I am happy. Isn't that what's important?

Knitter, New mom, Lifelong Girl Scout. Lover of puppies, kittens and all things cute. (She/her pronouns)

[zooophagous]

*To the tune of “We Built this City*: I PET THIS KITTY

[caelarue-deactivated20181217]

I PET THIS KITTY AND BOOP ITS NOSE

[terrywho-cartoons]

Not just actors are theater kids ♥️ A shout out to the rest of the team!

[bemusedlybespectacled]

this is a callout post for everyone who has ever bought me red heart super saver yarn

[knittingcountess]

TOO TRUE!

[betterstayabsurd-deactivated202]

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Gomez gives out better relationship advice than like 90% of dudes.

[obstinate-nocturna]

Gomez Addams is a suave motherfucker who loves his wife more than his own life.

Everyone should want a Gomez. He’s p cool.

[breelandwalker]

Gomez and Morticia Addams actually have a very loving and extremely healthy relationship, both in the old TV show and in the more recent movies. They were also one of the first television couples to be shown to have an active (albeit offscreen) sex life. Their frank attitude towards sexuality was shocking in its’ time, but their relationship and their family dynamic is actually more functional and more…dare I say it…sane than most families portrayed on TV.

The comedy in the show came from the family’s “odd” lifestyle, rather than from infighting and petty bickering, or worse, as was common on other shows of the time, thinly veiled references to spousal abuse. They didn’t make fun of each other or act like their children were creatures from another world. Were they strange and outside of social norms? Yes. Were they united in creating a loving home and being good, supportive parents? Absolutely.

These two support and adore their children, care for an aging mother and an estranged brother, put family before everything, and they love each other, wholly, fiercely, without reserve. They are every bit as much in love after at least a decade of marriage as they were the day they met.

Relationship goals. LIFE goals.

[avotica]

Just remembered in the second movie when their third child became “normal” for a period and although they were shocked and didn’t know how to handle it, they didn’t mistreat the child or love it any less. They accepted the difference, even though it was hard for them. 

[drnerdlove]

Reblogged for truth.

[franklyunfabulous]

❤️❤️❤️

[endreal]

Posts about Gomez and Morticia Addams are almost always uplifting and I’m happy to have them on my dash, but I think my favorite bit about this conversation is what Gomez is actually saying to Fester.

It’s nobody’s surprise that many of the aesthetic and thematic elements of The Addams Family in its various incarnations are influenced by Gothic tradition (not goth, that mostly came later. And not Goth, that was much much much too early), and I think Gomez’s words are a dead bullseye in terms of Gothic mentality.

“Make her feel like she’s the most sublime creature on earth”

The sublime is a recurring theme throughout Gothic literature. Although the word (like “awesome”) has lost a lot of it’s original luster over the intervening decades, sublime doesn’t really mean elevated and lofty (or even heavenly) as it’s often used today, but rather something possessing the power and grandeur to induce awe and veneration in the mind of the beholder. Although less than divine, something sublime possessed a wildness and power that transcended human ability to control…or even to comprehend.

Sublime is standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon leaning as far as you dare over the railing and still not being able to see the canyon floor below. Sublime is warrior-queen Galadriel being tempted by the One Ring. Sublime is waking up in the middle of the night in the heart of a wild thunderstorm.

“Make her feel like she’s the most sublime creature on earth”

Gomez isn’t advising Fester to treat a woman he fancies like a princess, or even elevate her to pedestal of angelic nature (who’s idea was it to equate femininity with purity anyway? What a laughable and historically damaging idea. Shame on whatever dead (probably) white dudes promoted that!)

Gomez is advising Fester that if he truly loves a woman he must do everything he can to remind her of how she’s an untameable force of nature who’s grandeur brings him to his knees in awe and terror. Just like Morticia, for Gomez.

I’ll sign off with one of my most favorite quotes of all time, because it feels suddenly very relevant:

“When I find myself surrounded by so much beauty, I feel as if I am the eye of a hurricane.”

- -Sanjay Kulkarni

[knit1purr2]

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So hubby and I tried making a knex swift. It works. He made a few adjustments and has plans to make a few more

[archiemcphee]

Happy Halloweiner!

[via /r/aww]

[knit1purr2]

Blanket progress plus bonus kitty!

[steampunksteampunk]

Steampunk dinosaurs by theGorgonist

[steampunk-art]

Steampunk Art

[eavedroppings]

Parasololophous!

[cungadero]

got a really good idea for a d&d character i’ll never get to use

[mr-speedwagon-deactivated201902]

You can’t say that and not share your idea.

[cungadero]

its a talking horse. you’d think this’d come with some kind of magical backstory about getting turned into one but turns out, they were just born that way. you find out their mother was a centaur, their fauther is a (horse-headed) minotaur, and they have a sister who’s a perfectly normal human

they’re a rogue/thief because nobody ever suspects a horse as the culprit

[captain-lovelace-deactivated202]

@taylorswiftscolonexploded

[knit1purr2]

I am loving this new project! #knitting #knittingaddict

[warmhappycat]

JKR said that Hagrid still works at Hogwarts in 2017, which means he’s still been alive these past few decades, and I just really hope someone took him to see How to Train Your Dragon.

[bisexuals-agenda]

that someone’s name is charlie weasley and they both cried 

[becausebirds]

[stubbornseedling]

Among the smartest and longest lived animals we can ever hope to interact with and it was willing to learn this stupid trick to amuse its human friend.

Thank you patient bird.

[its-octopodes]

Has this been done yet?

[theblanddcu2021]

Selina has been given so many balls of yarn that she eventually gave in and learned how to knit. By Christmas, half the rouges had hideous but cozy socks that she’d made for them.

[tubduckie]

tbh I did not truly understand this meme until I saw this picture, and suddenly it all made sense

[tamorapierce]

Yep, that’s a book.

[knit1purr2]

I can't wait!!!

[munarlothhp]

I get what JKR was trying to do with having Mrs Weasley knit sweaters for everyone for Christmas because they were poor, but the amount of dyed yarn that she would have had to buy to make 7+ brightly colored, thick sweaters in varying size every year would have been so expensive omg