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How to Write a Michael Schur Lead Romance

Partner 1: Confident, Fun, Slightly Depressed, Probably Has Undiagnosed ADHD

Partner 2: Anxiety™

Partner 1 provides the light atmosphere, Partner 2 provides the level head. Congrats, you have the perfect lead couple.

BONUS:

How to Write a Michael Schur Secondary Romance: Abnormal Dork Meets Equally Abnormal Dork

wrenrouge

anyone else sing to their pets about how stinky they are

gothicprep

i wonder if my pets have like a proper language and when i try to speak back to them im just speaking jargon

like for example my cat always speaks to me when I come home and i meow back to her and she’ll meow again & even though i don’t think twice about it to her it’s probably a situation where it’s like

her, meowing: “im glad you’re home”

me, meowing back: “tax benefits”

her, meowing: “why do u always do this”

commanderflowers

me

theplushfrog

cats actually have a human-specific language. cats don’t often meow at each other and seem to use subvocal communications that humans can’t hear to chat cat-to-cat. however, cats seem to use what humans would call “shout-until-you’re-understood” to speak to humans. so basically, it’s more like:

“I’M GLAD YOU’RE HOME!”

“tax benefits”

“NO, I’M GLAD YOU ARE HOME”

“waffle iron”

“IT’S OKAY. I LOVE YOU TOO, MY DUMB HUMAN”

defilerwyrm

The domestic house cat’s wild ancestors have a much harsher voice, too. The going theory is that early cats mimicked human infants which tripped humans’ nurturing instincts, and then selective breeding did the rest.

We make a big deal over how dogs have developed the ability to understand human expressions and tones (and let’s be fair, that is in fact awesome), but cats are possibly the only species that has changed their vocal language to try to communicate with us.

imayjustbejamesmoriarty

what I love about this post (apart from cats because cats are ADORABLE) is the assumption that cats have words for tax benefits.

lazorsandparadox

My favorite thing about this situation is that, because cats made up meowing specifically to communicate to humans, both the cat and human are doing the exact same thing. The cat does its best impression of a human so the human knows theyre trying to talk to them, and the human does their best impression of a cat to let the cat know they hear them! It doesnt mean anything to either of you! Youre both literally just meowing at each other, and thats adorable!