white.” -diaryofacrazywoman

“And don’t worry. If Edward ends up killing Bella, it will be her fault. That’s because she should know to stand perfectly still when he kisses her. Otherwise vampire passions are aroused and, well, murder happens.” -Elizabeth Esther (aka EMOTIONAL ABUSE WOOHOO)

you can read more here, here, here, and here

i agree that smeyer experiences sexism, misogyny, and fatphobia because of her books, and i agree that twilight fans do as well, and that’s terrible and wrong. but that in NO WAY excuses the fact that twilight is disgusting tripe. the movies were way, way toned down to a lot of these things, tbh, so i understand why you might see the issue as blown out of the water in those respects- but the books DO exist, they ARE there, and so is all the things they tout as romantic.

tl;dr: you know nothing john green

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"you can just ignore sexism and rape culture if you squint and not wanting to do that makes you the misogynist"

really like this guy needs to hire better PR people can someone hire John Green a PR guy for me

[nonbinaries-on-ice]

It was sort of mentioned in the list above but I want to make it EXPLICITLY CLEAR that Edward and Bella’s relationship IS CANONICALLY ABUSIVE. Here is a link explaining why, but if you don’t want to go all the way over there I’ll give you a short rundown. The National Domestic Violence Hotline has a list of fifteen signs you might be in an abusive relationship and says If you answered ‘yes’ to even one of these questions, you may be in an abusive relationship.”  Edward and Bella’s relationship hits ALL FIFTEEN. 

So yes, John Green, tell me more about why it’s acceptable to teach teen girls (the biggest Twilight fanbase) to glamorize and aspire to a completely abusive relationship. We should most definitely say that there’s nothing wrong with that unless you want “to read into it.” 

After all, media doesn’t impact how people think at all does it? Especially not growing children! Now, I don’t advocate banning books ever, but people need to be made aware of problematic things in literature. It’s the same problem with romanticizing Romeo and Juliet, except Shakespeare never wanted that to happen. If nobody calls these works out on how problematic the relationsips in them are, you are passively enabling abusers and abusive relationship. So thanks John for doing that.

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john green deciding to just “look past misogyny to be nice to authors” fucking gee whiz another white guy another day smh

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ok normally i love john.

but this is fucked up.

twilight glorifies an abusive relationship.

don’t. ever. look. past. an. abusive. relationship.

[voyageviolet]

Ok I really absolutely do not give a fuck about John Green or his books or whatever’s going on over there, but this is fucked up. If you want to read/watch Twilight go ahead and have fun (although personally I don’t know how anyone can enjoy a series where the romance is so abusive, but whatever, do what you want).

But it makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER to just decide you like something and therefore it can’t be misogynistic. Don’t throw out a bullshit line like “You can read it as misogynistic if you want to but you don’t HAVE to” - that’s a pretentious way of saying that you just don’t care about its misogynistic elements. 

IT’S OKAY TO LIKE PROBLEMATIC MEDIA. IT’S NOT OKAY TO DECIDE MEDIA’S NOT PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE YOU LIKE IT

[poltxsexkitten]

John Green your ignorant white male privilege is showing

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Context for that tweet makes it even worse.

[demonicmuffin]

John Green, you are fucking garbage. I can’t believe you allow children to look up to you. I can’t believe I looked up to you. You are disgusting and you fucking know full well that impressionable kids, especially girls, will defend this and believe you and internalize misogyny because you act like it’s something that can be ignored.

You must be really fucking proud of yourself. I fear for the future of your child, and what you will teach them. I fucking pray you never have a daughter because teaching her something like this is so fucking dangerous I can’t even wrap my mind around why you would ever think THIS KIND OF THINKING IS BENEFICIAL TO ANYONE BUT YOURSELF. I hope your wife raises your child properly cause you certainly fucking won’t.

I am so fucking ashamed that I ever thought you were respectable or cool or inspiring. I don’t know what I was thinking. I’m so fucking disgusted with myself for believing you were a good person. How fucking dare you. 

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John Green supports misogyny? Who knew.

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link to the tweet, in case anyone though it was fake

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do you ever see your face from a different angle and have a mental breakdown

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replaying kirby’s adventure on the 3DS and it’s so magical!

[kisu-no-hi]

Non, rien de rien Non, je ne regrette rien Ni le bien qu’on m’a fait Ni le mal; tout ça m’est bien égal.

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Thank you, Irrational Games, for this beautiful story.