obair na mbeach.

34. Irish fae in Switzerland. See below: animals, memes, jokes, philosophy, anthropology, and the quiet joy of putting googly eyes on inanimate objects.

[caats]

This is me♡♡

[trickstertime]

Please do this for your cats.

Dispite their reputation, cats are very very socal creatures. Cats do the equivalent of this for you when they sit in front of your laptop and put their arms on the keyboard or put their paw on your phone while you're using it. This is their love language, it's how they show that they like you and care about what you care about. They don't understand why you care about it but they're trying.

If you turn around and do the same for them they'll be absolutely delighted. Sometimes when our youngest cat goes to the scratching post I scratch it with him too and he loves it. He'll gets so into the scratching that he ends up climbing it cuz he wants to scratch with his back paws too. If they're chirping at the window I'll sometimes go over to see what they see and they usually scoot over so I have room beside them to see the offending bird or insect and they'll purr like crazy cuz they're so happy I'm helping them

[glorioustidalwavedefendor]

@brightlotusmoon

[brightlotusmoon]

I do this with my cats and my friends!

[prismatic-bell]

My cats have invented entirely new games around me doing this.

[delicatesquashblossom]

Ask not for whom the gurdy hurds. It hurds for thee.

[sonechkaandthedynamos]

what language did you learn in school and can you actually speak it?

[podcastwizard]

TITS BACK ON TUMBLR???

DON’T MIND IF I DO!!!

#POST TITS

[podcastwizard]

MY PUBLIC DEMANDS!!!

[indoor--cat]

Sadly, due to shitty mental health, we weren't able to celebrate Halloween this year. But we have a good plan for next year: Kratos and Athena.

Anyway, I have almost completed my bumper re-re-re-read of Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle, and it's bringing me through the rough patch.

Still trundling along, trying not to hate myself for everything that goes wrong.

[catchymemes]

[pearlsasinger-deactivated202602]

his dark materials will literally always work bc every small child wants an animal companion that loves you most and goes on adventures with you and every adult wants an animal companion that can shoulder some of life’s immense psychologically damage for you. and you can pet it

[madmonksandmaenads]

And to tear down the feeble corpse of God! Every kid and adult wants that also!

[tyrantisterror]

Rescuers Down Under doesn’t get enough credit for a lot of things, but one creative choice in particular that I think should be talked about more is the movie’s decisions to mostly have real life fauna but then also making one of the main characters a dinosaur-sized eagle and just act as if that’s a thing that already exists.

Marahute is a gift.

[pkmatrix]

Wait, I thought Marahute was a Haast’s Eagle?

[tyrantisterror]

Ok, so, this is a Haast’s Eagle.  Pretty big as far as real eagles that existed go.

This is Marahute, a MUCH larger bird.

Now, I know what you’re thinking: that’s a small boy on her back, not a grown human, so the size comparison isn’t as clear cut as you think.  Which, yeah, sure, but-

That small boy is equal in size to her goddamn skull.

Even if this kid is, like, four years old and super shrimpy, that’s a HUGE ass bird.

This bird’s the size of a goddamn ceratosaurus.

[tyrantisterror]

Also, like, note the beautiful proportions of Marahute.

She’s not just a magnified eagle.  Her wings are much longer and wider than a real eagle’s would be, her legs thicker and longer with even bigger feet, her head proportionally smaller.  If you wanted to kaijufy an eagle, this is how you’d do it.  They knew they weren’t making a normal eagle here - this is a monstrous, marvelous eagle of impossible size, with proportions modified to make that enormous body still plausible as a flying creature.  Just a fantastical eagle monster, a divine beast.

[indoor--cat]

I hit a wall, after the rejection from UZH. I regressed back into the scared, cornered, raging, grieving child who didn't know love. It might take a while to rebuild myself.

It's ok. I normally default to self-loathing and self-sabotage, but not this time. I am going to try and love myself as the soft small animal that I am, to nurture and forgive and to lift up.

Let me quote you a poem by Mary Oliver, that reminds me of the love for the small creature that is you.

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

[indoor--cat]

My UZH application got through at least 3 rounds of yes before reaching the Dean who said no.

[indoor--cat]

Texts to my husband under general anaesthetic: "Truss resigned while you were out"

[indoor--cat]

J is getting all four wisdom teeth extracted today.

Yeugh.

I never got mine - thanks, genetics! - so I genuinely can't relate. Apparently I'm one of the folks with a chromosomal mutation that lets my body know that my brain is too big for another set of teeth!

I pointed this out to him.

I'm gonna have to make up for all this trolling with tasty soups.

[indoor--cat]

Booking a one-way flight for two.

Clearing out our home this week. We found an apartment to sublet for a while, while we figure out permanent digs. It's a cute place, somewhere called Adliswil, just outside Zurich.

I haven't heard back from UZH yet, but my application is with the dean now, so hopefully soon. They take this very seriously. Nothing is guaranteed, but I'm hopeful.

We move officially on November 23rd. I'm getting excited.

[memewhore]

[decellie03]

nothing will ever be funnier to me than the 30-50 feral hogs joke phase, I think about it at least once a week

[dripped-in-my-pearls]

Happy 30-50 feral hogs day

[enraged-chihuahua]

ur first and last recent emojis are ur gender now. mine is 🅱👨‍❤‍💋‍👨

[medianox-astrum]

[indoor--cat]

The prof/head of dept for the MA I'm applying for is interviewing me on Wednesday, he's also a researcher for reuters on scicomms and online misinformation / conspiracies i'm actually sweating my bodyweight out light a candle

[indoor--cat]

I did not bomb the interview, he said my perspective would be an asset to the department and I find out in 2 weeks 😭😭😭

[indoor--cat]

The prof/head of dept for the MA I'm applying for is interviewing me on Wednesday, he's also a researcher for reuters on scicomms and online misinformation / conspiracies i'm actually sweating my bodyweight out light a candle